Cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas después de que un Boeing 767-300 se saliera de la pista 30 del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami poco después de la 1:50 p.m. del domingo, según la NTSB.

El Boeing 767-300, que operaba como el vuelo 798 de Prime Air, impactó una van Ford E-150 Econoline blanca del 2012, propiedad de Professional Ocean Service Corp., una empresa de limpieza.

“En total había siete personas en esa van”, dijo la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, la mañana de este martes.

Cordero-Stutz indicó que cinco de los ocupantes de la van murieron. Eran Rolando Alemán León, de 55 años; Yoel Rodríguez Naranjo, de 53; Julio C. Pineda, de 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, de 53; y Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, de 47.

“La van Econoline quedó destrozada”, dijo la presidenta de la NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, el lunes.

Después de impactar la van dentro de MIA, el Boeing 767-300 chocó contra una SUV Toyota Corolla Cross LE que circulaba por la avenida 67 noroeste, según Homendy.

“En la SUV se pueden ver las bolsas de aire, las que están alrededor”, dijo Homendy.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue indicó que trasladó a los cinco heridos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South Medical Center.

Cordero-Stutz dijo que tres permanecían hospitalizados este martes. La MDSO los identificó como Eugenio Corredor, de 79 años, en estado crítico; Ridoel Averhoff Díaz, de 32, en estado crítico; y Roosevelt Sebastián Perdomo Torres, de 36, en condición estable.

Corredor, nacido en Colombia y residente de Hialeah, era quien conducía el Toyota verde.

El piloto y el copiloto fueron dados de alta del hospital, según Cordero-Stutz. La MDSO los identificó como Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, de 37 años, y Joseph Carol, de 55, quienes sufrieron heridas leves.

La aerolínea de carga 21 Air operaba el vuelo 798 de Prime Air para Amazon en el Boeing 767-300, fabricado en 1994, según la NTSB.

El domingo, antes del accidente, la aeronave voló de Cincinnati a MIA, de MIA al Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín en San Juan, Puerto Rico, y de regreso a MIA, según la NTSB.

Un video grabado por un testigo muestra nubes de tormenta imponentes al momento en que la aeronave aterrizó en la pista de MIA.

Como no había un sistema de frenado EMAS (por sus siglas en inglés) para detener la aeronave, esta recorrió 1,300 pies “más allá de la superficie pavimentada” antes de quedar detenida en un terreno cerca de Tesla Robotaxis estacionados, según Homendy.

“Se pueden ver en la superficie pavimentada marcas de neumáticos que continúan por el césped”, dijo Homendy. “Hay escombros por todas partes”.

Testigos grabaron videos que muestran una densa humareda negra saliendo del lugar del accidente. El jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah, dijo que se trató de un “incendio complejo”.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) desplegó más de 60 unidades. Los bomberos indicaron que usaron espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimento del motor.

Rohan Ellis, un testigo, compartió un video que muestra a un hombre saliendo de la cabina por una ventana y usando la escalera de los bomberos. El morro de la aeronave estaba en el suelo.

“Hay combustible por todas partes. Eso habrá que remediarlo”, dijo Homendy, quien describió el lugar como “una devastación total”.

Dos de las cuatro pistas del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami permanecían cerradas el lunes y el martes, según Greg Chin, portavoz del Departamento de Aviación de Miami-Dade. Cordero-Stutz pidió a los viajeros confirmar con sus aerolíneas el estado de sus vuelos.

Cordero-Stutz también indicó que la avenida 67 noroeste permanecía cerrada al tráfico entre las calles 25 y 32.

Homendy dijo que la NTSB recuperó la grabadora de datos de vuelo y la grabadora de voz de cabina de la aeronave. También pidió a los testigos que compartan fotos y videos con el equipo de la NTSB por correo electrónico a witness@ntsb.gov.

Cordero-Stutz pidió a los familiares de las víctimas que se comuniquen con los defensores de víctimas de la MDSO al 305-471-1900.

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Según las autoridades, cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas cuando un Boeing 767-300 se salió de una pista del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami poco antes de las 2:00 p.m. del domingo e impactó una van Ford E-150 Econoline blanca del 2012 y un Toyota Corolla Cross LE.

La alguacil del condado de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, ofreció una conferencia de prensa la mañana del martes, en la que se dio a conocer la identidad de las cinco víctimas fallecidas.

También se identificó a los heridos y a los dos pilotos de la aeronave.

Funcionarios de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB) permanecen en el lugar realizando su investigación sobre las circunstancias que llevaron al accidente.

La presidenta de la NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, ofreció una conferencia de prensa poco después de las 9:00 p.m. del martes para dar las últimas actualizaciones.

Homendy dijo que los pilotos y la tripulación serán entrevistados el miércoles.

También indicó que, aunque se recuperaron las grabadoras de vuelo con varias horas de registro, el audio no se dará a conocer hasta después de que se entreviste a los pilotos.

Según los investigadores, esos datos podrían ayudar a reconstruir los últimos momentos del vuelo, incluida su velocidad, el desempeño de los motores y lo que ocurría dentro de la cabina.

El investigador principal de la NTSB, Chihoon Shin, explicó que, treinta segundos antes de que terminara la grabación, el tren de aterrizaje delantero y el tren de aterrizaje principal derecho tocaron tierra, con una velocidad en el suelo de 158 nudos. Detalló que veintitrés segundos antes de que terminara la grabación se aplicaron los frenos, y que quince segundos antes del final los frenos se soltaron con una velocidad en el suelo de 120 nudos, mientras la aceleración subía a valores propios de un intento de despegue frustrado (“go-around”).

Además, las autoridades indicaron que una tercera pista de MIA fue autorizada para reabrir.

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New York City leaders released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records related to air quality in the city following the attacks.

“These are documents that show what the city knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

The records are shedding new light on what officials knew about conditions around Ground Zero while rescue workers and residents were being assured that the air was safe to breathe.

Mamdani said New Yorkers were misled about the dangers.

“Close to 25 years later, more people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself,” Mamdani said.

According to the report, the documents released by Mamdani came from dozens of boxes discovered last year in a city government office.

An advocacy group sued the city to have the records released.

The documents are said to contain only a fraction of the air quality reports taken following the attacks.

Jon Stewart, who has advocated on issues involving those affected by 9/11-related illnesses, said the impact continues nearly 25 years later.

“We’ve lost three times as many people to 9/11-related illnesses as we did on 9/11 -- three times as many -- almost 10,000 people,” Stewart said. “There’s more work to be done so far, and it continues.”

Local 10 photographer recalls conditions near Ground Zero

Local 10 News photographer Curt Calhoon spent nearly two weeks near Ground Zero covering the aftermath of the attacks while working for another news outlet.

“There was always a trail of dust coming out of the backs of trucks,” Calhoon recalled. “Everything was covered in powder.”

Calhoon is among at least 140,000 people from all 50 states enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program. According to the report, 49,000 people have been diagnosed with certified World Trade Center-related cancers.

Calhoon is now in remission after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

He said the release of the documents brings mixed emotions.

“I’m glad they found these documents,” Calhoon said. “I’m sad at the fact that they waited so long for it to come to light. People should have known about this a long time ago.”

Aviation experts say newly available flight-tracking data could provide investigators with another piece of evidence as they work to determine what went wrong.

Francisco Diaz, an airplane captain with experience flying the Boeing 767 cargo aircraft involved in the crash, said video of the incident appears to show an unstable approach.

“The airplane was approaching at around 170, 180 knots, which is very high for this type of airplane,” Diaz said. “In the 767, 150 to 140 is the normal approach speed.”

Diaz said the aircraft appeared to be carrying too much energy as it approached the runway.

“So by seeing the airplane pitching down, you can tell that it has too much energy, too much speed,” he said.

Video of the landing also appears to show the aircraft attempting to flare before touching down, Diaz said.

“When they got to the runway landing area, they tried to flare twice, and the airplane would float up back again,” he said. “And then they floated it through the whole runway almost to the end.”

New flight radar data may offer another clue.

In an analysis for Local 10, Diaz examined the aircraft’s approach path compared with the standard glide path pilots use to land on the runway.

The standard glide path is shown by a green line, while the incident aircraft’s approach is shown in red. Diaz said the data indicates the plane went above the glide path before attempting to correct its descent.

“It went above the glide path and then it tried to chase it back down, so that will make the whole approach unstable,” Diaz said.

But Diaz cautioned that the available information does not establish why the pilots continued the landing.

Local 10’s Christina Vazquez asked Diaz what could cause a pilot to continue an approach when some of the aircraft’s landing parameters appear to be outside normal ranges.

Diaz said investigators will have to consider a number of possibilities, including pilot workload, tunnel vision, a medical emergency, fuel concerns or weather conditions.

“You can have issues like tunnel vision where you are looking at the landing and it’s human nature to always want to finish that flight,” Diaz said. “It can also be a medical emergency.”

Fuel could also be a factor, he said, particularly if storms in the area made the pilots concerned about having enough fuel to execute a go-around and return for another landing.

“So now we just need to wait for the investigation,” Diaz said. “It can be many things.”

The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to examine the aircraft’s flight data and cockpit voice recordings as part of the investigation.

The cockpit recording could help investigators determine what the pilots were discussing and what was happening inside the aircraft during the approach and landing.

Investigators have not yet determined a cause for the crash.

The five workers killed were identified on Tuesday by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office as Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47; and Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53.

They were employed by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a company that services aircraft at the airport. It’s based just outside of MIA.

Two workers survived when the Boeing 767, operated by cargo carrier 21 Air on behalf of Amazon, overshot the runway on Sunday afternoon and slammed into their Ford Econoline van.

Two workers inside survived the crash; so too did an SUV driver also hit as the plane went past the airport perimeter fence and onto Northwest 67th Avenue.

The company released a statement about the incident on Tuesday.

“Our Professional Ocean Service Corp. family is heartbroken by this unimaginable tragedy,” it read in part. “Our employees are far more than the people who work beside us each day, they are family, and they are deeply loved.”

The company asked the public to keep the employees’ families “in their thoughts and prayers and to respect their privacy during this incredibly difficult time.”

Local 10 News also spoke to neighbors of two of the men on Tuesday.

Onel Gomez Manzo says he last saw Pineda, his friend and neighbor, on Saturday. He’s lived two doors down from him for the last two years.

“Sometimes he would bring fruit for my son and things like that,” Gomez Manzo said in Spanish.

He added that the crash “seemed like a lie” – he couldn’t believe it.

Blanca Llaro, Aleman Leon’s former landlord told Local 10 News that he moved out about two weeks ago.

He was “very respectful, very serious,” Llaro told Local 10 News in Spanish.

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According to officials, five people were killed and five others were injured when a Boeing 767-300 overtook a runway at Miami International Airport shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday and struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van and a Toyota Corolla Cross LE.

Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz held a press conference Tuesday morning, where the identities of the five deceased victims were made public.

The injured victims, as well as the plane’s two pilots, were also identified.

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board remain at the scene conducting their investigation into the circumstances that led up to the crash.

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy held a press conference shortly after 9 p.m. on Tuesday to provide the latest updates.

Homandy said that the pilots and crew would be interviewed on Wednesday.

She also said that while flight recorders were recovered with several hours of footage, the audio would not be released until after the pilots were interviewed.

Investigators say that data could help reconstruct the plane’s final moments, including its speed, engine performance and what was happening inside the cockpit.

“Thirty seconds before the end of the recording, the nose landing gear and the right man main landing gear touched down, and the ground speed was 158 knots,” said NTSB lead investigator Chihoon Shin. “Twenty-three seconds before the end of the recording, brakes were applied. Fifteen seconds before the end of recording, brakes were released at a ground speed of 120 knots. Throttles increased to values consistent with a go-around thrust.”

Additionally, officials said a third runway had been allowed to reopen at MIA.

Tuesday’s press conference can be seen in its entirety below:

Five people died, and five people were injured after a Boeing 767-300 overtook Miami International Airport’s runway 30 shortly after 1:50 p.m. on Sunday, according to the NTSB.

The Boeing 767-300 operating as Prime Air Flight 798 struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van, owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a cleaning company.

“There were a total of seven in that van,” Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said on Tuesday morning.

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Cordero-Stutz said five of the van’s occupants died. They were Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

“The Econoline van is torn apart,” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said on Monday.

After striking the van at MIA, the Boeing 767-300 struck a Toyota Corolla Cross LE SUV that was traveling on Northwest 67th Avenue, according to Homendy.

“The SUV, you can see airbags, the surrounding airbags,” Homendy said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel reported taking the five injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and the Jackson South Medical Center.

Cordero-Stutz said three remained hospitalized on Tuesday. MDSO identified them as Eugenio Corredor, 79, whose condition is critical; Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, whose condition is critical; and Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36, whose condition is stable.

Corredor, who was born in Colombia and lives in Hialeah, was the driver of the green Toyota.

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The pilot and the co-pilot were released from the hospital, according to Cordero-Stutz. MDSO identified them as Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, and Joseph Carol, 55, who both suffered minor injuries.

Cargo airline 21 Air was operating Prime Air Flight 798 for Amazon on the Boeing 767-300, manufactured in 1994, according to the NTSB.

On Sunday, before the crash, the jet flew from Cincinnati to MIA, from MIA to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back to MIA, according to the NTSB.

A witness’s video shows there were towering stormy clouds when the jet landed on the MIA runway.

Since there wasn’t an Engineered Materials Arresting System, or EMAS, to stop the jet, it traveled for 1,300 feet “past the paved surface” before coming to a standstill on a field near parked Tesla Robotaxis, according to Homendy.

“You can see on the paved surface tire marks that continue through the grass,” Homendy said. “There is debris everywhere.”

Witnesses recorded videos showing dark smoke billowing from the crash site. Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said there was a “complex fire.”

MDFR deployed more than 60 units. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing a man climbing out of the cockpit through a window and using the firefighters’ ladder. The jet’s nose was on the ground.

“There is fuel everywhere. That will have to be remediated,” said Homendy, who described the site as “utter devastation.”

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Two of Miami International Airport’s four runways remained closed on Monday and Tuesday, according to Greg Chin, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department. Cordero-Stutz asked travelers to check with airlines for the status of their flights.

Cordero-Stutz also said Northwest 67th Avenue was closed to traffic from 25th to 32nd streets.

Homendy said the NTSB recovered the jet’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. She also asked witnesses to share photos and videos with the NTSB team via e-mail at witness@ntsb.gov.

Cordero-Stutz asked the victims’ relatives to contact MDSO victims’ advocates at 305-471-1900.

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Yaraisi Santiso Morejon filed the lawsuit following the death of her husband, 53-year-old Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, who was killed in the crash.

According to the lawsuit, Amazon Air Flight 7598 landed at MIA on Sunday before overrunning Runway 30 and striking vehicles on and near airport property, including a van driven by Rodriguez Naranjo.

The lawsuit names Amazon Inc. and Amazon Air Cargo as defendants, along with 21 Air LLC and other related companies involved in operating the aircraft, the plane’s lessors and pilots Joseph Carroll and Jaime Felipe Silva Molina.

The complaint alleges a series of failures contributed to the crash, including pilot error, inadequate training and the use of a 32-year-old aircraft.

“Our hearts go out to Yaraisi and her family, as well as all those who were impacted by what we believe was a preventable tragedy,” Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan said in a statement Wednesday. “No one should lose their loved one this way, and the filing of this lawsuit is just the beginning of our fight to secure justice and accountability for Mr. Naranjo’s death.”

Attorney Mike Morgan said the firm alleges the crash was not a “freak accident,” but instead a “foreseeable and preventable disaster.”

“What we’ve already uncovered points to a series of failures by the people flying the plane, the companies that put it in the air and the systems that were supposed to prevent this exact kind of tragedy,” Morgan said. “Yaraisi deserves answers and justice. We intend to get her both.”

The lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County.

It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to witness the spring migration.

But it's what’s underground that has drawn scientists and investors to this 23-square-mile (60-square-kilometer) tract: spongy, dense peat up to 15 feet (5 meters) deep.

They're here to save it.

Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat, leaving the site vulnerable to drought and wildfires, altering its native habitats — and allowing it to emit 130,000 tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide a year.

“Our goal is for perpetuity to conserve these lands so they can’t become oil and gas fields, so they’re not mined for phosphorus or turned into parking lots and shopping centers,” said Tripp Wall, CEO of Colorado-based company Pantheon Regeneration. “They’re just these incredible systems that I feel are underappreciated here in the U.S. (that) for 10,000 to 15,000 years have been climatologically resilient until we screwed them up.”

Peatlands are a climate paradox. Though they account for just 3% of global land surface, they store one-third of the Earth’s carbon dioxide, more than all forests combined. But when degraded — primarily when farmers lower the water table to grow crops — destroyed or burned, they become part of the problem, releasing huge volumes of greenhouse gases, now about 6% of the annual global total from all sources.

And the type of peatlands found in North Carolina, and for hundreds of miles along the Eastern Seaboard, are among the most threatened in the world.

Pantheon plans to reverse the damage by blocking off ditches to control the water table and significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Then it will cull invasive species and replant native grasses, flowers and other plants.

The restoration is modeled after other projects by nonprofits and government agencies, including at the adjacent 175-square-mile (453-square-kilometer) Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge — one of the largest peatland restoration projects in the U.S. — which provides habitat for threatened and endangered species such as red wolves, yellow pitcher plants and Atlantic white cedar, and has become an important stopover for migrating birds such as Tundra swans.

But what sets apart Pantheon's project is a plan to sell carbon credits to tech companies and other corporations that want to compensate for their own greenhouse gas emissions, then use the money to restore and preserve a million acres (1,562 square miles, or 4,047 square kilometers) of peatland from Virginia to northern Florida over the next decade.

Each property will be permanently conserved and rewilded — “big corridors, big birding habitats, big biodiversity hotspots that have an outsized impact on climate,” said Wall.

Ancient ecosystems under threat

Neal Flanagan pushes a metal tube through roots and around buried logs until it sinks about a meter (3 feet). When he pulls it out, it’s packed with black soil.

Near the surface, it’s dry and full of dead fibers from plants like wood fern, blueberry and Lyonia. The middle is crumbly, moist and odorless, with bits of charcoal from long-ago fires. But the saturated bottom, 50% carbon, is the consistency of axle grease.

“This is the black gold,” said Flanagan’s colleague, Duke University ecologist Curtis Richardson, as ancient peat oozes from his closed fist. Its “magnitude and importance cannot be underestimated,” he added.

When peatlands are intact, gases generated by decomposing plants are trapped in a waterlogged, oxygen-deprived environment, while surface vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, scientists say.

That makes ancient, intact peatlands a carbon vault up to 50 feet (15 meters) deep in some parts of the world. They also store about 10% of global fresh water, help control flooding and can help stem wildfires.

But two-thirds of temperate peatlands — mostly in Europe and the U.S. — have been dewatered, while about 45% of tropical peatlands have been similarly disturbed, according to a 2025 study published by The Society for Conservation Biology.

Boreal peatlands, or those in colder climates in places like Canada and Russia, are about 90% intact, but face growing pressure from thawing permafrost and intense fires, both linked to climate change, as well as mining and critical minerals exploration.

At the same time, only 17% of global peatlands are officially protected, according to the study.

In the U.S., significant amounts of peat are also found in Alaska, Florida, parts of the Northeast and the northern Great Lakes, though the type of domed peatlands found in North Carolina exist only along the Eastern Seaboard. Called Pocosin peat, it formed from coastal pine forests and evergreen shrubs that decayed over millennia.

In North Carolina alone, 11,000 miles (17,702 kilometers) of canals drain peatlands before the water empties into coastal estuaries, Richardson said.

Combined with climate change, that leaves them vulnerable to the greatest threat to peatlands globally: catastrophic fire.

Peatland fires can burn for months

Blackened tree trunks rise above a marshy area, the only sign that a fire burned almost 2,000 acres (809 hectares) here four years ago, lowering the ground by a foot and a half (0.5 meters) in some places.

It could have been worse, but the North Carolina Forest Service and other agencies extinguished it fairly quickly — in about three weeks — pumping water from nearby lakes to prevent it from spreading into the wildlife refuge, which borders Pantheon’s property on three sides.

A 2008 fire that began during a drought burned for three months above ground and smoldered for another four underground, damaging more than a quarter of the refuge and lowering the ground by several feet in some areas, refuge manager Sarah Toner said. In areas where water-level restoration had begun, though, the fire burned less deeply.

Saturated peatlands are nearly fireproof: Just the surface vegetation and a few inches of peat burn, which releases nutrients, regenerates seed banks and creates beneficial biochar. But when they’re dry, fire can burn underground for weeks or months — drying out and destroying even the saturated layers — emitting enormous volumes of carbon dioxide and destroying thousands of years of accumulation.

“We’ll lose 5, 6 feet of peat in a matter of weeks, which equates to millions of tons of carbon loss — ancient carbon loss that we simply can’t ever get back in human lifetimes,” Richardson said.

That’s why Pantheon is moving quickly to restore the North Carolina site, Wall said. Although the company hopes to also buy intact peatlands, its first priority is drained sites.

“There’s this urgency to start with what’s degraded now,” Wall said, “before it goes away.”

Project aims to restore native biodiversity

Steve Apfelbaum steers his SUV down grassy, rutted lanes, then hops out to listen intently, occasionally peering through binoculars. He smiles when he hears prairie warblers, a bird whose population is declining.

“We heard hundreds of them today,” said Apfelbaum, a plant and animal ecologist conducting breeding and migratory bird surveys at the site. “What that tells me is that this ecosystem is really important” for the species’ migration.

He hears Nashville warblers that call from the tops of trees, but nest in cavities in the peat.

Peatlands are key to helping preserve bird populations, which are declining across all habitats, said Apfelbaum: “All sorts of cool birds will be back.”

So will native reptiles, plants, fish and insects, said Vladimir Roosevelt, Pantheon's operations director, who's overseeing the restoration. The company already released a pair of red wolves a couple years ago that have since had pups.

Carbon credits, sometimes controversial, are central to the project

Carbon credits work like this: companies, governments or individuals seek to offset their carbon pollution by investing in projects, such as a peatland restoration, that capture carbon. Their effectiveness, however, has been questioned, as over the years some programs have been exposed as exaggerating how much carbon they were capturing or were simply fraudulent.

Pantheon says it's aware of those concerns and guarantees high-quality, scientifically verified credits, based on Richardson's decades of data on carbon loss at the site and ongoing measurements of groundwater levels and the use of sophisticated monitoring equipment, including a tower that measures how much gas is absorbed by and released from the site, as well as computer modeling and core sampling. Those results will be verified by an outside third party.

Investors including Microsoft are providing Pantheon the initial capital to acquire peatland, Wall said. Income from carbon credits — each credit represents a metric ton — will help fund future land purchases.

The changes will be exciting, Apfelbaum said. But everything comes down to first rewetting and restoring the peat, a natural climate solution often overshadowed by other efforts, including reforestation — important, he said, but not as effective.

“We’ve all been bear-hugged and distracted by trees,” Apfelbaum said, “when it’s really soil and peat that hold the most carbon.”

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Nubia Arelly Sánchez López, de 38 años, viajó desde Ohio a Miami en junio para someterse a una cirugía estética. El 16 de junio se sometió a un levantamiento brasileño de glúteos, liposucción y aumento de senos en 305 Plastic Surgery, en Doral, según un reporte de investigación de la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade.

Después de los procedimientos, fue trasladada a Stevens Grandparents Inc., un centro de vida asistida de seis camas en Miami-Dade, con licencia para ofrecer “servicios de enfermería limitados”.

Tres días después de su cirugía, Sánchez López sintió mareos, debilidad y se desmayó, según una orden de suspensión de emergencia emitida por la Agencia de Atención Médica de Florida (AHCA, por sus siglas en inglés).

Unos 40 minutos después, comenzó a tener dificultad severa para respirar.

Según la AHCA, el personal del centro se comunicó con una enfermera de guardia. Siguiendo sus instrucciones, el personal revisó los signos vitales de Sánchez López y registró un nivel de saturación de oxígeno del 58%. La enfermera les indicó que llamaran al 911.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió después de que Sánchez López sufriera un paro cardíaco. Al llegar, el personal de rescate encontró a personas haciéndole RCP y la trasladaron al Hospital Regional de Kendall en estado crítico, según el reporte de la Oficina del Alguacil.

Una enfermera jefa del hospital les dijo a los investigadores que Sánchez López sufrió múltiples paros cardíacos y que su estómago estaba “inundado de sangre” antes de que se le declarara muerta.

La Oficina del Médico Forense de Miami-Dade determinó que Sánchez López murió por complicaciones de la cirugía estética y clasificó su muerte como accidental.

La AHCA suspende la licencia del centro

Tras el incidente, la AHCA emitió una suspensión de emergencia de la licencia de Stevens Grandparents y retiró a otros cuatro pacientes que se recuperaban de procedimientos estéticos en el lugar.

La agencia señaló varias preocupaciones sobre la atención y la respuesta del centro.

La AHCA indicó que algunos signos vitales tomados después de que Sánchez López llegó al centro no quedaron documentados en su expediente médico. La agencia también dijo que su archivo de residente no contenía instrucciones de cuidado posoperatorio.

La orden de emergencia señala además que los empleados que trabajaban durante el incidente no tenían certificaciones vigentes de primeros auxilios y RCP.

Según la AHCA, el centro tenía una política que exigía que fueran los propios residentes, y no el personal, quienes llamaran al 911. La agencia dijo que esa política buscaba evitar una posible responsabilidad financiera.

El esposo de Sánchez López, Kevin Díaz, les dijo a los investigadores que “alguien” usó el celular de su esposa para hacer la llamada al 911.

Dudas sobre los centros de recuperación posoperatoria

Stevens Grandparents tenía licencia como centro de vida asistida con “servicios de enfermería limitados”.

Antes de la muerte de Sánchez López, la representante estatal Felicia Simone Robinson, demócrata por Miami Gardens, había presentado un proyecto de ley para crear un marco regulatorio independiente para los hogares de recuperación posoperatoria.

“Esta persona no debió haber muerto. Todas las señales estaban ahí”, le dijo Robinson a Local 10 News.

El proyecto de ley de Simone Robinson, el HB 81, habría creado una categoría de licencia específica para hogares de recuperación posoperatoria, con requisitos de personal, supervisión médica y sanciones por incumplimiento.

El proyecto se presentó en octubre de 2025 y tuvo su primera lectura en enero de 2026. Simone Robinson dijo que la iniciativa nunca llegó a discutirse.

Robinson indicó que una licencia de vida asistida no es adecuada para centros que atienden a pacientes inmediatamente después de una cirugía mayor.

“Aunque el lugar tenía licencia, no era la licencia adecuada”, dijo Robinson. “Como mínimo necesitan tener una enfermera: en el nivel más básico, una LPN [enfermera práctica con licencia], y de preferencia una RN [enfermera registrada]”.

Robinson dijo que planea seguir impulsando legislación sobre los centros de recuperación posoperatoria.

El centro ya tenía citaciones previas

Los registros estatales de inspección muestran que Stevens Grandparents ya había sido citado por deficiencias anteriormente, incluida una inspección en marzo de 2023 y otras en junio, septiembre y noviembre de 2025.

Los registros corporativos de Florida identifican a Zenen A. Bernal como directivo de Stevens Grandparents Inc. Los registros estatales de salud también lo identifican como administrador, director financiero y propietario con control del 100% de otro centro de vida asistida de seis camas, Angelina ALF LLC.

Cuando Local 10 News visitó la propiedad de Stevens Grandparents, Yani Gil dijo que era la agente inmobiliaria encargada de la venta y que había trabajado como consultora de vida asistida.

El nombre de Gil también aparece en registros estatales vinculados a Bernal y sus negocios desde 2024.

Gil cuestionó los hallazgos de la AHCA y defendió a Stevens Grandparents.

“Ellos tienen su versión de lo que vieron”, le dijo Gil a Local 10 News. “Eso no es motivo para cerrar el lugar. No se puede cerrar sin una investigación”.

La AHCA y la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade investigaron las circunstancias de la muerte de Sánchez López y las condiciones del centro.

Dudas sobre el cirujano

Local 10 News se puso en contacto con 305 Plastic Surgery para obtener información sobre el cuidado posoperatorio de Sánchez López y si la clínica recomendó a Stevens Grandparents como lugar de recuperación. Ningún representante accedió a hablar de manera oficial.

El cirujano identificado en el reporte de la Oficina del Alguacil, el Dr. Fermín Morales, también es objeto de una queja administrativa independiente presentada por el Departamento de Salud de Florida en 2025, relacionada con otra paciente y un procedimiento distinto.

Según esa queja, la paciente murió tras un procedimiento estético realizado por Morales en 2023. El documento alega que Morales violó las normas de Florida sobre injertos de grasa glútea.

La queja es una acusación por parte del estado y es independiente de la investigación sobre la muerte de Sánchez López. Los registros estatales muestran que la licencia médica de Morales en Florida sigue activa y no reflejan una resolución disciplinaria final relacionada con esa queja.

La familia de Sánchez López declinó hacer comentarios.

Silvia Larrieu dijo que fueron parientes en embarcaciones quienes recuperaron los cuerpos.

“Es con profunda tristeza que confirmamos que nuestros cuatro familiares han sido hallados sin vida”, indicó la familia en un comunicado. “La misión de búsqueda y recuperación se llevó a cabo junto a familiares y civiles que respondieron a nuestro llamado de ayuda.

“Fueron nuestros parientes quienes finalmente localizaron a nuestros seres queridos y tuvieron que subirlos a bordo de sus propias embarcaciones. Ahora estamos en comunicación y trabajando con la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos para traer a nuestros seres queridos de vuelta a casa de forma segura y con dignidad”.

Larrieu le dijo a Local 10 News que su tío, Mario Lamar Sr., de 80 años, piloteaba la avioneta. También iban a bordo su esposa, Lili, de 79, y sus nietos, Sofía Sosa, de 28, y Christian Sosa, de 22.

Los cuatro habían viajado a Bahamas para pasar el fin de semana feriado —un trayecto que, según Larrieu, su tío había hecho incontables veces a lo largo de sus más de 40 años como piloto— y regresaban a Miami.

“Él siempre hace esto. El clima parecía estar bien”, dijo Larrieu. “Mi tío mantenía el avión en condiciones impecables. Siempre estaba pendiente de eso. Cada vez que estaba aquí en Miami, se la pasaba en el hangar trabajando en su avión y asegurándose de que estuviera al día”.

Según Larrieu, los cuatro despegaron de Great Harbour Cay a eso de las 9:12 a.m. del lunes.

Cerca de una hora después, la aeronave perdió contacto cerca de Andros Island, agregó.

La policía de Bahamas identificó la aeronave como un avión Piper PA-34 de cinco plazas, con matrícula N212ML. Las autoridades confirmaron que había despegado de Great Harbour Cay, una localidad en las islas Berry de Bahamas, con destino a Opa-locka.

El control de tráfico aéreo perdió contacto con la aeronave cuando se encontraba aproximadamente a 13 millas al oeste de Andros Island, según la policía de Bahamas.

“Nuestra investigación inicial, la que llegó a nuestro equipo de operaciones de búsqueda y rescate, es que salieron de esa zona de las islas Barrier y quisieron desviarse por el mal clima, y debido a ese factor terminaron en ese lado de Andros, en lugar de tomar una dirección distinta rumbo a Florida”, explicó el teniente Darius Adams, de la Real Fuerza de Defensa de Bahamas.

Funcionarios bahameños indicaron que se contactaron con la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos alrededor de la 1:00 p.m. del lunes para solicitar ayuda en la localización de la aeronave, pero la búsqueda tuvo que suspenderse debido al mal clima, lo que llevó a los familiares a organizar su propia búsqueda.

“Estamos profundamente agradecidos con todos los que nos apoyaron, buscaron junto a nosotros y mantuvieron a nuestra familia en sus oraciones”, dijeron los familiares de las víctimas en su comunicado. “Pedimos respetuosamente privacidad mientras enfrentamos este duelo inimaginable”.

The Justice Department is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury in an investigation aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The new subpoenas represent an escalation in the year-long investigation.

Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal governmen tinformation about elections and politics, foreign affairs or the environment, a new poll finds.

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“The desperation, the pain, and the anguish grew — from not knowing” their fate, she said.

She was among the more than one million Venezuelans living in the United States who watched one of the worst disasters to hit the South American country unfold from afar.

The powerful back-to-back earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on June 24 killed more than 6,500 people, left an untold number missing and damaged thousands of buildings.

As the news overtook social media feeds and family WhatsApp chats, survivor’s guilt, anger toward Venezuelan authorities and a devastating feeling of powerlessness overcame many in the diaspora, a group whose numbers reached 1.2 million by 2024, as people sought relief primarily from economic hardship.

More than two months later, some Venezuelans in the U.S. still navigate the earthquakes' aftermath — confronting loss and leading recovery efforts — against a backdrop of deepening uncertainty in both countries.

As President Donald Trump tightens his grip on Venezuela’s domestic affairs following the stunning U.S. military operation that deposed then-President Nicolás Maduro in January, his administration is also ending programs that allow more than 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work here legally.

Some immigrants feel a responsibility to keep shining light on Venezuela’s ongoing needs and unique challenges. “People think we are fine, but we are not," said Dariela Merchan, an emergency room nurse in Austin, Texas.

A distant search

Granado Montano, 43, had not seen her parents, Marina and Jesús, for 11 years.

Unable to leave the U.S., she fundraised for the search efforts and pleaded on social media for more help to reach the collapsed 10-story building in coastal Caraballeda where her family had been vacationing at the beach.

A group searching for their loved ones spent thousands hiring a machine to move debris, to little avail. Progress began when someone donated an excavator and a drone operator helped locate missing remains.

Granado Montano was working at her arepas restaurant on Aug. 19, when a cousin texted: Her parents’ van was found in the underground garage, covered in rubble. Inside were her parents and five other family members and their friends, including two children.

Recovering her family after 57 days was “bittersweet,” she said. “We were happy because we had finally found them, but ... it wasn’t the way we had wanted – alive.”

Solace in helping

In the weeks after the earthquakes, Alejandro Marquina rarely left his house in Doral, Florida. Going out with friends or his girlfriend sometimes triggered panic attacks.

