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It happened in the southbound express lanes near Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.

According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the three victims are expected to survive.

Video from Sky 10 showed the southbound express lanes ― as well as two regular I-95 lanes ― closed, leading to a heavy backup.

El accidente ocurrió en los carriles expresos en dirección sur, cerca de Sunrise Boulevard, en Fort Lauderdale.

Según Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, se espera que las tres víctimas sobrevivan.

Un video de Sky 10 mostró los carriles expresos en dirección sur, así como dos carriles regulares de la I-95, cerrados, lo que provocó una fuerte congestión vehicular.

Pompano Beach has its own fire rescue department, but commissioners found that starting a law enforcement agency was too expensive.

“It was the cost and the skillset to do it. With BSO, we have specialty crews that can help us with anything, drugs, prostitution, crime of any kind, helicopters, we have a lot of support through BSO,” Pompano Beach Commissioner Darlene Smith said. “We wouldn’t have that, at least at the beginning, with our own police force.”

City leaders expect to finalize it with a vote on Tuesday evening. The new contract with BSO will cost $71 million next fiscal year.

Smith said it would take about three years to get a new police force going. Commissioners voted unanimously to accept the new contract with a 5% rate increase cap each year, and a 90-day get-out clause for both sides.

Keana Johnson is one of them.

The 17-year-old was looking forward to starting classes next month at Howard University as the next step on her educational journey and a way out of the New York City shelter where she lives. She told The Associated Press Tuesday that she may consider the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, which is extending its undergraduate application deadline to Aug. 7. She’s also looking into historically Black colleges and universities in the South, but realizes her options are limited and time is running short.

“I will still love to go to Howard,” Johnson said. “I’ve invested too much into going to that university to give up now.”

Howard, one of about 100 historically Black colleges and universities in the United States, said Friday that it notified 502 first-time-in-college students that their spots for the upcoming semester were no longer being held. The school said the students had not met deadlines for enrollment and financial obligations.

Howard also said students who believe their accounts did not reflect their financial standing should contact its financial aid office and that “each case will be reviewed individually to determine whether adjustments or reinstatement are appropriate.”

Howard University has not responded to an AP request for the number of unenrolled students reinstated or the status of cases being reviewed.

Johnson said she has emailed the school multiple times for answers she's yet to receive. “I called every single office there is a number for,” she added.

The Howard staff on the other end of the calls were of no help, Johnson said.

The University of the District of Columbia, like Howard, is an HBCU and located in Washington. The public university has committed to offering a hand to students who especially need one right now, said Hasanna Tyus, the vice president of enrollment services.

“We understand that college plans can change unexpectedly, and we want students to know that they still have options,” Tyus said.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday that the State University of New York and City University of New York also are expediting late admissions reviews at some schools for state residents unenrolled by Howard.

Participating campuses also will provide an $800 credit per student to offset enrollment deposits paid to Howard that have not been refunded.

“New York is home to the nation’s finest systems of public higher education, and we are ready to welcome these talented students with the opportunity they deserve,” Hochul said.

Johnson, who is Black and uses “Star” as her preferred name, was notified in December of her admittance to Howard's nursing program for the fall 2026 semester.

She said she doesn’t live with either parent and has been staying at a homeless shelter for teens and young adults since early June while attending the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers.

She still hopes to land at an HBCU.

“The main thing that kept me going was knowing I was going to end up at Howard,” Johnson said. “It's a community of peers that look like you and struggle like you.”

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Williams is a member of AP's Race & Ethnicity team.

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It happened at an apartment complex located along the 2100 block of Northeast 167th Street.

According to police, De’Undre Turner shot 10 rounds into an apartment and fled the scene.

A warrant had been issued for his arrest, and he was picked up by police on Monday.

Police said Turner was the passenger in a car when he saw the victim walking down the street. Turner then accused the victim of breaking into his wife’s car, which led to the victim running to a friend’s apartment for shelter, authorities said.

Six people were inside the apartment at the time of the shooting, but no one was injured, according to officials.

Authorities said they were able to identify Turner thanks to a tattoo of lips located on the left side of his neck that was captured in the video footage and enhanced by police.

He is being held behind bars without bond on seven counts of second degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon.

El incidente ocurrió en un complejo de apartamentos ubicado en la cuadra 2100 de Northeast 167th Street.

Según la policía, De’Undre Turner disparó 10 veces contra un apartamento y luego huyó del lugar.

Las autoridades habían emitido una orden de arresto en su contra y fue detenido por la policía el lunes.

La policía informó que Turner viajaba como pasajero en un vehículo cuando vio a la víctima caminando por la calle. Turner acusó a la víctima de haber irrumpido en el vehículo de su esposa, lo que provocó que la víctima corriera a refugiarse en el apartamento de un amigo, según las autoridades.

Seis personas se encontraban dentro del apartamento al momento de la balacera, pero nadie resultó herido, de acuerdo con los funcionarios.

Las autoridades indicaron que pudieron identificar a Turner gracias a un tatuaje de unos labios en el lado izquierdo de su cuello, que fue captado en el video de vigilancia y mejorado por la policía.

Turner permanece detenido sin derecho a fianza y enfrenta siete cargos de intento de asesinato en segundo grado con un arma mortal.

Damián Valdez-Galloso appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez accused of killing the 37-year-old “Cubatón” artist.

“He came out today, and he didn’t even look at any of us. He knew we were present. The judge knew, and there was a room full of officers, they definitely know that our presence is here and it is felt,” said Teresa Padrón, the victim’s former manager and friend.

Valdez-Galloso, 51, rejected a plea deal. Ricardo Hermida, who is representing him, told reporters in Spanish that it was a case of self-defense.

Padrón and a group of supporters wore T-shirts calling for justice.

“Even though we cannot speak and we cannot disrespect the court, our shirts speak for us,” Padrón said.

Detectives accused Valdez-Galloso of shooting Carbajal Zaldívar in the head shortly after 5:25 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2024, in Hialeah, records show.

Police officers found Carbajal Zaldívar injured at about 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2024, in a parked 2023 Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle near Northwest Ninth Avenue and 17th Street in Allapattah, records show.

A doctor pronounced Carbajal Zaldívar dead on Oct. 10, 2024, at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detectives investigated the homicide.

U.S. Marshals arrested Valdez-Galloso, a convicted felon, on Oct. 29, 2024, in Brooklyn, New York. He was extradited and booked on Nov. 6, 2024, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a case against Valdez Galloso, a registered sex offender, on Nov. 7, 2024, and a grand jury indictment was filed on Jan. 29, 2025, court records show.

Valdez Galloso faced charges of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, tampering with physical evidence, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. His next status hearing is at 9:15 a.m. on Sept. 2.

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Steve Lee Lawson, 45, was taken into custody after disembarking the Norwegian Getaway on Friday after it arrived from the Bahamas, according to a federal criminal complaint. Records show he faced a Miami federal judge on Monday.

In the complaint, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent wrote that customs officers referred Lawson to a secondary inspection, searched his phone and found two illicit videos in a messaging application. They said they later found more than a dozen child sexual abuse videos.

Those clips included a “video over (one) hour in length that simultaneously played three separate compilation videos that depict approximately more than 100 prepubescent (girls)” being raped and sexually abused, according to the complaint.

Authorities said the application showed that Lawson downloaded the clips while the ship was docked in the Bahamas. They said he admitted to paying for the videos using cryptocurrency and claimed “that he was enticed to do so after he observed female minors in bikinis on the cruise.”

Records show that Lawson, facing federal charges related to the possession and transportation of child sexual abuse material, remained in the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami as of Tuesday afternoon. No booking photo was available.

The complaint indicates that authorities are seeking to keep him locked up on pre-trial detention.

Lawson, after appearing in Miami federal court on Monday, was ordered held ahead of a pre-trial detention hearing scheduled for Thursday, court documents show.

In those documents, prosecutors said they are seeking to keep him locked up “based on risk of flight.”

Steve Lee Lawson, de 45 años, fue detenido el viernes a su llegada procedente de las Bahamas y tras bajar del crucero Norwegian Getaway, según una denuncia penal federal. Los registros indican que compareció ante un juez federal de Miami el lunes.

En la denuncia, un agente especial de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI) detalló que los agentes de aduanas remitieron a Lawson a una inspección secundaria, revisaron su teléfono y hallaron dos videos ilícitos en una aplicación de mensajería. Posteriormente, encontraron más de una docena de videos de abuso sexual infantil.

Dichas grabaciones incluían un “video de más de una hora de duración que reproducía simultáneamente tres compilaciones distintas en las que aparecían más de 100 niñas prepúberes” siendo violadas y objeto de abuso sexual, según la denuncia.

Las autoridades señalaron que la aplicación mostraba que Lawson había descargado los videos mientras el barco estaba atracado en las Bahamas. Indicaron que él admitió haber pagado por los videos con criptomonedas y alegó “que se sintió incitado a hacerlo tras ver a menores de edad en bikini durante el crucero”.

Los registros muestran que Lawson, quien enfrenta cargos federales relacionados con la posesión y el transporte de material de abuso sexual infantil, permanecía recluido en el Centro de Detención Federal del centro de Miami hasta la tarde del martes. No se dispuso de ninguna fotografía de su fichaje policial.

La denuncia indica que las autoridades buscan mantenerlo bajo custodia mediante prisión preventiva.

Tras comparecer el lunes ante el tribunal federal de Miami, se ordenó que Lawson permaneciera detenido a la espera de una audiencia sobre prisión preventiva programada para el jueves, según los documentos judiciales.

En dichos documentos, los fiscales manifestaron que solicitan mantenerlo detenido “debido al riesgo de fuga”.

El incidente ocurrió poco después de las 5 a.m. del martes en Northwest 23rd Street, cerca de la 44th Avenue, en Lauderhill.

Las imágenes muestran a los delincuentes, con el rostro cubierto por mascarillas y capuchas, irrumpiendo en más de una docena de vehículos.

Los criminales no parecían preocuparse por las luces, las cámaras de vigilancia ni por los residentes que aún estaban dentro de sus viviendas.

Una de las víctimas fue la enfermera registrada Marry Gooding, a quien le robaron su bolso de trabajo, dinero en efectivo e información personal. Además, ahora tendrá que pagar la reparación de su vehículo tras el robo.

“Esta mañana estoy recibiendo cotizaciones de entre $450 USD y $500 USD”, dijo. “En mi billetera tenía una tarjeta de regalo de Costco de $800 USD, mi tarjeta de débito y mis dos tarjetas de crédito”.

Gooding fue solo una de varios vecinos que despertaron y descubrieron que sus cámaras de vigilancia también captaron a los ladrones revisando sus pertenencias.

“Es como si te quitaran la vida porque todo está en tu billetera”, dijo.

El Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill informó que investiga varios robos en vehículos en la zona y que está revisando los videos de vigilancia.

Cualquier persona con información que pueda ayudar a la investigación debe comunicarse con la Policía de Lauderhill o con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS.

The investigation, requested in December by Mayor Muriel Bowser, reviewed MPD crime data from 2015 through 2025. While the report did not indicate any fraud or intentionality in the flaws in the crime stats collection, it recommended a series of steps meant to ensure accuracy in the data gathering going forward.

“We found that MPD’s crime reporting controls broke down significantly during the period we examined,” it said.

The police force’s crime statistics collection faced increasing scrutiny after President Donald Trump issued a monthlong emergency order last summer that federalized the police force and launched a law enforcement operation in the nation’s capital that his Republican administration said was meant to fight crime.

Local officials maintained that crime was already dropping when Trump took the action. Critics said the problematic statistics erroneously downplayed the true impact of Trump’s initiative.

The report made five recommendations to the department, including establishing a permanent, independent crime report review function with personnel who are appropriately trained with the authority to return reports to officers for correction.

It highlighted the 2013 dissolution of an independent unit that reviewed the statistics gathering process, which the report said led to crime classification errors and meant that incomplete explanations could pass through the approval process, uncorrected.

“Crime data is the informational foundation on which MPD makes operational decisions, the District allocates resources, and the public evaluates the safety of its community,” the report concluded. When that data is unreliable “the consequences extend beyond inaccurate statistics.”

The report did not weigh in more broadly on Trump's law enforcement efforts in Washington.

The report noted that in recent months the department has taken steps to address concerns in crime classification and reporting.

An emailed response from MPD said a number of steps the department is taking, including increased training, as well as the creation of the Data Quality and Compliance Branch to “enforce objective reporting, and conduct systematic reviews of police reports.”

A Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accused Washington's former police chief of pressuring subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city’s crime rates.

A separate investigation by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office also found that a significant number of MPD reports had been misclassified to make crime rates appear lower than they are.

Pirro’s office began its investigation in August at the height of a political showdown between Trump’s administration and the city over control of the police department. Trump claimed violent crime in Washington was getting worse as he ordered a federal takeover of the police department.

Neither investigation found grounds for charging anybody with a crime.

In May, Washington interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll announced that 13 officers had been placed on administrative leave in connection with an internal investigation into how the department keeps crime statistics.

Eleven are still on administrative leave and two have “separated from services,” the department said in an email.

Commissioner Tony Petitti says that’s a worthwhile sacrifice to get his preferred postseason format.

“When we make this decision as a league – are we going to support 24 – that’s where you start the conversation,” Petitti said Tuesday as the Big Ten opened its football media days. “Are you willing to give up your championship game to have the expanded playoff?”

Pettiti mentioned this possibility back in May as he stepped up his push to double the 12-team playoff. He conceded a 24-team College Football Playoff would mean no Big Ten championship game, which has been held annually in Indianapolis since 2011.

“Yeah, I think it’s pretty much we won’t be playing a championship game if we go to 24,” he said.

The bid to expand the playoff to 24 teams also has the support of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 and Notre Dame. The Southeastern Conference remains a holdout.

During the SEC’s media days event last week, commissioner Greg Sankey cited the risk to conference championship games as one potential drawback of a 24-team format. The SEC was the first major conference to adopt a league championship game and held its first one in 1992.

Petitti noted the potential drawbacks a team would face when it enters the playoff after competing in a championship game.

“There’s a lot of conflicting incentives,” Petitti said. “It’s still very powerful to win a Big Ten championship, and teams play hard. They want to win that game. But you’re talking about a pretty tough journey to go all the way through and where you are playing next, and what happens if a team loses that game, they don’t get a bye, and they have to go play relatively quickly.”

Petitti also outlined his reasons for wanting a 24-team playoff rather than merely expanding to 16. He said it would assure that more late-season games carried postseason implications.

“The format creates all kinds of incentives,” Petitti said. “If you think about a 24-team playoff, right, a bunch of teams are going to be ranked between 16 and 24 that are just trying to make sure they’re in. You’re going to have teams playing until the very end to see if they’re in. You’re going to have teams playing to see if they can get a home game. So every game is going to matter because your seeding is always going to be determined by somebody else.”

While some SEC coaches such as Georgia's Kirby Smart and Tennessee’s Josh Heupel have countered Sankey’s position by saying they’re intrigued by a 24-team playoff, Big Ten coaches seem universally behind Petitti.

“When you get a room of 50 coaches or whatever we have in this conference together, it’s hard to get everybody to be unanimous on something,” Southern California's Lincoln Riley said. “This is something that our room has been unanimous on.”

Riley said the lack of a conference championship game would make this more like the NFL model, where people simply pay more attention to the national championship than anything else.

“I know obviously those (conference championship games) are huge revenue drivers for these conferences, which matters in this day and ae maybe a little bit more than it used to,” Riley said. “But to think that that could not be made up when you start adding in some of those playoff games…. I have a hard time believing that couldn’t be recouped, that these conferences can’t just decide the regular-season champion, have your tiebreaker structure or whatever and let’s get into the playoffs.”

The standoff between the Big Ten and the SEC represented the latest disagreement between college football’s two heavyweight conferences, but Petitti downplayed their off-field disagreements. He pointed out that he and Sankey had spoken over five separate times Tuesday morning while awaiting proposed changes to Congress’ Protect College Sports Act.

Petitti even said he’d like to see more SEC-Big Ten matchups similar to Ohio State’s trip to Texas and Oklahoma’s visit to Michigan this season.

But that couldn’t stop the Big Ten from crowing a bit about getting the upper hand the last few years.

As Petitti spoke to reporters, the last three College Football Playoff trophies were to his right, representing the national titles won by Big Ten members Michigan in 2023, Ohio State in 2024 and Indiana in 2025. Petitti noted the Big Ten also has the reigning champions in men’s basketball ( Michigan ) and women’s basketball ( UCLA ).

Illinois coach Bret Bielema, who coached in the SEC at Arkansas from 2013-17, offered the line of the day by saying SEC schools “kind of want to live in 2005 forever.”

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The Salamanca City Central School District's board approved the nearly $60,000 purchase from Realbotix with visions that “Sally,” as the stationary robot with long brown hair has already been nicknamed, would enhance the education of high school students studying robotics and technology fields.

“Having a difficult time programming an Arduino board? Don’t even know what an Arduino board is? Ask Sally and she can explain it,” Superintendent Mark Beehler, said Tuesday. “The robot also provides opportunities for students to learn how the robot is maintained, how it is updated with new approved content, and how to troubleshoot issues.”

But as news spread in the small community located on the Seneca Nation of Indians reservation, parents and teachers worried about how students' personal information would be used. Unionized teachers took aim at Realbotix's sex doll sister company, even as district officials and the company itself stressed the two manufacturers operate independently.

“A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms,” said Melinda Person, president of the labor union New York State United Teachers.

For now, the robot pilot remains on hold as the district works through “enhanced student data privacy agreements” with the state education officials and continues outreach to the community, according to a statement the district posted Friday on its Facebook page.

State officials and teacher voice concerns

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said she remained concerned about the robot’s role in the classroom even after her staff met with district officials.

“Although you confirmed that the robot would not have any role delivering classroom instruction, a recent presentation to the board characterized the robot as a ‘tutoring platform,' ” Rosa wrote in a letter to the district Friday.

She also echoed residents’ concerns about what data privacy and security protections would be in place.

Unionized teachers, meanwhile, suggested the effort was a first step toward replacing, flesh-and-bone educators. “Sally” will be able to move her arms and hands but have nonworking legs.

“Our students don’t need robots," Person said. "They need real relationships with caring adults.”

District officials defend robot purchase

Beehler stressed the pilot, which also includes rollout of a virtual, AI-powered teacher’s assistant and at-home tutoring program, is not about replacing staff.

“There is no possible way a robot can replace a human in a school,” he said Tuesday. “Even if it were possible, it would in no way be in the best interest of students. Teaching is a human-to-human process.”

Beehler, who was connected to Realbotix through a former colleague, said the Las Vegas-based company was a natural fit for because its robots are already programmed with WozEd, a curriculum from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak that the district uses.

Last year, a San Diego charter school rolled out two AI-powered robots purchased from Engineered Arts, a robotics company based in the United Kingdom, for $500,000.

Salamanca Schools, in social media posts, stressed that “Sally” won’t be collecting students’ personal information, recording audio or video of its interactions or sending data back to Realbotix.

The robot also has been programmed to steer clear of inappropriate topics such as sex, violence and gambling, and it won’t be able to search the public internet or draw answers from unvetted generative AI services.

Instead, all information on “Sally” will be stored locally, with the life-sized robot consuming roughly the same amount of energy as a laptop, according to the district.

Robot maker responds to criticism

Realbotix added Tuesday that student authentication would be handled through the district’s existing systems, and any student-linked information would remain encrypted and under the district’s control.

The company also pushed back at suggestions that “Sally” was simply a repurposed sex doll, saying it was a “newly manufactured, purpose-built educational unit” with no modified or repurposed hardware.

The school’s robot comes from Realbotix LLC, which focuses on healthcare, education and other on-adult commercial applications. A sister company, Intima LLC, holds an ownership stake in RealDoll, a longtime maker of sex dolls, including a line of AI-powered models billed as the “world’s most advanced sex robot.”

“Realbotix LLC and Intima LLC have different product offerings with no crossover,” the company said in a statement last week. “The two subsidiaries maintain their own management, personnel, payroll, facilities, manufacturing operations, product development, and market strategies.”

Some residents remain wary

Beehler argued that it is crucial for isolated districts like Salamanca, which is located along the Allegheny River near the Pennsylvania state line, to find new ways to introduce cutting-edge products into classrooms.

“In most cases, our students need to travel 1-2 hours to have opportunities to see emergent technology,” he said Tuesday. “One of the intents of the robot is to help level the playing field and motivate students to continue studying robotics, AI, and STEAM related career pathways.”

Some Salamanca residents, though, remain unconvinced.

Joplin Ficek, who graduated from Salamanca High School in 2024 and now works at a daycare, said she doesn’t see any reason to have robots or AI take such a prominent role at her alma mater at all.

“They just need to hire more people who are willing to put in the effort for the children,” Ficek said. “They need more interaction with the children than having some robot raise our kids.”

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Shanahan crashed into a 21-year-old woman driving in the other direction in Palo Alto on July 14 and was left with a concussion, broken ribs, a broken nose and broken left hand and stitches for a large cut above his right eye. Shanahan was briefly hospitalized following the crash and hasn't been able to coach the team at the start of training camp. The other driver suffered minor injuries and did not need to be hospitalized.

Shanahan spoke to a small group of reporters on Tuesday for the first time since the crash to explain what happened from his vantage point and to make clear the crash was his fault.

“I was going 20 miles an hour,” Shanahan said. “I was not on my phone, but I dropped my phone, and it was stuck in my seats. It was on my lap, and it slid off, and I went down to look for it, and took my eyes off the road for two seconds, and as I was coming up, the air bags hit me in my face.”

Police filed no charges in the crash.

Shanahan has been unable to run the team or practice since training camp started on Saturday with assistant Chris Foerster in charge with assistance from coordinators Raheem Morris, Klay Kubiak and Brant Boyer.

Shanahan has come out for portions of the first two practices to watch alongside general manager John Lynch. He said he is not bothered by the sunlight but loud noises like the music at practice are still an issue.

Shanahan said he has made considerable progress and expects to make a full recovery. The 49ers have said that Shanahan is going through a similar protocol to the one used for players after a concussion and will resume coaching when he is recovered.

Shanahan is entering his 10th season as 49ers coach and is one of the most highly regarded coaches in the game for his offensive acumen. San Francisco has made two trips to the Super Bowl under his watch following the 2019 and 2023 seasons and made two additional appearances in the NFC title game in the 2021 and ’22 seasons.

Shanahan has a 91-72 record in the regular season and playoffs for the 49ers, ranking third in franchise history in wins behind George Seifert (108) and Bill Walsh (102).

The team overcame significant injuries last season to finish 12-5 in the regular season and win a playoff game as Shanahan finished fifth in voting for the AP NFL Coach of the Year.

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The lawsuit claims that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered an indefinite suspension of federal-sector class complaints pending before the agency's administrative judges, who handle discrimination complaints from federal workers in a process that is different than for private sector workers.

The two women, who are correctional officers at a Louisiana federal prison, have a pending certified class complaint against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, claiming that prison management failed to prevent and correct widespread sexual harassment by inmates against female workers, including rape threats, unwanted touching and nudity. The women, Deanna Chelette and Alexzandria Boyd, were joined in their lawsuit by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal workers.

It is not clear why the EEOC gave the suspension directive, which the agency had not publicly disclosed, or how many other cases are affected. The EEOC referred all questions to the Department of Justice, which declined to comment.

Under President Donald Trump, the EEOC has drastically overhauled its civil rights enforcement priorities, including prioritizing cases aimed at stamping out diversity and inclusion policies, dropping cases on behalf of transgender workers and abandoning longstanding tools for investigating systemic discrimination. The changes have prompted several lawsuits against EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, who says she is pursuing an “even-handed” and “colorblind” vision of workplace civil rights.

But it's not apparent how the order to suspend federal-sector class claims fits into the EEOC's new priorities. In the court filing, attorneys for the plaintiffs said the EEOC had provided “no reasoned explanation for a blanket policy that halts an entire category of discrimination cases.” The lawsuit seeks to have the suspension directive vacated.

“Without an explanation, it's hard to infer what the EEOC’s intentions behind this were, but it’s hard to ignore that this is part of a broader campaign at the EEOC to undermine the ability of employees to protect rights that Congress has provided to them under the civil rights laws,” said Joseph Sellers, co-chair of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll’s civil rights and employment practice and one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs.

The pending class complaint claimed that management at Louisiana's Federal Correctional Complex at Pollock failed to stop inmates from subjecting female workers to sexual harassment. The complaint included declarations from eight other women who also described the harassment and management's response, and estimated that the class complaint would include least 182 women. The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not respond to requests for comment.

According the lawsuit against the EEOC, Administrative Judge Erania Ebron had certified the class in March 2025. But in December, Ebron issued a notice that case had been paused until further notice.

Attorneys in the case argued that the suspension violates the EEOC's own regulations governing complaints filed by federal workers requiring the agency to handle complaints promptly.

The lawsuit said that during the seven months the case has been halted, Chelette, Boyd and other women “have been subjected to, or are at risk of, ongoing and escalating sexual harassment that continues to go unremedied. They have no information about when, if ever, their case will continue.”

“Management is just sort of emboldened and taking even less corrective action, sending the message to the inmates that you can sexually harass and abuse these female staff and get away with it because we’re not going to do anything to do you,” said Heidi Burakiewicz, an attorney for the plaintiffs and founding partner at Burakiewicz & DePriest.

While it remains unclear how many cases the EEOC has paused, the attorneys who filed the lawsuit said they are representing federal workers in at least five other class complaints that are stalled, including cases against the FBI and the Department of Defense.

While the plaintiffs have the legal right to opt out of the EEOC process and bring their case to federal court, attorney said it would require them to essentially build their case anew, including securing class status from scratch in a process that could take years.

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Big Ten commissioner Tony Pettiti said Tuesday at his conference's football media days that he was waiting to review the new language in the Protect College Sports Act, and the hope is that the new version of the bill “provides a lot more help than not.”

Among the key changes would be up to $25 million devoted to a “retention” pool that would allow schools to pay athletes already on their rosters to stay. That would be in addition to the $21.3 million schools are allowed to spend this season. Some $5 million of the new money would be devoted to women's sports.

“That’s all very specific language that has to work together with the (House) settlement, so we need to see the language on all of that,” Pettiti said.

The House settlement, which dictates the terms of revenue sharing, calls for 22% of certain revenues to be shared with the athletes. The retention pool figures to drastically change that math. Also uncertain is how it would impact name, image and likeness compensation from third parties, which allows schools to blow past the cap and many agree is the reason costs of assembling football and basketball rosters are spiraling out of control.

Jeffrey Kessler, the plaintiffs' attorney in the House case, told The Associated Press: “I would have to see the specific provisions of the entire bill to evaluate any issues with the settlement.”

An outline of the changes made to the bill, a copy of which the AP obtained, also included changes the conferences sought over Olympic and women's sports; avoiding creation of so-called super leagues; and making sure conferences won't be required to participate in a media rights pooling arrangement the bill would allow.

Two other key points the conferences seek are refined language about limiting lawsuits over eligibility issues and preempting state statutes that guide NIL payments in favor of one uniform national law.

In speaking about the ramifications of the bill, Tennessee athletic director Danny White told AP this week that the best way to deal with the lawsuit issues is to let players collectively bargain.

“Even if they do act, there’s still a lot of issues that they won’t address and they probably can’t address legally,” White said.

There have been conflicting reports about how likely the bill is to reach the Senate floor, where it will need 60 votes to pass and move on to the House. Last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said it was unlikely the bill would reach a vote before the Senate's begins its recess Aug. 7.

The recent action might have changed the calendar.

“There’s a long list of areas where we’d like to see some improvements, but like the commissioner said, we also recognize that we’re not going to get everything that we’d like," said Josh Whitman, the athletic director at Illinois who was chair of the NCAA board of directors through June. "And so ultimately, we’d like to see something put together in a package where the benefits outweigh some of the potential negatives.”

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It happened along Northwest 23rd Street near 44th Avenue in Lauderhill just after 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Video footage shows the crooks, covering their faces with masks and hoodies, breaking into more than a dozen vehicles.

The criminals did not appear to be fazed by lights, cameras or residents still inside their homes.

One of the victims was registered nurse Marry Gooding, who had her work bag, cash and personal information taken, and will also have to foot the bill to have her car repaired following the break-in.

“I am getting quotes this morning from $450 to $500,” she said. “In my wallet I had a $800 dollar gift card from Costco. My debit card, my two credit cards.”

Gooding was just one of several neighbors who woke up to find their surveillance cameras also captured the thieves rummaging through their property.

“It’s like your life is stripped from you because everything is in your wallet,” she said.

The Lauderhill Police Department said it is investigating several car break-ins in the area and are reviewing surveillance video.

Anyone with information that may help police is urged to contact Lauderhill police or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

Ill-timed injuries to Daniel Jones, Patrick Mahomes and Bo Nix left their teams in the lurch. Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels and Lamar Jackson had trouble staying healthy. Others once targeted and trained as franchise players were either sidetracked or discarded, as J.J. McCarthy, Kyler Murray, Michael Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa found themselves on insecure ground.

Training camps always present a fresh start. Jones, Mahomes and Nix have been cleared for full activity, stabilizing or energizing the huddle in Indianapolis, Kansas City and Denver. Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore are plenty happy to turn anew to Burrow, Daniels and Jackson. Murray (Minnesota) and Tagovailoa (Atlanta) flew to new places for welcomed scenery changes.

After all 32 reset buttons have been pushed, though, a handful of teams have reported with varying levels of intrigue and scrutiny surrounding the most important position on the field. Here's a closer look at the camps where there's either a legitimate competition for the season-opening starter or a measure of uncertainty:

The Browns, naturally, are auditioning QBs once again

Since Cleveland got its NFL team back in 1999, the Browns have made the playoffs just three times — and won only one postseason game. There's no arguing the connection to the perpetually shuffling depth chart at quarterback, with 42 different starters over those first 27 years.

The latest was Shedeur Sanders, who fell to the Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 draft after they'd selected Dillon Gabriel in the third round. Sanders is now competing for the job with Deshaun Watson, the fallen star whose health problems and off-the-field trouble have limited him to just 19 games over the last five seasons. Watson last played on Oct. 20, 2024, before an Achilles tendon rupture and reinjury kept him sidelined in 2025. Rookie head coach Todd Monken had hoped to name a starter by the start of training camp, but the competition will last at least a few more weeks.

Falcons bring Tagovailoa into the fold with Penix recovering from knee surgery

Atlanta had a hot seat on the offseason quarterback carousel, cutting Kirk Cousins to clear salary cap space after two unfulfilling seasons and signing Tua Tagovailoa after Miami dumped him and ate a record $99 million in dead money against the cap. Cousins' status immediately got complicated when the Falcons drafted Penix eighth overall in 2024, and the situation grew murkier yet last year when Penix tore the ACL in his left knee.

