Authorities have identified the victim as Marieange Therancy.

Investigators also confirmed that a young girl was also hurt in the fire.

An online fundraiser identified her as Neissa Diligence and said her family remains by her side as they face “unimaginable, emotional, physical and financial challenges.”

Home surveillance video from a neighboring home shows an explosion, and then the fire and smoke.

North Lauderdale Fire Rescue and deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office respond around 5 a.m. Saturday to the home on Southwest Eighth Court and 81st Terrace.

“I heard glass breaking, paramedics going, firefighters, screams,” one neighbor told Local 10 News.

Residents quickly rushed outside to help.

“The fire was about to explode, so we used our hose to stop the fire to make sure it did not explode,” said neighbor Jean, who did not wish to give her last name.

Once the first connection failed, they said other elements of the pool deck were left to carry their loads, but they were not strong enough to handle them.

“When building structures are designed to required codes and standards, they have margins against failure, meaning they should be able to support much more load than they are expected to bear,” said Judith Mitrani-Reiser with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “In the case of Champlain Towers South, these margins against failure were too narrow from the start.”

NIST investigations are conducted by national construction safety teams, and while the federal research laboratory has produced full investigations into large scale structural failures - to include the Station nightclub fire and World Trade Center attack, what happened in Surfside was a first even for them, as previous building failures they’ve looked into had obvious causes, such as storms, fires or a terrorist attack.

Glenn Bell with NIST explained some of what their investigation uncovered.

“Severe and widespread deviations from the building’s original structural design from the codes and standards of the day,” he said.

According to a town manager’s 2021 report, the condo’s sister building, Champlain Towers North, was designed “by the same engineering firm and constructed at the same time” which leads to questions of whether it has those same original design and construction flaws.

Allyn Kil-Shimer of KCE Structural Engineers is the structural engineer the town hired to help with its independent investigation into the collapse. He also searched for clues at nearby Champlain Towers North.

“Champlain Towers North asked us to evaluate their building to make sure their building didn’t have issues similar to what we found in Champlain Towers South,” Kil-Shimer said.

“We did that for about a year and a half, and we found the same, if not more, design flaws and construction deficiencies in the structure of Champlain Towers North than we had found even in Champlain Towers South, so with the ownership of Champlain Towers, the condominium group of Champlain Towers North, which now is called Ocean Waves, we essentially put in a bunch of emergency shoring in a lot of places, and we designed the structural design for the remediation necessary to take care of those problems,” he added.

Kil-Shimer said working with the building owners, they began the process of remediation.

“We began construction, contractors began construction at that time, contractors we selected from experts all over this country, and we got permits from the town of Surfside,” he said. “It’s been a year and almost two years, and essentially all of the structural deficiencies in construction and design in Champlain Towers North that we found, both from investigating Champlain Towers North and investigating Champlain Towers South, have all been remediated satisfactorily in Champlain Towers North.”

He was also asked if it is safe to live there.

“Essentially I’m now 86 years old and I have great grandchildren, I’d let them live in the building,” he added. “From all the things we have found, the building is structurally sound and not only does it meet most of the codes that exist today, which you don’t have to do, they now meet at a minimum the building structural codes that existing when the buildings were designed.”

Aventura police arrested Roberto Araujo, 41, of Allapattach, after they said he grabbed a metal bat and hit the victim in the back of the head.

“The guy came around the whole group with a bat in his hand, a pink bat at that, and hit him,” said Ana Diaz Matthews, the aunt of the victim, who has since been identified as William Rodriguez.

Photos provided to Local 10 News show the injuries sustained to the back of Rodriguez’s head.

“Willie was on the ground,” said Diaz Matthews. “He just swung as if he was hitting a baseball.”

The incident happened on Sunday, which was also Father’s Day.

Police said Arajuo fled the scene after striking Williams with the bat, but it was Diaz Matthews who was able to get his license plate number.

“I think he’s an a--hole,” she said. “He deserves to be in jail because he almost killed someone.”

Araujo is facing a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was not listed among Miami-Dade County jail inmates as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Traffic Homicide Detectives with the Hollywood Police Department said officers responded to the area of State Road 7 and Fletcher Street around 10:23 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2025, after a crash involving a pedestrian.

Investigators said they found the victim lying in the roadway with life-threatening injuries. The victim, who has not been identified, was taken by Hollywood Fire Rescue medics to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he later died.

According to detectives, an investigation spanning multiple jurisdictions determined Kelvin Larmont Taylor, 50, was driving southbound on State Road 7 when he allegedly struck the victim.

Authorities said Taylor did not stop, provide aid or notify law enforcement after the crash. Investigators said he fled the scene, leaving the victim in the roadway.

Detectives said they used physical evidence, digital evidence, surveillance video and forensic findings to identify Taylor as the driver involved.

Jail records show Taylor was arrested on Thursday and faces one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.

As of Tuesday, he was being held at the Joseph V. Conte Facility in Pompano Beach, where his bond was set at $125,000.

Detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood informaron que los agentes respondieron al área de State Road 7 y Fletcher Street alrededor de las 10:23 p.m. del 16 de noviembre de 2025 tras un accidente que involucró a un peatón.

Los investigadores dijeron que encontraron a la víctima tendida sobre la vía con lesiones que ponían en peligro su vida. La víctima, cuya identidad no ha sido revelada, fue trasladada por paramédicos de Hollywood Fire Rescue al Memorial Regional Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

Según los detectives, una investigación que abarcó múltiples jurisdicciones determinó que Kelvin Larmont Taylor, de 50 años, conducía hacia el sur por State Road 7 cuando presuntamente atropelló a la víctima.

Las autoridades dijeron que Taylor no se detuvo, no prestó ayuda ni notificó a las autoridades después del accidente. Los investigadores indicaron que huyó del lugar, dejando a la víctima sobre la vía.

Los detectives informaron que utilizaron evidencia física, evidencia digital, videos de vigilancia y hallazgos forenses para identificar a Taylor como el conductor involucrado.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Taylor fue arrestado el jueves y enfrenta un cargo de abandonar la escena de un accidente con resultado de muerte.

Hasta el martes, permanecía detenido en el centro de detención Joseph V. Conte, en Pompano Beach, con una fianza fijada en $125,000 USD.

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The spokesperson stated that the agency began evacuating the facility over the weekend “out of an abundance of caution” because of brush fires burning around detention center, located at 18201 SW 12th St. in west Miami-Dade.

“ICE takes the health and safety of those in our custody as our top priority,” an ICE spokesman said in a statement. “Over the weekend, out of an abundance of caution, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started evacuating the Krome Service Processing Center due to brush fires burning around the detention center.”

The agency said detainees have been transferred to other ICE facilities both within Florida and outside the state.

They also stated that their officers are trained for emergencies such as wildfires and that the evacuation has been carried out in an orderly manner with no reported incidents.

“ICE will continue to work with the Florida Forest Service to closely monitor any situation as it may arise,” the statement continued.

The Florida Forest Service said crews have been working around the clock since the fires started, working under a unified command with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

A Florida Forest Service spokesperson told Local 10 News that the larger of the two fires, known as the Quarry 2 Fire, east of Krome Avenue, has burned 19,018 acres and is now 97% contained. The Well Fire, near Northwest 122nd Avenue, has burned 2,814 acres and is 85% contained. The Corrections Fire has burned 363 acres and is 75% contained as of Tuesday evening.

By Tuesday afternoon, some rain moved through the area, providing some relief amid hot and dry conditions.

For some nearby businesses, the smoke and flames brought some frightening few days.

Sonia Gonzalez, a manager at The Pit on Southwest Eighth Street, said the fire came dangerously close Friday night.

“It was really, really bad. The smoke was completely — and everything was engulfed all the way up to here,” Gonzalez said.

She said crews later ordered them to evacuate.

“The fire marshal came out and he said everybody out. They gave us 15 minutes to evacuate,” Gonzalez said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue continues encouraging residents to monitor air quality as smoke from the fires impacted parts of the county. At one point, air quality levels reached “unhealthy for certain groups.”

The evacuation has raised questions because three facilities are located in close proximity to one another in the area:

• Everglades Correctional Institution, a state-run prison that was not evacuated
• Krome Detention Center, the ICE detention facility that was evacuated
• A former juvenile justice facility that is currently abandoned

Local 10 News has reached out to state officials for clarification on why Everglades Correctional Institution remained operational while the Krome Detention Center was evacuated, but has not yet received a response.

Miami-Dade residents and visitors can track the latest wildfire conditions and containment updates through the Florida Forest Service’s public wildfire viewer by clicking here.

En un almacén en West Kendall el martes, la noticia ya se sentía real para los jóvenes jugadores de la 305 Sports Basketball Academy, donde la emoción por un posible súper equipo del Heat se desbordó en la cancha.

El programa durante todo el año se enfoca en desarrollar habilidades, confianza y comunidad para jóvenes atletas de los condados de Miami-Dade y Broward.

“Los ayudamos a construir confianza y a salir y básicamente hacer amigos y es algo especial”, dijo Lazaro Arcacha, propietario de la 305 Sports Basketball Academy.

Para muchos de los niños, el supuesto acuerdo —que uniría a Antetokounmpo, ampliamente conocido como el “Greek Freak”, con Bam Adebayo en Miami— se convirtió de inmediato en sueños de campeonato.

“Estoy como muy emocionado porque ahora realmente tenemos la oportunidad de ganar el campeonato nacional”, dijo un fan. “Tienen dos dúos dinámicos: Giannis en la pintura y Bam Adebayo”.

Luego se puso a prueba a algunos de los estudiantes sobre su conocimiento del dos veces MVP, incluyendo de dónde es.

Después de ver el apellido completo de 13 letras —Antetokounmpo— un fan se preguntó en voz alta: “¿Cabe siquiera en la camiseta?”

Otros aficionados del Heat dijeron que Antetokounmpo “vale la pena al 100%”.

“El Greek Freak... Si yo formara parte del grupo propietario del equipo, estaría dispuesto a entregar cualquier cosa por el Greek Freak”, dijo un aficionado del Heat a Sanela Sabovic, de Local 10.

Para el fan del Heat Dylan Wood, la emoción ya estaba creciendo incluso antes de que saliera la noticia.

“Estuve despierto hasta la medianoche viendo ESPN porque sé que había muchos traspasos ocurriendo. Eso es realmente emocionante”, dijo Wood. “El Heat se enorgullece de tener jugadores de gran nombre”.

Al ser preguntado sobre despertarse y ver la noticia, añadió: “Fue bueno. Fue bueno. Muchos mensajes. Se siente bien saber que no nos estamos rindiendo. Creo que vale la pena por Giannis. Creo que el Heat ha estado en una especie de etapa de reconstrucción durante los últimos años. Creo que es momento de dar un gran golpe, y eso es exactamente lo que hicieron. Es un paso en la dirección correcta”.

Según los informes, el acuerdo enviará a Antetokounmpo y Bobby Portis al Miami desde los Milwaukee Bucks a cambio de Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware y Kasparas Jakucionis, junto con múltiples selecciones futuras del draft.

Los Bucks también recibirían un intercambio de primera ronda en 2030, selecciones de primera ronda en 2031 y 2033, y una selección de segunda ronda en 2033, según una persona familiarizada con el acuerdo que habló bajo condición de anonimato porque el traspaso aún no había recibido la aprobación de la liga.

Antetokounmpo, dos veces MVP de la NBA, 10 veces All-Star y campeón de la NBA en 2021, ha pasado toda su carrera en Milwaukee y sigue siendo una de las fuerzas más dominantes de la liga, incluso después de una temporada limitada por lesiones en la que promedió 27,6 puntos por partido.

El supuesto movimiento sigue a días de especulación sobre la disposición de Milwaukee a considerar ofertas de intercambio de múltiples equipos, incluyendo Miami y Boston.

Por ahora, los aficionados en Miami ya están imaginando lo que viene después.

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But the Iranians deny it. And, in the absence of more details, sanctions experts are flummoxed over exactly how billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian assets would make their way to the American heartland from the escrow accounts where they’ve been locked for years by U.S. sanctions.

A tentative agreement reached last week would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas once passed, and allow Iran to start selling its oil freely again during a 60-day period when the two countries will continue negotiating key issues. The memorandum of understanding also promised to unfreeze Iranian assets.

Trump’s deal has come under fire for failing to address the reasons the president cited for going to war with Iran on Feb. 28, including curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, its missile program and its support for militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Lashing back at critics Tuesday on his Truth Social media platform, Trump said U.S. farmers would get a payday: The U.S. Treasury Department, he wrote, would release the Iranian assets “into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed by Iran.’’

Vance, who spoke about the proposal after high-level talks in Switzerland, and Trump say that any frozen funds and assets held outside of Iran will be used to buy U.S. crops.

But the Iranians deny that's part of the deal. A spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said any agricultural purchases would be based on “prices and quality,’’ not terms dictated by Washington.

“It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers,” Baghaei said.

Iran’s ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, rejected Vance’s contention that the U.S. and Qatar would dictate how Iran uses unfrozen funds. “Iran is the only country who decides what to do with those assets,” he told reporters.

Joseph Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute, said Iran was unlikely to abandon its other trade partners on food.

Iran’s major suppliers include Brazil, India, Turkey, the European Union, Canada, Australia and Argentina, he said. Trump’s demand to buy from the U.S. would “create some hard feelings with some of our competitors.”

Under previous sanctions, the U.S. has required that money foreign countries spend on imports from Iran — such as South Korean purchases of oil and Iraqi purchases of Iranian electricity — be locked in escrow accounts and typically released only if the Treasury approves and if the proceeds go toward “non-sanctionable’’ items such as food and medicine.

On Monday, the U.S. Treasury approved the sale of Iranian oil, petrochemicals and petroleum products through Aug. 21. It did not mention any escrow accounts.

Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who coordinated efforts to put diplomatic pressure on Iran in the first Trump administration, said in a post on X that he would welcome “a clarification that Iran is actually restricted to only buying U.S. agricultural products.”

Richard Nephew, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, said it’s unclear what the new U.S.-Iran agreement actually means for releasing restricted Iranian assets.

Could the U.S. require that the assets be used to buy American farm products?

“Well, we can try!’’ Nephew, who helped design Iran sanctions in the Obama and Biden administrations, said by email. “All you really need to do is to tell a foreign bank that they can move the money but only to a U.S. bank to buy soybeans or whatever."

Banks do not have to comply, he said. If they refuse, the U.S. could sanction them as well.

But it's rare for the U.S. to conduct itself that way, he added, “in part because we don’t usually like to give the impression that we treat national security issues as a cash grab.”

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Associated Press Writer Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report.

Also known as Caramelo, candy in English, Chávez is arguably as well-known in Mexico as the members of the national team.

He says the game last Thursday in Guadalajara was his 543rd match watching “El Tri,” which he has followed around the world since Mexico last hosted the World Cup in 1986.

Now at his 11the World Cup, Chávez is flanked by his 21-year-old son, also called Héctor Chávez, and known as Caramelo Jr. Both wear oversized sombreros with their nicknames written in all caps, making them hard to miss at stadiums.

“Mexico has one of the best fan bases in the world, one that travels the most to matches, and one of the most colorful ones in the world, with tradition, identity and pride,” the 64-year-old Chávez told The Associated Press. “I’m very fortunate to be here, with my son by my side in his fifth World Cup, to keep supporting the national team with everything we’ve got.”

Chávez has become a familiar sight in every stadium where the team plays in Mexico and around the world, including friendlies. He said the first national team match he attended was on Feb. 19, 1986, when Mexico faced the Soviet Union in the country’s capital. His first World Cup match was that same year, on June 3 against Belgium.

Despite being at another World Cup at home, Chávez said he struggled to make it to the games this time.

“This has been the most expensive World Cup in history, some of my friends who usually accompany me couldn’t come,” he said. “I had to break the piggy bank, and we are here with the support of our family, because without this support it wouldn’t be possible. The truth is that we’ve worked hard to be here, but finally we made it and we will keep following the national team to the end.”

Caramelo is popular but also has his critics

Despite his popularity, Chávez is not universally loved in Mexico. Critics say he’s getting too much attention and question whether he’s promoting himself or the national team. He’s annoyed some fans by throwing his hat onto the field, including at the game between Colombia and Uzbekistan in Mexico City last week.

“Well, they say that if they are criticizing you, it's because you are doing something good. We try not to pay too much attention to it. We preferer to hold on to the great support that the fans have shown us in person,” the younger Héctor Chávez said.

Many teams have superfans who attract headlines at World Cups. Spain had Manuel Cáceres, known as “Manolo el del bombo” or “Manolo the bass drummer,” who followed the Spanish national team since the 1982 World Cup. He died last year. Brazil’s Clóvis Acosta Fernandes, known as the “Gaúcho Da Copa,” died in 2015.

Congo has Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, who gained fame during the Africa Cup of Nations for posing as a statue of Congo’s assassinated independence hero Patrice Lumumba. He missed the team’s first game at this year’s World Cup but was expected to make it to Tuesday’s match against Colombia.

Chávez worried that die-hard fans are being priced out of the World Cup, affecting the atmosphere in stadiums.

“I miss the hardcore fans who follow their teams, who chant and cheer during the whole 90 minutes. Did you notice that they couldn’t even get the wave to work again?" he said after Mexico's match against South Korea on June 18. “And why is that? It’s because we don’t have these fans. And why don’t we have these fans? It’s because they can’t afford these expensive tickets.”

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At a warehouse in West Kendall on Tuesday, the news already felt real to young players at the 305 Sports Basketball Academy, where the excitement around a potential Heat superteam spilled onto the court.

The year-round program focuses on building skills, confidence and community for young athletes across Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

“We help them build confidence and come out and basically you know make friends and it’s something special,” said Lazaro Arcacha, owner of 305 Sports Basketball Academy.

For many of the kids, the reported deal — which would pair Antetokounmpo, widely known as the “Greek Freak,” with Bam Adebayo in Miami — immediately turned into championship dreams.

“I’m just like so hyped because now we actually have the chance to win the national championship,” one fan said. “They’ve got two dynamic duos Giannis in the paint, and they got Bam Adebayo.”

Some of the students were then quizzed on their knowledge of the two-time MVP, including where he is from.

After seeing the full 13-letter surname — Antetokounmpo — one fan wondered aloud: “Does it even fit on the jersey?”

Other Heat fans said Antetokounmpo “is 100 percent worth it.”

“The Greek Freak -- If I was working in the ownership, I’d be willing to give up anything for a Greek,” a Heat fan told Local 10’s Sanela Sabovic.

For Heat fan Dylan Wood, the excitement was already building before the news even broke.

“I was up at midnight still watching ESPN because I know there were a lot of trades going on. That’s really exciting,” Wood said. “The Heat kind of pride themselves on having a big-name player.”

When asked about waking up and seeing the news, he added: “It was good. It was good. A lot of messages. It feels good to know we’re not giving up. I do think it’s worth Giannis. I think the Heat have been in a little bit of a rebuilding stage for the past couple years. I think it’s time to make a big splash, and that’s exactly what they did. It’s a step in the right direction.”

According to reports, the deal will send Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to Miami from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis, along with multiple future draft picks.

The Bucks also would receive a 2030 first-round pick swap, first-round picks in 2031 and 2033, and a 2033 second-round pick, according to a person familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade had not yet received league approval.

Antetokounmpo, a two-time NBA MVP, 10-time All-Star and 2021 NBA champion, has spent his entire career in Milwaukee and remains one of the league’s most dominant forces, even after an injury-shortened season in which he averaged 27.6 points per game.

The reported move follows days of speculation about Milwaukee’s willingness to entertain trade offers from multiple teams, including Miami and Boston.

For now, fans in Miami are already imagining what comes next.

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Two of the biggest stars of the World Cup are setting records with history-making goals in a sizzling start that has even the most casual soccer fans in the U.S. taking notice.

Messi has five goals in Argentina's first two matches, setting the record for most career World Cup goals with 18. Mbappe has scored four times for France, ranking him tied for second in career goals with 16.

“Leo always scores,” Mbappe said. “He’ll always score. If I want to look at what Leo’s doing, I’ll have to do even more.”

They are not alone in hitting the back of the net. Norway's Erling Haaland already has four in his country's first two games at the World Cup since 1998. And Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo finally broke out with two scored against Uzbekistan on Tuesday to raise his career World Cup total to 10.

But Messi and Mbappe are the maestros making this World Cup their personal symphony. It's one they've been writing since the 2022 final in Qatar, when Messi scored twice and Mbappe three times before Argentina finally won on penalty kicks in a title game for the ages.

There should be plenty of music still to come from both. Argentina and France have already clinched spots in the elimination rounds, and both are among the favorites to win the whole thing.

Messi is defying age in a young man's game

Messi has scored most of his World Cup goals at an age when most top scorers would be well past their prime.

He has scored 12 World Cup goals since he turned 35, and will turn 39 on Wednesday, three days before Argentina plays its final group stage match — against Jordan.

Messi, the former Barcelona icon who now plays for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer, still possesses exquisite touch and passing in traffic, and energy and stamina that carry him through an entire match.

His second goal against Austria came late in the match. Messi passed to teammate Julián Álvarez, whose shot was blocked. Messi chased the rebound and slid the shot through two defenders to seal a 2-0 victory.

“We knew that he is on a level of his own, and Lionel Messi showed us today that he’s one of the best, and he is the best,” Austria coach Ralf Rangnick said.

Mbappe chasing him with every goal

At 27, Mbappe is in his physical prime with the speed and power to chase Messi's record, not just in this tournament but likely for years to come.

He was just 19 when he led France to the 2018 World Cup title in Russia. With his goal against Croatia, he joined Pele as the only two teenagers to score in a World Cup final.

Mbappe scored four goals in the in the 2018 tournament and has been on a charge ever since. The Real Madrid forward's speed haunts defenders and his power shooting with with both feet can overwhelm a goalkeeper.

He was the Golden Boot winner as the top scorer with eight goals in 2022. His 16 career World Cup goals match Miroslav Klose of Germany, one ahead of Brazil great Ronaldo.

Mbappe scores at a much higher rate than Messi. His 16 goals have come in 16 matches since 2018. Messi has played in 28 matches across six tournaments dating back to 2006.

“I’ve always scored goals in the World Cup, so it’s not something I’m thinking about or that I’m worried about," Mbappe said.

Haaland making his mark in World Cup debut

Norway's big striker could be the biggest threat to Messi and Mbappe as the World Cup's top goal scorer if Norway can stay in the tournament long enough.

The 25-year-old Manchester City star has been one of the top strikers in Europe for several years and scored two goals in each of Norway's two victories.

Norway will meet Mbappe and France on the pitch Friday. Both teams have already advanced to the next round, and the winner of the match wins the group.

“We’re through (to the next round), which is incredible,” Haaland said. “So I couldn’t care too much about that game now. They (France) are probably going to win against us, they’re probably going to win the whole tournament.”

Norway coach Stale Solbakken says Haaland is the player who can push the team deep into the tournament.

“He is is the best striker,” Solbakken said. “He's not playing for France or Argentina. He scores for Norway.”

Mbappe disagreed. Only he didn't point at himself.

“It's clear," Mbappe said. “(Messi) is the best in the world.”

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AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno contributed from New York City.

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Jail records show Christopher Michael Veit faces charges including kidnapping, interference with child custody and four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor after Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies said they found a 16-year-old girl inside a closed clothes dryer at his Key Largo home Sunday.

According to an arrest report, deputies responded to Veit’s home in the 800 block of Miramar Drive after a girl called 911 and reported she was being “held hostage,” telling dispatchers to “please hurry” and saying Veit had initially taken her phone away.

When deputies arrived, Veit allegedly told them there was no female at his home and said he did not know what they were talking about, according to investigators.

Deputies, however, confirmed the 911 call had originated from the property.

According to the report, Veit eventually allowed deputies into the home, where they discovered the girl inside a laundry dryer with the door closed.

When deputies asked Veit why he had denied the girl’s presence, investigators wrote that he looked down at the ground and did not respond, the report states.

The victim, who is from out-of-county, told deputies that she “had been sexually assaulted and needed help,” the report states.

Authorities said she was taken to Baptist Health Mariners Hospital in Tavernier, where she consented to a sexual assault examination, according to the report.

Investigators said the girl’s mother told deputies she did not know her daughter was in Monroe County and had not given permission for her to be with Veit.

During an interview, the victim told investigators she met Veit through an online dating website when she was 14 years old, the report states.

Investigators said the victim claimed that she and Veit met in person shortly afterward, had sex, and continued a relationship that remained secret after she allegedly told him her age.

Deputies said the victim told investigators that Veit later became her “sugar daddy” and paid her $600. She claimed their relationship continued for approximately two years, the report states.

According to the report, the girl traveled to Key Largo multiple times and had been staying at Veit’s home in the days leading up to Sunday’s incident.

Investigators said she told them Veit purchased a Brightline train ticket for her to travel from Central Florida to South Florida before picking her up and driving her to his home.

They said the victim told deputies she wanted to return home Sunday, but Veit took her phone and prevented her from contacting anyone for help. According to the report, she said he climbed on top of her, used his weight to keep her from moving and took both her phone and bag.

She further alleged that Veit threatened to “do what I did before,” which she interpreted as a reference to prior incidents in which he allegedly slapped her repeatedly and held a pillow over her face, according to investigators.

The report states that when Veit went outside, the victim used his phone to call 911 before deleting the call from the device’s log.

After patrol vehicles arrived, the girl told investigators that Veit confronted her and asked whether she had called police. She said he then ordered her to “get in the dryer,” and she complied because she was “afraid of him,” deputies said.

According to the report, the victim told investigators that Veit had previously discussed using the dryer to hide her if law enforcement ever came to the house.

Investigators said they executed a search warrant at the home and collected evidence that corroborated portions of the victim’s account including her iPhone, bed sheets, and two bags belonging to the victim on the chair.

Authorities said detectives also found “several sheets of counterfeit currency” and notified the U.S. Secret Service.

MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said the victim was placed under the care of a family member. He said MCSO also notified the Florida Department of Children and Families.

As of Tuesday, Veit was being held in MCSO’s Key West jail facility, where his bond was listed at $650,000.

“The case remains ongoing and more charges may be pending,” Linhardt said.

Los registros penitenciarios indican que Christopher Michael Veit, se enfrenta a cargos que incluyen secuestro, interferencia en la custodia de menores y cuatro cargos de actividad sexual ilícita con una menor, después de que los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Monroe afirmaran haber encontrado el domingo a una joven de 16 años dentro de una secadora cerrada en su domicilio de Key Largo.

Según el informe de detención, los agentes acudieron al domicilio de Veit, situado en el número 800 de Miramar Drive, después de que una joven llamara al 911 y denunciara que la tenían «secuestrada», pidiendo a los operadores que «por favor se dieran prisa» y explicando que Veit le había quitado el teléfono al principio.

Cuando llegaron los agentes, Veit supuestamente les dijo que no había ninguna mujer en su casa y que no sabía de qué estaban hablando, según los investigadores.

Sin embargo, los agentes confirmaron que la llamada al 911 se había realizado desde esa propiedad.

Según el informe, Veit finalmente dejó entrar a los agentes en la vivienda, donde descubrieron a la joven dentro de una secadora con la puerta cerrada.

Cuando los agentes le preguntaron a Veit por qué había negado la presencia de la joven, los investigadores anotaron que este bajó la mirada al suelo y no respondió, según indica el informe.

La víctima, que no es del condado, contó a los agentes que «había sido agredida sexualmente.

A giant tribute to Messi

A 26-meter-tall (85-foot) figure of Messi made of 70 tons of steel and iron towers over the outskirts of Cutral Co, a remote southern town in Patagonia. The player is kneeling, with the World Cup trophy he won in 2022 between his legs and one arm raised, as if greeting motorists traveling along Route 22.

Even the strong Patagonian wind cannot topple this tribute, inaugurated on June 16 during Argentina’s World Cup debut, when the team once again dazzled under Messi, who sealed the victory over Algeria after scoring three goals.

Local authorities and the sculptor who designed it say it is the largest monument ever dedicated to the team captain, who turns 39 on Wednesday.

“He is Argentina’s natural ambassador. For me, it was very important, not only as an artist but as an Argentine,” Aldo Beroisa, 61, told The Associated Press.

The sculptor has designed giant dinosaurs and monuments to his country’s independence heroes in Cutral Co, an oil-producing town that has never attracted nearly as much attention as other Patagonian communities surrounded by picturesque lakes and mountains.

Now, the town is filling up with admirers who want to see the statue of the soccer player who has scored 18 goals since making his World Cup debut in 2006. He achieved the record as the tournament’s top scorer this week, after netting both goals in Argentina’s 2-0 victory over Austria.

The statue, which took 18 months to complete, depicts Messi falling to his knees on the grass at Lusail Stadium in Qatar during the 2022 World Cup final after Gonzalo Montiel sealed Argentina’s 4-2 shootout victory over France and crowned the country world champion.

The statue also depicts the captain clutching Argentina’s jersey with one hand and pointing to the sky with his index finger, as he often does when he scores a goal, in tribute to his late grandmother.

A mural made by fans

There are many murals of Messi around the world. However, the one painted in the Buenos Aires suburb of Berazategui stands out: The player’s smiling face is surrounded by the names of hundreds of his admirers.

The mural, which is about six meters wide and 5.5 meters high (20 by 18 feet), caught Messi's attention.

“Crazy ... thank you very much to all of you, to the people who supported it, who came by, and who keep coming by,” Messi said in a video sent to the creators.

Creator Leonel García, 32, is gracious when he talks about the making of the mural.

“This is a mural that I didn’t make by myself. Beyond the fact that I painted it, it was made by more than 1,300 people,” said García, recalling those who traveled to Berazategui from different towns to write down their names in the mural.

The mural was painted in 18 days. García collaborated with Federico Merodo, the owner of the parking lot where the wall that served as the canvas was built.

The hyperrealistic portrait posed a huge challenge, given that it depicts one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. The image is inspired by a gesture Messi made during a friendly match after Argentina’s triumph in Qatar, when he appeared relaxed and seemed to be enjoying the game.

“Messi brings joy to the country. The times we’re living through in Argentina may not be very good for some people, but Messi unites everyone ... and the mural does that too, because people from everywhere come together here, from every social class and every political sector,” García said.

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May is making the jump to the NBA less than three months after leading Michigan to its first NCAA championship since 1989. He had a 64-13 record in two years with the Wolverines, including a 34-3 season that ended with a 69-63 victory over UConn in the national title game.

The Mavericks made their choice to replace Jason Kidd official on the same day they could select the next young player who would be part of building around 2025 No. 1 pick and reigning Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg, who turns 20 in December.

Dallas also has the final pick of the first round at No. 30 and the 48th choice in the second round, which will be held Wednesday.

“Dusty has won at every stage of his career because of his ability to build,” said new president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, who let Kidd go about two weeks after getting hired by the Mavericks. “He develops players, creates accountability and brings people together around a shared standard of excellence. His work ethic is extraordinary, and his teams consistently reflect his values.”

May's title with Michigan came three years after he led Florida Atlantic to its only Final Four appearance. The Wolverines won the Big Ten Tournament in his first season after he inherited a team that went 8-24 under Juwan Howard. It was the school’s lowest win total since going 7-20 in 1981-82.

The 49-year-old May’s record in his last four college seasons was 124-26, an .827 winning percentage that was third best in all of major college men’s basketball over that span behind Houston’s Kelvin Sampson (.861) and Duke’s Jon Scheyer (.832). His overall college record is 190-82.

May spent 21 years in the college ranks after the Indiana native first served as a student manager for the Hoosiers and coach Bob Knight while he was in school there from 1996-2000. Florida, UAB and Murray State were among his stops as an assistant before debuting as a head coach with Florida Atlantic in 2018-19.

“This is one of the most respected franchises in professional sports, with passionate fans, a talented roster, and a clear commitment to building a championship organization,” May said.

Moving on from Kidd was the last part of putting the ill-fated Luka Doncic trade behind the Dallas franchise for good.

Nico Harrison, the engineer of the trade that brought the oft-injured Anthony Davis from the Los Angeles Lakers, was fired in November after the team started slowly in 2025-26. The Mavericks ended up missing the playoffs for the second consecutive season since reaching the NBA Finals and losing to Boston in five games.

Doncic and Kyrie Irving were the key players in that deep playoff run in 2024, two years after Doncic also reached the Western Conference finals with a mostly different supporting cast.

Irving remains on the roster amid lingering questions about his future after missing all of last season. Irving tore the ACL in his left knee in March of last year, a month after the Doncic trade.

“Dusty represents the type of leader we want guiding this franchise,” Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont said. “He has demonstrated throughout his career that success is built through preparation, character, accountability, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.”

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Pino, de 55 años, fue absuelto de homicidio involuntario y homicidio náutico.

Los fiscales acusaron a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de actuar de manera imprudente cuando perdió el control de su embarcación Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y se estrelló contra una baliza del canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, lo que causó la muerte de Lucy Fernandez, de 17 años. Otras dos adolescentes resultaron gravemente heridas, entre ellas Katerina “Katy” Puig, quien entonces también tenía 17 años y quedó con una discapacidad permanente.

“Aunque no estamos de acuerdo con el veredicto, respetamos el proceso judicial y el papel del jurado”, dijo la familia Fernandez en un comunicado. “Este caso siempre fue más grande que George Pino. Se trata de nuestra hija, Lucy, y de una familia que la amó y se negó a dejar de luchar por ella. Su historia ya ha cambiado el panorama de la navegación en Florida, incluida la manera en que pensamos sobre la seguridad en el agua y cómo se abordan y sancionan las conductas imprudentes. La velocidad, el alcohol, la falta de atención y el desprecio por las normas destinadas a mantener a todos seguros están entre las decisiones más peligrosas y mortales que alguien puede tomar en el agua”.

La familia Puig también expresó su decepción por el veredicto.

“La familia Puig está profundamente decepcionada por el veredicto de hoy y nuestros corazones sufren por la familia Fernandez, que continúa viviendo cada día con la pérdida inimaginable de Lucy”, dijo la familia Puig en un comunicado. “Durante casi cuatro años, nuestra familia ha vivido con las consecuencias de aquel trágico día. Vemos las lesiones de Katy todos los días. Vemos los desafíos que continúa enfrentando, la fortaleza que demuestra para superarlos y el impacto que esta tragedia ha tenido en su vida y en la vida de quienes la aman. Ningún veredicto puede cambiar esa realidad”.

Fernandez y Puig estaban entre un grupo de adolescentes que viajaban a bordo de la embarcación de Pino para celebrar el cumpleaños número 18 de su hija.

Los fiscales sostuvieron en sus argumentos finales el lunes que Pino actuó de manera imprudente y que no había ninguna razón para que estrellara su embarcación.

“Fue imprudente y negligente”, dijo la fiscal adjunta Laura Adams. “Nadie, excepto este acusado, decidió la velocidad, la ruta o la dirección de navegación. Nadie ni nada es responsable de la muerte de Lucy Fernandez, excepto ese hombre”.

También señalaron que, aunque no se trataba de un caso de navegación bajo la influencia del alcohol, el consumo de alcohol formó parte de lo ocurrido esa tarde.

“¡Iba a toda velocidad!”, argumentó Adams. “¡Con todos estos adolescentes a bordo que habían consumido alcohol!”.

Sin embargo, el equipo de defensa de Pino sostuvo que el choque fue un terrible accidente y no el resultado de negligencia.

