Video obtained by Local 10 shows the vessel, identified as the “Promiscuous,” fully engulfed in flames. The fire appeared to be concentrated toward the stern.

The fire unfolded in the 100 block of Hendricks Isles in Fort Lauderdale. According to fire rescue, residents called in the fire around 6:05 a.m.

Smoke could be seen billowing into the air for miles as crews rushed to the scene.

Residents told Local 10 they woke up to a small fire that grew within seconds. At one point, they said they heard what sounded like an explosion as the vessel was consumed by flames.

Nearly 20 Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue units responded, according to officials.

Video from the scene shows crews using tools to cut into the vessel and access hotspots that continued to smolder.

According to residents, the “Promiscuous” was up for sale for about $1 million.

No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The economy is growing steadily despite being hit with repeated shocks — and may even be accelerating — while inflation remains stubbornly high. And big tech firms are borrowing huge amounts of cash to plow into data center construction while the federal government is still running large yearly budget deficits. All these trends point to higher interest rates regardless of what the Fed does, analysts say.

As a result, the low interest-rate, low-inflation world that lasted for nearly 15 years after the Great Recession is over and a higher-priced, higher-rate world is taking its place. Mortgage rates fell into the 3% range in the 2010s and even lower during COVID-19, but such deals are long gone. The average 30-year mortgage rate reached 6.95% last week, the highest in more than a year and a half.

Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, a tax consulting firm, said that a big reason for the change is a shift from the pre-pandemic economy in which consumer and business demand was weak, to the current economy in which healthy consumer and business spending is colliding with supply shocks and bottlenecks. In addition to higher oil and gas prices because of the Iran war, the AI buildout has struggled with an insufficient supply of computer chips, electronic equipment, and workers to put it all together.

“We’ve undergone a structural transformation of the economy,” Brusuelas said. “The regime change in inflation and interest rates is the outcome.”

Back to the future

The shift, in many ways, returns the economy to where it was before the financial crisis in December 2007 that lasted through June 2009.

But even after the downturn ended, consumer and business spending remained weak. Millions of Americans in the 2010s focused on paying down outsized mortgages and credit card debt instead. Businesses saw few investment opportunities, and many big tech firms such as Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook piled up cash.

Now those companies are using those stockpiles to build out AI data centers, and are borrowing even more money to do so. And American consumers — despite surveys finding they are pessimistic about the economy — are still spending at a healthy pace. A recent report showing that retail sales picked up last month led economists at Bank of America to forecast growth will reach a healthy 3% at an annual rate in the July-September quarter.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh highlighted the shift in a speech at the central bank's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last month.

After 2008, “it was a widely held view that an excess of capital would sit on the sidelines for a long, long time, because there just wouldn’t be enough compelling investment opportunities,” Warsh said. “All the good stuff had been invented. So growth would be low and slow.

“Well, times sure have changed,” he continued. “Ever-expanding pools of capital are pouring into AI-related infrastructure of all sorts.”

The additional spending and investment has contributed to higher longer-term interest rates on government bonds that are competing for lenders. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond topped 5% this year for the first time since 2023, even before the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate Wednesday.

At the same time, political polling and consumer sentiment surveys continue to find that many Americans are struggling to keep up with rising prices, and affordability remains a top concern heading into the midterm elections. Even as the economy expands, inflation has outpaced the annual growth in average wages for the past five months.

Brusuelas said the U.S. economy's expansion is “imbalanced” with growth “entirely dependent” on the AI buildout and strong spending by wealthier consumers, who have benefited from rising stock prices driven by hopes that AI will lift profits.

Higher inflation leads to higher rates

After the Fed lifted its rate to 3.9% Wednesday, Trump said on Truth Social that U.S. rates should be 1% instead.

Yet many of Trump's policies have contributed to higher borrowing costs, in particular the Iran war that has driven up gas prices. When inflation persists, investors demand higher interest rates on longer-term Treasury bonds, such as the 10-year, which strongly influences mortgage rates.

“The president can say he wants interest rates lower all he wants, and yet he continues to push the button on all the policies that raise rates," said Elizabeth Pancotti, vice president of policy, advocacy and research at the progressive Groundwork Collaborative.

This system will finally lift out to the north and move away, but it’ll be followed by a cold front moving down the peninsula later in the week. That front will bring more rain and storms to close out the workweek.

There’s uncertainty as to whether or not this first front of the season will make it all the way through South Florida, but there’s an outside chance we’ll see some drier air, finally, by next weekend. In the meantime, highs will average around 90 degrees through the week, with possibly some slightly cooler air by next weekend.

Late withdrawals shook up the races for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, leaving many voters upset with candidates who dropped out after winning a spot in November's general election or cursing others who stayed in.

Some were quick to blame the upheaval on Alaska's unique elections system that combines open primaries, where the top four vote-getters advance, with general elections run under a ranked choice system.

The August primary revealed some of the headaches related to a major change in how Alaska voters select their candidates and was the latest example of how the real-world experience of state voting changes don't always line up neatly with expectations. California Democrats earlier this year worried they might get shut out of the state's top-two primary for governor out of fears they were running too many candidates.

Alaska voters will once again be asked to decide whether to keep or scrap their election method this fall. Maine is the only other state using ranked choice voting for its statewide races.

“We need to make things much more transparent and predictable and understandable by the general public so that we can truly have trust in our democracy again," said Matt Schultz, a Democrat who suspended his U.S. House bid before the primary.

He plans to support keeping the system in place but said it is a complicated decision. He thinks adjustments can be made and sees the role big money plays in elections as a major factor that discourages candidates.

Decision to drop out after primary disappoints some voters

Alaska first used the voter-approved top-four primary and ranked choice general election system four years ago, and two years ago narrowly rejected an effort to repeal it. Supporters have credited the system with having a moderating effect on the Legislature in what has long been a Republican-led state, with both chambers controlled the past two years by bipartisan coalitions.

That was one of the intentions when supporters originally placed ranked choice on the ballot, to introduce a voting system that could reduce partisanship by opening a door to more candidates who would need to work beyond their traditional bases for support.

An unintended consequence is what happened after voting ended in this summer's primary. At least five candidates between the races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor dropped out after advancing.

Tom Begich was among them. After a one-two finish by Democrats in the governor's primary, some voters were angry when Begich, who finished second, withdrew and endorsed leading vote-getter Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins.

The race is now a matchup with Kreiss-Tomkins and Republicans Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor. Some Begich supporters said they felt their votes didn't matter and that they were robbed of a chance to rank the candidates in the general election. Others said they trusted Begich's judgment.

Begich’s campaign said staying in the race would have required millions of dollars. It said information the campaign reviewed showed the best path forward was to unite behind one candidate. Begich said he and Kreiss-Tomkins, both former state lawmakers, share many of the same priorities.

He said the decision to withdraw was difficult, and he knows it disappointed some voters. He said the Democratic Party wasn't involved in his final decision.

“Do I feel great about the decision? Of course not. How could I?” he said. “But is it the right decision? Absolutely.”

Ranked voting is 'a game and we need to play,' GOP activist says

Many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have criticized Alaska's ranked voting, which is seen as giving Democrats and moderate candidates a boost in the traditionally GOP-friendly state compared with the traditional party primary system.

In the 2022 and 2024 U.S. House races, pressure to drop out was applied with mixed success on Republican candidates who finished behind the party’s top vote-getter in the top-four primary. In special and regular elections in 2022, Democrat Mary Peltola beat Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich for Alaska's only House seat. In 2024, Nick Begich, a nephew of Tom Begich, beat Peltola after the other major Republican in the race quit following the primary.

Republicans this year remain divided over whether to encourage a “rank the red” strategy in November. The state party chair, Carmela Warfield, frequently refers on social media to ranked voting as a “mess.”

David Boyle, who has long been involved in the state's conservative politics, said ranked voting involves “game theory." While he supports the repeal effort, he thinks Republican voters should rank GOP candidates this fall to give the party its best chance in the governor's race.

“Ranked choice voting shouldn’t be an obstacle,” he said. “It’s a game and we need to play that same game.”

Support of open primaries and ranked voting is part of the Democratic Party platform. Alaska's last Democratic governor left office in 2002, but the party sees an opportunity to win the office this year.

Republicans uncertain over ranked strategy in state's biggest race

Alaska's most prominent race, for U.S. Senate, features three Republicans and a Democrat in the general election.

The incumbent, Republican Dan S. Sullivan, and Peltola headline the race that also includes Republicans Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher, and Gerald Heikes. Heikes advanced when the fourth-place finisher, Democrat David Leslie, withdrew. Peltola and Sen. Sullivan won a combined 91% of the primary vote.

Some Republican voters plan to simply vote for the incumbent and not rank in that race.

“In November, our campaign’s strategy is simple: vote for Senator Dan S. Sullivan and fill out the ballot completely, so no game and no gimmick decides this race instead of Alaskans," Nate Adams, a spokesman for the senator’s campaign, said in a statement. He did not clarify if that meant Sullivan favored voters ranking in his or other races.

The senator and his Republican allies, including Trump, have spent months blasting Dan J. Sullivan as a ”sham" candidate intent on sowing confusion, a charge the challenger denies.

Elijah Verhagen, a Republican from the interior community of Nenana, worries about GOP voters getting mixed messaging about whether they should use the ranked choice system for the midterms.

“I just very much fear that a lot of people will not rank because they’ve distrusted it for so long and they’re going to be voting — most of them — to get rid of it on the same day,” he said. “So it just seems kind of bizarre that we’ve come down to that.”

Advocates say the current system expands voters' choices

Advocates of the current system, such as Alaskans for Better Elections, have been holding events to help voters better understand how it works. Juli Lucky, the group's executive director, said consolidating behind one candidate seems “shortsighted” and doesn't honor “the complexity of voters.”

But she also realizes the decision to carry on is the candidate's. And not all voters use the ranking system.

Democrat John Williams withdrew from the U.S. House race after advancing with less than 3% of the vote. He said Democrats urged him to drop out of the race, which features Nick Begich and independent Bill Hill, whom Democrats recently endorsed.

Williams said he wasn't “bullied” and blamed himself for not campaigning or raising money.

He said the current system gives options to voters who “are looking at other people that are down ballot."

“The reason they’re looking," he said, "is because they don’t like what they’re seeing” in the major candidates.

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Miami Fire Rescue said crews were dispatched at about 1:52 a.m. to the 3700 block of Northwest 23rd Court for a report of a person with an “alleged gunshot wound.”

They said the boy was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in “extremely critical condition.”

The boy later died from his injuries Saturday night.

Authorities said a 45-year-old woman was also transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for evaluation. Miami Fire Rescue said she had no reported injuries.

Police closed Northwest 23rd Court near 38th Street as officers and detectives investigated. Several Miami police cruisers could be seen at the scene with emergency lights flashing, while police tape surrounded a home investigator appeared to be focusing on.

Crime scene investigators were also seen entering and leaving the area with equipment. A clear evidence bag containing what appeared to be a gun was also visible at the scene.

Neighbors told Local 10 News they heard multiple gunshots followed by yelling and the sound of people running through the area.

One neighbor said he heard about seven gunshots. Another said security-camera footage captured activity in the area, but he later claimed that footage had been deleted and could not be shared.

The investigation remained active on Saturday evening, and police had not immediately released additional details about what led to the shooting.

“This is the civil rights issue of our lifetime,” said the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the open-seat race in November.

It had the look and sound of a Democratic campaign policy event, set in one of the nation’s Democratic-voting strongholds.

The contest has quickly become a focal point in the fight for Senate control, and Rogers is working to appeal to segments of Michigan's Democratic electorate. It's a key to what the former congressman sees as his path to defeating progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed this fall.

Rogers lost his first bid for Senate two years ago by barely 19,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast. This time, he is betting he can win over some Democrats and independents, particularly Black and Jewish voters who may be turned off by El-Sayed's positions, which are to the left of his party’s establishment, notably on U.S.-Israel relations. At the same time, Rogers must rally Donald Trump loyalists to turn out to vote, even though the president isn't on the ballot.

“He is threading a needle,” said Bobby Schostak, Rogers' campaign finance chairman.

Rogers is reaching into heavily Democratic Detroit

Rogers' event outside Cody was part of his promotion of a nonprofit program to boost literacy in Michigan's largest city. A few days later, he promoted a home construction plan in downtown Detroit, where many thousands of lots remain vacant almost 20 years after the Great Recession.

Rogers' campaign sees opportunity in racially and culturally diverse Wayne County, home to Detroit, where roughly three-quarters of the population is Black.

In the 2024 Senate race, then-U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, won the county by more than a 2-to-1 margin over Rogers, or 264,000 votes. Squeezing even a couple more percentage points there in November could be enough for Rogers to win. His team is optimistic in part because in this year's Democratic primary, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens beat El-Sayed in the county.

El-Sayed has faced resistance from some of Detroit’s older and more establishment-aligned Black Democrats, who favored Stevens' longer-standing ties to Black churches and work on the Obama administration's auto industry rescue plan.

Some local Black activists also faulted El-Sayed, who if elected would be the first Muslim senator, for supporting the “uncommitted” campaign in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary. Some Black Michigan Democrats believe the effort, aimed at pressuring the Biden administration over Gaza, cost then-Vice President Kamala Harris in her campaign as the first Black woman to be a major party presidential nominee. Trump beat Harris by 1.4 percentage points in the state.

Harris plans to campaign with El-Sayed in Michigan on Tuesday, and the Congressional Black Caucus has endorsed El-Sayed.

Democratic leaders have dismissed Rogers' efforts at inroads.

"I don’t think anyone’s buying it,” the state party chair, Curtis Hertel, said of Rogers' efforts to court Black voters in Detroit. “I don’t think (Rogers) has a connection in those communities, I think he’s going to have a hard time.”

Some Jewish Democrats are siding with Rogers

Rogers has also leaned into the defections by some Democratic Jewish voters, an influential group particularly in Oakland County, Michigan's second most-populous county.

A day after the August primary, a prominent Democrat, Detroit-area business leader Brian Hermelin, called Schostak, Rogers' campaign finance chairman, asking how he could help. Within 10 days, Rogers was headlining a fundraiser hosted by the Hermelin family and attended by about 130 people, mostly Democrats, Schostak said.

El-Sayed opposes U.S. military aid to Israel and has called the U.S. ally's military campaign in Gaza a "genocide,” an accusation rejected by the Israeli and U.S. governments. The former public health official also has angered some Jewish Democrats with statements he made after the March attack on Temple Israel, Michigan’s largest Jewish congregation.

El-Sayed's suggestion that “hurt people hurt people” was interpreted by some as justification for the attack. El-Sayed later apologized for his response, but the remark helped push some influential Jewish Democrats toward Rogers.

Oakland County commercial real estate broker Benji Rosenzweig, who is Jewish and tends to vote for Democrats, plans to vote for the Republican.

“As a Jew, my family doesn't feel safe with Abdul El-Sayed,” Rosenzweig said.

Michigan is a potential Republican firewall

The seat is open because Democrat Gary Peters is not seeking reelection. If Rogers wins, Republicans would retain their Senate majority even if Democrats pick up as many as four GOP-held seats in November.

Ad spending reflects the stakes. More money has been spent in Michigan — almost $125 million since the Aug. 4 primary — than in any other state where Republicans have a chance at gaining a seat, according to the advertising-tracking firm AdImpact. That is spending by El-Sayed, Rogers and allied groups.

The race has jumped to the top of the Trump political team's priority list.

No Going Back, a new entity linked to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC, early this month spent $18.5 million to air ads and reserve advertising time in Michigan, the most the group has committed to any 2026 Senate race so far, according to AdImpact.

The ads show the split-screen tack Rogers and his allies are taking in reaching out to atypical Republican voters while working to inspire the Trump base.

Rogers' campaign organization is airing ads, many of them with him direct to camera, promoting him as the son of a middle-class family, a collaborator during his time in Congress and interested in bringing down costs, notably for healthcare.

The super PACs supporting his candidacy are swinging the hammer. For instance, the super PAC associated with GOP Senate leadership is airing ads noting El-Sayed's past association with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker and the candidate's support for abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rogers has walked a fine line on Trump

The division of messaging reflects that Rogers' team is wary of Trump's low approval, especially on handling the economy, and wants to be seen among the broad swath of Michigan voters as not beholden to the president.

As he says in one ad, “Michigan comes first.”

Yet he has shifted closer to Trump.

After the 2020 election, Rogers was unequivocal that Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump for the White House, and Rogers he criticized Trump's unfounded claims of widespread fraud. But in July, after Trump's primetime address recycling the disproven claims, Rogers praised Trump's “commitment to transparency."

He has not shied away from the rhetoric that appeals to Trump's supporters, but delivers it in a less edgy tone.

Speaking to the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Rogers referenced “radical Islamic terrorism.” He also said El-Sayed had “chosen Hasan Piker as his running mate."

Piker, who in 2019 said the U.S. “deserved 9/11,” had hosted El-Sayed on his livestream and later campaigned with him at rallies during the primary. El-Sayed has since disavowed Piker’s controversial statements and ended plans for joint campaigning, but has not categorically repudiated him nor apologized for appearing with him.

Not once during Rogers' convention speech did he mention Trump, as so many speakers did over the two-night event.

Instead, Rogers closed by echoing a quote attributed to Michigan native Todd Beamer, among the passengers aboard United Flight 93 before its crash in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11.

Jabbing a finger toward the audience, Rogers said, “America, let's roll."

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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa. Associated Press writer Nicholas Riccardi in Grand Rapids, Mich., contributed to this report.

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GaNun is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

“Is it going to be groceries this week?" asked the 28-year-old Amazon delivery driver as he watched the numbers tick higher. "Is it gonna be getting gas in our tank to go to work?”

He shook his head when asked about President Donald Trump's assertion last week that higher gas prices are a small price to pay for the war with Iran.

“I don’t feel like it’s a good trade-off,” Martinez said. “I don’t feel like this is good for anyone.”

Voters across the country, and across the political spectrum, tend to agree.

Interviews with voters in several states, along with a fresh round of national polling, reveal an overwhelming sense of frustration that skyrocketing gas prices — a direct result of Trump's war — are creating serious and sustained financial hardships for America's working class.

The acute concerns are adding to a bad political environment that may be worsening for Trump and his Republican Party as early voting gets underway in the November midterm elections.

Historically, the party holding the White House has suffered major losses in midterms. Today, seven weeks before Election Day, Republican candidates at all levels are struggling with the additional burden of Trump's weak approval ratings, an unpopular foreign conflict and an affordability crisis that Trump and his congressional allies had promised to fix.

But when Trump campaigned in North Carolina on Wednesday, he played down the impact of surging gas prices.

“You have a little higher. It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done," Trump said of the war, which he describes as critical to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more.”

‘Gas prices matter,’ Republican strategist says

Despite what Trump says, there are few things that may matter more this election year than the price of a gallon of gasoline, according to political operatives in both parties.

Gas prices are moving sharply in the wrong direction at a time of year when drivers typically get some relief. The national average for a gallon of gas reached $4.48 on Friday, according to AAA, up roughly 17 cents over the last week, 40 cents in a month and $1.27 from a year ago.

“Gas prices matter because they’re one of the few economic indicators voters experience and see in real time,” said veteran Republican strategist Chris Wilson. “The price is literally staring them in the face several times a week. So I wouldn’t minimize the frustration we’re seeing, particularly among working- and middle-class voters.”

Interviews with voters this week found bipartisan frustration and disappointment.

Democrats and independents were especially motivated to punish Republicans at the ballot box for their economic hardship, while some of Trump's working-class supporters pledged to support Republicans this fall, even if they weren't happy with the president's leadership on the economy.

Some Republicans say they're disappointed

Dan Lloyd, who voted for Trump, lamented the president's leadership as the 63-year-old carpenter paid $4.39 a gallon to fill up his pickup truck in Mesa, Arizona.

“He hurt himself stepping into this,” Lloyd said of Trump. “Where’s all this oil from Venezuela? I thought we were flush with gas and everything, but no. The American people eat it every time, whether it’s interest rates, food, gasoline.”

Still, he expects to vote Republican in the midterms.

“I think the Democratic Party has lost its way,” Lloyd said. "I just feel like the whole system’s on the verge of collapse.”

In sweltering Edinburg, Texas, 52-year-old Kristin Jimenez shrugged off the rising price of gas after filling up her Mercedes.

“We’ve paid the same price under Republican presidents, we’ve paid this price under Democrat presidents,” said Jimenez, a mother who runs a small business. She plans to vote for a Republican in because they’re the “lesser of two evils.”

She said gas prices aren’t part of her calculation.

“We don’t mind paying $8 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks, but we have a problem paying four bucks at the pump?” she said. “Make it make sense.”

More than 1,500 miles to the north in central Michigan, 35-year-old Garth Johnson is trying to make ends meet running a deep-cleaning business with several gas-powered vehicles and one machine fueled by diesel, which was $6.79 a gallon as he filled up his SUV.

Johnson voted for Trump, but doesn’t know what he’s going to do in November. Johnson doesn’t feel qualified to second-guess the president’s evaluation of the war, but he's feeling financial pressure in his own life.

“I like a lot of the things he’s done,” Johnson said, but added “I’m a little guy and I’ve got to live my life.”

Other voters are not so forgiving

Midterm voting was already underway on Friday in Virginia, where 60-year-old engineer Alan Johnson said Trump seems to have “no empathy” for Americans who are struggling financially.

“With the gas prices being what they are and continuing to grow, we’ve got to do something. Hopefully the Democrats can get into office and turn the ship around,” said Johnson, who cast ballots in the morning for Democrats for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, teacher Brittney Bivins sees surging gas prices as evidence that Trump and his Republican Party aren't dealing with the issues that matter most to people like her.

“He really doesn’t care about everyday people,” the 45-year-old said. “He can afford the gas, but most of us can’t. So it feels like he’s not even connected to his own people.”

Bivins, who described herself as an independent, said she's eager to support Democrats this fall — especially the party's emerging democratic socialist wing.

At a gas station in Lansing, Michigan, Rina Risper spent $50 on 8 gallons of premium gas.

“When I rolled up I was in shock, actually, and said, well, maybe I should drink water instead of having that $4.99 bottle of whatever it was I was gonna get,” Risper said. She thinks Trump's tariffs will make affordability even worse.

“We’re not in Miami. We’re in Lansing, Michigan,” she said. “It’s really going to impact our people.”

Most voters think Trump's administration has made economy worse, poll shows

Nationwide, more than three times as many voters say they are falling behind financially as getting ahead, according to a Fox News survey released Wednesday. By a 15 percentage point margin, Democrats are considered the party that would better handle inflation and prices at a time when the cost of living and the economy are voters’ top concerns.

The Fox poll found that 61% of voters say gas prices are a major problem for their household, compared with 48% two years ago, while 52% say the same for healthcare costs, compared with 44% in 2024. Majorities also view housing costs and grocery prices as major problems, although neither has increased.

Overall, nearly two-thirds of voters (63%) say the administration has made the economy worse, compared with 52% in September 2025, including one-quarter of Republicans. Only 46% of Republicans say the administration has improved the economy, while about one-quarter don’t see an impact.

Back in rural South Texas, an area where Trump's GOP made gains in recent elections, Martinez, the Amazon delivery driver, could not contain his frustration.

Trump “likes to tout that we are the best economy in the world,” said Martinez, but in more rural towns, “you don’t see any of the winning, you don’t see any of the ups that he’s talking about."

"You just see struggles for day to day life," he said.

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Peoples reported from New York and Cooper from Mesa, Ariz. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Raleigh, N.C., Jacqueline GaNun in Lansing, Mich., Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Va., and Nicholas Riccardi in Mason, Mich., contributed to this report.

For decades, the country’s version of the hot dog has been one of the most affordable foods enjoyed across social classes. But as the cost of living rises and the economy struggles, even the humble snack is feeling the impact.

"Not long ago, I used to pay 2,500 pesos ($2.60) for a completo," said Antonia Bravo, a 21-year-old student. “Now, they cost 3,500 or 4,000 pesos ($3.60 or $4.10).”

Official data released this month confirmed that Chile is on the brink of recession after two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Unemployment rose to 9.5% — the highest level in five years — while annual inflation accelerated to 4.1% in the past 12 months as food and transportation prices increased.

The weak outlook prompted Chile's Central Bank to cut its 2026 growth forecast — from the previously projected 1%–1.75% range to 0.25%–0.75%.

“We cannot rule out the possibility that the current weakness may prove more persistent than anticipated,” Central Bank President Rosanna Costa warned at a news conference last week.

Eating out has become a luxury for many

The completo was born in one of those small shops in downtown Santiago in the early 1930s. Chile’s take on the hot dog features a sausage topped with sauerkraut, tomato and homemade potato-based mayonnaise. Avocado and other ingredients were added over time, turning it into a complete meal. Hence its name, “completo.”

“Back then, people weren’t well-off; they didn’t have many resources and would come here for completos,” said Guillermo Cid, manager of the restaurant credited with creating the dish. “It is the same today. Instead of sitting down for a full meal, many people just stop by for a completo."

Chile's monthly basic food basket cost just under $100 in August, up 5% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Social Development. The country's monthly minimum wage is about $580. Chile has also faced rising fuel prices resulting from the U.S.-Iran war.

Together, these pressures "feed into inflation and erode household purchasing power,” creating a scenario where “confidence... deteriorates,” the Central Bank president said.

As the cost of living rises and household budgets tighten, Chileans are looking for ways to stretch their incomes by cutting spending on key areas, including food.

“The price of basic products just keeps going up and up,” said Mauricio Aravena, a 30-year-old teacher. “Eating out has always been somewhat of a luxury, but now even more so.”

Even a get-together with friends has become synonymous with extravagance.

“Compared to last year, when my friends and I could plan more outings, these days it’s more about staying in and cooking at home,” said Tabata Martinich, 31, also a teacher. “You have to watch your spending more closely; everything is way more expensive.”

Workers also say wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation.

“Bills are more expensive overall, and pay raises aren’t keeping up with those costs,” Aravena added. “We are lagging about five years behind.”

Frustration is on the rise

Since taking office in March, President José Antonio Kast has pursued an economic recovery agenda aimed at boosting investment and employment, as Chile's economy and labor market weaken. His challenge is ensuring that these reforms not only translate into stronger economic indicators but also reach citizens’ pockets.

“Expectations are turning into frustration,” analyst Guillermo Holzmann said. “Despite progress in approving major projects, the investments have not materialized at the pace needed.”

Kast recently acknowledged the situation, saying Chile is “facing higher inflation than expected and lower growth than projected.”

At a meeting Tuesday with ministers and leaders of parties in the ruling coalition, Kast instructed his team to draft a “labor emergency plan” that should be presented in the coming weeks — although he did not provide details. The plan follows several other measures announced recently — including the economic and tax overhaul, which was approved by Congress but has yet to be ratified as the Constitutional Court reviews complaints filed by opposition parties.

The proposed reform includes initiatives such as tax cuts for large corporations, the elimination of double taxation to encourage more private investment, and the implementation of financial compensation for companies whose projects are rejected due to environmental concerns. It also establishes the “right to financial oblivion” for old debts in new credit assessments and bans the charging of interest on interest.

Holzmann said the worsening economic conditions are pushing the Kast administration to race against the clock to translate medium- and long-term initiatives into concrete actions that have a direct impact on citizens’ pockets. “Making ends meet is becoming increasingly difficult,” he said.

“There is a disconnect between consumers’ income levels and the prices of products in stores,” he added. “Social frustration is the primary breeding ground for unrest in a country.”

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An Israeli is killed and troops shot dead an alleged attacker in the West Bank

A 30-year-old man was killed in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank on Sunday morning, hours before the Yom Kippur holiday, which is widely considered the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The Israeli military said the attacker opened fire from a vehicle and then fled on foot. The man was evacuated to a hospital but died of his wounds, police said.

The military also said it killed a Palestinian man who attempted to carry out a ramming attack on soldiers at an intersection near Jenin, less than an hour later. The military said it was searching for another man who was in the car.

Prior to the attack, Israeli troops carried out a large counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank town of Al-Mughayyir. Palestinian officials said at least 28 people were detained. Tensions have surged in the West Bank and extremist Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have increased exponentially, emboldened by right-wing, ultra-nationalist politicians in Israel's government.

Arab and Muslim nations condemn Houthi attack on Riyadh

Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait said the Houthi attack on Riyadh was a threat to regional security and stability and a violation of international law. The nations in separate statements said their governments stand with Saudi Arabia in support of its sovereignty and protection of its civilians.

The Muslim World League also condemned the attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure as a violation of “all religious values as well as international and humanitarian laws and norms.”

It was the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war. Saudi Arabia said the attack was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion, and later some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

6 French accused of being members of the Islamic State stand trial in Iraq

Six French nationals in Iraq suspected of being members of the extremist Islamic State group have stood trial, Iraqi judicial and security officials told The Associated Press.

The officials, who said it could take several proceedings before a verdict is issued, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.

The six are among 47 French nationals held in Iraq who were part of thousands of people with suspected links to the IS, and who were repatriated from neighboring Syria early this year.

— By Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad.

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American restaurant and beverage chains are expanding rapidly in China, drawn by the potential customer pool in a country with four times the U.S. population. China's languishing economy and cutthroat industry competition, meanwhile, have Chinese chains trying their luck in the U.S., turning crumbs and straws into a two-way cultural bridge between the two superpowers.

