Ramagem, a former lawmaker, was sentenced in Brazil in September to 16 years in prison for his role in the coup attempt by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2023. He fled the South American nation before he would have started serving his sentence.

“I am here to thank the U.S. government, the highest ranking members of the Trump administration,” Ramagem said on his social media channels. He added his release “did not require any bail payment, which is common in migration cases” like his.

The former intelligence chief was arrested on Monday in Florida, the same day Brazilian senator Jorge Seif told the U.S. embassy in Brasilia his ally should not remain in custody because he was allegedly being persecuted at home.

Local media reported he was released late on Wednesday.

Ramagem had already filed for political asylum before this week's incident, but his case has not yet been decided.

On Monday, Ramagem appeared as in custody in ICE’s online detainee database. ICE did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press about Ramagem's release.

Ramagem was stripped of his seat in Brazil’s congress in December as a consequence of his conviction in the coup case.

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Miami River Commission Chairman Horacio Stuart Aguirre said excessive bacteria contamination in the creek has come from historic industrial pollution, storm water pollution, and also human waste from some of the city’s homeless, who use the creek as a public restroom.

“This is the way it is right now before any treatment, and you can’t see six inches into the water,” he said. “If you were standing a foot and half into this water, you wouldn’t see your toes, that is how thick it is. The amount of poop that is in this water is unbelievable.”

The creek drains out to the Miami River and eventually into Biscayne Bay.

That’s why the creek’s reputation as “the most polluted waterway in the state of Florida” according to Aguirre, is of grave concern.

“So we either stop the infection here now, or deal with a body-wide infection two years from now,” he said.

To combat the issue, officials are using a solar-powered machine that oxygenates the water with ionized air, which Aguirre says you can think of like a water-cleaning vacuum.

“It is sort of like the little devices we have in our homes,” Aguirre said. “(It’s) a yellow manifold that is about as long as you are tall with six heads on each side, and that is what is distributing the oxygenated air into the water.”

Developed by Miami-based Fast Cleaning Solutions, it also uses various filters to kill bacteria.

“They gave it to us for one year as a pilot program,” Aguirre said.

So far, he says the results have been remarkable.

“If you look at the shoreline, the water is crystal clear,” Aguirre said. “This is the way it is supposed to be, this is the way the good lord made it.”

He said there was an 82% reduction in e-coli bacteria.

“We have clean water, happy aquatic life, and happy residents now enjoying their balconies without the small of sewage pollution,” he said.

That is why officials are presenting the results to city commissioners in hope of securing funds for several more.

“We don’t need to go to billion dollar solutions, this is cost effective and it works,” Aguirre said.

STARTED AS A PILOT PROGRAM

The vendor Fast Cleaning Solutions, LLC designed the device, came up with the idea, they patented it, they built the device and they gave it to us for one year [for free] as a pilot program.

THE PROPOSAL

The Miami River Commission is proposing to deploy 7 Bacterial Water Cleaning Machines (BCMW) developed by Fast Cleaning Solutions LLC in Wagner Creek, plus two additional BCMW devices and two water quality testing devices which they say would cost $360,000 for one year. The funding the commissioner spokesperson said could come for the city’s storm water utility fee which aims to eliminate pollution from the storm water system.

NEXT STEPS

Aguirre plans to meet with the city manager and the two commissioners whose districts are impacted by Wagner Creek. The creek runs 15 blocks through District 5, represented by Chairwoman Christine King, and District 1, represented by Miguel Gabela. Their hope is to agree on a plan and funding budget ahead of the upcoming budget hearing on Sept. 30.

WHAT ABOUT THE CITY’S WATER DECONTAMINATION VESSEL?

The Miami River Commission Chairman said the city’s contracted scavenger water decontamination vessel is doing a great job along the Miami River and Biscayne Bay, but is too large to navigate under Wagner Creek’s low fixed bridges, which is why they were on the hunt for another solution.

WHY IT MATTERS

Aguirre said it matters, “Because this small piece of canal is about 15 blocks long and drains all the way into the Miami River, and so if this contamination spreads into the Miami River, it will become a process out of control and then we will really have an expenditure and health issue to deal with.”

He added, “Not only are the ducks, and the fish, and the turtles eating this stuff, but it carries a horrendous odor down into the Miami River and contaminates the rest of the river. All the other tributaries are very, very clean except for this one. We clean this one and then we can really say mission accomplished and we give something back to children of the next generation that they will have a very clean Miami.”

WHERE DOES THE POLLUTION COME FROM?

“Well the good news is that it does not come from the Miami River, nor the shipping industry, nor the recreational boating industry. It is actually man made. Some of it from decades and decades ago was industrial pollution, but in the last 20-25 years, it is fecal matter, human poop, that is what it is,” Aguirre said. “On any given day we can walk these banks and see people with their underwear off relieving themselves on the Wagner. The amount of poop that is in this water is unbelievable.”

He added that the county has conducted a number of smoke and dye tests to explore if the bacteria contamination is coming from a sewage pipe leak, but have found that,“it is not a septic tank break somewhere and not a sewage line break.”

From a policy perspective, he added that, “we need to do something about the homeless in a humane way. We have enough agencies spending a lot of money on the homeless, so we ought to have a solution. We need to do something along the lines of what Judge Steven Leifman suggests, understanding that a great component of homelessness is mental illness. We need to address that and do what they are doing in Europe which is public bathrooms.”

DOES IT HELP MITIGATE AGAINST FISH KILLS?

“Absolutely,” said Aguirre. “You will notice here on top of the rocks you don’t see any algae. A lot of reasons for fish kills, algae is one. It is killing the bacteria and the germs which is why you have clean water and no pollution, no sludgy film on the water.”

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It happened on Saturday around 1:50 a.m. along the 2400 block of Sheridan Street.

According to police, responding officers arrived to find a pedestrian who had been struck by a car.

First responders rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where he later passed away as a result of his injuries, authorities said. Police did not release his name or age.

Officers are searching for a red 2024 Honda Accord with Florida license plate number QCZ U51.

Police said the Honda should have heavy front-end damage and should be missing its Honda emblem.

Anyone with information is urged to call Hollywood police at 954-967-4567 or Broward Crime Stopers at 954-493-TIPS.

El incidente ocurrió el sábado alrededor de la 1:50 a.m. en la cuadra 2400 de Sheridan Street.

Según la policía, los agentes que respondieron encontraron a un peatón que había sido atropellado por un vehículo.

Paramédicos trasladaron a la víctima a un hospital cercano, donde posteriormente falleció a causa de sus heridas, indicaron las autoridades. La policía no reveló su nombre ni edad.

Los agentes buscan un Honda Accord rojo modelo 2024 con placa de Florida QCZ U51.

La policía indicó que el vehículo debe tener daños severos en la parte frontal y le faltaría el emblema de Honda.

Se insta a cualquier persona con información a comunicarse con la policía de Hollywood al 954-967-4567 o con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS.

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The shooting happened just after 2 p.m. in the area of Northwest 75th Street and 21st Avenue.

First responders said they took the three victims to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Deputies said two of the victims were in critical condition and a fourth person was in custody.

Deputies were also seen surrounding a Tesla in the street.

Witness Jake Gardner described what he saw and heard.

“I was just working from home. I was actually on a Zoom call and I probably heard like 10-plus gunshots and then looked out my window and there was some dude running behind a house with a gun, looked like a Glock or something,” he said. “Then he kind of took off in a sprint and, like, hopped over towards my neighbor’s house, and then probably, like five, 10, minutes later, I just saw him getting arrested on the corner of the street.”

Nearby Lillie C. Evans Elementary School, at 1895 NW 75th St., was put on “a precautionary lockdown,” school officials said. The lockdown was lifted just before 3:30 p.m.

Hastings plans to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits. Hastings had served as Netflix’s CEO for more than 20 years until 2023 after taking over the role from his friend and fellow company co-founder Marc Randolph in the late 1990s.

“My real contribution at Netflix wasn’t a single decision; it was a focus on member joy, building a culture that others could inherit and improve, and building a company that could be both beloved by members and wildly successful for generations to come,” he said in a statement.

The company announced Hastings' departure along with its quarterly results Thursday, its first earnings report since walking away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business in February.

Netflix shares fell nearly 9% to $98.32 in after-hours trading after the company's outlook disappointed investors despite strong quarterly results.

Milenko Faria arrived for the interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices near Los Angeles, while his wife, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, entered her sixth day in immigration custody in Texas and was unable to attend the appointment they had been waiting for for more than 10 years.

Bolivar, who worked as a doctor in an area federally designated as medically underserved, was arrested by Border Patrol agents at McAllen International Airport on Saturday. She was with their American-born daughter, preparing to board a flight to join her husband and attend their asylum interview together.

Bolivar, 33, was the second Venezuelan physician arrested in the area within the span of a week. On April 6, Dr. Ezequiel Veliz was detained by Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint in South Texas. His attorney, Victor Badell, said an immigration judge ordered his release on Wednesday.

The arrests are part of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies. Following an enforcement surge in Minnesota in January, in which two U.S. citizens died, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on less visible arrests.

Bolívar worked in the emergency room of a hospital in McAllen, city of about 150,000 in the Rio Grande Valley near the Mexican border, starting in June 2025, when she was accepted into her medical residency program.

“She was always focused on the community, and when she was accepted, it was an immense joy,” Faria, 36, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “We have never done anything outside the law. We have done everything by following the steps in accordance with the law to obtain permanent residency."

The husband said that she arrived at the U.S. with a tourist visa in 2016, after graduating from medical school in her native Venezuela.

Before her authorized period of stay expired, she was included in the asylum application filed by her husband, he said. Both are also seeking a green card through an application for skilled workers, processed by Faria’s employer, a California company where he has worked as an information systems technician since 2019.

The couple was beneficiary of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela that shielded more than 600,000 Venezuelans from deportation. Trump terminated the protections for Venezuela, Haiti, Syria, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and other countries, a decision that has been challenged in federal court.

The Department of Homeland Security said that Bolivar was arrested because she was in the country illegally.

“She has overstayed her visa since 2017, nearly a decade, and had no legal status,” said DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis.

Jodi Goodwin, an immigration attorney in South Texas, noted that around September or October 2025, she observed a change in policy regarding travel of individuals with pending applications before USCIS.

”It just became a very apparent trend where anyone that had some kind of application pending with USCIS, whether it was an adjustment of status or asylum, anything like that, they were going to be arrested,” said Goodwin.

Faria and Bolivar lived together in Santa Maria, California, until she moved to Texas in the summer of 2025 for her medical residency. He said he traveled every two months to visit his wife and daughter. The day of her arrest was the first time Bolívar had traveled since moving to Texas.

Bolivar was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officers before passing through transportation security screening, where she was asked to show her identification. She showed her driver’s license — bearing the “Real ID” endorsement required to domestic flights — and a work authorization valid until 2030.

She told them that she was adjusting status to a green card and was traveling to California for an asylum interview but the officer detained her after asking for her nationality and demanding that she provide proof of legal permanent residency, said Faria. He received text messages from his wife at the time she was being arrested.

Their 5-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen, was also arrested and handed over to her grandfather 19 hours later. The girl is currently in California with her father.

The doctor was transferred to ICE custody on Sunday and is being held at El Valle Detention Facility in Texas.

She has asked several times why she was detained but has not received any response yet, Faria said.

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Díaz-Canel spoke during a rally that drew hundreds of people to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the Cuban Revolution’s socialist essence.

“The moment is extremely challenging and calls upon us once again, as on April 16, 1961, to be ready to confront serious threats, including military aggression. We do not want it, but it is our duty to prepare to avoid it and, if it becomes inevitable, to defeat it,” Díaz-Canel said.

He spoke as tensions remain high between the two countries, with Cuba’s crises deepening as a result of a U.S. energy blockade.

Earlier this week, Trump said his administration could focus on Cuba after the war in Iran ends.

“We may stop by Cuba after we finish with this,” he said. He described it as a “failing nation” and asserted that it’s “been a terribly run country for a long time.”

Trump previously has threatened to intervene in Cuba, like he did in early January when the U.S. military attacked Venezuela and halted key oil shipments from the South American country.

Weeks later, Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.

Both Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the 1950s before the revolution — have described the island’s government as ineffective and abusive. The U.S. demands on Cuba’s government in return for easing sanctions have included an end to political repression, a release of political prisoners and a liberalization of the island’s ailing economy.

Díaz-Canel accused them of trying to construct a “narrative” that has no justification.

“Cuba is not a failed state. Cuba is a besieged state. Cuba is a state facing multidimensional aggression: economic warfare, an intensified blockade and an energy blockade,” said Díaz-Canel, the main speaker at Thursday’s rally.

“Cuba is a threatened state that does not surrender. And despite everything. And thanks to socialism. Cuba is a state that resists, creates, and make no mistake, a state that will prevail,” Díaz-Canel added.

Both Cuba and the U.S. have acknowledged talks to resolve the tension, but no details have been disclosed.

The Cuban president recalled the achievements made possible by the revolution and its social welfare system, which allows for free education that has trained thousands of professionals, many of whom have chosen to emigrate due to the country’s economic crisis.

The oil embargo imposed by Trump worsened the already harsh conditions brought on by an economic crisis that has lasted for five years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a tightening of U.S. sanctions aimed at pressuring for a change in the island’s political model.

Experts have warned of a humanitarian crisis.

Measures to prevent the island from acquiring oil from its Venezuelan, Mexican and Russian suppliers are exacerbating the already poor living conditions of the population, including prolonged blackouts and fuel shortages.

The rally commemorated the 65th anniversary of a historic speech by the late leader, Fidel Castro, during a crisis with the United States. That moment marked the ideological course the Caribbean nation would take and its opposition to Washington’s continental hegemony.

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In the first incident, Charlotte County deputies said they responded to a domestic violence-related call at a Port Charlotte home.

Investigators said the suspect, Keith Dwayne Blevins, had threatened a woman with multiple guns during an argument.

Ring camera video from the front of the home shows Blevins, 52, walking outside and aiming a gun at responding deputies. Seconds later, deputies said they opened fire, striking him multiple times.

Deputies then rendered aid and called fire rescue, but investigators said Blevins was pronounced dead at the scene. They said he was armed with a fully loaded weapon.

Officials also released new video from a second deputy-involved shooting in Port Charlotte that also left a man dead.

According to investigators, a 911 caller reported that Matthew Cross approached a home and, seconds after the door was opened, allegedly fired a gun before running into a nearby wooded area.

Authorities said Cross, 32, later emerged from the woods while pointing a gun at his head. Deputies gave multiple commands for him to drop the weapon, but he continued walking toward law enforcement while holding the gun, according to investigators.

Deputies said they were forced to open fire and Cross was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators said no deputies were injured in either incident.

They said the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is investigating both shootings and will turn its findings over to the State Attorney’s Office for review.

More than 300 BCPS staff members received notifications about the uncertain status of their jobs.

“These decisions are driven by sustained declining enrollment and the resulting loss of funding.”

The proposed organizational chart reflects the need to responsibly align resources while protecting classrooms and continuing to serve our students and community for years to come.

The Broward School Board members meet at 1 p.m. on April 21.

Gabriela Saldana was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday after corrections booked her on Wednesday afternoon.

Saldana “made a threat to kill or do bodily harm” in her posts on Friday and Wednesday about “a scheduled event” in a WhatsApp group chat, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

Saldana “admitted to sending and transmitting the messages,” and FIU campus police officers arrested her shortly after 2:10 a.m. on Thursday on campus at 885 SW 109 Ave., records show.

Police officers did not include the specific threats in their report about the alleged crime. FIU released a statement saying the threat of violence at a planned university event was credible.”

“Given the ongoing investigation and federal student privacy laws, FIU has no further comment,” a spokesperson for FIU wrote. “There is no further threat to the university community.”

Miami-Dade corrections booked Saldana shortly after 4:15 a.m. on Thursday. She faced a charge of written threats to kill or do bodily injury.

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

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Sunny Isles Beach police launched their drone just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.

They were looking for a car that was wanted in connection with an attempted homicide out of Lauderhill.

Once the car was spotted, officers quickly responded.

With guns drawn, they ordered the occupants out of the car.

Police identified the driver as Zorrian Jenkins, 30, of Bradenton, and the passenger as Jamar Franklin, 32, of Miramar.

Police said they found a stolen gun underneath the driver seat.

They also said that Franklin refused to identify himself and that he was on probation out of Broward County.

As for the car itself, Lauderhill police said its owner was arrested in April, but the car was still in the system.

At last check, both James and Franklin were behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. James is being held on a $16,000 bond while Franklin was given a bond of $500.

La policía desplegó un dron poco antes de las 3 p.m. del miércoles.

Buscaban un vehículo vinculado a un intento de homicidio ocurrido en Lauderhill.

Una vez que el auto fue localizado, los agentes respondieron rápidamente.

Con armas en mano, ordenaron a los ocupantes salir del vehículo.

La policía identificó al conductor como Zorrian Jenkins, de 30 años, de Bradenton, y al pasajero como Jamar Franklin, de 32, de Miramar.

Las autoridades indicaron que encontraron un arma robada debajo del asiento del conductor.

También señalaron que Franklin se negó a identificarse y que estaba en libertad condicional en el condado Broward.

En cuanto al vehículo, la policía de Lauderhill indicó que su propietario fue arrestado en abril, pero el auto aún figuraba en el sistema.

Hasta el momento, tanto Jenkins como Franklin permanecen detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Jenkins tiene una fianza de $16,000 USD, mientras que a Franklin se le fijó una fianza de $500 USD.

In their first news conference since returning to Earth, the three Americans and one Canadian said their lunar flyby puts NASA in a much better position for a moon landing by a crew in two years and an eventual moon base. They spoke from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, their home base.

Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen launched to the moon from Florida on April 1, NASA’s first lunar crew in more than a half-century and by far the most diverse.

They became the most distant travelers ever — breaking Apollo 13's record — as they whipped around the lunar far side, illuminated enough to reveal features never viewed before by the human eye. The sight of a total lunar eclipse added to the wonderment.

Their Orion capsule, which they named Integrity, parachuted into the Pacific last Friday to close out the nearly 10-day voyage. Artemis II's Houston homecoming the next day coincided with the 56th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13.

Wiseman said he and Glover “maybe saw two moments of a touch of char loss” to the heat shield as Integrity plunged through the fastest, hottest part of reentry. Once aboard the recovery ship, they peered at the bottom of the capsule as best they could, leaning over to view any signs of damage. They spotted a little loss of charred material on the shoulder, where the heat shield meets the capsule.

“For four humans just looking at the heat shield, it looked wonderful to us. It looked great, and that ride in was really amazing,” Wiseman said.

He cautioned that detailed analyses still need to be conducted. “We are going to fine-tooth comb every single, not even every molecule, probably every atom on this heat shield," he said.

The heat shield on the first Artemis test flight in 2022 — with no one aboard — came back so pockmarked and gouged that it pushed Artemis II back by months if not years. Instead of redoing it, NASA opted to change the capsule's entry path to minimize heating. Future capsules will sport a new design.

As the parachutes released right before splashdown, Glover said he felt like he was in freefall — like diving backward off a skyscraper. “That’s what it felt like for five seconds,” he said, adding when the ride smoothed out: “It was glorious.”

Since their return, the four astronauts have endured round after round of medical testing to check their balance, vision, muscle strength and coordination, and overall health. They even put on spacewalking suits for exercises under conditions simulating the moon’s one-sixth gravity of Earth to see how much endurance and dexterity future moonwalkers might have upon lunar touchdown.

NASA already is working on Artemis III, the next step in its grand moon base-building plans. The platform from which the rocket launches headed back Thursday to Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be prepped for next year’s Artemis launch.

Still awaiting an assigned crew, Artemis III will remain in orbit around Earth as astronauts practice docking their Orion capsule with one or two lunar landers in development by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.

Artemis IV will follow in 2028 under NASA’s latest schedule, with two astronauts landing near the moon’s south pole.

NASA is aiming for a sustainable moon presence this time around. During the Apollo moonshots, astronauts kept their visits short. Twelve astronauts explored the lunar surface, beginning with Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 and ending with Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in 1972.

Koch said that since returning, she and her crewmates are “feeling even more excited and just ready to take that on as an agency.”

“We made it happen,” she added.

Everyone will need to accept extra risk to achieve all this and trust that any future problems can be figured out in real time, Hansen noted. “We’re not going to be able to pound everything flat before we go. We're going to have to trust each other," he said.

While everything went smoothly for them, “it was also very clear to us that it can get pretty bumpy,” he said. Future crews will have to "understand it can get real bumpy real fast.”

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Security guards detained the man without incident shortly after 10 a.m., within 3 minutes after he entered the Hartford building. They held him until city police officers arrived, a spokesperson for Hartford police said.

It wasn't immediately clear what the man's plans were, Lt. Aaron Boisvert said.

The man was brought to Hartford police headquarters and charged with illegal possession of an assault weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, possession of a large-capacity ammunition magazine and trespassing. Court and public records show he has a criminal history that includes convictions for assault, threatening and drug possession.

It was not immediately clear if the man has a lawyer who could respond to the allegations.

Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS Health, Aetna's parent company, released a brief statement on the incident and did not immediately respond to follow-up questions.

“Earlier today, a suspicious person attempted to enter our office, was apprehended immediately by our security team and taken into custody by local police,” the statement said.

The arrest comes amid concerns about health care executives' safety, following the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a wealthy Maryland family, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges connected to the killing. He has become a cause célèbre for people upset with the health insurance industry.

In February, CVS Health announced it would be laying off more than 300 remote workers who reported to the Aetna headquarters.

On Thursday, Hennepin County announced charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of pointing his gun at a motorist and passenger on a Minneapolis highway. A local prosecutor described the warrant for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr.'s arrest as the first of its kind against an officer involved in the crackdown in Minnesota.

The government has suggested Minnesota prosecutors don’t have jurisdiction to investigate federal officers. Nevertheless, Minnesota last month sued the administration for access to evidence for investigations into three shootings, including two that resulted in deaths.

Here's where some of the more high-profile cases stand:

Alex Pretti

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, was one of many protesters on a commercial street on Jan. 24 when he was shot and killed by federal officers.

The Trump administration said shots were fired “defensively” against Pretti, who federal authorities said had a semiautomatic handgun and was “violently” resisting officers. Multiple videos of the shooting contradict those claims, showing Pretti had only his mobile phone in his hand as officers tackled him to the ground. One of the officers removed a handgun from the back of Pretti’s pants as another officer shot him in the back.

The Justice Department said the FBI was conducting a civil rights investigation into Pretti’s killing, and Customs and Border Patrol is conducting its own internal investigation.

Renee Good

Good, a 37-year-old mother, was blocking a residential street with her SUV and honking her horn when immigration officers approached the vehicle. She began to pull forward and an ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle fired at least two shots into the car, killing Good.

The Department of Homeland Security has said the matter remains under investigation but that footage shows Good impeded law enforcement operations and weaponized her vehicle, leading the officer to act in self-defense.

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche has said the department’s Civil Rights Division does not investigate every law enforcement shooting and that there have to be circumstances and facts that “warrant an investigation.”

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis

Sosa-Celis was wounded in January when a federal officer shot his right thigh. Federal officials initially accused Sosa-Celis and another man of beating an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel. But federal prosecutors later dropped all charges against the men, and authorities opened a criminal investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about the shooting.

DHS has said both officers are on administrative leave as ICE and DOJ conduct a joint review.

ChongLy “Scott” Thao

Ramsey County, which includes St. Paul, is investigating federal officers' arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao, a Hmong American man, as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

ICE officers bashed open the front door of Thao’s St. Paul home with guns drawn, then led him outside in just his underwear and a blanket in freezing conditions. The arrest was captured on widely shared video.

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said Monday that they are pursuing information from DHS but have not been able to determine whether ICE officers had a warrant for Thao's arrest.

DHS said in a statement that ICE does not kidnap people and called the county's investigation a political stunt.

Other incidents

In early March, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office was investigating at least 17 cases and considering whether to bring misconduct charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino.

Included in the investigation was an incident in which Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. Another on Jan. 7 involved federal officers making an arrest outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants with students and staff nearby.

El tiroteo ocurrió poco después de las 2 p.m. en la zona de Northwest 75th Street y 21st Avenue.

Equipos de emergencia trasladaron a las tres víctimas al Ryder Trauma Center del hospital Jackson Memorial.

La cercana escuela primaria Lillie C. Evans, ubicada en 1895 NW 75th St., fue puesta en “cierre preventivo”, informaron autoridades escolares. El cierre fue levantado poco antes de las 3:30 p.m.

Hasta alrededor de las 3 p.m. del jueves, no se habían dado a conocer las condiciones de las víctimas.

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Police said it happened at around 3 p.m. at a strip mall in the 7600 block of West Sample Road.

Video from Sky 10 showed officers and crime scene tape behind the shopping center, surrounding a crashed work van and an SUV. It wasn’t immediately clear whether or how the shooting was related to the crash.

Sgt. James Kaban, a spokesperson for the Coral Springs Police Department, said the victim was taken to Broward Health North “with serious injuries” and a person of interest was in custody.

Kaban said just before 4:30 p.m. that the victim’s “current condition remains unknown.”

Police said they’re looking into the relationship between the person of interest and the victim.

Kaban said there was no threat to the public and asked anyone with information to call CSPD at 954-344-1800.