“No basta con que un ser humano no haya hecho todo lo que podía en un momento determinado”, dijo el abogado Howard Srebnick. “Se requiere un acto deliberado de indiferencia hacia sus pasajeros”.

En su comunicado, la familia Puig agradeció a los fiscales por su trabajo y dijo que cree que la investigación estuvo comprometida desde el principio.

“Durante mucho tiempo hemos creído que este caso estuvo comprometido desde el principio por fallas críticas en la investigación el día del accidente”, dijo la familia Puig. “A George Pino no se le practicó una prueba de sobriedad ni se le tomó una muestra de sangre. Como resultado, se perdió para siempre evidencia que debió estar disponible en una investigación de un accidente marítimo fatal. Esa falla privó a los fiscales, al jurado y, en última instancia, al público de información que podría haber ayudado a ofrecer un panorama más completo de lo ocurrido”.

El mes pasado también se realizó un torneo de fútbol 5 contra 5 en honor a Katy Puig para apoyar su recuperación continua y fortalecer una comunidad enfocada en la educación, la defensa y el apoyo a las personas y familias afectadas por lesiones cerebrales traumáticas.

La Fundación Lucy Fernandez también emitió un comunicado en el que recordó a Fernandez como una persona que “tocó innumerables vidas y dejó una huella que continúa sintiéndose entre todos los que la conocieron”.

“La pérdida de su vida es algo que su familia, sus amigos y su comunidad llevarán para siempre, y ningún veredicto puede cambiar esa realidad ni disminuir el amor que la gente sigue sintiendo por ella”, continúa el comunicado.

La familia Pino dijo en un comunicado que está agradecida con los miembros del jurado por su decisión y que “continúa lamentando cada día la pérdida de Lucy Fernandez y orando por todos los afectados por este accidente marítimo”.

Los comunicados completos de la Fundación Lucy Fernandez, la familia Puig y la familia Pino pueden leerse íntegramente a continuación:

Familia Fernandez (Melissa, Andy y Kevin Fernandez):

“Queremos agradecer a la fiscal estatal adjunta Laura Adams, Jonathan Borst y a todo el equipo de la Oficina del Fiscal Estatal por sus incontables horas y su incansable búsqueda de justicia al presentar los cargos apropiados por lo que ocurrió ese día trágico.

“Aunque no estamos de acuerdo con el veredicto, respetamos el proceso judicial y el papel del jurado.

“Este caso siempre fue más grande que George Pino.

“Se trata de nuestra hija, Lucy, y de una familia que la amaba y se negó a dejar de luchar por ella. Su historia ya ha cambiado el panorama de la navegación en Florida, incluyendo cómo pensamos sobre la seguridad en el agua y cómo se abordan y aplican las conductas imprudentes. La velocidad, el alcohol, la falta de atención y el desprecio por las reglas destinadas a mantener a todos a salvo están entre las decisiones más peligrosas y mortales que cualquiera puede tomar en el agua.

“La falta de responsabilidad y los esfuerzos evidentes por ocultar la verdad no disminuyen esa pérdida. La profundizan.

“Nos mantenemos firmes en nuestra lucha por la responsabilidad, por leyes más estrictas y por una aplicación más fuerte, con la esperanza de salvar vidas.

“Independientemente del resultado de este caso, esperamos que nadie se vaya creyendo que las circunstancias que llevaron a la muerte de Lucy fueron aceptables. Esta tragedia sirve como un recordatorio poderoso de que ninguna familia debería tener que enterrar a un hijo debido a las decisiones descuidadas e irresponsables de alguien.

“La vida de Lucy importó. Seguirá importando mucho después de que este veredicto sea olvidado”.

Fundación Lucy Fernandez:

“Aunque los procedimientos legales han concluido, nuestro enfoque sigue siendo el mismo desde el principio: Lucy.

“A lo largo de este proceso, Lucy fue mencionada con frecuencia como evidencia en un caso. Pero para quienes la conocieron y la amaron, era mucho más. Era una hija, hermana, nieta, prima y amiga querida. Era divertida, amable, llena de vida y tenía todo su futuro por delante.

“Aunque su vida fue demasiado corta, Lucy tocó innumerables vidas y dejó un impacto que continúa siendo sentido por todos los que la conocieron. La pérdida de su vida es una que su familia, amigos y comunidad llevarán para siempre, y ningún veredicto puede cambiar esa realidad ni disminuir el amor que la gente sigue teniendo por ella.

“A lo largo del proceso judicial, una cosa quedó claramente establecida: demasiadas personas que operan embarcaciones no comprenden completamente las responsabilidades, riesgos y leyes asociadas con estar en el agua. Esa realidad debería preocuparnos a todos.

“La misión de la Fundación Lucy Fernandez nunca ha sido un tribunal. Se trata de honrar la vida de Lucy mediante educación, conciencia y defensa, y seguimos comprometidos con promover la seguridad en la navegación, fomentar la operación responsable y ayudar a las personas a comprender mejor las responsabilidades que conlleva estar en el agua. Nuestro objetivo es simple: hacer que el pasatiempo favorito de Lucy sea más seguro para todos y ayudar a prevenir que otras familias enfrenten una tragedia similar.

“Hoy recordamos a Lucy. Honramos su vida, la alegría y luz que dio a otros y el legado que continúa dejando. Reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con el trabajo de hacer más seguras nuestras vías navegables y de asegurar que la historia de Lucy siga inspirando un cambio positivo en nuestra comunidad y más allá”.

Familia Puig:

“La familia Puig está profundamente decepcionada con el veredicto de hoy, y nuestros corazones duelen por la familia Fernandez, que continúa viviendo cada día con la pérdida inimaginable de Lucy.

“Durante casi cuatro años, nuestra familia ha vivido con las consecuencias de ese día trágico. Vemos las lesiones de Katy todos los días. Vemos los desafíos que continúa enfrentando, la fuerza que demuestra al superarlos y el impacto que esta tragedia ha tenido en su vida y en las vidas de quienes la aman. Ningún veredicto puede cambiar esas realidades.

“Hemos creído durante mucho tiempo que este caso estuvo comprometido desde el inicio por fallas críticas en la investigación el día del accidente. A George Pino no se le realizó una prueba de sobriedad ni se obtuvo una muestra de sangre. Como resultado, se perdió para siempre evidencia que debería haber estado disponible en una investigación de un accidente marítimo fatal. Esa falla privó a los fiscales, al jurado y, en última instancia, al público de información que podría haber ayudado a proporcionar una imagen más completa de lo ocurrido.

“Estamos agradecidos con los fiscales por su dedicación, profesionalismo y esfuerzo incansable. Hicieron un trabajo sobresaliente con los hechos y la evidencia que se les proporcionó, y llevaron este caso con integridad y compasión por las víctimas y sus familias.

“Aunque respetamos nuestro sistema de justicia y el papel del jurado, discrepamos profundamente con el veredicto. Basados en la evidencia presentada, creemos que George Pino debió ser responsabilizado por la operación imprudente de su embarcación. También creemos que muchas personas que no están familiarizadas con la navegación pueden no comprender completamente los peligros asociados con el exceso de velocidad en el agua o la importancia de cumplir las reglas de navegación establecidas que existen para proteger vidas y prevenir exactamente este tipo de tragedia.

“El caso penal puede haber terminado, pero sus consecuencias no. Lucy sigue ausente. Las lesiones de Katy continúan. Dos familias siguen cargando con pesos que no pidieron ni merecieron.

“Hoy recordamos a Lucy. Seguimos apoyando la recuperación de Katy. Oramos por ambas familias y por todos aquellos cuyas vidas cambiaron para siempre el 4 de septiembre de 2022. Y aunque estamos decepcionados con el resultado de hoy, mantenemos nuestra firme convicción de que la verdad de lo ocurrido ese día no ha cambiado”.

Familia Pino:

“Agradecemos a los jurados por su cuidadosa consideración de la evidencia y por alcanzar un veredicto justo. Desde el principio, hemos mantenido que los hechos del 4 de septiembre de 2022 fueron un accidente trágico, no un delito. El testimonio presentado en el juicio, incluyendo relatos no refutados de testigos presenciales que no vieron signos de deterioro, confirmó que el señor Pino no estaba bajo la influencia, no operaba la embarcación de manera imprudente y que hizo todo lo posible por proteger a sus pasajeros después del accidente.

“Seguimos lamentando la pérdida de Lucy Fernandez todos los días y rezando por todos los que fueron afectados por este accidente marítimo. Nuestros corazones siguen con las familias de los involucrados en el accidente, y esperamos que este veredicto permita a todos continuar el largo proceso de sanación”.

The federal government, which was sued by Michigan and a Detroit suburb, informed a judge Monday that a warehouse purchased in Romulus will be sold. Plans also are unraveling in Social Circle, Georgia, and the El Paso suburb of Socorro, local officials said.

The three cities are among 11 where the federal government spent a combined $1.074 billion on warehouses.

The New York Times first reported last week that federal immigration officials now plan to get rid of seven of the 11 warehouses — either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright.

DHS didn't confirm the reports but said in a statement that it is "moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and county partners.”

Pushback to warehouse purchases was immediate

“Wildly foolhardy" is how Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former ICE official under the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations described the plans to convert the buildings into immigrant detention.

One issue was that Noem’s purchases were largely carried out of public view and angered communities that were caught by surprise. Some only learned about ICE’s ambitions after the agency bought or leased space for detainees.

After Noem was fired, her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, quickly paused the purchase of new warehouses.

Objections came from Republicans and Democrats alike

Some were opposed on moral grounds to ICE’s presence in their neighborhoods, while others questioned whether the facilities would be a drain on local resources, such as sewer and water systems.

Seven federal lawsuits were filed, and regulatory roadblocks created hassles elsewhere.

Meanwhile, questions about how much DHS paid for some warehouses triggered an internal audit. The agency shelled out double what the New Jersey warehouse was valued at in tax records and nearly five times more than the assessed value of the Social Circle warehouse.

Trickler-McNulty, the former ICE official, said ICE does have a few facilities that it owns that it inherited from its predecessor agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, but generally ICE has contracted out its detention needs.

“Facilities over 2,000 people just break down. It’s very hard to run a very big facility, to keep it staffed, to keep all of it moving,” she said.

Former head of plumbing business takes over for Noem

Mullin, who took over and expanded his family’s plumbing business before representing Oklahoma in the U.S House and Senate, acknowledged there had been issues at his confirmation hearing.

He noted that most municipalities don’t have the capacity in their infrastructure for waste and water.

Indeed the water issues were such a challenge that a federal lawsuit filed over the Salt Lake City warehouse, the costliest purchased at $145.4 million, said ICE officials told the mayor that they might need to truck water and sewage from the facility as an “interim solution.”

Plans begin to unravel

The New York Times story, which cited internal documents that the newspaper obtained, said the Salt Lake City warehouse is among those that federal immigration officials plans to hand off or sell. Also on the list is the Romulus warehouse, as well as one in New Jersey and two each in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said it would have been an “abomination" if the 249,000-square-foot Romulus warehouse was transformed into immigrant detention, as was planned when it was purchased for $34.7 million,

“The ICE warehouse proposal was every bit as ill-conceived as it was cruel and unnecessary, and I am relieved that this chapter is coming to a close,” Nessel, a Democrat, said.

Social Circle, Georgia, announced last week in a statement that it has received notification from U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican, that the Department of Homeland Security is no longer pursuing an ICE detention facility there.

Meanwhile, acting ICE Director David Venturella told officials in the El Paso area during a visit there earlier this month that the agency has changed its plans for three warehouses it purchased in nearby Socorro for $122 million, said Rep. Veronica Escobar, who was present for the visit.

Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso, said during a news conference that ICE no longer plans to detain up to 8,500 immigrants in the facilities as originally envisioned, and instead will convert the property into an ICE campus, she said. The site will include an unspecified smaller number of detainees but also ICE offices and training space, she said.

Frustrations persist as communities seek details

However, many of the communities remained frustrated, as they struggled to get information about possible sales.

In Pennsylvania, state and local officials said Tuesday that they hadn’t received any new information from DHS about two warehouses bought earlier this year by the department. Both are being held up by the state’s denial of permits over concerns that drinking water and sewer service are inadequate to handle thousands of inhabitants.

U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, whose district includes both warehouses, said he met Friday with DHS personnel, but that the agency hadn’t made a decision whether to use them as detention centers or sell them.

In Georgia, the city manager in Oakwood, said Tuesday he is talking to his state congressional delegation, trying to confirm rumors that a warehouse there will be sold. “I have not heard anything yet,” B.R. White said.

Work appears to continue on other warehouses

In Maryland, where a judge extended a stoppage on transforming a sprawling warehouse into a processing facility for immigrants, ICE is currently collecting public comments about the environmental impacts of the facility. And an announcement earlier this month disclosed more details on plans for the facility, including six secure recreation yards.

Patrick Dattilio, the founder of Hagerstown Rapid Response, which formed in opposition to housing ICE detainees in the warehouse, said there has been little communication outside of the lawsuit. But he remains committed to keeping it from opening.

“It’s a big warehouse," Dattilio said. “It’s not meant for people.”

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Pino, 55, was acquitted of manslaughter and vessel homicide.

Prosecutors accused Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of his 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including then-17-year-old Katerina “Katy” Puig, who was left permanently disabled.

“While we do not agree with the verdict, we respect the judicial process and the role of the jury,” the Fernandez family said in statement. “This case was always bigger than George Pino. It is about our daughter, Lucy, and a family who loved her and refused to stop fighting for her. Her story has already changed the landscape of boating in Florida, including how we think about safety on the water and how reckless behavior is addressed and enforced. Speed, alcohol, inattention, and disregard for the rules meant to keep everyone safe are among the most dangerous and deadly choices anyone can make on the water.”

The Puig family also expressed their disappointment with the verdict.

“The Puig family is deeply disappointed by today’s verdict, and our hearts hurt for the Fernandez family, who continue to live every day with the unimaginable loss of Lucy,” the Puig family said in a statement. “For nearly four years, our family has lived with the consequences of that tragic day. We see Katy’s injuries every day. We see the challenges she continues to face, the strength she demonstrates in overcoming them, and the impact this tragedy has had on her life and the lives of those who love her. No verdict can change those realities.”

Fernandez and Puig were among a group of teenage girls who were onboard Pino’s boat to celebrate his daughter’s 18^th birthday.

Prosecutors argued in closing arguments Monday that Pino was reckless and that there was no reason for him to crash his boat.

“He was reckless and negligent,” Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams said. “No one but this defendant decided the speed or path or direction of travel. No one and nothing is responsible for the death of Lucy Fernandez except that man.”

They pointed out that while it was not a BUI case, alcohol was part of the story that afternoon.

“He was going full throttle!” Adams argued. “With all these teens on board that had consumed alcohol.”

Pino’s defense team, however, argued the crash was a horrible accident and not the result of negligence.

“It’s not enough that a human failed to do everything they could in a moment in time,” attorney Howard Srebnick said. “It requires a purposeful act of indifference to his passengers.”

The Puig family, in their statement, thanked the prosecutors for their hard work and said they believed the investigation had been compromised from the beginning.

“We have long believed that this case was compromised from the very beginning by critical investigative failures on the day of the accident,” the Puig family said. “George Pino was not administered a sobriety test, nor was a blood sample obtained. As a result, evidence that should have been available in a fatal boating accident investigation was lost forever. That failure deprived the prosecutors, the jury, and ultimately the public of information that may have helped provide a more complete picture of what occurred.”

A 5-on-5 Soccer Classic was also held last month in Katy Puig’s honor, supporting her ongoing recovery while building a community focused on education, advocacy and support for individuals and families impacted by traumatic brain injuries.

The Lucy Fernandez Foundation also released a statement, remembering Fernandez as a person who “touched countless lives and left an impact that continues to be felt by all who knew her.”

“The loss of her life is one that her family, friends and community will carry forever, and no verdict can change that reality or lessen the love people continue to have for her,” the statement continued.

The Pino family, said in a statement, that they were grateful to the jurors for their decision and that they “continue to mourn the loss of Lucy Fernandez every day and to pray for all those who were affected by this maritime mishap.”

Full statements from the Lucy Fernandez Foundation, the Puig family and the Pino family can be read in full below:

The Fernandez Family (Melissa, Andy and Kevin Fernandez):

“We want to thank ASA Laura Adams, Jonathan Borst, and the entire team at the State Attorney’s Office for their countless hours and tireless pursuit of justice in bringing the proper charges for what happened on that tragic day.

“While we do not agree with the verdict, we respect the judicial process and the role of the jury.

“This case was always bigger than George Pino.

“It is about our daughter, Lucy, and a family who loved her and refused to stop fighting for her. Her story has already changed the landscape of boating in Florida, including how we think about safety on the water and how reckless behavior is addressed and enforced. Speed, alcohol, inattention, and disregard for the rules meant to keep everyone safe are among the most dangerous and deadly choices anyone can make on the water.

“The lack of accountability and the blatant efforts to hide the truth do not lessen that loss. They deepen it.

“We remain steadfast in our fight for responsibility, for tougher laws, and for stronger enforcement, in the hope of saving lives.

“Regardless of the outcome of this case, we hope no one walks away believing that the circumstances that led to Lucy’s death were acceptable. This tragedy serves as a powerful reminder that no family should have to bury a child because of someone’s thoughtless and irresponsible choices.

“Lucy’s life mattered. It will go on mattering long after this verdict is forgotten.”

The Lucy Fernandez Foundation:

“While the legal proceedings have concluded, our focus remains where it has always been: on Lucy.

“Throughout this process, Lucy was often discussed as evidence in a case. But to those who knew and loved her, she was so much more. She was a beloved daughter, sister, granddaughter, cousin and friend. She was funny, kind, full of life and had her entire future ahead of her.

“Though her life was far too short, Lucy touched countless lives and left an impact that continues to be felt by all who knew her. The loss of her life is one that her family, friends and community will carry forever, and no verdict can change that reality or lessen the love people continue to have for her.

“Throughout the court proceedings, one thing became abundantly clear: far too many people who operate boats do not fully understand the responsibilities, risks and laws associated with being on the water. That reality should concern us all.

“The mission of the Lucy Fernandez Foundation has never been about a courtroom. It’s about honoring Lucy’s life through education, awareness and advocacy, and we remain committed to promoting boating safety, encouraging responsible operation and helping people better understand the responsibilities that come with being on the water. Our goal is simple: to make Lucy’s favorite pastime safer for everyone and to help prevent other families from experiencing a similar tragedy.

“Today, we remember Lucy. We honor her life, the joy and light she brought to others and the legacy she continues to leave behind. We recommit ourselves to the work of making our waterways safer and ensuring that Lucy’s story continues to inspire positive change in our community and beyond.”

The Puig Family:

“The Puig family is deeply disappointed by today’s verdict, and our hearts hurt for the Fernandez family, who continue to live every day with the unimaginable loss of Lucy.

“For nearly four years, our family has lived with the consequences of that tragic day. We see Katy’s injuries every day. We see the challenges she continues to face, the strength she demonstrates in overcoming them, and the impact this tragedy has had on her life and the lives of those who love her. No verdict can change those realities.

“We have long believed that this case was compromised from the very beginning by critical investigative failures on the day of the accident. George Pino was not administered a sobriety test, nor was a blood sample obtained. As a result, evidence that should have been available in a fatal boating accident investigation was lost forever. That failure deprived the prosecutors, the jury, and ultimately the public of information that may have helped provide a more complete picture of what occurred.

“We are grateful to the prosecutors for their dedication, professionalism, and tireless efforts. They did an outstanding job with the facts and evidence they were given, and they pursued this case with integrity and compassion for the victims and their families.

“While we respect our system of justice and the role of the jury, we profoundly disagree with the verdict. Based on the evidence presented, we believe George Pino should have been held accountable for the reckless operation of his vessel. We also believe that many people who are unfamiliar with boating may not fully appreciate the dangers associated with excessive speed on the water or the importance of adhering to established navigational rules that exist to protect lives and prevent exactly this type of tragedy.

“The criminal case may now be over, but its consequences are not. Lucy is still gone. Katy’s injuries remain. Two families continue to carry burdens that neither asked for nor deserved.

“Today, we remember Lucy. We continue to support Katy in her recovery. We pray for both families and for all those whose lives were forever changed on September 4, 2022. And while we are disappointed by today’s outcome, we remain steadfast in our belief that the truth of what happened that day has not changed.”

The Pino Family:

“We are grateful to the jurors for their careful consideration of the evidence and for reaching a just verdict. From the beginning, we have maintained that the events of September 4, 2022, were a tragic accident, not a crime. The testimony presented at trial, including unrebutted accounts from eyewitnesses who saw no signs of impairment, confirmed that Mr. Pino was not under the influence, was not operating the vessel recklessly and that he did everything he could to protect his passengers after the accident.

“We continue to mourn the loss of Lucy Fernandez every day and to pray for all those who were affected by this maritime mishap. Our hearts remain with the families of those involved in the accident, and we hope that today’s verdict allows everyone to continue the long process of healing.”

The story — originally a 1965 novel that was made into a cult, dystopian 1979 film — follows a street gang called the Warriors as they make their way from the Bronx to their home turf of Coney Island in Brooklyn while being hunted by rivals gangs and cops. It will be the first full musical from Miranda since “Hamilton.”

The musical of “Warriors” is expected to begin previews next March and open next April at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. “Warriors” will be directed by Jenny Koons with a book by Miranda and Davis. No casting was announced.

“Musicalizing such a vibrant world for the concept album has been a thrill, and now we’re coming out to play on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne. We can’t wait,” Miranda and Davis said in a statement Tuesday.

Miranda and Davis released their album in 2024, keeping the bones of the story but making strategic changes in genders, like making the Warriors all women. The album had an astonishing list of artists playing various parts: Ms. Lauryn Hill, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Billy Porter, Ghostface Killah, RZA, Marc Anthony, Colman Domingo, Cam’ron, Shenseea and Joshua Henry, among them.

The album included the sounds of salsa, ska, agro-rock, boy band, pop, old-school rap and even K-pop. Spanish and Korean mixes with the English. It has the song “We Got You,” a seductive R&B tune delivered by a male gang wearing cardigans, and “Quiet Girls,” a feminist anthem.

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The Panthers acquired the 26-year-old on Sunday in a deal that included multiple draft picks, including two first-round selections, bringing one of the NHL’s top power forwards to the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

Speaking alongside Panthers general manager Bill Zito at Baptist Health IcePlex, Brady Tkachuk said he is excited to join an organization focused solely on winning.

“I think everybody is just knowing it’s just by committee and just talking with Bill, everybody’s a part of the puzzle and everybody, their sole focus is winning and that’s something that I’m just excited to join into,” he said.

Brady Tkachuk spent the first eight seasons of his NHL career with Ottawa, serving as the Senators’ captain. Last season, he recorded 22 goals and 37 assists in 60 games and extended his streak of consecutive 50-point seasons to five.

Zito called Brady Tkachuk “the perfect piece to our puzzle,” adding that the Panthers’ culture is also a perfect fit for the veteran forward’s style of play.

For Brady Tkachuk, the move also carries significant family meaning as he prepares to play alongside his younger brother for the first time in the NHL.

“I guess that became a reality a couple of days ago and it’s still, I don’t think it’s hit the both of us and the fact that we’re going to be together every single day,” he said. “I know we’ve talked about, you know, little routines we’re going to have in the morning about, I know we like to get to the rink, both of us really early, so breakfast, coffee, and hanging out in the morning before guys get there.”

“At the end of the day I know it’s exciting, but I think it’s just for me the excitement to be a part of this whole entire group,” he added.

Tkachuk will wear No. 8 with Florida, a tribute to his father, Keith Tkachuk, who wore the number during his time with the Atlanta Thrashers and was recently elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the star-studded Class of 2026.

He previously wore No. 7 in Ottawa but said he was not going to ask Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov to switch numbers.

The jersey was already available for purchase Tuesday at the team store, with fans quickly picking up merchandise featuring the newest member of the Panthers.

Los Panthers adquirieron al jugador de 26 años el domingo en un acuerdo que incluyó múltiples selecciones del draft, entre ellas dos de primera ronda, para incorporar a uno de los mejores delanteros de poder de la NHL al equipo bicampeón defensor de la Stanley Cup.

Durante una conferencia de prensa junto al gerente general de los Panthers, Bill Zito, en el Baptist Health IcePlex, Brady Tkachuk dijo que está entusiasmado por unirse a una organización enfocada únicamente en ganar.

“Creo que todos entienden que esto es un esfuerzo colectivo y, al hablar con Bill, queda claro que todos son parte del rompecabezas y que el único objetivo de todos es ganar. Eso es algo de lo que estoy muy emocionado de formar parte”, dijo.

Brady Tkachuk pasó las primeras ocho temporadas de su carrera en la NHL con Ottawa, donde fue capitán de los Senators. La temporada pasada registró 22 goles y 37 asistencias en 60 partidos y extendió a cinco su racha consecutiva de temporadas con al menos 50 puntos.

Zito calificó a Brady Tkachuk como “la pieza perfecta para nuestro rompecabezas” y agregó que la cultura de los Panthers también encaja perfectamente con el estilo de juego del veterano delantero.

Para Brady Tkachuk, el cambio también tiene un importante significado familiar, ya que se prepara para jugar junto a su hermano menor por primera vez en la NHL.

“Supongo que eso se hizo realidad hace un par de días y todavía no creo que ninguno de los dos lo haya asimilado por completo, el hecho de que vamos a estar juntos todos los días”, dijo. “Sé que hemos hablado de pequeñas rutinas que tendremos por la mañana. A ambos nos gusta llegar muy temprano a la pista, así que desayunar, tomar café y pasar el rato por la mañana antes de que lleguen los demás”.

“Al final del día sé que es emocionante, pero para mí la mayor emoción es formar parte de todo este grupo”, agregó.

Tkachuk usará el número 8 con Florida, como homenaje a su padre, Keith Tkachuk, quien utilizó ese número durante su etapa con los Atlanta Thrashers y recientemente fue elegido para el Salón de la Fama del Hockey como parte de la Clase 2026.

Anteriormente usó el número 7 en Ottawa, pero dijo que no le pediría al defensa de los Panthers Dmitry Kulikov que cambiara de número.

La camiseta ya estaba disponible para la venta el martes en la tienda oficial del equipo, donde los aficionados comenzaron rápidamente a comprar artículos con el nombre del nuevo integrante de los Panthers.

Senators said Tuesday that they hope the closed-door meeting will focus on unity, not disagreement. Yet it comes at a time when Trump appears to have lost interest in much of their agenda ahead of the midterm elections, pushing his proof-of-citizenship voting bill instead even though it doesn’t have the votes to pass.

In the last month, Trump has abruptly blocked Senate Republicans from confirming one of his own nominees, asked them to fund parts of his White House ballroom project despite opposition and forced them to defend his Iran war even as they question the strategy and endgame.

Trump has also helped whittle down his own support in the Senate after endorsing primary challengers to two GOP incumbents who were previously reliable votes for his agenda — Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy. Both men lost their primaries and have since become more critical of the president.

“If we’re going to win the midterm elections, we need to get on the same page,” Cornyn said Tuesday ahead of the meeting. “We’re not on the same page now, and that I think is dangerous.”

It was uncertain, though, if Trump’s visit would smooth differences with the Republican majority — or if GOP senators who have been increasingly vocal about their frustration will voice their concerns directly.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said a lot of his complaints with the administration have already been communicated. He said he hopes the meeting will be “conciliatory.”

“That would be a big win for us tomorrow,” Tillis said.

Trump pushes Thune on SAVE America Act

Adding to the tension is Trump’s increasingly distant relationship with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. While Thune remains popular in his conference and cordial with the president, he has spent much of his time lately telling Trump what he doesn’t want to hear.

Thune said Tuesday that while Trump and some in their conference want to see the voting bill pass, “it’s just not realistic.”

Trump has been pushing the Senate for months to eliminate the filibuster and pass the legislation, known as the SAVE America Act, which would create strict new requirements for voters to prove citizenship and show voter ID at the polls. He has also demanded that they add a ban on mail-in ballots to the bill as well as unrelated provisions to block sex reassignment surgeries on some minors and prevent people born as men from playing in women’s sports.

“John is a leader and hopefully he can get the votes,” Trump said Tuesday on a trip to Pennsylvania.

Thune devoted weeks of floor time to the voting bill earlier this year and has said he supports it. But he has repeatedly said there aren’t enough votes to scrap the filibuster that triggers a 60-vote threshold to pass most bills in the 53-47 Senate. And Democrats are uniformly opposed to the bill.

“Those are just hard realities,” Thune said. “And I think people at some point have to come to grips with that.“

Thune said he hopes the meeting is about “sitting down as a family” and “celebrating time left before the election."

Some GOP senators back Trump on SAVE Act

Thune said he found out Trump was coming to the luncheon from Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who had extended the invitation without telling him — an unusual move that could signal some frustration within the ranks. Scott, a close Trump ally, leads the Senate Republican lunch every Wednesday.

Scott, who ran against Thune for leader two years ago, said Trump responded "on the spot" to his invitation and said he would come.

“He’s going to be very positive," Scott said. "There's a lot that we can brag about that we’ve accomplished, and he wants to figure out how we can win November and continue to fulfill his agenda.”

On Monday, Scott sent a letter to his Republican colleagues arguing that the Senate should be taking votes every week on some version of the SAVE America Act and other GOP priorities that Democrats oppose.

“We need to show voters that we are listening to them and will fight for their priorities whether any Democrats vote with us or not,” Scott wrote.

Also needling Thune on the bill is Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican who has amassed a large following on X with daily posts about how they should kill the filibuster and pass the bill. Several Republican senators, including Cornyn, confronted Lee at a closed-door lunch last week about his advocacy.

Lee has also echoed Trump’s claims that Republicans can’t win elections unless the bill passes, despite the party's sweeping victories in 2024.

“The push to pass the SAVE America Act is not a ‘fantasy,’” Lee posted over the weekend. “It’s a plan to avoid a nightmare — one that’s coming soon unless we act.”

Thune said Tuesday that it’s Lee’s prerogative to post, but “at the end of the day, I have a different reality. And sometimes the alternative universe that is X doesn’t reflect the facts on the ground.”

Frustration over Iran, intelligence job could also be topics

Trump could be faced with questions about his announcement on social media last week that he was delaying Jay Clayton’s nomination to become national intelligence director. Republican leaders had hoped to quickly confirm Clayton and circumvent Trump’s unpopular interim pick Bill Pulte, who has no known experience in the field.

In the same social media post, Trump said he wouldn't sign a renewal of a key surveillance law unless Senate Republicans attach the SAVE America Act. That hardline approach has some support in the House, where a group of 25 Republicans has vowed to oppose all legislation until the voting bill moves forward.

Republicans could also use the luncheon to push Trump on the war in Iran and the agreement with Iran to end it. Most lawmakers still have not been briefed about the deal.

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said there are a lot of questions about the Iran agreement, but added that Trump may not be able to talk publicly about the ongoing negotiations.

“We’re there to listen” and to try and ensure that the rest of Trump’s term is successful, Rounds said. But that means “we’ve got to come out with a united team.”

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Associated Press writer Joey Cappelletti contributed to this report.

El portavoz indicó que la agencia comenzó a evacuar la instalación durante el fin de semana “por abundancia de precaución” debido a los incendios de maleza que arden alrededor del centro de detención, ubicado en 18201 SW 12th St. en el oeste de Miami-Dade.

“ICE prioriza la salud y la seguridad de quienes están bajo nuestra custodia”, dijo un portavoz de ICE en un comunicado. “Durante el fin de semana, por abundancia de precaución, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos comenzó a evacuar el Centro de Procesamiento de Krome debido a incendios de maleza que arden alrededor del centro de detención”.

La agencia señaló que los detenidos han sido trasladados a otras instalaciones de ICE tanto dentro de Florida como fuera del estado.

También indicó que sus agentes están entrenados para emergencias como incendios forestales y que la evacuación se ha llevado a cabo de manera ordenada y sin incidentes reportados.

“ICE continuará trabajando con el Servicio Forestal de Florida para monitorear de cerca cualquier situación que pueda surgir”, continúa el comunicado.

La evacuación ocurre mientras una alerta de calidad del aire permanece vigente para el condado de Miami-Dade hasta las 3 p.m. del martes debido al humo de dos incendios de maleza que se iniciaron la semana pasada.

Un viento del sureste ha empujado gran parte del humo y la bruma más hacia el interior, mejorando la calidad del aire en gran parte del condado de Broward. Sin embargo, las condiciones siguen siendo una preocupación en partes de Miami-Dade.

El mayor de los dos incendios, llamado “Quarry 2” y ubicado al este de Krome Avenue, ha quemado 19,018 acres y está contenido en un 97%. El incendio Well Fire, cerca de Northwest 122nd Avenue, ha quemado 2,809 acres y está contenido en un 85%, según datos de la mañana del martes.

La evacuación ha generado preguntas debido a que tres instalaciones están ubicadas muy cerca entre sí en la zona:

• El Instituto Correccional Everglades, una prisión administrada por el estado que no fue evacuada
• El Centro de Detención de Krome, la instalación de ICE que fue evacuada
• Una antigua instalación de justicia juvenil que actualmente está abandonada

Local 10 News ha solicitado a funcionarios estatales una aclaración sobre por qué el Instituto Correccional Everglades permaneció en operación mientras el Centro de Detención de Krome fue evacuado, pero aún no ha recibido respuesta.

Residentes y visitantes de Miami-Dade pueden seguir las últimas condiciones de incendios forestales y actualizaciones de contención a través del visor público de incendios forestales del Servicio Forestal de Florida haciendo clic aquí.

State officials said they are combating the administration's attacks on their offshore wind industry by sending a notice of their intention to sue to the Department of the Interior on Tuesday. Tuesday’s action is focused on the administration buying back the lease for Golden State Wind, a floating offshore wind project off California’s central coast.

California has made a major commitment to offshore wind because of its potential to generate vast amounts of clean electricity from strong, consistent winds off its coast. Its strategy calls for the state to develop 25 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2045, enough to power roughly 25 million homes and provide about 13% of the state’s electricity supply.

These energy and climate goals are now in jeopardy, and that's why they will fight vigorously, said California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild. He called the administration's strategy of buying back offshore wind leases “a strategic mistake of colossal proportions" that is especially stunning at a time when fossil fuel prices have been spiking due to the Iran war.

“Countries that thrive around the world are those that lean into innovation, into the energy sources of the future,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. “And so to turn away from this, and turn back the clock, and really engage in what I consider to be a war on innovation, is really ill-considered. And I think it’s a decision that’s not just bad for California, it’s bad for the nation.”

Trump administration favors fossil fuels over wind

President Donald Trump has said he’s boosting fossil fuels to unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy, and he frequently talks about his hatred of wind power. The Interior Department started buying back offshore wind leases after federal courts thwarted Trump’s efforts to stop offshore wind development through executive action.

In exchange for reimbursements of lease fees, companies are investing in fossil fuel projects and geothermal energy. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said last week that “under President Trump, companies are shifting investment back toward dependable, secure energy infrastructure that can power our economy and lower utility costs.”