Penix had not yet been cleared for full-team work when the Falcons were last on the field at minicamp, so health and experience make Tagovailoa the front-runner for the job, though new head coach Kevin Stefanski has publicly declared this an open competition.

Murray lands in a favorable spot with the Vikings after McCarthy's rocky debut

J.J. McCarthy struggled with consistency and injuries that further hindered his opportunities to learn and improve in his debut with the Vikings last season, so the club reopened the search this year and found Murray available for the veteran minimum salary.

The Vikings have not given up on McCarthy, the 10th overall pick in the 2024 draft, and they'll split turns with the first team offense at least for the early stage of training camp. But if Murray is healthy, after spraining his foot last season and missing time between 2022-23 to recover from knee surgery, he's the clear favorite.

Willis gets big money from the Dolphins for his potential

The Dolphins didn't give $45 million guaranteed to Malik Willis for him to take turns. Their new leadership from Green Bay — general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley — became enamored with the 27-year-old over his two seasons as backup for the Packers.

With only three starts over the last three years, plus three more as a rookie with Tennessee in 2022, however, Willis is unquestionably unproven. Quinn Ewers took over for a struggling Tagovailoa and made three starts late last season, and the 2025 seventh-round draft pick performed well during spring practice sessions to present a potential alternative should the Dolphins need to consider one.

Cardinals give Brissett a pay bump and a public backing for the job

After moving on from Murray, the Cardinals landed on this short list of quarterback uncertainty — until satisfying veteran front-runner Jacoby Brissett with a new contract and formalizing his place atop the depth chart on Sunday. Fellow journeyman Gardner Minshew and third-round draft pick Carson Beck are waiting behind him in case a significant injury or costly interceptions were to give new head coach Mike LaFleur pause at some point this season.

Brissett, who's in his 11th year in the NFL, started 12 games last season after Murray's injury. He passed for a career-high 3,366 yards, but Arizona finished 3-14. After switching teams five times in five years, Brissett has stayed put for the first time since a four-season stint with Indianapolis. He was the starter for the Colts in 2017 and 2019. Minshew, who's on his sixth team in eight years in the league, was the primary starter for the Colts in 2023 after replacing then-rookie Anthony Richardson.

Raiders soft launch the Mendoza era with the comfort of Cousins

The best long-term outlook of the group clearly belongs to Las Vegas after taking Heisman Trophy and national championship winner Fernando Mendoza with the first pick in the draft. The Raiders under new head coach Klint Kubiak also brought in a sturdy bridge to that bright future by signing Cousins to help ease the rookie in.

Cousins is on top of the depth chart to start camp and the favorite to lead the Las Vegas offense in the opener, which would stop a streak of six straight quarterbacks drafted No. 1 overall starting their season opener — following Cam Ward, Caleb Williams, Bryce Young, Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow and Murray. Baker Mayfield in 2018 with the Browns was the last quarterback who didn’t start his first game as the first overall pick.

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The states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho — all have Republican governors who say they welcome the chance to help America reclaim its leadership in civilian nuclear energy.

If built, the storage sites would represent significant progress in a multi-decade effort to store more than 95,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. Plans for a permanent underground storage facility at Nevada's Yucca Mountain have long been stalled because of staunch opposition from most residents and officials.

Spent fuel is currently stored at nuclear plants and former nuclear sites nationwide and is piling up. New storage sites would move the radioactive material away from population centers, fault lines and flood plains. Experts say the plan also should help officials gain consent from communities that will host the repositories.

Under the non-binding agreements, the states could host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses that would include waste sites as well as uranium enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing and fuel fabrication. The campuses may also host advanced reactor deployment, power generation and data centers, the Energy Department said.

Nuclear campuses could boost state economies

The campuses have the potential to attract up to $50 billion in private investment and generate as much as $10 billion in state and local tax revenues, the Energy Department said in a statement. Eligible projects could access federal loans worth billions of dollars, the department said.

“These campuses will be massive generators of economic growth ... and be crucial to unleashing America’s nuclear renaissance,'' Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement. He called the proposed campuses an “innovative concept” that will "get America’s nuclear industry growing again.''

Tennessee is home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which enriched uranium during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, while Idaho hosts the Idaho National Laboratory, a key research site for nuclear energy and national security. Utah was a source of raw uranium for the Manhattan Project and a training site for crews that dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.

“As the global epicenter of nuclear energy, Tennessee is honored to be selected as a potential host for a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus,” said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. "As our state answered the call during the Manhattan Project and helped shape the course of history, Tennessee stands ready once again to advance the safe, reliable energy solutions our nation depends on.”

Solution for storing waste needed to expand nuclear power

The announcement comes as President Donald Trump attempts to quadruple domestic nuclear energy production because of surging electricity demand due to a data center and artificial intelligence boom. Trump also has moved to reshape the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission to speed up nuclear reactor development. Under Trump’s direction, the commission has proposed eliminating a foundational safety principle that for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to.

The NRC proposal would abandon a philosophy to keep radiation exposure “as low as reasonably achievable,” instead setting a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure that includes several actions facilities must take depending on the potential dose of radiation to workers.

California Rep. Mike Levin said the nuclear fuel announcement was a long time coming and required bipartisan collaboration to fix difficult nuclear waste challenges. Levin, a Democrat, has pushed to allocate funding to safely remove and dispose of spent nuclear fuel from decommissioned nuclear plants, including the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California.

“Today’s selection of states is a monumental step in the right direction,” Levin said in a statement. “For the first time in decades, states are raising their hands” to accept nuclear waste.

Scott Roecker, a former official at the National Nuclear Security Administration who now advises the Nuclear Scaling Initiative, a pro-nuclear group, said the campuses are a good idea, though he cautions that spent nuclear fuel should not be reprocessed there to be recycled for new fuel because of the cost and security issues.

“Getting a community to accept a long-term repository for nuclear waste has been a big challenge in the United States politically. It’s been a hard pill to swallow for certain communities,” he said in a recent interview. “The fact that they’re talking about sort of the whole fuel cycle at these centers is a positive thing. Basically, you’re getting the consent of that community for that long-term repository.”

Congress now must work to authorize the campuses and establish clear oversight, Levin said.

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Miramar police officers arrested Monay Durosier shortly after 6:40 p.m. on Monday during a traffic stop on Miramar Parkway, according to a police report.

Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Lynch had issued a warrant for Durosier’s arrest on July 24, according to court records.

A Broward Sheriff’s Office detective requested the warrant after the alleged attack on July 12 at the victim’s apartment, according to court records.

The victim reported Durosier, of Miami Gardens, and three other women “armed themselves with cooking pots and ... struck her in the back of the head,” a BSO detective wrote, according to the warrant.

Durosier faced a charge of burglary with assault or battery, a first-degree felony. Her bond was $20,000.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

Agentes de la Policía de Miramar arrestaron a Monay Durosier poco después de las 6:40 p.m. del lunes durante una parada de tránsito en Miramar Parkway, según un informe policial.

El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Broward, Michael Lynch, emitió una orden de arresto contra Durosier el 24 de julio, de acuerdo con registros judiciales.

Un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) solicitó la orden tras el presunto ataque ocurrido el 12 de julio en el apartamento de la víctima, según los registros judiciales.

La víctima denunció que Durosier, residente de Miami Gardens, y otras tres mujeres “se armaron con ollas de cocina y la golpearon en la parte posterior de la cabeza”, escribió un detective de la BSO, de acuerdo con la orden de arresto.

Durosier enfrenta un cargo de allanamiento de morada con agresión o agresión física, un delito grave de primer grado. Su fianza fue fijada en 20,000 dólares.

El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

The future Hall of Fame quarterback's status beyond 2026 is seemingly one of the few certainties for the Pittsburgh Steelers, where the only thing familiar about their annual pilgrimage to Saint Vincent College for training camp might be the venue.

Having a new head coach for the first time in a generation will do that.

While native son Mike McCarthy's Pittsburgh roots run deep, he also brings a career full of experiences built coaching elsewhere to a franchise that has done certain things a certain way for a long, long time.

Times are changing. Right from the jump.

The quaint spectacle of players being swarmed by cameras and microphones as they lugged their bags and personal items into Rooney Hall is no more. Most of the roster arrived quietly late Monday. Nearly all of them were on the field for a post-breakfast conditioning test on Tuesday, a glorified jog that was typically done in the late afternoon during former coach Mike Tomlin's 19-year run.

No wonder linebacker T.J. Watt likened the beginning of his 10th year in the NFL to the first day of school.

“There’s just a lot of unknown,” he said.

The next three weeks in the western Pennsylvania hills are a feeling-out process of sorts for players and coaches alike. Watt insists he is embracing the new.

Good thing, because there's plenty to go around.

The afternoon practices in the midsummer heat that Tomlin leaned into, often clad in black sweatpants and a sweatshirt, will now be held earlier in the day. Team meetings will start at 7:30 a.m., with all practices scheduled to wrap up by 1:30 p.m. at the latest, around the same time Tomlin's practices usually began.

McCarthy said he'd be fine with practicing right after breakfast if he could. And tackling? Well, that's mostly out, too.

“You try to reduce risk," said McCarthy, who said the emphasis will be on trying to make sure players correctly do all the fundamental things required for good tackling form — like footwork — so they'll be ready when the games count.

Still, McCarthy is well aware that trying to prevent all injuries is a fool's errand. If he needed a reminder, he got one when veteran defensive back Jalen Ramsey tweaked a knee during minicamp, a setback that landed him on the physically unable to perform list, though McCarthy stressed the move was precautionary and that Ramsey is expected back in a couple of weeks.

A little more uncertain is the status of cornerback Joey Porter Jr. The club placed him on the PUP list on Tuesday but offered no details. The timing comes with Porter angling for a new contract as he enters the final year of the rookie deal he signed in 2023 after Pittsburgh selected him with the first pick of the second round.

Porter held himself out of certain team drills during minicamp in June in an effort to protect his health, saying at the time that he feels like he's one of the elite players at his position in the league.

While the Steelers have signed Porter's draft classmates tight end Darnell Washington and outside linebacker Nick Herbig to new contracts in recent months, general manager Omar Khan said there is nothing else “imminent.” Asked if he's concerned that the longer it takes to reach an agreement Porter, the more expensive it will get, Khan shrugged.

“It’s just the nature of the beast,” he said. “We understand where we are, and we have communication. We know how the process works. But at the end of the day, we can only go so far with certain negotiations and see where it goes.”

The one person Khan won't have to worry about negotiating with anymore is Rodgers. The four-time MVP said when he signed a one-year deal in May to return to Pittsburgh after leading the Steelers to an AFC North title last season that “this is it.”

Though wide receiver DK Metcalf tried to prop the door open for 2027 when he said he could see Rodgers running it back one more time if he had a great season, his QB quickly shut it.

“I thought last year might be it,” he said. “And then Mike got hired and I talked to the wife, and she said, ‘You can do one more year.’ So we'll see if it works out."

Rodgers likes the symmetry of ending his career with the coach he won a Super Bowl with during his long run in Green Bay. He's also one of the few people in the organization who have a sense of what — and more specifically how — McCarthy plans to build a team, though he pointed out that changes to the collective bargaining agreement that banned two-a-day practices add a bit of an unknown, even for someone who has seen just about everything.

“I’m not sure what the Mike McCarthy training camp practice will be like, but I know that the OTAs were crisp,” he said. “You guys saw them out there. It was crisp. Things were moving fast, in and out of team periods, and I expect more of the same.”

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Deputies took Daniel Delgado, 57, of southwest Miami-Dade, and Luis Alberto Vidal, 55, of Hialeah, into custody on multiple felony charges on Tuesday morning in connection with what authorities describe as a “coordinated scheme.”

According to MDSO, Delgado worked at Amigos Traffic School, while Vidal worked at Millennium Traffic School.

Deputies said they “were suspected of fraudulently issuing qualifying certificates to students at their respective traffic schools.“

During undercover operations, deputies said Delgado “certified that an undercover deputy successfully completed the driving agility test, even though the operative committed several traffic violations that should have resulted in automatic disqualification,” while Vidal certified an undercover deputy who never even took the tests.

“Driver licenses are not something to be bought, fabricated, or fraudulently obtained,” Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said, in part, in an agency news release. “They are earned by demonstrating the knowledge and skills necessary to safely operate a vehicle on our roads. There will be no shortcuts when it comes to the safety of our community.”

Both men face charges of unlawful use or possession of a driver’s license, official misconduct and falsifying public records.

They were each being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Tuesday afternoon: Delgado on a $7,500 bond, Vidal on a $15,000 bond.

Los agentes arrestaron el martes por la mañana a Daniel Delgado, de 57 años, del suroeste de Miami-Dade, y a Luis Alberto Vidal, de 55 años, de Hialeah, quienes enfrentan múltiples cargos por delitos graves en relación con lo que las autoridades describen como un “esquema coordinado”.

Según la MDSO, Delgado trabajaba en Amigos Traffic School, mientras que Vidal trabajaba en Millennium Traffic School.

Los agentes indicaron que ambos “eran sospechosos de emitir fraudulentamente certificados de aprobación a estudiantes en sus respectivas escuelas de manejo”.

Durante operaciones encubiertas, los agentes señalaron que Delgado “certificó que un agente encubierto aprobó con éxito la prueba de maniobrabilidad al volante, aunque el operativo cometió varias infracciones de tránsito que debieron haber resultado en una descalificación automática”, mientras que Vidal certificó a un agente encubierto que ni siquiera presentó las pruebas.

“Las licencias de conducir no son algo que pueda comprarse, fabricarse u obtenerse de manera fraudulenta”, dijo en parte la sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, en un comunicado de la agencia. “Se obtienen al demostrar los conocimientos y habilidades necesarios para operar un vehículo de forma segura en nuestras carreteras. No habrá atajos cuando se trate de la seguridad de nuestra comunidad”.

Ambos hombres enfrentan cargos por uso o posesión ilegal de una licencia de conducir, conducta indebida de un funcionario y falsificación de registros públicos.

Hasta la tarde del martes, ambos permanecían detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight: Delgado con una fianza de 7,500 dólares y Vidal con una fianza de 15,000 dólares.

The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the pachyderms showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days, while the remaining five were found dead, with their carcasses partially consumed by scavengers.

Most of those affected were female elephants and their calves, with only one male among the dead. The deaths happened in the Kimana Sanctuary and Kuku Ranch areas surrounding the park, the authority said.

Kenya has previously recorded incidents of elephants being poisoned as a result of poaching and human-wildlife conflict.

Preliminary tests on samples collected from the elephants by a laboratory at the University of Nairobi detected a “potential toxic substance,” while separate analyses by the Government Chemist were negative for the toxins tested. The authority said further tests are underway.

“Environmental investigations are also being undertaken, including the analysis of water sources and other potential environmental contaminants within the affected areas, to establish whether the elephants were exposed to a common source,” the authority said in a statement.

The authorities sought to reassure the public, saying there was no evidence the condition could be transmitted to humans.

Green will sign the contract that essentially matches the deal he opted out of last month before the Warriors made an unsuccessful bid to sign LeBron James, the person said.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been announced.

ESPN first reported the deal.

Green is now set to play his 15th season with the Warriors and if he plays in 51 games he will join Stephen Curry as the only players in franchise history to appear in at least 1,000 contests.

Green, Curry and coach Steve Kerr are the main remaining pieces of the team from the dynasty that delivered four championships. Golden State last won the title in 2022 and haven’t made it past the second round of the playoffs since then. The Warriors missed the playoffs this past season when they lost to Phoenix in the play-in tournament.

Golden State tried to add James earlier this offseason and Green waited to sign his deal until after James made his decision to sign with Philadelphia to give the Warriors more flexibility. Green, Curry and Jimmy Butler are all entering the final seasons of their current contracts, although Curry could sign an extension starting late next month.

Green has been one of the best defensive players in the NBA since being drafted in the second round in 2012. He has made nine all-defensive teams and was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2016-17.

He has averaged 8.7 points per game in his career, along with 6.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists. He averaged 8.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 68 games last season for Golden State.

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The probes will determine whether the Bethel School District, about an hour south of Seattle, and Denver Public Schools violated a federal law that gives parents the right to opt out of school evaluations on topics including sex behavior or attitudes, the department said.

“Parents must be the decision-makers in matters impacting the most intimate parts of their children’s lives," Frank Miller, director of the Student Privacy Policy Office at the Education Department, said in a statement.

Denver schools spokesman Scott Pribble said in a statement the district put the teacher on administrative leave and completed an investigation after students raised concerns in March 2025. The statement did not specify what prompted students' concerns.

The Board of Education fired the teacher in May, he said.

“The safety, emotional well-being, and dignity of our students are the absolute highest priorities of DPS,” the statement said. “Our actions to date have been wholly consistent with those priorities.”

Bethel School District said in a statement that the vials in a display at Graham-Kapowsin High School in June were not authorized by school administrators and were immediately removed and turned over to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.

Testosterone is prescribed for gender-affirming care. The district added that it will cooperate fully with the Education Department's investigation.

The two districts are in states headed by Democrats. President Donald Trump is a Republican.

The Trump administration has opened dozens of investigations into schools that make accommodations for transgender and LGBTQ+ students, often taking aim at districts that allow students to use bathrooms or locker rooms that align with their gender identities. It accused Denver schools last year of violating Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination over such a bathroom policy.

Trump officials have also pushed against schools accused of keeping information about students’ gender identities confidential from their parents, which the department says is a violation of federal privacy laws.

The Education Department tied the new investigations to National Parents’ Day on Sunday. The agency said it will be announcing “significant actions” involving the enforcement of parental rights laws through the week.

The display at the high school in the Bethel district contained some vials with a “small amount of unknown liquid,” the district said in its statement.

Pierce County Sheriff's Deputy Carly Cappetto said school administrators identified the student who brought the vials to campus. The sheriff's office would test the liquid to determine whether it was testosterone — a controlled substance — if prosecutors made that request, she said.

Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Mary Robnett said she was not aware of the case and would need a case number or suspect's name to see where it stood.

The district said in its statement it is reviewing its protocols for overseeing displays to “ensure all school materials strictly align with our educational standards and community expectations."

“Our primary focus remains on maintaining a safe, respectful, and focused learning environment for all of our students,” it added.

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Judge Carli Kierny found that the interview is admissible in Duane “Keffe D” Davis' trial, which is scheduled to start Aug. 10.

Davis, 63, is charged with murder in Shakur's 1996 killing and faces life in prison without parole if convicted.

Shakur’s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. The case went cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur.

Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued that a 2008 interview Davis gave law enforcement was supposed to be confidential, and that detectives explicitly told him the interview was not supposed to be used against him.

Prosecutors argued there was no basis to exclude the interview from the trial, which is expected to take about four weeks.

The interview was used in former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading’s book “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.” Portions of the recording were also played in documentaries, including the recent documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.”

Shakur was killed Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas. He and Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight were sitting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up beside them near the Las Vegas Strip, and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. Knight survived with minor injuries.

Three others were with Davis in the Cadillac, including his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, but Davis is the only person still alive. None of the others faced charges in Shakur's killing before they died.

In his memoir, Davis said he obtained a handgun from an associate and tossed it into the back seat of the Cadillac but did not say who fired the fatal shots.

In the 2008 interview, Davis describes how he and his crew saw Shakur that night and pulled up beside them, and said that Anderson “popped them.” Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s killing at the time, and died two years later in an unrelated gang shooting in Compton, California.

The Vikings announced the punishment Tuesday as they began training camp. Alexander's suspension began Friday and will be in effect until Aug. 13, two days before their first preseason game at the New York Giants.

“I take full responsibility for the situation I put myself in and apologize for not meeting the mark,” Alexander said in a statement released by the Vikings. “I know it’s unacceptable. I understand the suspension and am committed to learning from the matter and ensuring I come back a better version of myself.”

Alexander, who was also given the title of defensive passing game coordinator, was hired in February to replace Daronte Jones, who became defensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders.

According to Hennepin County court records, Alexander pled guilty July 16 to a gross misdemeanor charge of third degree driving while impaired for refusal to submit to a chemical test. A fourth degree driving while impaired charge was dismissed. He was sentenced to 48 hours of community service, placed on two years of unsupervised probation and fined $603.

Police in Edina, a Minneapolis suburb, were called at 4:01 a.m. on April 26 for a vehicle stopped in the middle of an intersection with the driver unresponsive. An officer observed damage to the car and awoke Alexander by opening the door. His speech was slurred and his balance so poor that the one-leg stand as part of the field sobriety test was stopped to prevent injury, and a preliminary breath test showed an alcohol concentration of .169 on a weak breath, the officer reported, more than twice the legal limit. After being transported to the police station, Alexander refused an official breath test.

Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell said the club had been in contact with the league in the three months since the arrest and initiated the punishment once Alexander's court case was closed.

“Disappointment is the word,” O'Connell said at his regularly scheduled news conference at the start of training camp. “The expectations and the standards we have are clear, and it's important that we do those things for our players and be the examples on and off the field.”

Alexander, who has begun his 10th year of coaching in the NFL, was defensive backs coach last season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also coached defensive backs for the Miami Dolphins for two years while current Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores was the head coach there. Alexander played five seasons in the league as a safety after being drafted in the second round in 2007 by the Detroit Lions.

Commanders tight ends coach Ben Steele was fired Monday in the aftermath of his arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated last month. Steele had just been hired by Washington after spending the previous three seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. He was the assistant offensive line coach for the Vikings in 2021.

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Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conference that the weapon was a 9 mm gun from Polymer80 — a now-defunct company that was once a leading manufacturer of ghost gun parts.

Investigators also recovered two other weapons and 14 shell casings that had been fired by weapons of two different calibers, he said.

The festival shooting killed 3 people and injured 4, including a toddler

The shooting in the waning hours of the three-day Bite of Seattle festival left three people dead, including a 19-year-old gunman, and at least four people injured, including a toddler. Authorities say they believe the violence was gang-related, and they are reviewing any available surveillance video and interviewing victims and witnesses in an effort to identify others who may have been involved.

An eighth person with a possible gunshot wound checked themself into a Seattle hospital after the shooting, but checked out before investigators could conduct an interview, Barnes said. Legal obstacles have prevented detectives from obtaining the patient’s identity, he added. It's unclear if the injury was related to the festival shooting or whether the person might have been involved in it, but Barnes asked for the person to come forward and speak with investigators.

Ghost guns lack serial numbers law enforcement can use to trace them

Ghost guns are privately made — often homemade — firearms that lack serial numbers used to trace them. They have often been purchased without a background check. Law enforcement officials say ghost guns, including those made with 3D printers, have been used in violent crimes across the U.S.

Lawsuits and state-level bans eventually pushed Polymer80 out of business in 2024, and last year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a rule adopted under former President Joe Biden requiring companies to treat gun kits like other firearms by adding serial numbers, running background checks, and verifying that buyers are 21 or older.

The weapon the 15-year-old had been shooting when he surrendered to police was equipped with an extended 33-round magazine, Barnes said. The magazine still had 19 rounds in it.

At the scene Sunday night, police also recovered a 9 mm handgun that they do not believe was used in the shooting.

And on Monday, as food vendors were allowed to return to the area to clean up and collect their equipment, a third weapon was discovered: a Glock 45 model 9 mm with a switch allowing it to fire fully automatically, Barnes said. Police believe that gun was fired during the shooting. It had an extended 40-round magazine, with 21 rounds remaining in it.

Police believe there were at least 3 shooters

In a document filed in juvenile court in Seattle on Monday, police said they believed there were at least three shooters: the 15-year-old, an acquaintance who died at the scene and “at least one other unknown suspect.” Authorities had earlier said they believed there were two.

A judge on Monday ordered the 15-year-old to be held in juvenile detention for investigation of assault and firearms charges pending further hearings. The King County prosecutor's office said it expected to receive the case from police on Wednesday for a charging decision. Hong Tran, a public defender assigned to the teen's case, declined to comment in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday identified the dead as Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44; Ashley Whitehead, 56; and Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19.

Victims remembered as kind, willing to help others and a ‘free spirit’

Villalba was a husband and father of three known for his kindness and willingness to help others, according to a GoFundMe campaign launched Monday to help his family with funeral expenses. He died from a gunshot wound to his torso, while Whitehead died from a gunshot to her pelvis and Semo died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Whitehead had just moved to Washington from Alabama a year ago and was enjoying the festival with one of her adult daughters when she was shot, her cousin Michelle Whitehead told The Associated Press. She was taken to the hospital and died in surgery, she said.

Ashley Whitehead adored her two adult daughters, and also loved nature and arts and crafts, her cousin said.

“I would consider her just a free spirit. She had the best sense of humor, the best gorgeous smile,” she said.

During a vigil Monday night at the center, Michelle Whitehead stood among dozens of others with a sign that said “Whitehead Strong” as the group held a moment of silence and raised up flashlights on their phones to honor those that had been killed. Candles and flowers were arranged around them.

The four wounded included a 2-year-old boy, two men, ages 23 and 27, and a woman, 39, all of whom were discharged, a hospital spokesperson said.

One of the victims was walking a bicycle when struck, the court document said. The toddler was with his mother.

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Rush reported from Portland, Oregon. Associated Press writer Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.

La abogada Lourna Rosembert Joseph, del grupo ILG Immigration Group, indicó que el TPS para haitianos fue otorgado por primera vez en 2010, por lo que muchas personas han construido sus vidas aquí durante los últimos 16 años. Ahora, hay preocupación en la comunidad y desinformación.

“Entonces, ahora mismo es el momento en el que, desafortunadamente, hay muchas estafas ocurriendo, así que, por una parte, no hay que entrar en pánico”, dijo Rosembert Joseph. “Dos, hagan su investigación. Creo que el Estatus de Protección Temporal es algo bueno, pero creo que todos olvidaron la parte de ‘temporal’”.

Dijo que, aunque el TPS ha terminado, algunas personas todavía podrían calificar para otras formas de alivio migratorio.

“Asegúrense de poner todos sus asuntos en orden, y con eso me refiero a sus documentos migratorios y demás”, dijo Rosembert Joseph. “Asegúrense de investigar a quien consulten y entiendan que las redes sociales no son la mejor fuente de noticias”.

Su consejo ahora para las personas afectadas es hablar con un abogado de inmigración y, si aún no lo han hecho, conversar con sus empleadores sobre su estatus laboral.

“Presentarse a trabajar podría no funcionar”, dijo Rosembert Joseph. “Sugiero que hablen con el empleador, averigüen qué puede pasar, pero técnicamente no se supone que estén trabajando ahora mismo. Y estoy de acuerdo, es una situación difícil en la que estar ahora”.

Dijo que antiguos casos de asilo podrían ser relevantes.

“Pueden presentar una moción para reabrir, una moción para reconsiderar o incluso una apelación”, dijo Rosembert Joseph.

Pero indicó que las órdenes de deportación anteriores detenidas por el TPS ahora vuelven a estar vigentes.

“Lo que ocurre ahora es que si son detenidos por ICE o algo por el estilo, tienen una razón para retenerlos, porque técnicamente tenían una orden de deportación de hace 30 años”, dijo Rosembert Joseph. “Antes de resolver ese problema (asilo u otras formas de alivio), tienen que volver y resolver la orden de deportación porque les impide avanzar”.

Rosembert Joseph también dijo que el impacto no solo será sentido por las personas que pierden su estatus. Miles de haitianos han estado trabajando, pagando impuestos y ocupando empleos esenciales en todo el sur de Florida.

“No vamos a poder reemplazar a estas personas”, dijo. “Entonces, ¿qué significa eso, verdad? Si los empleadores no pueden tener a nadie trabajando, entonces tenemos un problema. Creo que esto va a obligar al gobierno a realmente pensar y planificar antes de hacer esto”.

Y aunque hay mucha incertidumbre, dijo que sus clientes no están empacando sus maletas.

“Haití no está en una (posición) ahora mismo para recibir personas con todo lo que está ocurriendo. Apenas tienen un gobierno”, dijo Rosembert Joseph. “Así que nadie está pensando en decir: ‘Sabes qué, simplemente voy a empacar mis maletas y regresar a casa’. Eso no es algo que estén haciendo. Creo que todos simplemente están entrando en pánico”.

ILG Immigration Group está planeando consultas rápidas gratuitas para ayudar a las personas a entender sus derechos y opciones. La empresa tiene previsto publicar información sobre los eventos en sus páginas de Facebook e Instagram.

La Cancillería cubana indicó en un comunicado que “rechaza las declaraciones realizadas el 26 de julio por el presidente electo de Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella Otero, quien anunció que cerrará la Embajada de ese país en La Habana y que su gobierno no tendrá ningún tipo de vínculo con nuestro país”.

“No tiene la más mínima justificación y tampoco responde a los intereses nacionales colombianos, quedaría en evidencia la clara subordinación del próximo gobierno de Colombia a la política de división y confrontación entre nuestras naciones, promovida desde siempre por los Estados Unidos”, agregó.

El conservador De la Espriella, apoyado por el mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump, tomará posesión de su carto el 7 de agosto después de ganar la segunda vuelta presidencial al progresita Iván Cepeda.

El cierre de 14 embajadas —incluidas las de Haití, Barbados, Argelia, Rumania, Cuba, Nicaragua, Senegal y Sudáfrica— y 15 consulados forma parte de un anunciado plan de austeridad y reducción del Estado, explicó De la Espriella.

Sin embargo, aclaró que esto no significará romper relaciones diplomáticas con esos países, a excepción de Cuba y Nicaragua, porque “en mi gobierno no habrá vínculo alguno con tiranías”.

Colombia se suma a los países latinoamericanos con gobiernos conservadores que comenzaron a tomar distancia de Cuba a medida que Estados Unidos impuso un cerco energético contra la isla, agudizando una crisis de un lustro y que busca presionar cambios políticos y económicos en un modelo poco afín a Trump. En marzo, Ecuador rompió relaciones con La Habana. Argentina, por su lado, enfrió sus lazos con la isla aunque sin llegar al cierre de sedes diplomáticas.

“Cuba sabe que esta acción hostil e infundada no representa el sentir del hermano pueblo colombiano, al que hemos apoyado incansablemente durante décadas en la búsqueda de la paz mediante una solución política negociada a su conflicto armado interno”, añadió la Cancillería cubana.

Por cuatro años Cuba fue la sede y formó parte de la mesa negociadora del proceso de paz del gobierno con las rebeldes Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia hasta la firma de un acuerdo en 2016. También medió en el proceso iniciado con el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) mientras este estuvo en marcha.

Isabel Gurvitch, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, is the chief executive officer of MammogramMe, a nonprofit organization with chapters in the U.S. and Europe.