The bilateral trade in burgers and bubble tea is business- and consumer-led gastrodiplomacy in action, said Yaling Jiang, the founder of ApertureChina, a market research company with headquarters in Shanghai and London. In China, recent American arrivals like Popeyes and Five Guys are seen as a guilty pleasure, she said, while the increasingly international palates of Americans have created space for Chinese brands to serve as their nation's unofficial ambassadors.

“Consumerism builds a safe, introductory channel for contemporary Chinese culture and can be a great way to elevate China’s soft power,” Jiang said.

The White House has not revealed the menu for the state dinner that U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. But a taste for a cheap, crowd-pleasing meal may be something the two leaders share.

In 2013, Xi made a rare public visit to a steamed-bun restaurant in Beijing. He waited in line and ordered a 21-yuan ($3) meal featuring six pork-and-scallion buns, vegetables, and a bowl of stewed pork liver and intestines. Trump’s love of fast food is legendary; he even manned a fry station at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s during his 2024 campaign.

American fast-food companies are expanding their presence in China

Last month, Chinese customers lined up in the rain for the opening of the first Church’s Texas Chicken in Shanghai. Church’s plans at least 600 more across China. Wendy’s says it anticipates opening 1,000 restaurants there over the next decade.

Established players are deepening their reach as well. McDonald’s plans 1,000 new Chinese restaurants this year and 10,000 total by 2028. Burger King, which arrived in China in 2005, says it expects to triple its store count to 4,000 by 2035.

“Despite political tensions between the U.S. and China, Chinese actually still go crazy for American brands,” said Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of the Shanghai-based China Market Research Group.

KFC became the first major American fast-food chain to enter mainland China when it opened a Beijing restaurant in 1987. At the time, it was viewed as a premium destination worth taking a date to, Rein said. McDonald's and Pizza Hut arrived in 1990.

“McDonald’s and KFC were a beacon of health and hygiene compared to what you had in the rest of the market,” Rein said.

China is now KFC’s largest market by far. The Kentucky-born fried chicken chain counts about 13,000 restaurants in China, compared with around 3,750 in the U.S. American brands see room for further growth.

Much of China’s population lives in the smaller, inland cities where brands like McDonald’s and Starbucks are rolling out stores, said Sory Park, a project manager at China-focused market research and strategy firm Daxue Consulting.

That doesn't make China a cakewalk for foreign restaurant companies. Most American chains now rely on Chinese partners to find locations and share the financial risk. Earlier this year, a Chinese investment firm acquired a 60% stake in Starbucks' China operation after several years of falling store traffic.

American chains trade on their brand names and signature products, but many tailor their menus to appeal to Chinese customers. KFC restaurants in China, for example, serve french fries and Original Recipe chicken alongside custardy egg tarts and congee, a savory rice porridge.

“They need to operate like a Chinese company but deliver American menus that incorporate Chinese values, eating habits, and tastes,” Park said.

Chinese fast-food chains seek new opportunities in the US

Mixue, one of the world’s largest fast-food chains with more than 53,000 locations, opened its first three U.S. stores in December. Mirroring the Shanghai crowd outside Church's Texas Chicken, New York customers waited in the cold to sample soft-serve ice cream, fruit teas and milk tea with toppings like coconut jelly and taro balls at a store in Herald Square.

Mixue has announced at least two dozen more planned locations across four states. At least nine other mainland Chinese chains have made their U.S. debuts since 2023, all but one specializing primarily in drinks and snacks. They include Heytea, with 40 U.S. locations, and Luckin Coffee, which overtook Starbucks as China’s biggest coffee brand and has 20 stores in New York.

Wallace, a chain founded in 2000, grew to more than 20,000 restaurants by selling American-style chicken and hamburgers in China. In California, where the second U.S. Wallace opened last month, the company tweaked its chicken sandwich recipe to appeal to American diners.

Before entering the U.S., many major Chinese food-and-beverage chains expanded in Southeast Asia. A real estate slump and weak consumer spending made growth harder to find at home. The average life span of China's 16 million restaurants and chains was expected to fall to 15 months last year, according to a U.S. government report.

The American restaurant industry is considerably smaller, with 1 million locations, according to the National Restaurant Association. Jiang, of ApertureChina, sees another advantage for Chinese brands: a social media trend called “Chinamaxxing,” in which Westerners adopt Chinese lifestyle habits or wellness practices.

Not every brand makes its origins clear. Wallace's U.S. website and social media pages do not mention the brand's Chinese ownership or headquarters in southeastern China’s Fujian province. The company didn’t respond to an email from The Associated Press.

The U.S. carries both potential rewards and risks for Chinese chains

American and Chinese chains alike have an appetite for opportunities across the Pacific. But Chinese brands remain largely unproven stateside. Even chains with thousands of locations elsewhere are testing whether novelty can translate into loyalty.

The U.S. is too lucrative a market to ignore, said Aaron Allen, founder of restaurant consulting firm Aaron Allen and Associates. It accounts for one-third of global restaurant revenue despite having only around 4% of the world’s population, he said.

“The grass is always greener somewhere else in the world,” Allen said.

While American brands can carry a premium image in China, many Chinese brands compete heavily on price. At a Mixue in Hollywood this week, a medium matcha latte cost $6.83; a nearby Starbucks sold the same drink for almost $1 more. Wallace sells three full-size chicken sandwiches for $10.

“The Chinese can build stuff cheaper and faster. Why would that not apply to food?” Allen said.

But Allen said Chinese brands could face customer backlash or higher tariffs if they undercut U.S. rivals with low-cost Chinese imports. Like other Chinese companies, restaurant brands also could face U.S. scrutiny over their collection and use of customer data, he said.

Luckin Coffee co-founder and CEO Jinyi Guo told investors in February that the U.S. “represents one of our important long-term opportunities” and the company was proceeding “with great patience and discipline.”

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Durbin reported from Detroit. Chan reported from Hong Kong. Associated Press writer Fu Ting contributed from Washington.

He said Sulieman was a motorcycle mechanic in Niger state and was on his way home when he and some friends were arrested by personnel from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, or NSCDC.

“I went there the following morning to give him food, only to hear that he was dead,” Mohammed said.

On Thursday, Sulieman was found dead in a cell of the NSCDC along with 36 other detainees. A total of 67 people suspected of being miners working illegally were held in a cell, and 37 of them probably died of suffocation, Niger state Gov. Umar Bago said Friday. The suspects were arrested between Tuesday and Wednesday.

The security agency on Thursday blamed the deaths on a possible disease outbreak. An investigation is underway to determine what caused the deaths.

On Saturday, the Nigerian government named a 10-member committee drawn from the legal, security, mining and medical professions, and announced the suspension of 20 more NSCDC personnel. The head of the security agency in Niger state had been suspended on Friday.

“Any attempt to destroy or conceal evidence, intimidate witnesses or obstruct the investigation will be treated as a serious offense,” interior minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said in a statement.

Mohammed said: “I had a lot of expectations for my son, but now (they have) been shattered completely. I am really hurt. They chose to beat him up, burst his head open. His teeth were even falling out. I want the government to make sure that justice prevails.”

Concerns about the treatment of detainees

There have long been concerns about the treatment of suspects in Nigerian detention centers. In 2025, the National Human Rights Commission said it received 371,622 complaints of rights violations, including unlawful arrest and detention, denial of justice and torture.

“It raises serious questions about detention standards, operational planning, accountability and respect for due process,” Kehinde Giwa, a security analyst at Lagos-based SBM Intelligence, said about the deaths of the suspects.

“Even when arrests are lawful, suspects must be kept in safe conditions and given timely medical attention.”

Parent says his child was maltreated in custody

Saba Usman alleged that his son Usman Whalid, who was a student and did menial work to survive, was mistreated while in custody before he died.

“When I saw him, he was really in a bad shape because he was beaten and was (stepped) on with boots, so I knew they really mistreated him while he was in their custody,” he said.

“I even have his videos and pictures on my phone of how he was being stepped on, and how his mouth was also stepped on and his teeth broken,” he added.

Usman said his son and others who were arrested did not commit a crime but “were framed," adding that “I have nothing else to say but to give God thanks because he knows why this really happened.”

A survivor recounts his ordeal in detention

Mubarak Dahiru, a survivor who appeared traumatized by his ordeal, said while in detention they were sweating profusely and pleaded with NSCDC officials for water and food, but their requests were ignored.

“They beat us as if we were thieves. They also used their guns and hit us with them," Dahiru said.

Nigerian Bar Association president Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya said the death of 37 people while in the custody of a government agency is an “event of the utmost gravity and demands a thorough, independent, transparent and credible investigation.”

Illegal mining remains a challenge in Nigeria. Analysts have linked illegal mining activities in Nigeria’s north-central and northwest regions to armed gangs involved in kidnappings for ransom, claiming the groups receive funding from the illicit trade.

Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.

Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.

Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and drones in the attack — including Ukraine's domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles — to hit oil and logistics facilities.

"These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine," Zelenskyy said, referring to the financial pressure that Kyiv hopes to put on Russia's economy.

Ukraine also continued to fend off Russian attacks, Zelenskyy said. A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine's Kherson region Saturday, killing a member of the clergy and wounding four people, he said.

A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital also killed two children and their mother on Saturday evening, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration. He later said that another child wounded in the same attack had died in hospital on Sunday.

Russia votes in an election devoid of opposition

The attack took place on the final day of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election — balloting that has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies and is all but certain to cement the Kremlin’s dominance.

Russia was also holding the vote in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the war began but still doesn’t fully control, and in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv has denounced the action as illegal.

In a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine's Kherson region, a Ukrainian attack killed a member of the local electoral committee, Russia's Central Election Commission said in a statement.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across Russia, as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that 450 drones had been destroyed en route to the Russian capital, and that the attack had damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery and a residential building.

He said the “unprecedented attack” on Moscow was an attempt to disrupt the elections. "The enemy failed in this regard," he said.

Since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine has become a global leader in military drone technology, deploying domestically produced long-range drones alongside missiles for strikes deep inside Russia. Its drone technology has impressed governments and defense manufacturers around the world.

Kyiv is aiming to make the Russian public feel the war’s consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement. Putin has so far shown no signs he intends to stop the invasion.

Instead, Moscow and Kyiv have been drawn into an escalating duel of long-range aerial strikes as fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line in eastern and southern Ukraine has slowed, restricted by large numbers of drones and ground robots threatening troop movements.

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An earlier version of this story was corrected to show that the Russian defense ministry said the total number of destroyed drones was 1,110, not 1,100.

The state elections are taking place in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a largely rural region in the formerly communist and less prosperous east, and in the capital, Berlin.

The vote comes two weeks after the anti-migration, Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany, or AfD, finished just short of a majority in the small eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, and has its best chance yet of forming the country’s first far-right regional government since World War II.

Merz’s authority was severely damaged by his party’s stinging defeat in the Sept. 6 election by AfD — a result that shocked many Germans who had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to outlaw persecution.

The AfD is expected to make significant gains in Sunday's elections as well, but has no realistic path to power in Berlin and faces a much stronger challenge from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s center-left governor than it did from Merz’s party in Saxony-Anhalt.

Prospects for Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union are bleaker. It could lose the mayor’s office in Berlin. If things go very badly, it could fail for the first time to win seats in a state legislature anywhere by falling below 5% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where it was already weak.

Merz, 70, became Germany’s leader 16 months ago with promises to turn around an economy that has barely grown in years, but has failed to lift a sullen national mood and has himself become deeply unpopular.

The strong showing of AfD in the Saxony-Anhalt election has further weakened the chancellor's standing on the national level as well, and in the past two weeks there have been calls even from within his own party to replace him as chancellor. No top-level allies have called publicly for his departure, and many have warned against “personnel debates.”

Apparently anticipating a tough postelection period, Merz abandoned a planned trip to New York next week to attend the U.N. General Assembly. Despite the strong headwinds, he has repeatedly said that he’s determined to stay on and finish his term as chancellor.

The launches were the latest in a series of weapons demonstrations by North Korea even after U.S. President Donald Trump scaled back a joint military exercise with South Korea last month in an apparent effort to revive diplomacy with the North's leader, Kim Jong Un.

The two missile launches — about three hours apart — were conducted from North Korea's eastern coastal Wonsan area. The first missile flew about 450 kilometers (280 miles) while the second one flew more than 600 kilometers (370 miles), both toward the North’s eastern waters, South Korea's military said.

The missiles eventually ended up in the sea. South Korea’s presidential office urged North Korea to immediately halt ballistic missile launches that are banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions. The South's military said it maintains readiness to repel any provocations by the North under a solid alliance with the United States.

Japan's Defense Ministry said it detected a suspected North Korean missile earlier Sunday but that the weapon did not land in its territorial waters.

North Korea escalates pressure on the US

Kim's sister and senior official, Kim Yo Jong, earlier shrugged off Trump’s overture, saying that shortening the drill wouldn’t change its “provocative, aggressive nature.” North Korea’s military later launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, apparently following through with a previous threat to respond to the U.S.-South Korean drill.

On Friday, Kim's sister slammed another recent U.S.-led multilateral maritime exercise in the region as a “frantic military move” by the Americans meant to prolong their hegemony in the Asia-Pacific area. The “Pacific Vanguard” exercise brought together the U.S., South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

She claimed that “regular U.S.-led war rehearsals” are the main source of worsening tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the region.

“Our will to defend our sovereignty will be expressed in clearer action and there will be never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence,” she said.

Earlier this month, North Korea conducted what it called a joint live-fire drill involving missiles, artillery and drones, a day after the United States, South Korea and Japan wrapped their five-day trilateral military drill that North Korea described as a provocation. North Korea said its drill included firing different types of weapons simultaneously, likely aiming at developing the ability to overwhelm South Korean and U.S. air defenses.

Chances of a swift resumption of US-North Korea talks are unclear

Kim Jong Un has been focusing on expanding his nuclear arsenal after his earlier high-stakes diplomacy with Trump collapsed in 2019.

When Trump ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise with South Korea, he cited what he called a good relationship with Kim, who has called such drills invasion rehearsals.

Emboldened by his advancing nuclear arsenal and deepening ties with Russia and China, experts say Kim likely thinks he now has greater leverage in possible fresh diplomacy with Trump. Earlier this year, Kim said he could return to talks if the U.S. drops its “hostile policy” against his country and respects what he calls the North’s status as a nuclear state.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal who advocates improved ties with the North, said on Friday that a resumption of U.S.-North Korea talks would be “an important starting point” toward boosting chances for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

“What is clear is that President Trump wants dialogue and I’ve also been encouraging President Trump to seek dialogue” with Kim, Lee told reporters.

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In the day's other National Women's Soccer League matches, the Portland Thorns beat the Orlando Pride 4-1 and the Denver Summit topped the Seattle Reign 2-1.

Gotham (15-4-6) opened the scoring in the 8th minute with Sam Kerr providing the assist to Dudley for the goal.

North Carolina, playing in front of a sold-out crowd of 10,551 at WakeMed Soccer Park, appeared to equalize in the 15th minute and 47th minute on goals from Evelyn Ijeh and Ashley Sanchez, but both of them were ruled offside.

On a corner kick in the 69th minute, the Courage had multiple shots on goal before Natalia Staude finally put one away to tie the game 1-1. But then Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle headed the ball in front of goal, and Dudley knocked it home for the winner in stoppage time.

North Carolina (12-10-3) has now dropped consecutive matches.

Wilson converts a penalty for the Thorns

Sophia Wilson tallied a goal and two assists in her 100th NWSL regular-season appearance, leading the Thorns (12-7-6) to a decisive road win over Orlando that snapped a three-match winless streak.

In the third minute, Wilson drove toward the endline and laid it off at the top of the box to Nina Nijstad, who calmly finished for the 1-0 lead — the first NWSL goal for the Dutch international. Then, Thorns forward Caiya Hanks drew a foul on Oihane Hernández in the 27th minute, and Wilson converted the penalty kick to double the lead.

Orlando midfielder Ally Lemos scored her first NWSL goal on a long-range strike that trimmed the lead to 2-1 in the 30th minute, but Morgan Weaver answered with a shot from well outside the box in the 74th minute made it 3-1.

It was Weaver's first goal since Nov. 1, 2024, after missing last season with injury.

Wilson delivered her second assist in the 88th minute to Renee Lyles for the final margin.

It was interim head coach Yolanda Thomas' first loss since taking over the Pride (9-13-3).

Summit’s Flint scores winner against Reign

Delanie Sheehan and Tash Flint each scored to lead the expansion Summit (9-8-8) to a home victory over the Reign in a game that was delayed for more than an hour because of the weather.

In the 44th minute, Sheehan’s curling shot hit off the post into the back of the net to make it 1-0. Then, off a forced turnover by defender Janine Sonis, she found Flint to double the lead in the 50th minute.

Summit goalkeeper Abby Smith was unable to corral the ball in the 55th minute, and Reign forward Brittany Ratcliffe scored to trim the lead to 2-1. But they were unable to find the equalizer the rest of the way.

The Reign (11-10-4) have now dropped two straight matches after a three-game win streak.

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No. 8 Mississippi is set to move ahead of No. 7 LSU after holding off Lane Kiffin and the Tigers 32-24 on Saturday night, and No. 9 Texas A&M should drop after losing 31-21 at home to Kentucky.

No. 1 Texas, which moved to the top spot last week after beating Ohio State, had no problem getting past UTSA. The rest of the top five — Georgia, Notre Dame, Indiana and Miami — also won, with the closest margin being 13 points.

Three ranked teams besides LSU and Texas A&M took their first losses. No. 16 SMU was beaten 41-31 at No. 23 Louisville, No. 23 Houston lost 28-26 at No. 13 Texas Tech and No. 25 Virginia lost 38-27 to unranked West Virginia in a neutral-site game in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Teams that won somewhat unimpressively included No. 12 USC (42-35 at winless Rutgers) and No. 24 Oklahoma (14-6 at home over New Mexico).

Washington, the team outside the Top 25 with the most votes after dropping out last week, had a solid win over Eastern Washington of the Football Championship Subdivision and could re-enter the rankings. Also in line is Florida, which is 3-0 for the first time since 2019 after beating Auburn on the road.

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That tough talk helped Trump get to the White House a decade ago, but since then, he increasingly speaks in glowing terms about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the geopolitical rival Trump will fete on Thursday with a state dinner.

“He’s a great gentleman; we get along great,” Trump said this month. “We have a very good trading relationship and, you know, they’re a competitor and all of that, but we have a very good relationship with President Xi."

On issue after issue, the Republican president has given Xi a pass.

Trump shrugged off reports that China had provided Iran with satellite imagery, saying, “I think he’s behaved reasonably well.” After accusing Beijing of accessing U.S. voter files back in 2020, Trump indicated he was hesitant to retaliate: “I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then.”

Trump's magnanimity comes as China and the United States are in a contest for global leadership, with some of America's traditional allies rethinking their strategies. China has expanded its dominance in manufacturing and pushed into new technologies such as artificial intelligence and electric vehicles that create risks for the economies of the U.S., Germany, Italy, France, South Korea and Japan, among others.

Trump tried to confront China with tariffs, but that backfired

Unable to change Chinese behavior, Trump has resorted to hospitality.

He traveled to Beijing in May, and the two leaders could meet again two more times this year at international summits. Trump has readied a helipad on the White House South Lawn before Xi’s arrival and has lamented that his ballroom will not be ready to host the Chinese leader.

Trump has insisted that the U.S. is comfortably ahead of China, but his efforts last year to confront China with a mounting set of tariffs backfired. China holds a relative monopoly on the rare earths used in electronics and deployed that to help force a trade armistice with Trump.

“Trump has dramatically shifted his approach to China because his initial attempt to use super-high tariffs and export restrictions was unsuccessful,” said Michael Kovrig, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group. “Xi and Trump got into a contest of leverage, and Xi came out on top.”

Meanwhile, Trump has largely undermined the economic and national security alliances that could previously apply pressure on China, said Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who was detained by China during Trump's first term.

Trump has mocked French President Emmanuel Macron in speeches. He has run hot and cold on NATO after several of its members did not fully support his choice to start a war with Iran. Trump has launched a potentially brutal trade fight with Canada, a longtime ally he has trolled as becoming the 51st American state.

"He’s executing Xi’s wedge tactics for him, and along the way, helping Xi to tell a story about China as the more stable and responsible power," Kovrig said. “It’s led to a wave of Western leaders visiting Beijing and seeking to stabilize and improve their relations with Xi so they can focus more on dealing with problems Trump is causing them.”

Trump's relationship with Xi has led to some symbolic wins

Trump can point to some symbolic wins from having a pleasant relationship with Xi.

While Xi met three times on the sidelines of international summits with Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump will have achieved a pair of reciprocal state visits in a sign that the leaders of the world's two largest economies feel comfortable speaking to each other.

The trade imbalance with China in goods has declined relative to the same period in 2025, according to Census Bureau figures, though the administration has noted that China appears to be routing more goods through other nations such as Vietnam to minimize the tariffs.

Trump's continued tariffs on China have not curbed its manufacturing sector. China has found new markets and boxed out competition from other industrialized countries. China is exporting more of its goods to the rest of the world with a $1.2 trillion global trade surplus last year as its low-priced EVs undercut the auto sectors in Germany, Japan and South Korea.

It's unclear whether Thursday's visit will have a policy ‘deliverable’

Both China and the U.S. are using their trade truce to retrench. China is building up its military and AI capabilities despite limited access to advanced computer chips. The Trump administration has pursued partnerships to develop rare earths.

Trump is also banking on America going full throttle on AI development despite voter resistance to data centers and recent alarming safety warnings from the leading AI companies. He said this week on social media that anyone slowing down AI development was helping China because the technology will be “the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History ­­— Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.”

But China has also been accused of having its AI companies train on U.S. models, a problem for Trump and the economy if AI is the key to global dominance.

Still, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters at the White House last week that it's “unfair to just label China as a country” as being a "bad actor" on AI.

Asked if Trump would bring up the issue with Xi, Blanche said, “Those two presidents have a great relationship. ... They get along, they make deals together.”

Usually, state visits come with “deliverables” on policy or trade. It's not yet clear what Thursday's visit will bring, and it's possible that the main deliverable will be the relationship itself, rather than clear and measurable goals, said Evan Medeiros, a professor at Georgetown University.

That means the U.S. might not be positioning itself to compete against China as it should be, said Medeiros, a former National Security Council director on China for the Obama White House.

“We have this idiosyncratic president who believes in personal relationships and just wants to get along with Xi Jinping for the optics of getting along with him,” Medeiros said. “The problem is that this idiosyncratic approach is coming at precisely the time when we really need to be amping up all dimensions of our competition.”

Chambliss passed for 363 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a tiebreaking score in the fourth quarter, and No. 8 Ole Miss delighted a crowd that was already revved up about Kiffin's return, beating the seventh-ranked Tigers 32-24 on Saturday night.

“I’m glad it’s over. This was an emotional game for a lot of reasons,” Kiffin said. “A lot of life-changing experiences here. A lot of really good people that helped me through some really hard times.

“Sometimes I don't act like it, but I'm a human, too,” Kiffin added. “Congrats to those guys. They played really well. They deserved to win.”

LSU stormed back from a 24-7 halftime deficit to tie the game before Chambliss engineered a 75-yard touchdown drive without the services of top running back Kewan Lacy, who left the game with an injured left shoulder.

Chambliss faked a handoff and ran 14 yards against the grain, outracing LSU safety Ty Benefield to the left pylon, and Ole Miss (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) added a 2-point conversion to take an eight-point lead with 6:14 to go.

Ole Miss drew LSU offside twice while lining up for the conversion before converting it from a half-yard out on a direct snap to JT Lindsey.

LSU answered by driving 69 yards to the Ole Miss 6 before Sam Leavitt missed open tight end Zach Grace along the goal line with a third-down pass, and then had his fourth-down pass deflect off the helmet of defensive end Kam Franklin. Jaylon Braxton intercepted the ball in the end zone to seal it as Kiffin sank into a low crouch with both hands on his white LSU visor.

As time expired, Ole Miss celebrated by charging from the sideline across the field. Rebels defensive tackle Will Echoles said he and a number of his teammates were just trying to find former coaches who'd joined Kiffin at LSU.

Chambliss, meanwhile, conceded that beating the Tigers with Kiffin on the opposing sideline was the most meaningful victory for Ole Miss since the coach left Oxford on Nov. 30 on a private jet sent by LSU.

At the end of a postgame television interview, he shouted out the common Ole Miss refrain, “Hotty Toddy,” but with an expletive mixed in. He later apologized for the profanity — but not the emotion behind it.

“Emotions were high,” Chambliss said. “I got kind of caught up in the moment.

“This one meant a lot more than other games — the coaches that were here, now at LSU, some players as well,” Chambliss said. “I wanted this one bad and our team did, too.”

Leavitt passed for 153 yards and a touchdown and ran for 63 yards and a score for LSU (2-1, 0-1).

The Tigers' comeback bid began in earnest with pressure by Benefield, whose blitz forced Chambliss into a rushed throw that was intercepted by Ja’Keem Jackson and returned 10 yards to the Rebels 33.

Leavitt took it from there, gaining 10 yards on a scramble up the middle that ended with the QB being flipped upside down by multiple tacklers before crashing down hard on the 4-yard line. Leavitt followed that with a tackle-slipping scoring run on the next play to make it 24-14.

LSU pulled within 24-21 on Leavitt’s 26-yard pass to Ole Miss transfer Winston Watkins Jr. and was threatening to potentially take the lead when star tight end Trey’Dez Green injured his right knee on a first-down catch in Ole Miss territory. The Tigers wound up tying it with a field goal before Ole Miss drove for the decisive score.

“I was proud of the way our guys battled back,” Kiffin said. “I thought we had them on the ropes.”

Ole Miss has defeated LSU in consecutive seasons, with Chambliss starring in both games — the first with Kiffin as his coach.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who was instrumental in an LSU athletic department shake-up last fall that precipitated Kiffin’s hiring, smiled widely as he posed for a picture with Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill on the field during pregame warmups.

But they couldn’t have been happy about how the game began.

Chambliss sparked Ole Miss to a 17-0 lead, highlighted by Lacy’s 5-yard power run through the middle of the line and Chambliss’ 21-yard pass to Traylon Ray.

Ray, who finished with seven catches for 115 yards, was instrumental on the first touchdown drive, outleaping two defenders for a 36-yard catch along the right sideline.

LSU trimmed the Rebels’ lead to 17-7 on Dilin Jones’ 2-yard run with 1:57 left in the half — enough time for Chambliss to direct another scoring drive.

After eluding the LSU pass rush, Chambliss rifled a 20 yard pass to Deuce Alexander in the middle of the end zone to make it 24-7 just 7 seconds before halftime.

“We walked into a storm. Trinidad was on fire early,” Kiffin said. “You can see that he’s hard to beat.”

The takeaway

LSU: The Tigers will be disappointed by their slow start but encouraged by a strong second half that took a tough road game down to the wire in Kiffin’s third game in charge. But Green’s injury could loom large. The Tigers also lost linebacker-safety Dashawn Spears to a lower left leg injury in the first half.

Ole Miss: Chambliss’ calm under pressure and dynamic play made the difference, especially after Lacy had to leave the game in the third quarter. Rebels coach Pete Golding said Lacy's X-rays were negative.

Up next

LSU: Hosts current No. 9 Texas A&M next Saturday.

Mississippi: Visits Florida next Saturday.

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Texas (3-0) vaulted to No. 1 after its thrilling 24-23 victory over Ohio State last week when Manning led a 21-point rally in the fourth quarter.

But little came very easy Saturday night against the Roadrunners (2-1). Manning was just 16-of-32 passing for 161 yards, took several hard hits, and left the game with about six minutes to play with the game finally under control.

Texas next heads to No. 15 Tennessee to start SEC play.

“I didn't play well,” Manning said. “The offense has to play better if we're going to beat Tennessee.”

Coleman's first touchdown came after a Texas interception by Rasheem Biles on the first play of the game. His second, on a leaping catch in the corner of the end zone, put Texas ahead 17-3 in the second quarter.

Gianni Spetic kicked field goals of 52, 34 and 23 yards and Texas led 23-6 to start the fourth quarter. Freshman Derrick Cooper's tacked on his first career touchdown run with 8:57 to play.

Manning’s poor game came after a week when he issued a public apology to ESPN reporter Holly Rowe for publicly laughing about a fake AI-generated video that showed coach Steve Sarkisian slapping Rowe.

Back on the field, Manning missed open receivers and wildly overthrew others. He took several hard hits on scrambles and had his helmet knocked off by a violent collision in the second quarter.

Texas also suspended linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator Johnny Nansen for the game after his arrest on a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge.

Coach Steve Sarkisian said it is understandable that his team would have a “choppy” game after the week of problems off the field.

“Not an easy week, you know, from the highs of last week's game to some of the stuff we had to deal with this week,” Sarkisian said. “That's human nature.”

The Texas defense picked up where it left off after its dominant second half against Ohio State. The Longhorns allowed just 143 total yards and kept the Roadrunners out of the end zone.

The struggles on offense will overshadow and dominant defensive effort, Sarkisian said.

“I'm never going to apologize for good defense,” Sarkisian said.

The takeaway

UTSA: The Roadrunners will be happy with a defense that disrupted Manning's night. But UTSA could not match Texas' physical defensive front and tried to use a lot of misdirection and quick throws by quarterback Owen McCown.

Texas: The pass protection that kept Manning upright against Ohio State all but disappeared, forcing him on the run time and again. The Longhorns also got sloppy. After just six penalties in the first two games, Texas had eight for 88 yards against UTSA.

