At a chapel near the site of the accident, some fans knelt in prayer, emotion welling in their eyes. Others sang and danced raucously to her greatest hits.

Gilda went from star singer to miracle-healing folk saint

During her life, Gilda was a nationally beloved singer of cumbia, a fusion of Latin pop and dance music that's hugely popular in Argentina.

Her fame only grew after her death. A posthumous album went double platinum as her propulsive songs reverberated beyond the heaving dance halls where she first captivated crowds, becoming national anthems of heartbreak and desire. Her fans, dressed in T-shirts that showed her in a shimmering blue dress and flower crown, began making pilgrimages to the crash site every year, sharing stories of Gilda appearing in their dreams and answering their prayers.

Like other Argentine folk saints, Gilda isn't formally recognized by the Catholic Church. But devotees ask her to carry their prayers to God much as Catholics invoke the church’s recognized saints, seeking healing, protection and help overcoming hardships.

On Monday, scores of Gilda’s devotees flocked to pay homage to her at the rusted wreckage of the tour bus, now preserved as a memorial off the national highway that skirts Argentina’s muddy Paranacito River. The bus overflows with flowers, stuffed animals, votive candles and handwritten appeals for help. A nearby chapel is crammed with the wedding gowns of women whose wish to marry was fulfilled after a visit, trophies and jerseys offered by champions whose athletic dreams became a reality, crutches discarded by those who could walk again, and police uniforms left by officers who earned promotions after praying to her.

“For me, it’s about faith — putting everything in God’s hands and asking Gilda to intercede,” said Julia Domínguez, 63, who credits Gilda with curing growths on her vocal cords nearly two decades ago, sparing her from a risky surgery and inspiring her to become a singer. “That was a miracle. Today, I sing thanks to her.”

Argentina’s folk saints inspire generations of devotion

The shrine, about a two-hour drive into the grasslands north of the capital, Buenos Aires, offered a glimpse of a centuries-old tradition of folk saints that runs deep in Argentina even as the influence of the Catholic Church wanes.

That erosion is one of the biggest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV as he plans his first tour as pontiff of South America — home to more than a quarter of the world’s Catholics. He's set to visit Argentina, Uruguay and Peru in November.

Travel the roads of Argentina and shrines to a growing pantheon of unofficial saints are everywhere: Red flags mark altars to Gauchito Gil, a 19th-century outlaw revered as an Argentine Robin Hood. Plastic water bottles pile up at shrines to Difunta Correa, who legend says miraculously nursed her infant son after dying of thirst in the desert. Even Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has become an object of quasi-religious devotion.

“One of the most common things devotees tell us is that these saints accompany them every day of their lives,” said Cleopatra Barrios, an scholar of popular religion at Conicet, Argentina’s national scientific research body. “Miracles aren’t understood as they are from the institutional Catholic point of view, as something extraordinary. Here, they’re things that happen every day.”

As with other saints — folk and otherwise — part of Gilda’s appeal seems to stem from how relatable she remained even as her fame grew while she was still alive, singing cumbia in prisons and exchanging intimate, handwritten letters with fans.

“With everything that happens, I always ask her, ‘Accompany me,’” said Paola Martini, 46, who organizes trips to Gilda’s shrine from all over Argentina. “Then, like magic, I feel her.”

The church accommodates, but doesn't recognize, unofficial saints

Catholic clergy haven’t directly discouraged devotion to folk saints, but have sought to steer followers' worship toward God. Two priests on Monday celebrated Mass at Gilda’s shrine, but made no mention of her status as a popular saint and urged devotees to keep God at the center of their faith.

As growing secularism and rival branches of Christianity siphon off Catholic faithful across the region, Leo has embraced the efforts of his Argentine predecessor, Pope Francis, to bring the church closer to ordinary people, particularly the poor.

A member of the Augustinian order, whose teachings emphasize service and community, Leo is expected to visit a Buenos Aires prison and a center for people with disabilities during his November trip, Argentine church officials told local media on Monday. There was no immediate confirmation of the pope’s itinerary from the Vatican.

“We’re waiting for Leo, we're preparing for him,” Domínguez said, insisting she saw no contradiction with her Roman Catholic faith in invoking Gilda to protect her. “In the end, sainthood isn’t always decided by the church. Sometimes, the people recognize it first.”

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade secrets, Huawei and some of its subsidiaries did business in North Korea despite U.S. sanctions there and installed surveillance equipment that helped Iran spy on protesters during 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Iran.

Huawei’s lawyers have tried to get the broad criminal case dismissed, arguing in court filings that the U.S. allegations were too vague, that some were ”impermissibly extraterritorial,” and did not involve domestic wire and bank fraud.

Huawei is the world's biggest supplier of gear for wireless telecom networks but the company is banned from selling equipment to U.S. carriers over fears it poses a security risk. It has also been blacklisted by other Western allies like Canada and Britain.

The company makes phones and other consumer electronics but has been cut off from other lines of business. More recently it has expanded into chipmaking as the boom in artificial intelligence fuels demand for microprocessors.

During President Donald Trump's first term in office, his administration raised national security concerns about Huawei and began lobbying Western allies against including the company's products in their next-generation high-speed wireless networks. The U.S. announced the criminal charges in early 2019 and has since expanded the allegations.

Chinese officials said the U.S. government has engaged in “economic bullying” and improperly used national security as a pretext for “oppressing Chinese companies.”

U.S. prosecutors accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company known as Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. They also charged its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, with fraud, saying she misled HSBC bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, was arrested in Canada in late 2018 on a U.S. extradition request but released in September 2021 in a high-stakes prisoner swap that freed two Canadians held by China and allowed her to return home.

As part of the deal, the U.S. dropped its extradition request and said it would dismiss the fraud charges against Meng.

The biggest maker of network gear, Huawei struggled to hold onto its market share under sanctions that have blocked its access to most U.S. processor chips and other technology. The limits led it to ramp up its own development of computer chips and other advanced technologies.

It was a neighbor all right, but not a human one. A black bear had opened the door of a Toyota SUV and gotten trapped inside the vehicle in Gold Hill, Colorado, northwest of Denver.

In one of hundreds of examples of bears getting into more trouble than usual in the parched Rocky Mountains this summer, the animal kept bumping the horn as it ripped apart the Toyota's interior, desperately trying to escape.

“It’s totaled. It’s unfit to drive," Sullivan said of the car.

Millions of people live in or near bear habitat across the Rockies, where widespread drought has reduced supplies of nuts, berries and plants that bears eat. That’s prompting the animals to roam far and wide for food.

Sullivan's brother-in-law eventually freed the bear trapped in the Toyota. But such encounters can be deadly for bears. One recently stuck in a car in Colorado Springs died from the heat, and wildlife officials have killed dozens of others that could endanger people.

Hungry bears are on the move

Colorado officials report twice as many bear sightings and conflicts with humans this year compared with the average, including bears roaming where they aren't normally found. Wildlife managers in New Mexico and Utah report record numbers of hungry bears have lost their natural hesitancy to raid homes, cars and campgrounds.

A black bear up a tree in central Denver recently was tranquilized and relocated. At Colorado State University in Fort Collins, a bear during the fall semester move-in had to be caught and released elsewhere. In Utah, authorities moved four bears from the town of Moab where they’d been feasting in orchards.

“Bears aren’t necessarily behaving any differently but they are definitely increasing their activity in the places that they’re looking for food," said Travis Sauder, a state wildlife officer in southeastern Colorado.

Black bears usually stick to Colorado's mountains and foothills. This year they've been spotted on the plains more than an hour's drive east of Colorado Springs.

“When they get that far east, there’s just zero natural food sources that they would be looking for, like oaks or chokecherries,” Sauder said.

‘A fed bear is a dead bear’

There are plenty of temptations for hungry bears around homes: pet food in open garages, bird feeders and grease traps under barbecue grills. And then there's trash in unsecured bins, by far the biggest attractant behind this year's surge in bear activity, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife data.

Many bears that visit populated areas are tranquilized and moved out of town. If they start associating food with people, however, they can be euthanized.

“A fed bear is a dead bear,” is the mantra of wildlife officials. They urge people to stash away anything a bear might even think of eating.

Black bears typically avoid people and are less dangerous than the larger grizzly bears of the Northern Rockies.

But black bears can be aggressive toward humans: In June, a black bear followed and then attacked and scratched a hiker in Golden, Colorado.

Colorado has had at least four more attacks, including a bear outside an apartment building near Vail that scratched a man on Aug. 17 as he left a laundry room.

Five days later, a bear tackled and bit a fisherman in the mountains southwest of Denver. The young bear was tracked down and killed.

A dry winter persists into summer

In Utah, over three dozen bears have been killed this year. That's more than the past three years combined, according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

The number killed by wildlife officials and authorized property owners in New Mexico is already up to 187, the most since 2011.

Across the Upper Colorado River Basin spanning Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, this year’s snowpack was the worst on record. Scientists say human-caused global warming made that far more likely.

“Human-animal conflicts in the context of climate change haven’t really been fully researched yet. And we’re still starting to kind of tease out what this means for us and what this means for all the species that we share the ecosystem with,” said Samantha Miller, senior carnivore campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Add in vast areas of bear habitat scorched by record wildfires and it's a recipe for problems.

It's not always an unhappy ending for bears or people

A few bear-trouble stories are heartwarming, like orphaned cubs successfully released into the wild after time in a rescue facility, where they learned to live on their own without raiding.

“We’ve got to rescue a lot of bear cubs out of trees, including standing on some pretty shaky ladders to pull a bear cub that’s sleeping in a tree,” said Sauder.

Andy Kerrigan, while working on a deck in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, this summer, found a cub that got into his truck through a window. He banged on the truck to scare it off.

“But it had found my lunch in the seat. And it was like, ‘I’m not going anywhere,’” said Kerrigan, who eventually chased it away with a piece of wood trim.

In Gold Hill, Sullivan's brother-in-law solved the bear-in-Toyota problem by tugging a rope tied to a door handle. The bear bolted for the woods through the open door.

“It was just sitting there waiting for someone to help him, basically,” Sullivan said. “So I’m glad we could have done that for him.”

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection created a cascade of competitive races. Two of the eight Republicans hoping to replace the three-term Democrat are former U.S. senators she previously defeated: John E. Sununu and Scott Brown. The five-way race for the Democratic nomination includes U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, whose departure from his 1st Congressional District seat in turn attracted a crowd of candidates.

Shaheen’s daughter, Stefany Shaheen, is among those seeking the Democratic nomination for Pappas' seat, along with former candidate Maura Sullivan. Several other candidates in top races also are making repeat appearances.

Ex-GOP senators seek a return to Congress, while House member wants promotion

Sununu, who spent six years in the U.S. House and one term in the Senate before being ousted by Shaheen in 2008, has this time focused on themes including affordability for housing, healthcare and energy, holding Congress accountable and constituent service.

“I’ve been out of politics for 17 years. I’m not worried about reelection,” he said during a campaign stop last month. “I don’t need an appointment or a job. I don’t need to make anyone happy. I need to do one thing: Stand up for the people of New Hampshire.”

Brown previously represented Massachusetts, where he won a special election in 2010 after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy before losing in 2012. He unsuccessfully challenged Shaheen in 2014 and served as ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during President Donald Trump's first term.

In a July interview, he said he decided to run again because New Hampshire Republicans have no representation in Congress and because, in his view, his experience as a veteran, lawmaker, ambassador and grandfather is unmatched.

He accuses Sununu — whose father and younger brother are former governors — of coasting on his name. Sununu also has the backing of Trump, despite having called him “a loser” in 2024, but Brown said that will just make him beholden to the president and other special interests.

“I’m the only truly independent candidate here who can actually vote on anything with a clear conscience and with New Hampshire’s best interests at heart,” Brown said.

Pappas, who is giving up his House seat after four terms, raised twice as much money as Sununu and Brown combined and dwarfed his Democratic primary opponents, as well. He also enjoyed a wide lead in polls, though recently lost some ground to scientist and democratic socialist Karishma Manzur.

Open seat in 1st District attracts a crowd, while 2nd District is quieter

Stefany Shaheen and Sullivan are the leading candidates among seven seeking the Democratic nomination in the 1st District.

Shaheen is a former city councilor in Portsmouth. She founded a business to help people with chronic medical conditions after one of her daughters was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She also is part of a bio-tech initiative in New Hampshire to advance regenerative medicine.

Sullivan is a former Marine and Iraq War veteran who served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs under President Barack Obama. A vice chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Sullivan ran for the 1st District seat in 2018, losing in an 11-candidate primary to Pappas in his first congressional bid.

The Republican field of four candidates includes political newcomer Anthony DiLorenzo, who owns a chain of car dealerships and has been endorsed by Trump, and Hollie Noveletsky, a veteran and nurse practitioner who runs a steel fabrication company and ran for the same seat two years ago.

In the 2nd District, first-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Maggie Goodlander faces a primary challenge from Paige Beachemin, a progressive state lawmaker and nurse. The four-person Republican primary field includes Lily Tang Williams, who was the nominee two years ago and is making her third attempt at the seat.

Nominations for governor and down ballot races are also at stake

In contrast to the all-Democratic congressional delegation, Republicans dominate state government.

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte faces two little-known opponents in her primary as she seeks a second two-year term. Cinde Warmington, a healthcare attorney, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Voters also will be nominating candidates for the entire state Legislature, where Republicans hold a roughly 40-vote majority in the 400-member House and outnumber Democrats in the Senate 16-8.

Accustomed to going first when it comes to presidential primaries, New Hampshire is among the last states to hold state-level primary elections, leaving the winners just eight weeks to woo voters before Nov. 3. But that will change in 2026. Legislation passed this year moves future state primaries to the second Tuesday in June.

Trump has said he wanted to channel the kind of political extravaganza that each party holds every four years to formally nominate a presidential candidate and showcase their vision for the country. There's even going to be a huge drop of balloons at the end.

Republicans have never held a midterm convention before, although Democrats did in the 1970s and 1980s. Here are some things to watch Wednesday and Thursday:

Why is this happening?

Trump had long floated the idea of holding such a convention and Republicans worked to make his wish a reality.

Midterms are often difficult for the party in power in Washington, and Trump believes the event can juice enthusiasm for the party and boost turnout among his voters.

“Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot," Trump said recently in South Carolina. "Just come and vote.”

Republicans said the event will help catapult its candidates into November, but it will also showcase the first two years of Trump's term. Although the president's poll numbers are sagging, he insists that running on his record will give Republicans their best shot at winning.

Who is going to the convention?

The presidential nominating conventions that are held every four years by Republicans and Democrats typically draw thousands of rank-and-file party members chosen as delegates to represent their states and participate in the ceremonial nominating process.

No nominations are going to be awarded this time, since that's already been settled by primary contests. The event will also be open to the public, which could make it feel more like a Trump rally than a convention.

More than 100 Republican House members and candidates are expected to be in Dallas, according to a person familiar with the event who requested anonymity before it begins. They were required to pay $25,000 for tickets and lodging, which the person described as typical for political conventions.

Some lawmakers in competitive races have indicated they won’t go or hadn’t determined their plans less than a week before the convention.

Who will speak at the convention?

Trump will speak each night. On Wednesday, he's delivering a keynote address. On Thursday, he's scheduled to appear after again after a speech from Vice President JD Vance.

A long list of speakers includes members of Trump’s Cabinet like Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Also set to address the crowd are Attorney General Todd Blanche, the president's son Donald Trump Jr. and former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, as well as Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxon and Mike Rogers, the party's Senate nominee in Michigan.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are giving speeches, as are many incumbents and candidates in some key, competitive races for the House and Senate around the country.

Everyday Americans are expected to take turns onstage sharing how they have benefited from the president’s policies.

Organizers have said there will be more than 50 speakers or presentations each night, with many of the remarks kept brief to keep the pace fast for viewers and easy to share online.

Trump has also promised there will be “lots of Great Entertainment” and referred to it as “a RALLY like none other.”

What will they focus on?

The party’s candidates will be showcased, including Paxton, the Texas Senate hopeful, whom Trump controversially threw his support behind instead of backing incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Despite years of scandals, Paxton won with Trump’s backing, giving Democrats an opponent they see as more beatable in an otherwise conservative state. Trump has said one of the focuses for the Texas convention will be Paxton and trying to get him elected, saying "he's a good man."

But much of the program is focused on Trump’s agenda, from his crackdown on immigration, efforts to lower prescription drug prices, the sweeping tax cuts and spending law he signed last year and his tariffs, along with a partisan case against Democrats. Expect many of the speakers to echo Trump’s attack lines portraying Democrats as communists.

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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

Just 32% of American adults say they are “completely” or “somewhat” satisfied with the U.S. school system, according to an August poll published Tuesday by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation and shared exclusively with The Associated Press. That’s an 11-point drop over the past two years and the lowest since Gallup began polling on the subject 27 years ago.

At the same time, dissatisfaction has increased to a high of 67%.

Experts on education and school policy say the findings are deeply concerning but not surprising.

Democrats are driving the recent slide, with their satisfaction dropping about 19 points since President Donald Trump’s second term began in 2025. Independents’ satisfaction appears to be down as well, about 10 points from 2024, while Republicans' satisfaction has also fallen slightly, about 6 points.

The Trump administration has played a role in eroding public confidence by depicting schools as political battlegrounds, raising concerns about what teachers should be allowed to say in the classroom and moving to abolish diversity programs and dismantle the Education Department, said Jack Schneider, director of the Center for Education Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“It’s terrifying. We’re on the precipice of the dissolution of the public education system as we have known it,” Schneider said. Democrats, he said, are also particularly concerned by Trump’s signature school choice program that will use taxpayer-supported scholarships to pay for kids' private school tuition.

National test scores have fallen since the pandemic

But politics alone does not explain the dissatisfaction. Gallup polling shows public confidence in schools generally has declined since the COVID-19 pandemic closed classrooms, exacerbating academic declines, mental health issues and other problems.

Headlines have consistently told a story of a national drop in test scores, especially in reading, which sends a message that schools have struggled to rebound since COVID lows.

“We’ve had a drumbeat of bad news about test scores and other social trends that could be driving this,” said Sarah Reckhow, a political science professor at Michigan State University who specializes in public policy. “There’s a ton of debate, discussion and noise about technology and AI in education," she said. And recently, kids' screentime at school has dominated education headlines locally and nationally.

However, parents have a different view about their own children’s education. About two-thirds of parents with school-age children say they are satisfied with their child’s education, which is also a low point in the trend — parents haven't had a similarly discontented view since 2013 — but double the 32% satisfaction with U.S. education among adults overall.

That reflects a steady trend of parents feeling more confident about their own schools than the narrative they hear from elected officials and headlines about the national picture.

“When people weigh in about the nation’s schools, what they are commenting on are 98,999 schools that they haven’t set foot in,” Schneider said.

A separate survey, also conducted in August by Gallup and Walton, asked Americans how well they thought schools were preparing kids for the future. Only about 2 in 10 said schools are doing a “good” or “excellent” job teaching critical thinking or preparing students for the current workforce. Schools' highest marks were for preparing students to adapt to new technologies, with 44% giving schools a high ranking in this area.

Gallup senior education researcher Zach Hrynowski says the findings highlight a frustration with institutions more broadly.

“People have a general negative vibe about everything in the country right now,” Hrynowski said. “People are frustrated, and don’t think any institution is working particularly well.”

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The first Gallup poll was conducted by telephone from Aug. 3-24, 2026, using a sample random sample of U.S. adults ages 18 and older. The margin of sampling error for U.S. adults overall is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points. The margin of sampling error for parents of K-12 students is plus or minus 8.3 percentage points.

The second poll of 2,143 U.S. adults ages 18 and older was conducted Aug. 3-17, 2026, using a sample drawn from Gallup’s probability-based panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for U.S. adults overall is plus or minus 3.0 percentage points.

The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and climate.

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Food and Drug Administration inspections of foreign food sites — including the Mexican farm linked to the ongoing outbreak — are down nearly 35% since 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to agency records. The pandemic kicked off a wave of retirements and departures among FDA inspectors that continues to this day.

Even before COVID-19, the agency had long failed to hit its congressionally mandated targets for international inspections. And recent staffing cuts, reorganizations and other upheavals under President Donald Trump could mean even fewer inspections in the years ahead, according to former senior FDA officials.

“When you look at the numbers of inspections balanced against the responsibility of the FDA — in terms of all the firms domestically and internationally under its oversight — the agency just can’t achieve what is required,” said Michael Rogers, who spent nearly 35 years in various inspection roles within the agency. He added that FDA continues to do many things “very well with limited resources.”

The Trump administration has proposed new approaches to stretch agency resources — including a pilot program of one-day inspections. Rogers and other officials say the abbreviated inspections are not equivalent to traditional ones, which can take a week or more to document serious problems.

FDA officials have long made the case that inspections are only one tool to oversee safety.

“Inspections will never be the only way to ensure the safety of imported products given the massive volume coming into the country," said Susan Mayne, FDA's former food director who is now at Yale University. “That’s why FDA uses border inspections, importer inspections, sampling and other tools.”

But the outbreak in iceberg lettuce has also laid bare the potential downsides of those approaches.

In July, regulators were forced to retract a faulty test result that they claimed found cyclospora on a sample of Taylor Farms' lettuce obtained at the border. Despite the error, FDA officials say they are confident the company's farm is the source of the diarrhea-causing parasite. Mexican food authorities, however, say they have not found any positive samples or other red flags there.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees FDA, said the agency’s investigation is ongoing. Additionally, FDA officials are studying how many foreign inspections should be conducted annually “to ensure oversight comparable” to the U.S. food supply.

FDA inspectors took a month to arrive at Mexican farm

FDA inspectors arrived at the Taylor Farms site in Guanajuato, Mexico, in mid-August, about one month after the recall was announced July 17.

It was their first visit there since 2019. That year marked an all-time high for foreign food inspections before the FDA pulled most of its staff from the field during the pandemic.

Inspections for food — along with drugs, medical devices and other products — still haven’t recovered. And foreign food inspections actually fell further behind last year, down 17% to 1,140 in fiscal year 2025 from the prior year.

While inspectors were not among the 3,500 jobs targeted for termination by the Trump administration, the agency did eliminate more than half the staffers who handle travel bookings. That's left inspectors to handle most of their own flights, lodging and other logistics.

Food experts say it shouldn't have taken four weeks to get inspectors on-site in Mexico, considering the scale and number of people sickened.

“It took us too long to get boots on the ground,” said Frank Yiannas, the former top food safety official at FDA. “When these outbreaks happen in fresh produce, you have to respond quickly because these are very complex and changing ecosystems.”

The Taylor Farms recall involved thousands of packaged salad products combining iceberg lettuce with other vegetables. The products were shipped to major U.S. restaurant chains, including Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.

According to FDA figures, companies have announced more than 480 food recalls in the current fiscal year, already surpassing four out of the five previous years.

Food inspection targets have gone unmet for over a decade

Washington has tried before to overhaul the U.S. food safety system.

A string of deadly outbreaks involving spinach, cantaloupe and other produce led Congress to pass the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011, which required additional testing, training and monitoring of hygiene conditions at farms. The legislation also set aggressive goals for FDA foreign inspections — targets the agency has never met.

Under the law, the FDA is supposed to inspect more than 19,000 international food sites annually. The agency hit an all-time high of 1,700 in 2019 — less than one-tenth of the target, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Former FDA regulators say the 19,000 target is unachievable and has never been properly funded by Congress — which has left FDA's food budget essentially flat for years. Still, the FDA “has not identified an appropriate annual target," GAO noted.

Perhaps the biggest challenge to boosting inspections is recruiting new inspectors, and retaining those FDA already has.

The FDA's food inspection workforce includes more than 420 staffers, although 10% to 15% of its positions have been chronically unfilled, according to the GAO and former staffers.

Inspectors who work internationally can spend 50% or more of their working time traveling, a grueling schedule that has long caused turnover among FDA staff.

“Until you can better incentivize people to stay in those positions, I think the agency is going to continue to see high attrition, younger and less experienced investigators,” said Rogers. “That ultimately may impact FDA’s ability to enhance and increase inspections.”

Many experts say new approaches, including machine learning and remote monitoring of supplier practices, could help alleviate some of the need for inspections.

“We have to rethink how we oversee the safety of foreign producers,” Yiannas said. “We can’t use the same approaches and limited tools that we’ve used for the past 30 years.”

The 2011 food safety law called on manufacturers to place bar codes on each batch of produce, so that it can be quickly traced in the event of contamination. The rule was supposed to take effect in January, following years of discussions and revisions with produce companies. But the FDA again delayed its implementation after pushback from industry.

“There’s widespread acknowledgment that these are complex issues, but when you have 17 years to prepare for a final exam you should be able to pass it,” said Brian Ronholm, a former Department of Agriculture official who is now with Consumer Reports.

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As first-of-their-kind festivities open Wednesday, Trump wants to stoke his core supporters' enthusiasm by making Election Day on Nov. 3 all about himself — a referendum on his record at an event he conceived to help his party, even if he's not actually on the ballot.

The question is whether he'll do more to fire up Republicans or Democrats at a moment when his popularity has reached historic lows.

The president is planning to take the stage both nights of the convention, giving a keynote address Wednesday and then closing remarks after Vice President JD Vance gives his own speech the following night.

That means effectively staging a two-day Trump show with a supporting cast that includes some of the party's most vulnerable lawmakers.

“If Trump is in the orbit then everything gets swallowed up into a black hole. It’s just unavoidable,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist and a critic of the president.

The Republican Party is so enamored with the prospect that it is selling $16 beer cozies online depicting the president as the Marlboro Man. They feature the 80-year-old on horseback, with a white Stetson and the word “Dallas” under the trademark red-and-white triangle peak logo where the cigarette maker’s name would normally be.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will address the convention, noted that the gathering was Trump’s idea and should be “very instructive, very exciting.”

“We’ll parade our stars across the stage,” he said, making it sound like a political version of the beauty pageants Trump once helped organize.

Trump conceived and planned nearly the entire convention

Republicans familiar with the process said the president was involved in the event's every detail. His control over the program was such, in fact, that anyone pressing for information in recent weeks was told it wasn't yet known because Trump was still making choices.

Despite all the cowboy imagery, it's unclear if the cavalry is coming, however.

MAGA Inc., the president's political organization with a nearly $400 million war chest, announced it is spending $10 million on television and digital advertisements in the Texas Senate race. But that's the first time it has tapped its vast resources in a serious way, even as Republicans are hoping for big help to win many tight races around the country.

A separate group, Securing American Greatness, has begun running ads touting the president’s record heading into the midterms. But its gauzy videos mostly promote Trump and barely mention Congress.

The major broadcast networks haven’t committed to televising most of the convention on each night, and the proceedings will be competing with the kickoff of the NFL season — including games likely going on during both of Trump's speeches.

The president wants to pretend he's running

Rep. Suzan DelBene, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was skeptical the GOP would get a convention boost.

“I’m not sure what they’re doing," said the Washington Democrat. "They don’t have a message, they have nothing to say. So, I think that will be even more clear.”

Trump, meanwhile, has long believed that the best way to win elections is to have himself as a candidate. He made that explicit during a recent South Carolina rally, telling the crowd, “Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot."

The president is trying to counter political headwinds that see the party in power usually suffer losses during midterm elections — including during Trump's first term when Democrats flipped the House.

His midterm message has consisted mostly of promoting his record, including his administration cracking down on the U.S.-Mexico border, passing legislation that reduced taxes for workers earning tips and overtime and on seniors' Social Security benefits, and working to cut prescription drug prices.

Still, Trump hasn't made clear how keeping Republicans in control of Congress would address concerns about inflation and an economy many Americans see as weakening, not to mention a war in Iran with no end in sight and Trump's own low approval ratings.

Trump has sought to go on the political offensive

The president decries Democrats as communists, arguing that progressive candidates who notched some key primary wins are too far to the left for the general election.

“Communism is an INHUMAN ideology that has led to DEATH and DESTRUCTION around the World!” Trump posted on his social media site recently.

But Tyler said rallies — and generalized rallying cries slamming Democrats — aren't likely what Republicans need ahead of the midterms. Instead, he said, they need a clear message and major efforts to mobilize voters.

“Trump can turn out two bases, his base and the Democratic base,” Tyler said. “The problem for him is, when he’s not on the ballot, his base never shows up and they’re unlikely to again.”

Trump has endorsed some Republican candidates who won their primaries but may face tougher general election races than the more establishment choices he shunned.

Nowhere is that clearer than in Texas' Senate race, which now could be close despite Democrats not winning statewide office in Texas since 1994 — the nation's longest losing streak.

Democrat James Talarico is looking for an upset after Trump backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton despite years of scandals. He propelled Paxton to a primary win over incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who had stronger name recognition and years of experience in Washington.

Having the convention in Dallas "definitely sends a signal that they’re scared about Texas," said Abel Prado, campaign manager for Democratic congressional candidate and Tejano singer Bobby Pulido, who is running against Republican Rep. Monica de la Cruz in the Rio Grande Valley on Texas' border with Mexico.

Trump garnered unusually strong support from some South Texas Hispanic voters in 2024. But Prado said that has largely fallen away, pointing chiefly to frequent immigration raids he said have hurt the district's economy — including slowing a once-booming homebuilding industry, given construction crews' fears about being targeted.

“We’re seeing a very real sense of buyer’s remorse,” Prado said. “Trump always projected this, ‘I am the image of the American Dream.’ But people are starting to realize he only cares about himself.”

