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She joined host Janine Stanwood on the latest episode of “This Week in South Florida”, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

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The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles (about 21 square kilometers) around Spokane, the second largest city in Washington, and were among dozens across the western U.S. — stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. No deaths have yet been reported from the fires in the Spokane area.

While the high temperature Sunday in Spokane was forecast to remain below 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), wind gusts from 35 mph (56 kph) to 45 mph (72 kph) were expected later in the day, said Benjamin Cossel, public information officer for the federal response team from California called in Saturday night to deal with the Spokane-area fires.

“We have weather working against us, and we have terrain working against us,” Cossel said.

There were three fires in the Spokane area, the Old Trails Fire, the Fairview Fire and the Meadowview Fire, and the state issued air quality warnings. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Saturday, and the National Weather Service issued a “particularly dangerous situation” red flag alert for eastern Washington.

Cossel said that as it gets warmer during the day, cool air that's now closer to the ground and keeping winds at bay will rise, allowing those winds to move through the area. The Spokane River cuts through the city of about 229,000 people, and there are steep canyons on both sides that channel the wind.

“They push the fire through the canyons, up, up the slopes, and then outside the slopes and around," he said. “It's very, very hilly, very, very steep slopes, a lot of canyons that create really turbulent, really challenging sort of wind scenarios.”

Authorities in Spokane set up a shelter at the city's main convention center.

The attack occurred in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demonstrators had gathered near a police station, chanting anti-militant slogans and demanding peace, district police chief Omar Khan said.

Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial emergency service, said the attacker struck dozens of people who were chanting anti-militant slogans and demanding peace. Police official Omar Khan said at least five officers were among the dead.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack, issuing a statement extending condolences to the families of those killed and prayers for the speedy recovery of the wounded.

The Swat Valley was once a stronghold of Islamic militants who imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, before the Pakistani military launched a major operation in 2007 that drove them out and restored government control.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The TTP is separate from, but allied with, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Many of its leaders and fighters have found sanctuary in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power there in 2021.

Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of harboring TTP militants, an allegation Kabul denies.

Pakistan has experienced a surge in militant attacks in recent years, particularly targeting police and security forces.

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Moreno, who has been restrained in recent months as the bitter custody dispute has played out between Miller and his daughter Emily, said in a lengthy post that “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives.”

Moreno wrote that Miller “needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter."

Miller said Sunday that he will remain in his race for re-election before a Wednesday deadline to replace him. Democrats have seen a new opportunity in his northeast Ohio congressional seat as the Republican incumbent has faced mounting pressure over domestic abuse allegations in a bitter and drawn-out custody battle with ex-wife Emily Moreno.

Accusations against Miller, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump and was a White House adviser during Trump's first term, have been public for years but have recently drawn increased scrutiny as back and forth in the case has escalated.

“I’m not dropping out of this race and I’ll win in November,” said Miller, who denied abusing his former wife and his daughter.

Emily Moreno has said that Miller scalded, hit and threatened her while they were married. He denied those allegations in the video, as he has in the past. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Miller also said he had nothing to do with a broken collarbone on their 2-year-old daughter that led Emily Moreno to contact authorities. The pair, who were married in 2022 and finalized their divorce last year, have presented different theories about how the injury occurred, according to court filings and police reports detailed in an article in the magazine Mother Jones that first revealed the child’s injury.

Miller accompanied his announcement with the release of a voluminous cache of investigative and court documents related to the custody dispute, as well as what he described as “additional evidence” not previously released to the public.

A spokesperson for Emily Moreno, Stefan Mychajliw, said Sunday that the video was “shameful.”

“No loving parent would have ever used their daughter as a PR pawn to save their own political career,” Mychajliw said. "Miller can lie and spin on X, but he cannot do so under oath in a court of law. We are confident that justice will prevail in court.”

Miller did not address years-old abuse allegations by his ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Grisham, who brought fresh litigation against him in July claiming he violated a court settlement between them not to disparage each other.

Democrats have recently called on Miller to resign, requested a congressional ethics investigation and suggested more help could be directed in the fall toward his Democratic opponent, union ironworker Brian Poindexter.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the trade.

The deal was finalized late Saturday night ahead of Sunday's trade deadline and was first reported by ESPN. It's rare for an All-Star to be traded in the middle of the season, only happening a handful of times before Saturday night.

Plum, who is a free agent at the end of this season, has been sidelined since June 21 because of a lower leg injury. She practiced earlier this week and was expected to play Sunday in the Sparks' game against Portland before getting traded. Phoenix's next game is Monday at Chicago.

Plum was averaging 23.9 points and 6.4 assists before getting hurt. Los Angeles has struggled without her, including its last six games.

Phoenix is currently sitting at 11-19 and is six games behind the New York Liberty, who sit in eighth place. New York edged Phoenix 94-92 on Saturday.

The Mercury are coming off a WNBA Finals appearance last season, but have seldom looked like that team despite returning stars Alyssa Thomas and Kahleah Copper.

Akoa Makani is averaging 9.4 points and 2.5 assists this season in 16 games. She was injured earlier in the season with a hamstring issue.

Los Angeles acquired Plum before last season in a blockbuster deal that sent the No. 2 pick to Seattle. The Sparks had hoped they could accelerate a rebuilding effort. Seattle used that pick on Dominique Malonga, who was an All-Star this season.

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Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening's performance of “Götterdämmerung,” German news agency dpa reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann.

Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part on stage at the event, “not as a character, but as an image-generating force.” They said that singers would be “the fixed point within a visually seething cosmos of light, texture, history, and association, amidst projections that erupt, constantly shift, and merge into one another.”

The AI-assisted projections included scenes from previous performances of Wagner's “Ring” cycle and historical themes, and drew from images pre-selected by Lobbes, the director of the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund, and his team.

The collage that the technology projected on stage puzzled the audience, dpa reported, with images including former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the towers of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and a special postage stamp marking German reunification in 1990.

The festival website said that “every performance will be unique — because the images and associations never stand still.” Two more performances are scheduled.

The film also made $572 million from over 73,500 screens internationally, with China contributing $121 million alone, adding up to a $927 million worldwide debut that is second only to “Endgame” ($1.2 billion).

Tom Holland’s run as the comic book webslinger has been a mighty one. “No Way Home,” his third standalone Spider-Man movie, made over $1.9 billion worldwide to become the eighth-highest earning movie of all time, not accounting for inflation. It was also the first movie since the beginning of the pandemic to cross the $1 billion mark.

But the triumph of “Brand New Day” also comes on the heels of another major movie featuring Holland and Zendaya: Christopher Nolan’s“The Odyssey,” which slid to second place in its third weekend in theaters with $51 million. Their combined might helped propel the biggest weekend of all time for North American movie theaters, with an estimated $430 million in total ticket sales, according to Rentrak.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” started strong, with a record $168 million opening day from 4,487 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, besting “Avenger: Endgame’s” $157 million Friday. The studio predicted it would lead to a $325 million opening weekend, which would still have beaten the second-place record. It takes the place of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which opened to $260 million in December 2021. In the realm of best opening weekends in North America, they’re followed by “Avengers: Infinity War” ($257 million in 2018) and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($247 million in 2015).

Expectations were always high for “Brand New Day,” which was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and cost a reported $225 million to produce, not including marketing expenses. But there were worries it wouldn’t attract the same level of mass audience enthusiasm as its predecessor which integrated past Peter Parker actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield into the mix. In reality, interest was higher than ever. “Brand New Day” also received strong reviews from critics and audiences. It currently has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes; Audiences gave it an “A” CinemaScore and a five-star rating on PostTrak.

Ticket buyers were predominately male (about 61%) and many were on the younger side, with slightly more than half the audience under the age of 25, according to PostTrak exit polls. The biggest group was between the ages of 18 and 24, which made up 36% of the audience; 27% were between the ages of 25 and 34. The box office analytics company EntTelligence estimates that about 24.1 million people attended “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” this weekend.

It’s also the biggest ever opening for Sony Pictures.

Tom Rothman, the Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, praised “the incomparable Tom Holland” in a statement. Rothman famously pushed back the production of the movie to allow Holland to act in “The Odyssey” as well.

Cries about the death of the superhero movie have been looming since “Endgame” with more than a few high-profile flops in the years since, including several from the once-impenetrable Marvel Studios. Still, when they work, they really work, most notably with “No Way Home” and “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which made over $1.3 billion.

Marvel Studios president and ‘Spider-Man’ producer Kevin Feige said in a statement, “This debut reflects the enduring power of Marvel’s characters, and the connection they continue to have with fans around the world — and, as audiences saw, it sets up exciting things to come.”

Producer Amy Pascal added that it “reinforces that moviegoers are hungry for stories that are both spectacular and deeply human.”

This year has also seen a resurgence of moviegoing from younger audiences, who have made hits out of movies like “Obsession,” “Backrooms” and “The Drama,” which also starred Zendaya.

They’re also helping blockbusters soar, and in a business that is partly propelled by momentum, “Spider-Man” had the benefit of coming after “The Odyssey,” which fell only 43% in its third weekend. “The Odyssey” has now earned $395.5 million domestically, bringing its global total to $911.4 million. The film will soon open in South Korea (Aug. 5), China (Aug. 14) and Japan (Sept. 11).

A slew of animated PG-rated holdovers rounded out the top five: “Toy Story 5” was in third place with $6.3 million, followed by “Minions & Monsters” in fourth and “Moana,” in fifth. And there were bright spots further down the chart as well. In sixth place with $2 million, “Hadestown: The Musical” surpassed “Hamilton” to become the highest grossing live theater capture release ever with a running total of $18.2 million.

Paul Dergarabedian, the head of marketplace trends for Rentrak, said the “Spider-Man” effect could help the summer movie season surpass the $4 billion mark for the first time since the Barbenheimer summer of 2023, and the third-ever billion dollar August.

“This is perhaps the most important summer moviegoing season in the history of the business,” Dergarabedian said. August, he added, "could set up a home stretch of the box office year like no other and one that could push us over that $10 billion mark."

Two-a-days in full pads for two weeks straight? Sure. Practices scheduled for two hours that would sometimes bleed into three? You bet.

Not so much anymore.

“I'd go to jail today if I tried to do that,” McCarthy joked.

Or at least, the NFL's version of it. The league has evolved over the last 30 years. The Collective Bargaining Agreement banned two-a-days long ago. There are now specific time limits on practice, and they are policed down to the minute.

So McCarthy has made it a point to get ahead of the curve. Just how far ahead? Well, when the Pittsburgh Steelers walk onto Chuck Noll Field on Monday for their first padded practice of the McCarthy Era, they'll do it with one particular instruction in mind: no tackling. At all.

While most of the changes to camp at Saint Vincent College have been subtle as the team transitions from Mike Tomlin to McCarthy — the volume of the music over the loudspeakers is softer, for example — the decision to do everything but take a teammate to the ground is not.

Tomlin's 19 years in Pittsburgh often began with an “iron sharpens iron” approach during the club's annual stay at the small school tucked in the western Pennsylvania hills. Don't get McCarthy wrong. He plans to run a physical camp, but the “Tempered Steel” mantra the club has adopted — one printed on shirts worn by players and staff — is real in more ways than one.

“It’s a risk-assessment decision,” McCarthy said.

Banning tackling during camp is hardly new. A significant chunk of NFL teams, Pittsburgh's longtime rival the Baltimore Ravens included, have adopted the policy in recent years.

Still, these are the Steelers, who have historically embraced — by reputation if not always in reality — the idea of being a throwback of sorts. So yeah, expect an adjustment period.

“Obviously, I love to tackle,” inside linebacker Payton Wilson said. “It's been great in the past to get that in before the first preseason game, but that's what preseason games are for.”

The Steelers instead will “thud up," meaning defenders will try to wrap up ball carriers but not take them all the way to the ground. It's commonplace during the regular season, but not always in early August.

McCarthy stressed there are tools the team can use to refine their tackling technique without driving each other into the turf. From monitoring a player's positioning using GPS to video analysis to other “sports science” resources to coaching points that have been part of the game since its inception, McCarthy is confident the Steelers will be ready when they need to be ready.

“The long stride, short stride, the specifics of how the fundamentals are being taught to the approach, the strike, the wrap, the finish,” he said. “So these are constants that are taught throughout our whole team.”

The shift will require as much of a mental adjustment as a physical adjustment. Defensive tackle Cam Heyward's first 15 camps were defined in part by what Tomlin likened to full-on sparring as opposed to shadowboxing. There were certain days during camp — Family Day and the team's Friday Night Lights practice at nearby Greater Latrobe High School — when Heyward knew the intensity level would spike.

“It's an alpha sport,” the longest-tenured Steeler said. “And (we'd) just ramp it up.”

McCarthy still wants to do just that, but in a way designed to get the defending AFC North champions to Week 1 as healthy as possible.

His philosophical evolution has more to do with the way the NFL operates in 2026 than any concern about the age of the team he is taking over, though it should be noted that several of Pittsburgh's highest-profile defenders — Heyward, outside linebacker T.J. Watt and defensive back Jalen Ramsey — are all in their 30s.

The way McCarthy figures it, getting defenders in the right position to drop an opponent is the hardest part of the process. Once they get there, finishing the play should be the easy part.

That doesn't mean the Steelers won't be searching for gray areas. Linebacker Patrick Queen spent the first four seasons of his career in Baltimore, where former head coach John Harbaugh placed a “no tackling” edict. That didn't stop Queen and teammate Roquan Smith from “tackling everybody” one day just to prove a point.

Queen doesn't expect to go quite that far over the next few weeks. Besides, it's not like the Steelers are going to run around with flags on their hips like they're preparing for the 2028 Olympics.

“At the end of the day, you still got a chance to put yourself on somebody, put your hip on somebody,” he said. “Whatever you do pre-tackle, it's the same as putting somebody on the ground.”

Besides, there will still likely be drills like “backs on backers,” a perennial camp highlight in which running backs work on pass protection by fending off linebackers charging at them at full speed. It's a drill that helped running back Jaylen Warren first capture the coaching staff's attention as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2022, and one that in many ways lets football players be football players in the most primal way possible.

“We got dogs on the team,” Warren said. “The competition is what leads to that. I don't mind that at all.”

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It occurred at the Old Navy located inside Oakwood Plaza in Hollywood.

During the event, shopping carts were quickly filled with jeans, shirts, shoes and other back-to-school essentials as children made their way through the store.

They weren’t doing it alone, though.

Volunteers, first responders and even people dressed as superheroes shopped right alongside the children, helping make the morning feel a little more special.

Every child also received a backpack filled with school supplies, giving them everything they need to start the school year prepared.

The event was organized by Voices for Children of Broward County, a nonprofit that supports children who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandonment.

According to the organization, the event “is a part of Voices’ year-long 15th anniversary celebration and expands its mission to ensure that every child and young adult in Broward County who has experienced abuse, neglect, or abandonment has access to essential resources and programs that promote long-term stability and well-being.”

Daniel Ramirez, 47, of Lubbock, Texas, posted bond on Saturday and was released early Sunday morning.

Ramirez was quick to defend his actions while walking out of jail.

“We ran into each other, I never hit her,” Ramirez said.

“But there’s video,” said Local 10’s Linnie Supall.

“What kind of video, that she was following me?” Ramirez asked.

“A video showing you shoving her to the ground,” said Supall.

“No, I never did. We ran into each other. It was an accident,” he said.

Ramirez was taken into custody on Friday at the Royal Caribbean terminal at PortMiami by officers with the Miami Police Department.

His arrest came several days after authorities released surveillance footage from the restaurant that they said showed Ramirez violently shoving a woman to the ground on July 26.

That victim, who worked as a bartender at the Hard Rock Café, spoke to Local 10 News about the incident.

She said she observed Ramirez entering an employee-only area behind the bar and eating drink garnishes, and when she told him he couldn’t do that, he responded “B----, what do you want me to do, spit it out?” and both left the bar area.

“Immediately my heart started beating so fast,” said the woman who asked not to be identified.

According to an MPD arrest report, the bartender’s manager called her back over after Ramirez made a complaint.

“According to the victim, (Ramirez) told the manager that no woman was allowed to tell him what to do and that the victim needed to be reprimanded,” the arrest report states.

Police said the manager told the bartender to pretend like she was being reprimanded.

According to the victim, Ramirez fled after the initial confrontation in which she was shoved to the ground.

She said she began taking photos of him as he left the area, but alleges he confronted her again, knocking her to the ground a second time and causing her to lose consciousness.

“It was very, very disgusting, and I wonder how he would feel if it was done to someone in his family,” she said.

Police had been searching for Ramirez since the attack before locating him Friday at the Royal Caribbean cruise terminal at PortMiami.

The victim credited detectives for quickly identifying and locating the suspect.

“I’m really thankful that he was apprehended and arrested and that he’s sitting there thinking about his actions,” the server said.

After posting his bond, Ramirez said he is going home to Texas.

Wildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, is sometimes described as the country’s answer to Amazon. In under two weeks, Ukraine has struck over a dozen of the retailer’s depots, part of Kyiv’s aerial campaign aimed at undermining Moscow's war effort, hurting its economy and making people feel the consequences of the Kremlin’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Russian air defenses overnight shot down 635 Ukrainian drones, including over occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov Seas, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow. The ministry did not say how many were launched or struck targets.

Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 133 drones during the night, 24 of which hit targets, according to the Ukrainian air force. Later on Sunday, separate Russian attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv killed at least two people, according to local officials.

Ukraine's campaign against Wildberries

Ukrainian drones targeted a Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region, some 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the Russian-Ukrainian border, according to local Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. He said a fire had broken out but there were no casualties.

Kyiv’s campaign against Wildberries first hit the company's sites in Elektrostal, just east of Moscow, and in the Tambov region July 18. Strikes followed on facilities across western and southern Russia, as well as Russian-held Crimea. At least nine people have been killed and scores wounded.

Two people were killed as a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in the Saratov region east of Samara, local. Gov. Roman Busargin said.

He added that the strikes damaged civil infrastructure in Engels, where the deaths took place, and the regional capital, Saratov.

Both cities have been frequent targets for Ukrainian attacks in recent years. Engels hosts a military airbase, while Saratov is home to a large oil refinery.

In Russia’s Bashkortostan region further north, local Gov. Radiy Khabirov said that air defence had repelled a large-scale drone strike on “industrial facilities” in the city of Ufa. He did not specify what exactly was struck, but said that a blaze was being put out.

In the Udmurt Republic further northwest, three civilians died and two more were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike, according to acting regional head Olga Abramova.

Abramova said air defenses shot down two Ukrainian drones and “prevented an attempted attack” by Kyiv. She said a civilian car was damaged in the strike, without clarifying if drone debris was the cause.

In Ukraine, one person died on Sunday as a Russian guided bomb struck a residential building in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, according to local administration head Ivan Fedorov. Another attack on Sunday killed one person and set fire to a postal terminal on the outskirts of Kharkiv, in the northwest, said regional administration head Oleh Syniehubov.

Durante el fin de semana, líderes religiosos exhortaron a sus feligreses a hacer oír su voz en esta temporada electoral.

Las autoridades de Miami-Dade han realizado una campaña para promover el voto, en la que responden preguntas y reparten material informativo para los electores, además de ofrecer la posibilidad de inscribirse para votar.

“Estamos aquí para recordarle a todos que hay elecciones y para hacerles saber que pueden votar anticipadamente por correo o acudir el día de las elecciones”, dijo Alina García, supervisora de elecciones de Miami-Dade. “La gente necesita saber que puede ir a cualquier centro de votación anticipada, no tiene que ir a su precinto específico. Pueden hacerlo entre las 7 a.m. y las 3 p.m., y los fines de semana de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m. La próxima semana tendremos un horario nocturno, de 11 a.m. a 7 p.m.”

Dijo que el condado está listo para atender a todos los que deseen votar de forma anticipada.

“Todos nuestros equipos están instalados y listos para funcionar”, señaló García. “Quiero recordarle a todos que votamos en papel, no nos conectamos a internet ni nada por el estilo. Es muy seguro.”

La votación anticipada se extiende hasta el 16 de agosto en Miami-Dade.

Para conocer los horarios y lugares de votación, consulte el sitio web de elecciones de su condado o vea la Guía del Votante de Local 10.

El accidente ocurrió la madrugada del domingo en Leslie Pet Grooming, ubicado cerca de la calle 52 y la avenida 79 del noroeste, en Doral.

Tras retirar el auto con una grúa, la fachada del local quedó con un enorme boquete.

Local 10 News habló con el dueño, quien contó que se despertó alrededor de las 6 a.m. con una llamada de la policía que le avisaba que alguien había chocado contra su negocio.

Dijo que los oficiales le explicaron que el conductor intentaba estacionarse en reversa cuando pisó por error el acelerador en lugar del freno, y así fue como el auto terminó incrustado en el edificio.

El dueño calculó que el choque provocó daños por entre 15,000 y 20,000 dólares.

No se reportaron heridos.

La policía no precisó si el conductor enfrentará algún cargo.

Daniel Ramírez, de 47 años y residente de Lubbock, Texas, pagó una fianza el sábado y quedó en libertad la madrugada del domingo.

Al salir de la cárcel, Ramírez no tardó en defender su conducta.

“Nos tropezamos, yo nunca la golpeé”, dijo Ramírez.

“Pero hay un video”, le señaló Linnie Supall, de Local 10.

“¿Qué video, uno de que ella me estaba siguiendo?”, preguntó Ramírez.

“Un video que lo muestra empujándola al suelo”, respondió Supall.

“No, yo nunca hice eso. Nos tropezamos. Fue un accidente”, afirmó.

Ramírez fue detenido el viernes en la terminal de Royal Caribbean en PortMiami por agentes del Departamento de Policía de Miami.

Su arresto se produjo varios días después de que las autoridades divulgaran un video de vigilancia del restaurante que, según ellas, mostraba a Ramírez empujando violentamente a una mujer hasta tirarla al suelo el 26 de julio.

La víctima, que trabajaba como cantinera en el Hard Rock Café, habló con Local 10 News sobre lo ocurrido.

Contó que vio a Ramírez meterse en un área detrás de la barra, reservada solo para empleados, y comerse los adornos de las bebidas. Cuando le dijo que no podía hacer eso, él le respondió: “P---, ¿qué quieres que haga? ¿Que lo escupa?”, y ambos salieron del área de la barra.

“De inmediato, el corazón se me empezó a acelerar”, dijo la mujer, que pidió no revelar su identidad.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami (MPD), el gerente de la cantinera la mandó a llamar de nuevo después de que Ramírez presentara una queja.

“Según la víctima, (Ramírez) le dijo al gerente que ninguna mujer tenía derecho a decirle qué hacer y que la víctima debía ser reprendida”, indica el informe de arresto.

La policía señaló que el gerente le pidió a la cantinera que fingiera estar siendo reprendida.

De acuerdo con la víctima, Ramírez huyó tras el primer enfrentamiento, en el que la empujó al suelo.

Contó que empezó a tomarle fotos mientras él se alejaba, pero asegura que la encaró de nuevo, la tiró al suelo por segunda vez y la dejó inconsciente.

“Fue algo muy, muy repugnante, y me pregunto cómo se sentiría él si le hicieran esto a alguien de su familia”, expresó.

La policía llevaba buscando a Ramírez desde el ataque y logró ubicarlo el viernes en la terminal de cruceros de Royal Caribbean en PortMiami.

La víctima agradeció a los detectives por identificar y localizar al sospechoso con rapidez.

“Estoy muy agradecida de que lo hayan capturado y arrestado, y de que esté ahí sentado pensando en lo que hizo”, dijo la empleada.

Tras pagar su fianza, Ramírez dijo que se va a casa, a Texas.

Over the weekend, faith leaders were urging their parishioners to make their voices heard this election season.

Miami-Dade officials have held a Get Out the Vote campaign, answering questions and giving out voter information materials while also offering to register people to vote.

“We’re here to do outreach to remind everybody that we have elections, and to let them know they can early vote by mail or go on election day,” said Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia. “People need to know they can go to any early voting sites, they don’t have to go to their specific precinct. They can go between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. (and) on the weekends from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And next week we’ll have an evening time from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.”

She said the county is ready for any and all who wish to cast their ballots early.

“All of our equipment is out and ready to go,” said Garcia. “I want to remind everyone we do vote on paper, we don’t connect to any internet or anything. It’s very safe.”

Early voting runs through Aug. 16 in Miami-Dade.

For specific hours and voting locations, check your county elections website or check out Local 10’s Voter Guide.

Lots of tropical moisture covers South Floria and daytime heating will trigger that moisture into heavy downpours in spots.

We’re under a marginal threat (level 1 out of 4) of flooding today so street flooding is possible especially in those poor drainage neighborhoods.

Highs will make it into the lower 90s despite the clouds and storms around. Keep the umbrellas handy as these storms could hit anytime this morning, afternoon, or evening.

A wet pattern will settle in through at least midweek so hopefully we’ll put a bit of a dent in our drought. All, for now, is quiet in the tropics.