“I was just feeling like, ‘I’m here having fun, but my family is dying’,” said Marquina, who lost five relatives in his home state of La Guaira. “Many people in Venezuela... they’re fighting for their lives.”

He enrolled in therapy, which helped him begin working through what happened. But it was sending aid that kept him moving forward. He raised $2,000 for earthquake survivors, including his own displaced family members.

“I needed to do something,” he said. “I couldn’t just stay in my house.”

From Tucson, Arizona, Diana Ramos raised $4,000 to help repair her badly damaged elementary school in Guatire, a city 45 minutes east of Caracas.

But soon came a new blow: Another huge earthquake in Colombia, home to 2.8 million Venezuelans, including her sister Duneida. Her sister was safe, but her workplaces were badly damaged.

Ramos wonders how much more her people can take after two decades of political turmoil and economic crisis. “All these things are accumulating without anything being solved,” she said.

The recent deal that gives the U.S. access to roughly a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves — which some tout as an economic lifeline, while others criticize it as an affront to Venezuelan sovereignty — didn't change Ramos' outlook.

She's moving forward, clutching to her routine in Tucson and the hope of seeing her family again soon. “The earthquake put into perspective how life can go within a second."

Messages of hope

Merchan, the emergency room nurse, longed to put her medical skills to use on the ground. But an expired Venezuelan passport prevented her return, a common issue after Venezuelan consulates in the U.S. were shuttered years ago.

Last Friday after a long week of night shifts, Merchan, 28, packed donated supplies for overwhelmed and under-resourced healthcare workers in Venezuela.

In each box, she tucks a handwritten note thanking health workers, reminding them, “We’re watching, and we’re with you.”

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This story is supported by the AP Fund for Journalism and is a collaboration with Caplin News in Miami and Conecta Arizona in Phoenix.

Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.

“The desperation, the pain, and the anguish grew — from not knowing” their fate, she said.

She was among the more than one million Venezuelans living in the United States who watched one of the worst disasters to hit the South American country unfold from afar.

The powerful back-to-back earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on June 24 killed more than 6,500 people, left an untold number missing and damaged thousands of buildings.

As the news overtook social media feeds and family WhatsApp chats, survivor’s guilt, anger toward Venezuelan authorities and a devastating feeling of powerlessness overcame many in the diaspora, a group whose numbers doubled to 1.2 million between 2019 to 2024, as people sought relief primarily from economic hardship.

More than two months later, some Venezuelans in the U.S. still navigate the earthquakes’ aftermath — confronting loss and leading recovery efforts — against a backdrop of deepening uncertainty in both countries, largely tied to White House policies.

As President Donald Trump tightens his grip on Venezuela’s domestic affairs following the stunning U.S. military operation that deposed then-President Nicolás Maduro in January, his administration is narrowing paths to remain in the U.S., ending programs that allow more than 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work here legally.

Some immigrants feel a responsibility to keep shining light on Venezuela’s ongoing needs and unique challenges. “People think we are fine, but we are not,” said Dariela Merchan, an emergency room nurse in Austin, Texas.

Four Venezuelans living in the U.S. shared how they experienced the last two months, and what their futures might hold. This story is a collaboration with Caplin News in Miami and Phoenix-based Conecta Arizona.

A restaurant owner searched for her parents from Los Angeles

Granado Montano called her parents over and over the evening of June 24, but there was no answer.

Marina, 66, and Jesús, 80, had last been seen in the underground parking of the building where they kept a beach apartment, about to leave from a family vacation. The 10-story building in the coastal state of La Guaira had completely collapsed.

Granado Montano, 43, last saw her parents 11 years ago. Unable to leave the U.S., and with so little help from Venezuelan authorities, looking for her parents alongside relatives and volunteers on the ground became “an odyssey.”

She fundraised for the search efforts and pleaded on social media for more help to reach their building, one of 190 that completely collapsed. A group searching for their loved ones spent thousands hiring a machine to move debris, to little avail. Progress began when someone donated an excavator and a drone operator helped locate missing remains.

In the midst of everything, Granado Montano turned her Los Angeles restaurant, Full Arepas, into a relief hub, filling shipping containers with donations to be sent to Venezuela. “Knowing we are helping people who are going through something similar … it brings me a little relief,” she said.

And so 57 days passed, until the afternoon of Aug. 19. Granado Montano was at work when a cousin sent her a video of her parents' van, covered in rubble.

Inside, volunteers found her mother and father; her cousin and her 9-year-old daughter; her daughter’s friend; her cousin’s boyfriend and his 13-year-old son. Her father had his seat belt on.

Learning they’d been found was “bittersweet,” she said. Her family had been recovered, but "it wasn’t the way we had wanted – alive.”

She processes one day at a time – keeping busy at the restaurant and establishing a foundation to continue helping Venezuelans. Unable to attend the memorial for her parents in Venezuela, Granado Montano and her sister held their own service at a Los Angeles church.

“They were together for 45 years and into eternity,” said Granado Montano. “Because they were found just as I had hoped they would be. Together.”

An Austin, Texas nurse ships medical supplies between shifts

Dariela Merchan longed to put her medical skills to use on the ground. But an expired Venezuelan passport prevented the emergency room nurse from returning to the country she first left 14 years, a common issue after Venezuelan consulates in the U.S. shuttered years ago.

With her father and sister safe in Venezuela, her concern shifted to overwhelmed and underresourced medical workers, and the patients who badly needed their help. The healthcare system was already so weakened before the earthquakes that medications were scarce and a hospital’s electricity and water could go out at any time.

“They’re trying to survive and trying to work with what they have,” said Merchan, 28. She asked doctor friends in Venezuela what they needed. They told her, “Literally anything.”

A prolific content producer on TikTok whose nursing-related videos sometimes yield millions of views, Merchan called on her network there. She connected healthcare workers with platforms where they could volunteer free telehealth sessions for those affected. A single TikTok post garnered 500 signups, she said.

When Merchan called on brands to contribute, a medical apparel company mailed her 200 sets of new scrubs. Wary of theft by officials or others, she resolved to ship the scrubs door-to-door to a health nonprofit working in the hard-hit state of La Guaira. She crowdfunded part of the $1,200 shipping fee, covering the rest herself.

Between night shifts, Merchan packs more donated supplies for shipment, including packets of electrolyte powder for first responders. She tucks in handwritten notes thanking the health workers, reminding them they’re not alone. “We’re watching and we’re with you,” she wants them to know, “from all over the world.”

A South Florida student grieves relatives while contemplating an uncertain future

One week after his aunt Yolanda died under the rubble of her apartment building, Alejandro Marquina discovered an Instagram message from her, congratulating him on a recent work accomplishment.

He hadn’t seen it and never replied.

The unanswered message is a painful reminder of his grief after the earthquakes killed five of Marquina’s family members in his home state of La Guaira.

“I felt like a really bad person,” said Marquina, 22. “She was really proud of me. And now, she’s gone.”

In the weeks after the earthquakes, recurring nightmares plagued Marquina. He rarely left his house, racked with survivor’s guilt. The Florida International University senior struggled to attend classes and stopped driving – afraid something bad would happen. Going out with friends or his girlfriend sometimes triggered panic attacks.

“I was just feeling like, I’m here having fun, but my family is dying,” he said. “Many people in Venezuela, not even just my family, they’re fighting for their lives.”

Marquina, his parents and sister moved to South Florida in 2015 as his family fled oppression and sought better opportunities outside Venezuela. They landed in Doral, a city in Miami-Dade County with such a large Venezuelan population its nickname became “ Doralzuela.”

Now the faraway tragedy weighs on Marquina as he confronts uncertainties over his future and that of many others as the Trump administration tightens immigration and citizenship policies.

Marquina enrolled in therapy after the earthquakes, which he said helped him begin working through what happened. But it was sending aid that kept him moving forward.

The journalism major used his social media skills to raise awareness. He's collected $2,000 so far for earthquake survivors, including his own displaced family members.

“I needed to do something,” he said. “I couldn’t just stay in my house."

From Tucson, Arizona, she watched a second disaster impact her family

Diana Ramos had trouble reaching her parents and grandmother at first, but they were ok, save some minor damage and shattered sentimental dishware.

Overwhelmed by the flood of GoFundMe campaigns and volunteer drives, Ramos, 27, reflected on how to make a difference from Tucson, Arizona, where she first arrived as a recruited college athlete.

Some of her fondest memories of childhood in Guatire, a city 45 minutes east of Caracas, were from school. She messaged one of her teachers and learned her elementary school was shut down after being badly damaged. Ramos raised $4,000 from friends and family to help repair the building.

But weeks later came a new blow: Another huge earthquake in Colombia, home to 2.8 million Venezuelans, including her sister Duneida. Both of her sister’s workplaces in the hard-hit city of Cali were damaged, one totally destroyed, wiping out part of her income. For a while, Ramos heard less from her sister, who was overwhelmed and upset.

“It just feels like I have my heart in two parts of two different countries,” said Ramos. “So that’s just been sad.”

Ramos wonders how much more her people can take after two decades of political turmoil and economic crisis. “All these things are accumulating without anything being solved,” she said.

The recent deal that gives the U.S. access to roughly a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves — which some tout as an economic lifeline, while others criticize it as an affront to Venezuelan sovereignty — didn’t change Ramos’ outlook.

She’s moving forward, clutching to her routine in Tucson and the hope of seeing her family again soon. “The earthquakes put into perspective how life can go within a second.”

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This story is supported by the AP Fund for Journalism and is a collaboration with Caplin News in Miami and Conecta Arizona in Phoenix.

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Cuba’s Brigadier General Emir Mesa Corona, who is in charge of personal security at the Ministry of Interior, sent a strong message to the U.S. not to even think of trying to kidnap Raul Castro or anyone in Cuba’s government or they will face serious consequences.

At the same time, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla admitted that backroom negotiations with the U.S. continue but the U.S. will not soften their positions. Cuba wants the economic embargo lifted while the U.S. wants regime change.

Sept. 8: Blind passion for Cuban politics leads to a political circus between Miami, Havana and DC

As a little boy growing up in Miami, I remember when every presidential candidate from both political parties would come to campaign in Miami and promised that if elected, they would work to see a “Free Cuba.” They would end their speeches with “Viva Cuba Libre.” Local politicians representing different municipalities in Miami-Dade would talk about U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba like they controlled it, and yet, they had nothing to do with it within their scope of responsibilities. But it got them the votes they needed to be elected and remain in power, while political leaders in Cuba continued to blame everything wrong on the island on the U.S. economic embargo, or as they call it, “the blockade.”

On Jan. 3, the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela with the assistance of their current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and brought him to the U.S. to face justice. Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump announced that Cuba would be next.

The Trump administration began to sanction Cuban organizations and individuals of the government in an attempt to squeeze them out of power. So far, they are still in power. The Cuban government began to prepare for a U.S. invasion. To this date, it has not happened and probably never will.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Raul Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 in a theater-like political rally at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. So far nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba. A week ago, many media outlets across Miami reported, based on sources from inside the island, that Raul Castro was gravely ill. This past weekend, Raul reappeared surrounded by Cuba’s military elite.

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the three Cuban-American members of Congress from South Florida had announced that by the end of 2026, Cuba would fall. Now it has been pushed back to 2029. Furthermore, Rubio recently said that the problem in dealing with Cuba is the Helms-Burton Law (Senator Jesse Helms and Richard Burton, both Republicans) that was enacted by Congress in 1996, also with the hard work of the late Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

The three Cuban-American members of Congress made it clear that the goal was to return Cuba to democracy. What democracy? Cuba did not have a democratic government before Fidel Castro took power. How much do they really know about Cuban history? Or is it just a play on words and empty promises?

So as time passes each day, the Cuban-American community is beginning to ask itself, what is really going on in D.C.?

It would not surprise me that in the near future the Trump organizations would negotiate to buy the empty Melia Hotels in Cuba and put the Trump name on them. After all, we now own a big chunk of Venezuelan oil and there was no regime change as promised.

Will we ever learn? How much longer are we going to be blind by our passion?

Sept 6: Raul Castro makes public appearance

After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

The stars of all four shows — Noah Wyle in “The Pitt,” Rhea Seehorn in “Pluribus,” Jean Smart in “Hacks” and Matthew Rhys in “Widow’s Bay” — look to be runaway favorites for the top acting awards. And prognosticators are nearly all picking “The Pitt” to win its second straight best drama prize.

But the television competition should otherwise be tight at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The ceremony will air live on NBC starting at 8 p.m. Eastern with one of the network’s signature stars, three-time Emmy winner Mariska Hargitay, hosting. Peacock will stream the show live.

HBO Max’s day-in-the-life-of-an-emergency-room drama “The Pitt” has already become a cultural institution in two seasons, and after big wins as an upstart rookie, it was this year’s top overall nominee with 25.

“Hacks” led all comedies with a record-breaking 24 nominations for its fifth and final season. Here’s a closer look at where things stand and how they might play out.

The Emmys story so far

While the biggest stars are still awaiting the opening of the envelopes, the majority of this year’s Emmys were already handed out at early ceremonies Saturday and Sunday.

“Widow’s Bay,” the first-year Apple TV horror comedy with Rhys as the mayor of a small New England town dealing with a centuries-old curse, won a whopping eight Emmys including best guest actress for Betty Gilpin.

The show had been widely acclaimed for its sly shifting between humor and dread, and it got 19 nominations, but few expected such a trophy haul. It can win up to six more on Monday.

“Hacks” managed just one win.

“The Pitt” won four early Emmys including an emotional first career victory for 73-year-old Ernest Harden Jr. as best guest actor in a drama.

“Pluribus,” another Apple TV Emmy rookie, from “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, also won four.

The soon-to-be-host Hargitay won two Emmys for the documentary she directed about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, to go with one she already had for her long-running role on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

The early Emmys weekend will be edited down to a single recorded show that airs on FXX on Saturday at 8 p.m. in all time zones.

In drama, ‘The Pitt’ competes with ‘Pluribus,’ and itself

The doctors, nurses and patients of “The Pitt” were flooded with Emmy nominations for Season 2. Many will be competing against one another. There’s so much category overlap that despite having 12 nominations for Monday night’s awards, it can win only six.

Wyle alone can win four Emmys including directing, writing, best drama as a producer and best actor — an award he won last year in his role as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch.

The other best drama nominees are “Paradise,” “Slow Horses,” “The Diplomat,” “The Gilded Age,” “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “Your Friends & Neighbors,” and “Pluribus.”

Rarely has a single actor carried a show as much as Rhea Seehorn does “Pluribus,” where she plays one misanthropic woman taking on a hivemind that has enveloped almost everyone else alive. Voters are likely to reward the former “Better Call Saul” star with her first Emmy after four nominations.

Seehorn’s fellow nominees include Zendaya, who has won the category twice before for “Euphoria.”

Katherine LaNasa won best supporting actress last year for her “Pitt” portrayal of Nurse Dana, and the character had an even bigger second season, guiding patients through harrowing dramatic moments and becoming a viral phenomenon for her line deliveries on the ER’s “Baby Jane Doe.”

This year she’ll have three castmates — Taylor Dearden, Fiona Dourif and Sepideh Moafi — as competition.

“It feels really exciting to have more of my colleagues up on the board,” LaNasa told The Associated Press after the nominations were announced.

Two “Pitt” men — Patrick Ball and Shawn Hatosy — are up for supporting actor.

In comedy, will ‘Widow’s Bay’ spoil the ‘Hacks’ graduation celebration?

The Emmys loves to give golden send-offs to outgoing shows, and it will be stunning if Jean Smart doesn’t win best actress in a comedy for playing stand-up comic Deborah Vance, as she did for all four previous seasons.

But Emmy voters’ clear affection for “Widow’s Bay” could keep “Hacks” from winning much more. The two shows will be competing for best comedy along with “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “Shrinking.”

Hannah Einbinder, who had a breakthrough win last year as best supporting actress in a comedy after four nominations for “Hacks,” will be up against Kate O’Flynn, who wowed with a breakout performance in the debut season of “Widow’s Bay.”

Both shows also have nominees for best supporting actor in a comedy, but they could easily be upstaged by Harrison Ford, who many think will finally win his first major Hollywood award for his performance on Apple TV’s “Shrinking.”

Apple TV has become the dominant force in Emmy comedy. This year’s nominees will benefit from the temporary absence of Apple’s “The Studio,” which had an all-time dominant Emmy performance last year, and of the streamer’s “Ted Lasso,” which put it on the Emmy map.

‘Beef,’ Colbert, Kimmel and the other nominees

The limited series categories will have a diminished role at the main Emmys show after four of them were demoted to the early Emmys weekend.

HBO Max’s “DTF St. Louis” was the big winner of those awards, taking best supporting actor and actress for David Harbour and Linda Cardellini.

“Beef” brings star power to the lead acting categories, with Carey Mulligan the consensus favorite for best actress in a limited series and Oscar Isaac favored for best actor.

And after another year of antagonizing President Donald Trump, the late night shows of Jimmy Kimmel and the now-canceled Stephen Colbert are both up for outstanding variety series.

Israel responded Tuesday by closing the British consulate in east Jerusalem and banning 11 lawmakers from the country.

“I regret what the Israeli government has announced, but I’m proud of what we did yesterday and it was the right thing to do,” Miliband told Sky News.

The U.K.'s tougher stance was followed by France and Canada's leaders saying they would take similar action to prevent expanding settlements and growing violence from making it impossible to establish a future Palestinian state.

Miliband said “settler terrorists” were carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in the U.K. government's biggest pushback to Israel since it recognized Palestinian statehood a year ago. He said there had been “houses bulldozed, roads and public infrastructure destroyed, families displaced from their homes.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar condemned the “despicable” move and said Israel would expel U.K. representatives from a joint military center monitoring the Gaza ceasefire and end U.K. training of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces in the West Bank. In addition, Israel barred entry to a dozen British lawmakers and other U.K. citizens whom Sa’ar said were “involved in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity.”

Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi in the U.K., accused the government of “gesture politics” that would bolster “the very extremism they seek to target.”

Miliband, who is Jewish, said he respected Mirvis but disagreed with him.

“We all need to do more to tackle antisemitism, but I believe we can do that and stand up for British values,” he said.

The ban covers imports of all goods from the settlements and bars companies from providing services for the settlements, including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate and advertising. It will take effect in up to nine months.

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden have pledged to “support further action,” Miliband said. The Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Norway have either banned goods from settlements or are in the process of doing so, he said.

Miliband also tightened Britain’s embargo on weapons sales to Israel for use in Gaza to include arms “that materially contribute to the occupation” of Palestinian territories.

The economic impact is likely to be limited, since the settlements produce only a small amount of largely agricultural exports. But the move is a symbolic expression of displeasure with Israel by some of its closest allies, and it offers a new sign of the Israeli government’s growing isolation as a result of the Gaza war.

Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's ultranationalist government, settlement construction in the West Bank — seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — has surged. Netanyahu’s government views the West Bank as the biblical and historical homeland of the Jewish people and is opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state.

The international community overwhelmingly considers such construction to be illegal. Britain and other countries have voiced particular concern about the E1 settlement project approved by Israel, which would effectively cut the territory in two.

There have been marked increases in attacks by settlers on Palestinians, evictions from Palestinian towns, Israeli military operations and checkpoints that choke freedom of movement, as well as several Palestinian attacks on Israelis.

Carlos Alcaraz, the player Shelton had just defeated in an entertaining, spine-tingling marathon, was smiling too.

The dethroned defending champ grinned as he walked to the net to hug Shelton. And he did so again a few minutes later when he stood in a hallway surrounded by reporters, reflecting on a night that seemed to have taken every ounce of his strength to endure.

“I leave the court happy,” Alcaraz said. “I leave the court with a smile. I am proud of myself, how I fought.”

There was probably not a single person in Arthur Ashe Stadium who would have disagreed.

Though many of the thousands of fans who remained until the 3:33 a.m. conclusion – yes, you read that time right – cheered for Shelton, the top-ranked American who now meets compatriot Frances Tiafoe in the semis, there were plenty who cheered for Alcaraz, one of the most charismatic players of his or any generation, and one of the most naturally gifted players ever born.

“Ole, Ole Ole Ole,” Alcaraz’s fans chanted, and “Vamos Carlos!” — competing with shouts of “USA, USA” or just “Let’s Go Ben!”

Most importantly, Alcaraz said he was leaving healthy. That had been a real concern going into this U.S. Open after a four-month break due to a wrist injury.

“As I said before the tournament began, my expectation was to go there, compete, play these kind of matches, be healthy,” he said after his 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) defeat.

“I mean it was close, it really was close, so I was disappointed I didn’t get the win in the end, but I’m just happy … physically I was really tired, but I found a way to push myself.”

The Spaniard also had nothing but praise for Shelton, who played the match of his young career to defeat the seven-time Grand Slam champion.

“Shelton played a very complete, very mature match,” Alcaraz said in Spanish. "He knew exactly what to do at every moment. And, physically, he’s a beast. It seemed like he had no weaknesses whatsoever. “

"It was a war,” Shelton said. “Carlos is one of the greatest champions of our sport. It was the most enjoyable match I’ve had in my career, for sure.”

Alcaraz had arrived at the U.S. Open with much uncertainty as to how much of a liability his wrist injury remained.

But he seemed healthy from the start, and said he felt better than expected. In his first four rounds he lost only one set.

“It feels like I’ve been competing the whole time,” he said of his extended break. “I surprise myself the way that I’m feeling, and the way that I’m recovering after every match. I’m just really happy about it,” he had said after advancing to the fourth round, "that I’m able to perform at my best after every match.”

Alcaraz also said he’d be taking more long breaks in the future, since he didn’t need to depend on a rhythm or to play a lot of tournaments. And he was so relaxed, he didn’t even know, after handily defeating Tommy Paul in his fourth-round match, who he’d be facing next. Former U.S. Open champ Andy Roddick, a commentator for ESPN, let him know.

Then came Tuesday's (and Wednesday's) quarterfinals, and Shelton. After Alcaraz won the first, tight set, Shelton started playing out of his mind. He took the next two sets. Alcaraz rallied for the fourth, and then the two traded games in a nerve-wracking fifth.

Among those in the crowd cheering for Alcaraz were Anushka Sancheti and Prajakti Kapde. The two friends, both 28, had traveled to attend together — Sancheti from Atlanta, and Kapde from Raleigh, North Carolina.

The two are Alcaraz supporters, and yet, they'd not only never seen him play in person — they’d never been to a professional tennis match.

They’d bought their tickets not knowing who would be playing. And, somehow, they managed to see not only their favorite player, but their favorite player in a match that will surely be talked about for years to come. Both for the record it broke, and for the incredible fight it featured, between two extraordinary 23-year olds.

“We do understand how historic this is,” Sancheti said.

Added Kapde: “We really can’t believe it!”

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The couple was vacationing in South Florida from Kentucky, where deputies said they share a home.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Beach Comber Hotel, located at 1200 S. Ocean Blvd. in Pompano Beach on Sunday, where they spoke to the victim.

She told investigators that her boyfriend, Christopher Eversole, woke up in a bad mood that morning, leading to a day full of arguments that eventually became physical in nature, authorities said.

According to the victim, Eversole is a recovering alcoholic but decided to drink that day, after which “he began degrading her in public and talking about her genitals out loud and calling her a whore and stupid,” an arrest report stated.

After returning to their hotel, deputies said Eversole smacked the victim across her face with an open hand, which caused instant swelling and bruising.

She told deputies that Eversole then “stated he would kill her and wanted her dead,” before choking the victim several times, then breaking her phone when she tried to record the abuse, the report stated.

The victim told deputies that Eversole wouldn’t let her leave the room, and instead he “instructed her to get naked and have sex with him,” and when she said she didn’t want to, he responded, “shut the f--- up and just do it,” according to the arrest report.

In fear for her life, the victim told deputies she complied.

After about 30 minutes, the victim said she told Eversole she felt sick and he allowed her to go the restroom, but would only give her a T-shirt to wear, deputies said. After remaining in the bathroom for a period of time, deputies said the victim ran out the front door and took the elevator to the lobby, where an employee gave her a blanket to wear, and called 911.

Deputies said hotel cameras corroborated the victim’s account of events.

Investigators also noted the size difference between the victim and Eversole, who was listed as 7-foot-6, and weighing 250 pounds.

Eversole is facing charges of sexual battery, domestic battery by strangulation, domestic battery and domestic assault.

As of Tuesday night, he was being held at the North Broward Bureau jail on a $24,500 bond.

El fuego comenzó el lunes en el distrito de Aksu, en Antalya, y, avivado por los fuertes vientos, se propagó rápidamente al vecino distrito de Kepez, lo que obligó a cientos de residentes a abandonar sus hogares. Se desconoce la causa.

El alcalde del distrito, Isa Yildirim, explicó que Hasan Kahya, un residente de Aksu que estaba ayudando a los bomberos a combatir las llamas, sufrió un infarto tras verse afectado por el humo y murió más tarde en el hospital.

Dos personas fueron hospitalizadas el martes con quemaduras en las piernas, y otras seis recibieron tratamiento por inhalación de humo. Más de 100 perros fueron sacados de un refugio de animales en Aksu.

La agencia forestal de Turquía señaló que los esfuerzos para controlar el incendio continuaban el miércoles y añadió que la intensidad del fuego se había “reducido”. Se movilizaron al menos tres aviones de extinción, nueve helicópteros, 169 camiones de bomberos y más de 1.000 efectivos, reportó la agencia noticiosa estatal Anadolu.

Por otra parte, los bomberos combatían otro incendio en el distrito de Kozan, en la provincia sureña de Adana, de donde se ha evacuado a cientos de residentes, indicó la agencia forestal.

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It was on Aug. 21 when Moses Mercea was filmed fighting back against a group of kids outside a Dania Beach McDonald’s.

The principal of nearby Olsen Middle School said the fight took place after school and off campus, and that the school was cooperating with law enforcement.

Deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office said when they arrived at the scene, the man was gone.

Local 10 News reporter Rosh Lowe caught up with Mercea in Hallandale Beach. He’s 45 years old and homeless.

Lowe asked if there was anything racial that was said that spurred the attack.

“Not that I remember,” Mercea said. “Maybe I used ‘twerps.’”

He said it all began when he was cut off by a kid on a bike before he went inside the McDonald’s to get his food.

According to BSO, Moses started the incident by threatening the kids.

“I was really trying to just stay on my feet,” Mercea said. “Several times I wanted to run away, but I didn’t want to get tripped and get hit by a car, so I said, let me just turn around and face these people.”

When asked what he said to the kids, Mercea said he yelled when he got cut off while walking, but wasn’t trying to provoke a fight.

“I wasn’t going there to provoke a bunch of kids,” he said.

Moses said he doesn’t want to press charges for the ensuing attack and just wants this to go away.

One video taken inside a Sunny Isles Beach CVS on July 17 shows Tanisha Mobley, 30, stealing more than $3,000 worth of merchandise.

Police had her on video pulling up to the store, getting out of the car and walking inside before putting the stolen items into her bag and walking out.

According to authorities, Mobley did this at least 10 times, from Doral to Miami Beach, sometimes working with an accomplice.

Investigators say Mobley would walk into a pharmacy with a tote bag in hand and make a beeline right to the beauty aisle, where she would stuff her bag full of cosmetics and skin care before strolling out.

Multiple arrest reports indicate Mobley would take thousands of dollars’ worth of cosmetics every single time.

There was one day in June where detectives said she stole from two CVS locations in the same day.

Jail records show Mobley, who lives in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, is facing 14 counts of grand theft.

The installation — specially created for an exhibition of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died Aug. 14 at age 97 — is titled “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Hope Of The Polka Dots Buried In Infinity Will Eternally Cover The Universe.”

The room is at the heart of the exhibition at the Stedelijk that opens this week, just two weeks after her death. What was to have been a retrospective has turned into a posthumous celebration of one of the globe's best known contemporary artists, who depicted her world splashed with polka dots and other repetitive motifs.

“We heard about her passing,” exhibition curator Leontine Coelewij told The Associated Press. “We decided to make it really a tribute. A tribute to her life. Tribute to her work, so that everybody can see what she is ... to us. So many wonderful works.”

Kusama's signature dots greet visitors before they even get into the museum in Amsterdam — they are plastered across its facade and even on red fabric wrapped around trees on the adjacent Museum Square.

Coelewij said that painting the dots was a way for the artist to process hallucinations she had from a young age. Among the works on display is a huge pumpkin made of fiber-reinforced plastic and polyurethane paint, its yellow skin covered in lines of black dots of varying sizes.

“So a lot of her work comes from these mental issues that she had,” Coelewij said. “And I think she made something beautiful out of it for her. It was also a way to explore ideas about infinity, for instance, like, how do we relate to the universe, to the cosmos, to the world around us?”

Kusama had long-standing links to the Netherlands and the Stedelijk. She was active in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities in the freewheeling 1960s, and her work was closely aligned to the ZERO movement established in the late 1950s by German artists, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene.

She was part of a landmark exhibition by the movement, also at the Stedelijk, in 1965. A photo from that Amsterdam exhibition shows Kusama, wearing a white kimono, standing among artists from the movement — mostly men in suits and ties.

In a famous “happening” in 1967, Kusama covered the naked body of Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven with painted dots in the chapel of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam near Rotterdam.

“She really liked the whole atmosphere in the Netherlands, which was rather open and tolerant, liberal,” Coelewij said. “She was also part of the counterculture of that moment, the hippie culture. You know, Amsterdam was the magical center, and she felt very much at home here.”

The new exhibition spans through several rooms before going up an escalator lined with mirrors to reach the infinity room installation one floor up.

It's Coelewij's favorite part of the show, created for the exhibition that was previously staged at Museum Ludwig in the German city of Cologne.

“There’s a lot of mirrors, there’s tentacles, there’s a lot of color, and it’s a ... you can say hallucinating world. You really step into her mind,” Coelewij said.

It's a fitting tribute to the artist who said 10 years ago that she felt her life was nearing its end but she was “still fighting to the death for my art.”

“I am giving all I have so that many people will continue to be interested in my art, even after I am dead,” Kusama had said.

The exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk opens on Friday and runs through Jan. 17.

A White House official said last month that Trump planned to attend the tournament, which is hosted for the first time at his golf course in Doonbeg in County Clare on the country’s Atlantic coast.

His trip to the course will require extra security measures.

“It’s going to be different, but the one thing I’d say is his golf resorts have hosted PGA Tour events, European Tour events, LIV events,” McIlroy told BBC Sport. “He’s a big fan of golf, he’s a wonderful supporter of golf. It’s going to be different with him being here but we’re here to play a golf tournament, and it’s a good golf course, and keep our head down and play.”

According to the BBC, Trump may present the Irish Open winner with the trophy on Sunday evening.

“I think the weekend, especially when he’s here, crowds will be limited,” added six-time major winner McIlroy. “Obviously, there’s a lot that goes on. So, logistically, it provides some challenges, absolutely. But at the same time, if he wants to come and watch the Irish Open, who are we to say no?”

The tournament starts Thursday.

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At SoFlo Performance, inline skating comes with speed, strategy and a healthy dose of adrenaline.

“It has a lot of adrenaline. We’re going really fast. And we don’t have any brakes on our equipment,” said Vanessa Ayala, co-founder of SoFlo Performance.

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Ayala helped launch the South Florida club in October 2025, creating a place for inline speed skaters to train, compete and find a community around the sport.

“We have a really tight community that always forms around the sport. Once people find it here, they keep coming back,” Ayala said.

The engine here is entirely human.

Created by current and former inline speed skating pros, SoFlo Performance is drawing athletes of different ages and experience levels to South Florida, where members train for races that can demand everything from explosive speed to endurance.

“Some people just gravitate more toward sprinting and some people are more endurance — so depending on the athlete we’ll have them do different drills to prepare for those types of races,” Ayala said.

Much of that training happens at Brian Piccolo Sports Park and Velodrome in Cooper City, where athletes can take their skills directly to the track.

Among the coaches is Piper Leazier, an athlete who competes with Team USA and brings years of racing experience to the growing club.

“The first day we provably had five to seven people. It wasn’t a lot, but it was our main group that we’ve trained with for a while even before the club was established. We started seeing more people from Miami coming up here to skate with us,” Leazier said.

That growth is helping introduce more South Floridians to a sport built on speed but strengthened by the people who share the track.

Even when weather forces a pause in practice, members stick around, talking technique, racing and the sport that brought them together.

For SoFlo Performance, the club keeps picking up speed — with a whole new generation finding their people in the fast lane.

To submit an idea for What Connects Us, email whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

Many party members, including those facing tight races, are skipping the two-day affair, citing conflicting obligations or balking at demands that they pony up for access. Others are hoping an appearance alongside Trump will put them in the national spotlight as they work to turn out his voters without him on the ballot.

The convention, which is part rally and part fundraiser, comes as Republicans try to boost enthusiasm heading into the midterms’ final stretch despite Trump’s low approval ratings. Organizers have cast it as “a primetime showcase for President Trump’s success, candidates, and causes that have propelled the 2026 midterms to unprecedented focus.” Much of the programming will focus on Democrats, trying to cast them as extremists by highlighting the party’s insurgent left wing.

The lineup features Trump and more Trump

Normal political conventions are held every four years and serve a purpose beyond pomp and circumstance, with parties formally nominating their presidential picks. In 2024, Trump used the opportunity to announce JD Vance as his running mate.

The schedule this week released by organizers makes clear that the convention will be the Trump Show, through and through.

“It’s gonna be a Trump-a-Palooza,” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters told Spectrum News.

The president will be speaking both nights, delivering a keynote address on Wednesday night and speaking again Thursday after Vance to close out the event. He had originally been scheduled for only one speaking slot.

Also addressing the convention will be members of the Republican congressional leadership and Cabinet members including Attorney General Todd Blanche and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is on the roster, too.

Candidates who will speak include Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers, who is running a high-profile race against Abdul El-Sayed, and North Carolina Senate nominee Michael Whatley, who is up against former Gov. Roy Cooper.

Organizers have outlined 12 hours of programming over the two nights that will include more than 100 speakers and segments focused on subjects like tax cuts, fraud allegations, border security and a proposed ban on members of Congress trading stocks.

Missing from the public lineup: any mention of the unpopular war with Iran.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said some members of his caucus plan to skip Dallas, preferring to stay home and campaign for reelection, but many of them will make an appearance.

“We’ll parade our stars across the stage,” he said.