Some top Republicans are skipping Dallas

There are Republican incumbents, as well as candidates in key House swing districts, who won't be at the convention, believing that campaigning back home is a better use of their time. That includes Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett, whose battleground district includes the state capital of Lansing.

Many others, though, plan to use Dallas to share Trump's spotlight.

“Obviously, you’re out of the district, but it’s a really good opportunity to get in front of people," said Matt Beynon, spokesperson for Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, who is in a fast-growing district in the central part of the state that's being targeted by Democrats.

The list of scheduled speakers includes Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. Also set to address the crowd are Paxton and Mike Rogers, the Senate nominee in Michigan, where the race is also expected to be close.

Organizers have also built events around everyday Americans, including people who benefited from tax cuts.

“It’s going to be very important,” Trump told the Lt. Dan Podcast with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

“And I did it,” Trump added. “I just came up with the idea.”

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Associated Press writers Steven Sloan, Joey Cappelletti and Lisa Mascaro in Washington, Jill Colvin in New York and Mark Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.

Democrats have found themselves competing in states that once seemed beyond their reach as President Donald Trump’s slipping approval ratings and voters' dissatisfaction with the economy create a difficult political environment for Republicans. But races Democrats once counted on winning have also become more complicated.

It's a battle that's expected to exceed $3.4 billion in spending across all races during the midterm campaign. The implications are huge for Trump’s agenda and his ability to fill administration jobs and open court seats for the remainder of his term, as the Senate is empowered to confirm or block presidential nominees.

Republicans say it's unlikely for everything to break in Democrats' favor, but they acknowledge they're facing a difficult landscape. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told South Dakota's KELOLAND News last week that he does “worry” about losing the chamber.

“I’m a realist," Thune said. "I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.”

Democrats face a scrambled path to the majority

Democrats need to net four seats to win the majority. The original path had been to hold Michigan, Georgia and New Hampshire while winning back Republican-held seats in Alaska, Maine, North Carolina and Ohio. But things have changed.

“We now have multiple paths for the majority,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said last month. “We found new states — Iowa, Texas — which people a year ago weren't even paying attention to.”

Some of the states where Democrats were feeling most optimistic at the start of the election cycle, such as Michigan and Maine, have grown murkier.

In Michigan, where there's an open seat this fall, no GOP candidate has won a Senate race since 1994. But Democrats are struggling to unite behind nominee Abdul El-Sayed. The favorite of progressives narrowly defeated moderate U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in the August primary, and feelings remain raw from a bruising contest that saw nearly $70 million spent against El-Sayed.

Republicans believe Mike Rogers, who lost the 2024 Senate race by fewer than 20,000 votes, has an improved shot against El-Sayed. The Senate Leadership Fund — Senate Republicans' spending PAC — added $6 million to its Michigan advertising investment after El-Sayed won, bringing their total spending to $51 million, the third-highest total.

Democrats also saw a prime opportunity to finally defeat five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris won more votes than Trump in 2024.

Progressive Graham Platner easily won the nomination in June, but he left the race the next month over a sexual assault allegation that he denies. Democratic delegates in late July chose Troy Jackson, a lesser-known former state legislative leader, to replace him.

Jackson has been forced to play catch-up. Collins and aligned super PACs have spent almost $80 million so far, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, while Jackson and Democratic-aligned groups have spent and reserved close to $45 million since he became the nominee.

As one path narrowed for Democrats, others widened

Democrats increasingly see a real possibility in Texas, a state that has been an elusive goal for decades, and other GOP-led states including Iowa, Alaska and Ohio.

In Texas, Democrat James Talarico faces state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who ousted four-term incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn to win the GOP nomination. Senate GOP leadership backed Cornyn, seeing him as the stronger general election candidate.

Paxton has been shadowed for decades by legal and ethical questions, including indictments for securities fraud, though he was not convicted.

Talarico and allied groups have spent nearly $30 million on advertising since the May runoff, compared to less than $3 million by pro-Paxton groups. The political fund associated with Trump last week spent $10 million on TV and digital ads to help Paxton — the first major general election investment by MAGA Inc. for the midterms. Senate GOP leaders had petitioned Trump's political team to spend some of the more than $400 million it had last month to help Paxton.

Democrats have also upped their spending in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio and North Carolina, all states currently held by Republicans. The GOP, meanwhile, is feeling more optimistic about New Hampshire as well as Michigan, while spending more to defend seats in Iowa and Alaska.

The expanded map has upped the anticipated total spending this cycle. AdImpact in June projected $3.4 billion in advertising spending on Senate races, a significant increase from the $2.8 billion the ad spending firm projected in the fall of 2025.

Why more states are in play than expected

Democrats' path has widened in part because of Trump's slumping job approval, notably on handling the economy, which was at 32% according to an AP-NORC poll in July — down from 40% in March 2025, shortly after he took office.

Trump's trade policies and the war in Iran, with its corresponding inflated fuel costs, have added to the economic uncertainty for voters less than two months before Election Day.

“Things still cost too much. And so we’ve got to work on that issue," Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio told The Associated Press. “We understand that and we know that’s real.”

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted heard the concern firsthand at a roundtable last month. Husted is looking to fend off a comeback from former Sen. Sherrod Brown in another key matchup for both parties.

During the discussion on housing, one attendee told Husted that costs were “skyrocketing” in part because of uncertainty around tariffs.

“Uncertainty is the killer to this economy," said Dean Windham, a real estate developer who previously ran for office as a Republican.

Some Republican Senate candidates have defended Trump’s policies while confronting concerns about their economic impact.

In Michigan, where Trump’s tariffs on Canada have become a central issue, Rogers has backed the president’s approach while leaving room for disagreement.

“President Trump is right to put America First — and tariffs are necessary, but are not a one-size-fits-all solution,” Rogers said in a recent statement.

Republicans believe the math still favors them

Even if Democrats hold every seat they currently control, they would need to flip at least two seats in states Trump carried by double digits in 2024 to win the majority.

Republicans are betting that those underlying advantages will matter more as Election Day approaches — particularly as Trump and the party turn their attention toward mobilizing voters who helped return him to the White House.

Trump told reporters last week that he will “be making a lot of stops” in the last 30 days before the election.

Next week, Republicans will hold a midterm convention in Texas, where Trump is set to speak and top Senate candidates including Rogers and Husted are expected to attend.

But Republicans acknowledge they have work to do.

“Politics is local,” Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota said. He pointed to Trump’s decision to import beef, which he said made farmers and ranchers “feel just like the administration pulled the rug right off from underneath” them.

“They’re hurt," Rounds said. “They feel like they’ve been let down.”

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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.

The losses come at a challenging time for the Himalayan nation, which is emerging from a year of political upheaval after an uprising toppled the previous government. The new administration must now repair damaged infrastructure and restore political stability. At the same time, it faces a bigger challenge in developing a more resilient country as climate change increases Nepal’s exposure to extreme weather events.

“It is a wasteland out there. The rebuilding is not going to be easy,” said Sumnima Udas, a member of Parliament and chairperson of a committee on international relations and tourism.

The floods test a government still finding its footing

The disaster is an early test for 36-year-old Prime Minister Balen Shah, who took office in March after months of political turmoil.

The upheaval began last September, when youth-led protests over corruption and a social media ban spiraled into violence. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing dozens, while government buildings and politicians’ homes were set ablaze. Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned, and the country entered a period of uncertainty under a caretaker government.

Shah, a former mayor of Kathmandu and political outsider, emerged from the unrest as the face of a new generation. His party won a sweeping victory in March, giving him a mandate to overhaul a political system widely blamed for failing to deliver.

Now his government faces a different kind of crisis. It must show that it can deliver competent government while taking on the enormous task of rebuilding after the floods.

So far, it has mobilized the army, police, helicopters and medical teams and coordinated with local authorities on evacuations and relief. Thousands have been rescued, but blocked roads, debris-filled hydropower tunnels and shortages of specialized equipment and trained personnel have hampered efforts to reach remote sites, exposing the limits of Nepal’s emergency response capacity.

Those challenges have been compounded by an administration with little experience managing a crisis of this scale, with many of its leaders new to national government.

Guna Raj Luitel, editor of Kathmandu-based The Diplomat Nepal magazine, said the government’s lack of experience had left it ill-equipped to respond to a catastrophe of this magnitude.

“Nepal is a disaster-prone country, but we have failed to learn from the past,” he said.

Rebuilding will be a daunting challenge and strain Nepal’s resources

By Tuesday, more than 1,300 people had been reported dead in Nepal and Tibet, with about 5,000 still missing. While search and rescue operations continue, Nepal will need more than emergency help.

Udas, the lawmaker, said Nepal requires stronger disaster warning systems and infrastructure built for increasingly volatile conditions. It may also have to reconsider where roads, settlements and hydropower projects are built to reduce the risk of repeating the same losses, she said.

Disaster authorities' preliminary damage estimate of $2.56 billion is nearly a fifth of Nepal’s annual government budget of about $14 billion. The full cost of rebuilding has yet to be calculated, though some estimates put it at $4 billion to $5 billion.

The disruption is likely to weigh on tourism, one of Nepal’s economic lifelines, with consequences that could extend well beyond the immediate crisis for communities that depend on the tourism season for much of their income.

The floods also hit a key hydropower corridor that accounts for about 10% of Nepal’s electricity generation, said Uttam Bhlon, vice president of Nepal's Independent Power Producers’ Association. Including projects under construction, the corridor represents about 20% of the country’s generation capacity, he said.

The reconstruction bill will add to the demands on a new government already under pressure to fund schools, hospitals, jobs and new investment.

Nepal has sought international assistance, including from the United Nations, while countries and aid groups have provided emergency supplies, rescue expertise and other support. But the government says it will need much more international backing for the larger task of rebuilding.

Luitel, the magazine editor, said developed countries should do more to support Nepal, arguing that it cannot shoulder the cost of the disaster alone. He said wealthier nations have a responsibility to help vulnerable countries cope with increasingly severe disasters linked to climate change.

“Nepal can’t bear the cost alone,” he said.

Nepal faces growing risks from a changing climate

The science behind the disaster is still unclear. Researchers believe a high-altitude slope collapse involving rock and glacial ice sent an enormous volume of debris downstream, but they have cautioned against drawing a direct line to climate change.

The changing landscape is harder to ignore.

The Himalayas are warming rapidly, glaciers are retreating and rainfall and snowfall patterns are shifting. Nepal is especially vulnerable because much of its population and infrastructure sits in steep valleys below unstable mountain slopes.

Yet Nepal has done little to drive the warming behind those changes. The World Bank estimates that the country produces about 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, even as it remains highly exposed to climate-related hazards.

Udas said that imbalance has become one of Nepal’s central challenges.

She said the country has taken steps to reduce its environmental footprint, including nearly doubling its forest cover over the past three decades, generating most of its electricity from clean sources and doing well in electric-vehicle adoption. But those efforts cannot shield the country from changes unfolding across the Himalayas, she said.

That is why, Udas said, industrialized countries should take greater responsibility for helping Nepal prepare for and recover from climate-related disasters.

“This is not them versus us,” she said. “This is about humanity and the planet.”

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Associated Press journalists Binaj Gurubacharya and Shristi Kafle in Kathmandu, Nepal, contributed to this report.

Exports grew 23.9% year-on-year in July.

Imports climbed 28.2% in August from a year earlier, up from July’s 27.5% rise. That led to a $119.1 billion trade surplus for China, widening from $112.5 billion in July.

“China is very competitive in its tech goods exports,” said Chi Lo, a senior market strategist for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas Asset Management. In recent years, rising exports of electric vehicles, industrial machinery and semiconductors have helped fuel China’s robust shipments globally. “China has moved aggressively up the value chain and has become a major player in AI infrastructure and industrial automation,” he said. China has also largely been weathering disruptions from the Iran war better than many countries, while it has also been exporting more to Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa, shielding it from impacts on its overall exports following elevated U.S. tariffs. Policymakers in the U.S. and in Europe have raised concerns over China’s ballooning trade surplus, which surged to a record $1.2 trillion for the whole of last year. Trade is expected to be among the key topics of discussion between Trump and Xi when the two leaders meet. The strategic stalemate between China and the U.S. will however likely remain, said Lo. “Both sides hold each other hostage in some strategic products, with the U.S. withholding high-end tech goods from being sold to China and China withholding rare-earth exports to the U.S.,” he said. China and the EU are also set to meet for ministerial level trade talks in the fall, as the EU grapples to reduce its around 1 billion euros a day of trade deficit with China. The EU has already implemented measures in July to protect its steel industry and has limited tax-exempt imports of Chinese e-commerce small parcels. At home, China is still struggling to boost its economy as consumption and investment remained sluggish following a yearslong real estate sector downturn. On Sunday, China said it was injecting around $54 billion into state banks and insurers to help lift its economy.

It was around 2 p.m. Sunday when an Amazon cargo plane operated by 21 Air went off the end of a runway and crashed into several cars, killing five people and injuring five others.

A ground stop was initially issued, but flights have since resumed arriving and departing from MIA.

Hector Poblete arrived on Monday, telling Local 10 News he was stuck in Peru for several hours on Sunday waiting to board his flight to Miami.

“When I arrived to Lima, I had to wait more time there, about six hours,” he said.

As of Monday evening, 382 flights out of MIA were delayed and 177 were canceled, according to Flight Aware.

Ali Malik said his parents were on a 16-hour flight to Miami, but their plane was forced to land in Fort Myers instead.

“My parents are old, they’re about 70 years old,” said Malik. “My dad is 70, and he’s sick. It’s a 16-hour flight. God knows how much we have to wait more.”

Another traveler told Local 10 News she is part of a large group who are all on their way to the Dominican Republic.

“We are going to the DR so we are meeting in the Miami airport, but there is a group of 30 of us so half of us are in different states and a lot of people couldn’t make it to their flights,” said traveler Katie, who arrived from Salt Lake City. “We didn’t think we would make it here today, but we’re here.”

As passengers try to get their holiday travel back on track, the investigation into what caused the deadly crash continues.

Bosa tore the ACL in his right knee on Sept. 21 last season. He began training camp on the active roster but missed almost all of camp with tendinitis and soreness in the knee. He returned to practice last week and now is ready to play the opener on Friday in Australia.

“He’s going out there,” defensive coordinator Raheem Morris told reporters before the team practiced at AAMI Park in Melbourne on Tuesday. “He’ll be there. We’re not hiding that."

The 49ers are counting on a healthy Bosa this season to help spark a pass rush that finished last in the NFL with 20 sacks last season. Bosa has had at least nine sacks in the five seasons when he didn’t get hurt in the opening month as he has been one of the most productive edge rushers ever since being drafted second overall in 2019.

Bosa has made the Pro Bowl in all five of his healthy seasons and won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award in 2022, when he led the league with 18 1/2 sacks.

Bosa’s 74 1/2 sacks in the regular season and playoffs are the fifth-most in the NFL since he entered the league in 2019 despite missing nearly two full seasons. His 280 total pressures rank fourth-most in the NFL in that span, according to Sportradar.

Star tight end George Kittle is also expected to play in his first game since he ruptured right Achilles tendon in the playoffs last January. He returned to practice late last month and is set to play the opener.

“Super impressed with how he’s looked considering the injury he had and how quickly he got back out on the field and just committed to his rehab,” offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak said. “It’s been pretty cool to see Kittle out there looking like himself to me, looking fresh. How that affects him on game day and what the workload is, that will be determined. But he looks good to me. He’s practicing full speed. He’s getting a ton of reps. So I feel like we’re in good shape.”

Kittle is a two-time All-Pro and seven-time Pro Bowler who is a key part of San Francisco’s offense as a passing threat and a blocker in the run game. He had 57 catches for 628 yards receiving and seven touchdowns last season.

49ers remain mum on starting left guard

The one major uncertainty about San Francisco’s lineup for the opener is at left guard where several players have rotated with the starters in training camp as the team waited for someone to seize the job.

The leading contenders now appear to be rookie Carver Willis and second-year player Connor Colby but Kubiak wouldn't say who would get the nod. He also said there could be a rotation at the spot.

Willis is a fourth-round pick out of Washington who didn’t play guard at all in college. Despite playing tackle in college, the Niners envisioned him as an interior lineman when they drafted him and have worked him extensively at guard this summer.

Colby was a seventh-round pick last year out of Iowa. He started six games at guard last season but struggled. He began camp as the starter but was unable to solidify that role.

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It was the latest action by the U.S. against boats and vessels in Latin America that it said were involved in drug trafficking.

The joint task force intercepted a floating refueling station that supported illicit drug trafficking operations at sea in the Eastern Pacific, the Southern Command said in a statement.

It added that the people on board the vessel were removed and will be transferred to Ecuadorian authorities.

A video accompanying the announcement showed military personnel boarding a boat, followed by a helicopter flying overhead and finally a projectile striking and sinking it.

The statement also indicated that U.S. forces continue to conduct “precise and professional operations to dismantle the logistical networks that fuel drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.”

Ecuadorian authorities did not immediately comment.

The sunken vessel, whose name has not been released, was the fifth targeted by U.S. forces in less than two weeks.

The fishing vessel María Candelaria was struck last week in the Pacific, according to information from U.S. Southern Command, in coordination with Ecuadorian authorities.

The Ecuadorian navy located 26 crew members from that vessel, who arrived Sunday in the port city of Manta. Eight fishermen from the Conquista II were also located, while their families on the mainland demanded information about their whereabouts.

The other two vessels were the OM2 and Los Tres Hermanos, whose crew members say they were sunk. Southern Command recently identified them as “floating refueling stations for multiple vessels engaged in illicit drug trafficking operations,” in posts on the social media platform X.

The United States has said all of the boats were linked to Los Choneros, which the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist organization.

These cases add to those of three other vessels whose Ecuadorian crews say they were intercepted by U.S. forces this year. In the case of the Fiorella, eight fishermen remain missing since January. The crews of the other vessels returned to Ecuador after being sent to El Salvador.

At least 227 people have been killed in 68 U.S. government strikes that began against boats in the Caribbean and Pacific more than a year ago. Critics have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness.

In at least one case, Ecuadorian authorities said they had no evidence that a survivor of one of the strikes had participated in any criminal activity.

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

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The two-time U.S. Open champion lost a lopsided fourth-round match on Monday to Elena Rybakina. But she continued to make her mark as the undisputed fashion queen on tour. Osaka, already known for her walk-on fashion reveals at tournaments, has been upping her game at the year's final major with a series of dramatic ensembles — all with a basketball theme, as her sponsor, Nike, honors the New York Knicks' championship win.

For her last look, she arrived on court Monday in a coat of many colors: a fur-trimmed cloak designed by Brooklyn-based label KidSuper.

“I felt really swaggy when I put it on," Osaka said after the match. “I feel feel like it embodied New York a lot."

For her increasingly dramatic looks the past week or so, Osaka has worked with celebrity stylist Law Roach — also known as Zendaya's stylist — displaying the work of multiple designers.

Monday's eclectic walk-on ensemble from KidSuper, the label of designer Colm Dillane, included not only the lavish coat, but a headband that echoed the blue, red and white NBA logo — only now, displaying a racket-wielding tennis player, not a basketball player.

For her first-round match a week ago, Osaka channeled NBA great Allen Iverson in a long, white tulle skirt and a dramatic gray, hooded robe. When she removed the hood, Osaka's hair was in cornrows under a headband, recalling Iverson's look when was the NBA MVP while playing for the Philadelphia 76ers. Her ensemble was designed by Who Decides War, the New York-based streetwear brand.

For round two, Osaka arrived on court in an ensemble by Thom Browne, with a flowing white jacket embroidered with crossed tennis rackets. Underneath, her tennis skirt's mesh fabric resembled a basketball net.

For the third round, Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, wore the label Monse — an oversized hybrid of a gray suit jacket and hoodie sweatshirt over flowing gray fleece pants, an outfit meant to mesh business wear with sports wear.

After her loss Monday, Osaka was asked if she was disappointed that there may have been other fashion looks she'd been planning to display, had she remained longer.

“I mean, I think there’s always something, you know?” Osaka said. “I feel like that’s a way that I can have fun and sort of just excite myself, also.”

But the 28-year old — who noted that she’d been hampered during Monday' match by pain in her leg — was philosophical about her loss.

“Maybe I’m just getting older, but I don’t feel sad,” Osaka said. “I think, also, if I reflect on my career and the things that I’ve been able to do, there’s nothing that I regret or there’s nothing that I’m sad about ... If I win another Grand Slam, it’s not going to change my life.”

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According to officials, officers on Andros Island are looking for the aircraft after it may have gone down in the waters off Red Bays.

Police in the Bahamas said they received a report around 2:20 p.m. Monday regarding an airplane that may have gone into the water.

The plane had four people on board, according to authorities, and it departed Great Harbour Cay around 11:10 a.m. with a destination of Opa-locka in South Florida.

Officials said air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft when it was approximately 13 miles west of Andros Island.

Family members told Local 10 News that the four people aboard the plane were Mario Lamar, 80, his wife Lili Lamar, 79, and their grandchildren Sofia Sosa, 28, and Christian Sosa, 22.

They also said Mario Lamar is an experienced pilot who has been flying for 40 years.

According to relatives, the family was tracking the flight path when for some reason, the plane turned around, and that’s when they said they lost contact.

The family said they immediately contacted authorities and are now asking anyone in the Bahamas who sees anything in the ocean to let authorities know.

Efforts are underway to locate the missing plane, but officials said a search by the U.S. Coast Guard was temporarily postponed due to inclement weather.

Local 10 News reporter Liane Morejon and assignment desk editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.

It’s the Miami Dolphins legend’s 21st year putting on the giveaway.

Sixty disadvantaged children from Miami-Dade and Broward counties got a chance to go on a $300 shopping spree at a Davie Old Navy store.

Each child was paired with a celebrity shopper, including Miami Hurricanes athletes and Dolphins alums.

Since launching the program, the foundation has helped more than 1,000 local children get ready for a new school year.

Whether it means the three-time Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year will be ready to play in the Rams’ season opener against the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday morning local time is still unclear.

“We going day by day,” Donald said. “(We’ll) Come up with a game plan and see what’s going on. But feeling good. Feeling really good.”

Donald did not practice Monday, which he described as a scheduled day off. Such breaks were frequently built into his game week to reduce wear and tear in later years during the 10 seasons of his first stint with the Rams. They are likely to again be a regular feature now that Donald is 35 years old and hasn’t played in an NFL game since a NFC wild-card round loss to the Detroit Lions in January 2024.

For Donald, everything is about putting himself in position to be as effective as possible in meaningful action. He is still holding himself to the same standard that led to 111 sacks in 154 regular-season games and eight first-team All-Pro honors.

“Even with my first day out there with 11-on-11, I thought things would be a little all over the place, but (I) settled in, settled in. A couple plays was a little rusty. It ain’t where I want to be, but it’s pretty damn good,” Donald said.

“If you ask me, you know, to not play football in two years, to be moving how I’m moving, like I said, it’s really no drop off.”

Defensive coordinator Chris Shula said the opportunity to have a player with Donald’s resume is worth navigating the uncertainty of his status for this game.

“It’s a challenge I’ll take any time,” Shula said. “No, we’re taking it day by day, and we’re just trying to get him acclimated to the defense. But at the end of the day, football is football. I know it’s been about two years, but we kind of expect him to hit the ground running, and we’ll see what happens.”

Shula said the Rams are accounting for all possibilities when it comes to Donald's availability at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

“We’re ready for him if he does (play), ready for him if he doesn’t, and we’ll have a plan for however many plays he feels like he can go, and we’ll go from there,” Shula said.

The only thing that seems to be clear is neither Donald nor Shula expect him to be a every-down player at this stage of his career. After being used on 867 (80.8%) of the Rams' defensive snaps in the 2023 regular season, Donald will likely be focusing on getting to the quarterback alongside star pass rusher Myles Garrett, whose acquisition in June first sparked his interest in coming out of retirement.

The Rams have plenty of quality interior linemen to reduce Donald's workload, including Kobie Turner, Poona Ford and Braden Fiske.

“That’s the best thing about it, I don’t have to worry about playing 70, 60 snaps when you have a group like this,” Donald said. "There’s no pressure on me. I can just go out there, play free, play ball. Let the game come to me, play with the guys around me. Help them, they help me. Hopefully we have a lot of success this season.”

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Jesús Gerardo García, alias “el Kekas”; Irineo Francisco “N”, y Ángel Jesús “N” fueron presentados el lunes en un tribunal de la ciudad costera de Ensenada para el juicio oral por su presunta participación en el crimen de los hermanos australianos Callum Ryan Robinson y Jake Martin Robinson, y del estadounidense Jack Carter Rhoad. La audiencia concluyó al final de la tarde y continuará el martes.

Poco antes de entrar al tribunal, Martin Robinson, padre de los hermanos australianos, dijo a la prensa que él y su esposa decidieron asistir a la audiencia en Ensenada para representar a sus hijos. “Sé que ellos querrían que estuviéramos aquí; ellos harían lo mismo por nosotros”, expresó.

García fue detenido en 2024 junto con otros dos hombres y Ary Gisell Silva Raya tras la localización de los cuerpos de los hermanos Robinson y Carter, quienes fueron reportados como desaparecidos poco después de arribar a México para surfear en las playas de Baja California.

Silva Raya, que fue pareja de García y a quien las autoridades le incautaron un teléfono de una de las víctimas, fue sentenciada en noviembre pasado a 20 años de cárcel, luego de declararse culpable de los delitos de “robo calificado con violencia” y “robo de vehículo con violencia” en un procedimiento abreviado.

García, quien enfrenta un proceso por el delito de desaparición forzada, no aceptó el procedimiento abreviado y decidió ir a juicio.

Según la fiscalía estatal, Silva Raya llegó a Punta San José —a unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) al sur de Ensenada— el 27 de abril de 2024, donde tuvo contacto con los tres extranjeros, e “instigó a uno de sus acompañantes a despojarlos de sus bienes”, lo que se concretó un día después.

La fiscal estatal María Elena Andrade Ramírez dijo a la prensa que “el Kekas” —palabra que en la jerga local significa quesadillas, o tortillas de queso-– trató de apoderarse de las llantas y otras partes de una camioneta en la que viajaban los extranjeros, pero que al resistirse éstos al robo, presuntamente los asesinó y luego ocultó los cuerpos en un pozo, donde fueron encontrados el 3 de mayo de 2024.

Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Halim Perdanakusuma Airport serving Jakarta and three other regional airports reopened just after midnight, Transportation Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said. Two resumed normal operations by late morning after one reopened Monday.

Purwagandhi said the airports were allowed to resume operations only after authorities determined conditions were safe for aviation. He said airport authorities and airlines were required to inspect all aircraft before flights resumed.

“Pilots and flight crews were also instructed to remain aware of restricted airspace zones established around areas affected by volcanic ash,” Purwagandhi said. Aviation authorities temporarily restrict aircraft from areas where ash has been detected because volcanic particles can damage engines and other critical systems.

The continuous eruption of Anak Krakatau with lava fountains and loud booms ended Sunday but the volcanic island remained active Tuesday morning. Eruptions were reported at 5:08 a.m. and 5:34 a.m., though the height of the ash column could not be observed due to fog and weather conditions.

The airport closures Sunday and Monday disrupted nearly 2,961 flights, including 622 international services, and affected about 341,000 passengers.

The government also authorized schools in areas affected by volcanic ash to shift temporarily to online learning to reduce students’ exposure to ash.

Anak Krakatau is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Indonesia’s main islands of Java and Sumatra. Its name means “child of Krakatau,” and the volcano is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau, whose monumental 1883 eruption triggered a period of global cooling.

An eruption of Anak Krakatau in 2018 caused a tsunami that killed at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java. Researchers believe volcanic activity triggered an underwater landslide and caused a large chunk of Anak Krakatau’s southwest slope to collapse and displace a large volume of water.

The volcano remained at Indonesia’s second-highest alert level since July, and authorities advised residents, tourists and fishermen to stay at least 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the active crater.

Indonesia has more than 120 active volcanoes and frequently experiences eruptions due to its location along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the ring of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most global seismic activity occurs.

Five more people died after the cargo plane overshot Miami International Airport’s runway 30 on Sunday afternoon and crashed into a van, a fence, a sports utility vehicle, and a second fence, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the Boeing 767-300 on Prime Air Flight 798 for Amazon struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van inside MIA and a Toyota Corolla Cross LE that was on Northwest 67th Avenue outside of MIA.

“The recovery of victims is most important,” Homendy said.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said deputies were working to identify the victims.

The Boeing 767-300, which was manufactured in 1994, had departed with two crew members from San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB.

A witness’s video shows there were stormy clouds when the plane landed on the runway shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday. Homendy said the plane traveled for 1,300 feet past the paved surface.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue deployed more than 60 units. Dark smoke billowed from the crash site. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

“We had a very complex fire,” Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said on Sunday.

Jadallah said firefighters rescued the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped in the cockpit. Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing them getting out through a window.

Homendy said the crash site was still not safe on Monday afternoon.

“There is fuel everywhere. That will have to be remediated, but then they are also removing fuel from the aircraft, so we have to allow that to occur,” Homendy said.

Two of Miami International Airport’s four runways remained closed on Monday afternoon, according to Greg Chin, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.

Homendy asked witnesses to share photos and videos with the NTSB team via e-mail at witness@ntsb.gov.

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Los cierres, que incluyen universidades comunitarias y oficinas estatales y de condados, entraron en vigor para el condado de Kauai, que estaba bajo una advertencia de huracán emitida por el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés). El condado incluye las islas de Kauai, que tiene más de 73.000 habitantes, y Niihau, donde hay menos de 100 residentes.