Aberg moved ahead of Harris English and Viktor Hovland with an 8-iron to about 15 feet on the back corner of the green on the par-3 17th and made the birdie. He closed with a par, pleasing because he felt that 8-iron confirmed how well he was swinging the club.

Houston Open champion Gary Woodland and Rickie Fowler were in the group of players at 65.

Masters champion Rory McIlroy skipped this $20 million signature event for the second straight year, having said Harbour Town doesn’t suit him. Scottie Scheffler, the runner-up last week, was among those playing in the afternoon.

It was a wild start for Scheffler, who had to hit two off the tee on the first hole and made a 12-foot putt to escape with bogey.

Aberg had a disappointing week at Augusta National by his standards — a tie for 21st, his first time out of the top 10 in three appearances at the Masters.

“I felt like I was playing well but made some silly mistakes that prevented me from having a real chance,” Aberg said. “But I also felt like in the grand scheme of things, I was swinging it nice, I was moving it nice, so I didn’t have to prepare that much in terms of my golf swing on Monday through Wednesday, and I felt like good golf was in there.”

The challenge for Aberg and the other 52 players who were in the Masters was to stay sharp inside the ropes on an island that makes this tournament feel like a working vacation.

Hovland is feeling less stressful more because of his swing, instead of the week at the Masters when he made a big run up the leaderboard on Sunday only to catch the wrong gust at the wrong time that led to double bogey on the 15th hole. He still shot 67.

Hovland doesn't feel he's all the way back with his swing, but he found enough signs of progress to believe he is getting close. He played bogey-free for a 64 that featured no birdies on the three par 5s.

“The whole year I've been working really hard, and I think now that I’m seeing my game progress and get closer to where I want it to be, I can start to relax a little bit more and focus on kind of the recovery aspect of things,” Hovland said.

English also played bogey-free for his 64, finishing with a birdie to a front pin over the bunker.

The toughest day belonged to someone who didn't even play. Brooks Koepka was the first alternate and showed up at Hilton Head in case someone withdrew. That typically means a two-hour wait in the morning, taking a break, and waiting some two hours during the afternoon wave.

Bad news for Brooks — this signature event has players in twosomes off the first tee, one right after the other. He was at the course about 6:45 a.m. (the first tee time was 7 a.m.) and could not leave until the last group teed off at 2:10 p.m.

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La policía informó que ocurrió alrededor de las 3 p.m. en un centro comercial en la cuadra 7600 de West Sample Road.

Video de Sky 10 mostró a agentes y cinta de la escena del crimen detrás del centro comercial, rodeando una camioneta de trabajo chocada y un SUV. No estaba claro de inmediato si la balacera estaba relacionada con el accidente.

El sargento James Kaban, portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Coral Springs, indicó que la víctima fue llevada al Broward Health North “con heridas graves” y que una persona de interés está bajo custodia.

Kaban señaló poco antes de las 4:30 p.m. que la “condición actual” de la víctima sigue siendo desconocida.

La policía indicó que investiga la relación entre la persona de interés y la víctima.

Kaban agregó que no hay amenaza para el público y pidió a cualquier persona con información que llame al CSPD al 954-344-1800.

The U.N. is warning against privatizing a global aid system that delivers crucial assistance to some of the world's most vulnerable populations.

Ahead of the initiative being formally introduced at the U.N. at the end of April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered all U.S. diplomats to deliver a call to action to high-level foreign officials to sign on with their support by Monday, according to a diplomatic cable sent this week and obtained by The Associated Press.

According to the directive, the “Trade Over Aid Initiative" is meant to encourage U.N. member states to “make pro-business reforms" to their aid processes by facilitating conversations between governments, the private sector and international organizations.

The proposal also calls for “free market” policies to attract foreign trade that include "limited regulation, low taxation, multiple energy sources, private property rights, sanctity of contracts, and a trusted judiciary."

“The idea that trade and free market capitalism is the surest path to prosperity has been proven by the facts and by history," said Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman. “The U.S. remains the most generous country in the history of the world, but those arguing for ‘aid not trade’ are really arguing for lining the pockets of a corrupt NGO industrial complex.”

While signing on to the proposal is nonbinding and does not create obligations or require changes to national laws, it would reflect global opinion on the increasingly dire global aid situation as powerful countries like the U.S., the United Kingdom and others have decreased funding for humanitarian aid and increased their nations' defense spending.

The latest move is also seen by the U.N. and other international organizations as further abandoning the aid system at a moment of growing conflicts around the world, while increasing the risk of exploitation by for-profit companies.

Despite the U.S. effort, the United Nations is committed to putting in place its sustainable development agenda by 2030, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, which includes ending poverty, achieving gender equality and urgently tackling climate change.

"For us, trade, investment, and private sector engagement can be powerful drivers of inclusive growth and job creation," he told AP. “They should, however, not be used to substitute international development cooperation or for principled humanitarian assistance.”

Eric Pelofsky, who served at the State Department under the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations, blasted the effort in a statement, saying that “there’s no American who looks at a picture of a starving child and sees an opportunity for companies to enrich themselves.”

“That’s because Americans have historically run to the fire to help rather than looking for ways to sell fire hoses to those suffering,” according to a statement from Pelofsky, now an executive at the Rockefeller Foundation. "This approach betrays America’s traditions, values, and national security interests — and it makes us less safe.”

Devex, a news organization covering global development, earlier reported details of the initiative and The Washington Post earlier reported on the cable.

The initiative builds on the Trump administration’s pattern over the last year of pulling back from organizations that promote global cooperation. Since taking office in January 2025, the administration has suspended support for agencies like the World Health Organization, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO.

The Trump administration also dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, while taking a larger, à la carte approach to paying dues to the United Nations, picking which operations and agencies it believes align with Trump’s agenda and avoiding those that no longer serve U.S. interests.

In December, U.S. officials announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid, a small fraction of past contributions but a reflection of what the administration says is still a generous amount that will maintain America’s status as the world’s largest humanitarian donor.

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Amiri reported from New York.

Preston Henry Tolth, 26, could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in federal prison, with credit for three years already served, under the conditions of the proposed agreement.

U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes asked Tolth during a hearing in Phoenix if he was entering the plea because he was, in fact, guilty.

“Yes, your honor,” Tolth said.

Ella Mae Begay was 62 when she vanished in 2021 from Sweetwater, Arizona, a community in the northern part of the Navajo Nation where she spent her days visiting with relatives and weaving rugs that she sold to nearby trading posts.

In 2022, Begay's niece Seraphine Warren walked from the Navajo Nation to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about her aunt's disappearance and the high rate of homicides and missing persons cases in Indian Country. Begay's case has drawn national media attention and provided fuel for tribal leaders and victim advocates as they push for more law enforcement resources and cooperation between tribal and federal investigators.

Navajo Nation police identified Tolth, whose father was dating Begay's sister, as a suspect within days of her disappearance.

Under the conditions of the agreement, Tolth acknowledged using force to take Ella Mae Begay’s pickup truck, striking her in the face several times and leaving her on the side of the road before driving away and eventually selling the truck for money and methamphetamine.

Rayes is scheduled in May to review the latest plea agreement, which also protects Tolth from future murder or manslaughter charges in relation to Begay's case.

Members of Begay’s family say prosecutors negotiated the agreement against their wishes and without their input.

Begay’s son, Gerald Begay, took a break from his construction job in Denver to listen to Thursday’s hearing by phone. He told The Associated Press that he plans to attend the next court hearing and ask the judge to reject the plea agreement in hopes that Tolth can be put on trial.

“The prosecutors aren’t thinking about our rights or what we need as a family,” he said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district of Arizona and Tolth's public defender each declined to comment.

In a 2021 FBI interrogation, Tolth confessed to attacking Begay in a fit of anger and leaving her for dead. But Rayes dealt prosecutors a major blow by ruling that confession inadmissible in court, saying the FBI agent had unlawfully coerced Tolth into waiving his right to remain silent. In court filings, prosecutors acknowledged that weakened the government’s case significantly.

At a hearing earlier this month, Rayes rejected an earlier agreement that would have released Tolth from federal custody on a sentence of three years of time served in exchange for a guilty plea. The judge's rare move came after Begay's grieving family members testified that Tolth should not walk free without leading investigators to her remains.

“Accountability is not time served,” Begay's niece Seraphine Warren had told the judge. “It’s about truth, and we still don’t have the truth.”

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The renowned Baron, also a former editor of The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald, gave a keynote address Wednesday as New York University handed out journalism awards. The Associated Press was praised for its “unyielding defense of ethical standards and principles” for not changing its style guidance after President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. The AP's lawsuit against the White House for reducing some of its access is currently under consideration by an appeals court.

NYU also honored The Atlantic for how it wrote about its editor inadvertently being included in a text chain with Trump administration and military figures, and student journalists at NYU, Stanford and the University of Texas at Dallas.

Worries that ‘to each his own’ is replacing an ethical compass

While conceding he risked sounding sanctimonious, Baron dove right in. He said he worried that journalists can't agree on an ethical compass — seeking the truth with humility is his suggestion — and that “to each his own” is becoming the evolving ethos for many who cover and talk about the news.

“We will be doing ourselves no favors if that turns out to be the case,” he said. “All of us will likely be tainted by the worst practices of any one of us.”

Baron praised some work he considered exemplary, including Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown's reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein case and Knight Ridder stories in the run-up to the Iraq War more than two decades ago. But he spent more time on his concerns.

Among them: ow Paramount Global mogul David Ellison and his choice for CBS News editor-in-chief, Free Press founder Bari Weiss, are positioning that network. Paramount is also seeking Trump administration approval for its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, which would also give the company control over CNN. Ellison has said CBS News — and CNN if it comes to that — will maintain editorial independence.

Ellison has said he wants CBS News to prioritize talking to Americans who identify as center-left or center-right politically, a group that he considers the majority of the country. Baron said that was “a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.”

He said that a news organization using that as a guiding principle “is fated to compromise ethics when a rock-solid story moving toward publication is deemed to fall outside the designated political comfort zone.” A CBS News representative had no immediate comment.

Ellison's perceived closeness with the Trump administration has become a prism through which much of CBS News' coverage is now viewed.

For example, the network was criticized in February for different framing of statistics on who ICE was arresting in immigration crackdowns. The network initially reported that 40% of those arrested had no criminal history and that 14% were charged or convicted of violent crimes — the so-called “worst of the worst” the administration had talked about deporting. But later on “CBS Evening News,” the focus had shifted to the statistic that 60% of those arrested had a criminal history.

CBS News has also received attention for inviting Trump administration officials to sit at its table later this month at the White House Correspondent Association dinner. Those dinner invites are common for news outlets at that event — not just CBS — but are being watched more closely due to the administration's attacks on the media.

Cable networks that operate as a bullhorn for the administration

In his NYU speech, Baron also criticized “cable networks that function as mouthpieces and bullhorns for the administration, who routinely funnel on-air personalities into its top positions and who supply them with lucrative landing spots when they exit. These outlets render themselves largely indistinguishable from the governments they are supposed to cover.”

His remarks came less than 24 hours before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News Channel host, used his Pentagon podium to criticize journalists he said were “only looking for the negative” in their coverage of the Iran war. He said it reminded him of a biblical story of Pharisees who cast doubt on a miracle performed by Christ.

“Your politically motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors,” Hegseth said Thursday.

Baron denounced media figures from both political sides who see everything through a partisan lens, consult only people who say what they want to hear and seize on an isolated fact to make sweeping judgments. “This is an outrage and advocacy industry," he said, “not a fact-finding profession.”

He also said many journalists failed to live up to the mission of seeking the truth about Biden's cognitive and physical struggled during his term as president. Baron announced his retirement from the Post in January 2021, days after Biden took office.

“Did some among us shy from aggressively exploring his intellectual and physical health for fear of aiding Donald Trump's campaign and alienating loyal readers, viewers and listeners?” Baron asked. “My guess is yes. If so, would that be an ethical breakdown in our profession? Again, I'd say yes.”

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The three-time MVP joined Jimmie Foxx (1933), Darrell Evans (1985) and George Bell (1990) as the fourth player with five homers in a series against the Yankees, according to MLB researcher Sarah Langs. Trout homered twice on Monday before going deep again in the following two games.

In the series finale Thursday, Trout drove a 2-2 slider from reliever Angel Chivilli about halfway up the left field bleachers to give the Angels a 7-4 lead.

Trout is 6 for 16 with five homers and nine RBIs in the series. He also has homered in his last five games at Yankee Stadium.

Trout is hitting .246 with seven homers and 16 RBIs. He is 9 for 27 (.333) with five homers and 13 RBIs on the Angels’ road trip, which coincides with him making a mechanical tweak.

Trout’s career-high homer streak is seven games, achieved Sept. 4-12, 2022.

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It marks the first time the Miami Heat have missed the playoffs since the 2018-19 season, ending a tumultuous stretch in which they lost 10 of their final 15 games.

Heat center Bam Adebayo was asked about possible changes needed this offseason.

Bam Adebayo on possible major changes needed for the Heat this offseason:

“That is not a question for me. That is obviously a question for Spo and Pat Riley. Seeing that we didn’t make the playoffs, there will probably be changes.” pic.twitter.com/a8fthvkks5

— Will Manso (@WillManso) April 16, 2026

“That is not a question for me,” he said. “That is obviously a question for Spo (Spoelstra) and Pat Riley. Seeing that we didn’t make the playoffs, there will probably be changes.”

Adebayo also addressed whether his injury would have kept him out longer had Miami advanced.

“I don’t like needles, but I would have taken a couple more to keep playing, for sure.”

In Miami, the NBA’s decision that LaMelo Ball grabbing Adebayo ankle as he was falling was an ejection-worthy flagrant foul didn’t register much of a reaction. In Charlotte, the fact that the ruling didn’t include a suspension brought relief.

Adebayo previously said he wanted the league to review how plays like that can be handled going forward.

Per NBA rules, the Heat could not challenge the ruling on the play at the time because no foul was called. Play continued, leaving no opportunity for a replay review.

However, the NBA decide to fine Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball $35,000 for his trip of Adebayo and upgraded the action to a Flagrant, plus fining him $25,000 for cursing postgame, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Adebayo was diagnosed with a lower-back contusion as a result of the fall, and he questioned why mechanisms exist to take 3-point makes off the scoreboard after several more minutes of play, while incidents like Tuesday’s cannot be reviewed unless immediately whistled.

Ball is now set to play Friday for the Hornets in their play-in elimination game at Orlando — a reality that Charlotte coach Charles Lee hoped for, and one that Spoelstra did not seem to oppose.

“I didn’t think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward. I don’t think that would make sense,” Spoelstra said Thursday as the Heat held their season-ending meetings.

Meanwhile, Heat guard Pelle Larsson reflected on his season and growth on Thursday.

Pelle Larsson on his season and growth:

“Definitely stepped up in my development.”

Says getting more minutes and opportunities were a big part of it, but says “I absolutely have more to build on.” pic.twitter.com/U6NG7kfyYl

— Will Manso (@WillManso) April 16, 2026

“Definitely stepped up in my development.” He said getting more minutes and opportunities were a big part of it, but added, “I absolutely have more to build on.”

Heat forward Norman Powell told reporters that he enjoyed his time in Miami and would like to continue it, but he still has to speak to his agent and see what conversations his agent has with the Heat front office moving forward.

Guard Nikola Jovic told reporters that he believes inconsistent minutes led his struggles in Miami’s new up-tempo offense.

“I thought this offense was going to be good for me too, but I think the part that didn’t help me was the fact my playing time was so inconsistent,” he said. “I think I started the first game of the year, and then I came off the bench and after a few games, it (his minutes) went down and down more and I couldn’t find a rhythm.”

Miami’s Tyler Herro and Andrew Wiggins declined to speak to reporters on Thursday.

Spoelstra added, “I truly feel there could have been four to six more wins on the table for us, but that did not happen. But you are what your record is.”

He also stated that Miami’s front office is highly motivated to be better.

The Heat finished the regular season 43-39, and now face an offseason full of questions as the franchise looks to return to playoff form.

Esto marca la primera vez que el Miami Heat queda fuera de los playoffs desde la temporada 2018-19, poniendo fin a un tramo complicado en el que perdieron 10 de sus últimos 15 juegos.

Al pívot Bam Adebayo se le preguntó sobre posibles cambios necesarios en la próxima temporada baja.

Bam Adebayo on possible major changes needed for the Heat this offseason:

“That is not a question for me. That is obviously a question for Spo and Pat Riley. Seeing that we didn’t make the playoffs, there will probably be changes.” pic.twitter.com/a8fthvkks5

— Will Manso (@WillManso) April 16, 2026

“Esa no es una pregunta para mí”, dijo. “Obviamente es una pregunta para Spo (Spoelstra) y Pat Riley. Al ver que no llegamos a los playoffs, probablemente habrá cambios”.

Adebayo también abordó si su lesión lo habría dejado fuera por más tiempo si Miami hubiera avanzado.

“No me gustan las agujas, pero me habría puesto un par más para seguir jugando, sin duda”.

En Miami, la decisión de la NBA de que LaMelo Ball sujetara el tobillo de Adebayo mientras caía merecía expulsión como falta flagrante no generó mucha reacción. En Charlotte, el hecho de que la sanción no incluyera suspensión trajo alivio.

Adebayo había dicho previamente que quería que la liga revisara cómo manejar jugadas como esa en el futuro.

Según las reglas de la NBA, el Heat no pudo impugnar la decisión en el momento porque no se sancionó falta. El juego continuó, sin oportunidad de revisión en repetición.

Sin embargo, la NBA decidió multar a LaMelo Ball, de Charlotte, con $35,000 USD por hacer tropezar a Adebayo y elevó la acción a falta flagrante, además de imponerle una multa de $25,000 USD por usar lenguaje obsceno después del juego, según ESPN y Shams Charania.

Adebayo fue diagnosticado con una contusión en la parte baja de la espalda como resultado de la caída, y cuestionó por qué existen mecanismos para anular triples varios minutos después, mientras incidentes como el del martes no pueden revisarse si no se sancionan de inmediato.

Ball ahora podrá jugar el viernes con los Hornets en su partido de eliminación del play-in en Orlando, una posibilidad que el entrenador de Charlotte, Charles Lee, esperaba, y a la que Spoelstra no pareció oponerse.

“No pensé que necesitara ser penalizado más en adelante. No creo que eso tenga sentido”, dijo Spoelstra el jueves durante las reuniones de cierre de temporada del Heat.

Mientras tanto, el escolta del Heat Pelle Larsson reflexionó el jueves sobre su temporada y su desarrollo.

Pelle Larsson on his season and growth:

“Definitely stepped up in my development.”

Says getting more minutes and opportunities were a big part of it, but says “I absolutely have more to build on.” pic.twitter.com/U6NG7kfyYl

— Will Manso (@WillManso) April 16, 2026

“Definitivamente di un paso adelante en mi desarrollo”. Señaló que tener más minutos y oportunidades fue una parte importante, pero añadió: “Definitivamente tengo más por mejorar”.

El alero del Heat, Norman Powell, dijo a los reporteros que disfrutó su tiempo en Miami y le gustaría continuar, pero aún debe hablar con su agente y ver qué conversaciones mantiene con la gerencia del equipo.

El base Nikola Jovic dijo a los reporteros que cree que la inconsistencia en sus minutos afectó su rendimiento en la nueva ofensiva de ritmo rápido de Miami.

“Pensé que esta ofensiva iba a ser buena para mí también, pero creo que lo que no me ayudó fue que mi tiempo de juego fue muy inconsistente”, dijo. “Creo que fui titular en el primer juego del año, luego salí desde la banca y después de algunos juegos mis minutos bajaron cada vez más y no pude encontrar ritmo”.

Tyler Herro y Andrew Wiggins, de Miami, declinaron hablar con los reporteros el jueves.

Spoelstra añadió: “Realmente siento que pudimos haber logrado entre cuatro y seis victorias más, pero no ocurrió. Pero eres lo que tu récord dice”.

También afirmó que la gerencia del Heat está altamente motivada para mejorar.

El Heat terminó la temporada regular con marca de 43-39 y ahora enfrenta una temporada baja llena de interrogantes mientras la franquicia busca volver a nivel de playoffs.

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Officers responded around 9 p.m. to the 2500 block of Northwest 21st Street after receiving reports of a possible shooting. When they arrived, they found two adults suffering from gunshot wounds.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported both victims to Broward Health Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

One of the victims died from their injuries. Police identified him as 19-year-old Lamardric Anntwan Davis.

The second victim remains at the hospital in critical condition.

The investigation remains active.

Anyone with information related to this incident is encouraged to contact the Fort Lauderdale Police Department at (954)828-6958, or Broward County Crime Stoppers at (954)493-TIPS (8477).

Andres Zapata was sentenced Wednesday in Austin, Texas, to time served after agreeing to cooperate in a decade-long investigation that has implicated several agents in misconduct, according to two people who weren’t authorized to discuss the ongoing inquiry and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Zapata, 48, was extradited to the U.S. last year from his native Colombia, where he had worked closely with José Irizarry, a former DEA agent serving a 12-year sentence for skimming millions of dollars from money laundering stings to fund luxury travel, expensive sports cars and frat-house style parties.

The DEA paid Zapata, a professional money launderer, $3.8 million from 2015-2020 for his work as a confidential informant, court records show. He pleaded guilty last July to a single charge of failing to report those earnings on his tax returns. Informants are required by the DEA to report such income to the IRS but are rarely prosecuted for failing to do so.

The Justice Department’s criminal division, which prosecuted the case, declined to comment. The DEA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Zapata’s lawyer, Don Bailey, argued at the sentencing hearing that it was unusual for prosecutors to target someone who had risked their life helping U.S. law enforcement combat violent cartels for an offense he didn’t even know he was committing.

Zapata and other informants “don’t get 1099s or W-9s,” Bailey said, referring to forms typically filed by independent contractors to report income. “You don’t know what you owe. You sign a piece of paper for money. You don’t get receipts.”

At the hearing, Zapata told a federal judge he was ready to move forward with his life after having spent over a year in a rough prison near his hometown of Medellin awaiting extradition.

“I’ve learned my lesson,” he said, according to a transcript of the proceeding.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra described Zapata at the hearing as having been “very cooperative” with the government. He denied a request by the AP to unseal sentencing records. In sentencing Zapata to time served in Colombia, the judge also ordered the former informant to pay $1.2 million in restitution, an amount reflecting the tax loss to the U.S. government.

Internal DEA records obtained by the AP show the agency first signed up Zapata as an informant in 1998, employing an erstwhile vacuum salesman whose brother-in-law got jammed up for drug trafficking.

Over the next two decades, he became one of the agency’s most prolific informants, arranging covert cash pickups and assisting in investigations from Peru to Los Angeles, the records show, earning more than $4.6 million from the DEA.

But he didn’t supply agents with just tips.

Under the cover of a DEA assignment, the Colombian-American dual national crisscrossed the globe with agents and sometimes prosecutors from Miami in what Irizarry has described as a “world debauchery tour” that flouted strict rules against cozying up to informants.

A secret WhatsApp chat agents used to revel in their three-continent joyride details Zapata’s role procuring prostitutes — and helping what Irizarry coined “Team America” get out of trouble. In 2018, Zapata had been on assignment in Madrid drinking with an agent who was briefly detained and accused of sexually assaulting a woman.

Irizarry told investigators that Zapata kicked back some of the reward money he earned as an informant. He recalled a night Zapata showed up at his apartment in Colombia with a bag containing $40,000 in cash — money Irizarry used to purchase a Tiffany ring for his wife.

Zapata also allegedly served as a go-between for payments Irizarry admitted to taking from Colombia’s “Contraband Czar” Diego Marin — a one-time DEA informant arrested in 2024 in Spain as part of a Colombian bribery investigation. Marin and Zapata appear in a video obtained by the AP partying with agents at a Madrid restaurant.

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Mustian reported from Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters she had met with Warsh Thursday and urged him to disclose more information about his assets than was included in financial disclosure forms released earlier this week. Warsh, a former top official at the Fed and a wealthy investor, listed financial assets worth well more than $100 million. The figures are given in ranges so a precise value wasn't disclosed.

Warsh has large stakes in several investment funds and owns a solo financial advisory firm, Vicarage LLC. He has pledged in ethics filings to sell those holdings and stop working as an adviser if he is confirmed as Fed chair. Yet he has not disclosed the values of all his investments through the funds, or the names of some of his clients.

“This is a real problem,” Warren said. “No one has gone forward in the Trump administration without disclosing fully their financial holdings."

It's the latest hurdle for Warsh, 56, who is already facing an unusually turbulent path toward the Fed chair position, which he has sought for at least a decade. Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican and member of the Banking panel, said this week he won’t vote for Warsh until a Department of Justice investigation into current Fed chair Jerome Powell is resolved. The stand-off threatens to delay Warsh’s confirmation until after Powell’s term as chair ends May 15.

But even if Warsh is confirmed, he will likely face ongoing pressure from Trump to cut the Fed's key interest rate despite the Iran war pushing inflation higher and many other policymakers expressing skepticism about cuts. And he could end up serving while Powell remains on the Fed's governing board, an uncomfortable arrangement that hasn’t occurred since the late 1940s.

Warsh was a member of the Fed's governing board from 2006 to 2011, and is married to Jane Lauder, the daughter of billionaire cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, a major Republican donor. He has also worked in finance and has made roughly $10 million as an advisor to billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller's family office, according to his disclosure form.