Many will be skipping the event

An Associated Press survey of more than four dozen Republican candidates found a majority either planned not to attend, said their plans were to be determined, or ignored requests for comment.

“I had stuff already planned in my congressional district or I would be there,” Kentucky Rep. James Comer told NewsNation. “Got a lot going on back in Kentucky, so my time is needed there.”

“Well, unfortunately, I have a family obligation, so I won’t be able to be there,” Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter said on Fox Business.

Some members balked at high attendance fees. Republican House members were being asked to pay $25,000 for convention tickets and lodging, according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to speak frankly about the private arrangement.

An additional 2,000 tickets were distributed by the House GOP’s campaign arm, largely to donors and others to attend the convention. Other tickets were allocated to state parties to distribute as they saw fit.

“Per the RNC, this is a ticketed fundraiser and rally, not a traditional national convention,” the Denton County Republican Party in Texas wrote in a Facebook post, which advertised packages from $5,000 to $20,000.

The Republican Party of Virginia was offering a relative discount of $1,000 to $1,500, not including accommodations, according to an email obtained by the AP.

Despite the many no-shows, more than 100 Republican House members and candidates are expected to be in Dallas, including almost all of the MAGA Majority class of candidates in the most targeted congressional districts, according to a person familiar with the event who requested anonymity before it begins.

“It’s like any political convention, it’s no different than the traditional RNC,” said Matt Beynon, a spokesperson for Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, who won his district by barely 1 percentage point in 2024 with Trump on the ballot. “Obviously, you’re out of the district, but it’s a really good opportunity to get in front of people” and “talk to the press.”

It remains unclear what kind of air time the convention will receive. The two nights of programming will coincide with the launch of football season. The NFL season is set to kick off Wednesday with a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. And on Thursday, the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams will be playing an international game in Australia.

Democrats say Republicans are out of touch

Democrats, meanwhile, are planning their own counterprogramming.

“The fact that these Republicans are planning a celebration in the middle of an economic crisis — where everyday Americans are drowning because of this high cost of living — is extraordinary,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, said at the U.S. Capitol.

Democrats have held such midterm conventions in the past but are not doing so this year. Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said she wasn’t worried that her party was missing an opportunity to make its case on a national stage like Republicans.

“They are not focused on the issues that people are struggling with right now, that they’ve created," DelBene said. “Cost, housing, food, healthcare, childcare, energy costs, gas prices all going up. That’s what we’re talking about on the ground all across the country.”

Americans “are going to continue to see how much they don’t care,” she added. "And we’re gonna be on the ground all across the country with great candidates talking directly to the American people.”

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Associated Press writers Steven Sloan, Marc Levy, Lisa Mascaro and Sarah Rankin contributed to this report.

“Jews feel extremely precarious right now,” said Rabbi David Ingber, founder and spiritual leader of Romemu, a fast-growing, nondenominational Jewish congregation in New York City.

Ingber says many of his congregants are politically liberal and opposed to Israel’s policies on Gaza and other issues, yet are troubled by vehement assertions that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.

“Most of us see Israel as an ancestral homeland,” he said. “What’s disconcerting — we’re being told our own sense of history is illegitimate.”

Adding to unease, he said, is an upsurge of antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment coming from the political right, augmenting the deep-seated anti-Zionist views of many on the left. In aggregate, Ingber said, “it is the worst uptick of antisemitism we’ve seen in my lifetime.”

“There’s a sense of absolute vulnerability,” he added. “We’re not sure where we belong.”

Ahead of holy days, webinars and training on response to threats

The High Holy Days begin at sundown on Friday with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year; it will be observed until nightfall on Sunday. A week later comes Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is widely considered the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This year, it is observed from sunset on Sept. 20 until after nightfall on Sept. 21.

Ahead of the Holy Days, the Secure Community Network, which provides safety advice to Jewish institutions throughout North America, has been offering security webinars and in-person training on how to respond to active threats.

“Hope is not a strategy,” said Michael Masters, the SCN's national director and CEO. “It's about preparation, training individual members of the community, getting everyone engaged.”

Masters said the network’s task has become more complicated as antisemitic threats surface from a wider variety of domestic and foreign sources — ranging from proxies of Iran to white supremacists in the U.S.

“People are looking for who is the enemy, and it’s not an easy answer who’s behind the increase of anti-religion hate crime,” he said.

Violent attacks targeting U.S. Jews this year include an August assault at a Manhattan synagogue, a March truck-ramming at a temple in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and a January arson attack on a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi.

Yet even as Jewish leaders across the political spectrum condemn such incidents, the broader Jewish community is riven by divisions related to Israel’s role in ongoing Middle East conflicts. Notably, about 3 in 10 Jews in the U.S. say Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians, according to a recent survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Intra-Jewish divisions are a major concern

Masters says it's clear that events in the Middle East can affect the “threat environment” in the U.S.

“But more broadly, the community understands this threat is the continuation of well over 3,500 years of threat,” he added. “It's fundamentally about hatred of the Jewish community.”

Noting that some Christian churches also have faced recent violent attacks, Masters says there may be an opportunity “for all of us as faith groups to come together.” And similarly, he said efforts to improve security could be a “unifying component” for the different branches of U.S. Judaism.

“Our adversaries do not distinguish between Orthodox, Reform, Conservative,” he said. “We would be very wise to understand that as a community we are strongest when we stand as one.”

Ingber also addressed intra-Jewish divisions.

“We should create a space to hold differences, to be together with all of our differences,” he said. “There is a grave danger of schism around the Jewish people and its relation to the state of Israel. It's being weaponized.”

“Rabbis will have to try to speak into this space,” he added. “You don’t want to get up in the High Holy Days and speak of division.”

This year’s Holy Days will be a time of powerfully contrasting emotions, said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism — an umbrella group for more than 800 Reform synagogues in North America.

He noted that the Hebrew name for the Holy Days can be translated as “the days of awe” or “the days of fear.”

“The fear is genuine,” Jacobs said. “People are fearful in many cases to be publicly expressing their Judaism.”

“At the same time, we are human beings who crave the majestic dimension of these High Holy Days — the beauty and possibility of the new year,” he added. “You have to hold both of these at the very same moment.”

Divisions within the Jewish community “are pronounced,” Jacobs said. “Parents and grandparents may have one view of Israel. Their children may have very different ideas.”

Jacobs said one challenge for his movement is emphasizing “the connectedness within and beyond the walls of our congregations.”

An appeal to Congress for more security assistance

Ahead of the Holy Days, major Jewish organizations have called on Congress to allocate $1 billion — triple the current allotment — to help houses of worship and other nonprofits harden their physical security.

Among those urging the funding boost is Nathan Diament, executive director of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, representing the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization.

In a commentary for Jewish News Service, he said annual funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program had grown from $10 million in 2004 to $300 million in 2026. But the increase has not kept pace with the demand, he wrote, with only 20% of the more than 8,000 nonprofit applicants receiving funds last year.

“With the High Holidays around the corner, millions of American Jews will attend synagogue with a sense of trepidation … because sitting in synagogues for hours at a time makes us think about the attacks that have occurred.”

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According to the Miami Gardens Police Department, K-9 officers responded to a business alarm in the 200 block of Northwest 195th Street at approximately 9:35 p.m. Monday.

Police said a K-9 officer opened the rear door of her patrol vehicle, where K-9 Gael was located.

Once the door opened, the 2-year-old dog exited the vehicle and immediately ran eastbound across Northwest Second Avenue, according to police.

The officer attempted to recall Gael, but police said the K-9 did not respond to her commands.

All available Miami Gardens police patrol units began searching for Gael, with assistance from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit. Despite the extensive search, officers were initially unable to locate the dog.

Ahie Smith lives right down the street and described the police scene all around his house on Monday night.

“They were just riding, circling, putting a light on my yard,” he said. “Helicopters riding around, riding around for hours ... I stepped out to see what was going on. It looked kind of crazy.”

Police provided an update Tuesday, saying investigators had obtained surveillance video showing Gael being struck by a vehicle after running from the location.

Despite being hit, Gael continued traveling eastbound, according to police.

The extent of Gael’s injuries are unclear. Police said the dog was wearing a black collar that reads “Mama says I’m special” at the time it ran off.

Miami Gardens police officers are canvassing the surrounding area and continuing to search for the missing K-9 when they’re not responding to calls.

“We’re still going to be canvassing until we receive some type of answer,” Miami Gardens police spokeswoman Diana Delgado said.

Delgado said the department is hoping the community will step up to help locate Gael.

“All of our our canines are very, very special to our department,” she said. “They are all trained to the best of their capacity, and with the best trainers, and right now we’re all devastated that we are unable to locate Gael.”

At the end of August, Russia launched a week of nighttime and daylight attacks on Kyiv in its heaviest sustained bombardment of the Ukrainian capital since its full-scale invasion began more than four years ago. The relentless missile and drone strikes have continued this month and aim to sap civilian morale, Ukrainian officials say.

International economic sanctions on Russia and efforts to isolate Moscow diplomatically haven’t stopped the invasion. Zelenskyy urged countries to step up the pressure.

“Unfortunately, there has been too little response from the international community to these strikes, which are taking people’s lives practically every day,” he said on social media.

“But a response is needed — Moscow must not go into the winter believing that it can get away with missile and drone terror without consequences,” he said.

The United Nations said last month that increasing Russian aerial attacks killed or wounded more Ukrainian civilians in July than in any month since March 2022, with 437 killed and more than 2,600 wounded.

In all, more than 16,800 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and more than 51,000 wounded since the Russian invasion, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

The U.S. has renewed its push to end the fighting, sending special envoys over the weekend to Kyiv and Moscow, although Washington’s efforts haven’t yet delivered any substantial progress. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Tuesday that the Ukraine-Russia talks were “substantive” but much remains to be done.

Kyiv apartment block residents reel from a drone strike

Russia's aerial attacks overnight into Wednesday killed at least two people and wounded seven, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow fired ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones at six regions.

Four of the wounded were in a 22-story residential building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, where a drone damaged the 11th floor and started a fire on the 12th floor, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

Olha Smal, 62, who lives on the 12th floor, said the blast wave flung her across her kitchen. One of her bedrooms caught fire, and smoke quickly filled the apartment, she said. Her pregnant neighbor was wounded.

“You live one day at a time. You don’t know what will happen to you tomorrow, or even what will happen today,” she told The Associated Press. “It’s very, very hard.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its forces hit a drone factory warehouse in Kyiv.

It also claimed strikes on fuel reservoirs and an electric substation in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.

The Russian military also struck a ship heading to Odesa with military cargo and logistical facilities at Ukraine’s Starokozache border crossing with Moldova, the ministry said. The border strike killed two people, Ukrainian authorities said.

Ukraine says it hit a Russian Black Sea naval base

Zelenskyy said Ukraine is responding to Moscow’s strikes with daily long-range attacks on infrastructure deep inside Russia.

He said the latest Ukrainian strikes targeted Novorossiysk, a Black Sea port in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The attack hit a naval base, including a terminal used to load oil, military port facilities, and warships carrying cruise missiles, according to Zelenskyy.

The Novorossiysk naval base is a key hub for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, providing maintenance and logistical support for its ships, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.

Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said that four people, including a child, were killed and 29 others were wounded in the drone attack on Novorossiysk.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 596 Ukrainian drones from late Tuesday until early Wednesday.

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Certified preowned vehicles are usually only a few years old and come with additional benefits that you don’t get with a regular used vehicle purchase. A certified preowned vehicle usually costs a little more than a typical noncertified used vehicle — between 4% and 5% on average, according to Edmunds sales data — but the added peace of mind could be worth it. Here are four aspects to consider before you buy a certified preowned vehicle.

Understand the extra benefits

Certified preowned cars are inspected by factory-trained technicians who spot and address mechanical issues, receive a light refresh, and come with a manufacturer’s warranty. These enhancements provide more reassurance that you’re getting a vehicle that won’t have problems as soon as you drive off the dealer’s lot.

Other advantages can include lower financing rates through the automaker, loaner cars during service intervals, and even roadside assistance. Finally, there’s proximity to the manufacturer. If problems arise, there’s a clear escalation path from dealer to automaker, increasing the odds of a quick resolution.

Compare different manufacturer programs

Certified preowned models are exclusively sold through an automaker’s franchised dealerships. When inspecting a car on a dealer’s lot, look for the certified program’s catchy name — L/Certified for Lexus, for example, or Ford’s Blue Advantage — on the sticker.

You won’t find these manufacturer-backed models on a competitor’s lot or at an independent or non-franchise dealer. But you may come across dealer-certified models. These are simply models that the dealer has put some work into, added a third-party extended warranty, and deemed “certified.” The manufacturer has no stake in these models. They can still be decent cars with warranty reassurance, but they haven’t passed the same inspections and offer no recourse with the automaker.

Know that warranties are not created equal

Parsing the terms of warranty coverage is a tedious part of buying certified preowned. Fortunately, the terms are easy to find on most automaker websites. Honda, for example, offers one of today’s more generous certified preowned warranties, with up to seven years or 100,000 miles of powertrain coverage. General Motors, also a good program, covers the powertrain for just six years but adds a year of bumper-to-bumper coverage from the date of certified preowned purchase.

It’s important to know the details to avoid surprises. Powertrain coverage typically covers the engine and transmission. So while a leaky window seal, cracked windshield or other normal wear parts won’t be covered, they’re far less expensive to fix than, say, a faulty transmission. And if you catch a small problem early enough, a dealer might even fix it as a goodwill gesture.

Consider taking extra inspection steps

Most certified preowned buyers will reasonably expect minimal hassle from their pricier purchase. And in most cases, they’ll get it. But a certified preowned car is still a used car, one subject to the intangibles of its earlier service life. A certified preowned certification doesn’t guarantee a mint or even near-mint model.

While dealers can’t legally sell cars with frame damage or salvage titles as certified preowned, they’re also not required to disclose minor accidents or cosmetic bodywork. It’s always a good idea to get a vehicle history report from providers such as Carfax or AutoCheck to check service history, ownership intervals, and whether the car was privately owned, leased, or came from a rental fleet.

If you are concerned that a certified preowned car might have issues, consider bringing a mechanic with you to inspect it before you buy. They may be able to spot any issues that were overlooked during the dealer inspection.

Edmunds says

Certified preowned cars cost a little more, but the convenience, extra benefits and peace of mind are often worth it. Just remember that smaller issues — a glitchy touch screen, for example, or interior rattles — may not show up until later. Our advice: give the car a good walk-around before signing the papers and keep the warranty details handy, but don’t sweat the small stuff. Even new cars have problems.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Dan Frio is a contributor at Edmunds.

The case before the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is one of three making its way through courts as abortion opponents try to clamp down on providers in states where abortion is legal from sending drugs for medication abortions into states where it is not.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also says it's reviewing the rules and could call for a change.

It all comes in a midterm election year in which President Donald Trump's anti-abortion supporters are frustrated that a legal workaround to abortion bans remains, while most voters favor abortion access.

It will be up to the Supreme Court to sort out

At least 3 in 5 U.S. abortions are now obtained using a two-drug combination. At issue in the case before the appeals court is just one: mifepristone.

Wednesday’s arguments are part of a case brought by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and Rosalie Markezich, who say she was coerced into taking abortion pills. A survey conducted for the Society of Family Planning, which supports legal abortion access, estimates that between 770 and 900 women in Louisiana obtained abortions each month in 2025 by using pills prescribed online or by doctors or nurse practitioners in other states.

The three judges hearing the case are two nominated by Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden and one nominated by Republican George W. Bush.

Three other three-judge panels on the 5th Circuit — one in this case and two in an earlier one — and two district courts have already agreed that rules for prescribing mifepristone are too loose.

But the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort to roll back availability in 2024 — not because of the core legal argument, but rather because the court found the anti-abortion groups who brought the challenge didn’t have legal standing to make it. The companies that make mifepristone argue that the states also lack legal standing.

Another ruling from the 5th Circuit would not immediately change the landscape because the Supreme Court has also blocked changes to the prescribing rules until it sees the case again. The FDA could also make changes without court approval — though such an action would surely be challenged.

Other GOP state officials are also challenging the FDA’s rules. The attorneys general of Florida and Texas have filed one lawsuit and the top government lawyers of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri have another.

Meanwhile, over the past year, federal judges in Hawaii and Virginia found that current FDA rules for mifepristone prescribing are too restrictive.

Abortion methods have changed since Roe was overturned

Abortion pills were already widely used before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that allowed states to enforce abortion bans.

Currently, 13 states ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Another four do so after about the first six weeks, before many women realize they're pregnant. Most states controlled by Democrats have added protections for abortion providers — including some intended to offer legal backup for those who prescribe pills to patients in other states via telehealth services.

Opponents say that's undermined the bans.

“This case is going to have a huge impact,” said Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Murrill and the other plaintiff in the case. “The promise of the Dobbs decision was that states would be able to decide on their own how to regulate abortion.”

Abortion rights advocates also believe there would be major consequences if Louisiana eventually prevails. “They're asking to restore an in-person requirement for every person across the country to access this medication regardless of whether they live in a state with strong legal protection for abortion access,” said Amanda Allen, executive director of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.

The political situation is tricky for Trump

Anti-abortion groups who want to rein in pill access have been Trump's key supporters.

Abortion opponents have called on the FDA to settle the lawsuit with Louisiana and roll back prescribing rules to how they were before telehealth prescriptions were allowed. They also want the administration to enforce an 1873 “anti-vice” law to bar mailing the pills.

But on state ballot questions and in public opinion polls, voters have generally supported legal abortion access in most cases.

The administration has been mostly quiet through the legal battles, even though the FDA, whose scientists have repeatedly found mifepristone to be safe and effective, is the defendant in the cases.

The FDA’s position could change. Trump’s latest nominee to head the agency, Dr. Heidi Overton, the deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, has publicly criticized the agency for relaxing its prescribing rules for the drug — the most recent change coming in 2023.

The FDA says it's studying mifepristone's safety and reviewing prescribing rules around the drug. One judge ordered the agency to provide a status update by Oct. 7, less than a month before the midterm elections in which control of Congress is in play. It's not clear how detailed an update might be — or when the full study could be completed.

Some states, including Mississippi and Texas, have adopted laws with civil or criminal penalties for those who prescribe abortion pills.

Prescribers are preparing to shift which drug they ship

Even if mifepristone access is curtailed, advocates say it won't stop access to abortion pills.

The most common regimen for pills in the U.S. is a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol. Misoprostol, which is commonly used to treat stomach ulcers and has never been formally approved for abortion, can cause abortions on its own. According to the FDA label on mifepristone, the combination completes medical abortion 97.4% of the time. Some studies have found misoprostol’s individual effectiveness at around 80% or higher.

Organizations that prescribe abortion pills by telehealth for women who are in states with bans say they would shift to sending misoprostol alone if mifepristone could be dispensed only at medical clinics rather than at pharmacies and through the mail.

Separately, Iranian state media said Iranian forces struck several tankers and two U.S. ships in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iranian ships on Tuesday. The U.S. Central Command said claims that American warships had been struck were false.

Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

A state media outlet claims Iranian forces struck several ships

According to Iranian state media, the country's forces had struck eight oil tankers and two U.S. vessels in retaliation for U.S. strikes on five Iranian tankers on Tuesday, and that it had also targeted another 10 ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

In a social media post, the U.S. Central Command said the claim that Iran's Revolutionary Guard had struck two Navy warships was false and that all "attempted attacks failed.”

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, which reports maritime incidents, said it had received a report of a tanker struck by an “unknown projectile” in the northern Persian Gulf off the coast of Iraq and that the crew was reported safe.

Separately, the UKMTO reported strikes “involving several merchant vessels” in the northern Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Reports indicated the ships “were subject to disabling fire" from military forces, but the UKMTO could not confirm whether there were casualties.

The U.S. Central Command said in a social media post on Tuesday that it destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers after Tehran fired missiles at a U.S. warship twice over two days.

The ongoing conflict pushed the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil past $100 on Wednesday.

The Houthi rebels say Saudi-backed forces strike Yemen’s provinces

Houthi spokesman Nasruddin Amer said on X on Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces had launched 32 airstrikes overnight across Yemen’s provinces of Taiz, Hodeida, Jawf and Marib. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Saudi authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The strikes come a day after Houthi attacks on several oil facilities and utilities in Saudi Arabia wounded 73 people, in a major escalation in the renewed conflict between an important U.S. ally and the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. They follow weeks of intensifying clashes between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, which shattered a four-year truce in the country’s civil war.

Four bodies were recovered Wednesday from a Houthi-run prison hit by an airstrike earlier this week in northern Yemen, the Houthis said, raising the death toll from that strike to 23 people.

The United Nations and Turkey condemn Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said the missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia “threaten to widen the conflict, put civilians at grave risk and undermine efforts toward a political solution.”

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement issued late Tuesday, called on the Iran-backed group “to put an end to their aggressive actions immediately.”

Last month, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a defense agreement that would treat an attack on one as an attack on all three, solidifying cooperation between them at a time of growing regional security concerns.

Israel to shut British Consulate in Jerusalem

Israel plans to shutter the British Consulate in Jerusalem within a month, an Israeli official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information from closed-door meetings.

The 30-day clock started Tuesday when Israel announced a series of measures — from closing the consulate to banning certain British officials from the country — in response to the U.K.’s decision to ban trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The British Consulate did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

-By Julia Frankel

Protesters rally in South Korea over potential Hormuz deployment

Dozens of protesters rallied in South Korea ’s capital on Wednesday calling on the government to reject any demands to deploy military assets to the Strait of Hormuz as Seoul faces pressure from the United States to help secure the crucial waterway.

The government of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has said it sent a team of military investigators to the Middle East to assess the security situation amid the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, but stressed that it has not decided whether to send military assistance.

Trump has openly demanded that South Korea help secure safe passage for commercial ships through the strait. Iran has warned of “serious consequences” if South Korea gets involved.

The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said Chinese AI developers had extracted, or “distilled,” capabilities from U.S. frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini and SpaceXAI’s Grok “since at least late 2024.”

The advisory named China's DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and Z.ai and said the activities were done “likely with Chinese government awareness.”

In Beijing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the U.S. to “refrain from making unfounded accusations or smears” against China. It added that both China and the U.S. are major AI powers and should strengthen cooperation.

“China’s AI development is the result of high-level technological self-reliance and strength,” ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference. “We maintain that all parties should strengthen cooperation to promote AI development that is open, inclusive, universally beneficial and oriented toward the common good.”

AI governance is expected to figure in planned talks later this month between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The U.S. advisory said Chinese AI companies “route distillation requests through multiple pathways to gain unauthorized access, consequently violating U.S. AI companies’ terms of use.”

“China-based AI companies are engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale that extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. frontier AI models,” it said.

The agencies also accused Chinese AI companies of achieving cost savings for their distillation campaigns “through bulk procurement of the U.S. AI companies’ premium subscriptions shared across teams of developers.”

Chinese AI models like Moonshot’s powerful Kimi K3 have been making inroads in the U.S., among other places. They are seen by some as more efficient and affordable alternatives for American frontier models, even as U.S.-led restrictions have barred China from access to some of the world's most advanced technologies.

This week's joint advisory contains more details than earlier U.S. accusations against Chinese AI developers. Anthropic and OpenAI also have made similar accusations. Beijing has maintained that the U.S claims are groundless.

On Tuesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an event at the Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas, that China can “never get ahead” of the U.S. in AI.

“The Chinese distill our models and they can never get ahead of us,” Bessent said.

DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and Z.ai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ramisa’s mother Ranu Akhter traveled hundreds of kilometers (miles) after doctors in eastern Bangladesh referred her to a specialized child hospital in Dhaka to seek treatment for the life-threatening condition.

“Fourteen days ago, when we were at the district hospital, there were other children being treated alongside my daughter. I saw that those children also had red rashes on their bodies, sores in their mouths and fevers,” Akhter told The Associated Press at Dhaka Shishu Hospital.

“It made me realize how widespread the measles outbreak is,” she said.

Every day, the death toll is rising.

Bangladesh races to vaccinate children

Bangladesh has been racing to halt the outbreak's spread since March, when more than 100 children died in less than a month. By Tuesday, the death toll from suspected measles cases reached 999 since the start of the year, according to the government’s Directorate General of Health Services.

Since March, the country has recorded more than 166,000 suspected measles cases, including 19,835 laboratory-confirmed infections, according to the Ministry of Health.

The government launched an emergency vaccination drive in March together with the World Health Organization, the U.N. children’s agency and the Gavi vaccine alliance. It began with a focus on children from 6 months to 5 years old and later expanded nationwide in phases.

Measles is a highly contagious airborne disease that causes fever, respiratory symptoms and a characteristic rash. It can sometimes have severe or fatal complications, especially in young children, according to the WHO.

Two doses of a vaccine provide strong protection against measles, but the WHO says 95% of the population has to be vaccinated in order to stop the disease from spreading — which protects children like Ramisa who are too young to be vaccinated as well as immunocompromised people.

The pandemic and political upheaval set back vaccinations

A few years ago, Bangladesh had measles largely under control, with a vaccination program that was credited for decades for protecting children and mothers from the deadly diseases of tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis and measles. Between 2021 and 2025, the country recorded just 100 to 300 cases per year, down from 2,410 cases in 2020.

But in the last few years, disruptions to the vaccine program have left a growing number of children unvaccinated.

First the pandemic interrupted routine vaccinations, and then in 2024 the government largely missed a vaccination campaign previously carried out every four years.

Atiqul Islam, a neonatal and child specialist at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute, said during the pandemic period in 2021 and 2022, many did not take their children to get vaccinated.

“So, if you look at children who are now four or five years old, many of them missed their vaccinations. That created a gap. During the previous interim government, vaccines were also unavailable at many vaccination centers,” he said.

Rival politicians trade blame for vaccine shortfall

Bangladesh's current government, headed by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, said the failures in planning under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and interim leader Muhammad Yunus left the country with shortages of vaccines and far behind on coverage.

The 2024 measles vaccination campaign was disrupted during the political upheaval that led to Hasina’s ouster. She left the country in the face of a mass uprising in August 2024, and was followed by Yunus, who led an interim administration that transferred power to an elected government after an election in February.

From exile in India, Hasina blamed the Yunus-led government for the disaster.

Doctor says things are getting better, but not fast enough

At Bangladesh Shishu Hospital, Islam said the situation has improved, but not enough.

The doctor said his colleagues are struggling to treat infected children who often arrive at the hospital with serious complications like pneumonia, diarrhea and encephalitis, or brain swelling.

“For the past six months, we have been treating measles patients continuously, and we are exhausted,” he said.

Indonesia ha sufrido incendios forestales y de tierras durante décadas, pero la intensificación del patrón de El Niño y una prolongada temporada seca hicieron que el impacto de los fuegos fuera especialmente grave este año. La bruma tóxica y el humo se han extendido mucho más allá de las fronteras del país del sudeste asiático, creando una crisis sanitaria regional.

El humo ha llegado hasta Filipinas, a más de 800 kilómetros (500 millas) de distancia, y superó el umbral de emergencia de Malasia, lo que obligó a las autoridades a declarar el estado de emergencia en una localidad del estado de Sarawak, en la isla de Borneo, la semana pasada.

En Palembang, la capital de la provincia de Sumatra del Sur, se ordenó que la enseñanza, desde jardín de infancia hasta secundaria básica, comenzara a ser online el miércoles como medida excepcional.

El alcalde, Ratu Dewa, manifestó que el humo cada vez más denso supone riesgos para la salud de los niños, incluidas infecciones respiratorias graves.

“La salud y la seguridad de los estudiantes siguen siendo la prioridad del gobierno”, dijo Dewa. Además, se pidió a los docentes que eviten asignar demasiadas tareas durante el periodo de aprendizaje a distancia, agregó.

La medida, que afecta a más de 250.000 estudiantes en 1.030 escuelas de Palembang, se revisará con regularidad, y las clases presenciales se reanudarán una vez que mejoren las condiciones, indicó.

Escuelas cerradas en toda la región

Unos 12.800 centros educativos en las islas de Sumatra y Borneo seguían cerradas mientras persistía una peligrosa calidad del aire, según datos del gobierno.

Save the Children, una destacada organización no gubernamental internacional, señaló que la bruma de los incendios forestales, intensificada por las condiciones secas impulsadas por El Niño, ha obligado a más de 1,4 millones de estudiantes a recibir clases a distancia en las zonas afectadas de Indonesia.

“La Tierra, nuestro hogar, está en llamas, y los niños, incluidos los de aquí, Asia, son los que tienen que cargar con las consecuencias", manifestó Arshad Malik, director regional de Save the Children para el continente. "Esto no es solo una crisis de salud o ambiental, es una crisis de derechos de la niñez”.

Los incendios se concentran en Borneo

Grandes fuegos han arrasado miles de hectáreas en las regiones indonesias de Kalimantan y Sumatra, incluidas zonas de Borneo, la tercera isla más grande del mundo, compartida por Indonesia, Malasia y Brunéi. La crisis se ha concentrado en la provincia indonesia de Kalimantan, en Borneo, donde han ardido miles de hectáreas.

Datos satelitales del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente mostraron el miércoles que Kalimantan Central seguía siendo el principal foco de incendios forestales del país, con 2.459 puntos activos detectados. En Sumatra del Sur había 1.445, el segundo peor dato en Indonesia, mientras que Kalimantan Occidental ocupaba el tercer lugar con 928.

Las autoridades indonesias han intensificado los esfuerzos de extinción en varias provincias mientras buscan contener el fuego. En el operativo han participado aeronaves proporcionadas por países del sudeste asiático y de otras regiones, como Japón, Estados Unidos, Rusia, Australia, Canadá y Ucrania.

El Ministerio de Silvicultura de Indonesia registró más de 202.000 hectáreas de tierra quemada entre enero y julio, casi tres veces el tamaño de Singapur.

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Karmini informó desde Yakarta.

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Brent crude, the international standard, jumped nearly 3% to $100.72 early Wednesday.

U.S. benchmark crude gained 2.4% to $95.25 a barrel, and U.S. gasoline prices rose sharply overnight.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline ticked up 7 cents overnight to hit $4.22, now more than a dollar above what it cost at this point last year, according to AAA.

Diesel prices, which can have an outsized impact on consumers because it is used in shipping and production, hit an all-time high Friday and has continued to climb since. The average price for a gallon reached $5.94 overnight and is now 9 cents higher than it was Friday.

Jet fuel has become so expensive that U.S. and international carriers have cut flights while raising fares and fees.

Markets reacted after the U.S. military reported striking five Iranian tankers in response to attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship and after attacks by an Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group ignited fires at oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.

Crude oil prices shot up after Israel and the United States initiated a war with Iran, and they have fluctuated considerably during the more than six months since then. The fighting has halted most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil supply passed before the war began.

Brent traded between about $70 to $100 a barrel for much of March, April and May. In July, prices swung between $72 and $102, reflecting rising and falling hopes that the U.S. and Iran would agree on a plan that would allow stranded tankers to move oil safely out of the Persian Gulf.

“In our view, reaching a durable deal before the U.S. midterm elections is increasingly unlikely, and it could remain elusive even beyond that,” Bank of America analysts said in a Tuesday research note.

The analysts increased their oil price forecast for the second half of the year to $83 a barrel “in light of more persistent disruptions to Hormuz,” but said they still expected shipping through the strait to gradually pick up. If attacks keep a chokehold on traffic, prices could reach $95 to $120 a barrel, while damage to major energy infrastructure could produce spikes of up to $150 a barrel, the analysts wrote.

Negotiations over a preliminary deal between the U.S. and Iran to end the conflict broke down over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran insists it has the right to set the terms and charge fees for ships traveling through the waterway off its coast. The U.S. wants passage to remain free and has used a Navy blockade to block Iran’s ports and oil tankers.

Recent stepped-up attacks by Yemen’s Houthis could constrain global oil supplies even more because they targeted an alternative shipping route that Saudi Arabia has relied on to transport oil during the war.

Higher energy costs have weighed on consumers, businesses and national economies this year, particularly outside of the U.S. Refinery outages in Russia, reduced refining activity elsewhere and sharply declining inventories have pushed diesel and gasoline prices sharply higher globally, Bank of America said this week.

Yet rising prices may have an outsized impact on the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, now just 8 weeks away.

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AP Business Writer Rio Yamat contributed from Las Vegas.

The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USA Facts shows that while mistrust of government information has grown since 2024, it's also higher than it was at the end of President Donald Trump's first term, underscoring how his recent attempts to dismantle parts of the federal bureaucracy may have affected public confidence in the executive branch, particularly among Democrats.

Those suspicions extend to the results of the coming midterm elections. Only 34% of U.S. adults trust government certifications of election results “a great deal” or “quite a bit,” which is down slightly from 40% in 2024. Certification is a typically routine process in which local and state officials confirm the vote count, but it's become politicized since Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

Trust in government information has also become more partisan since Trump's first term, the survey found.

“It's pretty hard to trust anything that's being communicated,” said Shannon Ingram, 46, a Democrat who lives in Maryland, pointing to shifting health recommendations as an example of “questionable” government information she's seen since Trump regained office. “There is a significant amount of bias, and it comes from the people who are authoring the content.”

Lower trust in federal government information

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults have low trust in information from the federal government about the environment, foreign affairs, elections and politics, abortion or immigration — saying they trust it “only a little” or “not at all.”

Mistrust in what the federal government says has risen at least slightly on nearly every topic that was asked about in an AP-NORC/ USA Facts survey from 2019. That includes education — which has risen from 37% in 2019 to 53% now — with a 9-percentage point spike in the last year.

The findings come after a year and a half of upheaval in the executive branch. Trump began to dismantle key parts of the federal bureaucracy soon after entering the White House for the second time, moving to end longstanding programs and shutter entire agencies.

Since then, thousands of federal employees have been fired or left their jobs, substantially reducing the ranks of the government statisticians and leading experts to warn about risks to data quality.

Shifting regulations and recommendations have also led to dramatic changes in government policy. Recent changes to longstanding health advice have put doctors and medical organizations at odds with the Trump administration on vaccination recommendations. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded a scientific finding that has underpinned government action to fight climate change for more than a decade.

Jeremy Cove, a 44-year-old Republican from Missouri, trusts the Trump administration's guidance on matters like vaccines, but he disagrees with their assertion that climate change is not happening, or that humans are not contributing to it.