Una parte del vasto Monumento Nacional Marino Papahanaumokuakea también fue incluida en la advertencia.

El NHC informó el lunes por la tarde que se prevé que el núcleo de la tormenta pase sobre Niihau o apenas al oeste de la isla el lunes por la noche y el martes en la madrugada. Aunque se calcula que los vientos —lo suficientemente fuertes como para convertir a Lowell en un huracán de categoría 2 el lunes por la tarde— se debilitarán, se prevé que la tormenta siga siendo un huracán en su punto de mayor cercanía a las islas.

“Cerrar oficinas, escuelas y tribunales ayudará a mantener a la gente fuera de los caminos durante condiciones peligrosas y permitirá que los equipos de emergencia se concentren en proteger a nuestras comunidades", indicó Green en un comunicado de prensa. "Insto a todos en el condado de Kaua'i a permanecer en interiores, evitar viajes innecesarios y atender todas las instrucciones oficiales de emergencia”.

Exhortó también a los residentes a mantenerse alejados de las costas, evitar conducir a través de aguas inundadas, prepararse para apagones y estar atentos a las actualizaciones.

Estaba vigente una advertencia de tormenta tropical para la isla de Oahu, que tiene cerca de 1 millón de residentes.

Se prevén acumulaciones aisladas de lluvia de hasta 25 centímetros (10 pulgadas) en Oahu y Maui, y 30 centímetros (12 pulgadas) en partes de la Isla Grande de Hawai, la más oriental de las islas principales del estado.

El mes pasado, Hawai se vio afectado por la tormenta tropical Lala. Aunque no tocó tierra, golpeó con fuerza al archipiélago —y especialmente a la Isla Grande—, provocando deslaves, arrasando unas 100 viviendas y causando cortes de electricidad generalizados.

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Sunday afternoon, the Amazon cargo plane, operated by 21 Air, went off the end of a runway, crashing into several cars and catching fire before coming to a stop next to a parking lot.

Five people were killed and five others were hurt, with three of the injured victims listed in critical condition at last check.

During the press conference, new information was made available regarding what happened in the immediate moments after the plane touched down.

“The plane struck navigational aides and equipment, then impacted a 2012 white Ford Econoline van that was owned by Professional Ocean Service Corporation, which is a contract cleaning company for the airlines. In the van were seven persons on board,” said NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy.

“The aircraft then traveled through a perimeter fence, and impacted a Toyota Corolla Cross LE, which was traveling on Northwest 67th Avenue,” she said.

Officials have not provided any additional information on the injuries suffered by any of the people inside those vehicles.

Local 10 News’ Liane Morejon went to the MIA branch location for Professional Ocean Service Corp., but it appeared to be closed.

The company’s vice president, Antonio Hespanhol, spoke to Local 10 over the phone and confirmed it was the company’s vehicle involved in the crash.

Speaking from Chile, Hespanhol said he has not yet received confirmation regarding how many of his employees were hurt or killed.

Monday’s NTSB press conference began shortly after 4 p.m., and it can be viewed in its entirety below:

Runway 12/30 at Miami International Airport has the full 1,000-foot Runway Safety Area mandated by the FAA. Engineered Materials Arresting Systems, or EMAS, are generally used at airports where space constraints prevent a full safety area from being provided. No U.S. airport has EMAS at a runway end that also maintains the full, unobstructed 1,000-foot safety area. EMAS is intended as an alternative, not as an additional layer on top of one.

MIA undergoes a comprehensive FAA safety inspection every year and has consistently met federal airfield safety requirements.

As the NTSB and FAA continue their investigation, we will fully cooperate with their review and evaluate any recommendations that result from it.

Greg Chin, Miami-Dade Aviation Department Communications Director

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The crash happened just before 4 p.m. when the driver of a Hyundai Sonata going westbound on Southwest 40th Street, also known as Bird Road, turned onto 57th Avenue, also known as Red Road, in front of the biker, causing him to T-bone the sedan and fall from his Kawasaki.

Lt. Alex Camacho, an FHP spokesperson, said the motorcyclist died at the scene.

Authorities have not publicly identified the motorcyclist, nor have they said whether the Hyundai driver will be cited or charged.

El accidente ocurrió poco antes de las 4 de la tarde, cuando el conductor de un Hyundai Sonata que circulaba hacia el oeste por la calle 40 suroeste, conocida como Bird Road, giró hacia la avenida 57, conocida como Red Road, justo frente al motociclista. Este impactó de frente contra un costado del sedán y cayó de su Kawasaki.

El teniente Alex Camacho, portavoz de la FHP, indicó que el motociclista murió en el lugar del accidente.

Las autoridades no han identificado públicamente al motociclista, ni han informado si el conductor del Hyundai recibirá una citación o enfrentará cargos.

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NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the Boeing 767-300 on Prime Air Flight 798 for Amazon struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van inside MIA and a Toyota Corolla Cross LE that was on Northwest 67th Avenue outside of MIA.

Homendy said there were seven workers in the Econoline van belonging to the Professional Ocean Service Corp., which she described as a cleaning company that operates on planes at MIA.

“The recovery of victims is most important,” Homendy said.

Five people died, and five were injured, including three whose condition was critical. Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said deputies were working to identify the victims.

Homendy said the five dead were in the vehicles. The Econoline van, she said, was “torn apart.”

Antonio Cesar Hespanhol, a vice president at Professional Ocean Service who was in Chile, said some of the company’s employees were among the dead, but he had not confirmed how many.

The Boeing 767-300, manufactured in 1994, had departed with two crew members from San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB.

A witness’s video shows there were stormy clouds when the plane landed on the runway shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday. Homendy said the plane traveled for 1,300 feet past the paved surface.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue deployed more than 60 units. Dark smoke billowed from the crash site. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

“We had a very complex fire,” Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said on Sunday.

Jadallah said firefighters rescued the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped in the cockpit. Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing them getting out through a window.

Fire rescue personnel took the injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and the Jackson South Medical Center.

Homendy said the crash site was still not safe on Monday afternoon.

“There is fuel everywhere. That will have to be remediated, but then they are also removing fuel from the aircraft, so we have to allow that to occur,” Homendy said.

Two of Miami International Airport’s four runways remained closed on Monday afternoon, according to Greg Chin, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.

Homendy asked witnesses to share photos and videos with the NTSB team via e-mail at witness@ntsb.gov.

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La presidenta de la NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, dijo que el Boeing 767-300 del vuelo 798 de Prime Air, de Amazon, golpeó una van Ford E-150 Econoline blanca del año 2012 que estaba dentro de MIA y un Toyota Corolla Cross LE que circulaba por Northwest 67th Avenue, fuera del aeropuerto.

Homendy señaló que en la van Econoline iban siete trabajadores de Professional Ocean Service Corp., una empresa de limpieza que, según describió, presta servicio a los aviones en MIA.

“Lo más importante es la recuperación de las víctimas”, dijo Homendy.

Cinco personas murieron y cinco resultaron heridas, tres de ellas en estado crítico. La alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, informó que los agentes trabajaban en la identificación de las víctimas.

Homendy indicó que los cinco fallecidos estaban en los vehículos. La van Econoline, dijo, quedó “destrozada”.

Antonio Cesar Hespanhol, vicepresidente de Professional Ocean Service, quien se encontraba en Chile, dijo que algunos de los empleados de la empresa están entre los muertos, aunque no había confirmado cuántos.

El Boeing 767-300, fabricado en 1994, había despegado de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con dos tripulantes a bordo, según la Administración Federal de Aviación y la NTSB.

El video de un testigo muestra que había nubes de tormenta cuando el avión aterrizó en la pista, poco antes de las 2 p.m. del domingo. Homendy dijo que la aeronave recorrió 1,300 pies más allá de la superficie pavimentada.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue desplegó más de 60 unidades. Una densa humareda negra salía del lugar del accidente. Los bomberos reportaron el uso de espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimiento del motor.

“Tuvimos un incendio muy complejo”, dijo el domingo el jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah.

Jadallah contó que los bomberos rescataron al piloto y al copiloto, que quedaron atrapados en la cabina. Rohan Ellis, un testigo, compartió un video que los muestra saliendo por una ventana.

El personal de rescate trasladó a los heridos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South Medical Center.

Homendy dijo que la tarde del lunes el lugar del accidente todavía no era seguro.

“Hay combustible por todas partes. Eso habrá que remediarlo, pero además están extrayendo el combustible de la aeronave, así que tenemos que dejar que eso ocurra”, explicó Homendy.

Dos de las cuatro pistas del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami seguían cerradas la tarde del lunes, según Greg Chin, vocero del Departamento de Aviación de Miami-Dade.

Homendy pidió a los testigos que compartan fotos y videos con el equipo de la NTSB por correo electrónico, a witness@ntsb.gov.

Otras cinco personas murieron luego de que el avión de carga rebasara la pista 30 de MIA, poco antes de las 2 p.m. del domingo, y “quedara detenido en un terreno contiguo al aeropuerto”, cerca de unas bodegas, según la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz.

El jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah, dijo que los bomberos se apresuraron a liberar al piloto y al copiloto del avión de carga, que quedaron atrapados en la cabina. Rohan Ellis, un testigo, compartió un video que los muestra saliendo por una ventana.

“El avión sí golpeó un par de vehículos”, dijo Jadallah, y agregó que los bomberos también tuvieron que sacar a los heridos que estaban “atrapados dentro de los autos”.

El personal de rescate trasladó a los heridos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South Medical Center. MDFR desplegó más de 60 unidades.

Una densa humareda negra salía del lugar del accidente. Hubo una fuga de combustible. Los bomberos reportaron el uso de espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimiento del motor.

“Tuvimos un incendio muy complejo”, dijo Jadallah.

Los agentes de Miami-Dade pidieron al público evitar la zona cercana a Northwest 67th Avenue, entre las calles 25 y 36, durante la tarde del domingo y la mañana del lunes.

El video de un testigo mostró que nubes de tormenta cubrían parcialmente el cielo cuando el avión de carga aterrizó en MIA, tras llegar desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

La Administración Federal de Aviación emitió una orden temporal de detención de operaciones en tierra durante unas tres horas la tarde del domingo.

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#MDFR INCIDENT UPDATE #1: SEPT. 6 - 3:25 P.M.

Over 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units are on scene of an incident involving a plane that overran a runway and struck multiple vehicles near Miami International Airport. Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a… pic.twitter.com/T0JTFZTb3F

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

ACTUALIZACIÓN N.º 2 DEL INCIDENTE DE #MDFR: 6 DE SEPT. - 6:25 P.M.

El domingo 6 de septiembre, a la 1:55 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recibió reportes de un avión de carga que había chocado contra varios vehículos cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Más de 60 unidades… pic.twitter.com/wa4iIWs6x8

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

🚨 TRAFFIC ALERT 🚨

Due to a major first responder presence, NW 67th Avenue between NW 25th Street - NW 36th Street is currently closed. Expect delays and seek alternate routes.

Flights at Miami International Airport are also currently grounded. Travelers should expect delays. pic.twitter.com/y4vYZq4Vpx

— Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (@MiamiDade_SO) September 6, 2026

21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate. Contact the…

— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) September 6, 2026

The closures, which include community colleges and state and county offices, were put into effect for Oahu and Kauai County, which was under a hurricane warning issued by the National Hurricane Center. Kauai County includes the major islands of Kauai, which has a population of over 73,000, and Niihau, where there are fewer than 100 residents.

A portion of the vast Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument was also included in the warning.

The weather agency also warned late Monday of the possibility of “several tornadoes” near Kauai and Niihau in the evening and overnight, with tornadoes also possible on other Hawaiian Islands.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for Oahu, which has close to 1 million residents.

The National Hurricane Center said the core of the storm was expected to pass near or just west of Niihau late Monday and early Tuesday. While the winds — which were strong enough to make Lowell a Category 2 hurricane as of Monday afternoon — were expected to weaken, the storm was expected to remain a hurricane at its closest approach to the islands.

“Closing offices, schools and courts will help keep people off the roads during dangerous conditions and allow emergency crews to focus on protecting our communities,” Green said in a news release. “I urge everyone in Kaua'i County to remain indoors, avoid unnecessary travel and follow all official emergency instructions.”

He also urged residents to stay away from shorelines, avoid driving through floodwaters, prepare for power outages and monitor for updates.

Isolated rainfall totals of up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) were expected in Oahu and Maui, and 12 inches (30 centimeters) was expected in portions of the Big Island of Hawaii, the farthest east of the state's major islands.

Last month, the state had a brush with Tropical Storm Lala. While it did not make landfall, it hit Hawaii — and especially the Big Island — hard, leaving behind landslides, washing away about 100 homes and causing widespread power outages.

The three-time MVP was reinstated from the 60-day injured list Monday night, an off day for the Yankees. They open a three-game series at home Tuesday night against the Colorado Rockies.

Judge hasn't played since May 31 because of a broken right rib, but the slugger traveled with the Yankees on their recent trip to the West Coast. He took batting practice on the field multiple times last weekend in San Diego and ran the bases as he worked toward his return.

The 34-year-old outfielder will rejoin New York's active roster without going on a minor league rehab assignment first. Throughout his absence, Judge said he wouldn't need a stint in the minors to get ready.

“If I tell them I’m ready to go play, I think we’re ready to go play,” Judge said on Aug. 27. “I’m not a pitcher. I’m a position player. I can get my reps down here in the cage. I’m in every game. I’m sitting there in the dugout watching every game, feeling the environment, feeling the energy, so I don’t think there’s going to be much of a difference.”

With 19 games remaining in the regular season, the Yankees (81-62) trail first-place Tampa Bay by four games in the AL East. They are two games ahead of rival Boston (80-65) for the top American League wild card and hold a potential tiebreaker between the teams after winning the season series.

The higher seed plays at home throughout every best-of-three Wild Card Series.

New York was 36-23 after Judge last played on May 31 and went 45-39 in the 84 games he missed since.

The offense, however, was obviously affected. The Yankees batted .243 with 86 homers in 59 games through May 31 but hit only .227 with 107 homers in 84 games while Judge was out.

Their batting average during that stretch ranked 29th among the 30 major league teams, ahead of only Seattle (.225).

New York had a .770 OPS through May 31, but it was .681 in his absence.

Judge is hitting .248 with 17 homers and 38 RBIs. He was initially injured attempting to avoid second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. on a diving catch in Houston on April 26 and batted .263 with seven homers and 20 RBIs in 31 games before being sidelined.

The captain's only homer in the final 18 games before he went on the injured list was a game-ending, two-run shot to beat Tampa Bay 2-0 on May 24 that snapped an 11-game drought without an RBI, the longest of his career.

Judge won a batting title last season when he hit a career-high .331 with 53 homers and 114 RBIs in 152 games. He missed 10 games from July 26 to Aug. 4 with a flexor strain in his right elbow that he sustained on a throw to home plate July 22 in Toronto. He underwent a plasma-rich platelet injection and did not require offseason surgery.

Judge skipped a rehab assignment in 2023 when he missed 42 games with a fractured right big toe after crashing into the right-field fence at Dodger Stadium. In 2019, he appeared in five minor league games for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre when he missed two months with a strained left oblique.

To make room on the 40-man roster for Judge, right-hander Chase Hampton was designated for assignment Monday night.

New York optioned right-hander Elmer Rodríguez to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after Sunday's loss in San Diego.

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This story has been corrected to show Judge is 34 years old, not 35.

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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.

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Power went out at Doak Campbell Stadium just minutes before the scheduled kickoff and the delay lasted about 1 hour, 45 minutes. The Seminoles (1-0) and Mustangs, playing their opener, finally took the field at 9 p.m. EDT for warmups and the game started at 9:15 p.m. under less than ideal conditions.

When play began, not all the stadium lights were operating and the teams were forced to deal with a number of other issues, including no coach-to-player communication, no iPads on the sidelines, no public address announcer and no scoreboard. There was no public game clock and on-field officials were keeping track of the time. Some replays were being shown on the Jumbotron.

Coach-to-player communication was restored with about six minutes remaining in the second quarter, and clock functions and yardage distances were back on the scoreboard.

A statement on the Jumbotron inside the stadium during the delay read: “Technical staff are addressing a power disruption to the west side tower due to an electrical short in the main transformer. Electricians are working to restore the power service. The game remains suspended. Update to follow.”

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips chatted with athletic directors from both schools, SMU’s Damon Evans and Florida State’s Michael Alford, for a few minutes on the field before administrators moved inside to further discuss options.

The highly anticipated finale on Labor Day to the weekend's first full slate of games was put on hold as a countdown clock inside the stadium stopped at 7:30 p.m. and the stadium lights went out.

Florida State and SMU had run out of their respective tunnels and onto their sidelines just moments before the game officially entered a delay. The Seminoles and Mustangs remained on their sidelines before eventually being sent back to their locker rooms.

A few specialists from both teams returned to the field to warm up. Florida State's punter encouraged the fans to stand up and cheer, and the school’s band played in one end zone. Fans did the wave and knocked around beach balls.

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Se trata del exmilitar Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega, de 82 años, quien fue demandado ante una corte del Distrito Sur de Florida —estado en el que vive— por las tres hijas del magistrado Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas, por su presunta responsabilidad en su tortura y ejecución extrajudicial.

El caso inició en la corte estadounidense en 2022 con la demanda y se espera que el martes inicie el juicio contra Plazas Vega. Al tratarse de un juicio civil, no interviene el gobierno como acusador.

Urán Rojas es una de las decenas de víctimas del asalto armado al Palacio de Justicia, edificio que albergaba las altas cortes en Bogotá, en 1985 por integrantes de la guerrilla M-19. Los funcionarios y civiles que estaban en el lugar fueron rehenes, mientras los guerrilleros demandaron hacer un juicio público al entonces presidente Belisario Betancur (1982-1986).

El gobierno de la época no negoció con los guerrilleros y emprendió un operativo militar para retomar el control del palacio con tanquetas y armamento, desatando enfrentamientos y generando incendios. Plazas Vega, uno de los encargados de la retoma, era el comandante de la Escuela de Caballería de la Brigada XIII del ejército.

La retoma se extendió hasta el otro día y, aun después de cuatro décadas, la información de lo ocurrido es inconclusa, incluyendo el número de muertos.

Cruce de versiones

Helena, Xiomara y Mairée Urán Bidegaín señalan en la demanda que los militares le comunicaron a su familia que el magistrado murió durante el fuego cruzado dentro del Palacio de Justicia. Sin embargo, cuestionan esa versión asegurando que décadas después fueron halladas pertenencias de su padre en una bóveda dentro de la Brigada XIII.

También indican que surgieron grabaciones y testimonios de testigos que dicen haber visto al magistrado salir con vida del Palacio de Justicia con miembros del ejército.

Plazas Vega fue juzgado en Colombia por las desapariciones del Palacio de Justicia. Cumplió casi ocho años en prisión, hasta que la Corte Suprema de Justicia anuló su condena en 2015, tras concluir que no había suficiente certeza sobre la responsabilidad penal de Plazas.

“El coronel Plazas Vega es un héroe de la Patria”, defendió el conservador De la Espriella en la red social X, en la que recordó que la corte colombiana lo absolvió luego de años de lo que consideró una “persecución” judicial.

El mandatario colombiano ordenó al canciller, Omar Bula, y a la embajadora en Washington, María Consuelo Araújo, evaluar el caso de Plazas Vega y apoyarlo, aunque es inusual que un presidente ordene apoyar judicialmente en otro país a un colombiano en un caso que no corresponde a una demanda contra el Estado.

“Si el coronel tiene que enfrentar situaciones jurídicas por cuenta de hechos ocurridos en el ejercicio de su deber, en defensa de la Patria, es deber del Estado acompañarlo”, explicó De la Espriella.

Plazas Vega pidió a la corte estadounidense anular el caso, alegando que fue absuelto por una alta corte en su país y las demandantes no agotaron todos los recursos disponibles en Colombia; sin embargo, la solicitud fue denegada.

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El reportero de The Associated Press Joshua Goodman contribuyó a este reporte desde Miami.

The Trump administration’s push to end the fighting has lost momentum, with the focus on the Iran war for the past six months.

The trip by the Americans, part of a renewed effort to end the war, followed a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, as both sides have escalated their aerial attacks in the more than 4½-year all-out war.

Despite the latest diplomatic push, the core demands of Moscow and Kyiv remain mutually exclusive, especially over territorial concessions, underscoring the difficulty of reaching an agreement. Kushner acknowledged the challenge, saying the U.S. was working “behind the scenes” to create the conditions for a possible deal.

“It’s a very, very hard problem, but we’re going to try,” Kushner said.

Russia has recently been using fast-flying jet-powered drones, and the recurring wail of air-raid sirens has become part of daily life in Kyiv. Troops have struggled to make progress along the 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) front line.

Zelenskyy held three rounds of talks with the Americans on Sunday, the last of which brought in national security advisers from the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Security guarantees and a winter plan

Zelenskyy said at a news conference that the discussions covered air defense needs — including Patriot systems — and a “winter package” of support covering both air defense and energy infrastructure before the colder months. He said that Kyiv was seeking “serious volumes” of American support on that front, with backing from European partners as well.

The Ukrainian president said the U.S. planned to increase production of Patriot interceptor missiles next year, with Germany also expanding its own production under existing licensing agreements.

Zelenskyy said that Russia had intensified strikes on Ukrainian cities before Russia’s State Duma election later this month, calling the attacks deliberate “terror” against civilians. He said Ukraine was working with 67 domestic companies developing systems to shoot down Russia’s jet-powered drones at scale.

The Ukrainian leader said the territorial question “remains relevant,” but reiterated his view that such difficult issues “can only be resolved at the level of leaders.” Zelenskyy said the talks also touched on long-term security guarantees and economic support for Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction. He said that a strong Ukrainian army remained “one of the main guarantees of security.”

Zelenskyy said the sides agreed to hold a follow-up meeting involving Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe, though a location has not been set.

Witkoff said the U.S. was pursuing “a diplomatic resolution to this conflict, not a kinetic resolution.” Referring to the previous day’s talks, he said the meeting in Moscow had produced “new ideas” that were later brought to Kyiv. He pointed to the presence of national security advisers from the so-called E3 nations — France, Germany and the U.K. — as evidence that “collaboration is critical” to reaching a deal.

Asked whether Washington was prepared to increase pressure on Russia if the talks produced no breakthrough, Kushner said the U.S. approach was to look for a “win-win” outcome.

He said his father-in-law, U.S. President Donald Trump, was focused not just on ending the fighting but on building “a framework that could actually lead to a durable peace,” and that he and Witkoff had held a “constructive and substantive” meeting with Putin, discussing what Russia, Ukraine and the wider world could each gain from a settlement.

Kushner said the two envoys hoped to revive trilateral talks involving Russia and Ukraine directly, a format last used roughly six months earlier, and said that Washington remained in near-daily contact with Ukrainian officials even between visits.

No breakthroughs in Moscow talks

Saturday’s meeting in Moscow lasted more than three hours behind closed doors and ended without any major developments being announced. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, described the talks as constructive, frank and useful, but he didn’t discuss specific outcomes.

While Moscow offered its “comprehensive assessment” of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, Ushakov said, the talks weren’t purely focused on the war.

“Economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail,” he said.

The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner was in January when they also held talks with Putin at the Kremlin.

Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire

Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other’s capitals while the talks took place. Still, the two traded fire overnight into Sunday, officials said.

Air raids on the capital noticeably eased during the U.S. envoys’ visit, prompting Zelenskyy to joke that their presence in Kyiv appeared more potent than the Patriot missile systems Ukraine has been urgently seeking.

Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and wounded at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

In Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, wounding seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region.

Ukraine’s air force said Sunday it intercepted 82 drones out of 108 launched by Russia overnight, along with six missiles. In Russia, a man was killed and a woman was seriously wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, local authorities in the Belgorod border region said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday its air defenses overnight shot down 258 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions, the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula and the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.

Mixed hopes on the ground

In Kyiv on Sunday, dozens gathered for a nationwide 9 a.m. moment of silence honoring Ukraine’s fallen soldiers, a daily ritual held in cities across the country.

Nataliia Lipei, 67, whose son Viktor was killed in December 2022, was among those who attended. Despite a health condition, she has traveled from city to city to take part.

“I hope these steps and these meetings will definitely produce results, because there has been so much bloodshed and so many deaths here that we have to stop all of this,” Lipei told The Associated Press.

Not everyone shared her hope for the talks. Oleksandr Pastukhov, a 27-year-old video editor who joined the commemoration, was skeptical the envoys’ visit would change anything.

In his Sunday prayer, Pope Leo XIV renewed his appeal for peace in Ukraine and said he hopes the negotiations will bring results.

“I hope that the efforts undertaken in recent days to resume negotiations will bear concrete fruit and make way for diplomacy,” he told the gathered faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

___ Associated Press writers Volodymyr Yurchuk and Yevhenii Ocheretianyi in Kyiv, and Elise Morton in London, contributed to this report.

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Tuesday will get off to a muggy start, as there may be a shower or two dotting the coastline in the morning. The afternoon will feature a mix of clouds and sun with the possibility of more showers and storms developing, particularly inland. Temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s.

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Five other people died after the cargo plane overran MIA’s runway 30 shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday and “came to rest at a field adjacent to the airport,” near warehouses, according to Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz.

Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said firefighters rushed to free the cargo plane’s pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped in the cockpit. Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing them getting out through a window.

“The airplane did strike a couple of vehicles,” Jadallah said, adding that firefighters also had to free the injured who were “trapped in the vehicles.”

Fire rescue personnel took the injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and the Jackson South Medical Center. MDFR deployed more than 60 units.

Dark smoke billowed from the crash site. There was a fuel leak. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

“We had a very complex fire,” Jadallah said.

Miami-Dade deputies asked the public to avoid the area near Northwest 67th Avenue, between 25th and 36th streets on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.

A witness’s video showed storm clouds were partially covering the sky when the cargo plane landed at MIA after arriving from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary ground stop order for about three hours on Sunday afternoon.

Cordero-Stutz asked relatives in need of information about the victims of the plane crash to call 305-471-2400.

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Researchers from Florida Atlantic University have been listening in on the sounds dolphins and fish make underwater — and all that talking is fascinating.

Jessica Carvalho, a research scientist, and professors Gregory O’Corry-Crowe and Laurent Chérubin are all studying sound at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce. Local 10 News spoke to them about what they’re finding out.

“Here are some examples of spectrograms, so basically these are images that we produce of sound,” Carvalho said, showing Local 10 News results.

O’Corry-Crowe, who studies marine mammals at the institute, explained that sound is key for helping dolphins navigate the ocean.

“The ocean is a world of sound more than light, and dolphins kind of straddle that interface effortlessly,” O’Corry-Crowe said.

Chérubin said researchers are probing these questions: “Let’s say the dolphins, we know they are there, but what do they do? Where do they live? Where do they talk? Where do they hang out? Where do they go have some food?”

Chérubin engineered a way to listen in on all that chatter under the sea.

Together, the team of three used an autonomous, wave-powered vehicle to snoop on dolphins and their prey.

Outfitted with solar panels galore, the glider was sent out to sea for two months, recording all the sounds dolphins and fish make.

“The idea of listening quietly, eavesdropping on eavesdroppers, you know, has really been sort of fascinating,” O’Corry-Crowe said.

Dolphins whistle to communicate with each other.

They use echolocation to navigate and forage for food.

Fish can use calls to communicate, too.

They’re smaller and quieter, but that could mean fish quiet down when they detect dolphins.

“Are the fish producing sound and that’s how the dolphins are finding them?” Carvalho asked. “Or are those particular areas excellent for fish and a great environment and the dolphins know to hunt them there?”

It’s the whole “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” question.

But in this case, the question is whether dolphins are listening for fish or fish are listening for dolphins.

Seems like they are all snooping on each other.

“I think it’s fascinating that they are socializing in certain areas and hunting in others, like that’s not something that we have much knowledge about,” Carvalho said.

Thanks to the decked-out glider, they were able to capture 62 hours of underwater sounds.

Of course, those loud dolphins dominate the recordings.

But don’t underestimate the little guys: the fish noises prove they are not passive victims.

“These are actually fish as well, right there, these small little spikes at the bottom,” Carvalho said, showing study results.

From the sound of it, everyone seems to have a favorite hangout spot.

And dolphins don’t really eat where they play. They seem to separate work from their social life.

When it comes to research like this, there may not always be a definitive answer. Finding out what happens underneath these waters can spawn even more questions and a real desire for discovery.

O’Corry-Crowe said the next step is gathering more information over time.

“Deploying the gliders for longer periods, longer durations, would be one thing, and comparing across years and seasons would be another, and then ultimately we need to kind of get visual confirmation of what we are hearing,” O’Corry-Crowe said.

The glider saves a lot of money compared with boats and planes when it comes to research.

So this smooth operator may be outfitted with cameras and other features to dig deeper into the underwater abyss and the language of those living there.

“When we put it out, we didn’t know what to expect, right?” Chérubin said. “So basically we’re still going through it, and at every corner it’s a surprise.”

In 1998, the film received mixed reviews and had a modest box office performance. It has since become a cult favorite, embraced by a new generation who found the romantic comedy through social media clips. The two Oscar winners are returning to their roles of witchy sisters Sally and Gillian Owens in “Practical Magic 2,” in theaters on Sept. 10, giving them a chance to reckon with the original’s rocky reception and its unlikely second life.

Both films trace their roots to Alice Hoffman’s novels: “Practical Magic,” published in 1995, inspired the original film, while her 2021 novel “The Book of Magic” expands the Owens family’s story and provides inspiration for the sequel.