Star pass rusher Simmons sat out second half

Texas pre-season All-American edge rusher Colin Simmons sat out the second half and was seen leaving the field after the game in street clothes and wearing a medical boot on his right leg.

Sarkisian said he did not think the injury was serious and that Simmons was taken out as a precuation.

Cutting down the Manning runs

Manning ran nine times for 50 yards. None of them were called runs, he said.

“Arch kind of fell in love with his legs a little bit tonight. His legs are a weapon,” Sarkisian said. “(But) we don’t’ want to make a living with him running the ball as much as he did tonight.”

Up next

UTSA: Hosts Colorado State on Sept. 26.

Texas: At No. 15 Tennessee on Sept. 26

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Carson Hocevar, a brash 23-year-old who has earned the ire of veteranswith his aggressive driving, traded punches in the pits with Ryan Blaney after they were involved in an incident while racing for second with 41 laps left.

Hocevar stopped his car after finishing third and was greeted by a shove from Blaney.

The 6-foot-4 Hocevar, who stands several inches taller than Blaney, responded with two overhand rights. The first knocked off Blaney’s hat, and the second connected with Blaney’s left cheek.

Blaney fell to the pavement and then scrambled to his feet and out of a crew member’s hold while Hocevar raised his arms and pointed at him. Blaney charged and threw a wild left that knocked off Hocevar’s hat. They then were separated by team members as Blaney continued to yell at Hocevar.

“There wasn’t a whole lot of talking,” Hocevar said. “He just kind of said one thing and then went after me, and I wasn’t going to take it. I got ran into a lot for the win. That was for second, and he wants to come fight. They got an old-school Bristol show here.”

The contact between the drivers started shortly after Blaney took second with an outside pass of Hocevar, who immediately slid his No. 77 Chevrolet down the track. Blaney moved low to block, and Hocevar stayed in the accelerator to knock the No. 12 Ford into a spin that ended in the inside wall.

“I don’t know what I did wrong there," Hocevar said. "I crossed him over and looked like he spun himself, and then he wants to instigate a fight. I was going to finish that, and it seemed like the crowd was pretty pumped up, so I was going to play the audience for a second.”

Blaney, who led a race-high 202 laps despite starting 29th, was already frustrated after falling into heavy traffic because of a penalty for a pit lane violation with just over 100 laps remaining. His rally was cut short by the crash that dropped him to sixth in the Chase standings with his second consecutive finish outside the top 30.

In an interview during the race, Blaney said, “I tried to protect the bottom, he crossed and never lifted, and I got crashed.”

When asked which driver was at fault, Blaney said, “I don’t (expletive) know. Each person is going to say they did nothing wrong.”

Kyle Larson finished second to move into the Chase lead by a point over Denny Hamlin. Christopher Bell was fourth, followed by Ty Gibbs, who led 120 laps before finishing fifth.

Gibbs and Hocevar exchanged the lead four times in the final 100 laps. Their battle for first after a restart with nine laps remaining opened the door for Logano, who zipped past Hocevar and led the final seven laps.

With his 40th career victory and third this season, Logano became the winningest NASCAR driver for Team Penske and moved into third place in the Chase points standings.

But he realized all of those accomplishments would be eclipsed by videos of the Blaney-Hocevar fight that he still had yet to see.

“I’m sure I’ll see it all week long,” Logano said, pausing to add with a laugh. “They’ll probably forget who won the race.”

Remembering Kyle Busch

Gibbs was driving a No. 54 Toyota that sported a paint scheme honoring the late Kyle Busch, who had a record 23 wins in NASCAR national series at Bristol. It was among multiple tributes to the Richard Childress Racing driver who died in May.

Fans waved yellow towels on the 18th lap in honor of Busch, who won two Cup Series championships in the No. 18 Toyota. His widow, Samantha, addressed the crowd before the race.

“Bristol was always so special to Kyle,” Samantha Busch said. “He loved racing under the lights, the energy of this place, and most of all, the fans. For 20 years, this sport was our life. It’s where we raised our babies and made some of our very best memories. I never imagined we’d be standing here without him. But looking out at all of you reminds me that we aren’t walking this alone.”

Legal battle continues

In its federal lawsuit that accuses Spire Motorsports of cheating by using stolen intellectual property, Joe Gibbs Racing filed a motion Thursday claiming that Spire and chief motorsports officer Chris Gabehart violated a temporary restraining order and should be held in contempt. A federal judge ruled in March that Gabehart can work for Spire but not in the competition director role he was in while with Joe Gibbs Racing last season.

Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson responded to the motion in a statement Friday night. “JGR does not get to control what other race teams do through court cases,” Dickerson said. “JGR does not own tire pressures, JGR does not own the people who work in this industry, and JGR does not own Spire. Spire looks forward to responding to JGR’s motion in court. To be clear, months of discovery have shown that Spire Motorsports has done nothing wrong.”

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The NASCAR Cup Series will begin a stretch of three consecutive races on 1.5-mile ovals with Kansas Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 27. Tyler Reddick won the April 19 race at the track in Kansas City, Kansas.

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Chinese officials from Beijing joined Hong Kong political leaders for the service in what was the third state funeral in the former British colony since the 1997 handover.

Tung, a shipping magnate who was the city's chief executive from 1997 to 2005, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 89. He grappled with the Asian financial crisis, the SARS epidemic and public protests during his nearly eight years in office.

Visiting official Shi Taifeng, a member of the Politburo of the ruling Communist Party, referred to Tung in a eulogy as a close friend of the party and a renowned patriot, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.

He said that Tung was an outstanding contributor to the one-country, two-systems framework that governs Hong Kong and nearby Macao, a former Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999.

Flower wreaths lined the wall outside the Hong Kong Funeral Home and Tung's casket was draped in a Chinese flag when it was brought out after the service. The media were not allowed inside.

Other visiting officials included Xia Baolong, the director of China's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. About 200 people were invited to the service, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper. Members of the public paid condolences at three venues set up around the city.

Not long after Tung took office in 1997, Hong Kong’s economy was battered by a financial crisis that swept across Asia. In 2003, SARS — or severe acute respiratory syndrome — killed nearly 300 people in the city and dealt another blow to the economy.

The same year, an estimated half a million people took to the streets to protest the government’s plan to enact an anti-treason law that was seen as a threat to civil liberties. The government shelved the plan, and Tung resigned in 2005, citing health reasons.

The 2003 protest marked the start of years of pro-democracy protests that came to a head in 2019 and were followed by a crackdown and a Beijing-imposed national security law in 2020.

After stepping down, Tung was elected to the post of vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top political advisory body. He was among 42 people who received national medals and honors in 2019 for their contributions to the country.

Miami Fire Rescue informó que sus equipos fueron enviados alrededor de la 1:52 a.m. a la cuadra 3700 de Northwest 23rd Court tras recibir un reporte sobre una persona con una “aparente herida de bala”.

El adolescente fue trasladado al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en “estado extremadamente crítico”.

El joven murió posteriormente a causa de sus heridas la noche del sábado.

Las autoridades informaron que una mujer de 45 años también fue trasladada al Jackson Memorial Hospital para ser evaluada. Miami Fire Rescue indicó que no presentaba lesiones reportadas.

La policía cerró Northwest 23rd Court cerca de 38th Street mientras agentes y detectives investigaban. Varias patrullas de la Policía de Miami podían verse en el lugar con las luces de emergencia encendidas, mientras cinta policial rodeaba una vivienda en la que los investigadores parecían estar concentrando su atención.

Investigadores de la escena del crimen también fueron vistos entrando y saliendo del área con equipo. En el lugar también se observó una bolsa transparente para evidencias que contenía lo que parecía ser un arma de fuego.

Vecinos dijeron a Local 10 News que escucharon múltiples disparos, seguidos de gritos y del sonido de personas corriendo por la zona.

Un vecino dijo haber escuchado unos siete disparos. Otro señaló que las cámaras de seguridad habían captado actividad en el área, pero posteriormente afirmó que las imágenes habían sido eliminadas y que no podía compartirlas.

La investigación continuaba activa la noche del sábado y la policía no había revelado de inmediato más detalles sobre lo que provocó el tiroteo.

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The dogs are Belgian Malinois, according to Animal Care. Officials also confirmed the dogs belong to the mother’s fiancé.

Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called around 6:30 p.m. Friday to an apartment complex near Southwest 28th Avenue and Griffin Road for a severe dog attack.

Animal Care officials said officers tried to contact the dogs’ owner Friday evening, but he did not return to the scene.

On Saturday, after Animal Care officers completed their investigation at the hospital, they went back to the apartment and confiscated both dogs, according to officials.

The dogs are now at the animal shelter as officials look into their histories. Deputies are continuing their investigation.

The police presence drew attention from neighbors, who were shocked by what happened.

“That’s terrible, man,” said Corey Clemson, who lives nearby. “I have a three-year-old son and I know dogs sometimes, anything can happen at any moment.”

As of the latest update, shelter officials said the baby remains in the ICU.

The mother was also injured while trying to protect her child.

Los perros son pastores belgas malinois, de acuerdo con Animal Care. Las autoridades también confirmaron que pertenecen al prometido de la madre.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward fueron llamados alrededor de las 6:30 p.m. del viernes a un complejo de apartamentos cerca de Southwest 28th Avenue y Griffin Road debido a un grave ataque de perros.

Funcionarios de Animal Care dijeron que sus agentes intentaron comunicarse con el dueño de los perros el viernes por la noche, pero este no regresó al lugar.

El sábado, después de que los agentes de Animal Care completaran su investigación en el hospital, regresaron al apartamento y confiscaron a ambos perros, según las autoridades.

Los perros se encuentran ahora en el refugio de animales mientras las autoridades investigan sus antecedentes. Los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward continúan con la investigación.

La presencia policial llamó la atención de los vecinos, quienes se mostraron conmocionados por lo ocurrido.

“Eso es terrible”, dijo Corey Clemson, quien vive cerca. “Tengo un hijo de tres años y sé que con los perros, a veces, cualquier cosa puede pasar en cualquier momento”.

Según la información más reciente, funcionarios del refugio dijeron que el bebé permanece en la unidad de cuidados intensivos.

La madre también resultó herida mientras intentaba proteger a su hijo.

“There’s no positives,” the third-year coach said. “Not an ounce of a positive anywhere. There’s a product that’s not good enough. That starts with me.”

The ninth-ranked Aggies gave up 21 straight points after halftime to turn a tie game into a 28-7 deficit that proved too big to overcome as they dropped their Southeastern Conference opener.

The announced crowd at Kyle Field was 105,186. But as the last few minutes of the fourth quarter ticked away, large swaths of the upper deck were empty as many fans left early rather than watch the Wildcats celebrate on their field.

The game pitted Texas A&M’s offense against Kentucky defensive coordinator Jay Bateman, who spent the last two years in the same position with the Aggies. He seemed to have Texas A&M’s number, keeping the Aggies off-balance all day and limiting Marcel Reed to 26 of 49 passing for 236 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

Reed didn’t think Bateman’s familiarity with the Aggies' offense helped the Wildcats on Saturday.

“I just don’t think we executed the way we needed to,” Reed said. “That’s a defense that I’ve seen a lot. So, we should have been able to execute pretty well. So, yeah, we have just got to do better.”

The Aggies had punted on their previous two possessions when they went for it on fourth-and-2 from their own 33 when they were down 14 in the third quarter. But Reed’s pass fell incomplete to give the Wildcats great field position.

The Wildcats took advantage of the short field when CJ Baxter scored his second touchdown on a 2-yard run near the end of a third quarter in which they outgained A&M 196 yards to 20.

Elko said he thinks Reed is struggling because he’s pressing.

“There’s a lot of noise. He feels like he’s got to defend himself a lot,” Elko said. “That’s not an excuse, but that’s a reality. I think you can see him pressing. You can see the stress in him when he’s trying to throw, because he’s trying to be perfect.”

Elko has been working with his QB to try and get him to play more relaxed and said he’ll continue to try and help him do that.

“I’ve got to get him mentally to a place where he can really cut it loose and feel free and play,” he said. “I think that, more than anything, right now is the issue with him. It’s like a pitcher sometimes who struggles to throw strikes. It’s just growing on him. And he’s got to be able to relax and play the way he’s capable of.”

Reed, who is in his third year as A&M’s starter, agreed that his issues are more mental than physical.

“So, I’ve got to fix that immediately, and just build my confidence back up,” he said. “It’s not like I lost it or anything, but this one definitely hurt. It’s not fun losing, and that’s a conference game. But I can make those throws and I will make those throws down the stretch.”

Reed and the Aggies will must try to fix their problems quickly with a trip to Death Valley to face No. 7 LSU coming next Saturday night.

“We’ve got to get right back to work starting tomorrow and prepare our minds for going to Baton Rouge,” Reed said.

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The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 231 in 69 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” almost a year ago. As with most of the military’s statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.

The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs. A video posted on X showed an image of what appeared to be a moving boat followed by a flash.

The Trump administration is pursuing deals with allied nations to extend its offensive to land across multiple Latin American countries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a visit to Panama last month that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to allow the U.S. to carry out joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil. Guatemala denied reaching such a deal. Ecuador launched similar missions with the U.S. in March.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing smugglers.

Police responded to the crash near northeast 170th Street and northeast 6th Avenue.

Multiple people were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, according to the North Miami Beach Police Department.

Traffic Homicide investigators responded to the scene. The investigation remains active.

N.C. State quarterback CJ Bailey fumbled in the end zone while trying to take an intentional safety in the final seconds and essentially handed Vanderbilt a 35-31 victory no one saw coming in Nashville.

It was as improbable a finish as the Music City Miracle, the famous last-second kickoff return in January 2000 that gave the NFL’s Tennessee Titans a 22–16 playoff win over the Buffalo Bills.

“I can’t put into words what I felt. ... You get one of those in a lifetime,” Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea said. “We cheated the football gods today and got away with it.”

According to ESPN, college football teams were 1,046-1 over the last 20 seasons when having the ball and the lead with 10 seconds to go in a game. The lone loss: Michigan falling to rival Michigan State in 2015.

Leading 31-28, Bailey and the Wolfpack (1-2) were attempting to milk the clock on the final snap. They faced a fourth-and-3 play from their 5-yard line with six seconds remaining. Bailey could have taken a knee, scrambled out of the end zone or even tossed the ball high into the air as the clock expired.

Instead, he paused and then did the unthinkable — coughed it up.

Miles Capers knocked the ball out of Bailey’s hands, and Cayden Van Daniels recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown. It capped Vanderbilt’s rally from a 17-0 deficit in the first half.

“It’s having true brotherhood,” Capers said. “We trust each other, we’re going to play for each other, and we know that we not out of the fight no matter what.”

The ending was reminiscent of Miami’s debacle against Georgia Tech in October 2023, when Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal chose to run the ball instead of taking a knee with 26 seconds left and no timeouts remaining for Georgia Tech. Miami’s Donald Chaney Jr. fumbled, Georgia Tech’s Kyle Canard recovered and the Yellow Jackets won on a 44-yard touchdown pass from Haynes King to Christian Leary.

N.C. State coach Dave Doeren surely will lament his decision. The Wolfpack could have simply punted and played defense for a play or had Bailey do anything else.

“It’s just a play where you roll out, and you don’t get tackled," Doeren said. "You try to burn as much time as you can and then fall to the ground and protect the football. He got hit and didn’t protect the football. The plan was to take a safety, and you’re trying to run out the clock if you can.”

N.C. State, still reeling from a 34-8 loss at Virginia to open the season, was looking for its first road win against a Southeastern Conference opponent since 1977. Vanderbilt (3-0) matched its largest comeback victory since beating Ole Miss in 2012. Vandy's fumble recovery in the end zone ended up being the team's only lead of the game.

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Tonight, scattered showers will linger into Sunday morning, especially along the coast.

Sunday afternoon will feature showers and storms energized by daytime heating. Some storms could produce heavy rain and cause localized flooding. Significant heating will be limited, with highs in the upper 80s.

Showers could persist into the week. More than 4 inches of rain cannot be ruled out through Tuesday.

The preseason media picks to finish second (SMU) and third (Louisville) in the Atlantic Coast Conference put on a back-and-forth affair, trading the lead eight times before the Cardinals sealed it on Isaac Brown’s 27-yard touchdown with 5:32 remaining to finish the scoring.

The Cardinals (2-1, 1-0 ACC) then stripped SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings of the ball just before the goal line on the Mustangs’ ensuing drive, turning what would have been a 19-yard touchdown into a touchback as the ball rolled out of the end zone with 2:43 remaining.

“We scrapped, and we played hard to the end and found a way to make more plays than them,” Louisville coach Jeff Brohm said. “That shows the toughness and the makeup of the team.”

Louisville’s Lincoln Kienholz threw for 177 yards on 14-for-23 passing. He threw for two scores and added another on the ground as Louisville amassed 442 yards of offense.

Trailing 17-14 at halftime, Louisville regained the lead in the opening minute of the third quarter on Keyjuan Brown’s 58-yard run. His 53-yarder with 10:02 left put the Cardinals ahead for good, 35-31.

Kendrick Raphael rushed for a career-best 197 yards and tied a personal high with three scores to lead the Mustangs (2-1, 1-1). His 12-yard touchdown run with 11:33 left put SMU ahead 31-28.

Jennings completed 24 of 35 passes for 222 yards and a touchdown, but he also threw a pair of interceptions, both by Kaleb Beasley.

The takeaway

SMU: The Mustangs had 479 yards, ran 20 more plays and held the ball for nearly four minutes longer than Louisville. However, several mistakes cost them dearly. Louisville stopped them twice on fourth downs, and both times the Cardinals countered with touchdowns. SMU also lost the turnover battle 3-0.

“We won everything but the score and the turnover battle, and that’s kind of the story today,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said.

Louisville: The Cardinals’ running game wasn’t nonexistent in their first two games of the season, but it lacked the big-play explosiveness it had shown in recent seasons. That finally emerged Saturday as Louisville finished with 265 yards on 37 carries, with eight plays of at least 12 yards.

Hot, hot, hot

The temperature at kickoff in Louisville was 95 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the second hottest Cardinals home game in history behind only the Sept. 1, 2011, contest against Murray State when the temperature reached 98 degrees.

Give and take

Penalties continue to be an issue for the Cardinals, who committed 11 for 110 yards, the most yardage they’ve surrendered since losing 121 in a loss at Miami on Nov. 9, 2019. Seven of the flags were for personal fouls, unsportsmanlike conduct or unnecessary roughness.

On the brighter side, Louisville matched the 2024 squad by starting the season with three turnover-free games.

Rare loss for SMU

Before Saturday, SMU was 16-1 in games under Lashlee where it amassed at least 475 yards and outgained its opponent. The only other defeat happened on last Nov. 29 at California.

Up next

SMU hosts Missouri State next Saturday.

Louisville hosts Wake Forest next Saturday.

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The annual event, hosted by the city of Sunrise, brought together children of all ages for a morning of competition, strategy and learning.

Organizers say the tournament continues to grow each year, drawing young players eager to test their skills across the chessboard.

“The kids who learn how to play chess develop confidence, they develop their own smarts, they begin to look at life a few steps ahead,” said mayor of Sunrise Michael Ryan. “And so for us this is a youth development program that our city commission and our city has been behind from the beginning.”

The Mayor’s Chess Challenge gives children an opportunity to put those skills into practice while connecting with other young players in the community.

And for many of the participants, the early morning start was well worth it for a chance to make their next move.

Led by rookie coach Will Stein in his first road game, Kentucky beat a ranked opponent for the first time since downing No. 6 Mississippi 20-17 on Sept. 28, 2024.

“This was a giant victory for us,” a beaming Stein said.

Stein had vowed to do better after Kentucky (2-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) led then-No. 12 Alabama 17-13 at halftime last week before being outscored 32-0 in the second half of a 45-17 loss.

After being tied at halftime on Saturday, Minchey said the Wildcats were determined not to have a repeat of last week.

“We just basically put our foot down and said we’re not going to be denied,” he said. “We’re going to take it.”

The game pitted Texas A&M’s offense against Kentucky defensive coordinator Jay Bateman, who spent the last two years in the same position with the Aggies. He seemed to have Texas A&M’s number, keeping the Aggies off-balance all day and limiting Marcel Reed to 26 of 49 passing for 236 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

“He kind of hid it, but I know it was personal,” Kentucky defensive back Jordan Castell said. “He did a good job of just staying calm, but I could tell that he really wanted this game and we all played hard for him.”

Minchey, a transfer from Notre Dame, found Kenny Darby wide open for a 42-yard touchdown on the first drive of the second half to break a 7-all tie.

Baxter’s two touchdown runs came on the next two possessions to extend Kentucky’s lead to 28-7.

“I don’t think it was a shocker to us because we all know what talent we have and what we’re capable of doing,” Baxter said. “But it helps definitely with confidence for sure.”

The Aggies had been stopped on three straight possessions when Reed scored on a 5-yard touchdown run to cut the lead to 28-14 with about 11 1/2 minutes remaining.

The Wildcats made it 31-14 on a 52-yard field goal by Adam Zouagui that deflected off the upright and through with less than nine minutes remaining.

Texas A&M (2-1, 0-1) was driving after that, but Castell intercepted Reed on a the 7-yard line.

“I did not do a good enough job of coaching this team and preparing this team,” Texas A&M coach Mike Elko said. “I don’t take any positives from this game. I don’t want to take away anything from Kentucky. ... Kentucky came in here and whopped us.”

The Aggies cut the lead to 31-21 when Reed connected with Micah Riley for a 5-yard score with less than four minutes to go.

Minchey was 14 of 18 for 252 yards and Baxter had 19 carries for 87 yards.

“This is what I expect us to do,” Stein said. “That’s how I expect us to play. That is the physicality, that’s the toughness, that’s the competitiveness, that’s the grit that I expect us to play with every single Saturday.”

The Aggies had punted on their previous two possessions when they went for it on fourth-and-2 from their own 33. But Reed’s pass fell incomplete to give the Wildcats great field position.

“It’s a learning experience, and we have to come back even stronger next week,” Reed said.

The Wildcats took advantage of the failed fourth down when Baxter scored his second touchdown on a 2-yard run near the end of a third quarter in which they outgained A&M 196 yards to 20.

The Aggies took a 7-0 lead when Carsyn Baker’s 2-yard touchdown run capped a 14-play, 79-yard drive with about five minutes left in the first half.

Minchey found Henry Boyer wide open for a 3-yard touchdown pass that tied it with about two minutes until halftime. That score was set up by a 53-yard reception by DJ Miller two plays earlier.

The takeaway

Kentucky: The Wildcats could get a spot in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2023.

Texas A&M: The Aggies are certain to plummet in the poll after losing to an unranked opponent at home.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins were introduced on the field about 15 minutes before the game. Hegseth, who wore an A&M shirt, also spoke to the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets and worked out with some of them on Saturday morning.

Up next

Kentucky: Hosts South Alabama next Saturday.

Texas A&M: Visits No. 7 LSU next Saturday night.

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Farrington died Friday at his home in Tallahassee following a brief illness, said Steve Schale, a close friend of the family.

Based in the state capital, he was regarded as well-sourced, fair and kind, with a good sense of humor. He also was a big sports fan who boasted of having visited every major league ballpark.

Many reporters called him a mentor and friend. They said he was trusted by politicians on both side of the aisle.

“I was amazed by the many calls he would get from everyone from big-name politicians and their aides to back-office workers telling him what was going on behind the scenes,” said Terry Spencer, former Florida news editor for the AP.

Among the politicians paying tribute to Farrington was former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

“Brendan was an old school journalist,” Bush posted on X. “He was a real pro.”

From Massachusetts beginnings, he became a Florida fixture

Originally from Wilbraham, Massachusetts, Farrington began his career as a general assignment reporter at The Patriot Ledger, the daily newspaper in Quincy, in 1988. He joined the AP in Miami in the late 1990s and transferred to Tallahassee in 2001.

Spencer said one of his favorite memories of Farrington was when he assigned him on election night 2014 to be with Charlie Crist, who was running for governor against Rick Scott in a tight race. Crist decided to concede, connecting with Scott over Farrington's phone.

Gary Fineout, a reporter at Politico who formerly worked for the AP in Tallahassee with Farrington, said he was a beautiful writer who could handle a multitude of subjects. “He was always very willing to go out and to cover hurricanes, be prepared for natural disasters," Fineout said. “He would always jump into that coverage as soon as it was needed.”

Schale said Farrington would try to frame what was happening through the lives of the people impacted by a hurricane or other event.

Farrington also enjoyed collecting stories that he would turn into an annual “weird Florida” roundup in years past.

“Some stories were gruesome, but bizarre. Like the man who injured his finger during a fight then cut it off, cooked it with scrambled eggs and ate it,” his story from 1999 read. “Apparently he didn't consider other options, like the Orlando-area man who lost a chunk of a finger while slicing a frozen pig then underwent leech treatment to save the digit.”

In 2021, the press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was suspended from what was then called Twitter after excoriating Farrington for journalism that pointed out that one of DeSantis’ multimillion-dollar donors invested in a company that was making the COVID-19 treatment drug Regeneron.

In one tweet, she wrote that if Farrington didn’t change the story, she would “put you on blast.” She also retweeted a message that said “Light. Them. Up.” in reference to the AP, whose president had interceded. Farrington said he received lots of abuse online after the press secretary's comments, tweeting to his followers: “For your sake, I hope government doesn’t threaten your safety. I’ll be fine, I hope. Freedom. Just please don’t kill me.”

He was a creator of good stories and ‘selfies with a stranger’

Farrington left the AP in January 2025 after he was one of a group of employees who accepted voluntary buyouts.

Spencer said one of Farrington's favorite stories, from 2011, was about the then-new president of the Florida Senate who had written a book on politics for Brevard Community College, where he had taught. Mike Haridopolos received $152,000 in taxpayer money for the effort in lieu of teaching — but the single available copy of the 175-page, double-spaced manuscript called “Florida Legislative History and Processes” could only be read at the school.

College administrators swore that that would change, but they also acknowledged the arrangement negotiated by the college president with Haridopolos at the time was unusual and expensive. The president defended it. Haridopolos, a Republican who was later elected to the U.S. House in 2024 representing Florida's 8th Congressional District, did not respond to requests for comment at the time.

Farrington enjoyed talking to people and posted "selfies with a stranger” with people he had just met at a bar, restaurant or on the street, Spencer said.

“Brendan loved everyone he met, and made friends everywhere he went,” his wife, Amy Farrington, said in a statement. “He believed in the decency that lives inside every one of us.”

Marta Lavandier, an AP photographer based in Miami, first knew Farrington when the two worked at the Patriot-Ledger together. He attended her wedding. When she got to Miami, she would photograph the start or end of the legislative session in Tallahassee.

“He was always a lot of fun, almost like the center of attention," she said. “He was always happy, had a good, great wit to him, a good friend, a mentor to many.”

In addition to his wife, Farrington is survived by a son, Cullen Farrington; his mother, Ethel Farrington; three brothers and a sister.

Music played as hundreds of customized cars bounced, tilted and otherwise made their way along the annual King of the Streets event, part of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Spectators and participants of all ages celebrated the culture, which once was the target of police crackdowns and is now commemorated on U.S. Postal Service stamps.

“We finally got our stamp of approval,” said Roberto Hernandez, founder of the San Francisco Lowrider Council. In addition to this year’s rollout of stamps featuring five classic lowriders, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced a specialized state lowrider license plate.

“We have a lot to celebrate this year,” Hernandez said.

Lowriding has deep roots in Mexican American and Chicano communities in the U.S. Southwest, with California widely credited as the birthplace of the modern lowrider movement. States including Texas and Arizona have their own long histories that contributed to the culture.

Hernandez calls lowriding an art form and each vehicle an art piece. Cars are transformed with lowered suspensions, elaborate paint, chrome, custom interiors and hydraulics capable of making the vehicles bounce and hop.

For many participants, it is also an expression of Mexican American identity, family and craftsmanship.

“It’s about driving low, being seen and going slow,” said Johnny Castro, who was participating Saturday, adding: “We go slow so people can see us, see our art that we put together here, because it does take time and money to put these cars together.”

The road to acceptance for lowriding has been long. Hernandez recalls a time when police issued citations, made arrests and shut down Mission Street. He ultimately sued the city and police department, arguing for the right to cruise. But the fight wasn't unique to San Francisco.

Beginning in the 1980s, other California cities adopted anti-cruising rules. Critics of those laws argued enforcement disproportionately affected Latino communities and stigmatized a cultural tradition.

In 2023, Newsom signed legislation removing California’s restrictions on cruising and stripping local governments of the ability to enact bans based on repeatedly driving through an area.

Lowriding has become a family affair for Castro.

“Rolling with my wife and my kids. We all have our own little rides, and it’s great,” he said.

Las autoridades informaron que el accidente fue reportado en la cuadra 500 de Southwest 27th Avenue. Indicaron que el niño estaba siendo trasladado al Broward Health Medical Center para recibir tratamiento adicional.

Las autoridades no habían divulgado de inmediato la edad, el sexo ni el estado de salud del niño, ni detalles adicionales sobre cómo ocurrió el accidente.

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Police said the crash was reported in the 500 block of Southwest 27th Avenue. They said the boy was transported by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue medics to Broward Health Medical Center for further treatment.

Detectives said he lives on the block and was trying to cross the street to get to a nearby convenience store.

The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators, police said. Authorities ultimately ruled the crash an accident and decided not to file any charges.

They said the northbound and southbound lanes in the 500 block of Southwest 27th Avenue were closed due to the crash.

Authorities said the boy was in stable condition as of Saturday afternoon.