“I love Trump; I voted for Trump, but some of the things he’s doing just makes me distrust more,” Cove said. “Stuff like renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, it just makes you think about what their priorities are. Then you realize it’s not what it should be, which in turn, makes you distrust even more.”

Belief in government information has become more partisan

The gap between Republicans' and Democrats' trust in government information is much wider than it was during Trump's first term, a shift that first began to appear under former President Joe Biden.

Democrats were generally less likely to trust government information in Trump's first term, but not dramatically more than Republicans. That shifted when control of the White House changed hands. Republicans' mistrust in government information rose while Biden was president and fell after Trump took office. Meanwhile, Democrats' doubts declined under Biden and spiked when Trump regained power.

For example, 61% of Democrats now have low trust in information about the federal budget, compared with 42% of Republicans, while 60% of Democrats have low trust in information about crime, compared with only 32% of Republicans.

Larry Haith, a 76-year-old Republican from Idaho, says he tends to trust the federal government — though, he acknowledges that it can vary based on the current administration.

“Generally speaking, I’ve got more confidence in the federal government today than I’ve had in years,” he said.

Independents, meanwhile, became more mistrustful of government information under Biden and haven't shifted under Trump.

The only issue without a substantial partisan divide in the new survey is vaccination recommendations and safety: about 6 in 10 Democrats, Republicans and independents trust the federal government on vaccination recommendations and safety “only a little” or “not at all.”

Few trust political messages, even from their own party

As the 2026 midterms approach, public concern about the accuracy of the election results is widespread. Just under half of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” concerned the federal government will publicly discredit or question election results, tamper with election results, or pressure state election officials to change how they certify or report results.

Over the past few months, Trump has repeated long-debunked allegations of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election, attempted to place new restrictions on mail voting in time for the midterms and pushed Congress to enact a proof-of-citizenship requirement to register and vote. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has also warned state officials that they could lose funding or face investigations if they fail to go along with Trump's election security demands.

At the same time, few Americans trust the information they get from political campaigns. Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults say the Democratic Party or Republican Party campaign messages are “always” or “often” based in factual information.

In a sign of how deep the mistrust runs, only about one-quarter of Democrats trust their party's campaign messages to be factual at least “often,” while a similar share of Republicans say this about their party.

Less than half of Democrats, 44%, trust government certifications of election results “a great deal” or “quite a bit,” a substantial decline from 65% in 2024.

Even with Trump back in the White House, though, Republicans haven't seen a similar increase in confidence. Only 29% of Republicans have high trust in government certifications of election results, up just slightly from 2024.

Trust in other sources of information about election outcomes — such as national news outlets or cable news networks — is also low overall.

Kim Murza, a Democrat from Colorado, has faith in the country's ability to run fair elections but blames the Trump administration for eroding Americans' trust in the process.

“My concern is more about what the current administration is doing,” said 45-year-old Murza. “I think they are doing whatever they can to try to put that distrust in people’s minds.”

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The AP-NORC/USA Facts poll of 1,036 adults was conducted July 29 to Aug. 10 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 6.4 for Republicans overall and plus or minus 6.0 for Democrats overall.

The problems first surfaced on Tuesday, disrupting travel across the U.K. and stranding passengers for hours on airport runways and in terminals. Flight delays were expected to continue through the day Wednesday as airlines rebook stranded passengers and work to reposition aircraft left at the wrong airports by the cancellations.

Britain's National Air Traffic Services, or NATS, which operates the air traffic control system, attributed the problems to “an issue in our flight processing system” that has been resolved. Delays rippled across 15 U.K. airports and beyond as airlines and airports worked to clear a huge backlog of delayed flights.

In a statement on X, Heathrow, Europe's largest airport, urged passengers to check their flight status before travelling to the airport and to "only travel if your flight is confirmed to be operating.''

“We apologize to those affected and have extra colleagues across our terminals to support passengers while we work with NATS and airline partners to restore normal operations as quickly as possible,” Heathrow said.

Budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air have called for the head of the NATS, Martin Rolfe, to consider resigning after a second major outage hit the air traffic control system in three years. Budget airline EasyJet said some of its flights were “unable to operate” and that the system failure caused “delays to flights across Europe.”

Rolfe on Wednesday apologized for the inconvenience caused by the outage but said the U.K. air traffic control system remains one of the safest and most efficient in the world.

“Our job is also to make sure that people stay safe,” he told the BBC. “We never do this lightly. We only ever do it when there is an issue that cannot be resolved quickly, and we have to take action to make (sure) those who are flying, who are in the air at that time, are safe. And when we can restore these incredibly complex systems we do so as quickly as we can.”

Neal McMahon, Ryanair’s chief operating officer, called on Rolfe to resign. On Tuesday, Ryanair said more than 65,000 of its passengers had been disrupted and it had cancelled more than 50 scheduled flights.

“How many more failures do passengers have to suffer before overpaid failure Nats CEO Martin Rolfe accepts responsibility for his repeated mismanagement and resigns?'' McMahon said. “Over three years after Nats’ catastrophic 2023 system meltdown, it’s clear that nothing has changed.''

But Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander sought further explanation and summoned Rolfe for a meeting.

“I am seeking assurances that lessons will be learned and systems that support aviation are up to the job,” she said in a post on X.

Affected airports included Heathrow and Gatwick as well as those in Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland. They warned passengers to check the status of their flight with their airline.

The agreement builds on Scripps’ decision to close last season broadcasting a select number of regular-season games followed by the entire Walter Cup Finals playoff series. And it opens the PWHL to reaching more than 128 million U.S. households, with games being aired on ION, Scripps’ national sports and entertainment network.

Scripps will produce and televise a game of the week each Saturday to be broadcast on ION, which is available over-the-air, connected TV platforms, and on streaming and pay television services. The Scripps Sports Network, meantime, will also broadcast two national games per week, and be available on numerous streaming platforms including Roku, Prime Video, Fire TV, Google TV Freeplay and Tubi.

As part of the agreement, Scripps television affiliates in Detroit and Las Vegas will hold the local broadcast rights for the two yet-to-be-named expansion teams.

“A season-long national television presence in the U.S. is something we’ve been working toward and represents a significant step in our continued growth as a league,” PWHL executive vice president of business operations Amy Scheer said.

The PWHL has yet to release its schedule, with its season expected to open in late November.

The PWHL will continue streaming each of its games live on its YouTube channel in the U.S. and globally, with the exception of Canada, where the league has several broadcast affiliations.

The relationship with Scripps first blossomed when the league hosted network executives in Milan during the Winter Games in February. And the partnership carries over the momentum women’s hockey generated in the U.S. with the Americans claiming their third Olympic gold medal in a thrilling 2-1 overtime win against Canada.

The 12-team league has doubled in size since launching in 2024 by adding four expansion teams this offseason, including franchises in San Jose, California, and Hamilton, Ontario. The PWHL now features seven teams in the U.S. and five in Canada.

Scripps adds to its stable of women sports properties with broadcast deals already in place with the WNBA, NWSL, and the new Women’s TMRW Golf League.

“This partnership further demonstrates ION as the premier destination for women’s sports where athletes can showcase their talents on the biggest stage, and fans can discover their favorite team,” Scripps Sports president Brian Lawlor said.

Scripps’ affiliates also have broadcasting rights for several NHL teams, including Florida and Las Vegas, the NBA's Detroit Pistons and the NCAA’s Big Sky Conference.

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While the 7-foot-3 center for China may not have had a breakout game yet, whenever she is on the court she is noticed. She'll try and help China reach the quarterfinals when it faces Puerto Rico on Wednesday in a qualification game.

Paige Bueckers had a moment with Zhang on the court when the U.S. played China in the opener of pool play for both teams. A video went viral of the pair chatting. Bueckers told the AP the conversation was all fun.

“Just banter. Friendly banter. I was trying to figure out how much English she knows,” Bueckers said smiling. “So if I was going to talk trash how much she’d understand. I did tell her I was going to block her shot and she just looked at me in disbelief. I don’t know if she didn’t understand what I was saying or she just couldn’t believe that I’d say that to her. Just all fun and games for me.”

She only played eight minutes in China's win over Italy to close out pool play, but had eight points and three rebounds. The Italians had to adjust their defense and offense when she was on the court.

“For sure it’s weird because it’s something not usual, I think it’s also challenging because you have to defend a kind of player which you cannot play against every day and for me it’s challenging because we have to find different ways to stop her," Italian center Olbis Andre said. "I think we did good in some part of the games, we did worse in other parts of the game, but I think that we will learn from this."

Zhang hasn't talked to the media at all during the tournament, walking through the interview area either smiling or bowing. Players aren't required to talk to the media.

The 19-year-old Zhang started playing basketball when she was 10 or 11, but didn't get serious about it until the last year or so. Former Rutgers player April Sykes, who has been coaching for the past few years, was hired as a skills development coach by China.

She worked with Zhang for a few months earlier this year and said the young Chinese star is very coachable.

“She’s funny, likes to play video games, she’s a jokester,” Sykes said. “She’s a kid though. A lot of people think she’s 24-25, but she’s literally a kid.”

Sykes has been watching the games from Atlanta and was proud the other day when Zhang made a lefty shot — something she worked on with her.

“It literally made my day,” Sykes said. “People don’t realize the progression she's made in such a short period of time.”

China teammate Han Xu, who plays for the New York Liberty in the WNBA, praised Zhang's performance at that tournament and said she was ready for the world stage.

“World Cup is a good moment for her, for the whole world to know her,” Han said. “I am so excited to play with her again.”

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A lo largo de la costa del sur de California, se esperaba que las peligrosas condiciones de oleaje provocadas por los remanentes del huracán Marie se mantuvieran durante varios días.

En Hawai, los fuertes vientos derribaron árboles y provocaron apagones generalizados en la isla de Kauai, hogar de 73.000 residentes. La cooperativa Kauai Island Utility Cooperative informó que casi todos sus aproximadamente 35.000 miembros estaban sin electricidad a primera hora del martes.

Funcionarios de emergencias pidieron a los residentes que ahorraran agua y se mantuvieran fuera de las carreteras mientras las autoridades evaluaban los daños.

Las olas que rompieron en la costa sur de Kauai destrozaron una carretera costera y empujaron montones de arena y rocas volcánicas hacia un parque junto a la playa, contó Rochelle Ballard, exsurfista profesional que dirige una escuela de surf frente al parque.

La limpieza tomará semanas, afirmó. La tienda de surf de su familia y el restaurante vecino no sufrieron daños, pero señaló que la casa de un amigo quedó destruida.

“Va a llevar un tiempo. Creo que estaremos bien”, expresó Ballard. “Ya hemos pasado por esto antes”.

El huracán Lowell no impactó directamente en Hawai

El centro de la tormenta pasó al oeste de las islas durante la madrugada del martes y se fue alejando más a lo largo del día.

Los vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical se extendían mucho más allá del centro, indicó el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. En Kauai, en el aeropuerto de Lihue —el único aeropuerto comercial de la isla, que cerró tras la tormenta— se registraron vientos sostenidos de poco más de 80 kilómetros por hora (50 millas por hora).

Las alertas de huracán para Kauai y la pequeña isla de Niihau, que tiene menos de 100 residentes permanentes, ya no estaban vigentes para la mañana del martes. También se levantó una alerta de tormenta tropical para Oahu, la isla más poblada del estado, con cerca de 1 millón de residentes.

Pero las inundaciones y los deslaves seguirán siendo un riesgo durante la jornada, dijo Eric Blake, del Centro Nacional de Huracanes.

Algunas ráfagas de viento alcanzaron 130 km/h (80 mph), según el centro de huracanes. Pero la fuerza de los vientos sostenidos había disminuido a primera hora del martes y más tarde la tormenta se debilitó y dejó de ser un huracán. Se espera que Lowell continúe debilitándose en los próximos días.

La tormenta dejó un desastre en Kauai y Oahu

Hubo daños extensos en Kauai, y las cuadrillas empleaban maquinaria pesada para apartar árboles y escombros de las carreteras, informó Derek Kawakami, alcalde del condado de Kauai. Unas 300 personas se alojaban en refugios en Kauai.

La agente inmobiliaria de Kauai Lori Benkert, que vive en Lihue, contó que soportó una noche ruidosa y ventosa después de quedarse sin electricidad el lunes por la noche. La tormenta derribó árboles junto a su casa, y la carretera principal de la comunidad fue cerrada por árboles caídos, explicó.

“Estamos bien. A mi casa le fue muy bien, sin ventanas tapiadas”, comentó Benkert. “Pero hay muchos tendidos eléctricos caídos”.

En Oahu, cuadrillas de carreteras retiraban arena y rocas de una ruta principal a lo largo del borde occidental de la isla después de que las aguas de la inundación sobrepasaran una carretera costera, al norte de Honolulu.

El gobernador de Hawai, Josh Green, cerró escuelas y oficinas gubernamentales en las tres islas el martes, antes de la llegada de la tormenta.

Los acumulados de lluvia podrían alcanzar hasta 60 centímetros (24 pulgadas) en algunas zonas de Kauai. Oahu, Maui y la Isla Grande también podrían registrar grandes cantidades de lluvia.

El mes pasado, la tormenta tropical Lala rozó Hawái y provocó deslaves, arrasando alrededor de 100 viviendas y causando apagones generalizados.

Marie fue degradada, pero aún se siente en California

Lo que queda del huracán Marie fue degradado nuevamente y ya no se considera una tormenta tropical.

Pero aún estaba generando condiciones peligrosas de oleaje a lo largo de la costa de Baja California, en México, y del sur de California. El centro de huracanes señaló que las marejadas con oleaje potencialmente mortal y condiciones de corrientes de resaca continuarán durante los próximos días.

En Malibú, donde grandes olas golpeaban la costa, el acceso para vehículos de una casa frente a la playa levantada sobre pilotes se desplomó en un socavón el martes por la mañana, informó el Departamento de Bomberos del Condado de Los Ángeles.

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A 21-gun salute rang out over the Norwegian capital at the start of a funeral procession from the royal palace to Oslo Cathedral. Harald’s son, new King Haakon VIII, and other senior royals walked behind the coffin, draped with the red Norwegian royal standard. Harald’s widow, Queen Sonja, and Haakon’s wife, Queen Mette-Marit, followed in a car.

Norwegian officials and foreign dignitaries joined the solemn procession. They included the monarchs of Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Jordan.

Also present were the heir to the British throne, Prince William, and Japan’s Crown Prince Akishino, as well as political leaders from more than 20 countries, including Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Harald V was a king who met people ‘in his rubber boots’

As the funeral service began, Norway came to a halt for a minute of silence.

Harald, who died on Aug. 28 aged 89, was Europe’s oldest monarch and had reigned for 35 years. He modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who recently abdicated. His son immediately became king and last week took an oath of allegiance to Norway’s constitution in parliament.

The speaker of Norway's parliament, Masud Gharahkhani, said at the service that “King Harald was close to the people” and recalled that “he wasn’t afraid to meet people in his rubber boots.”

He remembered Harald saying in his 2008 New Year's address: “I wish we would stop using the term ‘the weakest in society.’ In reality, some of these people are among the strongest of us all.”

“He lived up to his motto: He gave his all for Norway,” Gharahkhani said.

Large crowds lined the streets ahead of the funeral

Large crowds flocked to Oslo for the funeral, and thousands stood behind barriers on streets lined with national flags. The downtown area was closed to vehicles and electric scooters, and police had instructed people not to bring bicycles, umbrellas or sharp objects.

People tuned in from across the country. Scores of churches, libraries, cultural centers and city halls made big screens available for the public to watch the funeral, public broadcaster NRK reported.

Ahead of the funeral, Norwegians waited patiently to file past Harald's coffin in the chapel of the royal palace. The queue was seven hours long at one point over the weekend. Over 46,000 people visited the chapel during the week it lay in state.

The government says it was not an official holiday, but schools and workplaces could individually opt to let students and employees tune in for Wednesday's events. The government advised that “noisy events should be suspended while the funeral is ongoing.”

After the funeral, Harald's coffin will be taken in a procession to the palace chapel at Akershus Castle, where the late king's ancestors are buried. After a private ceremony for the Norwegian royals, who will be joined by some of the foreign guests and senior Norwegian officials, the coffin will be lowered into the crypt.

Norway’s monarchy traces its origins to King Harald Fairhair in the ninth century. When Norway regained its independence from Sweden in 1905, three-quarters of voters in a national plebiscite approved restoring the monarchy.

The Norwegian royal house has kinfolk in other European royal families. Harald and Haakon are related to both Britain’s King Charles III and Spain’s King Felipe VI: They’re all descendants of the U.K.'s Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 until her death in 1901.

Today, the throne's role is largely symbolic and power lies with the elected government and parliament, but the Norwegian royal family retains a role in promoting the wealthy Scandinavian nation around the world.

Anak Krakatau initially erupted for about 25 hours over the weekend, and it has since continued to erupt intermittently with explosions ejecting lava, ash and incandescent volcanic material from the crater, Indonesia’s Geology Agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

A speedboat carrying five photojournalists, two crew members and a route guide lost contact after leaving Carita, a coastal town in Banten province, for the volcanic island, said Al Amrad, Banten province's Search and Rescue Office chief.

He said the last message from the boat was received by relatives of a journalist on board at 6:13 p.m. Monday, saying the group had arrived in the waters around Anak Krakatau. They have not been heard from since.

The five Indonesian journalists work for Indonesia's state news agency Antara, Turkey's Anadolu Agency, Indonesia's Merdeka and iNews, while the fifth is a freelance photographer.

Their last known location was about 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) from shore. Rescuers, who have been deployed since Tuesday, were “still unable to establish contact with the group or determine their whereabouts,” Amrad said.

Videos and photos released by the agency showed rescuers searching the waters. Distraught relatives gathered at the port office in Carita, hoping for news of missing family members.

Amrad said the search area was widened Wednesday across the Sunda Strait, stretching from Carita and the islands of Rakata and Panjang to the waters around Sebesi and Legundi islands. Five vessels, including two navy ships, were deployed in the search operation, with personnel from the National Search and Rescue Agency, the military and the police involved.

The Geology Agency cautioned that volcanic activity remains elevated and the probability of further eruptions is still high. Potential hazards include volcanic bombs, heavy ashfall and lava flows if continuous eruptions resume.

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

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

Anak Krakatau, whose name means “child of Krakatau,” emerged from the remains of Krakatau, whose massive 1883 eruption largely destroyed the volcano and triggered a period of global cooling.

An eruption of Anak Krakatau in 2018 caused a tsunami that killed at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java. The volcano has been at Indonesia’s second-highest alert level since July, and authorities have advised residents, tourists and fishermen to stay at least 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the active crater.

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

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“We're the Yankees, and we're going to win,” captain Aaron Judge said after New York beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Tuesday night for its 82nd victory. “So that’s a great streak, but I think everybody in this room is worried about a championship.”

New York’s streak is the second-longest in the four major U.S. professional sports leagues behind the Yankees’ record 39 winning seasons in a row from 1926-64. The team's last losing record was 76-86 in 1992.

“It’s a good look at what this organization has been now for decades," manager Aaron Boone said. “I’m happy we got there again but, yeah, obviously we’ve got bigger things we’re chasing.”

New York hasn't won the World Series since its 27th title in 2009. Boone thought back to 2023, when the Yankees didn't get their 82nd win until the next-to-last day of the season and at 82-80 finished seven games back of the final AL wild card.

“It's not as easy I think as sometimes people think. In '23, it was a fight to get to that point,” he said.

New York (82-62) matched its season high of 20 games over .500 and is four games behind AL East-leading Tampa Bay with 18 remaining. The Yankees opened a three-game lead over Boston (80-65) for the top American League wild card and hold the tiebreaker after winning the season series.

Judge returned from a broken rib that had sidelined him since May 31 and went 0 for 3 with a pair of strikeouts and a flyout while playing six innings in right field.

“It’s one step towards winning the World Series and you've got to win a lot of games,” he said. “So getting another winning season is great. But I think the boys in here are excited for what’s ahead of them.”

The second-longest current streak in Major League Baseball is 16 straight winning seasons by the Los Angeles Dodgers, a run that started in 2011.

Among other sports, the highs are 32 by the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens (1952-83), 22 by the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs (1998-2019) and 20 by the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys (1966-85).

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It's the first time Brent crude, the international standard, has reached triple digits in nearly six weeks. Fighting in the Middle East has throttled the global flow of oil and rising energy prices are adding to inflationary pressures.

Brent crude rose 2.8% to $100.70 a barrel. Benchmark U.S. crude gained 2.4% to $95.28 a barrel, and it's dragging gasoline prices higher with it.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline ticked up 7 cents overnight to hit $4.22, now more than a dollar above what it cost at this point last year, according to AAA.

Diesel prices, which can have an outsized impact on consumers because it is used in shipping and production, hit an all-time high Friday and has continued to climb since. The average price for a gallon reached $5.94 overnight and is now 9 cents higher than it was Friday.

Futures for the S&P 500 dropped 0.3% before the market opened Wednesday, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures declined 0.5%. Nasdaq futures fell 0.4%.

Shares of Meta Platforms are up more than 5% in premarket trading as the parent company of Instagram and Facebook launched a personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, for people 18 and over who are looking for help with day-to-day tasks like schedules and shopping.

The U.S. this week also release inflation data. On Thursday, the U.S. government will release its August report for inflation at the wholesale level. The more closely watched Consumer Price Index comes out on Friday. The CPI provides details on price changes for specific grocery items, furniture, and clothing, among other categories.

Economists expect consumer inflation to have eased a bit, to 3.3% from July’s 3.4%. That’s well above the 2% target that the Federal Reserve has set as its goal.

The Fed meets next week to decide whether to cut, raise or hold interest rates steady. The traditional move for the Fed when inflation is high is to raise its main interest rate. But President Donald Trump has been lobbying for lower interest rates.

Japan’s central bank also will meet next week to decide on its benchmark rate. Market watchers are expecting an increase, with the question shifting to by how much and if there will be more rate hikes this year.

In Europe, France's CAC 40 slipped 1.6% to 8,183.80, while the German DAX declined 1.4% to 25,648.34. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.9% to 10,711.42. Asian markets were mixed.

The U.S. dollar fell to 153.55 Japanese yen from 153.99. The euro cost $1.1633, inching up from $1.1624.

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El aumento en los precios del combustible también se ha reflejado en Guatemala en los productos de la canasta básica y otros servicios, lo que ha llevado a transportistas y campesinos a bloquear carreteras para exigir una respuesta por parte de las autoridades. Organizaciones campesinas se reunieron el martes con el presidente, Bernardo Arévalo, y con el presidente del Congreso, Luis Contreras, para exigir acciones contra el alza de los precios.

El Congreso de la República aprobó por amplia mayoría una iniciativa de Ley de Estabilización y precios de referencia de venta al consumidor final de combustibles, la cual establece que el consumidor pagará un máximo de 39 quetzales (unos cinco dólares) por galón de diésel y gasolina regular, y 41 quetzales, (unos cinco dólares con 40 centavos) por galón de gasolina superior.

En caso de que el precio de los combustibles rebase el tope establecido, entonces entrará vigencia un subsidio por parte del gobierno que irá a los importadores del material.

“Para los efectos de la presente Ley, se reconoce la existencia de una situación extraordinaria de alta volatilidad en los mercados internacionales de combustible, lo cual justifica la adopción de medidas temporales orientadas a la protección de los consumidores” dice la ley.

Al finalizar la sesión, Contreras dijo a los periodistas que “no es perfecta la iniciativa, pero sí va aliviar bastante el gran clamor que tienen los guatemaltecos por el combustible”.

La ley entrará en vigencia una vez que sea publicada y se estipula que se mantenga en vigor el resto del año. El presupuesto para cubrir el apoyo temporal establecido será de un máximo de 329 millones de dólares.

El cierre del estrecho de Ormuz durante la guerra ha alterado el flujo mundial del combustible, incrementado los precios en todo el mundo, desencadenando un alza en otros productos.

However, it's a different story in the fantastical vision that he shares with supporters on social media. Over Labor Day weekend, Trump and the White House unleashed an extraordinarily heavy torrent of memes that portrayed the president as singularly powerful.

One video depicted Trump as a superhero wielding Green Lantern's ring to effortlessly build a wall to keep out migrants and erect a slew of busy factories. Another post showed him in a U.S. hockey uniform looming over Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as Carney cowered on the ice. And another had Trump on a military ship as it bombarded an enemy fleet.

Trump's allure has always relied on a mythical version of himself, from “The Apprentice” to the White House, but the gap between meme and reality has become glaringly stark ahead of the midterm elections. Most U.S. adults are unhappy with Trump’s handling of the economy and say the Iran war hasn’t been worth it, but Trump has responded with outlandish images of himself as unstoppable and omnipotent.

Memes risk sidestepping reality

Some of the pictures are generated with artificial intelligence, and the administration has previously defended the memes as funny and their critics as humorless. Yet the stakes right now are serious for congressional Republicans who have tied their own fate to a president with low approval numbers. Trump's party will put him center stage at an unusual midterm convention on Wednesday and Thursday in Dallas in hopes of stoking voters' enthusiasm.

Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist, said that Trump’s social media posts can energize his base of “Make America Great Again” followers, although the tradeoff is that he’s not talking about how to fix inflation.

The voters who are likely to determine control of Congress in the midterms “are not going to be won over with memes,” Madden said. “The affordability voter is driving this election cycle and the issues they care about are anchored in the economy.”

The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment. Trump sometimes plucks memes from a sprawling ecosystem of online conservative supporters, and sometimes his government staff produces them as part of their official messaging. Recently they created a series of old-school video games, such as a “Tetris” knockoff called “Build the Wall.”

"The memes will continue," Kaelan Dorr, a member of the White House communications team, recently posted on social media. “The winning will continue.”

Aging presidents promote vitality online

The problem for Trump is that voters have other images they're using to define him. Drivers can spot through their windshields that gasoline is averaging $4.15 a gallon, up nearly 30% from a year ago because of the Iran war. And social media is inundated with questions about the 80-year-old president's health and vitality, spurred by pictures of his bruised hands or video clips of him appearing to fall asleep in meetings.

White House officials have said the bruising is caused by “frequent handshaking" and Trump's aspirin regimen, and they've denied that he's dozed off.

Trump's predecessor, Joe Biden, is three years older and faced relentless scrutiny about his age while in office. His White House came to embrace a meme version of Biden with lasers for eyes, suggesting that he was powerful and focused rather than infirm.

Andrew Bates, who was a deputy press secretary for Biden, said that Trump's memes seem to be about avoiding the actual responsibilities of governing. He said they risk angering voters who see Trump as more focused on redecorating the White House than bringing the Iran war to a successful end.

“When a president who ran on bringing gas prices under $2 a gallon is now saying, ‘You’re at four dollars, it’s OK,’ it unfortunately makes sense that he’s also posting fever dreams,” Bates said.

Some memes have caused trouble

The memes have occasionally gotten Trump into trouble. He posted an image of himself as Jesus in April, which caused a degree of consternation among some supporters. The president later claimed he thought the image showed him as a medical doctor — albeit a doctor in Biblical robes with light emanating from his hands.

In February, his account posted a racist video of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as primates, which he deleted after a backlash.

Last October, Trump shared a video of him in a fighter jet dumping feces on Americans who were protesting his policies.

What the memes have not done so far is boost his wider approval ratings. Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of how he is handling the job of being president, according to a July AP-NORC poll.

But the polling also hits at a reason why he might be sending the memes to rally his core supporters. Just 15% of U.S. adults strongly approve of his presidency, the poll found, a slight decline from 22% shortly after he took office.

Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere on the stump.

No Democrat in the state wants to be seen with him. His approval ratings are better with Republicans — far better — than they are with Democrats. And a shadow primary of sorts is taking shape for Fetterman’s Senate seat in 2028, even if he runs again.

Fetterman has acknowledged his isolation in the party as he maintains staunch support of Israel's war in Gaza and criticizes left-wing candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. He's often gone his own way in the Senate, voting repeatedly with Republicans to end the shutdown last year while supporting multiple Trump nominations and opposing efforts to end the war in Iran.

Still, Fetterman has repeatedly said that he wouldn't switch parties because of his support for labor unions, LGBT rights and other issues held dear by the left.

“I'm not going to be a Republican, but I'm going to be a Democrat that's going to have a conversation with whoever is playing it straight,” Fetterman told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Fetterman's office and political adviser did not return messages seeking comment.

Fetterman has fallen out of favor with Pennsylvania Democrats

Fetterman has been silent about any plans to campaign in Pennsylvania this year, and Democrats say they aren't asking him for help.

“I absolutely think that Fetterman would bring us more harm than good,” said Lori McFarland, the Democratic Party chair in Lehigh County, which is home to a congressional seat and a state Senate seat that Democrats are trying to flip. “Nobody’s asked to see him, nobody’s requested his presence, and people, quite honestly, they’re mad at him and they don’t want anything to do with him. The local feel here is they feel betrayed by him.”

Polling captures the shift. Only about 2 in 10 registered Democrats in Pennsylvania have a favorable view of Fetterman, according to a New York Times poll from August. That’s a sharp reversal from 2024, when 74% had a positive view. He’s now seen more favorably by Republican voters in the state, with 73% giving him a positive rating. That’s up from 25% a couple years ago.

A Quinnipiac poll from July similarly found most Republicans approve of how Fetterman is handling his job, while most Democrats do not.

Cindy Durian, a Democrat voting in May’s primary in suburban Harrisburg, said she would never vote for Fetterman again.

“I think he might as well change parties, he might as well change from a D to an R,” she said.

Frustration with Fetterman has been building

Fetterman had a stroke on the campaign trail before winning his Senate seat in 2022 and then was hospitalized for clinical depression in the first months of his term.

Progressive frustration with Fetterman began to emerge in late 2023 with his support for Israel’s war against Hamas. But it’s moved beyond that since Trump took office. Democrats have watched him belittle their attempts to push back on Trump while emerging as a conservative media darling.

“He is antagonizing Democrats, seemingly for pleasure,” said J.J. Abbott, a Democratic strategist.

Fetterman's dedication to the job has also been called into question. Last year, he began racking up missed votes and missed hearings in the Senate. A meeting in Washington with representatives from a teachers union broke up after he began repeating himself, shouting and slamming his hands on a desk. And he has avoided other meetings and public events, including the funeral for three police officers killed in the line of duty.

Public officials around Pennsylvania say they haven’t seen him in several years. Some can’t remember when they last saw him.

“I couldn’t tell you,” said state Rep. Peter Schweyer of Allentown. “We assumed that when we got him there that we were going to get somebody who’s going to fight for us. And what we got instead was somebody who just disappeared.”

Pennsylvania Democrats have a lot on the line in November

The state has several marquee races this year. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, seen as a likely presidential candidate in 2028, is running for reelection and leading the party's efforts to hold a narrow state House majority, capture a state Senate majority for the first time in decades and flip four U.S. House seats.

In one of those competitive U.S. House races, Democrat Bob Harvie is trying to unseat Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. A campaign spokesperson said Harvie hasn’t asked Fetterman for help.

It’s unclear whether Fetterman will ever return to the campaign trail, or whether he even wants another term in 2028, given that he spends much of his time criticizing his party and the dysfunction of Congress. He often sits alone in the hallway during Senate votes, eschewing conversations with colleagues inside the chamber.

Talk of 2028 among Democrats often turns to several others — Reps. Chris Deluzio and Brendan Boyle and former U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb — who have become outspoken critics of Fetterman.

“I don’t think that Democrats want John Fetterman campaigning for them, and I say that as a guy who’s campaigning with Democrats in the most competitive and toughest districts across Pennsylvania,” Deluzio told The Associated Press.

Deluzio said he’ll decide after the November election whether to run for Senate in 2028. But, he said, “Pennsylvanians elected John Fetterman as a Democrat to the United States Senate. They expect him to be a Democrat in these two years he has left in this term.”

Fetterman says he has a ‘red line’ with his party

While Fetterman has insisted he won't change parties, he hasn't ruled it out, saying the Democratic Party becoming anti-Israel would be a “red line" that would force him out.

He's also become close with Pennsylvania's other senator, Republican David McCormick, appearing at events alongside him and launching a joint political fundraising committee, an unusual arrangement for senators from opposing parties.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., in July said he and other Republicans had spoken with Fetterman about the “challenges” he has in the Democratic caucus. “If he ever comes to the conclusion that he’s ready to move, we’d certainly welcome him.”

Democrats hold 47 seats in the Senate. If they were to pick up four seats in the election, a Fetterman party-switch could reset the Senate back to a 50-50 split, giving Republicans the majority and putting Vice President JD Vance in a position to break ties.

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Many of Apple’s biggest rivals, such as Samsung, Motorola and Google, have already come out with foldable smartphones. But Apple is not one to rush on new technologies.

“The foldable launch is straight out of Apple’s playbook: Wait for the product to work out its kinks and for the market to offer glimpses of viability, then enter and shape the category,” said Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee. “The difference is that foldables still represent a minuscule share of the smartphone market. The test of Apple’s ambition will be whether it can expand that niche into a meaningful new segment.”

Compared with earlier generations, the iPhone 18 likely will cost more due partly to a global memory chip shortage. The iPhone 17's price ranges from $799 to $1,999 depending on the model.

Earlier this year, Apple unveiled artificial intelligence advances, including upgrades to its Siri assistant, emphasizing a focus on privacy and day-to-day use as the company tries to catch up with rivals on AI.

The keynote address for Ternus at the tech giant’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, will set the tone for his vision of Apple's future, Chatterjee said.

“John Ternus inherits perhaps the most successful consumer technology juggernaut in modern times. That is both a boon and a burden for him. Tim Cook’s perfected execution, scale, and monetization set a high bar, and Ternus must extend that run,” Chatterjee said. “But he must sustain that momentum while positioning Apple to disrupt itself in the near future, when the iPhone, or any smartphone for that matter, will cease to be the consumer’s primary conduit to the world.”

Last year’s iPhone 17 lineup, which included a new ultra-thin model, has been selling well. That generation saw a new slimmed-down model that adopted the “Air” name that Apple already used for its sleekest iPads and Mac computers.

Selling well-known, stolen art is impossible to do at an auction house or through other public channels without raising eyebrows. Even under the table, the value plummets. And unlike other eye-catching artifacts such as jewels, paintings can't be chopped up and sold for parts without losing their entire worth.