Warren said Warsh declined in their meeting to disclose more information about his holdings, “which, frankly, raises more concerns.” She added that his extensive investments are “a red flag surrounded by fireworks and sparklers.”

Warsh said in his disclosures that “pre-existing confidentiality” agreements prevent him from specifying the size of individual holdings or in some cases what they are. For example, he owns a stake in Polymarket, the prediction betting market, but did not say how large it is. He said he would comply with all ethics requirements by selling those investments if confirmed.

Also Thursday, all 11 Democrats on the Banking Committee called for next week's hearing to be postponed until the DOJ drops the investigation into cost overruns for a $2.5 billion Fed building renovation project and Powell's role in it, as well as an effort by Trump to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook.

Both moves “appear to be part of the Trump Administration’s broader effort to take control of the Fed,” the letter said.

Powell said last month that he would continue to serve as Fed chair if no replacement is confirmed by the end of his term. He added that previous chairs have done the same. Yet on Wednesday, Trump threatened to try to fire Powell if he did so.

Powell has also said he would remain on the Fed's governing board even after his term as chair ends if the investigation isn't dropped. By doing so, he could prevent the Trump administration from filling another seat on the board, a step he might take if he saw it as a way to preserve the Fed's political independence.

Powell serves a separate term as governor that lasts until January 2028. A Fed chair hasn’t remained on the board as a governor even after a new chair is appointed since 1948.

The battles over Powell, as well as the uptick in inflation from the Iran war, could create extensive headaches for Warsh.

“The ground has shifted materially beneath Warsh’s feet since he was nominated,” Marco Casiraghi, an analyst at Evercore ISI, an investment bank, wrote earlier this week. “Both with the oil shock and the failure to swiftly resolve the DOJ investigation, which we think means Powell will now likely stay on as a regular governor for several months.”

Trump is likely to keep pushing for Fed rate cuts regardless of who is chair. The Fed’s short-term rate influences other borrowing costs in the economy, including for mortgages, auto loans, and business borrowing.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week appeared to reduce the pressure on the Fed somewhat, when he told reporters Tuesday that rates should be cut, “but if they want to wait for some clarity, I understand that.” Many Fed officials have said they want to see if the jump in energy prices starts to push up inflation more broadly. If it doesn't, the Fed could potentially look past the gas price spike and cut rates, particularly if the economy weakens.

Yet when Trump was asked Wednesday on Fox Business whether he still expects interest rates to decline, he said, “when Kevin gets in, I do. ... interest rates should be much lower.”

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Associated Press Writer Fatima Hussein contributed to this report.

In an exclusive Associated Press interview Thursday, International Energy Agency Director Fatih Birol said Europe has “maybe six weeks” of remaining jet fuel supplies and said the global economy faces its "largest energy crisis."

In general, some European countries hold several months' worth of jet fuel inventory at a time, according to an IEA report released this week.

Jet fuel — a refined kerosene-based oil product — is airlines' biggest cost, making up about 30% of overall expenses, according to the International Air Transport Association. And jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the war began. Shortages could start next.

“Every passing day that the Strait of Hormuz remains shut, Europe is edging closer to supply shortages,” said Amaar Khan, head of European jet fuel pricing at Argus Media. “The strait accounts for around 40% of Europe’s jet fuel imports, but no jet fuel has passed the strait since the war broke out.”

Airline officials have largely reacted with caution, acknowledging potential fuel issues but working to reassure customers. Still, some carriers have already passed costs on to consumers by increasing fees for baggage and other add-ons, embedding costs into ticket prices, or raising fuel surcharges.

A handful of airlines already are cutting flights. Experts say other parts of air travel — such as scheduling flexibility and routes — would likely be impacted.

Here's a look at how jet fuel supplies work and how consumers might see effects.

How does jet fuel get to the plane?

Jet fuel is made from crude oil at refineries, which also create gasoline and diesel.

Airlines generally buy jet fuel from refineries or fuel companies, similar to drivers buying gasoline from stations, but on a much larger scale. Jet fuel travels on ships and through pipelines and is stored by airlines at airports.

Purchasing is handled by airlines. If fuel supplies are running out in a region, that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be no flights. Some airlines might have more stored than others.

But remaining flights are likely to be expensive, reflecting fuel costs.

Larger airlines have advantages in regions with shortages. They have the financial means to deal with high prices, said Jacques Rousseau, managing director at financial firm Clearview Energy Partners.

In Europe, a number of countries are now relying on less than 20 days of coverage in their fuel supplies, according to this week's IEA report. Supplies haven’t dropped below 29 days since 2020, the report said.

If that falls under 23 days, physical shortages may emerge at some airports, resulting in flight cancellations and lower demand, the report warned.

Which regions could feel pain?

Asia-Pacific countries are the most reliant on oil and jet fuel from the Middle East, followed by Europe, Rousseau said.

Most of Europe’s jet fuel is produced by European refiners, but about 20-25% of its supply is missing because of the war, Rousseau said.

To fill some gaps, the U.S. has increased its exports of jet fuel to Europe considerably, sending about 150,000 barrels per day in April, or about six times the normal level, Rousseau said.

Availability of jet fuel is less of an issue in the U.S., a major oil producer, he added.

“I tell my kids ... we’re not so much going to run out of supply," Rousseau said. "It’s just going to cost more here, whereas in different parts of the world you could actually get to a point where there’s just no fuel.”

How much is the world supply of jet fuel lagging?

The world is losing 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil a day due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, said Pavel Molchanov, senior investment strategist at investment firm Raymond James & Associates.

“There are exactly the same refineries in exactly the same places in Asia and Europe, but if there is not enough oil for those refineries to operate, it’s going to lead to physical supply disruption,” he said.

Even though the IEA has released 400 million barrels of oil from members' emergency reserves, that won't help in the short term, he added.

“It could take until the end of the year to get all of those barrels onto the market,” he said.

How will my travel be affected?

Christopher Anderson, a professor of operations, technology and information management at Cornell University, said travelers should prepare for more than just higher airfares.

“This is no longer just a fuel-price story. For airlines, it is now a network-planning story,” he said. “Higher fuel costs matter, but so do longer routings, reduced scheduling flexibility and greater uncertainty about what demand will look like even a few weeks out.”

Travelers might see “a market with later booking patterns, more schedule volatility and fewer low-fare options if this disruption lasts into the core summer season,” he said.

What are airlines doing?

Dutch airline KLM and U.K. budget carrier easyJet told AP they weren't experiencing current fuel shortages, without commenting further on the IEA’s warning.

Still, both airlines are among those that have seen higher costs eat into their budgets.

On Thursday, KLM said it would cut 160 flights next month — about 1% of its total European routes. The airline cited “rising kerosene costs” and said a limited number of flights are “no longer financially viable to operate.”

In a Thursday update, EasyJet said it expects to see a pretax loss of 540 million to 560 million pounds (about $731 million to $758 million) for the first half of the 2026 fiscal year. Still, CEO Kenton Jarvis said demand remains strong overall — noting that Easter travel was easyJet’s busiest ever for that holiday period.

Lufthansa said Thursday that labor disputes and high fuel prices are forcing it to immediately shut down feeder airline CityLine, earlier than planned, and take its 27 older, less fuel-efficient planes out of service. The decision accelerates a shutdown that had been expected for next year.

U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines — which frequently flies to European destinations — said on Thursday that it was “aware of the potential jet fuel supply issue” on the continent and monitoring the situation. Delta, which bought a refinery in Philadelphia in 2012 to manage its largest expense, said it doesn’t expect any “near-term impact to our operations.”

How are prices affected?

Other airlines have sounded the alarm about rising fuel prices, with some already passing along new costs to travelers, often embedded into ticket prices and add-on fees.

U.S. carriers Delta, United, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue have all increased checked baggage fees, for example, in recent weeks.

United CEO Scott Kirby said in a recent memo to staff that if fuel prices stay elevated, it could add $11 billion in annual costs. “For perspective,” Kirby wrote, “in United’s best year ever, we made less than $5B.”

Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific recently bumped fuel surcharges by roughly 34% across all routes, while Air India added up to $280 in fees to some flights earlier this month. Emirates, Lufthansa and KLM have also adjusted fees or fares to keep pace with the price volatility.

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AP writer David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed to this report.

“Soy inocente y lamento mucho su muerte”, dijo Luque, uno de los principales imputados en el proceso que encabeza un tribunal de la localidad de San Isidro, en las afueras de Buenos Aires. “Yo lo amaba, era mi ídolo”, afirmó el neurocirujano que oficiaba de médico de cabecera de Maradona al momento de su deceso.

Posible negligencia médica

El excapitán de la selección que conquistó el Mundial en 1986 falleció de un ataque cardiaco el 25 de noviembre de 2020, mientras cumplía una internación domiciliaria en una casa situada en las afueras de Buenos Aires. Allí el exfutbolista, entonces de 60 años, intentaba recuperarse de una cirugía practicada dos semanas antes en una clínica para removerle un hematoma subdural.

Los siete procesados están imputados de homicidio simple por dolo eventual, que es cuando el victimario sabe que su conducta puede ocasionar un daño, pese a lo cual continúa con la acción. Se castiga con una pena máxima de 25 años de prisión.

Encaran desde el martes un segundo juicio, casi un año después de que un primer proceso judicial fuera declarado nulo al descubrirse la conducta indebida de una jueza integrante del tribunal que entonces estaba a cargo.

Luque se desvincula

En la audiencia del jueves, Luque negó haber sido quien decidiera todas las medidas que debían implementarse para la recuperación de Maradona luego de la cirugía a la que fue sometido y aseguró que él “no estaba a cargo de esa internación domiciliaria”.

“En cuanto a la injerencia de ‘Luque decide todo, hace todo’, yo soy neurocirujano subespecializado en columnas”, subrayó el imputado sobre el acotado papel que habría tenido en relación con la salud del astro.

El fiscal Patricio Ferrari había criticado el martes las condiciones de la internación domiciliaria. Sostuvo que en esa vivienda “un grupo de improvisados incumplieron todos los deberes a su cargo” y “abandonaron a su suerte” a Maradona “condenándolo a la muerte”.

En otro momento Luque afirmó que desde 2007 el exfutbolista no recibía medicación para sus problemas cardiacos. “Y en ese momento el doctor que estaba acompañando al paciente fue (Alfredo) Cahe, no yo”.

Cahe —ya fallecido— fue el médico personal del exfutbolista durante décadas y se mostró crítico con el equipo que lo atendió durante sus últimas semanas con vida.

Luque también rechazó que Maradona hubiera sufrido agonía de 12 horas, tal como señaló un informe oficial de unos 20 peritos.

Sobre la enorme hinchazón que presentaba el cuerpo del exfutbolista, señaló que no obedecía a una condición “no alertada” por los profesionales, sino a las maniobras de reanimación practicadas al Diez el día de su muerte. “Estuvo reanimado al menos una hora; lo reaniman, paran un segundo y por pedido de la familia lo vuelven a reanimar; quién sabe las alteraciones que produce eso en el cuerpo”.

El neurocirujano sostuvo que “el edema agudo en una RCP (reanimación cardiopulmonar) puede ser ocasionado en minutos” y “no necesita del 11 al 25 de noviembre”, que es el periodo de tiempo que Maradona estuvo internado en la vivienda en 2020.

El médico también apuntó contra Giannina Maradona, una de las hijas del exfutbolista, señalando que la también imputada psiquiatra Agustina Cosachov le propuso conseguirle una clínica para atender a su padre, “a lo que ella dijo ‘no, no, déjenme que voy a averiguar’, y no averiguó”.

Además de Luque y Cosachov, están imputados el psicólogo Carlos Díaz y los médicos Nancy Forlini y Pedro Di Spagna; también el representante de la empresa que ofrecía el servicio de enfermería Mariano Perroni y el enfermero Ricardo Almirón. Todos ellos cumplieron algún papel en la internación domiciliaria del exfutbolista.

Luque declaró ante el tribunal —la primera vez que lo hizo— luego de que su defensa lo solicitara temprano en la mañana.

Durante la misma audiencia fueron reproducidos audios de las conversaciones por móvil que el neurocirujano mantuvo con cuidadores de Maradona. En una de ellas, un masajista le dijo preocupado que vio al campeón del mundo “hinchado con la luz apagada, imagínate con la luz prendida”.

Gianinna Maradona apuntó contra Luque durante el proceso que terminó siendo anulado el año pasado señalando que durante la internación domiciliaria vio a su padre muy descuidado.

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La periodista de The Associated Press, Almudena Calatrava, colaboró con este reporte.

In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, kicking off an expected sprint of seven budget hearings he'll attend across congressional committees and subcommittees over the next week, Kennedy emphasized the administration's work to reform dietary guidelines and crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.

Republicans on the committee praised Kennedy as a “breath of fresh air” and asked him to promote his department's recent actions. Democrats, who have been furious over Kennedy's sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, largely had a different agenda.

They needled Kennedy on what they viewed as the Trump administration’s hypocrisy on fraud, demanded to know why he was cutting budgets for various programs and slammed his efforts to pull back vaccine recommendations and messaging, which they said have caused unnecessary deaths.

Kennedy fired back, often raising his voice as he accused the Democrats of misrepresenting his work and past statements.

Here are three standout moments from Thursday's hearing:

A standoff over measles

One heated exchange early in the hearing came between Kennedy and Rep. Linda Sanchez. The California Democrat decried recent measles outbreaks across the U.S. and asked Kennedy to answer for the fact that under his leadership, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back public health messaging supporting vaccination.

“As a mother, this horrifies me,” Sanchez said. “Did President Trump approve your decision to end CDC’s pro-vaccine public messaging campaign?”

Kennedy repeatedly refused to answer, saying first he wanted to respond to the “misstatements that you've made” and later praising the Trump administration's record on preventing measles, although protections against the disease have eroded in some parts of the country as vaccination rates have dropped.

“That's not answering my question,” Sanchez said as the two talked over each other.

But Sanchez also got Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before he entered politics, to acknowledge that a 6-year-old who died of measles last year in West Texas could have potentially been saved with vaccination.

“Do you agree with the majority of doctors that the measles vaccine could have saved that child’s life in Texas?” she asked.

“It's possible, certainly,” Kennedy said.

RFK Jr. denies talking about Black children being ‘re-parented’

A fight erupted between Kennedy and Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama, when Kennedy vehemently denied making remarks he'd said in 2024.

The comments dated back to when Kennedy was a presidential candidate. On the “High Level Conversations” podcast last July, he said, “Psychiatric drugs — which every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence, and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens, you'll actually have to talk to people."

“Have you ever re-parented, or parented, I should say, a Black child?” Sewell asked, as her staff held up a poster featuring an abbreviated version of the quote.

“I don't even know what that phrase means,” Kennedy said. “I'm not going to answer something I didn't say.”

“You're making stuff up,” he later claimed.

A recording of the podcast shows he made the comments during a conversation about free rehabilitation facilities he was proposing opening at the time in rural areas around the country.

HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said Kennedy before joining the administration was referring to spaces where young people facing alienation, mental health challenges and despair could get re-parented, which she said was a psychotherapy term for “developing the emotional regulation, discipline, boundaries, and self-worth that may not have been established in childhood.”

For Kennedy and his former party, civility is the exception

Kennedy spent most of his life as a Democrat, the scion of one of the nation's most famous political families. Both Republicans and Democrats during the hearing began their remarks by expressing their admiration of Kennedy's relatives, among them former President John F. Kennedy.

But again and again throughout Thursday's hearing, the fraying of bonds between Kennedy and his former party was on full display as spiteful comments were passed back and forth.

The health secretary grew defensive and visibly agitated. He repeatedly criticized Democratic lawmakers for not giving him a word in edgewise.

“They've all shut me up,” Kennedy said at one point. “They give a little speech that they can go and market, you know, for fundraising, and they don't allow me to answer the question.”

On a few rare occasions, the exchanges were civil. One representative, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, used humor to make that happen.

“I promise to give you easy, comfortable questions if you don't yell at me and hurt my feelings,” she told Kennedy. He promised he wouldn't.

The department said that more than half of the 200 licenses reviewed during the audit had significant problems such as remaining valid long after an immigrant was authorized to be in the country. So the state was ordered to review all of this type of licenses and revoke illegal ones.

The federal government has reviewed records related to these non-domiciled CDLs in every state since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy put a spotlight on this issue after an August crash in Florida that killed three people. Most states have either complied or are in negotiations with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, but California has lost $200 million. Several other states — including Pennsylvania, Minnesota and North Carolina — have been warned they are at risk of losing some funding.

“I promised the American people I would hold any state leader accountable for failing to keep them safe from unvetted, unqualified foreign drivers. I’m delivering on that promise today,” Duffy said.

Duffy has said that immigrants account for about 20% of all truck drivers nationwide, but these non-domiciled licenses immigrants can receive only represent about 5% of all commercial driver’s licenses or about 200,000 drivers. New York issued 32,606 of them. New rules the Transportation Department has announced will prevent 97% of those foreign drivers from getting a commercial license again.

New York officials have defended their licensing practices and said they are complying with federal law and that audits during the first Trump administration supported that.

This is not the first time that the Transportation Department had withheld or threatened to withhold funding from New York since Trump returned to office.

Duffy put a hold on $18 billion in funding for a subway extension in Manhattan and tunnels beneath the Hudson River for Amtrak and commuter rail trains. The Trump administration agreed Thursday to restore funding for the subway project. In February, a judge ordered the funding to continue for the tunnel project. Duffy also threatened to pull federal funding from New York if it did not abandon a congestion pricing fee for driving into a large swath of Manhattan and if crime on the subway system was not addressed. The state also fought those efforts in court and won.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's spokesman Sean Butler said the action related to commercial driver's licenses seems to be part of broad effort to attack blue states.

“This continues a yearlong pattern of Secretary Duffy threatening to withhold money that keeps our roads, subways, and other infrastructure safe for New Yorkers. We will fight back, and once again we will win,” Butler said.

Trucking industry groups have praised the Transportation Department's efforts to get unqualified drivers off the road, crack down on questionable trucking schools and go after trucking companies that violate the rules and then just change their names and keep operating. The industry said that too often unqualified drivers who shouldn’t have licenses or can’t speak English have been allowed to get behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound (about 39,916 kilograms) truck.

"Thes“ enf”rcement actions will remove bad actors from the road and restore accountability to the system. Today’s action is an important step toward safer highways and a stronger, more professional trucking industry.” said Todd Spencer, who is president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association trade group.

But immigrant groups say some drivers are now being unfairly targeted. The spotlight has been on Sikh truckers because the driver in the Florida crash and the driver in another fatal crash in California in October are both Sikhs.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the stabbing shortly after 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday at 28759 SW 132 Court.

“The victim and the defendant are coworkers ... have known each other for approximately four to five months,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

The conflict started after the victim accused Edward Lowery, the alleged attacker, of not doing his job, according to the M-DSO deputy’s arrest report.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel airlifted the stabbing victim to Jackson South Medical Center in Kendall.

Deputies arrested Lowery shortly after 6:20 p.m. on Wednesday at 1027 NE 23 Ave., in Homestead, according to the deputy’s arrest report.

Lowery “spontaneously stated that he acted in self-defense,” a M-DSO deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade County corrections booked Lowery shortly before 1:50 a.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Lowery faced a second-degree charge of attempted murder.

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

La visita de Türk se dará en medio de las tensiones que surgieron entre el gobierno de la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum y el Comité de la ONU contra la Desaparición Forzada (CED por sus siglas en inglés) tras el reporte que presentó a inicios de mes en el que solicitó, en una decisión sin precedentes, que se lleve el caso México a la Asamblea General para que sopese medidas de prevención, investigación, castigo y erradicación de las desapariciones forzadas.

Sheinbaum anunció el jueves en su conferencia matutina que se reunirá la próxima semana con el alto comisionado quien también sostendrá encuentros con funcionarios de la Cancillería y la Secretaría de Gobernación.

Desde el 2000 a la fecha al menos tres altos comisionados de derechos humanos de la ONU han visitado México, entre ellos Louise Arbour en 2007 y Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein en 2015.

La mandataria detalló que durante la visita las autoridades mexicanas le informarán a Türk sobre lo que se ha realizado para apoyar a las víctimas y atender el delito de desaparición, y agregó que también se recibirán sus opiniones.

La oficina del alto comisionado de los derechos humanos y el CED forman parte del sistema de la ONU, pero responden a mandos distintos y tienen plena independencia, por lo que no se prevé que la visita de Türk pueda influir en la postura del comité sobre la situación de México.

El arribo del alto comisionado se dará en un momento álgido pues coincidirá con los recientes hallazgos de cientos de restos óseos que encontraron a las afueras de la capital mexicana grupos de personas que buscan por su cuenta a sus familiares desaparecidos. Según la fiscalía local los restos corresponderían a al menos tres personas.

El colectivo local Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco también informó esta semana la localización de “molares, placas y diversos indicios óseos” en una fosa séptica del Rancho Izaguirre, ubicado a las afueras de la ciudad occidental de Guadalajara, que fue intervenido el año pasado por la Fiscalía General de la República tras la denuncia que hizo el mismo grupo sobre la presencia de numerosos restos óseos calcinados y cientos de prendas de vestir en el lugar.

Los activistas han cuestionado los pocos avances que ha habido en las investigaciones del Rancho Izaguirre que era utilizado por el poderoso Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación como centro de entrenamiento.

Sheinbaum criticó duramente el informe de la CED alegando que se ignoró las acciones que ha realizado su gobierno para enfrentar la crisis, y sostuvo que el análisis se basó en casos ocurridos en cuatro estados mexicanos entre 2009-2017 y que los resultados “los extrapolan hasta 2025”.

También rechazó la afirmación de la CED de que en México podrían estar ocurriendo desapariciones forzadas como “crímenes de lesa humanidad”, y dijo que para que se dé ese tipo penal se requieren “ataques sistemáticos contra la población civil” por parte del Estado.

En su informe la CED también expresó preocupación por la crisis forense sin precedentes que enfrenta México con más de 70.000 cuerpos sin identificar en morgues y fosas comunes.

En respuesta a las críticas de las autoridades mexicanas, Juan Pablo Albán, presidente del CED, expresó que las diferencias jurídicas, incluso políticas, “son comprensibles” en el marco del diálogo internacional y la cooperación, pero sostuvo que es “fundamental preservar el respeto institucional” hacia los órganos de supervisión de los derechos humanos y sus integrantes.

Albán también refutó las críticas al informe y planteó que el análisis que hizo la CED de los casos de desaparecidos en México “no se limita a un periodo cerrado”, sino que “examina la evolución de la situación hasta la actualidad”.

El problema de desaparecidos en México se remonta al último tercio del siglo XX, pero a partir de 2006, cuando se inició la guerra frontal contra el crimen organizado, las cifras se dispararon, sin que se hayan logrado contener hasta la fecha.

En un intento por hacer frente a esta crisis, el año pasado Sheinbaum anunció una serie de reformas para agilizar las búsquedas, y a finales de marzo presentó una revisión del registro nacional de personas desaparecidas. Organizaciones humanitarias locales criticaron dicha revisión, asegurando que las debilidades en los registros revelan la enorme impunidad que existe en el país sobre esos casos, y consideraron que las nuevas clasificaciones no tienen fundamento legal.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade respondieron al incidente poco después de las 4:45 p.m. del miércoles en 28759 SW 132 Court.

“La víctima y el acusado son compañeros de trabajo… se conocen desde hace aproximadamente cuatro a cinco meses”, escribió un agente en el informe de arresto.

El conflicto comenzó después de que la víctima acusara a Edward Lowery, el presunto agresor, de no cumplir con su trabajo, según el informe.

Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladó en helicóptero a la víctima al Jackson South Medical Center en Kendall.

Los agentes arrestaron a Lowery poco después de las 6:20 p.m. del miércoles en 1027 NE 23 Ave., en Homestead, según el informe.

Lowery “declaró espontáneamente que actuó en defensa propia”, escribió un agente.

Correcciones de Miami-Dade registró a Lowery poco antes de la 1:50 a.m. del jueves en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Lowery enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en segundo grado.

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Estos sectores reclaman que tienen más de cuatro años sin recibir aumentos en el salario mínimo mensual, considerado el más bajo de la región.

En una mañana lluviosa, los manifestantes también exigieron al gobierno estadounidense velar que los fondos del gobierno venezolano — retenidos por Washington debido a las sanciones — al ser liberados sean usado para “pensiones, para salario…. para la reparación de escuelas, hospitales, universidades y para la obra de infraestructura pública”, dijo a la prensa el dirigente sindical Carlos Salazar, quien encabezó la delegación que entregó el pliego de peticiones a un funcionario de la sede diplomática.

Portando carteles en los que se leía “Mr. Trump consuma ya la transición”, los manifestantes pidieron, además, la convocatoria a elecciones próximamente, argumentando que es necesario un cambio de gobierno para lograr la recuperación del país rico en petróleo.

Después de su operación militar para capturar al entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro, el 3 de enero pasado, Estados Unidos ha estado trabajando para influir en los próximos pasos de Venezuela a través de sus vastos recursos petroleros.

La administración del presidente Trump sostiene que tienen el propósito de asumir el control de las exportaciones de productos petroleros venezolanos y mineros para asegurar, según dice, que beneficien al pueblo venezolano, así como revitalizar la economía venezolana atrayendo inversión extranjera a sus vastos recursos naturales.