‘Maybe it needed to marinate’

Bullock recalls a promotional push for the original film that became memorable — for the wrong reasons.

“I had so much trauma from the press junket from the first one because it was brutal,” Bullock recalls. “We were not well-received because we were ‘too much,’ ‘too witchy,’ ‘too many women,’ ‘too many tones.’ I’m like, ‘Have you lived a day in a life as a woman?’ ”

“We didn’t stumble, but it stumbled, but it didn’t really stumble. Maybe it needed to marinate a little bit. We were marinating,” said Bullock. “But here we are, and how lucky are we that we’re still here to be able to go reap the benefits and the rewards of our work?”

The movie eventually found the audience it had missed in theaters, and Bullock said she realized there had been a reappraisal about six years ago.

“I was still harboring so much shame,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, the things that were said, I’m sorry, we thought we were doing something nice.’ And turns out we did. It was just 28 and change years too early.”

Reclaiming the witch

Part of that second life, Bullock believes, reflects a broader change in the way people have come to view the word “witch.”

“A witch has always been a negative connotation. It was presented that way. The word is being taken back, and there’s ownership of it from the community saying, ‘I’m a witch and I’m proud,’ ” Bullock said.

For Kidman, the film’s resurgence became personal.

“People started just coming into my life who would go, 'You want to know what my favorite film of yours is? ‘Practical Magic.’ And suddenly I was like, ‘What? Wow, OK,’ ” she said.

When it came time to make the sequel, Bullock sat down with her children and their friends to watch the original.

“I wanted fresh eyes,” she said. “Because we were embarking on the new chapter, the new baby witches coming in. I wanted to understand it from a point of view I didn’t have. I wanted to see what they had to say.”

Building the magic again

As producers, Bullock and Kidman also faced the practical realities of mounting a legacy sequel on a budget. Among the challenges was recreating one of the original film’s most recognizable elements: the Owens house.

The production rebuilt the house on a London back lot as a full structure, rather than the temporary exterior shell used for the original film.

“It was an incredibly tough fiscal time. We were hedging the dollar,” Bullock said. “We’re not a big superhero film, so you don’t get the luxury of a big price tag.”

Kidman added: “And we also knew the responsibility of bringing it in on a certain price because then you go, 'OK, we can breathe a bit,' ” she said. “I think when a budget blows out, you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, the stress.’ And we don’t need any more stress in our lives. It’s stressful enough.”

A new generation of witches

The sequel continues the story of the younger generation of Owens women, with Joey King and Maisie Williams playing Kylie and Antonia Owens, the daughters of Sally.

“I really appreciate that it’s like a passing of the baton. I think it’s beautiful,” King said. “It just felt like we were stepping into their world and doing this with them, and it’s a real gift and honor to be considered the people who are taking the batons.”

Producer Denise Di Novi, who also produced the original and cast King in her first leading role in 2010's “Ramona and Beezus,” said the new characters could carry the story forward.

“We would love to make a third one, and I think there’s so much more to do with Kylie and Antonia," she said. “At the end of the movie, spoiler alert, but you kind of feel like the Sally and Gillian characters are kind of the elder aunts, you know, and Kylie and Antonia are the ones launching off into the world as witches.”

Williams is also hoping to expand on the younger Owens women’s story: “We’re so there for it. There’s so much more of ‘Book of Magic’ that we didn’t get to explore,” she said.

The report by Iran’s state news agency repeatedly cited comments aired on state TV the day before by the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, who boasted of new missile capability and claimed it had been “tested” against a U.S. warship. But it was not clear whether what was tested was the missile the new report described, the solid-fueled Qassem Basir.

The U.S. on Saturday said ballistic missiles were launched at U.S. warships and it struck three Iranian oil tankers in response. Experts called the launch a dangerous escalation, noting that until then Iran's attacks at sea had targeted commercial shipping during six months of war. The U.S. said the warships evaded the attacks.

Iran’s messaging in recent days has become more assertive, and Monday’s report said the Qassem Basir marks “a turning point in Iran’s defense strategy.” It described the missile as having greater range and accuracy and a half-ton warhead. The missile was unveiled last year, when it was described as having at least a 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) range.

Concerns about Iran's ballistic missile program were one of the stated reasons the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran early this year, sparking the war.

US dismisses talk of Iran-imposed ‘exclusion zone’

The White House responded to plans announced by Rezaei to create an “exclusion zone” near the Strait of Hormuz that's aimed at vessels trying to transit, saying the waterway is open and controlled by the U.S.

It also said the U.S. Navy had cleared the strait of mines, and that tanker traffic to non-Iranian ports would increase. A U.S. blockade on Iranian ports continues in an effort to increase Tehran's economic pain by limiting its oil exports. The U.S. military said that as of Monday, 94 commercial vessels had been redirected and three had been disabled.

Tehran wants ships to follow a route it chooses through the strait, which was considered an international waterway before the war. Rezaei acknowledged that the U.S. has been helping a limited number of ships transit on a route off Oman, and said Tehran isn't sinking them because they carry oil, noting environmental concerns.

As both countries continue to assert claims about the strait and the flow of shipping, global commerce information firm Kpler noted on X that transits through the waterway dropped sharply last week.

A week ago, an attack on a Saudi-owned tanker killed two crew members and left seven unaccounted for. If they are confirmed dead, that would make the attack the deadliest on a commercial vessel since the war began on Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Regional countries express frustration

Frustration emerged again in the Gulf over the uncertainty around the waterway that's crucial for shipping global supplies of oil, natural gas and related products like fertilizer.

“No single state” should control the strait, Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said at a forum of world leaders in Abu Dhabi, adding: “Our energy exports will not be held hostage, nor will our trade and economic activity.”

The UAE, a close U.S. ally, has repeatedly come under Iranian missile and drone fire in the war. Last month, the UAE suspended all trade with Iran after saying it had come under renewed fire.

Rebuilding trust between Iran and the Gulf countries could take decades, Gargash warned.

And Nabil Fahmy, secretary-general of the Arab League, told a ministerial-level meeting in Cairo that “we will not accept our maritime corridors to become a bargaining chip in the calculations of others" and condemned Iran's attacks on Gulf nations.

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Anna reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Josh Boak in Washington and Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed.

Kanu was a Buckeye defensive tackle when Ohio State beat Texas in a 2024 season College Football Playoff semifinal on the way to the national championship.

Then he was a Longhorn when the Buckeyes beat Texas again in the 2025 season opener. That loss proved critical when the preseason No. 1 ultimately missed the playoff.

So here he is again, waiting for another Texas-Ohio State matchup on Saturday night when the Buckeyes become the first No. 1 team to visit Austin since Alabama in 2022. Texas is No. 5.

“I'm not going to make this game personal,” Kanu said Monday. But he quickly acknowledged how big the game is for college football.

A Longhorns-Buckeyes matchup may seem routine of late, but it has been rare in the history of the sport. Ohio State has been playing college football since 1890 and Texas since 1893. Saturday will mark just the sixth meeting across that gulf of time.

“I think this is the game everybody is the country is looking forward to,” Kanu said. “This is a playoff-caliber type game.”

And one that Ohio State was better prepared to handle the last two years.

“They owned the moment better than we did last year,” Kanu said.

The big moments of both recent games certainly swung Ohio State's way.

In 2024, Texas was driving for a tying touchdown late in the fourth quarter when Jack Sawyer sacked Quinn Ewers, scooped the fumble and ran 83 yards for the game-clinching TD. The play set off wild celebrations as Kanu and his teammates cheered Sawyer all the way down the sideline.

Last season's matchup in Columbus left Kanu with nothing to cheer about. The Buckeyes won 14-7 and pushed the Longhorns around most of the day. Texas quarterback Arch Manning's Heisman Trophy campaign all but ended, and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin's was just starting.

Kanu said he still has friends on Ohio State. But he made it clear there won't be any friendly chatter this week.

“We don’t talk this week,” Kanu said. “We can chat after this week.”

Last season's matchup hurt Texas more than just a battered ego. It was the first of three losses that ultimately kept Texas out of the playoff despite a strong finish.

A win in Columbus last year could have changed a lot for Texas. Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said he won't try to project the impact of this week on the Decembers playoffs.

“I don't need to spend so much energy and time on ‘what does this game mean?’ As a competitor, we get to play the No. 1 team in the country, a team we've had two battles with the last two years,” Sarkisian said.

“We've got 10 other games to go play,” to determine the season's ultimate destination, Sarkisian said.

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The Phillies' All-Star left-hander walked to the mound to a roaring ovation and with his warmup music — usually played in the first inning — cranked inside the ballpark as he tried to treat the final inning like any other.

“Just think about the pitch in front of you,” Luzardo said.

Luzardo was economical and efficient in the ninth with his pitches against the Atlanta Braves and looked to the sky in appreciation as he got the final out in Philadelphia's 1-0 win on Monday in 1 hour, 51 minutes, the fastest game in baseball this season.

He struck out 12 and tossed two-hit ball with only one walk for his first career complete game.

“Everyone dreams about being a guy your team relies on,” Luzardo said. “Just going out there when, I don't want to call it a must-win, but a big win, it feels good.”

The Phillies split a four-game series with the NL East-leading Braves and cut the division lead to four games in front of a holiday crowd of 41,820. They play three more next weekend in Atlanta.

Phillies manager Don Mattingly said there was no doubt Luzardo was going back out for the ninth.

“I knew Donnie probably wouldn't let me go too much more,” Luzardo said. “Thankful for Donnie for giving me a chance to go back out there in the ninth.”

Luzardo at least had some run support when he took the mound to a standing ovation as the familiar Meek Mill tune “Dreams and Nightmares” played to a packed Citizens Bank Park.

Kyle Schwarber got Luzardo the win when he socked his MLB-leading 43rd homer into the second deck against reliever Didier Fuentes.

Schwarber hit his 11th career go-ahead home run in the eighth inning or later. It was only the Phillies' fourth hit of the game.

The Phillies had left the bases loaded in the first inning against Braves starter Grant Holmes.

“We expect to win a baseball game when we walk out of these doors,” Schwarber said.

The NL pitcher of the month for August, Luzardo (14-5) didn’t walk a batter until the ninth inning and retired the final two batters to complete the 109-pitch gem. He threw 78 strikes.

It was the franchise’s fastest nine-inning game since July 4, 1989, vs. Cincinnati.

Luzardo's sweeper kept the Braves off balance all game — he had 12 total swings-and-misses on his go-to pitch and five strikeouts on his fastball — and he gave the Phillies bullpen a needed day off after a rough late-game collapse a day earlier.

“I felt really good going back out in the ninth,” Luzardo said. “It could have been adrenaline or emotions or whatever it could have been.”

In his last 21 starts since May 14, Luzardo has posted a 1.93 ERA over 135 innings, striking out 164 batters while surrendering only 39 walks. The Phillies are 18-3 in those games.

Luzardo won only eight total games over 30 starts when he played for Mattingly with the Miami Marlins in 2021 and 2022. He contended with various injuries over the early part of his career, and the Marlins traded him to the Phillies for two prospects in December 2024.

Mattingly had a hunch there was much more talent lurking inside Luzardo than what he flashed in parts of six seasons with Oakland and the Marlins.

“Stuff-wise, he looked the same,” Mattingly said. “He always looked like this. It was just not enough strikes.”

Luzardo powered his way through the zone against a loaded lineup and settled the nerves of Phillies fans frothing for some sort of vengeance against the Braves.

Mattingly brushed off the suggestion that old-school retaliation should be on the table against Braves slugger Ronald Acuña Jr., who flapped his arms and stutter-stepped around third base after he hit a tying three-run homer in Sunday’s 5-4 win and gave himself a curtain call to the irritation of Phillies fans.

The days of a fastball to the ribs to send a message has about gone the way of the neighborhood play.

“That's just not part of the game now,” Mattingly said. “I think it's about making pitches. Getting the ball to the right spots.”

Luzardo simply made Acuña uncomfortable at the plate, much to the delight of the fans who reveled in booing the Phillies' foil.

Acuña was retired on one pitch in each of his first two at-bats and was 0 for 3 before he walked in the ninth.

No matter.

Luzardo struck out Drake Baldwin and got Ozzie Albies to fly out on the first pitch to end the game.

Phillies left fielder Brandon Marsh gleefully tossed Luzardo the game ball and the winning pitcher said he would gift it to his parents.

Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski has posited himself as the NL Cy Young Award front-runner, yet much like the Phillies and Braves, Luzardo is lurking, in the hunt and determined to finish in first.

“He keeps finding a way to get better and better,” Schwarber said, “which is awesome.”

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El plan combinará el apoyo estatal con el de empresas privadas a las que citó el lunes en Quibdó, capital del departamento, para buscar inversión a favor de Chocó, el departamento más pobre del país, que sumó a su ya difícil situación la devastación del terremoto.

“No hay una sola razón objetiva que condene a las gentes de este departamento al atraso. Todo lo contrario, pocas regiones de Colombia reúnen una riqueza natural, una ubicación y unas posibilidades semejantes”, dijo De la Espriella en una declaración junto a los empresarios.

La reconstrucción fue bautizada por el presidente como “Plan Marshall”, en referencia a la iniciativa patrocinada por Estados Unidos que ayudó a reactivar las economías de Europa occidental tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Incluirá la construcción de cinco vías que pretenden conectar a Chocó con otros departamentos de Colombia y al mar, dado que conecta con el océano Pacífico. Actualmente, a muchos pueblos solo se puede acceder en avión o en barco, y los ríos pueden ser peligrosos.

De la Espriella aseguró que las vías costarán aproximadamente 318.000 dólares, los cuales serán financiados en parte con obras por impuestos, un mecanismo que permite que los empresarios se encarguen de las obras como parte del pago de impuestos.

En la región, vasta en recursos naturales, operan varios grupos armados ilegales como el Clan del Golfo, el mayor cártel del país, y la guerrilla Ejército de Liberación Nacional, que buscan controlar pasos estratégicos para el narcotráfico y la lucrativa minería ilegal de oro.

El plan también contempla un “régimen especial minero” que incluirá la formalización de mineros que ya trabajan en la zona y la búsqueda de “seguridad jurídica” para los inversionistas que quieran entrar en esa actividad, según explicó la ministra de Minas, María Nohemí Arboleda.

El gobierno, con apoyo de los empresarios, prometió dar un “capital semilla” de aproximadamente 1.500 dólares para 1.000 emprendedores que fueron afectados por el terremoto.

Colombia sufrió el embate del terremoto de 7,4 —el de mayor magnitud registrado en lo que va del siglo— el 10 de agosto. El epicentro estuvo en el departamento de Chocó, en el oeste, pero la devastación se extendió a otros 15 departamentos.

Las cifras oficiales calculan que más de 330 personas perdieron la vida, 111 continúan desaparecidas y más de 466.700 personas resultaron afectadas, miles de ellas perdiendo su casa por completo.

Rodríguez hizo estas declaraciones al presentar ante periodistas el informe anual que será enviado a las Naciones Unidas para ser discutido el 28 de octubre sobre el efecto de las sanciones de Washington a la isla, a las que desde enero se agregó un bloqueo petrolero.

A raíz del este último ambas naciones mantuvieron comunicación, pero ninguna ofreció detalles.

“Ha habido conversaciones con el Departamento de Estado. Se mantienen comunicaciones en este sentido. Dichas conversaciones no cuentan avances ni progresos a partir de la falta de voluntad del gobierno de los Estados Unidos”, dijo Rodríguez. “Cuba reitera que estará dispuesta a continuar dichas conversaciones sobre la base del derecho internacional, sin precondiciones”.

El funcionario acotó que en este momento no hay “ni agendas, ni hojas de ruta” pero recalcó que el gobierno está dispuesto “a continuar esos contactos a pesar de la falta de progresos”.

Estados Unidos, que ha sostenido sus sanciones por décadas con más o menos fuerza, incrementó la tensión en el primer semestre y llegó a barajar una operación militar en Cuba para lograr cambios políticos y económicos. Washington acusó de inepto al gobierno cubano y consideró que su modelo político de corte socialista no es sustentable.

El Parlamento cubano y el Partido Comunista aprobaron por su lado en junio un histórico paquete de 176 transformaciones económicas de corte aperturista. Las autoridades insistieron que se trata de una decisión soberana y no de una concesión hacia Washington.

Daños económicos

Según Rodríguez, los daños ocasionados por las medidas de Estados Unidos contra la isla alcanzaron los 8.083 millones de dólares entre marzo de 2025 y febrero de 2026. El canciller destacó que es un monto “récord”.

El funcionario acotó que la cifra no refleja todavía el impacto del cerco energético y financiero impuesto a finales de enero y que “multiplicaría” las pérdidas para la isla.

El cálculo de las pérdidas se realiza con una metodología validada por la ONU y debe abarcar desde marzo a febrero de cada año.

En 2025 unos 165 países votaron en contra de la política de sanciones estadounidenses contra la isla.

El cerco energético agudizó una dura crisis de un lustro en Cuba con impactos en cada sector de la vida cotidiana ya que además incluyó apagones de más de 30 horas. Deterioró los sistemas de salud y educación, así como el transporte, generó una caída del turismo y de la actividad económica en general.

The Americans rebounded from their worst preliminary-round game in 50 years after edging Italy 55-52 on Sunday. Stewart set the tone early to make sure that wouldn't happen again as the U.S. won its 33rd in a row in the tournament, going back to a semifinal loss to Russia in the 2006 World Cup.

Next up for the U.S. is the quarterfinal round on Thursday. They’ll face the winner of the Hungary vs. Japan game which takes place Tuesday.

Stewart had 11 points in the first 10 minutes as the U.S. jumped out to a 29-15 lead. The Americans had only 30 points in the first half against Italy. They kept it going in the second quarter behind Napheesa Collier, who had seven of her 12 points in the period.

The Americans extended the advantage to 57-33 at the half. They weren't challenged in the second half by the Czechs as the lead ballooned to more than 40 points.

Stewart finished short of her World Cup career-high of 23 points set against China in 2018. She only played just over 16 minutes against the Czechs. Stewart sat in the fourth quarter giving her no chance at becoming only the second player in World Cup history to have a triple double. The Czech's Erika Dobrovicova accomplished the feat in 1994 against Spain.

The Czech Republic finished winless in pool play. The Czechs were playing in their first World Cup since 2014. They won the silver medal when they hosted the event in 2010.

In other games on Monday, China beat Italy; Germany topped Mali; Belgium beat Australia; Puerto Rico edged Turkey; France routed Nigeria; Spain beat Japan and Hungary slipped past Korea.

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“Obviously everybody’s responsible, including me, for doing things properly,” Belichick said. “And we intend to do that.”

Later Monday, a school spokesman issued a statement backing the 74-year-old Belichick, who won six Super Bowl titles with the NFL's New England Patriots.

“The University continues to support Bill Belichick and the Carolina football program," said Dean Stoyer, UNC's vice chancellor for communications.

The Tar Heels were off following their season-opening win against TCU in Ireland on Aug. 29. But during that open week, general manager Michael Lombardi resigned after being put on paid administrative leave in late July amid an investigation by UNC’s Office of University Counsel.

The same day, WRAL of Raleigh cited anonymous sources in reporting the type of questions asked of some interviewees. Some focused on Belichick's son Steve, the Tar Heels' defensive coordinator currently on medical leave.

Additionally, Lombardi attorney Tom Mars told The Athletic that the school’s probe now included questions into potential “inappropriate” relationships that didn’t involve his client. Mars hasn’t returned a call or email from The Associated Press regarding that comment.

Two people with knowledge of the situation had previously told the AP that a human resources complaint from a former employee was tied to Lombardi originally being placed on leave as the investigation launched. They spoke at the time on condition of anonymity because the school wasn't publicly discussing case details, with UNC saying employees and athletes weren't permitted to discuss the topic “as is standard procedure with personnel matters.”

Those developments have only added to a year’s worth of unwanted headlines off the field to go with shaky play on it under Belichick.

By Monday, reporters spent roughly the first 13 minutes of Belichick's 20-minute game week news conference asking questions that had nothing to do with Saturday's upcoming home debut against East Tennessee State.

That included whether his program had an atmosphere of rule compliance and if Belichick had “control” over the program.

“If you’re around here every day, I think you’d see it,” Belichick said.

Belichick was also asked whether he had spoken to chancellor Lee Roberts and athletic director Steve Newmark about his job security. He responded by looking ahead to the ETSU game, though he later elaborated more on his relationship with school officials when asked whether they had asked him to change anything in running the program.

“They've been very supportive, a great working relationship with those people,” he said. "In the end, look, we want to run the program in the very best way. And if there’s things we need to do to correct it, then we’ll obviously do them.”

The Tar Heels tallied more losses by double-digit margins (five) than wins (four) in Belichick's debut season, along with distractions such as an assistant coach being briefly suspended for violating NCAA rules. Belichick said in July he had hoped lessons learned would lead to more success in Year 2.

The Tar Heels got that with the 15-10 win against TCU after losing to the Horned Frogs by 34 in Belichick's UNC debut. But the past week take some glow off that victory.

“We’re so focused on everything internal and getting better on the field and getting better in the meeting room that we could care less about what we see in the headlines or what's on the news,” running back Benjamin Hall said. “It's not going to affect this team.”

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So when Potapova fell and was injured late in their fourth-round match Monday at the U.S. Open, Andreeva put aside the tennis and went to assist.

The French Open champion helped Potapova up so she could get treatment, then finished off a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 victory that sent her to the quarterfinals in Flushing Meadows for the first time.

“It’s not the perfect end to the match,” Andreeva said.

Andreeva led 5-3 in the final set when Potapova lunged to hit a running forehand and went down holding her left knee. As Potapova sat on the court in pain, the 19-year-old Russian came from the other side of the net and rested her hand on the 25-year-old's shoulder.

She helped the No. 24 seed up and Potapova was able to limp to her bench, where Andreeva asked if someone could bring her ice. Potapova was treated and eventually able to continue with her knee bandaged, though with limited movement she didn't win another point and didn't even attempt to get Andreeva's final shot.

Potapova appeared to be tearing up as Andreeva came around the net for a long embrace after the final point.

Potapova now represents Austria, but she was born in Russia and still played under that flag when she won the junior Wimbledon championship in 2016.

“For me, Nastya, she was always like a prodigy,” Andreeva said. “She came on tour early. She also had a lot of wins. I also remember we were all watching and cheering for her when she won juniors Wimbledon title. I remember watching that match. For me, she was always, like, a little star that I was kind of always looking at.”

Potapova won their first meeting on tour in 2022 but Andreeva has won the last four. This one prevented Potapova from reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.

“First, she just beat me. So after, I just kind of knew that she’s a tough player to play, but at the same time, she was so nice,” Andreeva said.

“Then since then we would practice together, and just like that, the more you see each other, the more you spend time together, then you just talk about everything, discuss everything. Then just like that, I feel like we have a good connection off the court.”

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The two Big Ten coaches acknowledged Monday they did not know there could be a discrepancy between what everyone was seeing on television and inside the stadium and the conference's tracking system.

But that's how conference officials explained the dramatic finish in Whittingham's debut for No. 16 Michigan. After time appeared to expire with Western Michigan leading 12-7, the refs added 1 more second and the Wolverines capitalized on their second chance with J.J. Buchanan hauling in Bryce Underwood's desperation heave for a 47-yard touchdown and a stunning 13-12 victory.

"Well, I guess they have this Hawkeye system? I was unaware of that,” Whittingham said Monday. “But as I looked, I knew it was close. When the ball sailed back to the end zone, I glanced up at the clock, and it was just ticking to zero, and somebody touched it. I didn’t know who had touched it, but apparently, it was a defender that had already established an out-of-bounds position. I’m assuming they got it right. They looked at it, and the technology they have is very advanced, I guess.”

It was a learning experience for both longtime coaches, who are relatively new to the Big Ten.

The 66-year-old Whittingham joined Utah's staff in 1994 and stayed through last season, coming out of a brief retirement to take the Michigan job. He won a school record 177 games including 11 bowl games as the Utes head coach from 2005-25.

The 49-year-old Odom returned to his alma mater, Missouri, as an assistant coach in 2003 and spent a total of 14 seasons on the Tigers staff, the last four as their head coach. His tenure at Missouri was split by a short stint at Memphis, from 2012-14, and following his firing as the Tigers head coach in 2019, he went to Arkansas for three seasons before returning to the head coaching ranks at UNLV in 2023 and moving to Purdue in 2025.

The Boilermakers (1-0) beat Indiana State 44-19 on Friday night to snap a 10-game losing streak.

“I didn’t until Saturday night,” Odom said at his weekly news conference when asked if he was aware a second clock, not visible inside the stadium, kept the official game time.

The Big Ten issued a statement two hours after the game, clarifying the process that was used and citing the rule that was enforced about when the clock stops if a player touches the ball out of bounds.

“It was determined (Western Michigan safety Micah Davis) started his jump from an established out-of-bounds position (left foot) and made contact with the ball with 1 second remaining on the clock,” the conference said. “A side-by-side view of the play and the game clock, using a direct shot of the game clock in the stadium, was used to determine the final ruling.”

Based on that explanation, Whittingham and Odom believe the refs got it right.

Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher and Western Michigan President Russ Kavalhuna also told ESPN on Sunday night they accepted the explanation though Kavalhuna believes more transparency is needed. The Broncos (0-1) play in the MAC.

“If you look at what they saw, then you reach the conclusion they reached,” Kavalhuna said. “However, if you look at what the broadcasters broadcast, you reach a different conclusion. I think it would be good to ask ourselves, can we sync those up so that the viewers could see what the officials would be looking at?”

The ACC even allows television viewers to hear the discussion between the game officials and the replay center before reaching a conclusion.

But it wasn't just fans who were confused.

“I believe those charged with orchestrating, administering and officiating the game, they have to make decisions based on all the information they get, and then it’s their job to communicate that to us. I would assume that’s what happened in Ann Arbor," Odom said. “Like the other night, we were exiting the field for halftime and the official stopped me and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got to make sure that that last play there...' They wanted to make sure everything lined up the way it did. So it’s never over till it’s over. Until they blow the whistle or whatever that indicator is.”

Whittingham now believes the matter is closed as he moves on from the season-opening win and focuses on hosting No. 10 Oklahoma in one of this week's featured games.

“I think everyone’s fairly satisfied with the explanation. I am, and I think Western Michigan came out with a statement that, ‘Hey, we’re not going to question this anymore,’” he said. "They gave us a fairly transparent answer, and we’ll move forward.”

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“Our desire to win Week 1, beat the Jets, is because it’s Week 1 and nothing more,” Saleh said. “I’m forever grateful for the opportunity they gave.”

Forgive anyone who doesn't buy that it's just business in the NFL.

The Jets hired Saleh in 2021, then fired him five games into the 2024 season. Saleh was 20-36 as coach of the Jets whose playoff drought now has reached 15 straight seasons, the longest in major North American sports.

Now Saleh has his second chance as an NFL head coach with the Titans, who are trying to snap a skid of four consecutive losing seasons and went 6-28 combined the past two. He has plenty of former Jets with him now in Tennessee.

Saleh reunited with Aaron Whitecotton as his defensive line coach, and the Titans currently have seven players Saleh coached with the Jets either on the roster or practice squad. That group includes defensive end Jermaine Johnson II, defensive linemen John Franklin-Myers and Solomon Thomas and safety Tony Adams.

Thomas spent three seasons with the Jets between 2022 and 2024 and couldn’t be happier to see this opponent for the opener with his new team. He agrees with Saleh that there’s no grudges held against the Jets or that he and fellow teammates want to get a win against their old team for payback.

The veteran lineman going into his 10th season said he’s focused on showing what they’re doing now with the Titans.

“We went through a lot of adversity at the Jets, and we’re bringing all the things we learned from that adversity here and spreading it in the culture of this locker room, spreading in the culture of the coaches,” Thomas said. “And I think it’s a lot of knowledge that we’re passing on from then.”

Defensive end Jacob Martin is among Tennessee's free agent additions who played for Saleh with the Jets. Martin was only there for eight games in 2022 before being traded by the Jets, and Martin said that every game in the NFL is personal — at least to him.

“I know a lot of guys in this locker room that were with the Jets organization," Martin said. “They’re extra excited to play in this one and myself included. I would say that's your old boss."

Asked what went wrong with the Jets, Martin said that's a question people have been asking for a while.

“I’m not really sure what the answer to that is, truthfully,” Martin said. "It just didn’t work out there. I don’t know why.”

The Jets traded Johnson to the Titans in February, giving up on a one-time Pro Bowler and their 26th pick overall in the 2022 draft. Johnson, who tore an Achilles tendon in 2024, has made clear he's targeting at least 10 sacks this season being reunited with Saleh.

Johnson said he's looking forward to seeing former teammates Sunday, talking and swapping jerseys after the game.

“First impressions are everything, believe it or not," Johnson said. "So this is the first time we get to introduce the world, the NFL, the 31 other teams into who we are as a team and who we as a defense and who I am as an individual. So just super excited ... to start that.”

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Detective Priscilla King recently asked the public for help after a surveillance camera recorded video of a man killing the ducks on Aug. 30 near University Drive and 13th Street.

Police officers identified Christopher Antoine, a convicted felon on probation, as the suspect.

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Antoine was convicted of criminal mischief of more than $1,000 after Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him on June 5, 2024, according to Broward County court records.

Broward County Circuit Judge Lorena V. Mastrarrigo sentenced Antoine to probation. His supervision started on Dec. 5, 2024, and it was set to end on Dec. 4, 2028, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

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La detectivesa Priscilla King había pedido ayuda a la comunidad recientemente, luego de que una cámara de vigilancia grabara el 30 de agosto a un sujeto matando a los animales cerca de University Drive y la calle 13.