The boy’s identify has yet to be released.

The statement by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis came long after the dawn attempt, which the coalition said was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion. Later, some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

The statement also said the Houthis tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu — where a key Saudi pipeline ends — and in Taif, Baysh and Farasan but they were thwarted, giving no further details.

The Houthis earlier claimed, without providing evidence, that they had targeted “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Yanbu, causing “massive fires.” Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, did not respond to a request for comment.

The growing conflict near another important global shipping corridor has brought new pressures for markets.

Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed they attacked with cruise and ballistic missiles as well as drones. He said Saudi Arabia had attempted to target the rebel-held city of Sanaa in neighboring Yemen, without giving details. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claims.

Recent days have seen one escalation after another. On Thursday, the first civilian casualty was reported as the Saudi civil defense said debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed a Yemeni resident of Saudi Arabia.

And on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia said the Houthis had tried to attack Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, with a drone that it said was intercepted, calling the security of the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad a “red line.” The Houthis fiercely denied the accusation.

The United States, a close Saudi ally, has signaled it has no current fight with the Houthis. Regional officials have told The Associated Press that Saudi Arabia is running low on missile interceptors and instead has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for air defense support.

Meanwhile, fighting has surged inside Yemen between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government. The rebels raced down the country's Red Sea coast over a week ago, seizing the key port city of Mokha and islands on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.

That has improved their surveillance of passing ships, though the Houthis have said they are only targeting Saudi ones.

The fighting in Yemen also marks a return to a devastating civil war after four years of relative calm.

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En un acto protocolar, Peña —que arribó acompañado de su esposa— y el canciller paraguayo Rubén Ramírez fueron recibidos por Rodríguez en el Palacio de Miraflores.

Durante la cita, se dialogó sobre el intercambio comercial, la atención consular a los ciudadanos de ambos países, así como temas energéticos y “compromisos financieros pendientes”, informó la presidencia venezolana en un comunicado.

La suscripción de un comunicado conjunto por parte de los cancilleres, selló la visita oficial de Peña que “permite avanzar hacia una nueva etapa y fijar una hoja de ruta” entre ambos países.

Según mencionó la víspera el canciller paraguayo, el encuentro constituye el “inicio de un diálogo” orientado al restablecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas o consulares. No se ha fijado una fecha para la eventual reapertura de embajadas.

Los lazos entre Caracas y Asunción se fracturaron en enero de 2025, luego que el gobierno paraguayo reconoció a Edmundo González como presidente electo en los comicios de 2024, y el organismo electoral declaró ganador al ahora defenestrado expresidente Nicolás Maduro, en medio de las denuncias de la oposición de un supuesto “fraude electoral”.

Uno de los temas álgidos entre ambas naciones se relaciona con una deuda pendiente del gobierno paraguayo con la estatal Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) por la compra de crudo por unos 300 millones de dólares. Aunque Paraguay admite la deuda, el monto sobre los intereses está en litigio en un tribunal arbitral internacional con sede en París.

Es la segunda visita de un presidente latinoamericano a Venezuela desde que Rodríguez asumió la presidencia encargada tras la detención de Maduro, capturado el 3 de enero en una intervención militar estadounidense. En abril, Rodríguez recibió al entonces mandatario colombiano Gustavo Petro.

Officials cleared the field for the second weather delay of the day. The kickoff, originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. local time, had been pushed back nearly two hours by thunderstorms in the area.

Alabama had just cut into Florida State’s lead with Keelon Russell’s 21-yard touchdown pass to Cedarian Morgan. The score capped a 12-play, 75-yard drive that took 7:06. The Seminoles were set to receive the ensuing kickoff when play stopped.

Florida State quarterback Ashton Daniels had thrown for 156 yards and a touchdown while rushing for another score. Ousmane Kromah added a 12-yard touchdown run as the Seminoles built a 21-6 lead.

Russell had completed 14 of 19 passes for 142 yards and a touchdown. Connor Talty made 32- and 43-yard field goals for Alabama’s first six points.

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Nacua did not practice Saturday, sidelined for the second straight day with an injury that is not related to a core muscle injury the fourth-year standout sustained during a joint practice with the Dallas Cowboys in August, coach Sean McVay said.

“This is a different thing,” McVay said. “Had a really good practice, I guess it was our (game week) Wednesday, but it was Thursday. Felt good, but didn't feel totally like himself, his ability to be able to kind of open up and really hit full speed. He had some soreness in there, and so that's why we've kind of been smart with him the last couple days.”

Nacua had five receptions for 74 yards in the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia. He set career highs with 129 receptions for 1,715 yards and 10 touchdowns last season.

Nacua's backup, Jordan Whittington, is doubtful because of a quad injury, which means the Rams (0-1) could be without two of their key run-blocking wideouts. Undersized speedsters Xavier Smith and Tutu Atwell would be the next players up at that specific receiver spot in McVay's offense.

McVay did confirm that three-time AP Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald is set to play after the lineman ended his retirement last month.

Donald said Friday he was planning to go against the Giants (1-0) after spending the previous two seasons out of football.

“He said it, he's going,” McVay said. “Whatever Aaron says, I support.”

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A statement from the Detroit suburb issued by a spokesperson came in response to a lawsuit on Thursday that accused the city and its mayor of spending thousands of dollars to celebrate Muslim holidays while ignoring Christian and Jewish holidays.

The lawsuit in federal court revived complaints about city government that arose a year ago after the Dearborn mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told Ted Barham, a local pastor, that he was not welcome in the city and he would stage a parade when he left.

The lawsuit by Margot Cleveland, a journalist for The Federalist, accused the city and its mayor, a Democrat, of favoring the Muslim faith over other religious beliefs in a city with a population of over 100,000 people that is majority Arab American.

It said the city for too long “has been a hostile place for Christians and Jews.”

And it added that “Hammoud has taken this hostility to the next level, openly conveying the message that Christians and Jews are not welcome in the city and are, indeed, second-class citizens.”

In its statement Saturday, the city responded by saying it "has a longstanding commitment to serving all residents fairly and equitably, regardless of faith or background.

“Our city has increasingly come under attack precisely because of its welcoming nature and the diversity of the people who proudly call Dearborn home,” the statement said.

It added: "That will not change who we are. Dearborn will continue to uphold the rights and dignity of every resident and remain a city where everyone is treated with fairness, respect, and equal protection under the law.”

The lawsuit sought unspecified damages and asked a judge to find that the city had violated the Constitution and order it to comply with the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment.

According to the lawsuit, the city of Dearborn last year spent $1,500 of public money on Ramadan banners and $5,000 on a crescent-moon symbol displayed in its Peace Park while its police department sold Ramadan-themed shirts bearing the official department emblem.

Yet, the lawsuit said, the city failed to mark the approach of the Christian holiday of Easter and the Jewish holiday of Passover in similar fashion.

When Cleveland complained and asked that other religious holidays be honored, she was repeatedly ignored, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit noted the September 2025 clash at a City Council meeting between Hammoud and Barham, saying the mayor spoke against the pastor after Barham criticized the city for naming a street after Osama Siblani, who it said had supported organizations designated as terrorist by the U.S. government.

Barham said it was “quite inappropriate” and that it would be like naming a street “Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street.”

Media reports about the City Council clash led to a November rally in Dearborn that attracted conservative influencers.

Hammoud told The Guardian for an article published in November: “People misconstrue my words and my frustration with an individual who is a bad faith actor in our community, and apply it to a whole faith, when everyone knows the city of Dearborn is a place where everyone is welcome — Christian or Jew or whatever your background.”

Elor Azaria's conviction in 2017 for manslaughter and his release after serving two-thirds of his 18-month sentence drew enormous attention in Israel, where military service is compulsory for most Jewish men. In his first interview after his release, Azaria said that “I would act exactly the same, because that’s how I needed to act.”

Azaria had approached Abdel Fattah al-Sharif as he lay on the ground, unarmed and badly hurt, after stabbing a soldier in the city of Hebron. A cellphone video captured Azaria shooting al-Sharif in the head.

The office of President Isaac Herzog said in a statement that he acted on the recommendation of Defense Minister Israel Katz. The statement cited the time that had passed, and the spirit of the approaching Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, as among the factors in the decision.

Herzog's office also said Azaria, who was 20 when he was sentenced, had “expressed his sorrow” in his request. The statement noted that in an earlier request, he called his gunshot an “operational error.”

In a separate statement, Katz called it a “right, humane, and fitting decision” and said Azaria had been in a “complex operational mission.” But the military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, in a letter to the defense minister had said the pardon shouldn't be granted, Israeli media reported.

The conviction was a rare case of a military court ruling against a soldier for deadly action taken in the field. Top generals had pressed for his prosecution, while many in the Israeli public supported Azaria at a time when there had been a series of stabbings and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs. Some supporters protested outside the trial.

On Saturday, Israel's hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a statement that “canceling the criminal record of someone who killed a terrorist makes me emotional and very happy.”

Some Palestinians and human rights groups had described Azaria's sentence as far too lenient. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of three to five years.

The statement by Herzog's office on Saturday said that his decision “does not constitute a reassessment of the case.”

The divisions over Azaria's case led to public polling and political pressures that led the defense minister at the time, Moshe Yaalon, to resign.

After the verdict, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Azaria to be pardoned.

After the sentencing, the Palestinian government minister in charge of prisoner affairs, Issa Karaka, called it a “joke.”

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Approbato celebrated with loved ones at 60 Vines Restaurant last Saturday, where she blew out her birthday candles and took part in a celebration honoring more than a century of life.

Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Approbato moved to Boca Raton in 1980. She spent years working at Manufacturers Hanover Bank in New York and was married to her late husband, Albert, for 50 years.

Approbato has lived at Edgewater in Boca Raton for the past 15 years. Her family says they wanted to make sure her 105th birthday was a celebration she would never forget.

With family and friends gathered around her, Kay marked the milestone with a smile — celebrating 105 years of memories, family and life.

Happy 105th birthday, Kay.

Approbato celebró con sus seres queridos en el restaurante 60 Vines el sábado pasado, donde apagó las velas de su cumpleaños y participó en una celebración en honor a más de un siglo de vida.

Nacida en Brooklyn en 1921, Approbato se mudó a Boca Ratón en 1980. Trabajó durante años en Manufacturers Hanover Bank en Nueva York y estuvo casada con su difunto esposo, Albert, durante 50 años.

Approbato ha vivido en Edgewater en Boca Ratón durante los últimos 15 años. Su familia dice que quería asegurarse de que su cumpleaños número 105 fuera una celebración que nunca olvidaría.

Con familiares y amigos reunidos a su alrededor, Kay conmemoró el hito con una sonrisa, celebrando 105 años de recuerdos, familia y vida.

Feliz cumpleaños número 105, Kay.

Health workers and other front-line workers in the Ebola response are being prioritized to receive the Ervebo vaccine that was effective in past Ebola outbreaks caused by a different, more common type of virus. Clinical trials are ongoing to find a licensed vaccine for the current outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which has no licensed vaccine or treatment.

The rollout is targeting the Bunia and Mongbwalu zones in Ituri province, health authorities said Saturday. Both areas are among the hardest-hit by the virus.

“Our collective duty is to protect life. Launching this vaccination drive for front-line staff in Ituri is not an arbitrary choice, as these workers are particularly exposed and deeply involved in the response,” the military governor of Ituri, Maj. Gen. Gaby Kasongo Mulumba, said Saturday.

The campaign in Ituri and North Kivu is expected to cover 20,000 front-line workers over a period of six to nine months.

As of Saturday, the country had recorded 7,541 confirmed cases, including 3,639 deaths, according to government figures, while 1,823 people have recovered. The outbreak is concentrated in Ituri province and is known to be the deadliest of all past 17 Ebola outbreaks in the country.

The outbreak is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements. The World Health Organization has said it remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Dr. Jeannot Elua, whom The Associated Press met at a health facility in Bunia, said the vaccine was “beneficial.”

“We healthcare workers don’t really have a choice: we are going to receive it,” he said. “Some people here had already received the previous vaccine. I received it myself, because it was mandatory.”

Another front-line health worker, Dr. Jean Paul Uzele, who was vaccinated with Ervebo during the 10th Ebola outbreak, said it was unclear to him whether he should get vaccinated again.

“If it arrives, we will receive it too," he said. “But the question is whether we need to be vaccinated a second time."

Last month, the Ervebo vaccine was rolled out in Kisangani in the Tshopo province. The campaign was expected to cover 14 health zones in Tshopo, Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele provinces.

The use of Ervebo is taking place in a specific scientific context. The vaccine is licensed for use against Ebola virus disease caused by the Zaire strain — a different, more common type of Ebola virus.

The World Health Organization said last month that 70,000 doses of Ervebo were approved for use in Congo.

About 50,000 doses are intended for front-line and health workers, while 20,000 doses will be used in a clinical trial to study whether the vaccine protects against Bundibugyo virus, which is causing the current outbreak and has no licensed vaccine or treatment.

The vaccine is being used under a compassionate-use program, which allows a medical product to be used in a serious disease situation even though it has not been specifically approved for that particular use.

Health authorities said Ervebo could offer some protection against the Bundibugyo virus because the two viruses are related. But whether the vaccine can actually prevent illness in people infected with Bundibugyo Ebola is still being studied.

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The 40-pound puppy recently arrived at the Humane Society of Broward, where staff have been working with him on commands and behavior. Shelter officials describe Bourbon as smart, treat-motivated and affectionate.

The shelter is currently near capacity, with dogs and cats waiting for adoptive families. Another featured animal, Mel, is a 3-year-old calico cat who has become more affectionate with staff after initially being hesitant around people.

The HSBC is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and no appointment is required to meet available animals. Click here for more information on how you can adopt a pet.

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Justin Bieber and Harry Styles are among the artists reportedly being considered, with Miley Cyrus also mentioned as a possibility.

The game will be played at SoFi Stadium, marking the second time the Super Bowl has been held in Los Angeles since the NFL returned to the region.

The city’s last Super Bowl featured a West Coast hip-hop lineup headlined by Dr. Dre, with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar also performing.

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The No. 2-ranked McIlroy's birdie- eagle finish on the back-to-back closing par 5s at Wentworth left him on 11-under 205 after the third round, just two strokes off the lead held by Manuel Elvira and Filippo Cello on a crowded leaderboard.

There are 15 players within three shots of the lead — but one name stands out.

“I feel like I’ve given myself a real opportunity tomorrow,” said McIlroy, who won the European tour's flagship event in 2014 — in the same summer he captured two major titles, the British Open and the PGA Championship.

On a day when second-round leader Ryan Gerard went backward with a 75, many others took a big step forward — even if the top of the leaderboard doesn't contain too many household names.

Neither Celli (69) nor Elvira (68) have won a title on the European tour, while two of the three players tied for third place a shot back — Johannes Veerman (64) and Alejandro Del Rey (64) — are ranked No. 357 and No. 236, respectively.

The other player on 12 under is J.J. Spaun, the former U.S. Open winner who shot 68 as he looks to prove a point after missing out on selection for next week's Presidents Cup.

“It’s a bummer to miss out on the team events, whether it’s Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup,” Spaun said. “Definitely carrying a bit of a chip on my shoulder this week.”

McIlroy is in a five-man group in a tie for sixth place that also includes Adam Scott (71) and LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann (67).

“It’s going to be an interesting day,” McIlroy said, looking ahead to the final round. “There’s a lot of people around the lead. I think the conditions the last couple of days, that’s the reason it hasn’t let anyone get away from the pack just because it has played so tricky and difficult.”

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El cachorro de 40 libras llegó recientemente a la Sociedad Protectora de Animales de Broward, donde el personal ha estado trabajando con él en órdenes y comportamiento. Los funcionarios del refugio describen a Bourbon como inteligente, motivado por las golosinas y cariñoso.

El refugio se encuentra actualmente casi al límite de su capacidad, con perros y gatos esperando familias que los adopten. Otro animal destacado, Mel, es una gata calicó de 3 años que se ha vuelto más cariñosa con el personal después de mostrarse inicialmente reacia a estar cerca de las personas.

La HSBC está abierta los siete días de la semana de 11 a.m. a 6 p.m. y no se requiere cita para conocer a los animales disponibles. Haga clic aquí para obtener más información sobre cómo puede adoptar una mascota.

Justin Bieber y Harry Styles se encuentran entre los artistas que, según reportes, están siendo considerados, mientras que Miley Cyrus también ha sido mencionada como una posibilidad.

El partido se disputará en el SoFi Stadium, lo que marcará la segunda vez que el Super Bowl se celebra en Los Ángeles desde que la NFL regresó a la región.

El último Super Bowl de la ciudad contó con una alineación de hip-hop de la Costa Oeste encabezada por Dr. Dre, con Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige y Kendrick Lamar también presentándose.

Los aficionados pueden opinar sobre a quién quieren ver en el escenario del Super Bowl LXI en la sección de comentarios a continuación.

On Saturday, as the No. 8 Rebels prepared to host No. 7 LSU, Ole Miss fans were eager to mock and heckle Kiffin in myriad ways — and did so amid abundant security measures designed to ensure any expressions of betrayal, resentment or anger didn’t get out of hand as the lightning-rod coach returned to campus, this time with the Tigers.

The scene made Jessica Perkins, a 47-year-old Oxford-area dentist and Ole Miss graduate, a bit nervous as she stood under a tent on the edge of the university's famous, tree-lined tailgating area known as The Grove.

She noted lightheartedly that “absolutely nothing good” can happen when “the added animosity of the Kiffin situation” is layered upon longstanding rivals indulging in a full day of alcohol consumption in oppressively hot weather — mostly sunny and in the mid-90s Fahrenheit.

“Let's just play football and ignore the whole elephant in the room,” Perkins said. “We're the hospitality people. So, we're also praying that everybody stays safe, doesn't act stupid and we just show everybody a good time. Ole Miss is always going to win the party.”

The Rebels went on to win, 32-24, handing Kiffin his first loss in three games at LSU.

“I’m glad it’s over,” Kiffin said. “This was an emotional game for a lot of reasons.”

Security is tight in Oxford but pregame activities go smoothly

The Tigers got into the stadium without incident, as Ole Miss took the unusual step of setting up tall chain-link fences with a blue covering to obscure the view. Some fans still waited until they could see the tops of LSU's buses and unloaded insults, some including obscenities, as the team made the short walk to the visitors' locker room.

When Kiffin took the field, he was booed by red-and-blue clad Ole Miss fans, many of whom also had their phones held high to capture video.

A handful of LSU dignitaries stood along the sideline during warmups, including Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill. The coach's daughter, Landry Kiffin — an Ole Miss student who is finishing her degree online from Baton Rouge — also stood near the LSU bench during warmups, wearing a gold dress. Kiffin's agent, Jimmy Sexton, was on the field speaking with LSU president Wade Rouse when a practice punt took an odd bounce and struck Rousse in the side of the head.

For the most part, though, the atmosphere was festive, and some fans wearing LSU gear, having braced for the worst, found themselves “underwhelmed” by the level of hostility they faced as they walked through the Grove and made their way to the stadium.

“It's not as bad as I thought it would be,” said Jackson Dreffs, 23, an LSU graduate who lives in Houston and wore a white LSU jersey. “It's actually the best time I've had in Oxford.”

LSU fans are regularly referred to as “corndogs” (because of the deep-fried aroma at their stadium) by fans at rival Southeastern Conference schools, and art posted at tailgate tents last year portrayed Kiffin riding one like a rodeo cowboy.

Predictably, Kiffin is now an object of sometimes creative derision in Oxford.

Makeshift signs held aloft by members of the crowd behind the set referred to Kiffin as a traitor and portrayed him sticking corndogs up his nose and in his mouth. Some called him “Lame Kiffin.” One read, “This sign was listed as ‘doubtful,’” poking fun at Kiffin’s apparent act of gamesmanship when he listed LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt as doubtful on Wednesday before ultimately taking his name off the injury report by Friday night.

Ole Miss fans bothered by the way Kiffin handled his departure

Matt Garrett, a 49-year-old Oxford resident and Ole Miss graduate, said a lot of the heckling was in good fun and that many in Mississippi were not “truly angry” at Kiffin because “he's done a lot for northern Mississippi and a lot for this program.”

Garrett said Ole Miss fans were just annoyed at the timing of his departure, right before the Rebels entered the College Football Playoff, and were bothered by how Kiffin abruptly left Oxford aboard a private jet sent to fetch him by LSU.

“How they kind of handled everything in the process was very unprofessional,” Garrett said. “There is going to be some anger, I'm sure, but hopefully with the Southern hospitality we have, we'll keep everything under control.”

Social media video late this week showed that Kiffin invited LSU fraternities and sororities to LSU's football facility to heckle the Tigers — an effort to provide a taste of what they would face on Saturday.

“We just try to do everything to simulate the game, simulate the day,” Kiffin said when asked about it during his morning TV appearance as boos and chants laced with vulgarities emanated from the crowd in The Grove. “There’s going to be a lot of emotion all through the stadium obviously that you’re feeling there right now.”

Mississippi state officials have said they were assembling the state’s largest law enforcement presence ever for a college football game this weekend in Oxford, a town of about 26,000 permanent residents, where authorities expected around 100,000 people to converge — many of them without tickets for 64,000-seat Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

“Our priority is making sure everyone can enjoy the game and surrounding events safely,” said Sean Tindell, commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. “This enhanced presence is about being prepared, staying proactive and working together.

When Ole Miss played at Tennessee in 2021, bringing Kiffin back to another one of his previous coaching stops, play was halted for about 20 minutes after Volunteers fans upset about a fourth-down spot of the ball in the closing minutes pelted the field with objects. Kiffin said he was hit by golf balls and liquor bottles.

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The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.

The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei's proposals in agreement.

But the lawsuit also alleges that the coordination began to take shape months earlier. It points to a statement from July 2026 that high-ranking employees from several of the leading AI labs signed that acknowledged the "intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow” development. That statement called on the government to support a global effort to slow automated AI development.

It is clear that an agreement among the chief rivals in AI that their progress “should be slower than competition would otherwise produce has an anticompetitive effect on consumers,” the plaintiffs argue.

Lawyers representing four named plaintiffs, who pay for subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini, are bringing the lawsuit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other paid subscribers to those services.

The plaintiffs don't object to the companies individually deciding to slow their own progress in favor of safety. They instead argue in the complaint that antitrust laws forbid them from taking the “shortcut” of agreeing to “substitute collective restraint for individual accountability.” A competitive market allows for responsibility and genuine progress, the lawsuit argues.

“AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol ... to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world’s most powerful ‘for profit’ technology companies,” said Nick Rowley, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

Representatives for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.

In his initial essay proposing the slowdown, Amodei acknowledged potential antitrust challenges, writing that it would be helpful for the U.S. government to mediate “or at least enable” these cross-lab discussions. The government wouldn't need to participate, he wrote, but it would need to “issue a narrow waiver for certain kinds of safety conversations.”

In response, Altman said on social media that OpenAI welcomes the idea of a “federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements,” but said “we do not believe we need to wait for an antitrust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence.”

While the recent conversations about pacing development were spurred by increasing concerns about AI evading human control, several leaders in the AI space have long talked about developing a shared set of standards or otherwise coordinating to ensure safety efforts remain paramount.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend they are not against the AI companies asking Congress, the White House or any other agency to develop AI regulation, nor are they against the companies asking for an antitrust exemption.

But achieving that kind of collaboration with the federal government could be an uphill battle.

President Donald Trump rejected the calls for regulation on social media. He has claimed that any efforts to limit the technology are part of a “conspiracy." He called into question why the industry leaders would be calling for regulation that, he says, “if strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy.” Trump said Saturday on social media that he is forming an AI task force and will appoint an “AI czar,” but he provided scant detail.

The Trump administration has been vocal about wanting American AI labs to outpace and excel against Chinese competition. While several Democratic leaders and candidates have called for sweeping action on AI regulation, Republicans have largely mirrored Trump's position.

Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, said in a recent Senate hearing that “there is no world” in which he would agree to give “the most powerful companies in the history of the world” an exemption from antitrust laws to collaborate, arguing that they could collude together and stifle competition.

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The depression has maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and is slowly moving to the north at 2 mph.

Tropical Depression Six is forecast to strengthen over the next 24 hours into a tropical storm before gradually weakening early next week.

If it does become a tropical storm, the next name of the season is Fay.

This system is not a threat to land or the United States. The rest of the Atlantic remains quiet with no new tropical development expected over the next seven days.

Hurricane season ends on Nov. 30. So far this season there’s been five named storms and no hurricanes. This is the latest the Atlantic has ever gone without a hurricane.

La depresión tiene vientos máximos sostenidos de 35 mph y se desplaza lentamente hacia el norte a 2 mph.

Se pronostica que la Depresión Tropical Seis se fortalecerá durante las próximas 24 horas hasta convertirse en tormenta tropical antes de debilitarse gradualmente a principios de la próxima semana.

Si se convierte en tormenta tropical, el próximo nombre de la temporada será Fay.

Este sistema no representa una amenaza para tierra firme ni para Estados Unidos. El resto del Atlántico permanece tranquilo, sin que se espere nuevo desarrollo tropical durante los próximos siete días.

La temporada de huracanes termina el 30 de noviembre. Hasta ahora esta temporada se han registrado cinco tormentas con nombre y ningún huracán. Esta es la fecha más tardía en que el Atlántico ha llegado sin registrar un huracán.

Police officers made several arrests after some protesters started throwing fireworks and other projectiles at them.

Justice Minister David van Weel called on X for an “extremely firm” response to what he described as “disgusting scenes” at the protest. He said that demonstrators made Nazi salutes, chanted antisemitic slogans, attacked police and threw fireworks at riot officers.

“Thanks to all the police officers who are once again standing up for our democratic rule of law,” he wrote.

The Hague municipality banned the march after violence broke out among demonstrators gathered at the Malieveld, a park in the city center, and later ordered the crowd to disperse.

Saturday’s unrest came a year after rioting erupted around a right-wing demonstration. A police car was set on fire during clashes between black-clad protesters and police, and the headquarters of the centrist D66 party — whose leader, Rob Jetten, is now prime minister — was attacked.

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The Explorers pulled away for a 45-7 victory despite rainy conditions, improving their record to 4-1.

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Los Explorers se despegaron para lograr una victoria de 45-7 a pesar de las condiciones lluviosas, mejorando su récord a 4-1.

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The sixth annual Celebrate Your Life 5K got underway around 7 a.m. at Tradewinds Park. The event supports Tony’s Tribe, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention, awareness and mental health education.

“This is not just a 5K, this is a movement,” said Judy Albelo of Tony’s Tribe. “We feel that it takes a village to support people. So, we create this safe space, and everyone feels very supportive.”

Organizers say the event is designed to bring the community together while encouraging conversations about mental health and suicide prevention.

Tony’s Tribe is also launching a scholarship for students pursuing careers in the mental health field.

More information about Tony’s Tribe and ways to get involved is available at tonystribe.org.

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

La sexta edición anual de Celebrate Your Life 5K comenzó alrededor de las 7 a.m. en Tradewinds Park. El evento apoya a Tony’s Tribe, una organización sin fines de lucro enfocada en la prevención del suicidio, la concientización y la educación sobre salud mental.

“Esto no es solo una carrera 5K, es un movimiento”, dijo Judy Albelo, de Tony’s Tribe. “Creemos que se necesita una comunidad para apoyar a las personas. Por eso, creamos este espacio seguro y todos se sienten muy apoyados”.

Los organizadores dicen que el evento está diseñado para unir a la comunidad mientras fomenta conversaciones sobre la salud mental y la prevención del suicidio.

Tony’s Tribe también está lanzando una beca para estudiantes que buscan carreras en el campo de la salud mental.

Más información sobre Tony’s Tribe y las formas de participar está disponible en tonystribe.org.

Si usted o alguien que conoce está atravesando una crisis de salud mental o suicidio, llame o envíe un mensaje de texto al 988 para comunicarse con la Línea de Prevención del Suicidio y Crisis. Hay ayuda disponible las 24 horas del día, los siete días de la semana.

Narges Mohammadi, 54, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was temporarily released from prison for medical reasons earlier this year after falling unconscious and being transferred to a hospital.

Her memoir — titled “A Woman Never Stops Fighting” — was written behind bars, with parts of it smuggled out by fellow inmates. Editions in French, German and nine other languages are being released this month. The English and Farsi editions will be released next year.

In an interview conducted Friday by The Associated Press from outside Iran, Mohammadi said that Iranians are grappling with multiple crises stemming from the ongoing war and deepening economic pressure, and the brutal crackdowns on protests.

“I am sorry to say, but since the outbreak of war, in the past months and last year and a half, we have seen that repression in society has severely increased and now, with these economic pressures and with the repression that really has left no room for people to breathe, it’s the people who are paying an extremely heavy price,” she said.

But she said that many Iranians continue to resist, a change she traces back to the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in a hospital after being detained for violating authorities' strict Islamic dress code.

The release of Mohammadi's book this month coincides with Amini's death to honor her memory, her representatives said. The English and Farsi editions will be released in September 2027 for the same reason.

“If you go out into the streets, you see a wave of resistance among the people, a wave of awareness, and their determination to stand up for their rights,” Mohammadi said. She said that government repression has intensified, but that many in a new younger generation “know their rights” and were standing firm. “And that gives us reason for hope,” she said.

The AP agreed not to ask Mohammadi specific questions about the political situation and leadership in Iran, because of concerns for her safety, though she commented generally about the cost of war.