It happened early Sunday morning at Leslie Pet Grooming located near Northwest 52nd Street and 79th Avenue in Doral.

The front side of the business was left with a gaping hole in the front of the building once the car was towed away.

Local 10 News spoke to the owner, who said he woke up to a call from police around 6 a.m. saying someone had crashed into his business.

He said police officers told him the driver was backing into a parking space when they mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, sending the car crashing into the building.

The owner said the crash caused between $15,000 and $20,000 worth of damage.

No injuries were reported in the crash.

Police did not say whether the driver would be facing any charges.

Trump is not getting a glowing endorsement on his immigration approach from Americans overall, the new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found. Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of his performance on immigration, a decline from 49% at the beginning of his second term.

Despite that, about 8 in 10 Republicans continue to approve of how Trump is handling immigration. That’s a slight decline from the beginning of Trump’s second term, when about 9 in 10 Republicans approved, but his support on the issue within his base has been mostly stable since last summer despite a chaotic year of immigration enforcement actions.

Republicans are also more likely to approve of how Trump is handling immigration than the economy or Iran. In just the past month, Republican approval of Trump's handling of Iran dropped slightly in AP-NORC polling

The poll found that about half of U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” on deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. That number has also remained steady for over a year, despite multiple immigration crackdowns that deployed federal law enforcement to large cities and at least 10 deaths involving encounters with immigration officers since the mass deportation campaign began. Republicans, however, are much less likely to say Trump has overstepped in his immigration enforcement actions.

Overall, Trump’s popularity has fallen since he took office last year, but the findings highlight the relatively muted impact of the past year’s aggressive immigration enforcement on his public standing. That’s a contrast with views of his handling of Iran, where he’s seen more recent signs of slippage, even among his own supporters.

Immigration remains a strong issue for Trump with Republicans

Americans remain divided on whether Trump has overstepped on immigration.

About half of U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to restricting legal immigration, in line with the last time the question was asked in February. Roughly half — 47% — say Trump has exceeded his authority when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. In each case, about 3 in 10 say Trump’s actions have been “about right,” and closer to 2 in 10 say he hasn’t gone far enough.

Few Republicans – about 2 in 10 or fewer – say he’s “gone too far” on deporting immigrants in the country illegally or restricting legal immigration.

Most Americans, however, say he’s gone too far when it comes to using traffic stops to find and arrest immigrants living in the U.S. illegally — a practice that was at the center of two recent ICE shootings in Maine — and when it comes to sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities. Republicans were also less likely to see these as oversteps.

James Leatherman, a 68-year-old Republican from San Antonio, is overall supportive of Trump’s handling of the presidency and backs him on immigration in particular.

“You cannot come in here illegally — you’re breaking the law,” he said.

More Americans disapprove than approve of the way ICE is enforcing immigration laws. About half of Americans “strongly" or “somewhat" disapprove of the agency's approach, while roughly 3 in 10 “strongly" or “somewhat" approve. There's a wide partisan split, though: About 6 in 10 Republicans approve of ICE’s approach, compared with about 2 in 10 independents and just 4% of Democrats.

Eric Coursen, 76, an independent from Chincoteague, Virginia, agrees with the president that there were issues with the immigration system. He said doesn’t believe in open borders — but he’s deeply opposed to how the administration has been enforcing immigration law.

“It’s like taking some bread when you’re hungry and you take it, you’re going to shoot that person rather than just, you know, get them for theft?” he said. “It’s just overkill.”

Trump’s approval on the economy remains low

About 3 in 10 U.S. adults, 32%, approve of how Trump is handling the economy. That’s down from 40% at the start of his second term, and marks a shift from his first presidential term when the economy was a stronger issue for Trump.

During Trump’s first term, his lowest approval on the economy was 40% in December 2017. Now, his rating is well below that.

Roughly 7 in 10 Republicans – 69% – approve of how Trump is handling the economy. That’s roughly in line with the share who approve of how he’s handing the presidency, but it’s slightly below the 78% who approved early in Trump’s second term.

Leatherman, despite his support for Trump, said he's feeling the pinch of higher prices in his budget. “I almost have to go to the bank to get a loan before I go grocery shopping,” he said.

About 7 in 10 U.S. adults describe the nation’s economy as “very” or “somewhat” poor, in line with April. Republicans are more optimistic, with about 6 in 10 saying that the U.S. economy is doing well, compared with about 2 in 10 independents and roughly 1 in 10 Democrats.

More Republicans approve of how Trump is handling healthcare

Healthcare has never been a strong issue for Trump. Unlike with immigration and the economy, a clear majority of U.S. adults has disapproved of Trump’s performance on healthcare across both presidential terms. That hasn’t changed in the new poll, which found that only about 3 in 10 Americans approve of how Trump is handling healthcare, in line with when the question was last asked in December.

He’s seen a rebound on the issue among his own supporters since late last year, though. Roughly 71% of Republicans now approve, compared with 59% in the December poll.

That shift comes as Democrats kicked off 100 days until the midterm elections last week, with leaders saying they’ll focus on healthcare cuts, in addition to the cost of living and the war in Iran. Democrats and independents continue to overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump’s handling of healthcare.

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The AP-NORC poll of 1,165 adults was conducted July 23-27 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 6.0 for Republicans overall and plus or minus 5.4 for Democrats overall.

Doron Spielman, spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister's office, told told The Associated Press on Sundaythe AP that Israel's intelligence assessment is that Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely demilitarizing. He said the Israeli military would not withdraw from Gaza — where it controls more than 60% of the territory — before Hamas disarms.

“Our assessment is that if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, once again threaten Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another Oct. 7-style attack,” he said, referring to the Hamas militant attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

“Disarming means physically giving up the weapons. Nothing less,” Spielman said.

His comments come days after Hamas said that it would begin disarming as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the nearly three-year-long conflict. It marks a potential breakthrough in ending the conflict, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remain.

Hamas says it has agreed to disarm but the process is littered with obstacles

Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan calls on the militant group to surrender its weapons and destroy its vast network of tunnels. It also envisions Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza, the arrival of a new technocratic Palestinian government, deployment of an international security force and the rebuilding of the battered Palestinian enclave.

Hamas disarming has been a sticking point and has deadlocked negotiations for months. In announcing the deal on social media on Thursday, Trump said it would be carried out in “carefully structured phases.”

A copy of the agreement obtained and verified by the AP said that all weapons held by the Hamas-run police will be transferred to the U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic committee, known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, upon its arrival in the enclave. It’s not clear when that would happen since it is contingent on other steps.

A process to decommission and store heavy weapons and to dismantle military production sites and tunnels will begin after the arrival of the Palestinian committee and the deployment of international forces. The process will be linked to a phased Israeli withdrawal, according to the agreement.

The areas Israel controls in Gaza have been mostly destroyed and depopulated. Most of the territory’s 2 million Palestinians are in the other part, where hundreds of thousands live in squalid tent camps and destroyed neighborhoods.

Israel appears unlikely to pull back significant forces or make other concessions ahead of its October elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a tough reelection battle, with his far-right coalition partners urging him to keep up the pressure on Hamas and leave forces in Gaza, and opponents accusing him of failing to prevent the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

Hamas-led militants attacked Israeli communities then, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 others hostage. Israel responded with a punishing military offensive that has killed more than 73,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ministry, which was part of the recently dissolved Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and international organizations. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities.

Israel warns Hamas is rearming

While Spielman said Israel greatly appreciates Trump’s commitment to its security and to finding a durable resolution, the government's position on disarmament is based on detailed intelligence saying that Hamas continues to rearm, recruit fighters, and rebuild its military capabilities.

It's unclear what exactly Israel conveyed to the White House. Two people with knowledge of the deal told the AP that Israel had communicated its issues with it to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who's part of the Trump-led Board of Peace. One of them said that among the points Israel wanted was freedom to conduct military operations in Gaza. They spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Israel continues to strike Gaza

Since the ceasefire was signed last October, Israel has continued striking Gaza, saying it’s targeting Hamas and its infrastructure.

Overnight Saturday and into Sunday Israeli strikes killed at least 12, including children, health officials said. A strike on a residential apartment in southern Gaza killed three family members, including their 4-year-old child, according to Nasser hospital, where the bodies arrived.

The Israeli military said the overnight strikes had targeted Hamas military operatives, without elaborating.

The Alpine Club of Pakistan identified the recovered climbers as Purja, Wang Zhong, Nima Sherpa and Kili Pemba Sherpa. The club praised military and civilian rescuers and volunteers involved in the recovery effort.

On Friday, rescuers located four other bodies but were able to recover only three — Omani Nathira Ahmed, American Mallory Geis and Nepalese Bahadur Gurung — because harsh weather grounded search-and-rescue helicopters.

Military-backed rescue teams resumed the search Sunday for the two remaining climbers, while efforts continued to bring down the bodies of Purja and the three others found by the ground team, local officials said.

On Saturday, Purja’s expedition company said the world had lost one of mountaineering’s greats. The company described him as “a leader who inspired millions through his courage, humility and unwavering belief that human potential is far greater than we often imagine.”

Alpine Club of Pakistan President Irfan Arshad Khan said the tragedy was “an immeasurable loss to the global mountaineering fraternity.” He paid tribute to military and civilian rescuers and Sherpas who took part in the search mission.

The expedition was led by Purja, the Nepal-born former British Army soldier widely known as Nims Dai.

He climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.” His record was broken in 2023.

A statement from Geis’ family said, “Mallory was a bright light who was loved deeply by her family and friends. She will be profoundly missed.”

The expedition was expected to be the last one for Pakistani guide Sohail Sakhi, who worked with Moving Mountains, a Pakistan-based adventure travel company. Sakhi also was a geographer and high-altitude photographer who had climbed some of the world’s major peaks, according to the company’s website. His body remained missing on Sunday.

Accidents are common on climbing expeditions in northern Pakistan because of avalanches, falling ice and rock, extreme altitude and rapidly changing weather.

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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.

Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, but some stayed on in the hills surrounding the city. Spanish civil guard ships continued searching for bodies in the waters near the stretch of urban beach that tens of thousand of migrants had breached days earlier.

Shops in Ceuta reopened, and the usual blend of residents and tourists in the city of 84,000 were filling the open-air terraces, restaurants and cafes.

But the city that prides itself on being home to four cultures was still grappling with the aftermath of the border surge, with locals disagreeing on what caused it and who exactly is to blame.

Border surge breathes new life into Europe's immigration debate

At least 72 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, Spanish authorities said Sunday. The humanitarian crisis caused by the sudden rush of people has reignited a debate around immigration in Europe and beyond.

“It's not the young men's fault,” said Mohamad Abdelkader Driss, 44, a waiter at a fried fish restaurant in town. “If you open the border, of course everyone comes in, but the young men aren't to blame. The authorities are responsible.”

Some migrants who returned to Morocco described a border that was effectively open and said authorities did little as they watched thousands of people cross.

The unauthorized arrivals on Thursday and Friday of 50,000 to 60,000, mostly young men, swelled Ceuta's population by more than half. Abdelkader lamented what happened, but said that those who breached the border behaved relatively well.

“It could have been much worse,” he said.

Far-right politicians call for remaining migrants to be expelled

Over the weekend, far-right, anti-immigrant Spanish politicians and well-known right-wing influencers descended on the city, sparking counterprotests that included members of the Spanish city's large Muslim population, many of whom are of Moroccan descent.

Alvise Pérez, a far-right Spanish politician and member of the European Parliament, called on Saturday evening for migrants to be expelled as he faced an angry crowd of rival protesters. Pérez eventually had to shelter in a bar as residents banged on the windows, until police escorted him away.

Among the counterprotesters on Saturday was 20-year-old Ceuta resident and student Noor Ahmed. She denounced the protest and presence of figures like Pérez in her city as opportunistic.

“They just want to take advantage of the humanitarian crisis Ceuta is currently experiencing,” Ahmed said.

Santiago Abascal, the leader of the far-right Vox party, visited Ceuta on Sunday, slamming the Spanish government for the surge in migrant arrivals, which he called “an invasion.”

“The frontiers of Ceuta and Melilla are the walls of our home and homeland, and they are not being protected by a corrupt and traitorous government,” he said.

Ceuta's tradition of tolerance comes under strain

Some locals, even acknowledging Ceuta's population of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus that normally live in relative harmony, worried about what the week revealed about the city.

Eva Barrientos, a resident of Ceuta who works at a logistics company, came to the protest on Saturday evening to see what Pérez and the other right-wing figures had to say. She was confident that something similar would happen again and questioned the loyalty that some of Ceuta's foreign-born residents had to Spain.

“In Ceuta, we have always lived together. We have four cultures living very well, without any problems,” she said. “But the only thing we are realizing now is that there is an enemy within.”

And she accused some foreign-born residents of having more loyalty to Morocco than the country in which they lived.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said he was “following with concern the alarming situation in Ceuta, asking God … that solutions of peace, stability and justice may be found.”

Migration has been one of Pope Leo’s priorities, which he underlined during a recent visit to the Canary Islands in Spain, one of Europe’s main migrant entry ports.

The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was traveling from Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java to the city of Makassar in South Sulawesi, with 232 passengers and 39 crew members, when the fire broke out between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. in waters off Sumenep regency, according to Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, or Basarnas.

The ferry operator, PT Atosim Lampung Pelayaran, reported the incident to the Surabaya search and rescue office about an hour later, Basarnas said in a statement. It said the company received information from the ferry's captain that the vessel was on fire near the northern tip of Madura island, but contact was later lost.

By 9:45 a.m., authorities determined the ferry was about 19 nautical miles north of Buruan Sapudi island after communicating with the nearby cargo vessel Meratus Project 3, which was unable to approach the burning vessel closely because it was carrying a flammable load.

Footage released by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed thick black smoke billowing from one side of the ferry and spreading across much of the ship while videos circulating on social media and messaging groups showed terrified passengers, mostly wearing life jackets, could be seen clustered on the deck and upper sections of the vessel awaiting rescue, some jumping into the sea as orange flames and black smoke billowed from the burning vessel.

The ferry was reported to be nearly engulfed by flames, with passengers gathered on the bridge and bow. A tugboat and another passing vessel moved in and began evacuating passengers shortly before 10 a.m., the statement said.

By Sunday afternoon, several nearby vessels managed to rescue 225 passengers and crew and recovered five bodies. At least 41 people remained unaccounted for.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known and remained under investigation.

Search and rescue teams dispatched a rescue vessel from Surabaya, although officials estimated it would take about six hours to reach the scene. A rigid inflatable boat from the Sumenep rescue post was sent toward the location but later returned to shore because of rough seas and high waves. The Indonesian Navy also deployed a warship to assist.

The 160 meters (525 feet) long and 25 meters (82 feet) wide ferry serves the Surabaya-Makassar route, a voyage that typically takes around 40 hours and is primarily used by domestic travelers and cargo transport between Java and Sulawesi.

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands where ferries are a common method of travel. Disasters occur regularly, with weak safety enforcement often blamed.

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Karmini reported from Jakarta. Associated Press writer Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.

Desperate to save his job as chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is avoiding media appearances, monitoring his critics' social media posts and refusing — at least so far — to make any substantive changes at his troubled organization.

A half dozen state leaders and other committee members, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations, described Martin as defensive and extremely distrustful of others, even some people on his own team, as calls for his resignation grow louder among Democratic operatives who lament his leadership decisions, lackluster fundraising and even his tendency to lash out in anger.

But there is no sign that the organization's membership plans to replace Martin before the midterm elections in November, even as some wonder how much longer he can hold on. The drama threatens to undermine the party's momentum in the battle to retake control of Congress from President Donald Trump's Republican Party.

“I sense no movement from the DNC to make a change, and so that decision’s up to Ken. And he’s told me he’s in it, so I trust him on making that decision," said Colorado Democratic Party Chair Shad Murib, a DNC member and strong Martin supporter. “What we’re seeing right now is a whole group of folks who live on Twitter and consultants fighting harder against Ken Martin than they’ve ever fought against Donald Trump.”

Martin did not grant an interview request. In a recent Substack post, Martin defended himself this way: “If the question is whether the Democratic Party will be ready to win — everywhere, at every level, in this election and for the decade ahead — the answer is a resounding yes.”

Martin's critics are everywhere all at once and some want him out

As one of its most important responsibilities, the DNC is tasked with building out the party's national infrastructure, including fundraising, to support the Democrats' next presidential nominee. Yet few members of the next class of White House prospects are willing to speak out on Martin’s behalf.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who has traveled to key states in recent weeks before a potential presidential bid, praised the DNC for embracing a new primary calendar that promotes more diverse states such as South Carolina and Nevada.

But Moore declined three separate times to answer directly when asked whether he has confidence in Martin heading into 2028.

“My confidence is in the people,” Moore told The Associated Press. “My confidence is in making sure that we have a system in place that actually allows the people’s voices to be heard."

He said he is not looking for "wins on behalf of a political structure or party bosses.”

Others have been explicitly critical of Martin.

Shannon Watts, the former leader of Moms Demand Action and a member of the DNC’s finance committee in 2024, criticized Martin’s lack of communication with donors and key stakeholders. She said she was ready and willing to help Martin after he took over last year, but he never called.

She did, however, get a call from a DNC staffer urging her to delete a social media post that was critical of Martin. Such calls have become common occurrences in recent months.

“Ken needs to step aside. I think Ken knows he needs to step aside," Watts said. “There’s a reason he’s worried he’s going to be fired and it’s because he’s not up to the job.”

Even those close to Martin, including senior members of the DNC leadership, privately complain that Martin is not doing more to maintain ties with committee members, donors and prominent outside officials. He was known for building strong relationships in his previous post as leader of the Association of State Democratic Chairs, which is largely why he was elected national chair.

His allies are baffled as to why he has not done the same in his new job. There are also lingering frustrations over how Martin handled the follow-up report on the 2024 election. He promised to release the document, then withheld it, then eventually made it public while saying it was too flawed to be helpful.

Dems look to a possible change but there's no clear alternative right now

Few expect Martin to be replaced before the fall elections, largely because no clear alternative has emerged as the midterms loom. But members are looking toward the DNC's winter meeting after the November contests — and before the 2028 presidential primary process begins in earnest — as the most likely time to make a leadership change.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has fielded calls to discuss a candidacy to replace Martin, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations who requested anonymity to discuss private discussions. O'Malley, who did not respond to a request for comment, finished a distant third in the DNC chair election last winter.

The growing chorus of criticism has shaken the confidence of Martin's loyalists.

They were especially concerned about an essay this week by Rufus Gifford, the finance chairman for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, who warned that the DNC under Martin’s leadership was “spiraling toward irrelevance."

“At this point, I think there is no saving Martin’s chairmanship. He is a good man with good intentions but simply not meeting this critical moment,” Gifford wrote on Substack. “As Democrats, the only solution is to acknowledge the problem and fix it. Now.”

One Martin ally likened the fallout from Gifford's statement to the day after Biden's disastrous debate performance that effectively forced him to abandon his reelection campaign.

Martin has stayed on the road but remained quiet

Martin got a lifeline this week from New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, who said while campaigning in Pennsylvania that Martin “has my full support.”

Jeffries noted that Democrats have won the overwhelming majority of elections since Martin took over the DNC, which also coincides with Trump's return to the White House. Jeffries also played down the party's financial challenges.

Federal filings show that the DNC reported about $16.3 million in the bank with more than $18 million in debt at the end of June, compared with the Republican National Committee reporting more than $128 million in cash and no debt.

The DNC under Martin used the party’s Washington headquarters as collateral to secure a $15 million line of credit last fall. His critics seized on the decision as an example of financial mismanagement, although the building was used as collateral under former party chairs as well.

DNC officials note that the committee has actually raised more money under Martin than it raised in 2018, the last time the party did not have the White House in a midterm year.

“The current DNC has raised the most money of any DNC without the White House in the 198-year history of the Democratic Party," Martin wrote recently on Substack.

While Martin has avoided national media appearances, which are considered a major responsibility for the chair, he has been traveling almost constantly to support party officials and key stakeholders across the country.

He visited six states over the past two weeks alone. This past week, for example, he met with civil rights leaders in Nashville, Tennessee, and mayors from across the country in Atlanta.

Kansas Democratic Party Chair Jeanna Repass said Martin should be praised for his commitment to strengthening state parties at a critical moment. Indeed, instead of hoarding the DNC's cash, Martin is distributing it aggressively to needy state parties, just as he promised while campaigning for the chairmanship.

“This is a ridiculous conversation to be having right now,” Repass said. “If people don’t like Ken, they can have a conversation with him in two years. But right now, we all need to be behind the chair and keep our heads down and do our jobs.”

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Associated Press writers Steven Sloan in Oklahoma City, Mike Catalini in Bethlehem, Pa., and Matt Brown in Washington contributed to this report.

The blast on Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establishment in central Moscow, killed three people, including the woman bomber, Russian state media said, citing local officials.

“Yesterday, a brutal terrorist act was committed in Moscow that claimed human lives. The victims are currently in the city’s hospitals, where they are receiving all necessary care,” Sobyanin wrote on social media Sunday.

He added that a probe into the attack was underway. “Those responsible for committing this crime will certainly be found and will face the punishment they deserve,” he wrote.

At least 21 people were wounded when the explosive device detonated at the restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said late on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.

A woman attempted to smuggle the bomb into the establishment, but a security guard refused to let her in before the bomb exploded, reported Ria Novosti. The Moscow Investigative Committee said on Saturday evening the attack was still being investigated.

As of early afternoon on Sunday, there was no further information from Russian authorities, and no one had publicly claimed responsibility.

According to Ria Novosti, the restaurant was closed for a private function on Saturday evening.

Footage released by Russian state media showed heavily armed law-enforcement officers, several ambulances and other emergency vehicles at the site.

Earlier this year, Russia’s Federal Security Service announced that authorities would tighten security around senior military and government officials, after a series of assassination attempts in Russian cities that followed the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

So far, Russian authorities have not drawn any connections between Saturday's blast and these earlier attacks or the war in Ukraine.

Russia previously said Kyiv was behind a car bombing in Moscow last April that killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in Russia’s General Staff. Ukraine did not publicly claim responsibility.

But Ukraine's SBU security service earlier said it had organized the killing in December 2024 of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed the Russian military's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces.

Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him.

Among other prominent victims of bombing attacks in Russia were Daria Dugina, the daughter of influential nationalist thinker Aleksandr Dugin, and Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known pro-Kremlin military blogger.

Kyiv denied involvement in the attack on Dugina, and did not respond to Russian accusations that it was behind Tatarsky’s death.

Cada helicóptero llevaba dos tripulantes, informó el departamento de bomberos griego. Se estaba llevando a cabo una operación de búsqueda y rescate cerca de Porto Germeno, y las autoridades no dieron información al momento sobre el estado de las personas a bordo.

La colisión dejó al descubierto el peligro en el frente más volátil de la emergencia de incendios forestales en Europa. Vientos huracanados empujaban las llamas hacia el interior de la región de Atenas y forzaban nuevas evacuaciones, Francia vigila las llamas en una extensa zona calcinada cuatro veces mayor que París para evitar que volvieran a expandirse y los grandes incendios de España por fin dejaron de avanzar.

El peligro inmediato se concentraba en Grecia. Las llamas se propagaron por el oeste de Ática, la región administrativa que incluye la capital, amenazando comunidades y un distrito industrial a las afueras de la ciudad de Megara, mientras las violentas ráfagas impedían que los aviones de extinción de incendios recogieran agua del mar. El peligro traía recuerdos sombríos en una región donde el incendio forestal de Mati de 2018 mató a 104 personas, el más mortífero de Europa en este siglo.

Pero la evolución de los fuegos más al oeste ofrecía poca sensación de que la emergencia estuviera terminando. El mayor incendio forestal de Francia seguía contenido dentro de su perímetro después de que 224.000 personas se vieran obligadas a huir en lo que pudo haber sido la mayor evacuación civil del país fuera de tiempos de guerra.

Todavía ardían focos activos en los 420 kilómetros cuadrados (162 millas cuadradas) de bosque devastado, muchos miles seguían sin poder regresar a casa y unos 3.000 bomberos seguían desplegados contra el megaincendio de Gironda y un segundo foco en Provenza que todavía no estaba contenido.

Sólo en Francia y España, el fuego ha expulsado aproximadamente a un tercio de millón de personas de hogares y lugares de vacaciones, ha vaciado comunidades en pleno verano europeo y ha puesto al límite a bomberos, aeronaves y servicios de emergencia en desastres simultáneos.

Una amenaza que se extiende por Europa

Las evacuaciones masivas en Francia y España son la medida más reciente de una amenaza de incendios forestales que crece en toda Europa.

Europa entró en 2026 tras su peor año de incendios forestales registrado, cuando ardieron más de 10.000 kilómetros cuadrados (3.860 millas cuadradas) en 2025. En las últimas cuatro décadas, los incendios forestales se han vinculado a casi 800 muertes en gran parte de Europa, según la Agencia Europea de Medio Ambiente.

Europa es el continente que se está calentando más rápido, ya que las temperaturas aumentan al doble de velocidad que el promedio global desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea.