La policía identificó como sospechoso a Christopher Antoine, un exconvicto que se encontraba bajo libertad condicional.

Registros judiciales del condado Broward señalan que Antoine fue condenado por daños a la propiedad mayores a $1,000, tras ser arrestado por oficiales de la Oficina del Alguacil de Broward el 5 de junio de 2024.

La jueza de circuito de Broward, Lorena V. Mastrarrigo, lo sentenció a libertad condicional. Su periodo de supervisión comenzó el 5 de diciembre de 2024 y estaba programado para terminar el 4 de diciembre de 2028, según el Departamento de Correcciones de Florida.

Leo unveiled the portrait before celebrating Mass with his fellow Augustinian brothers at the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano south of Rome. He joins a handful of past popes whose visits to the sanctuary were commemorated with portraits that adorn its walls, going back to Pope Urban VIII in 1630.

Leo visited the sanctuary on May 10, 2025, just two days after his election and in his first outing as pope. The former Robert Prevost had been there many times before, since the place has special significance for the pope's Augustinian religious order.

The sanctuary is managed by Augustinian friars and has been a place of pilgrimage since the 15th century. Leo’s namesake, Pope Leo XIII, elevated it to a minor basilica and expanded the adjacent convent in the early 1900s.

Leo referred to that 2025 outing during his homily at the basilica Monday, which commemorates the birth of Mary. Leo recalled what he wrote then in the sanctuary's guest book.

The new pope wrote at the time that he felt the “need and profound desire” to come to the sanctuary after his election to pray before the Madonna of Good Counsel “who has accompanied me all my life with her maternal presence, with her wisdom and example of love for her son who is always the center of my faith.”

Leo and the Vatican are stepping up activities after a summer lull. The Holy See’s typically busy autumn conferences and audiences are taking shape, and Leo is set to go to France at the end of the month and make his much-awaited trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in November.

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She just has to beat Zheng Qinwen, which won't be easy. Even when Zheng goes down — way, way down — she refuses to stay there.

Rybakina advanced to the quarterfinals Monday with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Osaka in a matchup of power-hitting Grand Slam champions. The No. 2-seeded Rybakina is guaranteed to replace Aryna Sabalenka atop the WTA rankings if she reaches the semifinals in Flushing Meadows.

“Of course I want it, I don't know anyone who wouldn’t wish this, but definitely that’s one of my goals,” Rybakina said. “I try to approach the same way, try to do everything I can, fight until the end my next match and let’s see what’s going to happen.”

Trying to stop her will be Zheng, who made a daring escape from a 5-0 deficit for the second straight match. The 2024 Olympic gold medalist from China beat No. 8 seed Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 to become the first qualifier to reach the final eight in Flushing Meadows since Emma Raducanu won the title in 2021.

Two days after she was down 5-0 in the third set before winning the final seven games to stun No. 22 Madison Keys 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5, Zheng quickly dropped the first five games against Swiatek, the 2022 U.S. Open champion.

“I guess to come back 0-5 yesterday is not lucky, that’s all I can say,” Zheng said.

Rybakina won the Australian Open this year for her second major title and her No. 2 ranking is her career best. Even if she loses Wednesday, she can still get to No. 1 if neither Sabalenka, Coco Gauff or Jessica Pegula wins the title.

Rybakina was too good for Osaka, who won two of her four Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Open but appeared to be struggling with a foot or ankle problem. The match lasted just 1 hour, 6 minutes, with Rybakina closing it out with an ace. She leads the WTA Tour in that category.

Resurgent Zheng goes from qualifying to quarterfinals

Zheng was a U.S. Open quarterfinalist in 2023 and 2024 — the year she reached the Australian Open final — but after her ranked dropped following elbow surgery she had to go through qualifying this year to reach the main draw. Raducanu’s title five years ago made her the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era, which dates to 1968.

Swiatek couldn't convert two set points serving at 5-1 and Zheng fought off another when Swiatek served with a 5-3 lead. She said she was so focused on each point that she even forgot the score.

Swiatek came in with a 7-1 record against Zheng, with the only loss two years ago in the Olympic semifinals in Paris. Zheng came back from a 4-0 deficit in the second set that day to stop Swiatek’s 25-match winning streak at Roland Garros, where she has won four French Open titles.

Swiatek got treatment on her left thigh in the second set but said her problems were neither physical nor mental.

“It was more that I started making mistakes from easy balls and Qinwen stopped doing mistakes," Swiatek said. "She played the balls better.”

Andreeva provides an assist on her way to quarterfinal vs. Gauff

Gauff beat No. 14 Iva Jovic 6-1, 6-4 to return to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since winning her first major title at the tournament in 2023. She lost in the fourth round in each of the last two years.

The No. 4 seed will face French Open champion Mirra Andreeva, the No. 5 seed who came back to beat No. 24 Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, after helping her opponent when she injured her knee in the final game of the match.

5 hours, 5 sets as van de Zandschulp ousts lucky loser Gea

Botic van de Zandschulp outlasted Arthur Gea 3-6, 6-7 (0), 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3), 6-4 in 5 hours, 13 minutes, the fourth-longest match in U.S. Open history. He will play top-seeded Alexander Zverev, who beat No. 21 No. 21 Luciano Darderi 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3).

Gea, a Frenchman who got in the tournament when 2022 runner-up Casper Ruud pulled out with a back injury, had a match point in the third-set tiebreaker in a bid to become the first lucky loser to reach the quarterfinals of a men's major. A lucky loser is a player who loses in the final round of qualifying but reaches the main draw when another player withdraws.

A breakthrough for Belgium's Blockx

Also going five sets — though a mere 3 hours, 50 minutes — was Karen Khachanov’s 7-5, 4-6, 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-4 victory over No. 14 Learner Tien. Tien was trying to give the host country four men in the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since five made it in 1995. No. 8 Ben Shelton, No. 11 Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen all advanced Sunday, along with defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Khachanov will play No. 28 seed Alexander Blockx, who beat No. 24 Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 to become the first man from Belgium to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals.

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Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade respondieron al incendio en el apartamento cerca de Northwest 14th Avenue y Northwest 103rd Street aproximadamente a las 6:30 a.m.

Según la MDSO, los agentes llegaron y encontraron el apartamento del tercer piso completamente envuelto en llamas.

Los agentes comenzaron inmediatamente a evacuar a los residentes de los lados este y oeste del edificio.

Equipos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue también respondieron y extinguieron el incendio.

Las autoridades dijeron que los bomberos posteriormente encontraron a una persona muerta dentro del apartamento. La identidad de la víctima aún no ha sido divulgada.

La causa del incendio sigue siendo desconocida.

Detectives de la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO respondieron a la escena y asumieron la investigación.

No se divulgó información adicional de inmediato.

“Labor Day has never been just another holiday,” Jackson told several hundred union members at a Southern Maine Labor Council event Monday in Portland. “Today, here with the people I’ve fought alongside for years, I want to make a pledge about exactly what I’m going to do in the United States Senate.”

Jackson, who became the nominee in a special convention in July, is trying to whip up support in a short period of time as he attempts to unseat longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a race Democrats view as critical to winning Senate control.

He was among the candidates in key November races who spent Labor Day weekend stumping at festivals, union halls and parades as the midterms enter the final weeks with control of the House and Senate on the line.

Labor Day marks the beginning of the busy stretch of campaign season

This year's campaigns already have been combative, busy and expensive, and they are expected to get even more so as a larger number of voters tune in ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. The first statewide mail ballots already went out, in North Carolina, on Friday.

Outside the Jackson event in Portland, Doug Born, a 64-year-old union stagehand from Westbrook, said Jackson's background as a logger and his longtime support of organized labor are reasons to support him.

“I think he'd be the most working-class guy in the Senate. That appeals to me,” Born said. “We need more union members in seats of power.”

Collins had no events scheduled for Labor Day, but she visited shipbuilder Bath Iron Works early in the morning on Sept. 1 to greet employees and promise to continue “leveraging her seniority to secure billions in destroyer contracts, infrastructure modernization, and wage enhancements,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

Trump hopes to whip up support later this week with midterm convention

President Donald Trump is also stepping up his own efforts for Republicans in the coming days. His party is set to gather this week in Dallas for an atypical midterm convention, a two-day event that Trump and other Republicans hope will generate enthusiasm for the GOP, which currently controls the White House and Congress.

Typically, the party in power in Washington loses seats in Congress during the midterm elections.

Trump has vowed to campaign for Republicans in dozens of races, saying he plans to spend the 30 days before Nov. 3 stumping in House and Senate battlegrounds.

In a ‘right to work’ Southern state, Democrats still push for labor votes

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democrats’ nominee for governor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, both visited an AFL-CIO picnic in metro Atlanta.

Ossoff, the only Democratic senator seeking reelection in a state Trump won in 2024, praised current and former labor leaders and activists, while lamenting workers’ economic circumstances under a billionaire president who has grown wealthier while in office.

“We are dealing with the most absurd and obscene corruption in the modern history of our republic,” Ossoff said, hammering Trump for the war in Iran and inflation while “building monuments to himself.”

“All of this, when for working families in Georgia, life just gets tougher and tougher,” Ossoff said.

Ossoff is facing Republican Rep. Mike Collins, who owns a trucking company but has pitched himself as a working-class advocate. Collins’ campaign did not respond to an inquiry about his Labor Day plans.

Bottoms, who faces wealthy healthcare CEO Rick Jackson, urged union members to use their personal influence and networks to help her counter the Republican nominee’s vast personal spending on Georgia airwaves. She noted that Georgia, like other Southern states, is historically anti-union and has so-called “right to work” laws that make it harder to organize unions and easier for companies to fire workers at will.

Jackson had no public events Monday.

Candidates made stops across House, Senate battlegrounds

In Wisconsin, both major-party candidates in one of the country's most competitive House districts — Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden and Democrat Rebecca Cooke — joined a parade in the western part of the state. Cooke walked the parade route before it started, talking with voters and handing out literature, and then did it again in the parade. Van Orden drove his 2001 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with two of his grandchildren along for the ride, along the parade route.

Maureen Hilton, a 74-year-old retired insurance underwriter who lives just outside of the village of Readstown where the parade took place, said she’s disgusted with both political parties.

“Just do what’s right,” she said. “Get food prices down. Get gas prices down.”

But Jerry Ray, a 75-year-old semi-retired appliance repairman, said “it’s time for a change.” He’s voting for the Democrat Cooke in November.

“Trump’s had a chance and he’s just screwed it up royally,” Ray said as parade participants tossed candy to children along the route.

Van Orden said he gave Cooke credit for attending the parade in the Republican-leaning village with a population under 500.

At a fair Sunday in Ohio, an armed assailant charged toward Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton and injured several people before he was stopped by troopers, authorities said. A spokesperson for Acton’s opponent, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, said candidates “should be able to meet with voters without having to worry about threats or violence.”

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Barrow reported from Hapeville, Georgia. Associated Press writers Joey Cappelletti in Washington, Jacqueline GaNun in Lansing, Michigan, and Scott Bauer in Readstown, Wisconsin, contributed to this story.

“It was difficult to make the roster for the Gold Cup one year before because the mindset was different,” Pochettino said Monday during an online question-and-answer session with reporters. “You say, 'If I play, I have not holidays. I cannot arrive fresh for the World Cup.' ... You know now that is bull----.”

Pochettino said his goal “is to change this type of idea that are not right.”

Pulisic, the top American player, took himself out of consideration for the 2025 Gold Cup citing the need to rest after his season with AC Milan and the hope to be fresh for the 2026 World Cup. He didn't score in four World Cup appearances this year, missing one group-stage match because of a calf injury and leaving the Americans’ round of 16 loss to Belgium on July 6 after fracturing his right tibia and fibula.

He had 10 goals in his first 15 matches for AC Milan last season but went scoreless in 19 club games after Dec. 28. He has been an unused substitute in AC Milan’s first three games this season.

Pochettino took over from Gregg Berhalter in the fall of 2024 and was given a four-year contract in a deal announced last month.

Pochettino plans to announce his roster on Sept. 17 for the first games of his second term, a double window that includes friendlies against Peru (Sept. 26 in Orlando, Florida), Chile (Sept. 29 in St. Louis), Mexico (Oct. 3 in Glendale, Arizona) and Canada (Oct. 6 in St. Paul, Minnesota). In their first competitive matches since the World Cup, the Americans play CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinals in November.

“A new process, new project, new rules, new principles,” he said, speaking from London. “I think that the headline needs to be that (it) is a new start, a fresh start. And I think we need to change habits.”

“We need to create a group of players that (are) really being professional and compete in the way that we expect that they need to compete,” he added.

Players dropped from the World Cup roster, such as midfielders Diego Luna, Tanner Tessmann and Aidan Morris, could return. Young players such as 16-year-old Philadelphia midfielder Cavan Sullivan could be included for possible debuts.

Some, such as 19-year-old Crystal Palace winger Zavier Gozo, could be left off to allow them time to integrate with new clubs following summer transfers. Pochettino also expressed uncertainty about midfielder Sebastian Berhalter and defender Max Arfsten, who transferred to Middlesbrough.

Pochettino said players could be given national team debuts before they focus on the under-23 team, which will be coached by former U.S. defender Steve Cherundolo heading toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. He cited a “need to be careful” with youngsters.

“You need to (have) confidence. You need to have the trust in yourself and belief that you can perform and do well,” he said. “Sometimes if you play well and you are 17, 16 or 18 and you play well and people start to talk, about you are (Lionel) Messi or you are a big star in the world because you do some good things. If after you are confused and you don’t manage well, that can be dangerous for your career and that is what we don’t want.

“You only are entitled to talk a little bit out of order if you are Messi, if you win. If you won, you can talk with certain arrogance."

Among the attitudes Pochettino wants to change are those of coaches who would rather have their young players stay with clubs during international breaks.

“Sometimes the coaches say no. I have a 17-year-old guy that play in the MLS but when the (under) 19 national team called, say no because they need to rest," Pochettino said. “If (you are) 17, you need to rest, aye yai, yai. We have a big problem.”

No decision yet by Banks

Augsburg defender Noahkai Banks still hasn’t decided whether to play for the U.S. or Germany.

“Noki is still in the same situation that (he) was before the World Cup,” Pochettino said. “We are in contact with all the potential duel nationals. I think it’s important for us to see. That is the connection, the human connection, that is so important.”

Balogun a focus

Pochettino intends to telephone striker Folarin Balogun, whose proposed transfer from Monaco to Everton came apart last week.

“I want to know from him what happened but always offering our support,” he said. “He’s an important player for us, was an important player in the World Cup and (I) hope that he can find being in Monaco, in another place, his best place to perform."

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El mandatario visitó la zona de la tragedia y participó de una misa con familiares y afectados a quienes ofreció asistencia y anunció una “investigación exhaustiva que dependerá del Ministerio Público”. “No se puede hacer política en un momento de dolor”, dijo frente a las críticas. El tema abrió el debate sobre la seguridad en los cuarteles que almacenan explosivos.

En la zona donde el depósito del Regimiento Bolívar sufrió el viernes la doble explosión, los rescatistas trabajaban entre los escombros para recuperar los cuerpos de los que no están localizados, según explicó el comandante del Ejército, el general Héctor Alarcón.

Todavía no se conocen las causas de las detonaciones. La segunda fue tan potente que afectó a varias casas a la redonda, cuyos habitantes fueron evacuados. “No corresponde adelantar criterios mientras no concluyan las investigaciones periciales. No se sabe dónde se inició el fuego”, dijo Alarcón.

Señaló que las tareas de rescate son lentas debido a que la zona es de “alto riesgo” por la existencia de posibles explosivos entre los escombros.

“Volaron puertas y ventanas en casi dos kilómetros a la redonda, hay 70 personas afectadas”, según el concejal de Viacha Wilfredo Silva.

En las afueras del cuartel familias de los conscriptos esperaban en medio del llanto y el dolor cualquier noticia de los rescatistas.

La fiscalía abrió una investigación por presunto “homicidio culposo” y aún no hay acusados ni detenidos. Paz anunció un resarcimiento a las víctimas y a los afectados.

Pólvora y pirotecnia

En el depósito del cuartel había desde 2019 “pólvora negra”, explosivos de uso minero y pirotecnia, según el ministro boliviano de Defensa, Ernesto Justiniano, y el propio Alarcón.

Los decomisos de explosivos de contrabando que realiza la Aduana son entregados a las Fuerzas Armadas y el Ministerio de Defensa debe autorizar su destrucción, lo que al parecer no ocurrió desde 2019. “No se conoce la cantidad”, señaló Alarcón.

Paz y su ministro de Defensa anunciaron una revisión y actualización de los “protocolos de seguridad” en los cuarteles.

Entre los fallecidos están un sargento y seis conscriptos que hacían su servicio militar y estaban asignados al centro de mantenimiento del cuartel.

Luego se reportó el hallazgo de otros dos cuerpos, informó Alarcón.

Más de la mitad de los 81 heridos fueron dados de alta, mientras que dos heridos se encuentran en estado delicado, según la ministra de Salud, Marcela Flores.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the apartment fire near Northwest 14th Avenue and Northwest 103rd Street at approximately 6:30 a.m.

“I woke up around 6 o’clock in the morning because I heard some screams,” Oscar Umana, who took cellphone video of the fire, said in Spanish. “There were some people fighting outside, so I came outside to look and when I looked, I saw the fire started right there in that building. That’s where the fire started from.”

According to MDSO, deputies arrived to find the third-floor apartment fully engulfed in flames.

Deputies immediately began evacuating residents from both the east and west sides of the building.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews also responded and extinguished the fire.

Authorities said firefighters later found a person dead inside the apartment. The victim’s identity and cause of death have not yet been released.

Detectives with the MDSO Homicide Bureau and arson investigators responded to the scene and took over the investigation.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

“I felt the energy from the city,” said Hopkins, a former three-star recruit from Mater Dei in Santa Ana, California. “I felt the energy from the coaches.”

But there was a complication that went beyond the distance factor. Hopkins had to deal with the dilemma facing just about every high school quarterback prospect since most Bowl Subdivision programs now overwhemingly rely on transfers at that position: About 65% of the FBS starting quarterbacks to open this season transferred at some point in their careers.

“It’s a totally different ballgame,” said Trent Dilfer, who has experienced quarterback recruiting from just about every angle.

Dilfer is a former Fresno State quarterback and first-round draft pick who started for the Baltimore Ravens’ Super Bowl championship team in the 2000 season. He coached a high school power at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, was a college head coach at UAB and now is back at Lipscomb.

He remembers when a quarterback coming out of high school could learn on the job. Colleges don’t need to be that patient anymore because so many college quarterbacks with starting experience are available each year since the NCAA erased the requirement of sitting out a year before the 2021-22 season.

“And that changed everything,” Dilfer said. “Because instead of recruiting the child, now you’re recruiting a man.”

Hopkins chose Wisconsin even as the Badgers enter a fourth straight season with a transfer as their starting quarterback. Hopkins spent the summer competing with Louisville transfer Deuce Adams for the right to back up Old Dominion transfer Colton Joseph, who got the start in the Badgers' season-opening loss to No. 4 Notre Dame on Sunday night.

“I feel like with this coaching staff – no matter if you’re the 2 or the 3 or the 1 - they're coaching every guy the same,” Hopkins said.

Transferring is now the norm

The reliance on transfers by most major programs leaves fewer roster spots available for high school prospects.

“If you’re a quarterback in this day and age, you have to earn it and you have to say, ‘I’m OK with taking less when I’m first getting recruited, because I want to get more when I show how good I am,’” Washington coach Jedd Fisch said.

They also must realize the college they select out of high school might not be where they finish.

Going by composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports, more than 80% of the top 50 quarterbacks from the 2023 class have transferred. The number of top-50 quarterbacks from that class who have attended at least three colleges is nearly double the total who stayed at one school.

“A kid who used to be able to go to a middle-of-the-road SEC or ACC school, it’s probably better for them to go now to a Group of Five school and play,” said Bryant Appling, who coaches Georgia high school power Buford. “Because two years from now, when they want to transfer or move up, they’ll have a leg up on the kid who’s just coming out of high school and who they’re not sure of.”

Major uncertainty from the transfer portal

All that activity makes it tough for high school quarterbacks who sign with colleges in December, just before the transfer portal window opens. Most finalize their college plans several months before that December deadline, when they have no idea who they might be competing against once they’ve enrolled.

“You’re fishing in the dark, so to speak,” said Jason Negro, the coach at St. John Bosco in Bellflower, California, whose list of former quarterbacks includes Illinois’ Katin Houser and 2018 first-round pick Josh Rosen. “You have no control over it. You might look at a roster in November or December - and in January it looks completely different.”

College coaches won't stop recruiting high school quarterbacks entirely, since they'd prefer to develop multi-year starters rather than depending on the portal each year. But the portal enables them to be choosier.

“If you’re going to invest in somebody to play at this level, they’d better be able to play in year one or at least year two,” Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell said.

Coaches also rarely sign multiple high school quarterbacks in the same class anymore. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano noted that “back in the day, if you were a little bit low in that room, you wouldn’t think twice about doing that.”

Some quarterbacks have been proactive by reclassifying to enter college a year early, enabling them to profit off the use their name, image and likeness sooner.

Teddy Jarrard is at Notre Dame this year rather than playing his senior season at North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Georgia. Notre Dame also has a verbal commitment from Champ Monds, who skipped his junior season at Vero Beach (Florida) High and will begin his college career next year. Colorado’s Julian Lewis also reclassified.

“Some guys are ready to do that,” Schiano said. “They’re physically mature enough. They’re emotionally mature enough. Other guys, not even close.”

Experience matters

While the transfer portal hinders high school quarterback prospects initially, it offers potential long-term benefits. Quarterbacks not recruited heavily in high school can work their way up.

“If they just get in there and play, even at the I-AA level, you’ve seen guys who have made big strides come up,” Duke coach Manny Diaz said. “We’ve seen D-II guys that in the past might’ve just been stuck there forever and no one would have ever known about them.”

Diego Pavia went from New Mexico Military Institute to New Mexico State to Vanderbilt and became the 2025 Heisman Trophy runner-up. Trinidad Chambliss started out at Division II Ferris State, led Mississippi to a College Football Playoff semifinal berth last year and is back behind center for the Rebels this season.

Chambliss is one of at least 18 FBS starting quarterbacks this season who spent part of their careers at non-FBS programs.

“I have a really good friend whose son is a really great quarterback and is asking where he should go,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said. “I was like, ‘I’d go to the place where I could start. I’d go FCS. I’d go wherever and play,’ because everyone’s going to want to see a quarterback with experience.”

Chris McDonald, who coached Washington’s Demond Williams and Oklahoma State’s Broderick Vehrs at Basha High in Chandler, Arizona, said quarterbacks are now similar to baseball prospects moving up a farm system. Productive quarterbacks at lower-level schools get opportunities at bigger programs.

“Understand your recruitment really doesn’t end until you’re going into your last year of college,” McDonald said.

Hopkins, the Wisconsin quarterback, offers this advice to high school QB recruits.

“Trust your development,” he said. “Your development’s huge. I think a lot of kids, they’re really eager and they want to go to these really flashy programs because these coaches are throwing a lot at them. See yourself, be self-aware of your talents and what you’re capable of."

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Ecclestone, 95, arrived at Tires Airport near Lisbon, where officers from the Portuguese Public Security Police airport division found a shotgun in his possession for which he lacked a permit.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Ecclestone admitted he brought the weapon from Switzerland for pigeon shooting.

“They asked if I had a blue book, which is apparently the documentation you need, and I told them I never travel with documents like that, any documents at all practically,” Ecclestone told the British newspaper. “They said they would arrest me, but after what seemed like hours we sorted it out, but it has been wall-to-wall aggravation."

Ecclestone was at the helm of F1 from 1987-2017, and divides his time between his homes in Switzerland and Portugal.

This is not the first time he has run into trouble for carrying a weapon at an airport. In May 2022 he was detained at Viracopos Airport in Brazil after police found a .32-caliber pistol in his possession. On that occasion he had to pay a fine and was able to leave without further issues.

Ecclestone gained a marketing grip on F1 in the late 1970s by selling its TV rights. Four decades later, the British business magnate controlled the series until his decision to step down. He continues to attend races.

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According to Flight Aware, 129 domestic flights arriving or departing from MIA were delayed and 65 were canceled.

Airport officials confirmed that two of the airport’s four runways are currently open.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m. Sunday and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

“So what we see in the video is what we call an unstable approach,” airline Captain Francisco Diaz, who has flown similar planes, said. “The airplane was approaching the runway in a state that was outside of the standard. You can see that it’s pitching down a little bit and then when it reaches the landing zone of the runway it floats forever, right? And it actually makes two little bounces in the air before it touches down on the main gear. From the training perspective, you’re supposed to go around – go back in the air when something like that happens, specifically to avoid this from happening.”

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews launched a search-and-rescue operation for the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped on the aircraft, as well as victims trapped inside vehicles that were struck by the cargo plane.

“The airplane did strike a couple of vehicles that required a couple of victims that were actually trapped in the vehicles,” MDFR Chief Ray Jadallah said.

Officials said over 60 MDFR units consisting of about 200 workers responded to the scene as thick, heavy plumes of smoke billowed from the plane into the air.

“As you’re well aware, these incidents require seconds, not necessarily minutes, in regards to a response,” Jadallah said.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said during a press conference that five people were killed and five others were hospitalized.

Three of the injured people were listed in critical condition, authorities said.

According to officials, Prime Air Flight 7598 originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Airport officials said the plane was disabled after going off the northwest end of the airport’s diagonal runway.

A ground stop was issued after the crash and all runways were closed for hours, officials confirmed.

An airport official said one of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash and officials with the NTSB are expected to release more details at a press conference Monday.

Video of Sunday’s landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. Aviation experts said investigators will seek to determine exactly where the plane landed and, if it was beyond the normal touchdown zone, why the pilots did not abandon the landing and circle back for another attempt.

Investigators will also examine the plane’s speed and braking, weather and wind conditions, the aircraft’s mechanical condition and other factors that could have contributed to the deadly overrun.

MIA not equipped with arresting systems used to stop planes that go past end of a runway

MIA is not equipped with arresting systems that the FAA says have been installed at more than 120 airports nationwide to safely stop planes that do go past the end of a runway.

“It prevents the airplane from leaving the airport premises,” Diaz said. “It’s a soft concrete that is after the runway and if the airplane gets into that area, it becomes like mud and stops the airplane from continuing moving forward.”

Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

MIA does not have EMAS, or the Engineered Materials Arresting System, because the FAA requires airports that don’t instead have a 1,000-foot runway safety area at the end of the tarmac, which the airport has. However, Diaz said he believes EMAS could have prevented the Amazon cargo plane from going into the parking lot Sunday.

Diaz is the current captain of a Boeing 747, but flew the same plane involved in Sunday’s crash a decade ago.

“This airplane registration is registration N1997A. It was the first Amazon Prime airplane about 10 years ago, and the company I used to work for, we were the ones that started this contract with Amazon and I flew this specific tail number 10 years ago,” he said.

Those flying into or out of MIA Monday are urged to check with their airline for their flight status before arriving at the airport.

Los soldados dispuestos para un control en el departamento de Nariño, fronterizo con Ecuador, fueron alertados sobre un presunto explosivo instalado en la vía Panamericana, la principal del suroeste. Al acudir al lugar para verificar fue activada un área minada.

Inicialmente tres soldados resultaron heridos, pero el militar José Manuel López Villada falleció pese a recibir atención de enfermeros de combate, indicó el ejército en un comunicado.

Con información preliminar el ejército señaló como presunta responsable a una estructura que forma parte de la disidencia de las FARC llamada Estado Mayor Central comandada por Néstor Gregorio Vera, alias “Iván Mordisco”, quien no se acogió al acuerdo de paz firmado con el Estado hace una década.

La disidencia “habría acondicionado los alrededores de la vía con dispositivos explosivos improvisados activados por la víctima para atentar contra la integridad de las tropas”, detalló el ejército.

El presidente Abelardo de la Espriella rechazó el ataque e informó en X que ha sido capturado a un hombre presuntamente relacionado con la instalación del campo minado. Indicó que dio la orden de establecer quiénes lo planearon, financiaron y ejecutaron.

“No permitiremos que los terroristas siembren de minas nuestras carreteras y asesinen a quienes protegen a los colombianos”, afirmó el mandatario.

El ataque se produjo luego de que las autoridades realizaran operaciones militares en Nariño. De la Espriella informó la víspera en X que siete disidentes fallecieron en la operación y cinco más fueron capturados.

“Por cada soldado o policía que asesinen, haré caer sobre los criminales todo el peso y toda la fuerza legítima del Estado. No nos van a doblegar”, aseguró el mandatario conservador.

De la Espriella ha centrado su política gubernamental en la seguridad, prometiendo “mano de hierro” contra los ilegales y puso fin a las negociaciones de paz que adelantó su predecesor Gustavo Petro (2022-2026).

Durante el primer mes de su gobierno los grupos armados ilegales han respondido con ataques contra la fuerza pública, especialmente mediante el uso de explosivos.

La guerrilla Ejército de Liberación Nacional, alzada en armas desde 1964, aceptó el lunes la autoría de dos ataques con drones cargados con explosivos contra la policía de Cesar, en el noreste del país, que no dejaron víctimas. También su responsabilidad en el ataque con explosivos y fusiles contra el batallón de Ocaña, fronterizo con Venezuela, en el que murieron tres militares.