Through a partnership with Adonis, a private healthcare network in Ukraine, the nonprofit fundraises to cover the cost of 30 mammograms per month and support for a breast cancer patient’s treatment.

“We’re helping Tatiana right now. Tatiana is a mother of two and a grandmother. She’s a wife, and unfortunately, she was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer, and right now, what we’re doing is we’re paying for her treatment,” Isabel said. “She’s getting a lumpectomy and then radiation.”

Isabel co-founded the nonprofit in 2023 with Mahika Jassal, a student at the American School of Warsaw in Poland who serves as the nonprofit’s chief financial officer.

“They did it all on their own, completely. And, it continues, and continues, and continues, and I’m beyond proud that they’re doing it,” Isabel’s mother, Anna Gurvitch, said.

The teens’ friendship started when they were 4th-grade classmates in Kyiv and continued despite their separation after Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Anna Gurvitch said she was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine checkup, and her experience helped her to see how women in Ukraine really need both education and resources.

“They don’t want to definitely spend money on their health because they have a lot of places to spend money,” Gurvitch said.

Isabel said she feels the urgency since mammograms are “essential” healthcare.

“There are so many different kinds of breast cancers out there. It’s not just the one that most women expect to feel a lump,” Isabel said. “There’s invasive lobular carcinoma where you don’t even feel a lump until you’re around stage four.”

Isabel, an aspiring gynecologist, asked the public to think about the women they love and how they can inspire them to help support her mission.

“There’s always a woman in your life that you’re afraid to lose, and someone might lose, hurt, just because they can’t afford a mammogram,” Isabel said.

For more information about the nonprofit and how to contribute, visit this page.

La policía indicó que ocurrió alrededor de las 9:30 a.m. mientras el autobús se encontraba en el área de Abbott Avenue e Indian Creek Drive en North Beach.

Según un informe de arresto, la víctima dijo a los agentes que después de subir al autobús vio a un hombre, identificado posteriormente como Demetrius Jerrell Byrd, “gritando y vociferando a otros pasajeros del autobús”.

La policía indicó que el hombre intentó tener una “conversación” con Byrd para “posiblemente calmarlo”, pero en un momento le dijo a Byrd que se “callara”.

“Esto llevó al señor Byrd a sacar de su bolsillo una multiherramienta plateada y abrirla con una de las herramientas que parecía ser una hoja”, escribió un oficial de la policía de Miami Beach en el informe de arresto.

Según el informe, luego caminó hacia el hombre con la hoja y preguntó: “¿Quién quiere morir hoy?”

La policía indicó que encontraron la hoja en el bolsillo de Byrd después de registrarlo y lo arrestaron bajo un cargo de agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Byrd jugó al fútbol americano en el instituto Miami Central antes de incorporarse a los Tigers de la LSU, donde jugó como receptor abierto en las temporadas 2007 y 2008. En 2009 fue seleccionado en el draft por los entonces San Diego Chargers, pero no llegó a jugar con el equipo.

En el atestado de detención figuraba como persona sin hogar.

Fue ingresado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde los registros muestran que permanecía detenido con una fianza de 5,000 dólares y una orden por violencia doméstica hasta la mañana del martes.

The Los Angeles Chargers quarterback and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Madison Beer jointly announced their engagement in an Instagram post Tuesday. It was accompanied by a photo of Herbert on bended knee holding a ring box in front of a smiling Beer, who was crouched with her right hand on his left knee. The caption read, “Meet my fiancé."

The congratulatory responses included ones from the NFL and the Chargers, as well as singer Gracie Abrams.

The couple was first spotted together last August. Beer attended some Chargers games last season, and she and Herbert kissed on the sidelines at one game. They've also turned up at Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers games.

Herbert appeared in Beer's “lovergirl” video this spring.

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh has been supportive of his quarterback's relationship. When Herbert missed part of voluntary offseason workouts to travel with Beer on her tour, Harbaugh said, “Do you need a ride to the airport?”

The 28-year-old quarterback opens training camp on Wednesday in the start of his seventh season with the Chargers. The team has yet to win a playoff game during his tenure.

Beer, 27, first gained widespread notice when Justin Bieber shared a video link of her singing “At Last” to his social media followers in 2012. The following year she released her debut single and video, which featured an appearance by Bieber. She was nominated for Grammys in 2024 and 2025, when she left the show after walking the red carpet, later explaining that she has “really bad social anxiety.”

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The parties reached a tentative settlement in February as the case was headed to trial, but they were unable to finalize the agreement. The Steiners asked a federal judge in June to reopen the case, and a new settlement announced Tuesday resolves the litigation.

The agreement with David and Ina Steiner, founders of EcommerceBytes, a newsletter covering the e-commerce industry, includes an additional $7 million in charitable donations, including to organizations supporting First Amendment rights. Attorney Christopher Murphy said the resolution sends “a warning that attempts by big business to suppress speech and the press will not be tolerated.”

“This was not only an attack and campaign of harassment against two people; it was also an attack on free speech and freedom of the press," said Murphy, of Massachusetts-based Scalli Murphy Law.

The settlement contains no confidentiality provision, allowing the Steiners to discuss the case publicly. Murphy said his clients insisted on being able to speak openly about what happened to them.

The settlement resolves more than six years of criminal and civil proceedings stemming from the harassment campaign. In their 2021 lawsuit filed in Boston federal court, the Steiners said that the company engaged in a conspiracy to “intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them” in order to “stifle their reporting on eBay.” The Natick residents, who report on the e-commerce industry in their newsletter, said they were subjected to cyberstalking, death threats and in-person surveillance by former eBay workers.

The settlement also requires eBay to issue a public statement addressing the conduct of former executives involved in the case.

When the lawsuit was filed, the company said “the misconduct of these former employees was wrong,” and that it would “do what is fair and appropriate to try to address what the Steiners went through.”

eBay reiterated its apology Tuesday, saying, “What the Steiners were subjected to by former eBay employees in 2019 was wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened.” The company also acknowledged “the unprofessional tone in internal communications” by former CEO Devin Wenig, former Chief Communications Officer Steve Wymer and former Senior Vice President Wendy Jones.

The company said the conduct “is not representative of eBay’s culture” and said it has since changed leadership and strengthened its policies, procedures and ethics training.

In 2020, federal prosecutors charged seven former eBay employees, alleging they carried out a coordinated harassment campaign against the couple after becoming angered by coverage in the couple’s online newsletter. Most of the defendants pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and cyberstalking and were later sentenced to prison terms or home confinement.

In 2024, eBay Inc. agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty under a deferred prosecution agreement with federal authorities.

Federal prosecutors have said the harassment included anonymous deliveries of items like live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig face mask to the couple’s home. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on them to a neighbor’s home and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car.

Under the settlement, the Steiners will receive $48.7 million in compensation, including $46.15 million from eBay, $2 million from former CEO Wenig, $500,000 from former executive Jones and $50,000 from former executive Wymer.

The company will fund $6 million in charitable contributions to various nonprofit organizations, with Wenig contributing an additional $1 million to a charity dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights in Ina Steiner's name.

In a statement, Murphy cited the recovery amount, personal payments by former executives, a commitment for $7 million to go to nonprofits and the absence of a confidentiality provision in a system where “wrongdoers too often hide their misdeeds by dangling compensation in front of those they victimized and trading that compensation for confidentiality or an NDA.”

Protecting journalists and publishers and deterring corporate misconduct were goals from the beginning, he said. "We believe this resolution sends a clear message that corporations and their executives cannot engage in this type of misconduct without facing significant consequences," Murphy said.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a May ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols that said an injunction against the order was premature. Nichols ruled that the Democrats and voting rights groups who challenged the order couldn't seek the injunction until the Trump administration issued formal regulations governing it. The administration started releasing those directives days later.

The circuit court panel, with two judges appointed by former Democratic President Barack Obama and one by Trump, found that was proper and there were no noted dissents. But the unsigned decision noted that if the administration truly tried to force such changes in the few months remaining before November's midterm election, it may well get halted by courts.

"The action the Order contemplates would involve the President, whom the Constitution vests with no express authority over the conduct of elections, undertaking a substantial and unfunded overhaul of election procedures — including the implementation of a nationwide reform to Postal Service mail-handling processes —on the threshold of the November election. Put differently, the Order 'may not prove feasible to implement in any manner whatsoever,'" said the ruling, quoting a prior legal opinion.

In a separate case filed by Democratic state officials, a federal judge in Massachusetts last month blocked the executive order from taking effect for this year’s elections because it was already forcing states, which are granted the power under the U.S. Constitution to control their own elections, to revise their procedures on the fly. That ruling was upheld on Saturday by a Boston-based appeals court and then was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday by the Trump administration.

The Postal Service did not immediately respond to questions about what action it's taking related to Trump's executive order. But the union representing postal workers, which opposes having its members implement the order, said Tuesday that its members are being directed to prepare an online portal through which voters will have to submit information to be eligible for mail ballots.

“The IT people in the background are moving forward with creating the portals to make sure that we can accomplish the task if given to us,” American Postal Workers Union President Jonathan Smith said in a telephone interview.

Trump has repeatedly tried to unilaterally change voting procedures since he took office for the second time, only to be blocked by the courts. The push follows years of lies about vote fraud to try to explain away the president's loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.

In his March executive order, Trump directed the federal government to create a list of eligible voters and the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots only to those on that list. Lawsuits noted that the Constitution grants states control of their elections, not the president, and that Congress can pass laws changing procedures for federal elections but has not done so.

Trump signed another executive order on elections last year, just months after taking office, that would impose a nationwide voter ID requirement and force anyone registering to vote to provide documents proving they are U.S. citizens. Trump also is pushing Congress to pass a sweeping voting bill that would impose the documentary proof of citizenship requirement, but it has stalled in the Senate as it faces opposition from Democrats and some lawmakers from his own party.

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Associated Press writer John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, contributed to this report.

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Police said it happened at around 9:30 a.m. while the bus was in the area of Abbott Avenue and Indian Creek Drive on North Beach.

According to an arrest report, the victim told officers that after he got on the bus, he saw a man, later identified as Demetrius Byrd, “screaming and yelling at other passengers on the bus.”

Police said the man tried to have a “conversation” with Byrd, 40, in an attempt “to possibly calm him down,” but at one point told Byrd to “shut up.”

“This led Mr. Byrd to take out a silver multi-tool from his pocket and open it to one of the tools that appeared to be a blade,” a Miami Beach police officer wrote in the arrest report.

According to the report, he then walked toward the man with the blade and asked, “Who wants to die today?”

Police said they found the blade in Byrd’s pocket after patting him down and arrested him on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Byrd played football at Miami Central High School before joining the LSU Tigers, playing at wide receive for the program in 2007 and 2008. He was drafted by the then-San Diego Chargers in 2009, but did not play for the team.

He was listed in the arrest report as homeless.

He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where records show he was being held on a $5,000 bond and a domestic violence warrant as of late Tuesday morning.

The Eagles and Carter announced that they agreed to terms on a four-year extension through the 2031 season. The person, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because financial terms hadn’t been announced, said the contract includes $106 million guaranteed.

The Eagles already had picked up the fifth-year option for the 2027 season for Carter, the ninth selection in the 2023 draft. His extension is one less distraction for the Eagles as they open training camp this week.

Carter was runner-up for the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year award in 2023 to Houston Texans defensive end Will Anderson. He has 13 1/2 sacks in 43 career games — he missed three games last season with injuries — and was a key contributor when the Eagles won the Super Bowl for the 2024 season.

The 25-year-old Carter won two national championships in college at Georgia, where he was involved in a crash that killed a teammate and a recruiting staffer. He was given probation and a fine.

He also was fined the equivalent of his game check for Week 1 for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott in 2025. He was tossed for unsportsmanlike conduct six seconds into that game.

Carter earned Pro Bowl selections for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.

The Eagles have now re-signed two of their top young defensive tackles this offseason.

They agreed in March on a three-year extension with Jordan Davis for $65 million guaranteed.

Davis, a first-round pick in 2022, has been an integral part of Philadelphia’s defensive line and helped the Eagles dominate the Chiefs in Super Bowl 59 to cap the 2024 season. A run-stuffer in the interior of the defensive line, Davis had a career-high 4 1/2 sacks last season with nine tackles for loss and six quarterback hits.

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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida, contributed to this report.

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Solly Fulp, ​Learfield’s head of NIL, doesn’t think the rapid surge is a coincidence.

“What we’re discovering with female student-athletes and their engagement with our brands is they’re excellent content creators and storytellers, they’re generally social media savvy and they have a genuine brand enthusiasm,” Fulp said.

Since the NCAA approved NIL compensation in July 2021, high revenue-generating sports like football and basketball have topped the list of earners. Five years later, women’s sports are beginning to close the gap, with women’s basketball ranking third in all sports and softball creeping into the top five behind baseball.

“It’s not just an emerging market now — it’s accelerating," Fulp said. “It's awesome for us to see when it comes to not just the focus being on football, men’s basketball and the revenue sports, but seeing the Olympic sports really step front and center.”

Female athlete engagement in NIL activities more than doubled in 2026, growing from 2,136 to 4,772.

Brands most frequently partnered with athletes through production shoots, social media content, ambassador programs, public appearances and autograph sessions. Restaurants led all sponsor categories, followed by financial services, health care and business and professional services.

Twenty-two national brands struck deals with college athletes over the fiscal year, including Geico, SeatGeek, State Farm, EA Sports, Uber, AT&T and Marriott. More than 260 athletes across 69 schools were featured in national campaigns.

Fulp said the return on investment is high for all parties when athletes pursue deals catered to their specific passions and interests.

“The authenticity is coming out in the content and storytelling that they provide in these campaigns ... it humanizes the partnership and provides that deeper connection," Fulp said. "The brands are definitely seeing the benefits with the engagement rates related to those campaigns.”

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“Se optó primero por la comunicación más que la demanda”, dijo Sheinbaum en su conferencia matutina al ser consultada sobre el caso, pero aclaró que de ser necesario podría evaluarse nuevamente la vía de la demanda.

La mandataria explicó que como parte de los diálogos se busca que a través de las cancillerías de México y Estados Unidos se informe sobre cuándo se realizarán los lanzamientos de cohetes y “ciertas reglas” para que los residuos espaciales no lleguen al territorio mexicano. “Hasta ahora nos ha funcionado”, añadió.

SpaceX lanzó el pasado viernes desde sus instalaciones, en el sur de Texas, la nave Starship que despegó exitosamente. Durante la misión liberó 20 satélites Starlink de última generación que se destruyeron.

José Antonio Peña Merino, titular de la Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones de México, informó el martes que durante ese lanzamiento “no hubo ningún residuo en territorio o aguas mexicanas”.

México informó en junio de 2025 que iniciaría un proceso contra SpaceX por la contaminación generada por sus desechos espaciales que cayeron entre mayo y junio de ese año en varios puntos del estado norteño de Tamaulipas, frente a Texas.

El anuncio se realizó tras una denuncia que hizo la ONG local Conservación e Investigación de la Biodiversidad (Conibio Global) sobre la presencia de basura espacial en la Playa Bagdad de la ciudad fronteriza Matamoros y el Río Bravo, que fue ratificada por la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y la Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente que asumieron la evaluación del impacto de esos desechos.

Ante ese reclamo, SpaceX respondió que no existía riesgos para las zonas que están en los alrededores de sus instalaciones en Texas y que las pruebas independientes que realizaron a los materiales del interior de su cohete Starship confirmaron que “no presenta riesgos químicos, biológicos ni toxicológicos”.

En esa oportunidad SpaceX planteó que esperaba trabajar con el gobierno mexicano para la devolución de los escombros lo antes posible.

El 27 de mayo del 2025, SpaceX informó que lanzó su cohete Starship pero la nave espacial perdió el control y se desintegró. Semanas después se reportó la explosión de la nave Starship 36 cuyos restos cayeron en parte en el fronterizo Río Bravo, así como en campos de cultivo y pastoreo de Matamoros.

Monday's decision is the latest setback for states trying to outlaw or regulate fast-growing prediction market platforms.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in Minnesota found that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Kalshi and Polymarket were likely to succeed in their challenge to the law and that letting it take effect would cause “irreparable harm” to the operators.

The law was scheduled to take effect Saturday. It would have made it a crime to create or operate prediction markets or help administer nearly any activity connected to one. The law will remain blocked while the lawsuit proceeds.

Kalshi, Polymarket and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission want the law permanently blocked and argue that federal law gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the type of "event-contract transactions" offered by Kalshi and Polymarket.

States argue that the vast majority of the business on prediction market platforms is sports betting, which they are empowered to regulate, and that is completely different from the commodities and futures contracts that the commission has historically regulated.

In a statement Tuesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said prediction markets are “gambling, plain and simple.”

"And Minnesota has every right to keep predatory gambling out of our communities,” Ellison said.

Ellison said his office disagrees with the court’s decision that the “proper ‘status quo’ to maintain is one that allows predatory gambling apps to proliferate.” But Ellison said the legal issues are complex and that he planned to continue defending the state’s law.

Neal Kumar, Polymarket's chief legal officer, said in a statement that the decision makes clear that prediction markets on commission-registered exchanges “are governed by federal law, not a patchwork of state rules.”

A Kalshi spokesperson, Elisabeth Diana, said in a statement that “states cannot ban things that they don’t have jurisdiction over.”

Menendez's decision follows a declaration in February by Trump's appointee atop the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that the agency “will no longer sit idly by” while states aim to regulate or ban prediction markets and “undermine the agency’s exclusive jurisdiction.”

A tangle of lawsuits is growing, as states try to use their gambling laws to shut down Kalshi, Polymarket and other prediction market operators, declaring them to be unlicensed and illegal gambling operators.

In April alone, the federal government sued Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois, challenging their efforts to regulate prediction market operators, while New York sued Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry.

The American Gaming Association, which represents commercial casinos, estimates states have lost more than $1.2 billion in tax revenue from wagers since prediction markets began offering sports event contracts.

Native American tribal leaders and gambling regulators also contend that betting on things like sporting events, elections and other outcomes is unlawful gambling.

In the meantime, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun a rulemaking process to consider what sorts of event contracts it would consider to be “contrary to the public interest” and bar them from being listed through a prediction market that it regulates.

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El Servicio Secreto confirmó que Marquez Christopher Pinder, de 29 años, es un agente actual asignado al sur de Florida.

“El Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos toma en serio cualquier alegación de conducta criminal que involucre a uno de nuestros empleados.

“Como el Agente a Cargo de la Oficina de Campo de Miami, he sido informado de que una agencia local de cumplimiento de la ley está investigando a uno de nuestros empleados. Estamos cooperando plenamente con la investigación. No puedo comentar sobre detalles de la investigación en curso, sin embargo, puedo decir que el empleado está en licencia administrativa y ha estado así desde el momento en que fuimos notificados.

“El Servicio Secreto se construye sobre la confianza depositada en nosotros por las personas que protegemos y el pueblo estadounidense. Mantenemos a nuestros empleados bajo los más altos estándares. El Servicio Secreto sigue comprometido con la rendición de cuentas, el profesionalismo y la integridad, y cualquier conducta indebida será abordada de manera rápida y apropiada tras la finalización del proceso investigativo y judicial.”

Michael Townsend, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office

La fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, y el jefe de policía de Sweetwater, Sergio Diez, anunciaron los arrestos de Pinder, Jared Lamar James, de 26 años, y Elijah Delano Dyous, de 29 años, durante el fin de semana.

Una orden de arresto establece que una de las víctimas era estudiante de licenciatura en UM cuando asistió a reuniones de un grupo de interés para convertirse en miembro de la fraternidad Kappa Alpha Psi. Debido a que ahora es estudiante de posgrado de Derecho en UM, es miembro del capítulo de ex alumnos, indicaron las autoridades.

Una segunda víctima trabaja actualmente en el Cuerpo de Bomberos de Miami-Dade.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que James fue arrestado el viernes y Pinder fue detenido el domingo. Dyous, de West Park, fue detenido el viernes en el condado de Broward.

Las autoridades indicaron que una investigación descubrió evidencia de presuntos incidentes de novatadas que involucraban golpizas prolongadas y repetidas con bastones y paletas.

Según los investigadores, las novatadas comenzaron el 1 de abril dentro de un apartamento en IDENTITY Miami, ubicado en el 400 de la avenida 107 SW, en Sweetwater, y continuaron el 2 y 3 de abril en el mismo lugar. El 4 de abril, las autoridades dijeron que las novatadas continuaron en una vivienda del área no incorporada del condado Miami-Dade.

Las autoridades informaron que las golpizas fueron llevadas a cabo por los tres sospechosos.

Según una orden de arresto, una de las víctimas identificó a Pinder como el “dean of pledges” y a James como el “vice dean of pledges”.

La orden indica que parte del proceso de iniciación implicaba “getting down”, en el que los aspirantes eran colocados en el “KUT”, siglas de “Knowledge, Understanding, Teaching”.

Según la orden, a las víctimas se les hacían preguntas sobre la historia de la fraternidad y, si respondían incorrectamente, eran obligadas a adoptar una “posición de esfuerzo”, descrita como “una media sentadilla con un brazo extendido hacia el frente”.

Los detectives dijeron que, mientras permanecían en esa posición, las víctimas eran golpeadas en los glúteos con una pala de madera y también eran golpeadas con bastones.

Según la orden, dos víctimas fueron sometidas a horas de estas “sesiones” cada día y se les indicó que avisaran a los sospechosos si sentían que estaban llegando a su “límite físico”, incluso si orinaban sangre o sentían que iban a desmayarse.

Los detectives dijeron que uno de los aspirantes sí orinó sangre durante una pausa para ir al baño, hecho que fue presenciado por otro aspirante, pero después de informar a los sospechosos, le dijeron que era demasiado pronto para que ocurriera algo así.

Según la orden, las golpizas se intensificaron el 4 de abril cuando una de las víctimas sangró a través de su ropa interior y sus pantalones.

Cuando el otro aspirante informó a Pinder sobre las lesiones, todos los miembros de la fraternidad presentes, incluidos varios hombres que no participaron en las golpizas, pero sí realizaron “actos de intimidación”, se molestaron y ordenaron a los dos aspirantes quitarse la ropa y tirarla a la basura, según la orden.

Los detectives dijeron que la salud de una de las víctimas comenzó a deteriorarse después de la golpiza del 4 de abril y empezó a sufrir “vómitos, fiebre y un dolor intenso en los glúteos”.

La orden indica que acudió a un centro de atención de urgencia, pero fue trasladado al Jackson South Medical Center debido a que grandes áreas de sus glúteos se habían vuelto necróticas.

La víctima tuvo que someterse a una cirugía para remover amplias porciones de piel y tejido blando, además de recibir extensos injertos de piel para cubrir las áreas afectadas, según la orden.

“Si la víctima no hubiera recibido la atención médica de emergencia necesaria, sus lesiones habrían provocado insuficiencia renal que habría derivado en la muerte”, señala la orden.

Los detectives dijeron que la segunda víctima también tuvo que buscar atención médica por heridas en los glúteos, aunque negó haber sido sometida a golpes con una pala.

Según la orden, se obtuvo una orden judicial para revisar los expedientes médicos de esa víctima, los cuales revelaron que recibió tratamiento médico intensivo del 6 al 24 de abril e incluso tuvo que ser intubada.

Los detectives dijeron que, pese a sus negativas, sus lesiones eran consistentes con las declaraciones de la primera víctima de que ambos habían sido sometidos a severas golpizas en los glúteos.

Pinder, James y Dyous enfrentan cada uno dos cargos de homicidio involuntario en grado de tentativa con arma mortal, agresión agravada con arma mortal causando gran daño corporal y novatadas con arma mortal.

“Para algunos, las novatadas de fraternidad pueden ser vistas como una tradición que crea un sentido de pertenencia y hermandad, pero desde 2001, las novatadas en Florida han causado la muerte de Chad Meredith, Robert Champion y Andrew Coffey, mientras han dejado a otros gravemente heridos. Este caso, con las víctimas requiriendo hospitalización, proporciona ejemplos claros del peligro de las novatadas”, dijo Fernandez Rundle. “En Florida, las novatadas son abuso y son un delito. Sus víctimas con demasiada frecuencia yacen en sus tumbas y en camas de hospital”.

Los directivos de Kappa Alpha Psi dijeron en un comunicado que mantienen una “política de cero tolerancia contra las novatadas”.

“Las novatadas son ilegales, están estrictamente prohibidas y nunca son un requisito para ser miembro”, señala el comunicado. “Los responsables arrestados no son miembros activos ni están al día con sus obligaciones financieras... No tienen ninguna autoridad para llevar a cabo ningún programa ni autorizar ningún proceso en nuestro nombre”.

Según la policía de Hallandale Beach, la balacera fue reportada poco antes de las 10:40 p.m. del lunes en la cuadra 1000 de Pembroke Road.

Un equipo de Local 10 News se encontraba en la escena, en la cuadra 1000 de Pembroke Road, donde la policía fue vista en un estacionamiento que estaba acordonado con cinta de escena del crimen.

Los agentes centraban su atención en un Honda Civic dentro del estacionamiento que estaba acribillado a balazos. Tres impactos de bala eran visibles en la parte trasera del vehículo y otro impacto se observaba en la puerta del lado del conductor.

Lo que parecía ser un arma de fuego estaba sobre el techo del vehículo.

Según la policía, la víctima y un testigo que también se encontraba en el vehículo llamaron al 911 después de la balacera.

“Al llegar, los agentes localizaron a una víctima adulta masculina que sufría múltiples heridas de bala dentro de un vehículo”, indicó el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach (HBPD) en un comunicado de prensa.

La policía indicó que los agentes y los paramédicos de Rescate de Bomberos de Broward brindaron ayuda a la víctima, pero finalmente murió a causa de sus heridas.

Según la policía, la balacera en realidad ocurrió en la cuadra 600 de Northwest Fourth Court, y la víctima y el testigo luego se fueron en el vehículo, deteniéndose a poca distancia para llamar al 911.

Residentes del área dijeron a Local 10 News que escucharon entre cinco y seis disparos la noche del lunes.

“Tenía el ventilador encendido y estaba a punto de acostarme, así que realmente no estaba segura de lo que estaba pasando”, dijo Genesis Morales. “No quise salir a revisar porque normalmente no lo hago cuando ocurre algo así... Pero la verdad es que no sé. No sé qué pasó. No sé qué está ocurriendo allí. Es un poco inquietante, para ser sincera, porque pude haber estado aquí con mi hija”.

Un hombre que vestía una sudadera azul con capucha fue visto esposado en la escena.

El motivo del tiroteo sigue sin esclarecerse.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el tiroteo se le pide llamar al Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach al 954-457-1400 o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS.

The violence erupted when armed, masked protesters at a sit-in opened fire on police and security personnel deployed to secure polling, the regional government and police said. There were unconfirmed reports that several protesters were killed or wounded, but officials did not immediately confirm any civilian casualties.

Voting in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed in its entirety by both countries, began Monday and is being held in phases through Aug. 10.

The now weeks-old protest encampment has overshadowed the election, with residents reporting low voter turnout in Monday’s first phase, when polling was held for several assembly seats in the city of Mirpur.

At a news conference in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, government spokesman Mohammad Rashid Hanif alleged that the outlawed Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC, sought to derail the elections. He said a “significant number” of Fitna al-Khawarij, the term Islamabad uses for members of the Pakistani Taliban, were also among the protesters.

Later on Tuesday at a news conference in Islamabad, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar and Deputy Interior Minister Talal Chaudhry said the ongoing sit-in was no longer a peaceful protest, alleging that armed militants had joined the demonstrators and posed a threat to public order. They said authorities would soon take action to restore order and ensure conditions for a free, fair and peaceful vote.

The ministers urged residents to stay away from the protest, alleging that some demonstrators were armed with sophisticated weapons and were using them against security forces. They said security forces were responding in self-defense while exercising maximum restraint.

The regional government banned the JAAC recently, citing concerns over public order and security, and arrested dozens of its followers. The group, formed in 2023, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of refugee seats in the assembly on the grounds that the refugees have disproportionate influence. It is notorious for violent protests. The dispute escalated in early June after the region’s Supreme Court ruled the refugee seats are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment.

Hanif, the government spokesman, urged residents to distance themselves from the protesters, alleging that armed militants had infiltrated the demonstrations and were using civilians as shields. He said authorities would continue operations to disperse the protest camps and restore law and order.

Hanif showed what he said was video footage of masked gunmen firing from the roof of a building.

Sitting alongside Hanif, regional deputy Police Chief Irfan Masood Kashfi said armed men involved in the unrest were carrying weapons including Kalashnikov assault rifles and that authorities had received intelligence that snipers were also being used. He said one paramilitary officer was killed and five other security personnel, including a police officer, were wounded. He said security forces exercised restraint and responded only in self-defense.

Kashfi also said authorities arrested an armed suspect in Rawalakot and seized what he described as an assault rifle, alleging the suspect had recently arrived from abroad and received sniper training.

Officials also played video recordings of two detained men who appeared to confess to taking part in the violence. One said he had been paid and instructed to attack troops and police, while the other claimed to belong to an armed faction linked to the JAAC and described firing on security forces with an M-16 rifle.

The group did not immediately respond to the latest allegations.

Beshear made the demand in a letter after McConnell’s office said Monday that the 84-year-old senator had not yet been medically cleared to leave the rehabilitation facility where he has been undergoing physical therapy. The office said he would miss a major Kentucky political event and upcoming Senate votes. McConnell was hospitalized June 14 and disclosed weeks later that it was the result of a fall.

Beshear, who is widely viewed as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, first urged McConnell in early July to release more information about his condition after weeks of public silence. His letter Tuesday marked a significant escalation.

“I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign,” Beshear wrote to McConnell.

Beshear also sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, urging him to investigate McConnell’s condition if the senator does not demonstrate that he is capable of continuing to serve.

McConnell and Thune’s offices did not provide comment on the letter.

McConnell, who led Senate Republicans for nearly two decades, has long guarded his personal life. Since he was hospitalized last month, his office has issued major updates on July 12 and July 27, each accompanied by a single photograph.

But public scrutiny of aging elected officials has intensified after several recent health episodes and deaths in office, including the deaths of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2023 and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier this month, as well as President Joe Biden’s decision not to seek reelection after concerns about his age and health became a dominant political issue.

In the absence of regular public updates from McConnell himself, speculation about his condition has grown online.

“All of this speculation and even this letter could have been avoided with a minimal amount of transparency,” Beshear wrote to Thune.

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Associated Press reporter Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report from Washington.

With the ceremony, Fujimori, a four-time presidential candidate and leader of Peru's largest political party, takes office as the country's ninth president in a decade. The 51-year-old is hoping to stabilize Peru's turbulent politics, reduce crime and boost economic growth.