El cambio climático provocado por el ser humano hizo que las condiciones extremas de los incendios en Francia este año fueran al menos dos veces más probables, de acuerdo con científicos de World Weather Attribution en un análisis rápido realizado mientras los incendios aún seguían activos.

Vientos huracanados paralizan las labores cerca de Atenas

En Grecia se desplegaron cerca de 500 bomberos y 23 aeronaves, pero los vientos huracanados empujaron las llamas a través del bosque seco y paralizaron la respuesta, impidiendo que algunas aeronaves llegaran al mar para recoger agua.

Las autoridades griegas ordenaron la evacuación de Kandili, Agia Skepi y Toutouli mientras el humo se elevaba sobre las montañas. Las autoridades estaban especialmente preocupadas por Porto Germeno, una comunidad costera en el golfo de Corinto. El primer ministro, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, fue informado sobre la operación.

El incendio comenzó el viernes cerca de Agios Vasileios antes de barrer hacia Porto Germeno y adentrarse en las montañas boscosas al oeste de Atenas. Los bomberos evacuaron por mar a 254 personas el viernes y a otras 12 el sábado —una vía de escape de último recurso cuando el fuego y el humo cortan las pocas carreteras de salida de comunidades costeras.

El meteorólogo de incendios forestales Theodore Giannaros estimó que el incendio afectó entre 40 y 50 kilómetros cuadrados (15 a 19 millas cuadradas), mientras las autoridades no han emitido una cifra oficial.

En otros lugares de Grecia, las llamas ardían peligrosamente cerca de viviendas en Cefalonia, lo que obligó a evacuar aldeas del interior mientras aeronaves realizaban descargas de agua sobre la isla turística jónica. Los bomberos combatían otro incendio cerca de Nea Tenedos, en Calcídica.

A principios de esta semana, dos bomberos murieron combatiendo un incendio en Creta, mientras que un tercero murió en el Peloponeso.

“Un bosque prístino, un paraíso, fue entregado a las manos del fuego”, dijo el sábado el agricultor local Minas Tzortzanis. “No hay palabras para explicar lo que ha pasado. Destrucción. Destrucción total”.

Francia vigila una extensa zona calcinada

En el suroeste de Francia, el megaincendio en la región de Gironda seguía contenido dentro de su perímetro el domingo, aunque aún ardía, después de calcinar unos 420 kilómetros cuadrados (162 millas cuadradas) de bosque en apenas 10 días.

“La situación del incendio está ahora fija, lo que no significa que el incendio esté extinguido”, indicó el domingo la prefectura de Gironda, utilizando el término de los bomberos franceses para un fuego que ha quedado contenido dentro de su perímetro.

La región sigue bajo la máxima alerta roja por incendios forestales en Francia. Las condiciones secas, las temperaturas en fuerte ascenso alrededor de Burdeos y los vientos de la tarde elevaban el riesgo de que las llamas se reavivaran.

En Le Porge, funcionarios locales dijeron que unas 150 viviendas fueron destruidas. El mecánico Matthieu Plessis regresó el sábado a las ruinas de una casa que llevaba siete generaciones en su familia.

“Hay lugares que ya ni siquiera reconozco”, dijo. “Ya ni siquiera sabes qué había aquí, o quién vivía dónde”.

El domingo y el lunes se esperaba la llegada de bomberos adicionales procedentes de Ucrania, Lituania y la Polinesia Francesa para reforzar el operativo.

El fuego en Provenza deja de expandirse, pero aún no está contenido

En el sureste de Francia, cerca de 1.500 bomberos combatían un incendio separado en el departamento de Var que arrasó aproximadamente 18 kilómetros cuadrados (7 millas cuadradas) en poco más de un día.

El incendio de Gros Bessillon se estabilizó el domingo después de que su perímetro se mantuviera durante la noche, pero todavía no está contenido. Unas 2.500 personas fueron evacuadas mientras las llamas amenazaban comunidades cercanas.

Este es el cuarto gran incendio que golpea el centro de Var desde el 19 de julio. Otro más pequeño cerca de Brignoles a comienzos de la semana obligó al actor George Clooney y a su familia, junto con unos 700 residentes más, a evacuar antes de que fuera controlado.

El primer ministro, Sébastien Lecornu, señaló que los incendios forestales en Francia, por lo general, estaban bajo control, pero advirtió que las condiciones seguían siendo muy cambiantes. Lecornu también anunció el nombramiento de un coordinador nacional para supervisar la reconstrucción en las zonas devastadas.

Más de 1.170 kilómetros cuadrados (452 millas cuadradas) se han quemado en toda Francia desde el inicio del año.

España mantiene la línea mientras los equipos vigilan los perímetros

Los grandes incendios de España —parte de una temporada que ha matado al menos a 13 personas, produjo el mayor fuego forestal registrado del país y provocó una emergencia nacional — ya no avanzaban el domingo.

En la provincia de Zamora, cerca de la frontera portuguesa, más de 20 unidades terrestres y aéreas vigilan el perímetro del incendio de Fermoselle para evitar rebrotes en el escarpado paisaje de Arribes del Duero. La mayoría de los evacuados había regresado a casa, según medios locales.

El presidente del gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, ha pedido un pacto nacional para hacer frente a los incendios forestales, advirtiendo que el cambio climático los está haciendo más destructivos.

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Adamson informó desde París; Nicolas Garriga en Lacanau, Francia; Michael Varaklas en Megara, Grecia; y Colleen Barry en Milán.

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The fire department said the dead crew members were one Greek and one Danish national, while the two who were recovered alive were one Greek and one British national.

Foreign firefighting and helicopter crews are often deployed in Greece to help tackle wildfires during the country’s hot, dry summers.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two Greek firefighting helicopters collided in midair on Sunday as they were battling a wind-driven wildfire west of Athens, sending one aircraft crashing to the ground, footage showed.

The four crew members were recovered, the Greek fire department said, Two were recovered safely while the other two were unconscious. No further details about their condition was immediately available.

The collision laid bare the danger at the most volatile front of Europe’s wildfire emergency. Strong winds drove flames deeper into the region of the Greek capital and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris, while Spain’s major fires stopped advancing.

The aircraft were Bell helicopters operating over the Psatha area west of Athens, each with a two-person crew. Two of those aboard were Greek and two were foreign nationals, but authorities did not identify their countries.

Flames spread rapidly through western Attica, threatening communities and an industrial district outside Megara as violent gusts prevented firefighting aircraft from collecting water from the sea. The advance carried grim resonance in a region where the 2018 Mati wildfire killed 104 people, Europe’s deadliest blaze this century.

Farther west, containment brought no end to the emergency. France’s largest wildfire remained held within its perimeter after forcing 224,000 people to flee in what may have been the country’s largest civilian evacuation outside wartime.

Hot spots still burned within a 420-square-kilometer (162-square-mile) scar, thousands remained unable to return home, and nearly 3,000 firefighters were deployed against the Gironde megafire and a second, still-uncontained blaze in Provence.

Together, fires in France and Spain have driven roughly a third of a million people from homes and vacation sites, emptied communities at the height of the European summer and stretched emergency services across simultaneous disasters.

Record fire damage underscores Europe’s growing wildfire threat

The mass evacuations in France and Spain are the latest measure of a wildfire threat growing across Europe.

The continent entered 2026 after its worst fire year on record, with more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,860 square miles) burned in 2025. Over the past four decades, wildfires have been linked to nearly 800 deaths across much of Europe, according to the European Environment Agency.

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. It has warmed more than twice the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Human-caused climate change made the extreme fire-weather conditions behind this year’s French blazes at least twice as likely, scientists at World Weather Attribution found in a rapid analysis conducted while the fires were still burning.

Gale-force winds cripple aerial assault near Athens

Nearly 500 firefighters and 23 aircraft were deployed, but gale-force winds drove flames through dry forest and crippled the response, preventing some aircraft from reaching the sea to collect water.

Authorities ordered the evacuation of Kandili, Agia Skepi and Toutouli as smoke rose over the mountains. Crews were particularly concerned about Porto Germeno, a seaside community on the Gulf of Corinth. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was briefed on the operation.

The fire began Friday near Agios Vasileios before sweeping toward Porto Germeno and into the forested mountains west of Athens. Firefighters evacuated 254 people by sea Friday and another 12 Saturday — often the last escape route when fire and smoke cut the few roads from coastal communities.

Wildfire meteorologist Theodore Giannaros estimated the blaze had affected 40 to 50 square kilometers (15 to 19 square miles), though authorities had issued no official figure.

Elsewhere in Greece, flames threatened homes on Kefalonia, forcing evacuations from inland communities as aircraft made water drops over the Ionian island. Firefighters battled another blaze near Nea Tenedos in Halkidiki.

Earlier this week, two firefighters died fighting a fire on Crete, while a third was killed in the Peloponnese.

“A pristine forest, a paradise, was surrendered to the hands of the fire,” local farmer Minas Tzortzanis said Saturday. “There are no words to explain what has happened. Destruction. Total destruction.”

France guards vast megafire scar against renewed flames

In southwestern France, the Gironde megafire remained held within its perimeter Sunday but continued to burn after scorching 420 square kilometers (162 square miles) of forest in 10 days.

“The fire is now fixed, which does not mean that the fire is extinguished,” the Gironde prefecture said, using the French firefighting term for a blaze whose advance has been stopped.

The region remained under France’s highest red forest-fire alert. Dry conditions, soaring temperatures around Bordeaux and afternoon winds threatened to rekindle the flames.

In Le Porge, local officials said about 150 homes were destroyed. Mechanic Matthieu Plessis returned Saturday to the ruins of a house that had been in his family for seven generations.

“There are places I don’t even recognize anymore,” he said. “You don’t even know what was here anymore, or who lived where.”

Firefighters from Ukraine, Lithuania and French Polynesia were expected Sunday and Monday to reinforce the operation.

Provence fire stops advancing but remains uncontained

In southeastern France, nearly 1,500 firefighters battled a separate blaze in the Var department that tore through about 18 square kilometers (7 square miles) in little more than a day.

The Gros Bessillon fire was stabilized Sunday after its perimeter held overnight, but it remained uncontained. Some 2,500 people were evacuated as flames threatened nearby communities.

It was the fourth major fire to strike central Var since July 19. A smaller blaze near Brignoles earlier in the week forced actor George Clooney and his family, along with about 700 other residents, to evacuate before it was brought under control.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France’s fires were generally under control but warned that conditions remained volatile. He appointed a national coordinator to oversee reconstruction in fire-ravaged areas.

More than 1,170 square kilometers (452 square miles) have burned across France this year.

Spain’s deadly fire siege eases as crews guard perimeters

Spain’s major fires — part of a season that has killed at least 13 people, produced the country’s largest recorded wildfire and prompted a national emergency — were no longer advancing Sunday.

In Zamora province near the Portuguese border, more than 20 ground and aerial units guarded the perimeter of the Fermoselle fire against flare-ups in the rugged Arribes del Duero landscape. Most evacuees had returned home, according to local media.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for a national pact to confront wildfires, warning that climate change is making them increasingly destructive.

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Adamson reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Nicolas Garriga in Lacanau, France; Michael Varaklas in Megara, Greece; and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.

If the constitutional amendment passes, supporters hope to elect at least four conservative, anti-abortion justices to the seven-member court by 2033.

Kansas is considering the change amid concerns that increasingly contentious and expensive judicial elections in other states are making their courts more partisan and less independent. Spending in a single state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin last year topped $100 million.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a term-limited Democrat who opposes the measure, said gerrymandering and dark money have put the Legislature out of step with the state and, “to think you can make the judicial branch a part of that dysfunctional system is frightening.”

Republicans have a long list of rulings they question

GOP lawmakers cite multiple rulings by Kansas courts over the past two decades as reasons for change.

Most recently, a district court judge earlier this month reinstated a three-day grace period for voters to return mail ballots after Election Day, which GOP lawmakers had eliminated. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, seeking the Republican nomination for governor, called the decision “outrageous” and urged people to vote yes on the ballot question.

The same judge — a finalist to fill the most recent Supreme Court vacancy — blocked enforcement of a 2025 law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Masterson described him as “radical.”

The list of rulings Republicans criticize also includes rulings on education funding back to 2004. Supreme Court decisions forced lawmakers to increase funding to comply with the state constitution.

“If we elect our Supreme Court, they won't force you to spend money on schools,” Masterson said in remarks in November to a conservative group, the Marion County Patriots for Liberty, the Marion County Record reported.

Abortion remains a key issue on both sides

Electing state Supreme Court justices gained currency among Republicans after a 2022 public vote affirming the high court’s landmark 2019 decision that Kansas' bill of rights guarantees bodily autonomy and access to abortion. Total spending by both sides has exceeded $12 million.

Legislators who worked to overturn the Supreme Court's protections, including Masterson, helped write this year's proposal.

Seven weeks after that 2022 vote, Attorney General Kris Kobach, then a GOP candidate for the office, told a Republican club in Wichita that electing justices would “slowly and quietly” put anti-abortion justices on the high court.

The vote-yes campaign's biggest donor — providing $1.7 million toward the campaign's $3.7 million in spending — is a Nashville-based nonprofit that supports Republican candidates, groups and causes. Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group, has spent at least $87,000 over the past 11 days on mailers and texts.

“Kansans can bring an end to this reign of abortion by voting ‘yes,’” Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said in an editorial written by a staffer on the anti-abortion group’s website.

Meanwhile, the national and state affiliates for abortion provider Planned Parenthood contributed another $1.6 million toward the vote-no campaign's $8 million-plus in spending.

Jamie Swan, an engineer and college teaching assistant who knocked on doors for abortion rights in 2022, is doing the same to try to halt the proposal.

“I really believe that this is just a power grab,” she said.

Kansas legislators have no say in appointments

Backers of the Kansas proposal brush aside arguments that electing the justices will give wealthy donors control over the Supreme Court.

“Globally and over history, even in its imperfection, the best system is democracy,” said Elizabeth Patton, state director of the low-tax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity, which has spent $935,000 to promote the vote-yes campaign.

Twenty-two states elect their top court’s judges, eight in partisan races. Governors in 26 states appoint them. In South Carolina and Virginia, legislators pick the justices.

Kansas elected justices for nearly 100 years before voters amended the state constitution in 1958. The governor now picks one of three finalists named by a nominating commission controlled by attorneys. Legislators have no role.

A review of every state’s current and past constitutions shows that the last state to add an amendment like the one Kansas is contemplating was Mississippi in 1914. Since then, 18 states’ amendments went the opposite way.

Voters weigh in every six years on whether a justice remains on the bench through a yes-or-no ballot question, but they’ve never booted a sitting justice. Conservatives say that means justices face no consequences for errant decisions.

Retirements and deaths allowed the term-limited Kelly to appoint four of the current justices. Recently, she picked a district court judge who blocked enforcement of longstanding abortion restrictions in 2023.

“We don’t have a good way to fight back,” said state Sen. Mike Thompson, a conservative Kansas City-area Republican, who backs the measure.

El incendio Old Trails comenzó alrededor del mediodía, quemando matorrales y pasto en un área abierta, pero se extendió rápidamente hacia el norte y el este en dirección a zonas residenciales. Los autos se alineaban en las carreteras mientras la gente huía de sus hogares, y desde la autopista se veían llamas anaranjadas y rojas.

El incendio levantó una columna de humo que se extendió sobre la región y, hasta la noche, casi 4 millas cuadradas (10 kilómetros cuadrados) de terreno habían ardido, informó Courtney James, portavoz del Departamento de Recursos Naturales del estado de Washington.

La causa del fuego estaba bajo investigación.

James instó a los residentes de Spokane a acatar las órdenes de evacuación y a mantenerse atentos a las condiciones cambiantes y a las evacuaciones, ya que estaban cambiando rápidamente.

Se perdieron algunas estructuras, pero las autoridades aún no tenían un conteo preciso, indicó Jessica Watson, portavoz del DNR para el incendio. Los bomberos no habían logrado ninguna contención hasta la noche y el viento seguía soplando, agregó.

La empresa eléctrica Avista indicó que había introducido cortes de energía por seguridad pública en el área debido al graver riesgo de incendio.

El gobernador, Bob Ferguson, declaró el estado de emergencia el sábado después de que temperaturas inusualmente altas y fuertes vientos agravaran incendios forestales récord en todo el estado. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional emitió una alerta de bandera roja por “situación particularmente peligrosa” para el este de Washington.

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Skubal got the news during the Tigers' 8-6 win over the Athletics and was emotional after the game as he prepared to leave the team that drafted him in 2018 and developed him into a star to join the two-time defending World Series champions.

“I’m excited to be a Dodger," he said. "I’m excited to get down there and meet all those guys and chase three championships in a row. That’s hard to do, so I’m so excited to a part of that. But it’s a lot of different emotions. Definitely kind of a roller coaster a little bit.”

Skubal is the latest star to join the high-priced roster for the Dodgers that already has big-name players like Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Mookie Betts. If everyone is healthy, he could be part of a rotation with Ohtani, reigning World Series MVP Yamamoto, fellow two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow. The Dodgers lead the majors with a 3.36 ERA from their starting pitchers and now add Skubal to the mix.

The Dodgers are in first place in the NL West and were already the favorites to become the first team to three-peat since the New York Yankees from 1998-2000 before adding Skubal. They began the season with a $323.3 million opening-day payroll for their 40-man roster and a $163.7 million tax for a $487.1 million total. They will pay Skubal about $9.5 million for the remainder of the season.

ESPN first reported the deal and said the Tigers would receive three minor league prospects in right-handers River Ryan and Brady Smith and outfielder Zyhir Hope.

Skubal is eligible for free agency after the World Series. He has a $32 million salary, a record total in arbitration, after the team offered $19 million, and is expected to sign a massive contract in the offseason.

The 29-year-old lefty said in July that it was his preference to finish the season with the Tigers and to compete for a World Series championship, which has eluded the franchise since 1984. Skubal took the loss in the decisive Game 5 of the division series against Cleveland in 2024 and then got a no-decision in a 15-inning loss to Seattle in Game 5 of the division series last year.

He said it was “very tough” to leave the Tigers having fallen short of the goal of winning a title.

“Ever since that ’24 Game 5, the failure that I experienced on the mound, I’ve used that as fuel to try and bring a World Series to the city of Detroit. I truly did,” he said. “That whole offseason I’ve never been more motivated and then go in and we lose Game 5 again. That failure kind of sparks some more motivation, just to dig deeper and see how good you can truly be. The goal was always to win a World Series for the city, for the organization that took a chance on me. It’s tough. I love all those guys in there. They’re some of my best friends.”

Detroit planned to contend again this season, bolstering the Skubal-led rotation by giving two-time All-Star pitcher Framber Valdez a $115 million, three-year contract in free agency and retaining three-time All-Star infielder Gleyber Torres with a $22 million deal.

The Tigers, though, got off to a rough start and are currently 2 1/2 games out of the last wild-card spot in the American League.

“It’s crazy. Going into the season, this isn’t what I planned on doing,” Skubal said. “But circumstances change, situations change, and I’m very appreciative of everything the Tigers have done for me.”

They bounced back in June and most of July to get into playoff contention with Skubal leading a rotation and three All-Stars in the lineup: rookie infielder Kevin McGonigle, catcher Dillon Dingler and outfielder Riley Greene.

With a chance to possibly persuade management to keep Skubal by improving its playoff positioning, Detroit lost ground by dropping four of its last five games at home, including Skubal’s last start that was made even more memorable by a late-inning collapse.

The Tigers led Baltimore 7-0 after six innings Wednesday and lost 10-9 in 12 innings. Skubal started the game, recorded his 1,000th career strikeout and was cheered at every opportunity by a crowd of 34,406.

“I’ve watched this guy rise to the top of the sport,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “He’s carried us a lot. I’ll forever be grateful that our paths crossed and the things that he did for this organization and for a couple of playoff teams. His presence, his work ethic, his example, his dominance. There’s so much to go through, it’s hard to capture in one quote or kind of one setting. But I’m very grateful that I was able to manage him for the time that I did.”

Skubal is 7-5 this season with a 2.79 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 96 2/3 innings. He is 61-42 with a 3.04 ERA over seven seasons, all in Detroit. In two postseasons, Skubal is 2-1 with a 2.04 ERA in six starts.

Skubal had a minimally invasive surgery on May 6 to remove a loose body from his pitching elbow and returned to pitch on June 13.

“The way the surgery went is exactly how it was supposed to go,” he said in July.

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In a scene that brings to mind the fictional Dutch boy who heroically plugs a hole in a dike with his finger, the two men are hunting for cracks in the low-lying Netherlands’ famed water defenses caused a drought that is gripping Europe and has fueled raging wildfires in France and Spain and sent the Danube and Rhine rivers to record low levels.

Unlike the low-tech solution in American author Mary Mapes Dodge's 19th-century story, modern dike patrols are able to plot possible problems caused by drought in an app and send it to authorities who can then quickly carry our repairs.

In the Netherlands and neighboring Germany cargo ships that ply the Rhine and its offshoots have been forced to carry significantly less freight or risk running aground in shallow navigation channels. Farmers facing restrictions on irrigating their crops are warning of smaller fruit harvests and rising prices this season.

And for some houseboat owners, the drought has left their water-borne homes resting on sandy river bed.

Checking dikes for damage

Peter van Duijvendijk is a flood defense manager at the Schieland en de Krimpenerwaard water corporation, one of 21 such organizations covering the Netherlands that are responsible for issues including flood control.

He has a team of 140 volunteers who are responsible for checking about 100 kilometers (60 miles) of dikes, reporting any problems they find. So far this dry summer there have not discovered any major issues. But they remain alert now and likely into the fall.

The volunteers “are our eyes and ears on the dike,” Van Duijvendijk told The Associated Press.

Like many inland dikes, the barrier in agricultural fields near the small town of Waddinxveen, east of The Hague, is made of peat that needs to be damp to be strong enough to hold back water. It is in one of the lowest points in the Netherlands, some 5 meters (16 feet) below sea level.

“Because it is so dry right now the peat loses moisture, and because of that it becomes weaker,” Van Duijvendijk said. “If that peat becomes weaker, then there is a chance that water will flow through the dike and that waterway will drain into the polder,” referring to reclaimed Dutch land.

Cargo traffic choked by low river levels

Europe's major rivers face a lack of water flow.

In Cologne, Germany, people walk along parts of the dried-up bed of the Rhine, a river that is a major highway for European freight traffic.

On Saturday, the Rhine’s water level in Cologne dropped below the record low set in October 2018. Marcel Beck, manager of the western German ports of Neuss, Düsseldorf and Cologne at RheinCargo, a port and freight transport company, said the levels are having a “devastating impact” on shipping.

“A ship that would normally carry 2,000 to 2,500 metric tons of cargo can now only transport 400, perhaps 600, metric tons depending on the ship’s design,” he said. “This places an enormous burden on the entire transport chain to reorganize everything in order to still get the goods inland.”

In the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen, a rusted bicycle and shopping cart are exposed on the dried bed of the Waal — the main Dutch arm of the Rhine — and houseboats are left almost high and dry by receding water.

Frans Schilte has seen the summer periods of low water levels get longer in recent years. They used to last a month, but “now it’s like three months,” he said.

His steel-bottomed boat is now resting on the sandy river bed.

“It’s a little out of level, it’s not a big problem,” said Schilte, who describes the drought as “the negative effect of climate change.”

Water levels are a Dutch dilemma

The Netherlands, about a third of which is below sea level, is involved in a balancing act between preventing winter floods and having enough water for crops and canals in the summer.

“Throughout the year, we have enough water in the Netherlands, there’s no shortage,” said Vince Kaandorp, a groundwater hydrologist at Deltares, an independent Dutch water research institute.

“But, of course, it is not evenly distributed over the seasons,” Kaandorp said. “In the winter we drain it away quickly because we want to keep our feet dry and we don’t want water on the land. How can you ensure that you do that slowly and give water time to sink into the ground?”

Such measures don’t have to be high-tech, Kaandorp said. Adding something as simple as a hedge near a river slows down water and gives it time to seep deep into the ground. Authorities are studying how to turn soil into “sponges” to better hold water throughout the year.

The low-lying parts of the western Netherlands that are reclaimed land suffer increasingly from salinity in droughts, posing problems for farmers who grow fruit and vegetables in the fertile soil. Water authorities trying to maintain adequate supplies of fresh water have banned farmers in some parts of the country from pumping water out of canals to irrigate their crops.

“It is an extremely challenging year for growers,” John Kusters, chair of the Netherlands Fruit Growers' Organization, said in a statement.

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Associated Press journalists Ahmad Seir in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Daniel Niemann in Cologne, Germany, and Stefanie Dazio in Berlin contributed to this report.

The emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote in a Saturday evening social media post.

“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.

Trump has announced halts to strikes in Iran on several occasions since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, only for things to unravel and fighting to resume again.

Iran’s defense minister said on X that the country was “neither surprised nor passive” following Trump’s announcement and said Iran continues to remain alert in the face of concrete threats from the U.S.