A total of five federal leases off California's coastline have been awarded to energy developers. Two are being canceled through deals with the Interior Department: Golden State Wind and another floating project off California’s central coast by Chicago-based Invenergy. The state says it also issued an administrative investigative subpoena on Tuesday to Invenergy, which accepted a $765 million deal last week to terminate its offshore wind leases.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement that the state won’t stand idly by as the Trump administration “illegally strikes deals to kill offshore wind projects and replace them with more windfalls for his fossil fuel friends.”

Eight offshore wind projects have been stopped so far

The total amount spent on these agreements is nearly $2.6 billion. Under the first deal announced in March, French company TotalEnergies is getting nearly $1 billion — essentially a refund of its two offshore wind leases — if it invests the money in fossil fuels instead. Those leases were off the coasts of North Carolina and New York. New York is leading a lawsuit challenging the TotalEnergies agreement and Democrats in Congress are investigating it.

Golden State Wind and Bluepoint Wind agreed in April to end their leases. Bluepoint Wind was an offshore wind farm in the early stages of development off the coasts of New Jersey and New York.

Golden State Wind is a joint venture by Ocean Winds and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Under its agreement, Golden State Wind can recover about $120 million in lease fees after the same amount is invested in oil and gas assets, infrastructure or projects along the Gulf Coast, Interior said. Michael Brown, CEO of Ocean Winds North America, said in April that the deal provided “clarity” for the company and its investors.

Hochschild and Bonta say that Interior illegally reallocated federal taxpayer dollars to pay Golden State Wind to abandon its offshore wind energy lease and invest an equal amount in out-of-state fossil fuel projects, which will do nothing to support California’s energy economy.

They also say California has invested more than $100 million over the past decade to ready its ports, transmission systems and industries to support offshore wind generation, and those investments may be lost if the Trump administration successfully halts offshore wind development.

California plans to sue in 60 days if the situation isn't rectified.

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El presidente Rodrigo Paz dijo el martes a la prensa local que “el bloqueo ha sido derrotado” y aseguró que continuará dialogando con todas las organizaciones como “parte del reencuentro entre todos los bolivianos”.

En el cuarto día del estado de excepción declarado por Paz para frenar los bloqueos —los cuales paralizaron a La Paz y otras ciudades en uno de los conflictos más largos que provocaron desabastecimiento de alimentos, gasolina y oxígenos medicinal —, los precios de los alimentos comenzaban a volver a la normalidad, según constató The Associated Press durante un recorrido. Unos treinta huevos, que se vendían en 65 y 70 bolivianos (10 dólares) durante el largo bloqueo, se conseguían el martes en 30 y 35 bolivianos (5 dólares).

Después de varias semanas de no poder hacerlo, algunos productores también llegaron hasta un barrio popular para vender directamente desde sus camiones a la población.

Martha Troche, de 51 años, llegó junto con su esposo a La Paz en su camión desde la región productora de Santa Cruz tras estar varados dos semanas en los bloqueos.

“Íbamos a perder toda la producción de huevos, ahora vamos a venderlos para llevar a mi esposo al médico”, dijo Troche a la AP. Explicó que a raíz de la falta de agua su esposo sufre de temblores y teme que se deba a algún problema en los riñones.

Elsa Callisaya, una mujer aymara de 61 años, aseguró que después de un mes comprará un pollo para preparar un plato típico de La Paz y reunir a sus cinco hijos. “Antes era muy caro, a mí no me alcanzaba”, agregó.

Mientras tanto, la Administradora Boliviana de Carreteras realizaba la limpieza de las vías a nivel nacional, incluyendo las del centro del país, donde se mantuvieron los cortes de ruta hasta el lunes. El expresidente Evo Morales (2006-2019) llamó la víspera a sus seguidores a paus ar las protestas en esa y otras zonas.

El presidente Paz afirmó que el estado de excepción se mantendrá pese a que el país vuelve poco a poco a la normalidad. “Bolivia se tiene que ordenar porque no se puede volver a repetir lo que ocurrió estos últimos 50 días”, agregó.

Los estudiantes de La Paz y su vecina ciudad de El Alto volvieron a las aulas el martes después de más de un mes de pasar clases virtuales. Aunque aún hay filas de autos en las gasolineras en busca de carburante, la petrolera estatal aseguró que se agiliza el abastecimiento.

Desde inicios de mayo tres sectores sindicales comandaron las protestas: la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), que firmó un acuerdo con el gobierno el viernes; el sindicato campesino-indígena Túpac Katari, que lideró los bloqueos en La Paz y ordenó el repliegue tras el estado de excepción y los seguidores de Morales que dejaron las protestas a pedido del exgobernante.

Las pérdidas totales por los bloqueos superan los 2.500 millones de dólares, según estimaciones del sector empresarial.

The midterm elections in November will determine control of both chambers of Congress and will also see the election of dozens of governors and other state and local offices. Before then, voters must choose nominees for each of these offices, making their picks in primary elections throughout the spring and summer in all 50 states.

Maryland: All eight of the state’s congressional districts will hold contested primaries. In a state that typically leans left (only one district is led by a Republican), the primaries often determine the general election winners. Gov. Wes Moore seeks the Democratic nomination for a second term.

New York: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is looking to shape the city’s congressional delegation through a series of endorsements, including in districts 10, 13 and 7. Meanwhile, several Democrats are seeking the party nomination in District 12, including Trump critic George Conway and Kennedy family scion Jack Schlossberg.

South Carolina: Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson are vying for the Republican nomination for governor, and President Donald Trump said on Friday that either contender would be a good pick despite initially endorsing Evette earlier this month.

Utah: Voters will nominate congressional candidates using a new map that created a Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City.

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Wilson’s ‘law and order’ stance wins over South Carolina voter

Pam Helton, who also said she supported Wilson in South Carolina’s gubernatorial primary two weeks ago, said it was the longtime attorney general’s approach to “law and order” that made him her choice in Tuesday’s runoff.

Wilson’s campaign platform includes criminal justice reforms like ending cashless bail and creating stricter mandatory minimum sentences for child sexual abuse material.

After voting at a precinct in Elgin, Helton said she didn’t really know much about Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, who has been elected twice on a ticket with Gov. Henry McMaster but never run atop her own campaign before this year’s elections.

“The other lady, I haven’t really seen anything about her,” Helton said. “I don’t know what she has done. I just like Alan Wilson.”

This Maryland Democrat voted against the favorites

Norma James, 64, said she was initially excited to vote for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, the state’s first Black governor, but public sentiment and research have changed that.

“The taxes have gone up,” and other questions about his honesty have come up, she said. “Public sentiment that I’ve found is he hasn’t fulfilled his promises. I did end up voting for Eric Felber.”

James said she was glad to see the 5th District seat open for the first time in decades, but she had questions about the candidate with the highest profile, Adrian Boafo. She went with Rushern L. Baker III, a two-term county executive.

James said she braved the weather because of those races and the sacrifices that people made for voting rights that are under attack. “I read that only one in four residents in Prince George’s vote. That’s appalling.”

Who will replace the longest-serving Democrat in the US House?

Rep. Steny Hoyer is a congressman. But he’s also a Democratic institution.

The lawmaker has served in Maryland’s 5th District for 45 years, including two decades spent as the party’s No. 2 in the chamber.

Now that he’s retiring, voters will have a chance to reflect on his leadership — and decide what they want for the future.

The candidate field offers a wide range of options, from one of his former staffers to a progressive attorney and a former Capitol police officer. The winner could offer a clue into what the state’s Democrats want the next generation of their party to look like.

Voter picked Stumbo for South Carolina attorney general ‘because I just liked his name’

That’s what Elgin voter John Potter said about casting his ballot for 8th Circuit Solicitor David Stumbo in the GOP runoff for South Carolina’s top prosecutor job.

Voter Lynn Strickland said she picked Stumbo, too: “I don’t know much about him, but I like him.”

Pam Helton said she sided with Stumbo’s opponent, state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, but noted, “I really don’t even know him.”

The attorney general’s race is one of three statewide GOP runoffs up for grabs Tuesday. Current Attorney General Alan Wilson is in a Republican runoff for governor.

What to know about New York’s voting-eligible population

New York is racially and ethnically diverse with higher educational attainment than the U.S. as a whole. Black, Hispanic and Asian people make up a higher percentage of the voting age population than the country overall.

The Empire State leans left, voting for Kamala Harris in 2024 by an almost 13-point margin, but U.S. House primary contests in the state often indicate the direction of each party.

In New York City, all eyes are on several Democratic congressional primaries, many of which pit incumbents and establishment candidates against the party's progressive wing.

While there are a few contested Republican primaries in the state, the 21st Congressional District is one to watch. State Assemblyman Robert Smullen, popular among local party officials, is running against Trump-backed business owner Anthony Constantino.

Trump says his call to US Attorney in California swung primary vote for Hilton

Repeating his baseless claim that the California primary was rigged, Trump on Tuesday suggested that it was his call that got Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton a spot on the November ballot.

“Had I not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be looking and watching the election from home,” Trump said at an event in Pennsylvania.

Trump said he made the call as California’s votes were being counted and it appeared Hilton might fall short. He said the U.S. attorney then made a call to “check” on the votes. About an hour later, Hilton was declared a winner, Trump said.

It took nearly a week to determine the general election matchup for governor due to California’s notoriously slow vote-counting process. Hilton edged out Democrat Tom Steyer.

Trump had previously suggested without evidence that his pressure helped swing the race for Hilton, but he had not mentioned the call.

A NY congressional primary pits progressives against Mamdani

When Mayor Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination a year ago, New York Attorney General Letitia James was among the first to speak at his victory party.

But on Tuesday, James stood outside a poll site in Brooklyn with another candidate, Antonio Reynoso, urging voters not to cast their ballot for Mamdani’s preferred pick in New York’s 7th Congressional District, Claire Valdez.

Reynoso, a longtime city official currently serving as Brooklyn’s borough president, maintains support from a broad coalition of progressive groups, which have at times sparred with Valdez’s most vocal backers — the Democratic Socialists of America.

Rob Solano, a Reynoso supporter and self-described friend of DSA, said he was looking forward to the end of a race he called “unexpectedly tense.”

“We’re friends, and we’ll still be friends after this,” added Solano, who is the executive director of Churches United for Fair Housing Action. “But it’s like when one of your friends is hooking up with someone you don’t like. What can you do?”

Maryland voter unswayed by Hoyer’s endorsement

Michelle Green, 59, said she voted for Quincy Bareebe in the Democratic primary to replace Hoyer.

“I just love what she is doing in the community,” she said of the home healthcare professional.

A registered nurse, Green said Hoyer’s endorsement of Boafo did not hold sway.

“I just figured that they were all in the same bed together,” she said.

Green said she had only seen Boafo’s ads, while she had seen Bareebe in the community.

“I trust her,” she said.

Utah Democrat Nate Blouin hopes to rebound from social media controversy

The state senator is vying to represent a new, Democratic-leaning U.S. House district in the Salt Lake City area.

Blouin, a progressive firebrand in the GOP-controlled Legislature, faces two other progressives and former U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, who is viewed as a moderate, in the Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District.

He apologized in April for several posts he had made on internet forums between 2009 and 2015 that denigrated women and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Utah-based faith known widely as the Mormon church.

Before the posts surfaced, Blouin was viewed as a top contender to challenge McAdams for the seat. Some of the party’s progressive wing has since shifted its support to political newcomer Liban Mohamed, a former Meta and TikTok employee.

A fractured vote among progressives could help McAdams emerge as the winner and move on to the November general election.

Democrats are expected to pick up a US House seat in an unlikely place: Utah

A heavily Democratic-leaning district anchored by Salt Lake City emerged from a lengthy legal battle over the previous congressional boundaries. It could be crucial for Democrats, who need to gain only a few U.S. House seats in November to take control of the narrowly divided chamber.

That means Democratic voters are deciding Tuesday who they will likely end up sending to Washington.

Former U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, who is viewed as a moderate, faces three opponents to his political left. Progressives could split the vote, clearing a path for McAdams to return to Congress, or rally behind state Sen. Nate Blouin, Liban Mohamed or Michael Farrell.

Voter turnout in New York’s Lower East Side seems sparse despite Mamdani’s appearance

Several dozen people greeted Mayor Mamdani and congressional candidate Lander, both Democrats, outside a Lower East Side voting site, but not many of them were voting or expressing an intention to do so.

The voting site seemed sparsely attended, with a voter emerging every few minutes. One man came out of the building where voting was taking place, grumbling that the election had forced the cancellation of a program that provides lunches for older adults.

Long after the mayor had left after posing for pictures with local residents, Lander recorded a promotional video in which he pleaded for people to cast their votes, “and then you gotta text your friends and ask them to get out and vote.”

“We’re going to be calling people, knocking on doors, texting people all day long,” he said.

Mamdani shows up with Lander

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stopped Tuesday morning outside a polling site on the Lower East Side for an appearance with congressional candidate Brad Lander, a fellow Democrat, calling candidacies like his “a referendum on whether the kind of leadership we have is the one that is serving the people of this city.”

“It’s not just a question of electing more Democrats. It’s a question of electing better Democrats,” the mayor said.

He said it was important that the candidates put “working people back at the heart of our politics” and champion freedom from fear and freedom of worship.

“It’s time to bring some of those notions back so that working people can look at this party and see themselves, see their struggles, see their focuses,” Mamdani said.

Wilson has run for governor as South Carolina’s top cop

Serving as attorney general since 2011, Alan Wilson has for years developed relationships with law enforcement officials across the state as they’ve built and prosecuted cases together.

Many of them returned the favor as Wilson launched his gubernatorial campaign, endorsing his candidacy.

Since advancing to the runoff, Wilson has also been endorsed by three fellow Republicans who didn’t make the cut: state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, and U.S. Reps. Ralph Norman and Nancy Mace.

He’s also gotten backing from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who called the prosecutor “a proven conservative fighter who has spent years defending the Constitution.” Cruz came to South Carolina on Monday for three campaign events with Wilson.

In an uphill battle to unseat Gov. Wes Moore, Maryland Republicans will choose their fighter

Maryland’s first-term Democratic governor, Wes Moore, has been a rising star in the party.

On Tuesday, Republican voters hoping to return the state to GOP leadership will pick a candidate they think can unseat him.

Their choices include a variety of party representatives, from ultra-moderate to diehard conservative.

Among the most closely-watched contenders is Dan Cox, an attorney and former state delegate who unsuccessfully ran for governor four years ago. Cox has a photo of himself with Trump on his law practice’s website, and he has pledged to slash taxes and beef up housing affordability programs if elected.

Incumbent who led Trump impeachment vs. Mamdani-backed challenger in NY Democratic primary

Rep. Dan Goldman is up against former New York City comptroller Brad Lander, who has the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in the 10th District.

Goldman is seeking his third term in the heavily Democratic district that includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The primary pits Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who was lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment, against Lander, a longtime progressive who has Mamdani’s and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ support.

Lander was acquitted this month on charges related to a protest inside a building housing an immigration court and has pledged to push back against the Trump administration, promising to “fight, not fold.”

The Republican primary pitting a Trump disciple against the establishment GOP

How far can devotion to Trump take a politician? Anthony Constantino is betting it’ll get him to Congress.

Constantino, a “Make America Great Again” disciple backed by Trump, is facing off against conservative state lawmaker Robert Smullen in a Republican primary Tuesday for a seat in New York’s northern reaches.

The head of the custom sticker business Sticker Mule, Constantino is best known for his shameless overtures to the president, including putting a giant “Vote for Trump” sign atop one of his company buildings.

Meanwhile, Smullen, a former U.S. Marine Corps colonel and current state Assembly member, has heavy support from state Republicans and casts himself as a steady hand ready for the House.

Voters in Maryland’s 5th district beat the rain to cast their ballots

Voters came in small numbers to the Bowie High School 9th Grade Center under gray skies and the threat of rain.

Rodrick Greensword, 58, and his wife Natasha Greensword, 45, both voted for incumbent Gov. Wes Moore in the gubernatorial primary and Maryland State Delegate Adrian Boafo to be the Democratic nominee to replace Rep. Steny Hoyer.

“We know the governor is governed by the pillars on which his culture is built,” and he will work for the people, making moral and humane choices, Natasha said.

She said Boafo seemed to share the same values as Moore and Hoyer. She added that she thought Hoyer’s endorsement helped as well.

Evette came out swinging against Wilson on primary night

As soon as it was clear they’d be advancing to this week’s runoff, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette called her opponent, state Attorney General Alan Wilson, a “career politician … who won’t take a stand and who does the political thing and not the right thing.”

Despite having been elected statewide multiple times by many of the same voters who have supported Evette, the mention of Wilson’s name elicited boos from her crowd.

In his remarks to supporters, Wilson didn’t name Evette, instead saying he welcomed support from voters who had backed other candidates.

Former US Rep. Ben McAdams has sought to shed his reputation as a moderate

When he first ran for Congress in 2018, McAdams faced the formidable task of convincing Utah Republicans and Democrats alike that he was a sensible moderate fit to represent a swing district. He did just that, narrowly defeating the Republican incumbent and quickly gaining a reputation as a bridge-builder in a single House term.

The political landscape has changed, and so has McAdams’ approach.

The former congressman previously described himself as anti-abortion. But this year, as he campaigned in a newly drawn district in the Salt Lake City area that leans heavily Democratic, McAdams pledged his support for abortion rights and insisted he’s only “moderate in tone.”

His progressive opponents have argued on the campaign trail that McAdams is too conservative to represent a deeply blue district. McAdams disagrees and says his record of action makes him the best fit.

Wilson says rancor with Nancy Mace mollified as the campaign went on

The South Carolina primary featured sharp attacks for months as Republicans battled for a rare open governor’s seat in the state.

However, Alan Wilson said the rivals’ rapport improved the more they saw each other in person around the state.

“It’s easy to say things about people on social media, but when you start talking to them backstage, at forums and debates and things like that, you have conversations, you start to see a human being, not an avatar on a social media app,” he said.

Wilson said he checked in on Rep. Nancy Mace regularly after her father died in April.

After finishing last in the June 9 primary, Mace swiftly endorsed Wilson, who said they had “buried the hatchet.” U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, who also ran in the primary, endorsed him, too.

A plum open Democratic seat unleashes an avalanche of candidates

What do you get when a 17-term Democratic congressman announces his retirement from one of the nation’s wealthiest House districts in the heart of Manhattan? More candidates than voters may know what to do with.

Eight people are running in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler. The race has been dominated by four of them. Two are icons of a new social media age: Jack Schlossberg, a 33-year-old Kennedy family heir and prolific poster who contends he’ll be the voice of a new generation, and George Conway, the former Republican lawyer turned Trump legal nemesis.

The two more traditional candidates, also the front-runners, come with their own unusual backstories. Assemblymember Micah Lasher, a childhood magician turned political insider, is the establishment favorite and endorsed by his former boss Nadler.

But he’ll have to get through Assemblymember Alex Bores, a former computer engineer whose AI regulation bill made him a target of more than $7 million of ads from AI backers seeking to end his candidacy. In an act of political jiu-jitsu, Bores has turned the onslaught into a positive, enlisting other deep-pocketed donors to spend to blunt it while becoming a national symbol of resistance to big money in politics.

He protected the Capitol on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for Congress

A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, is vying for a seat in one of Maryland’s most closely-watched congressional primaries.

Harry Dunn is one of 24 candidates on the Democratic primary ballot to succeed U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer on Tuesday.

Dunn became an advocate for democratic institutions after the Jan. 6 riot. His campaign has carried forward that message. He’s running on a platform that includes protecting democracy and holding Trump and his allies accountable for misinformation and violence.

DOJ probes Brooklyn coffee shop that barred congressman for Israel views

The investigation, announced Monday by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, comes after a Brooklyn coffee chain said it would deny service to U.S. Rep Dan Goldman over his support for Israel.

In a since-deleted Instagram post, Poetica Coffee shared an image of Goldman in their Williamsburg store this weekend, along with a message that read, in part: “We don’t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers or anyone in between. Too bad we didn’t recognize you right away, or we would have turned you away.”

Goldman replied to the post saying that he’d purchased coffee from a barista who allowed his daughter to use the bathroom and “could not have been nicer.”

Goldman, a Democrat, faces a primary challenge Tuesday from former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, in one of several congressional races animated by the war in Gaza.

Although Goldman has criticized the Israeli government, he has drawn anger from the left for accepting the endorsement of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and refusing to use the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s military actions against Palestinians.

In their post, Poetica said it had refunded Goldman’s money, suggesting the funds were “probably coming from AIPAC anyways.”

Harmeet K. Dhillon, the top civil rights prosecutor at the Justice Department, said on X that Poetica could face an enforcement action for discrimination.

Goldman told CNN that he was saddened by the coffee shop’s post, but said he didn’t think it warranted an investigation by the Justice Department.

Inquiries to the coffee shop were not returned.

Winning statewide in November is a tall order for South Carolina Democrats

While Republicans are still hashing out their gubernatorial nominee, Democrats may have already settled the top of their ticket — but they have lots of ground to make up to win.

In the last gubernatorial race, GOP incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster defeated Democrat Joe Cunningham by nearly 18 percentage points. And Democrats haven’t won a governor’s race in the state since 1998.

As for U.S. Senate seats, no Democrat in the state has won one of those in decades, either. When he last ran in 2020, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham defeated his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, by a 10-percentage-point margin. That contest was the most expensive in state history, and among the country’s most expensive congressional races ever.

Alan Wilson says South Carolina GOP will unify after bruising governor primary

After casting his runoff ballot in Lexington on Tuesday, the state attorney general said that “it might take a couple of weeks” for candidates on opposing sides to shake off bad feelings from the grueling yearlong primary season.

But in the end, the longtime prosecutor seeking to become South Carolina’s next governor said, “I really do believe Republican party’s going to coalesce around the candidate” nominated.

Voters are choosing between Wilson and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in Tuesday’s runoff election for the GOP nomination.

Trump has endorsed both candidates after initially only backing Evette.

In left-leaning Maryland, primaries often determine the general election winner

Maryland is a blue state. Seven of its congressional districts are represented by Democrats, and one by a Republican. Those seats are unlikely to flip this fall, making voters’ choices on Tuesday especially consequential.

That dynamic has drawn high spending and crowded candidate fields in several of the state’s primaries. In one Democratic primary to replace U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, 24 candidates are on the ballot.

Utah redistricting leaves Trump-backed incumbent vulnerable to primary challenge

Republican U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy is running for reelection in a district that is dramatically different from the one that first elected her three years ago.

Maloy faces former state lawmaker Phil Lyman, who is running to her political right, in a redrawn district that spans most of southern and eastern Utah.

The congresswoman from Cedar City was first elected to Congress in a 2023 special election, and she was reelected to a full term in 2024.

Lyman embraced false claims of fraud following the 2020 presidential election. He is best known for organizing an illegal ATV ride in protest of a federal land decision. A jury later found Lyman guilty of misdemeanor illegal use of ATVs and conspiracy, but Trump pardoned him in December 2020.

Democrats’ general election slate is largely already set

While Democrats also had multiple candidates running in some primary contests earlier this month, they’re not dealing with runoffs in the top races.

State Rep. Jermaine Johnson, seen as a rising star among South Carolina Democrats, defeated two other hopefuls to win his party’s gubernatorial nomination outright.

And Charleston physician Annie Andrews also cleared the Democratic field in her challenge to Graham.

There are some Democratic runoffs Tuesday, like in the 1st Congressional District currently represented by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace.

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A man accused of pulling a gun on two people delivering his Uber Eats order is out of the Broward County jail.

Devon Germano was seen making a quick exit Thursday after posting bond.

He’s charged with two counts of aggravated assault.

According to arrest documents, the incident happened April 18 in the 2000 block of Northeast Ninth Avenue in Wilton Manors.

Two people were making the delivery -- a driver and a passenger.

While dropping off the food, the driver told investigators he received a notification that the order had been canceled and asked the passenger to bring the food back so it could be returned to the restaurant, per Uber Eats policy.

As they were picking up the order, Germano, 30, allegedly opened the door and shouted that they were stealing his food.

According to documents, the driver told Germano the order had been canceled. Investigators say Germano then walked over to a white Tesla and said, “I got something for you,” before pulling out a gun and pointing it at the female passenger.

She told investigators that, fearing for her life, she put the food on the ground and got into the vehicle.

Investigators later obtained a search warrant for the Tesla and say they found a loaded Glock, 9MM magazine.

Both victims told investigators Germano “intentionally threatened their lives by his actions.”

In court, a judge set his bond at $15,000 and ordered that he have no contact with the victims, along with no firearms or ammunition.

Authorities later determined Germano’s order had not been canceled. However, the next order the driver was scheduled to deliver had been.

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out a lower court decision that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s expanded use of expedited removal. The ruling was a big victory for the Republican administration, which views the expansion of so-called expedited removal as a key tool for carrying out its mass deportation policy.

Expedited removal — quick deportation without a chance to appear before a judge — has previously been applied to migrants arriving by sea or caught at or near the border shortly after crossing.

In January, Trump expanded its use to undocumented migrants all over the United States. Immigration agents began whisking migrants away from courthouses where they had gone for immigration proceedings and then removing them from the country within days.

“The Trump administration’s push for fast-track deportations will subject people to an unfair and error-prone system,” Anand Balakrishnan, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement.

Balakrishnan represented plaintiffs in arguments before the appellate panel and said its ruling “undermines the fundamental principle that people receive due process when the government seeks to deport them.”

DC Circuit Judge Justin R. Walker, one of the judges on the panel, said the plaintiffs had not shown the expanded use of expedited removal violated due process rights. Immigrants received notice of removal proceedings and were given a chance to respond, he wrote in his opinion.

Walker and the second judge in the majority, Neomi Rao, were appointed by Trump. The third judge on the panel was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

Walker said there was no requirement that the administration inform immigrants that they can avoid expedited removal if they can show they have been in the United States for more than two years.

"The constitutional requirement is notice of the action the government is taking and the grounds for it, plus an opportunity to respond," he wrote, adding that the plaintiffs' “contrary reasoning would require immigration officers to provide what amounts to legal advice.”

Walker and Rao vacated an order by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb that put the expanded use of expedited removal on hold. Cobb, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, a Democrat, ruled in August that the administration had not developed procedures to ensure migrants were not wrongly deported under the expedited process.

The plaintiffs had put forward “substantial evidence" that the expedited removal process, on the contrary, carried a high risk of error when applied more broadly, Cobb said. The ruling cited examples of people who had lived in the U.S. for far longer than two years but were still ordered to be removed in expedited proceedings.

In his opinion, Walker acknowledged evidence of such errors, but said they resulted from “individual officers’ failure to follow the law — not defects in the written directives under review or the procedures they incorporate.”

The Trump administration has argued that its expansion of expedited removal includes protections to prevent arbitrary removal. In a court filing in October, Justice Department attorneys said Cobb's ruling was an “egregious error” that was depriving the administration of an “essential tool to combat the unprecedented surge of illegal immigration over the past few years” and efficiently deport potentially millions of people.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher last week dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit against Maryland that sought access to the state’s voter records.

Gallagher, appointed by Republican President Donald Trump during his first term, wrote that she “joins every court to have addressed this issue" in concluding that the unredacted voter registration file "is not a record or paper that a state must produce to the United States.”

With the dismissal Thursday in Maryland, the number of states where the Justice Department has lost similar cases comes to nine. The department has sued to force release of detailed state voter data — which includes dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers — in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

In addition to Maryland, judges have rejected those attempts in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. In Georgia, a judge dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit because it had been filed in the wrong city, prompting the government to refile elsewhere.

In the Maryland case, the Justice Department tried to cite an opinion written by its own legal counsel's office that it had the right to the state voter records under federal civil rights law, but Gallagher was not persuaded.

“The Court will not interpret the (Civil Rights Act) contrary to its text simply because an office of the party advancing that interpretation has adopted it,” she wrote.

In explaining their push for the records, federal officials have said that they need the voter data to ensure that states are complying with federal election laws related to maintaining voter registration lists, even though states already have detailed processes to do that. In the case out of Rhode Island, a Justice Department attorney acknowledged that the department was seeking unredacted voter roll information so it could be shared with the Department of Homeland Security to check citizenship status.

On Monday, a federal judge found that the Homeland Security program to check citizenship, referred to as SAVE, violated federal privacy laws and was wrongly identifying eligible voters as noncitizens. She ruled that the system could no longer be used.

Democratic and some Republican officials have objected to the Justice Department requests for detailed voter data and said such a demand violates state and federal privacy laws.

But at least 13 states have either provided or promised to provide their voter registration lists to the department, according to the Brennan Center for Justice and Associated Press reporting: Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.

Bettman said the Board of Governors executive committee endorsed a term sheet agreed to with the Friedkins over the next six months. The total investment required between an expansion fee and the cost to build a new arena in one of those cities would amount to $3.5 billion, according to Bettman, who said discussions over the past two years largely revolved around Houston before Austin joined the conversation.

“That’s part of the process is to determine what would be best, both for the league and for Dan Friedkin and family,” Bettman said. "Both cities will require a new arena. It may be more feasible in one place than the other. And as we dig a little deeper and do the due diligence, we’ll figure out which makes the most sense.”

Friedkin is chairman and CEO of the Friedkin Group with a net worth of $6.4 billion, according to Forbes. The Houston-based consortium has investments in the automotive industry, entertainment, hospitality and sports, including stakes in European soccer clubs Everton and AS Roma.

No board vote was taken. That would only come if the sides involved move forward with an agreement.

While there is no guarantee the NHL adds a 33rd team, the move is a first step toward becoming the largest professional sports league in North America, surpassing the NFL. Bettman has said officials were listening to expressions of interest from prospective owners in places like Houston and Atlanta but until now not yet engaged in a formal path toward expansion.

“There was an update on Atlanta, there was an update on Arizona and there was an update on South Texas," Bettman said. "But neither Arizona nor Atlanta are quite as far along in the process as the Friedkin opportunities.”

Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson, who is on the executive committee, called it an important decision and said, “It’s just an exploration at this stage.”

In a statement released through Pursuit Sports, the Friedkin family said it had reached an agreement with the NHL for exclusive rights to a franchise in South Texas with a focus on Houston and Austin. It said it would be methodical in assessing the best option.

“Each city brings unique attributes that would make a new team a huge success — both have the infrastructure, passionate fan bases and economic strength needed to support a championship-caliber franchise for years to come," the family said. “We have wanted for some time to bring an NHL team to Texas, and we are excited that the process has now begun."

The league last expanded to 32 teams with the Seattle Kraken beginning play in 2021 after the Vegas Golden Knights started in the 2017-18 season. Before that, there had been 30 teams since 2000, when Columbus and Minnesota entered.

The recent success stories, combined with booming franchise values across sports, spurred talk of expansion in hockey circles, especially because expansion fees could exceed $1 billion. Seattle paid $650 million and Las Vegas $500 million.

From Florida to Texas to California and places in between, the NHL has enjoyed strong popularity across the Sun Belt and non-traditional hockey markets over the past four decades. Teams were added in South Florida and Tampa in Florida, San Jose and Anaheim in Calfironia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Las Vegas while relocations put teams in Dallas and Raleigh, North Carolina, Denver and elsewhere.

Teams in those places have won the Stanley Cup the past seven years in a row and 13 times dating to Colorado's championship run in 1995-96.

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The Division I Cabinet approved the change from the longstanding tenet of college sports that gave athletes five years to complete four seasons of competition with their eligibility clock starting at the time of enrollment, regardless of age.

The move will all but eliminate waivers or resdhirt years for extended eligibility except for religious missions, maternity leave or active-duty military service. No longer will extensions be considered for athletes who are injured.

The rules are set to take effect this fall. Division I includes more than 350 schools, some 200,000 athletes and, with football and basketball leading the way, is by far the most lucrative of the three in the NCAA.

The five-in-five language also is included in Senate legislation intended to address numerous concerns across college sports and comes after a wave of lawsuits from athletes seeking to extend their college careers and ability to earn money through revenue sharing and name, image and likeness deals. Still to be seen is whether the new rules will withstand legal scrutiny alongside the existing challenges.

Heisman Trophy runner-up and Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia remains the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging an NCAA rule counting seasons spent at junior colleges against players’ Division I eligibility time. That case is slated for trial in February.

“I wouldn’t say that the rule change itself will slow lawsuits down,” said Sam Ehrlich, a Boise State assistant professor of legal studies in business and management who tracks litigation against the NCAA.

Ehrlich said athletes very well could continue to petition courts for extended eligibility based on antitrust arguments, but appellate courts recently have delivered wins for the NCAA by overturning preliminary injunctions in several cases.

The new eligibility model will affect all athletes who enroll in 2027-28. Currently enrolled athletes with eligibility after the 2025-26 academic year, and those who are incoming freshmen this fall, can apply the age-based model or continue under previous eligibility rules.

For schools with current athletes who may be eligible for hardship waivers or extensions of eligibility under current rules, the D-I Cabinet indicated the deadline to submit requests to the NCAA is July 31. After that date, waivers would no longer be available.

Attorney Mit Winter, who specializes in sports law, has called the five-year proposal and age limit “a very sensible rule” in offering a “more black and white” evaluation to player eligibility, particularly for schools navigating a complicated waiver process determined on a case-by-case basis.

But with athletes still not being considered employees or having collective bargaining available to establish agreed-upon standards, Winter said, legal challenges are likely.

“It might be a little easier to defend than the current rules we have,” Winter said when the rule was proposed in April. “But when you just look at it from a broad point of view, it’s still essentially limiting how long someone can work as a college athlete and be paid as a college athlete.”

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Entre los asistentes estuvo su compañero de armas y expresidente Raúl Castro.

Las cenizas de Valdés —quien llegó a ser jefe de la seguridad del Estado y del Ministerio del Interior— serán depositadas en el mausoleo que guarda las de Ernesto “Che” Guevara en Santa Clara.

La urna se ubicó en la sala de entrada del Ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas, frente a la Plaza de la Revolución, junto a una foto del dirigente y coronas de flores. Una fila de varias cuadras de a dos o tres personas fue pasando pausadamente por delante. El gobierno decretó el duelo oficial.

“Me corresponde (rendir homenaje) como miembro de las Fuerzas Armadas... como cubana. Muchas son las gracias que tengo que darle por lo que hizo por esta revolución”, dijo a The Associated Press la teniente coronel Yorsana Victores, de 47 años.

Valdés llegó a ser el tercer hombre más importante de Cuba en la década pasada tanto por sus cargos en el gobierno como por su puesto en la dirección del Partido Comunista. Tenía 94 años al momento de su deceso.

Homenajes en su honor se desarrollaron también en muchas de las cabeceras provinciales de la isla, mostraron medios de prensa locales.

“La revolución de Ramiro (Valdés) es la que le dio la dignidad al pueblo cubano y no nos queda de otra que acompañarlo hasta el último momento como él lo hizo con el pueblo de Cuba”, dijo Lenger Hernández, un trabajador estatal de 48 años que hizo la larga cola para rendirle tributo.

Nacido el 28 de abril de 1932 en la occidental ciudad de Artemisa —cerca de La Habana--, Valdés tenía 21 años cuando fue reclutado por los hermanos Fidel y Raúl Castro para el asalto al Cuartel Moncada, que aunque resultó fallido se convirtió en el inicio del proceso revolucionario y la caída del dictador Fulgencio Batista.

Pocas veces aparecía en público y nunca hablaba con la prensa.

Valdés fue una figura clave en los primeros años del gobierno de Fidel Castro, pero en 1986 se alejó del poder.