Art crime experts stress that most buyers simply don't want the liability. In short, the reality looks nothing like the movies.

“People always think that there is this kind of ‘Dr. No’ type from the James Bond movie,” said Arthur Brand, a private art detective based in the Netherlands. “But that’s Hollywood. In the real world, there are no collectors like that.”

Brand, who has investigated art crime for about 20 years, explains that often “nobody will touch” stolen art, particularly high-profile work. Sometimes that means paintings valued at millions of dollars are effectively “worth zero” once they're outside of the museum, he added, if not a small fraction of the price.

Tuesday's theft at the Renoir Museum — the last home of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the French Riviera — marks the latest high-profile art crime targeting collections around the world, and experts warn there could be more.

Here's what we know.

Where the Renoirs could wind up

Cagnes-sur-Mer's mayor, Bryan Masson, said a group of “well-equipped” burglars stole a total of four Renoir paintings from the museum in his town on Tuesday. But they dropped two of them — Renoir’s “Portrait of Madame Pichon” and “Coco Reading” — in the museum garden before they fled, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Police are still searching for the perpetrators.

In the meantime, Renoir's “Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman at the Well” remain missing.

Masson estimated the value of the combined Renoir works stolen Tuesday at 9 million euros ($10.5 million).

But the probability of profiting off such a heist is “extremely low,” said Erin Thompson, an art crime professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. And in cases that end in arrests, the common takeaway is that “thieves are people who are good at stealing things and bad at thinking through the consequences,” she added.

Some may try to make money from heists in other ways, such as through demanding a ransom or looking for an insurance payout. But Thompson explains many museums don't have insurance because it's too costly. That's why the practice is so rare in the U.S., for example, and it would be difficult to negotiate with insurance companies elsewhere without the thieves incriminating themselves.

As a result, if not surrendered or otherwise recovered, stolen paintings may remain hidden — or in some cases eventually destroyed to get rid of evidence, Thompson says.

Brand, who collaborates regularly with law enforcement in his art crime investigations, says that he's still seen limited cases of stolen paintings “floating around in the underworld” — perhaps as partial payments for products like drugs. And depending on country-by-country laws, he noted that the promise of returning the art has led to reduced sentences on other charges.

“Some more savvy criminal will acquire it as a get out of jail free card, sort of a bargaining chip,” added Christopher Marinello, a lawyer and founder of Art Recovery International. “So if some drug dealer ever is arrested, he can bargain with the prosecutor and say, ‘Listen, give me a lesser sentence and I’ll show you where these Renoirs are.’ And that has always worked and it will work again.”

Paintings are harder to hide and sell than jewels

Stolen paintings are much more difficult to profit from than museums' other crown jewels — literally.

Jeweled and metal goods have increasingly become a target of theft because they can be melted down or broken down into parts. Last year, a handful of experts warned that could be the fate of the stunning heist of crown jewels at the Louvre Museum in Paris, for example — noting that, if done successfully, smaller pieces could later go up for sale as part of a new necklace, earrings or other jewelry without turning too many heads.

But of course, such pieces would lose their historical worth and, if actually sold, likely only go for a fraction of their original value. Experts also warn that it's far from a simple process overall — and gems may still be identifiable by characteristics like clarity, for example.

Apart from an emerald-set imperial crown found outside the museum the day of the October 2025 heist, the stolen jewels remain unrecovered.

Paintings, in contrast, don't have the same commodity value that can potentially be parceled off. “It’s a canvas with some old oil paint on it,” said art theft expert James Ratcliffe, of the Art Loss Register. “You can’t touch it up. You can’t resell it other than for what it is.”

Uptick in art crime overall

Ratcliffe and others note that hasn't stopped thefts of famous paintings and other artwork from museums. Just earlier this year, three pieces by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros were stolen in Italy, for example, before being recovered last month.

Ratcliffe notes that smaller museums, in particular, are harder to secure because they might not have the funding necessary to invest in the latest technology — or are located in historic buildings that may take more time and effort to install new guardrails.

Still, pressures are piling up, with some warning that future cases of art theft could be likely as vulnerabilities persist.

“We need to change the way we treat small and country house museums before we lose our cultural heritage permanently,” said Marinello, who stresses that stronger security and enforcement is overdue. “We’re supposed to be preserving our cultural heritage, not allowing criminals to take what they want and using them as shopping malls.”

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Associated Press writer Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

McKee narrowly defeated Foulkes in a multi-candidate Democratic primary four years ago to win his first full term. In their rematch, he's been dogged by questions about his administration's work to replace a critical bridge in the state capital that was abruptly closed due to safety problems in 2023.

Foulkes has leveraged public exasperation over the cost and pace of the bridge project for her argument that McKee's administration isn’t working for most Rhode Islanders.

“People feel like state government just works with a powerful few,” she said. “They don’t think it’s working for them."

McKee, in response, has characterized Foulkes as an out-of-touch elite who turned a blind eye to the opioid crisis during her tenure at CVS.

“The option here is somebody who wants to buy this state office who doesn’t have any credibility with their policy thoughts and someone like myself, who has a strong record in terms of working people,” McKee told The Associated Press.

Incumbent governors rarely lose party primaries. The last time it happened in Rhode Island was in 1994, when Democrat Bruce Sundlun lost to state Sen. Myrth York, ending his bid for a third term. In that race, Sundlun was facing multiple controversies and voter fatigue while York ran on reform.

McKee has been governor since 2021, when he stepped into the position after then-Gov. Gina Raimondo was tapped as U.S. commerce secretary.

In 2023, McKee closed the Washington Bridge, a vital link that carries Interstate 195 over the Seekonk River and connects Providence to its eastern suburbs, the south coast of Massachusetts. During the summer, it also carries traffic bound for Cape Cod.

State transportation officials had flagged a “critical failure” in an older part of the bridge, but demolishing and replacing it has taken longer than the governor initially estimated. Traffic continues to flow but has been squeezed into fewer lanes on a newer part of the span. This has led to lengthy commute times for many who cross the bridge daily as signs posted along the bridge thank drivers for their patience.

McKee maintains that his decisions kept people safe and that the bridge construction will be finished by 2028. He often points to Maryland, saying the Washington Bridge will be complete ahead of the replacement of Baltimore's much larger Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed and killed six construction workers in 2024 after a container ship crashed into it.

Foulkes' grandfather and uncle, Thomas and Chris Dodd, were both Democratic U.S. senators in Connecticut. She worked at CVS for 25 years, eventually becoming president of the company’s pharmacy division between 2014 and 2018. She then became chief executive officer of the Canadian retail giant Hudson’s Bay Company before leaving that job in 2020.

When pressed on her time at CVS, Foulkes argued that CVS reduced its opioid dispersal by 40% when she was president of CVS’ pharmacy division. In 2022, after Foulkes had left CVS, the company agreed to pay $5 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids without admitting wrongdoing.

The last governor to lose in a primary was former Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer, who narrowly lost the Republican nomination to Kris Kobach in 2018.

In the Republican gubernatorial primary, Aaron Guckian and Elaine Pelino are vying for the nomination. Guckian is a state trade association executive and was the nominee for lieutenant governor in 2022. He won the two-way primary that year with about 68% of the vote. Pelino is a former actor and first-time candidate. The state party has endorsed Guckian.

Notably, Rhode Island’s primary elections are being held on a Wednesday after state lawmakers moved the date from its typical Tuesday election day because it fell too close to Labor Day.

Only four states hold their primary elections in September: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware, which has the latest primary date in the U.S., taking place this year on Sept. 15.

He rushed downtown to find his firehouse badly damaged but still standing. Six of its members, he'd later learn, were among the 343 New York City firefighters killed in the World Trade Center's collapse.

“If I wasn’t sent out on rotation there would have been a good chance I would not be here today,” Argano says. “I think about that all the time.”

Almost 25 years later, Argano, now 65, is still on duty at the firehouse — the last of the firefighters assigned there in 2001 who still works there.

Today, the crews at the firehouse respond to emergency calls but also serve as a de facto part of the 9/11 memorial, visited by crowds of tourists daily.

Some visitors come specifically to see the large bronze relief along the side of the building listing the names of the firefighters killed on 9/11.

Others pause to take selfies as they pass by on their way to the National 9/11 Memorial plaza across the street, drawn by the sight of Engine 10 and Ladder 10, the gleaming trucks sitting in the garage that give the station its nickname: Ten House.

“This is definitely one of those companies where if you don’t want to ingratiate yourself to the public, it’s definitely not the right place,” said Capt. Terence Brody, who commands Ladder 10 and has worked at the station since 2016. “People around the world know this firehouse. They’re going to come by and say hello.”

Ten House served key roles during and after 9/11

Brody, now 55, was still in the fire academy on 9/11. Cadets grabbed their gear and were bused to ground zero.

The debris hung so thickly in the air around the fallen towers that it looked like it was snowing, he said.

“It was a beautiful sunny Tuesday, and then you’re in this kind of apocalyptic atmosphere,” Brody said. “It was a little overwhelming, to say the least.”

In the days after the attack, Ten House served as both command center and safe space for weary first responders, he said. As the years passed, its crew had a front-row seat to the area’s rebirth.

Robert Favata joined Ladder 10 in 2008, fresh out of the academy.

In those early years, he worked beside a giant hole teeming with construction activity. Now 46, he looks out at a transformed landscape.

A pair of waterfall pools sit in the footprint of the old towers, ringed by parapets etched with the names of nearly 3,000 victims. Below ground, the 9/11 Museum houses mangled steel beams, a destroyed fire truck and other artifacts. New skyscrapers ring the memorial.

“When I got here, there was nothing,” Favata says. “I never thought they were gonna finish.”

Today, an endless stream of visitors stop at firehouse

Argano can be found most days perched near the station's open bay doors, patiently answering questions, shaking hands and posing for photos.

He says Ten House firefighters have a unique charge: they’re both living testimonials to the events of 9/11 as well as public faces of the centuries-old FDNY.

Argano says he tries to impress on younger firefighters — many increasingly not even born before the attacks — the importance of treating every visitor with respect.

“This is not like any other firehouse,” he said. “We have our fire duty, we have our responses, and then we have a responsibility toward the people outside.”

He acknowledges the task is not always easy. The packs of gawking tourists can be relentless. Their questions can sometimes come across too personal, too insincere or just simply too out there.

Many of the younger firefighters tend to keep a lower profile for that reason, he said.

After responding to an early morning call this particular day, most of the crew heads to the back of the station to stow their gear or upstairs to help prepare lunch.

Argano meanwhile chats up a firefighter from France and his wife and then invites them into the station.

He points to a wall of patches from fire departments across the world that have been gifted over the years, as well as the well-worn helmets hanging in the rafters.

At another point, though, a lady asks — perhaps a bit too flippantly — what's so special about Ten House.

Argano shrugs: “It’s just a fire station.” After she departs, he says it simply wasn’t worth the effort.

“If I need to explain to you all of that, then it’s like, ‘Pull up a seat’,” Argano said. “Let me get another cigarette. It’s gonna be a long one.”

Ten House members reflect on 9/11 milestone

Favata considers the approaching 25th anniversary as likely one of his last before retirement. He worries, though, if he’s done enough to keep the memories of Ten House alive.

“When I got here, so many of the guys worked 9/11 and they told me their stories of that day,” Favata said, choking on tears. “I just hope I can give like a percentage of what they’ve told me to the younger guys.”

Brody, meanwhile, handed in his retirement papers Tuesday. His last day will be in October.

“It’s interesting to think that my first day in the field was right across the street, and this is where I’m gonna end my career,” said Brody, who writes screenplays in his spare time and has already had two of them turned into Hallmark Channel movies.

But Argano, who drives Engine 10, isn’t quite ready to pack it in. He fears something will be lost when no one is there who still remembers.

“I’m not done. I’m gonna be here as long as I can,” Argano said. “I’m going to keep telling them what I know, what I saw, what I’ve been through. Telling them the history of this firehouse. Everything I can remember.”

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The gifts of $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris as well as a $20,000 gift for director of Oval Office operations Walt Nauta were noted in the staffers' annual financial disclosure forms that were published by the administration last week. Harp, Martin and Harris make $150,000 annually and Nauta is paid $175,000 a year, according to the White House's salary disclosure report to Congress.

A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector.”

The official did not say if any other staffers were given similar gifts from the president, but added that the cash gifts were not related to the “individuals’ official government duties, and therefore are entirely permissible under relevant legal and ethical standards.”

The disclosures of the gifts were first reported earlier on Tuesday by The Washington Post.

Harp is a constant presence by Trump's side and is known for carrying a portable printer with her so she can print out favorable media coverage and social media posts for the president, who prefers reading important information on paper rather than on a screen.

Martin has been working for Trump since his first go-around in the White House. She started in the first term as a White House press assistant and followed the president to Palm Beach, Florida, to help run his media operations after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. She returned to the White House with Trump after his 2024 victory.

Earlier this year, Trump appointed Harris to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which has oversight over the president's White House ballroom project.

Nauta, who previously served as a valet to Trump, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were charged in 2023 with conspiring with Trump to obstruct an FBI investigation into classified documents that the Republican took with him when he left the White House after his first term.

The charges were dismissed in 2024.

Nubia Arelly Sanchez Lopez, 38, traveled from Ohio to Miami in June for cosmetic surgery. She underwent a Brazilian butt lift, liposuction and breast augmentation on June 16 at 305 Plastic Surgery in Doral, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office investigative report.

After the procedures, she was taken to Stevens Grandparents Inc., a six-bed assisted living facility in Miami-Dade County licensed to provide “limited nursing services.”

Three days after her surgery, Sanchez Lopez became dizzy, weak and fainted, according to an emergency suspension order issued by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

About 40 minutes later, she developed severe difficulty breathing.

AHCA said facility staff contacted an “on-call” nurse. At the nurse’s direction, staff checked Sanchez Lopez’s vital signs and recorded an oxygen saturation level of 58%. The nurse instructed staff to call 911.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded after Sanchez Lopez went into cardiac arrest. First responders found people performing CPR on her and took her to Kendall Regional Hospital in critical condition, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.

A hospital charge nurse told investigators that Sanchez Lopez suffered multiple cardiac arrests and that her stomach was “flooded with blood” before she was pronounced dead.

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office determined Sanchez Lopez died from complications of cosmetic surgery and classified her death as accidental.

AHCA suspends facility’s license

Following the incident, AHCA issued an emergency suspension of Stevens Grandparents’ license and removed four other patients who were recovering from cosmetic procedures at the facility.

The agency cited several concerns about the facility’s care and response.

AHCA said some vital signs taken after Sanchez Lopez arrived at the facility were not documented in her medical record. The agency also said her resident file did not contain postsurgical care instructions.

The emergency order further stated that staff members working during the incident did not have valid first aid and CPR certifications.

According to AHCA, the facility had a policy requiring residents, rather than staff, to call 911. The agency said the policy was intended to avoid potential financial liability.

Sanchez Lopez’s husband, Kevin Diaz, told investigators that “someone” used his wife’s cellphone to make the 911 call.

Questions over postsurgical recovery facilities

Stevens Grandparents was licensed as an assisted living facility with a “limited nursing services” license.

Before Sanchez Lopez’s death, State Rep. Felicia Simone Robinson, D-Miami Gardens, introduced legislation seeking to create a separate regulatory framework for postsurgical recovery homes.

“This person should not have died. All of the signs were there,” Robinson told Local 10 News.

Simone Robinson’s bill, House Bill 81, would have created a specific licensing category for postsurgical recovery homes, including requirements involving staffing, medical oversight and penalties for violations.

The bill was filed in October 2025 and received its first reading in January 2026. Simone Robinson said the bill was never heard.

Robinson said an assisted living license is not appropriate for facilities caring for patients immediately after major surgery.

“Although the place was licensed, it wasn’t the appropriate license,” Robinson said. “They need to have at minimum a nurse, LPN on the low scale, preferably an RN.”

Robinson said she intends to continue pursuing legislation addressing postsurgical recovery facilities.

Facility had prior citations

State inspection records show Stevens Grandparents had previously been cited for deficiencies, including during an inspection in March 2023 and additional inspections in June, September and November 2025.

Florida corporate records identify Zenen A. Bernal as an officer of Stevens Grandparents Inc. State health care records also identify Bernal as the administrator, financial officer and 100% controlling owner of another six-bed assisted living facility, Angelina ALF LLC.

When Local 10 News visited the Stevens Grandparents property, Yani Gil said she was a realtor involved in selling the property and had worked as an assisted living consultant.

Gil’s name also appears in state records connected to Bernal and his businesses dating back to 2024.

Gil disputed AHCA’s findings and defended Stevens Grandparents.

“They have their version of what they saw,” Gil told Local 10 News. “That’s not grounds to shut down. You can’t shut down without an investigation.”

AHCA and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office investigated the circumstances surrounding Sanchez Lopez’s death and the conditions at the facility.

Questions about the surgeon

Local 10 News contacted 305 Plastic Surgery seeking information about Sanchez Lopez’s postsurgical care and whether the practice recommended Stevens Grandparents as a recovery location. No representative agreed to speak on the record.

The surgeon identified in the Sheriff’s Office report, Dr. Fermin Morales, is also the subject of a separate administrative complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health in 2025 involving another patient and an unrelated procedure.

According to the Department of Health complaint, that patient died following a 2023 cosmetic procedure performed by Morales. The complaint alleges Morales violated Florida’s rules governing gluteal fat grafting.

The complaint is an allegation by the state and is separate from the investigation into Sanchez Lopez’s death. State records show Morales’ Florida medical license remains active and do not show a final disciplinary finding related to that complaint.

Sanchez Lopez’s family declined to comment.

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Silvia Larrieu said relatives on boats recovered the bodies.

“It is with profound sadness that we confirm all four of our family members have been found deceased,” the family said in a statement. “The search and recovery mission was conducted alongside family members and civilians who answered our call for help.

“Our relatives ultimately located our loved ones and had to bring them aboard their own vessels. We are now in communication and working with the U.S. Coast Guard to bring our loved ones home safely and with dignity.”

Larrieu told Local 10 News that her uncle, 80-year-old Mario Lamar Sr., was piloting the plane. His wife, Lili, 79, and their grandchildren, Sofia Sosa, 28, a neonatal physician assistant in Miami, and Christian Sosa, 22, a recent graduate of Loyola Marymount University, were also on board.

The four had traveled to the Bahamas for the holiday weekend, a trip Larrieu said her uncle had made countless times during his more than 40 years as a pilot, and were heading home to Miami.

“He always does this. The weather seemed fine,” Larrieu said. “My uncle maintained the plane in pristine condition. He was always on top of it. Anytime he was here in Miami, he would always be at the hangar working on his plane and ensuring it was up-to-date.”

According to Larrieu, the four took off from Great Harbour Cay at approximately 10:12 a.m. Monday.

About an hour later, the plane lost contact near Andros Island, she said.

Bahamas police identified the plane as a PA-34 Piper five-seater aircraft, with tail number N212ML. Police confirmed it departed Great Harbour Cay, a city in the Berry Islands of the Bahamas, and was headed to Opa-locka.

Air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft when it was about 13 miles west of Andros Island, Bahamas police said.

“So our initial investigation that came into our search-and-rescue operations team is that they left that area of the Barrier Islands and they wanted to divert from our inclement weather, and due to that factor, they ended up on that side of Andros as opposed to going a different direction, heading to Florida,” Lt. Darius Adams, of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, said.

Bahamian officials said they contacted the U.S. Coast Guard at about 2 p.m. Monday and requested assistance finding the downed plane, but the search had to be suspended due to bad weather, prompting relatives to conduct their own search.

“We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported us, searched alongside us, and kept our family in their prayers,” the victims’ family members said in their statement. “We respectfully ask for privacy as we mourn this unimaginable loss.”

Zamora estimó además que la paraestatal Petróleos Mexicanos, a la que el gobierno no ha dejado de inyectar apoyos, alcanzará un superávit de 95.000 millones de pesos, y que el déficit proyectado asegurará la sostenibilidad de la deuda.

Gabriela Siller, directora de análisis económico en Grupo Financiero Base, aseguró que las estimaciones de crecimiento son “más creíbles, pero ligeramente más optimistas que las de los analistas encuestados por el Banco de México”.

No obstante, indicó que la situación no es tan buena como la dibuja el gobierno debido a que el riesgo principal sigue siendo “la lentísima consolidación fiscal” con un déficit planeado superior al 3.5% que preveían los precriterios económicos y superior al 2.5% sugerido por el Fondo Monetario Internacional.

Con estas cifras “tendremos un déficit superior a 3.0% al menos seis años más” y la deuda bruta se situará en un 58.6% del PIB en toda la proyección hasta el 2032, agregó la analista.

El gobierno prevé ingresos tributarios del 15.9% del PIB sin crear nuevos impuestos, pero con algunos ajustes a las leyes, al tiempo que seguirá luchando contra la evasión fiscal, aseguró el secretario.

Entre esos cambios, la analista financiera valoró positivamente las previsiones en el impuesto sobre la renta para que las empresas puedan optar por un régimen simplificado de confianza o régimen general si tienen ingresos de hasta 50 millones de pesos.

En cuanto a los gastos, el Ejecutivo propone destinar el mismo porcentaje, un 2,6% del PIB, a los programas sociales que han caracterizado los gobiernos del partido gobernante, Morena, y a la infraestructura.

Zamora destacó, además, que se seguirá trabajando para aumentar la inversión extranjera directa, que en el primer semestre de 2026 alcanzó un récord de 35.000 millones de dólares, y para seguir impulsando el Plan México, que aspira a movilizar inversión privada, aumentar la producción nacional, fortalecer las cadenas de suministro y generar empleos de mayor valor agregado.

Officials said that they were just over a month away from completing a major upgrade to the sole 12.5-mile-long (20-kilometer) Transcanyon Waterline, which supplied water for millions of visitors to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim and about 1,600 residents of Grand Canyon Village.

Construction of a temporary water intake that matches the park’s pre-flood pumping capacity will start this week. Park officials encourage residents and tourists to continue conserving water as they work on a more than $200 million repair and upgrade project.

Before the floods, officials said the project would ensure the park can meet its water supply needs for the next 50 years or more.

“The damage to this old pipe is no longer relevant to our new solution,” Dave Black, deputy incident commander at the National Park Service’s Western Incident Management Team, said. “Every gallon we conserve gives our crews more time to complete the work in the canyon.”

The flash flood on Aug. 29 caused two deaths, left one person missing and caused about 80 rescues. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.

The floods mark the third time that overnight stays have been paused due to pipeline failures since August 2024.

Water conservation continues in Grand Canyon

Officials also implemented significant water conservation measures for residents to protect the limited stored water on the South Rim, where most visitors go.

Gloria Barrett, a longtime resident of Grand Canyon Village who works for a helicopter tour company, shut off her water heater to help her household of four conserve water.

“That inhibits us from taking longer showers because the water’s so cold, which is miserable," she said.

Barrett, her partner and his two teenage sons have been eating on paper plates to avoid doing dishes and reusing cooking water to give to their dog. In her 10 years living inside the park, Barrett said she has learned to get creative with water conservation — the pipeline has broken more than 85 times since 2010 — but she has never seen damage this “extreme.”

The pipeline, which has been in place nearly twice as long as it was supposed to be, crosses rugged terrain from the quieter South Rim, down to the canyon floor and back up to the South Rim to provide drinking water and fire suppression.

Many families in Grand Canyon Village live paycheck to paycheck, Barrett said, and leaving “is not an option for us — it’s not feasible." But for the 27-year-old, who also owns a transport company that shuttles tourists from rim to rim, the hotel closures brought a wave of cancellations during what she said was her busiest season.

Bing Pan, a tourism and recreation professor at Pennsylvania State University, said tourism also supports the largely part-time, seasonal workforce on the South Rim. Even weeks of slowed service could be detrimental to their families.

“Workers in the park, who are paid around $15 to $20 per hour, usually don’t have much savings," Pan said. “Natural disasters and slowed service flows could push them to the brink of leaving the area, devastating the local tourism economy.”

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Schoenbaum reported from Salt Lake City.

But climate warming is dismantling the picture at alarming speed.

Europe's record heat waves this summer savaged permafrost that for millennia has acted like glue on the Alpine landscape. Defrosting cliffs came apart as high-altitude cold gave way to higher temperatures, sending rock falls cascading from the heights. A famously dangerous rock-prone gully that climbers have long braved on ascents to the summit, 4,805 meters (15,766 feet) up, became temporarily impassable.

“We weep for our mountain, the way it's changing. It hits us in the gut,” said Stéphane Bozon, a deputy mayor in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, a French town at the foot of the giant that straddles France's border with Italy.

“From mid-July onward, we saw an increase in rock falls. We saw areas becoming difficult to access because of glacial retreat and snowmelt on the glaciers, with crevasses opening up and rock collapses making some areas difficult to reach or traverse,” he told The Associated Press.

Each degree of warming can have an outsized impact. On the Aiguille du Midi peak, which rises to an altitude of 3,842 meters (12,605 feet) in the Mont Blanc range, average temperatures for July have soared. From a chilly 1.6 C (33.8 F) in 1994, the monthly average for this July was the warmest ever recorded, at 3.3 C (37.4 F), says Meteo France, the national weather service.

“The mountain really dried out, with temperatures unlike any I had ever experienced,” Bozon said.

The Himalayan flood disaster hits close to home in the Alps

In the wake of devastating floods in the Himalayas, AP talked to researchers, climbers and residents coping with the risks and uncertainties of climate change on Mont Blanc.

The Aug. 26 floods that swept through Nepal and China were triggered after a collapse of bedrock and glacier ice sent debris and water surging through multiple Himalayan rivers. Initial assessments of many scientists are that climate change played a key role in creating conditions for the catastrophe.

As Earth’s global average temperature rises because of the burning of oil, gas and coal, the chances of such disasters increase.

In the Alps, glaciers once admired for their icy majesty are being eyed with trepidation as they shrink and lose stability.

Bozon, who is in charge of safety for Chamonix, says his town urgently needs to prepare for “serious scenarios” of chunks of glacier or mountain potentially falling onto inhabited areas.

“We have to move quite quickly because this summer has shaken us and year after year we’re being shaken by the glaciers’ retreat,” he said.

In Italy, researchers are also documenting dramatic damage wrought by heat on glaciers this year. In Lombardy, Alpine glaciers have lost more than 40% of their surface area since 1991, according to the region's glacier service.

“While it used to snow at high altitudes in the past, now it rains,” said Vanda Bonardo, head of the Italian branch of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, a nongovernmental organization.

“So we’ve also seen the effects on the stability of the terrain,” she said.

Rock falls in the Mont Blanc area have surged

Permafrost that has held Alpine peaks in its icy grip for thousands of years acts as a cement, helping to hold their steep rock faces together. It took a beating from the succession of heat waves.

“That doesn't mean that all the rock faces will collapse in the coming years or decades but quite a number of them are on the verge of becoming unstable and remain stable today only because of the presence of that ice. As the ice changes, we have seen a huge, huge number of rock falls and rock collapses this year,” said Ludovic Ravanel, a researcher at Savoie Mont Blanc University who specializes in climate change's impact on mountain snows, glaciers and frosts.

A collapse is a major fall involving more than 100 cubic meters (3,531 cubic feet) of rock — more than enough to fill a large shipping container. Ravanel expects this year's tally of collapses in the Mont Blanc massif “will probably reach around 400.” He says that is about 10 times more than two decades ago.

The last time things got close to this bad was the ’’catastrophic year″ of 2022, he said, with nearly 300 collapses.

“This has really been one of the defining features of the summer of 2026,” he said.

A Mont Blanc climbing guide juggles the risks

Chamonix-based mountain guide Stuart MacDonald says it shocks him to see how rapidly and extensively glaciers that hang from the flanks of the Mont Blanc massif are retreating.

When he guides people up the peaks, he points them to “where the glacier was last year and this is where it was 10 years ago. And that usually has quite an effect.”

Melting and the risk of rock falls made his job “pretty challenging” this summer and forced him to cancel plans to lead a group to Mont Blanc's summit last week.

“You hear it before you see it and then you’ll turn round and you’ll just see an enormous cascade of rocks coming down a slope and it can be quite terrifying,” MacDonald said.

“What’s most scary is that sometimes these rocks are falling on routes that we used to be climbing at this time of year,” he added. “It can be depressing sometimes when you look at something that you maybe climbed in July or August in the past and you see that it’s absolutely impossible to do it now.”

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Leicester reported from Paris. Associated Press journalists Trisha Thomas and Paolo Santalucia in Rome and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed.

The collapse caused a gas leak just before 6 a.m., prompting authorities and a utility to respond. Utility SoCalGas said the leak was under control several hours later, but that it was temporarily shutting off natural gas services for an 85-foot (26-meter) section of the street as a precaution against coastal erosion.

Representatives for Cage did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Property records show the property was sold in 2024, and the prior owned told the New York Times at the time of the sale that Cage was the buyer.

The mansion was damaged during a Los Angeles-area coastal flooding advisory over lingering effects of Marie, which had been a hurricane before turning back into a tropical storm. While Marie did not make landfall, it brought rain and churned up dangerous waves along the Southern California coastline over the holiday weekend.

The city of Malibu prohibited entry to five total homes on the street Tuesday, officials said in a statement. The private neighborhood sits between the ocean and the iconic Pacific Coast Highway.

Cage, 62, recently starred in the Amazon series “ Spider-Noir.” He’ll play John Madden in a biographical film about the NFL coach and commentator out later this year. He’s appeared in more than 100 films, winning an Oscar for “Leaving Las Vegas.”

Rubio and De La Espriella met at the Batallón Paraíso, a military base. Their agenda included signing deals on critical mineral investments and bilateral nuclear energy cooperation.

“They just had a free and democratic election. They elected someone I know very well, very aligned with the U.S.,” Rubio said on Tuesday before boarding his departing flight at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami-Dade County.

The deals are part of a “bilateral prosperity dialogue” for stabilizing Colombia’s economy through long-term partnerships with U.S. industry, according to the U.S. State Department.

The Trump administration committed to a $1 billion security assistance package to support U.S.-Colombia goals. De La Espriella said the Colombian military needs to upgrade anti-drone systems, cyber defense, and special forces.

“The Colombians have never asked for American soldiers to come into Colombia and take on drug cartels. They have asked for our help and training ... intelligence and targeting ... specialized equipment,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting.

De La Espriella said he talked to Rubio about Venezuela to address issues related to security, immigration, narcotrafficking, smuggling, armed groups, and energy.

“Colombia will participate responsibly with the United States in efforts aimed at ensuring regional stability,” De La Espriella, who is a dual U.S.-Colombian citizen, said in Spanish during his meeting with Rubio.

Before the meeting in Barranquilla, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a taxi driver, and Oscar Leguízamo, a street fruit vendor, were hopeful about the renewed U.S.-Colombia relations.

“That is in the country’s best interest,” said Leguízamo, who was wearing a white baseball cap with De La Espriella’s campaign nickname, “El Tigre.”

De La Espriella joined Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” against narcoterrorism and transnational crime and said the headquarters will be in Medellin. Gonzalez said he believes De La Espriella is going to change law enforcement.

“We have been a narco-state, and that concept is going to change,“ Gonzalez said.

In Bogotá, some of De La Espriella’s critics categorized the normalization of relations as an attack on Colombia’s sovereignty. Sergio Guzmán, an analyst, said the end of Trump’s presidency in two years could test the stability of the deals.

“The Democrats may win,” Guzmán said about the 2028 U.S. presidential elections, adding that De La Espriella’s first term ends in 2030.

After his trip to Colombia, Rubio plans to travel to Ecuador to meet with President Daniel Noboa and to Peru to meet with President Keiko Fujimori.

“We have a lot of common interests with them, both taking on regional transnational criminal terrorism and also economic engagements,” Rubio said in Homestead. “We’re hoping to wrap up good, solid trade deals with all three of these countries in the foreseeable future.”

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Ambassador Danny Danon accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of “doing politics” when he called the prime minister a “war criminal” and called for his arrest, which he had to withdraw because New York City does not have authority to take Netanyahu into custody.

“You know, it became very trendy to do politics by blaming Israel,” Danon added. He stressed, “For us, it’s important the prime minister will come.”

Netanyahu has become an increasingly polarizing figure over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Mamdani, whose office did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Tuesday, has pointed to the arrest warrant issued by the world’s top war crimes tribunal against Netanyahu in November 2024, accusing him and another Israeli official of crimes against humanity.

The International Criminal Court warrant said there was reason to believe Netanyahu used “starvation as a weapon of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians in the campaign against Hamas — charges Israel denies.

While New York City does not have legal authority to execute an ICC arrest warrant, Mamdani has encouraged the federal government to do so. The U.S. and Israel are not members of the court, and the Trump administration has imposed a series of sanctions on ICC staffers in a campaign to dismantle the tribunal.

Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in New York late on Sept. 23, address the U.N. General Assembly the afternoon of Sept. 24 and fly back to Israel that night, Danon said.

Danon noted that the meeting of leaders from the 193 U.N. member nations is taking place during the Jewish holidays and an election campaign as Netanyahu tries to keep his job as prime minister.

Danon said protests against Netanyahu would “create more chaos” on New York streets during the high-level meetings the week of Sept. 22-28.

Last year, there was a mass walkout from the U.N. General Assembly hall when Netanyahu started to speak from the podium. This year, Danon said, “I expect that there will be something like another show.”

But the ambassador said Netanyahu is experienced, “and I’m sure he will deliver his speech despite those attempts.”

So after handing his fellow American a crushing defeat in the U.S. Open quarterfinals Tuesday, Tiafoe held Michelsen in a long embrace while the 22-year-old sobbed into his shoulder.

“I really like Alex. I really, really do, and I just wanted to come up there and just dap him up,” Tiafoe said. “I didn’t think it was going to be as long as it was, but I understand the moment. He was definitely crying on my shoulders. Yeah, we just had some words for each other, and that was it.”

Michelsen was playing in his first Grand Slam quarterfinal and was just a few points from winning it after taking the first two sets. The No. 11-seeded Tiafoe came back to win 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6), starting his turnaround after Michelsen failed to serve out the match with a 5-4 lead in the third set.

Michelsen said he didn't speak much when they met at the net.