While Iran’s leaders appear united in a war strategy signaling strength and endurance, a struggle for control seems to be brewing within the theocracy’s leadership between those who oppose all negotiations with the U.S. and others who count on military pressure to win at the negotiating table.

The latest proposal would bring sides back to negotiating table

A regional official says the proposal announced by Trump over the weekend calls for the U.S. and Iran to return to negotiations and continue working out many of the issues that have stymied prior progress on the deal.

The official, who is involved in the mediation efforts, said the proposal calls for reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and halting attacks across the region, including by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on the Arab Gulf countries and Jordan.

The U.S., in exchange, will end its naval blockade on Iran and allow Tehran to export its oil as stated in the tentative ceasefire deal, he said.

No deal has been reached yet, but mediation efforts are underway, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media.

Trump said that Israel is joining his commitment to end the war by implementing the ceasefire deal. Israel did not publicly comment on the announcement.

On Thursday, Trump also announced a disarmament deal with Hamas in Gaza. But on Sunday, an Israeli official told The Associated Press that Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House about it.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are reporting an increase in the scale of Israeli strikes across the enclave, with at least 12 people killed overnight and through Sunday afternoon. Israel’s military said the strikes targeted militants.

Saudis concerned about Iran retaliation

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, spoke with Trump by phone Saturday and raised concerns about the U.S. potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to the Saudi press agency.

The Saudis, according to a person briefed on the substance of the call but not authorized to comment publicly, are concerned that Tehran could respond with attacks on the energy infrastructure of the kingdom and other Gulf countries. The call happened before Trump’s social media announcement, the person said.

The crown prince sought clarity from Trump on what potential new action he was weighing to take against Iran, the person said.

A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity, confirmed the leaders spoke Saturday but did not offer any detail.

Iran has repeatedly attacked vessels attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without its authorization as part of its ongoing conflict with the U.S.

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Madhani reported from Washington. Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo, Giovanna Dell'Orto in Jerusalem, Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed.

After the game, the Dodgers acquired the biggest prize on the trade deadline market, getting two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers for three minor league prospects.

The Red Sox have won four straight, including the first two games of the series against the Dodgers. The Red Sox 13-3 since the All-Star break and 22-4 since the start of July.

The only hits allowed by Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto through seven innings were home runs by Ceddanne Rafaela in the first and third innings. Yamamoto retired 13 consecutive hitters after Rafaela's second blast.

Monasterio's double to left field ended Yamamoto's streak. Monasterio moved to third on Jarren Duran's bunt single before scoring on Wong's double-play grounder.

Teoscar Hernández had three hits, including a two-run homer off Boston left-hander Payton Tolle in the second. Tolle allowed two runs on nine hits in six innings. Justin Slaten (2-4) pitched a scoreless seventh.

Red Sox left-hander Aroldis Chapman pitched a perfect ninth for his 27th save.

Yamamoto (11-7) allowed three runs on four hits in eight innings.

The Red Sox held out All-Star first baseman Willson Contreras, who had concussion testing after he was hit by a pitch on the side of his helmet Friday night.

Before the game, Dodgers left-hander Cole Irvin was designated for assignment. Irvin allowed six runs in Friday night's 9-4 loss to Boston. The Dodgers recalled right-handers Kyle Hurt and Wyatt Mills and placed right-handed pitcher Will Klein on the injured list with right elbow discomfort.

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Red Sox LHP Jake Bennett (6-4, 2.74 ERA) was scheduled to face Dodgers RHP Emmet Sheehan (4-7, 4.95) on Sunday night.

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The Old Trails Fire started around noon, burning brush and grass in an open area, but quickly spread north and east toward residential areas. Cars lined the roads as people fled their homes, and orange and red flames were visible from the highway.

The blaze sent a plume of smoke billowing over the region, and as of the evening almost 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) of terrain had been burned, said Courtney James, spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

The cause was under investigation.

“We urge residents of Spokane to heed evacuation orders and to stay alert to changing conditions and evacuations as they are rapidly changing,” James said.

Some structures were lost but officials did not yet have a solid count, said Jessica Watson, a DNR spokesperson for the fire. Firefighters had zero containment as of the evening and the wind continued to blow, she said.

Power company Avista said it implemented public safety shutoffs in the area due to elevated fire risk.

Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Saturday after unusually high temperatures and high winds exacerbated record wildfires across the state. The National Weather Service issued a “particularly dangerous situation” red flag alert for eastern Washington.

Messi came off the bench in his first MLS appearance since returning, while Rodrigo De Paul started alongside Casemiro, who made his home debut at Nu Stadium.

Columbus controlled much of the opening stages, forcing Miami onto the defensive and limiting the hosts’ time in possession. The Crew’s early pressure produced the first shot on target, but goalkeeper Rocco Ríos Novo was equal to the task.

Despite spending much of the opening half under pressure, Miami capitalized on a Columbus mistake to open the scoring.

After the Crew lost possession in their own half, Luis Suárez took advantage of the goalkeeper being off his line, controlling the ball before lofting a remarkable finish from approximately 40 yards out to give Miami a 1-0 lead.

The goal extended Suárez’s scoring streak to four consecutive matches, underscoring the veteran striker’s importance during Messi’s absence.

Casemiro made an immediate impact in midfield with his passing range, helping launch several counterattacks. However, his home debut took an unfortunate turn in the 34th minute when an attempted clearance deflected into his own net, leveling the match at 1-1.

The own goal marked the third consecutive home match in which Miami conceded during the first half and shifted momentum in Columbus’ favor.

Miami responded just before halftime. In the 44th minute, Suárez delivered a cross from the right side of the penalty area that found Noah Allen, whose finish restored the Herons’ lead.

Inter Miami carried a 2-1 advantage into halftime despite being outplayed for stretches of the opening 45 minutes.

The atmosphere shifted early in the second half as Messi began warming up, drawing loud cheers from the crowd before entering the match to a chorus of “Messi! Messi! Messi!”

The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner wasted little time making an impact, forcing a save with his first opportunity and helping Miami gain greater control of possession.

Columbus nearly found another equalizer in the 65th minute when a shot struck the crossbar, leaving Ríos Novo with no chance had it been on target.

Miami created opportunities to extend its lead, but the Crew remained organized defensively and prevented the hosts from finding a third goal.

With a victory, Inter Miami would have moved level with Nashville SC atop the Eastern Conference standings. Instead, a costly foul late in the match provided Columbus with another opportunity.

The Crew converted the ensuing free kick to equalize at 2-2, spoiling what had appeared to be a winning night for the Herons. The foul was committed by Casemiro, capping a difficult home debut for the Brazilian midfielder.

Five minutes of stoppage time produced one final opportunity for Miami after Messi’s header forced a save, leading to a late corner kick. Columbus successfully cleared the danger, preserving the draw.

The result snapped Inter Miami’s six-match winning streak and left the club in second place in the Eastern Conference standings heading into Leagues Cup play.

The theft happened around 2:30 a.m. Friday at Parkview Condominiums.

Surveillance video shows a man riding a bicycle through the property while wearing a backwards hat and carrying a blue bag. The man is seen looking over his shoulder before opening a mailbox and stuffing pieces of mail into the bag before riding away.

Additional security footage shows the suspect riding his bicycle through the complex’s parking lot.

Residents told Local 10 News that mail theft has been an ongoing problem at the condominium community, prompting them to hire Henry Lorie to install surveillance cameras.

Ironically, Lorie said he completed the installation Thursday, just hours before the theft.

“Weird, right?” Lorie said. “The guy just walked right up to the cameras. You can see the two cameras, and he actually just walked up oblivious to the fact the cameras were going to record him.”

Lorie said the clear video could help investigators identify the suspect.

“There’s no doubt it was him,” he said. “People have seen him in the area. No one caught him in the act because who’s up at 2:35 in the morning, right?”

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.

Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

She wanted to savor every moment.

“Back in high school I was on my speech team and my informative speech was on women in baseball,” said Hodel, a 43-year-old athletic trainer from Duluth, Minnesota. “So as soon as I saw this happening a couple years ago it was my goal to come.”

That moment finally arrived on Saturday night, when Mo’ne Davis and the Los Angeles Queens rallied for a 10-8 victory over Denae Benites and the New York Heights in a rainy debut for the first women's professional baseball league in the United States in almost 30 years.

“Growing up I played softball,” said Koehler, 33, of St. Paul, Minnesota. “I wanted to play baseball because going professional was always like the dream, but there (were) no opportunities. ... So now that that’s actually an opportunity and something that girls can look up to I think is amazing.”

Maggie Foxx picked up the league's first hit on a two-run single for Los Angeles in the first inning. Benites connected for the WPBL's first homer, a two-run drive to center in the bottom of the fourth.

The Queens trailed 8-4 before scoring two runs in the sixth and four more in wet and windy conditions for the final frame of the seven-inning contest.

“When I walked on the field I started crying because of how much this moment meant, and how much it meant to everybody,” Foxx said. “It means everything to us.”

A steady rain fell for much of the day, soaking the 101-year-old home of the WPBL's inaugural season. But much of the crowd of more than 4,000 started lining up hours before the game, hoping to grab a Davis bobblehead on the way to the metal bleachers.

The line for the main merchandise booth stretched all the way to the outfield along one side of the ballpark.

“Having a daughter, it’s really exciting to give her exposure to female professional athletes,” said Antonietta Mabry, 47, an accountant from Columbus, Ohio. “It’s such a rare thing, so it’s really cool to give her some really positive female role models and examples.”

Mabry was accompanied by her husband, Jason, a 48-year-old auditor, and their daughter, Rosalee. The 9-year-old Mabry got her glove autographed by San Francisco second baseman Amanda Gianelloni.

The Firebells and Boston Hunters — the league's other two teams — play on Sunday. A couple players from each team helped the grounds crew pull the tarp off the field after the rain subsided.

“I’m excited to be here because I play softball and I really like it and it’s really cool that I get to see professional women play,” Rosalee Mabry said.

The WPBL paid tribute to the past, present and future of women's baseball during a rain-delayed pregame ceremony. The crowd cheered as the lineups for the Queens and Heights were announced.

But the biggest ovation of the night was for 99-year-old Maybelle Blair, who threw a ceremonial first pitch to San Francisco's Kelsie Whitmore, one of the biggest stars of the WPBL. Blair, who serves on a WPBL advisory board, played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which ran from 1943-54 and inspired the 1992 movie, “A League of Their Own.”

“I think that's pretty incredible,” Benites said. “Maybelle's been sticking with us since the beginning of this journey. She's paved a path for us, really. ... She's a special person and I'm so happy that she got to make it out here and do that today."

Lindsey Keirsey, 42, a high school history teacher in Fenton, Missouri, said she is obsessed with the AAGPBL and “A League of Their Own.” She attended the game with her husband, Drew, 43, and their four children, Hadley, 17, Nolan, 15, Elam, 11, and Abbott, 10.

“We go to St. Louis Cardinals games all the time,” Hadley Keirsey said. “As much as I love baseball, I think it’s an amazing opportunity to see so many women be able to play and just break ground like that. Even though it’s just a sport, I think that if we can do things like this and let women play in sports like this, women can do so many more things.”

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Trump added that the emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.”

“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.

He said that Israel has agreed to join the U.S. in the commitment to try to complete the agreement with Iran that would bring about an end to the war.

Iran did not offer any immediate public reaction to Trump's announcement.

It’s the latest abrupt shift in the 5-month-old conflict

The president's announcement marked another remarkable turn in the conflict — only a day after he suggested to reporters that he was close to resuming heavy military strikes to force the regime to come to the negotiating table.

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, starting a war that Trump said was aimed at destroying Tehran’s missile capabilities, preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ending its support for allied armed groups. But the stated goals and timelines for the conflict have repeatedly shifted.

An interim agreement reached in mid-June halted the fighting and was supposed to pave the way for a permanent deal, but it crumbled within weeks as Iran resumed attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The announcement came after Trump's call with Saudi crown prince

Earlier Saturday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, in a phone call with Trump raised concerns about the U.S. potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a person familiar with the leaders’ discussion.

The discussion, which was first reported on by the news outlet Axios, came as Trump weighed whether to carry out new strikes on Iran.

The Saudis, according to the person briefed on the substance of the call but not authorized to comment publicly, are concerned that if the U.S. targets Iran’s energy infrastructure or carries out massive strikes on bridges or power plants that Tehran could respond by carrying out attacks on the kingdom’s and other Gulf countries’ energy infrastructure.

The crown prince during Saturday’s call sought clarity from Trump on what potential new action he’s weighing to take against Iran, the person said.

A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity, confirmed the leaders spoke on Saturday but did not offer any detail about their conversation.

Saudi Arabia earlier this week joined the U.S. in striking multiple logistics and weapons sites used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, but has been urging the U.S. and Iran to get back to the negotiating table to find an endgame to the conflict.

The crown prince also dispatched his brother, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, to Washington on Wednesday for separate meetings with Trump and Vice President JD Vance to discuss Iran strategy.

And Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday at the White House, their first in-person meeting since launching the war in February. The Israeli leader has urged Trump to continue to prosecute the war against Iran.

The war is unpopular, and November midterms are looming

The stakes for continued U.S. military action are high for Trump and his party as the conflict, unpopular among many Americans, has jolted the world economy just months before critical midterm elections in November.

The president had vowed to take retaliatory action after the U.S. military thwarted a surprise attack earlier this week by Iran on a U.S. base in Jordan.

Trump on Friday displayed his growing frustration with the conflict, telling reporters that “we just want to win” in Iran and that the U.S. will hit Iran “very hard” until they can’t take it anymore. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed the president, noting that Tehran last month signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. on a truce but then quickly “broke it, shot at commercial ships, and killed American soldiers.”

U.S. officials were on edge ahead of Trump's Saturday evening statement. And Trump himself in his social media post said that the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” and prepared to display “levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II.”

Earlier in the day, the U.S. State Department issued new security alerts for Americans in 10 countries in the region to exercise heightened caution due to the escalating tensions with Iran.

The warnings — covering Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates — urged U.S. citizens to prepare for the possibility of flight cancellations, temporary airspace closures and other travel disruptions.

Iran carries out new attacks in Gulf

Meanwhile, Kuwait’s military said Saturday that its forces responded to drone attacks by Iran.

In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, spokesperson for Kuwait’s Defense Ministry, said the drones hit “a number of vital facilities,” including a government structure in the country’s north. He said there were no casualties.

The British Navy said Saturday that a tanker was struck and a separate explosion hit close to a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman. No casualties were reported in either incident, it said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization said an unknown projectile hit the vessel on Friday 11 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman. The attack damaged the vessel’s engine room.

The group said that on Saturday a large splash and an explosion were reported close to another tanker while it was sailing 21 nautical miles northwest of Khasab city.

Police who responded to the shooting found the body of the suspected gunman in an area near the restaurant, Twin Falls city public information officer Josh Palmer said. He did not know if the suspect was included in the fatality count.

Officials were still working on notifying the family members of victims and so were not yet releasing the names, ages or other details about the people hurt in the shooting, Palmer said. Some of the people injured are in critical condition, Palmer said.

Police were still trying to determine the shooter's identity and motive, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said in a news conference earlier Saturday.

“We believe the threat to the community is over,” Hicks said. “It was a very chaotic scene.”

Palmer said investigators were still interviewing witnesses to the shooting. The restaurant is in a busy shopping plaza, and hundreds of people were in the area when it happened around 2 p.m.

Lane Koehn, 34, said he was at a stoplight near the In-N-Out when he saw a person with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive-thru. A man with a pistol started firing at the shooter.

He then saw someone in an In-N-Out uniform drag a person, also uniformed, bleeding from a gunshot wound in her chest across the parking lot. The employee, Koehn and the man with the pistol stayed until paramedics arrived for her.

“She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know. I hope she made it,” Koehn said.

Koehn said he was told by police to evacuate because the shooting was still active.

He also said the shooter fired at least three or four rounds and it was not clear whether or not anyone in particular was targeted.

Video taken by a driver from across the street captured a shooter, who appeared to be dressed in black, walking up to a white car carrying a long rifle, opening the driver-side door and popping the trunk. The person then walked to the trunk and reached inside. At that point the driver who shot the video left quickly, fearing that the man might be getting more weapons.

Twin Falls resident Haley Dodaro, 43, and her mother went to In-N-Out for lunch Saturday afternoon. While waiting in the drive-thru line, they saw people running across the road and workers bolting out of the restaurant. At first Dodaro thought there might have been a fire, but then a man directing traffic in a reflective vest said there was a shooter.

“So that’s when we knew there was a shooting. People were running out crying and screaming. It was very scary,” Dodaro said in a text message to The Associated Press.

Nayeli Rodriguez, 40, of Burley, was inside waiting for food with her daughters when she heard shots from the kitchen. An employee said it was a shooting and told people to get down. Rodriguez said an older man tried to protect her and her daughters, and they were among the last to run outside.

“We were trying to get as far as we could and some angels let us in their car,” Rodriguez said, also via text message. “I left my car there in the parking lot.”

The In-N-Out opened just about a week earlier, on July 24, as part of the company’s recent expansion to Idaho.

Police said multiple people were taken to St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center. Hospital spokesperson Taylor Marschner said in a statement that it was “working closely with law enforcement and emergency responders as they manage the situation.”

Twin Falls, a city of about 56,000 people, is about 130 miles (205 kilometers) southeast of Boise and about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of the Nevada border.

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The incident occurred near Southeast Fifth Street.

According to Miami Fire Rescue officials, four people were transported to HCA Florida Mercy Hospital in stable condition. Several other people at the scene were evaluated by first responders but did not require transportation.

Boat operators at the scene told Local 10 News that the incident was caused by a mechanical issue aboard the boat, prompting passengers to request medical attention.

Operators said the boat did not collide with another vessel.

No other details were immediately released.

Riley shot a 7-under 63 to reach 15 under on Saturday and took a one-shot lead at Detroit Golf Club, where the relatively easy course will give a lot of players on the tightly-packed leaderboard a chance to win the last Rocket Classic.

Riley closed with consecutive birdies, making a 54-foot putt at No. 17 and a 10-footer at 18 to pull into a first-place tie with Michael Brennan

Riley is aiming for his third career win and first since the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge — and to get into the postseason.

He has missed 10 cuts, including last week’s 3M Open, and is No. 146 in the FedEx Cup standings.

The Rocket Classic and next week’s Wyndham Championship are the last two tournaments left before the top 70 advance to playoffs.

Riley had an opportunity to win the season-opening Sony Open as the third-round leader before closing with a 71 and falling into a tie for sixth.

“There’s been a lot of ups and downs,” he said. “I’m just excited that I’ve started to put the things together and have a chance.”

Brennan (64) had a strong round with seven birdies, but missed a 9-foot putt to bogey 18 and lost a share of the lead.

Rasmus Hojgaard (61), Chris Kirk (66), Rickie Fowler (67) and Cameron Young (68) were three shots back.

Xander Schauffele (67) is in a group another stroke back, going into the final round on Sunday.

Hojgaard became the third player in as many days to match the course record with a 61, giving him the lead before Brennan's birdies put him ahead.

First-round leader Peter Malnati opened with a 61 before plummeting to 4 under with a 71 and 74.

Young matched the mark on the second day, putting the third-ranked player in the world in a three-way tie for the second-round lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn.

Young, playing for the first time since a second-place finish at the British Open, was in the final group on Saturday and had a rough round.

He missed 11-foot putts at Nos. 1 and 3, settling for par. His drive at No. 2 went wide right, landing on a berm with the ball above his feet, leading to another par.

The 24-year-old Brennan, a former Wake Forest star, is shooting for his second win and first since last year's Bank of Utah Championship in his first start as a professional.

Brennan also has a chance to improve his shot at being in the postseason after entering the tournament No. 106 in the FedEx Cup standings. He made eight straight birdies, one shy of the PGA Tour record, on Thursday to open with a 65 and shot a 67 on Friday.

Hojgaard of Denmark is vying for his first win on the PGA Tour after missing the cut in his last three starts — and just making it to the weekend at 3 under in Detroit.

Kirk, who was in a three-way playoff at last year's Rocket Classic before Aldrich Potgieter won it, earned his sixth career victory at the The Sentry early in 2024. Fowler's sixth and last win was the 2023 Rocket Classic.

The PGA Tour is moving to a new model for 2028, effectively creating two tours and Rocket Mortgage decided not to exercise its option to host another tournament next year.

The Detroit-based company isn't interested in continuing to spend $15 million a year to be part of the second tier in the new era and didn’t want to double the costs to be part of the elite tier.

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Bob McGowan, who managed Pastore since his run on “The Sopranos,” told The Associated Press that he learned of his death Saturday from another client and actor on the show, Vincent Curatola.

He said Pastore was found in his home on New York’s City Island after not being heard from for a few days.

McGowan said he had been trying to reach Pastore about a possible job.

“He was the most loyal client, and he always gave to charity,” McGowan said, “and he was the kind of guy who would help anybody, which is rare in my business.”

Robert Attermann represented Pastore for more than 30 years, before his time on “The Sopranos.” While Pastore will be remembered as “Big Pussy,” he was so much more, Attermann said in an email to the AP.

“Vinny was one of the kindest, most generous people I have ever known,” Attermann said. “He treated everyone with warmth and respect, never turning down a fan who wanted a photograph or an autograph. He genuinely appreciated the people who supported him and always made them feel valued.”

Attermann said Pastore loved being an actor and was passionate about his craft while always encouraging young actors, “taking the time to offer guidance and support whenever he could.”

Michael Imperioli, a longtime friend and collaborator, said on Instagram that it seemed as though he had known pastore forever.

“We did lots of work together and traveled all over the USA as well as Italy and Australia. Lots of good times. Lots of laughs,” Imperioli said. “Vinny was a kind-hearted brother who cared deeply about his family and friends. I will miss him always.”

Pastore appeared in movies dating back to the 1980s including roles in big films such as “Goodfellas” and “Awakenings,” both in 1990.

He often played gangsters. And it was one of those roles he is best known for: his 30-episode run as Bonpensiero, the friend of Tony Soprano who becomes an FBI informant.

Pastore was born in the Bronx and grew up in suburban New Rochelle, New York. He enlisted in the Navy during the Vietnam War and later attended Pace University, according to his biography on IMDb.

He is survived by his daughter, Renee Pastore.

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Wilton Manors police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Daniel Selvin Nunez Bonilla.

The shooting happened around 5:15 a.m. at the Palm Gardens shopping center near North Andrews Avenue and Northeast 26th Drive, according to investigators.

Police said surveillance video from the shopping plaza shows people running for cover as gunfire erupted and a bullet struck the ground.

According to a witness, an argument happened before several shots were fired.

Dwayne Lewis told Local 10 News he was waiting at a nearby bus stop when he heard the gunshots.

“From the car, I probably heard three or four,” Lewis said.

Police said a woman was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. Lewis said she appeared calm and alert after the shooting.

“I think she’ll be alright,” he said.

A bullet also went through the driver’s-side window of a Honda Accord parked at the shopping center.

Lewis said he saw an argument before the shooting.

“They were just arguing and I heard a woman say, ‘Baby, no; baby, no,’ then he just let off some shots,” Lewis said. “Then the two he was shooting at just ran inside the little office area there, the tax office. The shooter turned around and went away to his car.”

Police said the suspect initially fled the scene in a white vehicle.

Officers provided aid to the injured woman before Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported her to Broward Health Medical Center.

The victim remained hospitalized as of Friday afternoon. Police have not released additional details on what led detectives to identify Nunez Bonilla as the suspect.

Jail records show he is facing two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.

As of Saturday evening, he was being held on an $85,000 bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Wilton Manors Police Department or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

That Mets team won 108 regular-season games and beat the Boston Red Sox in a seven-game Fall Classic.

Members of that squad marveled at the miraculous turn of events against Boston on the way to the championship and lamented the plight of the current team, which has the second-worst record in the National League at 47-64 heading into Saturday's game against Miami.

“When we started the year, our ultimate goal was to win the world championship,” former reliever Roger McDowell said before an on-field ceremony before the start of Saturday's game. “And when you’re the last one standing, that’s the best feeling in the world.”

The Mets felt far differently when they were one out away from elimination and trailing by two runs in the 10th inning of Game 6 of that World Series.

“To be honest, my exact words — I didn’t tell anyone this, but I will say this (now) — ‘We’re about to blow this,’” Mookie Wilson said. “‘We’re about to blow this thing.’”

Gary Carter hit a single that began a stunning comeback for the Mets, who forced a Game 7 when Wilson’s grounder slipped under Bill Buckner’s glove and between his legs as Ray Knight, clasping his hands atop his head, raced home with the winning run.

Following a rainout, the Mets overcame a three-run deficit and won Game 7 by the score of 8-5.

“I don’t think any of us could have ever predicted or imagined that one instance in time and baseball history would bring that much joy to people and just create a lasting memory that they just tell their kids and grandkids about,” Wilson said. “I know I do. I talk about it all the time. My grandkids, they watch videos and they want to know about it.”