Mohammadi says her detention was ‘life-threatening’

In her interview with the AP, Mohammadi — who has been jailed repeatedly over decades of advocating for human rights and was behind bars when she was awarded the Nobel Prize — described her most recent arrest, detention and health.

She said that she was severely beaten by security forces when detained in December, in the northeastern city of Mashhad. She and a group of activists were attending a memorial ceremony for human rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office.

She was arrested while giving a public speech. She was sentenced to 7½ years for attending that rally. She is now facing a total of 16 years and more than 100 lashes. She hasn’t been flogged, but spent long periods in solitary confinement.

“My detention was really life-threatening,” she said. “My head was severely hurt, because most of the hits were to my head, and despite being in that condition, they kept me for two months in solitary confinement during which my condition was really concerning.”

She lost consciousness on May 1 and was released on bail nearly 10 days later and transferred to a hospital in Tehran, where she remained for another two weeks.

She smuggled out fragments of her memoir, which she had started writing in 2019 during an earlier stint in Iran's notorious Evin prison in Tehran, where many political prisoners are held. She had lost her handwritten notes that year when they moved her to another site.

This time, “with the help of fellow inmates, we got a few pages out, a few pages at a time,” she said. “If it weren’t for them, I couldn’t have done it.”

As for her health, “I am recovering,” Mohammadi said.

Mohammadi says other women inspired her

Mohammadi said that she took inspiration from other women’s stories growing up, beginning with her own mother.

“I tried to put an image to each of these — how these women really managed to change their world, their society, themselves, the next generation — make them aware, make them resist,” she said.

She also recalled “terrifying memories” from her childhood during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and how she developed “a hatred for war.”

“I wasn’t more than a child when the Iran-Iraq war happened, but I remember a lot of the repression, repression of many political currents and forces, many executions that happened in the silence and darkness of Evin and prisons around the country,” she said.

She risks return to prison

She recalled her concern when she learned that Evin prison had been bombed during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025, a period when she was out of prison.

“At that moment, I felt that, in this country, we are at the intersection of injustice, discrimination, war, authoritarianism,” she said. “All of those are trampling on our people’s human rights.”

Mohammadi has been handed down sentences totaling 44 years. She has already spent 10 years in prison, including 161 days in solitary confinement. She has been banned from traveling abroad since 2009, and is unable to join her husband and two children who live in exile in France.

“My sentence is currently suspended, and I must return whenever the judiciary issues the order,” Mohammadi later said in a text message shared by her team.

The voting to elect members of the State Duma is Russia's first parliamentary election since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The three-day election, which began Friday and ends Sunday, features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance.

Yabloko said that officials at the polling station accused a party election observer of attempting to “disrupt the elections” and called the police, which “used force” against him.

It was unclear whether he received prompt medical attention after falling unconscious, the party said in a statement on Telegram Saturday, adding that he was taken to a police station and charged with disobeying police orders.

Russian officials didn't immediately comment on the incident.

Yabloko, the only registered political entity that dared to criticize Russia's war with Ukraine, was removed from the ballot last month by Russia’s Supreme Court, and only has a few dozen candidates in the single-constituency races. Additionally, some anti-war politicians have been imprisoned or forced to flee abroad before the campaign.

Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticized some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that many of their election observers were turned away from polling stations.

The parties also reported various violations, including sealed ballot boxes being opened, the refusal to issue paper ballots and provide turnout data for verification, and doors to polling stations not being secured overnight.

On Friday, Yabloko’s leader appealed to Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, over what the party said were numerous denials of entry to its observers and pressure on them.

“The scale of what’s happening does not allow us to view this as a misunderstanding,” Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov said.

Russia didn't invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the election, with the Russian Foreign Ministry accusing the body of “double standards” for its criticism of Russia.

It said that it had invited other international organizations, as well as observers from OSCE member states, in its place.

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Pere Joan Pons said that the decision was a breach of Russia’s commitments as a member state of the organization.

“This persistent rejection of independent scrutiny follows a deeply worrying pattern of disregard for the principles of transparency, democratic accountability and the rule of law,” he said.

Russia’s Central Election Commission said that more than 380,000 electoral observers had been registered before the vote, including representatives from 11 political parties. Of those registered, 97,040 observers were linked to the United Russia party, with the next largest group, 42,743 observers, representing Russia’s Communist Party.

It also said that 1,126 international election observers and “electoral experts” have been registered from 133 countries and 13 international organizations.

Russia also tightened restrictions on election observers in the lead-up to the parliamentary vote. Under a new code of ethics, observers are banned from making statements “that could be construed as undermining confidence in the electoral system.”

Russian authorities spread the parliamentary election over the weekend in a bid to boost turnout among the 111 million eligible voters, and they allowed electronic balloting.

For the first time, the parliamentary election includes residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the war began, but still doesn’t fully control. Voting also is taking place in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

The Kremlin wants the vote to underline public support for the war in Ukraine and give a veneer of legitimacy to it. It has sought to avoid any political risks by stamping out even the slightest sign of dissent.

The main Kremlin party, United Russia, is all but assured to retain its overwhelming control of the lower house, the State Duma. Several smaller parties of the “systemic opposition” that vote in sync with the government on all key issues also are expected to retain their presence.

Mensah terminó con 30 pases completos en 34 intentos, sin intercepciones, y los Hurricanes de Miami sumaron su tercera victoria de la temporada, todavía invictos. Sus 24 pases completos consecutivos superaron el récord de la ACC para un solo partido, que era de 15. Contando el encuentro anterior de Miami contra Florida A&M, su racha llegó a 35 pases completos seguidos.

Mensah, quien llegó al encuentro con ocho pases de touchdown y 62 pases completos en 65 intentos durante la temporada, acertó sus primeros nueve lanzamientos del viernes para sumar 65 yardas. Entre ellos estuvo un pase de touchdown de nueve yardas a Josh Moore. En su primera posesión, Miami recorrió 93 yardas en 14 jugadas y consumió siete minutos y 33 segundos.

Los Hurricanes mantuvieron la presión durante la primera mitad. En su segunda serie ofensiva de anotación, Mensah encontró completamente desmarcado al ala cerrada Elija Lofton para un touchdown de 21 yardas que puso a Miami al frente por 14-7.

Después, Miami se apoyó en su ataque terrestre.

Los corredores Mark Fletcher Jr. y Marty Brown ayudaron a los Hurricanes a avanzar por el campo. Brown logró una carrera de 32 yardas que dejó el balón a una yarda de la zona de anotación de Wake Forest. Sin embargo, aparentemente se lesionó la rodilla derecha en esa jugada y más tarde fue retirado del campo en un carrito de asistencia médica. Dos jugadas después, Fletcher anotó con una carrera de una yarda para ampliar la ventaja a 21-7.

Antes del descanso, Mensah continuó su actuación histórica al completar su vigésimo pase consecutivo, esta vez a Malachi Toney. Toney cerró la primera mitad con diez recepciones para 111 yardas, mientras que Jake Weinberg añadió un gol de campo de 27 yardas para que Miami se fuera al descanso con ventaja de 24-7.

Wake Forest, con un balance de dos victorias y una derrota, había respondido al touchdown inicial de Miami con una buena primera serie ofensiva. Su quarterback, Gio Lopez, completó cuatro de cinco pases para 55 yardas. Conectó con Kam Shanks y Kamrean Johnson antes de encontrar nuevamente a Johnson, completamente desmarcado, para un touchdown de diez yardas.

Lopez terminó con tres pases de touchdown, incluidos uno de 23 yardas al receptor Jack Foley y otro de 17 yardas al receptor Carlos Hernandez en el tercer cuarto.

La defensa de Miami tuvo dificultades, especialmente para contener el ataque aéreo de los Demon Deacons de Wake Forest. Los Hurricanes ya habían comenzado el encuentro sin sus esquineros titulares, Xavier Lucas y O.J. Frederique, y también perdieron temporalmente al liniero defensivo Ahmad Moten por una lesión en el brazo izquierdo. Moten regresó más tarde, mientras que Keona Davis y Justin Scott cubrieron su ausencia en la línea defensiva.

Aun así, la defensa de Miami respondió con jugadas clave en momentos importantes.

Marquis Lightfoot, defensor encargado de presionar por el extremo de la línea, abrió la segunda mitad derribando a Lopez detrás de la línea de golpeo, una jugada conocida como sack. Después, Bryce Fitzgerald realizó una contundente tacleada sobre Shanks en campo abierto y obligó a Wake Forest a despejar.

Más adelante, Mensah condujo otra serie ofensiva de touchdown. Varias carreras de Javian Mallory ayudaron a Miami a avanzar antes de que Mensah conectara con Toney para la anotación. Fue su pase completo número 23 de manera consecutiva en el partido y extendió su racha a 31 contando el encuentro de la semana anterior.

Tras completar 24 pases seguidos, Mensah finalmente falló un lanzamiento cuando quedaban poco más de tres minutos del tercer cuarto. Así terminó su racha récord de la ACC y Miami tuvo que despejar.

Wake Forest respondió con dos series ofensivas de touchdown. Lopez encontró a Foley para una anotación de 23 yardas y después conectó con Hernandez en un pase de 17 yardas hacia un costado de la zona de anotación, en una ruta conocida como slot fade, para recortar la ventaja de Miami.

En su siguiente posesión, Wake Forest llegó a territorio de Miami gracias a un pase de Lopez a Foley que produjo un avance de 49 yardas. Sin embargo, en cuarta oportunidad y con cinco yardas por avanzar, la presión del liniero defensivo Damon Wilson provocó que Lopez fallara su pase a Hernandez. Los Hurricanes recuperaron así la posesión del balón.

Los Demon Deacons tuvieron otra oportunidad más adelante, pero la defensa de Miami consiguió su jugada más importante de la noche. La presión del liniero defensivo Damon Wilson II provocó que un jugador rival cometiera un sujetando ilegal, o holding, dentro de su propia zona de anotación. La infracción dio lugar a un safety, que otorgó dos puntos a Miami y amplió su ventaja a 33-20 cuando quedaban poco más de 13 minutos de juego.

Wake Forest generó pocas amenazas importantes después de eso, y Miami salió de Winston-Salem con la victoria.

Mensah ha comenzado la temporada 2026 con 71 pases completos en 79 intentos, 873 yardas, 11 touchdowns y ninguna intercepción. En tres partidos, apenas ha lanzado siete pases incompletos.

Toney terminó el encuentro del viernes con 12 recepciones para 114 yardas y un touchdown. Fletcher sumó 85 yardas y una anotación en 16 acarreos.

Los Hurricanes también se marcharon preocupados por Brown, quien sufrió lo que parecía ser una lesión grave de rodilla durante su carrera de 32 yardas.

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Miami, con tres victorias y ninguna derrota, recibirá el próximo sábado a Central Michigan, que tiene una victoria y una derrota.

Wake Forest, con dos victorias y una derrota, visitará el próximo sábado a Louisville, equipo que ocupa el puesto 23 del ranking nacional y tiene una victoria y una derrota.

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Mensah finished 30 of 34 without an interception as the Hurricanes improved to 3-0. His 24 straight completions broke the ACC single-game record of 15, and his streak reached 35 consecutive completions dating to Miami’s previous game against Florida A&M.

Mensah, who entered the game with eight touchdowns and had completed 62 of 65 passes on the season, opened Friday night by completing his first nine attempts for 65 yards, including a 9-yard touchdown pass to Josh Moore. Miami drove 93 yards in 14 plays over 7:33 on its opening possession.

The Hurricanes kept the pressure on through the first half. Mensah found tight end Elija Lofton for a wide-open 21-yard touchdown on Miami’s second scoring drive, giving the Hurricanes a 14-7 lead.

Miami then leaned on its running game.

Running backs Mark Fletcher Jr. and Marty Brown helped move the Hurricanes down the field, with Brown breaking through for a 32-yard run to the Wake Forest 1-yard line. Brown appeared to injure his right knee on the play and was later carted from the field. Fletcher scored from a yard out two plays later to make it 21-7.

Mensah continued his record-setting night before halftime, connecting on his 20th straight pass to Malachi Toney. Toney finished the half with 10 catches for 111 yards, while Jake Weinberg added a 27-yard field goal to give Miami a 24-7 lead at halftime.

Wake Forest answered Miami’s opening touchdown with a strong first drive of its own. Quarterback Gio Lopez completed four of five passes for 55 yards, finding Kam Shanks and Kamrean Johnson before hitting Johnson for a wide-open 10-yard touchdown.

Lopez finished with three touchdown passes, including a 23-yard score to wide receiver Jack Foley and a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Carlos Hernandez in the third quarter.

Miami’s defense had its share of problems, particularly against the Demon Deacons’ passing game. The Hurricanes entered the game already without starting cornerbacks Xavier Lucas and O.J. Frederique and also briefly lost defensive tackle Ahmad Moten to a left arm injury. Moten later returned, while Keona Davis and Justin Scott filled in along the defensive front during his absence.

Miami’s defense did come up with key plays when it mattered.

Hurricanes EDGE Marquis Lightfoot opened the second half with a sack of Lopez, and Bryce Fitzgerald made a strong open-field tackle on Shanks to force a punt.

Mensah later led another touchdown drive, with several runs by Javian Mallory helping Miami move down the field before Mensah found Toney for a touchdown. The completion was Mensah’s 23rd straight of the game and extended his streak to 31 dating to the previous week.

After 24 consecutive completions, Mensah finally threw an incompletion with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter, ending the ACC-record streak and forcing Miami to punt.

Wake Forest responded with two touchdown drives. Lopez found Foley for a 23-yard score before connecting with Hernandez on a 17-yard slot-fade touchdown to cut Miami’s lead.

Wake Forest moved into Miami territory on its next possession, with Lopez connecting with Foley for a 49-yard gain. But on fourth-and-5, pressure from Miami defensive lineman Damon Wilson forced Lopez to miss Hernandez, and the Hurricanes took over on downs.

The Demon Deacons had another chance late, but Miami’s defense made its biggest play of the night. A holding penalty in the end zone forced by defensive lineman Damon Wilson II resulted in a safety, extending the Hurricanes’ lead to 33-20 with just over 13 minutes remaining.

That proved to be one of the final significant threats as Miami escaped Winston-Salem with the victory.

Mensah has opened the 2026 season with 71 completions on 79 attempts for 873 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. He has thrown just seven incompletions through three games.

Toney finished Friday with 12 catches for 114 yards and a touchdown. Fletcher carried 16 times for 85 yards and a score.

The Hurricanes also left the game concerned about Brown, who sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury on his 32-yard run.

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Miami (3-0) hosts Central Michigan (1-1) next Saturday.

Wake Forest (2-1) travels to No. 23 Louisville (1-1) next Saturday

After four straight wins for the champions, the 3-0 defeat at Amex Stadium on Saturday came out of nowhere, and conceding the third goal from a corner — typically an area of strength for Arsenal — summed up an unusually sloppy performance from Mikel Arteta’s team.

Pascal Gross and Charalampos Kostoulas scored in the first half with shots from outside the penalty area, before Chema Andres completed the win with a header at the back post from Gross’ corner.

“There are certain basics that you need to accomplish in football, especially in the Premier League, that we were very far from," said Arteta, who described it as a “big lesson.”

“The amount of technical errors that we did, and we didn’t respect any principle of play that you have to, to get out of man-to-man situations. That put us always on the back foot.”

The victory will have been especially sweet for Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler, who said “only one team tried to play football” after his team’s narrow home loss to Arsenal last season.

Arsenal has often struggled against Brighton, which was the last team to inflict such a heavy defeat on the Gunners in any competition — winning 3-0 at Emirates Stadium in May 2023.

It completed a brilliant week for Brighton, which beat Coventry 5-0 in the league last weekend and came from two goals down in midweek to beat Manchester United 3-2 away in the English League Cup.

“We have to have the belief to compete with the best teams in the league,” Hurzeler said.

Manchester City — the other team to win its first four games — can now move three points clear in the standings by beating Sunderland on Sunday.

More misery for big-spending Tottenham

Fresh off a $400 million summer spend, Tottenham remains without a win in five league games this season after losing 3-2 at home to Aston Villa.

Johan Manzambi, a 20-year-old attacking midfielder who starred for Switzerland at the World Cup, made his first start for Villa and scored the opening goal against the run of play in first-half-stoppage time. He set up another for fellow new signing Nicolas Jackson, before Emi Buendia’s long-range strike in the 79th sent Villa on its way to a first league win of the campaign.

Conor Gallagher and Jan Paul van Hecke grabbed late consolations for Spurs — its first league goals this season — but it is now two draws and three defeats in the league for Roberto De Zerbi's team, which also lost in the English League Cup this week.

After back-to-back 17th-place finishes in the 20-team Premier League, Tottenham’s leadership oversaw a huge squad rebuild in the offseason in a show of confidence in De Zerbi.

There’s been no payback so far in terms of results and De Zerbi — a combustible Italian coach — is under growing pressure heading into a long international break.

He said he didn't speak to his players after the game “because I didn’t want to say anything.”

“I was very disappointed, very sad, very frustrated for the performance," De Zerbi said, “because we can’t lose this game in this way.”

To make matters worse for Tottenham, World Cup-winning Spain right back Pedro Porro was forced off midway through the first half with an injury.

Wins for Newcastle and Everton

Fast starts helped Newcastle and Everton claim wins over promoted teams.

Newcastle scored twice in the first seven minutes — through Lewis Hall and Joe Willock — to set up a 2-1 victory over previously unbeaten Hull.

Thierno Barry's 11th-minute goal was enough for Everton to beat Ipswich 1-0.

The league's other promoted club, Coventry, got a first win since coming up, beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 away.

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Agentes dijeron que acudieron poco después de las 6 p.m. al área de Northwest 145th Street y 11th Court después de recibir un reporte de una mujer que estaba siendo atacada por varios perros.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, encontraron a la mujer siendo atendida por paramédicos del Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade. Los agentes dijeron que también vieron a varios perros en el patio delantero de una casa.

Mientras los agentes intentaban cerrar y asegurar una puerta para contener a los perros, los animales intentaron atacar a uno de los agentes, según funcionarios de MDSO. Las autoridades dijeron que un agente entonces disparó su arma de servicio, provocando que los perros retrocedieran y huyeran en dirección desconocida.

Dijeron que la mujer, quien no ha sido identificada hasta el momento, fue trasladada por paramédicos de MDFR a un hospital cercano en condición crítica.

No estaba claro si alguno de los perros fue alcanzado por los disparos.

Ningún agente ni otros civiles resultaron heridos en el incidente, según los investigadores.

Los agentes no han divulgado información adicional sobre los perros involucrados en el ataque hasta el momento.

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Miami Fire Rescue crews said they responded to the fire at about 1:20 a.m. and extinguished the flames before they could extend into the interior of the home.

No injuries were reported.

Officials did not immediately provide additional information about the cause of the fire or the extent of the damage.

At 1:20 am, MFR responded to a structure fire on Venetian Drive. Crews quickly extinguished the flames containing it to the balcony preventing damage or extension to the interior part of the home. No injuries were reported. #miami #fire #firefighters pic.twitter.com/aB0lp8geOf

— Miami Fire Rescue (@CityofMiamiFire) September 19, 2026

Equipos de Miami Fire Rescue informaron que respondieron al incendio alrededor de la 1:20 a.m. y extinguieron las llamas antes de que pudieran propagarse al interior de la vivienda.

No se reportaron personas heridas.

Las autoridades no proporcionaron de inmediato información adicional sobre la causa del incendio ni la magnitud de los daños.

At 1:20 am, MFR responded to a structure fire on Venetian Drive. Crews quickly extinguished the flames containing it to the balcony preventing damage or extension to the interior part of the home. No injuries were reported. #miami #fire #firefighters pic.twitter.com/aB0lp8geOf

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The $1 billion institution in Exposition Park near his alma mater the University of Southern California has become a life's work for him and his wife and co-founder, businesswoman Mellody Hobson. Its galaxies of galleries are filled almost entirely with their own collections.

The 82-year-old Lucas has a love of doing things that are supposed to be impossible. The project was first conceived for San Franciso and Chicago and reached the initial design phase in both cities before Lucas was “kicked out,” as he put it. The Los Angeles museum mixes the work of populist painters, commercial illustrators and comic artists with the kind of fine artists more associated with major museums.

Here's a look at five things to make sure to see on a visit.

Slay, princess

In the considerable green space that surrounds the museum, visitors will see statuary that includes a sculpture of Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia in her metal bikini choking Jabba the Hutt to death, a scene from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.”

Titled “The Hutt Slayer” and commissioned for the space, it's one of a handful of inevitable nods to “Star Wars” in and around the museum, but that faraway galaxy represents just a small fraction of its holdings and initial exhibits.

The inaugural “Star Wars in Motion” exhibit shows vehicles used in the original trilogy and the Lucas-directed prequels. A Naboo starfighter hangs in a more permanent spot in the lobby of its library. A stroll on the paths through the grass will also bring views of statues of Yoda, Grogu, and Natalie Portman's Padmé Amidala.

Banksy, high above the street

The museum is full of paintings from artists like Norman Rockwell who have long been considered the opposite of cool. But it has no lack of younger, hipper content.

In a not-easy-to-find fifth-floor gallery are two walls of stenciled murals from the elusive and apparently recently “unmasked” British street artist Banksy, who worked personally with Lucas on his contributions to the institution.

The work, whose presence was announced in the final weeks before the museum's opening, includes the familiar image of a girl releasing a heart-shaped balloon.

Nearby are activist murals from artists including Judith Baca and Diego Rivera.

Don't forget to look up at the oculus

Architect Ma Yansong's big, billowing building almost seems to hover around and envelop the surrounding structures, including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

He has likened it to a cloud, and perhaps its signature spot is an opening in that cloud, an oculus in the center of the dome above the main plaza that looks almost celestial.

Ma told The Associated Press the spot is “almost like a spiritual space.”

“I think architecture is a narrative, is storytelling,” he said. “The plaza, the oculus, the roof, different atmospheres that we provided, I think it's very important that the building become an emotional space for people.”

A rare but familiar Frida Kahlo self-portrait

A Frida Kahlo portrait hung in a prominent spot in the museum's fourth-floor galleries will look as familiar to many visitors as some of the surrounding superhero art. But that belies how special it is. It may alone make a visit worth it for her devotees.

The 1940 “Autorretrato Dedicado al Dr. Eloesser,” or “Self Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser,” was acquired by the Lucas Museum in 2020, and became one of the few such portraits from the artist held outside her native Mexico.

It shows her with a bloom of flowers in her hair, wearing a thorn necklace with drops of blood, and silver earrings that were a gift from Pablo Picasso, whose work is also in the museum collection.

Soon after the museum acquired it in 2020, the director at the time told the Los Angeles Times she considered it “The Mona Lisa of Mexico.”

The painting is dedicated to Leo Eloesser, a San Francisco Bay Area physician who helped Kahlo with her chronic pain.

A banner across the bottom calls him “mi médico y mi mejor amigo” — my doctor and my best friend.

Dogs playing poker show the museum's high and low cards

In a perfect encapsulation of the museum's merger of high and low art, just a few steps from the Kahlo portrait is Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s 1894 “Poker Game,” which shows a group of dogs playing cards.

Often considered the height of lowbrow, kitschy barroom art, it's the first in a series of 18 oil paintings on the theme from the American artist. It gets a new, elevated view in a museum that specializes in it.

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 garlic cloves, minced

¾ cup diced yellow onion, small diced

3 cups of your favorite tomato sauce

heavy pinch oregano

heavy pinch crushed chili flakes

1 teaspoon salt, if desired

6 eggs

¼ cup grated parmesan cheese

¼ bunch basil

We served our eggs with thinly sliced and toasted Italian bread.

In a large skillet over medium-low heat, add the oil. Cook the onion and garlic until soft. Add the tomato sauce, oregano and chili flake. Season if needed.

When hot, crack an egg in a small bowl; using a spoon make a well in the sauce and pour in the cracked egg. Repeat with the remaining eggs.

Season with salt and pepper, cover and cook for about 4 minutes or until the whites are just set.

Remove from the heat and top with parmesan cheese and basil.

Serve with toasted bread.

1 good piece of rye or pumpernickel bread, toasted nice and crispy

1 avocado sliced thin, cut ends, then in half then slice

For topping:

toasted sesame seeds

sliced chives

radishes and cucumbers, shaved thin on a Japanese mandolin

green tahini (recipe below)

Place a layer of sliced avocado down on your toast. Top with shaved radish and cucumber. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds, sliced chives and a drizzle of green tahini.

Green Tahini

1 cup picked cilantro leaves

1 cup picked Italian parsley leaves

¼ cup thinly sliced chives

¼ cup picked dill

pinch ground cumin, if desired

½ cup tahini

juice of 1 lemon

1 garlic clove

½ teaspoon salt, minced

at least 6-8 tablespoons of water

Combine all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Add as much water as needed to achieve a drizzling consistency. Taste for seasoning.

2 cups all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

3 large eggs

2 cups good quality buttermilk

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled

In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.

In another bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients.

Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour in the wet ingredients. Gently whisk together the ingredients. Do not overmix but don’t leave lumps either.

Heat a waffle iron. Brush with a little oil or use cooking spray. Pour the batter into the waffle iron and spread it out a little to try and prevent overflow. Cook until golden.

Serve with your favorite toppings. (We served our waffles with chocolate ganache, whipped cream and dried raspberries.

Running back Tyler Reed continued his strong season on the ground, breaking loose for a long run deep into Mavericks territory as the Raiders pulled away.

The Aquinas improved to 5-0 with the victory.

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The actions were a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable, and the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States. Trump had said Friday he would ban all three outlets because of coverage he disliked.

White House reporters from the two cable networks — Betsy Klein of CNN and Akayla Gardner of MS NOW — both went live to report they’d been turned away, their press badges deactivated, when arriving for their jobs at the White House. Soon after, Politico said its White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated.

All three news outlets hinted at legal action. “We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights,” Politico Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in a statement to the Politico newsroom. A CNN statement said the network “will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to account."

And MS NOW said it “intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights and the essential role of independent journalism in our democracy.”

In his second term, Trump and his administration have upped the ante and punished certain media outlets, both in the courtroom and through regulatory action. Trump has also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms — insulting them in briefings, or in his recent speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

The WHCA's president, Jacqui Heinrich, called on the administration to immediately restore the three outlets' access. “The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future,” Heinrich said. “The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably.”

Three organizations' correspondents are turned away as they arrive

Network correspondents are usually present on the weekends when the president is in Washington or at nearby Camp David. Trump is at the presidential retreat in Maryland this weekend.

MS NOW's Gardner reported that she had walked through two gates successfully, but once she got to where her badge needed to be scanned, an officer told her it was disabled and asked her to hand it over. He said the decision “was above him," she reported. An MS NOW producer was able to get in, but a photographer's badge was also disabled, Gardner said.

Klein, senior White House reporter at CNN, also said her badge had been deactivated. It was confiscated, and she was handed back the clear plastic case. She said she was referred to the White House press office for further information.

Amy Kristin Sanders, a professor at Penn State University and an expert in media law, said it has “become pretty clear that this administration is not interested in playing by traditional First Amendment rules and norms.”

“The second Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on press freedom and delegitimize independent journalism far exceed those of any other modern American president," Sanders said. "It is not an exaggeration to say his hostile actions toward news organizations and individual reporters have a chilling effect on freedom of expression around the world.”

CNN media analyst Brian Stelter called the move “a direct threat to press freedom in the United States.”

“It’s so much bigger than CNN,” Stelter said. “This is a free speech test in America.”

Trump calls these and other outlets ‘fake news’

The president wrote on his social media site Friday that effective immediately, “I am banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” Minutes later, speaking at an event in the Oval Office, Trump was asked to explain his statement.

“Because they’re fake news,” he said. “You get so tired of reading and seeing fake news. When you look at CNN, it’s just fake. That’s why their ratings are no good. When you look at MS NOW … , it’s fake news.”

“And when you look at Politico ... the stories they wrote are fake. So there’s a lot of news and there may be others to join them, and maybe they can get better,” he said. “But our country has to have honest news.”

The move follows the president’s decision last year to bar Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office, Air Force One and other events in retaliation for the news outlet’s decision not to follow his lead in changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which lies partially in Mexican and other waters. The AP said that it would note when appropriate that Trump had ordered it renamed the “Gulf of America.”

The AP filed suit and the case is ongoing. Since returning to office, Trump has pursued other legal action against a variety of different outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. His administration is also involved in a long-simmering confrontation involving ABC over renewal of its broadcast licenses.

The AP said Saturday it supported the news organizations banned this week. In a statement, the news cooperative said: “No news organization — or person — should be retaliated against by the government over the words they use.”

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Here is some of the key vocabulary, decoded.

For starters ...

UNGA: Shorthand (often pronounced “UN'-gah”) for the U.N. General Assembly's “High-level Week,” when presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and other top leaders of all 193 U.N. member countries are invited to speak to the world and each other. New Yorkers sometimes just groan “General Assembly” to describe what many experience as a week of epic traffic, but the assembly isn't just this meeting. It's a body that discusses many global issues and votes on resolutions throughout the year.

GENERAL DEBATE: The centerpiece of the week, it gives each country's leader (or a designee) the microphone for a state-of-the-world speech. This year's theme is “restoring trust, managing transformation" and ensuring the 81-year-old United Nations “delivers for all.” But speakers often opine on the planet's biggest issues and hot spots, spotlight domestic accomplishments and needs, air grievances and try to exude statesmanship. While the “debate” is more a series of speeches than an interactive discussion, rebuttals are allowed at the end of each long day, and some embittered neighbor nations routinely go multiple rounds.