En 2003 fue reincorporado al Consejo de Estado de Cuba, el órgano ejecutivo gobernante de la isla, y en 2006 Raúl Castro lo seleccionó para que dirigiera el Ministerio de Informática y las Comunicaciones. En 2009 fue designado vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros Comunicaciones. Mantuvo el cargo de ministro hasta 2011 y de vicepresidente del consejo hasta 2019.

Proponents of artificial intelligence see it as the next great revolution for the global economy. The revolution won't come cheap. Just four companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft — plan to spend up to $720 billion this year, primarily on AI data centers.

This week, investors are looking at the huge sums being spent and questioning whether AI can produce the profits and productivity necessary to make all the investment worth it. Critics have been talking about the possibility of a bubble in AI investment. On Monday, Amazon and Alphabet fell about 5%.

On Tuesday, several companies that make the chips needed for the data center buildup — Nvidia, Micron Technology, Broadcom and Lam Research — led the market lower.

At first, Microsoft, Alphabet and other so-called hyperscalers turned to cash on hand to fund the AI expansion. But they're increasingly relying on the markets to raise cash.

AI buildout needs cash

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, said earlier this month that it’s raising $80 billion in cash to help pay for its investments by selling shares of its stock. Overall, Alphabet is planning to spend as much as $190 billion this year — more than all the stock of The Walt Disney Co. is worth, and Alphabet is forecasting its spending on investments next year will “significantly increase.”

In March, Amazon sold $54 billion of bonds in the U.S. and Europe as it plans to spend around $200 billion this year on AI investments.

Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX was on a three-day skid heading into Tuesday. It regained some lost ground, but ended trading slightly below the closing price on its first day of trading on June 12. Musk acknowledges that SpaceX will have to spend heavily to fulfill its plans of sending AI data centers into space, and the company has announced that part of an upcoming bond offering will fund its AI buildout.

High-priced chip companies

Chip companies have benefitted as the demand for memory chips and processing power for AI data centers and other projects has led to a supply shortage and a surge in prices. Investors have bid up the share prices of these companies now in anticipation of big profits down the road. By one measure, which compares a company's stock price to its earnings per share, these companies might look expensive.

Marvell Technologies lost money for five straight years before turning a profit of $2.7 billion in the fiscal year ended in January, thanks to gains in its data center business. The stock has more than tripled so far this year and its price-to-earnings ratio has gone from about 30 at the start of 2026 to near 100.

Some data storage companies have seen even more eye-popping gains. Sandisk shares have soared more than 700% year to date and its P/E ratio stands at 68. Whether Sandisk shares are overvalued will depend on whether it meets Wall Street’s lofty expectations for the next 12 months -- earnings per share of $188.05 per share compared with $29.16 per share for the 12 months ended March 31. When the current stock price is compared to the forecast, the price-to-earnings ratio falls to around 11.

The current price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is around 25.

On Tuesday, investors unloaded at least some of their holdings in these stocks. Sandisk sank 13.6%, while Marvell lost 9.4%.

The sell-off also took a bite out of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that invest heavily in tech stocks. The Invesco QQQ Trust Series ETF was down 3.3%, while iShares Semiconductor ETF slumped 7.9%.

Pocketing some gains

While some investors may have doubts that companies going full throttle on AI infrastructure spending will ultimately be able to generate profits to justify their investment, it's likely some of the selling this week may be investors pausing to pocket some of their gains after the stock market’s recent string of all-time highs.

“With no clear catalyst driving the move lower, we believe today’s pullback likely reflects profit-taking following a strong rally from the March lows,” said Brock Weimer, an investments strategy analyst at Edward Jones.

Big Tech gains have powered major stock indexes on record-setting runs this year. Within the S&P 500, the tech sector alone is up nearly 27% just over the last three months and roughly 17% for the year. In Asia, South Korea’s Kospi has nearly doubled so far in 2026.

Heavy selling on Tuesday triggered a halt in trading in the Kospi, which set the stage for the wave of tech stock selling when trading opened in U.S. markets, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in a research note Tuesday.

Overall AI enterprise demand in Asia is “showing no cracks in the armor, which continue to make us very bullish on owning the tech AI winners over the coming year,” he added.

Still, tech companies’ race to invest in the expansion of AI infrastructure could ultimately be sowing the seeds of future oversupply, according to Philip Straehl, chief investment officer at Morningstar Wealth.

“Periods of elevated capital investment have historically not translated into strong outcomes for investors, leaving us cautious on the outlook,” Straehl wrote in a report last week.

He expects that the rapid expansion of AI computing power will weigh on pricing, hurting companies’ returns and eventually result in a pullback in investing. Semiconductor companies are “particularly exposed to this dynamic,” Straehl wrote.

The team will still be required to leave after Friday's match in Seattle, a department spokesperson said. A spokesperson for the Iran Football Federation confirmed that the team will leave its base camp in Tijuana, Mexico, on Wednesday for Seattle.

“This was planned on our end,” Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House FIFA Task Force, told The Associated Press. “We were going to look at how the first two movements went, and if they went smoothly, we would extend the extra day in light of the longer travel time.”

The policy change was first reported by NBC News and comes as officials from both countries negotiate over how to end the war in Iran.

Iran's squad has complained about the travel restrictions levied on the team, and the challenges it has faced since the outbreak of war. Iran originally sought to move its group stage matches to Mexico, with whom it has diplomatic ties. The team’s base camp was relocated from Tucson, Arizona, to Tijuana. Several team officials and members of the support staff have been barred from traveling into the U.S. with the team.

For the first two matches, in Los Angeles, the team was not permitted to travel until the day before, which Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei repeatedly said put the team at a disadvantage. The team had less than 24 hours on the ground before its noon match Sunday. “Right now we need recovery more than anything,” Ghalenoei said through a translator after the 0-0 draw against Belgium. “The conditions have been extremely hard for us.”

It's not uncommon for teams to travel a day before the match, and it's in line with FIFA regulations, which state that “each team shall travel from its team base camp to the match venue one day before matchday (MD‑1) and in exceptional cases on MD‑2, and shall return to their team base camp after the match (on MD/MD+1).”

But Iran had asked for more time to acclimate to host cities and recover after matches, especially for the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) trip to Seattle. The team has scheduled a Thursday training at the University of Washington.

“We don’t ask for much. We just ask for the same procedure as for all the other 47 teams,” Iran national team player Alireza Jahanbakhsh said Sunday. “Hopefully we can bring everyone who is involved and help us with us.”

The Iran team has also said it experienced difficulties entering and exiting the U.S. each time it made the 127-mile (204-kilometer) flight between Tijuana and Los Angeles. The typically short trip took five hours the day before its first match against New Zealand, team captain Mehdi Taremi said.

Hours before Sunday's match against Belgium, U.S. Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told Fox News the Iranians had “tried to get somebody in yesterday” who had direct ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. In a statement, the soccer federation vociferously pushed back, calling the claim “an outright and undeniable lie.”

It's unclear whether Iran's upcoming opponent, Egypt, will also be allowed to arrive in Seattle two days early. After its 3-1 victory against New Zealand in Vancouver Sunday, Egypt asked to fly directly to Seattle. FIFA denied that request, citing a lack of security resources to accommodate the last-minute demand. Egypt returned to its base camp in Spokane, Washington, a 45-minute flight from Seattle.

Egypt's national team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The votes in the state House and Senate came after lawmakers limited a provision that requires a hand recount of ballots in certain races. Leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature said their plan to delay action on the vote-counting equipment had the support of the governor, Republican Brian Kemp.

Kemp had called lawmakers into a special session in part to address a July 1 deadline that was set to ban the QR codes used for the official vote count. Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes.

Some voting rights activists had urged lawmakers to delay any changes to the QR code system, warning that there wasn't enough time before the midterm elections to ensure they didn't cause confusion at polling sites. Georgia is a political swing state where voters will decide nationally prominent races for U.S. Senate and governor in the fall.

State lawmakers last week appeared to have reached a deal on a bill to postpone the deadline for banning the QR code tabulation, but Senate Republicans over the weekend inserted an amendment that required a full hand recount of the top two races on the ballot. That change drew strong opposition from Democrats.

The revised bill that passed Tuesday would limit hand recounts to eight races for statewide office, including governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state. But the hand counts would take place only for the top two contests on a ballot and only if the margin of victory is within a half percentage point. U.S. Senate and House races would not be subject to the hand counts.

To qualify, the race would have to appear as the first or second contest on a ballot.

Democrats objected to any hand recount provision. Research has shown that hand-counting is more prone to error, costlier and likely to delay results. Yet it has gained traction with Republican lawmakers in some states as President Donald Trump repeats false claims about a stolen 2020 election.

Georgia already has established election procedures that include audits and provisions for recounts in certain circumstances, Democratic state Rep. Debra Bazemore said.

“The question before us is not whether we support election integrity. Of course we do,” she said. “The question is whether the bill actually improves election integrity or whether it creates a new opportunity to cast doubt on legitimate election results. I believe it does the latter.”

Rep. Victor Anderson, a Republican who helped lead a House study committee on elections that held public hearings around the state last year, said the bill is the “culmination of a lot of work.”

He cautioned that if no bill is passed to address the QR code deadline, all votes may have to be hand counted in the coming midterm election.

“This bill is not the ultimate solution,” he said. “This bill solves an immediate conflict we have and lays out a path to achieve the most election integrity, the most accuracy, the most transparency that we can have going forward when we implement the next uniform voting system in Georgia.”

The state's current system uses a QR code printed on ballots to tally the votes. It has drawn the ire of Trump, who claimed without evidence that voting machines in Georgia deleted or switched votes in the 2020 election. Trump narrowly lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden that year.

Georgia voting machines have been the subject of conspiracy theories, which manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems fought vigorously in court. But election integrity advocates also have raised concerns about the machines, arguing that they are vulnerable to hacking and that voters cannot be sure their selections are accurately reflected because people can’t read QR codes.

Dominion was bought by another company last year and is now known as Liberty Vote.

The NFL informed the 22-year-old quarterback on Tuesday that it will not hold a supplemental draft this year, and encouraged him to focus on preparing for possible entry into the league through the regular draft next year.

The league told Sorsby of its decision in a letter that was obtained by The Associated Press.

Sorsby had applied for the supplemental draft after a legal battle with the NCAA, which had declared him ineligible for making thousands of bets on sporting events worth at least $90,000 during his college career. Those included at least 40 bets on Indiana while he was a freshman there in 2022, though none on the games in which he played for the Hoosiers that season.

The NFL hasn't held a supplemental draft since 2023 and had no plans to do so this year before Sorsby's petition. No player has been selected in the supplemental draft since 2019.

“Your Petition — filed three business days before the deadline, without any supporting information or documentation, and only after abandoning your recent litigation efforts to avoid NCAA sanctions — does not provide a basis for the League to alter those plans," NFL attorney Lawrence P. Ferazani Jr. said in his letter to Sorsby and the 32 NFL teams. "The issues presented by your Petition are too significant, and too closely tied to the League’s core integrity interests, to permit meaningful review within the timeline presented.”

Eligibility for either the regular draft or supplemental draft is required for entry into the NFL, per the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and its union. A player who is not selected in the draft could then enter the league as a free agent.

“No player shall be eligible to be employed by an NFL Club until he has been eligible for selection in an NFL Draft,” the CBA states in Article 6.

Sorsby is considered a potential Day 2 pick — second or third round — in next year's draft. Teams will have to be convinced he's overcome his gambling problems.

The NFL's letter pointed out that Sorsby's petition didn't address reports that he may have violated state criminal law nor did it “demonstrate accountability for your conduct or indicate whether, or how, you would adhere to the League’s rules and policies governing the integrity of competition."

It concluded: “We encourage you to focus on preparing for possible entry into the NFL through the 2027 NFL Annual Draft.”

The submission deadline for the rarely used supplemental draft was Monday. Sorsby had planned to work out for NFL teams on July 10.

Sorsby, after transferring earlier this year from Cincinnati to Texas Tech, was banished from competition by the NCAA for the gambling activity.

After spending a month in a residential treatment program for a diagnosed addiction that led to thousands of bets, Sorsby sued the NCAA and gained a court-ordered reinstatement that prompted nationwide backlash toward Texas Tech. The controversy led Sorsby to enter this special draft session.

“The sole reasons identified in your Petition for seeking entry into the Supplemental Draft are that you have been ‘declared ineligible’ by the NCAA, have ‘exhausted all of (your) avenues to continue in the NCAA,’ and ‘want to now play in the NFL,’” Ferazani wrote. “The Petition provides no information regarding the basis for, or timing of, the NCAA’s decision. Public sources, however, indicate that in May 2026 the NCAA issued a determination declaring you permanently ineligible from participation in college athletics, based on a sustained pattern of improper gambling activity during your collegiate career at three different universities.”

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Last hurricane season, AI models not only proved they could compete with the gold-standard corrected consensus models – the guidance human forecasters rely on most that blend the best physics-based forecast models and correct for their biases in real-time – but beat them, even besting the National Hurricane Center’s official forecast across nearly every forecast period.

It was impressive, though not altogether surprising, for an AI-designed hurricane model to be competitive in forecasting hurricane track, but it was downright incredible to see an AI forecast model top the National Hurricane Center’s official intensity forecast last season, as Google’s DeepMind did across most forecast periods.

While hurricane track forecasting has made tremendous strides over the past 30 years, intensity forecasting has often stagnated.

Over the past 15 years, however, slow progress has been made in reducing forecast error for hurricane intensity and detecting rapidly intensifying hurricanes in advance.

These improvements have been largely attributed to ultra-high-resolution, storm-following hurricane models – like NOAA’s HAFS and HWRF predecessor – that better capture the fine inner-core details and complicated interaction between the air and ocean that meteorologists argue are necessary to accurately forecast hurricane intensity.

The remarkable feat of DeepMind and its stellar intensity forecasts last hurricane season was that it didn’t have all the fine details of our traditional high-resolution, physics-based hurricane models.

It simply takes a snapshot of the current state of the atmosphere as assessed by the European Centre’s high-resolution global weather prediction system (known as the Integrated Forecasting System or IFS) – the only thing it presumably knows about the state of the atmosphere – and then makes a forecast drawing only from data its trained on, which includes historical weather data back to 1940 (from the European Centre’s fifth generation atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate or ERA5) and global unified hurricane track data (from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship or IBTrACS).

That’s it.

The beauty is in AI’s simplicity, and AI forecasts are made in a fraction of the time and with immensely less computing power than what’s required of conventional physics-based weather models, models that harness some of the most powerful and expensive supercomputers in the world.

Once the AI model is trained, it can make a forecast in minutes using a standard laptop, whereas traditional physics-based models take hours to produce a full forecast on banks of expansive, mainframe supercomputers stored in large server rooms around the country.

So, unlike what we think about with other types of AI-related tasks, which often require massive, energy-hungry AI data centers and industrial-sized water draws for continuous cooling, AI weather models actually have the potential to streamline and make more cost-efficient weather forecasting. In fact, NOAA estimates the AI-version of its global forecast model uses a mere 0.3% of computing resources compared to its physics-based version.

If AI weather models can prove as accurate or more than traditional weather forecast models, as Google DeepMind is doing in the hurricane world, we’re looking at significantly cheaper and faster forecasts in the future.

Machine learning versus other types of AI

Artificial intelligence or AI is an umbrella term used for many different types of new technology nowadays. It’s important to distinguish which subset of AI new weather models are harnessing, however, compared to the type of AI technology most accessible to the public through AI chatbots.

The new AI weather models are not large language models or LLMs that simply mimic human speech patterns or text. They’re also not generative AI that produce images or videos based on user prompts. These are the most accessible and familiar types of AI found on platforms like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude.

Instead, AI weather models are a type of deep, machine learning-based subset of AI that use complex neural networks to effectively mimic how the human brain processes information. This makes these models behave similarly to how a human might forecast weather, relying on pattern-recognition based on their understanding of historical weather. But in the case of AI, the models are trained on petabytes of data going back a century or longer, more data than most of us could holistically comprehend in routine forecasts.

These advanced machine learning-based weather models are a far cry from the AI “slop” we often see floating around the dark corners of social media and the internet.

Not all AI weather models are created equal

For the time being, Google DeepMind has the hurricane forecast model market cornered. While DeepMind ran circles around all other models in 2025, the same can’t be said about other AI newcomers.

For example, the European Centre which runs the famed Euro model – the world’s leading physics-based global weather model – also has an AI-based version which ran last hurricane season.

While it performed exceptionally well for hurricane track forecasts – better than the conventional physics-based Euro – it was a total flop for hurricane intensity forecasts, basically showing no skill whatsoever.

A large reason for the AI-based Euro model’s poor intensity forecast performance is its reliance on coarse reanalysis training data from ERA5 that works to minimize error and more often than not weakens hurricanes too quickly, resulting in a large low intensity bias.

Google DeepMind bypasses this issue by incorporating historical hurricane intensities in its training dataset so maximum winds act like extra grid points in the model.

Presumably, other AI models will eventually catch up to Google’s DeepMind approach, but when it comes to intensity forecasting, DeepMind is the AI champion.

What’s new with AI models for the 2026 hurricane season?

Google has several new features and improvements to DeepMind available this hurricane season. Perhaps the biggest change is that DeepMind’s now offers up to 1,000 ensemble members compared to the 50-ensemble member max last hurricane season.

It’s unclear yet where the larger ensembles might help, but the thinking is it’ll help to better detect outlier events (low probability events that could also pose high-risk impacts).

Also, with the addition of 1,000-member ensembles, Google and NOAA are experimenting with incorporating them in wind speed probability forecasts that currently use a 1,000-member Monte Carlo-based model to simulate storm scenarios.

It’s also possible the larger set of ensembles will improve detection of hurricane rapid intensification, which Google DeepMind’s 50-member ensemble helped with at longer lead times last season.

It’s also worth noting that the folks at Google updated their AI hurricane tracker last September, which seemed to improve DeepMind’s forecasts leading up to Hurricane Melissa last October.

As I wrote about toward the end of last hurricane season, the American GFS had an especially bad year for hurricane forecasts, its worst performance in over two decades. Much of that error can be attributed to its especially poor forecasts for Hurricane Melissa, the most impactful hurricane last season, which the GFS inaccurately showed recurving too quickly before reaching Jamaica.

NOAA is planning to release an update to its GFS model (from version 16 to version 17) in October, which the agency says shows improvements in tropical cyclone track forecasting.

Additionally, the AI version of the American GFS ensemble system (known as AI-GEFS) has shown considerable promise in improving hurricane forecasts versus the conventional physics-based GFS, which NHC will be evaluating this hurricane season.

Is the writing on the wall for conventional models and human forecasters?

Although the new era of hurricane forecasting will increasingly look to AI models for speed, efficiency, and accuracy, don’t expect conventional physics-based models to be going away anytime soon.

Those models are what’s training the AI models, so the two will continue to work hand-in-glove, even if AI forecasts outpace their physics-based counterparts.

And as far as the human side of forecasting, understanding model biases, detecting quick changes in hurricane strength or organization, harvesting and quality controlling data in real-time used to train and improve AI models, designing products and decision-support tools around AI, and messaging the complexities of the forecast will keep humans vital to future forecasts even and especially with the addition of AI.

La última temporada de huracanes, los modelos de IA no solo demostraron que podían competir con los modelos de consenso corregidos de estándar de oro —la guía en la que más confían los pronosticadores humanos, que combina los mejores modelos de pronóstico basados en física y corrige sus sesgos en tiempo real—, sino que los superaron, incluso por encima de la previsión oficial del Centro Nacional de Huracanes en casi todos los periodos de pronóstico.

Fue impresionante, no del todo sorprendente, que un modelo de huracán diseñado por IA fuera competitivo en el pronóstico de la trayectoria de huracanes. Fue francamente increíble ver que un modelo de pronóstico de IA superara la previsión oficial de intensidad del Centro Nacional de Huracanes la temporada pasada, como lo hizo DeepMind de Google en la mayoría de los periodos de pronóstico.

Mientras que el pronóstico de trayectoria de huracanes ha logrado avances enormes en los últimos 30 años, el pronóstico de intensidad a menudo ha mostrado estancamiento.

Durante los últimos 15 años, sin embargo, se ha avanzado lentamente en la reducción del error de pronóstico de la intensidad de huracanes y en la detección anticipada de huracanes de rápida intensificación.

Estas mejoras se han atribuido en gran medida a modelos de huracanes de ultra alta resolución que siguen la tormenta —como el HAFS de NOAA y el predecesor HWRF— que capturan mejor los detalles finos del núcleo interno y la compleja interacción entre el aire y el océano, que los meteorólogos consideran necesaria para pronosticar con precisión la intensidad de los huracanes.

La notable hazaña de DeepMind y sus sobresalientes pronósticos de intensidad la última temporada de huracanes fue que no contaba con todos los detalles finos de nuestros modelos tradicionales de huracanes basados en física y alta resolución.

Simplemente toma una instantánea del estado actual de la atmósfera tal como lo evalúa el sistema de predicción meteorológica global de alta resolución del Centro Europeo —conocido como el Sistema de Pronóstico Integrado (IFS, por sus siglas en inglés)—, lo único que supuestamente conoce sobre el estado de la atmósfera, y luego realiza un pronóstico basándose únicamente en los datos con los que fue entrenado, que incluyen datos históricos del clima que se remontan a 1940 (provenientes de la quinta generación del reanálisis atmosférico global del clima del Centro Europeo, o ERA5) y datos globales unificados de trayectorias de huracanes (del Archivo Internacional de Mejor Trayectoria para la Estación del Clima, o IBTrACS).

Eso es todo.

La belleza está en la simplicidad de la IA, y los pronósticos de IA se realizan en una fracción del tiempo y con mucho menos poder de cómputo que el requerido por los modelos meteorológicos convencionales basados en física, modelos que utilizan algunos de los supercomputadores más potentes y costosos del mundo.

Una vez que el modelo de IA está entrenado, puede realizar un pronóstico en minutos usando una computadora portátil estándar, mientras que los modelos tradicionales basados en física tardan horas en producir un pronóstico completo en bancos de supercomputadoras masivas tipo mainframe, almacenadas en grandes salas de servidores alrededor del país.

Por lo tanto, a diferencia de lo que pensamos sobre otros tipos de tareas relacionadas con la IA, que a menudo requieren centros de datos de IA masivos y consumidores de mucha energía, además de grandes cantidades de agua para la refrigeración continua, los modelos meteorológicos de IA en realidad tienen el potencial de optimizar y hacer más eficiente en costos el pronóstico del tiempo. De hecho, la NOAA estima que la versión de IA de su modelo global de pronóstico utiliza apenas el 0,3% de los recursos computacionales en comparación con su versión basada en física.

Si los modelos meteorológicos de IA pueden demostrar ser tan precisos o más que los modelos tradicionales de pronóstico, como lo está haciendo Google DeepMind en el ámbito de los huracanes, estamos ante pronósticos significativamente más baratos y rápidos en el futuro.

Aprendizaje automático versus otros tipos de IA

La inteligencia artificial o IA es un término paraguas utilizado hoy en día para muchas tecnologías nuevas diferentes. Sin embargo, es importante distinguir qué subgrupo de IA están utilizando los nuevos modelos meteorológicos, en comparación con el tipo de tecnología de IA más accesible al público a través de los chatbots.

Los nuevos modelos meteorológicos de IA no son modelos de lenguaje grandes (LLM, por sus siglas en inglés) que simplemente imitan patrones del habla o del texto humano. Tampoco son IA generativa que producen imágenes o videos a partir de instrucciones del usuario. Estos son los tipos de IA más accesibles y conocidos que se encuentran en plataformas como ChatGPT de OpenAI, Google Gemini y Claude de Anthropic.

En cambio, los modelos meteorológicos de IA son un tipo de subcampo de aprendizaje automático profundo basado en IA que utiliza redes neuronales complejas para imitar de manera efectiva cómo el cerebro humano procesa la información. Esto hace que estos modelos se comporten de forma similar a cómo un humano podría pronosticar el tiempo, basándose en el reconocimiento de patrones a partir de su comprensión del clima histórico. Pero en el caso de la IA, los modelos son entrenados con petabytes de datos que abarcan más de un siglo o más, más datos de los que la mayoría de nosotros podría comprender de manera integral en pronósticos rutinarios.

Estos modelos avanzados de aprendizaje automático para el clima están muy lejos de la “IA basura” que a menudo vemos circular en los rincones oscuros de las redes sociales e internet.

No todos los modelos meteorológicos de IA son iguales

Por el momento, Google DeepMind tiene prácticamente dominado el mercado de modelos de pronóstico de huracanes. Mientras DeepMind superó ampliamente a todos los demás modelos en 2025, no se puede decir lo mismo de otros nuevos participantes en IA.

Por ejemplo, el Centro Europeo, que opera el famoso modelo Euro —el principal modelo global de pronóstico meteorológico basado en física del mundo— también tiene una versión basada en IA que se utilizó la última temporada de huracanes. Aunque tuvo un desempeño excepcional en los pronósticos de trayectoria de huracanes —mejor que el Euro convencional basado en física—, fue un fracaso total en los pronósticos de intensidad de huracanes, básicamente sin mostrar ninguna capacidad útil.

Una de las principales razones del bajo desempeño del modelo europeo basado en IA en los pronósticos de intensidad es su dependencia de datos de reanálisis de baja resolución de ERA5, que tienden a minimizar el error y, con frecuencia, debilitan los huracanes demasiado rápido, lo que resulta en un sesgo importante hacia intensidades más bajas.

Google DeepMind evita este problema al incorporar intensidades históricas de huracanes en su conjunto de datos de entrenamiento, de modo que los vientos máximos actúan como puntos adicionales de la malla del modelo.

Presumiblemente, otros modelos de IA eventualmente alcanzarán el enfoque de Google DeepMind, pero en lo que respecta al pronóstico de intensidad, DeepMind es el campeón de la IA.

¿Qué hay de nuevo con los modelos de IA para la temporada de huracanes de 2026?

Google tiene varias nuevas funciones y mejoras disponibles en DeepMind para esta temporada de huracanes. Quizás el cambio más importante es que DeepMind ahora ofrece hasta 1,000 miembros de ensamble, en comparación con un máximo de 50 miembros de ensamble la temporada pasada.

Aún no está claro en qué medida los ensambles más grandes podrían ayudar, pero la idea es que permitirán detectar mejor los eventos atípicos (eventos de baja probabilidad que también pueden implicar impactos de alto riesgo).

Además, con la incorporación de ensambles de 1,000 miembros, Google y la NOAA están experimentando con su integración en los pronósticos de probabilidad de viento que actualmente utilizan un modelo Monte Carlo de 1,000 miembros para simular escenarios de tormentas.

También es posible que el mayor conjunto de ensambles mejore la detección de la rápida intensificación de huracanes, algo en lo que el ensamble de 50 miembros de Google DeepMind ya ayudó en escalas de tiempo más largas la temporada pasada.

También vale la pena señalar que los equipos de Google actualizaron su rastreador de huracanes con IA el pasado septiembre, lo que aparentemente mejoró los pronósticos de DeepMind antes del huracán Melissa el pasado octubre.

Como escribí hacia el final de la última temporada de huracanes, el GFS estadounidense tuvo un año especialmente malo en los pronósticos de huracanes, su peor desempeño en más de dos décadas. Gran parte de ese error puede atribuirse a sus pronósticos especialmente deficientes para el huracán Melissa, el huracán más impactante de la última temporada, que el GFS mostró de forma incorrecta recurvando demasiado rápido antes de llegar a Jamaica.

NOAA está planeando lanzar una actualización de su modelo GFS (de la versión 16 a la versión 17) en octubre, la cual, según la agencia, muestra mejoras en el pronóstico de trayectoria de ciclones tropicales.

Además, la versión de IA del sistema de ensamble del GFS estadounidense (conocida como AI-GEFS) ha mostrado un potencial considerable para mejorar los pronósticos de huracanes en comparación con el GFS convencional basado en física, el cual será evaluado por el NHC durante esta temporada de huracanes.

¿Está escrito el futuro para los modelos convencionales y los pronosticadores humanos?

Aunque la nueva era del pronóstico de huracanes dependerá cada vez más de modelos de IA por su velocidad, eficiencia y precisión, no se espera que los modelos convencionales basados en física desaparezcan pronto.

Esos modelos son los que entrenan a los modelos de IA, por lo que ambos seguirán trabajando de la mano, incluso si los pronósticos de IA superan a sus contrapartes basadas en física.

Y en cuanto al lado humano del pronóstico, comprender los sesgos de los modelos, detectar cambios rápidos en la intensidad u organización de los huracanes, recopilar y controlar la calidad de los datos en tiempo real usados para entrenar y mejorar los modelos de IA, diseñar productos y herramientas de apoyo a la decisión alrededor de la IA, y comunicar las complejidades del pronóstico mantendrán a los humanos como una parte vital de los pronósticos futuros, incluso y especialmente con la incorporación de la IA.

Sánchez dijo en una conferencia de prensa que hay un "fraude en desarrollo" que presuntamente se habría producido en las oficinas consulares donde votaron más de 300.000 peruanos el 7 de junio porque por la falta de digitalización de las actas que contienen la sumatoria de los votos.

“Si el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones no resuelve en atención a la seguridad jurídica, a la normativa electoral, ese fraude se habrá consumado. Por ello nosotros decimos que en esas condiciones de transgresión a las normas, nosotros no reconoceremos el gobierno de la señora Fujimori”, aseveró Sánchez.

La víspera el equipo legal de Sánchez presentó un pedido para anular los votos en el exterior ante el Jurado.

El 29 de mayo —una semana antes del balotaje— la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), la organizadora de las elecciones, dispuso por pedido de la cancillería no continuar con el procedimiento de escanear las actas electorales apenas culminados los conteos para enviarlas a Perú.

En un comunicado, la cancillería explicó que ese cambio ocurrió porque en la primera vuelta presidencial del 12 de abril “una parte importante” de las oficinas consulares “reportó serias dificultades técnicas y operativas en el uso del referido aplicativo”. La cancillería ha negado que sus funcionarios consulares hayan cometido "actos de interferencia, manipulación, favorecimiento político o alteración del material electoral”.

Las misiones observadoras de la OEA y la Unión Europea coincidieron en que la segunda vuelta presidencial de Perú se desarrolló sin incidentes ni irregularidades.

Sin la suma de los votos del extranjero Sánchez va primero en el lento conteo electoral, ya que esos sufragios son ampliamente favorables a Fujimori, de acuerdo con los datos de la ONPE.

Fujimori no se ha pronunciado durante la jornada, pero la víspera indicó que las más recientes decisiones de Sánchez, incluida una marcha por las calles de Lima el último viernes, conforman un “acto desesperado de política”.

El escrutinio de 99,72% de las actas electorales da a Fujimori, de Fuerza Popular, un 50,11% de votos frente a 49,89% de Sánchez, de Juntos por el Perú, según el cómputo preliminar de la ONPE.

Las elecciones presidenciales de Perú han estado salpicadas en el último quinquenio por acusaciones de fraude de los candidatos que perdieron.

En el balotaje de 2021 Fujimori pidió anular 200.000 votos que favorecían a Pedro Castillo. Los seguidores de Fujimori marcharon en Lima protestando incluso frente a la casa del titular del Jurado Nacional de Elecciones. Finalmente Castillo lo fue declarado ganador.

Nearly 1,100 peacekeepers from countries around the world have lost their lives in the line of duty and thousands of others have been injured since 1948, according to U.N. peacekeeping department figures. Yet the resolution says the rate of prosecution for killings and other criminal acts against peacekeepers “has remained very low.”

The resolution, sponsored by Pakistan and Denmark and cosponsored by more than 150 countries, seeks to fill gaps in ensuring accountability. It authorizes Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to ensure that after future attacks, facts are collected and to support investigations and prosecutions of all violent acts.

Denmark’s U.N. Ambassador Christina Lassen said the resolution sends a clear message to the more than 50,000 personnel serving in peacekeeping missions from Lebanon and Cyprus to South Sudan and Central African Republic: “Attacks against them will not be met with silence or impunity.”

“To the perpetrators of any crimes, wherever and whoever they are,” she said, “it sends a firm message that the international community is watching, that crimes will not go unpunished, that accountability and justice will be pursued and will be upheld.”

Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Asim Ahmad said attacks against peacekeepers in several countries have increased in number and sophistication, often with little accountability.

Condolences are necessary when peacekeepers are killed and injured, but what's needed is justice, he said. “Most importantly, this resolution is a strong expression of the council’s political will to stand by the peacekeepers. ”

The Security Council also adopted a resolution in 2021 aimed at strengthening accountability for crimes committed against perpetrators.

The U.N. peacekeeping department pointed to “significant progress” since then, with an increase in national investigations and the number of alleged perpetrators identified, detained, or both. It pointed to 103 individuals convicted since 2020 for a range of offenses related to the killing of 35 peacekeepers and two U.N. experts in the Central African Republic, Congo, Lebanon and Mali.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric welcomed the council’s adoption of the resolution and noted the actions since 2020 but stressed: “Much more needs to be done.”

The resolution adopted Tuesday asks the secretary-general to provide options to the council within 120 days on ways to strengthen accountability for crimes against peacekeepers.

“This will help the council assess what is working, where gaps remain, and what further action may be required,” Pakistan's Ahmad said.

Denmark's Lassen said the council looks forward to considering the proposals and working together “to translate them into meaningful progress.”

It was the 10th time the Senate has tried to stop the war, and the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts. While the resolution is largely symbolic, and does not carry the full force of law, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate over both the war and the deal Trump struck with Iran to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.

“Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war instead of the American people,” said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

Schumer said Americans have paid the price for “Trump's historic blunder in Iran. It'll go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made.”

In the past, as many as four GOP senators have voted for the war powers resolutions, and they did so Tuesday — Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. One Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted against.

On this vote, the absence of two Republicans, including Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was admitted to the hospital recently for an undisclosed matter, left the GOP without a full majority to halt the effort. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., also missed the vote.

The vote comes as the Pentagon is seeking $80 billion from Congress mostly for the Iran war as it backfills munitions and stockpiles.

Trump to meet senators as Republicans balk at Iran deal

Trump himself is headed to the Capitol on Wednesday to meet with GOP senators after Vice President JD Vance was overseas working to negotiate with Iran to end its nuclear ambitions — which had been among the stated rationales for the war.

The president is not pleased with the Republicans who have been critical of the deal he struck with Iran, according to one GOP senator granted anonymity to discuss the private dynamics.

The terms of the Iran deal are spelled out in a memorandum of understanding that Trump signed last week, starting a 60-day clock for the sides to reach a broader agreement over ending Iran's nuclear program.

But Republicans have particularly objected to the $300 billion fund to help Iran rebuild, which is far greater than the $1.7 billion then-President Barack Obama refunded the country under his administration's 2015 Iran deal.

"I believe President Trump is getting very poor advice on Iran," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said last week on his podcast after the deal was made public.

Democrats have repeatedly forced Iran votes

Over and again, Democrats have been forcing votes on the Iran war, almost since the U.S. and Israel launched missile strikes on Iran on Feb. 28.

Nearly each week they're in session, the Senate Democrats have put forward war powers resolutions, but they have failed to amass the majority needed for passage in the narrowly split chamber, where Trump’s Republican Party holds the majority. Trump would almost certainly veto any measure that passed.