Twenty-two members of the 1986 team gathered behind second base for the ceremony, along with Carter’s widow and children. Family members representing late manager Davey Johnson, late general manager Frank Cashen and late coaches Bud Harrelson and Bill Robinson were also on the field.

The Mets have reached the World Series just twice since 1986, losing in five games to the crosstown Yankees in 2000, and to the Kansas City Royals in 2015. New York reached Game 6 of the NL Championship Series in 2024.

This season's Mets are in last place in the NL East.

“Every ballplayer you have out there wants to win — every one, not one player goes out there wanting to lose,” Wilson said, “The problem is how to win. Sometimes, you have to be uncomfortable. And that’s I think where we are.”

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Daniel Ramírez, de 47 años y residente de Lubbock, Texas, fue arrestado el viernes por la Policía de la Ciudad de Miami en la terminal de Royal Caribbean en PortMiami.

Durante su primera comparecencia ante el tribunal, un juez determinó que existía causa probable para un cargo de agresión con lesiones graves y fijó una fianza de $2,500 USD para Ramírez. El juez también le ordenó no tener ningún contacto con la víctima.

El arresto se produjo días después de que la Policía divulgara un video de vigilancia que aparentemente muestra a Ramírez empujando con fuerza a una mujer al suelo en Bayside Marketplace.

“Inmediatamente mi corazón empezó a latir muy rápido”, recordó la mujer al hablar del ataque.

La víctima, una mesera del Hard Rock Cafe que pidió no ser identificada, dijo que el ataque ocurrió el domingo pasado después de que confrontó a Ramírez por ingresar a un área exclusiva para empleados detrás de la barra y comer las guarniciones de las bebidas.

Las autoridades informaron que Ramírez respondió: “Perra, ¿qué quieres que haga, que lo escupa?”, y ambos salieron del área de la barra.

Sin embargo, según el informe de arresto de la Policía de Miami (MPD), el gerente de la mesera la llamó nuevamente después de que Ramírez presentó una queja.

“Según la víctima, Ramírez le dijo al gerente que ninguna mujer podía decirle qué hacer y que la víctima debía ser reprendida”, señala el informe de arresto.

La Policía indicó que el gerente le dijo a la mesera que fingiera que estaba siendo reprendida.

Según la víctima, Ramírez huyó después del primer enfrentamiento. Ella dijo que comenzó a tomarle fotografías mientras él abandonaba el lugar, pero asegura que él volvió a confrontarla, la derribó al suelo por segunda vez y provocó que perdiera el conocimiento.

“Fue algo muy, muy desagradable, y me pregunto cómo se sentiría si le hicieran eso a alguien de su familia”, dijo.

La Policía había estado buscando a Ramírez desde el ataque hasta localizarlo el viernes en la terminal de cruceros de Royal Caribbean en PortMiami.

La víctima agradeció a los detectives por identificar y localizar rápidamente al sospechoso.

“Estoy muy agradecida de que haya sido detenido y arrestado, y de que esté sentado allí pensando en sus acciones”, dijo la mesera.

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Daniel Ramirez, 47, of Lubbock, Texas, was arrested Friday by City of Miami police at the Royal Caribbean terminal at PortMiami.

During his first court appearance, a judge found probable cause for a charge of felony battery and set Ramirez’s bond at $2,500. The judge also ordered him to have no contact with the victim.

The arrest comes days after police released surveillance video that appears to show Ramirez forcefully shoving a woman to the ground at Bayside Marketplace.

“Immediately my heart started beating so fast,” the woman said, recalling the attack.

The victim, a bartender at the Hard Rock Cafe who asked not to be identified, said the attack happened last Sunday after she confronted Ramirez for entering an employee-only area behind the bar and eating drink garnishes.

Authorities said Ramirez responded, “B----, what do you want me to do, spit it out?” and both left the bar area.

However, according to an MPD arrest report, the bartender’s manager called her back over after Ramirez made a complaint.

“According to the victim, (Ramirez) told the manager that no woman was allowed to tell him what to do and that the victim needed to be reprimanded,” the arrest report states.

Police said the manager told the bartender to pretend like she was being reprimanded.

According to the victim, Ramirez fled after the initial confrontation. She said she began taking photos of him as he left the area, but alleges he confronted her again, knocking her to the ground a second time and causing her to lose consciousness.

“It was very, very disgusting, and I wonder how he would feel if it was done to someone in his family,” she said.

Police had been searching for Ramirez since the attack before locating him Friday at the Royal Caribbean cruise terminal at PortMiami.

The victim credited detectives for quickly identifying and locating the suspect.

“I’m really thankful that he was apprehended and arrested and that he’s sitting there thinking about his actions,” the server said.

Graham is serving in an interim role to fulfill her brother's current term. But as one of nine Republicans seeking to replace him more permanently in a special primary election set for Aug. 11, she is a relative political unknown facing off against some of the state's best-known GOP names.

On Saturday, she acknowledged that she has not spent decades in politics, but argued that she understands the real-world applications of the federal policy debates her brother knew well, like budgeting and the cost of health care. She reiterated that, like her brother, she's backed by Trump, who urged her to get into the race and has endorsed her.

“I certainly never expected to be on this stage, giving this stump speech,” Darline Graham said to a crowd gathered for the event in Lexington. “I've never had any desire to be a politician. I'm here today because I'm answering President Trump's call to serve. I want to stand up for South Carolina, and I want to fight for President Trump's agenda."

Graham found herself thrust into the political spotlight just three weeks ago, following her brother's sudden death from an aortic tear.

Given the compressed timeline of the special election, Darline Graham now has just more than a week to convince South Carolina Republican voters that she’s the best pick to represent the state. Up to this moment, she has been known to the state’s voters primarily through her brother’s origin story, including their hardscrabble upbringing and parents’ early death, and in the period of mourning for her brother, for whom funeral services in Washington and South Carolina took place just days ago.

All nine of the hopefuls were on hand Saturday for the event, with five minutes each to speak on stage. Former Gov. Mark Sanford, seeking yet another political comeback following a halted bid for Congress earlier this year, warned against deficit spending and debt accumulation, hallmarks of his decades in political messaging.

Reminding attendees of his endorsements in the race, including Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman also stressed his support for a voting bill known as the SAVE America Act, among Trump's top policy priorities.

U.S. Rep. Russell Fry, a two-term House member, talked to voters of his own humble beginnings, saying that the things that held his family together “were our belief in God, hard work, blue-collar hustle.”

After the speeches concluded, hundreds of attendees got in line for free Chick-fil-A boxed lunches, as well as the chance to cast a vote in an informal straw poll for their preferred candidate — a survey in which Darline Graham eked out a victory, ahead of Fry and Norman.

Several attendees said they just wanted more information — and more time — to make their choices in the primary.

Charles Brentnell said his top three picks were U.S. Reps. Ralph Norman and Russell Fry, as well as Darline Graham, with whom he said he agreed on backing Trump’s demand to cut short its planned breaks to pass legislation, like the voting bill.

“Let’s keep the Senate in the Senate, instead of taking a month off,” Brentnell said.

Still mulling his choice as he stood in the straw poll line, Gary Atkinson said he was leaning toward picking Norman, but that he liked a lot of what he heard from several people.

“Those are all strong candidates," said Atkinson, who said he had supported Lindsey Graham in the past, but disagreed on some issues, like the war with Iran. “It's tough to make up your mind.”

If needed, a runoff election will be held Aug. 25. The Republican nominee will face Democrat Annie Andrews in the general election.

Other candidates speaking Saturday included Walterboro attorney Duke Buckner, Greenville businessman Mark Lynch, former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride, retired Air Force officer Glenda Gail Parker and entrepreneur Sam Shepherd.

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El incidente ocurrió cerca de Southeast Fifth Street.

Según funcionarios de Rescate de Bomberos de Miami, cuatro personas fueron trasladadas al HCA Florida Mercy Hospital en condición estable. Varias personas más en el lugar fueron evaluadas por los socorristas, pero no necesitaron ser trasladadas.

Los operadores de la embarcación informaron a Local 10 News que el incidente fue provocado por una falla mecánica a bordo, lo que llevó a los pasajeros a solicitar atención médica.

Los operadores indicaron que la embarcación no chocó con otra.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

Pulte said in a social media post on Saturday that he had spoken about the handover with Trump and Clayton — who was confirmed by the Senate this week.

Trump chose Pulte as an interim director when former director Tulsi Gabbard resigned. But the pick rankled Republican lawmakers who said the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency lacked national security credentials for the role.

Clayton, formerly the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a one-time Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, was confirmed along party lines on Tuesday.

The GOP-led Senate had hoped to confirm Clayton in June, but the president delayed his hearing. During Pulte's brief tenure, Trump delivered a speech from the White House doubling down on his false claims about the 2020 election, which he lost, and released classified documents that he said were relevant to his arguments.

Clayton has emphasized his own government and national security experience, attempting to assuage senators in both parties. But he lost bipartisan support for his nomination after a contentious hearing in which he repeatedly refused to say that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

Before the Senate vote on Clayton, Pulte released intelligence community documents from 2020 that described China’s capacity to interfere in the American political process as well as vulnerabilities in the election system.

The substance of the material was largely recycled and already known, but its disclosure is part of the broader Trump administration effort to raise concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections.

The White House has not yet announced details for when Clayton will be sworn in for his new job.

From small spaniels to large labs, the canines were judged on factors including how long they could stay on their board, the size of the wave and their confidence. In its 10th year, the contest in Pacifica, about 14 miles (22 kilometers) south of San Francisco, includes a pet adoption event and fundraising for local animal charities.

The dogs, sporting their colorful life vests, stood ready on their surfboards and were assisted by human participants, who spotted the best wave to carry the board to the beach. Spectators erupted in applause and cheered with each successful ride.

Sophia Sadlowski first put her Miniature Pinscher, Rusty, on her surfboard to capture fun photos when he was just a puppy.

"And then ... he didn’t want to get off,” said Sadlowski, of Huntington Beach, California. “I walk over to the beach, and I put him on a wave, and he surfed it.”

Small-, medium- and large- sized dogs competed in heats and then the highest scoring dogs in each heat faced off for the top prize. The day also included tandem contests, where multiple dogs, as well as dogs and humans, shared the surfboard.

Rusty's life jacket was green with animal print and a shark fin sticking up out of his back and his goggles gave the impression he was a fierce competitor for the small-sized and tandem dog competitions. Sadlowski said Rusty was in his first surf competition at four months old, and she and her pup are now both cancer-free.

“He was four months old, and he took third place. So we've been surfing since," Sadlowski said. “We got hooked.”

Nazca's municipal government said the plane departed from the nearby city of Ica and was operated by Peruvian company Aerodiana. On its website, the airline said that it has offered scenic flights over the Nazca lines for the past 14 years using Cessna Grand Caravan planes.

The Nazca Lines are a group of extensive geoglyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca hundreds of years ago by Peru's Indigenous inhabitants. The lines form images of animals that can only be fully appreciated from planes or viewing towers.

Among the dead were seven Italian citizens between the ages of 18 and 54, two 52-year-old Spaniards and two Germans of 77 and 78 years, Peru's Transportation Ministry said. The other two fatalities were the pilot Américo Salazar and copilot Irenka Guanilo del Carpio, it said in an official report.

President Keiko Fujimori expressed regret over the accident and said a “temporary suspension” of the airport was being considered, though the decision will be made once she receives reports from the relevant ministries.

Peruvian authorities said the accident is under investigation. Aerodiana was not immediately available for comment.

Entre las víctimas se encontraban siete ciudadanos italianos con edades entre 18 y 54 años, dos españoles de 52 años y dos alemanes de 77 y 78 años, confirmó el Ministerio de Transporte. En tanto, los tripulantes fueron identificados como el piloto Américo Salazar y la copiloto Irenka Guanilo del Carpio, añadió un reporte oficial.

La presidenta Keiko Fujimori lamentó el hecho y afirmó que se evalúa “la suspensión temporal” del aeropuerto, aunque la decisión se adoptará cuando reciba los informes de los ministerios involucrados, dijo en declaraciones a la prensa.

La aeronave de la empresa privada Aerodiana partió desde el aeropuerto de Pisco y se precipitó en la zona de Pueblo Viejo, cercana a la reserva arqueológica de Nasca, indicó el gobierno local en un comunicado en redes sociales.

Según ese cabildo, la aeronave debía realizar un “vuelo turístico” sobre las Líneas y Geoglifos de Nasca que solo pueden apreciarse plenamente desde aviones o torres de observación.

Personal de la Fiscalía se trasladó a la zona para realizar el levantamiento de los cuerpos, señaló un comunicado difundido en la cuenta de X del Ministerio Público, que confirmó que entre las víctimas se encontraban ciudadanos extranjeros.

El Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR) informó previamente en un reporte oficial que coordina acciones y brinda apoyo a las embajadas de los países de origen de las víctimas.

La aerolínea señala en su pagina en internet que opera vuelos desde hace 14 años para la promoción turística de la región. The Associated Press se contactó telefónicamente para solicitar un pronunciamiento, pero no obtuvo respuesta.

Reportes de medios peruanos dejaron ver sobre el área desértica que caracteriza la zona los restos de la aeronave calcinados en medio de una humareda, y sus llantas y otras partes de su estructura esparcidas en medio del campo.

Nasca se encuentra a 450 kilómetros (280 millas) al sur de la capital Lima y acoge las enigmáticas Líneas de Nasca, enormes geoglifos grabados en el desierto hace más de 1.500 años y uno de los ecosistemas desérticos más frágiles de Perú.

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An appeals court recently ruled that the agency is not protected by immunity and can be sued over allegations of negligence during the massacre, which left 17 students and staff members dead and 17 others injured.

The lawsuit was filed by survivors and families of the victims.

Former school resource deputy Scot Peterson is among the defendants named in the case. Prosecutors said Peterson stayed outside the building during the shooting and failed to confront the gunman.

Peterson was acquitted of child neglect charges in 2023.

The trial is expected to begin early next year.

"@bsosherifftony acknowledged that his deputies failed during the Parkland school shooting. Yet for the past 8 years, he has continued filing baseless motions to delay our case and have it dismissed. Today, he lost his final appeal,“ Max Schachter, who lost his son, Alex, in the school shooting, wrote on X Thursday. ”The trial begins in March 2027. Accountability is finally coming."

El alcalde César Docweiler encabezó la procesión junto a los pasantes y otras autoridades. Hasta la madrugada del domingo, 74 fraternidades con hasta un centenar de integrantes cada una llenarán de sonidos, colores y danzas de la rica cultura y religiosidad andina declarada por la UNESCO como Patrimonio Cultural.

La festividad también es un motor económico que mueve millones de dólares en una economía en crisis, según las autoridades. Gran parte de los danzarines son comerciantes informales.

“Es cultura viva, es energía que renueva a la ciudad”, afirmó Andrés Zaratti, viceministro de Culturas.

Los danzantes participan por devoción al santo patrón.

“La única forma de agradecerle al tata es bailarle”, dice un danzarín de la danza morenos y exhibe una hermosa careta hecha por artesanos locales.

La festividad es una muestra del sincretismo religioso entre antiguas creencias de pueblos precolombinos con los ritos católicos y tiene fuerte presencia en ciudades del occidente boliviano. Nació hace un siglo en un barrio humilde y fue conquistando a la ciudad hasta convertirse en la principal identidad cultural. Surgió como una expresión de resistencia y de afirmación de sectores populares, mestizos y aymaras, según los expertos.

Las coloridas danzas andinas son también un orgullo de la diáspora boliviana por el mundo.

Los danzarines y músicos descienden por empinadas y estrechas calles hasta el centro de la ciudad a lo largo de cinco kilómetros atestados de espectadores.

Este año la festividad coincide con el inició del mes de ofrendas a la Pachamama (Madre Tierra). Cada 1 de agosto al amanecer, centenares de personas se dirigen hasta los cerros cercanos a la ciudad para hacer ofrendas a la Madre Tierra en agradecimiento por las cosechas y para pedir buenos augurios para los negocios y la salud.

Los rituales se realizan en altares de piedra, bajo una cruz, donde arden fetos de llama, dulces caseros en forma de botellas, lanas multicolores, pétalos de flores blancas, hierbas aromáticas e incienso al tiempo que un sacerdote aymara llamado “yatiri” murmura oraciones a la Madre Tierra.

Según la cosmovisión andina, la Pachamama despierta con sed y hambre tras el periodo seco y las ofrendas buscan saciarla antes de comenzar un nuevo ciclo agrícola. La costumbre arraigó en las ciudades donde se pide por la salud y los negocios. Los rituales se extenderán hasta el 31 de agosto.

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Coast Guard personnel said crews responded to the boat and provided assistance until commercial salvage crews arrived. The salvage team later towed the boat to Dinner Key Marina.

No injuries have been reported at this time.

Coast Guard officials reminded boaters that its crews are available to assist mariners 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Mariners in distress can contact the Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16 or call 911 for emergency assistance.

The Coast Guard also encourages boaters to practice safe boating habits and remain prepared while on the water.

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Troopers said the crash happened at approximately 11:13 p.m. on Friday on the Turnpike, just south of Griffin Road.

FHP officials said a black 2001 Harley Davidson Road King motorcycle and a red 2012 Chevrolet Camaro were traveling southbound when the motorcycle moved from the outside center lane into the inside center lane, entering the Camaro’s path.

They said the front of the Camaro struck the rear of the motorcycle. The motorcycle rider, a 28-year-old Hollywood man, was thrown from the bike and died, according to investigators. Authorities are working to notify his next of kin.

Troopers said the Camaro driver, a 22-year-old Hollywood man, was not injured.

They said all southbound lanes were temporarily closed starting at midnight Saturday, but have since reopened.

Pittsburgh is sending prospects Omar Alfonso, a catcher, and Luis Cruz, an outfielder, to New York for Doval.

The 29-year-old Doval, an All-Star in 2023 when he served as the closer for the San Francisco Giants, provides Pittsburgh with a much-needed experienced arm as the Pirates try to hang around in the crowded race for a National League wild-card spot.

Pittsburgh's bullpen has been an issue all season. The club has blown 20 saves this season, perhaps the biggest reason the Pirates entered Saturday at 55-56 despite scoring the second-most runs in the majors. The latest setback came on Friday night, when a two-run lead in the eighth inning in Cincinnati morphed into an 8-7 loss.

Doval went 3-1 with a 4.54 ERA in 44 games this season for the Yankees. He has had issues with walks recently, issuing at least one free pass in four of his last five appearances with New York, including two while taking the loss against the Chicago White Sox on July 29. Doval has only thrown 56% of his first pitches for strikes this season, among the worst first-strike percentages in the majors.

The durable Doval is one of only eight pitchers to appear in at least 60 games in each of the last four seasons.

Pittsburgh is hoping a new setting provides a fresh start. The Pirates could also use the help. The club designated former closer Dennis Santana for assignment last month and has few viable right-handed options near the back end of the bullpen.

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Una cadena de alta presión retiene el calor cerca del suelo —lo que se conoce como domo de calor— desde Arizona hasta Montana, aunque la buena noticia es que durará relativamente poco, señalaron expertos del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

El sábado, un calor peligroso afectaba a la región, por lo que el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional emitió advertencias y pronosticó que varias ciudades alcanzarían temperaturas récord. Para última hora de la tarde, Las Vegas llegó a los 46 grados Celsius (115 grados Fahrenheit), la temperatura más alta del año; eso está a sólo un grado del récord diario de 47 °C (116 °F). Se anticipa que Phoenix alcance los 47 °C (116 °F), mientras que se vaticina que El Centro, California, llegue a un récord de 48 °C (118 °F). Se prevé que varias partes de Montana enfrenten un intenso calor, y se pronostica que Great Falls llegue a una temperatura récord de 40 °C (104 °F).

En Las Vegas, la máxima prevista para el sábado estaba 10 grados por encima de lo normal, y los meteorólogos advirtieron que habría un calor peligroso hasta el domingo, cuando se espera una máxima de 45,5 °C (114 °F), indicó la científica del servicio meteorológico Morgan Stessman.

Las mínimas nocturnas, de entre 26 y 32 °C (80 y 90 °F), harán que la situación sea especialmente peligrosa porque no permiten que el cuerpo de las personas se recupere. “Simplemente no hay alivio durante la noche”, manifestó Stessman.

Se insta a la población a permanecer en interiores y mantenerse hidratada.

En el Justa Center de Phoenix, que atiende a personas mayores pero abre al público como centro de enfriamiento por la tarde, el mayor desafío es mantenerse al día con la necesidad de agua y electrolitos, dijo el director de operaciones Rudy Soliz. Señaló que unas 200 personas acuden a diario.

“Cualquiera puede venir, recibir una comida, inscribirse, registrarse a través del centro de enfriamiento, sentarse, relajarse, ver un poco de televisión, ya sabes, recuperarse antes de acudir a otro centro de enfriamiento o ir a su destino”, dijo.

Varias ciudades, cerca de alcanzar temperaturas récord

Stessman explicó que el récord de agosto para Las Vegas es de 47 °C (116 °F), mientras que la temperatura más alta registrada ha sido de 49 °C (120 °F) en julio de 2024, que también fue el verano más caluroso del que se tiene registro.

En Montana, toda la parte este del estado estaba bajo una advertencia de calor extremo el sábado, aunque para el domingo gran parte del estado tendrá máximas de alrededor de 21 °C (70 °F), informó el experto del servicio meteorológico Jeff Kitsmiller.

Se prevé que Great Falls alcance los 40 °C (104 °F), superando su récord anterior de 38 °C (101 °F), señaló Kitsmiller, mientras que se preveía que Helena igualara o superara su récord de 39 °C (102 °F).

Aun así, esta ola de calor no es tan grave como la de mediados de julio, cuando algunas zonas rompieron récords históricos, como Billings, que llegó a 44 °C (111 °F) el 12 de julio, apuntó Kitsmiller.

“Esa fue una ola de calor poco común”, señaló. “Esta encaja para esta época del año”.

El sábado, la Montana Rescue Mission, un refugio para personas sin hogar en Billings, abrió sus puertas más temprano de lo habitual para brindar alivio ante temperaturas que podrían llegar a 41 °C (106 °F). Se esperaba a decenas de personas durante el día, y el refugio planeaba ofrecer cena, camas y desayuno, dijo una recepcionista.

Las cuatro piscinas y tres áreas de juegos acuáticos de Great Falls Parks and Recreation estaban abarrotadas de personas que intentaban vencer el calor, dijo Katy Houseman, quien trabaja en uno de los centros recreativos de la ciudad.

“Definitivamente, acuden a las piscinas y usan las áreas de juegos acuáticos afuera y luego tratan de refugiarse adentro, donde hay aire acondicionado”, dijo Houseman. “Hace muchísimo, muchísimo calor hoy”.

El calor agrava los riesgos de incendios forestales

Los pronosticadores advierten que esta ola de calor, combinada con la sequedad causada por el calor previo, aumentará los riesgos de incendios forestales en todo el oeste.

“Definitivamente nos preocupa eso” en Montana, donde ya hay incendios activos y se pronostican vientos fuertes para el fin de semana, dijo Kitsmiller, y agregó que la mayor parte del estado estaba bajo una advertencia de bandera roja.

En Nevada, “con la llegada de este domo de calor, hemos perdido parte de la humedad que teníamos; por ejemplo, la humedad relativa por la tarde cae a un solo dígito en bastantes lugares”, explicó Stessman.

El Servicio Forestal de Estados Unidos señaló que existe un alto riesgo de incendios forestales hasta el domingo en la mayor parte del sur de California, excepto en la franja costera.

El calor extremo y la sequía también han generado condiciones propicias para los incendios forestales en el noroeste del Pacífico.

El gobernador de Washington, Bob Ferguson, declaró el sábado el estado de emergencia después de que temperaturas inusualmente altas y vientos fuertes agravaran incendios forestales récord en todo el estado. También prohibió la mayor parte de las quemas al aire libre y agrícolas hasta finales de septiembre.

La proclamación de Ferguson entró en vigor antes de una alerta de bandera roja sin precedentes de “situación particularmente peligrosa” emitida por el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, que calificó el riesgo meteorológico como “extremo” en todo el este de Washington. Actualmente arden más de 808 kilómetros cuadrados (312 millas cuadradas) en 12 grandes incendios.

También se emitió una alerta de bandera roja para el este de Oregon, donde las cuadrillas combaten varios grandes incendios forestales, entre ellos, el incendio Rowe Creek Complex, que ha crecido hasta alcanzar 1.269 kilómetros cuadrados (490 millas cuadradas) con un 57% de contención.

El cambio climático hace que las olas de calor y los incendios forestales sean más frecuentes

El cambio climático derivado de la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas natural provoca olas de calor más grandes, más intensas y más duraderas, lo que genera sequías más severas y contribuye al surgimiento de incendios forestales más extensos y destructivos.

También se prevé que el clima de este año se vea afectado por El Niño, un calentamiento natural del Pacífico ecuatorial que altera los patrones meteorológicos y eleva las temperaturas en todo el mundo.