“I was trying to keep it together and I didn’t do a good job of that,” Michelsen said. “He was saying a lot of nice personal things. ‘You’ll be there. When I’m older, you’re going to be here, and we’re going to play it again in this type of circumstance.’ All that good stuff. He’s a great guy for consoling me in that moment.”

This was the third pro match between the two, with Tiafoe winning both previous encounters. Michelsen said after his fourth-round victory that Tiafoe was an "unbelievable guy and a very good friend of mine,” and said similar after Tuesday's defeat.

“I don’t think anyone else could have made me cry in that moment, to be honest,” Michelsen said.

Tiafoe is 28, one of the leaders of American men's tennis and a fan favorite at the U.S. Open, where he has reached his third semifinal. He said Sunday in looking ahead to the match that he had developed a good relationship with Michelsen.

Jessica Pegula said she watched the end of the match before she took the court for her quarterfinal victory over Emma Navarro.

“Just seeing Alex hug him at the end, I started crying in the locker room,” the No. 3-ranked American said. “It was so heartbreaking. My heart hurt so much.”

Michelsen left the court with a towel on his head, raising his arm to acknowledge the cheers from the crowd. Tiafoe told those fans what he thought of Michelsen's performance.

“I mean, he easily could have won today so shout out to Alex Michelsen," Tiafoe said.

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The interview with Boston’s NBC10 aired four days after a judge declared a mistrial when jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the question of whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023.

Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, never disputed that she killed the children. Her attorney said she had lost control of her mind due to a rare condition called postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing and acted deliberately when she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan Clancy with exercise bands. They said she contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.

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In the interview with NBC10, three jurors described the seven days of deliberations that failed to produce a verdict.

Foreperson Ronni Carlson said she thought at one point that the group had finally persuaded the juror arguing for a conviction to vote for an acquittal.

“He admitted he had reasonable doubt. I started filling out the forms, I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one.

And then he said, 'But I'm still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.'”

The names of the jurors have been temporarily sealed by the judge, and the holdout juror has not yet come forward and given a public account of what happened inside the jury room.

On three occasions, jurors sent the judge notes saying they were unable to reach a unanimous decision. Carlson also sent the judge a note complaining that a single juror wouldn’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt.

Juror Paula Devlin described that holdout juror as “arrogant.”

“He really did not take anything that anybody said,” she told NBC10.

Judge William Sullivan questioned the jurors, re-read his instructions regarding reasonable doubt, then asked them to keep trying to agree on a verdict.

Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, previously said he believed Clancy would have been acquitted if not for the stubbornness of a single juror.

Jurors know “they were robbed by one man, for whatever his agenda was, who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors that were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful,” he said.

Clancy could have been sentenced to life in prison if convicted of murder. If acquitted, the judge could have ordered her confined to a mental health facility until a mental health evaluation determined she would no longer be a danger to the public if released. Clancy could face another trial.

Foreperson says evidence showed Clancy loved her children

Over 21 days of testimony, jurors heard how Clancy’s mental health collapsed after the birth of her youngest child. They heard from Clancy’s family members, who described her decline, and medical providers who treated her in the months ahead of the killings.

The evidence proved Clancy loved her children, said Carlson, who pointed to Clancy’s journals and testimony from her former mother-in-law, who called Clancy a nurturing and loving mother.

“So she had to have snapped, and not known what she was doing," Carlson told NBC10. "To me, it was proof that she didn’t know what she was doing.”

Juror Kellie Farina said prosecutors lacked compassion and found them to be cold.

“I know it's their job, but in a case like this, you expect a little bit,” she said.

Jurors also heard the 911 call Clancy's then-husband made when he found their children strangled. Farina described it as “the most horrific thing." The jury played it again in the deliberation room and jurors cried, she said.

“We were just like, ‘My God, the desperation.' The despair in his voice was ... it’s something that will stick with me,” Farina said.

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Over 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries took the Programme for International Student Assessment last year. Results released Tuesday show average scores in math, reading and science are all at their lowest point in PISA history among highly developed economies. That includes continued declines in reading and math scores in the U.S.

China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea scored the highest marks on the test. Estonia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand also did well.

The key to why scores are falling so widely may be found in an accompanying survey taken by students.

Compared with the 2022 results, almost every country saw a drop in families' support for their kids' education, especially for boys, as measured by questions about how often parents talk to their kids about their schoolwork or take an interest in their learning.

“Parents see themselves more as a client of the school, not as someone who takes personal interest,” said Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs the PISA test.

Students who said a family member asks them at least weekly what they did in school that day scored around 35 points higher on the PISA science test — equivalent to over a year and a half of learning — compared with students whose families take less interest. That number includes adjustments for socioeconomic differences.

Digital distraction is another factor. Over a quarter of students in high-income countries complained their classmates got distracted by digital devices in most or every science class. In countries with strong policies controlling the use of cellphones in schools, distraction rates were lower.

There’s undoubtedly a strong association between students using digital devices for leisure and lower test scores, Schleicher said. When tech is used for learning, however, the results are more nuanced.

Countries where high schoolers reported using digital devices for around two to three hours per day in school saw higher test scores, but scores fell once tech use climbed beyond that.

Asian nations dominate in test scores

Asia seems to have found the key to using technology in a way that benefits students. Fewer than 10% of tested students in Japan, Korea and mainland China complained of digital distraction in the classroom. (Only four provinces in China participated in testing, plus Hong Kong and Macao.)

At the same time, Asia had some of the strongest schools in the world, with Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese provinces ranking among the top 10 regions for math, science and reading.

Almost 100% of all children in the Chinese provinces scored at or above baseline for math and reading. In the U.S., it was only 65% in math and 74% in reading.

Experts worry China’s educational dominance over the U.S. has serious political implications.

“To win a technological race, you need the people with the science and the technology and the reading capabilities,” said Tracey Burns, chief of global strategy and research at the National Center for Education and the Economy, a group that researches high-performing education systems.

The U.S. scores for math were equal to the average among OECD countries that administered the test, and the U.S. was ranked in the top 15 countries in the world for science, reading and computational problem-solving, a new category. However, those rankings benefited from other countries' declines. After all, U.S. teens' reading and math scores slid to the lowest point since the PISA test was first administered in the early 2000s.

Researchers warned the results must be taken with a grain of salt because the U.S. did not meet standards for having a large enough sample of schools and students that participated in the test.

More AI usage, less learning

Generally, higher use of artificial intelligence was associated with lower test scores. Students who said they never use chatbots performed better than students who did. Almost half of students in developed economies say they use AI chatbots to help them learn at least weekly.

Schleicher pointed to China, Japan, Singapore and Estonia as countries that have succeeded in using AI to support learning without overusing it. He noted that in Asia, in particular, teachers are more empowered to take the lead in designing AI systems for the classroom.

“In the United States, teachers largely implement lessons. In Asia, teachers have a very strong role,” he said.

He remembers seeing one classroom in China where elementary schoolers practiced calligraphy with ink and brushes. The teachers scanned their work and used AI to analyze how their handwriting could improve.

“The classroom, if you made a photograph, would have looked like the 1950’s — students doing calligraphy with ink,” Schleicher said. “But everything was powered by AI.”

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Shelton fired an ace at 146 mph, a ball that Alcaraz couldn't have gotten back even with fresh legs.

That gave Shelton a 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) victory in a marathon tussle that was the latest-finishing match in U.S. Open history.

“I’m tired. It was a war,” Shelton said. “Carlos is one of the greatest champions of our sport. It was the most enjoyable match I've had in my career, for sure.”

Alcaraz had his 18-match winning streak in Grand Slam tournaments ended in a match that lasted 4 hours, 28 minutes, after he fought deep into the night and early into the next morning in a bid to get his hands on the trophy again.

“I mean it was close, it was really close, so I was disappointed I didn't get the win at the end,” the No. 2-seeded Alcaraz said. “But I’m happy, I am proud of myself about how I fought. As I said, physically I was really tired but I found a way to push myself.”

Shelton next plays No. 11 seed Frances Tiafoe, who kept coming back until he had reached his third U.S. Open semifinal, beating Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) on Tuesday.

The U.S. is guaranteed to have a representative in Sunday's final as it seeks its first men's major title since Andy Roddick lifted the title here in 2003.

Alcaraz had played in the previous latest finish at the U.S. Open when he outlasted Jannik Sinner in a match that finished at 2:50 a.m. in the 2022 quarterfinals en route to his first Grand Slam title at 19.

Fans love the energy of a night match

The U.S. Open craves its night matches and players love the energy the fans provide — even when a number of matches have already gone past 2 a.m. this year.

Thousands stayed to the end, with Arthur Ashe Stadium perhaps still one-third full for the finish. Shelton benefited from a home-crowd boost even against the popular Alcaraz, with fans chanting his name along with “USA! USA!”

“It’s incredible," Shelton said. “I always say that this is the greatest sports city in the world, I say that this is the greatest stadium in the world. I’m just hoping that my best friend and my sister over there don’t have to be at work at 6 a.m. in three hours.”

Three of the four singles quarterfinals went to match tiebreakers on a marathon day, which started with Aryna Sabalenka edging Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova to keep her hopes alive of a third straight U.S. Open title.

Alcaraz will have to wait for his next one.

Instead it was Shelton reaching his third major semifinal, having gotten to the final four in the 2023 U.S. Open and 2025 Australian Open.

He seized control by winning nine straight games from early in the second set until he had a 3-0 lead in the third. But Alcaraz, in his first tournament since April after returning from a right wrist injury, battled back even as he vomited before the start of the final set.

Alcaraz ran off four straight points in the tiebreaker to go ahead 5-3, but Shelton came back behind some of his powerful serves that can exceed 140 mph, along with some mistakes from Alcaraz. Shelton eventually finished it off with a 146 mph serve his opponent couldn't get back.

Alcaraz is now 15-2 in five-set matches. He won his seventh Grand Slam title at the Australian Open to start this year not long before his injury, and came to Flushing Meadows saying he didn't know what to expect.

‘I leave with my head held high’

“I’m leaving happy and my head held high,” Alcaraz said. “The truth is, I wanted to win ... but also our goal was to leave the tournament having played matches and staying healthy.”

Tiafoe reached the semifinals in 2022 and lost to Alcaraz, when the Spaniard won his first of seven Grand Slam titles. Tiafoe lost to fellow American Taylor Fritz two years later, when the U.S. came closest to ending it’s men’s drought.

It certainly didn’t appear Tiafoe would be going back this time, after Michelsen continued his dominant run through his breakout tournament. He was the only man who hadn’t dropped a set, and he served to win the match with a 5-4 lead in the third.

He couldn't finish it off and Tiafoe charged back after falling behind 3-0 in the fifth set.

Tiafoe said his performance to start the match was slow and flat.

“It wasn’t good, let’s put it that way. It wasn’t good,” he said. “Three out of five is a blessing, because you have time to get it together. I definitely waited for the last minute.”

Tiafoe joined Andre Agassi as the only American men to reach three U.S. Open semifinals this century and will return to the top 10 for the first time in three years in the next rankings.

Michelsen, ranked No. 46, fell to 0-6 in matches that go to a fifth set.

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The struggling agency has been consolidating its operations with an emphasis on regional hubs in an effort to save billions of dollars. Some U.S. senators and election officials for months have been warning that the changes could delay the application of postmarks to ballots — even if they're mailed on or before Election Day. That would prevent otherwise valid votes from counting.

That prediction is being borne out, they say, with thousands of voters having their ballots rejected during this year's primaries.

“More Oregonians had their voices go unheard just because their ballots couldn’t make it through the mail in time,” Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read told a news conference Tuesday, referring to the state's primary in May. “That is unacceptable.”

The operational changes at the Postal Service are compounding worries about the future of voting by mail, especially in some Western states where the method is universal and widely popular. Trump has repeatedly attacked mail-in voting, falsely claiming it's riddled with fraud, despite having voted by mail himself.

Over the weekend, his administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s ruling blocking his executive order that seeks to restrict mail-in voting, a method used by nearly one-third of voters in the U.S.

States rush to install more drop boxes

Read said he is asking lawmakers for emergency funding to install 20 new ballot drop boxes in areas where they're not otherwise easily accessible to voters. Washington's secretary of state this year has spent about $300,000 to reimburse counties for the addition of 21 drop boxes.

In two rural Washington counties — both of which have reliably backed President Donald Trump — ballots rejected for late postmarks represented more than 4% of all ballots cast in last month's primary. Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington called it ironic that postal changes might disenfranchise some of Trump's most stable supporters.

“The Postal Service is disenfranchising voters across the United States with policies that are leaving them with a ballot that was cast, but never counted,” she said.

In December, the Postal Service finalized a rule clarifying that postmarks don’t necessarily reflect the date the agency first took possession of a piece of mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those processing centers are increasingly likely to be farther from certain communities due to recent consolidations.

And since last year, USPS policy has dictated that mail is transported once a day — rather than twice — from post offices or collection boxes that are more than 50 miles (80.47 kilometers) from a postal distribution center.

USPS urges voters to mail ballots early

In a written statement, the Postal Service acknowledged that changes in how it transports mail could result in postmarking delays. It noted that anyone who wants to ensure their ballots are postmarked on time can go into a post office and ask for it to be stamped manually, free of charge.

“Our consistent message to voters who choose to vote by mail is to mail early” — at least one week before ballots are due, the statement said.

Some 7,314 ballots that arrived in the mail during Oregon’s weeklong grace period for this year’s May primary were not counted because they were postmarked after Election Day — a rejection rate of 13%, up from 9.5% two years earlier, Read said.

In Washington, the number of late-postmarked ballots first jumped last year, after postal changes had taken effect. Officials responded by urging people to get their ballots in early and by installing more drop boxes. Drop box use did increase in this year's primary, but the number of late-postmarked ballots was still a problem: 20,267 — up from 16,131 in 2024.

The data paralleled numbers in California, where during this year’s June primary about 93,500 voters had their ballots rejected because they were postmarked or arrived too late to be counted.

Rural counties heavily affected

In some rural Washington counties where voters often return ballots by mail because drop boxes are farther away, the data was most pronounced. In Stevens County in Washington’s northeastern corner, the rate at which mailed ballots were rejected for late postmarks quadrupled.

Stevens County Auditor Lori Larsen said that on Aug. 7, three days after the primary and during the state's grace period for ballots to arrive, her office received a haul of 547 ballots with late postmarks. There were so many that she initially thought the mail must have been interrupted by wildfires in the region, but when she looked at the ZIP codes they originated from, she realized that wasn't the case.

“To me that is a number that suggests that many, if not all, of those folks thought they were timely delivering their ballot into USPS custody,” Larsen said in a phone interview.

Her office is now rushing to double the number of secure ballot drop boxes in the county from five to 10.

In conservative Yakima County, where nearly 4.4% of all ballots cast in the primary were rejected for late postmarks, local mail is now sent to a processing center in Spokane — about 200 miles (320 km) away — before being returned to Yakima, said county Auditor Charles Ross.

He said that while elections officials try to treat all voters equally, the postal changes could make it more likely that those in rural areas won't have their vote counted.

“If you’re in one of these rural areas like where we live and you put your ballot in the post office box three days before the election, and if you live in Seattle or Spokane and you put your ballot in the same blue box three days before the election — there’s a high likelihood that those two ballots are going to be treated differently,” Ross said.

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No one has publicly said what 38-year-old Patrick Havas wanted to ask Acton, but authorities have said he never brandished or unholstered the weapons he had on him and they haven't found any threats in a search of his cellphone. As he charged toward Acton, authorities said, he knocked down two people before troopers stopped him.

Havas pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault, one count of disorderly conduct and one count of inducing panic. His bond was set at $5,000.

He was arrested after authorities said he knocked people down while forcing his way through a crowd Sunday as Acton spoke under a tent at the fair in Canfield in northeastern Ohio. Authorities said he had two handguns, a taser and a set of brass knuckles.

“He appeared in that tent wanting to ask questions,” Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro told the judge during the hearing. “You should know law enforcement gained consent for them to have complete access to his cellphone so they found no threats.”

Maro said after the hearing that the video Havas took shows him “walking into the tent recording and moving forward, calling out her name.” Acton, a physician, is the state’s former public health director.

“All he got out was Dr. Acton, Dr. Acton,” Maro said.

Maro said that the investigation is continuing, and noted the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for any video capturing what happened.

Acton’s security detail, made up of troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, intercepted Havas as he forced his way through the crowd, the agency has said. A highway patrol spokesman said they did not have any bodycam footage from the incident.

Two people were treated at the scene on Sunday and released, according to an incident report from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.

Mike Ray, a city councilman in Youngstown who is also a member of the Ohio Democratic Party’s executive committee, said he was in a corner behind Acton as she spoke. Then, he said, he could tell that something was going on among those in the crowd facing Acton, and he saw two people who were standing in front of their mobility scooters “tumble to the ground.”

Havas’ attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, said at the hearing that his client has lived with his mother in Canfield for the past 30 years and is not a flight risk.

“He really has nowhere to go,” said Ingram, who declined to make any comments after the hearing.

The Ohio gubernatorial race is one of the most high-profile races this year as the campaigns enter the final six weeks of campaigning before the election in November. Acton is facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with President Donald Trump into a record fundraising haul. Ramaswamy’s campaign called the incident unacceptable.

The judge on Tuesday ordered that Havas have no contact with Acton or the two people who were knocked down, and that he forfeit any guns. He was also ordered to refrain from speaking with the media.

Addie Bullock, spokesperson for the Acton campaign, said in a statement following the hearing that Acton and her husband were “grateful to see the rule of law upheld,” and extended their “continued appreciation to law enforcement.”

Former U.S. Rep. John Boccieri, a Democratic candidate for the Ohio House, said he was near Acton in the tent when Havas “came in very aggressively” with his cellphone in the air screaming Acton’s name while rushing toward her. He said officers quickly “sprang into action,” grabbed the man and pulled him out of the tent.

Boccieri said he immediately jumped forward to make sure Acton was OK, which she was. And, he said, she’d already started helping a man who was face down in the mud after being knocked down.

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Stengle contributed to this report from Dallas.

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

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

Why is this happening?

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

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

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

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

Who is going to the convention?

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

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

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

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

Who will speak at the convention?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What will they focus on?

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

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

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This story has been updated to correct the Texas Senate candidate’s name to Ken Paxton, not Ken Paxon.

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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

Reports said that at least $150,000 in merchandise was stolen on Aug. 26, the day before the Steelers visited Buffalo for a preseason game.

The Steelers took Iheanachor out of Arizona State with the 21st selection in this year's NFL draft.

An undisclosed injury caused him to miss a big chunk of training camp. Iheanachor is listed second at right tackle on the Steelers' depth chart for their season opener Sunday against Atlanta.

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Wednesday will offer a sun/cloud mix and east-southeast winds sustained 5 to 10 mph. Showers and storms could dampen parts of Dade/Broward during the morning or early afternoon. Late-afternoon and evening storms will tend to favor the west side of the peninsula. Temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s.

Esa cifra representa un excedente de 14.400 hectáreas, ya que en la nación andina se permite por ley el cultivo de 22.000 hectáreas de coca destinadas a usos tradicionales como el masticado, infusiones y ritos indígenas. Es el tercer año consecutivo que se registra un incremento.

La representante de la UNODC en Bolivia, Mónica Mendoza, presentó el informe de Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2025 en la Cancillería en presencia de autoridades del gobierno del presidente Rodrigo Paz y representantes diplomáticos.

Según el informe, en el caso del Chapare —zona cocalera dominada por afines al expresidente Evo Morales — registró un aumento del 22% en cultivos de coca manteniéndose como el área de mayor crecimiento de cocales ilegales.

El Chapare en el trópico de Cochabamba, al centro de Bolivia, los cultivos pasaron de 14.275 hectáreas en 2024 a 17.471 en 2025, mientras que la otra zona productora de coca en los Yungas, al norte de La Paz, la superficie cultivada disminuyó de 19.230 a 18.430 hectáreas equivalente a una reducción del 4%, en el mismo periodo de tiempo.

El Chapare se ha vuelto de difícil acceso y en varias oportunidades la fuerza que destruye las plantaciones de coca excedentes han tenido que salir del lugar.

El estudio presentado abarca la última gestión del izquierdista Luis Arce (2020-2025) y el mes inicial de Paz, quien juró en el cargo en noviembre del año pasado.

Por su parte, el ministro de Gobierno, Marco Antonio Oviedo, explicó que la “interdicción y erradicación continúan siendo fundamentales, pero resultan insuficientes si las organizaciones criminales conservan sus estructuras de mando, financiamiento, logística y capacidad de reorganización”.

En la actividad el ministro lanzó la nueva política antidroga del gobierno 2026-2030 que busca desarticular las redes del narcotráfico, golpear sus finanzas y fortalecer la cooperación internacional. En momentos en que c árteles de narcotraficantes brasileños se disputan las rutas en la frontera de Brasil y Bolivia, según las autoridades.

Oviedo aseguró que se prevé un financiamiento de 492 millones de dólares de los cuales el 56,3 % procederá de la cooperación internacional y el resto lo asumirá el Estado boliviano.

Mientras que el director de operaciones de la UNODC, Bo Mathiasen, dijo que “hay mafias y hay conexiones con crimen organizado transnacional, que operan en Bolivia también”.

Posteriomente, Mathiasen se reunió con Paz en Palacio de gobierno. El mandatario boliviano sostuvo en su cuenta en X que fue una “reunión clave” para coordinar acciones contra el crimen organizado y el narcotráfico.

“Su sólida trayectoria liderando estrategias de seguridad transfronteriza... respalda esta alianza estratégica para combatir de forma integral las redes ilícitas”, aseguró.

On Sunday, as he drove down Northwest 67th Avenue in his green Toyota Corolla Cross SUV, he was struck by a Boeing 767 cargo plane that careened off the runway at Miami International Airport.

First responders freed him from his mangled car and rushed him to the hospital, where he remained in critical condition as of Tuesday.

A woman living at Vernon Ashley Plaza told Local 10 News in Spanish that Corredor is “a very good neighbor, one of the best here.” She described him as “very quiet, very calm.”

She said she and others at the building are praying for his recovery.

“He comes in and out and nobody has had issues,” she said. “He’s been here for a short time, but in his short time here, he’s been a wonderful person. Hopefully he recovers.”

The announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, gives the agency some stability following months of controversy and upheaval that led to a series of high-profile departures earlier this year.

The announcement names permanent directors for three of the agency’s six centers: drugs, vaccines and biologics and tobacco products. All three areas have seen major policy shifts under the Trump administration and attracted scrutiny from consumer groups, physicians and Democrats in Congress.

Dr. Michael Davis was named to lead the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the agency’s largest center responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. He'd been serving in an acting role since the departure of Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, who said she was fired from the job in May. Hoeg’s brief time at the agency mainly focused on scrutinizing antidepressants, COVID shots and other drugs used in children.

Davis had previously worked as a leader in the FDA's psychiatric drug division before briefly leaving government to work at a nonprofit pursuing the development of psychedelic drugs. He returned to the FDA as a deputy director last year.

As the FDA’s top drug regulator, Davis will be in a position to oversee the review of a series of upcoming psychedelic drugs being studied for psychiatric conditions, including psilocybin, MDMA and LSD. Both Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy have emphasized the need to speed up reviews of psychedelics.

HHS also named Karim Mikhail to take over as director of FDA's vaccines center on a permanent basis. Mikhail, a pharmacist and longtime pharmaceutical executive, joined the FDA last spring and stepped into the vaccines spot after the resignation of Dr. Vinay Prasad.

Prasad stepped down in March following numerous controversies surrounding vaccines, gene therapies and biotech drugs. It was his second time leaving the role in less than a year, following complaints from biotech executives and patient groups over the handling of new drugs targeting rare diseases.

Prasad was also an outspoken critic of the agency’s approach to COVID-19 vaccines. Working with former Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Prasad developed stringent new requirements for the development of updated COVID-19 shots. Among other steps, the policy requires vaccine-makers to conduct new, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthy adults and children.

Makary resigned from the agency in May after months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and tobacco companies. The frustration with him came to a head over the agency’s lack of movement on flavored e-cigarettes, which are a priority for large and small vaping companies.

Since his departure, the agency has cleared a series of new products, including new varieties of nicotine pouches and e-cigarettes.

The agency announced that Bret Koplow, an attorney and career FDA official, would become director of the Center for Tobacco Products. He’d been serving in an acting role since the ouster of the previous director early in the Trump administration.

A fourth official, Jared Seehafer, will serve in a newly created position overseeing artificial intelligence and technology, according to the government announcement.

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Five people died, and five people were injured after a Boeing 767-300 overtook Miami International Airport’s runway 30 shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday and struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van at MIA and a Toyota Corolla Cross LE on Northwest 67th Avenue, according to Homendy.

On Tuesday morning, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz identified the five dead who were traveling in the Econoline van as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

“There were a total of seven in that van,” Cordero-Stutz said.

Three who were injured remained hospitalized, according to Cordero-Stutz. MDSO identified them as Eugenio Corredor, whose condition is critical; Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, whose condition is critical; and Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36, whose condition is stable.

“The two pilots were treated and have since been released,” Cordero-Stutz said.

MDSO identified the pilots as Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, and Joseph Carol, 55, who both suffered minor injuries.

The Econoline van belongs to Professional Ocean Service Corp., a cleaning company that operates on planes at MIA, and was “torn apart,” according to Homendy.

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North Carolina-based cargo airline 21 Air was operating Prime Air Flight 798 for Amazon on the Boeing 767-300, manufactured in 1994, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB.

The Boeing 767-300 departed with two crew members from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the FAA and NTSB.

A witness’s video shows there were towering stormy clouds when the plane landed on the MIA runway.

On Monday, Homendy said the plane traveled for 1,300 feet “past the paved surface.”

The plane crossed a fence, struck the Toyota, struck a second fence, and came to a standstill on a field near rows of parked Tesla Robotaxis, according to Homendy.

On Sunday, Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said there was a “complex fire.” Witnesses recorded videos showing dark smoke billowing from the crash site.

MDFR deployed more than 60 units. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing a person climbing out of the cockpit through a window and using the firefighters’ ladder.

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

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

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

Cordero-Stutz said Northwest 67th Avenue was closed from 25th to 32nd streets.

“Our airport operations bureau and incident management team remain on scene to maintain security, preserve the integrity of the scene, and assist with traffic control,” Cordero-Stutz said.

Cordero-Stutz asked the victims’ relatives to contact MDSO victims’ advocates at 305-471-1900.

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

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The move was widely expected after the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia abruptly ended its financial support this year. The final event was last month in Indiana. Four vendors already have filed lawsuits because they have not been paid.

LIV said it has agreed to a restructuring plan with BC Partners as the primary source of its capital.

“This process gives us the structure and time to pursue a landmark transaction and begin the next chapter of LIV Golf," CEO Scott O'Neil said in a news release.

O'Neil has said “LIV Golf 2.0” would feature players as majority owners in a reduced schedule. In a letter to LIV Golf fans, O'Neil said the new look would expand the size of the field from 57 to 75 players and introduce a 54-hole cut for the first time. There also would be Monday qualifiers.

He said the team concept would be built around nationalities and that LIV would continue to tap some of its more successful markets in Australia, South Africa and Asia.

Still, the new version would be a shell of what LIV promised when it launched in June 2022 after paying nine-figure signing bonuses to lure away top names from the PGA Tour. The excessive spending topped more than $5 billion before PIF said in April it was pulling the plug.

Still to be determined is the future of the biggest stars still with LIV, most notably Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau. Rahm is playing the Irish Open this week and told BBC Northern Ireland: "I still have a contract with LIV 1.0 that I’m more than willing to fulfill. Like I said, time will tell.”

Rahm, DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith were the leading four creditors listed in the filing. Of the top 30 creditors LIV listed, 14 were players. The filing listed only the “unsecured claim” — Rahm led the list at nearly $7.5 million — and not the full amount owed.

LIV listed between $100 million and $500 million in estimated assets, and $500 million and $1 billion in liabilities.

The state of Louisiana is listed among the largest creditors at $1,220,000. LIV Golf postponed its event in Louisiana shortly after PIF announced it was ending its support. The Michigan event also was canceled, with the team championship merged into the final event in Indiana.

Chapter 11 is commonly known as reorganization bankruptcy and generally allows the debtor to continue to operate the business, even borrowing new money under court approval.

LIV Golf said the PIF has agreed to provide $49.6 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing through the DIP credit agreement, subject to the court's approval.

BC Partners L.P. — the credit business of UK-based BC Partners — and other minority investors that might emerge would provide the exit financing as LIV tries to keep going. LIV said it intends to emerge from bankruptcy and start its new version as early as 2027.

“Now it is time to enter the next phase of LIV Golf,” O'Neil said in his letter. "Today, we took an important step forward to get there. LIV Golf has entered a court-supervised restructuring process that provides us with the time and framework to address previous financial obligations and complete a transaction that will make the League’s next phase a reality.

“Put simply, this process is designed to build a stronger and more sustainable future for LIV Golf.”

But so much depends on who stays.

The PGA Tour has banned players for one year from their most recent LIV Golf appearance. Brooks Koepka was the first LIV player to return under penalty — a $5 million payment to charity, no equity grants for five years, no access to bonus money the year he returned.

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp offered the same deal to Rahm, DeChambeau and Smith with a tight deadline to accept. None did, and three months later as the U.S.-Iran war took root, PIF pulled its funding and sent LIV Golf into a spiral.

Rolapp has not been inclined to discuss any paths back while players are under contract.

O'Neil said LIV Golf's intention was to “complete, not compete,” a phrase that rankled more stable tours because of the disruption LIV Golf created under former CEO Greg Norman who felt players should be able to compete on any tour, while be required to play a full schedule on LIV.

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A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November election. But that came just moments after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a decision from the Missouri Supreme Court ordering the old districts to be used instead of new ones favored by Trump.

The decisions highlight the bewildering nature of Missouri’s redistricting battle, which has spanned more than a year and leaves Missouri voters in some parts of the state uncertain which district they will be in on Election Day.

Missouri's top court ruled last week that the new Trump-backed map cannot be used because citizens turned in thousands of petition signatures demanding a statewide vote on it.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal from Missouri’s Republican attorney general, leaving in place the injunction from Missouri’s top court. But moments later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Missouri from using anything other than the new districts backed by Republicans.

Redistricting opponents quickly filed a notice to appeal that order to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The new districts were used in the August primary, and the winners already were certified by election officials. But the question of which districts will be used in the November election continues to linger. Clark's order remains in place for 14 days, allowing time for additional court proceedings.

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said the state “is prepared to follow and comply with” Clark's order, which she said “binds the state to using” the new congressional districts.

Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, who oversees elections, described the federal court order as a victory that “halts a full-on constitutional crisis.” He immediately notified local election officials that they are required to use the new districts.

But an attorney for People Not Politicians, the group that sponsored the referendum petition, stressed that the order from Missouri’s top court against using the new map also remains in effect. The group's leader filed a request Tuesday night with the state Supreme Court to hold Hoskins in contempt for attempting to use the new map, and the court scheduled arguments for Thursday on the request.

“An individual federal judge cannot overrule the Missouri Supreme Court,” said attorney Chuck Hatfield, who represents People Not Politicians.

Judge says switching maps could 'wreak havoc'

Hanaway has argued it would violate federal rights and cause confusion to switch districts for voters between the primary and general elections. Clark agreed in his written order.

“Using a different map for the general election would wreak havoc on the fairness and orderliness of Missouri’s congressional elections, calling into question the candidacy of those nominated in the primaries and the votes of those who voted in the primaries," Clark wrote. "Widespread voter confusion would inevitably follow.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who handles cases from Missouri, did not explain the rationale for declining to take up the case.

Missouri law set a Tuesday deadline to change the candidates or issues on the November ballot. But the determination of which ballots voters receive could take longer. Federal law sets a Sept. 19 deadline to begin mailing absentee ballots to overseas citizens and military members.

New Missouri district targets Democrat from Kansas City

Missouri currently is represented in the U.S. House by six Republicans and two Democrats who were elected under districts that Republican state officials approved in 2022.

But at Trump’s urging, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called the Legislature into a special session last year to redraw congressional boundaries to Republicans' advantage ahead of the midterms.

The revised map targeted the 5th Congressional District, held by longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City. It reassigned portions of Kansas City to two neighboring districts represented by Republicans and stretched the remainder of Cleaver’s district far eastward into rural Republican areas.

About 59% of the district’s voters were new under the revised map, according to an Associated Press estimate.

Cleaver, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary, praised Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court action and expressed confidence the old districts will ultimately be used.

State Sen. Rick Brattin won the Republican primary in the reshaped district. He joined with Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Onder and other voters to file the federal lawsuit resulting in Clark's temporary order. Brattin praised that decision while pledging a continued campaign.

Missouri's top court said new districts never became law

On the same day as the primary, Hoskins rejected a petition with thousands of signatures seeking to force a November referendum on the map. Hoskins asserted that Missouri’s Constitution doesn’t allow a referendum on congressional redistricting. A lower court agreed, but the state Supreme Court reversed Hoskins’ decision.

The state’s top court said the new districts were retroactively frozen in December, when the petition signatures were submitted, and thus never became law. Hoskins on Tuesday assigned the redistricting referendum as Proposition A on the November ballot, in compliance with the state court order.

The Missouri Constitution does not specifically say that a referendum can be used for congressional redistricting. But the state Supreme Court said a constitutional provision allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature encompasses congressional redistricting legislation.

Missouri was the second Republican-led state, after Texas, to respond to Trump’s call last year to redraw congressional districts. Several other states followed. All told, Republicans hoped to win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Democrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.

It remains to be seen whether the redistricting works as intended for Republicans. The president’s party historically has lost congressional seats in the midterms, and Trump’s poor approval ratings could provide an extra hurdle for Republican candidates.

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Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers agreed on a new contract Tuesday, five days ahead of the season opener. A person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press it's a $165 million, three-year extension.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team didn't announce the terms.

"Baker’s arrival marked an important new chapter for our organization, and over the past three years he has established himself as the unquestioned leader of our franchise” Buccaneers owner Joel Glazer said. “This contract – the largest in the history of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – reflects our belief in Baker, and his leadership both on and off the field. His competitive spirit, resilience and commitment to winning embody everything we want in our players. Baker and his wife, Emily, have made a meaningful impact in the Tampa Bay community and we are thrilled their family will continue to call Tampa Bay home for years to come.”