El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, ha dicho que como parte de permitir que Venezuela venda petróleo, que sigue bajo sanciones, esos ingresos estarán dedicados en un principio a cubrir los costos de servicios gubernamentales básicos, como salarios, atención médica, y estarán sujetos a la supervisión de Washington.

La presidenta encargada, juramentada dos días después de la captura de Maduro, dijo en enero que el dinero procedente de las ventas de petróleo se destinaría hacia dos fondos soberanos: uno para apoyar los servicios de salud y otro para fortalecer la infraestructura pública, incluida la deteriorada red eléctrica.

Las protestas han continuado pese a que Rodríguez ha pedido paciencia a los trabajadores, cuyos salarios durante cerca de tres lustros no les han permitido cubrir sus necesidades básicas.

Rodríguez prometió a los trabajadores un aumento salarial el 1 de mayo. No reveló el monto, pero explicó que se implementaría de manera tal que se evite un repunte inflacionario como el que siguió al último incremento del salario mínimo.

Numerosos trabajadores del sector público subsisten con aproximadamente 160 dólares al mes, casi en su totalidad bonos que no tienen incidencia en otros beneficios laborales. De acuerdo con el Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas, un organismo independiente, un empleado promedio del sector privado ganaba el año pasado alrededor de 237 dólares mensuales.

El salario mínimo mensual de Venezuela de 130 bolívares (menos de 20 centavos de dólar al tipo de cambio oficial) no ha aumentado desde 2022, lo que lo sitúa muy por debajo del umbral de pobreza extrema de tres dólares al día establecido por el Banco Mundial y Naciones Unidas.

Muchos venezolanos tienen dos o más empleos para mejorar sus ingresos, mientras el precio de una canasta básica de alimentos supera los 500 dólares mensuales, según el Observatorio.

Mendoza, 22, attended Christopher Columbus High School in Miami.

In 2025, Mendoza led the No. 1 Hoosiers to a 16-0 record, defeating No. 10 Miami 27-21 in the national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium.

Mendoza finished the season with career highs of 3,535 passing yards and 41 touchdowns and tied a career low with six interceptions.

Before the game, Mendoza is expected to participate in brief photo opportunities and pregame ceremonies near the dugout.

The club has not yet released details on whether Mendoza will be joined by guests or participate in additional activities throughout the game.

Fans can purchase tickets here.

In an interview with the arts website Hyperallergic, Duwaji, an illustrator, said she felt “a lot of shame being confronted with language I used that is so harmful to others," adding “being 15 doesn't excuse it."

"I’ve read and seen a lot of what others have had to say in response, and I understand the hurt I caused and am truly sorry," she said in the interview, published Wednesday, in response to a question about adjusting to life as a public figure.

Duwaji did not specify which comments she was referring to, nor did she address other, more recent social media activity regarding Israel that has attracted heavy scrutiny as Mamdani tries to ease concerns among some in the city's Jewish community over his own criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

Last month, The Washington Free Beacon reported on years of Duwaji’s online activity across a handful of social media platforms, finding she had shared posts praising female Palestinian militants who participated in plane hijackings and bombings in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 2015, she shared a post in which someone else wrote that Tel Aviv was occupying Palestinian land and “shouldn’t exist.”

Duwaji also once used a racial slur for Black people while affectionately addressing a friend and used an abbreviated slur for gay people in 2013.

The mayor has previously said his wife is a “private person” who does not hold a formal position in City Hall. Asked Thursday about which specific posts his wife regretted, Mamdani demurred.

“She shared some of her reflections in this interview. I won’t add much to them, what I will say, however, is that she is someone of incredible integrity,” Mamdani told reporters.

He added that questions about Duwaji's social media activity were “part and parcel” of his own choice to run for mayor, “a decision that has ramifications for those that I love.”

Separately, Duwaji has also come under criticism for liking an Instagram post that appeared to cheer Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 surprise attack on Israel. The Free Beacon has also reported that Duwaji provided an illustration for an essay by an author who described the Oct. 7 attack as “spectacular" and had called Jewish Israelis “rootless soulless ghouls.”

Mamdani has previously said his wife had been commissioned to illustrate an excerpt of a book by a third party, and said she had never engaged or met with the author, and that Duwaji had not seen the author's previous comments. He called the author's rhetoric “patently unacceptable” and “reprehensible.”

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Both burglaries happened Sunday in the vicinity of Southwest 180th Street and 117th Avenue in the county’s unincorporated South Miami Heights area.

Deputies arrested the suspect, Erick Lluis, after spotting him on Wednesday.

According to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the federal officers ― working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement ― live close to one another. They also live close to Lluis, who resides about a block away.

Deputies said the 41-year-old burglarized their vehicles less than an hour apart.

Investigators said Lluis stole an FBOP “vest carrier, ID holder, hat and badge” from one vehicle and “a black sweater with ‘Police ICE’ printed on the back, a police radio charger and a fleet fuel card” from the other.

The report states that video from one of the burglaries showed Lluis rolling up on an electric scooter and breaking into one of the vehicles.

According to the report, on Wednesday, a deputy spotted him near his home and tried to stop him, but he ran into his backyard.

Deputies said they eventually found Lluis “concealing himself on the roof of a light-colored garage shed in the backyard” and also found the ICE sweater “laying on the ground” inside the open shed.

Authorities said they recovered the FBOP gear after obtaining a search warrant.

Jail records show Lluis was taken into custody on two counts of burglary and one count of fleeing and eluding.

As of Thursday, Lluis was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $22,500 bond with a listed hold for another, unspecified, agency.

Ambos robos ocurrieron el domingo en las inmediaciones de Southwest 180th Street y 117th Avenue, en el área no incorporada de South Miami Heights.

Los agentes arrestaron al sospechoso, Erick Lluis, tras localizarlo el miércoles.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, los agentes federales —que trabajan para la Oficina Federal de Prisiones y el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE)— viven cerca uno del otro. También viven cerca de Lluis, quien reside a aproximadamente una cuadra.

Los agentes dijeron que el hombre de 41 años robó los vehículos con menos de una hora de diferencia.

Los investigadores indicaron que Lluis robó de un vehículo un “chaleco portaequipo, portacredencial, gorra y placa” de la FBOP y del otro “un suéter negro con ‘Police ICE’ impreso en la parte trasera, un cargador de radio policial y una tarjeta de combustible de flota”.

El informe señala que un video de uno de los robos muestra a Lluis llegando en un scooter eléctrico y forzando la entrada a uno de los vehículos.

Según el informe, el miércoles un agente lo vio cerca de su casa e intentó detenerlo, pero este huyó hacia el patio trasero.

Los agentes dijeron que finalmente lo encontraron “ocultándose en el techo de un cobertizo de garaje de color claro en el patio trasero” y también hallaron el suéter de ICE “tirado en el suelo” dentro del cobertizo abierto.

Las autoridades indicaron que recuperaron el equipo de la FBOP tras obtener una orden de registro.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Lluis fue detenido enfrentando dos cargos de robo de vehículo y uno por huir y evadir a la policía.

Hasta el jueves, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $22,500 USD y una retención adicional de otra agencia no especificada.

A change-of-plea hearing for Jones is scheduled for April 28 in Brooklyn federal court, according to a court filing Thursday. It was originally set for May 6, but was moved at the request of the parties.

Jones, 49, had previously pleaded not guilty to separate indictments charging him with profiting from rigged poker games and providing sports bettors with non-public information about injuries to stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

Jones is charged in both cases with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

A message seeking comment was left for his lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery. He told a judge at Jones’ arraignments in November that they “may be engaging in plea negotiations.”

Jones, a onetime teammate of James, was arrested last October along with Portland Trail Blazers head coach and Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, and others, including a sports bettor accused of cashing in on injury information.

Jones was one of three people charged in both the poker and sports betting schemes. He remains free on bail.

A native of Galveston, Texas, Jones earned more than $20 million playing for 10 teams in 11 seasons from 1999 to 2009. He and James played together in Cleveland from 2005 to 2008 and Jones served as an unofficial assistant coach for James’ Los Angeles Lakers during the 2022-2023 season.

According to prosecutors, Jones sold or attempted to sell non-public information to bettors that James was injured and wouldn’t be playing in a Feb. 9, 2023, game against the Milwaukee Bucks, texting an unnamed co-conspirator: “Get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight before the information is out.”

James wasn’t listed on the Lakers’ injury report at the time of the text message, but the NBA’s all-time scoring leader was later ruled out of the game because of a lower body injury, according to prosecutors, and the Lakers lost the game 115-106.

On Jan. 15, 2024, prosecutors said, sports bettor Marves Fairley paid Jones approximately $2,500 for a tip that Davis, the Lakers’ forward and center at the time, would see limited playing time against the Oklahoma City Thunder because of an injury.

Fairley then placed a $100,000 bet on the Thunder to win, prosecutors said, but the tip was wrong. Davis played his usual minutes, scored 27 points and collected 15 rebounds in a 112-105 Lakers win, prompting Fairley to demand a refund of his $2,500 fee, prosecutors said.

In the poker scheme, according to prosecutors, Jones was among former NBA players used to lure unwitting players into poker games that were rigged using altered shuffling machines, hidden cameras, special sunglasses and even X-ray equipment built into the table.

According to the indictment, Jones was paid $2,500 for a game in the Hamptons where he was instructed to cheat by paying close attention to others involved in the scheme. His instructor likened those people to James and NBA All-Star Steph Curry, prosecutors said. When in doubt, Jones was told to fold his hand, prosecutors said.

In response, according to prosecutors, Jones texted: “y’all know I know what I’m doing!!”

The poker scheme often made use of illegal poker games run by New York crime families that required them to share a portion of their proceeds with the Gambino, Genovese and Bonnano crime families, according to prosecutors.

Members of those families, in turn, also helped commit violent acts, including assault, extortion and robbery, to ensure repayment of debts and the continued success of the operation, officials said in court documents.

A hot hand from outside the three-point arc, Jones once proclaimed himself in an interview with insidehoops.com as “the best shooter in the world.” He played in every regular season game for three consecutive seasons from 2003 to 2006.

After his playing days, he worked as a “shooting consultant” for the Cavaliers and was an assistant coach when the team, led by James, won the NBA championship in 2016.

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Undercover officers located the vehicle and stopped it near Northeast 38th Street and Biscayne Boulevard near Miami’s Design District, according to police.

Police said two people were detained for questioning.

Sky 10 flew over the scene, where officers were detaining a man in handcuffs while the other suspect was seen on the ground as police searched a black vehicle.

Authorities said Florida Highway Patrol troopers also responded to the scene.

No other details about the culprits were immediately released.

Agentes encubiertos localizaron el vehículo y lo detuvieron cerca de Northeast 38th Street y Biscayne Boulevard, en las inmediaciones del Design District de Miami, según la policía.

Las autoridades indicaron que dos personas fueron detenidas para ser interrogadas.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena, donde los agentes tenían a un hombre esposado mientras el otro sospechoso estaba en el suelo, mientras la policía registraba un vehículo negro.

Las autoridades señalaron que agentes de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida también respondieron al lugar.

No se dieron a conocer de inmediato más detalles sobre los sospechosos.

Jay Bryant pleaded not guilty to murder after his 2023 indictment, but his lawyer and federal prosecutors told the court in recent letters that they were negotiating a plea agreement.

A court docket entry Thursday indicated that Bryant intends to change his plea, without saying anything about the charge or conduct to which he might admit or the punishment he might expect. No date was set for a change of plea, and prosecutors declined to comment; a message was sent to Bryant’s attorney.

The notice isn't an irreversible commitment, and defendants can change their minds about pleading guilty even as they're sitting in court.

If Bryant goes through with the plea, it could bring a measure of both closure and complexity to the already convoluted case. Co-defendants Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington were convicted by a jury, but Jordan was later cleared by a judge — and Bryant has been something of an outlier.

He was indicted nearly three years after the others, when authorities said Bryant's DNA was found on a hat in the music studio where Jam Master Jay was gunned down. Born Jason Mizell, he was the DJ in Run-DMC, crafting beats and scratches that helped propel rap into music’s mainstream in the 1980s. The trio's hits included “It’s Tricky” and a take on Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”

By the time the DNA was allegedly matched to Bryant, prosecutors had long since articulated a theory that Jordan and Washington — both of whom were close to Mizell — went after him out of anger over a failed drug deal. According to prosecutors and trial witnesses, Jordan shot the DJ while Washington blocked the door during the shooting and ordered one of Mizell's to get on the ground. Both men denied the allegations.

Jordan was Mizell's grandson, and Washington was one of the DJ's childhood friends. Bryant, by contrast, had little if any connection to the rap star. He knew someone in common with Jordan and Washington, according to testimony at their trial, but it was unclear whether Bryant had ever met Mizell.

After the alleged DNA match, prosecutors contended that Bryant had slipped into the studio building and opened a back fire door so that Washington and Jordan could avoid buzzing up and could ambush the DJ.

Meanwhile, Bryant’s uncle claimed that his nephew told him he shot Mizell after the artist reached for a gun. No other witnesses even placed Bryant in the studio, however, and prosecutors differed with the uncle's account, even though he was their witness . Instead, they suggested that Bryant touched the hat and then Jordan or Washington carried it into the studio and dropped it.

Neither Washington's nor Jordan's DNA was found on the hat, according to court papers.

One of Jordan’s lawyers, Michael Hueston, argued that the charges against Bryant raised reasonable doubt about the case against Jordan. Jordan's conviction ultimately was overturned for unrelated reasons.

Bryant, now 52, was jailed on federal drug and gun charges when he was indicted in Mizell's death. He has since pleaded guilty in the drug and firearm case and is awaiting sentencing.

Kast llegó al poder hace poco más de un mes con el compromiso de contener la inmigración irregular y la violencia. Una de sus primeras medidas —a menos de una semana en el cargo— fue la construcción de una enorme zanja en la frontera norte del país para evitar los cruces clandestinos.

También prometió acelerar las expulsiones de extranjeros en situación irregular, en especial de aquellos que cuenten con condenas judiciales o antecedentes de delitos cometidos en el país.

Entre los 40 extranjeros deportados el jueves 30 tenían antecedentes asociados a delitos o conductas de alta gravedad, por lo que fueron escoltados por un fuerte refuerzo policial. El vuelo partió a primera hora desde la base de la Fuerza Aérea en Santiago y los individuos serán ahora entregados a las autoridades migratorias de Bolivia, Ecuador y Colombia.

“A poco andar del primer mes ya tenemos nuestro primer vuelo de expulsados. Y van a haber más”, dijo en una rueda de prensa el subsecretario de Interior, Máximo Pavez.

Ese ministerio había adelantado una “política permanente de control migratorio” que se desplegará de manera continua mediante operaciones aéreas y terrestres orientadas a “materializar expulsiones, reforzar la fiscalización y asegurar el cumplimiento efectivo de la ley”.

Los vuelos de expulsión de extranjeros han sido una herramienta recurrente de distintos gobiernos como los de los expresidentes Gabriel Boric (2022-2026) y Sebastián Piñera (2018-2022). Para ello, los deportados deben contar con una decisión oficial, ya sea a través de una medida administrativa u orden judicial, y el proceso debe ser coordinado entre las autoridades de todos los países involucrados.

Por eso hasta el momento este modelo de deportaciones no contempla a los ciudadanos venezolanos —la mayor comunidad extranjera en Chile y muchos de los cuales no cuentan con papeles— ya que las relaciones diplomáticas entre ambos países están congeladas.

Sin embargo, el director del Servicio Nacional de Migraciones, Frank Sauerbaum, indicó en la rueda de prensa que desde que Kast ganó las elecciones presidenciales en diciembre “han salido voluntariamente 2.180 venezolanos” del país. “Y hoy día tenemos un 67% menos ingresos irregulares que cuatro años atrás”, agregó.

Según estimaciones de la autoridad migratoria, unas 330.000 personas se encuentran en situación irregular en Chile, país de unos 18 millones de habitantes y donde la población extranjera saltó de 0,8% en 1992 a 8,8% en 2024. Muchos han vinculado la llegada masiva de inmigrantes a un aumento de la delincuencia.

And Adebayo wants the league to look at how plays like that can be reviewed going forward.

Ball will play Friday for the Hornets in their play-in elimination game at Orlando — the reality that Charlotte coach Charles Lee hoped for, and something that Miami coach Erik Spoelstra didn’t seem to have a problem with.

“I didn’t think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward. I don’t think that would make sense,” Spoelstra said Thursday as the Heat held their season-ending meetings — two days after being eliminated from the postseason with a 127-126 loss in Charlotte, a game that Adebayo missed much of after being injured on a play where Ball grabbed at his ankle as he was falling.

“I don’t think he’s a dirty player. I just think, in that moment, all things can be true,” Spoelstra said. “It was a dirty play and a dangerous play. It should have been caught at that moment. But it wasn’t and then, you know, you move on.”

The league said Ball made “unnecessary and reckless contact” with Adebayo. Ball was fined $35,000 for the foul, plus another $25,000 for using profanity in a postgame on-court interview.

“Everybody’s going to have their opinion on it,” Adebayo said when asked his thoughts on the play. “Nobody’s really going to know the truth but LaMelo if it was dirty or not, obviously. Everybody’s going to try to defend him or defend me. ... We move on at this point.”

The flagrant foul from Tuesday’s game, if called as a Category 2 in real time, would have resulted in Miami being awarded two free throws and possession of the ball — plus would have led to Ball’s ejection.

An NBA investigation is standard after such plays; referee Zach Zarba even told a pool reporter Tuesday night that the league would be looking into the play further. The league’s word came late Wednesday night, and only then could Lee exhale.

“I think the league handed out something that was what they deemed to be fair,” Lee said in Charlotte on Thursday before the team’s flight to Orlando. ”And we’re glad that we still have him going on to the next game. I know he never has the intent to try to hurt anybody out there on the court. But I’m glad everything’s kind of settled now.”

Per NBA rules, the Heat could not challenge the ruling on the play because no foul was called. Play continued, leaving no opportunity for a replay review. Adebayo was diagnosed with a lower-back contusion as a result of the fall, and he wondered why mechanisms exist to take 3-point makes off the scoreboard after several more minutes of play — but incidents like the one Tuesday can’t be reviewed unless immediately whistled.

“I think the officials handled it, I guess, by the rule book,” Adebayo said. “I feel like it’ll be a change at some point. It doesn’t make sense that three or four plays go by and you can review a 3-point shot but you can’t review a hostile act.”

It’s at least the second time Ball has been involved in such a play with Adebayo. During a game at Miami in January 2024, when Ball grabbed at Adebayo’s leg as the Heat star was running to the other end of the court. Adebayo stumbled but did not fall.

“There’s never been any, like, bad blood between us. ... There’s always been good conversations,” Adebayo said. “As far as those incidents, I can’t tell you what goes through his mind.”

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During the call, the woman — speaking with the help of a translator for portions of the conversation — told dispatchers she had been sitting in a common area just before 4:40 p.m. on April 8 near the 16500 block of Golf Club Road, near the Bonaventure Golf Club, when the attack happened.

“So like I usually walk here inside the condos, which are several buildings, and I was like sitting on a hill like to rest and watch like how they playing golf, right? And suddenly someone jumped me from behind,” the victim stated on the call.

The victim said she was able to quickly fight back during the struggle.

“I suppose that he wanted to do like a violation or something, but I turned over immediately,” she said. “I defend myself, and like he ran out immediately, and he’s with a scooter.”

Investigators said the assault happened off Golf Club Road in the Country Club Village community last Wednesday.

Authorities said surveillance video showed the suspect exposing himself in a nearby parking lot before removing his shoes and slowly approaching the victim from behind.

The suspect was described as wearing a khaki hoodie and distinctive red and black pants. The victim said he fled the scene on a scooter.

The incident has rattled residents in the normally quiet neighborhood.

“This is not possible. They have to do something about it.” said neighbor Patricia Guerrero.

“It was too close to our apartment and this is a very nice place. Very secure. I’m very surprised.” said Ana Caraballo, another woman who lives nearby.

Anyone with information on the suspect is being asked to call BSO Detective Michael Kravecz at 954-626-4006 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

According to BSO, tips leading to an arrest “are eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.”

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said it is the first criminal case against a federal officer involved in the Minnesota immigration crackdown, which was part of a surge of forces into cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans.

“There is no such thing as absolute immunity for federal agents who violate the law in the state of Minnesota,” Moriarty told a news conference, saying the agent acted outside the scope of a federal officers’ authority.

An arrest warrant filed in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, says Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. is charged with two counts of second-degree assault. Minnesota authorities say Morgan, 35, was driving back to immigration offices at the end of his shift when the incident occurred Feb. 5.

The driver and front-seat passenger of a car called 911 saying the driver of an unmarked SUV pulled alongside them, rolled down his window and pointed a handgun at them both. The car's driver told investigators they feared it was a “crazy person driving down the road aiming guns at people," according to the warrant.

A spokesman for Moriarty’s office said no arrangements have been made for Morgan to surrender and that there is an active nationwide warrant for his arrest. If convicted, Morgan faces up to seven years in prison for each assault charge.

Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department officials didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

A person returning a call to a possible phone listing for Morgan said it was a wrong number for him. A message sent to a possible email address for Morgan bounced back as undeliverable. No one immediately returned a phone message left at a number for a person listed as sharing an address with Morgan. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney who could speak for him.

Accused agent told state investigators he 'feared for his safety'

Moriarty said during a news conference that Morgan was driving a rented, unmarked SUV on the shoulder of the highway when a car also moved into the shoulder to try to slow Morgan down, its driver not knowing he was an officer. After the car returned to the legal lane, she said, Morgan pulled up alongside and pointed his service weapon at the two people in the car.

According to the warrant, Morgan then merged his SUV back into traffic ahead of the victims, who took cellphone photos of the SUV’s license plate.

The warrant does not identify the victims.

Morgan and his partner, who was not charged, told investigators they were returning at the end of their shift to the federal building being used to stage officers. The arrest warrant says Morgan "made no claim that he was conducting any law-enforcement operation or activity or responding to any emergency situation.”

Morgan told investigators with the Minnesota State Patrol that the other vehicle “swerved over in front of him and cut him off,” the warrant said. Investigators wrote that Morgan said “he feared for his safety and the safety of others” when he drew his gun and yelled: “Police! Stop!”

The warrant says the victims couldn’t tell Morgan was a law enforcement officer and couldn't hear him because their windows were up.

Trump administration has warned against arresting federal agents

The charges could intensify a clash between the Trump administration and Minnesota officials over the crackdown. Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has warned that the Justice Department could investigate and prosecute state or local officials who arrest federal agents for performing their official duties.

Moriarty said she is not concerned about blowback from federal authorities and that her office will “hold people accountable if they violate the laws of the state.”

Michael Gerhardt, a constitutional law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said federal officers are granted immunity for actions within the scope of their official responsibilities.

He said the actions described in the arrest warrant don’t seem relevant to the officer’s duties. But because he apparently was on-duty at the time, the officer could petition to move the charges to federal court and make a claim for immunity.

“When you look at it more closely, flashing a gun is a serious threat,” Gerhardt said. “And there’s a good argument that isn’t part of his official duties … it’s abusing his powers.”

Minnesota still investigating killings of 2 US citizens by federal officers

DHS deployed about 3,000 federal officers to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area from December through February in what the department called its “ largest immigration enforcement operation ever.” The Minnesota operation led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.

Backlash over the officers' aggressive tactics mounted, and two of the crackdown’s most high profile leaders were soon gone. Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March shortly after the Minnesota surge ended. That same month, Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol sector chief who led immigration operations in several large cities, announced his retirement.

Minnesota authorities continue to investigate the conduct of federal officers during the immigration crackdown, insisting they can't trust the federal government to investigate itself. Minnesota sued the Trump administration last month for access to evidence in three cases involving shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Lauer reported from Philadelphia and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Associated Press reporters Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington and Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed.

Gabriela Saldana se encontraba en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight el jueves después de que fuera ingresada el miércoles por la tarde.

Según el informe de arresto de un agente, Saldana “emitió una amenaza de matar o causar daño corporal” en sus publicaciones del viernes y miércoles sobre “un evento programado” en un chat grupal de WhatsApp.

Saldana “admitió haber enviado y transmitido los mensajes”, y agentes de la policía del campus de FIU la arrestaron poco después de las 2:10 a.m. del jueves en el campus ubicado en 885 SW 109 Ave., según los registros.

Los agentes no incluyeron las amenazas específicas en su informe sobre el presunto delito.

Correcciones de Miami-Dade registró a Saldana poco después de las 4:15 a.m. del jueves. Enfrenta un cargo por amenazas escritas de matar o causar lesiones corporales.

La policía de Waukesha, al oeste de Milwaukee, indicó que el “área estaba experimentando fuertes lluvias acompañadas de truenos y relámpagos significativos” cuando alguien reportó haber visto al hombre en el suelo la noche del miércoles.

“La información preliminar indica que la persona fue alcanzada por un rayo mientras caminaba por el estacionamiento durante la tormenta”, señaló la policía.

Un patrón meteorológico que combina aire húmedo con una fuerte corriente se ha extendido desde tan al sur como el centro de Texas hasta el Medio Oeste y hacia el este a través de la región de los Grandes Lagos. Del lunes al miércoles, el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional recibió más de 1.100 reportes de granizo grande, vientos por encima de 96 km/h (60 mph) y tornados como parte del sistema de tormentas, explicó Bill Bunting, meteorólogo del Centro de Predicción de Tormentas del servicio meteorológico.