Se prevé que el actual fenómeno de El Niño se ubique entre los más intensos desde que el servicio meteorológico comenzó a seguir el fenómeno en 1950, según los expertos. Ya ha batido récords de intensidad en sus primeras etapas, advirtieron funcionarios de las Naciones Unidas el viernes.

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Pirro’s office, in a court filing on Friday, moved to drop criminal charges against a former Olympian, David Hearn, who had been accused of deliberately damaging the pool after it underwent a renovation ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration last month.

Trump, in a posting on social media, acknowledged that there “may have been some contractor difficulty” in the installation of a new pool liner. But he continues to insist “the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump added in his post.

The dismissal was an embarrassing setback for a Justice Department that had previously echoed Trump's claims and billed the prosecution as accountability for damage at a Washington landmark, a pet project of Trump. Pirro's decision to drop the case is also a rare moment during Trump's second term of an aide or political appointee openly defying him.

The president, without providing any clear new evidence, continued to allege on Saturday that the majority of the damage to the pool was caused by vandals.

Government lawyers in their 20-page court filing on Friday said that additional documents provided by the Interior Department since the indictment of Hearn show that the damage was the result of a botched installation by a contractor as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”

In addition, a recent visual inspection revealed damage throughout the pool, including in the middle — where prosecutors say a vandal would not likely have attempted to peel the lining.

Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was accused of pulling up a two-foot square piece of the pool’s lining.

“Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt,” Pirro, a Trump appointee, said in her filing, which asked a judge to formally dismiss the case.

Pirro in the court filing also blamed the Interior Department for providing “less than fulsome information at the outset of the case.”

The filing added that had “DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment.” It was a jarring turn in position from Pirro, who claimed the government's case was built on “tremendous evidence” when she announced the indictment against Hearn last month.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in a posting on X appeared to push back against Pirro's criticism, claiming some of the acts of vandalism were captured on video.

“We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool,” Burgum added.

Hearn's legal team on Saturday criticized both Trump and Pirro and said it was weighing "legal remedies” on behalf of their client.

“Trump is mad at Pirro because she finally admitted what we made clear in our legal filings all along: Trump’s botched renovation was responsible for the damage — not Davey Hearn," the legal team said in a statement. “However, her claim that she and her office were previously duped by Interior is nonsense. Starting immediately after the arraignment, our motions repeatedly proved that the administration was to blame for the Reflecting Pool failures, not Davey.”

Trump on Saturday also posted a nearly four-minute video that appears to have been taken from a security camera, in which three individuals can be seen with their hands in the pool, including one for an extended period.

The president claimed the video shows “material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter, for all to see!”

It's not clear from the video, which appears to be shot from some distance, that any vandalism occurred. Workers can also be seen standing nearby and don’t appear to notice the people sticking their hands in the water.

In May, Trump announced plans to beautify the Reflecting Pool this spring. Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded a $14.7 million no-bid contract to repaint and waterproof the pool’s concrete floor.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings did not respond to requests for comment.

Water was drained and Trump directed that the bottom be painted with what he called “American flag blue.”

But problems emerged within days of the project's completion, with chunks of the new liner peeling off.

Trump was quick to blame vandals. And the National Park Service reported to the U.S. Park Police a June 9 incident in which it claimed a sharp knife or razor cut the pool’s new liner.

The work on the Reflecting Pool is just one of a number of projects Trump has spearheaded across the nation’s capital. Most prominently, he demolished the White House’s East Wing to build a $400 million ballroom and plans to build a towering arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

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Earlier this week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota. The source of the attacks is being investigated, but they came amid warnings that Iranian hackers have been focused on such systems.

The reports in Michigan surfaced after the state received a federal cyber alert Tuesday about attempts to tamper with operational technology at water systems.

Soon after, the state received “a small number of reports from Michigan communities indicating activity consistent with what federal agencies described,” said Dale George, the director of communications at the state's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. He later said nine systems were impacted.

“All systems continued to operate safely, issues were addressed by local operators, and there are no known impacts that posed a public health concern,” George said in an statement.

The FBI, which is investigating, has not publicly identified a culprit and a spokesperson declined to say Thursday who the bureau thought might be responsible. The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other agencies warned in an advisory last week that Iranian hackers have been targeting water and wastewater systems and the operational controls of other critical infrastructure sectors.

“The FBI is aware of recent public reporting around Water and Wastewater (WWS) sectors," the agency said in a statement Saturday. "The FBI and our interagency partners are fully engaged to protect critical infrastructure and we remain well-equipped to protect against cyber threats of all varieties.”

Digital warfare has become ingrained in military conflict, and local water plants or healthcare facilities often lack the funds and know-how to install the latest software patches or take other security steps. That has made them a favorite target, both because of the relative ease of penetrating them and because of the panic such disruptions can cause.

Iran’s interest in the operations of water systems inside the U.S. dates back years. In 2016, the Justice Department charged a group of Iranian hackers in connection with a cyberattack targeting a small dam near New York City.

Minnesota IT Services said that as of Thursday, there were no active requests from Minnesota communities for residents to modify usage of their drinking water. The state agency said most of the confirmed attacks involved technology that water systems use to remotely monitor and control equipment. It said that being impacted meant investigators confirmed there was malicious activity involving the system’s technology and didn’t mean every impacted community had their water service disrupted.

For a few hours on Monday, the city of Braham asked residents to minimize water use as they tried to determine why the water plant was offline. The city of about 1,700 people, located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Minneapolis, said in a news release that the water plant outage was due to a cyberattack, but it didn’t cause any issue with water quality.

The city said the attackers shut down the operating controls that shut down the well and water treatment plant. That left the city for a time only able to provide residents with the water held in the water tower.

In Plymouth, a city of about 80,000 located outside of Minneapolis, officials said on social media that their water infrastructure communications had been restored by Tuesday afternoon following a cyberattack.

During a Cabinet meeting on Friday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that recent cyberattacks in Minnesota were the fault of the state, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.

Waltz responded on social media, saying Trump "knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too."

A ridge of high pressure was holding heat close to the ground — what’s known as a heat dome — from Arizona to Montana, though the good news was that it will be relatively short-lived, National Weather Service meteorologists said.

Dangerous heat and warnings were plaguing the region, and the National Weather Service on Saturday forecast a number of cities that were expected to hit record highs. By late afternoon, Las Vegas reached 115 Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), the hottest temperature of the year and just one degree off the daily record of 116 F (47 C).

Phoenix was expected to reach 116 F (47 C), while El Centro, California, was expected to hit a record 118 F (48 C). Even parts of Montana were expected to broil, with a record 104 F (40 C) forecast for Great Falls.

The high in Las Vegas was 10 degrees above normal, and meteorologists warned of dangerous heat through Sunday, when the high was expected to be 114 F (45 C), according to weather service meteorologist Morgan Stessman.

Overnight lows in the upper 80s to low 90s will make the situation especially dangerous because it does not allow people’s bodies to recover. “There's just no relief overnight,” Stessman said.

People were urged to stay indoors and keep hydrated.

At the Justa Center in Phoenix, which caters to seniors but opens to the public as a cooling center in the afternoon, the biggest challenge was keeping up with the need for water and electrolytes, operations director Rudy Soliz said. About 200 people come in daily.

“Anybody can come in, get a meal, sign up, get checked in through the cooling center, sit down, relax, watch a little TV, you know, catch themselves before they move on to another cooling center or their destination,” Soliz said.

Several cities near record temps

The August record for Las Vegas is 116 F (47 C), while the hottest on record was 120 F (49 C) in July 2024, which also was the hottest summer on record, Stessman said.

In Montana the entire east side of the state was under an extreme heat warning, though by Sunday much of the state was forecast to be in the 70s, according to weather service meteorologist Jeff Kitsmiller.

Still it was not as bad as a heat wave in mid-July when some places broke all-time records, including Billings, which reached 111 F (44 C) on July 12, Kitsmiller said.

“That was a rare heat wave,” he said. “This one fits for this time of year.”

The Montana Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in Billings, opened its doors earlier than usual to provide relief from the heat. Dozens of people were expected throughout the day, and the shelter planned to provide dinner, beds and breakfast, a receptionist said.

Great Falls Parks and Recreation's four swimming pools and three splash pads were crowded, said Katy Houseman, who works at one of the city's recreation centers.

“They’re definitely hitting the pools and doing the splash pads outside and then trying to hide inside where there’s air conditioning,” Houseman said. “It's super, super hot today.”

Heat exacerbates wildfire risks

Forecasters warned that this heat wave, combined with drying from past heat, will add to wildfire risks across the West.

“We’re definitely worried about that” in Montana, where fires already were burning and high winds were forecast for the weekend, Kitsmiller said, adding that most of the state was under a red flag warning.

In Nevada, Stessman said, “with this heat dome setting up, we’ve lost some of the moisture that we did have — like relative humidity in the afternoon bottoming out in the single digits in quite a few places.”

The U.S. Forest Service wanred of enhanced wildfire risk through Sunday in most of Southern California except the coastline.

Extreme heat and drought also have created dangerous wildfire conditions in the Pacific Northwest.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Saturday after unusually high temperatures and high winds exacerbated record wildfires across the state. He also banned most outdoor and agricultural burning through the end of September.

Ferguson’s proclamation went into effect ahead of an unprecedented “particularly dangerous situation” red flag alert by the National Weather Service, which rated the weather risk as “extreme” across Eastern Washington.

The Old Trails Fire, a fast-moving wildfire driven by the strong winds and high temperatures, swept across northwest Spokane before jumping the Spokane River and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.

A red flag alert also was issued for eastern Oregon, where crews battled several large fires including the Rowe Creek Complex blaze, which has grown to 490 square miles (1,269 square kilometers) with 57% containment.

Climate change makes heat waves and wildfires more frequent

Climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is causing larger, more intense and longer-lasting heat waves — which lead to more intense droughts and contribute to larger, more destructive wildfires.

This year’s weather is also expected to be affected by an El Nino phenomenon, a natural warming of the equatorial Pacific that alters weather patterns and spikes temperatures across the globe.

The current El Nino is expected to rank as among the most intense since the weather service began tracking in 1950, experts said. It has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, United Nations officials said Friday.

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Associated Press writer Martha Bellisle in Seattle contributed.

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Health officials said the agency and Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control are coordinating surveillance, prevention and control efforts.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne illness that can cause flu-like symptoms, including severe muscle and joint pain, fever and, in some cases, a rash. Respiratory symptoms are uncommon.

Health experts say symptoms typically develop within 14 days after the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. Dengue is not spread from person to person.

The agency is urging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites by taking basic precautions.

Officials say the agency continues statewide surveillance for mosquito-borne illnesses, including West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, malaria, chikungunya and dengue. Florida residents are also encouraged to report dead birds to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

For more information, visit the agency’s mosquito prevention webpage or view the weekly mosquito-borne illness surveillance reports.

Anyone experiencing symptoms should call the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County at 305-324-2400.

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Urban Health Partnerships hosted its “Get Moving Miami Gardens” event at Rolling Oaks Park, where residents picked up pantry staples including bread, macaroni, beans and other nonperishable food items while also receiving free health screenings for conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.

The event, which marks the nonprofit’s 15th year serving Miami Gardens, also featured a neighborhood walking audit, community yoga, a resource fair and family activities aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles.

One of the day’s key initiatives was the walking audit, where residents, elected officials and community stakeholders evaluated neighborhood streets for safety and accessibility.

“So what’s great about this event is that we have food, we have services, all of these things that are needed right now, but we also have a walking audit which is a walk where community members, officials, different stakeholders actually go through like a street or an area and evaluate how safe it is, whether there’s improvements that can be made and in this particular case we’re going to create more green trails and create space for the community,” said Andrea Iglesias, CEO and executive director of Urban Health Partnerships.

“So from here they’ll be able to actually make some recommendations throughout the city and hopefully advocate for that space to be created,” she added.

Organizers said the event is intended to address both immediate needs, such as food insecurity and access to preventive health care, while also encouraging long-term investments in neighborhood infrastructure that support healthier communities.

Urban Health Partnerships realizó su evento “Get Moving Miami Gardens” en Rolling Oaks Park, donde los residentes recibieron productos básicos para la despensa, entre ellos pan, macarrones, frijoles y otros alimentos no perecederos, además de chequeos médicos gratuitos para detectar enfermedades como diabetes y enfermedades cardíacas.

El evento, que marca el año número 15 de la organización sin fines de lucro prestando servicios en Miami Gardens, también incluyó una evaluación a pie del vecindario, yoga comunitario, una feria de recursos y actividades familiares destinadas a promover estilos de vida saludables.

Una de las principales iniciativas del día fue la evaluación a pie, durante la cual residentes, funcionarios electos y líderes comunitarios evaluaron las calles del vecindario para revisar su seguridad y accesibilidad.

“Lo que hace especial este evento es que tenemos alimentos, tenemos servicios, todas estas cosas que se necesitan en este momento, pero también tenemos una evaluación a pie, que consiste en un recorrido donde miembros de la comunidad, funcionarios y diferentes líderes recorren una calle o un área para evaluar qué tan segura es y si se pueden hacer mejoras. En este caso, vamos a crear más senderos verdes y generar espacios para la comunidad”, dijo Andrea Iglesias, directora ejecutiva de Urban Health Partnerships.

“De esta manera podrán hacer recomendaciones para toda la ciudad y, con suerte, impulsar la creación de esos espacios”, agregó.

Los organizadores señalaron que el evento busca atender tanto necesidades inmediatas, como la inseguridad alimentaria y el acceso a la atención médica preventiva, como fomentar inversiones a largo plazo en infraestructura comunitaria que favorezcan comunidades más saludables.

El personal de la Guardia Costera informó que las tripulaciones respondieron a la emergencia y brindaron asistencia hasta la llegada de un equipo comercial de salvamento. Posteriormente, el equipo remolcó la embarcación hasta la marina Dinner Key.

Hasta el momento no se han reportado personas heridas.

Funcionarios de la Guardia Costera recordaron a los navegantes que sus tripulaciones están disponibles para asistir a los marinos las 24 horas del día, los siete días de la semana.

Los navegantes en peligro pueden comunicarse con la Guardia Costera por el canal 16 de VHF o llamar al 911 para solicitar asistencia de emergencia.

La Guardia Costera también exhorta a los navegantes a practicar hábitos de navegación seguros y mantenerse preparados mientras se encuentren en el agua.

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Noh, the 25-year-old Californian with only one LPGA title, played bogey-free on the back nine at Royal Lytham & St. Annes and finished at 7-under 206 to lead over five players.

One of them is Ryu, who is trying to become the first player since fellow South Korean Inbee Park to win three straight majors in the same year. Ryu was headed in that direction with a pair of birdies on the front nine to build a four-shot lead.

Her slide began with a bogey on the par-5 seventh, the start of five bogeys in an eight-hole stretch that cost her the lead and put her in a chasing mode the rest of the sunny day along the Lancashire coast of England.

Ryu finished with four straight pars for a 74 and saw the bright side. She kept double bogeys off her card, including the 10th hole when she was against a back lip of a pot bunker. She chipped it forward in the sand and got up-and-down from there for bogey.

Plus, she's still in range of adding a third major this year to victories in the Women's PGA Championship and Evian Championship.

“Tomorrow supposed to be wind the same as today," Ryu said. “Today my shot was a little higher than the other two days. So I'm just trying to keep lower and no bunker.”

Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player who captured the first two majors of the year, had her round ruined by a pair of double bogeys, one on the 18th hole that gave her a 73 and left her eight behind.

As surprise as Ryu's collapse was the emergence of Noh, who decided to return home last week instead of playing the Women's Scottish Open. She had missed her last three cuts coming into the final LPGA major of the year, and had not registered a top 10 since last October.

But she overcame a rocky start with three straight birdies starting on the par-3 ninth, including a birdie putt from 12 feet on the 10th, and avoided mistakes on the firm links coming in.

Noh, at No. 69 in the women's world ranking and No. 95 in the Race to CME Globe on the LPGA Tour, has only contended one other time in a major when she missed a playoff by one shot in the 2021 Evian Championship.

“It was good for me to go home and reset, refresh and come here with a different mindset,” Noh said of her decision to skip the Scottish.

The chasing pack also includes Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand, one of only two players to have been No. 1 in the world without winning a major. Thitikul closed with nine straight pars for a 72 to join the pack at 4-under 209.

Esther Henseleit of Germany (67), Lucy Li (69) and Shiho Kuwaki of Japan (72) also were three back. Kuwaki had a chance to get into the final group, but she missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th. None has won a major. Henseleit won Olympic silver in France two years ago. Li is best known for qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open in 2014 at age 11.

Noh said her fiancé, who plays amateur golf, has been a big support in reminding her to put some enjoyment into the game. They played last week at Sahalee, a tree-lined course near Seattle.

“Good practice for this week avoiding all those trees, helping me avoid these bunkers,” she said.

Now comes the big test, with a strong pack of contenders behind her and a chance at winning her first major championship.

“Just focus on playing the round,” Noh said. “I don't want to think too much about the lead. Just settle into a good tempo and have fun out there.”

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The 6-1 decision further clouds the future of the 73-year-old pipeline owned by Canadian energy transportation company Enbridge that carries petroleum from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario.

The part of the pipeline in question, called Line 5, runs for 4 miles (6 kilometers) along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet.

Enbridge wants to bury the pipeline in a tunnel under the straits. Environmentalists and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer want to move the pipeline away from the waterway altogether saying a spill would be catastrophic to the Great Lakes and surrounding area.

The Michigan Public Service Commission granted a permit to build the tunnel in 2023. Four Michigan tribal nations along with several environmental groups sued.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday that when they granted the permit, regulators failed to consider if the tunnel project will extend the lifetime of the pipeline, resulting in more harm to the environment.

The ruling also said the Public Service Commission wasn't consistent when it compared alternatives to the pipeline like using trucks or trains to move the oil and didn't assess how the tunnel might impact fishing, boating and other public trust rights on the Great Lakes.

Opponents of the pipeline say this type of project has never been done anywhere else and would turn the Straits of Mackinac, which is a sacred site for the Indigenous Anishinaabe tribes, into a construction site for years.

“Whether Line 5 is suspended in the water or encased in a tunnel, it is simply a terrible idea to pump more than half a million barrels of oil every day through the middle of the Great Lakes,” attorney David Gover with the Native American Rights Fund said in a statement.

Enbridge is reviewing its legal options after the ruling and said it is disappointed for another delay in a project that has been under review for nearly a decade and would “enhance environmental protection of the Great Lakes while maintaining critical energy reliability for the region,” spokesman Ryan Duffy said in a statement.

Enbridge proposed the pipeline tunnel nearly a decade ago around the time a ship anchor dented part of the line. The company said the tunnel would massively reduce the possibility of an oil spill, but environmentalists said building the tunnel under the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac would cause noise, vibrations and permanent environmental damage.

In a different set of court cases, Gov. Whitmer and other state officials have been trying since 2020 to shut down the pipeline under the straits.

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The event, held Saturday at 17800 Northwest 25th Avenue, brought together children and families for a back-to-school celebration featuring games, snacks, face painting, prizes, and a lively dance party where kids joined in on the Cha Cha Slide and enjoyed a bounce house.

Before the celebration began, families lined up to receive backpacks filled with essential school supplies, including pencils, highlighters, folders, binders, crayons, and other classroom necessities. Children also enjoyed activities like Jenga, sweet treats and icy refreshments.

“I got a backpack and an umbrella,” said third grader Bella as she showed off some of the items received at the event.

Another children shared excitement over the supplies they collected, including a book bag, highlighters, pencils, and a binder.

This year marks the 21st year of Unity on the Bay’s Community Backpack Drive, an effort aimed at supporting children in underserved communities.

The organization plans to distribute more than 4,000 backpacks to students locally in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, as well as to children in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and other communities.

Several nonprofit organizations joined the effort, including Boys & Girls Club of Miami Gardens, Touching Miami with Love in Overtown and Homestead, and Pridelines.

Organizers said the goal goes beyond providing school supplies — it is about helping families start the academic year with resources, encouragement, and a sense of community.

Here was an opportunity to give back for the Canadian-born Tinker and many of her WCHC members who have ancestral ties to the Caribbean nation. They did so by holding a three-day series of clinics that attracted about 150 Jamaican girls and boys in the nation’s capital of Kingston last weekend.

“A lot of gratitude. I mean very emotional,” Tinker said on Friday. “Just looking back and realizing that we got to impact a lot of our roots, and giving back to our community and introducing a game that we love, and we hope they’ll love as much as we do.”

Tinker is a former pro hockey player who has turned to broadcasting, and helped co-found what was then called the Black Girl Hockey Club Canada, and rebranded to the WCHC last year. The collective’s objective is making hockey more accessible to women and girls of color, and backed by the Professional Women’s Hockey League.

After holding clinics and offering programs in Canada, the WCHC decided to broaden its reach especially after hosting three girls from Kenya a year ago. The collective members include women of color playing at the collegiate and pro levels, with 15 making the trip to Jamaica, including Canadian national team and PWHL Vancouver defender Sophie Jaques,

“I think getting kids involved in any sport is great for them,” said Jaques, whose father is Jamaican. “Showing them that people of their heritage are very successful in the sport, and there’s opportunities for them in the sport I think is a great lesson."

In choosing Jamaica, the WCHC also brought on board Swift Hockey, a Canadian company that specializes in manufacturing and selling hockey sticks at more affordable prices. Swift was founded by Zechariah Thomas, a former minor leaguer who also played for the Jamaican national ice hockey team.

“Accessibility is something I speak on very publicly within hockey, where I felt a lot of people around me didn’t have accessibility,” said Thomas, who is from Oshawa, Ontario, and has Jamaican parents.

“A lot of kids I went to school with are now in jail or in prison or dead. And it’s such a big factor in my story noticing that none of them had sports,” he added. “So anything to make sports more accessible is super important.”

A majority of the Jamaican participants were new to hockey and included foster children.

“It was definitely very much grassroots learn to play, getting sticks in hands, teaching them how to stick handle,” Tinker said. “And then by the end of it they were running with the ball and stick-handling and shooting. So I think it was great.”

The WCHC left behind 75 sticks, goalie equipment, balls and T-shirts, while returning home with plenty of fond memories.

“As much as we teach the kids, there’s so much to learn from them,” Jaques said. “Their futures are so bright. And it’s just kind of opening their eyes to the fact that anything they want to do is possible.”

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El evento, realizado el sábado en el 17800 de Northwest 25th Avenue, reunió a niños y familias para una celebración de regreso a clases con juegos, refrigerios, pintacaritas, premios y una animada fiesta de baile en la que los niños participaron en el Cha Cha Slide y disfrutaron de un inflable.

Antes de que comenzara la celebración, las familias hicieron fila para recibir mochilas llenas de útiles escolares esenciales, incluidos lápices, marcadores fluorescentes, carpetas, archivadores, crayones y otros artículos necesarios para el salón de clases. Los niños también disfrutaron de actividades como Jenga, dulces y bebidas frías.

“Recibí una mochila y un paraguas”, dijo una niña mientras mostraba algunos de los artículos que recibió durante el evento.

Otro niño compartió su entusiasmo por los útiles que recibió, entre ellos una mochila, marcadores fluorescentes, lápices y un archivador.

Este año marca la edición número 21 de la entrega comunitaria de mochilas de Unity on the Bay, una iniciativa destinada a apoyar a niños de comunidades desatendidas.

La organización planea distribuir más de 4,000 mochilas a estudiantes de los condados Miami-Dade y Broward, así como a niños en Haití, República Dominicana y otras comunidades.

Varias organizaciones sin fines de lucro se unieron a la iniciativa, entre ellas Boys & Girls Club of Miami Gardens, Touching Miami with Love en Overtown y Homestead, y Pridelines.

Los organizadores señalaron que el objetivo va más allá de entregar útiles escolares: se trata de ayudar a las familias a comenzar el año académico con recursos, apoyo y un sentido de comunidad.

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The energetic pup came to the shelter from another facility, and staff say he would do best in a home without cats. Families with other dogs can schedule a meet-and-greet at the shelter to see if they are a good match.

“He’s active, he’s cute,” Humane Society of Broward County spokesperson Cherie Wachter said. “If you’re looking for an active dog to go on adventures with, Stewie could be the guy for you.”

The shelter is also looking for homes for a bonded pair of long-haired rabbits, Mischief and Angel, who need to be adopted together. The rabbits were surrendered after their previous owner was no longer allowed to keep them.

HSBC is also seeking foster families, including for a 1-pound kitten recently rescued after being found wandering on I-95 by Local 10’s Jason Carter.

For information about adopting Stewie, the rabbits or becoming a foster, click here.

El enérgico cachorro llegó al refugio desde otra instalación, y el personal indicó que lo ideal es que viva en un hogar sin gatos. Las familias que ya tienen otros perros pueden programar un encuentro en el refugio para determinar si son compatibles.