Over the past decade, only three of Peru’s presidents have been elected by popular vote. The rest have come into office after their predecessors resigned or were removed by congress amid protests or corruption scandals.

Fujimori’s Popular Force party and its main ally, Popular Renovation, will hold half the senate seats once the new legislature is installed, making it harder for opposing legislators to attempt to remove her as president.

An incoming president with a political past and promises for the future

Fujimori centered her campaign around promises to improve security in a nation where extortion rackets have become a significant problem. She has also promised to develop infrastructure by making it easier for government agencies to form partnerships with private investors.

She is the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who led the country in the 1990s and stabilized its economy while defeating terror groups, but was later imprisoned for human rights abuses committed under his rule by the Peruvian military as his government took an authoritarian turn. He was pardoned in December 2023 and died in September the following year.

During her campaign, Keiko Fujimori pledged to fight crime with an “iron fist,” implementing some policies adopted by Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele, and also build a megaprison modeled after the notorious Cecot penitentiary in El Salvador.

To guarantee judges their safety, she has said she will implement reforms to enable them to hide their identities as they oversee criminal trials.

She also said on Tuesday she would reorganize social services to fight malnutrition in rural communities and announced a 15% increase in the nation's minimum wage.

Fujimori said that the nation's military will “temporarily” lead security operations in crime afflicted areas. And she also said she will focus on preparing the South American nation for the latest onset of El Niño, a weather pattern that warms ocean temperatures and often leads to flooding along Peru's coast.

“My goal is not only to administer the state,” Fujimori said. “My main objective is to narrow the enormous social deficit that affects millions of Peruvians.”

Opposition leaders remember those killed in protests

Opposition leaders have asked Fujimori’s incoming government to reverse a series of laws approved by Peru’s last legislature, which critics say weaken efforts to fight organized crime.

The laws eliminate preventive arrests and stop prosecutors from processing political parties involved in corruption under the same statutes as criminal groups. The laws also make it harder for police to confiscate the goods of criminal groups.

Opposition leaders are also asking the incoming government to create a commission to investigate the deaths of 50 civilians during anti-government protests in late 2022 and early 2023 following the removal of former President Pedro Castillo.

During Fujimori’s swearing-in ceremony, some opposition lawmakers protested outside the parliament in Lima, Peru's capital, holding photos of people killed during the protests. Relatives of the dead have said they do not recognize Fujimori as president and that they are protesting her inauguration.

Fujimori will lead a deeply polarized country

Fujimori was widely backed by voters in Peru’s capital and along the Pacific coast, but voters in the highlands, where there is a larger Indigenous population, overwhelmingly supported left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez, an ally of Castillo.

Sanchez challenged the election results, arguing there were irregularities in how votes were counted at Peruvian consulates abroad, but electoral authorities dismissed his complaints.

Despite the political friction, Peru continues to be one of the most stable economies in Latin America. Its central bank has long kept the benchmark interest rate below 5%, and the government is known for a conservative approach toward public spending.

But critics point out a growing gap in living standards between coastal areas and communities in the Andean highlands.

Fujimori's June election victory, along with those of Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia and José Antonio Kast in Chile, underscored South America's shift toward the conservative wing, a stark contrast from the panorama of a few decades ago when left-wing leaders such as Hugo Chávez in Venezuela or the current Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva emerged.

Conservatives have won seven major presidential elections in Latin America in the past few years, most of them since the January 2025 inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, in a winning streak propelled by concerns over crime, immigration and slow economic growth.

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The crash was reported just before midnight in the area of North Flagler Drive and East Sunrise Boulevard as the train was heading south, first responders confirmed.

Victor Carvalho was at a nearby bar and saw the accident.

“As we see the rails coming down, there was a car right behind and it was apparently, I don’t what happened, but she just went over the rails and immediately (I) start hearing the horns and boom, straight away, it just crashed straight onto her on the right side of the vehicle,” he said.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials said the car was dragged by the train to the 400 block of Northeast Flagler Drive.

The husband of the woman who was driving the red car told Local 10 News that the car became lodged underneath the train after the collision.

Surveillance video shows the moments after the train struck the car. You can see sparks flying as the Genesis is dragged down the tracks beneath the Brightline train.

FLFR officials said the woman was able to exit the car by herself and crews found her on the ground next to the vehicle when they arrived.

Carvalho, who just completed CPR, first aid, and firefighting training, raced to the scene to help the victim.

“My adrenaline just immediately kicked in and I knew from the start, of what I was trained from the course has taught me, I went straight to action,” he said. “I jump over the fence, I’m on 911 calling the operator, telling the whole situation. I escorted the lady on the floor as she opened the door herself, making sure she’s OK. I just made sure she sits upright, make sure she looks to the ground, make sure she looks at her feet, make sure she doesn’t go to a level where she’s passing out.”

According to the woman’s husband, she suffered a broken hand and busted lip, but is expected to be OK.

FLFR officials confirmed that the woman was transported to Broward Health Medical Center with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

A hair stylist at a nearby barbershop told Local 10 News that she’s never seen anything like this before.

“The Brightline train is just stopped right in front of me, and the car is just jammed right underneath. Actually, by a miracle, the driver’s seat where the driver was, was the only seat that wasn’t completely smacked by the train,” Madeline Abreu said.

The circumstances leading up to the collision remain under investigation.

Los acusados son el capitán Kevin Price, de 40 años; el primer oficial Rondell Dwayne Roberts, de 42; y el superintendente de carga Delon Granderson, de 33. Comparecieron ante el tribunal el martes por la mañana, pero no se les exigió declarar. No había abogados presentes para ellos.

Las autoridades creen que 179 personas iban a bordo del ferry, que zarpó de la capital, Georgetown, el 18 de julio y se volcó en aguas del Atlántico antes de llegar a su destino, la localidad norteña de Port Kaituma, cerca de Venezuela. Fue el peor desastre marítimo registrado en la nación sudamericana.

El primer ministro Mark Phillips informó al Parlamento a última hora del lunes que, aunque 77 personas fueron rescatadas, una murió recientemente.

Durante su intervención, legisladores de la oposición golpearon los escritorios e increparon a los parlamentarios mientras exigían la renuncia del ministro de Obras, Juan Edghill, y del adjunto Indar Persaud, a quienes responsabilizan del desastre.

El gobierno anunció el domingo la creación de una comisión integrada por cinco expertos internacionales en derecho y en asuntos marítimos, encargada de investigar el hundimiento del MV Barima, de 87 años de antigüedad.

El gobierno ha señalado que el ferry seguía en operación porque continúan los trabajos para construir un muelle en Port Kaituma que permita recibir una nueva embarcación de 12,7 millones de dólares, adquirida de India en los últimos meses para reemplazar al MV Barima.

Algunos sobrevivientes contaron a los reporteros que el ferry tenía filtraciones y estaba excedido de pasajeros y carga. El gobierno ha pedido a la comisión que examine esas denuncias.

El primer ministro manifestó que es probable que la embarcación, que ahora yace a 15 metros bajo el agua, permanezca allí y no sea reflotada.

Una segunda audiencia está prevista para el 3 de agosto en un tribunal de Essequibo, cerca de donde sucedió el hundimiento.

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

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Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested John Almonacid on Saturday in Weston, according to a BSO deputy’s arrest report.

Almonacid got out of his car near Bonaventure and Royal Palm Boulevard, walked up to the teen’s car, and “punched him on the right side of his face with a closed fist,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

The teen had allegedly “honked his horn” and a witness’s video showed him and another teen getting out of the Genesis, “and motioning to Almonacid,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

Almonacid faced a charge of burglary with an assault, a first-degree felony. His bond was $20,000.

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Attorney Lourna Rosembert Joseph, with ILG Immigration Group, said that TPS for Haitians was first granted in 2010, so many people have built their lives here over the last 16 years. Now, there’s concern swirling in the community ― and misinformation.

“So, right now is the time where, unfortunately, there’s a lot of scams going on, so for one, it’s not to panic,” Rosembert Joseph said. “Two, do your research. I think Temporary Protected Status is a good thing, but I think everyone forgot the ‘temporary’ portion of it.”

She said even though TPS has ended, some may still qualify for other forms of immigration relief.

“Make sure you get all your affairs in order ― and what I mean by that is your immigration documents and so forth,” Rosembert Joseph said. “Make sure you research whoever you speak to and understand that social media is not the best source of news.”

Her advice now to those affected is to speak with an immigration attorney and, if they haven’t already, have conversations with their employers about their work status.

“Showing up to work may not work,” Rosembert Joseph said. “I suggest they speak to the employer, find out what can happen, but technically they’re not supposed to be working right now. And I agree, it’s a tough situation to be in right now.”

She said old asylum claims could be relevant.

“You can either file a motion to reopen, a motion to reconsider, or even an appeal,” Rosembert Joseph said.

But she said previous removal orders halted by TPS are now back in play.

“So what happens now is if you get caught up with ICE or anything that way, they have a reason to keep you, because technically you had a removal order 30 years ago,” Rosembert Joseph said. “Before you cure that issue (asylum or other forms of relief), you have to go back and cure the removal order because it stops you from going further.”

Rosembert Joseph also said the impact won’t just be felt by the people losing their status. Thousands of Haitians have been working, paying taxes and filling critical jobs across South Florida.

“We’re not going to be able to replace these individuals,” she said. “So then, what does that do, right? If employers can’t have anyone working, then we have an issue. I think this is going to force the government to really think and strategize before they do this.”

And, while there’s a lot of uncertainty, she said her clients are not packing their bags.

“Haiti is not in a (position) right now to receive individuals with everything that’s going on. They barely have a government,” Rosembert Joseph said. “So no one is looking forward to say, ‘You know what? Let me just pack my bags and go home.’ So that is not anything that they’re doing. I think everyone is just panicking.”

ILG Immigration Group is planning free speed consultations to help people understand their rights and options. The firm plans to post information about the events on its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward arrestaron a John Almonacid el sábado en Weston, según un informe de arresto de un agente de BSO.

Almonacid salió de su vehículo cerca de Bonaventure y Royal Palm Boulevard, caminó hacia el auto del adolescente y “lo golpeó en el lado derecho de la cara con el puño cerrado”, escribió un agente, según el informe de arresto.

El adolescente presuntamente había “tocado la bocina” y el video de un testigo mostró que él y otro adolescente salieron del Genesis, “y le hicieron señas a Almonacid”, escribió un agente, según el informe.

Almonacid enfrentó un cargo de robo con agresión, un delito grave de primer grado. Su fianza era de $20,000 USD.

Colt Gray, 16, had pleaded guilty Friday to 55 counts, including murder, in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school about 45 miles (73 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta.

Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm handed down the sentence after hearing from family members of those killed and victims, as well as investigators, Gray’s grandmother and a forensic psychologist who had evaluated Gray.

Murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison in Georgia, so the only decision Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm had to make was whether Gray should ever be eligible for parole. He decided the teen should never be allowed out.

“You do not seem to be tormented by what you did. You seem to relish following in the footsteps of the murderers you idolize. You aren’t wracked with guilt. You’re proud of yourself," Primm said.

“We’ve seen no evidence he has any ability to develop a conscience or any ability ever to fully value human life,” District Attorney Brad Smith had said during his closing argument, insisting that Gray “cannot be in society.”

Defense attorney W. Charlton Allen told the judge his client was “not irretrievably broken.” Allowing him the possibility of parole would give him “an opportunity of hope," Allen said, adding that a lack of hope “takes away the ability for him to change.”

The victims got the sentence they asked for

“This is not a happy day. This is a relief day, I would say,” Smith told reporters after the sentencing, adding that he hoped his team had “done honor” to the victims and their loved ones.

Teachers Richard “Ricky” Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, died in the shooting. Another teacher and eight more students were wounded, seven of them hit by gunfire.

Victims of the shooting and family members of those killed conveyed their anger and grief to Primm on Friday, almost all of them asking him not to allow the possibility of parole.

Shayna Aspinwall, the wife of math teacher and football coach Richard Aspinwall, described “a life sentence of grief and trauma for those left behind.”

Investigators say Gray aspired to be a mass shooter

Investigators testified during the three-day sentencing hearing that Gray idolized mass shooters, talking about them online with other members of the “true crime community,” a group of young people online who are fascinated with such attacks. Gray had chatted online about gaining notoriety through a school shooting.

Prosecutors played recordings of phone conversations Gray had with his mother, Marcee Gray, from a youth detention center in the months after the shooting. During those calls, he directed his mother to look up what people were saying about him online. He was excited when she described “fan art” drawings depicting him or comments people made about him and the attention he was getting online.

Gray had the “mental wherewithal” to mimic details of other mass killings on the day of the shooting, Smith said. He placed those “Easter eggs,” anticipating that they would be mentioned in court one day and would perpetuate his fame, the prosecutor said.

“The shooting was not the culmination of the plan. The shooting was just one of the steps of the plan. The plan was ultimate and lifelong fame inside of the TCC,” Smith said, referencing the “true crime community.”

Gray's grandmother says he needed help

“Colt got less stability than he needed, which made him even more vulnerable,” Allen, the defense attorney, argued. He said his client got wrapped up in an online community where he found the acceptance he craved but wasn’t getting at home.

Gray’s maternal grandmother, Debbie Polhamus, testified that the teen had a troubled childhood and that his parents failed him. Her grandson had grown “highly agitated and aggressive” in the weeks before the shooting, she said, adding that she had urged his parents to get him some help but they didn’t follow through.

“I tried to help Colt because nobody else was helping him,” she said.

Polhamus said she visits her grandson once a week at a youth detention center and that he has improved enormously with treatment and medication. She said her grandson has been doing a lot of reading and wants to study to get a GED diploma.

“I’d like to see him have a chance at some point to prove himself,” Polhamus said.

Gray was put in foster care while in detention because his father was in prison and there were concerns about his mother's contact with him. Candice Broce, director of the state Division of Family & Children Services and commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Services, managed his case.

Broce testified that Gray appeared to show improvement. After Marcee Gray was barred from speaking with her son by a July 2025 no-contact order and he started taking medication, staff at the youth detention center told Broce it “changed him essentially into a different child,” she said.

The judge acknowledged that Gray had been failed by his parents, his extended family and, to a certain extent, society.

“But that failure does not absolve you from who you chose to idolize, worship and become,” Primm told Gray.

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Deputies arrested Jaden Zabala, 22, and Gian Zabala, 24, on Monday over the attack on July 2, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s report.

“He was picked up by his brother ... to go to what he believed was their father’s residence,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

The victim reported it was an ambush involving his brothers and four other men, according to the MDSO deputy’s arrest report.

“He was immediately struck in the back of the head with an AK-47-style rifle and was then physically attacked by all involved parties ... being repeatedly pistol-whipped,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

The victim said Jaden Zabala stole his cell phone and took him to his home in North Miami Beach, but he refused to open the door, according to the report.

“The group demanded that the victim open the front door so they could search the residence for an item,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Jaden and Gian Zabala on Monday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Gian Zabala faced four charges: Kidnapping involving a weapon, firearm, or aggravated battery; aggravated battery; attempted burglary of an occupied dwelling; and armed robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon.

Jaden Zabala faced three charges: Kidnapping involving a weapon, firearm, or aggravated battery; aggravated battery; and attempted burglary of an occupied dwelling.

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

Los agentes arrestaron a Jaden Zabala, de 22 años, y Gian Zabala, de 24 años, el lunes por el ataque ocurrido el 2 de julio, según un informe de un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

“Su hermano lo recogió... para ir donde él creía era la residencia de su padre”, escribió un agente, según el informe de arresto.

La víctima reportó que fue una emboscada en la que participaron sus hermanos y otros cuatro hombres, según el informe de arresto del agente de MDSO.

“Fue golpeado inmediatamente en la parte posterior de la cabeza con un rifle estilo AK-47 y luego fue atacado físicamente por todas las partes involucradas ... siendo golpeado repetidamente con la culata de un arma”, escribió un agente, según el informe.

La víctima dijo que Jaden Zabala le robó su teléfono celular y lo llevó a su casa en North Miami Beach, pero él se negó a abrir la puerta, según el informe.

“El grupo exigió que la víctima abriera la puerta principal para poder registrar la residencia en busca de un objeto”, escribió un agente, según el informe.

El Departamento de Correcciones de Miami-Dade ingresó a Jaden y Gian Zabala el lunes por la noche en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Gian Zabala enfrentó cuatro cargos: secuestro con arma, arma de fuego o agresión agravada; agresión agravada; intento de robo en una vivienda ocupada; y robo armado con arma de fuego o arma mortal.

Jaden Zabala enfrentó tres cargos: secuestro con arma, arma de fuego o agresión agravada; agresión agravada; e intento de robo en una vivienda ocupada.

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The Secret Service confirmed that Marquez Christopher Pinder, 29, is a current agent assigned to South Florida.

“The United States Secret Service takes seriously any criminal misconduct allegations involving one of our employees.

“As the Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office, I have been informed that a local law enforcement agency is investigating one of our employees. We are fully cooperating with the investigation. I am unable to comment on details about the ongoing investigation however, I can say that the employee is on administrative leave and has been since the moment we were notified.

“The Secret Service is built upon the trust and confidence placed in us by our protectees and the American people. We hold our employees to the highest standards. The Secret Service remains committed to accountability, professionalism, and integrity, and any misconduct will be addressed swiftly and appropriately upon completion of the investigative and judicial process.”

Michael Townsend, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and Sweetwater Police Chief Sergio Diez announced the arrests of Pinder, 26-year-old Jared Lamar James and 29-year-old Elijah Delano Dyous over the weekend.

An arrest warrant states that one of the victims was an undergraduate student at UM when he attended interest group meetings to become a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Because he is now a graduate law student at UM, he is a member of the alumni chapter, authorities said.

A second victim is currently employed by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Online jail records show James was arrested Friday and Pinder was taken into custody on Sunday. Dyous, of West Park, was arrested Friday in Broward County.

Authorities said an investigation uncovered evidence of alleged hazing incidents involving prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles.

According to investigators, the hazing began April 1 inside an apartment unit at IDENTITY Miami, located at 400 SW 107th Ave., in Sweetwater and continued through April 2 and April 3 at the same location. On April 4, authorities said the hazing continued at a home in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.

Authorities said the beatings were carried out by the three suspects.

According to an arrest warrant, one of the victims identified Pinder as the “dean of pledges” and James as the “vice dean of pledges.”

The warrant states that part of the pledging process involved “getting down,” in which they were placed into the “KUT,” which stands for “Knowledge, Understanding, Teaching.”

According to the warrant, the victims were asked questions about the fraternity’s history and if they got an answer wrong, they would be placed in a “stress position,” described as “a half squat with one arm pointed forward.”

Detectives said while they were in that position, the victims would be struck on their buttocks with a paddle, and canes would also be used on the victims.

According to the warrant, two victims were subjected to hours of these “sessions” each day and were told to tell the suspects if they felt they were reaching their “physical limit,” including by urinating blood or feeling like they would pass out.

Detectives said one of the pledges did urinate blood during a bathroom break, which another pledge witnessed, but after informing the suspects, he was told it was too soon for anything like that to occur.

According to the warrant, the beatings intensified on April 4 when one of the victims bled through his underwear and pants.

When the other pledge notified Pinder of the injuries, all present fraternity members -- which included several men who did not participate in the beatings, but engaged in “acts of intimidation” -- became upset and instructed the two pledges to strip their clothing and throw it in the garbage, the warrant stated.

Detectives said the health of one of the victims began deteriorating following the April 4 beating and he began to suffer from “vomiting, fevers and immense pain on his buttocks.”

The warrant states that he went to an urgent care facility, but was transported to Jackson South Medical Center, due to large portions of his buttocks becoming necrotic.

The victim had to get substantial portions of skin and soft tissue surgically removed and receive extensive skin grafts to cover the areas that were removed, the warrant stated.

“Had (the victim) not received necessary emergency medical care, his injuries would have resulted in renal failure leading to death,” the warrant stated.

Detectives said the second victim also had to seek medical care for wounds to his backside, although he denied that he had been subjected to paddling.

According to the warrant, a search warrant was obtained for that victim’s medical records, which revealed that he had extensive medical treatment from April 6 to April 24 and had even been intubated.

Detectives said despite his denials, his injuries were consistent with the statements provided by the first victim that they had both been subjected to severe beatings to their backsides.

Pinder, James and Dyous are each charged with two counts of attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm and hazing with a deadly weapon.

Pinder appeared in bond court Monday, where he was ordered held on a $75,000 bond. If he posts bond, he will be placed on house arrest with a GPS monitor and he is not allowed to have any contact with the victims or his fraternity brothers.

“Among some, fraternity hazing might be seen as a tradition creating a sense of belonging and brotherhood, but since 2001, hazing in Florida has killed Chad Meredith, Robert Champion and Andrew Coffey while seriously injuring others. This case, with the victims requiring hospitalization, provide clear-cut examples of hazing’s danger,” Fernandez Rundle said. “In Florida, hazing is abuse and it is a crime. Its victims too often lie in their graves and in hospital beds.”

Kappa Alpha Psi leadership said in a statement that they maintain a “zero-tolerance policy on hazing.”

“Hazing is illegal, strictly prohibited, and is never a condition of membership,” the statement read. “The arrested perpetrators are not active or financial members …They do not have any authority to conduct any program or authorize any process on our behalf.”

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According to Hallandale Beach police, the shooting was reported just before 10:40 p.m. Monday in the 1000 block of Pembroke Road.

A Local 10 News crew was at the scene as police were spotted in a parking garage that was blocked off with crime scene tape.

Officers were seen focusing their attention on a Honda Civic inside the parking garage that was riddled with bullets. Three distinct bullet holes marked the backside of the car and another bullet was spotted on the driver’s side door.

What appeared to be a gun was sitting on the roof of the vehicle.

According to police, the victim and a witness who was also in the car called 911 after the shooting.

“Upon arrival, officers located an adult male victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside a vehicle,” HBPD said in a news release.

Police said officers and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue medics rendered aid to the victim, but he ultimately died from his injuries.

According to police, the shooting actually occurred in the 600 block of Northwest Fourth Court, and the victim and witness then left in the car, stopping a short distance away to call 911.

Residents in the area told Local 10 News that they heard about five to six gunshots ringing out Monday night.

“I had my fan running, and I was just about to get ready for bed, so I wasn’t really sure (what was happening),” Genesis Morales said. “I didn’t want to go outside and check because I usually don’t when there’s that going on … But yeah, I don’t really know. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what’s going on over there. It’s a little nerve-wracking, to be honest with you, because I could have been here with my daughter.”

A man wearing a blue hoodie was spotted in handcuffs at the scene, but police confirmed that no arrests have been made at this time.

A motive for the shooting remains unclear.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Hallandale Beach Police Department at 954-457-1400 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

And quite frankly, he's not sure he ever will.

“Big losses in tough moments are things you never really get over because they stay with you for the rest of your career,” Freese told The Associated Press ahead of the Major League Soccer All-Star Game coming up Wednesday in Charlotte. “They continue to motivate you for the rest of your career."

Freese made a costly mistake in the loss when he rushed well out of his box to clear a long ball, then hesitated under pressure to kick it away.

Belgium quickly converted the miscue into a goal to take a 3-1 lead in the 57th minute, all but sealing the Americans' fate.

American soccer fans haven't let Freese forget about it.

In his first MLS match since the World Cup last week, the New York City FC goalkeeper was reportedly booed by fans every time he touched the ball during the game in Columbus, Ohio.

“It’s important to not let bad things define you, but I think it's also important not to let good things define you either,” Freese said. “It's important to be a consistent presence with consistent energy.”

Freese is one of four U.S. national team players selected to the MLS All-Star Game.

Another, veteran defender Tim Ream, openly acknowledges he doesn't have a secret formula for what it'll take for the Americans to one day reach the World Cup quarterfinals.

He can only point to the one thing he knows that lends itself to success: hard work.

“You put your head down and do as much as you possibly can," Ream said. "And, at some point you will break through that barrier. It just takes work, more work and more work. ... Before you know it, you're past that."

Ream said he believes better days are ahead despite the loss.

Wing-back Max Arfsten thinks the increased fan attention on the World Cup — with the majority of games played in the United States — will only serve to inspire more athletes in the country to take up the sport.

That, he said, is a good thing.

“The next step for us is to keep growing the sport,” Arfsten said. “The more people that are playing, the better players there will be. The more competitiveness, the more players playing in the top leagues in Europe is important as well. I feel like all of those combined is going to lead to success."

Ream added that when it comes to the World Cup, two things can be true: Players can be disappointed over the way they played and “crashed out” against Belgium, but also excited about what they accomplished in the earlier games.

“You can be proud of how much it galvanized the country, the people around it and the sport — and just how much fun it was,” Ream said.

Freese agrees.

“It’s important for us to be aware of the positive outcomes that happened in the tournament as well as use that to inspire new generations to continue to get better — to get past that round of 16, to get past the quarterfinals and make it to the semis and the finals,” Freese said.

Messi won't play in the All-Star Game

Charlotte is hosting the MLS All-Star Game for the first time at Charlotte FC owner Dave Tepper's Bank of America Stadium, but the league will again be without its biggest star for the showcase event.

Messi, who helped Argentina reach the finals of the World Cup before losing to Spain, is taking advantage of some allotted time off before returning to soccer and Inter Miami CF.

He has been replaced on the roster.

Messi has 12 goals and eight assists this season in MLS play.

Getting a boost from the World Cup

Several players, including Ream, said they have noticed a big boost in fan interest in MLS games and soccer in general since the World Cup.

“We could see it while we were playing in the World Cup, but now it's like I can't leave my house,” Ream said.

He's not complaining.

"Being able to inspire more people to play is obviously secondary to what our job is, which is compete and win games, but it's such a rewarding feeling knowing that so many more people are paying attention to our sport,” Ream said.

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According to an arrest report from the Margate Police Department, the alleged crime happened Friday at Serino Park, located at 5600 SW Eighth Court.

Police said the victim was sleeping on a bench off Southwest Eighth Court and North State Road 7 when she was awakened by a man, later identified as Omar Boatwright, of Margate, who asked her for sex.

The victim told police that she refused, but he kept insisting and told her to accompany him to the nearby park.

According to the report, the victim began walking with Boatwright, but attempted to flee before any sexual contact occurred.

The report states that surveillance video shows Boatwright chasing after the victim and then grabbing her from behind.

According to the report, the victim began screaming and tried to hit Boatwright, but she missed.

He then repeatedly punched her in the head and face and choked her until she lost consciousness, authorities said.

Police said the victim regained consciousness as she was lying in a grassy area of the park as Boatwright was trying to remove her pants.

She told police that he then raped her about four times over the course of about six hours.

According to the report, the victim was able to contact police as she and Boatwright were still at the park, and he was taken into custody.

Police said the victim had bruising to her eyes and red markings to her face and neck area, consistent with her account of being struck and choked.

According to the report, the victim “appeared visibly shaken, nervous and emotionally distressed.”

She was transported to the Sexual Assault Treatment Center where a forensic examination was conducted.

Clothing worn by both the victim and Boatwright were collected for evidence, the report stated.

According to the report, the victim told police that she had never seen Boatwright prior to this encounter, but Boatwright claimed that he knew the victim and had approached her because she owed him about $200.

Police said Boatwright claimed that he had asked the woman for sex and she agreed. He denied striking her, but couldn’t explain how she sustained her injuries, authorities said.

Boatwright was arrested on charges of sexual assault/sexual battery with a weapon or force and battery by strangulation.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Boatwright was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Margate, el presunto delito ocurrió el viernes en Serino Park, ubicado en 5600 SW Eighth Court.

La policía indicó que la víctima estaba durmiendo en una banca cerca de Southwest Eighth Court y North State Road 7 cuando fue despertada por un hombre, identificado posteriormente como Omar Boatwright, de Margate, quien le pidió tener relaciones sexuales.

La víctima dijo a la policía que se negó, pero él siguió insistiendo y le pidió que lo acompañara al parque cercano.

Según el informe, la víctima comenzó a caminar con Boatwright, pero intentó escapar antes de que ocurriera cualquier contacto sexual.

El informe señala que el video de vigilancia muestra a Boatwright persiguiendo a la víctima y luego sujetándola por detrás.

Según el informe, la víctima comenzó a gritar e intentó golpear a Boatwright, pero no lo logró.

Las autoridades indicaron que luego él la golpeó repetidamente en la cabeza y el rostro y la estranguló hasta que perdió el conocimiento.

La policía indicó que la víctima recuperó la conciencia mientras estaba acostada en un área con césped del parque, mientras Boatwright intentaba quitarle los pantalones.

La víctima dijo a la policía que él luego la violó aproximadamente cuatro veces durante unas seis horas.

Según el informe, la víctima pudo contactar a la policía mientras ella y Boatwright todavía estaban en el parque, y él fue detenido.

La policía indicó que la víctima tenía moretones en los ojos y marcas rojas en el rostro y el área del cuello, consistentes con su relato de haber sido golpeada y estrangulada.

Según el informe, la víctima “parecía visiblemente alterada, nerviosa y emocionalmente angustiada”.

Fue trasladada al Centro de Tratamiento de Agresión Sexual, donde se le realizó un examen forense.

El informe indicó que la ropa usada tanto por la víctima como por Boatwright fue recolectada como evidencia.

Según el informe, la víctima dijo a la policía que nunca había visto a Boatwright antes de este encuentro, pero Boatwright afirmó que conocía a la víctima y que se le acercó porque ella le debía alrededor de $200 USD.

La policía indicó que Boatwright afirmó que le pidió tener relaciones sexuales a la mujer y que ella aceptó. Negó haberla golpeado, pero no pudo explicar cómo sufrió sus heridas, informaron las autoridades.

Boatwright fue arrestado bajo cargos de agresión sexual/agresión sexual con arma o por fuerza y agresión por estrangulamiento.

Hasta la tarde del martes, Boatwright permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward sin derecho a fianza.

No se han reportado muertes ni personas desaparecidas a causa del tornado, que el lunes abrió una franja de destrucción a través de la región de Fox Cities, que incluye Appleton, Menasha y Neenah, a unos 160 kilómetros (100 millas) al noroeste de Milwaukee. Las autoridades no han dicho cuántas personas resultaron heridas, aunque al menos un testigo describió haber visto a alguien siendo sacado de un edificio destruido que parecía estar lastimado.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional informó que el tornado, que tocó tierra a primera hora de la tarde del lunes y estuvo precedido por advertencias para buscar refugio, permaneció en el suelo a lo largo de unos 19 kilómetros (12 millas) el martes. En su punto más ancho, tenía casi 1,6 kilómetros (una milla) de diámetro.

Arrancó techos de viviendas y negocios, volcó vehículos, cercenó copas de árboles y derribó postes de servicios públicos, dejando a más de 15.000 clientes sin electricidad el martes en los condados de Winnebago y Outagamie, según PowerOutage.us. Podrían pasar varios días antes de que se restablezca el suministro eléctrico.