Agregó que el jueves había equipos recorriendo zonas para evaluar daños y determinar el número exacto de tornados.

Las tormentas han retumbado en varios estados durante la mayor parte de esta semana y podrían continuar hasta el inicio del fin de semana.

“Ha habido una cantidad tremenda de rayos con estas tormentas en los últimos días”, declaró Mark Gehring, meteorólogo del servicio meteorológico en Milwaukee.

“Hemos tenido la temperatura y la humedad del verano y esto está durando toda una semana — a mediados de abril”, añadió. “Además de un patrón muy tormentoso, casi todos los días estamos teniendo lluvias intensas. Hemos tenido tornados casi todos los días, granizo muy grande”.

Según Gehring, se han confirmado cinco tornados en el sur y en partes del centro de Wisconsin.

“Pero hay más. Vamos a salir a hacer evaluaciones de tormentas”, dijo el jueves, y añadió que las tormentas previstas para la noche del viernes podrían ser severas.

Además de rayos, granizo y tornados, las tormentas han traído lluvia con decenas de advertencias y vigilancias de inundación emitidas por el servicio meteorológico en varios estados.

Esta semana, cuadrillas se apresuraban a bombear agua de una presa en Cheboygan, Michigan, e incluso retiraron compuertas para aliviar la presión. El lunes se indicó a residentes y negocios de la ciudad que prepararan una “bolsa de emergencia” con medicamentos, documentos y otros artículos importantes y que “estuvieran listos para actuar” debido a la amenaza de inundaciones.

En el norte de Michigan, Bellaire, con una población de 1.000 habitantes, informó el jueves que su sistema de tratamiento de aguas residuales estaba siendo sobrepasado, lo que obligó a liberar desechos parcialmente tratados en pantanos de la zona. La localidad instó a los residentes a reducir el uso de agua en casa.

Carl Johnson, de 59 años, tiene una vivienda junto al río Muskegon, que está subiendo rápidamente en el oeste de Michigan. Publicó en Facebook para decirle a la gente que sus botes están listos si alguien necesita ayuda.

“Se salió de su cauce por todas partes. Está realmente mal”, le dijo a The Associated Press. “No se supone que alcance su punto máximo hasta el sábado”.

Losa habitantes de al lado del río cerca de Croton Dam en el condado Newaygo recibieron órdenes de evacuar. No se sabe cuántas personas están afectadas.

Gehring indicó que el río Wisconsin está en etapa de inundación mayor en Portage, Wisconsin, y se pronostica que alcanzará o superará el récord de 6,3 metros (20,7 pies) en algún momento de la mañana del viernes.

“Ahora mismo está en 19,9 pies (6 metros)”, explicó. “En Portage, hay una gran zona de inundación en terrenos bajos. Muchas carreteras están inundadas. Hay un dique allí. Es importante que el dique aguante”.

El gobernador de Wisconsin, Tony Evers, declaró el estado de emergencia a principios de esta semana.

Autos quedaron varados la noche del miércoles en aguas de inundación profundas en una autopista de Milwaukee, y la policía del condado Milwaukee publicó en internet un llamado a la gente para que no condujera en el sureste de Wisconsin.

Pero, al menos en Wisconsin, un respiro podría estar cerca.

“Nos queda un evento más de lluvia intensa y severa que viene hacia aquí antes de que tengamos una buena pausa”, manifestó Gehring. “Eso será la noche del viernes. Ese será el último coletazo de lluvia severa”.

Bunting dijo que el sistema de tormentas seguirá desplazándose hacia el norte y el este y probablemente tardará de tres a cuatro días en finalmente salir de la costa este.

“Probablemente, el día más preocupante en términos de potencial de tormentas eléctricas intensas y tornados es el viernes, extendiéndose desde el norte de Oklahoma hasta el centro de Wisconsin y el extremo oriental de Illinois”, afirmó.

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Williams reportó desde West Bloomfield, Michigan y White desde Detroit.

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

Durante la llamada, la mujer — hablando con la ayuda de un traductor en partes de la conversación — dijo a los operadores que estaba sentada en un área común poco antes de las 4:40 p.m. cerca de la cuadra 16500 de Golf Club Road, cerca del Bonaventure Golf Club, cuando ocurrió el ataque.

“Yo usualmente camino aquí dentro de los condominios, que son varios edificios, y estaba sentada en una colina para descansar y ver cómo jugaban golf, ¿verdad? Y de repente alguien me atacó por detrás”, relató la víctima en la llamada.

La víctima dijo que logró defenderse rápidamente durante el forcejeo.

“Supongo que quería hacer como una violación o algo así, pero me volteé inmediatamente”, dijo. “Me defendí y él salió corriendo de inmediato, y estaba en un scooter”.

Los investigadores dijeron que el ataque ocurrió en Golf Club Road, en la comunidad Country Club Village, el miércoles pasado.

Las autoridades indicaron que un video de vigilancia muestra al sospechoso exponiéndose en un estacionamiento cercano antes de quitarse los zapatos y acercarse lentamente a la víctima por detrás.

El sospechoso fue descrito como alguien que vestía una sudadera con capucha color caqui y pantalones distintivos rojos y negros. La víctima dijo que huyó del lugar en un scooter.

El incidente ha alarmado a residentes del vecindario, normalmente tranquilo.

“Esto no es posible. Tienen que hacer algo al respecto”, dijo la vecina Patricia Guerrero.

“Fue demasiado cerca de nuestro apartamento y este es un lugar muy agradable. Muy seguro. Estoy muy sorprendida”, dijo Ana Caraballo, otra residente cercana.

Se solicita a cualquier persona con información sobre el sospechoso que llame al detective Michael Kravecz de la BSO al 954-626-4006 o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Según la BSO, las pistas que conduzcan a un arresto “son elegibles para una recompensa de hasta $5,000 USD”.

A filing about imminent bankruptcy protection by parent company QVC Group, which also owns HSN, formerly the Home Shopping Network, arrives as long-running TV shopping networks struggle to adapt to the rapid shift by consumers now tuning in to livestreams on TikTok, or online marketplaces like Shein.

According to an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week, the company said that it intends to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas after reaching a restructuring agreement with creditors.

Its goal is to emerge from bankruptcy protection before the summer is over, but the West Chester, Pennsylvania, company warned that its access to funding is difficult to predict. It noted significant fees and other costs in connection with the preparation for the bankruptcy protection.

“We cannot assure that cash on hand, cash flow from operations will be sufficient to continue to fund our operations,” it wrote.

QVC Group has attempted to revive flagging sales for some time, which in 2024 were down almost 30% compared with its peak of more than $14 billion in 2020. Shares in QVC Group, which went for over $900 a decade ago, were trading for less than $3 earlier this week.

Founded in 1986 by Joseph Myron Segel, QVC, which is short for Quality Value Convenience, built a following primarily of women aged 50 and older, according to Lawrence Duke, a clinical professor of marketing at the university’s LeBow College of Business. He said in a blog post that QVC benefited from repeat purchases by its base of viewers. But that group has aged and is shrinking, he noted.

And competition has increased substantially.

Consumers have increasingly dropped cable subscriptions and look less and less to scheduled programming, Duke said. Such programming has been replaced by live platforms such as TikTok Shop, where consumers can buy products touted by influencers with tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube. Low-cost marketplaces like Shein and Temu are also commanding more attention, Duke wrote.

QVC has significantly expanded its digital sales and expanded its presence on social media, but those maneuvers have fallen short.

QVC "competes in a crowded marketplace where attention is fragmented and switching costs are low,” Duke said.

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Jail records show Laura Tavarez Ramirez is facing a charge of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm or deadly weapon in the case, which unfolded at 16395 Biscayne Boulevard.

According to the report, a 35-year-old man was shot in the parking garage on the eighth floor of the building and was later transported to Aventura Hospital with a gunshot wound to his lower back on March 15.

Police said the victim told dispatchers during a 911 call, “Laura shot me,” as he reported being attacked inside the garage.

Investigators said he was found with a gun at the scene, and officers recovered multiple shell casings, including 9mm and .5.7 caliber rounds, as well as a second handgun in a nearby area of the garage ramp.

The report states that surveillance video showed the victim arriving at the building shortly after 3 a.m. and entering the lobby before meeting a woman later identified as Tavarez Ramirez.

Police said the two were seen entering an elevator together and later appearing on upper floors before going to the eighth-floor parking garage.

They said surveillance video shows the woman walking behind the victim before both moved out of camera view.

Seconds later, the woman was seen running from the area and taking a ramp toward another floor before leaving in an elevator. A black Range Rover was later seen leaving the location, according to the report.

Investigators said access records for the building’s elevator system showed the woman used a key fob registered to Tavarez Ramirez, who also resides in the building’s penthouse unit.

A search of the apartment linked to Tavarez Ramirez turned up a live 9mm round, an empty ammunition box, and a firearm box matching a weapon recovered at the scene, according to the report.

The report also notes that the victim, while being treated at the hospital, told investigators he had been with a woman named “Laura” and later identified her from surveillance images.

At the time of the incident, police said the victim was in possession of a bag containing three Cuban link gold chains, each valued at approximately $100,000, as well as multiple diamond watches collectively valued at approximately $85,000.

While the report states the victim believed the suspect was attempting to rob him, police have not released a motive for the shooting.

Jail records show Tavarez Ramriez is being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Laura Tavarez Ramirez enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en segundo grado con arma de fuego o arma mortal en el caso, ocurrido en 16395 Biscayne Boulevard.

Según el informe, un hombre de 35 años fue baleado en el estacionamiento del octavo piso del edificio y posteriormente trasladado al hospital Aventura con una herida de bala en la parte baja de la espalda el 15 de marzo.

La policía indicó que la víctima dijo a los operadores del 911: “Laura me disparó”, al reportar que había sido atacado dentro del garaje.

Los investigadores señalaron que fue encontrado con un arma en la escena, y los agentes recuperaron múltiples casquillos, incluyendo municiones de 9 mm y calibre 5.7, así como una segunda pistola en un área cercana de la rampa del estacionamiento.

El informe indica que un video de vigilancia muestra a la víctima llegando al edificio poco después de las 3 a.m. e ingresando al vestíbulo antes de encontrarse con una mujer posteriormente identificada como Tavarez Ramirez.

La policía dijo que ambos fueron vistos entrando juntos a un ascensor y luego apareciendo en pisos superiores antes de dirigirse al estacionamiento del octavo nivel.

Indicaron que el video muestra a la mujer caminando detrás de la víctima antes de que ambos salieran del campo de visión de la cámara.

Segundos después, la mujer fue vista corriendo del área y tomando una rampa hacia otro piso antes de salir en un ascensor. Posteriormente, un Range Rover negro fue visto saliendo del lugar, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que los registros de acceso del sistema de ascensores del edificio mostraron que la mujer utilizó un llavero electrónico registrado a nombre de Tavarez Ramirez, quien también reside en el penthouse del edificio.

Un registro del apartamento vinculado a Tavarez Ramirez arrojó una bala viva de 9 mm, una caja de municiones vacía y una caja de arma que coincide con un arma recuperada en la escena, según el informe.

El informe también señala que la víctima, mientras era atendida en el hospital, dijo a los investigadores que había estado con una mujer llamada “Laura” y posteriormente la identificó en imágenes de vigilancia.

En el momento del incidente, la policía indicó que la víctima tenía en su poder un bolso con tres cadenas de oro tipo Cuban link, cada una valorada en aproximadamente $100,000 USD, así como varios relojes de diamantes valorados en conjunto en aproximadamente $85,000 USD.

Aunque el informe indica que la víctima creía que la sospechosa intentaba robarle, la policía no ha revelado un motivo para la balacera.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Tavarez Ramirez permanece detenida sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Medios como The Wall Street Journal y Bloomberg informan que el reciente aumento en los precios del combustible, provocado por la guerra con Irán, está poniendo a la aerolínea, con sede en Dania Beach, en riesgo de liquidación, posiblemente en los próximos días.

El plan inicial de la aerolínea era salir de la bancarrota a principios del verano, respaldado por acuerdos con prestamistas para reducir su deuda de aproximadamente $7.4 billion a cerca de $2 billion.

El plan de reestructuración incluía reducir su flota y disminuir rutas.

Sin embargo, en documentos judiciales, los prestamistas señalan que están evaluando si seguir adelante con el plan o liquidar completamente el negocio, citando que Spirit no tomó en cuenta el aumento significativo de sus costos, específicamente el combustible.

La aerolínea había alcanzado un acuerdo con un grupo de acreedores apenas días antes de que Estados Unidos e Israel comenzaran ataques aéreos contra Irán.

Spirit también intenta dividir un préstamo de $275 million en dos partes separadas. Pero Citibank, que representa a los prestamistas, afirma que eso violaría el contrato original e ignoraría protecciones legales destinadas a mantener los activos de la aerolínea vinculados.

La situación ya está afectando una de las principales opciones de viajes de bajo costo para residentes del sur de Florida, especialmente para quienes vuelan a América Latina y el Caribe.

La aerolínea, fundada originalmente en el área de Detroit antes de mudarse al sur de Florida en 1999, tiene una importante base de operaciones en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood.

También cuenta con una base de tripulación en Miami.

Un portavoz de Spirit Airlines emitió un breve comunicado a Local 10 News tras una consulta sobre los reportes: “No comentamos sobre rumores y especulaciones del mercado”.

El progresista Roberto Sánchez, del partido Juntos por el Perú, superaba el jueves al ultraconservador Rafael López Aliaga, de Renovación Popular, por unos 8.000 votos a casi el 93% del conteo de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE)

En tanto, la conservadora Keiko Fujimori, candidata por Fuerza Popular, encabeza la votación con 17,06%.

Perú irá a un balotaje el 7 de junio porque ningún candidato ha logrado el 50% más uno de los votos válidos que exige la ley para ganar en primera vuelta.

A la ajustada diferencia entre Sánchez y López Aliaga falta incorporar unas 1.600 actas de peruanos que votaron en el extranjero y pueblos remotos del país y hay otras 5.000 actas adicionales que han sido observadas y están bajo un análisis de la justicia electoral que podría tomar varias semanas.

“En Perú siempre hay un porcentaje de actas observadas, donde no sumaron correctamente (los votos). Cuando sucede esto, se envían a los 60 jurados especiales para revisarlas”, explicó a The Associated Press Álvaro Henzler, presidente de Transparencia, una organización que trabaja por la calidad de la democracia y desplegó 4.000 observadores para los comicios del domingo.

En 2021 el Tribunal Electoral proclamó los resultados de la primera vuelta 37 días después de los comicios, pero entonces la diferencia entre los contendientes por el segundo lugar fue amplia desde el inicio, por lo que no hubo suspenso.

“En este caso, como está tan pegado, las actas observadas podrían terminar cambiando el orden de posición, por eso está demorando más”, dijo Henzler.

Esta es la cuarta vez que Fujimori —hija del fallecido exmandatario Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000)— busca la presidencia y la segunda vez que López Aliaga intenta llegar al máximo puesto de Perú. Sánchez se presenta por primera vez.

Perú celebró elecciones en medio de una crisis política entre el Parlamento y el Ejecutivo que ha provocado el desfile de ocho presidentes y tres Congresos en una década y un incremento de la delincuencia que los ciudadanos identifican como su mayor preocupación.

En el último quinquenio las denuncias por extorsión —un delito que golpea a la clase trabajadora y a los pequeños empresarios— se han quintuplicado, mientras los asesinatos se han duplicado, según datos oficiales.

Los peruanos también votaron para escoger a 130 diputados y 60 senadores de un Congreso bicameral en el que el Senado tiene amplios poderes.

Democrats voiced concern that the United States is becoming further entrenched in another lengthy conflict in the Middle East. They promised to keep raising the issue through more war powers votes in the coming weeks.

The 213-214 vote came one day after a similar effort failed in the Senate. The U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28, and a fragile ceasefire is now in its second week.

Democrats overwhelmingly supported the attempt to rein in Trump's use of military force.

“We're standing at the edge of a cliff and Congress must act before the president pushes off,” said New York Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. “Every day we delay, we inch closer to a conflict with no exit ramp.”

Republicans tried to cast the effort as hypocritical.

Florida Rep. Brian Mast, the committee chairman, said Congress never voted on a war powers resolution when the U.S. attacked Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen in 2024 while Democrat Joe Biden was president.

“When Joe Biden was responding to merchant marine vessels being attacked, it was OK. No war power needed. It went on for about a year,” Mast said. “President Trump responds — war power, war power, war power. ... That's the hypocrisy.”

Under the War Powers Act of 1973, Congress must declare war or authorize use of force within 60 days — a deadline in the Iran war that will arrive at the end of April. The law provides for a potential 30-day extension, but lawmakers have made clear that they want the Republican administration to soon lay out a plan for the war's end.

While the House vote failed, it gave Democrats an opportunity to highlight some of the most negative effects of the war: the billions of dollars spent, the death of at least 13 service members, the soaring gas prices and fissures with long-standing allies who do not support Trump's actions.

“Gas prices at home are up to $7 in my home state, and families are hurting," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. “Another 10,000 U.S. troops are being sent in to join 50,000 already stationed in the Middle East with absolutely no strategy, no plan and no exit.”

Republicans defended Trump as taking decisive action against an Iranian government that has long terrorized the Middle East and its own people.

“President Donald Trump has sent a message that those who threaten the United States and our partners will be ultimately held accountable," said Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.

In Thursday's vote, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was the only Republican to cross party lines and vote for removing U.S. forces from the war. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to vote against the measure.

The first House vote to curb Trump's miliary action with Iran failed in early March, 212-219.

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Outlets including the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg report that the recent spike in gas prices caused by the Iran war are putting the carrier, headquartered in Dania Beach, at risk of liquidation ― potentially in the coming days.

The airline’s initial plan was to get out of bankruptcy by early in the summer, backed by agreements with lenders to cut its debt from about $7.4 billion to about $2 billion.

The restructuring plan included shrinking its fleet and reducing routes.

But, in court filings, lenders say they’re deciding whether to move forward with the plan or wind down the business entirely, citing Spirit’s failure to account for the airline’s dramatically higher costs, specifically for fuel.

The airline had reached an agreement with a group of creditors just days before the U.S. and Israel began launching airstrikes against Iran.

Spirit is also trying to split a $275 million loan into two separate pieces. But Citibank, which is representing the lenders, says that would break the original contract and ignore legal protections meant to keep Spirit’s collateral tied together.

It’s already disrupting the major low-cost travel option for South Florida residents, especially those who fly to Latin America and the Caribbean.

The airline, originally founded in the Detroit area before moving to South Florida in 1999, has a major operating base out of its adopted hometown airport: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

The airline also has a crew base in Miami.

A Spirit Airlines spokesperson issued a brief statement to Local 10 News after an inquiry about the reports: “We don’t comment on market rumors and speculation.”

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Glidden, 52, and Hochstein, 43, are each charged with one count of interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications after authorities said they both planted a recording device in a silver 2023 Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV, owned by Hochstein’s ex-husband, Dr. Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein.

Local 10 was at Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Wednesday when Lisa Hochstein was greeted outside the jail by friends and castmates Alexia Nepola and Adriana de Moura.

Lisa Hochstein briefly addressed supporters, saying, “I just love them all. I love all my fans” and sending them well wishes, but did not directly comment on the allegations.

Her attorney, Jayne Weintraub, said, “We’re not talking about recordings,” adding that the case has “started the process” and that she hopes it “will be resolved very soon.”

According to Lisa Hochstein’s arrest warrant, she and Glidden planted a recording device in the driver’s seat floorboard of Lenny Hochstein’s SUV in March 2023 after the reality star asked if she could borrow the vehicle because she was thinking of purchasing one of her own.

Lenny and Lisa Hochstein were still going through divorce proceedings at the time.

Lenny Hochstein, a prominent plastic surgeon in South Florida, told detectives in May 2023 that he immediately informed his attorney after discovering the device and the attorney then hired a private investigator to examine it, the warrant states.

According to the warrant, a total of 98 recordings were recovered from the device, including a conversation between Lisa Hochstein and Glidden as the device was being “wrestled into place.”

In addition to conversations between Lenny Hochstein and others he spoke to while in his vehicle, a detective recovered deleted recordings from the device, including a recording of Lisa Hochstein and Glidden engaged in “intimate activities,” the warrant states.

Records show Glidden was taken into custody Saturday. He has since been released from jail.

Lisa Hochstein surrendered to authorities Wednesday before also being released.

Lisa and Lenny Hochstein’s divorce was finalized in November 2024. They share two children.

Weintraub, Lisa Hochstein’s defense counsel, and attorneys Howard Srebnick and Frank Gaviria, Glidden’s defense counsel, released a joint statement to Local 10 News on Monday afternoon saying, “This matter is part of a contentious divorce proceeding and does not belong in criminal court.”

Lisa Hochstein is set to be arraigned on April 20.

Glidden, de 52 años, y Hochstein, de 43, enfrentan cada uno un cargo por interceptación de comunicaciones por cable, orales o electrónicas, luego de que las autoridades indicaran que ambos colocaron un dispositivo de grabación en un Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV plateado modelo 2023, propiedad del ex esposo de Hochstein, el doctor Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein.

Local 10 estuvo el miércoles en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight de Miami-Dade cuando Lisa Hochstein fue recibida afuera de la cárcel por amigas y compañeras del elenco Alexia Nepola y Adriana de Moura.

Lisa Hochstein se dirigió brevemente a sus seguidores, diciendo “Los quiero mucho a todos. Amo a todos mis fans” y enviándoles buenos deseos, pero no comentó directamente sobre las acusaciones.

Su abogada, Jayne Weintraub, dijo “No estamos hablando de grabaciones”, y agregó que el caso ha “iniciado el proceso” y que espera que “se resuelva muy pronto”.

Según la orden de arresto de Lisa Hochstein, ella y Glidden colocaron un dispositivo de grabación en el piso del asiento del conductor del SUV de Lenny Hochstein en marzo de 2023, luego de que la estrella de reality pidiera prestado el vehículo porque estaba considerando comprar uno propio.

Lenny y Lisa Hochstein aún estaban en proceso de divorcio en ese momento.

Lenny Hochstein, un reconocido cirujano plástico del sur de Florida, dijo a los detectives en mayo de 2023 que informó de inmediato a su abogado tras descubrir el dispositivo y que este contrató a un investigador privado para examinarlo, según la orden.

De acuerdo con la orden, se recuperaron un total de 98 grabaciones del dispositivo, incluyendo una conversación entre Lisa Hochstein y Glidden mientras el dispositivo era “colocado a la fuerza en su lugar”.

Además de conversaciones entre Lenny Hochstein y otras personas con las que hablaba dentro de su vehículo, un detective recuperó grabaciones eliminadas del dispositivo, incluyendo una grabación de Lisa Hochstein y Glidden participando en “actividades íntimas”, según la orden.

Los registros muestran que Glidden fue puesto bajo custodia el sábado. Desde entonces ha sido liberado de la cárcel.

Lisa Hochstein se entregó a las autoridades el miércoles antes de también ser liberada.

El divorcio de Lisa y Lenny Hochstein se finalizó en noviembre de 2024. Comparten dos hijos.

Weintraub, abogada defensora de Lisa Hochstein, y los abogados Howard Srebnick y Frank Gaviria, defensa de Glidden, emitieron un comunicado conjunto a Local 10 News el lunes por la tarde en el que señalaron: “Este asunto forma parte de un proceso de divorcio contencioso y no corresponde a la corte penal”.

La audiencia de lectura de cargos de Lisa Hochstein está programada para el 20 de abril.

Leo traveled to the western Cameroon city of Bamenda, where jubilant crowds clogged the roads, blowing horns and dancing. They were overjoyed that a pope had come so far to see them and put a global spotlight on the violence that has traumatized this region for nearly a decade.

Leo presided over a peace meeting involving a Mankon traditional chief, a Presbyterian moderator, an imam and a Catholic nun. The aim was to highlight the interfaith movement that has been seeking to end the conflict and care for its many victims.

In his remarks in the St. Joseph Cathedral, on land donated by the Mankon, Leo praised the peace movement and warned against allowing religion to enter conflicts. It’s a theme he has been echoing amid the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and the religious justifications for it by U.S. officials.

“Blessed are the peacemakers!” he said. “But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

He called for a “decisive change of course” that leads away from conflict and the exploitation of the land for military or economic gain.

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters!” he said.

Leo’s comments were directed at Cameroon’s separatist conflict. But Vatican officials have made clear that on this trip, he is preaching the Gospel message of peace that surpasses borders and continents, and is meant for all those responsible for the wars and exploitation ravaging Earth.

Leo said Bamenda was a model for the rest of the world. “Bamenda, today you are the city on the hill, resplendent in the eyes of all!” Leo said in English, using a phrase often understood as referring to American exceptionalism.

It wasn’t immediately clear if any of Cameroon’s separatist fighters, who announced a three-day pause in fighting to allow the pope safe passage to Bamenda, attended.

A conflict rooted in colonial history

The conflict in Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions is rooted in Cameroon’s colonial history, when the country was divided between France and Britain after World War I. English-speaking regions later joined French Cameroon in a 1961 U.N.-backed vote, but separatists say they have since been politically and economically marginalized.