Mayfield revived his career in Tampa Bay after replacing Tom Brady in 2023. He was entering the final season of his three-year, $100 million deal with the Bucs.

Mayfield, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft by Cleveland, made the Pro Bowl in each of his first two seasons in Tampa while leading the Bucs to consecutive NFC South titles. He was an MVP candidate through the first half of last season when the team started 6-2, but struggled with injuries and tailed off.

“From the moment Baker arrived, he brought a belief and competitive edge that has had a tremendous impact on our football team,” Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht said. “He has earned the respect of everyone in our building with the way he prepares, competes and holds himself accountable. His toughness and ability to deliver in big moments are a big part of what makes him special, but what really stands out is the leadership he brings every day. Baker is the heartbeat of this team, and we feel incredibly fortunate to have a quarterback and leader like him.”

Mayfield had set a deadline for getting a new contract by the start of training camp, and felt “disrespected” when he didn’t get it.

Now, it’s done.

"I’ve been pretty up front and honest about my feelings about Tampa, it being home for our family, raising kids here,” Mayfield said in July. “We love it here. I wanted a deal done and set the deadline and told them it was going to be all ball after that, and I did mean that. I don’t know if they thought I was gonna take some of the offers that they gave.

“I’m at the point in my career, understanding what I’ve brought to this franchise. One, I’m very thankful for the chance they gave me — do not get me wrong on that. But I also know, I really know what I’ve brought to this franchise, leadership-wise and even play-wise. It’s been some of the best years of my career, and I think it’s only going to trend upwards.”

The Buccaneers, who open the season on the road against Cincinnati, will try to bounce back from an 8-9 record that caused them to miss the playoffs. The Bucs are the consensus betting favorites to win the NFC South for the fifth time in six seasons.

“Baker is the ultimate competitor, and the guys in our locker room feed off the energy, confidence and toughness he brings daily,” Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said. “He prepares the right way, holds himself accountable and is an unquestioned leader for our team. His belief in himself and this team never wavers, and he sets the tone for us every day. That is what you want from the person leading your football team, and we are excited to continue building with him as our quarterback.”

Mayfield, who injured his left shoulder in a late November game against the Los Angeles Rams, started all 17 games last year for the third season in a row and passed for 3,693 yards and 26 touchdowns, with 11 interceptions. It was his first season in Tampa Bay with less than 4,000 yards and his lowest TD total.

Now Mayfield will be without Mike Evans, the all-time franchise leader in receiving with 866 catches for 13,052 yards. Evans signed with San Francisco in the offseason.

But the Bucs could have one of the league's top offensive lines if the front can stay healthy.

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Zion Mitchell, 21, was arrested earlier this month and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm while committing a crime of violence or dangerous crime — both felonies — in connection with an Aug. 25 incident that occurred when a group of the Guard troops took a break, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.

The arrest warrant said Mitchell and the fellow guard member, a woman, were sitting in a van when they began arguing over whether their hairstyles met Army regulations. The argument went back and forth until she heard a holster click and thought Mitchell had opened his holster.

She learned from fellow Guard members after getting out of the van that a weapon had been drawn and pointed at her. She told the investigating MPD officer that she assumed the gun was loaded since all National Guard firearms are generally loaded.

Mitchell was arrested Sept. 1.

A request for comment from the Joint Task Force on the soldier’s status was not immediately answered.

The presence of National Guard members in Washington has been contentious since August 2025, when Trump issued an emergency order because of what he said was out-of-control crime.

The local National Guard was activated and deployed to the streets, along with hundreds of federal law enforcement officers and agents. Trump also took control, briefly, of the local police department. States, all led by Republican governors, sent members of their Guard forces as well.

The deployment has been extended until January 2029.

There are more than 3,100 guard members, from 18 states, Puerto Rico and D.C. still operating in the city as part of the task force. More than 5,000 were in the city for Freedom 250 events in July and August.

Georgia has the second largest contingent with 531 personnel, as of Sept. 8.

That participation has sparked anger among some in Washington who say the troops are here illegally and not lowering serious crimes.

Over the months, Guard members have responded to medical emergencies, assisted with arrests, helped local police enforce the city’s juvenile curfew and carried out beautification projects. The D.C. Guard helped with snow removal during a major storm in January.

According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, the dispute happened just before noon at a home in the 1400 block of Southwest Fifth Court in the city’s Riverside Park neighborhood.

The FLPD report states that Doherty, 22, had been in an argument with his girlfriend that became physical.

Police said Doherty “moved quickly towards her and got in her face,” prompting her to use her arm “to make distance” between the two, giving Doherty “two scratch marks” on his face and collarbone. Officers said surveillance video “confirmed the series of events.”

According to the report, the woman told officers that the argument continued after she went upstairs.

The woman said Doherty was “angry” over her “wanting to leave,” so he “pushed her to the ground and used his hands around her neck to briefly pin her to the ground,” the report states.

Police said Doherty’s girlfriend remained able to breathe. They said she grabbed a gun from the bedside table and “held it by her side,” telling Doherty, in fear, that “she will shoot him if he comes near her.”

According to the report, Doherty declined to speak with officers, who arrested him on a domestic battery charge. He later bonded out of jail.

Broward court records list no attorney for the influencer, whose full name is Jack Cashin Doherty.

Friday’s arrest marked his second publicized run-in with the law in South Florida: In November 2025, Miami Beach police arrested Doherty on drug charges. Body camera footage showed the South Beach arrest.

In that case, Miami-Dade court records show that Doherty entered into a deferred prosecution program.

Following the American strikes, Iran launched missiles toward U.S. targets in Jordan, Iranian state-run media said. Jordan’s military said its air defense systems intercepted 18 ballistic missiles launched toward its territory and two others fell in places where no one lives. It said it has no reports of casualties. Jordan is a staunch U.S. ally that hosts American forces, making the kingdom’s military bases a target of repeat Iranian strikes. U.S. Central Command said it had no information to offer.

The latest strikes are part of a dual economic and military approach by President Donald Trump as he struggles to bring an end to the war. The Trump administration on Tuesday also imposed sanctions on additional elements of Iran’s aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers, in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining trading partners.

Both the U.S. and Iran are seeking to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz, where about one-fifth of the world’s oil passed before the war began. Rising energy prices are posing political problems for Trump and his Republican Party ahead of the November midterm elections. A barrel of international standard Brent crude briefly climbed as high as $99.46 on Tuesday.

The U.S. forces also destroyed three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tried to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier and destroyer with ballistic missiles, warning that it would, “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” Iran later said it planned to announce a new “exclusion zone” near the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels intending to transit.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will not allow Iran’s attacks to go unanswered.

“Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers. And I think you’ll see that again today,” Rubio told reporters Tuesday when asked about the latest attacks in Iran while on a trip to Colombia.

Danny Citrinowicz, an Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warned that such back-and-forth strikes can only risk more retaliation and further impact to the global economy.

“There is no kinetic solution to the Strait of Hormuz problem,” he said on social media. “Every attempt to impose one only brings Washington and Tehran closer to an escalation that may become increasingly difficult to control.”

U.S. Central Command said the military struck the tankers on Tuesday after the Revolutionary Guards targeted a Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days. “The U.S. warship successfully evaded the attempted Iranian attacks and continued to patrol regional waters. No American personnel were harmed,” it said in a statement.

It said the Iranian tankers destroyed on Tuesday were the Kivik, Charminar, Horizon 1 and the Riesco in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. military also destroyed the vessel Derya, which was located near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The statement said the crews of the five vessels were told to abandoned ship before the attacks.

Iranian state television also reported the U.S. strikes, saying U.S. forces attacked Iranian oil tankers near the southern port of Jask and near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. It said the crews were evacuated.

An Iranian state TV reporter in Jask said an Iranian tanker was struck near the coast of Yekbeni. State TV later reported that the U.S. military attacked a second tanker near waters off Jask. Separately, state television reported that another Iranian tanker was attacked in the Kharg Island anchorage area.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy on Tuesday had warned crews of oil tankers near ports in Kuwait and Bahrain to immediately leave their vessels, saying the ships could be targeted in retaliation for U.S. attacks on Iranian tankers. It accused Kuwait and Bahrain of hosting U.S. forces and assisting in the attacks.

A U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has squeezed the country’s economy by limiting its oil exports, while the American military has been helping a limited number of ships transit on a route through the Strait of Hormuz off Oman. Tehran wants ships to follow a route that it chooses through the strait, which was considered an international waterway before the war.

“I think he’ll be ready to go sooner rather than later. But we’re making a decision that we think is best for him and for our team,” coach Sean McVay said Tuesday.

The 35-year-old Donald rejoined the Rams in late August after two seasons away from the team, and the eight-time first team All-Pro defensive tackle has been working his way back into game shape. But with a 16-hour flight on deck ahead of the game, which will take place Friday morning local time at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, McVay decided the prudent decision was to keep Donald at home and allow him to continue his preparations.

“He’s as great a competitor as there is,” McVay said. “Wants to be out there. Wants to influence and affect positive change for us. But I think he also understands there’s a necessary ramp up.”

Donald was mum on his playing status Monday following a scheduled day off from practice to focus on his cardio. Donald has been pleased with how his body is responding to his return to football.

“I’m feeling good, knocking the rust off,” Donald said. “I thought I’d be a lot more rusty then I was, but taking it day by day.”

The Rams have spent the previous three seasons developing their interior defensive line depth for a future without Donald, including drafting Kobie Turner and Braden Fiske and signing Poona Ford in free agency. McVay said his trust in that group to perform at a high level factored into the call to not rush Donald back onto the field immediately.

“Every single game is so important. We want him out there. But I do think what’s great for our group is (I) feel great about the guys that are going to be playing in Australia,” McVay said.

“Any good defensive line I’ve been a part of, there’s a rotation where you got to have five, six guys that play and play meaningful snaps.”

Holding out Donald delays the anticipated first look at two of the most productive pass rushers in NFL history playing with each other in pairing him with defensive end Myles Garrett. Donald has 111 sacks in 154 career regular season games, and Garrett has 125 1/2 sacks in 134 games.

Garrett, who is set to play after being limited for much of training camp because of a knee injury, has enjoyed his time with Donald so far.

“He smiles more than I thought,” Garrett said. “You see him on the field, he don't look like he smiles ever. But, yeah, he has a good sense of humor.”

Garrett and cornerback Jaylen Watson (toe) did not practice Tuesday. Watson signed a three-year contract worth up to $51 million in March as the Rams reshaped their secondary by adding the former Kansas City Chief and trading for All-Pro defensive back Trent McDuffie.

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Marlon Gerardo Sáenz Cruz, de 65 años, quien desertó del gobernante partido sandinista, fue uno de los 222 presos a quienes se les despojó de la ciudadanía nicaragüense y que fueron llevados a Washington mediante una iniciativa del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos en febrero de 2023. Ahora, luego de ser detenido durante su registro ante las autoridades migratorias el pasado 17 de agosto en Los Ángeles, debe presentar su caso ante un juez de inmigración para poder permanecer en el país.

Su audiencia en la corte de inmigración, programada para el 8 de septiembre, se produce en momentos en que las tasas de rechazo de asilo se han disparado durante el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump y en que personas a las que se les concedieron protecciones menores contra la deportación están siendo enviadas cada vez con mayor frecuencia a terceros países de América Latina y África con los que no tienen vínculos.

“Aún si logra obtener protección de un juez de inmigración de Estados Unidos, su seguridad no está garantizada”, señaló Savi Arvey, directora de políticas y derechos de refugiados e inmigrantes en Human Rights First.

La detención de Sáenz se produjo después de que un grupo de exiliados nicaragüenses, principalmente en Miami, envió una carta al Departamento de Estado el año pasado. Aseguran que él y decenas de exfuncionarios del gobierno mantienen vínculos con el gobierno del presidente nicaragüense Daniel Ortega y su esposa y copresidenta, Rosario Murillo.

Los exiliados también acusaron a Sáenz de hostigar a otros opositores del gobierno mientras estaba en Estados Unidos. Un representante legal de Sáenz indicó que él simplemente respondía a ataques en su contra.

“Pedimos al departamento de Estado investigar a todas estas personas porque no es posible que le estén lavando las manos de sangre y la cara a un criminal que no puede estar en los Estados Unidos y que es un peligro para la seguridad nacional de este país”, dijo Aída Carrión Vanegas, presidenta de la organización de defensa Nicaraguan Americans United for the Republic.

En octubre de 2025, el subsecretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Christopher Landau, le respondió a Carrión Vanegas en X, afirmando que revisaría las acusaciones. Ella no ha vuelto a saber de él desde entonces. El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios.

La posible deportación de Sáenz a Nicaragua enviaría un mensaje que “desalienta futuras deserciones y refuerza la narrativa del régimen de que no hay una salida segura”, señaló la representante acreditada ante la corte Muriel Sáenz, quien le ha ayudado con su solicitud de asilo y no tiene parentesco con él.

De sandinista a preso y luego detenido por el ICE

Sáenz, conocido en Nicaragua como El Chino Enoc, se convirtió en guerrillero siendo adolescente en la década de 1970 y se mantuvo cercano durante décadas a figuras sandinistas de alto nivel. Más tarde, habló con el diario nicaragüense La Prensa sobre su participación en un grupo paramilitar alineado con el gobierno que reprimió a manifestantes tras marchas masivas antigubernamentales que exigían la renuncia de Ortega en 2018. Cientos de personas murieron.

Ortega ha afirmado que las protestas de 2018 fueron un golpe de Estado respaldado por Estados Unidos para derrocarlo y que quienes fueron encarcelados estaban involucrados en el complot.

La representante acreditada de Sáenz negó que él hubiera matado a alguien o cometido algún delito en Nicaragua.

Sáenz rompió con el gobierno en 2019 y comenzó a usar su popular canal de YouTube para denunciar la corrupción dentro del gobierno de Ortega-Murillo, que ha mantenido su control del poder durante casi dos décadas mientras sofoca la disidencia mediante el encarcelamiento y la tortura de opositores.

Fue encarcelado en Nicaragua en mayo de 2022 por cargos de narcotráfico y tráfico de armas, que, en su opinión, tuvieron motivaciones políticas.

Actualmente tiene una úlcera en la pierna, glaucoma y otros problemas de salud, algunos de ellos, derivados de haber sido torturado y mantenido en aislamiento, según Muriel Sáenz, quien dijo temer por su salud. Añadió que las complicaciones por haber tenido polio de niño han empeorado durante su detención bajo custodia del ICE y que ahora usa una silla de ruedas.

El ICE no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios, pero su localizador en línea muestra que Sáenz está recluido en el Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

Un caso migratorio complicado

El caso migratorio de Sáenz plantea un dilema legal porque un juez de inmigración tendrá que sopesar su presunta participación en abusos de derechos humanos frente al principio de no enviar a alguien a una situación de peligro, explicó Heather Hogan, abogada y asesora de políticas y práctica de la American Immigration Lawyer Association.

Sáenz y los otros presos nicaragüenses ingresaron a Estados Unidos con permiso humanitario, un estatus temporal otorgado en emergencias que no garantiza una vía hacia la ciudadanía. Luego abrió un caso de asilo dentro del año siguiente a su entrada al país, como se exige.

“Mi cliente llegó a Estados Unidos para escapar de la persecución política y de una vil dictadura”, dijo su abogado Tucker Sandler. “El señor Sáenz merece respeto, dignidad y una oportunidad justa de obtener asilo porque esa es la promesa democrática de nuestro gran país”.

Según la ley migratoria de Estados Unidos, los perpetradores de abusos de derechos humanos, incluida la tortura, las desapariciones forzadas o las ejecuciones extrajudiciales, tienen prohibido recibir asilo, y un juez tendría que determinar si la participación pasada de Sáenz con el gobierno sandinista lo vuelve inelegible.

Pero un juez también podría concederle una suspensión de la deportación en virtud de la Convención contra la Tortura (CAT, por sus siglas en inglés), un tratado internacional de derechos humanos del que Estados Unidos es parte, si se determina que probablemente enfrentaría tortura en Nicaragua.

Esa protección impediría que Sáenz fuera deportado a Nicaragua, pero no le otorgaría un estatus migratorio permanente ni evitaría que Estados Unidos lo enviara a un tercer país, como se ha vuelto común bajo el gobierno de Trump.

“En algunos casos como este, a la gente sí se le concede la suspensión”, afirmó Hogan, quien anteriormente resolvió casos de personas implicadas en posibles abusos de derechos humanos como funcionario de asilo del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos.

“Porque nuestro análisis se centra más en cumplir nuestras leyes y obligaciones internacionales… no en llevar a cabo un juicio e imponer un castigo por sus acciones pasadas”.

Pero el gobierno de Trump ha roto con el precedente de permitir que las personas con protecciones de la CAT permanezcan en Estados Unidos, y en su lugar las envía a terceros países, dijo Arvey, de Human Rights First.

“Es una situación desoladora porque nunca se había atacado a esta población de esta manera”, expresó.

Dudas sobre la rendición de cuentas por abusos de derechos humanos en Nicaragua

Los exiliados nicaragüenses están divididos sobre cómo debería manejarse el caso de Sáenz.

Miguel Mora, un antiguo preso que llegó a Estados Unidos en el mismo grupo que Sáenz y que también tiene un caso de asilo pendiente, dijo que la participación de Sáenz en la represión de 2018 hacía que el caso fuera “complicado”, pero sostuvo que “corresponde exclusivamente a las autoridades de Estados Unidos determinar, conforme a la ley y a las pruebas del caso, si tiene o no derecho a recibir asilo”.

Danny Ramírez Ayérdiz, abogado nicaragüense y fundador del Centro Interamericano de Asistencia Legal en Derechos Humanos, que investiga abusos del gobierno de Ortega-Murillo, afirmó que Sáenz debería rendir cuentas por sus presuntos delitos, pero sólo después de una transición política en Nicaragua, cuando podría ser extraditado allí para enfrentar a la justicia.

“Pero si lo envían a Nicaragua ahora mismo, corre el riesgo de morir”, dijo Ramírez Ayérdiz. “Al igual que como otros exsandinistas, el régimen sería especialmente cruel con él”.

Manuel Prado, vicepresidente de la Miskitu American Organization, que aboga por los derechos de los grupos indígenas nicaragüenses, señaló que el desenlace del caso de Sáenz enviará un mensaje sobre cómo Nicaragua avanzará “para sanar a la nación”.

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Recovered from a broken rib, Judge started in right field and batted third in a series opener against the Colorado Rockies.

Following a pair of balls from rookie Gabriel Hughes in the first inning, Judge fouled off two pitches and swung under a four-seam fastball. After Hughes fell behind 2-0 again in the fourth, Judge took a called strike and flied out to deep right-center on another fastball.

When he took the field in the top of the first, Judge smiled broadly and repeatedly tapped the interlocking “NY” on his jersey.

“He won’t play the whole game today, even though he wants to,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Tuesday afternoon. “He'll probably have one of the days this series off.”

A three-time AL MVP, Judge had missed 84 games since his last appearance on May 31. The 34-year-old captain tried to persuade Boone to activate him after center fielder Trent Grisham strained a hamstring on Friday night.

“He actually appeared in my door in San Diego after Grish got hurt: ‘Ready to go tomorrow,’" Boone recalled. “Didn’t want to do that because there were some final boxes we definitely wanted him to check.”

Judge took batting practice at Yankee Stadium on Monday's off day and was activated from the 60-day injured list that night. Boone had spoken separately with Judge, and strength and conditioning coach Brett McCabe, followed by the athletic training staff, general manager Brian Cashman and owner Hal Steinbrenner.

“Hal just wanted to know where everyone was with it, where we stood,” Boone said.

Judge, who didn't speak with reporters before the game, sprayed several homers to right, center and left during batting practice Tuesday. He entered hitting .248 with 17 homers, 38 RBIs and a .907 OPS this season.

Judge initially was injured attempting to avoid second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. during an unsuccessful try for a diving catch at Houston on April 26 and batted .263 with seven homers and 20 RBIs in 31 games before going on the injured list. He had just one homer in 18 games before the IL stint.

New York was 36-23 after Judge last played on May 31 and went 45-39 in his absence. The Yankees hit .243 with 86 homers, a .770 OPS and an average of 5.17 runs in 59 games through May 31 but .227 with 107 homers, a .681 OPS and an average of 4.06 runs while Judge was sidelined. Their batting average during that stretch ranked 29th among the 30 major league teams, ahead of Seattle at .225.

“We hung in there,” Boone said. “We’ve had stretches where it’s been a real struggle for us offensively.”

Opposing pitchers were a little more aggressive against other Yankees batters during Judge's absence, according to MLB Statcast. Ben Rice received 48.3% strikes, up from 46.7%, and Cody Bellinger 49.7%, an increase from 47.3%.

“There is an effect around him netting better opportunities and better at-bats for everyone,” Boone said. “We’re very left-handed and have been much of the year. So how many days a week are we getting a lefty in the fifth inning, in the seventh inning and the ninth inning and they’re matching up against us and they don’t have to roll through Aaron Judge that’s surrounding those lefties?”

New York entered 81-62, four games behind AL East-leading Tampa Bay and two games in front of Boston (80-65) for the top AL wild card. The Yankees hold a potential tiebreaker over the Red Sox after winning the season series.

Judge hit a career-high .331 with 53 homers and 114 RBIs in 152 games last year, winning his third MVP award and first batting title.

Cruz hopes to return this year

Relief pitcher Fernando Cruz, sidelined since Aug. 25 by a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, decided against Tommy John surgery after being examined by Texas Rangers physician Dr. Keith Meister and hopes to pitch again this season.

Cruz had a cortisone shot and plans to resume throwing this week.

“If it breaks, it breaks," he said. “If you hear a pop or you hear something, it’s time to go to an operation.”

Weathers also plans to be back this season

Left-hander Ryan Weathers threw on flat ground up to 75 feet as he tries to return from a left forearm flexor strain that has kept him out of games since Aug. 22.

Weathers intends to throw again Wednesday and Thursday, take Friday off and perhaps pitch off a mound after that. He hopes to have a bullpen role in the postseason.

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Toney finished Friday’s game with 12 receptions for 234 yards and three touchdowns. His 234 receiving yards set a new Miami program record, breaking the previous record of 220 yards set by Eddie Brown against Boston College in 1984. Toney averaged 19.5 yards per reception.

Toney, 18, recorded 10 catches for 182 yards and two touchdowns during the first half. He scored his third touchdown in the second half and had a longest reception of 48 yards.

Toney’s 234 receiving yards made up more than half of Miami’s 401 passing yards. Quarterback Darian Mensah, who transferred from Duke, threw for five touchdowns in his first game with the Hurricanes. Miami finished the game with 549 total yards.

The game was the first time Toney recorded more than 200 receiving yards in a single game. He also set career highs in receiving yards and touchdown receptions.

No. 7 Miami will host Florida A&M at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.

The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for the 1989 fatal shootings of their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion. A Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life in May 2025, making them eligible for parole because they were under age 26 when they committed their crimes.

They were denied parole in August 2025, with the California Board of Parole saying Lyle Menendez still displayed “anti-social personality traits like deception” and that Erik Menendez broke prison rules by repeatedly using a cellphone.

The brothers were then eligible to apply for another hearing in August 2028. That's now been tentatively moved up to March by the parole board after the brothers' petitions for earlier hearings were granted on Friday.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation allows eligible prisoners to seek earlier parole if there is “a change in circumstances or new information indicating the person may be suitable for parole.”

The department did not immediately respond to requests for comment about why the brothers were granted an earlier hearing. The brothers' attorney declined to comment through a family spokeswoman.

Michael Beckman, a California attorney who has focused on parole law since 1985, said parole denials are eligible to be reviewed after a year to determine whether the next parole hearing can be moved up.

He said that, in theory, getting an advance hearing could signal inmates have a likely chance of getting granted parole.

“But it doesn’t work that way. It really depends upon who the commissioners are, what exactly they did to merit getting an advance, what problems they had coming in,” said Beckman, who represented Bruce Davis, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson who was convicted in two 1969 slayings.

Davis has been recommended for parole seven times, but the decisions were reversed by three consecutive governors and Davis remains in prison.

“The Menendez are a very high-profile case so that tends to make things harder,” he said.

The case has long captivated true crime enthusiasts, with the brothers amassing public support in recent years after shows on Netflix renewed interest.

Weeks after the board rejected their release last year, a Los Angeles judge denied their petition seeking a review of their convictions based on new evidence supporting their claims of sexual abuse by their father.

“For almost 40 years, Erik and Lyle have worked to take responsibility for their actions, confront and heal from the unimaginable abuse and trauma they endured, grow as individuals, and dedicate themselves to serving others,” their family said in a statement Monday.

The family said the brothers, who are in a San Diego prison, helped establish a hospice program and created a beautification program at the prison.

“They have sought to build an environment that reminds people serving life sentences that their lives still have meaning and that, regardless of their circumstances, they can choose each day to grow, heal, accept accountability,” the family said.

The brothers went on trial separately, and in 1994 each jury deadlocked. Prosecutors argued that they killed their parents for financial gain. The brothers’ attorneys did not dispute the pair killed their parents but argued that they acted out of self-defense after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.

Two years later, the brothers were retried together with much of the defense evidence about alleged sexual abuse excluded. Jurors convicted both brothers of first-degree murder.

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook is stressing the safety and privacy features of the agent, which for now is only available in the U.S. Muse, Meta said, runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user's data.

People can message the agent in a separate app, called Muse, or message it in WhatsApp. It can handle simple tasks like sending an email or booking travel, or bigger, long-term goals like creating a yearlong exercise plan or setting up a new business.

“Once a person shares a goal with Muse, it helps them develop a personalized plan and coordinate their time and resources, then advances the work on its own. It can open a browser, fill out forms, and negotiate on their behalf,” Meta said in a blog post.

Tech companies are touting AI agents as the next step after chatbots, which can answer questions and retrieve information but won't take action on the user's behalf.

At its most basic level, an AI agent works like a traditional, human-crafted computer program that executes a job, like launching an application. Combined with an AI large language model, however, it can search for knowledge that enables it to complete tasks without explicit, step-by-step instructions. That means, instead of just helping you draft the language of an email, it can theoretically handle the whole process — receiving a message from your coworker, figuring out what you might want to say, and firing off the response on its own.

For Meta, the agent fits into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of AI superintelligence that's available to “everyone.” He outlined his vision last month in a 6,500-word essay published online.

In the document derided by critics as fantastical, Zuckerberg said his company is working toward an era where everyone will have the tools to create new businesses, receive Ph.D.-level tutoring and provide personalized lifestyle tips.

“Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more,” Zuckerberg wrote. “It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise.”

The question is, will people actually use it?

Ante las cancelaciones y retrasos provocados por la situación, la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, pidió el martes a los viajeros que confirmen con sus aerolíneas el estado de sus vuelos.

“Tendremos que esperar aquí”, dijo Ali Malik, quien el martes enfrentaba incertidumbre sobre si sus padres lograrían llegar a MIA.

El lugar del accidente también afectó el tráfico vehicular. Cordero-Stutz indicó que agentes de la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade cerraron la avenida 67 noroeste entre las calles 25 y 32.

“Nuestra oficina de operaciones aeroportuarias y el equipo de manejo de incidentes permanecen en el lugar para mantener la seguridad, preservar la integridad de la escena y ayudar con el control del tráfico”, dijo Cordero-Stutz.

Cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas después de que el Boeing 767-300 se saliera de la pista 30 de MIA poco antes de las 2:00 p.m. del domingo e impactara una van Ford E-150 Econoline blanca del 2012 y un Toyota Corolla Cross LE, según la Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB).

La aerolínea de carga 21 Air, con sede en Carolina del Norte, operaba el vuelo 798 de Prime Air para Amazon en el Boeing 767-300, fabricado en 1994, con dos tripulantes a bordo, según la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) y la NTSB.

El Boeing 767-300 había despegado del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, según la FAA y la NTSB. Un video grabado por un testigo muestra nubes de tormenta imponentes al momento en que el avión aterrizó en la pista.

Homendy dijo que el avión recorrió 1,300 pies “más allá de la superficie pavimentada”.

Mientras aún se encontraba dentro de MIA, el Boeing 767-300 impactó la van Econoline, propiedad de Professional Ocean Service Corp., una empresa de limpieza, y la dejó “destrozada”, según la presidenta de la NTSB, Jennifer Homendy.

“En total había siete personas en esa van”, dijo Cordero-Stutz el martes.

Cordero-Stutz identificó a los cinco fallecidos como Rolando Alemán León, de 55 años; Yoel Rodríguez Naranjo, de 53; Julio C. Pineda, de 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, de 53; y Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, de 47.

Según Homendy, el avión atravesó una cerca, impactó el Toyota, chocó contra una segunda cerca y quedó detenido en un terreno cercano a filas de Tesla Robotaxis estacionados.

Cordero-Stutz indicó que tres de los heridos permanecían hospitalizados el martes. La MDSO los identificó como Eugenio Corredor, en estado crítico; Ridoel Averhoff Díaz, de 32 años, en estado crítico; y Roosevelt Sebastián Perdomo Torres, de 36 años, en condición estable.

“Los dos pilotos recibieron tratamiento y ya fueron dados de alta”, dijo Cordero-Stutz.

La MDSO identificó a los pilotos como Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, de 37 años, y Joseph Carol, de 55, quienes sufrieron heridas leves.

El domingo, el jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah, dijo que se trató de un “incendio complejo”. Testigos grabaron videos que muestran una densa humareda negra saliendo del lugar del accidente. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) desplegó más de 60 unidades.

Los bomberos indicaron que usaron espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimento del motor.

Rohan Ellis, un testigo, compartió un video que muestra a una persona saliendo de la cabina por una ventana y usando la escalera de los bomberos.

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

“Hay combustible por todas partes. Eso habrá que remediarlo, pero además están extrayendo el combustible de la aeronave, así que tenemos que dejar que eso ocurra”, dijo Homendy el lunes sobre el lugar del accidente.

Cordero-Stutz pidió a los familiares de las víctimas que se comuniquen con los defensores de víctimas de la MDSO al 305-471-1900.

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

James wrote on social media that Jizzle “is not in the right state of mind right now. If you see him, show him love, but do not give him money, valuables, or anything material. You’re not helping him by feeding the problem. He wants/needs for nothing.”

“Give him a hug. Give him encouragement. Give him love. That’s it. Be patient with him," James said. "We’re fighting for him, not against him.”

Jizzle James spent the last three seasons with Cincinnati but transferred earlier this offseason to Charlotte after head coach Wes Miller left the Bearcats and was hired by the 49ers.

A member of the Charlotte sports information staff confirmed James is no longer with the program.

Cincinnati dismissed James from the program last summer before he was brought back on the roster midway through the season. He played in 23 games last season averaging 10.9 points and 2.1 assists per game for the Bearcats.

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The 2026 season begins in Seattle one day before the 49ers and Rams meet in Melbourne, Australia, in the first of nine international games.

Led by their “Dark Side” defense, the Seahawks dominated the Patriots 29-13 to win the franchise's second Super Bowl in February.

They lost Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, cornerback Riq Woolen, safety Coby Bryant and offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak. But they're 3 1/2-point favorites against New England.

“It’s going to be electric,” Seahawks All-Pro receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba said on AP's “Football Unfiltered” podcast. “I’m excited. ... Definitely looking forward to being out there again on this new journey with our new team, with our fans, it’s going be awesome.”

The Patriots gave Maye a new No. 1 receiver, acquiring A.J. Brown from Philadelphia. They also signed veteran wideout Romeo Doubs and bolstered the secondary by adding All-Pro safety Kevin Byard.

Pro Picks expects a close one.

SEAHAWKS: 23-22

SAN FRANCISCO vs. LOS ANGELES RAMS, in Australia

Line: Rams minus 3 ½

Aaron Donald is back to join Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie on a star-studded defense in Los Angeles. With a dynamic offense led by reigning NFL MVP Matthew Stafford and All-Pro receiver Puka Nacua, the Rams are Super Bowl favorites. But they’re in the toughest division in the NFL and the 49ers were one win away from the No. 1 seed last season. The teams split in 2025 and the Rams have won four of the last five. Los Angeles was 9-3 against the spread when favored by at least 3 ½ points last season.

RAMS: 27-20

NEW YORK JETS at TENNESSEE

Line: Titans minus 1 ½

Robert Saleh’s first game as coach of the Titans is against the team that fired him in 2024. He has Cam Ward. The Jets have Geno Smith. Saleh is in a better spot now.

TITANS: 19-16

NEW ORLEANS at DETROIT

Line: Lions minus 6 1/2

Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown and the Lions have too much offense for the Saints, who had a promising finish last season but lost a few key players in training camp.

LIONS: 30-20

CLEVELAND at JACKSONVILLE

Line: Jaguars minus 8 ½

The Jaguars won 13 games last season and have most of their starters back. The Browns traded Garrett and are giving Deshaun Watson his first start since Oct. 20, 2024. This won’t be close.

JAGUARS 27-12

CHICAGO at CAROLINA

Line: Bears minus 3

Both teams won their division last season though Carolina did it with a losing record. Expectations are high for Caleb Williams in his second season in Ben Johnson’s offense. Get ready for the first “Good, better, best” chant in Chicago’s locker room of the new season. Not predicting whether Johnson keeps his shirt on.

BEARS: 24-18

TAMPA BAY at CINCINNATI

Line: Bengals minus 3 ½

After starting 0-2 four times in Joe Burrow’s first five seasons, the Bengals opened 3-0 last year before things went downhill. They bolstered their defense to go with a prolific offense. Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers will be a tough test for that new-look defense featuring Dexter Lawrence.

BENGALS: 26-24

ATLANTA at PITTSBURGH

Line: Steelers minus 3 ½

Tua Tagovailoa and Kevin Stefanski try to spoil Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy’s reunion. Bijan Robinson gives the Falcons their best chance. Rodgers goes against a depleted pass rush so he should have time to throw to DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman.

STEELERS: 24-17

BUFFALO at HOUSTON

Line: Bills minus 1 ½

Joe Brady’s first game as Buffalo’s coach will be a major challenge against DeMeco Ryans and his stingy defense in Houston. C.J. Stroud plays his first game since his turnover debacle in the playoffs. Pro Picks has Josh Allen and the Bills beating the Texans in the AFC title game.