Las autoridades abrieron refugios para los residentes desplazados y emitieron un aviso para hervir agua en parte de un sistema de abastecimiento en Fox Crossing que perdió presión.

“Todo indica que se trató de un sistema devastador que ha causado daños extensos”, manifestó Tom Nelson, ejecutivo del condado de Outagamie.

Tornado relativamente potente

El tornado, según el servicio meteorológico, se desprendió de un gran sistema de tormentas que atravesó la región de los Grandes Lagos, alimentado por una acumulación de calor y humedad.

Funcionarios del servicio meteorológico estaban evaluando los daños el martes, señaló Roy Eckberg, meteorólogo de la agencia.

“Un tornado de ese tipo es bastante raro en el noreste de Wisconsin, pero ocurren de vez en cuando”, comentó, y añadió que fue inusual que el tornado se desplazara hacia el sur en lugar de hacia el este o el noreste.

Los datos preliminares indican que fue un EF3, lo que significa que registró vientos de 219 a 266 km/h (136 a 165 mph), informó el servicio meteorológico.

Residentes describen momentos aterradores

Heather Schroeder contó que escuchó crujidos y estallidos a su alrededor mientras el tornado destrozaba una lavandería, una panadería y una taberna en una esquina de Menasha.

Los rescatistas sacaron a alguien de un edificio y no estaba claro si había sobrevivido, dijo Schroeder, quien trabaja cerca. Los autos quedaron boca abajo y hubo una fuga de gas en la lavandería, agregó.

“No queda nada”, expresó Schroeder.

Un video aéreo del martes mostró viviendas en Menasha sin techo o completamente vaciadas por dentro.

Greg Van Driest estaba trabajando en el centro de Appleton cuando el cielo se oscureció como si fuera de noche.

“La palabra que todos usábamos era ‘ominoso’”, declaró. “Dijimos ‘Mira, mira mira eso’... Mirabas afuera y pensabas que eran las tres de la mañana, de lo oscuro que estaba”.

Gordon Hintz, el principal funcionario electo del condado de Winnebago, indicó que recibió múltiples reportes de edificios destruidos y vehículos volcados. Se activaron todas las alertas de tormenta que podían emitirse con anticipación para poner a la gente a salvo, apuntó.

“Obviamente, cuando miras los daños, a la Madre Naturaleza ni le importa”, expresó.

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Mayes-Osterman reportó desde Chicago y Seewer desde Toledo, Ohio. Contribuyeron a esta nota los corresponsales Dave Collins en Hartford, Connecticut; Christopher L. Keller en Albuquerque, Nuevo México; Laura Turbay en Little Rock, Arkansas; Sophie Bates en Jackson, Mississippi; Hannah Schoenbaum en Salt Lake City y Michael R. Sisak en Nueva York.

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

“Always exciting,” Folk said Tuesday after reporting for his first training camp with the Atlanta Falcons. Folk, 41, and the Falcons will have their first practice on Wednesday.

“I tell everyone, there is nothing like playing on Sundays,” Folk said. “Being in front of people, being in front your fans and playing, there’s nothing like it. So training camp is just the start of that. And I’m just excited to kind of get going.”

Folk signed with the Falcons on March 9, three days before the team signed free-agent punter Jake Bailey.

The Falcons' interest in Folk was easy to explain after the team went through three kickers — Younghoe Koo, Parker Romo and Zane Gonzalez — in 2025.

Folk has enjoyed consistent success after being drafted by the Cowboys in 2007. He leads all active kickers with 431 career field goals, playing for Dallas, the New York Jets, Tampa Bay, New England and Tennessee.

Folk joins the Falcons after claiming the NFL's best field-goal accuracy in three consecutive seasons. He made 28 of 29 attempts for the Jets last year after also having only one miss in back-to-back seasons with Tennessee — 29 of 30 in 2023 and 21 of 22 in 2024.

Folk said he was drawn to the Falcons by the chance to work with their new special teams coach, Craig Aukerman, who was his coach at Tennessee. For Folk, it's also a reunion with Bailey, who was his teammate in New England.

“Craig Aukerman was a lot of it,” Folk said. “I enjoyed playing for Craig. Having Jake come as well, I played with him for four years in New England. It was just a whole bunch of things. ... To come out here, there’s a lot of positives to it. I like the way the team is going. Hopefully we can get over the top and get in the playoffs.”

The Falcons are led by a new leadership team of president of football Matt Ryan, general manager Ian Cunningham and coach Kevin Stefanski. The team has had eight consecutive losing seasons since its last playoff appearance in 2017.

Atlanta boasts a strong offense led by running back Bijan Robinson, who was named All-Pro after leading the league in yards from scrimmage last season. The offense also boasts established leaders in wide receiver Drake London and tight end Kyle Pitts, who each landed new contracts in the offseason.

The big question on offense will be quarterback, where Michael Penix Jr. is expected to compete with Tua Tagovailoa for the starting job. Tagovailoa led the first-team offense in 11-on-11 drills during offseason work while Penix was limited as he continued his recovery from surgery in November to repair the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

The Falcons have not said if Penix will have full clearance for the start of training camp. Stefanski did not speak with reporters on Tuesday. The quarterbacks were not seen in the portion of the veterans' check-in process made available to media.

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Hadi Matar's lawyer told the court that the 28-year-old — who already has been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges — wouldn't take the stand at his trial on charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.

“At this time, the defense rests,” attorney Nathaniel Barone said. Matar has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors also rested their case Tuesday, and closing arguments are expected Wednesday morning. Rushdie, the prize-winning author of novels including “Midnight’s Children” and the controversial “The Satanic Verses,” testified last week about the 2022 attack that nearly killed him and left him blind in one eye.

Rushdie was about to give a talk — about writers' safety, no less — when his attacker climbed on stage behind him and stabbed him 15 times in front of a stunned audience at the Chautauqua Institution, an arts and intellectual retreat.

Spectators and another speaker, Henry Reese, scrambled to aid Rushdie and restrain the assailant, who was arrested by law enforcement officers assigned to the event. He initially gave authorities a fake driver's license, but Matar soon disclosed his real name to a state trooper, according the trooper's testimony and body camera video.

Prosecutors contend that Matar was acting upon a former Iranian leader's 1989 call for Rushdie's death because of “The Satanic Verses,” which ignited protests across the Muslim world. Some believers considered it blasphemous because of a dream sequence featuring Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

Rushdie, who was born in India into a Muslim family and is now a U.S. citizen, went into hiding for years. He gradually emerged after Iran's government distanced itself in 1998 from the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 's fatwa, or religious order, about the writer. Khomenei died in 1989.

Prosecutors say Matar, a U.S.-born American-Lebanese citizen, acted out of loyalty to Iran and to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group. The late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in 2006 that if someone had carried out the fatwa, European newspapers wouldn't have dared publish a caricature of Muhammad that was causing an uproar in Muslim communities.

Iran’s government denied involvement in the 2022 stabbing, though its Foreign Ministry’s then-spokesperson suggested Rushdie courted trouble by insulting Islam. Nasrallah did not comment on the attack.

The U.S. government designates Hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization. Matar, too, described the group in a 2016 paper as a terrorist organization, Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Lynch said Tuesday during legal arguments when jurors were out of the room.

Matar started researching Rushdie's whereabouts in 2020, eventually writing in private notes that “we need to kill him ASAP” and “become a warrior and just get it over with,” prosecutors have said.

Matar didn't testify at his 2025 state court trial, either. His lawyer has said federal prosecutors are making implications but don't have proof about the man’s intentions.

“There’s no facts. There’s no hard evidence,” Barone said in an interview outside the courthouse last week. “There could be a number of reasonable, plausible explanations as to what he was thinking.”

Barone unsuccessfully argued Tuesday that prosecutors hadn't presented enough evidence for the trial to continue. A judge declined Barone's request to dismiss the case.

Matar is currently serving a 25-year state prison sentence. If convicted in the federal case, he faces a potential life sentence.

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Lippman died at his home in Tucson on July 25, according to his brother, Glenn. He died from multiple system atrophy, a rare brain disease.

A gifted writer and editor, Lippman likely made his greatest contribution to journalism through the scores of young editors and reporters he recruited, mentored in his soft-spoken but enthusiastic manner and shepherded to accomplishments they would acknowledge later they hadn’t thought possible. He had the ability to become friends with practically everybody he met, including those he supervised.

He did so as chief of AP bureaus in Louisville, Indianapolis and Los Angeles.

During his time there, Lippman oversaw the so-called Trial of the Century, when football legend O.J. Simpson was charged with — and acquitted of — killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. He also supervised coverage of the 1994 Northridge earthquake that killed more than 70 people and caused $20 billion in damage. And in 1992, he led coverage of the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots that destroyed a huge swath of the city after four white police officers were acquitted of charges in the videotaped beating of Black motorist Rodney King.

"If you were in a lab and charged with creating a model bureau chief, your model could well be Andy Lippman,” said retired AP President and CEO Louis D. Boccardi, who appointed Lippman to lead the Los Angeles bureau.

“He had it all," Boccardi said. "A sharp news sense, energy without limits, loyalty to, and appreciation for, his staff wherever we sent him, a passion to serve AP members that made the bond seem more like family than business, limitless enthusiasm, thoughtfulness in matters large and small. That was a hallmark of knowing Andy Lippman.”

Colleagues remembered him as a thoughtful boss

Particularly in Los Angeles, Lippman was remembered for his thoughtfulness. Even after his retirement he would surprise staffers stuck working on Thanksgiving by showing up with a full meal — turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, the works. And dessert.

“Andy was indeed like a brother to me, from the time we met in 1982 as fellow AP bureau chiefs in adjoining states — Andy in Louisville and I in Indianapolis,” said retired AP bureau chief and regional vice president Paul Stevens, who now edits AP’s Connecting newsletter for retired and former AP journalists.

“We became forever best friends," Stevens said. "One year, he invited our then-teenage daughters to join him as his guests for the Academy Awards program in Los Angeles. He came to family weddings. And we were there for each other in the tough times, including the deaths of our parents.”

Dozens of others shared similar sentiments in recent years at various gatherings, including AP’s annual dinner for retirees. At a recent farewell party in Los Angeles that Lippman was unable to attend because of illness, every one of the dozens of people in the room recorded video tributes.

He was a journalist since the early 1960s

Andy Lippman, born April 29, 1948, in Washington, D.C., to Miriam and Morton Lippman. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and seemed destined to become a journalist. He worked for his middle school newspaper and was editor of Bethesda’s Walter Johnson High School newspaper, The Pitch, his senior year.

“Working on The Pitch really kept me focused, and particularly being an editor really gave me a sense of responsibility,” he told the newspaper in 2016.

Lippman started writing “for pay” at age 15 covering high school sports for the Washington Daily News on weekends. Later, when he arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, he made sure every reporter or editor knew how to cover a sports event, just in case they got pressed into service during an emergency.

After graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1970, Lippman landed a vacation relief job at the AP’s Phoenix bureau in 1971. A year later he became a permanent member of the Tucson, Arizona, staff before moving to AP’s sports desk in New York, then on to Cincinnati, where he was an AP correspondent. Then it was on to Louisville.

Sports-related coverage seemed to keep creeping back into his work life. In 1991, Lippman pressed his sports writers to confirm word, which they did, that Los Angeles Lakers superstar Magic Johnson was about to announce his retirement after contracting the AIDS virus. Lippman had reported on Johnson’s on-court rival and close friend Larry Bird during his time in Indianapolis.

He dealt with health issues but stayed in the game

In 2005, the AP honored him with the Oliver S. Gramling Spirit Award, given to staff members who display dedication, courage, and exceptional support for the news agency’s mission.

Plagued with various health issues in his later years, Lippman retired from the AP in 2009, but never lost touch with the company.

He continued to help others, teaching English to immigrants and helping about 75 holding Green Cards prepare for their tests to become U.S. citizens. In 2022, the Puente Learning Center in East Los Angeles named Lippman its Volunteer of the Year, an honor accompanied by a proclamation from the California Legislative Assembly.

Lippman never really quit journalism. For eight years, until last December, he wrote a weekly column for the South Pasadena Review, the local newspaper for the close-knit suburb just north of Los Angeles that in his final years Lippman had grown to love.

Lippman served in the U.S. Army Reserves for six years beginning in 1970. His family says he will be cremated and some of his ashes placed in Ravello, Italy; Colonial Williamsburg; Indiana; and South Pasadena, California. Survivors include his sister-in-law, Nancy Newberry, his brother Glenn and an extended family that, Glenn wrote, “was composed of his many friends, colleagues, students and community connections.” Lippman also is survived by his beloved rescue dog, Scout.

Los constantes enfrentamientos entre el Congreso y el Poder Ejecutivo provocaron desde 2016 la sucesión de ocho presidentes en una década en lugar de los dos que deberían haber gobernado por un mandato de cinco años cada uno.

Fujimori podría tener un camino más allanado para gobernar sin sobresaltos ya que en la conformación del nuevo Parlamento bicameral su partido y su aliado Renovación Popular suman 30 sillas en el Senado, con lo que podrán bloquear cualquier intento de destitución a Fujimori.

En la Cámara de Diputados, sin embargo, esa coalición suma 56 de 130 sillas por lo que la oposición podrá interpelar y censurar a los ministros de Fujimori.

A continuación un detalle de los mandatarios que se sucedieron de la última década en Perú.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018)

El banquero de Wall Street llegó al poder en julio de 2016 tras vencer a Fujimori en un balotaje, pero no logró la mayoría en el entonces Parlamento unicameral. Fuerza Popular, el partido de Fujimori, alcanzó una mayoría absoluta de 73 escaños de un total de 130.

Con ese poder se enfrentó a Kuczynski y respaldó dos procesos de vacancia presidencial. El primero fracasó en diciembre de 2017, pero el segundo fue admitido en marzo de 2018. Kuczynski renunció antes de ser removido por una investigación por presunta corrupción.

Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020)

El vicepresidente Vizcarra asumió la presidencia en marzo de 2018 tras la renuncia de Kuczynski. Su permanente enfrentamiento con el Legislativo incluyó la disolución constitucional del Parlamento en 2019. En noviembre de 2020 fue destituido por incapacidad moral permanente, basada en la presunta recepción de sobornos cuando era gobernador de la región Moquegua. En 2025 Vizcarra fue condenado a 14 años por sobornos y en la actualidad está recluido en una prisión exclusiva para expresidentes.

Manuel Merino (2020)

El legislador Merino asumió la presidencia interina el 10 de noviembre de 2020 tras la destitución de Vizcarra, pero renunció pocos días después, el 14 de noviembre, luego de masivas protestas nacionales contra su gobierno que dejaron dos muertos y más de 200 heridos. La violenta represión policial desencadenó la renuncia de la mayoría de sus ministros y lo llevaron a dimitir por la pérdida de respaldo político y social.

Francisco Sagasti (2020-2021)

El legislador Sagasti asumió la presidencia en noviembre de 2020 para conducir la transición hasta las elecciones de 2021. Aunque enfrentó constantes tensiones con un Congreso fragmentado por diferencias políticas, completó su mandato y entregó el poder el 28 de julio de 2021.

Pedro Castillo (2021-2022)

El maestro rural llegó al poder tras vencer en un balotaje a Fujimori, pero no consiquió tener mayoría en el Congreso. Tras una permanente confrontación con el Parlamento, en diciembre de 2022 anunció su disolución sin sustento constitucional. El Congreso lo destituyó por incapacidad moral y su vicepresidenta Dina Boluarte asumió el poder. En 2025 Castillo fue condenado a 11 años de cárcel por conspiración para una rebelión y sigue investigado por presunta corrupción.

Dina Boluarte (2022-2025)

La legisladora y vicepresidenta gobernó desde diciembre de 2022 con una aprobación de apenas 3%, investigaciones por corrupción y tras protestas que exigían nuevas elecciones y que dejaron 50 civiles asesinados por la fuerza pública. El partido de Fujimori ayudó a bloquear siete pedidos de vacancia en su contra, pero en octubre de 2025 apoyó su destitución por incapacidad moral ante el avance del crimen organizado.

José Jerí (2025-2026)

El legislador Jerí asumió la presidencia en octubre de 2025 por sucesión constitucional tras la vacancia de Boluarte y gobernó cuatro meses con un Ejecutivo dependiente del respaldo de un Congreso liderado por una coalición integrada por el partido de Fujimori. En febrero de 2026 fue destituido por el Parlamento tras investigaciones por presunto tráfico de influencias referidas a reuniones no declaradas con empresarios chinos y contrataciones irregulares de funcionarias. Jerí negó las acusaciones.

José María Balcázar (2026)

El legislador asumió la presidencia interina en febrero de 2026 tras la destitución de Jerí y gobernó por cinco meses con el respaldo de un Congreso del que dependía políticamente. En su gestión el Parlamento aprobó una ley que permite que los uniformados que cometan delitos sean juzgados por un tribunal militar. Balcázar no convocó a elecciones ya que lo había hecho Boluarte en 2025.

The Fox Cities region, which is home to more than 100,000 people in the communities of Appleton, Menasha and Neenah, was left in shambles by Monday's twister, with homes leveled, cars flipped, and power lines and trees toppled.

“The depth of the tornado and its impact is incredible, devastating. We’re really still at the assessment stage,” Winnebago County Executive Gordon Hintz said at a news conference Tuesday.

Authorities said the timing — the storm arrived in the early afternoon, when most people were awake and after warnings had been issued — could be why there have been no reported deaths.

“Everybody was at work. It was the middle of the day," Menasha Police Chief Matt Albrecht said. "Most people were not at home and at their place of employment.”

Dozens of people were injured, and officers were still going door-to-door a day later in search of possible victims.

The tornado touched down around 1 p.m. and remained on the ground for more than 20 minutes, cutting a roughly 12-mile (19.3-kilometer) path of destruction, the National Weather Service reported. The area is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee.

It was classified as an EF3 tornado — the strongest to strike Outagamie and Winnebago counties since an EF4 touched down in April 1984, the weather service said.

A relatively powerful twister

Gov. Tony Evers declared a state of emergency for the affected areas. Shelters were opened for displaced residents.

As chain saws roared in the background, Appleton Mayor Jake Woodford said a number of neighborhoods were “truly devastated.” Like elsewhere in the region, electricity lines were tangled around broken trees, making power restoration a slow, risky process.

More than 10,000 customers in Winnebago and Outagamie counties were still without power Tuesday afternoon, according to utilities that serve them. It could be several days before power is restored.

The twister was spun off by a large storm system that moved through the Great Lakes and was fueled by a buildup of heat and humidity, the weather service said.

“What we are seeing this summer is significant heat leading to significant severe weather,” said Chad Merrill, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. “We had an EF3 tornado in Wisconsin. People need to take these warnings seriously. It can happen just about anywhere.”

Residents describe terrifying moments

ThedaCare Regional Medical Centers in Appleton and Neenah said it treated 40 people, mostly for minor storm-related injuries. Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton said it saw about 30 patients, all with minor injuries.

Rachel Bernhardt, 56, said she grabbed her dog and dashed to her basement in the village of Fox Crossing after she saw a steel swing spinning in the yard. After the storm passed, her second-floor bedroom was covered in glass and a tree branch was resting on her bed.

“We can’t be in there anymore,” said Bernhardt, who is sleeping on the first floor and using a generator to keep the refrigerator going. “In fact, I’m going to caution-tape that off.”

At Manderfield’s Home Bakery, a decades-old landmark in Menasha, the brick frame around the door still stood, but not much more.

“This can be replaced,” owner Jerry Manderfield told WISN-TV. “We had people in the building that could possibly have died in there.”

Volunteers stepped up to try to ease the shock. Luigi’s Pizza in Menasha set up a food trailer to distribute hygiene packs and free slices after donors kicked in enough money to make at least 125 pizzas.

“Sometimes a hot pizza, a taco, and a reminder that your community cares can mean more than words,” said Duncan’s Window & Door, which chipped in for 50 pizzas.

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Government funding body U.K. Research and Innovation announced Monday that it will no longer fund the Lovell telescope, whose 250-foot-wide (76-meter-wide) parabolic reflecting bowl is a local landmark. It’s part of a network of seven radio telescopes across the country known as e-Merlin connected to the Jodrell Bank astrophysics center south of Manchester.

UKRI said the telescope array will not receive public funding after March 2028, following “a rigorous prioritization process to focus investment on the areas that will deliver the greatest long-term scientific capability, impact and value for the U.K.”

University of Manchester particle physicist Brian Cox called the cuts “devastating and irreversible.”

Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, said recent cuts to physics funding, including at Jodrell Bank, were “a terrible blow to the scientific community,” and urged new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reconsider.

“For the sake of U.K. physics and our national reputation as a place to do science, conduct research and innovate, we would urge the new government to review this ruinous set of decisions,” he said.

The University of Manchester, which runs e-Merlin, said it was seeking other sources of funds from business, government or charities.

“But, if we don’t find those alternative sources of funding, then there is a risk that as of the end of March 2028, the Lovell Telescope will not be an actively functioning scientific facility for radio astronomy,” said Sarah Sharples, the university’s dean of science and engineering.

Completed in 1957, the Lovell telescope has played a major role in the history of radio astronomy, which studies distant space objects through the radio waves they emit. It tracked the progress of Sputnik when the Soviet Union launched Earth’s first artificial satellite in 1957, received the first images from the moon’s surface in 1966 and has helped scientists discover distant galaxies and study black holes, quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses.

It also served as an early-warning system for Soviet missiles during the Cold War.

Jodrell Bank’s engagement center, open to the public and visited by generations of British schoolchildren, is not affected by the cuts.

“It is not FIFA’s to sell,” UEFA said in a statement. “None of us are the owners of football.”

Infantino's plans to form a commercial subsidiary, which would be called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), running competitions like the World Cup and Club World Cup was first reported by The Times of London.

FIFA said in a statement FFE would raise up to $4.2 billion later this year to help fund development programs "based on an initial equity valuation of $20 billion by carefully selecting long-term investors who will purchase minority, non-controlling interests.”

FIFA is working with J.P. Morgan while intended investors include Thrive Eternal launched by Joshua Kushner, whose brother Jared Kushner is a son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The men’s World Cup that finished this month only deepened the political and personal ties between Trump and Infantino, and fueled concerns about those ties including from UEFA.

“The soul and governance of football are not assets to trade — especially with zero transparency as to who gains financially,” UEFA said Tuesday, responding to the reports of selling stakes in FIFA competitions.

FIFA is currently a Swiss-based not-for-profit association of its 211 national member federations worldwide.

Those members must approve any plan and would get the chance “to access up to $20 million in one-off capital,” FIFA said.

“This is about the democratization of football worldwide,” Infantino said in a FIFA statement, which added that “a consultation process has begun.”

UEFA, however, said it took reports of the project “extremely seriously. So should every national Football Association.”

“This crosses a line that football’s governing institutions should never cross,” said UEFA, which comprises 55 of the FIFA members.

FIFA's $20M offer to member federations

The outline of Tuesday’s surprise announcement was, FIFA said, detailed by Infantino to members who met in Manhattan on July 18 ahead of the World Cup final. There, Infantino promised to “unleash the commercial potential and opportunity that FIFA has.”

FIFA’s statement Tuesday about its proposed project led on how much money each of its 211 members could get through 2038 in the “FIFA Fast-Forward Program.”

Instead of the currently promised $8 million each in development funds through the 2027-30 World Cup commercial cycle, it would be $20 million, then $22 million and $24 million in the following cycles.

FIFA banked record World Cup income of about $12 billion from the 2026 tournament which had unprecedented high prices for tickets and hospitality across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It already was unclear how that money could be matched from Spain, Portugal and Morocco co-hosting the 2030 men’s edition.

Member federations could choose if they wanted to take part in the new financial opportunities, FIFA said.

“FIFA would retain sole control of FFE and exclusive authority over football governance, competitions, match calendar, and all regulatory and sporting decisions,” the soccer body said.

FIFA’s integrity standards were called into question during the World Cup, including by team coaches, Norway's soccer federation and a top European public body, the Council of Europe.

FIFA's previous attempt to privatize assets

The project announced Tuesday is the second time in Infantino’s increasingly controversial 11-year presidency he has tried to push through a multi-billion dollar deal with private backers.

In 2018, Infantino proposed a secretive $25 billion offer over 12 years with SoftBank of Japan to create new global competitions, including an expanded men’s Club World Cup, seemingly backed by Saudi Arabian money.

That ultimately failed after meeting fierce resistance from UEFA, which saw threats to its prize assets: the Champions League and the European Championship.

Infantino still built closer ties to Saudi soccer and the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup and largely funded the revamped men’s Club World Cup hosted in the U.S. last year.

Infantino’s future?

The financial success of the just-ended World Cup has looked likely to ensure Infantino is re-elected next year unopposed for a fourth and final term in office through 2031.

At his re-election by acclaim in 2023 in Rwanda, Infantino suggested any CEO delivering similar financial results would be kept in the job forever.

Speculation has swirled for years Infantino might want a different global role in soccer beyond his FIFA presidency, which is due to end when he is 61.

The Times reported Tuesday that a CEO-like commissioner role of the new FFE operation could be created for Infantino.

“This has never been discussed,” FIFA said in a statement Tuesday. “However, the FIFA president and the FIFA administration will and must have leading roles in this entity — if approved.”

There was no timetable suggested Tuesday for debate and decisions by FIFA, its ruling Council chaired by Infantino, and the 211 members.

FIFA is scheduled to hold an online congress on Nov. 23 to confirm hosts of the Women's World Cup editions in 2031 and 2035.

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Panthers coach Dave Canales said after practice that Evans got rolled up on and that the initial diagnosis indicates the injury is not viewed as serious.

“They (the medical staff) are pretty optimistic," Canales said. "But we’re going to do a full evaluation just to make sure there’s nothing happening in there. ... I’ll give you more information as we do the full evaluation.”

Pressed into duty last season as a rookie because of an injury to Ja’Tavion Sanders, Evans was a pleasant surprise for the Panthers, having 19 receptions for 171 yards and two touchdowns. The 2025 fifth-round draft pick out of Notre Dame is expected to compete with Tommy Tremble and Sanders for more playing time this season in what is viewed as an open tight end competition.

Evans went down midway through practice amid a pile of players. Some gathered around him before he was carted off.

Last week the Panthers lost outside linebacker Nic Scouton, another second-year player, to a torn ACL. That season-ending injury came on the first day of training camp practice.

The Panthers also are without starting offensive tackles Taylor Moton and Ickey Ekwonu at training camp. Both will miss the opener but are expected back at some point this season.

Canales said guard Damien Lewis has a calf injury. He worked on the side with trainers. Guard Robert Hunt (back) is working his way back and is expected to practice soon.

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El Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) informó en el momento del secuestro, que Juliet Arioso, de 13 años, se encontraba en compañía de Jason Castillo, de 45 años.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Marion, alrededor de las 17:20 horas, los agentes localizaron el vehículo de Castillo y este se negó a detenerse.

Fue abatido a tiros tras finalizar la persecución.

“La investigación sigue en curso”, según la MCSO. “Se facilitará más información a medida que esté disponible”.

Rather than putting together a traditional preseason all-conference team, the Big Ten has a media panel select 12 players for preseason honors without regard to position. Indiana’s representatives include wide receiver Charlie Becker, linebacker Rolijah Hardy and defensive lineman Tyrique Tucker.

Ohio State, Oregon and Rutgers each had two players selected. Quarterback Julian Sayin and wide receiver Jeremiah Smith made it for Ohio State. Oregon’s picks were quarterback Dante Moore and defensive back Koi Perich. The Rutgers honorees were wide receiver KJ Duff and running back Antwan Raymond.

Other players earning preseason honors included Iowa offensive lineman Kade Pieper, Minnesota defensive lineman Anthony Smith and Southern California quarterback Jayden Maiava.

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Genevieve is the first Category 5 hurricane in the eastern Pacific since Kristy in October 2024 and only the 21st Category 5 hurricane observed in the eastern Pacific since routine satellite monitoring began 60 years ago.

Eastern Pacific kicking into high gear

Genevieve and its predecessor Fausto – which peaked as a Category 2 hurricane last Friday – pushed overall tropical activity in the eastern Pacific to above average levels for the season. The eastern Pacific hurricane season begins earlier than the Atlantic (May 15th versus June 1st in the Atlantic) and activity typically ramps up much sooner – by the first week of July in the eastern Pacific versus late August in the Atlantic.

During strong El Niño years like this, we often see a later ramp up to eastern Pacific seasonal activity – similar to what we’ve seen over the past week – with a more defined peak in mid-August and a later end to the hurricane season than in non-El Niño years.

Though the center of a weakening Tropical Storm Fausto will pass about 100 to 150 miles to the north of the Hawaiian Islands today and tomorrow, treacherous surf and large breaking waves – with surf reaching 14 to 18 feet – will cause problems for east-facing shorelines and lead to dangerous marine conditions and coastal flooding issues, especially around the times of high tide, primarily through Wednesday evening local time.

Genevieve remained a powerful hurricane early Tuesday but is expected to gradually weaken this week over the open Pacific and poses no threat to land.

August in like a lamb in the Atlantic

Wind shear remains exceptionally high across the bellwether Caribbean and into the tropical Atlantic.

In fact, over the past two weeks, wind shear over the western Atlantic has been highest on record (since at least 1979), surpassing even other strong El Niño years like 2015.

The hostile shear is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future and the Atlantic is expected to stay dormant through at least the first week of August.

Genevieve es el primer huracán de categoría 5 en el Pacífico oriental desde Kristy en octubre de 2024 y apenas el vigésimo primer huracán de categoría 5 observado en esa cuenca desde que comenzó el monitoreo satelital de rutina hace 60 años.

El Pacífico oriental entra en su periodo de mayor actividad

Genevieve y su predecesor, Fausto —que alcanzó la categoría 2 el viernes pasado— impulsaron la actividad ciclónica general en el Pacífico oriental a niveles superiores al promedio para esta temporada. La temporada de huracanes del Pacífico oriental comienza antes que la del Atlántico (15 de mayo frente al 1 de junio en el Atlántico) y su actividad suele incrementarse mucho antes: desde la primera semana de julio en el Pacífico oriental, en comparación con finales de agosto en el Atlántico.

Durante los años de un fuerte fenómeno de El Niño como este, a menudo se observa un aumento más tardío de la actividad estacional en el Pacífico oriental, similar al registrado durante la última semana, con un pico más definido a mediados de agosto y un final de la temporada de huracanes más tardío que en los años sin El Niño.