The House pushed its own version to passage earlier this month, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in approving the war powers resolution, over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP leadership.

While the House- and Senate-passed resolution does not go to the president for his signature, passage stands as a powerful, if symbolic, statement from Congress and a rebuke of the administration’s military actions.

Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democrat from Virginia who has led his party’s efforts, said the pause in warfighting, as Trump’s team works to shore up a fragile ceasefire, provides the perfect time for Congress to step back and assess “what should the next chapter be.”

Hegseth seeks $80 billion from Congress for the Iran war

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on Capitol Hill this week, seeking roughly $80 billion in supplemental funding to shore up defense supplies in the aftermath of the Iran war, which is drawing scrutiny when many Americans are reeling from high gas prices and costs of living.

The Pentagon early on had estimated the war cost $11.3 billion during its first week, and senators said experts put the overall price tag of Operation Epic Fury higher, at some $100 billion.

The Defense Department's funding request is part of a broader beef-up of military money the White House wants as part of its budget request this year.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday, “We should not spend another dime of taxpayer dollars on Operation Epic Failure."

The Trump administration is seeking $1.5 trillion in defense funding this year — a nearly 50% increase — including $350 billion that it wants in a so-called budget reconciliation package. Johnson and GOP leaders are working to pass that package on their own, over the objections of Democrats, much the way they approved Trump's big tax cuts bill last year.

The 2025 tax cuts package also included a sizable increase for the military.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), la novia de Devarious Holloway acudió a una estación de la MDSO el sábado para denunciar un incidente ocurrido el día anterior entre ella y su novio.

Los agentes indicaron que la víctima afirmó que Holloway le envió un mensaje de texto alrededor de las 7 p.m. del viernes diciendo: “Sal afuera. Mi mamá quiere hablar contigo”.

La víctima dijo que se sintió confundida porque sabía que la madre de Holloway había fallecido en 2017, según el informe.

De acuerdo con el informe, la mujer caminó hacia un vehículo estacionado frente a su casa y vio a Holloway de pie junto al automóvil.

Los agentes indicaron que Holloway se acercó a la víctima y le preguntó: “¿Entonces ya terminamos?”.

Según el informe, la víctima caminó hacia la casa de su hermana, ubicada en la misma propiedad, creyendo que Holloway la seguiría, pero dijo que rápidamente se dio cuenta de que él había entrado a su propia vivienda.

El informe señala que la víctima entró a su casa y Holloway le lanzó el teléfono celular, “sin golpearla, pero impactando la puerta”.

Luego la sujetó por los hombros, la empujó sobre un sofá y le dio un puñetazo en el labio inferior cuando ella intentó levantarse, informaron las autoridades.

Los agentes dijeron que Holloway después pateó a la víctima en la pierna derecha antes de que ella corriera a su habitación y cerrara la puerta con llave.

Según el informe, Holloway comenzó a patear la puerta del dormitorio, lo que provocó que el marco se rompiera.

Después continuó preguntándole a la víctima sobre el estado de su relación mientras ella le pedía repetidamente que le devolviera su teléfono, informaron las autoridades.

De acuerdo con el informe, Holloway salió de la vivienda, pero regresó poco después y continuó discutiendo con la víctima antes de golpearla en el pecho, provocándole enrojecimiento y rompiendo la cadena que llevaba puesta.

Holloway enfrenta cargos de agresión y daños a la propiedad.

Hasta la mañana del martes permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $1,150 USD.

El Departamento de Policía de Miramar emitió un comunicado a Local 10 el martes en el que confirmó que Holloway ha sido “puesto en licencia administrativa” mientras se desarrolla una investigación interna.

El Departamento de Policía de Miramar fue notificado por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade de un incidente fuera de servicio que involucra al sargento Devarious Holloway.

El Departamento reconoce el asunto mencionado y ha iniciado una revisión administrativa exhaustiva de acuerdo con los procedimientos departamentales establecidos. El sargento Holloway ha sido puesto en licencia administrativa a la espera del resultado de esa revisión.

El Departamento de Policía de Miramar se mantiene firme en su compromiso con el profesionalismo, la rendición de cuentas y la conducta ética, y abordará este asunto a través de los canales correspondientes.

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¿Qué es un domo de calor?

Los domos de calor son, esencialmente, sistemas de alta presión que permanecen estacionarios durante unos días, atrapando calor y humedad en niveles peligrosos, explicó Mireia Ginesta, investigadora asociada del Climate Litigation Lab de la Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Los domos de calor se originan por una protuberancia hacia el norte en la corriente en chorro —un río de viento de rápido desplazamiento a gran altitud— que produce el clima que experimentamos.

“Un sistema de alta presión significa que el aire desciende, y a medida que alcanza altitudes menores, se comprime”, señaló Ginesta. “Así que la presión aumenta y la temperatura también lo hace”.

¿Cómo influye un domo de calor en las olas de calor?

Esas “protuberancias” son las que establecen las condiciones que generan una ola de calor, indicó Jennifer Francis, climatóloga del Woodwell Climate Research Center.

“El domo de calor es, en realidad, lo que hace la corriente en chorro”, explicó. “La ola de calor es lo que sentimos en la superficie”.

¿Qué ocurre en Europa esta semana?

Millones de personas en todo el continente han experimentado temperaturas excepcionalmente altas mientras una ola de calor de comienzos del verano abrasa Francia, Italia, España y Reino Unido.

“En Europa, simplemente no están acostumbrados a esto”, comentó Francis. “En realidad, es apenas en la última década o dos cuando este tipo de olas de calor realmente brutales han estado ocurriendo y matando a mucha gente porque no tienen los medios para mantenerse frescos”.

Francia, que hasta ahora ha sido el país más afectado, no cuenta con aire acondicionado de forma generalizada, y el servicio meteorológico nacional puso a cerca de la mitad del país en alerta roja por ola de calor. El país también ha reportado alrededor de 40 muertes por ahogamiento, mientras la gente buscaba alivio para refrescarse.

Se espera que esas condiciones duren varios días, con temperaturas de hasta 40 grados Celsius (104 grados Fahrenheit).

“Veremos que los récords de temperatura de junio no solo se rompen, sino que quedan completamente aniquilados”, afirmó Liz Bentley, directora ejecutiva de la Royal Meteorological Society y profesora de meteorología en la Universidad de Reading.

¿Cómo influye el cambio climático en estos fenómenos?

Expertos señalan que el cambio climático hace que las condiciones para que se formen domos de calor ocurran con mayor frecuencia. Y cada vez más países en todo el mundo se ven afectados.

“Estamos calentando el planeta y eso significa que estamos desplazando el rango de temperaturas que experimenta cualquier lugar”, manifestó Francis. “Y al desplazar ese rango de temperatura, hacemos que las temperaturas extremas sean mucho más probables”.

En la práctica, el mundo ha subido la temperatura del termostato, dijo Bentley.

“El cambio climático definitivamente tiene un impacto en el hecho de que sean más frecuentes, más intensas y también más persistentes”, sostuvo Bentley, refiriéndose a las olas de calor. “Se quedan durante mucho más tiempo del que solían hacerlo”.

¿Cómo podemos mantenernos seguros?

Es importante que las personas que experimentan estas temperaturas extremas se hidraten, eviten hacer ejercicio en las horas de mayor calor, busquen sombra y se refresquen de forma segura en arroyos, lagos cercanos o incluso en el océano si tienen acceso.

En Francia, por ejemplo, se han cancelado trenes, conciertos y eventos deportivos, y las autoridades han restringido el consumo de alcohol en la vía pública.

Además, “Uno de los mayores problemas es el calor nocturno”, advirtió Francis. “Si no le das a tu cuerpo la oportunidad de enfriarse por la noche, simplemente empieza a acumularse en tu cuerpo y eso realmente puede empezar a afectar tu salud. Así que encontrar una manera de mantenerse más fresco por la noche es muy, muy importante”.

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Rubio arrived in Abu Dhabi late Tuesday following a two-day flurry of diplomatic activity between the U.S. and Iran in Switzerland led by Vice President JD Vance that resulted in what Vance says is a significant agreement to end all hostilities in the region, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide sanctions relief with negotiations on its nuclear program to be concluded in 60 days.

In the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain — all nations that Iran hit with missiles and drones in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli airstrikes — Rubio will be holding meetings starting Wednesday with leaders who, in some cases, have taken a harder line on Iran recently than has the Trump administration.

In brief comments to reporters on his arrival, Rubio said he would explain the benefits of the agreement to the skeptical Gulf states if it is implemented. He said that a proposed $300 billion investment fund for Iran would not become a reality unless "its leadership makes a decision that they want to be a country instead of a revolutionary movement that exports terror.”

Another complaint is that the agreement does not cover Iran's missile program, its support for proxies and pushes off the nuclear question until later.

Rubio argued, however, that the memorandum of understanding signed last week calls for the “complete end of hostilities and conflicts in the region,” which he said will require Iran to halt its funding of proxies like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

“You can’t have the end of hostilities and conflicts in a region as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq, and are participating in terrorism, like Hamas did, and like Hezbollah did,” Rubio said. “So, I do think it’s covered by the MOU, and it is an issue that will be gotten to at the appropriate time in these negotiations.”

The Emiratis, in particular, have been at the forefront of calls for tough action notably to ensure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. There have been conflicting accounts of what the Memorandum of Understanding signed last week will mean for the strait, which the rest of the world wants open free of charge for all shipping.

The U.S. has been firm on that point, but the Iranians are moving ahead with a scheme that could charge service fees for passage that many believe would amount to a toll. Rubio said under no circumstances would the U.S. accept that.

“It’s an international waterway," he said. “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That’s existing international law. That’s the way it is.”

“I don’t think we have anybody to convince around here in that regard. I think all the countries in this region would agree with us,” he said.

The 41-year-old Ronaldo made history in the sixth minute when João Cancelo crossed it to him and he shot with his right foot to make it 1-0. He ran toward the bench and celebrated with his teammates after the score.

He scored again in the 39th minute when he got a pass from Bruno Fernandes and shot with his right foot just inside the near post to make the score 3-0.

Ronaldo was named man of the match.

The goals make him the second-oldest player to score at a World Cup behind Cameroon forward Roger Milla, who was 42 when he scored at the 1994 tournament in the United States.

Ronaldo's goals come after he was criticized for failing to score in Portugal's 1-1 draw against Congo in the team's opening match.

Ronaldo and Argentina captain Lionel Messi became the only men in history to play in six World Cup tournaments this year. Ronaldo’s scoring streak started in his debut in 2006 and he also netted goals in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022.

While he shares the record for most tournaments with Messi, he stands alone in scoring a goal in each edition after Messi failed to score a goal at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Ronaldo’s goals Tuesday gave him 10 career goals in the tournament. Messi has 18 after a hat trick in Argentina's opener against Algeria and two more goals Monday against Austria that made him the all-time leading scorer in tournament history.

His performance extended his record by giving him 145 international goals, and his 10 career goals in the World Cup moved him past Eusébio's nine to make him Portugal's all-time scoring leader at the tournament.

Tuesday's game was the 230th of Ronaldo’s international career, which is the most in history.

This is likely to be the final World Cup for Ronaldo, who won the European Championship with Portugal in 2016 and the Champions League five times with Manchester United and Real Madrid.

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Nori, who spent the past five seasons with the Timberwolves, has interviewed for multiple head coach vacancies including the Chicago Bulls earlier this month, the New York Knicks last year, and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2024.

Nori, 52, was the lead assistant under Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch while the club made the playoffs each season, won five series, and reached the Western Conference finals in 2023 and 2024.

During the Timberwolves; 2024 playoff run, Nori took on a greater role during games while Finch recovered from a knee injury.

Nori, who began his NBA career in 1998 as a scout with the Toronto Raptors, has also been an assistant for the Raptors, the Sacramento Kings, the Denver Nuggets, and the Detroit Pistons. His son, Dante, is a minor league baseball player in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.

"After an extensive search process, it became clear that Micah embodies the qualities we are looking for in the leader of this franchise,” Blazers general manager Joe Cronin said in a statement. “He has been a key contributor to successful organizations and brings a wealth of expertise, a proven ability to develop players and an authenticity that aligns with the culture we are building. We are excited about the future under his direction and look forward to what we can accomplish together.”

Splitter, who was hired last week as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, was promoted from assistant to interim coach when then-head coach Chauncey Billups was arrested in October in a federal takedown of a sprawling gambling operation. Billups has pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

The Blazers went 42-40 with a five-game loss to NBA finalist San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs, the first postseason appearance and first time they finished with a winning record in five years.

It is the first major hire for the team under the Blazers' new ownership group led by Tom Dundon. The group bought the NBA franchise from the estate of Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who died in 2018. The NBA’s Board of Governors approved the sale, worth a reported $4.25 billion, in April.

“From my conversations with Tom and Joe, it was evident that there is a strong commitment to building a culture that values accountability, development and team success," Nori said. "This is a team with tremendous talent, and I’m excited to begin working with our players and staff.”

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Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, a Group K match, is at 1 p.m.

England vs. Ghana, a Group L match, is at 4 p.m.

Panama vs. Croatia, a Group L match, is at 7 p.m.

Colombia vs. Congo, a Group K match, is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Related list: Track teams advancing to Round of 32

Group-stage progress

Group J: Argentina advances to Round of 32

Group I: France and Norway advance to Round of 32

Group H: Spain leads with 4 points

Group G: Egypt leads with 4 points

Group F: The Netherlands gets 3 points

Group E: Germany advances to Round of 32

Group D: U.S. advances to Round of 32

Group C: Brazil eliminates Haiti

Group B: Canada and Switzerland tie for 1st place

Group A: Mexico advances to Round of 32

Group K: Colombia gets 3 points

Tournament’s schedule

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 26: There are six matcuphes: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 7:30 p.m. on June 27. Parking is free. Broward County is offering free Express bus transportation from the arena to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens, to FIFA World Cup ticket holders.

Round of 32 begins

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Round of 16 begins

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals begin

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals begin

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals begin

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

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Portugal vs. Uzbekistán, partido del Grupo K, es a la 1 p.m.

Inglaterra vs. Ghana, partido del Grupo L, es a las 4 p.m.

Panamá vs. Croacia, partido del Grupo L, es a las 7 p.m.

Colombia vs. Congo, partido del Grupo K, es a las 10 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de mediodía a 1 a.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Lista relacionada: sigue a los equipos que avanzan a la ronda 32

Progreso de la fase de grupos

Grupo J: Argentina avanza a los Octavos de Final

Grupo I: Francia y Noruega avanzan a los Octavos de Final

Grupo H: España lidera con 4 puntos

Grupo G: Egipto lidera con 4 puntos

Grupo F: Países Bajos obtiene 3 puntos

Grupo E: Alemania avanza a los Octavos de Final

Grupo D: Estados Unidos avanza a los Octavos de Final

Grupo C: Brasil elimina a Haití

Grupo B: Canadá y Suiza empatan en el primer lugar

Grupo A: México avanza a los Octavos de Final

Grupo K: Colombia obtiene 3 puntos

Calendario del torneo

24 de junio: hay seis partidos. El partido del Grupo B, Suiza vs. Canadá, es a las 3 p.m. El partido del Grupo B, Bosnia vs. Catar, es a las 3 p.m. El partido del Grupo C, Marruecos vs. Haití, es a las 6 p.m. El partido del Grupo C, Escocia vs. Brasil, es a las 6 p.m. El partido del Grupo A, Sudáfrica vs. Corea del Sur, es a las 9 p.m. El partido del Grupo A, República Checa vs. México, es a las 9 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 2 p.m. a 9 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver en Miami Beach: las puertas abren a las 4 p.m. el 24 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido Escocia vs. Brasil a las 6 p.m.

25 de junio: hay seis partidos. El partido del Grupo E, Curazao vs. Costa de Marfil, es a las 4 p.m. El partido del Grupo E, Ecuador vs. Alemania, es a las 4 p.m. El partido del Grupo F, Túnez vs. Países Bajos, es a las 7 p.m. El partido del Grupo F, Japón vs. Suecia, es a las 7 p.m. El partido del Grupo D, Turquía vs. Estados Unidos, es a las 10 p.m. El partido del Grupo D, Paraguay vs. Australia, es a las 10 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 3 p.m. a 1 a.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

26 de junio: hay seis partidos. El Grupo I, Noruega vs. Francia, es a las 3 p.m. El Grupo I, Senegal vs. Irak, es a las 3 p.m. El Grupo H, Cabo Verde vs. Arabia Saudita, es a las 8 p.m. El Grupo H, Uruguay vs. España, es a las 8 p.m. El Grupo G, Nueva Zelanda vs. Bélgica, es a las 11 p.m. El Grupo G, Egipto vs. Irán, es a las 11 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 2 p.m. a 11 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

27 de junio: hay seis partidos. El Grupo L, Panamá vs. Inglaterra, es a las 5 p.m. El Grupo L, Croacia vs. Ghana, es a las 5 p.m. El Grupo K, Colombia vs. Portugal, es a las 7:30 p.m. El Grupo K, Congo vs. Uzbekistán, es a las 7:30 p.m. El Grupo J, Argelia vs. Austria, es a las 10 p.m. El Grupo J, Jordania vs. Argentina, es a las 10 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 4 p.m. a 1 a.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta en Sunrise: el Amerant Bank Arena cubierto está organizando una fiesta gratuita para titulares de boletos a las 7:30 p.m. el 27 de junio. El estacionamiento es gratis. El condado de Broward ofrece transporte gratuito en autobús exprés desde el estadio hasta el Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens, para los titulares de boletos de la Copa Mundial FIFA.

Comienza la ronda de 32

28 de junio: hay un partido a las 3 p.m.

Fiesta para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 1 p.m. a 10 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

29 de junio: hay tres partidos a la 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m. y 9 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de mediodía a medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

30 de junio: hay tres partidos a la 1 p.m., 5 p.m. y 9 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de mediodía a medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

1 de julio: hay tres partidos a las 12 p.m., 4 p.m. y 9 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 11 a.m. a 11 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

2 de julio: hay tres partidos a las 3 p.m., 7 p.m. y 11 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 2 p.m. a 10 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

3 de julio: hay tres partidos a las 2 p.m., 6 p.m. y 9:30 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de 1 p.m. a 9 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Comienza ronda 16

4 de julio: hay dos partidos a la 1 p.m. y 5 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre de mediodía a medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

5 de julio: hay dos partidos a las 4 p.m. y 8 p.m.

Fiestas para ver en Miami: el festival de fanáticos abre por último día de 3 p.m. a 11 p.m. en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

6 de julio: hay dos partidos a las 3 p.m. y 8 p.m.

7 de julio: hay dos partidos a las 12 p.m. y 4 p.m.

Comienzan los cuartos de final

9 de julio: hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 4 p.m.

10 de julio: hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 3 p.m.

11 de julio: hay dos partidos de cuartos de final a las 5 p.m. y 9 p.m.

Fiesta en Sunrise: el Amerant Bank Arena cubierto está organizando una fiesta gratuita para titulares de boletos a las 5 p.m. el 11 de julio. El estacionamiento es gratis.

Comienzan las semifinales

14 de julio: el festival de fanáticos está cerrado. Hay un partido de semifinal a las 3 p.m.

Fiesta en Miami Beach: las puertas abren a las 3 p.m. el 14 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinal.

15 de julio: hay un partido de semifinal a las 3 p.m.

Fiesta en Miami Beach: las puertas abren a las 3 p.m. el 15 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinal.

Finales

18 de julio: el partido por el tercer lugar es a las 5 p.m.

Fiesta en Miami Beach: las puertas abren a las 3 p.m. el 18 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final por el bronce a las 5 p.m.

Viaje desde Sunrise al estadio: el Amerant Bank Arena ofrece estacionamiento gratuito para titulares de boletos de la Copa Mundial FIFA que utilicen el transporte gratuito en autobús exprés del condado de Broward hacia el Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens.

19 de julio: el partido final es a las 3 p.m.

Fiesta en Miami Beach: las puertas abren a la 1 p.m. el 19 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final a las 3 p.m.

Fiesta en Sunrise: el Amerant Bank Arena cubierto está organizando una fiesta gratuita para titulares de boletos para la final el 19 de julio. El estacionamiento es gratis.

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Grupo G

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In a social media post, Trump claimed without supporting evidence that there had been a “350-foot gash” in the paint as the administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix the botched renovation before the nation's 250th anniversary celebration next week. He has also said, including again on Tuesday, that the federal government would release images to substantiate his claim.

Trump pledged to beautify the century-old Reflecting Pool ahead of the anniversary celebrations, draining its water and having the bottom painted a color he dubbed “American flag blue.” But since the site was restored, its water has been plagued with algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.

Trump, without evidence, has repeatedly blamed the peeling paint on vandalism.

“It was purposefully and criminally done, and somebody had to work very hard, probably in the dark of night, to create such a condition,” Trump wrote Tuesday, adding that another seven people were cited for allegedly damaging the pool.

The U.S. Park Police and the Interior Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the arrests or Trump's claim of vandalism.

The Associated Press verified that one man was arrested after touching the already-peeling paint. He said he wanted to examine the new coating, touching a still-attached chunk briefly then letting go shortly after a park worker told him to.

A maintenance problem morphs into a law enforcement issue

National Guard members and Park Police have been patrolling the deck around the pool after Trump insisted over the weekend that vandals were responsible for damage to the liner, without providing evidence.

Trump said Tuesday that the Interior Department will release images of alleged vandalism at the pool. Pressed by reporters after Air Force One landed in Pennsylvania for a visit to a trucking company, Trump said Interior is “going to share” photos and videos of the alleged vandalism, which remains unverified.

The president had said on Monday that the images existed and the federal government would provide them. No photos were made public as of Tuesday afternoon.

The arrests highlighted what’s expected to be tightened security in the capital ahead of and during the 250th anniversary celebrations, which are set to draw large crowds to the National Mall and other tourist sites.

Trump also said Tuesday that “some of the water” will be drained from the pool “either immediately before or after the Fourth of July, to do the permanent repair.”

It was unclear from his post what the scale, scope or cost of the permanent repair would be.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a contractor on the pool project, said it has identified some areas in the Reflecting Pool that require repairs. “These areas are a very small part of the massive 7-acre project, and do not indicate a failure of the liner,” the company said in a statement. The company said it expected to make the repairs to the pool once it is drained, as part of the warranty.

Environmental group wades in after duckling found dead

Adding to the controversy swirling around the pool, an environmental group called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate after a Mallard duckling carcass was photographed floating in the algae-filled pool, and two other ducks were found dead nearby. The Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday that the Wildlife Service must enforce the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protects migratory birds.

“Wasting taxpayer money turning the reflecting pool into a giant duck death trap just in time for America’s 250th birthday party is as Trump as it gets. Cruel, stupid and selfish,” said Tara Zuardo, a senior campaigner at the Arizona-based group.

City Wildlife, a Washington-based rescue and rehabilitation non-profit that also conducts necropsies on birds found in the city, said they could not comment on the cause of the death of the duckling because its carcass “wasn't recovered for examination.”

Renovation project plagued ahead of the 250 celebrations

Trump pitched the original improvements as intended to clean, beautify and reinforce an iconic site that he said had become dilapidated and dirty because of previous presidents’ neglect. Algae has plagued the pool for a century, and Trump insisted that the newly installed “American flag blue” coating, which he selected himself, would turn the pool into a gleaming expanse along the National Mall.

Yet within weeks of Trump declaring the rehabilitation completed in time for Independence Day, the water was plagued by a vivid green algae bloom that clouded the pool’s coating. A piece of liner, about 4 square feet, was observed on Friday, partially floating in the pool. The Associated Press saw additional pieces in the water on Monday.

Workers were seen in recent days pouring hydrogen peroxide into the pool in an attempt to kill the algae. Hydrogen peroxide can act as a paint remover.

Experts say the dark lining can add to algae growth by absorbing more sunlight than lighter surfaces. That raises the surrounding water temperature, allowing algae to thrive.

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Associated Press writer Josh Boak contributed to this story.

El escrutinio nacional está a cargo del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), que consolida las actas y resuelve reclamos. Previamente, jueces realizaron un escrutinio que, según la Registraduría, tuvo una coincidencia de 99,99% con el conteo preliminar.

El presidente del CNE, Cristian Quiroz, instaló el escrutinio en un centro de eventos de Bogotá para “brindar total certeza y transparencia frente a la ciudadanía”.

El conteo preliminar de la Registraduría, encargada de la logística de las elecciones el día de la votación, ubica a De la Espriella con 49,66% de los votos y al progresista Iván Cepeda 48,70%. La diferencia entre ambos es de más de 250.800 votos.

El senador Cepeda, quien ha prometido continuar la agenda política del presidente saliente Gustavo Petro, no reconoció el resultado del conteo preliminar y aseguró que los abogados de su partido han hecho reclamos sobre decenas de miles de mesas de votación por presuntas irregularidades.

Durante la campaña De la Espriella también realizó denuncias de presunta compra de votos y presiones de grupos armados ilegales supuestamente favoreciendo a Cepeda en zonas de conflicto armado. Cepeda rechazó el martes en un comunicado esa “narrativa del llamado ´voto fusil´ que busca poner en peligro la vida de muchas personas”, especialmente en las regiones rurales.

Estos cuestionamientos, a los que también se sumó Petro, han generado incertidumbre sobre el futuro político de Colombia.

Marta Bolivar, apoderada del Pacto Histórico de Cepeda y Petro, dijo a The Associated Press que los reclamos de esa fuerza se refieren a varias instancias del proceso electoral, desde el conteo de los sufragios hasta presuntas presiones a los votantes y compra de votos.

El Pacto Histórico pidió que se realice un recuento de los votos de los colombianos en el exterior, sin embargo, la solicitud fue denegada. “Consideramos que es una medida inconstitucional, porque es una función del CNE hacer escrutinio internacional”, indicó Bolívar.

En tanto, De la Espriella se autoproclamó vencedor tras el conteo preliminar y les pidió a Cepeda y a Petro admitir los resultados. El abogado ya ha sido reconocido como presidente electo por los mandatarios como Donald Trump, de Estados Unidos; el argentino Javier Milei y el panameño José Raúl Mulino, entre otros.

Convencido de su triunfo, De la Espriella emitió el martes un comunicado en el que informó que trabaja en la conformación del gabinete que lo acompañaría a partir del 7 de agosto, cuando se posesionará el nuevo presidente.

También anunció en la red social X que en su eventual gobierno Colombia formaría parte del “Escudo de las Américas”, como se denominó a una cumbre realizada por Trump en marzo con países de América Latina para unir fuerzas en el combate a los cárteles a la que Petro no fue invitado.

Unión Europea no detecta irregularidades

Una misión de la Unión Europea que observó las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia subrayó el martes la transparencia y eficiencia del proceso de recuento de votos.

“Nosotros no hemos observado ninguna irregularidad… y hasta donde nosotros hemos observado, la legislación colombiana se ha seguido”, aseguró a la prensa el jefe de la misión, Esteban González Pons.

Sobre los cuestionamientos de Petro, que incluyen el software utilizado en la jornada electoral, González se mostró sorprendido de que el presidente saliente sea quien "denuncie irregularidades que los candidatos no han denunciado… parece ocioso recordarlo, pero él no es un candidato”.

La misión también está observando el proceso de recuento y publicará un informe final en septiembre.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions target five Cuban entities, including three linked to Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a business conglomerate run by Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces. Best known as GAESA, it is believed to command nearly 40% of Cuba's gross domestic product. As of early 2024, it held $14.5 billion in liquid reserves.

“The situation in Cuba is devolving as the island’s corrupt, brutal and anti-American Communist regime continues to prioritize its own total control over the freedom, opportunity and basic well-being of the Cuban people,” Rubio wrote on X.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, accused “regime elites” of using GAESA to “steal the island’s few resources, diverting them for repression, anti-American subversion and spying instead of schools, power plants, and basic necessities for the Cuban people.”

Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba's foreign affairs minister, rejected the sanctions, calling Rubio “dishonest and mendacious.”

“Cuba has proven stronger, more capable, and more effective than he anticipated in the face of the ruthless aggression and collective punishment inflicted upon its people and their living conditions," he wrote on X. “What this individual is promoting from the world’s greatest power is a crime.”

Anyone that provides services to the targeted Cuban entities risks being sanctioned and cut off from the U.S. financial system.

“By designating specific entities, they’re making it clear to foreign investors: ‘If your business in Cuba touches any of these folks, you risk being banned,’” said Michael Bustamante, a professor and chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami.

“For most of these companies, it’s a bridge too far,” he said of the impact of the new sanctions.

The 5 entities sanctioned are key to Cuba's economy

Almacenes Universales S.A., or AUSA, is among the entities sanctioned. As the government’s main logistics and warehousing company, it holds up Cuba's export and import system and is the main logistics operator at the port of Mariel, west of Havana. It’s also the main storage company used by the state, Cuba’s private sector and foreign investor partners.

Last week, Cuba announced a series of economic reforms, including allowing the private sector to bypass the state when importing goods. But Bustamante said he doesn’t believe that measure is operational yet.

If people or companies avoid doing business with the storage entities, he said, that could disrupt the flow of goods and lead to humanitarian consequences.

Also sanctioned was Rafin S.A., which Bustamante described as a “very opaque” company that he believes operates as the corporate financial arm within GAESA. He said it’s not a bank but holds capital from the government and GAESA and may be a player in financial deals.

“That would also seemingly throw more cold water on the foreign investors that are already there,” Bustamante said.

The third GAESA-related entity that was sanctioned is Banco Financiero Internacional S.A., a commercial bank that Bustamante said serves as a key institution for foreign investors. “If you don’t have a bank where you can go as a foreign investor, it makes your operations logistically quite difficult, to put it mildly.”

Max Meizlish, a former U.S. Treasury sanctions enforcement officer, said the bank was targeted because it's “a key nexus” for GAESA-related funds: "This is significant.”

Also sanctioned were Geominera S.A., a state-owned mining company, and Empresa Siderúrgica Jose Martí, which the U.S. described as Cuba’s largest raw steel producer.

The final sanction was slapped against Annalie Lilliam Rueda Cardero, daughter-in-law of former President Raúl Castro.

Sanctions imposed days after sweeping economic reforms

The sanctions are the latest in a recent string that have targeted GAESA itself and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

“It’s very, very hard to suss out what’s going on here,” Bustamante said. “Is this setting the table for the great sale of Cuba state assets to the highest bidder or the lowest bidder?...Is this part of the recipe of a hostile takeover?”

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump keeps pressuring for a change in Cuba’s political and economic model, accusing the island of representing a threat to the U.S. because of its ties to U.S. adversaries. The Cuban government has repeatedly denied it’s a threat.

Meanwhile, Cuba unveiled economic reforms last week that Bustamante described as “potentially the most significant liberalization of the Cuban economy in 60 years," though he said questions and doubts remain.

On Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said the reforms “are modest, long overdue and ultimately superficial smoke signals from the Cuban regime. This is part of the dictatorship’s handbook: announce a cycle of supposed reforms to insinuate a desire for change, then quickly roll back any changes the moment the regime’s total control is at all threatened.”

“The U.S. administration is going to continue applying pressure on the regime until the regime is a different beast entirely,” said Meizlish, a research fellow with the U.S.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Cuba is already struggling with severe blackouts, food and water shortages and a crumbling healthcare system stemming in part from a U.S. energy blockade. In late January, Trump threatened tariffs against any country that sells or provides oil to the island, which depended heavily on oil shipments from Venezuela that were halted after the U.S. attacked the South American country.

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Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, contributed.

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Thousands of spectators had turned out in central Amman to watch the match between Algeria and Jordan on giant screens. The crowd, at Hashemite Plaza, grew and nine people injured in the crush were hospitalized, the Jordan News Agency reported, citing the Public Security Directorate.

One of the injured fans later died, the report said.

This year was the first that Jordan qualified for the World Cup. The team was knocked out Tuesday after losing to Algeria 2-1.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday.

“This is the start,” Wright said on a call with reporters. “We’re going to move with the players that are ready to stand up and move quickly. Once that supply chain is up and running, do we think there will be dozens of these built going forward? I’d be very surprised if there were not.”

Most U.S. nuclear power plants were built between 1970 and 1990. Only two new large reactors have been built from scratch in the United States in recent decades. Those two reactors, at Georgia Power Co.’s Plant Vogtle, were completed years late and billions of dollars over budget. The 10 new reactors will use the same design, Westinghouse’s AP1000.

Wright said the Plant Vogtle project struggled because of bad planning, supply chain problems and the COVID-19 pandemic. But, he said, the reactor design is “robust and sound.”

“By building in volume and at multiple locations, we think we will create and stand up a large supply chain and build a lot of construction expertise,” Wright said. “We expect the timing and cost of these plants to well outperform what was done on Vogtle.”

Seven utilities and energy companies signed letters of intent that identified sites, the Energy Department said. The agency plans to pick five, which would host two reactors at each site. The federal financing would be used to purchase nuclear components with long lead times, and are not construction loans.

The department declined to name the utilities involved or the states they are in, calling it premature until the selections are made. It did not give a timeline for making those selections.

President Donald Trump set a goal of quadrupling domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, and he has signed executive orders to speed development. The administration is working to advance new nuclear technologies, such as small modular nuclear reactors.

Dan Sumner, president and chief executive officer of Westinghouse, said industrialized nuclear power needs to be built at fleet scale, in order for the United States to lead in artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and the industries that will define the next century.

Critics of building more nuclear reactors say they’re too expensive and riskier than other low-carbon energy sources. Several states restrict or ban new nuclear power plant construction.

Travis Fisher, director of energy and environmental policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute think tank, said the Energy Department has the authority to issue these loan guarantees, but he doesn't think the executive branch should be so heavily involved in the electricity sector.

If the past is any indication, the next administration will use similar authorities to favor a different set of energy resources, he added. "Remove the state barriers and the federal favoritism and let companies build the power plants that pass the market test,” Fisher wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

Data centers used 4% to 5% of the nation's total electricity in 2024, a share that could nearly triple by 2028, according to government estimates. Some analysts predict nationwide electricity use to rise as much as 20% in the next decade, with data centers a big reason.

The Energy Department said the loans could speed up the development of these 10 reactors by up to three years and lower construction costs. Its goal is for all 10 to be under construction by 2030, to start providing power in the mid-2030s.

The utilities and Westinghouse will be expected to contribute up to $5 billion in equity in total across the five, two-reactors projects. Wright said his department provides up to $17.5 billion in loans, or $3.5 billion per project, in debt to pair with the equity. He said it's “very, very low risk to the American taxpayers.”

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McDermott reported from Providence, R.I.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Devarious Holloway’s girlfriend went to an MDSO station Saturday and said she wanted to report an incident that occurred between her and her boyfriend the previous day.

Deputies said the victim claimed that Holloway texted her at about 7 p.m. Friday, saying “Come outside. My mom wants to talk to you.”

The victim said she was confused because she knows Holloway’s mother died in 2017, the report stated.

According to the report, the woman then walked toward a parked vehicle outside her home and spotted Holloway standing next to it.

Deputies said Holloway approached the victim and asked, “So we’re done?”

According to the report, the victim walked to her sister’s home that’s located on the same property as hers, believing Holloway would follow her, but she said she quickly realized Holloway had actually entered her own house.

The report states that the victim went inside her home and Holloway threw her cellphone at her, “missing her but striking the door.”