BILATERAL (or “bilat,” for short): Private meetings between high-ranking officials of two countries. Many UNGA veterans say the gathering's real value lies in these tête-à-têtes and other personal, off-camera encounters among decision-makers.

MINISTERIAL: Applies to meetings of cabinet-level officials, such as foreign ministers, from different countries.

SECURITY COUNCIL: The U.N.'s most powerful component, charged with maintaining international peace and security. The 15-member council can enact binding (though sometimes ignored) resolutions, impose sanctions and deploy peacekeeping troops. While this week is the General Assembly's show, the council generally also holds a high-wattage meeting or two.

Fun with numbers!

P5: The Security Council's five permanent members with veto power. Under a structure set up in 1945, they are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

E10: The Security Council's 10 elected, nonpermanent members. The General Assembly elects them for two-year terms in seats allocated by region. Calls for council reform are an UNGA staple. One major complaint is the lack of permanent members from Africa and the Latin America-Caribbean region, though some other nations also have angled for years for a permanent presence.

G77: Stands for the “Group of 77 and China,” a developing-countries interest group that formed within the U.N. in 1964. Despite its name, it actually now has 134 members.

COP31: A major U.N. climate conference coming up in November in Antalya, Turkey.

1.5 DEGREES: A crucial climate threshold. Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, countries agreed to work to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial times. The goal has long seemed elusive, and the U.N. acknowledged this month that the planet will surpass that threshold in the next few years.

Initial here

SDGs: The U.N.'s “ sustainable development goals,” which range from combating climate change to eliminating hunger and poverty to achieving gender equality. The U.N.'s member countries unanimously adopted the goals in 2015 as a 15-year action plan, but the pace is seriously lagging.

SIDS: At the U.N., this stands for some 39 “small island developing states.” UNGA is an important platform for them to elevate concerns such as climate change and the existential threat they face from projections of rising seas and intensifying storms, often a painfully timely subject at a meeting that falls in the thick of the Atlantic hurricane season.

BRICS: A developing-economies coalition that initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and has grown to 11 countries. There are many international groups centered around regional, economic, defense or other ties, but BRICS nations boast about half the world’s population and a lot of its resources and economic activity. The group has been a venue for China and Russia to project influence and work to counter the West. It also is struggling with internal divisions.

NGO: “Nongovernmental organization,” such as an advocacy group, charitable foundation or nonprofit relief organization.

LDCs: Very poor nations that are known at the U.N. as “ least-developed countries.” Forty-four nations currently meet the criteria, which include a gross national income of $1,088 or less per person per year.

IFIs: International financial institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which were established at a 1944 U.N. conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Critics see the Bretton Woods duo as sclerotic entities that have badly failed poor and developing countries. The institutions have defended their work while saying they are trying to evolve.

Phrasebook

MULTILATERALISM: Global or near-global partnership that is united and collectively develops enduring rules and shared norms. The idea undergirds the U.N. itself, though many warn it's under threat.

MULTIPOLAR: A scenario in which there are several different and sometimes competing centers of power, not a single superpower or two.

MULTISTAKEHOLDER: An approach to big projects and problem-solving that incorporates not only governments but businesses, NGOs and possibly others. Fans see this concept as key to the future of world cooperation. But some progressive groups view it as a sell-out to big corporations and other powers that be.

TWO-STATE SOLUTION: A concept for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing an independent Palestinian nation living in peace alongside Israel. The framework was set down in the 1993 Oslo Accords and embraced by the U.N., but progress toward implementing it stalled long before the recent Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal.

SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: Collaboration among countries, organizations and people in what is known as the Global South. The term refers to developing nations that are largely, though not exclusively, in the Southern Hemisphere and generally want a bigger say in their own development and in international affairs.

UNILATERAL COERCIVE MEASURES: A usually critical way of describing sanctions imposed by one country in hopes of spurring some action in another.

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Deputies said they responded shortly after 6 p.m. to the area of Northwest 145th Street and 11th Court in the Mitchell Lake area after receiving a report of a woman being attacked by at least four dogs.

When deputies arrived, they found the woman being treated by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics. Deputies said they also saw multiple dogs in the front yard of a home.

Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 on Friday shows the woman getting out of a vehicle and walking away before a group of dogs runs toward her. The dogs appear to attack the woman and drag her to the ground.

As deputies attempted to close and secure a gate to contain the dogs, the animals tried to attack one of the deputies, according to MDSO officials. Authorities said a deputy then fired their service weapon, causing the dogs to retreat and flee in an unknown direction.

They said the woman, who has not been identified at this time, was transported by MDFR medics to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

It was unclear whether any of the dogs were struck by gunfire.

A woman who did not want to be identified or show her face told Local 10 the dogs belong to her ex-husband and have been an ongoing concern. She said she had previously tried to create barriers to keep the dogs from escaping and had contacted animal control about the animals.

A neighbor who helped during Thursday’s attack described the incident as “terrifying.”

The woman said she used wires, cables and anything else she could find to get the dogs to leave. She also said she tried to get an animal services organization to take in the dogs but was told it was full and could not accept any more animals.

“It’s very sad,” she said. “It broke my heart because before I tried to call shelter to come pick up the dog, but they don’t want to come pick up the dog.”

Fany Shogreen, who lives nearby that the dogs involved in the attack have “been a problem for a month.”

“Those dogs are killers,” she said. “I don’t know if they’re hiding here (or) they’re still on the loose.”

A Miami-Dade Animal Services spokesperson told Local 10 News that the agency has one dog in its custody and is searching for three others believed to have been involved in the attack. It was unclear whether any charges had been filed or whether any would be filed.

No deputies or other civilians were injured in the incident, according to investigators.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, scores of online health services have launched with the promise of quick, convenient access to drugs for ADHD, sexual dysfunction, anxiety, weight loss and more.

Increasingly, though, government regulators are accusing these companies of deceptive, unethical business practices, including disclosing their customers’ health data, signing them up for hard-to-cancel subscriptions and bypassing real-time consultations with doctors.

The Federal Trade Commission’s latest lawsuit alleges that telehealth pioneer Hims & Hers engaged in all of those tactics, running afoul of U.S. consumer protection laws.

Hims has disputed the government's claims, calling them “an effort to generate headlines at our expense.”

In recent years, FTC officials have filed similar cases against more than a half-dozen telehealth companies, including online therapy provider BetterHelp and pharmacy discount service GoodRx. In both cases, regulators said the companies shared users' health data with online platforms such as Meta and Google, without getting permission.

Experts say part of the problem is that federal laws that govern the handling of health information generally don’t apply to telehealth companies.

“There’s an entire universe of companies collecting huge amounts of consumer health data every day that aren’t covered by our current health sector-specific laws,” said Andrew Crawford, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology.

Here are some things to know before signing up for a telehealth service:

Don’t expect to actually talk to a physician

Nearly all telehealth visits begin with a questionnaire in which users provide details about their medical history and possible medications they’re interested in.

According to the FTC’s lawsuit, Hims customers were automatically enrolled and billed for recurring prescriptions with “virtually no opportunity to review the provider’s recommended treatment.”

Researchers have documented similar practices across the industry, even for injectable weight-loss drugs that typically require a physical exam and other precautions before beginning treatment.

A recent analysis of nearly 50 telehealth companies selling GLP-1 drugs found that less than a third actually required any real-time video or audio consultation with a physician. In some cases, the prescriptions were approved within minutes.

“What we saw overwhelmingly was that it was incredibly easy to get access to the GLP-1s,” said Dr. Reshma Ramachandran of Yale University, who led the study. “Most of the time, the prescription was automatically sent, without even an opportunity to stop the dispensing.”

The lack of a real-time conversation means many patients aren’t getting the type of care recommended by medical societies that prescribe GLP-1s, including discussions about weight-loss goals, past efforts and eating disorders.

Only a little more than half the websites had a question about eating disorders — which GLP-1 drugs can induce or worsen — on their intake questionnaires, the researchers found.

Your data may be shared with advertisers, social media companies and others

Americans often assume that any personal health information they share is protected by HIPAA, the federal privacy law that governs the handling of medical information. But the law generally only applies to specific types of health businesses, including medical offices, hospitals and insurers, not telehealth companies offering prescriptions, counseling, DNA tests and other online services.

Privacy experts say that legal gap is one reason companies continue to disclose sensitive health information to advertisers and search engines.

“There isn’t a clear federal law saying: ‘Don’t do this,’” said Justin Brookman, Consumer Reports' director of technology policy. “There’s just a body of soft law and settled cases with the FTC that many companies probably aren’t even aware of.”

Because HIPAA does not cover every direct-to-consumer health platform, the FTC has generally used its broader authority to take action against “fraudulent, deceptive or unethical business methods.” In practice, that means showing that telehealth companies disclosed their customers' health information after initially saying they wouldn't.

Hims told customers that its platform offered a “100% online, private and secure” means of sharing information with the company's medical professionals, according to the FTC complaint. But instead the company shared the data with Meta and other online platforms, the FTC alleges.

Still, experts say the penalties available to regulators are limited. In most cases, companies sign a legal agreement stating that they'll stop the practices cited by regulators.

Lawmakers in California, Connecticut, Maryland and other states have passed new online privacy laws that include special protections for health information. But there's been little enforcement against telehealth companies that break those rules.

Online privacy tools offer a bit of protection

For now, privacy experts recommend using ad blockers and private web browsers — sometimes called “incognito” windows — when logging onto telehealth websites. Those tools can make it harder for companies to track your location, online history and other personal information.

It's also a good idea to read any user agreements to get a sense of how the company plans to use your personal data, said Crawford. Some telehealth sites, for example, explicitly state in their privacy policies that they have the right to sell data about users' sex lives.

The only surefire way to protect your information may simply be to decline the terms of service, usually one of the first steps required before accessing telehealth.

“The system we have now overly burdens consumers to do a ton of work in terms of understanding how each piece of technology collecting their personal data is going to handle it,” he said. “But even if you do all that work, you often have little agency.”

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But the 60-year-old medical writer from the Philadelphia suburbs has consistently backed her party's congressman, five-term Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

Until now.

This year, Ryan is so fed up with Trump and his grip on Congress that she is planning to vote in November for Fitzpatrick's Democratic opponent in the 1st Congressional District, Bob Harvie, a twice countywide elected commissioner who is a former social studies teacher.

Even though Fitzpatrick has pitched himself as a voice of reason in Washington, Ryan said that “I don't see it happening.”

Defections like this one could sink Fitzpatrick’s reelection chances and cost Republicans their narrow U.S. House majority. As one of the few Republicans representing a congressional district won by Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race two years ago, Fitzpatrick has done as much as any House Republican to distance himself from Trump: Fitzpatrick voted against Trump's tariffs, his signature tax legislation and his power to wage war against Iran without congressional approval. The lawmaker even skipped Trump’s recent midterm convention in Dallas.

But that may not be enough to overcome the collateral damage of the president’s sagging approval rating and soaring fuel prices because of the war.

Fitzpatrick, speaking briefly after a Sept. 11 memorial in his district, said he understands this year's political challenges and always considers what is best for his constituents with every vote.

“That’s the job,” he said. Representatives for Fitzpatrick did not respond to requests for a more complete interview.

Democrats have tried for years to defeat Fitzpatrick

Harvie describes the race and his decision to run in almost existential terms.

“The lack of trust in our government, the lack of trust in each other and seeing each other as enemies based just on, you know, the color of your skin, the religion you practice, who you voted for,” he said in an interview this summer. “I worry about just the basic foundations of this nation.”

Fitzpatrick has consistently survived challenges in his politically mixed district. He won by 13 percentage points in 2024 when Harris won by less than a single point in the district. In 2022, he won by about 10 points when Democrats were elected to the U.S. Senate and governorship. In 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won the district by about 5 points while Fitzpatrick carried it by about 13 points.

“Every two years Democrats in Washington label Congressman Fitzpatrick as vulnerable. Every two years he wins anyway,” said Robert Speel, an associate professor of political science at the Penn State campus in Erie. “It’s, to some extent, possibly like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football and failing each time.”

Harvie pointed to his deep roots in the district as a basis for why he could be different from previous Democrats who ran against Fitzpatrick.

“I’m not somebody who needs to be reintroduced or introduced to people of this district. And that’s very, very different than any race he’s ever run before,” he said.

Jean Dolan, 61, is a Democratic voter from Newtown who has never backed Fitzpatrick and does not plan to this year. She has been frustrated with Trump's immigration crackdown and she worries about how anti-vaccine sentiment in his administration could affect public health. As she sees it, Fitzpatrick is not independent enough from his party's leaders.

“He's a nice guy. I know people like him a lot in the community,” she said. But, she added, “you have to serve everyone in your district."

Fitzpatrick has been willing to criticize Trump

Fitzpatrick graduated with an MBA and a law degree and worked as a special agent for the FBI and as an assistant U.S. attorney. He also worked in private practice as a lawyer and accountant before running for the seat previously held by his brother, Mike Fitzpatrick, who died of cancer in 2020.

Jim Rachau, a 45-year-old photographer from Doylestown, is a registered independent who plans to vote for Fitzpatrick again this year. Rachau is not thrilled with the war or the economy, but said Fitzpatrick has earned his support with his prior public service as an FBI agent.

“You would think serving for the public good, he would have their best interest at heart,” Rachau said.

In Congress, Fitzpatrick has not shied away from disagreeing with Trump. He criticized the president, for example, in April when Trump called Pope Leo XIV “weak,” and captive to the “Radical Left."

“There’s so many angry voices out there. We all know that's the case,” Fitzpatrick said in an episode of a podcast launched this year with U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat who represents a battleground district in New York. “People are sick and tired of the noise. They’re sick and tired of elected officials not being focused on the kitchen table issues that people really care about.”

Fitzpatrick also posts online regularly about meeting with groups across the district. He recently showed up to a picket line with striking sheet metal workers; he dropped by a local Catholic church's parish picnic; and he stopped at a community college hosting a maternity coalition.

Fitzpatrick spends millions on attack ads against Harvie

Fitzpatrick has also unleashed a wave of spending in the race already, disbursing nearly $5 million, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Negative attack ads against Harvie have mushroomed. Many claim Harvie is under FBI investigation, which the Democrat denies. He has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against a super PAC running some of the ads.

According to the suit, local media reported in 2020 with few details that the FBI was investigating local government and that Harvie was called to testify as a witness in the case. His attorneys say he has never been charged.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

No debate has been scheduled between Fitzpatrick and Harvie, but the men appeared at the same Sept. 11 memorial, standing on opposite sides of the speaker’s lectern. They did not appear to speak to each other.

Ryan, the medical writer from the Philadelphia suburbs, said she is thinking less about Fitzpatrick and more about how Republicans in Congress and their reluctance to buck the president.

“Incumbents just feel they can’t cross that line. If they do, they’re not going to get reelected," she said. But she acknowledged that may not matter in the end. "They might not get reelected anyway.”

The shortfalls are setting off alarms among Democratic strategists, who are betting on high turnout and robust voter protection efforts to boost the party's chances this fall. They are worried that many grassroots groups will not be able to mount effective registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, much less protect against the possibility of election interference from the Republican administration.

America Votes, a coordinating hub for more than 400 progressive groups, has fallen “well below” the level of funding it had during the 2022 midterms, Daria Dawson, America Votes’ executive director, said in a statement to The Associated Press. America Votes has acted as a nerve center for the voter mobilization efforts of groups such as the NAACP, Planned Parenthood, the League of Conservation Voters, the AFL-CIO and SEIU labor unions, as well as local groups focused on racial justice, climate and civil liberties.

“There is still time to reach voters and bring them into this election, but we are no longer talking about a future opportunity,” Dawson said. "The window to engage them is open now, and it is narrowing every day.”

‘Surrender, not strategy,’ a Democratic operative says

Wealthy donors and philanthropic groups have reduced their support of many liberal causes since the 2024 presidential election. That pullback has been especially stark for voting groups geared toward engaging communities of color.

While multiple organizers said some funders had expressed an interest in adopting different strategies, racial justice organizers have felt that as a betrayal.

A retreat in donor support is “handcuffing our ability to persuade our communities to vote in a year where there is no Voting Rights Act,” said Esosa Osa, a veteran Democratic strategist and founder of Onyx Impact, a research group focused on combating misinformation in Black communities.

The Supreme Court this year knocked out one of the last remaining pillars of that landmark 1965 law, essentially gutting it.

“We are watching surrender, not strategy,” Osa said.

A July memo circulated among major Democratic fundraisers warned that “the organizations that registered and persuaded millions of voters to participate in the 2018 and 2022 midterms are drastically underfunded. They have raised nearly 40% less than they had at this point in those cycles.”

It further warned that funding voter mobilization groups was especially critical “given that the Democratic brand is underperforming on generic ballot tests relative to historical comparisons and the president’s approval ratings.”

The shortfalls have led organizations focused on engaging and mobilizing key voting groups to scale back operations and staffing over the last year. That has included programs aimed at registering and mobilizing lower-propensity voters, voters of color, and rural and younger voters.

The Democratic National Committee, which has faced its own funding challenges, has consolidated voter engagement efforts this year partly in response to the ecosystem's past shortcomings. The DNC in a statement said it was making “historic investments” in its organizing but did not address the weaknesses among allied groups.

“We are expanding our voter protection infrastructure to defend Americans’ sacred right to vote, hold Trump and Republicans accountable in court, and register and mobilize voters across the country,” said Angelo Fernández Hernández, a DNC spokesperson.

Shifting donor priorities affect voter turnout groups

The reasons for the troubled funding landscape are varied and at times unclear, according to nearly two dozen fundraisers and organizers who spoke with the AP. Some donors, still disappointed with the Democratic Party and some of its allies following the 2024 presidential election, have closed their pocketbooks to liberal causes entirely.

While a small group of liberal megadonors has continued to bankroll progressive causes, most focus their support on liberal legal organizations that have taken the Trump administration to court, rather than political or voter engagement groups.

Others, including major philanthropic institutions, have pulled back out of fear of retribution that giving to political or racial justice causes could draw the administration's ire. Organizers who have engaged with potential donors said the administration’s targeting of political opponents and diversity initiatives seems to have put a chill on fundraising for their causes.

Tameka Ramsey-Brown, founding director of the Michigan Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said multiple donors since the 2024 election had asked whether her group could remove the word “Black” from its name or find financial conduits to mask the source of donations for fear of retribution from the administration.

“Just being Black in this country again has become a bad word, and it has made it that much more difficult just to raise money because funders don’t want the added pressure and stress or attacks on them by funding us,” she said.

Smaller budgets force shifting strategies

Many of the nonprofit groups that traditionally have conducted the registration, voter education and organizing say they are trying to adapt to their new, leaner reality.

Vamos a Votar, an initiative of the largest civil rights and advocacy groups focused on Latino communities, has had to readjust its ambitions this year due to a lack of investment from funders.

“This is shaping up to be a cycle where investments haven't gone to the Black and brown communities that will ultimately decide this election,” said Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a member of the initiative.

In a September pitch circulated among donors, the coalition said it aimed to invest $27.5 million in voter engagement and persuasion efforts this year, but still required $5.4 million from donors to fund voter turnout efforts across 10 states and 17 House districts. Even that investment reflected reduced ambitions from previous pitches to donors early this year.

“It has been extremely disappointing to see that progressive donors are not meeting the moment," said Héctor Sánchez Barba, the CEO of Mi Familia Vota, one of the affiliated organizations. “We are not waiting. We are always on the front lines for our democracy and our communities.”

To counter the funding cutbacks, some groups have begun relying more heavily on artificial intelligence to provide voter registration guides, share information in multiple languages and track potential election issues. Some groups have increased their partnerships with ride-sharing companies to provide free rides to polling places instead of bus shuttles.

With fewer in-person organizers, some groups are also focusing on social media and partnering with liberal content creators to boost their messages.

“In my more than 30 years of organizing, it has never been this bad to raise money to support Black causes of any kind,” said Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, a nonpartisan civil rights group. “We're going to do the work, our state affiliates are doing all that is possible. ... But the bottom line is that those who believe that democracy matters should make sure they fund the work.”

This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and Congress, which strengthen U.S.-based claims to artwork that were forcibly taken from Jewish families during World War II.

One lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman against Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena for the return of “Adam and Eve.” These are two life-size oil-on-panel masterpieces created by Lucas Carnach the Elder in 1530.

The other lawsuit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles the same day by the daughters of the late Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt, a Holocaust survivor and California-based animator who was held in Auschwitz. It demanded the return of watercolors of fellow prisoners that the artist was forced to paint for Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician who had earned the nickname the “Angel of Death.”

Spokespersons for both museums say the museums legally hold titles to the works, and intend to continue displaying them to the public. The lawsuits don’t specify the monetary value of the paintings.

Artworks pit Jewish families against museums

The issue of Nazi-looted art is an emotional, legally and ethically charged topic that pits Jewish families that have suffered inter-generational trauma against museums that say they are trying to preserve a painful, yet important, chapter of history. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime orchestrated the largest art theft in world history, seizing over 600,000 works of art across Europe from Jewish families, collectors and museums. Decades later, many of these masterpieces reside in prominent museums around the world, making the push for their recovery more complex than a simple property dispute.

Rabbi Noah Farkas is president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, the organization to which Marei von Saher, sole heir of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, has signed over her rights. The paintings were seized from Goudstikker's collection by Hermann Goring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command and changed a number of hands before being sold in the 1960s to the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, which was renamed Norton Simon Museum in honor of its benefactor.

Farkas said the federation plans to use most of the net proceeds from the recovered art to provide much-needed help to the about 2,500 Holocaust survivors living in the Los Angeles area.

“These are incredibly beautiful European masterpieces stolen from a Jewish family to enrich the Nazi party and fund the war and death machine against the people,” he said. “It's our honor to take on this role on behalf of the community and use most of the proceeds to help these elderly survivors live out the last years of their lives in dignity, comfort and peace – something their family members were denied during the Holocaust.”

Marei von Saher, in a statement, said she is grateful to the Jewish organization for taking up her family’s cause.

“This effort represents a meaningful step toward justice for Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi era atrocities,” she said.

New legislation gives lawsuits second wind

California Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, wrote Assembly Bill 2867, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2024, which requires that the state law must apply in lawsuits brought by California residents or their heirs to recover art seized during the Holocaust or during other acts of persecution. Gabriel, who co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, introduced the legislation in response to a federal court ruling, which allowed the state-owned Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid to keep a multimillion-dollar Camille Pissarro impressionist masterpiece.

That painting had been taken by the Nazis from the Cassirer family in 1939. This case, which prompted this new law, is expected to be heard in federal court in California next month.

Gabriel said it’s time for museums to “do some deep introspection on whether they want to be on the right side of history.”

Museums want to preserve paintings for posterity

Norton Simon Museum released a statement pointing out that a federal court in 2018 unanimously determined that the museum had proper title to the Cranach paintings. In May 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to get involved in the case, leaving in place lower court rulings.

They said the Cranach paintings, which originally belonged to the Stroganoff family, were put up for sale in 1931 by the Soviet Union in an illicit auction in Berlin where they were purchased by Goudstikker. After a complicated journey, the paintings were sold to the museum by a Stroganoff family descendant. The museum later restored and preserved the pieces.

“For nearly 50 years, they have been on view at the Norton Simon Museum and will continue to be accessible to the public for years to come,” the statement said.

Pawel Sawicki, a spokesperson for the Auschwitz Memorial, said the watercolors of Roma victims that Gottliebova Babbitt was forced to paint by Mengele to document his horrendous experiments and racial research, “must remain in the Memorial” to document the man's crimes. He said these paintings must not be mischaracterized as “Nazi-looted art” because Gottliebova Babbitt painted them against her will as a prisoner and therefore didn’t have ownership of the watercolors.

While he understands the family’s sentiments, Sawicki said the portraits of Roma and Sinti victims are among the few remaining documents of Mengele’s criminal experiments and should be treated as unique documents related to the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“While fully respecting the rights of people who created some of the documents here, we are of the opinion that any loss in the collections of the Memorial will constitute irreparable harm,” he said. “ … The loss of even the smallest part of the documentation is an irreparable loss and blemish on the memory of the victims of Auschwitz.”

Advocates hope cases will now be heard on their merit

Joel Greenberg, founder of Art Ashes, a Philadelphia-area nonprofit that helps Jewish families track down and recover Nazi-looted art, said in addition to the California law, President Donald Trump signed into law and updated the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025. This new law permanently eliminated the expiration date to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to indefinitely pursue the recovery of these works of art.

Greenberg said the new federal law gave families the right to reclaim their art for up to six years from the time they find out in whose possession they are.

“These new laws mean that technical defenses will no longer stick in court,” he said. “Every case will be heard on its merits.”

He said the new legislation also ensures that these Jewish families have their day in court and a fair process to determine ownership of the stolen art.

“It will make sure the stories of what happened to European Jewry is not lost and forgotten,” he said. “The art can still be returned to the rightful owner.”

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Facing a packed schedule, competition in basketball started on Sept. 10 — more than a week ago. The semifinals in men's basketball were on Friday, a day before the official opening.

Soccer has been going on for almost as long. The Summer Olympics typically start a few days early, but this multi-sport event pushes the envelope.

Welcome to the Asian Games, which feature at least 11,000 athletes. The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris had about 10,700. The last Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in 2023 had roughly 12,000.

Japanese organizers have yet to release an official athlete total from the 45 countries and regions contesting 43 sports. But it seems likely to reach the total in China of three years ago. Maybe more with a few new sports added.

The games feature the old-standby Olympic disciplines like track and field, swimming and soccer. But there are some Asian specialties, too: kurash, kabaddi, and sepaktakraw to name three.

Kurash is an ancient form of wrestling that originated in Uzbekistan. Kabaddi looks like a game of team tag with a physical edge. And sepaktakraw is a mix of volleyball and soccer.

Games organizers have also added mixed martial arts, padel and teqball to the menu — with esports also on the schedule — hence the time crunch.

Host Japan has the largest delegation with 933 athletes and China came with just over 800. China won 201 gold medals in the last games, followed by Japan (52) and South Korea (42). That pattern is expected to be repeated.

The usual protocol and pomp led by Japan's royal family

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako headed the list of dignitaries. The president of the Olympic Council of Asia, Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, elected earlier this year, was alongside.

“Tonight the eyes of Asia, and much of the world, turn to Japan,” Sheikh Joaan said in his address, which was followed by the Emperor officially opening the games.

The president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, was also present.

The theme of the opening ceremony was the “Harmonic Heart Beat,” and the stage on the infield at the Nagoya City Stadium was in the shape of a large heart.

Afghanistan led off the traditional parade of athletes with Japan coming in last and, of course, receiving thunderous applause.

Getting started should be a relief for organizers

The Asian Games have been dotted with controversies in the leadup to the opening ceremony. This also happens in the rush to get ready for most Olympics.

First, there’s the issue of housing for athletes. Japanese organizers decided against building a dedicated athletes village. They opted instead to house an estimated 17,000 athletes and officials on a massive cruise ship, in hotels, and in wooden containers converted to lodging.

Japan officially spent $13 billion on the Tokyo Olympics, delayed until 2021 by the pandemic. A government audit suggested the figure was likely twice that large. So lavish spending was out this time.

Athletes have complained the beds and rooms are too small, some have reported the wooden huts have leaks, and logistics could be an issue with venues spread out around Nagoya.

This is Japan’s third largest metropolitan area with a population of about 9.5 million and located about 200 miles (350 kilometers) south of Tokyo.

Then the inevitable politics. On Friday, the day before the official opening, two incidents made headlines.

Organizers played the North Korean national anthem at a field hockey game between South Korea and Bangladesh. South Korea players stood at attention, bewildered the North Korean anthem was playing.

Many South Koreans are, in fact, unfamiliar with North Korea's anthem and did not know what they were hearing.

At about the same time, Taiwanese sports minister Lee Yang — a two-time Olympic gold medalist in badminton — was temporarily barred from a welcoming ceremony involving Taiwan, and other countries including North Korea, Palestine and India.

The Olympic Council of Asia attributed it to a misunderstanding but did not entirely clarify. Yang was eventually allowed to participate.

Taiwan competes in the Asian Games and the Olympics under the name of Chinese Taipei and without their flag due to China’s claim on the island off its east coast.

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Police said Amiyah Brennan was last seen at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday near Northwest 211th Street and 32nd Avenue, police said. They said she was traveling on foot at the time.

Investigators said Amiyah is 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs around 125 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing a peach tank top, black pajama pants with pink print and possibly carrying a red backpack.

They said Amiyah does not have a reported mental illness.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact the Miami Gardens Police Department at 305-474-6473 or Detective E. Rhymer at 305-474-2100.

Mayor Dominik Krause put the first keg on tap with only two strokes and the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — or “It's been tapped.”

Thousands of revelers — the women dressed in Bavarian dirndls, the men in lederhosen — stormed the beer tents on Munich's Theresienwiese fairground in the morning to get a good spot on the benches. To the sounds of brass music and the taste of freshly tapped beer, they soon started singing, dancing and swaying.

Besides beer, pretzels, pork roast and sausages were also sought-after delicacies.

Over the course of 16 days, through Oct. 4, some 6 million visitors are expected at the Oktoberfest. The majority of them come from Munich and southern Germany. However, millions of guests also travel from other parts of Germany and from around the world.

German authorities tightened security measures, after the festival last year had to close temporarily due to overcrowding. AI-powered cameras were installed for this year's fest to detect large crowds early on, the German news agency dpa reported.