Aunque el centro de la tormenta tropical Fausto, que continúa debilitándose, pasará hoy y mañana entre 100 y 150 millas al norte de las islas de Hawái, el fuerte oleaje y las grandes olas rompientes, con olas de entre 14 y 18 pies, causarán problemas en las costas orientadas al este y generarán condiciones marítimas peligrosas e inundaciones costeras, especialmente durante la marea alta, principalmente hasta la noche del miércoles, hora local.

Genevieve continuaba siendo un huracán potente a primera hora del martes, aunque se prevé que se debilite gradualmente esta semana sobre el Pacífico abierto y no suponga ninguna amenaza para tierra firme.

Agosto empieza con calma en el Atlántico

La cizalladura del viento sigue siendo excepcionalmente alta en el Caribe —zona indicadora— y se extiende hasta el Atlántico tropical.

De hecho, en las últimas dos semanas, el corte del viento sobre el Atlántico occidental ha alcanzado los niveles más altos registrados (al menos desde 1979), superando incluso a otros años en los que se produjo un fenómeno de El Niño intenso, como 2015.

Se prevé que el corte hostil continúe en un futuro próximo y el Atlántico permanezca inactivo al menos hasta la primera semana de agosto.

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The suspect, Alan Triana, was accused of shooting at another driver on Nov. 23.

According to Triana’s attorney, video recovered from a Tesla involved in the incident shows Triana was being followed by that driver from Dolphin Mall to Allapattah, and that driver had opened fire in an attempt to get Triana to stop.

Several weeks before that incident, authorities said Triana was involved in a domestic dispute with his younger brother, Mason Triana, which resulted in Mason Triana barricading himself inside the home and opening fire at police.

Two Miami police officers were shot in the leg during the incident. Mason Triana was killed after exchanging gunfire with police.

El sospechoso, Alan Triana, fue acusado de disparar contra otro conductor el 23 de noviembre.

Según el abogado de Triana, un video recuperado de un vehículo Tesla involucrado en el incidente muestra que Triana estaba siendo seguido por ese conductor desde el Dolphin Mall hasta Allapattah, y que ese conductor abrió fuego en un intento por obligar a Triana a detenerse.

Varias semanas antes de ese incidente, las autoridades informaron que Triana estuvo involucrado en una disputa doméstica con su hermano menor, Mason Triana, lo que terminó con Mason Triana atrincherándose dentro de la vivienda y abriendo fuego contra la policía.

Dos agentes de la Policía de Miami recibieron disparos en una pierna durante el incidente. Mason Triana murió tras intercambiar disparos con la policía.

Toplum online TV founder and director Alasgar Mammadli was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the court in the capital of Baku. It gave 15-year prison terms to activists Akif Gurbanov and Ruslan Izzetli, who co-founded the outlet. Other journalists and activists associated with Toplum TV received sentences ranging from 12 to 14 years.

They were charged with illegally receiving and using Western donor funds as part of an “organized criminal group.” They denied the charges and Elchin Sadigov, a lawyer for some of the accused, told The Associated Press they would appeal the verdicts.

“This is an unlawful and political motivated court ruling that is linked to their journalist activities,” Sadigov told AP. “Not a single defense motion has been granted by the court.”

The government of President Ilham Aliyev has carried out a methodical crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech, targeting journalists, activists and independent politicians, relying on restrictive laws to muzzle critical voices. according to human rights organizations.

Toplum TV, a leading online news outlet, was one of the last remaining independent news outlets in the southern Caucasus country of 10 million. It was known for its reporting on official corruption and social problems. In March 2024, police raided its offices and arrested several members of its staff.

The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) denounced what it called “the extremely harsh prison sentences” to journalists and media actors associated with Toplum TV, noting that “the court’s verdict confirms the political nature of the trial and the authorities’ desire to intimidate and repress journalists who are simply doing their job."

Anthony Bellanger, the IFJ general secretary, described the verdict as “pure and simple government repression and intimidation.”

Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, also condemned what it described as bogus trial, saying it reflected the escalating crackdown on independent media in Azerbaijan and demanded their immediate release.

“This unjust decision highlights how the Azerbaijani justice system is being exploited,” RSF said in a statement. “It has been brought to heel by President Ilham Aliyev to silence the country’s last remaining independent media outlets.”

Aliyev has led Azerbaijan since 2003, when he succeeded his father, Heydar, who was its Communist Party boss and then president for a decade after the country became independent following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The younger Aliyev won another term in 2024 with 92% of the vote in an early election.

He took advantage of a surge in his popularity after Azerbaijani forces swiftly reclaimed the Karabakh region from ethnic Armenian separatists who had controlled it for three decades. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the vote took place in a restrictive environment with no real political competition.

El choque fue reportado poco antes de la medianoche en la cuadra 900 de Northeast Flagler Drive mientras el tren se dirigía hacia el sur, confirmaron los equipos de emergencia.

Víctor Carvalho se encontraba en un bar cercano y vio el accidente.

“Cuando vimos cómo se caían las barreras, había un coche justo detrás y, al parecer, no sé qué pasó, pero ella simplemente se saltó las barreras e inmediatamente empecé a oír las bocinas y ¡bum!, al instante, el tren se estrelló de lleno contra el lado derecho del vehículo", explicó.

Funcionarios de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue indicaron que el automóvil fue arrastrado por el tren hasta la cuadra 400 de Northeast Flagler Drive.

El esposo de la mujer que conducía el auto rojo dijo a Local 10 News que el vehículo quedó atascado debajo del tren tras el choque.

Las imágenes de cámaras de vigilancia muestran los momentos posteriores al percance. Se pueden ver chispas volando mientras el Genesis es arrastrado por las vías bajo el tren de Brightline.

Funcionarios de FLFR indicaron que la mujer pudo salir del vehículo por sí sola y los equipos la encontraron en el suelo junto al automóvil cuando llegaron.

Carvalho, quien acababa de completar capacitación en RCP, primeros auxilios y combate de incendios, corrió hacia la escena para ayudar a la víctima.

“La adrenalina se activó de inmediato y supe desde el principio, por lo que aprendí en el curso, que tenía que actuar”, dijo. “Salté la cerca, llamé al 911 mientras le explicaba al operador toda la situación. Ayudé a la mujer cuando abrió la puerta por sí misma, asegurándome de que estuviera bien. Me aseguré de que permaneciera sentada derecha, que mirara hacia el suelo, que mirara sus pies y que no llegara al punto de desmayarse”.

Según el esposo de la mujer, ella sufrió una fractura en una mano y una lesión en el labio, pero se espera que se recupere.

Funcionarios de FLFR confirmaron que la mujer fue trasladada al Broward Health Medical Center con lesiones graves, pero que no ponían en riesgo su vida.

Una estilista de una barbería cercana dijo a Local 10 News que nunca había visto algo así.

“El tren Brightline estaba completamente detenido justo frente a mí y el automóvil quedó atascado debajo. De hecho, fue un milagro que el asiento del conductor, donde ella iba sentada, fuera el único que no quedó completamente impactado por el tren”, dijo Madeline Abreu.

Las circunstancias que llevaron a la colisión continúan bajo investigación.

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According to police, the boy was found in the area of Sheridan Street and State Road 7.

Officers say the boy, who is nonverbal, is around 10 to 12 years old.

While officers confirmed that the boy was unharmed and was safely reunited with his family, they have not released details about what led to him being found alone.

Según la policía, el niño fue ubicado en la zona de Sheridan Street y la carretera estatal 7.

Los agentes afirman que no habla y tiene entre 10 y 12 años.

Los agentes han corroborado que el niño se encontraba ileso y se ha reunido con su familia sin ningún incidente, no dieron a conocer detalles sobre las circunstancias que llevaron a que fuera encontrado solo.

A video, which claims to show a fielder clicking his fingers to imitate the sound of a bat connecting with the ball before a player is called out, has been viewed millions of times on X.

The poster of the video described it as “about the worst case of cheating I’ve ever seen in cricket.”

The video of a match involving North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League team Saltburn, has been greeted with outrage online and generated headlines around the world.

TV presenter Piers Morgan weighed in, describing the player involved as the “biggest cheat in cricket history” and wondered how many batsmen’s days “has he ruined?”

A cricket umpire could be fooled into calling a player out if they believed they heard the sound of the ball clipping the edge of a bat before being caught.

The league said in a statement on X that it had received a formal complaint regarding a game on Saturday, but did not reveal which teams were involved.

“A full investigation has been initiated and until such time as the formal processes are complete no further comment will be made,” it said.

There was no immediate response when The Associated Press contacted the league and Saltburn for comment.

The Iran war has reignited, pushing oil and gas prices higher — a trend that will worsen inflation in the coming months. Soaring investment in the artificial intelligence buildout is raising the cost of laptops, smart phones and electricity. And price hikes from tariffs could be in the pipeline after Trump imposed new duties on dozens of U.S. trading partners.

All those trends might lead to only temporary price increases, rather than a sustained burst of inflation similar to the spike in 2021-2022. Yet inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure, has topped its 2% target for more than five years, making it harder for the Fed to ignore price spikes, no matter how brief. Core inflation, which excludes the volatile energy and food categories, has risen since last December and has been stuck at around 3% or higher since 2023. Without noticeable progress soon, some Fed officials have said rate hikes will be needed.

“Unfortunately, inflation does not appear to be headed sustainably back all the way to 2%,” Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said recently. “Modestly higher interest rates would better balance the outlook.” Logan is a voting member of the Fed's rate-setting committee.

Warsh's tough talk

Warsh, since taking over as chair in May, has emphasized that the Fed will get inflation back to 2% without specifying how. In his first news conference as chair last month, he made clear he wouldn't provide the kind of signals about the Fed's next steps that his predecessors, particularly Jerome Powell, did.

But in congressional testimony earlier this month Warsh said the Fed has “no tolerance” for higher inflation. And in the first statement on rates issued under his watch, the central bank pledged that it “will deliver price stability.”

Such comments, along with the resumption of the Iran war and the renewed climb of oil and gas prices, have already lifted borrowing costs. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — which strongly influences mortgage rates — briefly topped 4.7% last Thursday, the highest in about 18 months.

But Warsh's tough talk raises expectations that he will follow through with action, current and former Fed officials say.

James Bullard, a former president of the St. Louis Fed, said Warsh's rhetoric “has been very effective" in establishing Fed credibility, “but markets are going to ask, ‘Well, what have you done for me lately?’ And they're going to demand action."

At the same time, more Fed officials appear to be growing impatient with inflation's stubbornness.

“Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option," Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed’s governing board, said in a July 13 speech. If core inflation keeps climbing, the Fed's rate-setting committee “will need to consider” hiking rates “in the near term,” he said.

Beth Hammack, president of the Cleveland Fed, said in a post on LinkedIn earlier this month that for the first time she is hearing business leaders call for higher rates, which is unusual since they typically support cheaper borrowing. She is also hearing from consumers “who can’t make ends meet about a growing sense of despair,” Hammack wrote.

Signs of inflation potentially improving

There is still tremendous uncertainty about what the Fed should do in the coming months, economists said. The most recent inflation report showed that core inflation cooled noticeably in June, and headline inflation fell sharply as gas prices declined almost 10%, a sign of what could happen if the Iran conflict is permanently resolved.

The cost of apartment rents, which spiked in the pandemic, is growing much more slowly than a few years ago.

John Williams, president of the New York Fed and vice chair of the Fed's rate-setting committee, said this month that "there are encouraging reasons to expect that inflation has peaked and should edge down in the coming quarters.” He cited the decline in gas prices, before the Iran war restarted, and argued that the impact of tariffs on inflation has largely run its course. Even with new tariffs in place, they are likely to have the same limited effect of the ones they replaced.

Yet the resumption of fighting in the Middle East has pushed gas prices back above a nationwide average of $4 a gallon, from just below $3.80 around the July 4 holiday. The increase will likely push headline inflation higher, just before the Fed meets again in September. And adding to the Fed's challenge, higher interest rates can slow demand and bring down inflation, but they can't do much to restore oil and gas supplies disrupted by war.

“The Fed is looking at inflation well above goal, but mostly for reasons that it doesn’t have any influence on,” Vincent Reinhart, chief economist at Dreyfus-Mellon and a former top Fed economist, said.

Warsh says Fed to keep inflation from ‘broadening’

In congressional testimony this month, Warsh suggested the Fed's job is to prevent specific price increases for things like gas or computer gear from “broadening out” to other parts of the economy.

Traditionally, the Fed would do that by hiking rates if there were signs higher prices were spreading. But Warsh may hope that his tough talk, which has pushed up some borrowing costs, will suffice in the end.

“They are hoping and intending to talk the talk without having to walk the walk,” said Stephen Douglass, chief economist at NISA Investment Advisors and former analyst at the New York Fed. He doesn't expect the Fed will raise rates this year.

Other economists say inflation won't be defeated without action by the Fed.

“There has never been a time when inflation gradually moderated without impetus from the Fed,” Joseph Lavorgna, a former top economist at the Treasury Department and chief economist at SMBC Americas, said. “In other words, core inflation is not going to magically slow.”

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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Juliet Arioso, 13, was believed to be in the company of 45-year-old Jason Castillo.

According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, at around 5:20 p.m., deputies located Castillo’s vehicle and he refused to stop.

He was shot dead after a pursuit ended.

“This remains an active investigation,” according to MCSO. “Additional information will be released as it becomes available.”

Aunque domina el criollo haitiano, Wenski, de 75 años, es una de las voces más destacadas que instan al Senado estadounidense a prorrogar el Estatus de Protección Temporal para los haitianos.

Con la expiración del TPS el lunes, más de 300.000 beneficiarios estarán en riesgo de deportación y ya no contarán con un permiso de trabajo.

“Muchos de ellos trabajan en el sector de la salud. En la Arquidiócesis de Miami, en nuestros hogares de ancianos, tengo más de 40 personas con Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) que perderán sus permisos de trabajo hoy, y tendremos que despedirlas”, dijo Wenski sobre Catholic Health Services, uno de los ministerios más grandes de Miami.

Wenski dijo que se estaba preparando para un vuelo el lunes antes de una reunión con legisladores en Washington, DC, para presionar a favor de una solución para los beneficiarios del TPS.

“Esperamos que apoyen un proyecto de ley en el Senado que incorpore el proyecto de ley aprobado por la Cámara de Representantes”, dijo Wenski sobre el proyecto de ley HR 1689 .

La representante estadounidense Laura Gillen, demócrata por Nueva York, presentó el proyecto de ley el 27 de febrero en la Cámara de Representantes, y fue aprobado por 224 votos a favor y 204 en contra el 16 de abril.

Wenski dijo que podría hacerse mediante una petición de descarga, una maniobra legislativa para sacar un proyecto de ley de un comité estancado y llevarlo al pleno para su votación final.

“Eso les daría a los haitianos una extensión de tres años en su TPS”, dijo Wenski.

Informe relacionado : Activista de North Miami sobre el fin del Estatus de Protección Temporal para los haitianos: “Prepárense”.

En el vecindario de Little Haiti, en Miami, las calles estaban más tranquilas de lo habitual el lunes.

“Hay personas que han estado aquí durante décadas, muchas de ellas son propietarias de viviendas, negocios y otros bienes, además de ser trabajadores fundamentales y esenciales”, dijo Paul Christian Namphy, director político de FANM. “Si las personas salen a la comunidad, están asumiendo un mayor riesgo y por eso estamos alentando a todos los miembros de nuestra comunidad a mantener sus desplazamientos al mínimo”.

La senadora federal Ashley Moody dijo que ha estado en comunicación con la administración del presidente Trump sobre alternativas para los haitianos.

“Tenemos que comenzar a analizar estos casos de manera individual”, dijo Moody.

El senador federal Rick Scott dijo que los inmigrantes haitianos “que hayan sido investigados” y no sean delincuentes son bienvenidos. Scott enfrentó preguntas sobre las deportaciones de haitianos.

“Mi corazón está con ellos”, dijo Scott.

El representante federal Byron Donalds, quien hace campaña para gobernador de Florida con el respaldo del presidente Trump, votó en contra del proyecto de ley H.R. 1689.

“Es un programa temporal, pero fue abusado por Joe Biden”, dijo Donalds sobre el TPS. “Tenemos que llegar a un equilibrio y establecer un estándar en materia de inmigración”.

Las políticas de inmigración deben reflejar tanto “justicia como misericordia”, escribió recientemente Wenski en un comunicado en el que instaba a los líderes a buscar “soluciones compasivas y humanas que protejan la unidad familiar” y “reconozcan” la crisis que enfrentan los haitianos.

«Las políticas no solo deben buscar hacer cumplir la ley, sino también reflejar el compromiso histórico de nuestra nación con la protección de la dignidad humana y la promoción del bien común», escribió Wenski. «Hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser grande es un objetivo loable, pero no se logra la grandeza de Estados Unidos convirtiéndolo en un país mezquino».

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Temporary protected status is exactly that — TEMPORARY.

For those with terminated TPS: it’s closing time. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

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The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June. That's essentially the same tepid range its been in since the beginning of the year. In late 2024 and early 2025 the readings were well above 100.

Consumer attitudes had improved modestly in June as gas prices came down to around $3.70 a gallon from more than $4.50 a gallon in late April and early May. But as fighting in the Middle East escalated, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. started to rise again. On Tuesday it was $4.10, according to the auto club AAA.

After being attacked by the U.S. and Israel in late February, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels, causing a spike in gas prices. That accelerated inflation, causing Americans’ inflation-adjusted incomes to decline.

Americans remain soured on the economy after five years of elevated inflation, potentially posing a risk to President Donald Trump and Republicans in the midterm elections, which are now less than 100 days away.

Trump continues to blame inflation on his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden. Yet inflation has risen since Trump’s inauguration last year, to 3.5% from 3% in January 2025. It jumped even further after the Iran war began Feb. 28, when it was just 2.4%.

Write-in responses to the survey, which were collected from July 1 to July 22, remained pessimistic. The Board said references to gas prices were down slightly but remained elevated. Respondents' mention of food and grocery prices increased.

Government data shows that buying food to bring home has gotten 33% more expensive since the beginning of 2019. To navigate those higher prices, Americans have turned to couponing, comparison shopping and cutting back on favorite foods as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century.

Beef epitomizes out-of-control grocery prices for many Americans. The price of a pound of ground beef reached $6.82 in June — 79% more than at the beginning of 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

References to jobs and unemployment picked up slightly this month and views of the current job market fell. Expectations of how the labor market will be six months going forward improved slightly, but remained in negative territory.

U.S. employers slowed hiring last month and added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total. The unemployment rate declined to a low 4.2% from 4.3% in May, though the drop mostly occurred because many people out of work gave up looking and were no longer counted as unemployed.

The number of consumers who mentioned war and geopolitics decreased this month, but the Board suspects that recent escalation in fighting between Iran and the U.S. could cause those mentions to rise in the next survey.

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While none of these restaurants were forced to close, the sheer number of violations should be a wake-up call for both management and diners.

Topping the list was Tropical Chinese with an eye-popping 40 violations, followed by Tacology with 36 and Cacique Lunch with 32. The inspections documented everything from improper handwashing and unsafe food temperatures, to sanitation and maintenance problems. These businesses remained open, but violations at this level deserve recognition and customers deserve better.

**TROPICAL CHINESE

7991 BIRD ROAD

WESTCHESTER

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

INSPECTION DATE 7/24

40 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Employee touched soiled surfaces, then handled food, clean equipment, or single-service items without washing hands.”

“Inspector observed multiple employees touching dirty surfaces and then handling food, clean equipment, and single-service items without washing their hands.”

“Employee drank while preparing food, then continued handling food without washing hands.” Inspector observed several employees drinking at the cook line and then continuing to handle food without washing their hands."

“Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.” Inspector observed raw pork stored over wonton wrappers, raw shrimp over sliced radishes, and raw beef and raw chicken stored over cooked chicken in the walk-in cooler."

“Single-use gloves not changed after changing tasks.” Inspector observed employees changing tasks without changing gloves or washing their hands."

“Stop Sale issued for time/temperature controlled food due to temperature abuse.” Inspector observed raw steak at 55°F in a prep table. According to the operator, it had been placed there more than four hours earlier."

“Time/temperature controlled food held above 41°F.” Inspector observed raw steak at 55°F in the prep table and issued a Stop Sale. Repeat Violation"

“Food-contact surfaces soiled with food debris, mold-like substance, or slime.” Inspector observed soiled food prep areas, a dirty can opener, and shelves with grease and grime where food and single-service items were stored."

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing.” Inspector observed a container of small bowls stored inside the handwashing sink in the front kitchen. Repeat Violation"

“Incorrect chemical test kit provided.” Inspector found no test kit available to measure sanitizer concentration for the high-temperature dish machine."

“No soap provided at handwash sink.” Inspector observed no soap at the wait station handwashing sink. Repeat Violation"

“Non-pitting rust on food-contact equipment.” Inspector observed rust on dry-storage shelving, food shelves in both kitchens, ware washing shelves, and shelves holding single-service items. Repeat Violation"

“Nonfood-grade basting brush used with food.” Inspector observed a non-food-grade brush being used in an oil pan on the cook line. Repeat Violation"

“Black/green mold-like substance inside the ice machine.” Inspector observed mold-like buildup inside the ice machine in the back kitchen."

“Container without a handle used as a food scoop.” Inspector observed a bowl being used to scoop flour in the dry storage area.

“Food debris and grease buildup on equipment door handles.” Inspector observed grease and food residue on door handles of food storage containers in the back kitchen."

“Ceilings, ceiling tiles, or vents soiled.” Inspector observed grease, dust, and food debris on ceilings and vents in kitchen areas."

“Clean dishes not stored inverted or protected.” Inspector observed clean bowls and plates stored upright in the dry storage area."

“Broken or missing cove molding.” Inspector observed missing cove molding near the handwashing sink in the front kitchen.

“No covered waste receptacle in the women’s restroom.”

“Open beverage container in food preparation area.” Inspector observed an open can of Coca-Cola on a shelf at the cook line."

“Employee eating in a food preparation area.” Inspector observed cooks drinking from open containers and another employee eating a meal in the kitchen."

“Employee eating while preparing food.” Inspector observed cooks drinking from open containers and then continuing to handle food."

“Employee personal items stored in food preparation areas.” Inspector observed personal water bottles on prep counters and cell phones on food prep tables. Repeat Violation"

“Equipment in poor repair.” Inspector observed damaged door gaskets on the walk-in cooler, walk-in freezer, and an upright cooler near the dry storage area."

“Exterior doors with gaps.” Inspector observed gaps beneath three exterior doors near the walk-in cooler, ware washing area, and customer restrooms."

“Standing water on the floor.” Inspector observed standing water next to the cook line and along the wall in the front kitchen. Repeat Violation"

“Floor not cleaned properly.” Inspector observed food debris on the floor inside the walk-in cooler."

“Floors soiled with grease, food debris, and poultry blood.” Inspector observed poultry blood, grease, standing water, and food debris throughout the kitchen and dry storage areas, including beneath shelving and between equipment."

“Food stored on the floor.” Inspector observed chicken feet and dumplings stored on the walk-in cooler floor. Repeat Violation"

“Ice buildup in freezer.” Inspector observed excessive ice in the walk-in freezer and on the vents of a reach-in freezer."

“Tongs stored on equipment door handles.” Inspector observed tongs stored on oven handles. Repeat Violation"

“Utensil handles touching food.” Inspector observed utensil handles touching dry rice and flour inside storage bins."

“Utensils stored in standing water below 135°F.” Inspector observed utensils stored in standing water near the rice cookers."

“Dumpster missing drain plug.”

“No grease collection container under hood drip tray.” Inspector observed missing grease containers beneath the deep fryer and steamer hood system."

“Nonfood-contact surfaces soiled with grease and debris.” Inspector observed dirty cooler door gaskets, greasy hood filters, and rust buildup on hood filters. Repeat Violation"

“Stored food not covered.” Inspector observed frozen cooked duck uncovered inside the walk-in freezer. Repeat Violation"

“Walk-in cooler shelves rusted.” Inspector observed rust buildup on food storage shelves inside the walk-in cooler. Repeat Violation"

“Walls soiled with grease and food debris.” Inspector observed greasy walls behind the cook line and dirty walls in the dry storage area. Repeat Violation"

“Wet wiping cloths not kept clean.” Inspector observed soiled wiping cloths throughout the kitchen and cook line."

**CACIQUE LUNCH

112 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

INSPECTION DATE 7/23

32 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Employee began working with food without first washing hands.” Inspector observed employees changing tasks and continuing to handle food inside the kitchen without washing their hands."

“Raw animal food not separated from ready-to-eat food during preparation.” Inspector observed raw chicken stored over cooked ground beef."

“Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.” Inspector observed raw chicken stored over raw meat in a reach-in cooler next to the office."

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches.” Inspector observed one live small cockroach crawling across the kitchen floor before retreating underneath a reach-in cooler."

“Roach excrement and/or droppings present.” Inspector observed about 20 roach droppings beneath shelving in the second-floor dry storage area and about 15 more next to the water heater."

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature controlled foods due to temperature abuse.” Stop Sale was issued for cooked ground beef (47°F), flan (47°F), and cooked pork (57°F) that, according to the chef, had been stored in the cooler since previous days."

“Time/temperature controlled foods held above 41°F.” Inspector found numerous foods at unsafe temperatures, including raw chicken (67°F), raw beef (52°F & 57°F), cooked ground beef (47°F), cooked chicken (102°F), flan (47°F), salsa (57°F), lettuce (62°F), tomatoes (57°F), diced ham (87°F), cooked sausage (67°F), and cooked pork (57°F)."

“Hot-held foods held below 135°F.” Inspector found white rice at 123°F and chicken stock at 122°F."

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee with artificial nails handled exposed food or clean utensils without gloves.” Inspector observed an employee with long fingernails handling clean equipment and single-service items in the front lobby."

“Food-contact surfaces soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.” Inspector observed soiled cutting boards throughout the cook line."

“Employee training records incomplete.” Required employee training records were missing the instructor’s name and signature."

“Ready-to-eat foods held more than 24 hours not properly date marked.” Inspector observed cooked ground beef that was prepared on July 22 without a date mark."

“Food debris and residue on microwave and cooler door handles.”

“Ceilings not smooth, nonabsorbent or easily cleanable. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling in disrepair.”

“Ceiling tiles and vents soiled with grease, dust and debris.”

“Cold-holding equipment not maintained in good repair.” Inspector found a reach-in cooler operating at an ambient temperature of 57°F."

“Dead roaches on the premises.” Inspector observed one dead cockroach near the mop sink, one near the water heater, six dead roaches in first-floor dry storage, five large dead roaches beneath second-floor storage tables, and three dead roaches on shelving next to flour bins."

“Equipment and utensils not washed, rinsed and sanitized in the correct order.”

“Equipment in poor repair.” Inspector observed rusted prep tables, a prep table supported by a paint can, broken freezer lids, a non-operational reach-in cooler, and a cooler door missing its handle."

“Gap under exterior door.”

“Missing cove molding throughout kitchen and dry storage.”

“Walls damaged with holes and gaps.” Inspector observed holes under the three-compartment sink and extensive gaps around equipment, the water heater, mop sink, and dry storage areas."

“Light shields damaged or missing. Repeat Violation.”

“No handwashing sign at hand sink.”

“Nonfood-contact surfaces soiled with grease and debris. Repeat Violation.”

“Lime scale buildup inside dish machine.”

“Cutting boards excessively worn and no longer cleanable.”

“Reach-in cooler shelves soiled.”

“Unsealed concrete floors in food preparation and storage areas.”

“Wet wiping cloths not stored in sanitizer between uses.”

**TACOLOGY

700 SOUTH MIAMI AVE.

BRICKELL

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

INSPECTION DATE 7/21

36 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Cooked pork not cooked to a minimum internal temperature of 145°F.” Inspector observed cooked pork at 117°F on the front cook line and discussed proper cooking temperatures with employees."

“Employee began handling food without first washing hands. Inspector observed one employee begin cutting limes without washing hands at the ceviche station and another employee begin scooping ice without washing hands at the front mini bar.”

“Employee switched from handling raw food to ready-to-eat food without washing hands.” Inspector observed an employee handling raw shrimp and then touching shredded cheese and a clean plate without washing hands. The employee washed hands after being coached."

“Live, small flying insects present.” Inspector observed three small flying insects in the dry storage area and two small flying insects in the bar area near the ‘Margaritas and Micheladas’ sign."

“Scent spray stored next to clean glassware.” Inspector observed a scent spray next to clean glassware in the bar area. The bartender removed it."

“Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.” Inspector observed raw beef stored over cheese inside a reach-in cooler across from the cook line."

“Stop Sale issued for food not in a wholesome condition.” Inspector observed rice pudding in the walk-in cooler with a date exceeding the seven-day limit."

“Stop Sale issued for time/temperature controlled foods due to temperature abuse.” Inspector observed cooked chicken (49°F), rice (48°F), flan (55°F), and arroz con leche (59°F) that had been held in the units since previous days."

“Time/temperature controlled foods held above 41°F.” Inspector observed numerous foods at unsafe temperatures, including lettuce (68°F), pico de gallo (55°F), raw shrimp (43°F), raw beef (43°F & 56°F), raw chicken (42°F), cooked chicken (43°F & 49°F), cooked ground beef (69°F), flan (55°F), and arroz con leche (59°F). Employees added ice and took corrective action."

“Hot-held foods held below 135°F.” Inspector observed short ribs at 119°F, skirt steak at 117°F, and cooked chicken at 132°F. Employees began reheating the food."

“Food-contact surfaces soiled with food debris, mold-like substance, or slime.” Inspector observed heavily scarred cutting boards in use on the cook line, cutting boards stored against the wall that needed to be washed and sanitized, and clean plastic containers in dry storage requiring sanitizing before use."

“No paper towels at handwash sinks.” Inspector observed missing paper towels at all three bar handwashing sinks and the lobby prep area."

“No soap at handwash sinks.” Inspector observed missing soap at all three bar handwashing sinks and the lobby prep area."

“Cook-chill process conducted without an approved HACCP plan.” Inspector observed reduced-oxygen packaged cooked beef in the walk-in cooler that had been packaged more than 48 hours earlier."

“Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled.” Inspector observed an unlabeled spray bottle containing Windex, according to the operator."

“Ceiling tile missing.” Inspector observed missing ceiling tiles above the ice machine. A ceiling vent was also missing, and the detached vent was sitting on top of prep tables."

“Ceiling tiles and vents soiled with dust and food debris.” Inspector observed dirty ceiling tiles in the kitchen and beverage storage room. Repeat Violation"

“Clean equipment stored less than six inches off the floor.” Inspector observed multiple clean pots stored on the floor beneath an oven. Repeat Violation"

“Cold-holding equipment not maintained in good repair.”

“Employee food not properly separated from food served to the public.” Inspector observed employee food stored inside a reach-in cooler at the front mini bar."