En la comunicación divulgada en X la guerrilla reprochó que De la Espriella cerrara la posibilidad de negociar la paz e insistió en que el país necesita buscar un “acuerdo nacional”.

“Our teams have hit it,” said Christopher Bell, whose late pass on leader Kyle Larson led to his first Southern 500 crown. “Yeah, we need to make the most of it now, because we know how it goes.”

Right now, it’s all coming up Toyota and JGR in NASCAR. Denny Hamlin was the regular-season champion and favorite to collect his first championship in the series.

Ty Gibbs, team owner Joe Gibbs’ grandson, is showing his skills with 18 top-10 finishes — he was runner-up to Bell at Darlington — including victories at Bristol and Iowa.

Chase Briscoe, in his second season with JGR, has 16 top 10s and finished sixth in his quest for a third consecutive Southern 500 trophy.

Bell had endured a frustrating season, with seven second-place finishes and a wrist injury suffered in a crash at Michigan that he thought would derail his season. But with fresher tires after Larson stayed out on the track instead of changing to new tread, Bell quickly tracked down the defending NASCAR champion and broke through to victory lane for the first time this season.

He also cut into Hamlin’s Chase points lead, moving from 50 behind to just 12 as the series heads to World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, just outside of St. Louis, next week.

“We’ve got four great drivers, great teams,” Bell said. “I mean, I go back to, when was it, 2019 when all four of the JGR cars were incredible. This is right there with it.”

Bell’s win meant all four JGR drivers claimed wins this year, the first time that’s happened since that dominant 2019 season when the late Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Erik Jones won 19 of 36 races and Busch brought Gibbs his fifth and latest NASCAR title.

This year’s JGR quartet has won eight races and Toyota has won 15 of 27 events this season. Hamlin remains on top, even though he had the lowest JGR finish (18th) at Darlington, where a midrace crash cost him a chance to extend his points lead.

Bell sits second while Briscoe is fifth and Gibbs sixth. 23XI driver Tyler Reddick, who had five victories to lead the series this season, is fourth in the standings in another Toyota.

JGR co-owner Heather Gibbs, Ty’s mother, said the organization would be disappointed if one of the four wasn’t holding the trophy after the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.

“I think we’ve worked so hard as a team and as an organization to be consistent and have four competitive cars,” she said. “Obviously points, coming, showing up every week, just as Christopher has, having all those top twos where it’s criticized, and that makes a championship-caliber team to be consistent.”

Bell joked that he was going to say he had two free weeks to work on other things since he had advanced to the next round. But that was under the old playoff format, which NASCAR ditched to return to Chase racing, where all 16 qualifiers compete in all 10 races without eliminations.

“There’s no more weeks off, and I love it,” Bell said.

It’s a consistent JGR approach to racing that has brought the organization 235 wins since Dale Jarrett won the 1993 Daytona 500 for the three-time Super Bowl-winning, NFL coach-turned-auto racing entrepreneur.

Adam Stevens, Bell’s crew chief, said JGR often has had a dominant program. But rarely has the talent behind the wheel, in the garage, in leadership and in research and development been so high across the board.

“I think all of our teams are in a really good spot in that regard, and I think that we’re kind of seeing, you know, we have the capablity,” Stevens said. “We have the program and we have the ability to make good and bad decisions with that information. But the internal strength individually of the teams is next-level right now.”

It’s a rare moment Bell knows he and his teammates should pounce on before the rest of the garage catches up.

“Right now we’re on top,” he said, “but we won’t be up there forever, that’s for sure.”

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It coincided with the busy Labor Day travel weekend.

One woman said, “I started out in Buffalo, New York, and then I went to Raleigh and then from Raleigh, we had a seven-hour layover, maybe nine hours and then ended up in Denver and had another hour layover and then ended up here.”

Another woman said her flight was rescheduled three times.

The deadly crash brought the entire airport to a ground stop Sunday while first responders rushed to the scene. Inbound flights were seeing the most issues.

Some flights were out-and-out cancelled.

One flyer said she was at MIA for 10 hours.

“They said wait ‘til 5 o’clock to see if we reopen and then they canceled the flight,” she said.

Nearly 150 delays and 60 cancellations were reported as of around 10:30 Monday morning.

Those delays also affected flight crews getting to MIA to staff flights.

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The shooting happened just after 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Hyde Beach House at 4010 S. Ocean Drive.

According to the Hollywood Police Department, medics took the victim, who was found in the hotel’s lobby, to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. Police did not release information about his or her age or gender.

Police said detectives “are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident” and authorities have not announced any arrests.

They asked anyone with information to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Todo coincidió con el ajetreado fin de semana del Día del Trabajo.

Una mujer contó: “Salí de Buffalo, Nueva York, y de ahí fui a Raleigh, y en Raleigh tuvimos una escala de siete horas, quizás nueve, y terminamos en Denver, donde hubo otra escala de una hora, y de ahí llegamos acá”.

Otra mujer dijo que su vuelo fue reprogramado tres veces.

El accidente mortal obligó a detener toda la operación en tierra del aeropuerto el domingo, mientras los socorristas acudían al lugar. Los vuelos de llegada fueron los más afectados.

Algunos vuelos simplemente se cancelaron.

Una pasajera dijo que pasó diez horas en MIA.

“Nos dijeron que esperáramos hasta las 5 en punto para ver si reabrían, y después cancelaron el vuelo”, contó.

Hasta cerca de las 10:30 de la mañana del lunes se reportaban casi 150 retrasos y 60 cancelaciones.

Esos retrasos también afectaron la llegada a MIA de las tripulaciones que debían cubrir los vuelos.

El tiroteo ocurrió poco después de la 1 p.m. del domingo en el Hyde Beach House, en el 4010 de South Ocean Drive.

De acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, los paramédicos trasladaron a la víctima, que fue encontrada en el vestíbulo del hotel, al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. La policía no divulgó información sobre su edad ni su sexo.

La policía indicó que los detectives “investigan activamente las circunstancias que rodean este incidente” y las autoridades no han anunciado ningún arresto.

Se pide a cualquier persona con información que llame a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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And after Sunday’s fatal plane crash at MIA involving an Amazon cargo plane, many are wondering whether those systems could have saved lives.

“It prevents the airplane from leaving the airport premises,” airline Captain Francisco Diaz, who has flown the same plane, said. “It’s a soft concrete that is after the runway and if the airplane gets into that area, it becomes like mud and stops the airplane from continuing moving forward.”

Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

MIA does not have EMAS, or the Engineered Materials Arresting System, because the FAA requires airports that don’t instead have a 1,000-foot runway safety area at the end of the tarmac, which the airport has. However, Diaz said he believes EMAS could have prevented the Amazon cargo plane from going into the parking lot Sunday.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m. Sunday and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

“So what we see in the video is what we call an unstable approach,” Diaz said. “The airplane was approaching the runway in a state that was outside of the standard. You can see that it’s pitching down a little bit and then when it reaches the landing zone of the runway it floats forever, right? And it actually makes two little bounces in the air before it touches down on the main gear. From the training perspective, you’re supposed to go around – go back in the air when something like that happens, specifically to avoid this from happening.”

Diaz is the current captain of a Boeing 747, but flew the same plane involved in Sunday’s crash a decade ago.

“This airplane registration is registration N1997A. It was the first Amazon Prime airplane about 10 years ago, and the company I used to work for, we were the ones that started this contract with Amazon and I flew this specific tail number 10 years ago,” he said.

Diaz urged the public to wait for the investigation’s findings before deciding who or what was at fault for Sunday’s crash, and urged Miami-Dade officials to invest in EMAS for MIA’s runways.

“We don’t know if the airplane had any malfunction. We don’t know if the systems had any issues, like hydraulics or brakes or anything like that,” he said. “For the pilots out there, every time you are unstable in an approach, go around. Try a second time. Go back in the air and come back and try. For the authorities, Miami airport is doing a $9 billion investment in infrastructure. Please include something like EMAS for all the runways.”

Those flying into or out of MIA Monday are urged to check with their airline for their flight status before arriving at the airport.

Y tras el accidente aéreo mortal del domingo en MIA, en el que se vio involucrado un avión de carga de Amazon, muchos se preguntan si esos sistemas habrían podido salvar vidas.

“Impide que el avión salga de las instalaciones del aeropuerto”, dijo el capitán de aerolínea Francisco Diaz, quien ha volado ese mismo avión. “Es un concreto blando que va después de la pista, y si el avión entra en esa zona, se vuelve como lodo y lo detiene para que no siga avanzando”.

La FAA atribuye a esos lechos de material liviano y quebradizo instalados al final de las pistas haber ayudado a salvar al menos 497 vidas de personas a bordo de aviones que se pasaron de la pista.

MIA no tiene EMAS, el Sistema de Frenado con Materiales de Ingeniería, porque la FAA lo exige solo a los aeropuertos que no cuentan con un área de seguridad de 1,000 pies al final de la pista, y el aeropuerto sí la tiene. Aun así, Diaz considera que el EMAS pudo haber evitado que el avión de carga de Amazon terminara en el estacionamiento el domingo.

De acuerdo con la Administración Federal de Aviación, el avión de carga Boeing 767 rebasó una pista de MIA alrededor de las 2 p.m. del domingo y arrasó una vía que utilizan trabajadores de almacenes y otros negocios de los alrededores del aeropuerto.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue señalaron que el avión golpeó varios vehículos en un estacionamiento sobre Northwest 67th Avenue, entre Northwest 25th Street y 36th Street.

“Lo que vemos en el video es lo que llamamos una aproximación inestable”, dijo Diaz. “El avión se acercaba a la pista en una condición fuera de lo normal. Se ve que baja un poco la nariz y luego, al llegar a la zona de aterrizaje, flota una eternidad. De hecho, da dos pequeños rebotes en el aire antes de tocar con el tren principal. Desde el punto de vista del entrenamiento, uno debe hacer un motor y al aire, volver a subir cuando pasa algo así, justamente para evitar que esto ocurra”.

Diaz es actualmente capitán de un Boeing 747, pero hace una década voló el mismo avión que se accidentó el domingo.

“La matrícula de este avión es N1997A. Fue el primer avión de Amazon Prime hace unos 10 años, y la empresa para la que yo trabajaba fue la que inició ese contrato con Amazon. Yo volé esa misma matrícula hace 10 años”, contó.

Diaz pidió al público esperar los resultados de la investigación antes de decidir quién o qué tuvo la culpa del accidente del domingo, e instó a las autoridades de Miami-Dade a invertir en el EMAS para las pistas de MIA.

“No sabemos si el avión tuvo alguna falla. No sabemos si los sistemas tuvieron algún problema, como los hidráulicos o los frenos o algo así”, dijo. “A los pilotos les digo: cada vez que vayan inestables en una aproximación, hagan motor y al aire. Inténtenlo una segunda vez. Vuelvan a subir, regresen e inténtenlo. Y a las autoridades: el aeropuerto de Miami está haciendo una inversión de 9,000 millones de dólares en infraestructura. Por favor, incluyan algo como el EMAS para todas las pistas”.

A quienes tengan vuelos desde o hacia MIA este lunes se les recomienda consultar el estado de su vuelo con la aerolínea antes de ir al aeropuerto.

Según Flight Aware, 129 vuelos nacionales que llegaban o salían de MIA se retrasaron y 65 fueron cancelados.

Funcionarios del aeropuerto confirmaron que dos de las cuatro pistas están abiertas en este momento.

De acuerdo con la Administración Federal de Aviación, un avión de carga Boeing 767 rebasó una pista de MIA alrededor de las 2 p.m. del domingo y arrasó una vía que utilizan trabajadores de almacenes y otros negocios de los alrededores del aeropuerto.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue señalaron que el avión golpeó varios vehículos en un estacionamiento sobre Northwest 67th Avenue, entre Northwest 25th Street y 36th Street.

“Lo que vemos en el video es lo que llamamos una aproximación inestable”, dijo el capitán Francisco Diaz, quien ha volado aviones similares. “El avión se acercaba a la pista en una condición fuera de lo normal. Se ve que baja un poco la nariz y luego, al llegar a la zona de aterrizaje, flota una eternidad. De hecho, da dos pequeños rebotes en el aire antes de tocar con el tren principal. Desde el punto de vista del entrenamiento, uno debe hacer un motor y al aire, volver a subir cuando pasa algo así, justamente para evitar que esto ocurra”.

La alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, informó en una conferencia de prensa que cinco personas murieron y otras cinco fueron hospitalizadas.

Tres de los heridos estaban en estado crítico, indicaron las autoridades.

Según las autoridades, el vuelo 7598 de Prime Air había salido del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Funcionarios del aeropuerto dijeron que el avión quedó inutilizado tras salirse por el extremo noroeste de la pista diagonal del aeropuerto.

Tras el accidente se ordenó una detención de operaciones en tierra y todas las pistas permanecieron cerradas durante horas, confirmaron las autoridades.

Un funcionario del aeropuerto dijo que una de las cuatro pistas de MIA reabrió alrededor de las 4:15 p.m., y una segunda unos 30 minutos después.

La Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte investiga la causa del accidente y se esperaba que sus funcionarios dieran más detalles en una conferencia de prensa el lunes.

El video del aterrizaje del domingo parece mostrar que el Boeing 767 siguió en el aire buena parte de la pista antes de tocar tierra. Expertos en aviación señalaron que los investigadores buscarán determinar en qué punto exacto aterrizó el avión y, si fue más allá de la zona normal de contacto, por qué los pilotos no abortaron el aterrizaje para intentarlo de nuevo.

Los investigadores también examinarán la velocidad y el frenado del avión, las condiciones del clima y del viento, el estado mecánico de la aeronave y otros factores que pudieron contribuir al accidente.

MIA no cuenta con los sistemas de frenado que detienen aviones que rebasan la pista

MIA no está equipado con los sistemas de frenado que, según la FAA, se han instalado en más de 120 aeropuertos del país para detener de forma segura a los aviones que se pasan del final de la pista.

“Impide que el avión salga de las instalaciones del aeropuerto”, explicó Diaz. “Es un concreto blando que va después de la pista, y si el avión entra en esa zona, se vuelve como lodo y lo detiene para que no siga avanzando”.

La FAA atribuye a esos lechos de material liviano y quebradizo instalados al final de las pistas haber ayudado a salvar al menos 497 vidas de personas a bordo de aviones que se pasaron de la pista.

MIA no tiene EMAS, el Sistema de Frenado con Materiales de Ingeniería, porque la FAA lo exige solo a los aeropuertos que no cuentan con un área de seguridad de 1,000 pies al final de la pista, y el aeropuerto sí la tiene. Aun así, Diaz considera que el EMAS pudo haber evitado que el avión de carga de Amazon terminara en el estacionamiento el domingo.

Diaz es actualmente capitán de un Boeing 747, pero hace una década voló el mismo avión que se accidentó el domingo.

“La matrícula de este avión es N19977A. Fue el primer avión de Amazon Prime hace unos 10 años, y la empresa para la que yo trabajaba fue la que inició ese contrato con Amazon. Yo volé esa misma matrícula hace 10 años”, contó.

A quienes tengan vuelos desde o hacia MIA este lunes se les recomienda consultar el estado de su vuelo con la aerolínea antes de ir al aeropuerto.

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A letter sent on behalf of the king to senior government officials said the couple will continue to refrain from using their royal titles as they have done since stepping back from official royal duties in 2020. Any charity work the couple undertakes will be carried out in a private capacity, and operational security decisions are matters for the relevant police agencies, the letter adds.

The letter was sent by the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior official in the royal household, to senior officials in the government and military, as well as lord lieutenants, the king’s personal representatives around the country.

“To help avoid doubt or confusion, The King has directed that (this) information be shared,” the letter says.

While the communication simply confirms that Harry and Meghan’s status remains unchanged, the decision to send the letter and release it publicly demonstrates the concern among some palace observers that the couple’s status could allow them to become a sort of parallel royal court, competing with working members of the royal family.

The security question is particularly sensitive because Harry has fought a long-running battle with the government for the restoration of publicly funded police protection, which was canceled when the couple gave up their royal roles.

The decision about whether to restore the couple’s round-the-clock police protection is a matter for a government panel known as RAVEC, or the Royal and VIP Executive Committee.

“Any specific questions from official and State organizations about the courtesies which should be extended to the Duke and Duchess, and particularly where recourse to public funds may be required, should be directed to Buckingham Palace,” the Lord Chamberlain said in his letter.

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According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said during a press conference that five people were killed and five others were hospitalized with unknown injuries.

Three of the injured people were listed in critical condition, authorities said.

The flight originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, officials said.

According to information from MIA, Prime Air Flight 7598 was disabled after going off the northwest end of the airport’s diagonal runway.

A ground stop was issued, and all runways were closed following the crash, officials said.

We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway.

If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations.

The @FAANews will send inspectors… https://t.co/k6xrXvoLzJ

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 6, 2026

An airport official said that one of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later.

According to the FAA’s real-time airport status information for MIA, no planes would be allowed to depart until at least 5:30 p.m.

Plumes of black smoke could be seen coming from the plane as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

MDFR officials said there were multiple people who were injured but did not elaborate on the extent of those injuries.

Crews launched a search-and-rescue operation for the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped on the aircraft, as well as victims trapped inside vehicles that were struck by the cargo plane.

Officials also said that over 60 MDFR units responded to the scene.

Officials with MIA said passengers with flights scheduled on Sunday should check with their airlines for their flight status before heading to the airport.

Additionally, MIA officials said travelers using the Metrorail will need to transfer at the Earlington Heights station for the Orange Line to get to the airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation into the crash.

The FAA also said it will be investigating the circumstances that led to the plane going off the runway.

A spokesperson from Amazon released the following statement Sunday afternoon:

“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today. This is a fast-moving situation and we’re still gathering details. We’re working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened. Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected.”

Kelly Nantel, Amazon spokesperson

The NTSB said their investigation will begin on Monday.

NTSB has launched a go team to investigate Sunday's runway excursion accident involving a B-767-300 cargo airplane at Miami International Airport. The airplane was operated as 21 Air Flight 7598 from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy will…

— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) September 6, 2026

MDSO made a dedicated family information line. If you believe your loved one may have been involved in this incident, please call (305) 471-2400.

The “configuration” and the “technical features” of the nuclear reactor under construction in Syria during the leadership of ousted former President Bashar Assad were “very efficient in the production of fissile material that could be directly used for the fabrication of nuclear weapons,” IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said.

“Of course, that was never declared, that was always denied, so, and again, intentions cannot be judged, but that was a very serious proliferation concern that we had, and this has been difficult work,” he told reporters on the first day of a regular meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, in Vienna.

Syria was believed to have operated an extensive undeclared nuclear program under Assad that included a nuclear reactor built by North Korea in eastern Deir el-Zour province.

Following Assad’s ouster, the new government agreed to give IAEA inspectors access to suspected former nuclear sites.

During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor.” Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country.

Inspectors had to ‘tear down walls’ to find hidden material

Syria notified the agency of the site’s existence in a July 17 letter and invited the IAEA “to cooperate with the Syrian authorities in the inspection and verification of the site and of any nuclear material to be potentially found.”

The IAEA said in its confidential report circulated to member states last Tuesday and seen by The Associated Press that this new site contained “natural uranium metal in the form of fuel rods with cladding.” The agency verified the material and confirmed “the presence of around 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal.”

Grossi said when the inspectors visited the site in August they had to “tear down walls” and go through “very difficult and narrow passages” to reach the nuclear material that had been hidden. The site had “boxes scattered all over the place,” he said.

Grossi said that “the important thing is that this material now is under safeguards” of the IAEA, adding that agency inspectors had managed to install cameras at the location.

Syria to decide what happens next

Asked if the nuclear material will remain in Syria or be removed, Grossi said that this is “a matter that the Syrian government will have to decide.” He added: “We are not requesting them to do this or to do that. For us what’s important is that we know all the time where this (material) is until the last gram.”

Logan Mintz, a director for nuclear materials security at the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, said that natural uranium metal is not directly usable for a nuclear weapon but it could be “diverted to a covert weapons program that further processes it into plutonium for a nuclear weapon.”

She said that once deemed safe to move, the material could be “transported in certified containers” to a third country that can “safely and securely disposition it into a more chemically stable and more widely used form” for possible use in nuclear power plants.

“As with any transport of nuclear material, this movement would require robust security from theft or sabotage,” she said.

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The ministry said the German consulate must stop operations and its workers must leave Russia by Sept. 18. It reaffirmed the previously announced decision to shut German Goethe-Institut cultural centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg and said their employees must leave no later than Sunday.

The ministry's statement cast the moves as retaliation for Germany’s “unfriendly” decision Wednesday to close both the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital, Berlin.

Germany said Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4, when an explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane.

The airport is a major international freight hub used for providing support to Ukraine. The drone was later defused.

Moscow has denied involvement in the drone attack and cast it as a provocation.

“It was the German authorities who once again provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “All responsibility for the consequences lies entirely with the German government.”

Western officials have repeatedly accused Moscow of conducting a campaign of sabotage and disruption in their countries with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations, accusations Russia has rejected.

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The five injured, including the pilots, were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and Jackson South. Three of the patients are in critical condition.

The Boeing 767 Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway and crashed into parked cars in a nearby lot.

Photos from the lot show mangled cars, some upside down, with debris scattered throughout. One photo shows a large white van crushed behind the plane.

Several victims were trapped in their cars, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

The details of the victims’ injuries were not immediately known, other than that they were in critical condition.

There was also a search and rescue operation for the two pilots who were trapped inside the plane, according to officials.

The crash remains under investigation. Officials have been asked for an update on the victims’ conditions.

For the latest information on the crash, click here.

Las cinco personas heridas, incluidos los pilotos, fueron trasladadas al Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South. Tres de los pacientes se encuentran en condición crítica.

El avión de carga Boeing 767 de Amazon sobrepasó la pista y se estrelló contra vehículos estacionados en un lote cercano.

Fotos del estacionamiento muestran vehículos destrozados, algunos volcados, con escombros esparcidos por toda el área. Una foto muestra una gran camioneta blanca aplastada detrás del avión.

Varias víctimas quedaron atrapadas en sus vehículos, según Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Los detalles de las lesiones de las víctimas no se conocieron de inmediato, aparte de que se encontraban en condición crítica.

También se llevó a cabo una operación de búsqueda y rescate de los dos pilotos que quedaron atrapados dentro del avión, según funcionarios.

El accidente continúa bajo investigación. Se ha solicitado a los funcionarios una actualización sobre el estado de las víctimas.

Para obtener la información más reciente sobre el accidente, haga clic aquí.

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Known as “The Natural,” Triana has been training in combat sports for nearly his entire life.

“It’s like I also got super strength. I’m really strong. I punch like an adult,” Triana said. “I never go down without a fight. I never quit.”

That confidence is backed by a growing list of accomplishments.

Triana said he became a world grappling champion in Munich, Germany, in 2023 and this year became the first six-time national youth MMA champion. He also has a 7-4 kickboxing record with three knockouts.

“I’m top of the world right now for my age,” he said.

A passion that started at age 2

Triana’s journey into the sport began before he was old enough to remember much else.

“Well, I first started when I was 2 years old. I was still sucking on a binky. I still had my blanket,” he said. “We got into the gym. I faced a kid who was 6 years old.”

By the time he was about 5, Triana said he knew fighting would be a major part of his life.

“Kids would cry when they went to the gym. I would cry when I had to leave the gym,” he said. “That’s how much I loved it.”

That childhood passion has since turned into an intense training schedule.

Triana trains six days a week, often two or three times a day and sometimes for six or seven hours.

He credits his father, Eduardo Triana, with helping him develop the discipline needed to compete at such a high level.

“I always see him as motivation,” Isaiah said. “He pushes me to my limits.”

Eduardo, who is also a fighter and coach, said watching his son take their sport around the world has been an unforgettable experience.

“It’s never a dull moment and I can’t stop pinching myself,” he said. “You never get used to it.”

His journey heads to the big screen

Now, Isaiah’s story is reaching an audience beyond the MMA world.

He is the focus of a new short film called “Fight Kid,” which follows his journey and one of his title fights.

The film is scheduled to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12. His family also plans to host a red-carpet event in South Florida.

Even with a film being made about his accomplishments at just 15, Isaiah is already focused on what comes next.

“What I see in the future is for me to be UFC world champion. And I feel like I’m gonna do that,” he said. “Also, a dream of mine is to be UFC BJJ champion.”

Before pursuing those professional ambitions, Isaiah said he wants to wrestle in college. He’s also interested in a career in sports medicine or physical therapy.

For a teenager who has been competing almost as long as he has been walking, the titles and film premiere are milestones — but Isaiah believes his biggest accomplishments are still ahead.

Conocido como “The Natural”, Triana ha estado entrenando en deportes de combate durante casi toda su vida.

“Es como si también tuviera superfuerza. Soy realmente fuerte. Golpeo como un adulto”, dijo Triana. “Nunca caigo sin dar pelea. Nunca me rindo”.

Esa confianza está respaldada por una creciente lista de logros.

Triana dijo que se convirtió en campeón mundial de grappling en Múnich, Alemania, en 2023 y que este año se convirtió en el primer campeón nacional juvenil de MMA en seis ocasiones. También tiene un récord de 7-4 en kickboxing con tres nocauts.

“Estoy en la cima del mundo ahora mismo para mi edad”, dijo.

Una pasión que comenzó a los 2 años

El camino de Triana en este deporte comenzó antes de que tuviera edad suficiente para recordar muchas otras cosas.

“Bueno, comencé cuando tenía 2 años. Todavía usaba chupete. Todavía tenía mi manta”, dijo. “Entramos al gimnasio. Me enfrenté a un niño que tenía 6 años”.

Cuando tenía alrededor de 5 años, Triana dijo que sabía que pelear sería una parte importante de su vida.

“Los niños lloraban cuando iban al gimnasio. Yo lloraba cuando tenía que irme del gimnasio”, dijo. “Así de mucho me encantaba”.

Esa pasión de la infancia se ha convertido desde entonces en un intenso programa de entrenamiento.

Triana entrena seis días a la semana, a menudo dos o tres veces al día y, en ocasiones, durante seis o siete horas.

Él atribuye a su padre, Eduardo Triana, el haberlo ayudado a desarrollar la disciplina necesaria para competir a un nivel tan alto.

“Siempre lo veo como una motivación”, dijo Isaiah. “Me lleva hasta mis límites”.

Eduardo, quien también es peleador y entrenador, dijo que ver a su hijo llevar su deporte alrededor del mundo ha sido una experiencia inolvidable.

“Nunca hay un momento aburrido y no puedo dejar de pellizcarme”, dijo. “Nunca te acostumbras”.

Su camino llega a la pantalla grande

Ahora, la historia de Isaiah está llegando a una audiencia más allá del mundo de las MMA.

Él es el protagonista de un nuevo cortometraje llamado “Fight Kid”, que sigue su trayectoria y una de sus peleas por el título.

Está previsto que la película se estrene en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto el 12 de septiembre. Su familia también planea organizar un evento de alfombra roja en el sur de Florida.

Incluso con una película realizada sobre sus logros con apenas 15 años, Isaiah ya está concentrado en lo que viene después.

“Lo que veo en el futuro es que voy a ser campeón mundial de UFC. Y siento que lo voy a lograr”, dijo. “Además, uno de mis sueños es ser campeón de UFC BJJ”.

Antes de perseguir esas ambiciones profesionales, Isaiah dijo que quiere practicar lucha libre en la universidad. También está interesado en una carrera en medicina deportiva o fisioterapia.

Para un adolescente que ha estado compitiendo casi desde que comenzó a caminar, los títulos y el estreno de la película son hitos, pero Isaiah cree que sus mayores logros aún están por llegar.

6 large shrimp or prawns, head-on, if available (we used U5 Prawns for our recipe)

For the cure:

3 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons soy sauce

¼ teaspoon red crushed chilies

Combine ingredients together and rub the prawns with the cure.

For cooking and serving:

high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray, for grilling

limes, for serving

Butterfly and prepare the prawns:

Use a scissor to cut down the convex side of the prawn (with the tail and head facing away from you). Leaving the tail intact, cut about ¾ of the way through the body and head. Gently open the prawn to butterfly it but leave the two sides connected. Discard the vein and rinse the prawns. Pat dry.

Grill the prawns:

Whisk together the ingredients for the cure and brush over the meat of the prawns.

Heat the grill to medium-high heat, about 350˚F - 400˚F. Lightly grease the grates with high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray.

Grill for 2-3 minutes per side until cooked through. While the prawns cook, cut a couple of limes in half and grill the cut side until lightly charred. Serve the prawns warm with the cut limes.

4-6 cups vanilla pudding (recipe below or use your favorite!)

your favorite pound cake cut into 2 inch X 2 inch slices

4½ cups mixed berries, we used strawberries cut in quarters or 1/6ths, blueberries and raspberries

3 tablespoons granulated sugar, depending on your taste

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, depending on your taste

2 cups whipped cream, for topping

Toss the berries with as much granulated sugar and lemon juice as desired, depending on how sweet your berries are. Allow to macerate for 30-45 minutes.

Begin by placing a layer of slices of cake down in your trifle dish. Top with vanilla pudding. Top with enough macerated berries to completely cover the cake layers. Repeat the layers until you reach the top of your dish, ending with a layer of macerated berries. Refrigerator until ready to serve. Top with whipped cream before serving.