He then grabbed her by the shoulders, pushed her down onto the couch and then punched her in the bottom lip when she tried to stand up, authorities said.

Deputies said Holloway then kicked the victim in the right leg before she ran to her bedroom and locked the door.

According to the report, Holloway began kicking the bedroom door, causing the door frame to break.

He then continued questioning the victim about the status of their relationship as the victim repeatedly asked for her phone back, authorities said.

According to the report, Holloway left the victim’s home, but returned a short time later and continued arguing with her before hitting her in the chest area, causing redness to her chest and causing her chain to break.

Holloway faces charges of battery and criminal mischief.

As of Tuesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $1,150 bond.

The Miramar Police Department released a statement to Local 10 Tuesday, confirming that Holloway has been “placed on administrative leave” pending the outcome of an internal review.

“The Miramar Police Department was notified by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office of an off-duty incident involving Sergeant Devarious Holloway.

“The Department acknowledges the matter referenced and has initiated a thorough administrative review in accordance with established departmental procedures. Sergeant Holloway has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of that review.

“The Miramar Police Department remains steadfast in its commitment to professionalism, accountability, and ethical conduct, and will address this matter through the appropriate channels.”

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Gianni Infantino, the soccer body's president, defended the decision to introduce breaks — which come midway through each half — at this World Cup and said Tuesday they may be providing more entertainment for fans.

He said FIFA would analyze what it will do in future tournaments “based on this experience.” But after criticism that the breaks were a stealth way to insert advertising or American-style timeouts, Infantino suggested the stoppages have been positive.

“Maybe the coach can reassess certain situations, correct certain mistakes. The players get a little rest and come back in full speed. Well, is that bad necessarily? Maybe it’s good,” Infantino told SNTV. "And we see as well the intensity of the games. We’ve never seen 90 minutes in a tournament like this played in such an intensity.

“Until the last second of the match, players attack and so on," he continued. "And maybe, maybe not, but maybe it’s also a bit thanks to this little break that the players have and after they can go back on the field and show what they can do.”

The World Cup has certainly delivered in terms of entertainment, with goals scored at a record pace and big performances from soccer greats like Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland. There have also been shocks provided by debutants Cape Verde and Curacao, despite fears the expansion of the tournament from 32 teams to 48 would dilute the quality.

But the biggest criticism has been the introduction of hydration breaks for all matches regardless of venue or location.

Loud jeers have greeted the stoppages, around 22 minutes into each half, especially at games played in stadiums with roofs and air conditioning, such as Atlanta.

Infantino said it was necessary for sporting equity.

“If we were to use hydration breaks only in those matches where it was too hot and not in the other matches, we would give an advantage or a disadvantage to some of the coaches or some of the teams,” he said. “Why would the coach have the opportunity to influence the game in one match just because it’s hot and in another match where it’s a bit less hot, he wouldn’t have this opportunity?”

Infantino also insisted FIFA was making no extra money as a result of networks cutting to commercials because contracts had been signed before the decision to introduce hydration breaks.

“Broadcasters maybe, they make, they generate more. I don’t know, that’s great for them," he said. "But for us, we make zero additional revenues.”

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James Robson is at https://x.com/jamesalanrobson

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One of the defendants, a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of opening fire during the July 4 demonstration outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, was sentenced to 100 years in prison, the maximum punishment.

The lengthy sentences were condemned by family members and supporters in a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Fort Worth. Hope Song, whose son Benjamin Song received the heftiest sentence, disputed prosecutors' claims that her son shot the officer and said he didn't intend to hurt anyone.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of two judges overseeing the proceedings, said what happened wasn’t a protest but “an assault on democracy.”

“The need to deter this type of conduct is high,” O’Connor said.

The seven other protesters received prison terms ranging from 30 to 70 years.

Prosecutors said the eight are members of antifa, a decentralized anti-fascist organization and a target of the Trump administration. Antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.

President Donald Trump last fall signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no domestic equivalent to the State Department’s list of foreign terror organizations.

The defendants deny any affiliation with antifa and maintain they attended the demonstration in support of detained immigrants.

Prosecutor Frank Gatto urged the judge to impose stiff penalties.

“People with that kind of extremist beliefs need extra time in prison,” Gatto said. “They believe violence is justified.”

Phillip Hayes, Song’s attorney, said outside the courthouse that he takes issue with the idea that the protesters are extremists.

"This is a bunch of kids and young adults who really have a really big heart and really wanted their voice to be heard,” Hayes said. “It was never intended that anybody get hurt. It was never intended that any shots would be fired.”

Prosecutors said in court that Song had yelled “get to the rifles” and opened fire, striking a police officer who had just pulled up to the center.

Hayes argued that Song’s shots were “suppressive fire” and that a ricochet bullet hit the officer after he arrived on the scene and “aggressively” pulled out his firearm. He said his client will appeal the 100-year sentence.

“Song, aside from this day, has had an impeccable life. A former Marine. A good student,” Hayes said. “He had a lot of good qualities that were just ignored. The judge went ahead and gave as much as he could.”

Other defendants and their family members pleaded for leniency in court.

Autumn Hill said the gathering “seemed more like a party to me than anything else" and that she and others who participated "didn’t expect or want any violence or destruction of property to occur.”

Amber Lowrey told the judge that her sister, Savanna Batten, is a compassionate person with dreams of opening a bakery. She said Batten's activism started with animal rights and evolved into anti-war and human rights advocacy.

“She’s the best person I know,” Lowrey said.

Hill and Batten both received 50-year sentences.

Other defendants previously pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists rather than take their case to trial.

Critics warn the case could have wide-reaching impact on protests given that organizations operating within the U.S. are supposed to be protected by First Amendment free-speech rights.

Last week, federal prosecutors charged 15 people with impeding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. They claimed the demonstrators were members of antifa who conspired against the federal government to block arrests and deportations by setting up blockades around government buildings and throwing chunks of ice at federal vehicles, among other actions.

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Marcelo reported from New York. Associated Press journalist Kendria LaFleur contributed.

Here is the list:

• Mexico (Group A winners)
• United States (Group D winners)
• Germany (Group E winners)
• France (Group I)
• Norway (Group I)
• Argentina (Group J)

Tournament’s schedule

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Round of 16 begins

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals begin

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals begin

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals begin

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

The next matches

JUNE 26: DAY 3

Norway vs. France is at 3 p.m.

Senegal vs. Iraq is at 3 p.m.

Group stage- progress

JUNE 22: DAY 2

France advances to Round of 32

• Kylian Mbappé of France scores 2 goals to reach 16 in World Cup career, tying for 2nd most
• Kylian Mbappé scores 2 goals to lead France to 3-0 win over Iraq and into World Cup knockout stage

Norway advances to Round of 32

• Erling Haaland scores 2 more goals and Norway beats Senegal 3-2 to reach World Cup round of 32

JUNE 16: DAY 1

Norway gets 3 points after 4-1 opener against Iraq in Boston

• Game analysis: Erling Haaland scores twice in World Cup debut as Norway tops Iraq 4-1
• FIFA game video: Haaland’s 1st World Cup goal
• FIFA game video: Haaland scores again

France gets 3 points

• Game analysis: France striker Kylian Mbappé scores 13th and 14th World Cup goals, moving into tie for 3rd all time
• Kylian Mbappé sparks France with two goals in 3-1 win over Senegal at the World Cup
• FIFA game video: Kylian Mbappe scores
• FIFA game video: Bradley Barcola scores

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Here is the list of the groups:

• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

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Officers with the Miami Police Department identified the suspect in an an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News Tuesday as Stephen Erik Campos.

According to the report, officers responded at about 3:22 p.m. Monday to a crash at the intersection of Northwest 37th Avenue and Northwest 36th Street, involving a blue 2018 Lexus RX 350 and a person riding an electric stand-up scooter.

The report states that Campos, the driver of the Lexus, was traveling northbound on Northwest 37th Avenue and approached the intersection at a red light.

Investigators alleged that Campos “failed to stop at the solid red light” and struck the scooter rider, who was traveling eastbound on Northwest 36th Street.

According to the report, the rider, who has not been publicly identified, struck the SUV’s driver-side windshield and door before coming to rest in the intersection.

Police said Campos then fled westbound on Northwest 36th Street in his car “without rendering aid to the pedestrian.”

They said Miami Fire Rescue medics responded to the scene and transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

According to the report, doctors later determined the victim suffered facial fractures and a brain contusion.

Police said Campos later returned to the area after discussing the damaged windshield with his wife.

According to the report, Campos told officers he had been leaving a nearby casino when he noticed his windshield had shattered but believed “somebody threw a rock” at his vehicle.

Authorities said he told investigators that he continued driving home before speaking with his wife, who drove him back to the scene.

The report states that Campos’ wife told detectives that her husband returned home and explained what had happened. Police said she suggested they return to the area to find out what occurred, and they approached officers after seeing police activity near the intersection.

After being read his Miranda rights, Campos again told investigators he believed an object had struck his windshield and that he did not realize he had been involved in a crash, according to the report.

Police said Campos was arrested without incident and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Jail records show he is facing one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury.

As of Tuesday morning, he remained at TGK, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

The next matches

JUNE 27: DAY 4

Algeria vs. Austria is at 10 p.m.

Jordan vs. Argentina is at 10 p.m.

Group-stage progress

JUNE 22: DAY 3

Algeria gets 3 points after 2-1 win against Jordan

• Feature: Kansas town embraces Algeria at the World Cup as the nation itself grapples with human rights record

Argentina gets 3 points after 3-0 win against Austria

• Lionel Messi becomes top scorer in World Cup history with 2 more goals for Argentina
• Messi sets World Cup scoring record as defending champion Argentina advances to knockout stage
• Argentina may have America to thank for Lionel Messi’s latest World Cup heroics

JUNE 17: DAY 2

Austria gets 3 points after 3-1 opener against Jordan

• FIFA game video: Austria’s Marko Arnautovic scores
• FIFA game video: Jordan’s Ali Olwan scores

JUNE 16: DAY 1

Argentina gets 3 points after 3-0 opener against Algeria

• Game analysis: Messi has his first World Cup hat trick as defending champion Argentina beats Algeria 3-0 in opener
• Argentina is defending its World Cup title, and its fans are more obsessed than ever
• Lionel Messi ties men’s World Cup goals record with a hat trick as Argentina tops Algeria
• FIFA game video: Messi’s opening goal
• FIFA game video: Messi’s hat trick
• FIFA World Cup referee’s treatment of Messi raises red card question

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Agentes del Departamento de Policía de Miami identificaron al sospechoso en un informe de arresto obtenido por Local 10 News el martes como Stephen Erik Campos.

Según el informe, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 3:22 p.m. del lunes a un choque en la intersección de Northwest 37th Avenue y Northwest 36th Street, que involucró un Lexus RX 350 azul de 2018 y a una persona que conducía un scooter eléctrico de pie.

El informe indica que Campos, el conductor del Lexus, viajaba hacia el norte por Northwest 37th Avenue y se aproximó a la intersección con la luz roja.

Los investigadores alegaron que Campos “no se detuvo ante la luz roja sólida” y golpeó al usuario del scooter, quien viajaba hacia el este por Northwest 36th Street.

Según el informe, el conductor del scooter, que no ha sido identificado públicamente, impactó el parabrisas y la puerta del lado del conductor del SUV antes de quedar tendido en la intersección.

La policía dijo que Campos huyó hacia el oeste por Northwest 36th Street en su vehículo “sin brindar ayuda al peatón”.

Indicaron que paramédicos de Miami Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena y trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición crítica.

Según el informe, los médicos determinaron posteriormente que la víctima sufrió fracturas faciales y una contusión cerebral.

La policía dijo que Campos regresó más tarde al área tras hablar con su esposa sobre el parabrisas dañado.

De acuerdo con el informe, Campos le dijo a los oficiales que salía de un casino cercano cuando notó que su parabrisas estaba roto, pero creyó que “alguien le había lanzado una piedra” a su vehículo.

Las autoridades dijeron que el hombre explicó que continuó manejando hacia su casa antes de hablar con su esposa, quien lo llevó de vuelta al lugar.

El informe señala que la esposa de Campos dijo a los detectives que su esposo regresó a casa y le explicó lo ocurrido. La policía indicó que ella sugirió regresar a la zona para averiguar qué había pasado, y ambos se acercaron a los oficiales tras ver actividad policial en la intersección.

Después de que se le leyeron sus derechos Miranda, Campos reiteró a los investigadores que creyó que un objeto había golpeado su parabrisas y que no se dio cuenta de que había estado involucrado en un choque, según el informe.

La policía dijo que Campos fue arrestado sin incidentes y trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de abandonar la escena de un choque con lesiones corporales graves.

Hasta la mañana del martes, permanecía en TGK, donde su fianza figuraba como “por establecer”.

“We are in agony, and we cannot be at peace. ... We love our mom. We'll never stop looking for her," Guthrie said at the “Today” desk in New York, holding a tissue in her left hand.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, who lived alone, was reported missing from her Tucson-area home on Feb. 1. The FBI released video more than a week later from a camera outside her front door showing a masked stranger. Her blood was found on the porch, but the case remains unsolved.

Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes in the days after Guthrie’s disappearance but had not disclosed the details while the investigation was at an early stage. Guthrie's family was aware of the notes.

Tucson TV station KOLD said Monday that it had received two notes, one demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Guthrie’s return and another that said she had died. Separately, CNN cited law enforcement sources in reporting on the contents of the notes.

CNN said a note indicated that those who kidnapped Guthrie did not mean to kill her but that she died shortly after her disappearance.

“I don't have any comment on this story. I'm not involved in our coverage,” Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday, referring to NBC News. “But I can't pretend I'm not here. And since I am, I want to just take the opportunity to ask people — really to beg people — to come forward. Somebody knows something.”

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department referred questions about the ransom notes to the FBI, which declined to comment.

Volunteers and search teams scoured the nearby desert terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders in the weeks after Nancy Guthrie vanished. A group recently conducted a search near the Arizona-Mexico border but didn't report finding her.

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings occasionally appeared in social media videos earlier in the saga, urging the public to come forward with tips. She asked people to “raise your prayers with us” and acknowledged that her mother might be in heaven dancing “with our daddy.”

El arresto del 17 de junio de Reinier Sanchez Hurtado, de 46 años, fue captado por imágenes de dron del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach.

“Esta es una nueva tecnología que la mayoría de las agencias policiales están utilizando ahora”, dijo el sargento Luis Rivera del Departamento de Policía de Medley.

El arresto de Hurtado fue el resultado de una amplia investigación criminal iniciada por detectives de la policía de Medley sobre el robo de zapatos Nike.

“El cargo principal es tráfico de propiedad robada”, dijo Rivera. “Estamos hablando de posiblemente $36,000 USD en mercancía que fue sustraída”.

El caso se originó en una instalación de distribución en Medley, donde la seguridad de FedEx dijo que había rastreado un patrón inquietante de robos que se remonta a 2024.

Según el informe de arresto, algunos zapatos Nike de alta gama que estaban destinados a tiendas minoristas del área de Miami terminaron en la casa de Miami de Sanchez Hurtado, quien, según las autoridades, trabajaba para un contratista de FedEx Ground “responsable de supervisar a los conductores asignados a las rutas de entrega afectadas”.

La policía dijo que utilizó dispositivos de rastreo GPS en algunos de los paquetes para seguir el rastro de dónde eran llevados los bienes robados.

FedEx dijo a la policía que los zapatos se estaban vendiendo en el mercado negro.

“Parecía haber un esquema de fraude”, dijo Rivera.

FedEx contactó a la policía de Medley, que actuó rápidamente para identificar a Sanchez Hurtado como el sospechoso.

Los detectives se enteraron poco después de que él acababa de ser liberado tras una detención por una infracción de tránsito rutinaria en Miami Beach.

Los detectives de Medley luego coordinaron con el Centro de Inteligencia en Tiempo Real del MBPD y la Unidad Táctica de Robo del Departamento de Policía de Miami-Dade para localizar a Sanchez Hurtado cerca de la intersección de la calle 14 y Drexel Avenue, dijeron las autoridades.

“Eso es lo hermoso del condado de Miami-Dade”, dijo Rivera. “Todas las agencias trabajan juntas para llevar a los sujetos bajo custodia y los cargos que obtienen”.

La investigación sobre Sanchez Hurtado y los zapatos robados sigue activa y en curso, dijo.

Una declaración de FedEx puede leerse a continuación:

“Estamos al tanto del arresto de un conductor proveedor de servicios por parte del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach, y este individuo ya no presta servicios en nombre de FedEx. Otras preguntas deben dirigirse a las autoridades policiales.”

Adam Snyder, asesor estratégico de comunicaciones de FedEx

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According to authorities, troopers responded to the northbound lanes of I-75 at mile marker 150 just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday in reference to a driver who was driving the wrong way.

Troopers said the driver, Ana Cassandra Arreola, 28, of LaBelle, was spotted heading south in her SUV at mile marker 143.

Authorities said troopers then performed a “Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT), which rotated the SUV, bringing it to a stop.”

Arreola, who authorities said had a blood-alcohol level of .161 percent, was arrested on charges of DUI and DUI causing damage to property or a person.

She was booked into the Lee County Jail and was released Monday after posting a $30,000 bond.

Según las autoridades, los agentes respondieron a los carriles en dirección norte de la I-75 en el marcador de milla 150 poco después de las 2:30 a.m. del domingo en referencia a un conductor que iba en sentido contrario.

Los agentes dijeron que la conductora, Ana Cassandra Arreola, de 28 años y residente de LaBelle, fue vista conduciendo hacia el sur en su SUV en el marcador de milla 143.

Las autoridades dijeron que los agentes realizaron una “Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT), que hizo girar el SUV y lo detuvo”.

Arreola, quien según las autoridades tenía un nivel de alcohol en sangre de 0.161 por ciento, fue arrestada por cargos de DUI y DUI con daños a la propiedad o a una persona.

Fue ingresada en la cárcel del condado Lee y fue liberada el lunes tras pagar una fianza de $30,000 USD.

The Washington Post confirmed that one of its journalists received a subpoena from the Trump administration as part of a broader and aggressive crackdown on media leaks that in January also included the extraordinary step of an FBI search of the home of another journalist at the newspaper and the seizure of her electronic devices. Reporters at The Wall Street Journal also received grand jury subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, a rare and unusual move that critics said amounted to a threat against press freedom.

It wasn't immediately clear why the government withdrew the subpoenas or what precise news coverage the subpoenas concerned, but the decision to rescind them, first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, was confirmed by people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a non-public law enforcement action.

Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray wrote in a staff email obtained by The Associated Press that a subpoena to Ellen Nakashima, a prominent national security journalist who has reported on the Iran war and deadly U.S. military boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea, had been withdrawn.

“The unwarranted subpoena of our reporter Ellen Nakashima – a clear violation of constitutionally guaranteed press freedom – was another sign of the government seeking to compel journalists to become instruments of its investigations. We will continue to stand fully behind the journalism of The Washington Post and fight all efforts by any administration that violate our First Amendment rights," a newspaper spokesperson said in a statement.

A spokesperson for The Wall Street Journal didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Tuesday.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to comment on the subpoenas or the decision to withdraw them while speaking to reporters after an unrelated news conference, calling it a grand jury matter.

“To the extent that we have to investigate breaches of national security, in whatever form they come, that’s something that we will continue to do,” Blanche said.

He noted that in media leak investigations, “reporters are not our targets. We very much value and appreciate the role that reporters play in this city and country.”

But, he added, “I have a similar important role to make sure that people that are entrusted with our nation’s secrets do what they’re supposed to do with that information, which -- spoiler alert -- means not sharing with reporters. There’s tension there. I don’t deny there’s tension there. But we're not going to stop investigating people who work in this administration who think it’s OK to leak classified information.”

Mark Schoeff Jr., a reporter at CQ Roll Call and president of the National Press Club, called the decision to seek grand jury testimony from journalists “one of the most aggressive actions against a free and independent press in recent memory.”

“Reporters were one step away from being forced to participate in a criminal investigation because they were doing their jobs. That should alarm every American who values a free press,” Schoeff said in a statement.

The Justice Department over the years has developed, and revised, internal policies governing how it will respond to news media leaks.

Though the department across presidential administration has periodically seized the phone records of individual journalists in hopes of identifying sources for national security stories, it is extremely rare for the government to attempt to compel a reporter to reveal their sources before a grand jury.

In April 2025, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded a policy from President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration that protected journalists from having their phone records secretly seized during leak investigations — a practice long decried by news organizations and press freedom groups. The moves again gave prosecutors the authority to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make “unauthorized disclosures” to journalists.

A memo she issued said members of the press are “presumptively entitled to advance notice of such investigative activities,” and subpoenas are to be “narrowly drawn.” Warrants must also include “protocols designed to limit the scope of intrusion into potentially protected materials or newsgathering activities,” the memo stated.

In January, FBI agents searched the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, who has been covering President Donald Trump’s transformation of the federal government, as part of a leak investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified information.

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Investigators said Walter Denahan was last seen Saturday evening near Northeast Eighth Avenue in Boynton Beach.

Police describe him as 5-foot-10, weighing around 140 pounds and bald.

According to officials, he was last seen wearing a beige striped shirt, dark blue pants, tan sneakers and a blue baseball hat.

Authorities said Denahan has been reported missing before and was previously located in Belle Glade, Indiantown and in Deerfield Beach.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to contact Boynton Beach police at 561-732-8116.

Los investigadores dijeron que Walter Denahan fue visto por última vez la noche del sábado cerca de Northeast Eighth Avenue en Boynton Beach.

La policía lo describe como un hombre de 5 pies con 10 pulgadas de estatura, que pesa alrededor de 140 libras y es calvo.

Según las autoridades, fue visto por última vez usando una camisa beige a rayas, pantalones azul oscuro, tenis color canela y una gorra de béisbol azul.

Las autoridades dijeron que Denahan ha sido reportado como desaparecido antes y anteriormente fue localizado en Belle Glade, Indiantown y en Deerfield Beach.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero es instada a contactar a la policía de Boynton Beach al 561-732-8116.

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Babcock is now in charge of trying to get Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl a Stanley Cup championship after two of the best hockey players in the league have fallen short over the past decade.

“He’s bringing experience and accountability," Oilers CEO of hockey operations Jeff Jackson said at the league’s Board of Governors meeting. “That’s what we wanted on the organizational management side, and that’s what our players wanted — our leadership group — so it all aligned.”

There have been complaints from former players about Babcock's approach, including allegations of bullying. McDavid, Draisaitl and teammate Zach Hyman were consulted by management prior to bringing in Babcock, according to Jackson, who represented McDavid before joining the Oilers in 2023.

“I think it was very important that Connor and Leon and Zach were involved and made their opinion known," Jackson said. “They’ve been in Edmonton a long time, have gone through some heartbreak together. They’ve earned the right to have a voice, and we sought that and we decided. Players don’t make the ultimate decision, but I think it’s more important to be collaborative with them about communication.”

The 63-year-old Babcock has not coached a game in the league since being fired by Toronto 23 games into the 2019-20 season.

Babcock has championship experience from coaching Detroit to the Cup in 2008. He made two other trips to the final, with Anaheim in ‘03 and when the Red Wings went again in ’09 and lost to Pittsburgh. He also guided Canada to back-to-back Olympic goal medals in 2010 and '14.

Babcock also brings baggage.

He stepped away from the Blue Jackets before training camp in September 2023 after taking the job on July 1. At the time, Babcock’s requests for personal photos from players in an attempt to get to know them drew criticism as an invasion of privacy.

When word emerged that Edmonton was interested in hiring Babcock, the NHL Players' Association asked the league to review what happened three years ago. The NHL said it found nothing to prevent him from being employed by a team, and Commissioner Gary Bettman echoed that sentiment after the hire became official.

“Based on our investigation, we concluded there was no basis upon which he should be prohibited from coaching," Bettman said. "His ability to coach depended on an NHL team wanting to have him coach — and that’s what Edmonton did.”

Bettman said league officials looked into what was alleged to have happened with the Blue Jackets and drew conclusions as to whether they should disqualify someone from employment.

“We do — and Mr. Babcock knows it because I spoke to him — expect a certain level of decorum and conduct among all NHL personnel, especially head coaches,” Bettman said.

A report surfaced after the Maple Leafs fired Babcock that he had asked star Mitch Marner to share his ranking of teammates from hardest- to least-hardest working and then shared that with the rest of the group. Former Red Wings player Johan Franzen told a Swedish outlet that Babcock was the worst person he had ever met and said at one point he was terrified to go to the rink.

Retired defenseman Mike Commodore, who played for Babcock briefly in 2011 in Detroit, spoke out this spring.

“I don’t want to hear another word about how important mental health is for us when you literally just paved the way, cleared the way for Mike Babcock to get another opportunity in the NHL and put him in another position of power where he can abuse people,” Commodore said on the “Clearing the Crease” podcast.

Daniel Winnik, who played for Babcock in 2015-16 with the Leafs, last week called him “the only guy that's ever made me hate hockey.”

“I just hated coming to the rink,” Winnik said on TSN 1050 radio in Toronto. "He's just a bully."

Asked how the Oilers remained on track to hire Babcock given the criticism, Jackson said they “didn't look at social media.”

“We just sort of did our thing,” Jackson said. "Lots of people have lots of opinions, and that’s part of our business and the fans have their opinion. We knew what we needed to do to get the coach we wanted, so we just kept sort of moving forward with our diligence and got to a point where we were comfortable.”

Kris Knoblauch, who coached Edmonton to consecutive trips to the Cup final in 2024 and ’25, was fired May 14. That decision was announced after news leaked that the Oilers had been denied permission by division rival Vegas to interview 2023 Cup-winning coach Bruce Cassidy, whom the Golden Knights fired on March 30 with eight games left in the regular season. Cassidy remains under contract for one more year.

The Oilers instead turned to Babcock, whose 700 regular season and 90 playoff victories rank 12th and 10th, respectively, in NHL history.

D.J. Smith, who was most recently the interim replacement in Los Angeles after Jim Hiller was fired and ran the bench in Ottawa from 2019-23, was named an associate coach. Smith was an assistant under Babcock in Toronto.

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Muhamad, a prominent member of the left-wing Historic Pact political party, served as the country’s environmental minister from 2022 to 2025.

After the national registry published the preliminary vote count, Abelardo De la Espriella claimed victory on Sunday night in Barranquilla.

“A lot of people in Colombia are very scared with this new government,” said Muhamad, 49, who stands behind De la Espriella’s rival Iván Cepeda, who had not conceded on Monday.

De La Espriella, who campaigned as “El Tigre,” planned to restart oil exploration and allow fracking, which alarmed environmentalists in Colombia.

“I hope it will not become a government of retaliation towards people who have been moving another different type of agenda,” said Muhamad, whose paternal grandfather was Palestinian.

De la Espriella, a law-and-order candidate who supports Israel, also pledged to end peace talks to disarm armed groups and vowed to build mega prisons for narco terrorists.

“From this moment on, the election campaign ends—as do the slogans, the divisions, and the political confrontations — and the supreme hour of service to the nation begins,“ De La Espriella said during his victory speech at the Ventana al Mundo monument.

During a news conference on Monday in Bogotá, Cepeda said that “once all the claims” have been verified and “all the doubts” have been resolved, he will announce his recognition of the election results.

Cepeda, who has served in the Colombian Senate since 2014, said he wasn’t going anywhere after acknowledging that De la Espriella sent him a message: “Pack your bags!”

Although De la Espriella also promised to cut welfare spending, some Venezuelan migrants said they breathed a sigh of relief because the left’s push for constitutional changes to bypass the legislature felt like déjà vu.

Sergio Guzmán, the co-founder and director of Colombia Risk Analysis, described the political environment as highly flammable.

“I think Colombia is in a bed of dry tinder,” said Guzmán, who keeps a portrait of slain Colombian political satirist Jaime Garzón in his office.

After winning just about 250,830 more votes than Cepeda, De la Espriella also vowed to be a president to “all Colombians.” Cepeda and President Gustavo Petro aren’t convinced.

“Petro will try to inflame social unrest against De La Espriella,” Guzmán said.

Petro’s term ends on Aug. 7, when De la Espriella, who had the endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump, expects to be sworn in to become Colombia’s 48th president.

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Torres contributed to this report from Miami.

Muhamad, una destacada integrante del partido político de izquierda Pacto Histórico, se desempeñó como ministra de Medio Ambiente del país desde 2022 hasta 2025.

Después de que el registro nacional publicara el conteo preliminar de votos, Abelardo De la Espriella declaró la victoria el domingo por la noche en Barranquilla.

“Mucha gente en Colombia está muy asustada con este nuevo gobierno”, dijo Muhamad, de 49 años, quien respalda al rival de De la Espriella, Iván Cepeda, quien no había concedido la derrota el lunes.

De la Espriella, quien hizo campaña como “El Tigre”, planeaba reanudar la exploración petrolera y permitir el fracking, lo que alarmó a los ambientalistas en Colombia.

“Espero que no se convierta en un gobierno de retaliación hacia las personas que han estado impulsando otro tipo de agenda distinta”, dijo Muhamad, cuyo abuelo paterno era palestino.

De la Espriella, un candidato de mano dura que apoya a Israel, también prometió terminar las negociaciones de paz para desarmar a grupos armados y se comprometió a construir mega cárceles para narcoterroristas.

“Desde este momento termina la campaña electoral —así como los lemas, las divisiones y las confrontaciones políticas— y comienza la hora suprema de servicio a la nación”, dijo De la Espriella durante su discurso de victoria en el monumento Ventana al Mundo.

Durante una conferencia de prensa el lunes en Bogotá, Cepeda dijo que “una vez todas las reclamaciones” hayan sido verificadas y “todas las dudas” hayan sido resueltas, anunciará su reconocimiento de los resultados electorales.

Cepeda, quien ha servido en el Senado colombiano desde 2014, dijo que no se iba a ir a ninguna parte después de reconocer que De la Espriella le envió un mensaje: “¡Empaca tus maletas!”.

Aunque De la Espriella también prometió recortar el gasto en programas sociales, algunos migrantes venezolanos dijeron que respiraron aliviados porque el impulso de la izquierda para cambios constitucionales que eludieran al legislativo se sentía como un déjà vu.

Sergio Guzmán, cofundador y director de Colombia Risk Analysis, describió el ambiente político como altamente inflamable.

“Creo que Colombia está en una cama de yesca seca”, dijo Guzmán, quien mantiene en su oficina un retrato del asesinado satirista político colombiano Jaime Garzón.

Después de ganar apenas unos 250,830 votos más que Cepeda, De la Espriella también prometió ser un presidente para “todos los colombianos”. Cepeda y el presidente Gustavo Petro no están convencidos.

“Petro intentará inflamar el malestar social contra De la Espriella”, dijo Guzmán.

El mandato de Petro termina el 7 de agosto, cuando De la Espriella, quien contó con el respaldo del presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump, espera ser juramentado como el presidente número 48 de Colombia.

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The Wizards have the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on Tuesday night, with AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson and Cameron Boozer among the options after strong freshman seasons in college.

The buzz is just winding down in New York after the Knicks won their first championship since 1973 by beating the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. The team's championship parade was held last week, a few miles from where the draft takes place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the home of the Nets.

And on the eve of the draft, Milwaukee and Miami agreed to a blockbuster deal that will send two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Heat, perhaps instantly creating another challenger for the Knicks.

The Wizards hope they can pick a player that will help them become one.

Washington's NBA title drought is almost as long as the Knicks' was, having last won in 1978 when the team was still known as the Bullets. The Wizards could go for Dybantsa, a forward who led the nation in scoring at BYU; or Peterson, a guard with tons of talent but some question marks after missing 11 games at Kansas with injuries and illness; or Boozer, a forward who was college basketball's player of the year at Duke.

Dybantsa hopes he's the choice, already picturing how he will feel after the sacrifices he said his family made to get him this far.

“Who knows, I might cry,” Dybantsa said.

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According to officials, the fire sparked in a trap yard near the Marlin Bay Resort and Marina late Monday morning.

When crews arrived, they said the boat, which was on a trailer in the trap yard behind the RaceTrac gas station located at 3896 Overseas Highway, was fully engulfed in flames.

Firefighters said they quickly rushed into action so the flames wouldn’t spread to nearby lobster traps.

No injuries were reported, but the boat was destroyed, authorities said.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the blaze.

Las víctimas fueron identificadas como Esther Liontos, de 58 años, y Roger Arredondo Gonzalez, de 61 años.

Las autoridades aún no han revelado la forma en que murieron ambas personas, pero confirmaron que un individuo fue retenido para ser interrogado.

Según la Oficina del Alguacil, los oficiales acudieron a una vivienda ubicada en la cuadra 26100 de la avenida Southwest 209 poco después de las 8:30 a.m. del viernes, tras recibir un reporte sobre una mujer inconsciente.

Al llegar al lugar, los oficiales encontraron a Liontos tendida en el suelo fuera de la casa, indicaron las autoridades.

El personal del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Miami-Dade declaró su fallecimiento en la escena.

Los oficiales informaron que también hallaron a Arredondo Gonzalez tendido en el suelo a poca distancia. Él también fue declarado muerto en el lugar.

Las autoridades confirmaron que un hombre permanece bajo custodia con fines de interrogatorio para determinar si tuvo alguna participación en el homicidio.

Los detectives no han divulgado las declaraciones que hizo este individuo y, hasta el momento, no se han efectuado arrestos formalmente.

Un familiar de Liontos dijo a Local 10 que la familia está tratando de comprender lo que ocurrió mientras navegan su inmenso dolor, confusión, enojo y deseo de justicia.

Ese familiar describió a la pareja como “personas maravillosas que amaban a su familia”.

Cualquier persona que posea información sobre el caso puede comunicarse con la línea de Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

Now the Bucks face the onerous challenge of retooling without the player who carried the team on his broad shoulders for over a decade.

The Bucks agreed on the eve of Tuesday’s draft to send Antetokounmpo along with forward Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat in exchange for Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had yet to receive the required league approval.

Milwaukee also gets the No. 13 selection in Tuesday’s draft along with a first-round pick swap in 2030, first-round picks in 2031 and 2033 and a second-rounder in 2033, the person said.

The move leaves the Bucks without one of the most beloved figures in Wisconsin sports. Milwaukee fans watched in awe as Antetokounmpo spent the last 13 seasons maturing from a skinny teenager into one of the top players on the planet.

Bucks coach Taylor Jenkins understood this was a possibility when he accepted the job in April following the departure of Doc Rivers.

“Naturally, we did talk about Giannis, the entire roster, developmental pathways for everyone you know, moving forward,” Jenkins said during his introductory news conference last month. “Because from the coaching lens, I've got to start formulating that, what we’re going to do, not just this offseason, but when we hit the ground running, you know, at the start of training camp. So naturally, (we) talked about that. Had great dialogue, full transparency.”

Replacing a beloved superstar

Antetokounmpo had spent his entire career with the Bucks, who selected the 18-year-old from Greece with the 15th pick in the 2013 draft. The nine-time all-NBA forward leads the Bucks in virtually every career statistical category, including points, rebounds, assists, blocks, games and minutes.

He won MVP awards in 2019 and 2020. Antetokounmpo came back from a knee hyperextension in the 2021 playoffs to earn NBA Finals MVP honors while scoring 50 points in the title-clinching Game 6 victory over the Phoenix Suns.