In 2017, English-speaking separatists launched a rebellion with the stated goal of breaking away from the French-speaking majority and establishing an independent state. The conflict has killed more than 6,000 people and displaced over 600,000 others, according to the International Crisis Group.

Leo arrived to a raucous welcome in Bamenda, where blasting music from loudspeakers gave the event a concert-like vibe.

“We are so overjoyed, so overwhelmed,” said Felicity Cali, a Catholic student. “Say thank you, God, for this extraordinary day and for making us be alive to see this day.”

Leo kept up the theme in his homily before an estimated 20,000 people who gathered for his afternoon Mass at Bamenda’s airfield, where they went wild when he looped around the crowd in his covered popemobile. Leo pointed to the “moral, social and political corruption,” that afflicts Cameroon, stifling its development.

Added to these internal problems of conflict and corruption “is the damage caused from outside, by those who, in the name of profit, continue to lay their hands on the African continent to exploit and plunder it,” he said.

It was a cry that echoed the words of Pope Francis when he traveled to Congo in 2023. “Hands off Africa!” he exhorted the foreign interests plundering the continent.

Cameroon’s separatist movement is believed to be backed by several actors abroad. In December, a federal jury in U.S. convicted two individuals for conspiracy to provide funds and equipment to the separatist fighters. Belgian authorities in March also announced they had arrested four people as part of investigations into Belgian residents suspected of being among the separatist leaders and raising money for them there.

“Those who rob your land of its resources generally invest much of the profit in weapons, thus perpetuating an endless cycle of destabilization and death,” Leo said. “It is a world turned upside down, an exploitation of God’s creation that must be denounced and rejected by every honest conscience.”

Cameroon sits atop significant reserves of oil, natural gas, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds, making resource extraction one of the pillars of its economy.

While French and English companies have long dominated the extraction industry in Cameroon, Chinese companies have established a significant presence in recent years, particularly in the gold mining regions of the east.

Though the number of deadly attacks by separatists has decreased in recent years, the conflict shows no sign of resolution. Peace talks with international mediators have stalled, with both sides accusing each other of acting in bad faith.

Morine Ngum, a mother of three whose husband was shot dead in 2022 by Cameroonian soldiers while fighting as a separatist, expressed doubt that the pope’s visit and peace meeting would lead to meaningful change. She said any real progress must begin with those in power.

“Nothing is going to change,” said Ngum, 30. “This conflict has turned my children into orphans and me into a widow. Many families have been rendered homeless.”

Testimony to pope about the toll of the conflict

The archbishop of Bamenda, Andrew Nkea Fuanya, told Leo that the people there had suffered from “a situation they did not create,” losing their livelihoods, homes and education: Children were not allowed to go to school for years.

“Most Holy Father, today that your feet are standing on the soil of Bamenda that has drunk the blood of many of our children,” he said.

The Right Rev. Fonki Samuel Forba, emeritus moderator of the Presbyterian church in Cameroon, said the Vatican had joined other faith groups in trying to bring the separatists to the negotiating table with the government, and meeting with their supporters abroad.

Biya’s government has been accused of shunning dialogue with the separatists.

“There is a proverb in Africa that ‘When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,’” Forba said.

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Akua reported from Yaounde, Cameroon. Associated Press writer Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria, contributed to this report.

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Según los agentes, Josiah K. Burrows fue visto por última vez el 8 de abril en la cuadra 19100 de Northeast Second Avenue.

Los agentes indicaron que Burrows fue a la escuela ese día y fue dejado en su parada de autobús habitual después de clases, pero no ha tenido contacto con su familia desde entonces.

Sin embargo, señalaron que sí ha tenido contacto con amigos.

Los agentes describieron a Burrows como un joven afroamericano de 5 pies y 10 pulgadas de estatura y aproximadamente 130 libras de peso. Tiene cabello negro y ojos marrones.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe llamar a la MDSO al 305-715-3300, enviar un correo a u309125@mdso.com o comunicarse con Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

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Miami is projected to have 11 selections in the 2026 NFL draft, including two first-round picks — Nos. 11 and 30 overall — and four third-round selections.

The Dolphins hold seven picks in the top 100 following a series of moves, including trading wide receiver Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos.

The roster also has seen major changes, with departures that include wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa defensive end Bradley Chubb and safety Minkah Fitzpatrick.

Sullivan said the lack of established veterans creates opportunity for rookies to contribute immediately.

“We do not have a ton of established players on this team,” he said. “That’s not to say we don’t like our players, but we have very few established players on this roster, so this draft class will have an opportunity to come in here and play soon, play quick.”

He added that playing time will be based strictly on performance.

“We’re going to play the best players,” Sullivan said. “If you give us the best chance to win on Sunday, you’re going to be one of the 11 on the field.”

Sullivan also emphasized that roster uncertainty makes flexibility essential when evaluating draft strategy and trades.

“We’re just not in a situation where we have the flexibility and the luxury to be choosy like that,” he said. “If you’re in the building every day, you can feel it. I’m excited about taking these 11 draft picks and throwing them in the equation with what we already have.”

As of Thursday, the Dolphins’ draft capital includes:

• Round 1: Nos. 11, 30
• Round 2: No. 43
• Round 3: Nos. 75, 87, 90, 94
• Round 4: No. 130
• Round 5: No. 151
• Round 7: Nos. 227, 238

Miami traded its sixth-round pick to the New York Giants in exchange for tight end Darren Waller.

Sullivan said the team remains open to moving around in the draft, though he expects more interest in trading down than up.

“I think it probably is fair to say more likely to move back than move up,” he said. “We need all 11 picks, but you never say never.”

He added that while the front office will listen to trade calls, many discussions in the days leading up to the draft lack substance.

“I don’t love playing on the phone the week of the draft,” he said. “A lot of people just like to call and conversations aren’t really of much substance.”

Sullivan also said the team will not force aggressive roster moves after the draft to chase short-term fixes.

“I don’t think we have any tricks up our sleeve,” he said. “We’re going to stay disciplined and try to get back to a healthy cap situation.”

On player evaluation, Sullivan said film remains the most important factor, but character and background checks are also critical parts of the process.

“The film will talk to you and the film doesn’t lie,” he said. “But then you have to take everything into account and make an educated decision.”

He said the organization relies heavily on scouts and background information from multiple sources.

“You cannot overstate the importance of developing relationships in the school,” Sullivan said. “You’re talking to three, four, five different people who see this player in a different light.”

Sullivan also addressed how coaches factor into evaluations, saying their input is valued but not always final.

“The coaches are incredibly important to what we do,” he said. “But I have a responsibility to do what I feel is best for the Miami Dolphins.”

He added that while coaches can strongly advocate for players, final decisions ultimately rest with him.

“There will be times when maybe we see things differently,” Sullivan said. “Ultimately, the final decision comes down to me.”

At No. 11 overall, Sullivan said the Dolphins will prioritize reliability and fit as much as upside.

“You want guys that are wired right, guys that are chasing it,” he said. “What you can’t do is swing and miss.”

He compared the approach to focusing on steady production over high-risk selections.

“I think you take everything into consideration,” Sullivan said. “But what you can’t do is swing and miss, so the character is a huge piece of the pie.”

The 2026 NFL Draft is scheduled to take place April 23-25 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Miami proyecta tener 11 selecciones en el Draft de la NFL 2026, incluyendo dos de primera ronda — las número 11 y 30 en general — y cuatro selecciones de tercera ronda.

Los Dolphins cuentan con siete selecciones dentro del top 100 tras una serie de movimientos, incluyendo el intercambio del receptor abierto Jaylen Waddle a los Denver Broncos.

La plantilla también ha sufrido cambios importantes, con salidas que incluyen a los receptores Tyreek Hill y Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, el mariscal de campo Tua Tagovailoa, el ala defensiva Bradley Chubb y el profundo Minkah Fitzpatrick.

Sullivan indicó que la falta de veteranos consolidados crea oportunidades para que los novatos contribuyan de inmediato.

“No tenemos muchos jugadores establecidos en este equipo”, dijo. “Eso no significa que no nos gusten nuestros jugadores, pero hay muy pocos consolidados en esta plantilla, así que esta clase del draft tendrá la oportunidad de llegar aquí y jugar pronto, jugar rápido”.

Agregó que el tiempo de juego se basará estrictamente en el rendimiento.

“Vamos a poner a los mejores jugadores”, dijo Sullivan. “Si nos das la mejor oportunidad de ganar el domingo, vas a ser uno de los 11 en el campo”.

Sullivan también enfatizó que la incertidumbre en la plantilla hace que la flexibilidad sea esencial al evaluar la estrategia del draft y posibles intercambios.

“No estamos en una situación en la que tengamos la flexibilidad y el lujo de ser selectivos de esa manera”, dijo. “Si estás en el edificio todos los días, lo puedes sentir. Estoy entusiasmado con tomar estas 11 selecciones del draft y sumarlas a lo que ya tenemos”.

Hasta el jueves, el capital de draft de los Dolphins incluye:

• Ronda 1: No. 11, 30
• Ronda 2: No. 43
• Ronda 3: No. 75, 87, 90, 94
• Ronda 4: No. 130
• Ronda 5: No. 151
• Ronda 7: No. 227, 238

Miami intercambió su selección de sexta ronda a los New York Giants a cambio del ala cerrada Darren Waller.

Sullivan dijo que el equipo sigue abierto a moverse en el draft, aunque espera más interés en bajar posiciones que en subir.

“Creo que es justo decir que es más probable bajar que subir”, dijo. “Necesitamos las 11 selecciones, pero nunca digas nunca”.

Añadió que, aunque la directiva escuchará ofertas, muchas conversaciones en los días previos al draft carecen de sustancia.

“No me gusta estar al teléfono la semana del draft”, dijo. “Mucha gente llama, pero las conversaciones no tienen mucho contenido real”.

Sullivan también afirmó que el equipo no forzará movimientos agresivos en la plantilla después del draft para buscar soluciones a corto plazo.

“No creo que tengamos trucos bajo la manga”, dijo. “Vamos a mantener la disciplina y tratar de volver a una situación saludable en el tope salarial”.

Sobre la evaluación de jugadores, Sullivan señaló que el video sigue siendo el factor más importante, pero que el carácter y los antecedentes también son clave en el proceso.

“El video te habla y no miente”, dijo. “Pero tienes que tomar todo en cuenta y tomar una decisión informada”.

Indicó que la organización depende en gran medida de los cazatalentos y de información de múltiples fuentes.

“No se puede subestimar la importancia de desarrollar relaciones en las universidades”, dijo Sullivan. “Estás hablando con tres, cuatro, cinco personas que ven a este jugador desde diferentes perspectivas”.

Sullivan también abordó el papel de los entrenadores en la evaluación, señalando que su opinión es importante, pero no definitiva.

“Los entrenadores son increíblemente importantes para lo que hacemos”, dijo. “Pero tengo la responsabilidad de hacer lo que considero mejor para los Miami Dolphins”.

Agregó que, aunque los entrenadores pueden abogar fuertemente por ciertos jugadores, la decisión final recae en él.

“Habrá momentos en los que veamos las cosas de manera diferente”, dijo. “Al final, la decisión final me corresponde a mí”.

Sobre la selección número 11, Sullivan indicó que priorizarán confiabilidad y encaje tanto como potencial.

“Quieres jugadores que estén bien formados, que estén comprometidos”, dijo. “Lo que no puedes hacer es fallar en la selección”.

Comparó el enfoque con priorizar producción constante sobre apuestas de alto riesgo.

“Hay que tomar todo en cuenta”, dijo Sullivan. “Pero no puedes fallar, así que el carácter es una parte clave de la ecuación”.

El Draft de la NFL 2026 está programado para realizarse del 23 al 25 de abril en Pittsburgh, Pensilvania.

Police in Waukesha, west of Milwaukee, said the “area was experiencing heavy rainfall accompanied by significant thunder and lightning” when someone reported seeing the man on the ground Wednesday evening.

“Preliminary information indicates the individual was struck by lightning while walking through the parking lot during the storm,” police said.

A weather pattern combining very moist air with a strong jet stream has stretched from as far south as central Texas into the Midwest and east across the Great Lakes. From Monday through Wednesday, the National Weather Service received more than 1,100 reports of large hail, winds above 60 mph (96 kph) and tornadoes as part of the storm system, said Bill Bunting, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center.

Teams were out Thursday surveying damage to determine the exact number of tornadoes, Bunting said.

The storms have rumbled across a number of states for the better part of this week and could continue into the early weekend.

“There's been a tremendous amount of lightning with these storms over the last few days,” said Mark Gehring, a meteorologist with the weather service in Milwaukee.

“We've had the temperature and humidity of summer and it's lasting an entire week — in mid-April,” he added. “In addition to a very stormy pattern, nearly every day we're having heavy rain. We've had tornadoes nearly every day, very large hail.”

Five tornadoes have been confirmed across southern and central Wisconsin, but the number could rise after surveys, Gehring said.

In addition to lightning, hail and tornadoes, the storms have brought rain — lots of it, with scores of flood warnings and flood watches issued by the weather service over multiple states.

Crews were hurriedly pumping water from a dam in Cheboygan, Michigan, this week, even removing floodgates to relieve pressure. Some residents were told to prepare a “go bag” containing important personal items, though Cheboygan County Sheriff Todd Ross said the number of people in the zone was relatively small.

“We are in crisis mode now,” said Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who declared emergencies in dozens of counties because of flooding and other weather woes.

In northern Michigan, Bellaire, population 1,000, said its wastewater treatment system was being overwhelmed, forcing the release of partially treated waste into area swamps. The village urged residents to reduce home water use.

Carl Johnson, 59, has a home on the rapidly rising Muskegon River in western Michigan. He went on Facebook to tell people that his boats were ready if someone needed help. People living in the river’s flood plain below the Croton Dam in Newaygo County were ordered to evacuate.

“It’s out of the banks everywhere. It’s really bad,” Johnson said of the river.

Bruce Carlson, who lives behind the Croton Dam, said the roar of the water was “deafening.” Consumers Energy, which owns the dam, said it was structurally sound.

The Wisconsin River is at major flood stage in Portage, Wisconsin, and is forecast to reach or surpass the 20.7-foot (6.3-meter) record sometime Friday morning, meteorologist Gehring said.

“Right now, it's at 19.9 feet (6 meters), not that far off,” he said. “In Portage, there's a large area of low-land flooding. Many roads are flooded. There's a levee there. It's important that the levee holds.”

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers declared a state of emergency earlier this week.

Cars were stranded Wednesday night in high floodwater on a highway in Milwaukee and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office posted online to urge people not to drive in southeast Wisconsin.

But at least in Wisconsin, a respite could be near.

“We have one more severe, heavy rain event coming this way before we get a good break,” Gehring said. “That's going to be on Friday evening. That's going to be the last gasp of severe rain.”

Bunting said the storm system will continue to move north and east and likely will take three to four days to finally move off the U.S. east coast.

“Probably, the most concerning day in terms of intense thunderstorm potential and tornadoes is Friday, extending from northern Oklahoma into central Wisconsin and far eastern Illinois,” he said.

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Williams reported from West Bloomfield, Michigan. White reported from Detroit.

Attorney Doug Duncan said this week in a court filing that Woods has a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to his prescription medications. The attorney asked a judge overseeing the case in Martin County, Florida to hold a hearing to determine if the drug records are necessary for the criminal investigation.

If the judge determines the drug records are necessary, Duncan asked for a protective order limiting their release only to prosecutors, law enforcement officers, state experts and Woods' defense team.

Woods has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. A sheriff’s office report said deputies found two pain pills in his pocket and he showed signs of impairment after his SUV clipped a truck's trailer and rolled over on its side.

Woods was traveling at high speeds on a beachside, residential road on Jupiter Island with a 30 mph (nearly 50 kph) speed limit when his Land Rover caused $5,000 in damage to the truck, according to an incident report. Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer test that showed no signs of alcohol, but refused a urine test, authorities said.

Prosecutors told the court they would issue a subpoena seeking copies of all prescription medication records for the legendary golfer on file at Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach, Florida from the start of the year through the end of last month.

Prosecutors also demanded in court papers on Wednesday that Woods reveal the names and locations of any witnesses he plans to present in his defense.

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U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s latest ruling comes in response to an appeals court’s instruction to clarify an earlier decision on the 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom planned for the site where it demolished the East Wing of the White House.

Trump on social media called Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, a “Trump Hating” judge who “has gone out of his way to undermine National Security, and to make sure that this Great Gift to America gets delayed, or doesn’t get built.”

The administration filed a notice that it will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review Leon's latest decision, too.

National Trust for Historic Preservation president and CEO Carol Quillen, whose group sued to challenge the project, said in a statement that the group is pleased with the court's ruling.

Leon said that below-ground work on security measures is exempt from his order suspending above-ground construction. Government lawyers have argued that the project includes critical security features to guard against a range of possible threats, such as drones, ballistic missiles and biohazards.

Leon's latest ruling comes several days after a three-judge panel from the D.C. appeals court instructed him to reconsider the possible national security implications of stopping construction.

In his previous order, Leon barred above-ground work on the ballroom from proceeding without congressional approval. The judge also ruled on March 31 that any construction work that’s necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House is exempt from the scope of the injunction. Leon said he reviewed material that the government privately submitted to him before concluding that halting construction wouldn’t jeopardize national security.

Leon had suspended his March 31 order for two weeks. He stayed his latest decision for another week, which gives the administration more time to seek Supreme Court review.

Leon said he is ordering a stop only to the above-ground construction of the planned ballroom, apart from any work needed to cover or secure that part of the project. Otherwise, the Trump administration is free to proceed with the construction of any excavations, bunkers, military installations, and medical facilities below the ballroom.

“Defendants argue that the entire ballroom construction project, from tip to tail, falls within the safety-and-security exception and therefore may proceed unabated," the judge wrote. “That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!”

On Saturday, the appeals court panel said it didn't have enough information to decide how much of the project can be suspended without jeopardizing the safety of the president, his family or the White House staff.

Leon said he recognizes the safety implications of the case, but stressed that “national security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity.” He also said he has “no desire or intention to be dragooned into the role of construction manager.”

On April 2, two days after Leon's previous ruling, Trump’s ballroom won final approval from the 12-member National Capital Planning Commission, which is charged with approving construction on federal property in the Washington region.

The preservation group sued in December, a week after the White House finished demolishing the East Wing to make way for a ballroom that Trump said would fit 999 people. Trump says the project is funded by private donations, although public money is paying for the bunker construction and security upgrades.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies took Liggia Mancia, 38, into custody on Wednesday at her home in West Miami.

Mancia was hired by Metal Masters Shop, Inc., located at 7484 NW Eighth St. in west Miami-Dade, in August as a bookkeeper, and “was given exclusive access to the company’s financial software,” according to an arrest form.

Deputies said between September and December, Mancia embezzled $22,500 from the business after she “fraudulently misappropriated funds by paying herself additional monies each pay period without consent from the victim.”

Investigators subpoenaed Mancia’s bank records, which they said confirmed the illegal payments and showed that she used the funds for personal gain.

After being taken into custody, deputies said Mancia confessed to the crimes.

As of Thursday morning, she remained behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bond of $12,500.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade arrestaron a Liggia Mancia, de 38 años, el miércoles en su vivienda en West Miami.

Mancia fue contratada por Metal Masters Shop, Inc., ubicada en 7484 NW Eighth St. en el oeste de Miami-Dade, en agosto como contable y “se le otorgó acceso exclusivo al software financiero de la empresa”, según el informe de arresto.

Los agentes indicaron que entre septiembre y diciembre, Mancia malversó $22,500 USD del negocio tras “apropiarse fraudulentamente de fondos al pagarse dinero adicional en cada período de pago sin el consentimiento de la víctima”.

Los investigadores citaron los registros bancarios de Mancia, los cuales, según dijeron, confirmaron los pagos ilegales y mostraron que utilizó los fondos para beneficio personal.

Tras ser puesta bajo custodia, los agentes indicaron que Mancia confesó los delitos.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $12,500 USD.

Dončić played in 64 games and Cunningham played in 63. But the league and the union both agreed that each should be on the ballot based on the “extraordinary circumstances provision” in the collective bargaining agreement.

Dončić — who is one of the favorites to contend for MVP honors after winning the league's scoring title — missed two games to attend the birth of his daughter in Slovenia. Cunningham missed 12 games as a result of a collapsed lung that was diagnosed on March 17.

“The NBA and NBPA agreed that, taking into account the totality of the circumstances for Cunningham and Dončić, each player qualified for awards,” the league and the union said in a statement.

Dončić, in a statement posted to social media, said he is “grateful to the NBPA for advocating on my behalf and to the NBA for their fair decision," adding that it was important to him “to be present for the birth of my daughter in December.”

“This season has been so special to me because of what my teammates and I have been able to accomplish, and I am honored to have the opportunity to be considered for the league’s end-of-season awards,” the statement said.

Minnesota's Anthony Edwards, who played in 60 qualified games, also tried to get on the awards ballot through the extraordinary circumstances challenge — but sought his approval before an independent arbitrator. His challenge was denied.

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch — noting that Edwards doesn't get held out to rest — was not pleased about that and said he'd like an explanation.

“I’m not sure why we have a rule if we have an appeal process that is overturned in two-thirds of the cases that were held before," Finch said. “Feels more like a suggestion than a rule.”

The statuses of Dončić and Cunningham were a major topic toward the end of the season. San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama — an MVP candidate and the likely defensive player of the year — got to the 65-game mark in the Spurs' next-to-last game, and Denver's three-time MVP Nikola Jokic became qualified for this year's awards on the final day of the regular season. Jokic has been first or second in MVP balloting in each of the last five seasons and won the league's rebounding and assist titles this season.

And the union — which worked with the league to come up with the 65-game policy — has said it wants the rule changed, saying it was put into place to address load management and not to keep deserving players from awards. That said, many players have spoken out in favor of the rule.

“I would say it's an opportunity for us to reevaluate the rule in itself,” NBPA President Fred VanVleet of the Houston Rockets said.

VanVleet — speaking in a video posted by the union and filmed ahead of Thursday's news — said he thinks voters should be able to make decisions for All-NBA and other awards on a case-by-case basis.

Nuggets coach David Adelman said last week that he hopes the 65-game rule is changed, somehow, this summer. He said if players like Jokic can play 64 games, never wanting to come out, and not be award-eligible, then something is wrong.

“That’s not the spirit of what that rule is,” Adelman said.

A number of players will be ineligible for most major individual awards this season because of the 65-game rule, including the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James — whose 21-year streak of making an All-NBA team will end. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Golden State’s Stephen Curry have also missed too many games to be eligible.

With the decisions on Dončić, Cunningham and Edwards now complete, the NBA sent ballots to the panel of reporters and broadcasters who cover the league on Thursday — a few days behind the typical schedule from recent years.

It's unclear when the announcement of award winners will begin.

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According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the department’s Major Crimes Unit detectives, along with investigators from Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Monroe County Medical Examiner Office identified the remains of a previously unidentified Black man who was found on May 4, 1988 off County Road 905 in north Key Largo.

Deputies said the remains have been confirmed as Alfonso James Spikes, 61, of Miami.

According to authorities, Spikes is believed to have last been seen in April 1988 in Miami after leaving his home to meet with someone, though deputies said they do not know who that person was nor do they know the circumstances of how Spikes ended up in the Keys.

Deputies said his body was found covered in trash and wrapped in several bedsheets, with his shirt pulled forward over his head.

The Monroe County Medical Examiner said the body was in “advanced decomposition with partial skeletonization” and ruled the cause and manner of death as undetermined, but a “probable homicide.”

According to authorities, DNA samples submitted in 2023 and 2025 led to the March 2026 discovery that the sample confirmed the identity of Spikes.

Anyone with information on this open investigation is urged to contact the MCSO Major Crimes Unit at 305-289-2410.

Already this year, Disney has boosted the box office with its original Pixar hit “Hoppers,” which has made over $355 million globally to date. Disney has a flood of potential blockbusters on the way, including “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first Star Wars movie since 2019, “Toy Story 5,” a live-action “Moana” and, in December, “Avengers: Doomsday.” Kicking off the summer movie season, which begins the first weekend in May, is not a Marvel movie, however. It’s a legacy sequel from their 20th Century Studios: “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” Gird your loins.

The studio may also offer a look at the future of some of its biggest franchises, including insight into what’s next for Marvel, Avatar and Star Wars beyond “Star Wars: Starfighter,” which is due in theaters in May 2027.

Disney's impact on the exhibition industry cannot be understated. Last year its releases made up over 27.5% of the annual domestic box office alone. The studio also has a 60-day exclusive theatrical window, the most robust in Hollywood.

The Walt Disney Co. is facing its own challenges too. On Tuesday, the company began mass layoffs in its ranks, expected to total around 1,000 with some of the cuts coming from the movie studio and its marketing department.

Orson Welles once said, “if you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” And, so, for an exhibition industry that operates on small margins, and with the box office still down around 20% from its pre-pandemic norms, Disney is about as close as the conference can get to going out on a high note.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe, detectives de la Unidad de Crímenes Mayores, junto con investigadores del Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida y la Oficina del Médico Forense del condado Monroe, identificaron los restos de un hombre afroamericano previamente no identificado que fue encontrado el 4 de mayo de 1988 en County Road 905, en el norte de Key Largo.