Vanilla Pudding:

Make about 4 cups

⅓ cup plus 1/4 cup granulated white sugar

¼ cup cornstarch

⅛ teaspoon salt

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 large egg yolk, at room temperature

3½ cups whole milk, divided

2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or pure vanilla extract

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

In a large heatproof bowl, whisk ⅓ cup of the granulated white sugar with the cornstarch, salt, eggs, and egg yolk. Whisk in ½ cup of the milk. Set aside while you heat the rest of the milk and sugar.

Have ready a fine medium-sized strainer and heat-proof bowl ready to strain the pudding after it is cooked.

Pour the remaining 3 cups of milk, along with the remaining ¼ cup of sugar, into a medium heavy bottomed saucepan and bring just to a boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and gradually pour the hot milk into the egg mixture, whisking constantly, until the mixture is smooth. Transfer the pudding mixture to a heavy bottomed saucepan and place over medium heat and bring just to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens to the consistency of mayonnaise (about 3-5 minutes). Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla extract and butter.

Pour through the strainer to remove any lumps that may have formed during cooking. Cover with plastic wrap touching the top of the pudding to prevent a skin from forming and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 4-6 hours.

3 pounds chicken wings, separated into drumettes and flats (or wingette)

For the Italian dressing marinade:

¼ cup olive oil

3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed

2 teaspoons dried oregano

2 teaspoons garlic powder

2 teaspoons onion powder

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For cooking and serving:

high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray, for grilling

Gardinera, for serving

Prepare the Chicken Wings:

Whisk together all ingredients for the marinade. Pat the wings dry if needed, then toss in the marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight or at least 4 hours. Remove the chicken wings from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before grilling.

To grill:

Heat the grill to medium-high heat, about 350˚F - 400˚F. Lightly grease the grates with high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray. Season the wings with salt and pepper and place the wings in a grilling basket or over indirect heat and cook for 15-20 minutes, turning every 5-10 minutes.

Remove from the grill basket and place over direct heat, continue grilling for another 5-7 minutes to get color on the wings. Cook to an internal temperature of 175˚F for the best bite. Serve with Gardinera on the side.

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Inspectors found rodent problems at Subway in Davie, Olivo Mediterranean Cuisine in Plantation and Nick’s Pizza in Deerfield Beach, along with roach problems at La Rivera, Q’Onda Taqueria and Asados El Paisa Broward.

Records show flies were spotted landing on food at Q’Onda Taqueria, Thyme Machine and Bagel Express.

Inspectors found everything from large amounts of rodent droppings and roaches inside refrigerators to flies landing on food and mold-like buildup inside an ice machine.

They also found food being held at unsafe temperatures and employees failing to properly wash their hands.

At Bagel Express, inspectors had to return three times before they were allowed to re-open.

Below is a list of the places inspected and some of the violations inspectors found.

All of the establishments mentioned have been allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and re-inspection.

No restaurant kitchens in the Florida Keys were ordered shut.

**SUBWAY

4002 SW 64TH AVE.

DAVIE

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

3 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1) 2 rodent droppings under filing cabinet in preparation area. 2) 6 rodent droppings under dry storage rack in preparation area. 3) 1 rodent dropping under triple sink.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lowboy Reach in Cooler under oven- ; Premade Pizza (49F - Cold Holding). Per Manager food item in unit overnight. Item not prepared or portioned today. See stop sale.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lowboy Reach in Cooler under oven- ; Premade Pizza (49F - Cold Holding). Per Manager food item in unit overnight. Item not prepared or portioned today. See stop sale.”

**LA RIVERA

123 NE 20TH AVE.

DEERFIELD BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1. Observed 1 live roach under triple sink in kitchen. 2. Observed 4 live roaches under hand sink at front counter kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. 1. Observed bucket of clear liquid with dead roach floating in it under prep table in kitchen.”

“Live, small flying insects found. 1. Observed 2 live, small, flying insects resting on cocoa and cold brew bags in kitchen. 2. Observed 2 live, small, flying insects resting on glove box and food service paper box in kitchen. 3. Observed approximately 7 live, small, flying insects flying at front counter and in dining area. 4. Observed approximately 26 live, small, flying insects resting on wall and shelving above triple sink in kitchen. 5. Observed 3 live, small, flying insects resting on food prep table legs in kitchen. 6. Observed 8 live, small, flying insects resting on wall next to dish machine in kitchen.”

“Interior of toaster oven has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris in kitchen.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. 1. Observed buildup of old food debris under two door reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed knives and forks stored not inverted or protected at food prep table in kitchen.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed two employees preparing food and handling food utensils without wearing hair restraints.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**OLIVO MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE

7815 WEST SUNRISE BLVD.

PLANTATION

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

13 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1) 3 rodent droppings on prep table next to Hobart Microwave in kitchen. 2) 3 rodent droppings in clean tray on lower shelf of preparation table in kitchen. 3) 4 rodent droppings across from single door freezer in kitchen.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Flip Top- ; Hummus (50F- Cold Holding) Cream Cheese (48F - Cold Holding). Double Doors Glass- ; Sour Cream (60F - Cold Holding); Yogurt (56F - Cold Holding) Per Chef food items in unit less than 4 hours. Items not prepared or portioned today.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Tray of raw beef stored above container of sour cream in True double doors reach in cooler. Employee moved to a different reach in cooler and stored correctly.”

“Hot water takes too long to reach handwash sink resulting in employees using only cold water to wash their hands. Hot water turned off in kitchen resulting in employees using only cold water to wash hands. Water temperature 78F. Repeat Violation.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink in kitchen.”

**NICK’S PIZZA

137 NE 2ND AVE.

DEERFIELD BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1. Observed approximately 200 rodent droppings on floor under food and food utensils storage shelving next to soda coolers. 2. Observed approximately 100 rodents droppings on all shelves of speed rack, on boxes, metal pans, and table linens.”

“Accumulation of black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine.”

“Ceiling vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance in kitchen.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. No time mark observed on cheese pizza held using time as a public health control.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. 1. Hood filters at cookline in kitchen. 2. Door gaskets at two door reach in cooler opposite cookline in kitchen. 3. Observed stand mixer covered with heavy old food residue . Repeat Violation.”

**Q’ONDA TAQUERIA

10575 SW 109TH CT

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

39 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 30 live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler where raw meats are stored and inside reach in cooler gaskets next to dish area. Observed 23 live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler drawers under flat top grill on cook line. Observed 15+ live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler across cook line where various sauces and shredded cheese is stored and inside reach in cooler gaskets. Observed one live roach inside of oven on cook line. Observed one live roach crawling on wall behind grill. Observed two live roaches crawling on floor underneath grill on cook line.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on table where grill is stored on cook line. Observed 2 dead roaches behind white chest freezer on cook line. Observed 3 dead roaches inside reach in cooler drawers under flat top grill on cook line. Observed 3 dead roaches behind standing reach in coolers in prep area. Observed 1 dead roach behind table where onions are stored near back door. Observed 4 dead roaches inside of reach in cooler across cook line.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flies flying and landing inside container of tomatillo salsa on table near kitchen entrance. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of yellow onions near back door. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of red onions near back door.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flies flying and landing inside container of tomatillo salsa on table near kitchen entrance. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of yellow onions near back door. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of red onions near back door. Observed 2 live flies flying and landing on clean knives on top of prep table near dish area.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed can of household raid at bar area.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. At bar. Repeat Violation.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. At reach in coolers throughout kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling tiles dusty throughout kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor heavily soiled with grease buildup under cooking equipment at cook line.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed reach in cooler grill drawers in disrepair. Repeat Violation.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed reach in cooler gaskets soiled throughout kitchen.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed corn (58F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across cook line.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee scoop ice and make drink for customer without first washing hands.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employee put on pair of gloves then continue to prep customer order without first washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee grab spice bottle off of floor and continue to prepare customer order without changing gloves and washing hands.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**THYME MACHINE

(MOBILE)

13920 SW 139TH CT

MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 9/1

27 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed one fly landing inside a bin with cooked chicken next to grill. Also observed one fly flying and landing on top of griddle station.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed household ants and flying insect killer spray stored on the floor next to bucket of mayonnaise that is also stored on the floor.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed an accumulation of grease on top and under the griddle.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed raw chicken (76F - Cold Holding); ground beef (63F - Cold Holding); turkey sliced (67F - Cold Holding); hummus (72F - Cold Holding) as per person in charge since yesterday on that unit.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed raw chicken (76F - Cold Holding); ground beef (63F - Cold Holding); turkey sliced (67F - Cold Holding); hummus (72F - Cold Holding) as per person in charge since yesterday on that unit.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed a bucket of tahini stored on floor. Observed packages of bottled water stored outside the food truck on the floor.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed accumulation of grease and debris under griddle and under saj( like a griddle). Also observed accumulation of debris and grease overall seasoning containers located on top of three compartment sink.”

“Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. Observed employee drink on top of prep table.”

“Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Observed handwashing sink blocked with cutting board and flour tortilla on top of hand washing sink.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used as a prep table with a cutting board on top.”

“Inadequate number/capacity of cold holding units to maintain time/temperature control for safety food at proper temperatures. Observed all units with inside ambient temperature above 67F. Repeat Violation.”

“No sanitizer of any kind available for ware washing. Only use single-service items to serve food to customers until sanitizer is available for ware washing. Observed no sanitizer of any kind.”

**ASADOS EL PAISA BROWARD

4828 N. UNIVERSITY DR.

LAUDERHILL

ORDERED SHUT 8/31

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. -Observed 4 live roaches inside paper towel dispenser at cook line . -Observed 2 live roaches crawling on clean plates stored inside 3 compartment sink.”

“Raw animal food stored over or with unwashed produce. -Observed raw pork stored over ripe plantains in walk in cooler.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. -Observed raw shell eggs stored over cheese in walk in cooler. -Observed raw pork stored over open container with salsa in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation.”

“Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Observed employee touch raw pork and then handle clean plates without changing gloves and wash hands. After brief education, employee then changed gloves and wash hands.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**BAGEL EXPRESS

CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER

11616 KENDALL DRIVE

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 8/31

38 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed 30+ live flies flying and landing inside and on top of bucket of molasses and on top of crate where bucket is stored.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 30+ live flies flying and landing inside and on top of bucket of molasses and on top of crate where bucket is stored. Observed 10 live flies flying and landing on top of oven in back kitchen area. Observed 40+ live flies flying and landing on shelf with clean bowls and containers in dish area above oven and triple sink. Observed 3 live flies flying near walk in cooler door, landing on prep table near soiled deli slicer. Observed 5 live flies flying and landing on to go paper bags in dry storage room near mop sink. Observed 2 live flies flying next to flat top grill and landing on shelf with clean containers at front counter. Observed 1 live fly flying and landing on counter in front of orange juice machine at front counter.”

“Presence of insects, rodents, or other pests. Observed one insect on top of box of strawberry jam in dry storage room.”

“Dead roaches/flies on premises. Observed one dead fly on top of oven in kitchen area. Observed one dead fly inside container of wax paper in dry storage.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor near oven soiled with molasses. Observed floor heavily soiled by bagel boiler with old food debris. Repeat Violation.”

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

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed walk in cooler fan cover soiled. Observed reach in cooler gaskets soiled at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee enter kitchen and begin handling food without first washing hands.”

“Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands. Observed employee crack raw shell eggs, rinse hands without soap, then continue to prepare customer order without properly washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employee put on pair of gloves and grab bagel to prepare customer order without first washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee kill fly with hand and continued to prepare customer order without changing gloves and washing hands.”

“Employee washed hands with no soap. Observed employee take off gloves and wash hands with no soap.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles in kitchen area severely damaged. Repeat Violation.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 9/1

“Observed 1 live fly flying inside of bagel display case landing on bagels.”

“Observed 1 live fly flying inside of bagel display case landing on bagels. Observed 50+ live flies flying and landing on shelf and clean equipment in dish area. Observed 1 live fly landing on orange juice machine at front counter. Observed 15+ live flies landing on to go bags inside dry storage room. Observed 2 live flies on wall near flat top grill at front counter. Observed 3 live flies on wall near dough mixer in back area.”

“Observed one insect on top of box of strawberry jam in dry storage room.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 9/3

“Observed 10 live flies flying and landing on top of dough mixer, single service rack inside dry storage room, and inside bathroom.”

“Observed 3 dead flies inside orange juice machine at front counter.”

The bridge over the Tumen River is 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) long and has two lanes and will allow up to 300 vehicles a day to pass through a newly built border crossing point, the Russian government said in a statement.

The bridge links North Korea's Rason and Russia's Khasan, border cities of the two countries. The bridge's inauguration ceremony took place simultaneously in the two cities, with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and North Korean Premier Pak Thae Song attending via video link.

“I am convinced that the expansion of transport infrastructure near the border will give a powerful boost to the further development of trade, economic, technological, scientific and cultural cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” Mishustin said.

Pak said the bridge's completion is “a significant event adding a new dynamic movement to the overall bilateral cooperation,” according to North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.

Relations and exchange programs between Russia and North Korea have been flourishing, with North Korea supplying ammunition and troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine in return for economic and military assistance.

North Korea has been receiving Russian tourists since February 2024 amid slowly easing pandemic curbs. KCNA said the bridge's opening would promote tourism, human exchange and commodity circulation between the two countries.

North Korea and Russia, which are already served by a railway bridge and air service, agreed in 2024 to construct a bridge for automobiles over the Tumen River, which runs along North Korea’s borders with Russia and China. Construction began last year.

La sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, dijo que cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas y fueron hospitalizadas. Tres de los heridos se encuentran en estado crítico, informó durante una conferencia de prensa.

Las autoridades dijeron que el vuelo había partido del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

De acuerdo con información de MIA, el vuelo 7598 de Prime Air quedó inmovilizado después de salirse por el extremo noroeste de la pista diagonal del aeropuerto.

Un portavoz de Amazon emitió el siguiente comunicado el domingo por la tarde:

"We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today. This is a fast-moving situation and we're still gathering details. We're working closely with local authorities and officials to…

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) September 6, 2026

Tras el accidente se emitió una orden para detener las operaciones en tierra y todas las pistas fueron cerradas, dijeron las autoridades.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue informaron que más de 60 unidades respondieron a la emergencia.

Las autoridades de MIA recomendaron a los pasajeros con vuelos programados para el domingo verificar el estado de sus vuelos con sus aerolíneas antes de dirigirse al aeropuerto.

Para obtener la información más reciente sobre el accidente, haga clic aquí.

Cinco personas murieron en el accidente y otras cinco resultaron heridas, tres de ellas en estado crítico, informaron las autoridades.

Como consecuencia del caos en el exterior, los viajeros dentro del aeropuerto tuvieron que enfrentar largas demoras y grandes aglomeraciones.

Una de las cuatro pistas de MIA reabrió alrededor de las 4:15 p.m. y una segunda fue reabierta aproximadamente 30 minutos después, según las autoridades.

La información en tiempo real de la FAA sobre el estado del aeropuerto indicaba que no se permitirían despegues hasta al menos las 5:30 p.m.

Jason Carter, de Local 10, habló con varias personas dentro de MIA, y su reporte completo puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

The decision comes after Tagovailoa’s monthslong competition with Michael Penix Jr., who started nine games for the Falcons in 2025 before suffering a season-ending torn ACL in November.

Coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday that Cooper Rush will back up Tagovailoa and Penix will be inactive. He declined to speculate on who the team might start at QB beyond Week 1.

Tagovailoa received more reps throughout training camp. Penix was cleared for 11-on-11 drills on Aug. 22, but did not appear in any preseason games for the Falcons.

“Of course, Mike just getting back to 11-on-11, wanted to make sure we gave him an opportunity in these practices, and we did," Stefanski said Monday. "But feel strongly about our decision with everything, all the information available to us.”

Penix said Monday that Stefanski met with both quarterbacks when selecting the Week 1 starter. Penix alluded to not feeling quite ready yet, but he said he’s “really close.”

“I want to be stronger. I want to be able to go out there and give the team 100%, and if I don’t feel like I can do that, I don’t want to," Penix said. "That’s not fair for this team. That’s not fair for this organization. I want to make sure whenever I am out there, I’m 100%. There’s no doubt in my mind that I trust my knee.”

Tagovailoa started the Falcons’ first and final preseason games, splitting time with Strand and Rush. He was 7 of 8 for 95 yards in three drives against his former team, the Miami Dolphins, in Atlanta’s third exhibition. He led an eight-play, 60-yard touchdown drive in Atlanta’s opening drive and lost a fumble in his second. The Falcons beat the Dolphins 17-12.

Stefanski first addressed the quarterback group as a whole, which consists of Tagovailoa, Penix, Rush and undrafted rookie Jack Strand.

“Really, really proud of those guys,” he said. “Those guys have worked like crazy all offseason, and they've pushed each other, supported each other, and that's what we'll do for Tua. We'll continue to support him and understand that this is a collective group that is constantly looking to help each other.”

Tagovailoa signed a one-year deal with the Falcons in March following a six-year stint with the Dolphins. Miami is on the hook for a $99.2 million dead cap hit over the next two seasons after giving Tagovailoa a four-year, $212.5 million contract extension in 2024.

“I've gotten to see Tua work from the spring until now,” Stefanski said. “New system for all these guys, and like I told them, there's a lot of newness with our players, coaches and, you know, everybody getting up to speed, and he's done a really nice job of working at it. ... I think he's really put himself in position to go be the best version of himself.”

Tagovailoa's first start for Atlanta will be at the site of his last with Miami. The quarterback was benched for rookie Quinn Ewers following the Dolphins' 28-15 loss in Pittsburgh on Dec. 15.

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Buoyed by her leadership of the multi-billion-dollar expansion project last decade, Espino moves up from deputy administrator to take full command of the canal. Only three other Panamanians have held the position since the United States handed over the interoceanic waterway in late 1999.

Her appointment to the canal’s top post is already seen as a symbol of women's capability for executive leadership roles in the industry. The canal serves as the engine of the Panamanian economy and handles nearly 3% of global maritime trade.

Shortly before taking office, Espino told The Associated Press that her priority would be advancing the project to build a reservoir on the Indio River within the canal’s watershed. The $1.5 billion project aims to secure drinking water for 50% of the Central American nation’s 4 million people and to support the future operation of the canal, opened by the U.S. in 1914.

The canal’s Board of Directors had previously appointed her to lead this $1.5 billion plan, which encompasses community resettlement and environmental considerations. It is the largest project since the waterway’s expansion, which opened in June 2016 at a cost exceeding $5.25 billion. Officials expect the reservoir to be completed by late 2031 or 2032.

For Espino, the goal is to guarantee future water supplies without compromising reliability in the eyes of the shipping industry. If customers perceive that the canal is not seeking a long-term water solution, they could shift their cargo to other routes.

That project, which has sparked protests from certain communities, is taking on greater significance as the canal faces another period of low rainfall caused by the El Niño phenomenon, which recently led waterway authorities to restrict the number of ships making the daily crossing between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Geopolitical tensions for the canal with the US under Trump

As the second-highest-ranking official at the canal serving under outgoing administrator Ricaurte Vásquez, she experienced the tension caused by complaints and warnings regarding the waterway voiced by U.S. President Donald Trump both before and after he assumed office.

Trump threatened to retake control of the canal, citing Chinese influence over the waterway and claiming that U.S. shipping companies were being treated unfairly.

The country’s judiciary ruled unconstitutional the port concessions at both entrances held by a Hong Kong consortium. That ruling followed the announcement of a planned acquisition of those and other ports by a U.S. investment fund, a deal that has since stalled.

Espino told the AP that her responsibility over the next seven years at the helm of the canal will be to maintain operations that are “efficient, neutral, and transparent.” She said that diplomatic matters are the responsibility of the Panamanian state.

Britain's biggest automaker said the job cuts will take place over the next two years as it targets 1.7 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) in savings to make it more competitive as the industry transitions to electrification.

“The automotive industry faces significant challenges, with technological change amidst intense competition and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty,” chief executive PB Balaji said in a statement.

The job cuts and savings will help the company invest 15 to 18 billion pounds ($20-24 billion) over the next five years in electrification, digital technologies and other areas, he added.

Jaguar Land Rover, which makes the Range Rover, Discovery and other luxury SUVs, has reported slumping profits and sales in the face of intense competition from cheaper Chinese EVs, soaring costs and the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

The tariff policy introduced a 10% import tax for British-made cars, with the tax rising to 27.5% after the first 100,000 vehicles produced in a year.

The company's sales were also hit last year when a cyberattack forced it to halt production for a month.

The company, owned by India's Tata Motors, makes most of its cars in factories across the U.K. It employs around 34,000 people in the country and the majority of the job cuts are expected to affect its U.K. operations.

Monday's news came as Treasury chief John Healey pledged to grow Britain's sluggish economy and help businesses navigate rising costs.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham's office said Monday that while market conditions are challenging for the automotive sector globally, Britain's government will not consider a bailout for Jaguar Land Rover.

Last week, Volkswagen announced a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end auto production at four German plants to counter competition in China and the effects of U.S. tariffs.

The F1 season is still scheduled to end Qatar Grand Prix on Nov. 29 and the season finale in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 6, but F1 has been examining potential alternative venues. A replacement finale at the Imola circuit in Italy is widely considered the likeliest option.

Ben Sulayem told the AP it remains “business as usual. We are not changing anything unless we have to,” and said he's in regular communication with F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali.

“Being from that part of the world, we can’t jump the gun and just say, that’s it, we are canceling and then cancel,” he added. “Are we going to allow our people, our staff, the drivers or the teams to go at risk? No, of course not. We will not. But we’ll have also to listen to the governments and to the local promoter there.”

F1 sets its own calendar and agreements with host venues, but as the governing body, the FIA must approve the schedule and any changes.

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was called off and Bahrain moved

Iran has previously targeted Qatar and the UAE, which includes Abu Dhabi, as part of its response to U.S. airstrikes and F1 called off the other two Middle East rounds earlier in the season — in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The Bahrain Grand Prix was rescheduled in Malaysia for Oct. 4, still with Bahrain branding.

“Do I feel disappointed? I think human lives are more important than motor sport,” said Ben Sulayem, who is from the United Arab Emirates, when asked about the impact on his home region of losing its events.

“And the well-being of my family being there and the UAE nationals and everyone that lives there comes as a priority.”

Ben Sulayem added that “for the time being, there is no emergency” in deciding a calendar for the 2027 season.

Imola could mean another party in Italy for Antonelli

If the season does end in Imola, it would mean that Kimi Antonelli’s quest to become F1’s youngest champion could now end with the party of a lifetime, just down the road from his home city of Bologna.

When Antonelli raced there last year, he invited his family and his whole school class to see him at the track.

The 20-year-old Antonelli moved 66 points clear in the title race with a statement victory at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday, after an epic fightback from the back of the grid.

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“Hoy, más que nunca, los panameños podemos comprobar que si bien el canal se ubica en Panamá, su negocio y competencia son globales. Y por ello los eventos geopolíticos y climáticos nos presentan riesgos y oportunidades. Y aquí que la estrategia 2025-2035... incluye una serie de iniciativas y proyectos que buscan asegurar la resiliencia y la adaptación a nuestro recurso más estratégico”, dijo la nueva administradora.

Impulsada por su liderazgo al frente del multimillonario proyecto de ampliación del canal de la década pasada, Espino dejó la subadministración para tomar el mando pleno, un rol que sólo ocuparon tres panameños desde el traspaso de la ruta interoceánica por parte de Estados Unidos a fines de 1999.

Para esta ingeniera de 64 años, casada y con tres hijos, su llegada al máximo cargo del canal —motor de la economía panameña y que mueve casi el 3% del comercio marítimo mundial— es una muestra de la capacidad de las mujeres para puestos de dirección en la industria.

A lo largo de más de 40 años llegó a ocupar posiciones de creciente responsabilidad en áreas técnicas, operativas y de liderazgo.

Principales desafíos

Poco antes de asumir, Espino dijo en una entrevista con The Associated Press que su “prioridad” será seguir avanzando en el proyecto para construir un embalse en río Indio en la cuenca hidrográfica del canal, que costará 1.500 millones de dólares y que busca asegurar agua para el consumo del 50% de la población del país centroamericano de más de cuatro millones de personas y ayudar en la futura operación de la ruta, abierta por Estados Unidos en 1914.

La Junta Directiva del canal la había asignado justo a ella para liderar ese plan por un costo de 1.500 millones de dólares, que entre otras cosas incluye el reasentamiento de comunidades y temas ambientales. Es el proyecto más grande desde la expansión de la vía, que abrió operaciones en junio de 2016 y superó los 5.250 millones de dólares. Las autoridades esperan tenerlo listo el embalse a fines de 2031 o 2032.

Para Espino, el objetivo es garantizar el consumo de agua futuro sin perder confiabilidad ante la industria naviera. Si los clientes perciben que el canal no está buscando una solución hídrica de largo plazo, advirtió, podrían trasladar sus cargas hacia otras rutas.

Ese proyecto, que ha generado protestas de ciertas comunidades, toma mayor relevancia en momentos en que el canal enfrenta otro episodio de escasas lluvias producto del fenómeno de El Niño, que llevó recientemente a las autoridades de la vía a restringir el número de barcos que cruzan diariamente por la ruta entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico y viceversa.

Tensiones geopolíticas

Como segunda en el escalafón del canal detrás del saliente administrador Ricaurte Vásquez, ella vivió la tensión generada por los reclamos y advertencias respecto al canal vertidas por el presidente Donald Trump antes y después de asumir su segunda mandato.

Trump llegó a amenazar con la posibilidad de retomar el control del canal argumentando la influencia china en la vía y el trato injusto que según él recibían las navieras de su país. La vía no ha escapado de las tensiones comerciales de Estados Unidos y China. La justicia del país declaró inconstitucional la concesión de los puertos en ambas entradas que tenía un consorcio de Hong Kong, posterior al anuncio de la adquisición de esos y otros puertos por parte de un fondo de inversión estadounidense que está estancada.

Espino dijo a la AP que su responsabilidad en los próximos siete años al frente del canal será mantener la operación “eficiente, neutral y transparente”. Aclaró que de las cuestiones diplomáticas se encarga el Estado panameño.

“Después que uno pasó un programa de ampliación, todo es posible"

Liderar la ampliación de un tercer juego de esclusas para buques más grandes, marcó su carrera a futuro. En ese proyecto estuvo vinculada a áreas como seguridad, ambiente, documentación histórica y controles de proyectos, además enfrentó contratos complejos, arbitrajes, paralizaciones de obras y negociaciones con contratistas internacionales.

“Después que uno pasó un programa de ampliación, todo es posible”, rememoró en la entrevista. “El hecho de haber liderado la ampliación me abrió puertas a nivel internacional”, acotó. Refirió que fue invitada por la Real Academia de Ingeniería de Londres, participó en un panel junto al diseñador del Burj Khalifa y forma parte del jurado del Premio Reina Isabel de Ingeniería.

Ella recuerda que decidió utilizar un casco rosado durante los trabajos como un mensaje interno y en respuesta a quienes dudaban de su capacidad en el proyecto, lo que terminó convirtiéndose en un símbolo internacional de liderazgo femenino. “Eso mandó un mensaje al mundo”, destacó.

That firewall faces its biggest test after AfD won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Germany's mainstream parties have long said they would not work with Alternative for Germany, which is classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist group in some regions of the country — including the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Any dealing by mainstream parties with AfD is particularly sensitive in view of Germany’s Nazi past.

Many Germans had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to outlaw persecution.

But as it turns out, that conviction was mistaken, and similar to voters across Europe and elsewhere, voters in Germany are increasingly empowering the extreme far-right party.

AfD has rejected any accusations of being undemocratic or even anti-constitutional and has repeatedly pushed back against the firewall.

The firewall taboo has sometimes forced other parties into unusual alliances to keep AfD out of power — for instance, a three-party coalition straddling ideological divisions that governs the eastern state of Thuringia since AfD emerged as the strongest party for the first time in a regional election there two years ago.

In Germany’s national election last year, AfD achieved the best showing by a far-right party since World War II and became the strongest political force in parts of the country. AfD became the biggest opposition party in parliament after Chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats upheld the firewall and formed an unpopular coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.

The firewall could crack after AfD's latest victory

AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Sunday's election, more than double its showing five years ago in the state, while Merz's party lost about half its support.

Merz has strictly rejected any kind of cooperation with AfD in the past and top officials reiterated that stance on Sunday. But other parties in the newly elected state parliament may be less likely to keep up the firewall.

The AfD candidate for governor, Ulrich Siegmund, aims to become the first far-right head of a state government and has already said he will reach out to all other parties and individual lawmakers to assemble a governing majority.

While Siegmund has rejected an AfD minority government, his party could possibly govern with the hard-left BSW party, which received 5.3% of the vote. The two parties share a Russia-friendly course and oppose immigration but do not agree on some other subjects.

BSW could help AfD run Germany's first far-right state government since World War II

On Monday, BSW’s lead candidate in the election, Thomas Schulze, expressed his party’s willingness to help an AfD governor take office in the state parliament.

Forming a government that excludes the AfD would only be possible if all the other parties that were elected worked together — CDU, Social Democrats, the Greens, the Left Party, and the BSW. However, a coalition involving five partners would be extremely unusual, very complicated and prone to instability.

It’s also possible that newly elected lawmakers from other parties could defect to AfD — it would only need three people to get a majority to govern.

Political analyst Volker Resing said AfD may be able to overcome the firewall after its strong showing in Saxony-Anhalt, with BSW potentially serving as the kingmaker.