“Es activo, es lindo”, dijo Cherie Wachter, portavoz de la Sociedad Protectora de Animales del Condado Broward. “Si busca un perro activo para salir de aventuras, Stewie podría ser el indicado para usted”.

El refugio también busca un hogar para una pareja de conejos de pelo largo, Mischief y Angel, que deben ser adoptados juntos. Los conejos fueron entregados al refugio después de que a su anterior propietario ya no se le permitiera tenerlos.

La Sociedad Protectora de Animales del Condado Broward también busca familias de acogida, incluso para un gatito de una libra que fue rescatado recientemente tras ser encontrado deambulando por la I-95 por Jason Carter, de Local 10.

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At United Way Miami, dozens of volunteers gathered Saturday for the organization’s annual back-to-school drive.

Event organizers said between 75 and 100 volunteers from United Way Miami partner and sponsor organizations are packing nearly 1,000 backpacks with essential classroom supplies, including notebooks, pencils, folders, crayons and other materials.

The effort aims to help ease the financial burden many families face as school costs continue to rise. School supplies can cost up to $150 per child, making it difficult for some households to afford everything students need to start the year prepared.

The filled backpacks will be distributed next week to students across Miami-Dade County.

United Way Miami leaders said the goal is not only to provide supplies but also to give students the confidence to walk into their classrooms ready to learn on the first day of school.

“We want to make sure that parents aren’t having to make a decision between, ‘Do we buy a third meal or do I buy school supplies for the kids?’” United Way Miami vice president Ivette Diaz said. “This is our way, one of the many ways in which we support the community and the folks that we provide resources to.”

Organizers said the backpack drive is one of several back-to-school initiatives planned this month. The organization continues to work with local businesses, donors and volunteers to support students and families throughout Miami-Dade County.

The backpack assembly event will continue through the morning, with volunteers working to fill each bag with the supplies students need to begin the school year on the right foot.

En United Way Miami, decenas de voluntarios se reunieron este sábado para la campaña anual de regreso a clases de la organización.

Los organizadores del evento informaron que entre 75 y 100 voluntarios de organizaciones asociadas y patrocinadoras de United Way Miami están preparando casi 1,000 mochilas con útiles escolares esenciales, incluidos cuadernos, lápices, carpetas, crayones y otros materiales.

El esfuerzo busca aliviar la carga económica que enfrentan muchas familias mientras los costos escolares continúan aumentando. Los útiles escolares pueden costar hasta $150 USD por niño, lo que dificulta que algunos hogares puedan comprar todo lo que los estudiantes necesitan para comenzar el año preparados.

Las mochilas serán distribuidas la próxima semana a estudiantes de todo el condado Miami-Dade.

Los líderes de United Way Miami señalaron que el objetivo no es solo proporcionar útiles escolares, sino también darles a los estudiantes la confianza para llegar a sus salones de clases listos para aprender desde el primer día de clases.

“Queremos asegurarnos de que los padres no tengan que decidir entre “¿Compramos una tercera comida o compro útiles escolares para los niños?””, dijo Ivette Díaz, vicepresidenta de United Way Miami. “Esta es nuestra manera, una de las muchas formas en que apoyamos a la comunidad y a las personas a las que brindamos recursos”.

Los organizadores informaron que la campaña de mochilas es una de varias iniciativas de regreso a clases programadas para este mes. La organización continúa trabajando con empresas locales, donantes y voluntarios para apoyar a estudiantes y familias en todo el condado Miami-Dade.

El evento de preparación de mochilas continuará durante la mañana, mientras los voluntarios trabajan para llenar cada mochila con los útiles que los estudiantes necesitan para comenzar el año escolar con el pie derecho.

La investigación se desarrolla en el centro comercial Palm Gardens, ubicado junto a North Andrews Avenue y Northeast 26th Drive.

Michaila Hightower, de Local 10, se encontraba en el lugar cuando un hombre fue detenido y colocado en la parte trasera de una patrulla.

En el suelo del centro comercial se podían observar lo que parecía ser sangre y prendas de vestir.

Dwayne Lewis, quien presenció la balacera, dijo a Hightower que una mujer había recibido un disparo en una pierna, aunque la Policía no confirmó de inmediato esa información.

“La víctima estaba justo a mi lado. Estaba perdiendo mucha sangre”, dijo.

Lewis contó que esperaba en una parada de autobús cercana cuando ocurrió la balacera.

“Desde el auto, probablemente escuché unos tres o cuatro disparos”, dijo.

Lewis señaló que parecía haber una pelea en el centro comercial antes de la balacera.

“Solo estaban discutiendo y escuché a una mujer decir: “Cariño, no; cariño, no”. Entonces él simplemente comenzó a disparar”, dijo Lewis. “Luego, las dos personas a las que les disparaba corrieron hacia una pequeña oficina, la oficina de impuestos. El tirador se dio la vuelta y regresó a su auto”.

Además del concreto manchado de sangre, también se observó un impacto de bala en la ventana del lado del conductor de un Honda Accord.

“Lo único que decía era: “Por favor, llamen a una ambulancia”. Estaba hablándole a una joven”, dijo Lewis.

A pesar de haber recibido un disparo en una pierna, Lewis dijo que la víctima permanecía tranquila y consciente.

Los agentes informaron que el accidente ocurrió aproximadamente a las 11:13 p.m. del viernes en la autopista Florida Turnpike, justo al sur de Griffin Road.

Funcionarios de la FHP informaron que una motocicleta Harley-Davidson Road King negra modelo 2001 y un Chevrolet Camaro rojo modelo 2012 circulaban en dirección sur cuando la motocicleta pasó del carril central exterior al carril central interior, ingresando a la trayectoria del Camaro.

Indicaron que la parte delantera del Camaro impactó la parte trasera de la motocicleta. El motociclista, un hombre de 28 años de Hollywood, salió expulsado de la motocicleta y sufrió heridas mortales, según los investigadores. La notificación a sus familiares más cercanos aún está pendiente.

Los agentes informaron que el conductor del Camaro, un hombre de 22 años de Hollywood, no resultó herido.

Indicaron que todos los carriles en dirección sur de la autopista Florida Turnpike permanecían cerrados a las 12:06 a.m. de este sábado.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles sobre el accidente.

But it also clashed with the reality on the ground, where Israeli strikes have continued since Trump first touted the deal late Thursday in Washington, and where few steps have been taken to advance a broader ceasefire agreement that went into effect in October.

Most of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians are still displaced or live in tent camps, where poor conditions and overcrowding have led to rodent infestations and outbreaks of infectious diseases such as chickenpox.

“They can talk about withdrawal and disarmament," said Abdel Moneim Aboul-Roos, 24, a tuk-tuk driver who lost his leg in an Israeli airstrike. “I don’t care about any of it as long as there is no food or medicine.”

Israel and Hamas signed a U.S.-backed ceasefire plan last year that ended major combat operations, saw the return of Israeli hostages and allowed for an increase in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave. It also called for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops, the creation of an international stabilization force and a program to decommission weapons held by Hamas.

But as each side accused the other of violating the ceasefire, negotiations stalled. Hamas held onto its weapons and the Israeli military refused to withdraw. Since October, Israel has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and expanded the amount of territory it controls. Five Israeli soldiers have also been killed in militant attacks.

Many Palestinians don't trust Israel or Hamas

The road map Trump announced — and that Hamas confirmed — addresses in more specific terms the type of weapons the militant group and its allies will be required to hand over to a new technocratic government. The document says Israel will not be involved in the decommission of Hamas' weapons and that it should halt all military operations in Gaza so the transition can proceed and recovery can begin.

But residents in Gaza say they have been repeatedly promised that the war will stop and their lives will improve. They see the road map as a positive development but remain skeptical that either Israel or Hamas will adhere to the terms.

“This is enough. We need improvement in our lives,” said Ayman Ahmed, a displaced Palestinian living in southern Gaza. He said he hopes Hamas gives up its arms but does not see it happening anytime soon.

“They don't care about Palestinians’ lives,” he said.

The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 others back to Gaza as hostages. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed more than 73,300 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which was part of the Hamas-run government.

The ministry maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and international organizations. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants, but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities.

Because of the high death toll and ongoing attacks, other Palestinians say they believe Israel will refuse to make concessions.

In southern Gaza, Ghazal Astal lives among the rubble. She said there is near-constant Israeli gunfire and that the territory has been transformed into an “indescribable battlefield.”

Ammar Kaskeen, 30, said he doesn't believe the road map will force Israeli troops to withdraw. For Israel, according to Kaskeen, the goal is not only to disarm Hamas but to also drive the Palestinian population out of Gaza.

"They will make us suffer,” he said.

Even as Israel digs in, Palestinians dream of returning home

Israel has not commented publicly on the road map but Israeli officials, speaking anonymously over the past two days, have signaled that the document does not align with the country's interests.

The officials also reiterated that Israel would not withdraw from the Yellow Line in Gaza, which divides Israeli-controlled territory in the east with the western part of the enclave.

In recent months, the military has built a massive earthen barrier roughly along the same line, developing what it described as a “security zone” adjacent to the berm, equipped with intelligence and technological assets.

Israel has also carried out controlled demolitions and clearing operations across much of the territory it controls. Palestinians who lived there have yet to return — and are unsure whether their homes are still standing.

Anas Nakla was displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza during the war. He said he knows his house has been destroyed but still wants to return home with his wife and children.

“It doesn't exist anymore," he said. "But we can return and rebuild.”

Similarly, Mohamed Hamad, who had to leave his home behind in northern Gaza, hopes that the U.S.-backed road map will pressure Israel to leave some of the areas it controls. He believes that even if only a small number of people could go back to their homes, “it will give hope to the rest that some day they may also return.”

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Melanie Lidman and Sam Mednick contributed to this report from Tel Aviv, Israel.

Authorities released an early note in the investigation into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, hoping that someone will recognize the writing style. A second note said Guthrie died shortly after she was kidnapped and “is buried in nature now.” Both notes initially were sent to a Tucson television station days after Guthrie went missing from her home outside Tucson on Feb. 1.

Desperate plea

“We are begging for help. We are desperate. We need someone to come forward. Someone knows something. Someone suspects something. Someone recognizes the writing in the ransom demand notes,” Guthrie wrote on her Instagram account, alongside a photo of her mother.

“Someone has noticed something different, strange, troubling or just unusual - perhaps with someone they deeply love," she wrote. "Perhaps they are afraid to come forward. Perhaps they are conflicted. Perhaps they are angry or upset for being in this situation. There is a way out - to tell what you know.”

Guthrie went on to say they “wanted to find out what happened to her, so that we can give her the dignity of a proper goodbye - a celebration of her remarkable life that she so deserves.”

Missing since February

Saturday is the six-month mark since Guthrie disappeared. No suspects have been arrested. The investigation has been dogged by unanswered questions, such as how many people are believed to have taken part in her abduction and whether she was taken by someone who knew her.

The FBI in Washington did not respond to questions about the ransom notes, including whether both messages sent to the Tucson station have been deemed legitimate.

In releasing the notes, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said “we believe these distinctive linguistic characteristics may be recognizable to someone who knows or has interacted with the notes’ writer.”

Ransom notes released

The first note, sent Feb. 2, said Guthrie was safe but scared and would be released unharmed once her captors received $4 million in cryptocurrency, with the ransom amount increasing if the first demand was not met. It said Guthrie would be released within 12 hours if the payment was received. It also included a threat to kill her if the ransom wasn’t paid.

“Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands,” the first note read. “It is in the best interest of everyone to have this completed as soon as possible.”

The second note was sent Feb. 6 and said Guthrie died shortly after she was taken. “She is buried in nature now,” it said. “Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome.” The note ended with an apology: “We are truly sorry.”

The sheriff’s department said the notes reveal a distinctive pattern of word choices and provide insight into the writer’s mindset. The agency said someone who knows the notes’ writer may recognize the patterns.

Authorities similarly used a suspect’s own writings as a tool to apprehend Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI. Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 others with mail bombs over a 17-year span, pressured The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to publish his 35,000-word manifesto in 1995.

Signs of preparations

The sheriff’s office also said Friday that two videos recovered from Guthrie’s doorbell camera might be from two separate days and indicate an unidentified male prepared ahead of when Guthrie was taken. Authorities are seeking information on anyone who was behaving differently, changed their physical appearance, suddenly left the Tucson area, or had a noticeable or unexplained interest or disinterest in the case.

“Investigators continue to pursue every available technological and investigative lead,” the sheriff’s office said. “However, community members remain a vital resource as we seek to provide answers for Nancy’s family.”

The FBI had released surveillance videos of a masked person who authorities said appeared to tamper with a camera on Nancy Guthrie’s front porch and block it with a plant. They described the person as a male about 5 feet, 9 inches (1.75 meters) tall.

Las autoridades de salud informaron que la agencia y el Departamento de Control de Mosquitos de Miami-Dade están coordinando los esfuerzos de vigilancia, prevención y control.

El dengue es una enfermedad transmitida por mosquitos que puede causar síntomas similares a los de la gripe, incluidos dolor intenso en músculos y articulaciones, fiebre y, en algunos casos, sarpullido. Los síntomas respiratorios son poco comunes.

Los expertos en salud indican que los síntomas generalmente se desarrollan dentro de los 14 días posteriores a la picadura de un mosquito Aedes aegypti infectado. El dengue no se transmite de persona a persona.

La agencia insta a los residentes a protegerse de las picaduras de mosquitos tomando precauciones básicas.

Las autoridades informaron que la agencia continúa con la vigilancia estatal de enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos, incluido el virus del Nilo Occidental, la encefalitis equina del este, la encefalitis de San Luis, la malaria, el chikunguña y el dengue. También se recomienda a los residentes de Florida reportar aves muertas a la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida.

Para obtener más información, visite la página web del Departamento sobre prevención de mosquitos o consulte los informes semanales de vigilancia de enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos.

Cualquier persona que presente síntomas debe llamar al Departamento de Salud de Florida en el condado Miami-Dade al 305-324-2400.

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Heat index values are expected to climb above 105 degrees this afternoon, creating hazardous conditions before scattered showers and thunderstorms develop later in the day, according to the National Weather Service.

Local 10 meteorologist Jennifer Collins said temperatures were already in the low 80s early Saturday morning, with readings of 82 degrees in Miami and 81 in Fort Lauderdale by 6 a.m. She says the highest heat index values will occur during the early afternoon before storms begin developing around 3 p.m.

Collins said South Florida has recorded 51 consecutive days with temperatures at or above 90 degrees, approaching the record of 54 straight days set in 2023.

With a primarily west wind, storms are expected to form inland across Miami-Dade and Broward counties before moving toward the east coast. Some storms could produce heavy rainfall.

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Se espera que los valores del índice de calor superen los 105 grados esta tarde, lo que generará condiciones peligrosas antes de que se desarrollen lluvias y tormentas eléctricas dispersas más tarde en el día, según el Servicio Nacional de Meteorología.

La meteoróloga de Local 10, Jennifer Collins, dijo que las temperaturas ya se encontraban en los bajos 80 grados durante las primeras horas de la mañana del sábado, con registros de 82 grados en Miami y 81 en Fort Lauderdale a las 6 a.m. Señaló que los valores más altos del índice de calor se registrarán durante las primeras horas de la tarde, antes de que comiencen a desarrollarse tormentas alrededor de las 3 p.m.

Collins indicó que el sur de Florida ha registrado 51 días consecutivos con temperaturas de 90 grados o más, acercándose al récord de 54 días consecutivos establecido en 2023.

Con vientos predominantes del oeste, se espera que las tormentas se formen tierra adentro en los condados Miami-Dade y Broward antes de desplazarse hacia la costa este. Algunas tormentas podrían producir lluvias intensas.

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Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach, Francisco Javier Lara, de 55 años, quien es maestro de Austin, Texas, fue arrestado por dos cargos de negligencia infantil sin causar lesiones corporales graves.

La Policía informó que los agentes respondieron a reportes sobre un menor que corría entre el tráfico cerca de 33rd Street y Pinetree Drive alrededor de las 12:15 p.m.

Las autoridades informaron que los agentes localizaron al preadolescente corriendo hacia el sur antes de que ingresara a una vivienda en la cuadra 3000 de Pinetree Drive, donde pudieron ponerlo a salvo.

Los investigadores indicaron que el menor no pudo proporcionar mucha información, pero logró dar a los agentes un número de teléfono perteneciente a su padre de crianza. Posteriormente, el niño fue trasladado al Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach mientras los agentes trabajaban para localizar a su cuidador.

Utilizando bases de datos policiales e información de ubicación del teléfono celular, los detectives rastrearon el número hasta Lara y determinaron que se hospedaba en el hotel Catalina, en Collins Avenue, indica el informe de arresto.

Según el informe, cuando los detectives tocaron la puerta de la habitación del hotel, Lara finalmente respondió y aparentemente no sabía que uno de los menores estaba desaparecido hasta que los detectives le preguntaron por el paradero de su hijo de crianza.

“Con compasión y paciencia, pudimos obtener su nombre y un número de teléfono que permitió a nuestros detectives localizar dónde se encontraba su padre”, dijo el agente Christopher Bess, del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach, a Rosh Lowe, de Local 10.

El informe indica que los agentes detectaron un fuerte olor a alcohol en el aliento de Lara. Cuando le preguntaron qué hora era, supuestamente respondió a los detectives que creía que eran alrededor de las 7 a.m., aunque en realidad eran aproximadamente las 2 p.m.

Dentro de la habitación del hotel, los detectives también encontraron al hermano de crianza del menor, de 10 años, quien no es verbal y también tiene autismo, informaron las autoridades.

El niño fue trasladado a la estación de Policía junto con su hermano, donde defensores de víctimas proporcionaron comida y zapatos a ambos menores, señala el informe.

Según las autoridades, durante una entrevista posterior a la lectura de sus derechos Miranda, Lara dijo a los detectives que había viajado desde Texas a Miami Beach con sus dos hijos de crianza para pasar unas vacaciones y que planeaba regresar con ellos el viernes.

La Policía informó que Lara aseguró que acostó a los menores alrededor de las 9 p.m. del miércoles antes de salir de la habitación del hotel cerca de la medianoche para comer en un restaurante mexicano cercano y consumir varias bebidas alcohólicas. Dijo a los detectives que tomó entre cuatro y cinco bebidas en el restaurante antes de ir a otro bar, donde consumió dos bebidas alcohólicas adicionales, indica el informe.

Según el informe, Lara dijo a los investigadores que regresó al hotel alrededor de las 4 a.m., encontró a ambos menores dormidos y luego “se desmayó”, sin recordar nada más hasta que la Policía tocó la puerta de la habitación más tarde ese día.

Sin embargo, los detectives indicaron que las cámaras de vigilancia del hotel mostraron a Lara regresando al hotel a las 5:10 a.m., saliendo nuevamente a las 9:03 a.m. y regresando otra vez a las 10:29 a.m. La Policía informó que Lara dijo a los investigadores que no recordaba haber salido nuevamente de la habitación y admitió que fue su culpa por haber bebido demasiado y perder el conocimiento.

Según el informe, las imágenes de vigilancia captaron al niño mayor saliendo solo del hotel mientras Lara estaba fuera, antes de correr hacia el norte por Collins Avenue.

Una revisión de los registros laborales confirmó que Lara trabajó el año pasado como maestro de escuela primaria para las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Miami-Dade. Actualmente vive en Texas y estaba de visita en Miami Beach por vacaciones, informaron las autoridades.

La Policía confirmó que ambos menores quedaron bajo la custodia del Departamento de Niños y Familias de Florida mientras Lara fue detenido.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Lara permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $2,000 USD.

Según la Lotería de Florida, el caso surgió de una investigación conjunta entre la División de Seguridad de la agencia y la Oficina del Inspector General del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos.

Los investigadores informaron que la investigación comenzó después de que una jugadora de la Lotería de Florida reportó que un boleto ganador de Pick 4 que había enviado por correo a través del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos nunca llegó a su destino.

Según el informe de arresto, el boleto ganador fue comprado en una tienda Publix de Tampa y tenía un valor de $2,600 USD. Debido a que el premio superaba el límite máximo de $599 USD que puede cobrarse en un establecimiento autorizado de la lotería, el sistema indicó que el boleto debía ser devuelto a la jugadora, informaron los investigadores.

Indicaron que la ganadora posteriormente envió el boleto por correo a un familiar en Fort Lauderdale para ayudar a cubrir los gastos funerarios de otra persona, pero el boleto nunca fue entregado.

Un inspector de la Lotería de Florida determinó que el boleto fue cobrado el 19 de junio en la oficina del Distrito de Miami de la Lotería de Florida por Lekaysha Kenya Lockhart, de 28 años. Posteriormente, los investigadores identificaron a Lockhart como una cartera del USPS asignada a la oficina postal de Oakland Park.

Según el informe de arresto, Lockhart, quien tiene direcciones registradas en Lauderhill y Hollywood, “no era conocida por la propietaria del boleto ni estaba autorizada o aprobada por ella” para cobrar el premio.

Las autoridades informaron que agentes especiales de la Lotería de Florida e investigadores de la Oficina del Inspector General del USPS realizaron una operación conjunta que condujo al arresto de Lockhart el 23 de julio. Indicaron que, tras su arresto, Lockhart admitió haber robado el boleto ganador y haberlo cobrado en la oficina del Distrito de Miami.

“Nuestros jugadores merecen la confianza de que cada premio de la Lotería está protegido mediante sólidas medidas de seguridad y una supervisión rigurosa”, dijo en un comunicado el secretario de la Lotería de Florida, Reginald D. Dixon. “Reconozco el extraordinario trabajo investigativo de nuestra División de Seguridad y agradezco a nuestros socios de la Oficina del Inspector General del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos y de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward por su colaboración para proteger la integridad de los juegos de la Lotería de Florida y lograr una resolución exitosa de este caso”.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Lockhart enfrenta un cargo de hurto mayor, uno por tráfico de propiedad robada, uno por presentar un reclamo falso de pago y dos cargos por uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación bidireccional y robo de correspondencia.

Funcionarios de la Lotería de Florida informaron que, debido a que los delitos ocurrieron en múltiples circuitos judiciales, los casos serán procesados por separado.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Lockhart no figuraba como reclusa en los registros de la cárcel del condado Broward.

Local 10 solicitó una declaración al Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos sobre su arresto.

Los agentes identificaron a los sospechosos como David Williams, de 44 años, de Miami, y Alexander Oscar, de 46.

Según el informe, videos de vigilancia captaron a Williams y Oscar entrando al Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami por el área de llegadas en la acera en múltiples ocasiones y caminando hasta las bandas de reclamo de equipaje, donde ambos retiraban maletas antes de salir de la terminal y abordar “vehículos que los esperaban”.

Los investigadores informaron que los robos ocurrieron en abril e involucraron múltiples casos en el aeropuerto.

Indicaron que, en uno de los casos, Williams y Oscar presuntamente robaron equipaje valorado en $6,305 USD de la banda de reclamo 26.

En otro caso, ambos presuntamente sustrajeron equipaje valorado en aproximadamente $4,000 USD de esa misma banda, según los agentes.

El informe también señala que Williams fue captado en videos de vigilancia en varios incidentes adicionales, presuntamente retirando equipaje de las bandas de reclamo 22, 23 y 25 del aeropuerto.

Los investigadores informaron que el valor total de la propiedad robada en todos los casos asciende a $27,205 USD.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Williams enfrenta seis cargos de hurto mayor en tercer grado, mientras que Oscar enfrenta dos cargos por el mismo delito.

Los registros también muestran que Williams había sido arrestado anteriormente por un cargo de robo a mano armada con un arma mortal en un caso no relacionado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, ambos permanecían detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. La fianza de Williams fue fijada en $20,000 USD y la de Oscar en $7,500 USD.

Es posible que los padres les recuerden a sus hijos que terminen el trabajo, pero algunos estudiantes consideran que deberían tener más voz sobre cómo pasan sus vacaciones de verano.

Incluso algunos maestros no son partidarios de esta práctica.

Algunos dicen que se debería permitir que los estudiantes disfruten de su tiempo libre.

Otros dijeron que disfrutaron las asignaciones de lectura durante el verano a lo largo de los años, siempre y cuando los estudiantes no regresen el primer día de clases para enfrentar un examen sorpresa o entregar de inmediato un ensayo.

¿Y usted qué opina? ¿Las tareas de verano son útiles o las vacaciones deberían estar libres de tareas?

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Parents may be reminding their kids to get the work done, but some students feel they should have more of a say in how they spend their summer break.

Even some teachers aren’t fans of the practice.

Some say students should be allowed to enjoy their time off.

Others said they enjoyed summer reading assignments over the years, as long as students aren’t coming back on the first day of class facing a pop quiz or an essay due immediately.

So what do you think? Is summer homework helpful or should the break be homework-free?

Trump asserted in his Truth Social post that he would keep acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his current role and press ahead on the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” if Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina refuse to back the former federal prosecutor who was a key member of Trump’s defense team at a time when the Republican battled four indictments.