Los agentes indicaron que los restos fueron confirmados como los de Alfonso James Spikes, de 61 años, de Miami.

Según las autoridades, se cree que Spikes fue visto por última vez en abril de 1988 en Miami, después de salir de su casa para reunirse con alguien, aunque los agentes señalaron que no saben quién era esa persona ni las circunstancias de cómo terminó en los Cayos.

Los agentes dijeron que su cuerpo fue encontrado cubierto de basura y envuelto en varias sábanas, con la camisa jalada hacia adelante sobre su cabeza.

El médico forense del condado Monroe indicó que el cuerpo estaba en “descomposición avanzada con esqueletización parcial” y determinó que la causa y manera de muerte son indeterminadas, pero un “probable homicidio”.

Según las autoridades, muestras de ADN enviadas en 2023 y 2025 llevaron al descubrimiento en marzo de 2026 que confirmó la identidad de Spikes.

Se insta a cualquier persona con información sobre esta investigación abierta a comunicarse con la Unidad de Crímenes Mayores de la MCSO al 305-289-2410.

El mandatario encabezó un mitin de cientos de personas en conmemoración del 65 aniversario de la declaración del carácter socialista de la revolución cubana en momentos de máxima tensión con Washington y luego de que el titular de la Casa Blanca impusiera un cerco energético a la isla.

“El momento es sumamente desafiante y nos convoca otra vez, como en aquel 16 de abril de 1961, a estar listos para enfrentar serias amenazas, entre ellas la agresión militar. No la queremos, pero es nuestro deber prepararnos para evitarla y si fuere inevitable, ganarla”, dijo el gobernante isleño.

Donald Trump insistió con su idea de intervenir en Cuba como lo hizo en enero en Venezuela –hasta entonces un aliado estratégico de la isla—, luego de aplicar en enero un cerco petrolero a la nación caribeña que ha tenido un fuerte impacto en la vida de los ciudadanos y la economía.

A principios de esta semana, Trump afirmó que su administración podría centrarse en Cuba una vez finalizada la guerra en Irán. “Quizás visitemos Cuba después de terminar con esto”, declaró. Describió a la isla como una “nación fallida” y afirmó que “ha sido un país pésimamente gobernado durante mucho tiempo”.

Tanto Trump como su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio --hijo de padres emigrados de Cuba en los años 50 antes del triunfo de la revolución--, calificaron al gobierno de la isla de inoperante y abusivo.

Díaz-Canel aseguró que se trata de armar una “narrativa” que no tiene justificación.

“Cuba no es un Estado fallido. Cuba es un Estado cercado. Cuba es un Estado enfrentado a una agresión multidimensional. Guerra económica, bloqueo recrudecido y bloqueo energético”, dijo Díaz-Canel, orador principal de la manifestación.

“Cuba es un Estado amenazado que no se rinde. Y a pesar de todo, y gracias al socialismo, Cuba es un Estado que resiste... y no lo duden, un Estado que vencerá”, agregó el mandatario.

Ambos gobiernos reconocieron que han mantenido conversaciones para disipar la tensión, pero no trascendió su alcance.

El cerco petrolero de Trump agudizó la crisis económica que lleva un lustro y que se desató luego de la paralización por la pandemia de COVID-19 y las sanciones impuestas por Estados Unidos a lo largo de seis décadas para presionar un cambio en el modelo político de la isla.

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House Republicans approved the resolution last month despite conservationists' warnings that the move would lead to devastating pollution in one of the country's last remaining wild areas. The Senate followed suit Thursday, voting 50-49 to send the measure to Trump for his signature.

Democrats argued on the Senate floor that lifting the ban would set a dangerous precedent that could lead to lifting protections on public lands across the country. Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith warned Republicans were stealing part of their state's identity.

Klobuchar, who has supported iron mining in the past but is now running for Minnesota governor, called the Boundary Waters a place of “mist over meadows” and “sunlight on leaves.” Smith said the GOP was ignoring Minnesotans who don't want to see the wilderness area destroyed.

“You can support mining, but that does not mean you support every mine in every place,” Smith said.

No Republicans spoke on the lifting the ban.

Stars, solitude and silence

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness stretches for about 150 miles (about 240 kilometers) in the Superior National Forest along Minnesota's border with Canada.

It's a land of crystalline lakes, vast forests of pine, spruce and birch, striking sunsets and clear, star-dusted nights. For those willing to paddle and portage off the most-traveled routes, the region offers solitude and a silence broken only by the cries of loons and the occasional howl of a wolf.

Logging is prohibited, planes passing over it can dip no lower than 4,000 feet (1,220 meters) except in emergencies and motorized watercraft are limited to only certain areas. Tens of thousands of canoeists, kayakers and campers explore the wilderness each year, according to U.S. Forest Service data.

Company eyes region's metals

Part of the national forest that encompasses the wilderness area sits on what's known as the Duluth Complex, a rock formation that contains copper, nickel, lead, zinc, iron, silver and gold, according to the Forest Service.

Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, a subsidiary of Chile-based Antofagasta Minerals, submitted a plan to the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2019 to mine copper, nickel and other precious metals in the national forest. Company officials said in an operational plan that year that the mine would create hundreds of union jobs, more than a thousand “spinoff jobs" and tax revenue for struggling communities in northeastern Minnesota.

“With this Project, Minnesota can be a model for modern, sustainable and environmentally and socially responsible mining,” the plan said.

The first Trump administration renewed the company's mineral leases on the site in 2019, but Biden interior officials terminated the deals in early 2022. The next year the administration imposed a 20-year moratorium on mining across 400 square miles (103,600 hectares) in the forest. The administration said the ban would protect the watershed and canoe wilderness.

Twin Metals has filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaration that the leases remain valid. A judge threw the case out in 2023. A company appeal is pending.

Trump looking to jump-start mining projects

The president has called to boost domestic energy and mineral production, declaring an energy emergency days after retaking office in January 2025. His administration last fall reinstated a 2017 legal opinion that allowed Twin Metals to renew its leases in the Superior National Forest. Minnesota regulators approved the company's exploratory plans in December.

U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, a Duluth Republican, introduced the resolution to lift the moratorium in January. He said the ban has cost Minnesota jobs and put the country's mineral security at risk. He remarked on the House floor ahead of the vote in that chamber that it's better to mine in Minnesota than deal with China or Russia for key minerals.

Environmentalists, outdoor enthusiasts push back

Lifting the moratorium would allow mining in the national forest along the edge of the Boundary Waters, not in the wilderness area. But eliminating the ban has hit a sore spot with environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts. They warn that pollution from mining operations will flow through the wilderness area's watershed and contaminate the region with mercury and sulfides, chemical compounds that contain sulfur. They maintain that fish, wildlife and plants will suffer, particularly the wild rice that plays a crucial role in Minnesota's Chippewa tribal culture.

Teddy Roosevelt's great-grandson and other relatives wrote a letter to Republican senators urging them to keep the moratorium in place. The Friends of the Boundary Waters, a group that works to protect the area, has orchestrated a demonstration in front of Stauber's office in Hermantown, Minnesota, and staged a rally at the Capitol building in St. Paul to protest lifting the moratorium. The issue has become another flashpoint of contention between the state and the Trump administration after federal immigration officers shot and killed two Minneapolis residents in January.

Twin Metals promised an environmentally safe project

The company argued in its 2019 plan that mine would carry on a tradition in northeastern Minnesota, noting the area around the site was once home to 11 mines. The company also insisted that new low-carbon technologies designed to combat climate change need precious metals. Wind turbine construction requires copper, lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles need cobalt and nickel is a key part of corrosion-resistant alloys in desalinization plants.

The $1.7 billion mine would operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, according to the proposal. But the plan was laced with pledges to protect the environment. The company said the mine would be underground and that no waste rock would be stored above ground, eliminating a potential source of acid drainage, and the area would be revegetated after the mine closed, among other promises.

Company needs permits and could face court challenges before mining can begin

Trump is expected sign the resolution, but even without a moratorium it could be years before a mine opens. Twin Metals said in its 2019 proposal that construction could take two to three years, but that could be optimistic.

Trump could quickly renew the company's federal leases and push federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits. Twin Metals would still need as many as 18 permits from state officials, according to the 2019 proposal, and would face an uphill battle if voters pick Klobuchar as governor in November.

And environmental groups could challenge any of those permits in court, blocking construction for potentially years while the cases are resolved.

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Miami-Dade deputies said Travis Tillman Jr. and the victim are in a relationship and had previously lived together. They do not share any children.

Deputies said the incident began just before 1 a.m. after the couple got into an argument over “personal matters” at a home in the 7000 block of Northwest 177th Street in the county’s Palm Springs North area.

They said the argument escalated when Tillman grabbed the woman, placed her inside the trunk of her vehicle, and secured it before driving away with her still inside.

The report states that Tillman later parked the vehicle nearby, opened the trunk, and the victim attempted to escape.

Deputies said he then struck her multiple times in the face and body near the trunk area and the passenger side of the vehicle.

They said the couple later got back into the vehicle and fled eastbound on Northwest 177th Street before MDSO conducted a traffic stop at Northwest 179th Street and Northwest 68th Avenue.

Deputies said they took Tillman into custody at that location.

A security guard who works in the complex where the incident occurred contacted deputies and provided video footage that investigators said showed the victim exiting the trunk and being struck multiple times by Tillman.

After being advised of his Miranda rights, Tillman told investigators that an argument occurred and that the victim struck him first, according to the report.

The report states that Tillman also said the victim claimed that she did not want to be around him and “would rather be inside of the trunk and not in his vicinity.”

Investigators said he then admitted to placing her in the trunk, driving with her inside and striking her.

The victim was not visibly injured and declined medical treatment from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, according to authorities.

Jail records show Tillman is facing charges of kidnapping and battery.

As of Wednesday morning, he was being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Records show Tillman was previously arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, improper exhibition of a firearm or weapon and resisting an officer without violence to his person in an unrelated case.

He was probably joking.

Then again, nothing about Ovechkin's future is all that clear right now after the NHL's career goal-scoring leader finished his 21st season Tuesday. Fans — and even opponents — treated the past few games like they could be his last, but Ovechkin hasn't yet closed the door on returning.

This was the final season of his current contract with the Capitals. When he noted Thursday — in a longer-than-usual session with reporters — that he still needs to speak with coach Spencer Carbery and general manager Chris Patrick, he was asked what he wanted to hear from Patrick about the team's future.

“Two more years," he said, drawing a laugh. "This is the contract. Sign it.”

It would certainly be a surprise if the 40-year-old Ovechkin received that kind of deal. The bigger question is whether he'll keep playing in the NHL at all. He said he'll make that decision based on health, family and the team's outlook for next season.

The Capitals wrapped up their season with a win at Columbus on Tuesday. They had 95 points, which would have tied for the lead in the Pacific Division but left them three points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Young players like Ryan Leonard and Cole Hutson have emerged for Washington, and despite a disappointing season, the team seems decently positioned whether Ovechkin retires or comes back.

If he does return, the price would be intriguing after he carried a cap hit of $9.5 million a year on his previous deal. He scored a team-high 32 goals and played all 82 games this season, remarkable numbers for a player his age. But his famous shot from the left circle wasn't the weapon it used to be — he had only five goals on 86 shots on the power play — and his age shows in his two-way game.

Ovechkin was asked if playing elsewhere in the NHL was a possibility.

“I’m a free agent," he said.

When pressed on whether he could see himself somewhere else in the league after spending his whole career so far with the Capitals, he said: “Probably not, no.”

There's been speculation about Ovechkin going back at some point to play in his native Russia, but he said he needs to decide his NHL future first.

“I’m pretty sure it’s not my last game — I hope it’s not my last game, against Columbus. I have to make a decision to see where we’re at — the team, family," Ovechkin said. “Obviously, family are going to support me, like my wife and kids. Kids are already asking, ‘Dad, are you staying or not?’"

And what's his response?

“I tell them, ‘We’ll see,'” he said. ”They want me to come back because they love the city, they love the team, they love the boys.”

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Deputies said the suspect, Terrell Rashard Robbins, was arrested in connection with the attack, which happened around 11:30 p.m. Monday near the 1900 block of Northwest 77th Street.

They said Robbins, 33, arrived at the victim’s home, got out of his vehicle with a knife in his right hand, and stabbed the victim repeatedly.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with about 11 puncture wounds and an abrasion, according to Robbins’ arrest report.

The report states that the victim suffered lacerations to the left jaw, shoulders, biceps, chest, back and buttocks, requiring stitches and staples.

During the altercation, deputies said the victim bit Robbins on his right hand, injuring his pinky.

They said Robbins was taken to North Shore Medical Center and was expected to be transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital due to the extent of his injury. At one point, investigators said they considered Robbins a victim as well.

In a statement around 2:04 a.m., deputies said Robbins told them that he went to the victim’s home to discuss a prior incident.

They said Robbins claimed that while approaching Northwest 77th Street and Northwest 19th Avenue, two masked men exited a khaki-colored sedan and attacked both him and the victim before fleeing.

However, in a statement given about an hour later, the victim said Robbins arrived unannounced and began arguing over issues involving the victim’s daughter, who shares a child with Robbins, according to the report.

The report states that the victim told investigators Robbins became upset about his involvement in their affairs and began stabbing him. Authorities said the victim claimed he bit Robbins in self-defense.

After initially refusing to speak with detectives following a Miranda warning, deputies said Robbins later requested to speak with investigators and agreed to give a statement.

Robbins said he confronted the victim over an incident from several years ago and “felt threatened” after believing the victim had been watching him and driving past his home on multiple occasions, according to the report.

The report states that Robbins told investigators the confrontation turned physical, and he pulled a knife from his pocket and stabbed the victim multiple times. He also said the victim asked him to stay and call police after the attack, according to investigators.

Deputies said shortly after the victim was stabbed, he was then struck by a vehicle whose driver remained at the scene.

MDSO told Local 10 News the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to be released from the hospital Wednesday.

Jail records show Robbins is facing one count of attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.

As of Thursday, Robbins was being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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According to deputies, prior to being located, Josiah K. Burrows was last seen April 8 in the 19100 block of Northeast Second Avenue.

Deputies said Burrows went to school that day and was dropped off at his usual bus stop after school, but hadn’t made contact with his family since.

They said he had, however, made contact with friends.

Deputies did not immediately confirm where Burrows was found or why he didn’t go home.

The 6-foot-11 forward arrived in Lawrence before the spring semester in 2025 and redshirted before playing last season, when Tiller was a regular in the starting lineup. He averaged 7.9 points and 6.1 rebounds, and one of his best games for Kansas came against the Tigers, when he had 13 points, five rebounds and five blocks in an 80-60 rout at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Missouri has been active in the transfer portal, landing Tennessee forward Jaylen Carey and Providence forward Jamier Jones.

Tiller visited the Tigers on Sunday and made the decision to join coach Dennis Gates over interest from Michigan, Georgia Tech, NC State, Arizona and others. He visited Miami but canceled a planned visit to Arizona.

Kansas already lost another big man, Flory Bidunga, who decided to transfer to Louisville.

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“Long live the movies,” Ellison said.

A starry show and a commitment to theaters

His company’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, in a deal valued at $111 billion, has been the source of much handwringing and speculation in Hollywood and exhibition. But Ellison came to the conference ready to show the exhibitors in the audience that he is serious about his commitment to movies and theaters, with a glossy mini movie about the studio’s past and future directed by Jon M. Chu and narrated by Tom Cruise. The promo featured cameos by Will Smith, Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Timothée Chalamet, John Krasinski and Teyana Taylor and closed with sweeping music and Cruise seated atop the iconic Paramount water tower.

“The future is paramount and the future looks pretty great from here,” Cruise said in the video.

Ellison told the exhibitors, “I love cinema and I love film. I always have and I always will,” and promised, “you can count on our complete commitment.”

The studio also announced that a third “Top Gun” movie is in development, in the script stage, with Cruise returning.

Paramount put on a big show for exhibitors with appearances by Johnny Depp, Billie Eilish and James Cameron. They touted planned franchises and IP like the live action “Call of Duty,” “A Quiet Place Part III” and the fourth “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie. They also originals including the adaptation of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” with Daisy Edgar-Jones, a new Damien Chazelle movie with Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig, and Teyana Taylor’s directorial debut, the dance movie “Get Lite.”

Depp was there to talk about starring in Ti West’s “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol,” a story he said he’s been obsessed with since he was a child. Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Anna Faris came out for the sixth “Scary Movie.” And Gina Prince-Bythewood and actors Thuso Mbedu and Damson Idris also previewed the tribal action movie “Children of Blood and Bone.”

Debate about the merger

In late February, Paramount Skydance reached a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which has been at the center of many discussions at the trade show and convention about what the implications might be for the depleted exhibition business.

No one mentioned Paramount at the over two-hour Warner Bros. presentation on Tuesday, but several of the filmmakers who made appearances were among the thousands who signed an open letter opposing the merger, including Denis Villeneuve and J.J. Abrams. In fact, the only studio other than Paramount to reference it at all was Amazon MGM, itself the product of an $8.5 billion merger, and it was in an irreverent promo for the “Spaceballs” sequel.

Cameron, who co-directed Paramount’s upcoming concert film “Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D),” is one of the filmmakers who has said he supports the deal and is unbothered by the prospect of a Paramount-owned Warner Bros. In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Cameron praised Ellison as a “natural born storyteller” who “really cares about movies.”

“He’s the right man for the job to run a major studio, and now it looks like he’s going to have two of them, you know, swept under his leadership, which doesn’t bother me at all,” Cameron said.

The regulatory question

Paramount, which closed its own $8 billion merger with Skydance just months ago, promised that it would release 15 movies in theaters in 2026. The deal awaits a shareholder vote later this month and government regulatory approval at the state and federal level. The U.S. Justice Department still needs to weigh in on the blockbuster combination that could give Paramount pricing power over movies and other offerings, potentially hurting customers.

In documents filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paramount said, “Our priority is to build a vibrant, healthy business and industry — one that supports Hollywood and creative, benefits consumers, encourages competition, and strengthens the overall job market.”

They’ve also said they would look for ways to save some $6 billion through job cuts in “duplicative operations.”

Executives at Paramount have argued that merging with Warner will allow it to compete with bigger rivals particularly in the streaming space and bring larger content libraries for its customers. The 102-year-old Warner Bros. has a film library that includes “Harry Potter,” “Superman” and “Barbie.”

On Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held a spotlight hearing in Washington, D.C., on the potential anticompetitive impact of the consolidation of two of Hollywood’s big five studios into one.

Actor Mark Ruffalo, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of the merger said, “tens of thousands of workers will be left poorer, along with the audiences we serve.”

David Borenstein, who just won an Oscar for his documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” noted that it could further erode access to documentary filmmaking, “because a small number of distributors have consolidated power and decided to feed audiences a narrow and politically safe diet of content.” While neither Paramount Studios nor Warner Bros. are particularly well-known for their non-fiction releases, WBD companies CNN and HBO are.

Ellison did not attend the meeting in D.C. on Wednesday. An Ellison spokeswoman confirmed he attended a funeral Wednesday.

Celebrity deaths — including Chadwick Boseman in 2020 and James Van Der Beek earlier this year — have highlighted the increase in colorectal cancer deaths among younger adults, but the new paper was called the first to parse which people are most affected by the alarming rise.

The researchers found that over the last 30 years, the rise in colorectal cancer deaths in young adults occurred almost entirely among people without a four-year college degree.

Of course, getting a college degree doesn't protect you from getting colon cancer. Rather, experts say it's a marker for other issues: People without degrees tend to earn less money, have poorer diets, exercise less and get less medical care.

It’s not totally unexpected that the death risk is concentrated in the less advantaged, but the paper published Thursday in JAMA Oncology is the first national study to actually show the connection, said Dr. Paolo Boffetta, a researcher at Stony Brook Cancer Center in New York who wasn’t involved in the work.

American Cancer Society researchers used government data on more than 101,000 younger adults, ages 25 to 49, who died of colorectal cancer from 1994 through 2023.

Overall, the colorectal cancer death rate rose from about 3 per 100,000 in that age group to about 4 per 100,000. But for people who only made it through high school, the rate rose from 4 to 5.2 per 100,000, while the rate for people with at least a bachelor's degrees did not change from 2.7 per 100,000.

Ahmedin Jemal, the study’s first author, said the findings underscore the need for public awareness about colorectal cancer and for younger adults to heed screening recommendations. Symptoms can include blood in stool or rectal bleeding; changes in bowel habits, such as diarrhea, constipation or narrowing of stool that lasts more than a few days; unintended weight loss; and cramps or abdominal pain.

The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 158,000 cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year. Overall, it’s the nation’s second leading cancer killer, behind lung cancer, and is expected to claim more than 55,000 in 2026.

The number of deaths for adults younger than 50 is around 7% of the total — about 3,900. Earlier this year, cancer society researchers reported that colorectal cancer mortality in Americans under 50 had increased by 1.1% a year since 2005, making it now the deadliest cancer in that age group.

Scientists don't know what's behind that increase. But they note risk factors include obesity, lack of physical activity, a diet high in red or processed meat and low in fruits and vegetables, and a family history of colorectal cancer. The American Cancer Society changed its screening guidelines in 2021, lowering the age U.S. adults should start getting screened from 50 to 45.

Why did the researchers behind Thursday's study look at education level and not other factors?

Death certificates don’t detail how much money a person had, or most other aspects of their life. But they do note how much schooling someone completed. And other research has found that data often aligns with statistics about income, health insurance, physical activity and chronic disease. So education serves as a proxy, but can't speak to other factors, like whether the person had health insurance.

“The focus on education is really (due to) something which was available in the data,” Boffetta observed.

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Luna, who weighs about 34 pounds, is described as sweet and affectionate once she warms up to new people. Shelter officials say she can be a bit nervous at first but quickly becomes a cuddly companion who enjoys pets and snuggling.

“She’s a little shy in the beginning, but once she gets to know you, she really loves attention and being close,” said HSBC’s Cherie Wachter.

Wachter said Luna is potty trained and does well with children ages 10 and older. Her compatibility with cats is unknown.

While her exact breed is unclear, staff say she may be a mix and jokingly refer to her as a “petite basset griffon” type, though a DNA test would be needed to confirm.

In addition to adoptions, the shelter is hosting a plant sale fundraiser Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by its Paws Gala event next weekend.

All day long, she'd labored to understand when to speak up or stay silent in meetings. She replayed conversations in her head, worrying she'd misunderstood or said the wrong thing. Noisy environments distressed her. She watched her peers receive promotions when she didn't.

“I would come home burnt-out, anxious," Pilatzke said of her days working as an insurance claim specialist. "That just kept going, week after week, day after day.”

Her communication difficulties, sensitivity to noise and other problems at work began to make sense following her diagnosis, she said.

Pilatzke, 36, now spends her days teaching employers how to make workplaces more accommodating for people on the autism spectrum. She works as an inclusion specialist at Specialisterne Canada, a nonprofit that helps organizations to better support employee neurodiversity.

She also reframed the way she thinks about traits often associated with autism, viewing her ability to focus intensely and provide honest, direct feedback as strengths.

Below are some ways to make meetings and other work rituals more accessible for autistic people, according to several adults with autism and neurodiversity experts.

It begins with understanding

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder that affects about 1 in 45 adults in the U.S., according to Autism Speaks, a nonprofit organization that supports autistic people and their families by funding research, providing resources and doing advocacy work.

It presents in a variety of ways but can create challenges with social skills, speech and nonverbal communication. Some common characteristics include repetitive behaviors and sensitivity to noise.

“Start by learning about different communication styles and being open-minded,” Subodh Garg, who appeared in the first season of the Netflix reality TV show “Love on the Spectrum,” said. “Inclusion begins with giving people a chance and making space for diverse ways of thinking and working. Employers can start with small intentional steps.”

Garg works part-time at a Southern California deli, where he handles invoices and restocks pastries. He also is studying to earn a bachelors degree and is a “champion of change” advocate at Autism Speaks.

Employers may have preconceived ideas about what autism means, when “the reality is, it is a massive spectrum,” said Rita Ramakrishnan, who is autistic and founded a consulting company that provides leadership coaching for neurodivergent executives. “There’s a community of people with much higher support needs, and then there are folks who are twice exceptional or otherwise extraordinarily high functioning. Their support needs are not as high, and their production capabilities are different. But they’re all valid autistic experiences.”

Organizations should consult autistic employees when crafting policies that are designed to make workplaces more inclusive, Ramakrishnan said.

“No one’s expecting you to be an expert in this, but we are expecting a level of curiosity, not judgment, and we would love the ability to have a conversation around our needs,” she said. “It doesn’t mean you have to accommodate all of them or redesign for all of them, but at least listening is the first step.”

Making meetings more accessible

Face-to-face communication can be difficult for some people with autism, so having the ability to participate in meetings online or through writing can be helpful, experts said.

“Changing the expectations for social engagement during a meeting is really important,” Ramakrishnan said. “In a neurotypical normative situation, things like eye contact are highly prized. I trust someone who makes eye contact with me. But for an autistic person, that is a scary thing.”

Making camera use optional during virtual meetings is a useful accommodation since said people with autism often feel pressure to “mask” their natural behaviors by mimicking the facial expressions of neurotypical colleagues, Pilatzke said.

“Things like that can actually cause a lot of anxiety for individuals that are neurodivergent,” she said. “So having that pressure removed can be helpful.”