“Employee personal items stored in food preparation area.” Inspector observed a cell phone on top of a prep table next to the ice machine."

“Equipment in poor repair.” Inspector observed a torn gasket on a reach-in cooler across from the cook line."

“Standing water on the floor.” Inspector observed standing water at the cook line, beverage storage room, food dry storage room, and dishwashing area."

“Food stored on the floor.” Inspector observed a three-gallon container of cooking oil stored on the floor next to the cook line."

“Walls damaged with holes and gaps.” Inspector observed gaps around pipes near the three-compartment sink and damage beneath prep tables in the bar area."

“Ice scoop handle touching ice.” Inspector observed the scoop handle in contact with ice."

“Limescale buildup inside the dishwasher.”

“Nonfood-contact surfaces soiled with grease and debris.” Inspector observed dirty cooler door gaskets and grease and soil buildup between equipment throughout the kitchen and bar areas."

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer.” Inspector observed ice accumulation in the bar-area reach-in freezer."

“No ambient air thermometer in reach-in cooler.” Inspector observed no thermometer in the reach-in cooler at the bar."

“Reach-in cooler shelves rusted.” Inspector observed rusted shelves in coolers across from the cook line, next to the ice machine, and in the bar area."

“Equipment and utensils washed, rinsed, and sanitized in the wrong order.” Inspector coached employees on the correct three-compartment sink procedure."

“Cutting boards excessively worn and no longer cleanable.” Inspector observed multiple cutting boards with deep cut marks at the cook line and storage area."

“Spatula improperly stored.” Inspector observed a spatula stored between the wall and the three-compartment sink."

“Standing water inside reach-in cooler.” Inspector observed standing water inside coolers next to the ice machine and in the lobby bar area."

“Time/temperature controlled food thawed improperly.” Inspector observed frozen black beans and raw chicken thawing in standing cold water. Employees were coached on proper thawing procedures."

Aunque ninguno de estos restaurantes fue obligado a cerrar, la gran cantidad de violaciones detectadas debería ser una llamada de atención tanto para la administración como para los clientes.

Encabezando la lista está Tropical Chinese con 40 violaciones, seguido por Tacology con 36 y Cacique Lunch con 32. Las inspecciones documentaron desde prácticas inadecuadas de lavado de manos y temperaturas inseguras para los alimentos, hasta problemas de saneamiento y mantenimiento. Estos negocios permanecieron abiertos, pero un nivel de violaciones como este merece atención y los clientes merecen algo mejor.

*TROPICAL CHINESE

7991 BIRD ROAD

WESTCHESTER

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA QUEJA

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN: 24 DE JULIO

40 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Un empleado tocó superficies sucias y luego manipuló alimentos, equipos limpios o artículos de un solo uso sin lavarse las manos.”

“El inspector observó a varios empleados tocar superficies sucias y luego manipular alimentos, equipos limpios y artículos de un solo uso sin lavarse las manos.”

“Un empleado bebió mientras preparaba alimentos y luego continuó manipulándolos sin lavarse las manos”. El inspector observó a varios empleados bebiendo en la línea de cocina y luego continuando con la manipulación de alimentos sin lavarse las manos.

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir”. El inspector observó carne de cerdo cruda almacenada sobre envolturas para wonton, camarones crudos sobre rábanos en rodajas y carne de res y pollo crudos almacenados sobre pollo cocido dentro del refrigerador.

“Guantes de un solo uso no fueron cambiados al cambiar de tarea”. El inspector observó a empleados cambiar de tarea sin cambiarse los guantes ni lavarse las manos.

“Se emitió una orden de Stop Sale para alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura debido a abuso de temperatura”. El inspector observó carne de res cruda a 55 °F en una mesa de preparación. Según el operador, había sido colocada allí más de cuatro horas antes.

“Alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura mantenidos por encima de 41 °F“. El inspector observó carne de res cruda a 55 °F en la mesa de preparación y emitió una orden de Stop Sale. Violación reiterada.

“Superficies en contacto con alimentos sucias con residuos de comida, sustancia similar a moho o baba”. El inspector observó áreas de preparación sucias, un abrelatas sucio y estantes con grasa y suciedad donde se almacenaban alimentos y artículos de un solo uso.

“Lavamanos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos”. El inspector observó un recipiente con tazones pequeños almacenado dentro del lavamanos de la cocina delantera. Violación reiterada.

“Se proporcionó un kit incorrecto para analizar productos químicos”. El inspector encontró que no había un kit para medir la concentración del desinfectante de la máquina lavavajillas de alta temperatura.

“No había jabón en el lavamanos”. El inspector observó que faltaba jabón en el lavamanos de la estación de servicio. Violación reiterada.

“Óxido sin perforaciones en equipos en contacto con alimentos”. El inspector observó óxido en estanterías del área de almacenamiento seco, estantes de alimentos en ambas cocinas, estantes del área de lavado y estantes para artículos de un solo uso. Violación reiterada.

“Se utilizó una brocha que no es de grado alimenticio para manipular alimentos”. El inspector observó una brocha no apta para alimentos siendo utilizada en un recipiente con aceite en la línea de cocina. Violación reiterada.

“Sustancia negra o verde similar a moho dentro de la máquina de hielo”. El inspector observó acumulación similar a moho dentro de la máquina de hielo de la cocina trasera.

“Se utilizó un recipiente sin asa para servir alimentos”. El inspector observó un tazón utilizado para sacar harina en el área de almacenamiento seco.

“Residuos de comida y acumulación de grasa en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos”. El inspector observó grasa y residuos de alimentos en las manijas de los recipientes de almacenamiento de alimentos en la cocina trasera.

“Techos, plafones o conductos de ventilación sucios”. El inspector observó grasa, polvo y residuos de alimentos en techos y ventilaciones de las áreas de cocina.

“Platos limpios no almacenados boca abajo ni protegidos”. El inspector observó tazones y platos limpios almacenados boca arriba en el área de almacenamiento seco.

“Moldura sanitaria rota o faltante”. El inspector observó que faltaba moldura sanitaria cerca del lavamanos en la cocina delantera.

“No había un recipiente de basura con tapa en el baño de mujeres.”

“Recipiente de bebida abierto en el área de preparación de alimentos”. El inspector observó una lata abierta de Coca-Cola en un estante de la línea de cocina.

“Empleado comiendo en un área de preparación de alimentos”. El inspector observó cocineros bebiendo de recipientes abiertos y a otro empleado comiendo dentro de la cocina.

“Empleado comiendo mientras preparaba alimentos”. El inspector observó cocineros bebiendo de recipientes abiertos y luego continuar manipulando alimentos.

“Objetos personales de empleados almacenados en áreas de preparación de alimentos”. El inspector observó botellas de agua personales sobre las mesas de preparación y teléfonos celulares sobre mesas donde se preparaban alimentos. Violación reiterada.

“Equipos en mal estado”. El inspector observó empaques dañados en las puertas del refrigerador, del congelador y de un refrigerador vertical cerca del área de almacenamiento seco.

“Puertas exteriores con aberturas”. El inspector observó espacios debajo de tres puertas exteriores cerca del refrigerador, el área de lavado y los baños para clientes.

“Agua estancada en el piso”. El inspector observó agua acumulada junto a la línea de cocina y a lo largo de una pared en la cocina delantera. Violación reiterada.

“Piso sin limpieza adecuada”. El inspector observó residuos de alimentos en el piso dentro del refrigerador.

“Pisos sucios con grasa, residuos de alimentos y sangre de aves”. El inspector observó sangre de aves, grasa, agua estancada y residuos de alimentos en toda la cocina y el área de almacenamiento seco, incluso debajo de estantes y entre los equipos.

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso”. El inspector observó patas de pollo y dumplings almacenados sobre el piso del refrigerador. Violación reiterada.

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador”. El inspector observó exceso de hielo en el congelador y en las rejillas de ventilación de un congelador vertical.

“Pinzas almacenadas sobre las manijas de los equipos”. El inspector observó pinzas colocadas sobre las manijas del horno. Violación reiterada.

“Los mangos de los utensilios tocaban los alimentos”. El inspector observó mangos de utensilios en contacto con arroz y harina almacenados en recipientes.

“Utensilios almacenados en agua estancada por debajo de 135 °F“. El inspector observó utensilios almacenados en agua estancada cerca de las arroceras.

“El contenedor de basura carecía del tapón de drenaje.”

“No había recipiente para recolectar grasa debajo de la bandeja de goteo de la campana”. El inspector observó la ausencia de recipientes para grasa debajo de la freidora y del sistema de campana del vaporizador.

“Superficies que no están en contacto con alimentos sucias con grasa y residuos”. El inspector observó empaques sucios en puertas de refrigeradores, filtros de campanas con grasa y acumulación de óxido en los filtros. Violación reiterada.

“Alimentos almacenados sin cubrir”. El inspector observó pato cocido congelado sin cubrir dentro del congelador. Violación reiterada.

“Estantes del refrigerador con óxido”. El inspector observó acumulación de óxido en los estantes para almacenamiento de alimentos dentro del refrigerador. Violación reiterada.

“Paredes sucias con grasa y residuos de alimentos”. El inspector observó paredes con grasa detrás de la línea de cocina y paredes sucias en el área de almacenamiento seco. Violación reiterada.

“Paños húmedos de limpieza no se mantenían limpios”. El inspector observó paños de limpieza sucios en toda la cocina y la línea de cocina.

*CACIQUE LUNCH

112 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN: 23 DE JULIO

32 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Un empleado comenzó a trabajar con alimentos sin lavarse primero las manos”. El inspector observó a empleados cambiar de tarea y continuar manipulando alimentos dentro de la cocina sin lavarse las manos.

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal no separados de alimentos listos para consumir durante la preparación”. El inspector observó pollo crudo almacenado sobre carne molida cocida.

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir”. El inspector observó pollo crudo almacenado sobre carne cruda en un refrigerador vertical junto a la oficina.

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas”. El inspector observó una cucaracha pequeña viva cruzando el piso de la cocina antes de esconderse debajo de un refrigerador vertical.

“Presencia de excrementos de cucarachas”. El inspector observó aproximadamente 20 excrementos de cucaracha debajo de estanterías en el área de almacenamiento seco del segundo piso y unos 15 más junto al calentador de agua.

“Se emitió una orden de Stop Sale para alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura debido a abuso de temperatura”. Se emitió una orden de Stop Sale para carne molida cocida (47 °F), flan (47 °F) y carne de cerdo cocida (57 °F) que, según el chef, habían permanecido almacenados en el refrigerador desde días anteriores.

“Alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura mantenidos por encima de 41 °F“. El inspector encontró numerosos alimentos a temperaturas inseguras, incluidos pollo crudo (67 °F), carne de res cruda (52 °F y 57 °F), carne molida cocida (47 °F), pollo cocido (102 °F), flan (47 °F), salsa (57 °F), lechuga (62 °F), tomates (57 °F), jamón en cubos (87 °F), salchicha cocida (67 °F) y carne de cerdo cocida (57 °F).

“Alimentos calientes mantenidos por debajo de 135 °F“. El inspector encontró arroz blanco a 123 °F y caldo de pollo a 122 °F.

“Falta el dispositivo rompevacío en el grifo del fregadero para trapeadores”. Violación reiterada.

“Empleado con uñas artificiales manipuló alimentos expuestos o utensilios limpios sin usar guantes”. El inspector observó a un empleado con uñas largas manipulando equipos limpios y artículos de un solo uso en el área del vestíbulo.

“Superficies en contacto con alimentos sucias con residuos de comida, sustancia similar a moho o baba”. El inspector observó tablas para cortar sucias en toda la línea de cocina.

“Registros de capacitación de empleados incompletos”. Los registros obligatorios carecían del nombre y la firma del instructor.

“Alimentos listos para consumir almacenados por más de 24 horas sin el marcado correcto de la fecha”. El inspector observó carne molida cocida preparada el 22 de julio sin fecha de identificación.

“Residuos de alimentos en las manijas del microondas y de las puertas de los refrigeradores.”

“Los techos no son lisos, no absorbentes o de fácil limpieza”. Violación reiterada.

“Techo en mal estado.”

“Plafones y conductos de ventilación sucios con grasa, polvo y residuos.”

“Equipo de refrigeración en mal estado”. El inspector encontró un refrigerador vertical funcionando a una temperatura ambiente de 57 °F.

“Presencia de cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento”. El inspector observó una cucaracha muerta cerca del fregadero para trapeadores, otra junto al calentador de agua, seis cucarachas muertas en el área de almacenamiento seco del primer piso, cinco cucarachas grandes muertas debajo de las mesas de almacenamiento del segundo piso y tres cucarachas muertas en estanterías junto a recipientes de harina.

“Equipos y utensilios no fueron lavados, enjuagados y desinfectados en el orden correcto.”

“Equipos en mal estado”. El inspector observó mesas de preparación oxidadas, una mesa de preparación sostenida por una lata de pintura, tapas de congeladores rotas, un refrigerador vertical fuera de servicio y la puerta de un refrigerador sin manija.

“Abertura debajo de la puerta exterior.”

“Falta moldura sanitaria en toda la cocina y el área de almacenamiento seco.”

“Paredes dañadas con agujeros y aberturas”. El inspector observó agujeros debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos y amplias aberturas alrededor de los equipos, el calentador de agua, el fregadero para trapeadores y las áreas de almacenamiento seco.

“Protectores de luces dañados o faltantes”. Violación reiterada.

“No había letrero de lavado de manos en el lavamanos.”

“Superficies que no están en contacto con alimentos sucias con grasa y residuos”. Violación reiterada.

“Acumulación de sarro dentro de la máquina lavavajillas.”

“Tablas para cortar excesivamente desgastadas y que ya no pueden limpiarse adecuadamente.”

“Estantes del refrigerador vertical sucios.”

“Pisos de concreto sin sellar en las áreas de preparación y almacenamiento de alimentos.”

“Paños húmedos de limpieza no se almacenaban en desinfectante entre usos.”

*TACOLOGY

700 SOUTH MIAMI AVE.

BRICKELL

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA QUEJA

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN: 21 DE JULIO

36 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“La carne de cerdo cocida no alcanzó una temperatura interna mínima de 145 °F“. El inspector observó carne de cerdo cocida a 117 °F en la línea de cocina delantera y habló con los empleados sobre las temperaturas adecuadas de cocción.

“Un empleado comenzó a manipular alimentos sin lavarse primero las manos”. El inspector observó a un empleado comenzar a cortar limones sin lavarse las manos en la estación de ceviche y a otro comenzar a servir hielo sin lavarse las manos en el mini bar delantero.

“Un empleado pasó de manipular alimentos crudos a alimentos listos para consumir sin lavarse las manos”. El inspector observó a un empleado manipular camarones crudos y luego tocar queso rallado y un plato limpio sin lavarse las manos. El empleado se lavó las manos después de recibir instrucciones.

“Presencia de insectos voladores pequeños vivos”. El inspector observó tres insectos voladores pequeños en el área de almacenamiento seco y dos en el área del bar cerca del letrero de “Margaritas and Micheladas”.

“Ambientador almacenado junto a vasos limpios”. El inspector observó un ambientador junto a cristalería limpia en el área del bar. El cantinero lo retiró.

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir”. El inspector observó carne de res cruda almacenada sobre queso dentro de un refrigerador vertical frente a la línea de cocina.

“Se emitió una orden de Stop Sale para alimentos que no estaban en condiciones aptas para el consumo”. El inspector observó arroz con leche dentro del refrigerador con una fecha que excedía el límite permitido de siete días.

“Se emitió una orden de Stop Sale para alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura debido a abuso de temperatura”. El inspector observó pollo cocido (49 °F), arroz (48 °F), flan (55 °F) y arroz con leche (59 °F) que habían permanecido almacenados en las unidades desde días anteriores.

“Alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura mantenidos por encima de 41 °F“. El inspector observó numerosos alimentos a temperaturas inseguras, entre ellos lechuga (68 °F), pico de gallo (55 °F), camarones crudos (43 °F), carne de res cruda (43 °F y 56 °F), pollo crudo (42 °F), pollo cocido (43 °F y 49 °F), carne molida cocida (69 °F), flan (55 °F) y arroz con leche (59 °F). Los empleados agregaron hielo y tomaron medidas correctivas.

“Alimentos calientes mantenidos por debajo de 135 °F“. El inspector observó costillas de res a 119 °F, arrachera a 117 °F y pollo cocido a 132 °F. Los empleados comenzaron a recalentar los alimentos.

“Superficies en contacto con alimentos sucias con residuos de comida, sustancia similar a moho o baba”. El inspector observó tablas para cortar muy desgastadas en uso en la línea de cocina, tablas almacenadas contra la pared que necesitaban ser lavadas y desinfectadas, y recipientes plásticos limpios en el área de almacenamiento seco que requerían desinfección antes de su uso.

“No había toallas de papel en los lavamanos”. El inspector observó que faltaban toallas de papel en los tres lavamanos del bar y en el área de preparación del vestíbulo.

“No había jabón en los lavamanos”. El inspector observó que faltaba jabón en los tres lavamanos del bar y en el área de preparación del vestíbulo.

“Se realizó un proceso de cocción y enfriamiento sin un plan HACCP aprobado”. El inspector observó carne de res cocida empacada con reducción de oxígeno dentro del refrigerador que había sido empacada más de 48 horas antes.

“Botella con sustancia tóxica sin etiqueta”. El inspector observó una botella rociadora sin identificar que, según el operador, contenía Windex.

“Faltaba una placa del techo”. El inspector observó plafones faltantes sobre la máquina de hielo. También faltaba una rejilla de ventilación del techo y la pieza desprendida estaba colocada sobre mesas de preparación.

“Plafones y conductos de ventilación sucios con polvo y residuos de alimentos”. El inspector observó plafones sucios en la cocina y en el cuarto de almacenamiento de bebidas. Violación reiterada.

“Equipos limpios almacenados a menos de seis pulgadas del piso”. El inspector observó varias ollas limpias almacenadas en el piso debajo de un horno. Violación reiterada.

“Equipo de refrigeración en mal estado.”

“Alimentos de empleados no separados adecuadamente de los alimentos destinados al público”. El inspector observó alimentos de empleados almacenados dentro de un refrigerador vertical en el mini bar delantero.

“Objetos personales de empleados almacenados en el área de preparación de alimentos”. El inspector observó un teléfono celular sobre una mesa de preparación junto a la máquina de hielo.

“Equipos en mal estado”. El inspector observó un empaque roto en la puerta de un refrigerador vertical frente a la línea de cocina.

“Agua estancada en el piso”. El inspector observó agua acumulada en la línea de cocina, el cuarto de almacenamiento de bebidas, el área de almacenamiento seco y el área de lavado de utensilios.

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso”. El inspector observó un recipiente de tres galones con aceite para cocinar almacenado directamente sobre el piso junto a la línea de cocina.

“Paredes dañadas con agujeros y aberturas”. El inspector observó espacios alrededor de tuberías cerca del fregadero de tres compartimentos y daños debajo de las mesas de preparación en el área del bar.

“El mango de la pala para hielo estaba en contacto con el hielo”. El inspector observó el mango de la pala tocando el hielo.

“Acumulación de sarro dentro de la máquina lavavajillas.”

“Superficies que no están en contacto con alimentos sucias con grasa y residuos”. El inspector observó empaques sucios en las puertas de los refrigeradores y acumulación de grasa y suciedad entre los equipos en toda la cocina y el área del bar.

“Acumulación de hielo en un congelador vertical”. El inspector observó acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical del área del bar.

“No había termómetro de temperatura ambiente en el refrigerador vertical”. El inspector observó que el refrigerador del bar no tenía termómetro.

“Estantes del refrigerador vertical oxidados”. El inspector observó estantes oxidados en los refrigeradores frente a la línea de cocina, junto a la máquina de hielo y en el área del bar.

“Equipos y utensilios fueron lavados, enjuagados y desinfectados en el orden incorrecto”. El inspector instruyó a los empleados sobre el procedimiento correcto para el fregadero de tres compartimentos.

“Tablas para cortar excesivamente desgastadas y que ya no pueden limpiarse adecuadamente”. El inspector observó varias tablas para cortar con marcas profundas de cuchillo en la línea de cocina y el área de almacenamiento.

“Espátula almacenada de forma inadecuada”. El inspector observó una espátula colocada entre la pared y el fregadero de tres compartimentos.

“Agua estancada dentro de un refrigerador vertical”. El inspector observó agua acumulada dentro de los refrigeradores junto a la máquina de hielo y en el área del bar del vestíbulo.

“Alimentos con control de tiempo y temperatura descongelados de forma inadecuada”. El inspector observó frijoles negros congelados y pollo crudo descongelándose en agua fría estancada. Los empleados recibieron instrucciones sobre los procedimientos adecuados de descongelación.

Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were linked to the larger outbreak in eastern Congo’s remote province of Ituri, which borders Uganda. The first cases in Uganda were Congolese who crossed the border to seek treatment for an unknown illness before it was known they had Ebola, health authorities have said.

After what health officials believe was weeks of transmission, Congo announced its outbreak on May 15, the same day that Uganda confirmed two Ebola cases — including a man who had already died.

While a total of 20 cases were reported in Uganda, health authorities say there is currently no indication of further spread within the country.

The last patient was released June 16, and Ugandan authorities have waited the World Health Organization-recommended 42 days – or two incubation cycles for Ebola – to declare the country free of the disease.

"Uganda’s 2026 Ebola outbreak arose from a fully documented importation event,” unlike previous outbreaks in the country, the Ugandan Health Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

It was now possible to declare Uganda free of Ebola after “all identified contacts were institutionally quarantined and completed the mandatory 21-day follow-up without evidence of further transmission," the statement said. “Enhanced surveillance has detected no unexplained community transmission."

The Bundibugyo type of Ebola virus responsible for the outbreak has no approved vaccine or treatment. The region’s outbreak has been declared a global health emergency.

Ugandan health authorities have experience in acting quickly to address Ebola outbreaks. After the confirmation of Ebola cases in Uganda in May, the president urged Ugandans to “ stop shaking hands,” and ordered the postponement of an annual religious event that attracts thousands of pilgrims — from Congo and elsewhere — who converge around a Catholic shrine just outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in June.

Other measures included the suspension of all public transportation and flights between Uganda and Congo, where the outbreak remains worrisome.

Confirmed cases in Congo have reached 3,262, its Health Ministry said in an overnight update. Data by Congolese health authorities showed that 1,437 patients have died, in what officials have said is the fastest Ebola outbreak on record.

The Ebola case number in Congo is likely to top the previous highest toll in the country in the next few days. That outbreak lasted two years, while this one is only 10 weeks in.

Only the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa, considered the worst in history, has a higher toll, with 28,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths.

The speed of transmission in the current outbreak comes amid concerns from residents that many communities in the affected provinces are either unreachable or have been abandoned by responders in recent days over safety concerns amid attacks from angry residents and rebels.

Tracing and isolating Ebola contacts is seen as key to stopping the spread of the disease, which usually manifests as hemorrhagic fever.

A family of fruit bats is believed to be the natural hosts of the viruses that cause Ebola, according to the World Health Organization. Ebola is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of

We are putting the rainy season on pause again Wednesday through Friday with far fewer storms. Only an isolated storm or two is expected to develop with drier air and Saharan dust working its way in. This will allow temperatures to reach record levels in the middle 90s, especially Thursday and Friday.

Italian soccer federation president Giovanni Malagò announced Mancini as the new Italy coach on Tuesday, adding that Claudio Ranieri will become the new technical director after Paolo Maldini stepped down the previous day — just 16 days after being appointed.

“Time was running out … I believed the person who should become the new coach of Italy is Roberto Mancini, for a whole list of reasons,” Malagò said. “There will be a press conference tomorrow with both Claudio Ranieri and Roberto Mancini.”

The 61-year-old Mancini led the Azzurri to the European Championship title in 2021 but shockingly resigned as Italy coach in August 2023, taking over Saudi Arabia’s national team two weeks later.

“It is clear that all the necessary assessments have been made,” Malagò said when asked about Mancini's sudden departure three years ago. “I certainly took it into consideration; I am aware of his recent apologies, and obviously, everyone has made the appropriate evaluations.”

The Italian national team is in crisis after failing for a third straight time to qualify for the World Cup, prompting the resignations of FIGC president Gabriele Gravina and coach Gennaro Gattuso in April.

Mancini's first spell

Mancini’s first spell as Italy coach came immediately after the team missed out on the 2018 World Cup, having lost to Sweden in a qualifying playoff.

He revived the Azzurri by adding flair and youth to a team that won admirers all over the continent during the year-delayed Euro 2020 — beating England at Wembley Stadium in a penalty shootout for the trophy.

Between 2018 and 2021, Mancini coached Italy to a world-record 37-match unbeaten run.

However, a 1-0 semifinal playoff loss to 67th-ranked North Macedonia at home in 2022 meant that the Azzurri again missed out on the World Cup.

Mancini nevertheless kept his position before surprisingly quitting in August 2023. He left Saudi Arabia in 2024 and was most recently coach at Al-Sadd in Qatar, before departing last month.

Mancini also previously steered Inter Milan and Manchester City to league titles.

Pirlo, Guardiola and Ancelotti

The appointment comes the day after Andrea Pirlo was dropped as the leading candidate for the Italy job amid political concerns over a sponsorship deal with a Russian betting firm.

That led to the departures of Maldini and special adviser Leonardo by what Malagò stressed was “mutual consent.”

“Practically before we had even started, we were dealing with a unique situation,” Malagò added. “There was no conflict. With utmost respect, like in the best families, there was a calm discussion and a clear and serene consensus that it was best to go our separate ways.”

Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti had already turned down offers to coach the Azzurri. Former Italy coach Antonio Conte was also in contention.

Don't expect immediate miracles from Mancini

Italy next plays in September and October, when it will face Belgium, Turkey and France in the Nations League.

“The new coach will have two training sessions to prepare for the first game,” Malagò said. “And since the game against Bosnia, I don’t think we have given passports to Lamine Yamal, (Kylian) Mbappé and (Harry) Kane.

“Now we have to do the best with what we have, knowing that we are playing in a group with three teams that went to the World Cup, two of which finished in the last eight.”

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Judges read 163 novels to come up with the 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) Booker Prize, a list described by historian Mary Beard, head of the judging panel, as literary “dynamite.”

The list includes James’ “The Disappearers,” about a group of gay men in a hostile 1980s Jamaica; Stuart’s “ John of John,” a story of father-son secrets on a remote Scottish island; and Strout’s heartfelt small-town tale “The Things We Never Say.”

James won the Booker in 2015 for “A Brief History of Seven Killings” and Stuart won in 2020 for “Shuggie Bain.” Strout’s “Oh William!” was a finalist in 2022. She won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009 for “Olive Kitteridge.”

They sit alongside lesser-known names on a Booker longlist that includes authors with roots in Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and the United States.

Three of those on the list are debut authors: Turkish-American writer Kenan Orhan for family history story “The Renovation,” British author Rebecca Perry for Medieval-to-modern tale “May We Feed the King” and Ireland’s Djamel White for “All Them Dogs,” a thriller set in the Dublin underworld.

White, at 28, is the youngest author in the running. The oldest is 81-year-old M. John Harrison, whose postapocalyptic tale “The End of Everything” is a rare science fiction novel to make the Booker list.

The other contenders are “The Shadow of the Object” by Chloe Aridjis, “Black Bag” by Luke Kennard, “The Vivisectors” by Missouri Williams, “Switzy” by Emma Cline, “Helen of Nowhere” by Makenna Goodman and Gwendoline Riley’s “The Palm House.”

Beard said the five jurors, who include Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and American novelist Patricia Lockwood, tried to look beyond the idea of a typical Booker winner – “slightly serious, about to be classic.” Instead they chose novels that are “trying to expand the boundaries of how we can think about ourselves in completely different ways,”

“Sometimes they’re using humor, sometimes it’s pathos, sometimes there’s shock value,” Beard said. “They’re risk-takers. They are dynamite. They say ‘Come on, try seeing it a different way.’”

Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers and is open to novels from any country published in the U.K. and Ireland. Last year’s winner was “Flesh” by Hungarian-British writer David Szalay.

The judges will announce six finalists on Sept. 22, and the winner will be revealed Nov. 9 at a ceremony in London.

Fujimori juró ante el Congreso e indicó que defenderá la soberanía nacional, la libertad, la democracia y la independencia de poderes.

La conservadora, de 51 años, añadió que cumplirá y hará cumplir la Constitución, que respetará las leyes y velará por la integridad física y moral de todos los peruanos, “en especial de los que han sido históricamente postergados”.

Luego se colocó la banda presidencial de colores rojo y blanco elaborada con una tela brillante e hilos bañados en oro.

La hija del exmandatario Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) —fallecido en 2024 y quien estuvo 16 años preso por corrupción y asesinato— retorna más de un cuarto de siglo después al palacio presidencial donde vivió y fue primera dama tras el divorcio de sus progenitores en 1994 tras imponerse en junio en un reñido balotaje al progresista Roberto Sánchez en su cuarto intento por alcanzar el poder.

A pesar de la larga inestabilidad política que antecedió a su triunfo —con ocho presidentes en la última década— la conservadora, de 51 años, encontrará a un país con una economía estable y en crecimiento favorecida por las expertaciones de minerales.

Su principal reto será el combate a la delincuencia organizada, en particular las extorsiones que se han expandido por casi todo Perú, donde las denuncias por ese delito pasaron de 2.421 en 2019 a 26.734 en 2025, según datos oficiales.

Las extorsiones golpean la economía de miles de pequeños negocios que son amenazados con ataques con explosivos o incendios y que han cobrando la vida de 239 transportistas en 2025, sobre todo de mototaxistas que operan en las zonas más pobres.

La oposición política ha formulado una serie de pedidos a Fujimori, incluida la derogación de un conjunto de leyes aprobadas por el anterior Parlamento dirigido por el fujimorismo que, según los expertos, debilitan la lucha contra el crimen organizado.

Esas normas eliminan la detención preventiva en casos sin flagrancia, impiden procesar a partidos políticos como grupos criminales, elevan los requisitos para confiscar bienes a grupos delictivos y dificultan la colaboración eficaz y los allanamientos.

La líder conservadora prometió en campaña que enfrentará el crimen con “mano dura” siguiendo el modelo del presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele. También ha dicho que construirá una cárcel similar a la salvadoreña Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo e implantará jueces con el rostro cubierto como ocurrió durante el gobierno de su padre.

Los opositores le han solicitado, además, una comisión para investigar las muertes de 50 civiles a manos de la fuerza pública durante las manifestaciones de 2022 y 2023 que exigían nuevas elecciones y que surgieron tras la destitución del entonces presidente Pedro Castillo (2021-2022).