Antetokounmpo, 31, had signed multiple contract extensions to stay in Milwaukee and play in one of the NBA’s smallest markets. He was so appreciated for his loyalty that a mural of him — 53½ feet high and 56½ feet wide — appears on the side of a three-story building in downtown Milwaukee.

The Bucks made plenty of high-risk, high-reward moves in an attempt to keep Antetokounmpo happy and remain among the league’s top contenders. But the Bucks never got beyond the second round of the playoffs after winning that 2021 title due in part to injuries to Antetokounmpo and other key players. They're coming off a 32-50 season that snapped a string of nine straight playoff appearances.

Those big swings they took to remain competitive with Antetokounmpo will make it that much tougher for them to rebuild without him.

Facing possibility of a long rebuild

Even after making this blockbuster deal to recoup some draft capital, Milwaukee doesn’t have any first-round picks in 2027 or 2029.

The Bucks gave up multiple first-round picks in the 2020 trade that brought Jrue Holiday to Milwaukee and the 2023 deal in which they acquired Damian Lillard. Holiday played a key role in the Bucks’ 2021 title before leaving Milwaukee in the Lillard trade. Lillard was waived after tearing his Achilles in a 2025 first-round playoff loss to Indiana, a move that enabled the Bucks to sign former Pacers center Myles Turner.

That makes it imperative that the Bucks find major assets with their two lottery picks Tuesday, as they now pick 10th and 13th. That No. 10 pick represents their earliest selection since 2016, when they also went 10th and took Thon Maker.

The Bucks have one potential building block in guard Ryan Rollins, who turns 24 next month. Perhaps a new staff gets more from Turner, whose production dipped his first year in Milwaukee.

This trade gives Milwaukee an infusion of youth as it begins a new chapter.

Herro is a Milwaukee-area native and 2025 All-Star who has scored at least 20 points per game each of the last four seasons, though injuries limited the 26-year-old to 33 games in 2025-26.

Jaquez, 25, scored 15.4 points per game in a bench role this season. Ware is a 22-year-old, 7-footer. Jakucionis, 20, was the 20th pick in last year’s draft.

But this still represents a major transition for a team that had considered itself a legitimate contender as long as it had a healthy Antetokounmpo, who finished fourth or higher in the MVP balloting every year from 2019-25 before injuries limited him to a career-low 36 games this season.

This franchise has been through lean years before. The Bucks reached the Eastern Conference finals in 2001 but didn’t win another playoff series until returning to the East finals in 2019.

Longtime Bucks fans know the challenges that come after a superstar’s departure.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led the Bucks to a 1971 title when he was known as Lew Alcindor and got them another conference championship in 1974 before requesting a trade. The Bucks sent Abdul-Jabbar to the Los Angeles Lakers in the summer of 1975, and they wouldn’t get back to the NBA Finals until that 2021 championship season.

Now the guy most responsible for that 2021 celebration also is leaving town.

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Monday's ruling scuttles restrictions now in place or planned for the federally funded and state-run Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 23 states. President Donald Trump's administration has not said whether it will appeal to a higher court.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sits in Washington and was nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama, said in her opinion that the ruling was because the federal government did not follow its own definition of “food.” She said it wasn't a comment on whether the restrictions are a good idea.

“The federal defendants and the states may have a genuine desire to improve the health of SNAP households by encouraging healthy choices at the store, and they can take lawful steps to meet those goals,” she wrote. “But what they cannot do is violate the law and their own regulations along the way.”

The restrictions are part of the Make America Healthy Again campaign

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have encouraged states to limit what the food aid can be used to buy as part of the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign.

They reason that soda and candy fuel obesity, diabetes and chronic disease epidemics — and taking them off the menu would encourage healthier food choices.

The Agriculture Department has given 23 states so far permission to implement restrictions. Some have been implemented already, while others are queued to take effect in the coming months and years.

At least one state that was set to limit soda and candy purchases changed course earlier this year. Colorado's human services board voted against implementing the ban after a March hearing in which SNAP beneficiaries and advocates said people would face stigmas if they mistakenly tried to use the benefits on prohibited items. They also said the rules were confusing because they would have allowed buying drinks with at least 50% fruit or vegetable juice, but not those with less.

While the goals are similar, the exact rules vary by state. Some wanted to ban both sugary drinks and candy, while others only sought to ban sugary beverages.

A legal challenge to the candy and soda ban — which includes items such as sports drinks in some states — was filed by SNAP beneficiaries in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia.

Judge says government ignored a definition of food

Jackson said the main legal misstep in restricting what SNAP benefits could buy came because it ran contrary to Congress's definition of “food.”

Under the law, SNAP benefits — formerly known as food stamps — can be used for “any food or food product for home consumption except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption.”

The government can waive requirements, but limiting use of the benefits to improve nutrition isn't listed as a reason to do so. Yet when states asked the Agriculture Department to let them restrict purchases, their requests included using alternate definitions of “food.”

This may not be the final word

Rollins suggested on social media Tuesday that the administration would “keep fighting to Make America Health Again,” though she did not say directly whether there would be an appeal. Rollins said “an activist judge just blocked our commonsense restriction on using SNAP benefits for soda and junk.”

The case is among scores of challenges to Trump administration policies that hinge on whether the administration has the authority to change policies without congressional approval.

While it's a big program helping nearly 39 million Americans — about 1 in 9 — buy groceries, SNAP is normally relatively low-profile. That's been different since Trump returned to office last year.

Under his big tax and policy law signed last year, more recipients are subject to work requirements and states are being required to pay a larger share of administrative costs — and could be on the hook for benefit costs if their error rates are too high.

During a government shutdown last year, courts blocked the administration from cutting off benefits. Meanwhile, Rollins has said that there's rampant fraud in the program.

Según las autoridades, el fuego se originó en un área de almacenamiento de trampas cerca del Marlin Bay Resort and Marina a última hora de la mañana del lunes.

Cuando los equipos llegaron, informaron que la embarcación, que estaba sobre un remolque en el área de trampas detrás de la gasolinera RaceTrac ubicada en 3896 Overseas Highway, estaba completamente envuelta en llamas.

Los bomberos dijeron que actuaron rápidamente para evitar que las llamas se extendieran a trampas de langosta cercanas.

No se reportaron heridos, pero la embarcación fue destruida, indicaron las autoridades.

Los investigadores trabajan para determinar la causa del incendio.

Among those charged is a nurse practitioner accused in Texas of billing Medicaid for medically unnecessary wound-care procedures and using the proceeds for fancy jewelry and luxury cars; a mental health company owner who prosecutors say exploited the homeless by billing for crisis stabilization services they did not need; and a hospice owner alleged to have paid kickbacks to a funeral home employee for information about Medicare beneficiaries.

A heart doctor is charged in Florida in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accused of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests for college student-athletes and then rubber-stamping the results as normal without reviewing them.

Jason Finkelstein, 53, faces charges in Florida of healthcare fraud and conspiracy in what prosecutors describe as a yearslong scheme that preyed on the fears of athletes that they could die on playing fields or courts of sudden cardiac arrest.

Athletes with no preexisting conditions who were concerned about being cleared to compete were administered tests they did not need and, in one case, a patient whose results were falsely certified as normal later died after his significant heart problems were undetected, the indictment says.

Healthcare fraud has been a long-running Justice Department priority and news conferences announcing mass roundups and crackdowns have been common occurrences across the years. The Trump administration has sought to emphasize fraud enforcement over the last year, including through the appointment of a new assistant attorney general, Colin McDonald, to help oversee healthcare fraud prosecutions at a Justice Department that operates multiple specialized task forces.

“Today’s cases allege more than the theft of taxpayer dollars. Many allege the theft of human dignity,” McDonald said at a news conference announcing this year's crackdown, which covers cases charged or unsealed since June 8. “Our sick, needy and elderly placing their faith in the gift of medicine were neglected, ignored and used for personal profit,”

The department says Finkelstein’s case, with allegations not only of unrendered services but also poor medical performance that put patients at risk, represents the type of sophisticated scheme prosecutors are striving to disrupt.

A lawyer for Finkelstein, a Texas-based doctor who pleaded not guilty during a court appearance in Florida on Monday, did not return messages seeking comment.

The alleged fraud ran between 2019 and the end of last year and, prosecutors say, involved Finkelstein and a pair of unidentified co-conspirators at a Florida-based cardiovascular testing and treatment practice that he owned and operated.

Officials say the scheme had multiple components, with Finkelstein and his company using what the indictment says were deceptive marketing tactics to offer free heart screens for students who did not need them and then certifying the results of the tests as normal without reviewing them — and even when they turned out to reveal potential problems.

The indictment quotes Finkelstein as telling an unnamed co-conspirator with whom he worked that “(t)hese kids could be high risk ...(o)ne of them drops dead on a field, they’re coming after both of us.”

Finkelstein's co-conspirators blasted out emails to athletic trainers at colleges and universities stating that the tests being offered could identify any life-threatening condition that could prevent the students from playing, and also offered kickbacks and other inducements to school officials to refer potential patients, according to the indictment.

Insurance companies do not cover blanket cardiovascular testing but instead require a prior finding of a medical necessity. To avert that roadblock and secure reimbursement, prosecutors say, Finkelstein submitted to insurers phony diagnoses of conditions, such as elevated blood pressure and hypertension, that the athletes did not actually have.

His company relied on sonographers who lacked the requisite credentials to travel to college campuses to perform the tests, and because Finkelstein was licensed in the 48 contiguous states, he and his company were able to submit claims for patients across the country, the indictment says.

At the same time, prosecutors say, Finkelstein would certify cardiac test results as being normal without actually reviewing them. In one instance in 2024, according to the indictment, he signed off after roughly 11 seconds on approximately 63 test result images of one patient. The test results actually revealed a significantly enlarged heart and the teenage patient later died on the basketball court, officials said.

“There is no way they could miss that, except they didn’t care,” said Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon by training and head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “This is not a diagnostic company. It’s a predatory scheme dressed up in medical clothing and we’re going to treat it as such.”

Trump administration officials had said that the United States was planning to send Americans who are exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them home.

In May, the high court had ordered the construction of the center to be halted pending a determination of the case filed by the Law Society of Kenya and the constitutional watchdog, the Katiba Institute, which argued that Kenya’s fragile health system was unable to handle a potential Ebola outbreak.

Construction continued despite the order, and locals held a series of protests in which three people died.

Health Minister Aden Duale was found in contempt on Monday and was ordered to attend a sentencing hearing on Tuesday. At the hearing, Duale apologized and he said that it was never his intention to “disregard, undermine or act in defiance of the orders of the court.”

The court accepted his apology and didn't take any further action against the minister.

Duale defended the quarantine center, saying concerns that it posed a threat to local residents were unfounded.

“The fear that the Laikipia facility could serve as a vehicle for Ebola importation into surrounding communities is scientifically unfounded,” he said.

The U.S. government intends to commit $13.5 million toward Kenya’s Ebola preparedness efforts.

As the Giorgio Armani Foundation continues its search for a buyer for a 15% stake in Armani’s fashion group as stipulated in the late designer’s will, every runway show carries the extra weight of demonstrating that his creative vision is not only enduring but evolving.

“We tried to continue the message that he wanted to convey,’’ Silvana Armani, Armani’s niece and the head of womenswear design, told reporters after the co-ed show closing Milan Fashion Week on Monday evening.

Real clothes, for real people

The Giorgio Armani menswear collection for next summer, mixed with womenswear cruise looks, exuded Armani’s trademark nonchalance, which was evident not only in the relaxed silhouette but also in the models’ casual gestures.

One fiddled with a ring as she approached photographers, another slung a jacket over his shoulder.

Still, Silvana Armani and menswear designer Leo Dell’Orco added some distinctive touches.

Jackets were a few inches longer than standard Armani, while trousers were just a tad slimmer to balance the silhouette. Longtime Armani watchers noted that the 160-odd looks conveyed a sense of real people heading out on the town, not models on a runway.

“When the models came for their fittings, they were always a bit taken aback,’’ Dell’Orco said. “It felt as though they could easily just walk out onto the street.”

Mediterranean mood

Safari jackets and elongated blazers were layered effortlessly over plunging shawl-collar vests or paired with shirts and long neckties, depending on the occasion. A rich palette of sun-bleached greens, cobalt blues and sandy neutrals evoked the Mediterranean. Linen, cotton and textured knits reinforced the collections relaxed summer mood.

The womenswear cruise looks — the first designed by Silvana Armani — were seamlessly interspersed, characterized by jackets, coats and dresses that draped lightly over the figure.

“I think he would have applauded,” Dell’Orco said.

Front-row guests included actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Strong and Lucy Boynton, along with pop singer Conan Gray. Afterward, guests including film director Paolo Sorrentino and former Gucci CEO and Armani board member Marco Bizzarri strolled from the courtyard venue into the adjacent garden for a casual cocktail dînatoire.

The next chapter

Armani’s will instructed his heirs to sell a 15% stake in the company, which includes the Emporio Armani label as well as Armani/Casa and Armani Hotels, within 18 months of his death last September.

For now, Silvana Armani and Dell’Orco – his longtime collaborators – are carrying on his creative legacy.

Dell’Orco is also chairman of the foundation, the key governance vehicle for Armani’s empire, and holds 40% of the fashion group’s voting rights.

After the show, Dell’Orco shut down rumors that Dario Vitale, who exited Versace after just one season, would be joining Emporio Armani. The reports “are not true,’’ Dell’Orco told the news agency ANSA.

The 6-3 decision centers on an immigration officers’ 2012 decision to put lawful permanent resident Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.

Lau argued that the officer overstepped their authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security under then-President Barack Obama an easier path to removal after he pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey.

The high court disagreed. “Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the opinion.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime.

“I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in the dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues.

The liberal group Alliance for Justice echoed that concern, saying the ruling could provide an expanded path for revoking green cards.

But Advancing American Freedom, a group founded by former Republican Vice President Mike Pence, called it an important case to allow the removal of people who “abuse the privilege of being granted lawful permanent resident status.”

The decision comes as the high court considers a series of immigration-related issues against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, though this case started before Trump took office.

His administration argued that suspicion of a crime is enough to put a lawful permanent resident, also known as a green-card holder, on immigration parole. Federal attorneys urged the court to take an expansive view of executive authority over immigration.

The court is also considering cases over Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, potentially revive a restrictive asylum policy and end temporary legal protections for migrants fleeing war and natural disasters in their homelands.

The high court ruled against a sweeping argument from a Michigan family whose house was sold for less than half its open-market value to cover an unpaid tax bill of just over $2,000. They argued the foreclosure violated their rights because the house would have fetched a higher price of nearly $200,000 if sold through typical real-estate channels.

The Supreme Court unanimously found that people aren't entitled to recoup a “hypothetical fair market value” of homes sold at auction to cover unpaid taxes. Auctions are designed to be a relatively quick way to collect unpaid taxes, and requiring local governments to get the higher fair-market value might make them unworkable, Justice Samuel Alito wrote.

“The traditional rule, under which the taxpayer receives only the difference between the auction sale price and unpaid taxes, is ‘just,’” he wrote.

The sale, though, must be conducted fairly, he wrote. The court sent the Pung family's case back to lower courts to reassess the process used by Isabella County. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Neil Gorsuch, wrote separately to raise doubts about the constitutionality of the foreclosure process.

“The case isn’t over," said Larry Salzman, vice president for litigation at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family. “The Pungs won the right to continue their fight in the lower courts.”

The county maintained that auction sale prices are always lower than open real estate transactions, in part because they typically require full cash payment rather than a mortgage.

Officials make “herculean efforts to help homeowners avoid foreclosure," said attorney Matthew Nelson, who represented the county. “But at the end of the day, foreclosure is a tool that needs to remain in their toolboxes.”

He said the county's actions would withstand further scrutiny. “We are confident the process Isabella County followed in this case exceeded what the law required."

The case comes about three years after another major foreclosure case where the justices ruled against local governments. The court found counties can’t keep tax sale proceeds beyond what the owner owes in unpaid taxes.

That case centered on a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose county government kept about $40,000 in proceeds from the sale of her condominium after she failed to pay about $2,300 in taxes.

Donors gave U.S. charities $617 billion in 2025, an inflation-adjusted 3% increase over last year, according to “Giving USA 2026: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2025.”

Bequests last year jumped by nearly 17%, the third year of the last four to clock double-digit increases in this form of giving. The trend could signal the beginning of the long predicted Great Wealth Transfer — in which baby boomers begin passing their enormous wealth to their children and charities. Overall, giving increased among all categories: corporations, living individuals, bequests, and foundations.

Strong markets and big donors boost giving

A strong stock market and economic growth contributed to the uptick, despite upheaval caused by federal cuts, says Wendy McGrady, chair of Giving USA.

All donor types stepped up to give amid the turmoil, McGrady notes, because charities made their needs known. “Those that were effective in sharing their story saw their donors respond,” McGrady says.

The robust giving was propelled by positive economic factors, says Jon Bergdoll, interim director of data and research partnerships at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which conducts the research for the report. “Whether you’re looking at the S&P 500 or the financial markets, they saw really, really robust growth,” Bergdoll says. “That has a pretty direct contribution to wealth and asset sizes of companies, foundations, the wealthy and helped drive a lot of that increase.”

All types of donors increased their giving in 2025, and giving to most causes also rose. Education nonprofits saw an 8.9% uptick, organizations in the “public-society benefit” category had an 8.7% increase, and environment and animal nonprofits were up 8.2%. Smaller increases were seen for charities with missions involving arts, culture and humanities (4.7%); health (3.3%); human services (2.6%); and international (1. 4%). However, giving to religious groups was marginally lower, down 0.2% when adjusted for inflation.

Several nonprofits the Chronicle spoke to noted that they raised more money last year and that success was reliant on big gifts, which in turn are buoyed by a strong stock market. “The market has become a larger and larger predictor of giving,” Bergdoll at IU says. “And I would anticipate that to continue. That growing reliance means that the unpredictability of the markets is going to start bleeding into an unpredictability in giving as well.”

While Giving USA does not measure the number of donors who give, over the years, the share of dollars from individuals has decreased. In 1985, 80% of dollars came from individuals; now it is just 64%.

Big donors loom large in one category, megagifts, which are defined as contributions that exceed 0.1% of total giving that year. In 2025 megagifts were those amounting to $600 million or more. There were $19.2 billion worth of megagifts, roughly 4% of all dollars given by individuals. MacKenzie Scott’s $6.65 billion in contributions represented a third of all mega-giving in 2025. Michael Bloomberg who donated $4.3 billion, Bill Gates, who gave away at $3.7 billion, and Paul Allen’s bequest of $3.1 billion all qualified as megadonors.

Indications of Great Wealth Transfer start

For years, pundits have predicted a great transfer of wealth that would move $18 trillion from baby boomers and older donors to younger generations and possibly to charities. Three of the past four years have shown big growth in bequests, which may indicate that the great wealth transfer has begun.

Bergdoll recognizes that people get excited over the prospect of this wealth moving to charities but says more data is needed to definitively declare that the transfer has started. Giving by bequests in the past 10 years “outpaced overall giving,” Bergdoll says, but the number of IRS estate reports from the past few years is still small.

“It’s really tough — just from one or two years of data (to know if the great wealth transfer has begun),” he says. “We need a little bit more data to feel comfortable saying, ‘Oh, it has started. It’s off to the races.’”

However, several nonprofits, including the Christian missionary group InterVarsity and the international charity CARE, are putting more resources into planned giving.

“We know a big wealth transfer is happening so we have also been growing our planned giving program,” says Sarah Taylor Peace, CARE’s chief revenue officer. Taylor Peace says CARE has received multimillion-dollar bequests from donors who had given small gifts over decades.

Patrick Schmitt, co-CEO of estate planning company FreeWill, notes that there are more than 70 million baby boomers, and it’s imperative to get on their radar. Many are already giving qualified charitable distributions from retirement accounts.

Federal shifts drive giving

The federal government’s cuts to USAID and international aid programs deeply affected organizations like CARE, but donors responded generously when the organization asked for help.

“We raised a lot of private (funds). We actually had our highest ever fiscal year,” Taylor Peace says, “mostly coming from individual givers responding to the fact that lots of the traditional funding wasn’t there and wanting to make sure we could continue to run our crisis humanitarian work.”

When there’s a lot of bad news and negative noise in the world, donors want to “do something hopeful,” Taylor Peace says. Offering donors a positive way to contribute to making things better for others resonated with donors, she says.

Donors also responded generously to fundraising appeals that focused on federal policy shifts. Mollie Marsh-Heine, chief development officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says donors at all giving levels responded well to appeals to help the environmental organization fight back against the current administration’s hostility toward environmental regulations.

Donations to foundations drop

There was a sharp drop in giving to foundations, which fell nearly 18.3% in inflation-adjusted dollars. While this seems steep, Bergdoll notes that foundations had a near-record-high 2024, in which giving grew 32.6%. “In raw dollar terms, they still had a very strong” 2025, Bergdoll says.

While news from “Giving USA” was mostly positive, there were some lackluster figures. Corporate giving was up only half a percent. According to Bergdoll, it’s “challenging” to get a good view of giving by businesses of all sizes.

The Houston Humane Society said corporate giving remained strong in 2025. But Stark, with UnityPoint Health, noted that some corporate sponsors whose businesses were facing challenges did “back off” last year. Similarly, Susan G. Komen had some companies “reduce the amount they were giving” due to economic headwinds, says vice president Andi Hughes.

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Rasheeda Childress is a senior editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where you can read the full article. This article was provided to The Associated Press by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as part of a partnership to cover philanthropy and nonprofits supported by the Lilly Endowment. The Chronicle is solely responsible for the content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.

One media account noted that he “defeated par, pressure and a hostile gallery Sunday" and that he “stalked poker-faced through the heat and caustic comments of the gallery.” The local columnist wrote “except for a few strays from his hometown,” nobody rooted for him.

That was Jack Nicklaus in 1962 at Oakmont.

Nicklaus certainly can relate to the toughness Wyndham Clark showed Sunday at Shinnecock Hills to become a U.S. Open champion for the second time. If hearing the crowd cheer his bad shots wasn't enough of a challenge, Clark's six-shot lead was nearly gone in five holes. But he showed his moxie by not letting Sam Burns or anyone else catch him.

“He had some stones down the stretch,” said Scottie Scheffler, high praise from golf's best player.

But could Nicklaus relate to the “hostile gallery” and “caustic comments” Clark endured? Hostile and caustic had a different meaning in 1962.

Society has changed mightily over the past 64 years, and it's getting worse by the year. The Long Island fans — no one would refer to them as “patrons” — had no filter and no restraint. But this isn't a Long Island problem. It's largely an American problem everywhere but Augusta National.

Clark is not the first person to be a major champion hardly anyone wanted.

Nicklaus was never going to be celebrated in 1962, not in an 18-hole playoff against Arnold Palmer in the King's backyard at Oakmont, especially with Palmer having won the Masters that year.

It felt as though all of New York was ready to crown Phil Mickelson at Shinnecock Hills in 2004 until he three-putted from 5 feet for double bogey on the 17th hole. The air came out of the place in a New York minute. Retief Goosen was appreciated — but not adored — as the U.S. Open champion.

This was different. This was ugly. It was relentless.

“Hit it in the fescue!” was nothing like Nicklaus ever heard. Nor did Oakmont in 1962 have a fan like the idiot who shouted, “Don't choke, Wyndham!” when it was Clark's turn to tee off on the fourth hole. The fan was quickly approached and evicted.

The rousing and sudden cheer on the par-3 seventh sounded as though Clark had just hit it close. Instead, it was because his ball went into the bunker.

It might have been different had Clark played in the final group with Tom Kim instead of Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world who had a chance to give fans something to remember forever by winning the U.S. Open on his 30th birthday to complete the career Grand Slam.

But the crowd shifted quickly from being pro-Scottie to anti-Wyndham.

Clark no doubt is difficult to embrace, particularly after his behavior last year when he flung a driver that made a marshal flinch at the PGA Championship, and a month later smashed a locker at Oakmont when he missed the cut at the U.S. Open.

“New York didn’t really like me. I love you guys,” Clark said during the trophy presentation. “But I get it. Some of it’s self-deserved. I did some unfortunate things last year that I really regret, and I’ve been sorry multiple times and I’m still sorry. So hopefully, I can win you guys over eventually."

His signature moment came on the par-5 16th when he atoned for a bad tee shot into gnarly grass by making a 30-foot birdie putt. The applause was muted, and don't get the idea it sounded that way because too many fans had phones in their hands. They didn't like him.

Clark played right through it, with some level of experience. He played with popular Rickie Fowler in the final round of his U.S. Open victory at Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, when he held off popular Rory McIlroy by one shot. But no one cheered against him that day.

The Long Island gallery was at another level, and ultimately Clark took his place among other Shinnecock Hills champions notes for their toughness — Brooks Koepka, Goosen, Corey Pavin and Raymond Floyd.

Scheffler has seen this act before. He played McIlroy in singles at Bethpage Black in the Ryder Cup last September, when the taunts became personal and left a stain on the matches.

He also got a relatively muted response in McIlroy's home country when Scheffler won the British Open at Royal Portrush last summer. There was no heckling, certainly not any bad behavior. But it was quiet for a world-class performance by the No. 1 player.

“The crowd was tough today. I mean, New Yorkers, they are tough people,” Scheffler said Sunday. "You like seeing the fans cheer for you. I think sometimes it can get a little too much when balls are going off greens and you start hearing cheers. That felt a bit much to me.

“Being in the arena is not for everybody, and I think it shows a lot about Wyndham, how he handled not only this golf course but I think the crowd today as well and is a well-deserving champion.”

Clark took the high road in the closing ceremony, his news conference and other interviews in the hours after his victory. He posted on social media Monday night, "This game can be incredibly humbling. It doesn’t owe you anything, and sometimes the only thing you can do is keep showing up and trust that the work will eventually pay off.”

Keep showing up and maybe the fans might cheer for him.

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While advocates point to a wide range of physical and mental health benefits, experts say it’s important to understand both the advantages and potential risks before diving in.

At Hydrology Wellness in Coral Gables, Medical Director Dr. Alex Zurrarian, a board-certified plastic surgeon known as “Dr. Z,” says heat and cold therapies can offer significant benefits when used appropriately.

“What we find by the studies is that doing cold plunge and doing sauna is almost like taking an antidepressant,” Zurrarian said.

The Benefits of Heat Therapy

Saunas expose the body to high temperatures, causing increased circulation and sweating. According to Zurrarian, the heat triggers vasodilation, a process that widens blood vessels and directs blood flow toward the skin as the body works to cool itself down.

“Heat is more about vasodilation,” he explained. “It actually opens up blood vessels and rushes blood to your skin.”

Research has linked sauna use to cardiovascular, neurological and pulmonary benefits. Beyond physical health, many users report mental health improvements as well.

“People feel more relaxed. They have less anxiety,” Zurrarian said.

However, he cautions against one of the most common misconceptions surrounding sauna use: the belief that sweating itself detoxifies the body.

“The detoxifying doesn’t come from you sweating,” he said. “It comes from your liver and kidneys processing those toxins and eliminating them.”

The increased heart rate experienced in a sauna can resemble the effects of light cardiovascular exercise.

“Getting into the heat is almost like taking a three-mile jog, except you’re doing it in 15 minutes,” Zurrarian said.

Still, more heat isn’t always better. He advises avoiding temperatures above 185 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods.

“If you’re going to be above 185 degrees for more than 15 minutes, (there are) no benefits,” he said.

Taking the Plunge

Cold plunges — immersing the body in cold water — have become a staple in many recovery and wellness routines, particularly among athletes. The practice is often used to help reduce soreness and inflammation following exercise.

Zurrarian says cold exposure causes vasoconstriction, narrowing blood vessels and redirecting blood flow toward vital organs.

“Cold exposure is something that is going to cause vasoconstriction,” he explained. “Your blood vessels get tight and they shunt all of your blood to your vital organs.”

That physiological response can leave people feeling more alert and energized. Over time, regular exposure may also help improve stress tolerance.

“If you can dominate that over time and over practice, you’re going to go into a parasympathetic response, which is more of a meditative feeling,” Zurrarian said.

He recommends cold plunges four to five times per week at approximately 55 degrees Fahrenheit for no more than 10 minutes per session.

Breathing techniques also play an important role. Controlled breathing can help users manage the initial shock of the cold, while poor breathing may increase the risk of dizziness or lightheadedness.

Combining Heat and Cold

While each therapy offers individual benefits, Zurrarian says using them together may provide an even greater wellness boost.

“We always start with heat and then we end with cold,” he said.

According to Zurrarian, alternating between sauna sessions and cold plunges may enhance cardiovascular function while also improving mood and overall well-being.

“It’s really the combination of the two that gives you the cardiovascular benefits and also gives you a lot of mood enhancement benefits,” he said.

Not for Everyone

Despite their growing popularity, experts stress that extreme temperature therapies are not appropriate for everyone. People with heart conditions, blood pressure issues or other underlying health concerns should consult a physician before trying saunas, cold plunges or contrast therapy.

As wellness trends continue to evolve, health professionals say the key is understanding both the science and the limitations behind these increasingly popular practices.

Si bien los defensores señalan una amplia gama de beneficios para la salud física y mental, los expertos dicen que es importante entender tanto las ventajas como los posibles riesgos antes de lanzarse.

En Hydrology Wellness en Coral Gables, el director médico Dr. Alex Zurrarian, un cirujano plástico certificado conocido como “Dr. Z”, afirma que las terapias de calor y frío pueden ofrecer beneficios significativos cuando se utilizan de manera adecuada.

“Lo que encontramos en los estudios es que hacer inmersión en frío y sauna es casi como tomar un antidepresivo”, dijo Zurrarian.

Los beneficios de la terapia de calor

Las saunas exponen el cuerpo a altas temperaturas, lo que provoca un aumento de la circulación y la sudoración. Según Zurrarian, el calor desencadena la vasodilatación, un proceso que ensancha los vasos sanguíneos y dirige el flujo de sangre hacia la piel mientras el cuerpo trabaja para enfriarse.

“El calor se trata más de vasodilatación”, explicó. “Realmente abre los vasos sanguíneos y envía sangre hacia la piel”.

La investigación ha vinculado el uso de sauna con beneficios cardiovasculares, neurológicos y pulmonares. Más allá de la salud física, muchos usuarios también reportan mejoras en la salud mental.

“La gente se siente más relajada. Tienen menos ansiedad”, dijo Zurrarian.

Sin embargo, advierte contra uno de los conceptos erróneos más comunes sobre el uso de la sauna: la creencia de que sudar por sí mismo desintoxica el cuerpo.

“La desintoxicación no viene de sudar”, dijo. “Viene del hígado y los riñones procesando esas toxinas y eliminándolas”.

El aumento de la frecuencia cardíaca que se experimenta en una sauna puede parecerse a los efectos de un ejercicio cardiovascular ligero.

“Entrar en el calor es casi como hacer un trote de tres millas, excepto que lo haces en 15 minutos”, dijo Zurrarian.

Aun así, más calor no siempre es mejor. Recomienda evitar temperaturas superiores a 185 grados Fahrenheit durante períodos prolongados.

“Si vas a estar por encima de 185 grados durante más de 15 minutos, no hay beneficios”, dijo.

La inmersión en frío

Las inmersiones en frío —sumergir el cuerpo en agua fría— se han convertido en un elemento básico en muchas rutinas de recuperación y bienestar, particularmente entre atletas. La práctica se utiliza a menudo para ayudar a reducir el dolor muscular y la inflamación después del ejercicio.

Zurrarian dice que la exposición al frío causa vasoconstricción, estrechando los vasos sanguíneos y redirigiendo el flujo sanguíneo hacia los órganos vitales.

“La exposición al frío es algo que va a causar vasoconstricción”, explicó. “Tus vasos sanguíneos se contraen y desvían toda tu sangre hacia los órganos vitales”.

Esa respuesta fisiológica puede hacer que las personas se sientan más alertas y con más energía. Con el tiempo, la exposición regular también puede ayudar a mejorar la tolerancia al estrés.

“Si puedes dominar eso con el tiempo y la práctica, vas a entrar en una respuesta parasimpática, que es más una sensación meditativa”, dijo Zurrarian.

Recomienda inmersiones en frío de cuatro a cinco veces por semana a aproximadamente 55 grados Fahrenheit durante no más de 10 minutos por sesión.

Las técnicas de respiración también juegan un papel importante. La respiración controlada puede ayudar a los usuarios a manejar el choque inicial del frío, mientras que una mala respiración puede aumentar el riesgo de mareos o aturdimiento.

Combinación de calor y frío

Si bien cada terapia ofrece beneficios individuales, Zurrarian dice que usarlas juntas puede proporcionar un impulso de bienestar aún mayor.

“Siempre empezamos con el calor y luego terminamos con el frío”, dijo.

Según Zurrarian, alternar entre sesiones de sauna e inmersiones en frío puede mejorar la función cardiovascular y también mejorar el estado de ánimo y el bienestar general.

“Realmente es la combinación de ambas lo que da los beneficios cardiovasculares y también muchos beneficios de mejora del estado de ánimo”, dijo.

No es para todos

A pesar de su creciente popularidad, los expertos enfatizan que las terapias de temperatura extrema no son adecuadas para todos. Las personas con enfermedades cardíacas, problemas de presión arterial u otras condiciones de salud subyacentes deben consultar a un médico antes de probar saunas, inmersiones en frío o terapia de contraste.

A medida que las tendencias de bienestar continúan evolucionando, los profesionales de la salud dicen que la clave es entender tanto la ciencia como las limitaciones detrás de estas prácticas cada vez más populares.

The 6-3 decision was the second in as many months in favor of U.S. owners of Cuban property that was confiscated by the Communist government more than 65 years ago.

The outcome in the two cases could be an additional lever for the Trump administration to exert pressure on Cuba, which is already being squeezed by a U.S. oil embargo.

At issue was whether the 1996 law known as Helms-Burton removes the shield from lawsuits in U.S. courts that typically cover foreign countries and state-owned businesses. The justices reversed a lower-court ruling that found that the Cuban state-owned companies are immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts.

Exxon Mobil is seeking compensation for the confiscation of assets owned by subsidiaries of Standard Oil, Exxon Mobil’s predecessor, including more than 100 service stations and an oil refinery.

Last month, the court ruled in another case involving confiscated property in Cuba, reviving claims by the U.S. company that operated docks in Havana against four cruise lines that brought tourists to Cuba during the brief thaw in relations during the Obama administration. That case turned on the same section of Helms-Burton allowing lawsuits over seized property.

Congress passed the law in response to the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles.

Title III of the law allows Americans to sue almost any company that engages in commercial activity or benefits from property confiscated by Cuba’s government.

Before the first Trump administration, every president had suspended the provision because of objections from U.S. allies doing business in Cuba and the effect on future negotiated settlements between the U.S. and Cuba.

But Trump lifted the suspension in 2019, and Exxon Mobil filed its lawsuit the same day.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the conservative majority that it “would make little sense” if the law allowed the president to decide whether suits can proceed against Cuban interests while also protecting them.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent for the three liberals that the 1996 law simply contains no provision eliminating the sovereign immunity shield.

The U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, an arm of the Justice Department, said in 1969 that the value of Exxon Mobil's property in Cuba is $71.6 million, plus 6% annual interest beginning in 1960. That would be worth more than $1 billion today, Kavanaugh wrote.