A ban on knives and flying objects — especially drones — was also in effect. There are entry checks, large bags are prohibited — and smoking marijuana is not allowed. About 600 police officers are on duty around the festival in addition to Bavarian riot police, specialized pickpocket investigators, and international task forces from eight countries, dpa reported.

Revelers did not seem intimidated by the security precautions.

Ava Laboncher, a visitor from the United States, was excited to be part of the celebrations. “I love it, I think the vibes are super high, it’s amazing," she said.

Ben Dawson, from New Zealand, promised to drink lots of beer “and probably get hammered,” and “do it again tomorrow.”

An upper-air low-pressure system over the eastern Gulf will pull in tropical moisture and add several more inches of rain on top of the 4 to 7 inches we’ve already seen in some spots over the past week.

This is great news for our drought conditions. However, your outdoor plans might be impacted, especially later in the day.

Little change is expected through next week, so keep the umbrellas handy and be prepared for even more rain, which could push our totals to around 15 inches for the month in some spots.

There’s no drier air in sight, although some computer models hint at our first cold front of the season by next weekend.

Despite the fact that autumn arrives Tuesday, we’ll see highs near 90 degrees through the next seven days, so our South Florida fall will have to wait a while longer.

Elian Flores and his 11-year-old brother, Benji, were playing scientists in a bathroom at their home when they mixed several household items.

The brothers mixed hand sanitizer, soap and rubbing alcohol. Then, a lighter came into the picture.

Seconds later, Elian’s shirt caught fire.

The frantic 911 call came into a nearby fire station, and emergency responders headed to the boy’s home. They were only a couple of minutes away.

Elian was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, nearly two hours away.

Family members surrounded him with love and prayers as he was discharged from Ryder.

His family said Elian was covered in blisters after the fire, including on his face and body.

“It was a lot,” his brother Donnie Flores said. “Like every day he had to go through the cleaning, changing of bandages.”

The fire caused burns to Elian’s face, chest, right arm and knee.

As his younger brother was on fire, Donnie Flores knew to get him into the shower as quickly as possible.

Now, Elian is back home and still finding ways to thank the people supporting him.

“Thank you for the love and support,” he said from his hospital room.

His family has started a GoFundMe to help with his recovery, including bandages, medicine and treatment for his burns.

Elian is expected to make a full recovery, though he has a lot of physical therapy ahead.

His death was announced on Saturday by Inter, the soccer club where he spent his entire 17-year playing career. No cause of death was given but Mazzola had been suffering from a long, unspecified illness.

“FC Internazionale Milano, its President Giuseppe Marotta, Vice President Javier Zanetti, head coach Cristian Chivu and his staff, the players, and everyone at Inter mourn with profound sorrow the passing of Sandro Mazzola, a Nerazzurri and world football legend,” Inter said in an emotional statement.

“Sandro Mazzola was one of the greatest footballers in history. Not only in the history of the Nerazzurri.”

An icon, a captain, and a champion

A product of the Inter youth academy, Mazzola made his Serie A debut as a teenager in 1961, against Juventus, scoring his team’s only goal in a 9–1 rout.

Mazzola, an attacking midfielder or second striker, went on to net 158 goals in 565 matches for Inter, helping the Nerazzurri to four Serie A titles and two European Cups.

He also won the European Championship with Italy in 1968. Mazzola, who scored 22 goals in 70 matches for the Azzurri, played in three World Cups, reaching the final with Italy in 1970.

Mazzola was runner-up in the 1971 Ballon d’Or, behind soccer great Johan Cruyff.

“The passing of Sandro Mazzola is a source of deep sorrow for me and for all of Italian soccer," said Giovanni Malagò, president of the Italian soccer federation. "We have lost a legend, one of the figures who helped make our soccer great on the global stage.

“Sandro was an icon, a captain, and a champion who defined an era and became part of our collective memory.”

Worthy of his father's name

Mazzola was the son of another iconic player, Valentino Mazzola, who died in the Superga air disaster along with the whole ‘Grande Torino’ team in 1949, when Sandro was 6 years old.

“He was Valentino’s son — a man who managed to turn a monumental surname into an equally magnificent legacy, built on talent, personality, courage, and extraordinary humanity,” Malagò said.

"I like to think that he has finally reunited with his father and with those champions alongside whom he wrote one of the finest chapters in the history of Italian soccer.”

After Mazzola scored two goals to help Inter beat Real Madrid 3-1 in the 1964 European final, Real Madrid star Ferenc Puskás told him “You are worthy of your father Valentino" as the duo swapped shirts.

Mazzola was top scorer in the competition that season, and top scorer in Serie A in the following season.

Italian Premier pays tribute

After retiring in 1977, Mazzola held an executive position at Inter and then went on to become the team's sporting director from 1995 to 1999. He was a regular visitor to Inter's headquarters and training grounds after leaving the club.

Mazzola was also a TV sports commentator, including the 1982 World Cup final and the 2006 edition, both won by Italy.

Among the tributes, AC Milan called Mazzola “a historic and loyal rival, a legend of Inter and the national team, a protagonist in the history of Italian soccer.”

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to Mazzola on social media.

“With the passing of Sandro Mazzola, we lose a great champion and one of the most beloved figures in the history of Italian soccer,” she wrote.

"Legend of Inter and the Azzurri, European champions in 1968, he brought joy and passion to generations of Italians, leaving an indelible mark on our nation ... To his family, to all his loved ones, and to the fans, my most heartfelt condolences."

‘The star with the moustache’

Mazzola's funeral will take place on Monday, at the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, the same church where the funeral of Milan and Italy soccer star Franco Baresi took place last month.

Inter ended its statement by describing how Mazzola wished to be remembered.

“The star with the moustache shone on the pitch, and still does today,” Inter said. "As he often said, he had one final wish: “To be remembered as a good man, someone who keeps fighting even when winning is impossible, like in that 9-1.”

“We will, Sandro.”

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The Arctic island's top leaders echoed that stance and said the deal, which has not yet been made public, was long in coming.

U.S., Greenlandic and Danish officials had quietly negotiated for months behind the scenes, searching for solutions to address some of Trump’s security concerns about the territory of roughly 56,000 residents. With the announcement of the pact, Trump is able to tout a foreign policy achievement ahead of the midterm elections in the United States.

Trump said Friday that the agreement would give the U.S. “permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns.”

Denmark and the U.S. already have a long-standing security agreement that allows the U.S. to deploy forces in Greenland, and it was not immediately clear how this deal would be different from that.

“I think it’s obvious that we can expect more bases in Greenland. But it’s important to say that if we look in the past, especially during the Cold War, the U.S. had immense military presence in Greenland," said Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defense College and the head of research at the Center for Arctic Security Studies.

He said it was a win for Trump. "It’s important for him to show that he’s a good businessman, that he kind of forced the pressure on Denmark and Greenland into something new.”

The deal is expected to be signed at the UN

After Trump's announcement, the office of Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the deal will be signed next week at the United Nations General Assembly. Parliamentary action was still needed by the Danish and Greenlandic governments before it can be enforced, she added.

“Next week could be a good week … for Greenland, Denmark, and the United States alike,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen wrote on Instagram on Saturday morning.

“A period of uncertainty will hopefully be replaced by a binding agreement that strengthens security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic — and thus also our shared security within NATO and Europe,” he added.

Greenland’s government leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the deal would benefit "not only our collective security, but also the continued development here in the country.”

The island's foreign minister, Múte B. Egede, said he was pleased “we now have an agreement within reach.”

“I’m pleased that we finally have an end product within reach," he told Denmark’s TV2 broadcaster. "It’s about time.”

Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of the NATO Military Committee, said later Saturday in the Danish capital that the agreement was “very, very welcome,” without commenting on it further.

Trump said that with the agreement, the U.S. would “immediately” begin the process of developing a larger military presence on the mineral-rich Danish territory.

The U.S. had held several bases and installations on Greenland through the Cold War, before dialing back its presence. It still operates the remote Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, built after the U.S. and Denmark signed the Defense of Greenland Treaty in 1951.

The base supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for the U.S. and NATO.

Few details about the deal are known so far

A U.S. State Department official said the agreement bans any non-NATO base in Greenland, limits adversaries from being able to make investments in Greenland, and guarantees that China and Russia cannot have a base on the island. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Denmark and Greenland did not explicitly confirm any of the specifics in Trump’s statements, nor did they provide more details.

After his return to the White House, Trump had called on Denmark to sell the island to the U.S., while insisting Greenland is crucial for U.S. security. He pointedly wouldn’t rule out taking the island by military force, even though Denmark is a NATO ally of the U.S.

Denmark and Greenland repeatedly said the island is not for sale and condemned reports of the U.S. gathering intelligence there. The U.S. push for Greenland was also fiercely opposed by Russia and much of Europe.

Greenland grassroots pro-sovereignty activist Orla Joelsen wrote on X that “our fight against Trump’s ambition to take over Greenland has been won.”

“The new agreement explicitly recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination,” the activist added.

Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher and Arctic security expert at the Danish Institute for International Studies, said that Trump tries to sell it as a win. "He obviously didn’t get in this agreement what he originally set out to have — that is sovereign control over all of Greenland as a part of the United States.”

Relief that a deal seems close

In Denmark, many expressed relief that a deal with the U.S. seemed close.

Michael Burgaard from Gentofte, north of Copenhagen, was hopeful the crisis was over “because just a fortnight ago, Donald Trump posted this map showing Greenland ... as part of the U.S.”

“We were kind of worried that he would take all of Greenland by force," added the 56-year-old telecommunications worker. "So, the fact that we can settle this in a diplomatic way ... I think it’s good.”

Michael Frees, a 51-year-old high school teacher in Copenhagen, said he thinks the agreement is “the most realistic solution for us right now."

“We are a small nation and of course we have to cooperate with bigger countries and also the European Union,” he said.

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Grieshaber reported from Berlin. Associated Press writer Kostya Manenkov in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.

Jakub Mensik beat Shelton 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to level the best-of-five series at 2-2 before Jiri Lehecka sent a roaring Prague crowd into raptures by beating Tien 6-3, 7-5 in the deciding singles.

It was a second straight loss for Shelton, a day after he was beaten by Lehecka.

American pair Christian Harrison and Austin Krajicek had made it 2-1 after winning their doubles match over Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Riki 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (8).

Austria made the Final 8 after Jurji Rodionov beat Belgium’s Zizou Bergs 7-6, 6-3 to build an insurmountable 3-1 advantage. Austria also won the doubles match on the outdoor clay in Vienna, a day after it split the opening single matches with Belgium.

Toby Samuel and Wimbledon semifinalist Arthur Fery won their singles matches to put Britain 2-0 up at home to Ecuador.

Zverev wins for Germany

Alexander Zverev gave Germany a 1-0 lead over Croatia by beating Matej Dodig 6-4, 7-6 (3), before Dino Prizmic leveled the series with a 6-4, 6-3 win against Daniel Altmaier.

It was Zverev’s first match since winning the U.S. Open final last weekend against American Ben Shelton. That came after the 29-year-old Zverev won his first Grand Slam title at the French Open in June.

The second-ranked Zverev, who had 15 aces, dominated on the indoor hardcourt in Halle, Germany, with Dodig having no break-point chances.

Doubles and reverse singles are scheduled for Sunday in the best-of-five match series. The winning team advances to the Final 8 in Bologna, Italy, in November.

South Korea makes Davis Cup history for Asia

South Korea earlier became the first Asian nation to reach the Final 8 after clinching its match against India 3-1.

The South Koreans came from a set down in both singles matches on Friday to lead 2-0.

It lost the opening doubles Saturday but Soonwoo Kwan beat Sumit Nagal 6-1, 6-2 in the first reverse singles.

The Final 8 format was introduced in 2022.

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See AP’s full tennis coverage here

Meanwhile, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Tehran has sent Washington its conditions for ending the war via Qatar, a key mediator. Israeli strikes killed three people in Gaza. And Israel's military said it struck Hezbollah targets across several areas in southern Lebanon.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Saturday. Full coverage is available here.

Saudi Arabia says Houthis tried to attack its capital

Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war.

The statement by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis came long after the dawn attempt, which the coalition said was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion. Later, some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

The statement also said the Houthis tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu — where a key Saudi pipeline ends — and in Taif, Baysh and Farasan but they were thwarted, giving no further details.

The Houthis earlier claimed, without providing evidence, that they had targeted “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Yanbu, causing “massive fires.” Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, did not respond to a request for comment.

Explosion heard in Saudi capital after alerts

At least one explosion was heard in Riyadh after the first alert for the Saudi capital since the latest escalation in fighting with Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Residents near the airport said they saw a plume of smoke later in the morning.

No casualties or damage were reported. Saudi authorities have previously reported intercepting Houthi missiles and drones.

The Houthis later claimed, without providing evidence, they targeted “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in the Red Sea port of Yanbu, causing “massive fires.” Neither Saudi authorities nor Aramco, the world's largest oil company, responded to a request for comment.

Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed they attacked with cruise and ballistic missiles as well as drones. He also said Saudi Arabia attempted to target the rebel-held city of Sanaa in Yemen, without giving details. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claims.

Iran awaits US response to its conditions for ending the war

The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, told Al Jazeera in an interview that Iran is waiting for President Donald Trump's response after Tehran conveyed its conditions for ending the war via Qatar.

It was not clear when the conditions were shared. Rezaei said they include ending the war on all fronts, releasing assets seized from Iran and ending the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. Earlier U.S.-Iran negotiations fell apart.

He also said Iran wants the fighting involving Yemen and Saudi Arabia to end.

Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel

Iran's state TV said a man identified as Hossein Pedram was executed after being convicted on charges of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad.

The report said Pedram shared classified information on “sensitive military sites” in Iran's Isfahan province. It didn't say how he accessed the information. He was reportedly arrested after those sites, which included missile bases, were targeted in last year's 12-day air war by the U.S. and Israel.

A recent surge of executions in Iran prompted an international outcry by rights groups.

US military says oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz

The head of U.S. Central Command said the military has supported the transit of 1 billion barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz over the past two months and claimed that Iran has “exported zero barrels” because of a U.S. blockade.

Adm. Brad Cooper said the strait's primary transit lanes have been cleared of mines, and the volume of oil, natural gas and cargo transiting over the past two weeks is the highest it has been in six months — or shortly after the war began with U.S. and Israeli strikes.

But monitors say shipping traffic remains well below prewar levels. Iran continues to attack ships as it asserts control over the waterway through which about one-fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas passed before the war.

Israeli strikes kill 3 men in Gaza

Gaza’s Health Ministry and Shifa Hospital officials said one man was killed in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City. Another man, identified as the son of the ministry's director general, was killed as he walked in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The Israeli military said it struck “several military operatives.”

Later, officials at Shifa Hospital said an Israeli strike on a civilian vehicle in Gaza City killed one person and wounded at least four others. “The body was completely charred,” managing director Rami Mhanna said.

Israel’s military said it “struck a Hamas military operative."

The heaviest fighting between Israel and Hamas has subsided since a ceasefire last October, but Israeli fire has killed more than 13,780 Palestinians in Gaza since then, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Israel launches airstrikes in southern Lebanon

Israel's military said it struck targets of the Hezbollah militant group across several areas in southern Lebanon.

The strikes took place after two soldiers were wounded when their vehicle drove over a Hezbollah explosive device in an area of southern Lebanon occupied by Israeli troops, the military said.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported three Israeli airstrikes on the southern town of Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa. It said the third strike almost hit paramedics heading to the area. It said no one was hurt.

Pakistani, Iranian foreign ministers talk shipping safety

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar discussed uninterrupted energy supplies and safe passage for commercial ships during a telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Dar cited the potential effects of disruptions on developing countries and global supply chains.

Rising energy prices have increased pressure on Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government. An Islamist party has threatened to march on the capital, Islamabad, unless the government lowers fuel prices.

Iran race managers charged for allowing women to run without headscarves

Iran’s state TV said the Tehran prosecutor’s office filed charges against race organizers after women participated without covering their hair because “legal and Islamic Sharia” wasn’t observed.

The country's ruling theocracy requires women to wear scarves that cover their hair and loose-fitting clothes that hide their bodies.

Footage circulated online shows women running the 10-kilometer (6-mile) race without the hair covering. Habib Sotoudehnejad, head of Tehran’s sports department, said about 5% of participants violated race rules. The race was run separately for men and women.

Turkey suggests military support for the Saudis

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan suggested Turkey could provide military support to Saudi Arabia under a recently signed defense pact.

Asked in a TV interview about the possibility of the three-member alliance, which also includes Pakistan, engaging in military action against Yemen’s Houthis, Fidan said Turkey would “face no difficulty in meeting” any military needs.

“We observe very serious attacks on Saudi Arabia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” he told broadcaster NTV. “We have an alliance agreement in place and we stand by our word.”

Kids return to school in war-devastated Gaza

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said more than 280,000 children in Gaza are attending school in tents and heavily damaged classrooms.

At one school in Nuseirat, some classrooms have no desks, leaving children to sit on blankets on the floor. Still, some families said a return to school brings back a familiar sense of routine that was upended by war.

UNRWA education program chief Tawfiq al-Hourani said the agency three years ago operated 182 fully equipped schools. He said 95% of them have since been lost.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

The confrontation began Friday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a mosque, and gunmen stormed the facility, killing 21 people and wounding 103 others.

The coordinated attack occurred at a compound in Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan. Many of the casualties were police officers and people attending prayers at a mosque.

Several militants took up positions inside the complex, and a shootout with security officers ensued, police official Mohammad Sadiq said. The complex houses the police's Special Branch intelligence agency, offices of the Counter Terrorism Department, and houses of counterterrorism officers who have carried out operations against militants across the province in recent years.

Sadiq said that the operation ended after 20 hours. Security forces were searching the compound and nearby areas, and the bodies of eight attackers were recovered, according to local police. Bursts of gunfire could be heard in the compound as additional security personnel arrived, residents said, before the operation ended.

Sadiq said that two attackers detonated explosives inside the compound Saturday morning and that police had killed six assailants so far, not including the bombers. It was unclear whether the new explosions caused additional casualties or how many militants remained inside.

Pakistan's Information Ministry on Saturday appeared to leave open the possibility of new strikes inside Afghanistan, and blamed the attack on militants with alleged roots in Afghanistan and accused the Afghan Taliban government of sheltering and supporting groups that launch attacks inside Pakistan.

“The attack, perpetrated by the vilest of Khawarij with roots in Afghanistan, reminds us that terrorism has no religion and no justification. Those who perpetrate, facilitate or shelter such acts are the worst among humankind,” the Information Ministry said in a post on X. Pakistan uses the phrase Khawarij for Pakistani Taliban and other militants.

The ministry said that “Pakistan has both the will and the capability to eliminate terrorist threats wherever they are” and added that Islamabad would take all necessary measures under international law to protect its citizens, territory and sovereignty. It said that Kabul must take “credible, verifiable and sustained measures” to dismantle militant sanctuaries and recruitment and training networks.

It acknowledged that Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry denounced the Kohat attack, but said that condemnation must be followed by concrete action.

The suicide attack on Friday brought down an outer wall of the police offices and badly damaged the mosque.

Funeral prayers for police officers killed in the assault were held late Friday at the police lines in Kohat, and their bodies and those of killed civilians were returned to their families for burial, Sadiq said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, but suspicion was likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, formally known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which has intensified attacks on police and other security forces in recent years.

The TTP is separate from but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban, which returned to power in 2021. Pakistan frequently accuses the Taliban government in Kabul of sheltering TTP leaders and allowing militants to carry out cross-border attacks. Afghanistan’s government denies the allegations.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack in separate statements and expressed sorrow over the deaths. Zardari said that eliminating militants was essential to national security.

In 2023, a suicide bomber killed 101 people, mostly police officers, at a mosque inside a heavily fortified police compound in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Munir Ahmed reported from Islamabad. Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan, contributed to this report.

Officials in Kyiv vigorously denounced the action as illegal, and a human rights activist described residents there as being coerced to participate in the election.

While the vote across Russia started Friday and lasts until Sunday to help boost turnout, balloting actually has been underway in the annexed parts of Ukraine and some areas on the Russian side of the border since the end of last month. Officials cited security reasons for the extended period.

Russian authorities say the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia territories, often referred to by Moscow officials as the “new regions,” have over 3.5 million voters. They were annexed by Russia in September 2022, despite not fully being under Moscow's control. The move has not been recognized internationally.

At one polling station in the Russian-held part of the Donetsk region, voters dropped their ballots in a box as an armed Russian soldier stood nearby and watched.

Putin stressed the importance of voting in the regions

In a speech Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of balloting in those regions for the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. Residents there will be voting for the Duma “for the first time since their reunification with Russia.”

He noted that Russian soldiers involved in the fighting also will vote.

Voting also is taking place in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014.

The first wartime election to the State Duma is intended to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance and showcase public support for the war.

“Your choice and resolve will once again demonstrate that millions of people stand behind our fighters, that we are a united people, bound by shared values, historical memory, and love for the Motherland and that nobody can divide or intimidate us, undermine our statehood and political system,” Putin said.

Ukraine urges other countries not to recognize the vote

Authorities in Kyiv called the voting in those territories illegal and urged foreign governments and international organizations not to recognize the election. They warned Ukrainians that taking part in organizing the vote could carry criminal liability.

A coalition of nine Ukrainian human rights groups called on residents of the Russia-held territories to stay away from the polls.

“We urge residents of the temporarily occupied territories, above all, to protect their lives and health and to look after their own safety,” the coalition said in a statement. “Holding Russian elections in the temporarily occupied territories is an attempt to use the electoral process to legitimize the Russian occupation and the attempted annexation of Ukrainian territories.”

European Commission spokesperson Christian Wigand said the voting in Russian-held regions represented "another blatant violation of international law. The European Union does not, and will never recognize either the holding of these, so-called elections, sham elections, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine or their results.”

Activists describ

e coercion to vote

Violeta Artemchuk, coordinator of the Donbas SOS human rights group who was among those who signed the statement, said members of local election commissions were going house to house, escorted by Russian troops and security agents, to force people to vote.

Moscow-appointed authorities exert pressure on residents, threatening those who work in the public sector with dismissal if they fail to vote and making pensions and other social payments conditional on participating, Artemchuk said.

“For instance, if a person with a disability or a pensioner relies on social assistance and does not take part in the ‘voting,’ they could be added to a list of individuals deemed ‘disloyal’ to the so-called authorities and subsequently deprived of their benefits or humanitarian assistance,” she said.

Volodymyr Fesenko, a political analyst with the Kyiv-based Penta Center, emphasized that "elections held at gunpoint are a farce.”

“The very fact that voting takes place amid endless shelling and bombing reflects the Kremlin’s attitude toward the people and the electoral process in the occupied territories," Fesenko told The Associated Press.

"It’s nothing short of a mockery. Any electoral procedures conducted by the Russian occupation authorities have nothing to do with democracy,” he said.

When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride.

The war grinds on and oil prices certainly remain volatile. But the most dire projections have not yet come to pass six months into a conflict that has no end in sight.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is making a much-anticipated state visit to Washington next week, could make a credible argument that the world has his country's energy strategy to thank for that.

It's unclear how much the two leaders will discuss Iran during the visit, which comes as Trump's Republican Party faces pressure from voters over high gasoline prices, and as China's buffer is being further tested as the conflict in the Middle East spreads. Trump, who has sought to keep a fragile trade truce with Beijing intact, has been careful in public comments about differences with Xi over the country’s relationship with Iran.

“We’ve been free-riding off Beijing in a weird way,” said Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank. “China’s doing it because they understand that they’re on the train that Trump is driving off a cliff. If oil prices go way up, that hurts the global economy. If it hurts the global economy, it hurts them.”

China's stockpiles helped Xi weather the storm — so far

Beijing spent years and billions of dollars amassing the world’s largest oil stockpile, building its strategic reserve to about 1.4 billion barrels by the end of last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's estimates. To protect China from foreign supply risks, Xi made energy self-reliance a part of the country’s latest five-year plan.

Drawing from the massive stockpile allowed China, the world's second-biggest oil consumer and Iran's top buyer, to dramatically cut crude imports once the U.S. and Israel began their bombardment and Tehran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. The country was also helped by its shift toward electric vehicles in recent years and increasingly tapping into other energy alternatives.

China's oil import diet in turn helped ease global demand, softening the upward price effects for the United States, Europe and beyond.

“The Chinese deserve credit,” said retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank. “They did in 10 years what took us 25 years after the 1973 oil crisis to do: really build a kind of strategic petroleum reserve that could allow you to weather this.”

But that resilience faces new challenges. Attacks by Iran-backed militias this month led Saudi Arabia to temporarily shut a vital pipeline that transports crude across the kingdom to ports on the Red Sea.

The Yemen-based Houthis have also seized two strategic islands in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iran-backed rebels’ ability to disrupt a key maritime shipping route. Planned talks among Gulf nations focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which were supposed to take place earlier this week, have also been put on hold.

Before he meets Xi, Trump is set to meet Tuesday with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council in New York, on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly. The group includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain.

Oil industry experts say the moment remains tenuous

Analysts at Bank of America last week forecast oil at $83 a barrel for the second half of the year “in light of more persistent disruptions to Hormuz,” but said they still expected shipping through the strait to gradually pick up.

But if violence escalates and keeps a chokehold on traffic, prices could reach $95 to $120 a barrel, while damage to major energy infrastructure could produce spikes of up to $150 a barrel, the analysts wrote.

Brent crude averaged about $69 per barrel last year and currently is hovering around $100. Brent crude briefly peaked in late April, touching $126.

How China has weathered the volatile oil market caused by Trump's war is ultimately seen by Beijing as “a vindication of Xi’s last five-year plan and his focus on self-reliance,” said Jonathan Czin, a former senior CIA analyst who is now at the Brookings Institution.

Deep differences between Trump and Xi on Iran persist

The war in Iran — and its impact on the global economy — is expected to be on the agenda for the Trump-Xi talks. But the prospects of the world's two biggest powers coming up with a breakthrough appear dim.

Over the course of the conflict, the Trump administration has faced resistance when urging Beijing to use its considerable economic leverage to press the Islamic Republic to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Chinese officials, who have expressed strong opposition to the U.S. war, also have bristled at more recent administration threats to ratchet up economic pressure on nations and entities still doing business with Iran.

To be certain, analysts say there's little altruism in how China came to sit on its massive stockpile of oil.

Experts believe Beijing was driven by contingency planning for potential military action to take over the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China considers its own territory. Tapping the reserves now has been far from ideal for Beijing — but seeing global oil prices skyrocket was not ideal, either.

Trump treads carefully on differences with China over Iran

The leaders last met in Beijing just four months ago, and could meet twice more later this year.

After the talks in May, Trump claimed Xi agreed with him that a nuclear-armed Iran is a bad idea and that the Strait of Hormuz must be reopened. Chinese officials have neither affirmed nor denied Trump's telling of the private conversation.

The U.S. administration has also warned China not to aid Iran's military effort. But earlier this week, Trump downplayed a Wall Street Journal report that Chinese entities had supplied Tehran with satellite images of a Jordanian military base ahead of an Iran strike in July that killed three U.S. soldiers working there.

“You know, when they say that China spies on us, I say you’re right, and we spy on them too,” Trump told reporters.

Trump at the outset of the war called the conflict a “little excursion” that would last a matter of weeks.

He also has repeatedly predicted that oil prices will quickly plummet once the conflict ends. Less than three months into the conflict, he even declared “everybody was wrong” because the most dire projections for oil prices didn't come to pass.

The White House did not respond to queries on whether Trump credits China's actions with helping keep oil prices from hitting the worst-case levels.

But energy analysts credit Beijing's slashing imports as having the single greatest impact on moderating prices since the start of the war. China's crude imports averaged just 8.1 million barrels per day in the second quarter. That's almost 4 million barrels per day, or 32% lower than in the first three months of the year, according to U.S. data.

“It's remarkable how China managed the market,” said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, a firm providing consulting services and analysis in the oil and gas industry. “They didn't panic and by turning to their inventories they kept the price down for everybody.”

As chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett became famous for his unwavering and methodical investing style: Buy good businesses when their prices are low, stay on the sidelines when prices are too high and be patient with well-chosen picks. He rode that to decades of beating the rest of the U.S. stock market before he retired as Berkshire's chairman on Friday, less than a year after giving up his role as CEO.

The formula of buying good things at low prices sounds simple, and it’s the foundation of a style of investing called “value” hunting. But it periodically comes under criticism when the hot new thing is enthralling Wall Street, whether it's dot-com stocks in the late 1990s or gold when its price was setting records early this year. (Buffett is famously skeptical of gold as an investment, saying it “has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.”)

The investing world has had other celebrities. J.P. Morgan built his reputation by investing in railroads during the 19th century. Andrew Carnegie helped build the U.S. steel industry and became famous for his philanthropy. Jim Cramer and Kevin O'Leary are on TV shows. But few ever cracked into the national consciousness like Buffett, and none did so from near the geographic center of the country in Omaha, Nebraska.

Buffett offers enduring lessons on life and investing

Many professional investors also adhere to Buffett's style of bargain-hunting. But none have had the kind of folksy humor and candor that can draw hordes of investors each year, like those attending Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting.

More than 40,000 people would pack an Omaha arena on the first Saturday in May to hear from Buffett and his longtime investing partner, Charlie Munger, who died in 2023 and espoused a similar take-it-slow and make-it-right approach to investing. Besides talking about how they hunted for well-run businesses and the news of the day, they would also regularly confess to their own mistakes and crack wise.

“Not a day goes by where what I've learned about Warren doesn't affect me positively, both personally and financially,” said Todd Finkle, a retired professor. He grew up in Omaha, knows Buffett's children and wrote the book, “Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur.”