“This tiny party could now play a decisive role in determining the future of Saxony-Anhalt," he told The Associated Press.

Resing said “it is still unclear” whether the parties will join forces based on their common view toward Russia to overcome the firewall and succeed in forming Germany’s first far-right state government since the end of the Nazi era.

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Five people were killed in the crash and five others were injured -- three in critical condition, officials said.

Travelers inside the airport were left dealing with extended delays and large crowds as a result of the chaos outside.

One of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later, according to officials.

The FAA’s real-time airport status information for MIA stated that no planes would be allowed to depart until at least 5:30 p.m.

Local 10’s Jason Carter spoke to several people inside MIA whose flights were affected, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

“We could actually see the flames from the crash from our airplane,” one passenger said.

“I already have been in this airport for 10 hours,” another traveler told Local 10 News. “They said wait until 5 o’clock to see if we reopen, and then they canceled the flight.”

Travelers are urged to check their flight status with their airlines before arriving at the airport.

Voters will also select nominees for U.S. House, governor and other state offices.

The race to replace retiring three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is one of a handful across the country that could determine control of the U.S. Senate for the second half of President Donald Trump’s final term. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to retake the chamber, and keeping New Hampshire in their column is a key part of that effort.

In the Republican primary, former U.S. Sens. John Sununu and Scott Brown are among eight candidates seeking the nomination. Sununu won the seat when it was last open in 2002, defeating then-Gov. Shaheen, but she ousted him in 2008 after one term. Brown was elected in Massachusetts in 2010 to serve out the remaining three years of the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s final term. After his defeat for a full term in 2012, Brown moved to New Hampshire and challenged Shaheen in 2014, losing narrowly.

Brown endorsed Trump just ahead of his 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary victory. Trump later appointed Brown to serve as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa in his first term. Trump is now backing Sununu over Brown in the primary, despite an ongoing war of words he’s had with the Sununu family over the years.

Sununu endorsed Trump’s rival Nikki Haley for president in 2024 and penned an op-ed that year under the headline “Trump is a loser.” That echoed a critique Sununu’s father, former White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, made of Trump during the 2016 presidential primaries, when he told ABC News that Trump had been “a loser all his life.” Trump called the elder Sununu “ a main loser.”

The former senator’s brother, former Gov. Chris Sununu, also endorsed Haley in 2024 and once called Trump “ (expletive) crazy.” Chris Sununu was one of the president’s top Republican critics and was a frequent target of Trump’s ire on social media.

Sununu has outraised Brown for the campaign overall, $4.1 million to about $2.2 million, although Brown has spent more of his haul than Sununu. Sununu had about $3 million remaining in his campaign account as of Aug. 19, compared to about $417,000 for Brown.

Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC tied to the conservative Koch political network, has spent at least $3.3 million on the race since June 30 in support of Sununu and against U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic front-runner.

Pappas has served in the U.S. House since 2019 and has held elected office almost continuously since graduating from college in 2002. He defeated Karoline Leavitt in his 2022 reelection bid before her stint as Trump’s White House press secretary.

He has the backing of much of the state’s Democratic political establishment, including Shaheen, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and former Gov. John Lynch. Former Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed him on Aug. 31.

Pappas faces four other candidates for the Democratic nomination, including Karishma Manzur, a progressive activist and scientist with a doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Independent polling from the University of New Hampshire shows that while Pappas continues to lead the primary field, Manzur has gained ground over the summer. A win by Manzur would be the latest high-profile victory this summer for progressive candidates over more moderate candidates backed by the Democratic establishment.

Pappas still has a commanding fundraising lead, with more than $15 million raised and about $4.3 million in the bank as of Aug. 19, compared to $415,000 raised and $104,000 in the bank for Manzur.

Crowded primaries are also underway in the 1st Congressional District to replace Pappas. Among the seven active candidates in the Democratic primary are former Portsmouth City Council member Stefany Shaheen, who is Jeanne Shaheen's daughter, and Maura Sullivan, who served as a Defense and Veterans Affairs official in former President Barack Obama's administration. The Republican field includes state Rep. Brian Cole, auto dealership owner Anthony DiLorenzo and iron works CEO Hollie Noveletsky.

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte faces minimal opposition in her bid for renomination to a second term. She will face Democrat Cinde Warmington in November.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Poll closing times vary across the state. Most polls close at 7 p.m. ET, but some close at 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, executive council, state Senate and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Registered party members may vote only in their own party’s primary. In other words, Democrats can’t vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or undeclared voters with no party affiliation may participate in either primary, but voting in a primary will affiliate them with that party. New voters may register on primary day at a polling site, but the deadline to change party affiliation for voters who are already registered was in June.

How many voters are there?

As of Aug. 3, there were about 899,000 registered voters in New Hampshire, including about 300,000 Republicans, 247,000 Democrats and about 352,000 undeclared voters.

How many people actually vote?

About 148,000 Republican primary ballots and about 96,000 Democratic primary ballots were cast in the 2022 state primaries.

About 135,000 Republican primary ballots and about 118,000 Democratic primary ballots were cast in the 2024 state primaries.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 8% of Democratic primary ballots in both the 2022 and 2024 state primaries were absentee ballots cast by mail or in person. In recent Republican state primaries, absentee votes made up 4% of the total vote in 2022 and about 5% in 2024.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State has not disclosed the number of absentee ballots cast ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

When are early and absentee votes released?

New Hampshire runs elections at the town and city level. There are 238 separate jurisdictions administering local elections, and they vary in terms of how and when they release results. Most of the larger jurisdictions in the state release all or nearly all their results from both absentee and in-person Election Day voting in their first vote updates of the night. Other large jurisdictions release a mix of results throughout the night.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8:03 p.m. ET, or three minutes after the last polls closed. The vote count passed the halfway mark at 9:37 p.m. ET. The last vote update of the night was at 2:04 a.m. ET with about 92% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There are no automatic recounts in New Hampshire, but in state primaries, a losing candidate may request and pay for a recount if the margin is 10 votes or less than 1.5% of the total vote. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 56 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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An earlier version of this story said Jeanne Shaheen is a two-term senator; she is in her third term. It also said there are eight active candidates in the 1st Congressional District Democratic primary; there are now seven.

McKee was elected governor by a wide margin in 2022 after first assuming the role in March 2021 when then-Gov. Gina Raimondo stepped down to become U.S. commerce secretary. He now is at risk of becoming the nation’s first elected governor since 2014 to lose renomination and the first in Rhode Island since 1994.

His challenger is Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a former longtime executive with Rhode Island-based CVS. She placed a close second behind McKee in the five-way 2022 Democratic primary. She is the niece of former Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut.

A top issue in the campaign has been McKee’s handling and oversight of the reconstruction of the Washington Bridge, which connects Providence and East Providence and carries 100,000 vehicles per day. McKee closed the westbound bridge in December 2023 after authorities discovered critical structural flaws. Authorities then determined in March 2024 that the bridge would need to be demolished and replaced. State officials initially estimated the bridge would be reopened to traffic this year, but that has since been pushed back to Nov. 2028.

Campaign ads have also referenced a 2024 joint investigation of McKee by the state Attorney General Peter Neronha and the state police that found that the governor “personally and directly intervened” in the awarding of a multimillion-dollar state contract, but that he did not violate the state’s bribery or campaign finance laws. Neronha endorsed Foulkes in March.

McKee meanwhile has focused on Foulkes’ work at CVS and the company’s alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis.

Foulkes’ campaign fundraising and spending has almost doubled that of McKee’s, according to state campaign finance records. Independent polling from the University of New Hampshire shows that Foulkes has maintained a lead over McKee throughout the year, although in the latest poll many voters remained undecided.

McKee won the 2022 primary with 32.8% of the vote, just ahead of Foulkes with 29.9% and then-Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea with 26.2%. McKee narrowly carried most of the state’s most populous cities, including Warwick, Cranston, East Providence and Pawtucket. The state’s largest prize, Providence, went for Gorbea, with McKee placing second. Foulkes did best in most of the towns and cities around Narragansett Bay.

In the Republican primary, Aaron Guckian and Elaine Pelino are vying for the nomination. Guckian is a state trade association executive and was the nominee for lieutenant governor in 2022. He won the two-way primary that year with about 68% of the vote. Pelino is a former actress and first-time candidate. The state party has endorsed Guckian.

McKee won the 2022 general election with about 58% of the vote. It’s been 20 years since Rhode Island elected a Republican governor. Since then, no Republican gubernatorial nominee has won more than 39% of the vote in the general election.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state Senate, state House and Providence mayor.

Who gets to vote?

Registered party members may vote only in their own party’s primary. In other words, Democrats can’t vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may participate in either primary.

How many voters are there?

As of Sept. 1, there were about 793,000 registered voters in Rhode Island. Among the 695,000 active registered voters, about 235,000 were Democrats, about 100,000 were Republicans and about 359,000 were unaffiliated.

How many people actually vote?

About 59,000 Democratic primary votes and about 19,000 Republican primary votes were cast in the 2024 U.S. Senate primaries.

About 114,000 Democratic primary votes and about 21,000 Republican primary votes were cast in the 2022 primaries for governor.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 32% of the 2024 Democratic U.S. Senate primary vote was cast early in-person or by mail, compared to about 22% in the Republican primary. Early and mail votes made up a smaller share in the 2022 gubernatorial primaries: 27% in the Democratic primary and 14% in the Republican primary.

As of Thursday, about 30,000 Democratic primary ballots and about 3,500 Republican primary ballots had already been cast in Wednesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Rhode Island runs elections at the town and city level. All 39 jurisdictions are expected to release a mix of vote results from all vote types over the course of the night. The release of early in-person and mail voting is not frontloaded to the start of the night.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8:05 p.m. ET, or five minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 10:20 p.m. ET with about 98% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There are no automatic recounts in Rhode Island, but recounts may be requested depending on the vote margin. For contests with more than 100,000 votes cast, a recount may be requested if the vote margin is less than 0.5 percentage points or fewer than 1,500 votes, whichever is less. For races in which between 20,000 and 100,000 votes are cast, the vote margin must be less than 1 percentage point or fewer than 500 votes. If the total number of votes cast is less than 20,000, the margin to request a recount is 2 percentage points or fewer than 200 votes. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Wednesday, there will be 55 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The Culture and Tourism Bureau in Wuhan city said Monday they found the comedian Guo Degang “distorted” a patriotic song. It fined the company hosting Guo and the theater for violating rules on commercial performances. It also said it will “deal seriously” with relevant personnel, without specifying what those punishments will entail.

Guo is considered the country’s most prominent performer of traditional xiangsheng, a form of Chinese comedic dialogue using word play and rhymes. He was placed under investigation by the Wuhan authorities in August, local media reported.

“Revolutionary songs carry the memory of the Chinese nation’s War of Resistance and the feelings of the people. No organization or person can be allowed to distort or misrepresent them,” authorities said in the statement announcing the fine, referring to the Chinese resistance against Japan starting in 1937.

Guo’s performance had been approved in advance by the Wuhan authorities, but the lyric change was not, which may have violated regulations governing commercial performances, Chinese state media previously reported.

State media also said that Guo used “mocking words” at the end of the song.

The lyrics are from “Playing My Beloved Pipa,” a song from “Railway Guerrilla,” a well-known 1950s film about Communist-led guerrillas fighting Japanese forces during World War II. Pipa is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, similar to a lute.

Guo had been on tour and multiple shows were canceled after the incident. He has not performed in public since and his troupe's social media page has stopped updating.

Guo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“It sounded like a good idea to me,” Burstyn told The Associated Press.

Their 17-minute short film, “Flesh Impact,” had its world premiere Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where Burstyn, 93, also received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Ellen Burstyn's Marilyn Monroe moment

Though Burstyn never met Monroe, who died at 36, there was overlap. They shared a massage therapist, who would tell stories about his late friend. He even told Burstyn that she was actually quite like Monroe, and lent her one of Monroe's old books called “The Thinking Body,” which had some treasures like old receipts inside.

“I knew that she was not what she presented as her persona and that actually that’s a persona that she created,” Burstyn said. “She created the whole concept of Marilyn Monroe and played it.”

Once, she saw her in a nightclub and Monroe nodded at her.

“She was so startlingly beautiful and she caught my eye and … I felt that she recognized me,” Burstyn said. “I was very early in my career. And the fact that she recognized me, I just felt so honored and pleased.”

The Monroe short came about in somewhat unconventional fashion, through the luxury car company Genesis, whose chief marketing officer Amy Marentic approached Gyllenhaal about doing something around what would have been Monroe’s 100th birthday in June.

Gyllenhaal asked for a weekend to think about it, and landed on Marilyn, at 100, “doing basically the most vulnerable, one of the most vulnerable things I think an actor can do, which is audition, alone on a stage.”

Burstyn was the first actor she thought of.

“I just had this feeling maybe this is an opportunity for her to think about things in a new way,” Gyllenhaal said.

The two found that they shared a similar language and approach to the work.

“We are interested in the depth of what’s being revealed. And we both want to go there,” Burstyn said. “If we’re going to be doing anything, we’re gonna be doing it from there.”

The Gloria Steinem effect

Though nothing has really changed very much in how Burstyn chooses roles over the years — she just wants to be moved or challenged — having a set populated largely by women was a far cry from how things were when she was starting out.

“When I first started working, which was 150 years ago, there were no women on the set. There were no women crew. There was no woman behind the camera. If a woman was on set, that meant that she was an actress,” Burstyn said in a news conference Monday. “Then, slowly, thanks to blessed Gloria Steinem who just died, the consciousness started to change.”

Burstyn is also in a feature film, Kornél Mundruczó’s “Place to Be” alongside Taika Waititi, that’s playing at the festival. She’s feeling “slightly overwhelmed” by the whole thing.

“I have been asking myself, why do I deserve this? What have I done? It’s a long career,” she said. “And I finally came to it today that I wouldn’t have had this career without my training.”

Celebrating a long career

Perhaps that is a bit modest for someone who has won an Oscar, for “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” a Tony and two Emmys for her acting. In her over 50 years in the business, she’s appeared in around 150 films and is a co-president of The Actors Studio. Burstyn even teaches acting classes occasionally, continuing the legacy of her mentor and acting coach Lee Strasberg.

“Her artistry, which could illuminate pain and everyday resilience with dignity, irony and courage, remains an absolute model of authenticity in performance and civic engagement within the craft of acting,” festival director Alberto Barbera said in a statement.

Sitting alongside Gyllenhaal the day before the big award, she described her outfit, a gown, and wondered if it was too much. Her director assured her it wasn’t: This was her day.

“I’m just really very happy to be here and very grateful to receive this award and grateful to this lady who put me in this interesting and deep and funny and wonderful movie,” Burstyn said.

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And then the party started.

The scammers — a network of young men in their late teens or early 20s — celebrated the August 2024 heist by embarking on a wild spending spree. They purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons. An alleged ringleader, 22-year-old Malone Lam, spent over $569,000 in one evening at a Los Angeles night club.

Their bender lasted a month before FBI agents arrested Lam on charges that he organized a "social engineering" attack on the Washington, D.C., resident. Lam, an eighth-grade dropout from Singapore, has a plea agreement hearing set for Tuesday. His conviction would be a capstone for the government's investigation.

The charges against Lam and 17 others are an extreme example of an increasingly common form of cybercrime. Complaints of cryptocurrency investment fraud to the FBI rose by nearly 50% in 2025, while Republican President Donald Trump's administration largely abandoned a regulatory crackdown on the volatile industry.

Last year, the Justice Department disbanded a unit dedicated to prosecuting crypto-related crimes. Meanwhile, crypto companies that complained of unfair treatment during Democratic President Joe Biden's presidency are enjoying the government's hands-off approach under Trump, who took in roughly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses in 2025.

Cybersecurity researcher Allison Nixon, who has spent years tracking The Com, an underground subculture of young hackers united by the “insane amount of money” that crypto fraud can generate, advocates for more law enforcement resources to go after them.

“If we don’t seriously ramp up the resources to take these people down and do it faster, then it’s going to spread more and more,” she said.

Scammers nabbed millions though ‘social engineering’ heist

A man identified as “Victim 7” in court filings was at home in Washington on Aug. 18, 2024, when his phone rang. The first caller identified himself as a Google representative inquiring about attempts to breach his account. A second, claiming to be from the Gemini crypto exchange, warned the man of a malware attack affecting his crypto wallet.

The callers manipulated the man into giving them access to his Google Drive and revealing security codes that allowed Lam to siphon off over 4,100 bitcoin, according to prosecutors. They said Lam and his friends on the calls — Veer Chetal and Jeandiel Serrano — targeted the man because he was a wealthy, longtime crypto investor.

A private recording captured the moment when the friends realized how much money they just stole, according to a video posted by a well-known private investigator of cryptocurrency crimes who goes by ZachXBT.

“Oh, my God! Bro, bro, I'm going to spaz out!” a voice on the video said.

Once they swiped the man's savings, they used money laundering specialists to wash it through multiple exchange platforms and convert virtual currency into government-issued cash.

It wasn't the first social engineering scam for the friends, who met in online gaming forums. They had teamed up on other multimillion-dollar thefts since late 2023 using a similar playbook, according to prosecutors.

This time, however, one of them made a costly mistake: Serrano failed to conceal his IP address when he created an account on a cryptocurrency exchange to hold nearly $30 million in stolen crypto, according to prosecutors. Investigators linked the IP address to a home in Encino, California, that Serrano was renting for $47,500 a month.

Lavish spending quickly drew attention

Serrano was vacationing in the Maldives when investigators identified him as a suspect. Lam was in Los Angeles, where he and friends spent $4 million at nightclubs in one month, authorities say. Chetal gifted a Lamborghini to his parents and hid a duffel bag filled with $500,000 in cash in their laundry machine.

Word of their windfall quickly spread in crypto scammers' circles. A week after the big score, Chetal's parents were driving in Danbury, Connecticut, when several masked men cut them off, forced them out of their new car, beat Chetal's father with a baseball bat, shoved the couple into a van and bound their hands.

The captors, from Miami, had intended to use Chetal's parents as leverage for extorting him into giving up his share of the stolen crypto. But the ransom plot fell apart when witnesses notified police, who apprehended the carjackers.

The FBI showed up to search Chetal's apartment in Brunswick, New Jersey, on Sept. 9, 2024, and found $37 million in stolen crypto in his possession. He agreed to cooperate with their investigation.

Lam was attracting attention, too, for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at clubs and tossing handbags worth tens of thousands of dollars to women in the crowds. He also used stolen cryptocurrency to buy a $2 million watch and over 30 cars, including custom Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris, according to the FBI.

“This luxury lifestyle, of which so many young men and women could only dream, was just built on a foundation of fraud,” a prosecutor, William Hart, said during a recent sentencing hearing for a money laundering co-defendant.

‘Ferris Bueller gone bad’

Serrano was wearing a $500,000 watch when FBI agents arrested him at Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 18, 2024. He initially professed his innocence but soon admitted to having roughly $20 million of the D.C. man's stolen crypto, prosecutors said.

Lam was arrested at one of his Miami mansions on the same day as Serrano. An off-duty law enforcement officer had tipped off Lam that authorities were on their way to arrest him, the indictment says.

“We always talked about what it would be like if I were to go down, but never thought it would be this crazy,” Lam told associates from jail on a recorded call, according to his indictment.

The judge for Lam's initial court appearance in Miami sounded astonished by a prosecutor's summary of his lavish spending.

"I could only think of Ferris Bueller gone bad," U.S. Magistrate Alicia Valle said, referring to the school-skipping protagonist of the 1986 movie “Ferris Bueller's Day Off.”

Lam's capture didn't stop the splurging. Ferro, who pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge last year, used stolen funds to cover Lam’s legal expenses.

Judgment Days

Eighteen defendants have been charged. Lam would be the 11th to plead guilty. At Lam's first court appearance, a prosecutor estimated that his sentencing guidelines would recommend a prison term of at least 14 years upon conviction.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who presides over Lam's case, already has sentenced three of his co-conspirators. She sentenced two money launderers to prison terms of approximately six years.

Chetal pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in November 2024 and awaits sentencing. Serrano's charges remain pending.

Tucker Desmond, who pleaded guilty to destroying evidence of other plotters' crimes, was sentenced to probation. Desmond apologized at his sentencing hearing in March, saying he “got obsessed with the image of success rather than actually becoming a hard-working individual myself.”

Ferro declined to address the court during his sentencing hearing in May. His attorney, Kevin Wilson, described the co-defendants as mischievous “young kids," but the judge didn't accept that as an excuse.

“Being young only goes so far,” Kollar-Kotelly said.

Germany faced the prospect of elimination in its final group game against Mali but the host was never in danger in front of a sell-out crowd at the Berlin Arena with Frieda Bühner (21 points) and Luisa Geiselsöder (17) contributing to a comfortable 83-58 win.

France scored an unprecedented 22 triples in a comprehensive 111-56 victory over already-eliminated Nigeria (0-3).

Migna Toure’s 3-point shot with 5:45 left was her team’s 21st, breaking the three-day-old record of 20 set by Japan for 3-pointers in a single contest in World Cup history. Dominique Malonga notched the 22nd.

Gabby Williams led France (3-0) with 25 points and 6 rebounds. The Olympic finalists were already assured of their place in the quarterfinals.

Also in Group B, Hungary (2-1) defeated South Korea (1-2) 82-73 to finish second.

Spain in quarterfinals

Iyana Martin led Spain to a 79-59 win over Japan with 20 points and four rebounds, sending Spain (2-1) straight through to the quarterfinals as Group A winner because of its head-to-head record against Germany (2-1).

Alima Dembélé’s two free throws at the start gave Mali (1-2) its only lead against Germany as the host made sure of progress from a group that had been wide open with all teams 1-1 before their final games.

After the buzzer the German players went over to a corner and danced with the crowd. They then did a lap around the court and high-fived fans as they went off.

“There's no celebration,” Germany coach Olaf Lange said. "The turnaround to tomorrow is too fast. The players need to recover now. Things get going again first thing tomorrow morning.”

Germany faces South Korea on Tuesday to decide which progresses to the quarterfinals.

Japan finished third in the group while Mali was eliminated despite its shock win over Spain on Saturday. Japan next plays Hungary on Tuesday.

Italian exertions take their toll

After running the United States close the night before, Italy struggled to find the same energy levels in a 71-51 defeat to China, which secured second place in Group D and a playoff against Puerto Rico on Wednesday.

China’s 7-foot-3 teenage sensation Zhang Ziyu scored 8 points while Han Xu lead the team with 19 points and 10 rebounds in front of a raucous crowd at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin.

Matilde Villa led Italy with 15 points and acknowledged the game against the U.S. on Sunday took a toll.

“We spent a lot of energy, mentally and physically, and I think we felt it,” Villa told the Associated Press. “But yes, we didn’t approach the game in the right way, and this has to be a lesson for us. Now we will take a day off, recover, and then we will think about the next game.”

Italy (1-2), back in the tournament after a 32-year wait, next faces Australia on Wednesday for a place in the quarterfinals.

US continues its run

The U.S. (3-0) bounced back from its scare the night before with a 105-64 rout of the Czech Republic, which was already eliminated after two losses, now three.

Breanna Stewart had 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists to help the U.S. win its 33rd in a row in the tournament.

The four-time defending champion now has two days off.

Meesseman stars again

Emma Meesseman led Belgium straight to the quarterfinals with 22 points and 10 rebounds as the European champion topped Australia 80-68 for first place in Group C.

Belgium had a five-point lead heading into the fourth quarter and bolted in an 11-2 run. The Opals couldn’t recover.

Belgium’s Julie Allemand finished with seven assists to give her an all-time record 111 in World Cup play.

Puerto Rico celebrates

Arella Guirantes scored 21 points and Puerto Rico finished strong to eliminate Turkey 75-71 earlier.

Puerto Rico was trailing by seven points going into the final quarter but Imani McGee-Stafford scored and Pamela Rosado followed with two 3-pointers to take a 59-58 lead.

Turkey power forward Elif Bayram went off injured early in the final quarter.

Turkey fans outnumbered their counterparts at the Max-Schmeling-Halle and they tried to put off Guirantes but couldn’t stop her from securing the win with two free throws.

"We’re gonna to show the world why Puerto Rico belongs,” said Trinity San Antonio after scoring 18 points.

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AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg contributed to this report.

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Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable — nearly 16% — sit empty.

“I don’t make enough money really to afford anything,” Davis, 49, said of the few hundred dollars he earns a month. “I just keep trying to swim uphill.”

The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortages of affordable homes. But the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years is for those earning 50% of an area’s median income or above, according to a survey of state housing agencies.

Some cities are now seeing an uptick in vacancies as rents for these units approach market rates. The result: Apartments designated as affordable sit empty because the poorest of the poor cannot afford them.

Meanwhile, some people are forced into homelessness and others into desperate circumstances to pay for housing they can’t afford.

The poorest have few housing options

There are only about 4 million affordable rental units available for the country’s 11 million extremely low-income renter households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent annual report.

These are people with annual incomes either below the federal poverty guidelines — just under $16,000 for a single-person household — or 30% of the median income in their area, whichever is higher. They comprise about a quarter of U.S. renter households, and include many people working low-wage jobs, seniors and those with disabilities living on fixed incomes.

About three-quarters of extremely low-income renter households pay over half their income on rent and utilities, the report said, leaving little leftover for other necessities.

Yet homes set aside for these renters were only about 12% of the affordable housing units financed in 2024 by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit — a federal program providing tax credits to developers in exchange for keeping rents low for at least 30 years, according to figures from the National Council of State Housing Agencies.

The majority are for those earning at least 50% of an area’s median income, or AMI. In Austin, that’s a single person earning roughly $47,000 a year, as compared with an extremely low-income person earning under $28,000.

The program has financed nearly 4 million affordable units nationwide since its creation 40 years ago. But some experts say it’s inefficient — and more costly than housing vouchers.

“It’s enormously complex and bureaucratic, and it raises the cost of construction enormously because the rules are so complicated,” said Chris Edwards, an economist at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, who told Congress the program’s complexity “spawned” an industry of law and accounting firms just to administer it.

“If you’re going to subsidize affordable housing, you should give the money directly to tenants,” he said, referring to housing vouchers.

Other experts say the two programs work together well because properties built with the tax credit are required to accept vouchers — while landlords of market-rate apartments in many states are not.

Still, there’s a major federal funding shortfall: Experts estimate only one-in-four eligible families ever receive vouchers. Vouchers can help the poorest pay for housing that’s targeted to higher income groups, but the waitlist can be yearslong.

Some affordable housing developers say that without vouchers, it’s not economically feasible to provide units for extremely low-income people.

True Ground Housing Partners, an affordable housing developer in the Washington, D.C., area, gives an example: A unit for those earning 60% of the area’s median income — nearly $70,000 a year — brings in $1,715 per month in rent. But after $1,575 in mortgage and operating expenses, only $140 is left.

“The math does not lie,” said president and CEO Carmen Romero, noting that an extremely low-income person would pay only half that rent.

“Our expenses don’t make it really possible to create a 30% AMI unit, unless there was this extraordinary amount of subsidy that just doesn’t exist.”

Affordable housing competes with market-rate rents

Meanwhile, affordable housing rents for 60% AMI units are approaching those of market-rate apartments in U.S. cities like Austin, Denver and Portland, Oregon.

As a result, some people are opting to pay a bit more for market-rate apartments with less income-verification and faster approval — leaving growing numbers of affordable units vacant.

In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with over 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar. A healthy vacancy rate is around 5%.

LDG Development, an affordable housing developer, cited a 12% vacancy rate for its 60% AMI units in Austin. Chief portfolio officer Rebekah Fischer said LDG is “in direct competition” with the thousands of new market-rate apartments recently built in Austin.

“I have to have every bank statement, every pay check, every bill, every Venmo transaction that you had with your friends,” Fischer said of affordable housing applicants.

“When we’re almost going after the same renter, you can be approved within two minutes at a market-rate deal, where unfortunately in affordable housing … it takes time.”

In Denver, there’s a 13% vacancy rate among 60% AMI units financed by the federal tax credit program — and a 21% vacancy rate for 80% AMI units, according to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Meanwhile, there is far too little housing for the city's poorest.

In Portland, where there is also a housing shortage for the lowest income groups, there are over 1,700 vacant affordable units for an overall vacancy rate of 7.5%, according to the Portland Housing Bureau. Most are for those earning 60% AMI, or about $54,000 for a single-person household, with rent capped at $1,444 per month.

That’s close to the average rent of $1,581 for a one-bedroom market-rate apartment, according to CoStar figures shared by the bureau.

Portland resident Jaiden Barbee earns around 55% of the area median income and is on waitlists for affordable housing. But, he says, he’d pay more for a market-rate apartment to avoid the lengthy application process.

“I’d rather spend the $200 extra just to get into a place easier that’s wherever I want” and doesn’t have “all these hoops,” he said.

‘I want to shut the door at night and sleep’

Austin officials set a goal of building 20,000 units between 2018 and 2027 for extremely low-income people — 17% of the city’s households.

Just 543 were built as of 2024, city documents show.

Meanwhile, all 15,000 units planned for those earning between 60% and 80% of area median income were built.

In response to questions from The Associated Press, the Austin housing department said it recognized the need to do more to produce housing for the poorest people and was taking steps to do that, including giving preference to funding proposals that include 30% AMI units.

For Davis, who lived in his car for a year before getting a bed in the Austin shelter, the housing shortage for people like him is frustrating.

“I want to shut the door at night and be able to sleep,” he said. “I really just want to find the right place.”

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Former AP writer Charlotte Kramon contributed.