Some people with autism find it’s easier to focus during virtual or in-person meetings when they’re doodling or walking around, said Natalie Longmire, a professor of organizational behavior at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. Managers can make it explicit that those behaviors are accepted, she said.

Employees also can seek and normalize these types of accommodations by saying something like, “Hey if I get up and walk around, I’m doing that so I can be more engaged in what you’re saying,” Longmire suggested.

Share agendas in advance

Keith Wargo, president & CEO of Autism Speaks, said that before holding meetings, his organization sends out agendas broken into five-minute chunks. “Having that kind of structure, it’s good practice for everyone,” he said.

Allowing written input before and after meetings — and not prioritizing only what is spoken out loud during the allotted time — enables organizations to honor and take advantage of autistic individuals’ contributions, Ramakrishnan said.

“Be explicit about, for each agenda item, is this a discussion? Is this a brainstorm? Are we making a decision here?” Ramakrishnan added. “That gives an autistic person the chance to prepare what they need to."

“These are the folks that are going to come up with the ideas that nobody else thinks about,” she added.

Enable various modes of communication

Have multiple lanes available to participate in meetings, such as chat windows for attendees to type their contributions, said Abigayle Jayroe, senior vice president for strategic operations at NEXT for Autism. “There may be people who just don’t feel comfortable speaking,” Jayroe said. Turning on captions can help people who prefer to process information by reading, she added.

Normalizing the use of noise-canceling headphones and written communication can help, experts say. To reduce feelings of sensory overwhelm, an autistic participant could try saying, “I might ask a question over chat instead of raising my hand because it’s easier for me,” Longmire said.

Garg, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old, said he was non-verbal early on but learned over time how to communicate and connect with other people.

“One of the biggest challenges has been interviews because they focus a lot on social skills instead of the actual work,” he said. “Sometimes people misunderstand my communication style or underestimate what I can do. Even small things like clear instructions or written feedback really help me do my best.”

Encouraging naysayers

An issue some autistic people encounter at work or in social situations is having their tendency to speak in a forthright way misinterpreted as callousness, Ramakrishnan said. Colleagues can be explicit about whether it’s OK to be direct or whether they need to soften the language, she said.

In Pilatzke's view, many autistic people possess a strong sense of right and wrong, and feel a need to speak up when they perceive injustices. “I describe myself as a blunt person. I’m very honest. I’m going to say what I think,” she added.

Organizations can benefit from staffers' frankness by building a culture where everyone isn't expected to agree. Have a designated naysayer or devil’s advocate in brainstorming meetings, Jayroe suggested.

“The best ideas are built off of poking holes in what everyone agrees on. So it lays the groundwork longer term for a company to have their employees feel comfortable raising red flags or building on ideas," she said.

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The accessibility of generative AI tools has exacerbated the perennial issue of online spam and scams that’s persisted since the advent of the internet. And while creators of such content have access to this ever-evolving technology, tech giants are also honing their internal AI systems to fight the deluge.

“It's not that this is a new problem. It is an old problem, supercharged,” said Nate Elliott, a principal analyst at Emarketer. “The biggest difference is the speed and the scale that AI offers both the good actors and the bad actors.”

The FBI’s recent Internet Crime Report detailed receiving more than 22,000 complaints reporting AI-related scams last year, with the total losses associated with those complaints exceeding $893 million.

Google released its annual ads safety report Thursday, acknowledging that scammers are increasingly trying to run sophisticated, malicious ads but emphasizing that its AI-powered tools are strong defenders.

Google's generative AI technology known as Gemini was able to catch over 99% of policy-violating ads before they ever reached an audience last year.

In 2025, the company blocked or removed more than 8.3 billion ads, including 602 million ads with policy violations that are most closely associated with scams. That's up from a total of 5.1 billion ads blocked or removed in 2024. About 24.9 million advertiser accounts were suspended last year, more than 4 million of those for scam-related activity.

Google has long been a dominant force in the digital advertising world. The company saw more than $200 billion in net worldwide ad revenues last year according to data from Emarketer, but the research firm predicts Meta will outperform Google in 2026.

Google said it has a team of thousands of people working to create and enforce its advertising policies at scale. Keerat Sharma, Google's vice president and general manager of ads privacy and safety, said the advancement of generative AI as a part of Google's defense system has led to more powerful results in combatting problematic content.

Gemini now allows the team to analyze hundreds of billions of signals — including account age, behavioral cues and campaign patterns — to better understand the “nuance of what an advertiser's intent actually is,” Sharma said. This means they're able to largely determine legitimacy or whether an advertiser's intent could be malicious. Reaching that nuance has also helped keep real businesses' ads online, with the report detailing that incorrect advertiser suspensions were reduced by 80% last year.

Gemini has also helped with speed, Sharma said. Analyzing the digital assets in an ad used to take anywhere from a few seconds to minutes or even longer, but now, Sharma said that can happen in milliseconds. That “allows us to stop things right at the front door," he said. Google also relies on several other defense mechanisms, like an expansive advertiser verification program, that work together to fortify protections.

The kind of content that Google is aiming to block and remove is vast and varied. Bad ads could take shape as “all the forms of spam and scam that have always existed, just people are able to produce them faster and at higher volume,” Elliott said.

A Google spokesperson said the company doesn't report the number of AI-generated ads it blocks or removes because its enforcement isn’t based on how an ad was created, but rather which policies it violates. The spokesperson noted that many AI-generated ads come from legitimate businesses and comply with Google's policies.

Experts who spoke with The Associated Press said the push and pull between AI-powered scams and AI-powered defense mechanisms will endure as the technology advances.

“We’re already close, but it’s going to be heading even more to (where) it’s just AI versus AI,” said Matt Seitz, the director of the AI Hub at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The volume of this problem is so large that it can’t be managed directly through humans.”

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, specifically pointed to operations in the Pacific, saying the U.S. would be targeting vessels that left before the blockade began earlier this week outside the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for energy and other shipments.

U.S. forces in other areas of responsibility “will actively pursue any Iranian-flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran,” he told reporters at the Pentagon.

The military also detailed an expansive lists of goods that it considers contraband, declaring that it will board, search and seize them from merchant vessels “regardless of location.” A notice published Thursday says any “goods that are destined for an enemy and that may be susceptible to use in armed conflict” are “subject to capture at any place beyond neutral territory.”

The expansion of U.S. military efforts to target Iranian shipping is another pressure point for Tehran and comes as a ceasefire is set to expire in mere days. Mediators are pressing for an extension to a truce that has paused almost seven weeks of war between Israel, the U.S. and Iran.

US military details items that could be seized from Iran-linked ships

The military's new list of banned materials includes products such as weapons, ammunition and military equipment that are classified as “absolute contraband.” However, it also lists items such as oil, iron, steel, aluminum and other goods as “conditional contraband” that it argues can be used both for civilian and military purposes.

Otherwise innocuous items like electronics, power generation equipment or heavy machinery can be seized if “circumstances indicate intended military end-use,” the notice says.

More than 10,000 American troops are helping enforce the blockade on Iranian ports. While no ships have yet been boarded, defense leaders say the military is warning Iran-linked ships that it could fire warning shots or escalate to other force if they try to outrun the Navy.

In the first three days of the military action, 14 ships have turned around rather than confront the naval blockade, according to U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Iran war.

Some Iran-linked or sanctioned vessels that left through the strait have appeared to halt their movements, turn off their radio transponders or head back toward Iran's coast, shipping data firms say.

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e blockade face US warnings

Vessels that approach the blockade, which is being enforced in Iran’s territorial seas and international waters and not in the Strait of Hormuz, get a warning, Caine said.

“Any ship that would cross the blockade would result in our sailors executing pre-planned tactics designed to bring the force to that ship — if need be, board the ship and take her over,” he said.

U.S. Central Command has released a recording of a radio broadcast sent to vessels in the region that said the military was ready to use force if needed to compel compliance.

“Vessels will be boarded for interdiction and seizure transiting to or from Iranian port,” the message said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that “less than 10% of America’s naval power” is being used to enforce the blockade. The Navy has 16 warships — 11 destroyers, three amphibious assault ships, an aircraft carrier and a littoral combat ship — in the Middle East out of a battle force of roughly 300 total warships.

Also supporting the blockade are a series of aircraft as well as surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence operations designed to give the Navy the latest information on the vessels it is encountering.

The Navy is likely tracking ships linked to Iran through satellites, drones and other forms of surveillance as well as each commercial vessel’s past history, said Kevin Donegan, a retired vice admiral and former commander of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain.

“It’s a pretty complex operation to make work,” said Donegan, who spoke Thursday during a webinar hosted by the Middle East Institute. “Not just from the intelligence standpoint, but positioning all the ships in the right way to make the intercepts if you have to.”

Donegan stressed that the blockade is only one pressure point on Iran and that it won’t end the conflict on its own.

“For it to be most effective, this military tool is added to the other operational tasks that were being done and paired with — hopefully, diplomacy,” Donegan said. “And if those two are scripted together in the right way, we can potentially get the outcomes we want.”

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As Hegseth and Caine discussed the blockade, Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, made a rare appearance in the Pentagon briefing room.

He said that before the ceasefire took hold, American service members and troops from allied countries in the Persian Gulf had “fought together side by side.”

“In creating the largest air defense umbrella in the world across the Middle East, we embedded specially trained U.S. military air defenders alongside our partner nation soldiers,” Cooper said, adding that Bahrain’s king and crown prince knew American soldiers by name.

Weighing a mere 673 grams (1.4 pounds), Yuji represents the most recent case of assisted rearing at the Guadalajara Zoo in western Mexico.

The story of Yuji has captured the attention of the Mexican public, drawing parallels to Punch, the Japanese macaque that went viral on social media after growing up clinging to a stuffed orangutan following his mother’s rejection.

Unlike Punch, Yuji has not yet had physical contact with other members of his species; he spends most of his time inside a monkey crate at the Guadalajara Zoo’s Comprehensive Center for Animal Medicine and Welfare, CIMBA, where he is under the care of 12 veterinarians and biologists.

No date has been set for Yuji’s transfer to a habitat shared by 12 other adult patas monkeys and three other infants. That will depend on when he is weaned from a milk-only diet and starts an adult diet complete with fruits and vegetables, said veterinarian Iván Reynoso Ruiz, head of the primate section at the Guadalajara Zoo. That could happen when Yuji is around 6 months old, he said.

Just hours after giving birth on March 3, Kamaria began exhibiting irregular behavior. She struggled to hold her firstborn correctly, leaving the infant unable to secure a grip on its mother.

After noticing a problem, keepers separated the mother from her newborn, who weighed just 443 grams (less than a pound) and required immediate placement in an incubator at CIMBA to stabilize his temperature and safeguard his health, Reynoso Ruiz said.

This was the start of the infant's assisted rearing, a process often used by zoos to protect the health and development of at-risk offspring. A caregiver named him Yuji after a popular Japanese manga character.

During his first few weeks, Yuji was under round-the-clock supervision and was bottle-fed fortified milk.

From the start, Yuji was given a stuffed animal for comfort. Reynoso Ruiz explained that the toy fulfills the role of a mother by serving as his primary source of security. To maintain hygiene, staff rotate the original stuffed dog with two other toys — a bear and a monkey — to ensure he always has a clean companion.

To stimulate his development, caregivers outfitted Yuji’s crate with a small hammock and ropes. As he began gaining weight and sleeping for longer intervals, his team adjusted his feeding schedule. Yuji now receives the first of his four daily bottles at 7:00 a.m.

While the stories of Punch and Yuji have been popular on social media, some animal rights advocates oppose the practice of assisted rearing.

Diana Valencia, an animal rights activist, argues that there is no substitute for a natural habitat, and that animals “have the right to be born, grow, develop, and die where they belong.”

Responding to these criticisms, the Guadalajara Zoo’s primate expert emphasized that modern zoos provide a unique opportunity to protect species from global threats. He said the intervention was a matter of life or death, and that Yuji likely would have perished in the wild without a “second chance” at survival.

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Robert Brito, who works for Hollywood Fire Rescue, was battling the blaze at a beachfront building last October when he realized his captain was running out of oxygen.

With visibility near zero, authorities said Brito used his own breathing apparatus to supply air to his captain, allowing both men to continue breathing and safely evacuate the building.

“At this point with no visibility, just pull it out, kind of reach for his and make the connection, and now at this point, he starts breathing off my bottle,” Brito said.

HFR Chief Jeffrey Levy said Brito’s actions highlight the importance of preparation and teamwork on the fireground.

“If you look at a lot of these tragic events that happen on these fires, it comes from lack of training and lack of communication. Everything worked out on this event,” he said.

Brito was honored Tuesday with the Service Above Self Award from the Rotary Club of Hollywood.

Los investigadores identificaron a los sospechosos en documentos de arresto como Kishawn Zell Walker Perkins, de 29 años, y Armon Christopher Jiles, de 26.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade indicaron que el primer incidente ocurrió el 13 de febrero en una sucursal de Chase ubicada en 18800 NW 56th Ct., cerca del límite con Miami Gardens.

Según los investigadores, video de vigilancia mostró a los sospechosos dentro de un Nissan Sentra color vino en el estacionamiento del banco mientras un cliente salía con una bolsa azul de dinero.

El informe señala que la víctima entró a su vehículo, colocó la bolsa en el asiento del pasajero y se retiró.

Las autoridades dijeron que los sospechosos salieron del estacionamiento segundos antes y siguieron a la víctima hasta una comunidad cerrada, entrando detrás de él sin inconvenientes.

Después de que la víctima entró a su casa, indicaron que el conductor, Walker Perkins, se detuvo frente a la vivienda mientras el pasajero, Jiles, se bajó, corrió hacia el vehículo de la víctima, abrió la puerta del conductor y sustrajo objetos antes de huir.

Los agentes dijeron que el segundo incidente ocurrió el 27 de marzo en otro banco Chase, ubicado en 8784 SW 72nd St., en el área de Dadeland, e involucró a una víctima de edad avanzada.

Las autoridades indicaron que esa víctima acababa de realizar una transacción en el banco y fue seguida hasta su hogar por un Nissan Sentra rojo.

Los investigadores determinaron que los sospechosos vigilaban a la víctima en el banco y lo seleccionaron tras notar que llevaba una riñonera, lo que sugería que había retirado dinero.

Cuando la víctima llegó a su complejo de apartamentos, los agentes dijeron que Jiles se bajó del vehículo y se le acercó en el estacionamiento. Indicaron que le arrebató la riñonera por la fuerza y, durante el forcejeo, la víctima cayó hacia atrás.

Tras tomar la riñonera, dijeron que Jiles golpeó a la víctima en la cabeza con la misma, causándole una laceración, antes de huir en un vehículo conducido por Walker Perkins.

El informe indica que la víctima sufrió una lesión en la cabeza, así como abrasiones en la rodilla y el codo, y fue trasladada a un hospital para recibir tratamiento. Las autoridades señalaron que sus lesiones podrían resultar en “desfiguración permanente”.

Los detectives indicaron que finalmente vincularon a los sospechosos con ambos incidentes mediante videos de vigilancia, las características distintivas del vehículo y su matrícula, así como registros de teléfonos celulares que los ubicaban cerca de las escenas.

Los investigadores también señalaron que observaron a la pareja visitando múltiples bancos en los días posteriores al robo, aparentemente en busca de más víctimas.

Ambos hombres fueron arrestados el martes y llevados a la unidad de robos de la MDSO, donde invocaron su derecho a guardar silencio.

Registros carcelarios muestran que ambos enfrentan un cargo de robo de vehículo desocupado en el caso de febrero y robo a mano armada con arma y agresión agravada contra una persona mayor en el caso de marzo.

Ambos permanecen detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Hasta la tarde del miércoles, la fianza de Walker Perkins no había sido fijada, mientras que Jiles permanece sin derecho a fianza.

Los agentes no indicaron qué objetos o cuánto dinero, si alguno, lograron obtener los sospechosos en los incidentes.

Los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 9 p.m. a la cuadra 2500 de Northwest 21st Street tras recibir reportes de un posible tiroteo. Al llegar, encontraron a dos adultos con heridas de bala.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue trasladó a ambas víctimas al Broward Health Medical Center con lesiones que ponen en peligro sus vidas.

Las autoridades indicaron que los equipos administraron sangre total mientras eran transportados al hospital.

Detectives permanecen en la escena y la investigación continúa activa.

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The video shows the man running along a road, seemingly evading police before officers in Zionsville take him down and cuff him.

Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinosa, 38, also known as Fabian Eliseo Llancavil Nahuel, was arrested late last month.

According to Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies, the Chilean national left blood behind at the Weston scene on Nov. 8, proving crucial to identifying him.

According to an arrest warrant, at the Weston home, “unknown suspects” shattered a master bedroom window and got in, stealing a safe containing roughly $500,000 in gold and jewelry.

DNA evidence taken from blood left on a shade near the shattered window and on the floor came back to Barrozo-Espinosa.

An Indianapolis news outlet reports that Barrozo-Espinosa also has a warrant out of Texas and that the case is linked to “similar cases of South American gangs targeting suburban homes.”

Several other Chilean nationals have been accused of burglarizing homes nationwide, including those belonging to professional athletes.

The BSO arrest warrant doesn’t identify the homeowner, whose address was redacted.

As of Thursday, Barrozo-Espinosa remained in jail on an immigration hold.

El video muestra al hombre corriendo por una carretera, aparentemente evadiendo a la policía, antes de que agentes en Zionsville lo derriben y lo esposen.

Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinosa, de 38 años, también conocido como Fabian Eliseo Llancavil Nahuel, fue arrestado a finales del mes pasado.

Según agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, el ciudadano chileno dejó rastros de sangre en la escena en Weston el 8 de noviembre, lo que resultó clave para identificarlo.

De acuerdo con una orden de arresto, en la vivienda de Weston, “sospechosos desconocidos” rompieron una ventana del dormitorio principal para ingresar y robar una caja fuerte que contenía aproximadamente $500,000 USD en oro y joyas.

Evidencia de ADN obtenida de la sangre dejada en una persiana cerca de la ventana rota y en el suelo coincidió con Barrozo-Espinosa.

Un medio de noticias de Indianápolis informó que Barrozo-Espinosa también tiene una orden de arresto en Texas y que el caso está vinculado a “casos similares de pandillas sudamericanas que atacan viviendas en zonas suburbanas”.

Varios otros ciudadanos chilenos han sido acusados de robar viviendas en todo el país, incluyendo las de atletas profesionales.

La orden de arresto de la BSO no identifica al propietario de la vivienda, cuya dirección fue censurada.

Hasta el jueves, Barrozo-Espinosa permanecía en la cárcel bajo una retención migratoria.

We could see a stray shower or two to cool us down, but the majority of the weekend will be dry. There’s a higher chance of showers on Monday as a weak front moves our way. This front will also bring highs back below average, to around 80° on Tuesday.

It's still jazzing up iceberg and romaine. But ranch now competes with the likes of ketchup and other condiments, a creamy dip for everything from hot wings and fried pickles to — perhaps most controversially — pizza.

It's ubiquitous, a versatile staple of American foodways easily found in grocery stores, recipes and on menus. There are entire cookbooks and a restaurant dedicated to the flavor.

Beloved and maligned, ranch also turns up in the country's cultural intangibles. Writers have labeled it the “Great American Condiment,” and less flatteringly, “extravagant and trashy.” It carries a nostalgia, said Nick Higgins, an executive for Hidden Valley Ranch's parent company, which taps into that sentimentalism and fosters the ranch fandom.

The viral food fights their product inspires? They embrace those, too. “We love it," he said. “It's one of the things we can debate as people and it's OK.”

How ranch got to that mountaintop is an American story, a difficult feat that evokes the country's entrepreneurial spirit.

“What started out almost as a lark became a multimillion-dollar industry,” the late Steve Henson explained in a Los Angeles Times piece about his famous dressing and Hidden Valley Ranch, the mail-order business he launched in the 1950s and sold to The Clorox Company two decades later.

As a plumbing contractor in Alaska, Henson first served it to workers. His herbs, spices, buttermilk and mayo concoction then became such a hit with guests at Hidden Valley, the dude ranch he and his wife opened in California, that he sold it as a DIY dry mix. Eventually, Clorox bottled a shelf-stable version, and competitors like Ken's, Kraft Foods and Wish-Bone joined in.

Debbie Wilson Potts loves ranch. Her family owns Cold Spring Tavern in California, the first to serve Henson's dressing outside of his dude ranch. Her late aunt, who knew Henson, once described her first taste: “It took off in my mouth like a freight train.”

It also took off across America. In his book “American Cuisine and How It Got This Way," Paul Freedman lists ranch dressing alongside sushi, arugula and other food fads and fashions of the 1980s, the same decade that gave the country Cool Ranch Doritos. After 40 years of popularity, ranch, he said, is likely here to stay.

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As AP’s religion news editor, Holly Meyer has years of experience documenting faith in American life. This story is part of a recurring series, “American Objects,” marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. For more stories on the anniversary, click here.

The quintessential American toy started in 1902 as just clothing scraps and sawdust stitched together by Morris and Rose Michtom, Jewish candy store owners in Brooklyn.

“Nothing says childhood better than a teddy bear,” says Michael Kimmel, author of “Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America” and Morris Michtom's great-great-nephew. “It’s an utterly genderless toy. It is embraced by both boys and girls.”

The teddy bear's origin story actually starts earlier that year. President Theodore Roosevelt had refused to shoot a tied-up black bear during a hunting trip. Cartoonist Clifford Berryman published a political cartoon depicting Roosevelt's decision that caught the Michtoms' eyes. They were inspired to fashion a toy that went on to be called “Teddy's Bear” as a nod to the president and his nickname.

And a fad was born.

After selling a few, the Michtoms received more orders. Copycats emerged. The teddy bear was widely considered the first stuffed toy that wasn't a rag or porcelain doll, Kimmel said. It was affordable, comforting and kid-size. Some preachers actually worried the playful plushies would somehow corrupt young girls and extinguish their desire to be a mother.

Over the decades, the teddy bear became an icon. Elvis Presley crooned about being someone's “lovin' teddy bear.” An original Michtom-crafted teddy bear retains a place of honor in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. And, of course, being a “teddy bear” has come to mean someone who is, in general, sweet and cuddly.

Says Kimmel: “There are people who, when they finally move out of the house and go to college or get married, that’s the one thing that they just can’t part with because it connects them to that innocent childhood.”

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It happened Sunday around 11:30 p.m. near the main stage of the event off Northeast 62nd Street and Second Avenue.

Authorities said three people were shot and rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Two of the victims are recovering, but 23-year-old Kitchner Cyrlle did not survive.

In an online post, family members identified one of the victim as Crylle’s cousin, saying that he underwent surgery on his stomach.

Police are still actively searching for the shooter.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Miami police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

Loved ones of the victim created a GoFundMe page to help the family with expenses, and it can be found by clicking here.

But it’s also notable because it’s an outlier. It is a tree with a majestic presence that dwarfs the common maples and pines nearby — a living reminder of how much old-growth forest has been lost.

In the eastern United States, that rare sense of awe was once supplied in bulk by the American chestnut.

Its presence stunned: mature trees rose above the hardwood canopy supported by trunks wider than a person is tall. It was a centerpiece of the ecosystem, producing so many chestnuts that it boosted the numbers of turkeys, bears and deer that, in turn, spread the trees’ seeds. American chestnut’s straight grain was useful in furniture and it made fenceposts that encircled farms and shrugged off pests and wear.

There were billions of them at the turn of the 20th century, their abundant fruit moved by railcar to cities for sale on street corners. We still sing about them during the holidays.

And then they started dying.

It was disease that forever changed the American landscape. A deadly airborne fungal blight coupled with a lethal root rot that killed them by the millions. By the 1950s, the tree was functionally extinct.

That was long enough ago that few remember what it was like to live among them. But what they once offered isn’t forgotten. Their size still impresses in old photos. Associations are dedicated to their story. And to bringing them back.

Another type of chestnut, the Chinese chestnut, had been introduced to the United States for its valuable nuts. It doesn’t grow as tall, but it can resist disease.

Arborists have tried to breed the advantageous, disease-resistant attributes into the American chestnut. That has turned out to be tremendously hard. Simple breeding techniques don’t work well, and recent efforts to sequence the DNA of the trees reveals why — their desirable traits are scattered across multiple spots along their genome.

But the DNA sequence also provides a map to breed trees that are more likely to survive.

Researchers hope in the coming decades, there will be enough healthy trees for the species to not need humans, to once again rely on the meanderings of bears and forgetfulness of squirrels.

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Ocurrió el domingo alrededor de las 11:30 p.m. cerca del escenario principal del evento, en Northeast 62nd Street y Second Avenue.

Las autoridades informaron que tres personas fueron baleadas y trasladadas de urgencia al hospital Jackson Memorial.

Dos de las víctimas se están recuperando, pero Kitchner Cyrlle, de 23 años, no sobrevivió.

En una publicación en línea, familiares identificaron a una de las víctimas como primo de Cyrlle, indicando que fue sometido a una cirugía en el estómago.

La policía continúa buscando activamente al tirador.

Se insta a cualquier persona con información a comunicarse con la policía de Miami o con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS.

Los seres queridos de la víctima crearon una página en GoFundMe para ayudar a la familia con los gastos, la cual puede encontrarse haciendo clic aquí.