TEXANS: 19-17

BALTIMORE at INDIANAPOLIS

Line: Ravens minus 3 ½

Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and the Ravens have high expectations in coach Jesse Minter’s first season. Daniel Jones is back for Indianapolis. So is Sauce Gardner. The Colts finished last season with seven straight losses after opening 8-2.

RAVENS: 23-20

GREEN BAY at MINNESOTA

Line: Packers minus 1 ½

Jordan Love and the Packers were 0-5 without Micah Parsons last season. He’s not back until October so they can’t afford to wait for a win. Kyler Murray makes his first start for the Vikings, aiming to become Kevin O’Connell’s next reclamation project.

VIKINGS: 23-20

WASHINGTON at PHILADELPHIA

Line: Eagles minus 5 ½

Jalen Hurts begins his fifth straight season with a new offensive coordinator as Sean Mannion replaced Kevin Patullo. Hurts could have a big year if Mannion unlocks Saquon Barkley and the run game. The Commanders had a terrible defense last season. They added Sonny Styles and some veterans but a banged-up offensive line will struggle protecting Jayden Daniels against Philadelphia’s fierce defense.

BEST BET: EAGLES: 31-16

MIAMI at LAS VEGAS

Line: Raiders minus 3 ½

Two rookie coaches meet in a matchup of two teams that aren’t going to win many games. Kirk Cousins and the Raiders get the first one, though stopping Dolphins running back De’Von Achane will be a tough task for Las Vegas’ defense.

RAIDERS: 20-17

ARIZONA at LOS ANGELES CHARGERS

Line: Chargers minus 9 ½

Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers have won 11 games in each of his first two seasons and brought in Mike McDaniel to run the offense led by Justin Herbert. Rookie coach Mike LaFleur is starting the season with veteran Jacoby Brissett. Los Angeles has dominated inferior teams under Harbaugh.

CHARGERS: 30-16

DALLAS at NEW YORK GIANTS

Line: Cowboys minus 3

The Cowboys can score behind Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. They hope new coordinator Christian Parker, rookie safety Caleb Downs and other additions improve the defense enough to make them a contender. John Harbaugh is the new man in charge in New York. Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo and the rest of the Giants will be better for it. Not enough to win this week.

COWBOYS: 26-20

DENVER at KANSAS CITY

Line: Chiefs minus 2 1/2

Patrick Mahomes is back after tearing his ACL last Dec. 14 and the Chiefs are coming off their first losing season under Andy Reid. He faces one of the NFL’s best defenses. Bo Nix returns for the Broncos after an ankle injury forced him to miss the AFC championship game. Denver has won three in a row in the series and four of five after losing 16 straight.

UPSET SPECIAL: BRONCOS: 23-20

2025

Overall: Straight up: 194-90-1. Against spread: 149-128-8.

Best Bet: Straight up: 15-6. Against spread: 9-11-1.

Upset Special: Straight up: 14-7. Against spread: 15-6.

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Los cinco trabajadores fallecidos fueron identificados el martes por la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade como Carlos Acosta Fajardo, de 53 años; Rolando Alemán León, de 55; Julio C. Pineda, de 75; Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, de 47; y Yoel Rodríguez Naranjo, de 53.

Los cinco trabajaban para Professional Ocean Service Corp., una empresa que presta servicio a aeronaves en el aeropuerto y que tiene su sede justo en las afueras de MIA.

Dos trabajadores sobrevivieron cuando el Boeing 767, operado por la aerolínea de carga 21 Air en representación de Amazon, se salió de la pista la tarde del domingo y chocó contra su van Ford Econoline.

Los dos ocupantes que iban dentro de la van sobrevivieron al accidente; también sobrevivió el conductor de una SUV, quien fue impactado cuando el avión atravesó la cerca perimetral del aeropuerto y llegó hasta la avenida 67 noroeste.

La empresa emitió un comunicado sobre el incidente el martes.

En él, la compañía expresó que su equipo está devastado por lo ocurrido y describió a sus empleados como algo más que compañeros de trabajo: los consideran parte de su familia y les tienen un profundo cariño.

La empresa pidió al público mantener a las familias de los empleados en sus pensamientos y oraciones, y respetar su privacidad durante este momento sumamente difícil.

Mendonca, designado por el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, señaló en su fallo que el director general de la policía federal, Andrei Rodrigues, nominado por Lula, y el director de inteligencia de la fuerza, Leandro Almada, encabezaban una organización que presuntamente elaboró seis informes ilegales sobre las actividades del magistrado hasta finales de agosto.

El procurador general de Lula apeló la decisión ante el presidente del tribunal horas después, con el argumento de que Mendonca no tiene jurisdicción para decidir quién encabeza la policía federal del país.

Mendonca preside actualmente dos investigaciones políticamente sensibles: una sobre el colapso de Banco Master, que ha involucrado a varios políticos, y otra sobre presuntos fraudes en el sistema de pensiones de Brasil. La primera ha afectado sobre todo a figuras de la oposición del país, mientras que la segunda ha suscitado dudas sobre posibles irregularidades por parte de uno de los hijos de Lula.

La procuraduría general de Brasil dijo en un comunicado que la decisión de Mendonca es “una grave lesión al orden público y administrativo” que cuestiona el derecho del presidente a elegir quién dirige la policía federal. También señaló que la “abrupta destitución” de Rodrigues pone en riesgo el funcionamiento de las actividades policiales.

Lula busca reelegirse en octubre en unas elecciones en las que se enfrentará al senador Flávio Bolsonaro, hijo del expresidente (quien actualmente cumple en su domicilio una condena de 27 años de prisión por un intento de golpe de Estado).

William Marcel Murad, director ejecutivo de la policía federal y reemplazo interino de Rodrigues, afirmó en un comunicado que el director general cuenta con la “plena confianza” de la fuerza y que los agentes “no se dejarán sacudir por ataques”.

Más tarde, 11 directores de la policía federal indicaron en un comunicado conjunto que habían ofrecido sus renuncias a Murad, quien decidirá si las acepta. Los directores sostuvieron que las acusaciones de Mendonca “carecen de fundamento y desafían la historia, la credibilidad y el compromiso institucional” del director general y del jefe de inteligencia de la fuerza.

“Las narrativas que están notablemente influidas por intereses electorales y políticos no tienen el poder de borrar la historia, la reputación y la trayectoria profesional” de los líderes de la policía federal, se lee en el comunicado.

La decisión de Mendonca de destituir al jefe de la policía federal se produce en medio de un fuerte choque entre él y el juez Alexandre de Moraes, quien condenó a Bolsonaro a prisión el año pasado. La semana pasada, Mendonca desclasificó documentos de la policía federal que mostraban que el propietario de Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro, buscaba con frecuencia asesoría legal de De Moraes antes de su arresto.

De Moraes había negado previamente cualquier irregularidad relacionada con Vorcaro, aunque su esposa prestó servicios legales a Banco Master como parte de un contrato de 130 millones de reales (25 millones de dólares). Desde que Mendonca decidió desclasificar los documentos la semana pasada, De Moraes enfrenta la presión de políticos, medios de comunicación y expertos legales para que renuncie. Aún no ha hecho comentarios públicos sobre el caso.

Los principales medios de Brasil informaron la semana pasada que Mendonca buscaba que se suspendiera a De Moraes del tribunal hasta que este decida si debe ser investigado en el posible caso de corrupción. De Moraes, a su vez, sostuvo en otro fallo que Mendonca debería ser investigado por el tribunal y potencialmente sometido a un juicio político por el Senado por entrevistar a Vorcaro en agosto sin la presencia de agentes de la policía federal ni fiscales.

El lunes, Día de la Independencia de Brasil, decenas de miles de simpatizantes del senador Flávio Bolsonaro llenaron la principal arteria de Sao Paulo, y muchos pidieron la destitución de De Moraes. Los manifestantes exhibieron una enorme figura inflable de Mendonca y vistieron camisetas en apoyo al juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal.

El senador Bolsonaro celebró la medida en sus canales de redes sociales.

“El grupo especial de Lula en la policía federal quedó oficialmente desenmascarado. Que la honorable y gloriosa policía federal vuelva a tener la autonomía para ir tras los criminales, y no tras los adversarios políticos de Lula”, manifestó el candidato presidencial.

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The players chosen by their teammates are quarterback Malik Willis, linebacker Jordyn Brooks, running back De’Von Achane, center Aaron Brewer, offensive tackle Patrick Paul and defensive lineman Zach Sieler.

Head coach Jeff Hafley said the players voted for the captains and believes each of the six has shown strong leadership in their own way.

He also emphasized that leadership should extend beyond just the players wearing the captain’s patch.

Brooks will serve as a captain for the second straight season.

He first received the honor in 2025, when he went on to have an All-Pro year. Brooks led the NFL with 185 total tackles last season and has recorded 326 tackles during his first two seasons with Miami, the most by any player in his first two years with the Dolphins.

Brewer is also returning as a captain for the second consecutive season. Now entering his third year in Miami, Brewer earned Second-Team All-Pro honors in 2025 and was a finalist for the Protector of the Year Award.

He played a major role on an offensive line that helped the Dolphins rank fourth in the NFL in average yards per rush at 4.7.

Achane, a 2025 Pro Bowl selection, has already put together an impressive career just three seasons in. Before turning 25, he had accumulated 4,334 yards from scrimmage and 35 total touchdowns. Achane, Brooks and Brewer were all rewarded with contract extensions during the offseason.

General manager Jon-Eric Sullivan pointed to the production and work ethic of those three players as major reasons they earned the respect of their teammates.

Sieler is another returning captain, earning the honor for the second time. As the longest-tenured Dolphin, Sieler is coming off three straight seasons with at least 10 tackles for loss.

He has also recorded 25.5 sacks during that stretch. Beyond his production, Sieler has played an important role in helping develop Miami’s younger defensive linemen Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips and Zeek Biggers.

Willis will be a first-time captain in his first season with the Dolphins. Miami signed Willis as an unrestricted free agent in March, and he has quickly earned the respect of his teammates.

During his 11 appearances with Green Bay over the past two seasons, Willis recorded nine total touchdowns, including six passing and three rushing. He completed 79 percent of his passes, averaged 10.9 yards per attempt and did not throw an interception.

Paul is the sixth captain and another first-time honoree.

The 24-year-old left tackle is entering his third season with Miami after making significant progress during his breakout 2025 campaign. Paul was an important part of the Dolphins’ top-five rushing attack last season and will look to continue improving in 2026.

Sullivan praised Paul’s size and physical style of play, saying he is excited to continue developing alongside him as Miami works to build a strong offensive line.

With Week 1 officially approaching, the Dolphins are preparing for their season opener on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Kickoff from Allegiant Stadium is set for Sunday at 4:25 p.m. ET.

The NCAA said the call stands.

Citing what it believes to be an “extraordinary” circumstance in appealing the outcome of the Michigan-Western Michigan game, the MAC asked NCAA and College Football Playoff administrators on Tuesday to recognize the Broncos as the winner instead of the Wolverines. The CFP's bracket selection choices in December carry significant financial benefits to teams that make the playoff.

A few hours later, the NCAA said the result will stand, noting its playing rules do not have a protocol for overturning the outcome of a game and the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee does not have the authority to do so. According to the NCAA Football Rules Book, the team with the most points at the end of the game is the winner and the score is final when the referee declares the game has ended.

“No rule decision may be changed after the ball is next legally snapped, legally free-kicked or the second or fourth periods have ended,” the rule book says.

Michigan won 13-12 on a Hail Mary pass Saturday night after the replay official had put one second back on the clock when Bryce Underwood’s first try was incomplete.

The controversy was the talk of college football on the long holiday weekend with many questions surrounding how the officiating crew decided to give Michigan time for another try at the win. The MAC initially accepted the Big Ten explanation but that had changed by Tuesday.

An NBC replay showed a clock expiring before the ball hit the ground or any player, leading to two days of questions about what clock everyone was looking at. NBC said the next day that its cameras “are not the official arbiter” of game time, that in this case it was the responsibility of the Big Ten.

The Big Ten said after the game — and reaffirmed Tuesday — that the call was correct and published a recording of the replay as it was reviewed by officials. The conference said it too used a shot of the game clock in the stadium, which showed 1 second remaining when the ball on the first Michigan pass was touched by WMU’s Micah Davis. Since Davis had just been out of bounds, the clock would stop on such contact.

CFP executive director Rich Clark told CBS Sports it was too early to say how Western Michigan or Michigan will be treated in potential rankings discussions. The first CFP rankings won’t be issued until Nov. 3.

“We would have to bring that to the management committee to give guidance on how that should be considered,” Clark told CBS Sports.

In his letter to the FBS Oversight Committee, MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said “established protocol” in this situation is that the television truck is contacted with a request to insert the in-stadium game clock onto “the program feed” — NBC's feed in this case — and that is supposed be the sole source of the replay decision.

“Had the prescribed protocol been followed and the program-feed clock been used, no additional time would have been restored, no additional play would have been awarded and Western Michigan would have won the game 12–7,” Steinbrecher wrote.

According to multiple reports, NCAA national coordinator of officials Ron Snodgrass sent guidance to conferences and officials on Tuesday to clear the air.

“Recognizing the replay technology and available broadcast resources may vary among institutions, conferences and game sites, it is necessary to establish a standard timing protocol that ensures consistency in the administration of all college football games,” the memo said.

The guidance will make clear that “to be considered by the instant replay official, the game clock must be embedded in the instant replay’s program feed or the game clock graphic when accurately displayed as part of the broadcast feed.”

Game results are rarely, if ever, changed after the fact unless the NCAA vacates results because of rules infractions, though there are countless examples of decisions by officiating crews affecting the outcome (Colorado beating Missouri on a fifth down in 1990 is familiar to many).

Western Michigan was voted the preseason favorite in the MAC, raising hopes for a potential CFB berth. The highest-ranked team from the Group of Six leagues gets an automatic bid to the playoff.

“I recognize that the oversight committee does not ordinarily alter results recorded on the field,” Steinbrecher said. "Nevertheless, the circumstances of this game are extraordinary. ... Western Michigan should not be disadvantaged because the prescribed replay protocol was not followed and an unsynchronized clock was used to award a play that, under the applicable procedure, should not have occurred.”

Western Michigan President Russ Kavalhuna backed the MAC's request.

“Being bitter doesn’t make you better and this should not be mistaken for weakness or agreement,” Kavalhuna said in a statement posted on social media. “We can show respect for the game while also asking serious questions; I’ve done both, and I’ll keep doing both.”

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As this prompted flight cancelations and delays, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz asked travelers on Tuesday to check with their airlines for the status of their flights.

“We will have to wait here,” said Ali Malik, who faced uncertainty on Tuesday about whether or not his parents were going to arrive at MIA.

The plane crash site also affected vehicle traffic. Cordero-Stutz said Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies closed Northwest 67 Avenue from 25th to 32nd streets.

“Our airport operations bureau and incident management team remain on scene to maintain security, preserve the integrity of the scene, and assist with traffic control,” Cordero-Stutz said.

Five people died, and five were injured after the Boeing 767-300 overtook MIA’s runway 30 shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday and struck a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van and a Toyota Corolla Cross LE, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

North Carolina-based cargo airline 21 Air was operating Prime Air Flight 798 for Amazon on the Boeing 767-300, manufactured in 1994, with two crew members, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB.

The Boeing 767-300 departed from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the FAA and NTSB. A witness’s video shows there were towering stormy clouds when the plane landed on the runway.

Homendy said the plane traveled for 1,300 feet “past the paved surface.”

While still at MIA, the Boeing 767-300 struck the Econoline van, which belongs to Professional Ocean Service Corp., a cleaning company — and was “torn apart,” according to NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy.

“There were a total of seven in that van,” Cordero-Stutz said on Tuesday.

Cordero-Stutz identified the five who died as Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

The plane crossed a fence, struck the Toyota, struck a second fence, and came to a standstill on a field near rows of parked Tesla Robotaxis, according to Homendy.

Cordero-Stutz said three who were injured remained hospitalized on Tuesday. MDSO identified them as Eugenio Corredor, whose condition is critical; Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, whose condition is critical; and Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36, whose condition is stable.

“The two pilots were treated and have since been released,” Cordero-Stutz said.

MDSO identified the pilots as Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, and Joseph Carol, 55, who both suffered minor injuries.

On Sunday, Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said there was a “complex fire.” Witnesses recorded videos showing dark smoke billowing from the crash site. MDFR deployed more than 60 units.

Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing a person climbing out of the cockpit through a window and using the firefighters’ ladder.

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

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

Cordero-Stutz asked the victims’ relatives to contact MDSO victims’ advocates at 305-471-1900.

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

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New subpoenas being issued to former government officials represent an escalation in the year-long investigation as the Justice Department pursues a loosely defined theory that members of the intelligence community who scrutinized Trump over the last decade, including over Russian interference in the 2016 election, conspired against him and violated his rights.

Investigators in recent days contacted some defense lawyers for witnesses advising them of forthcoming grand jury subpoenas. It was not clear how many as of Tuesday had received a subpoena or were still waiting to receive one, and the identities of the witnesses receiving subpoenas were also not immediately clear. The people who confirmed the subpoenas spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss a secretive grand jury investigation.

The investigation has focused in large part on the Trump-Russia probe

The contours of the conspiracy investigation aren't fully known, but agents and prosecutors over the last several months have focused intensely on one of Trump's chief grievances: the U.S. government response to Russian interference in 2016 and an intelligence community assessment that Moscow meddled on Trump's behalf at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump, who spent much of his first term shadowed by an investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the outcome of the election, has for years lashed out at the intelligence community finding and cast it as a “deep state” conspiracy to undermine the legitimacy of his win.

Investigators searching for potential crimes in connection with the intelligence community response have conducted numerous voluntary interviews, but the subpoenas prepared for witnesses in recent days represent an apparent effort to lock down sworn testimony before a grand jury.

It remains unclear whether anyone will be charged or for what offense, though lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan have said they have been informed that he is a target as investigators examine whether he falsely testified to Congress — something he and his attorneys have consistently denied. The Justice Department last spring subpoenaed witnesses before a Washington grand jury as part of an investigation into Brennan, but swiftly withdrew the subpoenas in favor of voluntary interviews.

The investigation is being run out of Florida, with the Justice Department in April bringing back into government service a top prosecutor from the Reagan administration, Joe diGenova, to serve as a counselor to the attorney general and help lead a team of agents and prosecutors.

diGenova, who had previously asked then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint him to the job and has openly and repeatedly claimed Trump was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy, declined to comment Tuesday when reached by the AP.

In an indication of the wide-ranging nature of the investigation, the AP reported last month that diGenova's team has sought interviews with law enforcement officials involved in the 2022 FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. The search recovered a trove of classified documents that formed the basis of a since-abandoned Justice Department prosecution of Trump, who has long decried the FBI operation as an invasion of his privacy.

Concerns from defense lawyers about a ‘favored’ judge

Investigators have set up shop in Fort Pierce, Florida, the home court of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed jurist who repeatedly appeared skeptical of the classified documents case against him and ultimately dismissed it after concluding that the prosecutor who filed the charges was illegally appointed.

Lawyers for Brennan last year asked the chief judge of the federal court in Florida to prevent the investigation from being steered to Cannon, whom they described as a “favored” Trump judge. They have since sued the Trump administration, demanding a court order requiring prosecutors to preserve records from the investigation so that Brennan could challenge any eventual prosecution of him as vindictive and selective.

Trump came to office in 2017 under scrutiny from the intelligence and law enforcement community about whether his successful campaign had conspired with Russia, which stole politically damaging Democratic emails and orchestrated their release through WikiLeaks as part of a wide-ranging interference scheme.

A Justice Department special counsel, Robert Mueller, investigated but found insufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, though his team of investigators did find that Russia interfered in sweeping fashion in the election and that the campaign eagerly hoped to benefit from Moscow’s help.

Subsequent investigations by an inspector general and Justice Department prosecutors identified numerous errors and omissions by agents who conducted the Russia probe but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by senior law enforcement officials nor proof of an anti-Trump conspiracy like what prosecutors are now hoping to prove.

Deeply frustrated by those outcomes, Trump has amplified his demands for retribution, which his Justice Department has heeded. Last year, Bondi directed prosecutors to put evidence before a grand jury following the release of documents aimed at calling into question the legitimacy of the Trump-Russia inquiry.

Then Sabalenka proved she's not giving any of it up without a fight.

Sabalenka kept alive her hopes for a third straight U.S. Open title by edging Linda Noskova 7-6 (1), 3-6, 7-6 (10-7) on Tuesday in a thrilling quarterfinal matchup of major champions.

“What a battle. What an incredible player she is and I’m speechless right now because I was pushing myself to the limit in this match, especially in the third set,” Sabalenka said. “I honestly thought that that’s it, the match is over and probably that’s what helped me to kind of like, I don’t know, feel loose and just go after my shots.”

Sabalenka — who needed to win to maintain any hope of keeping the No. 1 ranking — will face No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula, who rallied to beat No. 26 Emma Navarro 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Sabalenka beat Pegula in the 2024 final and against last year in the semifinals after dropping the first set.

“To me, I think it’s fun to look at the rivalry we’ve had,” Pegula said. “She’s gotten me here the last couple of years. I have been able to beat her a few times, maybe on a smaller stage, so I think that’s going to be kind of a hurdle for me to get over.”

Sabalenka finished off Tuesday’s match with a second-serve ace to turn back the Wimbledon champion and reach the semifinals in Flushing Meadows for the sixth straight year.

Long matches lead to another late night in New York

The first men's quarterfinal also went to a match tiebreaker, with No. 11 Frances Tiafoe rallying to beat Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6). He will face No. 8 Ben Shelton, who ended Carlos Alcaraz's title reign in the latest-finishing match in U.S. Open history.

Shelton won 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) in a match that started just after 11 p.m. and ended at 3:33 a.m. Wednesday.

The lengthy day session gave Pegula and Navarro a late start, nearly 90 minutes after the usual 7 p.m. beginning of the night session. Navarro was much better once it finally did begin, breaking Pegula's serve twice in the opening set.

Pegula found her best tennis late, winning four straight games to take control after Navarro had broken her for a 2-1 lead in the third set.

Noskova nearly pulled off a major double not done since Serena

Noskova, the No. 6 seed, won her first major title at the All England Club and narrowly missed becoming the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to follow a title on the grass by reaching the final four on the hard courts of New York.

Sabalenka was in danger of her earliest exit at the U.S. Open since going out in the second round in 2020 when Noskova got a break in the third set en route to a 4-2 lead. Sabalenka held and then played one of her best games of the match, breaking at love to tie it at 4-all.

“I just felt at some point in the third set she was definitely serving better than me and putting so much pressure on me,” Sabalenka said. "But I’m glad that I kind of threw that thought away and I was able to focus point by point and, like, literally just trying to build something bigger in that moment.

“I got, not lucky, but I’m happy the way I broke her serve at 3-4. I think I really played a great intensity level of tennis, and that really gave me so much confidence that I still can get the win in this match.”

She did, avoiding her first loss at the U.S. Open since Coco Gauff beat her in the 2023 final.

Noskova finished with 46 winners to Sabalenka's 42, and she hit 18 aces to Sabalenka's 12. Both players were able to end points quickly, and Sabalenka also showed off some impressive speed in tracking down drop shots.

Sabalenka came to the U.S. Open far off her usual form on hard courts, losing in the fourth round in both Toronto and Cincinnati after falling at that stage at Wimbledon. But she had recovered in New York, not dropping a set en route to the quarterfinals.

She appeared struggling to stay under control at one point, changing her racket during the third set while trying to regain her touch. She went behind 2-0 in the match tiebreaker but pulled ahead for good when Noskova double-faulted to make it 4-3, and Sabalenka took the next two points for some critical breathing room.

“Being a break up in the third set, it’s not very easy. Also having a little break at the start of the tiebreak in the third one, as well, it’s frustrating, obviously,” Noskova said.

"But at the same time, Aryna, she played the best tennis that she could in those moments, which didn’t really make it easy for me.”

Sabalenka will lose the No. 1 ranking she has held for 99 consecutive weeks if No. 2 Elena Rybakina beats Zheng Qinwen on Wednesday to reach the semifinals. If Rybakina loses, Sabalenka can keep her hold on it by winning the title.

Noskova finished with her best run at the U.S. Open. She had reached only one major quarterfinal, at the 2024 Australian Open, before beating fellow Czech Karolina Muchova for the Wimbledon title.

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Cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas después de que un Boeing 767-300 se saliera de la pista 30 del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami poco antes de las 2:00 p.m. del domingo, e impactara una van Ford E-150 Econoline blanca del 2012 dentro de MIA y un Toyota Corolla Cross LE en la avenida 67 noroeste, según Homendy.

La mañana de este martes, la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, identificó a los cinco fallecidos que viajaban en la camioneta Econoline como Rolando Alemán León, de 55 años; Yoel Rodríguez Naranjo, de 53; Julio C. Pineda, de 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, de 53; y Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, de 47.

“En total había siete personas en esa van”, dijo Cordero-Stutz.

Según Cordero-Stutz, tres de los heridos permanecen hospitalizados. La Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade (MDSO) los identificó como Eugenio Corredor, en estado crítico; Ridoel Averhoff Díaz, de 32 años, en estado crítico; y Roosevelt Sebastián Perdomo Torres, de 36 años, en condición estable.

“Los dos pilotos recibieron tratamiento y ya fueron dados de alta”, indicó Cordero-Stutz.

La MDSO identificó a los pilotos como Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, de 37 años, y Joseph Carol, de 55, quienes sufrieron heridas leves.

La camioneta Econoline pertenece a Professional Ocean Service Corp., una empresa de limpieza que presta servicio a los aviones en MIA, y quedó “destrozada”, según Homendy.

La aerolínea de carga 21 Air, con sede en Carolina del Norte, operaba el vuelo 798 de Prime Air para Amazon en el Boeing 767-300, fabricado en 1994, según la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) y la NTSB.

El Boeing 767-300 despegó con dos tripulantes desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, según la FAA y la NTSB.

Un video grabado por un testigo muestra nubes de tormenta imponentes al momento en que el avión aterrizó en la pista de MIA.

El lunes, Homendy dijo que el avión recorrió 1,300 pies “más allá de la superficie pavimentada”.

Según Homendy, la aeronave atravesó una cerca, impactó el Toyota, chocó contra una segunda cerca y quedó detenida en un terreno cercano a filas de Tesla Robotaxis estacionados.

El domingo, el jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah, dijo que se trató de un “incendio complejo”. Testigos grabaron videos que muestran una densa humareda negra saliendo del lugar del accidente.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) desplegó más de 60 unidades. Los bomberos indicaron que usaron espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimento del motor.

Rohan Ellis, un testigo, compartió un video que muestra a una persona saliendo de la cabina por una ventana y usando la escalera de los bomberos.

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

“Hay combustible por todas partes. Eso habrá que remediarlo, pero además están extrayendo el combustible de la aeronave, así que tenemos que dejar que eso ocurra”, dijo Homendy el lunes sobre el lugar del accidente.

Dos de las cuatro pistas del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami permanecían cerradas el lunes y el martes, según Greg Chin, portavoz del Departamento de Aviación de Miami-Dade.

Cordero-Stutz indicó que la avenida 67 noroeste estuvo cerrada entre las calles 25 y 32.

“Nuestra oficina de operaciones aeroportuarias y el equipo de manejo de incidentes permanecen en el lugar para mantener la seguridad, preservar la integridad de la escena y ayudar con el control del tráfico”, dijo Cordero-Stutz.

Cordero-Stutz pidió a los familiares de las víctimas que se comuniquen con los defensores de víctimas de la MDSO al 305-471-1900.

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

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Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Tuesday he expects the two-time MVP to be taking the first snap a mere nine months after tearing ligaments in his left knee. Mahomes has participated in every practice of the offseason and training camp, though he was held out of all three preseason games, and he's said all along his goal was to be ready for Week 1.

“Unless something were to come up here in the next couple of days,” Reid said, “most likely he will be the guy out there.”

Kansas City is coming off a dismal 6-11 season that may have hit its nadir on Dec. 14, in the last few minutes of a loss to the Chargers. Mahomes was scrambling near his own sideline when Los Angeles defensive end Da’Shawn Hand spun him to the ground, ultimately tearing both the ACL and LCL in his knee.

Mahomes underwent surgery the following day in Dallas and immediately began his rehab work.

Rather than spend time at his Texas home, as he normally does in the offseason, Mahomes stayed in Kansas City and continued working with Chiefs physical therapist Julie Frymyer. He ended up spending most of his days in the practice facility — watching World Cup games, as it turns out — while putting in the time necessary to be on the field for the start of voluntary summer workouts.

Mahomes was cleared the week that training camp began to practice in full. And while he would have loved to have played in one of the Chiefs' three preseason games, the plan was always to hold him back until the games that mattered.

“He's shown everything there. He hasn't missed a day, as you know,” Reid told local reporters. “You guys have seen him out there, so you know what it looks like, him running around and doing his stuff. Other than having a brace on his leg, everything looks normal. He is running around the same way he's always done, throwing the ball the same way he's always done.”

The only time Mahomes has gone into a season without having taken a preseason snap was in 2020, when the entire exhibition slate was canceled because of the pandemic. He opened the season by throwing three touchdown passes in a win over the Texans.

“I think we’re looking at it and expecting someone who’s 100%, someone who’s moving well based on what limited footage you get,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said. "Our approach has been pay close attention to what we’ve seen historically film-wise, how we defend not only him but their team. So that’s kind of been the approach.”

While Mahomes will be on the field against Denver, his preferred blindside protector likely will not: Reid called it a long-shot that left tackle Josh Simmons would be available because of a back injury, leaving undrafted rookie Khalil Benson to start in his place.

Simmons first felt tightness in his lower back in mid-August, and the Chiefs thought at the time he'd be out a week or two. Now, it's unclear exactly when the former first-round pick will be able to take the field again, though the Chiefs have been reluctant to put him on injured reserve, which would force Simmons to miss a minimum of four games.

“I'm not putting any time restraint on when he can come back or how many practices he needs or all that," Reid said. “I just want to make sure he's healthy and OK to go. But other than that, we move forward. That's what we do.”

As for Benson, a rookie from Indiana, he not only went undrafted but also went unsigned afterward. It wasn't until the Chiefs got him into town for a rookie minicamp that he turned some heads, and Kansas City signed him up to continue working this summer.

Benson quickly shot up the depth chart, and he was starting at right tackle before Simmons got hurt.

Now, his debut will be protecting the blind side of Mahomes — coming off a knee injury — against a fearsome Denver pass rush.

“If he has to be the left tackle then he's the left tackle," Reid said, “and we roll with it. That's just how it goes.”

Notes: Chamarri Conner (knee) is “a stretch” to play against the Broncos, which means Jaden Hicks is in line to start at safety. Alohi Gilman should be available at the other safety spot after dealing recently with back spasms.

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With sustained money, effort and luck, the fish’s offspring could one day help repopulate the lake after humans quell the mussels that have pushed the lake’s wild whitefish to near-collapse.

“It’s really about saving those genetic stocks right now,” said Doug Craven, natural resources director for the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians. “If we don’t do it this year, there may not be enough wild fish in those stocks” to do it in the future.

Armed with $350,000 from the recently passed state budget and nearly $900,000 from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, state and tribal scientists will fan out from Naubinway to Saugatuck this fall to collect the spawning fish.

For now, the mission is limited in scale, targeting the bloodlines most in danger of disappearing. But those involved in the “genetic rescue” mission told Bridge Michigan they hope it sets the stage for a major whitefish recovery program.

That’s a marked change from just a year ago, when beyond some small-scale experiments led by Native American tribes, there was no coordinated plan to intervene as zebra and quagga mussels from Europe steadily eradicate whitefish from the lower Great Lakes.

The filter-feeding mussels now dominate the food web in every Great Lake except Superior. They strip away the plankton baby whitefish eat and leave behind water so clear the hatchlings risk deadly sunburns if starvation doesn’t kill them first.

So far, nobody has found an effective mussel control strategy — and whitefish don’t have long to wait.

In some areas of lakes Michigan and Huron, almost no hatchlings have survived to adulthood for two decades. Commercial harvests have plummeted from 6.9 million pounds in 2009 to less than 2 million pounds last year, and the geriatric fish that remain will soon die of old age.

Michigan’s collapsing whitefish

For now, rescue efforts led by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians will be focused on Lake Michigan, where the crisis is particularly dire.

“For the southern Lake Michigan stocks, the only fear I have is, I hope we’re not too late,” said DNR Fisheries Chief Randy Claramunt.

After retrieving wild adults from several distinct bloodlines, scientists will attempt to incubate their eggs at the Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery and then transfer the survivors to hatcheries across the state.

Ideally, those refugees would remain in human care for years or even decades until the mussel invasion subsides.

But money remains a barrier.

There are 18 unique whitefish populations in lakes Michigan and Huron, and most of them are imperiled. Current funding will cover only a couple of years of hatchery space, fish food and other expenses for only some of those populations.

Great Lakes Fishery Trust Manager Dan Lord said leaders of the effort hope to recruit deeper-pocketed partners, such as neighboring states and the US and Canadian governments.

For context, the federally funded recovery of Great Lakes lake trout has taken decades and hundreds of millions of dollars — and the work is not yet done.

Hoping to be prepared if the money materializes, state, federal, tribal and nonprofit scientists are developing a menu of options for broader rescue efforts that could involve hatcheries, inland ponds and lakes or new attempts to spawn whitefish in rivers.

“We’re looking comprehensively at all the places where we could possibly create (a refuge) for fish,” said Matt Herbert, a senior conservation scientist with the Nature Conservancy in Michigan.

The species’ long-term survival in the Great Lakes depends upon efforts to curb the mussel invasion.

A Bridge Michigan analysis found those efforts are so meagerly funded that scientists build research equipment out of scrap metal while worrying whether their work can continue another year.

In the wake of that reporting, US Reps. Debbie Dingell and Tim Walberg, both of Michigan, cosponsored legislation that would devote $500 million to mussel control research over the next decade. So far, the bill has shown no sign of momentum, prompting mounting calls for Congress to act.

“Whitefish are the canary in the coal mine,” Craven said. “They’re not the only species being affected by quagga mussels. So it’s important to address this for the sake of those ecosystems and those other fisheries, too.”

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This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.