The administration needs their votes, but both lawmakers have protested Blanche's selection because of a lawsuit settlement that created a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who feel mistreated by the criminal justice system and provided Trump and family members with immunity from tax audits.

In a sign of apparent progress Friday, Trump pronounced the fund “dead.” As negotiations continued into the night, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, rescheduled a committee vote for Blanche that had been postponed earlier in the week.

A spokesperson for the committee said Grassley, R-Iowa, would like to see Blanche confirmed before the August recess and that putting the Tuesday vote on the calendar “gives more time for the White House to secure the votes for the President’s nominee.”

But by Saturday morning, those plans were in jeopardy with a new announcement from Trump that appeared to put the fund back on the table — and dinged the two senators who are leaving Capitol Hill when their terms end in January.

“If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard” to restore the fund. The president insisted, as he previously has, that the fund “takes care of those who have been so badly treated” during the administrations of Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Tillis, who is retiring, took note of the president's turnabout by saying in a post on X that despite Trump's comments Friday, he “clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against.”

He added: “It’s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday."

Blanche had said at a hearing two months ago that the anti-weaponization fund would not move forward after Republican senators revolted and held up an immigration funding bill.

But Tillis and Cornyn, who lost reelection this year after Trump endorsed his primary opponent, said they want to ensure that the White House does not reverse course, especially as Trump continues to argue that a fund is needed.

The Department of Justice has provided the senators with language that says Blanche’s May 18 order establishing the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is “rescinded and shall have no force or effect,” according to a document reviewed by The Associated Press.

Cornyn and Tillis have said they also want clarification on a separate part of the settlement that would grant Trump and members of his family immunity from tax audits. Cornyn said this week that it was his understanding the audits could extend to more than 100 Trump Organization subsidiaries in the future.

“Todd Blanche said it was limited to the parties to the litigation — and it was retrospective, not prospective,” Cornyn said. “And all we’re doing is asking them to put that in writing.”

Un tribunal de apelaciones dictaminó recientemente que la agencia no está protegida por inmunidad y puede ser demandada por acusaciones de negligencia durante la masacre, que dejó 17 estudiantes y miembros del personal muertos y otros 17 heridos.

La demanda fue presentada por sobrevivientes y familiares de las víctimas.

El ex agente de recursos escolares Scot Peterson figura entre los demandados en el caso. Los fiscales dijeron que Peterson permaneció fuera del edificio durante la balacera y no enfrentó al atacante.

Peterson fue absuelto de los cargos de negligencia infantil en 2023.

Se espera que el juicio comience a principios del próximo año.

The woman in her 70s with apparent heat stroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake to 36. The magnitude 7.1 hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday.

This latest death was what officials and experts had worried about amid high temperatures. Kumamoto authorities were to start delivering leaflets to those taking shelter in their cars, urging them to stay in cool places and take sufficient liquids, and regularly take exercise to avoid blood clotting risks.

NHK public television said the woman was found dead Thursday in a car without gas.

”It’s heartbreaking,” said Kumaoto Gov. Takashi Kimura, referring to the death of the woman, as he called on evacuees taking shelter in their cars to keep refueling their vehicles to run air-conditioning, or consider moving to air-conditioned evacuation centers to avoid similar risks.

The prefecture’s main challenge is the lack of fresh water still affecting nearly 47,000 homes, and fuel shortages as Japan suffers sweltering heat, stoking fears of heat-related illness.

Japan Meteorological Agency said temperatures reached an “extreme heat” level of 36.6 degrees Celsius (97.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumamoto city Saturday and that they could go higher Sunday.

More than 9,000 people remain at crowded shelters, such as converted community centers, school gyms and classrooms, many of them lacking air-conditioning. Many others slept in cars parked at town hall parking lots and parks, or outside of their homes, for privacy.

Due to fuel supply shortages in hard-hit areas, there have been long lines of cars outside of gas stations that have resumed operations as fuel delivery gradually restarted.

Experts have long criticized Japan’s crowded conditions at emergency shelters, arguing that a lack of sanitation and privacy creates additional stress and increases the risk of health problems for disaster-hit people.

Water, food and other necessities, including portable toilets, as well as air conditioners and partitions, were being delivered to improve conditions at the evacuation centers, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told a government task force meeting Saturday.

“The government is determined to do everything we can,” Takaichi said.

On Saturday, authorities ended a massive dayslong search-and-rescue operation at the Aeon Mall, in the town of Kashima, after extracting five people and the bodies of seven others. The site was one of the hardest-hit sites, after an explosion that followed the quake caused the walls and a floor to collapse.

The explosion, which the company said it believes was due to a gas leak, occurred after about 3,000 shoppers had been evacuated to a parking lot following the quake, but some employees remained inside. The mall’s second floor collapsed.

The overall number of missing in the hit prefecture remains unknown, and search operations pressed on, with thousands of Self Defense troops, police, rescue workers and sniffing dogs deployed.

Takaichi urged rescue personnel not to leave anyone behind.

At another hard-hit site in Kumamoto Prefecture, a chimney collapsed at the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro city, trapping 11 employees. Nine have since been confirmed dead and two were rescued, officials said.

The earthquake has left 105 people injured in Kumamoto, authorities said, and two in addition to the reported deaths are being investigated to determine if they are quake-related.

The prefecture said reports of power loss have fallen to fewer than 900 households, but local power company serving Kyushu said it had no immediate reports of outages.

Over 180 homes were destroyed, officials said, and more than 3,800 buildings were damaged, with 20 of them severely affected, according to Kumamoto prefectural assessments.

Allegations against U.S. Rep. Max Miller, a White House adviser during President Donald Trump's first term, have been public for years but have recently drawn increased media scrutiny amid an escalating legal back-and-forth with his former spouse, who is the daughter of U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. That has Democrats sensing Miller could be vulnerable in a district he won two years ago with just over 51% of the vote.

Over the past week, they have called for Miller to resign, requested a congressional ethics investigation and suggested more help could be directed in the fall toward his Democratic opponent, union ironworker Brian Poindexter. Miller has denied the abuse allegations and filed defamation lawsuits against his ex-wife and a second accuser.

The House Majority PAC, a super political action committee aimed at electing a Democratic majority, said it is monitoring the race's dynamics as part of its strategy to push deeper into GOP territory in this year's midterm elections.

“HMP is willing to do whatever it takes to take back the House, and nothing is off the table,” spokesperson CJ Warnke said.

Republicans stick by Miller

as Trump advisers keep tabs on the situation

Republicans have so far remained in Miller’s corner, saying he has delivered for his district and is electable in November.

At the same time, the difficulties that Miller faces have not escaped the attention of the president’s inner circle as they work to retain GOP control on Capitol Hill. Trump's closest advisers are actively monitoring the situation, according to a Republican with knowledge of White House discussions who requested anonymity to discuss the politically sensitive matter.

The deadline for replacing Miller on the ballot is Wednesday, though no Republican has publicly pushed to take that step. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine told Ohio's Capital Journal that the accusations were troubling and “very serious” but that Miller's fate should be up to voters.

The tension comes as Republicans are defending their narrow majority in the U.S. House in the November races.

Terry Casey, a longtime Republican consultant in Ohio, said Miller remains in a strong position to win the Republican-leaning district, which stretches south from Cleveland and was won decisively by Trump two years ago.

That is unless Poindexter, who has been endorsed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, can attract money significant enough to step up his advertising in the 7th Congressional District's multiple media markets.

“Unless serious people are willing to put in serious money, I’d say beginning around $2 million, it’s all nothing but lip exercises,” Casey said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee declined to discuss whether it would match any influx of Democratic cash. Miller has significantly outraised Poindexter, although the Democrat's campaign said it has seen a surge in social media followers in recent weeks.

Democrats call for an ethics investigation and some say Miller should resign

At issue in the couple's long-running dispute are claims leveled by Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, that he scalded, hit and threatened her while they were married. Miller has denied the allegations.

A recent article in the magazine Mother Jones revealed a new point of contention in their legal battle: a broken collarbone on their 2-year-old daughter that led Moreno to contact authorities. The pair, who were married in 2022 and finalized their divorce last year, presented different theories about how the injury occurred, according to court filings and police reports reviewed by the magazine.

Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, said it “would be wise” for Miller to resign. The House Democratic Women’s Caucus called for an ethics investigation.

“The recent reports of domestic violence and child abuse against Representative Max Miller are deeply disturbing and Congress can’t ignore them,” Democratic Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico, Emilia Sykes of Ohio and Hillary Scholten of Michigan wrote in their letter. “Allegations of violence against women and children have to be met with the utmost seriousness.”

Bernie Moreno declined to comment on the allegations raised by his daughter or on Miller’s response, but his spokeswoman issued a statement saying the senator was focused on his family.

“Senator Moreno’s top priority is the safety and well-being of his daughter and granddaughter,” said the spokeswoman, Reagan McCarthy. “While he will not litigate these matters in the media or respond to baseless public attacks, he will do whatever it takes to ensure a just outcome for his family.”

Miller's controversies escalated in July and he is facing a lawsuit by an ex-girlfriend

Miller has denied all allegations of abuse. He did not respond to inquiries left with his campaign, his Washington office or on his personal cellphone.

Last spring, his spokesperson provided documentation to The Associated Press that showed several allegations that he had abused his daughter had been investigated by the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services and were deemed unsubstantiated. He has sued Emily Moreno for defamation.

The couple's dispute escalated this week.

On Thursday, lawyers for Emily Moreno asked a judge for a temporary restraining order barring Miller from contact with her attorney, Andrew Zashin. The filing alleges that Miller shouted insults at Zashin and goaded him to “Come at me!” outside a court hearing last May, then physically grabbed Zashin during a different proceeding on Tuesday.

The court filing quotes Miller’s own lawyer as saying his client “just can’t control himself.” The attorney did not return a call seeking comment.

Earlier this month, Miller’s ex-girlfriend, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, filed a lawsuit against him. She accused Miller of violating terms of a confidential settlement agreement they struck to resolve his 2021 lawsuit against her.

That lawsuit alleged Grisham defamed him in her book and in a Washington Post op-ed when she said a former White House staffer — later identified as Miller — had physically abused her while they were dating. While the book is vague on the specific allegations, Politico reported at the time that Grisham and Miller’s relationship ended “when he pushed her against a wall and slapped her in the face in his Washington apartment after she accused him of cheating on her.”

Grisham alleged in the new lawsuit filed July 7 that Miller dragged her name into his dispute with Moreno and violated their agreement not to disparage each other.

A campaign distraction for Miller that could turn off some voters

For Poindexter, the Democratic candidate, the accusations against Miller provide a possible path to an upset in November if some conservative-leaning voters opt for him or enough Republican voters are turned off by the domestic abuse allegations and stay home.

“These are serious allegations and deserve the full attention of law enforcement,” Poindexter said in a statement. “If all the allegations against Congressman Miller prove to be true, Max Miller should be in jail, not worried about retaining a seat in Congress.”

Jim Trakas, a former state lawmaker and GOP party chair in northeast Ohio, said Miller is not helped by the fresh developments so close to the election.

“It's a difficult year for any incumbent,” he said. “Now you have to spend time on this when you want to focus on the main event, which is the pocketbook issues.”

Chocolate cake recipe (use your favorite recipe)

½ cup melted butter

½ cup brown sugar

1½ cups really good quality dark chocolate chips

2 large cans of good quality canned pears

For serving:

lightly sweetened whipped cream

Prepare your chocolate cake batter, stir 1 cup of the chocolate chips into the batter. And set aside.

Preheat the oven according to the instructions of the cake recipe.

Lightly grease a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray. Drain the pears from the cans, reserving the juice.

Place pears into the bundt pan to size how big they should be to fit snugly in the bottom. Cut according to the size of your pan and set aside.

Meanwhile, melt the butter and pour into the bottom of the bundt pan. Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the melted butter.

Pour about ¼ - ½ cup of pear juice over the sugar and place the pears back into the bottom of the pan, cut side up. Scatter a few chocolate chips around. Slowly pour the chocolate cake mixture into your cake pan above the pears.

Bake according to recipe instructions until a toothpick or cake tester inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and cool completely on a wire rack.

When room temperature, place a large serving plate upside down over the bundt pan and carefully flip the cake over to unmold. If any pears remain in the bottom of the pan, just tuck them back into the top of the cake.

Serve with lightly sweetened whipped cream.

1 pound of gnocchi (can be purchased or use your favorite recipe)

1 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 cup heavy cream

½ cup chicken stock or broth

zest of 1 lemon

Juice of ¼ lemon, freshly squeezed

8 basil leaves, torn in half

¾ cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Melt the butter in a large, wide, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned, about 3 minutes. Stir in the cream and stock, bring to a boil, and cook until reduced by half, about 8 minutes. Stir in the lemon zest and juice.

Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add a few gnocchi at a time, and cook until they float, about 5 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer them to the sauce and warm through.

Add the basil and cheese to the pan, season with salt and pepper, and toss well to combine all the ingredients. Serve immediately.

8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs

1 cup all-purpose flour

kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

2 tablespoons olive oil

1½ cups yellow onion, minced

1 cup red bell pepper, seeded, minced

½ cup dry white wine

1 cup of your favorite tomato sauce

2 tablespoons minced garlic

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

¼ cup chopped Italian parsley leaves

1 teaspoons dried oregano

8 whole pepperoncini from a jar, drained of brine

½ cup water or chicken broth, if needed

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Season the chicken thighs with salt and pepper and dredge them in the flour, shaking off any excess flour.  Heat a wide, deep, heavy-bottomed braising pan or skillet over medium low heat and add the olive oil.  Add the thighs to the pan, skin-side down, and cook until rendered, golden and crispy, about 10-15 minutes.  Turn the thighs over and cook until for just a couple of minutes, then transfer the thighs to a large plate and set aside.

Pour out all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the skillet.  Add the onions, peppers and garlic and cook, stirring, until softened but not browned 3 to 4 minutes.  Add the wine and cook until the liquid has been reduced by half, about 2 minutes.  Add the tomato sauce and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the pepper flakes, parsley, and oregano, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes.

Return the chicken to the pan, skin-side up, and spoon the sauce over it. Add the pepperoncini, and season with salt and black pepper.  Cover the pan, transfer it to the oven and cook until the chicken is cooked through, 35 to 40 minutes, check the chicken thighs halfway through cooking, if the liquid is not at least ½ way up the thighs, add about ½ cup of water or chicken stock to the pan.  Serve over the potato gnocchi with basil cream sauce.

Wildlife officials are banning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the U.S. West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid widespread drought. Lower water levels mean rivers can heat more rapidly.

The restrictions aim to reduce stress on species including highly-prized trout. Anglers travel from around the world to find the fish in Yellowstone National Park or Western Montana’s Blackfoot River, featured in the movie “A River Runs Through It.”

More record temperatures are forecast this weekend as a heat wave in the Southwest expands north into the Rocky Mountains and east across the High Plains.

On the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana, California resident Mike Wever waded into the swiftly-moving water Friday with a fly fishing rod in one hand. He dipped his free hand into the water.

“Not very cold,” said Wever, 62.

He lacked the customary waders that keep fly fishers warm. Instead, he wore shorts. Stepping carefully across a rocky side channel, Wever said he was OK with the decision to close stretches of the Yellowstone to fishing after 2 p.m. daily.

“It's great for us to have this resource,” he said. “But we have to manage it.”

Many trout anglers let their catch swim free after netting it. But temperature-stressed rainbow or cutthroat trout can die if they're out of water even briefly for a commemorative photo, experts say.

Colorado has imposed restrictions this summer on 19 rivers totaling 635.5 miles (1023 kilometers), a situation state officials say is unprecedented.

Yellowstone on Wednesday expanded afternoon fishing restrictions to the whole park.

Also Wednesday, wildlife officials in neighboring Montana broadened afternoon fishing restrictions to now cover 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) of rivers.

Closures “have become very common over the last decade plus, some might even say very routine from late June through early September,” said biologist Adam Strainer, administrator of the fisheries division at Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks.

That trend coincides with rising temperatures as human-caused climate change warms the planet and droughts become more frequent and severe. Yellowstone, for example, has restricted fishing due to high water temperatures during five of the past six years. That’s much more often than in the past, according to park officials.

The consequences aren’t just ecological; trout fishing is closely entwined with the economy in many Rocky Mountain communities.

Dan Gigone, who runs Sweetwater Fly Shop along the Yellowstone River in Montana, says many visitors are pushing trips to the fall to avoid low and warm summer water flows.

“People are realizing August is a crapshoot here in terms of whether you're going to be able to fish and how good the fishing will be,” Gigone said. “I’ve been here 22 years and this is the warmest stretch I remember.”

Warm water contains less oxygen, making it harder for fish to breathe. It also slows their growth.

Full reservoirs usually help buoy water levels during dry summers and low-water years, said Kirk Deeter with the conservation group Trout Unlimited. But many of those reservoirs are at near-record lows.

In Steamboat Springs where Deeter lives, drought and warm waters in the mid 70s (23 C) killed a massive number of fish on the Yampa River. “That’s a bad harbinger for the trout,” he said.

In 2016, wildlife officials closed 183 miles (295 kilometers) of the Yellowstone River to fishing, rafting and other activities to prevent a parasite suspected of killing tens of thousands of fish from spreading further in the low and warm water.

A study last year found “river heat waves" are increasingly happening in snow-dominated areas such as the northern U.S. and the Rockies, said Li Li, a professor in civil and environmental engineering at Pennsylvania State University and co-author of the study.

Climate change, she said, is changing the size and timing of the mountain snowpack, and that's contributing to river heat waves. The researchers also found more days when rivers were warm enough to stress cold-water species like bull trout.

Todd Tanner’s School of Trout in Bigfork, Montana, typically organizes fly-fishing classes from May to October in the northwest. But “the window for those trips seems to be growing narrower” as conditions get hotter, drier and more wildfire-prone, said Tanner, 65.

The school has shifted classes to avoid adverse conditions.

“I’ve been in Montana full time for the last 34 years,” he said. “This wasn’t something that we even thought about 30 years ago or 25 years ago.”

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Pineda reported from Los Angeles.

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In an interview as he becomes chair of the National Governors Association, the potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender ticked through Trump's efforts to restrict voting by mail, obtain voter information from states and possibly deploy federal troops or agents to polling places. Moore said there was a role for the NGA, a bipartisan group, to ensure states are able to oversee elections as designed by the U.S. Constitution.

“I don't think that the president is trying to hide the ball on this,” Moore said. “It's not even am I concerned about what the president could do? I'm concerned about what he's already doing in broad daylight.”

Moore's national profile is expanding and so is speculation about the White House

The 47-year-old governor's national profile is rising as he assumes the top leadership post for the nation's governors on Saturday, a role once held by Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas. Moore is the subject of frequent speculation that he will announce a presidential run, a prospect he rules out, saying he will not “get distracted” before the November elections.

His travel to early presidential testing grounds such as South Carolina and Nevada, though, suggests he may run. Moore is proving himself a savvy digital communicator and crafts an image as a newcomer to politics while voters demand change.

The centerpiece of his agenda as NGA chair — a national program to build communities and draw young people into the workforce through service-oriented work — could be a pillar of a future campaign.

“Service will save us as a society because I know service saved me,” he said, recalling his time in the Army.

The “Service United” campaign opens with $10 million in philanthropic support to build on similar work Moore has done in Maryland, including a $5 million expansion of an apprenticeship program in the state announced this week.

“It's an opportunity to help people with a career path,” said Bechara Choucair, the executive vice president and chief health officer at Kaiser Permanente, which is building a youth mental health corps with Service United.

Dame Louise Richardson, the president of the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, which is supporting the program, said she hopes to “see the day when you meet somebody, they don't just ask, ‘Where did you go to college?’ but they ask, ‘Where did you do your service year?’”

The contours of the initiative have drawn support from some Republicans, including Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, the outgoing NGA chair.

“One of the things I like is the apprenticeship model and getting kids out of the classroom and into more workforce learning,” Stitt said. “So I think that's brilliant.”

Divisions between parties run deep despite nods at bipartisanship

But that optimism masks the challenge facing Moore as he takes the helm of one of the few remaining political groups that bring top Republicans and Democrats together. For all the nods at bipartisanship, the divides between — and within — the parties run deep.

Even as he spoke warmly of Moore's program, Stitt warned against anything resembling a “big government program.”

Moore, meanwhile, spoke of public frustration with the government’s response to dramatic changes in the workforce, driven by advances in artificial intelligence that could erode entry-level work that has long helped young people start their careers. He said the White House has complicated the dynamic.

“We want to say that if a person goes on to a four-year college or chooses not to go to a four-year college, they still need to have pathways to long-term wages and wealth," Moore said. “What we have seen from the federal government thus far has just been simply executive orders that have told the states to stay out of it.”

Moore and Trump have sparred frequently and there's potential for more

Moore has a challenging relationship with Trump, who sought to bar him and Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., from a White House meeting organized by the NGA earlier this year. The president relented after Stitt intervened, though there is little to suggest that the relationship has recovered, raising the potential of another confrontation at the next NGA meeting, traditionally held February in Washington.

When asked about Trump, Moore noted his enjoyment at working with governors from both parties before saying “the president of the United States seems to consistently take an ideological view when it comes to securing the future of this country."

The White House did not comment on Moore's characterization.

But Moore also is contending with divides among his fellow Democrats.

At home in Maryland, where he is seeking reelection this fall, he has at times struggled to win over Democrats in the legislature, which reconvenes next week to consider a constitutional amendment on redistricting after an earlier effort he backed fell short.

Moore says party bosses should not rule

The Democratic National Committee is in turmoil. A string of democratic socialists has won primaries from New York City to Denver, prompting debate over whether the party is moving too far to the left and threatening its potential victories in the fall. Upcoming elections in Michigan and Wisconsin will further tug at the divide.

Moore did not take a firm stance with either of his party's ideological wings. He batted away questions about democratic socialists potentially imperiling Democratic wins, insisting it was up to voters to decide who their nominees would be.

“Party bosses shouldn't be determining who members of the party are,” he said, without specifying whether he was referring to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York as one of them. “The people should be the ones to have a final say on that.”

At the same time, Moore made clear that he did not support some of the left flank's positions.

“I know where I am on issues,” he said. “I don't believe in abolishing the police. I don't believe in abolishing prisons. I don't believe in open borders.”

Democrats sound alarm about Trump role in midterms

But perhaps the biggest test for Moore will be navigating the management of this year's elections without denting the bipartisan tone that typically defines the NGA. He will be in the middle of Republicans who are calling for tougher rules, particularly around voter identification and deadlines for mail ballots, and fellow Democrats who warn of voter suppression.

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein of North Carolina, who leads one of the most politically competitive states that includes a marquee Senate race this fall, echoed Moore's concerns about federal interference.

“I don’t think you can be a clear-thinking person and not be concerned because all the signals are very worrisome,” he said in an interview. “But that said, I have confidence that if the voters come out in droves and vote the way that they want to vote, that the government will represent their wishes.”

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said that "if Democrats really cared about securing our elections, they would pass the SAVE America Act,” referring to a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that is stalled in the Senate.

Stitt expressed confidence that states would hold elections without federal intervention while noting his support for the voting bill. But he also rejected federal intervention and said: "States should control their own elections.”

Moore said he used to associate states’ rights arguments with segregationists like Bull Connor, the infamous public safety commissioner in Birmingham, Alabama, who turned fire hoses and dogs on peaceful protesters during the Civil Rights era.

Now, Moore said, the Trump era has reshaped his views and reinforced “the importance of having actually strong governors.”

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Deputies identified the suspects as David Williams, 44, of Miami, and Alexander Oscar, 46.

According to the report, surveillance video captured Williams and Oscar entering MIA through the curbside arrivals area on multiple occasions and walking to baggage carousels, where the pair removed luggage before leaving the terminal and entered “waiting vehicles.”

Investigators said the thefts happened in April and involved multiple cases at MIA.

They said in one case, Williams and Oscar allegedly stole luggage valued at $6,305 from Carousel 26.

In another case, the pair allegedly took luggage valued at approximately $4,000 from that same carousel, according to deputies.

The report also states Williams was captured on surveillance video in several other incidents, allegedly removing luggage from carousels 22, 23 and 25 at MIA.

Traveler Asha Warner told Local 10’s Aaron Maybin that she wasn’t surprised to hear of the crimes at the popular airport.

“I mean that makes sense. It’s pretty easy to get right in here. People put valuables in their bag,” she said. “They put jewelry, money, whatever. It sucks and that’s unfortunate but it’s like not surprising.”

Investigators said the total value of property stolen in all cases was listed at $27,205.

Travelers are relieved detectives tracked down the men before more people became victims.

“That’s great on the airport security,” said Warner. “I’m glad they committed to that and found the people and did what’s right.”

Jail records show Williams is facing six counts of third-degree grand theft, while Oscar is facing two counts of the same charge.

Records show Williams was previously arrested on one count of armed robbery with a deadly weapon in an unrelated case.

As of Friday afternoon, both men were being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, with Williams’ bond set at $20,000 and Oscar’s set at $7,500.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer also banned the pair from visiting MIA.