When Finkle would bring students to visit the “Oracle of Omaha” for extended Q-and-A meetings, Finkle said the first topic Buffett would discuss was never financial.

“He didn’t say anything about money. The first topic that he would always bring up is that the most important thing you’ll do in your life is to pick who to marry.”

He built a reputation for honesty and trust

Following a scandal at Salomon Brothers, in which Berkshire Hathaway had an ownership stake, Buffett became chairman and testified in Congress. He said all employees were told, “After they first obey all rules, I then want employees to ask themselves whether they are willing to have any contemplated act appear the next day on the front page of their local paper to be read by their spouses, children and friends with the reporting done by an informed and critical reporter.”

That reputation for honesty, along with his famed patience for investments, helped Buffett stay famous even in this “post-truth” era where people scroll through feeds at finger-flicking speed. He's such an icon that scammers would use him in AI-generated videos that appeared to show him endorsing questionable investments or political candidates.

On Reddit's WallStreetBets forum, traders share picks for potential get-rich-quick opportunities in day-trading stocks and options. The discussion jumps from idea to idea, but even the denizens there know Buffett and his famous advice to “be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”

His reputation is so strong and his advice so well-known that some memes on the forum ironically joke about doing the opposite, with a picture of Buffett suggesting that everyone freak out and sell in a panic.

Buffett's lessons go well beyond business

Bob Miles, who has taught a college course about Buffett for 16 years, said that people might initially get attracted to Buffett because he is rich and has made many Berkshire shareholders wealthy. But their interest deepens after reading Buffett’s annual letters, which became required reading for many investors, and hearing him speak in interviews.

Through reading and listening, people would glean nuggets from Buffett like his core rules for investing: “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.” Or that “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out,” referencing how tough times will quickly show who has been taking too much risk. He also suggested that “who you associate with is just enormously important. Don’t expect that you’ll make every decision right on that. But you are going to have your life progress in the general direction of the people you work with, that you admire, that become your friends.”

“People associate him with successful investing, but I look at him more and more as kind of a guide toward how to live a successful life, whatever your talents happen to be,” Miles said.

Few investors have broad appeal like Buffett

At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business, trips for students to Berkshire's annual meetings were always a hot ticket. “I don’t know of any time that it wasn’t popular,” said David Musto, a finance professor at the school and faculty director of the Jacobs Master of Science in Quantitative Finance.

With Buffett’s departure from the stage, the obvious question is whether anyone else could replace him as the world’s most famous value investor.

Musto said some other big names still exist in the investing world, such as Will Danoff at Fidelity Investments, who is retiring from day-to-day management at the end of the year. But it's difficult to find someone with as strong and as long a track record as Buffett's. Or the wit and personality.

Musto said it's important for value investing to remain a force in the market, particularly when traders are jumping into meme stocks, obscure cryptocurrencies and other bets built more on hope that their prices will go up than belief that it's a good business trading at a good price.

“It certainly helps to have people in the middle,” Musto said, “thinking about the value of a stock.”

More than 650 infections have been reported in Italy so far this year, accounting for roughly half of all cases recorded in Europe, according to local health authorities.

“Higher temperatures linked to climate change help mosquitoes reproduce and extend the transmission season, increasing the chances that infected mosquitoes will spread the virus to people,” said Antonino Bella, researcher at Italy’s National Institute of Health, or ISS.

West Nile has been considered endemic in Italy since 2020, when cases started to surge, and is now reported every summer and early fall. About 80% of infected people develop no symptoms, while most others experience a mild flu-like illness. Severe neurological complications occur in a small minority of cases, mainly among older adults and people with underlying health conditions.

Experts say this year’s case numbers are broadly in line with recent seasons.

But warmer temperatures favor mosquito reproduction and can mean the transmission season sometimes lasts as late as November, Bella explained. Areas once largely unaffected are increasingly reporting infections, reflecting a gradual expansion of the virus across the country.

Italy’s experience with the virus is drawing attention from European countries located farther north. A Belgian research team visited the ISS last May to study Italy’s research and surveillance system after the country began recording locally acquired West Nile cases.

The Netherlands this year has reported more than two dozen West Nile cases, the first since 2020, as well as several deaths, according to its public health institute.

“There’s no doubt that warming weather will expand the period of replication for the virus and the vector in more countries,” said Marc-Alain Widdowson, who leads the Pandemic Threats, Communicable Diseases, and AMR Division at the World Health Organization’s Europe office.

“You’ve got to be careful not to say that climate change is all of it, but certainly a warming climate means that we have a longer mosquito season, so that the vectors can survive for longer. Warm temperatures also mean that the virus itself will survive better,” he added.

Experts note that Italy’s extensive monitoring network, which tracks mosquitoes, birds, blood donors and human infections, also helps explain why the country detects so many cases.

“There are definitely trends which we think are contributing to increased activity,” Widdowson said, citing a warming climate, loss of biodiversity and changes in land use. A longer mosquito season creates more opportunities for transmission, he added, while declines in bird diversity may favor species that are efficient reservoirs of the virus.

In June, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, or ECDC, warned that because Europe is experiencing a warming trend — with heat waves and flooding becoming more frequent and severe, and summers getting longer and warmer — the conditions are more favorable for invasive mosquito species such as Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti.

Aedes aegypti — known to transmit dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, zika and West Nile viruses — has been established in Cyprus since 2022 and may spread to other European countries.

A decade ago, the Aedes albopictus mosquito was established in eight European countries, with 114 regions affected. This year, the mosquito is established in 13 countries and 337 regions, the ECDC said.

Hyde, 70, a farmer and former construction worker, said he is supporting 36-year-old Will Lawrence, a longtime liberal activist who until recently was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, instead of incumbent Rep. Tom Barrett, a Republican who has not flatly opposed the Mason project.

“He's been out to my house several times,” Hyde said of Lawrence.

Ewart, 43, a fellow opponent of the data center project, was startled to hear that. After all, Republicans have tried to turn Lawrence into a national symbol of Democratic radicalism because he once called for an end to fossil fuels, defunding the police and maintaining open borders. “Lawrence has said a lot of crazy stuff,” Ewart said. “I don't trust him.”

Hyde wasn't convinced. “Right now, what's a bigger fight — a data center or socialism?”

Data centers are the leading example of how Lawrence is trying to defy expectations in a classic swing district by harnessing unease over the rapid pace of artificial intelligence's development, which has created anxieties that hopscotch ideological lines and could upend the nation's politics. It's also created an opening for a wave of leftist Democrats like Lawrence who have long argued that their outsider, anticorporate message can have broader appeal than the moderate establishment.

Lawrence has widened his aim to the entire AI industry, calling for a pause on AI development in the wake of fears from some at the companies that the technology could eliminate humanity.

“We need to put a stop to this, because right now the whole thing is out of control and alarm bells are going off,” Lawrence said at a press conference where he also urged the halting of data center construction.

Democrat lets DSA membership lapse, rejects ‘ideological label’

The co-founder of the aggressive environmental group The Sunrise Movement, Lawrence is not like the candidates who normally triumph in Michigan's evenly-divided 7th Congressional District. The previous Democrat to have represented the district is currently Michigan's junior senator, Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst and steadfast moderate. Lawrence once pleaded online for moderate Democrats to “hurry up and die.”

“He wants to show up and talk about data centers all day to distract from the vulnerability he has on abolishing the police and the border,” Barrett, who is seeking a second term, said in an interview.

Lawrence bristled at that charge, noting that he's been protesting data centers since last fall when a wave of new projects was proposed across the district and the state.

“I'm talking about it because I give a damn about the people of this district,” Lawrence said in an interview. “My whole career is about fighting back against corporate power, standing with regular working people who are getting screwed over.”

Lawrence says he's moved on from many of his previous stances and online postings, including defunding the police or having open borders — a suggestion he said was made during more of a “performance.” He declines to identify himself anymore as a socialist, saying an “ideological label” leads to division. He let his membership in the DSA, whose Lansing chapter a member has said was founded in the living room of the building where Lawrence lived after college, lapse this summer. Lawrence's campaign said he was not present at the founding.

Some Republicans could not believe their luck when Lawrence beat two more traditional candidates in August's Democratic primary.

“We think it's a comical mistake by the Democratic establishment to let somebody like him slip through,” said Ty Bommarito, chair of the Michigan College Republicans and a senior at Michigan State University, the 51,000-student institution in Lawrence's hometown of East Lansing.

But other observers warned against underestimating Lawrence, who made a mark in the primary by energetically stumping across the district, which stretches from Detroit's furthest exurbs to farming communities west of the state capital of Lansing, and has continued at a frenetic pace leading into the general election.

“There's more energy in this Lawrence campaign than I've seen for a very, very long time,” said Lingg Brewer, an 81-year-old former Democratic state lawmaker in Lansing. “The excitement in this town I think equals that for Obama when he first ran.”

'Right now I'm kind of a one-issue voter'

Lawrence has spent plenty of time with students on Michigan State's sprawling campus, but he's also become a staple at meetings of residents — often farmers or other rural denizens — fighting data center proposals. Water-rich Michigan, whose Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer embraced the industry initially, has seen a wave of potential projects over the past year.

On the night of the Mason council meeting, Lawrence had to pass on appearing at a simultaneous township council meeting on the opposite side of his district to stand against a different potential project there.

Lawrence wore a cap in the same shade of red as President Donald Trump's campaign hats, but with the phrase “No Data Centers in Mason” instead of “Make America Great Again.” The standing-room-only meeting was full of people wearing identical caps.

Lawrence's reliable opposition to data centers has won him support from some unexpected quarters in the town of 8,000. “I'm sure I disagree with a whole lot of his policies,” Zach Bartels, 48, who identified himself as a conservative independent, said of Lawrence, “but right now I'm kind of a one-issue voter.”

Patrick Lind, 51, regularly votes Republican, but he's not sure if he will this year. “The partisan issue is going to be a lot less important than the data center issue,” Lind said.

Ashley Wickham, 38, says she's never been involved in politics and hadn't voted in a congressional primary before last month's, which was open to any voter regardless of party affiliation. She cast her ballot for Lawrence, noting that he's been to almost every anti-data center event over the past year.

“I'm definitely going to support him, because he supported me,” said Wickham, who bought a house in Mason just before the potential data center was announced last November.

At the time, the city said there was not an official proposed project but disclosed it was in discussions to annex 405 neighboring acres where a company could build a $1 billion hyperscale facility. The community has been convulsed with opposition ever since.

Both candidates say they want AI limits, but to different degrees

Lawrence scolded the council members, who sat stoically through dozens of speeches. “They say there's a significant chance that all human beings may be killed by what they're building — what they want to build in Mason,” Lawrence said. “How hard is it to just listen to the residents and just say ‘No’?”

Lawrence threw barbs at Barrett, whom he has slammed for accepting donations from technology firms and voting last year for a version of Trump's tax-and-budget bill that would have banned any state from regulating AI for 10 years. The provision was removed from the final version of the bill.

A representative of Barrett's office read a statement from the congressman, who was in Washington and could not attend the meeting. The statement reiterated Barrett's view that local officials should decide on data centers rather than the federal government. In the interview, Barrett said he also favors limits on AI, and the 22-year Army veteran noted that he's proposed legislation banning its use on the battlefield.

Outside the Mason City Council chamber, Ewart said he's urged Barrett to come out more forcefully against the project and warned the congressman about local disappointment with him.

Ewart narrowly lost a Republican primary last month to represent the area in the state legislature, and he warned that voters shouldn't gamble on Lawrence even if they oppose data centers.

“The question is how fast the socialism comes in,” Ewart said.

Sheeran began the concert alone on stage with no opener, but was joined by other musicians later in the show.

Sheeran said he wants his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics. But he said the attacks in Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, were horrific and what is happening in Gaza “catastrophic and unjustifiable.”

“I don’t want to disappoint fans, and I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician, but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet,” Sheeran said during his performance at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

The comments before a nearly full stadium came after a tumultuous week that began with rapper Macklemore, Sheeran's original U.S. opener, being dropped in response to exclaiming “Free Palestine” during a Sept. 5 show in New Jersey.

Sheeran has said he was not responsible for the decision, which came at the urging of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. His company owns a stadium where Sheeran’s tour was scheduled to play on Friday.

Within hours of Sheeran’s statement Tuesday, his supporting acts withdrew.

Sheeran has performed many songs solo during his Loop Tour concerts, but was joined for several songs at each stop by the Irish folk band Beoga before they dropped out in support of Macklemore.

Macklemore was replaced by Danish band Lukas Graham and Irish singer Aaron Rowe before they backed out, and Finneas, Billie Eilish’s brother and musical collaborator, was due to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year before he too dropped out this week.

Before Saturday's show, a small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators congregated outside the stadium. Hillary Steinberg, 34, said she got concert tickets a year ago but wound up getting a refund and attended the demonstration instead, disappointed that Sheeran did not take a stand.

“I was, until this week, a big Ed Sheeran fan,” Steinberg said. “I think all art is political, and all music is political, and so this choice — even though he was saying that he wasn’t complicit — is a political choice.”

Diane Savitz, a 53-year-old from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, got tickets months ago and attended. She said she is a big Sheeran fan, doesn't think he did anything wrong and a concert is not the place for politics.

“A concert should be for people enjoying the music. Music should bring people together,” Savitz said. “Everyone has their right to freedom of speech, but not every platform is the place for it.”

Macklemore said Wednesday he is donating $1 million to support Palestinian relief efforts and called on Kraft to match the gift; a spokesperson for Kraft has said the billionaire and Sheeran have each agreed to donate $2 million but have not specified where the money will be directed. Sheeran's representatives have not responded to multiple requests for comment.

Sheeran was the No. 3 top-earning concert act of the millennium so far, industry magazine Pollstar calculated in late 2025.

Sheeran has said the tour promoter was ultimately responsible for the decision to drop Macklemore.

The Grammy winner was adamant earlier this week that he wouldn't be drawn into discussion of the war in Gaza, arguing that his fans don’t come to his shows to hear about these issues.

He also said he “spoke with the venues at length all week to try to build a bridge” before Macklemore was dropped. He insisted he would never willingly let down his fans or abandon the touring crew and others who rely on him to make a living.

While promoters and venues wield great power over concert tours, experts say an artist of Sheeran's magnitude generally has the final say about what happens concerning the shows.

Sheeran told the crowd in Philadelphia that everyone is welcome at his concerts, and they can have opposing points of view while still singing his songs, which are about “love, hope and unity.”

He also told fans he worries about venues preapproving performances.

“This happens in so many places that I perform around the world, but it should never happen in the free world,” Sheeran said.

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A previous version of this story incorrectly quoted Pollstar magazine as calculating that Sheeran was the third-highest concert earner from 2021-2025. It was from 2001-2025. It has also been edited to correct the spelling of Pollstar.

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Jaylon Braxton intercepted Sam Leavitt's pass into the end zone in the final seconds, setting off a raucous celebration that was nine months in the making and sending Kiffin and No. 7 LSU home with a 32-24 loss to eighth-ranked Ole Miss that showed just how hated the coach has become in Oxford.

It was the second loss of the day for a top-10 team from the Southeastern Conference. Kentucky stunned No. 9 Texas A&M 31-21 on the road.

The later one was equally shocking, mostly because the Rebels looked like they would roll over the Tigers early. Ole Miss led 24-7 at halftime. LSU stormed back in the second half and had a chance to tie the game in the final minute.

But Leavitt's pass was tipped and then picked off.

A few minutes later, after Trinidad Chambliss took two knees, the home team reveled by shooting fireworks and playing “Callin' Baton Rouge” by Garth Brooks — an epic troll.

It was exactly what Kiffin should have expected after getting wildly booed long before he arrived at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Kiffin appeared remotely on ESPN’s “College GameDay,” and Mississippi fans still angry about how he left the Rebels for LSU late last season greeted him with a chorus of expletive-laced chants.

“I really appreciate you guys gaslighting them with this,” Kiffin said from the team hotel.

It was the latest in a growing buildup for the first top-10 matchup between No. 7 LSU and eight-ranked Ole Miss since 1962.

It started when Kiffin left the Rebels to take the LSU job and a $91 million contract just as the team he had coached for six years was days away from its first appearance in the College Football Playoff. Kiffin wanted to stay through the playoff, but Ole Miss moved on to coach Pete Golding and advanced to the CFP semifinals. LSU finished 7-6, capped by a loss in the Texas Bowl.

The off-field storylines haven’t stopped since. Kiffin’s comments about whether Black players could be recruited to Ole Miss, lawsuits alleging Ole Miss transfers owe big money for reneging on their NIL deals and LSU’s now-abandoned defiance of rules against rostering former pro players have only brightened the spotlight for this one.

Kentucky wins behind three transfers

The Wildcats got big games from quarterback Kenny Minchey, running back CJ Baxter and safety Jordan Castell in College Station, Texas.

Minchey, a Notre Dame transfer, completed 14 of 18 passes for 252 yards and two touchdowns. He connected on his final 11 throws. Baxter, a former Texas standout, ran for 87 yards and two scores. Castell, a three-year starter at Florida, finished with a team-high 13 tackles and an interception.

“I’m not shocked,” first-year head coach Will Stein said afterward. “This is how these guys practiced every single day. This is what Kentucky football is supposed to look like. So proud of our guys coming on the road, the eye of the storm. How freaking cool is this? Let’s go!”

Stein, 36, replaced longtime Kentucky coach Mark Stoops in December and became the third first-year Wildcats coach to beat a top-10 team — first since Joker Phillips in 2010.

“We knew it was going to be a bar fight, a fistfight, old school,” Stein said. “We were the tougher team tonight. That’s how we won the game."

Huge comebacks were all the rage

Double-digit comebacks were trending across the country, with at least five winners rallying from 14 or more points.

No. 10 Alabama did it against Florida State; Vanderbilt did it against N.C. State; Toledo did it against Temple; Clemson did it against North Carolina; and Cincinnati did it against Miami (Ohio).

Swinney, Clemson get help from a lengthy weather delay

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney can thank Mother Nature for alleviating some heat.

Gideon Davidson ran for 105 yards and scored the go-ahead touchdown with five minutes remaining as the Tigers rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat North Carolina 28-20 on Saturday in a game that included a 2 1/2-hour weather delay.

Clemson’s Tait Reynolds completed 20 of 29 passes for 215 yards with a touchdown and an interception in his first career start.

The Tigers trailed 17-15 with 8:11 remaining and UNC with momentum. It was second-and-goal at the Tigers 7 when officials sent both teams to the locker room after lightning was detected in the area.

When players returned to the field, it was all Clemson. The Tigers stuffed two runs, forced a field goal and took over from there.

Ohio State has a new career receiving yardage leader

Jeremiah Smith became Ohio State’s career receiving yardage leader.

Smith caught five passes for 85 yards in a 59-3 victory over Kent State. The junior needed 26 yards to surpass Michael Jenkins’ 2,898 yards from 2000-03 and become OSU’s record-holder and got it on his second catch of the game, when he hauled in a 23-yard pass from Julian Sayin midway through the first quarter.

“Put a lot of hard work into it," Smith said. “They said 33 games, so I’m blessed.”

High-scoring affair between two of ACC’s best

Keyjuan Brown ran for a career-high 163 yards and a pair of long touchdowns to carry No. 23 Louisville to a 41-31 victory over 16th-ranked SMU. The teams picked to finish second (SMU) and third (Louisville) in the Atlantic Coast Conference put on a back-and-forth affair, trading the lead eight times before the Cardinals sealed it on Isaac Brown’s 27-yard touchdown run with 5:32 remaining.

Both teams were trying to keep pace with No. 5 Miami, which beat Wake Forest 33-20 on Friday night behind an impressive performance by quarterback Darian Mensah.

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Weigman's third TD pass, a 10-yarder to Patrick Overmyer with 49 seconds left, gave the Cougars (2-1, 0-1) a chance to tie in the conference opener for both teams. On the try for 2, Weigman took off to the left and lunged forward with the ball extended, though his knee came down before the ball broke the plane of the end zone.

“There’s no moral victories,” Houston coach Willie Fritz said. “We came here to win. And we didn’t win.”

The audience viewing on Fox Sports was able to watch and listen to the Big 12 replay officials at the conference headquarters reviewing and discussing that play before ruling that Weigman was short. That was one of several replays on which viewers got an inside look.

Will Hammond was 17-of-27 passing for 257 yards and a touchdown for the Red Raiders (3-0, 1-0), who were down 10-0 and had only one offensive snap 9 1/2 minutes into their first Friday home game since 1941.

“It just shows the resilience of this team and the belief they have in each other. There was never a time that those guys got down. They just kept fighting,” Tech coach Joey McGuire said. “I just continue to believe that as the season goes, we’ll keep getting better and better again.”

Weigman finished 27 of 38 for 282 yards.

After only two carries for 5 yards before halftime, Williams had consecutive runs of 19, 5 and 29 yards — the last a burst through the left side and pretty much untouched to the end zone to make it 21-17 only 2 1/2 minutes into the second half. Dickey had a 1-yard scoring run with 7:36 left.

Houston led 17-14 just before halftime after Koby Young made an over-the-shoulder catch and pinned the ball against his shoulder pads while falling over the pylon for a 46-yard touchdown.

Hammond had a 28-yard pass to Kenny Johnson to convert third-and-12 before they also hooked up for a 35-yard touchdown a minute into the second quarter. Johnson finished with four catches for 113 yards.

After a field goal on the game's opening drive, the Cougars immediately got the ball back on Will James’ nifty interception along the sideline when Tommy Castellanos, who started instead of Hammond, was trying to throw away the ball while under pressure.

That led to Amare Thomas’ 11-yard TD reception when he twisted and extended the ball lunging forward toward the end zone while being knocked down for a 10-0 lead. He was initially marked short, but it became a score after a replay review.

Hammond is Tech's No. 1 quarterback

Castellanos, the former Florida State and Boston College QB, didn’t join the Red Raiders until a week before the season opener. After the interception, he didn't take another snap until his 3-yard TD run with 3:39 left in the first half.

“Will Hammond is our starting quarterback. We have packages for Tommy and those packages will continue to grow,” McGuire said. “We had two plays we're going to run right there. If we don’t get pressure, then I think we have a huge play starting right off the bat. ... The plan was two plays and Will come into the game."

Hammond had been expected to be the starter this year before an ACL injury last October. But there was also the offseason saga surrounding departed transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who would have started but was declared ineligible after an NCAA gambling investigation. Hammond, meanwhile, had no setbacks in his recovery and was ready for the start of this season.

The Takeaway

Houston: The Cougars were 6-0 in road games last season on way to a 10-win season. ... Houston had 104 yards rushing by halftime, and finished with 176 against a Texas Tech defense whose seven-game streak not allowing 100 in a game was the longest in FBS.

Texas Tech: The Red Raiders won their 10th consecutive home game, though they gave up more than 17 points for the first time in that stretch. It is their longest home winning streak since 12 in a row from 2007-09.

Up Next

Both teams play their final nonconference game at home Sept. 26. Houston hosts Georgia Southern, and Texas Tech takes on Sam Houston.

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The first-place Braves beat the Houston Astros 6-2 to punch their ticket to the postseason for the eighth time in nine years. They secured at least a National League wild card and reduced their magic number to three for winning the NL East.

Afterward there was no wild celebration, but rather a simple toast with bubbly before they began looking ahead.

“We've got our eyes on bigger and better things,” outfielder Michael Harris II said. “We’re trying to win the East. So got to go out there and do what we know we can do and hopefully we can celebrate big for that.”

First-year manager Walt Weiss echoed the sentiment shared by Harris.

“Everything you get in this league is earned,” Weiss said. “I’ve said it a few times this year, but great group, what they’ve overcome this year, and hopefully some bigger celebrations ahead.”

Harris, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Matt Olson each hit a two-run homer to help the Braves bounce back after dropping two of three games to the Chicago Cubs this week.

Atlanta is trying to hold off the Philadelphia Phillies for the NL East title and could wrap up the division crown as soon as Sunday. Atlanta’s win Friday night coupled with Philadelphia’s 6-3 loss to the Mets gave the Braves a five-game lead over the Phillies with eight to play.

Weiss was asked about helping the team back to the playoffs in his first season as manager after spending eight seasons as Brian Snitker’s bench coach.

“I always say it’s always about the players,” Weiss said. “They’re the ones out there performing. We've got a good staff. When you accomplish things, it’s an organizational effort. ... It takes everybody and we've got a really good group.”

If the Braves take the division, it will be their seventh NL East championship in nine years.

Atlanta's return to the playoffs comes after a disappointing 2025 season in which the team went 76-86 and finished fourth in the division, snapping a streak of seven straight playoff appearances that included six consecutive NL East titles from 2018-23. That run was highlighted by beating the Astros to win the 2021 World Series.

Friday’s victory gave the Braves 90 wins, marking the fifth time in the last eight full seasons that they’ve reached the mark. The only teams with more 90-win seasons in that stretch are the Dodgers with eight and the Brewers and Yankees with six apiece.

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In the fourth quarter, the Hurricanes' defense had to take the lead.

Mensah connected on his first 24 passes on the way to setting Atlantic Coast Conference records for consecutive completions, while Miami's defense came up with four straight fourth-quarter stops to beat Wake Forest 33-20 on Friday night.

“I think a ton of credit goes to the defense for just bowing up and executing at a high level,” Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal said.

The defense carried the Hurricanes home on a night that started with the offense rolling along with a vibe of near inevitability, starting with Mensah putting pass after pass on the numbers and hitting receivers in perfect stride to make big plays downfield.

Mensah completed 30 of 34 passes for 220 yards and three touchdowns, including a 9-yarder to Joshua Moore on the game's first possession and a perfect-execution throw back to the left side on Elija Lofton's 21-yard score.

Menah added a short TD throw to star sophomore receiver Malachi Toney as Miami (3-0, 2-0) took a 31-7 lead midway through the third quarter, only to see its prolific offense grind to an abrupt halt with four straight three-and-outs while seeing multiple players get banged up.

That ultimately gave the Hurricanes' defense its chance to step up as Wake Forest tried to rally.

“I have a lot of faith in our defense, they give us some trouble in practice,” Mensah said. “So for them to go out there, it's no surprise. Them dudes over there are all ballers."

Gio Lopez threw for 312 yards and three touchdowns for the Demon Deacons (2-1, 0-1), including a perfect throw to the back right corner of the end zone for Carlos Hernandez on a 17-yard strike that pulled Wake Forest to 31-20 with 14:56 left.

But from there, Miami pressured Lopez in the end zone to draw a holding penalty for a safety. Then, after Wake Forest drove all the way to the 13, the Hurricanes again pressured Lopez into an inaccurate throw on fourth down in the end zone.

Miami freshman JJ Dunnigan followed by rushing around the end to harass Lopez into another hurried and off-target throw on fourth down with 5:24 left. Then Ethan O'Connor picked off Lopez's pass at the 2:24 mark in the red zone, effectively ending this one.

“We had some opportunities to really get back in that game in the foruth quarter, just could never quite get over the hump,” Wake Forest coach Jake Dickert said.

The takeaway

Miami: The Hurricanes had been nothing short of dominant while leading the country in total offense (702.5) and ranking second in the Bowl Subdivision ranks in scoring (61.0), which had been part of their jump. The defense's play late offered a positive on a night when Miami was tested with a relatively close game compared to a pair of blowouts to open the year.

“It's a good feeling, but we're all one team," said defensive lineman Marquise Lightfoot, who had a third-quarter sack of Lopez. "So they've got our back when we need them, and we've got their back when they need us."

Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons were chasing a rare win against the nation's elite. They entered Friday with a 1-68 mark against teams in the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll, with the only win coming against No. 4 Tennessee in 1946. One culprit in this setback: 13 penalties for 137 yards, including two that negated big fourth-quarter punt returns.

“We need to learn from this and get better,” Dickert said. “Our execution wasn't at a high enough level.”

Mensah's marks

Mensah ultimately completed 35 straight passes going back to last week against Florida A&M, breaking the ACC mark of 30 consecutive completions over multiple games set by North Carolina's Mitch Trubisky in September 2016. His 24-for-24 start broke the ACC single-game record of 18, held by three players.

Injury list

Miami had multiple players banged up, including Toney and top running back Mark Fletcher Jr. The Hurricanes also saw defensive lineman Ahmad Moten Sr. briefly exit the game in the first quarter with his left arm hanging by his side, though he returned ot the game.

The list also included running back CharMar Brown, who went down in the second quarter on the heels of a 32-yard run to just shy of the goal line. He stayed down in the end zone with team medical staff examining his right knee, then was helped to the sideline and later carted to the tunnel.

Up next

Miami: Hosts Central Michigan next Saturday.

Wake Forest: At No. 23 Louisville next Saturday.

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BSO deputies responded to an animal bite call around 6:30 p.m. at the Koosh Living apartments near Southwest 28th Avenue and Griffin Road.

The circumstances of the attack, including how many dogs were involved and the ages of the people involved, were not immediately clear.

Investigators said the dogs have been located. Broward County Animal Care was also called to the scene.

Authorities were working to learn the conditions of the child and woman.

Corey Clemson, who lives nearby, said the incident was concerning, especially as a parent.

“That’s terrible, man. I have a 3-year-old son and I know dogs sometimes, anything can happen at any moment,” Clemson said.

Clemson said people need to be vigilant about their surroundings and avoid certain situations when possible.

“If you can’t keep your dog away from children if they’re not friendly, just do that,” he said.

Detectives remained on scene as they gathered evidence.

Clemson said he hopes everyone involved will be OK.