Los familiares de los fallecidos en las protestas no reconocen a Fujimori como presidenta y protestaron antes de su toma de posesión. Milagros Samillán, hermana de uno de los 50 civiles asesinados, indicó a la prensa que consideran a Fujimori responsable de blindar a la entonces mandataria Dina Boluarte, la sucesora de Castillo. También la señalan como la "hija de un dictador” que violó derechos humanos.

Los familiares lavaron banderas rojiblancas de Perú. “La justicia está lejos de nosotros, hoy lavamos la bandera en memoria de esos mártires”, dijo Samillán, hermana de Marco Samillán, un estudiante de Medicina asesinado en 2023 por la fuerza pública cuando socorría a manifestantes heridos.

Agregó que “Keiko Fujimori no nos representa, no es nuestra presidenta, lavamos la bandera que debería estar limpia, pero sigue mandacha de sangre, injusticia, corrupción e impunidad”.

Castillo fue condenado a 11 años de cárcel por conspiración para una rebelión y un sector de la oposición pide que Fujimori libere al expresidente.

Fujimori no se ha referido a ninguno de los pedidos, aunque dijo a mediados de julio que cree “profundamente en la reconciliación”.

About three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts — with many redactions — were released by the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, after Biden lost a prolonged legal fight to keep his conversations with his memoir ghostwriter, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, private.

“They didn't even know I had this,” Biden told Zwonitzer in October 2016, near the end of his second term as Barack Obama's vice president, as he talked about sensitive foreign policy matters handled by the administration.

In one 2017 session, after Biden had left the West Wing and before he'd launched his own presidential campaign, he appeared to admit retaining classified information from his time as vice president.

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden said. “I wrote the President a handwritten 40-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Iraq -- I mean, to Afghanistan on the grounds that it wouldn’t matter, that the day we left would be like the day before we arrived.”

The potentially classified information itself is redacted in both the audio and transcripts that the Oversight Project released.

The right-wing group first sued to obtain the tapes after Special Counsel Robert Hur decided in 2024 not to charge Biden for how he handled classified information. Biden cooperated with Hur’s inquiry and told the special prosecutor during his presidency that he did not intentionally mishandle any classified material.

Hur, who obtained the tapes as part of his inquiry, said in announcing his decision that he believed a jury would find Biden a sympathetic figure because of his age and what Hur described as a “poor memory” — a statement that became a flashpoint in public debate about Biden's age and fitness for the presidency.

Biden was 74 when the interviews began. He was 81 and seeking reelection when Hur released his report in early 2024, though Biden later ended his campaign for a second term after a halting debate performance against Republican Donald Trump.

The tapes contain instances of Biden being unable to recall some dates and details of topics he was discussing with Zwonitzer. Biden also showed a command of many details, recalling meetings and details of conversations referenced in the notes he shared.

At the Oversight Project, Vice President of Litigation Jeff Clark insisted the tapes prove Biden's decline.

“The tapes have always belonged to the American People, the Oversight Project just delivered them to their rightful owner,” Clark said in a statement. “The knowledge of his deterioration was well-established.”

A Biden spokesman blasted the release as politically motivated.

“President Biden’s conversations for a book a decade ago that discussed his late son are private, and were provided to the Department of Justice on the express condition they stay that way,” said TJ Ducklo. “Reversing course and making them public is just the latest example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retribution.”

Biden initially sued to stop the Department of Justice from releasing the material, claiming the conversations were private. But he dropped his suit after a divided panel of appeals court judges rejected his bid. Biden could have petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene or asked for a rehearing by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel from the circuit court found a “substantial” public interest in disclosing the material.

The two leaders also plan to discuss the framework agreement the U.S. and Israel signed with Lebanon over the Israel-Hezbollah war and the expansion of the Abraham Accords, according to a White House official.

Trump also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral, which was their second sit-down this month. Sen. Lindsey Graham will be eulogized Tuesday during memorial services across Washington. Trump is expected to deliver remarks at the cathedral, alongside Fox News’ Sean Hannity and other conservative leaders.

Later, Trump joined guests and foreign leaders at Washington National Cathedral to eulogize Sen. Lindsey Graham, who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad.

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Air Force begins process to rename base after Sen. Lindsey Graham

The U.S. Air Force has begun taking steps to rename Joint Base Charleston in honor of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, an Air Force official says.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal military matters, said Air Force Secretary Troy Meink signed a memo Monday to begin the process of renaming the base to Joint Base Lindsey Graham.

The official said there was no immediate timeline on how long the process would take to rename the base, which is adjacent to Charleston International Airport. The renaming was reported earlier by the Post and Courier.

Graham served in the Air Force, the Air Force Reserves and the Air National Guard for more than 30 years as a lawyer before retiring at the rank of colonel, according to his Senate website.

He was honored at a memorial service Tuesday after he died suddenly on July 11.

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Trump reflects on Graham’s loss in rare display of emotion

Speaking at the lectern during his tribute to Graham, Trump paused to note the difficulty of the moment.

“I will say, this memorial service — it’s so hard to say: memorial service for Lindsey,” Trump said before continuing.

Toward the end of his roughly 12-minute tribute, Trump looked upward and suggested Graham was “watching us” now.

“Our nation needs more men and women like that great person sitting, laying — wherever he may be,” Trump said. “I think I know where he is, and I think he’s up there. I think he’s watching us. I’m pretty sure of it.”

Trump highlights defense of Kavanaugh as perhaps Graham’s ‘finest hour’

Trump recalled the passionate defense Graham issued during the confirmation hearing in 2018 for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during Trump's first term as president.

Christine Blasey Ford had come forward and accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were in high school, an allegation he denied.

Graham, who was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee considering the nomination, passionately defended Kavanaugh, who later was confirmed to the high court.

“His impassioned defense of a wonderful person, a great gentleman, Justice Kavanaugh, ended a disgraceful attack on this very good man and gave us one of the greatest moments the Senate has ever seen,” Trump said. “It was a truly monumental moment in Senate history. I believe it was Lindsey’s perhaps finest hour.”

Kavanaugh was among the mourners at Washington National Cathedral.

Trump eulogizes Graham, says ‘he left us much too soon’

Trump remembered Graham as someone who became a “constant fixture of American politics at the highest level, and a force to be reckoned with all over the world.”

“For more than 30 years, nothing of consequence happened in this capital without Lindsey Graham knowing about it. Nothing of significance happened anywhere in the world without Lindsey Graham having a view on it,” Trump said. “And no bill became law in the most exceptional Republican human history without Lindsey Graham having a say in it.”

“He was a man who gave America the full measure of his good and mighty heart until that heart itself just gave out,” Trump said.

Trump said Graham “went out at the peak of his career and the top of his game.”

Netanyahu says his talk with Trump was ‘one of the best’

In a video posted on his Instagram account, Netanyahu described his meeting with Trump on Tuesday as “excellent.”

He added that it was “a conversation with full partnership, with mutual support, with an understanding of the common goal of ensuring that Iran does not have nuclear weapons, and other goals as well. One of the best conversations I’ve had with the President of the United States, our friend Donald Trump.”

The Israeli Prime Minister met with Trump in the White House for about 90 minutes of talks, in a meeting that was closed to press coverage. He said that Trump’s “entire senior team” was present at the meeting, as well as “our senior team,” and that it was “an opportunity to exchange ideas and to coordinate arrangements that are important for the security and future of the State of Israel.”

Netanyahu departs White House after meeting Trump

The Israeli prime minister departed after about 90 minutes of talks.

As he was leaving, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement on X noting that Trump had concluded his meetings with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy.

She said: “Both meetings were positive and productive!”

They were closed to press coverage.

Netanyahu attended a memorial dinner for Graham, calling him a ‘dear friend’

The event was held in Washington on Monday evening and was also attended by Graham’s sister and replacement in the Senate, Darlene Graham, as well as other relatives, friends of the late senator, “senior administration officials and members of Congress,” according to a statement by Netanyahu’s office.

Speaking at the event, the Israeli leader praised Graham as “deeply committed to the security of the United States, to the security of Israel, and to the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism,“ the statement said.

Netanyahu, who is meeting with Trump at the White House, is among several foreign leaders who are expected to attend Graham’s Washington funeral held later on Tuesday.

“America has lost a great patriot. Israel has lost one of its greatest friends and supporters. And I have lost a dear friend,” Netanyahu said at the memorial dinner.

Zelenskyy reports having a ‘good meeting’ with Trump

In a social media post afterward, the Ukrainian leader said his first act was to offer his condolences to Trump on the death of Graham, who was close to Trump and a strong supporter of Ukraine.

Zelenskyy says he and Trump discussed licenses for Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptors and “several other ideas that could help.” They also discussed diplomacy.

Zelenskyy said he expressed gratitude to the United States for “its firm support” and said their teams will arrange future communication.

The White House closed the meeting to independent journalists. Zelenskyy released photos showing him posing with Trump and that U.S. secretaries Rubio, Bessent and Hegseth attended the Oval Office meeting.

Iran’s government details damage from recent escalation

Iran says recent U.S. strikes destroyed an airport and a marine control tower, and caused damage to 12 bridges and two tunnels, among other infrastructure.

Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani provided the details Tuesday in an announcement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency.

The U.S. military said it struck numerous military targets this month in response to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated with missile and drone attacks on Arab countries hosting U.S. forces.

Both sides paused their attacks over the weekend, though tensions remain high.

Mohajerani said Bushehr International Airport, on the Persian Gulf, has been “rendered inoperable.” Both tunnels have been reopened and alternate routes have been established around the damaged bridges, she said.

She said other civilian infrastructure had also been destroyed, including a meteorological center and fishing boats. The U.S. says it targeted small boats used by Iranian forces to harass ships in the strait.

Former colleagues of Graham offer personal goodbyes as they walk up to his flag-draped casket

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., placed both hands on his casket and then placed her hand on her heart. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., saluted from her wheelchair. And Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., gave a fist bump.

Scores of former senators also traveled to the Capitol to pay their respects, including former Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., who bowed and then briefly kissed the casket.

Others stood briefly before his casket and offered a short prayer and a sign of the cross.

Netanyahu now at White House for Trump meeting

The black SUV carrying the Israeli prime minister arrived on West Executive Avenue minutes after Zelenskyy departed after his own meeting with Trump.

Netanyahu stepped out of the passenger side of the vehicle and buttoned his suit jacket before entering through a side entrance to the West Wing. The meeting is also closed to press coverage.

Israel’s UN envoy says `number one’ on Trump-Netanyahu agenda will be scaling down Iran war

Ambassador Danny Danon told U.N. reporters Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu definitely wants to hear from President Trump what he wants to see in the coming days or weeks.

“I cannot tell you which direction it will go. There are different options,” he said. “We are prepared for all scenarios, and we will discuss it with the president.”

Danon was responding to a question on whether Israel expects the two leaders to talk about specifics of scaling down or ending the war in Iran.

“Well, I’m sure that will be number one on the agenda in the meeting today between the prime minister and the president,” he replied.

Amid somewhat strained U.S.-Israeli relations, Danon stressed, “We fought shoulder-to-shoulder against Iran, and we are prepared to continue supporting the U.S. in pursuing peace and stability in the region.” He added that Gaza will also be on the Trump-Netanyahu agenda.

Thune hails Graham as a towering figure in the Senate and the international stage

“I traveled with Lindsey all over the world as part of the congressional delegations and I saw firsthand just how much he was respected by our allies and just how well he was able to connect with foreign leaders around the world,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.

Thune and others are honoring Graham at a tribute Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda.

Thune and others also cited Graham’s sense of humor. He said that when lawmakers would gather for dinners in Washington, Graham was always the first call. He said no one was more capable of cracking up a room.

Choking up, he closed by telling Graham to “rest in peace my friend.”

“I look forward to the days when you make us all laugh again,” Thune said.

Americans’ confidence in US economy fell this month as Iran conflict sent gas prices back up

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June.

Consumers’ view of current business and labor market conditions fell by 3.6 points to 114.9, the third straight monthly decline.

Views about their near-term futures held steady from last month with a reading of 74.7.

Consumer attitudes had improved modestly in June as gas prices came down to around $3.70 a gallon from more than $4.50 a gallon in late April and early May. But as fighting in the Middle East escalated, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. started to rise again. On Tuesday it was $4.10, according to the auto club AAA.

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Trump and Zelenskyy are meeting

The White House says the meeting started at 9:47 a.m. It is “closed press,” meaning journalists at aren’t likely to see the leaders together in the Oval Office.

Graham’s casket arrives at the Capitol

The remains of the Republican senator have arrived at the U.S. Capitol, his flag-draped casket carried inside by an armed forces team, in recognition of his military service.

He’s being honored at a tribute in the Rotunda, the start of two days of services for the South Carolina senator.

Vice President JD Vance is expected to speak and several Cabinet officials, including former Sen. Markwayne Mullin, the Homeland Security secretary, were in attendance, as was acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who faces a rocky Senate confirmation for the job.

Iran says anyone tapping its frozen assets will be barred from the Strait of Hormuz

The threat came in response to President Trump’s post on social media last week, in which he threatened to use Iranian assets frozen abroad to pay for damage to ships from Iranian attacks in the strait.

Ebrahim Zolfaghari, the spokesperson for Iran’s joint military command, said Tuesday that any countries or companies that join in Trump’s “unlawful action” will be barred from using the strait. The critical waterway carried a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas before the war. His video message was carried by Iranian state TV.

Trump had said damage to ships would be “paid for by Iranian Money that the United States has in its possession, and controls.” It was unclear what legal mechanisms Trump would use to seize and spend the funds.

Zelenskyy arrives at White House to meet Trump

The Ukrainian leader’s car pulled up on West Executive Avenue, a private road within the White House complex. He stepped out of the passenger side of a black SUV and walked around the rear to enter the White House for the meeting.

Acting national intelligence chief announces more job cuts

Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has sought to leave his mark during his interim status in the job.

With the Senate poised to confirm Jay Clayton for the role, Pulte released Tuesday on X a series of intelligence community documents from 2020 that described China’s capacity to interfere in the American political process as well as vulnerabilities in the election system.

The substance of the material was largely recycled and already known, but its disclosure is part of a broader Trump administration effort to raise concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections — most especially the 2020 presidential race he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Pulte has also presided over a downsizing of the national intelligence office, which functions as a coordinating hub for the U.S. government’s intelligence agencies.

He boasted on X that with a latest round of job cuts, the office is carrying out about a 30% staff reduction from weeks ago.

Trump urges Iran to make a deal so he won’t have to hurt the people

Trump has repeatedly retreated from threats to knock out bridges, power plants and other infrastructure but he told Fox News Channel in an interview that Iran knows he’ll “finish the job” if its leaders don’t make a deal to end the war.

He says millions of people would then struggle to get by.

Trump claimed he would need less than an hour to “take out” most of Iran’s bridges and said he could blow up their power plants “within one day” and then target desalinization plants.

“You know, if I can avoid doing that, I’d like to do that,” he said.

Trump says he doesn’t need Netanyahu’s advice on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain

The president says he’s not worried about construction activities at Iran’s potential nuclear site at Pickaxe Mountain, a complex Trump has threatened to bomb.

And Trump criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for publicly expressing concerns about the site ahead of the two leaders’ meeting Tuesday at the White House.

“I know exactly what’s going on at Pickaxe,” Trump told “Fox & Friends,” adding that whatever Iran is doing is “not a big problem.”

On Netanyahu’s statements ahead of his visit to Washington, Trump said, “Why don’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce to the world.”

The bilateral huddle, on the same day that both men are attending the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral, is the first since Netanyahu and Trump launched their war in Iran five months ago.

Trump remembers Sen. Lindsey Graham both for his kindness and his hawkishness

Speaking fondly about his friend and ally, Trump said he admired Graham as a nice person who was quick to call for military action.

“He was a guy that liked war,” Trump said Tuesday in a Fox News interview. “I jokingly say, and there’s nothing funny about it, but he’s never seen a war that he didn’t like.”

Trump added that Graham was “very much a hawk on Iran” but had also told Trump it was time to make a deal to end the war. That sentiment did not extend to the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump said.

“Ukraine he’s very militant about,” Trump said. “Lindsey liked war, to be honest with you.”

Senate expected to confirm Jay Clayton as next intelligence director on Tuesday

It will ensure that a permanent director is in place as the midterm elections approach.

Clayton is expected to be confirmed along party lines after a contentious hearing two weeks ago in which he repeatedly refused to say that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Still, Democrats have said they have more confidence in Clayton than they do in Trump’s temporary pick for the job, Bill Pulte, who has no known intelligence experience and investigated the president’s perceived enemies in his previous post as a federal housing regulator.

Senators from both parties have expressed concerns about Pulte, who took over on an interim basis last month after Tulsi Gabbard resigned. Pulte was in charge when Trump delivered a speech from the White House earlier this month doubling down on his false claims about the 2020 election, which he lost, and released classified documents he said were relevant to his arguments.

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Security around the White House is tight due to Zelenskyy and Netanyahu visits

Only foot traffic is allowed on streets surrounding the complex. Vehicular traffic is blocked by city police cars and dump trucks at key intersections, like Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th St and near Lafayette Park.

Netanyahu is staying at Blair House, the U.S. government’s guest house across from the White House.

Zelenskyy has the first meeting with Trump, scheduled for 9:30 a.m., followed by Netanyahu at 11 a.m.

Zelenskyy will visit Trump at the White House before Sen. Graham’s funeral

Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral, their second sit-down this month and after a far-right activist with the U.S. president’s ear had a widely publicized change of heart on Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Trump is set to welcome Zelenskyy to the White House as the Ukrainian leader travels to Washington to honor Graham, whose final act as a public official was visiting Kyiv and securing an agreement on a package of sanctions that seek to punish countries that purchase Russian oil, gas and other exports.

Zelenskyy posted on X early Tuesday that he had arrived in the U.S. and listed the goals for his visit.

“Our schedule includes meetings with President Trump, his team, and those who can support our defense,” the Ukrainian leader said. “Our number one priority is anti-ballistic defense and strategic cooperation with America. Peace needs to be brought closer.”

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Netanyahu’s first meeting with Trump since the Iran war began is a chance to smooth over strains

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday is the first since the two leaders launched a joint war against Iran and a chance for Netanyahu to smooth out strains in their relationship.

The meeting comes as both face growing pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for reelection and is embattled in part because of his deteriorating relationship with Trump. Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war that has wreaked economic havoc and driven prices higher ahead of midterm elections this November.

The two leaders also plan to discuss the framework agreement the U.S. and Israel signed with Lebanon over the Israel-Hezbollah war and the expansion of the Abraham Accords, according to a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the meeting.

“We have a little difference,” Trump said Monday when asked by reporters if he and the Israeli prime minister were on the same page with Iran. “But pretty close, yeah.”

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The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants participating.

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied a $9 billion settlement proposed by company subsidiary Red River Talc last year that would have been one of the biggest mass tort settlements in history.

Johnson & Johnson decided not to appeal that ruling and instead fight on in court.

A federal judge last week ordered plaintiffs in the case against Johnson & Johnson to show why the remaining pending talc claims should not be dismissed after their witnesses could not provide a direct link between the company's product and cancer.

“The Court’s order placed plaintiffs in an untenable position of having to present specific causation evidence to maintain their claims that does not exist," Erik Haas, worldwide vice president of litigation, Johnson & Johnson, said in a prepared statement Monday.

As part of the settlement proposed this week, Johnson & Johnson will make an initial payment of no more than $3 billion next year. It has no additional payments due until 2028.

“While we are confident the company would have ultimately prevailed with further litigation, as it has in the vast majority of cases tried to date, this resolution allows the company to put this matter behind it and remain focused on its mission to develop medicines and devices that save lives,” Haas said.

Johnson & Johnson said that it previously settled about 95% of filed lawsuits for mesothelioma, a cancer in the tissue surrounding organs like the lungs and heart, all state consumer protection claims, and all talc-supplier disputes.

Shares of the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company rose more than 2% before the market open on Tuesday.

Many people throw away food simply because of the date printed on the label. But often it is still perfectly edible, according to experts.

With no federal regulations requiring standardized labels for dates on food except for baby formula, it’s no surprise that deciphering terms like “Best Before,” “Best By,” “Best If Used By,” “Enjoy By,” and “Sell By” can be mind-boggling.

What most people don’t realize is that those labels are more about how fresh something is — not how safe the food is to eat.

California is trying to bring some clarity with a new law that requires food manufacturers to use just two labels: one for quality and another for safety.

Here are a few tips to help you understand food date labels and keep perfectly good food out of the trash even if you don't live in California.

More than 50 different date labels are used in the US

In the United States, more than 80% of consumers discard food approaching the package date label at least occasionally, a 2019 study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found.

“The date labels guarantee quality up until that point,” said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University. “They are not about the safety of a product.”

Food date labels vary state by state and are determined by the food manufacturer. Researchers from the University of Maryland found that more than 50 different date labels are used across the United States.

“They’re based on when the manufacturer thinks that product will taste its best, when its quality will be at its peak,” said Rachel Zemser, a San Francisco Bay Area food scientist who helps food companies design, launch and market new food products.

Food packaging helps determine how long food is safe to eat

Unopened canned food like beans, tomatoes, fruit, vegetables, and any shelf-stable food package in liquid, will last for years after the date stamped on its label. The same goes for boxes of soy milk or boxes of almond milk, or any food that’s been heat-treated and sealed to stay safe without refrigeration.

Dry goods, like cookies, crackers and cereal, also have a long shelf life because the low moisture in them doesn’t allow bacteria to grow.

“People can use their best judgment by smelling and tasting the product because dry crackers and cookies, and things of that nature, may be stale but they are not going to make you sick if you eat them,” Zemser said.

But extra precautions should be taken with beef, chicken or fish. They can go bad even if it’s in your refrigerator, but wrapping them tight in plastic and freezing it before the “best by” date on its packaging could help it last longer.

“Most bacteria needs moisture and air to grow and thrive, so very dry products will last, but I wouldn’t risk it with meat,” Zemser said.

The FoodKeeper, a website and free app developed by the Department of Agriculture, Cornell University, and the Food Marketing Institute, provides guidance on how long foods stay fresh and safe to eat.

California is trying to clarify label confusion

California became the first state in the U.S. to standardize food labels by banning “sell by” dates.

The law that went into effect July 1 requires manufacturers selling food in California to use two standardized labels: a “Best If Used By” label for peak quality and a “Use By” label for product safety. “Sell by” dates are used by stores to ensure products are being displayed for a reasonable amount of time before quality declines, said Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association.

“Think of it like an internal referencing system for store managers and employees,” he said.

New York state lawmakers recently passed a similar measure for labels that is awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature.

Most labels are about food quality, not safety

The only product legally required by the federal government to have an expiration date is infant formula. It should not be consumed past that date because its nutrients decline over time.

“Infant formula is the sole source of nutrition for the infant, and the concern is that the child could have a nutritional deficiency” if given expired formula, Schaffner said.

In general, people should use their own judgment and look for signs like mold, strange odors and unusual colors to decide whether or not to toss out food.

And follow your taste buds.

“Practice your own food stock rotation, buy appropriate amounts of food, don’t buy giant amounts that you won’t be able to eat,” Schaffner said. “Because who wants to eat poor quality food?”

Massive capacity in a slew of Chinese industries, from automaking to solar panels, cement and steel manufacturing, among many others, has drawn increasing attention from Beijing's trading partners in recent years. Although China's own leaders have made rebalancing the economy a priority, slowing domestic demand has prompted companies to expand into markets overseas. Surging exports pushed China's trade surplus to a record of nearly $1.2 trillion last year.

China has never sought a large trade surplus, the Ministry of Commerce said in a report titled “China’s Position on the So-called Excess Capacity Issue.” It took aim at recent talk of a “China shock 2.0” due to excess capacity.

“The U.S. and other western countries have come up with the so-called ‘China shock 2.0,’ falsely accusing China’s industrial development of posing threats to western countries’ monopoly,” said the report, alluding to assertions of an earlier shock to trading partners from China's ascent as a manufacturing power.

“This is not supported by facts and totally untenable,” the report said.

Tuesday's document echoed remarks by China’s No. 2 official, Premier Li Qiang, at the World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” meeting in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian. Li said that instead of a “China Shock 2.0,” recent trends should be viewed as a “China Opportunity 2.0.”

The U.S. is expected to soon announce findings of an investigation of 16 economies, including China, relating to excess capacity and production in their manufacturing sectors. The probe is widely expected to result in increased tariffs on some countries.

On Friday, the U.S. imposed higher tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on 60 economies, including China, saying they had failed to effectively enforce a ban on goods produced with forced labor. Many countries including China protested that move.

At a press conference Tuesday, Lin Weilong, director of the Commerce Ministry's policy research office, said the U.S. has no authority to unilaterally determine whether trading partners have excess capacity and impose restrictive measures.

“The U.S. cannot narrowly define production capacity that exceeds domestic demand as excess capacity, and slap it with a surplus label,” Lin told reporters in Beijing.

Earlier this month, the European Union, struggling to rebalance its trade with China, implemented trade measures including protections for its steel industry and restrictions on imports of e-commerce small parcels.

China’s stance on the overcapacity issue will likely “fall on deaf ears,” said Alfredo Montufar-Helu, an expert on China at Ankura, a consultancy.

“Economic conditions in Western markets have made it politically untenable to do nothing in the face of rising Chinese imports, especially in high value added sectors that Western firms used to dominate,” he said.

“This doesn’t have a precedent,” García told The Associated Press by phone before another long day ahead.

The out-of-control fire has consumed 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) — an area five times the size of Barcelona — and forced 25,000 people to flee villages in the smoldering hills of Ávila west of Madrid, the capital.

The ferocity of Spain’s largest recorded wildfire is forcing firefighters to fundamentally change their tactics, prioritizing evacuations and property protection due to the danger posed by fast-moving walls of flames and blazes too powerful to attack directly.

“The evolution is alarming,” García said.

Before, his brigade would tackle fires in the wilderness. Now they are a last line of defense, focused on saving lives. No deaths from these fires have been reported, while 79,000 people have fled their homes from the Ávila fire, another fire nearby in the Madrid region and one in eastern Castellón.

“That gives us more work and more stress,” García said. “Now it is lives first, then homes, and after, the forest."

Climate change is fanning the flames

García works with one of Spain’s emergency wildfire brigades, which deploy to help regional firefighters when they need help. They spend 12-hour shifts hosing down burning trees and hacking away at underbrush before it becomes fuel for the flames.

His 40-man unit, based in Ávila, has been working for three days on the Ávila fire. Before that, they fought fires in Guadalajara and near Zaragoza in recent weeks. The Guadalajara fire consumed 320 square kilometers (123 square miles), making it Spain's third largest on record.

“Until last year, I had never experienced fighting one big fire after another,” the 43-year-old García said.

Large areas of Spain have always been fire-prone thanks to its hot summers and relatively dry climate. But experts and government officials say that climate change has increased the frequency of heat waves and periods of drought, extending periods of high risk for wildfires.

Once one ignites, it grows at a speed and voracity rarely seen before.

García said there used to be around 15 days of extreme fire risk each year. Now firefighters are on alert for 30 to 40 days.

Fires have burned 1,530 square kilometers (590 square miles) this year in Spain — six times the area scorched by blazes in the first half of 2025, Sara Aagesen, the ecology minister, has said.

Meanwhile, a monster fire in neighboring France has forced over 200,000 people to flee their homes.

Fires are too powerful to tackle head-on

Raúl Guerrero, 29, has worked as a firefighter in Castilla y León, the region including Ávila, for the past decade. He said this fire can't compare with any he has battled.

He told the AP that his 40-man unit has had to retreat to safer ground on several occasions when the danger of being trapped was imminent.

He said the fire at several moments was “beyond the capacity of extinction,” which, he said, means “the fire is so virulent and has such power that no matter what you do, you can’t put it out.”

Asked how that makes him feel, Guerrero said “above all, impotent.”

Vegetation can become ‘pure gunpowder’

While fires are often started by lighting or a spark made by agricultural machinery, a decisive factor that makes wildfires harder to combat is the disappearance of the farms, orchards and local forestry industries that used to create buffer areas around villages and towns.

Vegetation now grows right up to homes, Guerrero said. He called for property owners and local authorities to work all year in clearing brush away from homes and tending to forests.

If not, Guerrero said, that vegetation will remain “pure gunpowder” for future fires.

It’s the 73rd anniversary of what is considered to be the birth of the revolution.

Absent from the celebrations for the first time is 95-year-old Raul Castro.

It was on July 26, 1953 that brothers Fidel and Raul Castro assaulted the Moncada Barracks in Santiago in a failed attempt to overthrow the government.

They would succeed six years later.

Every year, the communist island commemorates the anniversary in a different province.

On Sunday, it was in Pinar Del Rio.

Raul Castro released a statement saying, in part:

“Receive my affection and recognition for having earned, through your effort, dedication to the revolutionary cause.”

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel used his speech to issue a scathing condemnation of Washington, D.C.’s fuel embargo and economic sanctions that have led to a critical humanitarian crisis on the island.

As for the Cuban people, they are fed up, staging protests every day, banging their pots and pans in frustration.

There are several Broward County School Board seats up for election this year.

In District 1, there are two people seeking the seat. They are incumbent Maura McCarthy Bulman and her opponent, Carmen Gimenez.

Gimenez is a former candidate for governor and for mayor of Hallandale Beach.

“In my opinion, Gov. DeSantis is right when he mentioned that the Broward County School Board is a disaster,” she said. “I represent two universities -- the private University of Angola in the United States and Los Angeles University in Florida and Georgia, so I know what is the best way for our kids to be guided to have a bright future.”

Broward County’s District 1 includes Dania Beach, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, West Park and part of Miramar.

Gimenez is hoping to unseat Bulman, who was elected in 2024.

“It has been my greatest honor to represent District 1 on the school board for the past two years,” she said. “I’m running for a full year term to continue the work that I’ve started, improving our facilities, bringing programming to my schools, trying to get more enrollment.”

Bulman, an attorney, addressed the school district’s budget challenges and the board’s decision to close under-enrolled school campuses.

“I think we’ve made some very difficult decisions this year, and we’re gonna have to keep doing that to be fiscally responsible, to right size the district, and to make sure that we are using the best care of our taxpayer dollars,” Bulman said.

Gimenez told Local 10 that if elected, she plans to “modernize the district’s school bus transportation system” and discussed how she would address the budget shortfall.

“I’m going to talk to the state of Florida government party who is dedicated to give funds to Broward schools,” she said.

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It was filed by current Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, who is also running in the primary.

A candidate must have lived in the state for seven consecutive years to run for governor and records show that within the past few years, Fishback bought a home in Washington, D.C.

But despite making that his “primary home,” he never abandoned his Florida residency.