In addition, the commission found that nearly 6,000 individuals and businesses held claims worth $1.9 billion, before adding in interest or damages.

The justices condemned what happened to the former inmate, Damon Landor. But they ruled that a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of inmates does not permit lawsuits for money damages against individuals even when rights are violated.

The high court, in a 6-3 decision, agreed with lower courts that without exception had ruled that the law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, can’t be used to hold those who violate inmates’ rights financially responsible.

The justices refused to apply the rationale from their decision in 2020 that allowed Muslim men to sue over their inclusion on the FBI’s no-fly list under a sister statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Justice Department, which argued against the plaintiffs in the no-fly list case in President Donald Trump’s first Republican administration, had sided with Landor.

Nothing in the law dealing with prisoners' religious rights authorizes lawsuits against individual officers, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court.

In a dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that state prison officials will have little incentive to abide by federal law. “It is not often that a real-life incident so clearly illustrates Congress’s reasons for adopting legislation, or the Constitution’s wisdom in enabling it,” Jackson wrote in an opinion that was joined by her two liberal colleagues.

No one defended what happened to Landor during his five-month prison term in 2020. When he entered the prison system, he carried a copy of an appeals court ruling in another inmate’s case holding that cutting religious prisoners’ dreadlocks violated the federal law.

At his first two stops, officials respected his beliefs. But things changed when he got to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Cottonport, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Baton Rouge, for the final three weeks of his term.

A prison guard took the copy of the ruling Landor carried and tossed it in the trash, according to court records. Then the warden ordered guards to cut his dreadlocks. While two guards restrained him, a third shaved his head to the scalp, the records show.

Landor sued after his release, but lower courts dismissed the case. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lamented Landor’s treatment but said the law doesn’t allow him to hold prison officials liable for damages.

Louisiana wrote that “the state has amended its prison grooming policy to ensure that nothing like petitioner’s alleged experience can occur.”

The Rastafari faith is rooted in 1930s Jamaica, growing as a response by Black people to white colonial oppression. Its beliefs are a melding of Old Testament teachings and a desire to return to Africa. Its message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Jamaican music icons Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, two of the faith’s most famous exponents.

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The justices ruled that American courts are the wrong forum for the suits, rejecting arguments made by the plaintiffs that the suits should go forward under the 18th-century Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA), first enacted in 1991.

The decision was the latest to rule against plaintiffs seeking to use U.S. courts as a venue to seek justice over the acts of foreign governments, especially those that took place abroad.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her majority opinion that the justices “close the door” that the court slightly opened in 2004 when it suggested that some human-rights claims might be viable under the ATS. “In truth, this class is a null set,” Barrett wrote, while acknowledging such cases “frequently involve heinous and inhumane acts.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the court “closes the courthouse doors not just to respondents, but to virtually every future litigant seeking redress for a violation of international law under the ATS.”

Falun Gong members had sought to overcome the court's skepticism by arguing that a substantial portion of Cisco’s activities involving China took place in the United States.

An Associated Press investigation last year showed that American tech companies, to a large degree, designed and built China’s surveillance state, encouraged by both Republican and Democratic administrations, even as activists warned such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious groups and target minorities. Last month, AP won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for its stories.

In 2008, documents leaked to the press showed Cisco saw the “Golden Shield,” China’s internet censorship effort, as a sales opportunity. The company quoted a Chinese official calling the Falun Gong an “evil cult.” A Cisco presentation reviewed by the AP from the same year said its products could identify over 90% of Falun Gong material on the web.

Other presentations reviewed by the AP show that Cisco represented Falun Gong material as a “threat” and built out a national information system to track Falun Gong believers. In 2011, Falun Gong members sued Cisco, alleging the company tailored technology for Beijing that it knew would be used to track, detain and torture believers.

At arguments in April, Sotomayor said Cisco “knew that those people will be tortured.” A lawyer for the company said, “Cisco vigorously disputes those allegations.”

El nuevo informe de hallazgos técnicos indica que las fallas iniciales en las columnas de Champlain Towers South ocurrieron tres semanas antes del colapso fatal, según el Equipo Nacional de Seguridad en la Construcción del Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología (NIST).

De acuerdo con los coinvestigadores, a principios de junio de 2021 fallaron las conexiones entre las columnas del estacionamiento subterráneo y la plataforma de la piscina.

Esas fallas iniciales demostrarían ser catastróficas, cobrándose finalmente un saldo de 98 vidas humanas.

“Decepcionado. Muy decepcionado. Esperamos cinco años,” dijo Martin Langesfeld, quien perdió a su hermana y a su cuñado en el derrumbe. “El gobierno federal gastó casi $40 million USD, asignó todos los recursos necesarios, y regresaron con prácticamente nada.”

El informe concluye que, durante un período de tres semanas previo al colapso, fallas iniciales provocaron que las grietas se expandieran y que el peso se redistribuyera en la losa de la terraza de la piscina, lo que hizo que la carga se transfiriera a columnas de losas adyacentes que no eran lo suficientemente fuertes para soportarla.

Eso provocó que parte del condominio Champlain Towers South, de 12 pisos, se viniera abajo durante la madrugada del 24 de junio de 2021.

Los equipos de primera respuesta comenzaron de inmediato a trabajar las 24 horas del día para localizar sobrevivientes en una búsqueda que se extendió durante varios días.

“Es aterrador, porque cuántos otros edificios podrían ser potenciales bombas de tiempo también”, dijo Langesfeld.

El terreno del colapso del condominio ha sido vendido desde entonces a la empresa DAMAC Properties, con sede en Dubái.

Pino, de 55 años, enfrentaba cargos de homicidio involuntario y homicidio por embarcación.

No declaró durante el juicio y, de haber sido condenado, enfrentaba una pena de entre 11 y 30 años de prisión.

Los fiscales acusaron a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de actuar de manera imprudente cuando perdió el control de su embarcación Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y se estrelló contra una baliza de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, lo que causó la muerte de Lucy Fernández. Otras dos adolescentes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años, quien quedó con una discapacidad permanente.

Las adolescentes viajaban en la embarcación para celebrar el cumpleaños número 18 de la hija de Pino.

Tanto los fiscales como los abogados defensores concluyeron sus argumentos finales a media tarde del lunes y, en el caso de la Fiscalía, también presentaron una réplica.

Durante los argumentos finales, los fiscales sostuvieron que Pino actuó de manera imprudente y que no había ninguna razón para que estrellara la embarcación.

“Fue imprudente y negligente”, afirmó la fiscal adjunta Laura Adams. “Nadie, excepto este acusado, decidió la velocidad, la ruta o la dirección de navegación. Nadie ni nada es responsable de la muerte de Lucy Fernández, excepto ese hombre”.

Los fiscales señalaron que, aunque no se trata de un caso de navegación bajo la influencia del alcohol, el consumo de alcohol fue parte de lo ocurrido esa tarde.

“¡Iba a toda velocidad!”, argumentó Adams. “Con todos esos adolescentes a bordo que habían consumido alcohol”.

Sin embargo, el equipo de defensa de Pino sostuvo que el accidente fue una tragedia y no el resultado de negligencia.

“No basta con que una persona no haya hecho todo lo que podía en un momento determinado”, dijo el abogado Howard Srebnick. “Se requiere un acto deliberado de indiferencia hacia sus pasajeros”.

Tras concluir los argumentos finales, la jueza Marisa Tinkler Mendez leyó las instrucciones al jurado.

Luego de la lectura del veredicto, la fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, emitió el siguiente comunicado:

“Si bien todos en nuestra comunidad y más allá reconocen la tragedia que rodeó la muerte de Lucy Fernández durante el fin de semana del Día del Trabajo de 2022 y la discapacidad permanente de Katy Puig, tanto yo como mis fiscales hemos considerado que el conjunto de las acciones de George Pino en las aguas de la Bahía de Biscayne fue imprudente y constituyó un delito según lo establecido por las leyes penales de Florida.

Nuestras decisiones de presentar cargos y procesar casos relacionados con accidentes de tránsito y de embarcaciones que resultan en muertes siempre son difíciles. Procuramos tomar esas decisiones con base en la ley y las pruebas, dejando de lado las emociones. La jueza, quien evaluó la suficiencia de las pruebas, determinó que existía evidencia suficiente para que el caso fuera presentado ante un jurado. Sin embargo, hoy un jurado compuesto por seis ciudadanos de Miami-Dade, que escuchó todos los testimonios y revisó todas las pruebas, no estuvo de acuerdo y declaró a George Pino no culpable de los cargos.

Lamentablemente, sé que este veredicto no brinda consuelo a las familias Fernández y Puig, que deberán vivir para siempre con la tragedia de lo ocurrido. En un caso como este no hay ganadores ni perdedores. El señor Pino tendrá que vivir con lo que hizo, mientras que las familias Fernández y Puig seguirán enfrentando las consecuencias de sus acciones. Estas familias y, hasta cierto punto, toda nuestra comunidad, se han visto profundamente afectadas por esta tragedia. Aunque tanto yo como mis fiscales, la fiscal adjunta Laura Adams y el fiscal adjunto Jonathon Borst, podamos discrepar del veredicto, las decisiones de los jurados son la piedra angular de nuestro sistema de justicia. Aceptamos su decisión y agradecemos su servicio".

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle

Al hablar fuera de la sala del tribunal tras la conclusión del juicio, Srebnick dijo que cree que la verdad prevaleció, pero que no hay ganadores.

“Las vidas cambiaron. George Pino siempre ha asumido la responsabilidad por eso”, dijo Srebnick. “Hoy, afortunadamente, no será señalado como un criminal por lo que todos sabemos que fue simplemente un accidente”.

Agregó que Pino lamenta profundamente lo ocurrido.

“Está profundamente arrepentido por lo que pasó”, dijo Srebnick. “Todos estamos de duelo por lo ocurrido ese día. Esperemos que, con el tiempo, esas heridas puedan sanar”.

La familia Pino emitió el siguiente comunicado a Local 10 News.

“Estamos agradecidos con los miembros del jurado por su cuidadosa consideración de las pruebas y por llegar a un veredicto justo. Desde el principio hemos sostenido que los hechos del 4 de septiembre de 2022 fueron un trágico accidente, no un delito. El testimonio presentado durante el juicio, incluidos relatos no refutados de testigos presenciales que no observaron señales de intoxicación, confirmó que el señor Pino no estaba bajo la influencia del alcohol, no operaba la embarcación de manera imprudente y que hizo todo lo que pudo para proteger a sus pasajeros después del accidente.

“Seguimos lamentando cada día la pérdida de Lucy Fernández y orando por todas las personas afectadas por este accidente marítimo. Nuestros corazones siguen con las familias de quienes estuvieron involucrados en el accidente y esperamos que el veredicto de hoy permita a todos continuar el largo proceso de recuperación”.

— The Pino Family

Then there’s the price of beer.

There are some fun — and yes, sometimes pricey — food and drink offerings at the venues playing host to the World Cup. A $75 caviar-topped tray of tater tots and a $40 empanada weighing in at 5 pounds (2.2 kilograms) for the daring or for sharing in Miami. Rib-eye tacos for $8 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Something called a Twinkie cheeseburger that has nothing to do with dessert for $22 in Los Angeles.

Prices, in many cases, aren’t all that different from what U.S. fans would experience on NFL Sundays or college football Saturdays. But some international fans aren’t used to such pricing and are calling foul, especially over beer prices that can top $20.

“It’s unfair. It’s not right. It’s wrong,” said Thomas Schüller, an engineer from Germany in Toronto to watch his national team play over the weekend, as he held a beer that cost him 24.25 Canadian dollars (about $17 or 15 euros). “It’s three times the cost of what I pay in my country.”

But is that stopping him?

“Well, no,” Schüller acknowledged.

World Cup beer prices become a mild pint of discord

There is clearly some sticker shock among international visitors to this World Cup, especially when it comes to the concession prices. In Europe, it’s not uncommon for beers to be perhaps around 4 or 5 euros (about $5-6).

There’s also no shortage of intrigue on the menu at the concession stands at stadiums across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

“Never seen anything like it,” said Janine Arbetter, a fan from Austria, as she waited for a hot dog, chips and soda combo in Miami last week. The pre-tip price: $19.35 (about 17 euros), which included a discount for using Visa. “It’s a lot of food for a little snack.”

Some Argentina fans happily showed off their $34 lobster rolls from a match in Kansas City on social media, but in Toronto, the brisket sandwich with chips and a bottle of soda for nearly 40 Canadian dollars ($28) had some online commenters lamenting it as “robbery.”

“It’s OK, more or less, for the World Cup,” German fan Daniel Feldmann said of the food prices while watching a match in Vancouver last week.

Concession offerings vary from stadium to stadium

FIFA, the sport’s governing body and the tournament organizer, has very specific rules on just about everything related to the World Cup — and there are guidelines that concessionaires have to follow as well. But prices can vary by market, as do the food and drink offerings. And that means the experience in one city might look, or taste, nothing like what’s offered in another.

The “Fancy AF Tots” for $75 at Miami Stadium aren’t really tots at all — it’s three deep-fried hash brown patties, with caviar, creme fraiche and chives. (For those who just want the caviar, it’ll be $70.) Southern California’s Twinkie cheeseburger is in fact a burger topped with a Texas Twinkie — a bacon-wrapped jalapeño stuffed with brisket and cream cheese.

But there’s also a slew of choices specific to a local market; for example, Vancouver offers short rib poutine (an iconic Canadian dish of fries loaded with beef gravy, pulled short rib and cheese curds) along with a maple bacon smokie (smoked sausage topped with bacon onion jam that features Canadian maple syrup).

And in Miami, the signature offerings include pan con lechon (a Cuban-style sandwich with pork, infused with citrus mojo sauce and served on a toasted full Cuban loaf) and Empanada Mundial (the five-pound, handmade, chicken-and-cheese-stuffed dish named after the World Cup).

Both Vancouver and Miami have Sodexo Live as a food and beverage provider, and the typical game-day menus in both stadiums were revised a bit to accommodate a soccer crowd.

“We want it to feel like Miami when you’re here,” said Zach Williams, Sodexo Live’s vice president of operations at Miami Stadium. “Everything we do around the Miami Stadium, we want to make sure everybody understands that when they come here, they’re getting a Miami experience.”

Atlanta Stadium keeps prices low

In Mexico City, a beer could cost a day’s pay — literally. The daily minimum wage in Mexico City is just 315.04 pesos (roughly $18). Some beers at Mexico City Stadium were selling for between 299 and 310 pesos — about twice as much as fans would ordinarily pay in the same stadium when the World Cup isn’t in town.

But in Atlanta, where Falcons owner and stadium operator Arthur Blank promised the low concession prices he’s championed for many years would hold for the World Cup, pizza slices were $3, 32-ounce sodas were $4, a cheeseburger was $5, chicken tenders with fries were $6 and beers could be had for as little as $8.

Jonathan Arango, a 33-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, was at a match in Atlanta with his wife, daughter and father.

“In total for what we got — three orders of tacos, a slice of pizza, two waters and a Coke — we spent like $50,” Arango said. “Compared to what we’ve paid at other events ... it’s nice after you paid a lot for a ticket.”

And Schüller pointed out that even though the tournament does come around every four years, it still feels like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“The entire football world is having fun,” Schüller said, “so cheers to that.”

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Associated Press journalists Tales Azzoni, Maura Carey, Andrew Dalton, Carlos Rodriguez, Alanis Thames, Stephen Whyno and Ben Kule contributed to this story from various World Cup venues. Kule is a student in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/FIFA-World-Cup

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Pino, 55, was charged with manslaughter and vessel homicide.

He did not testify in his trial and if he had been convicted, Pino faced anywhere between 11 to 30 years in prison.

Prosecutors accused Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of his 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Lucy Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig, who was left permanently disabled.

The teens were on his boat celebrating his daughter’s 18th birthday.

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys wrapped up their closing arguments, and, for the former, an additional rebuttal, mid-Monday afternoon.

Prosecutors argued in closing arguments that Pino was reckless and that there was no reason for him to crash his boat.

“He was reckless and negligent,” Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams said. “No one but this defendant decided the speed or path or direction of travel. No one and nothing is responsible for the death of Lucy Fernandez except that man.”

They pointed out that while it is not a BUI case, alcohol was part of the story that afternoon.

“He was going full throttle!” Adams argued. “With all these teens on board that had consumed alcohol.”

Pino’s defense team, however, argued the crash was a horrible accident and not the result of negligence.

“It’s not enough that a human failed to do everything they could in a moment in time,” attorney Howard Srebnick said. “It requires a purposeful act of indifference to his passengers.”

After closing arguments wrapped up, Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez then read jury instructions.

Following the reading of the verdict, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle released the following statement:

“While everyone in our community and beyond recognizes the tragedy surrounding the Labor Day 2022 boating death of Lucy Fernandez and the permanent disabling of Katy Puig, I and my prosecutors have believed that the totality of George Pino’s actions on the waters of Biscayne Bay were reckless, and was a crime as defined in Florida’s criminal statutes.

Our charging and prosecuting decisions in traffic and vessel collisions resulting in fatalities are always difficult ones. We attempt to make these decisions based on the law and the evidence and put aside emotions. The Judge, who ruled on the sufficiency of the evidence, decided that there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to the jury. Today, however, a jury of six Miami-Dade citizens, who listened to all the testimony and reviewed all the evidence, disagreed, and found George Pino not guilty of the charges.

Sadly, I know that this verdict brings no comfort to the Fernandez and Puig families who forever must live with the tragedy of what happened. In a case like this, there are no winners or losers. Mr. Pino must live with what he did, while the Fernandez and Puig families will grapple with the consequences of his actions. These families and, to some extent, our community as a whole have been deeply impacted by this tragedy. While I and my prosecutors, Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams and Assistant State Attorney Jonathon Borst, may disagree with the verdict, jury’s decisions are the cornerstone of our justice system, and we accept their decision and appreciate their service.”

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle

Speaking outside the courtroom following the trial’s conclusion, Srebnick said he believes the truth prevailed, but there are no winners.

“Lives were changed. George Pino has always been held accountable for that,” said Srebnick. “Today, thankfully, we won’t be branded a criminal for what we all know is just an accident.”

He went to say that Pino is apologetic for the incident.

“He’s deeply sorry for what happened,” said Srebnick. “We’re all grieving for what happened on that day. Let’s hope that over time, those wounds can heal.”

The Pino family released the following statement to Local 10 News.

“We are grateful to the jurors for their careful consideration of the evidence and for reaching a just verdict. From the beginning, we have maintained that the events of September 4, 2022, were a tragic accident, not a crime. The testimony presented at trial, including unrebutted accounts from eyewitnesses who saw no signs of impairment, confirmed that Mr. Pino was not under the influence, was not operating the vessel recklessly and that he did everything he could to protect his passengers after the accident.

“We continue to mourn the loss of Lucy  Fernandez every day and to pray for all those who were affected by this maritime mishap. Our hearts remain with the families of those involved in the accident, and we hope that today’s verdict allows everyone to continue the long process of healing.”

The Pino Family

When doors flung open, Sharpton entered to a standing ovation that continued until he was perched behind a lectern, on a stage decorated with a floor-to-ceiling video screen.

The audience was not anticipating a call for justice. Instead, the rabble-rousing youth minister turned go-to national advocate was there to declare his organization was officially an owner, no longer a renter, in the historically Black Harlem neighborhood it has called home for more than two decades.

“I want to make something permanent,” Sharpton said recently to the gathered crowd of NAN board members, local clergy and other allies. “When people see that you’ve bought a building, they say, ‘Wait a minute, they’re not going nowhere.’”

NAN’s new permanent home is the former Faison Firehouse Theater on Hancock Place, near the intersection of 124th Street and Manhattan Avenue. George Faison, a Tony Award-winning choreographer known for his work in the original 1970s Broadway staging of “The Wiz,” had bought the firehouse in 1999 and converted it into a community theater.

When Faison had a choice between selling the former firehouse in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood to a large developer or selling it to NAN, he chose the latter, according to Sharpton.

“I’m 71 years old — if I was just trying to do it as an Al Sharpton personal fan club, I could just keep renting,” Sharpton told The Associated Press during an interview in his new private office, with large windows overlooking central Harlem.

“I’m buying it to show I want this to be an institution. I want it to last beyond me.”

Although the renovation is structurally complete and its rooms are functional, Sharpton said he expects his weekly Saturday rallies to resume in the new headquarters this summer.

From renting to owning

Founded in 1991, NAN began meeting at P.S. 175, a Manhattan elementary school, during the tenure of the late David Dinkins, New York City’s first Black mayor. Next, NAN rented a space at 125th Street and Madison Avenue. In 2006, Sharpton moved NAN into a rented space at 145th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, where it operated until January.

NAN's headquarters had been named the “House of Justice” by his late mentor, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

Often organizing from his Harlem headquarters, Sharpton became known staging direct-action protests on behalf of Black men killed, brutalized or persecuted by police in New York City: Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, the exonerated men formerly known as the Central Park Five, and Eric Garner, among others.

“Harlem means home,” Sharpton told the AP.

The new NAN headquarters now carries the name “House of Justice Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Workshop,” following the multimillion dollar purchase and renovation of its five floors. Sharpton said he will invite artists to hold salons, poetry readings and jazz nights, as a callback to the Black cultural and intellectual movement of the Harlem Renaissance.

Looking out at his supporters during the invite-only reception for the new space, Sharpton reflected not just on the NAN’s past, but on the current cultural and political environment.

“We are in trouble,” he said in reference to redistricting fights set off by a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act and the rolling back of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

“We don’t have, in my opinion, the luxury of not nailing down and working together,” Sharpton said.

Building on decades of local and national activism

Over the years, the NAN headquarters has become a “can’t skip” campaign stop for Democratic candidates seeking everything from the presidency and Congress to state and local offices. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the House of Justice is typically standing room only for the dignitaries who show up.

After the death of his childhood hero James Brown in 2006, the horse drawn carriage carrying the Godfather of Soul’s golden casket stopped outside NAN’s 145th Street headquarters.

The organization’s weekly Saturday rallies have also been a venue for families grieving loss through police violence, or for celebrities to speak out and unfairness in the entertainment industry.

Ashley Sharpton, the youngest of the reverend’s two daughters, grew up around the House of Justice. She and her older sister, Dominique Sharpton-Bright, were there on the day the late pop icon Michael Jackson visited and spoke at the invitation of their dad.

“The magic was palpable,” Ashley recalled.

Now, as founder and director of NAN’s youth initiatives, Ashley feels deeper stake in the organization’s future.

“It’s time for us to step in and take ownership, literally, of what is needed to maintain the legacy, and to continue the fight,” she told the AP.

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Morrison is AP’s race and ethnicity news editor.

Temperatures will consistently be above average in the low/mid 90s. Likely some more heat advisories on the way. A few showers and thunderstorms are possible each day this week, but no organized storm systems are nearby so just the typical rainy season pop-ups.

The drone attacks added to the woes on the Black Sea peninsula, where Russian authorities have had to suspend gasoline sales to civilians as Ukraine has intensified its recent campaign to disrupt supply lines and the electrical grid at the height of the summer tourist season.

The peninsula was seized by force and illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. Ukraine's increasing use of long-range strikes has highlighted its ability to inflict painful damage on Russia and put added pressure on the Kremlin while Moscow’s advances recently have ground to a near halt, Western analysts and officials say.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said last week that his forces are “isolating Crimea with drones.”

“It looks like in the nearest time, Crimea will become an island. This could lead to some very unexpected consequences for Russians,” Fedorov said on a blogger's YouTube channel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had been warned that Ukraine aimed to disrupt energy supplies and Russia’s tourism industry. He didn’t say who gave the warning.

Ukrainian drones “coming in a huge stream” seek to “destabilize” Russian society, Putin said.

Ukraine also has hit targets near to the Kremlin in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city this month.

Parts of Crimea are without power

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said drones struck an oil storage depot at the Kerch thermal power plant in eastern Crimea, an electrical substation in the west, and a liquefied natural gas distribution station in Simferopol, the peninsula’s second-biggest city.

In addition, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said their units, working with what it said was the resistance movement in Crimea, destroyed a rail bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne.

The military described the span as a key logistics route used to supply Russian forces in southern Ukraine and said drones began hitting the structure late Sunday to Monday, collapsing part of it. A second strike early Tuesday targeted railway repair equipment deployed at the bridge and its remaining sections, it said on Telegram.

It was not possible to independently verify the Ukrainian claims, and Russian officials made no immediate comment.

Parts of Crimea were without power Tuesday, the area’s energy supplier said. But it attributed the outages to “technical malfunctions” in local electrical grids and said it expected power to be restored within 24 hours.

Both Russia and Ukraine covet the diamond-shaped peninsula for its naval bases and beaches. Crimea's unique location in the Black Sea makes it a strategically important asset, and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it.

Russian-appointed officials in Crimea have appeared reluctant to discuss attacks on the peninsula, but new security measures suggest deepening tension.

Its Ministry of Sport on Tuesday canceled all sporting events, competitions, and training sessions for children through Sept. 1. It described the measures as “aimed solely at ensuring the safety of our children, athletes, and anyone who is involved with sport.”

On Monday, Gov. Sergei Aksyonov said that for security reasons, all summer camps in the region had stopped accepting children and new bookings until Sept. 1.

Successes against Russia boost Ukrainian morale

On the front line in eastern Ukraine, where Russia’s war of attrition has made slow and costly advances since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has deployed cutting-edge drone technology to keep the enemy pinned down.

Meanwhile, its medium-range drones have also disrupted Russia’s supply lines to the front, and its long-range strikes have increasingly damaged Russian oil facilities that provide vital revenue for the Kremlin’s war effort.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Monday its forces have hit more than 800,000 enemy targets with drones since the beginning of the year and that 95% of drones used by the armed forces are domestically produced.

The successes have boosted Ukrainian confidence, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says sustained foreign support is locked in to help stop Russia.

Officials have shown renewed vigor in talking about the war.

Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Andrii Melnyk said Monday that Kyiv remained ready for direct talks with Russia to achieve a “just and lasting peace” based on the U.N. Charter, but warned that Ukraine’s willingness to compromise was not open-ended.

Melnyk said at a U.N. Security Council meeting that a ceasefire along the current front line already represented a major concession and urged Russia to withdraw from occupied Ukrainian territory.

He also said recent Ukrainian strikes had altered the dynamics of the war, adding: “This is just the beginning.”

Russia's top diplomat says Moscow will defend Belarus

Meanwhile, the Kremlin is ready to “ensure the security” of its neighbor and ally Belarus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, days after Zelenskyy demanded that Belarus remove relay equipment on its territory that Kyiv said aided Russian drone attacks.

The relay stations are used for signal transmissions to Russian drones attacking Ukraine, according to Zelenskyy.

Lavrov told the Russian news agency Interfax that Kyiv was trying to drag Belarus into the conflict. Moscow, in fact, had used Belarus territory to launch its invasion of Ukraine.

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Duff has just begun her Lucky Me tour, which kicked off on Sunday in South Florida.

It’s her first global tour in nearly 20 years.

But the show wasn’t just a trip down memory lane.

The 38-year-old multi-hyphenate is touring behind her critically acclaimed new album, “Luck… Or Something," blending her classic Disney-era anthems with a fresh, indie-pop sound.

She performed at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach on Sunday and Monday nights.

Local 10’s Jason Carter was there for all the fun on Monday, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

The June 17 arrest of Reinier Sanchez Hurtado, 46, was captured by Miami Beach Police Department drone footage.

“This is new technology that most police agencies are using now,” said Medley Police Department Sgt. Luis Rivera.

Hurtado’s arrest was the result of Medley police detectives launching an extensive criminal investigation into the theft of Nike shoes.

“The main charge is dealing in stolen property,” said Rivera. “We’re talking about possibly $36,000 of merchandise that was taken.”

The case starts at a Medley distribution facility where FedEx security says it tracked a vexing pattern of thefts dating back to 2024.

According to his arrest report, some high-end Nike footwear that was destined for Miami-area retail stores ended up at the Miami home of Sanchez Hurtado, who authorities learned was employed by a FedEx ground contractor “responsible for supervising drivers assigned to the affected delivery routes.”

Police said they used GPS tracking devices in some of the packages to track where the stolen goods were taken.

FedEx told police the shoes were being sold through the black market.

“There appeared to be a scheme of fraud,” said Rivera.

FedEx contacted Medley police, who moved swiftly to identify Sanchez Hurtado as the suspect.

Detectives learned soon after that he had just been released from a routine traffic stop in Miami Beach.

Medley detectives then coordinated with MBPD’s Real Time Intelligence Center and the Miami Police Department’s Tactical Robbery Unit to track Sanchez Hurtado down near the intersection of 14th Street and Drexel Avenue, authorities said.

“That is the beautiful thing about Miami-Dade County,” said Rivera. “All agencies work together to bring subjects into custody and the charges that they earn.”

The investigation into Sanchez Hurtado and the stolen shoes remains active and ongoing, he said.

A statement from FedEx can be read below:

“We are aware of the arrest of a service provider driver by the Miami Beach Police Department, and this individual is no longer providing service on behalf of FedEx. Further questions should be directed to law enforcement.”

FedEx Communications Strategic Advisor Adam Snyder

It was the 10th time the Senate has tried to stop the war, and the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to an already sizable military spending boost sought by President Donald Trump. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill ahead of a formal request. Meanwhile Iran’s president is in Pakistan to facilitate negotiations on ending the war, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Abu Dhabi seeking to reassure Gulf allies.

Trump visited a Mack Truck facility in a battleground district in swing state Pennsylvania Tuesday, shifting attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event beyond the capital since he signed an interim agreement to end the Iran war.

National Guard members and U.S. Park Police have been patrolling around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the Trump administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

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Senate for first time approves a war powers resolution in a rebuke to Trump over Iran conflict

The Senate for the first time approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block U.S. military action against Iran, as lawmakers warily watch President Donald Trump’s efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund.

It was the 10th time the Senate has tried to stop the war, and the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts. While the resolution is largely symbolic, and does not fully carry the force of law, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate over both the war and the deal Trump struck with Iran to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.

“Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war instead of the American people,” said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

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Trump touts the economy at Mack Truck facility in battleground Pennsylvania

The president kept attention on the economy in his opening remarks while visiting the facility in the Allentown suburbs on Tuesday.

Speaking in front of an audience of workers wearing reflective safety vests, the president said the U.S. is “the hottest country by a lot,” nodding to the success of Mack Trucks.

He’s visiting the state ahead of key midterm elections in the battleground state. Pointing to Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Trump said “We gotta get you back in.”

Trump kept his early comments to the U.S., briefly mentioning the war in Iran.

Trump claims factory construction boom, but the spending numbers show a slowdown

The president claimed his tariffs are causing a boom in new factories opening in the U.S.

While the artificial intelligence is boosting U.S. manufacturing, there has not been the renaissance claimed by Trump.

Construction spending on manufacturing has fallen nearly 23% from an August 2024 peak, according to Census Bureau data.

While the average annual spending is still higher than the historical average, it has slowed during Trump’s second term instead of accelerating at the president has insisted.

The U.S. economy has shed 68,000 manufacturing jobs since the start of Trump’s second term, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump says that Iran agreed to UN watchdog inspections of its nuclear sites but ‘there’s no rush’

The president told reporters as he arrived in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that if Iran had not agreed to the inspections, he’d cut off talks with Tehran, saying, “I’d cancel the meetings right now.”

When asked when the inspections might occur, Trump said: “There’s no rush. They’ll be on the ground at the appropriate time.”

Trump says Interior Department will release images of alleged and unverified vandalism of reflecting pool

Pressed by reporters after Air Force One landed in Pennsylvania, Trump said the Interior Department is “going to share” photos and videos of what he claims has been vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The president said Monday that the images existed and the federal government would provide them, though the reporters tracking Trump said that their outlets had yet to receive images from the Interior Department that validated his claims.

Trump said that six people have been arrested for damaging the pool, which filled with green algae after his recent repair as the blue coating began to peel off the floor.

The government has yet to provide evidence that vandalism was behind the pool’s condition instead of repair process that failed to provide the results promised by Trump.

Trump says critics of Iran deal have to be educated

The president was asked Tuesday about Republicans in Congress — including Sen. Ted Cruz — who have been critical of Trump’s interim deal to end the war with Iran.

“I think anybody that’s been critical has to be educated — even if they’re friends of mine,” Trump told reporters.

Critics of the deal, including some Republicans on Capitol Hill, have said the agreement gives Iran significant benefits, while getting little immediately in exchange.

Trump plans to speak as part of ‘The Great American State Fair’

Trump will speak not far from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where the gavel Nancy Pelosi used as the first female House speaker sits next to a red “Make America Great Again” cap. It’s part of an exhibit dubbed “In Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness,” commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary, with artifacts reminding Americans that today’s stark divides are not new.

“People find the hope and the resiliency to move forward,” museum director Anthea M. Hartig said. “History is filled with those moments where we think we’re completely falling apart as we did in the Civil War and then we’re trying to figure out how to build it back together again.”

The split screen will return on July Fourth as America 250 holds a concert in Los Angeles hosted by Queen Latifah while the president returns to the National Mall for what he has described as a “Trump rally.”

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Trump says 6 people have been arrested for damaging Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Trump’s social media post said another seven were cited for damaging the pool, which Trump recently had ordered painted American Flag Blue. The president claimed without supporting evidence that there had been a “350 foot gash” in the paint.

“It was purposefully and criminally done, and somebody had to work very hard, probably in the dark of night, to create such a condition,” the president alleged.

The Associated Press verified that one man was arrested after touching the already-peeling paint as federal workers try to deal with an algae bloom in the water.

Trump said that “some of the water” will be drained from the pool “either immediately before or after the Fourth of July, to do the permanent repair.”

It was unclear from his post what the scale, scope or cost of the permanent repair would be.

Marco Rubio has arrived in Abu Dhabi

The U.S. secretary of state is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran.

In the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain — all nations that Iran hit with missiles and drones in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli airstrikes — Rubio has meetings starting Wednesday with leaders who, in some cases, have taken a harder line on Iran recently than has the Trump administration.

The Emiratis, in particular, have been at the forefront of calls for tough action notably to ensure the reopening of the Straight of Hormuz. There have been conflicting accounts of what the Memorandum of Understanding signed last week will mean for the strait, which the rest of the world wants open free of charge for all shipping.

Judge rules government can’t stop SNAP dollars from buying candy and sugary drinks

The federal judge said Congress imposed no such limits on the nation’s largest food aid program.

The ruling scuttles restrictions on candy, soda and other sugary drinks in the federally funded and state-run Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 23 states. The Trump administration hasn’t announced an appeal.

“The federal defendants and the states may have a genuine desire to improve the health of SNAP households by encouraging healthy choices at the store, and they can take lawful steps to meet those goals,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote. “But what they cannot do is violate the law and their own regulations along the way.”

Seeking to encourage healthier food choices, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign has sought to take soda and candy off the menu because they fuel obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration against green card holders accused of crimes

Tuesday’s 6-3 decision centers around an immigration officer’s 2012 decision to put green-card holder Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip abroad because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.

Lau argued that overstepped the officer’s authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly begin deportation proceedings after he pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting.

The Trump administration argued that suspicion of a crime is enough to put a lawful permanent resident on immigration parole.

The court is separately considering cases over Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, potentially revive a restrictive asylum policy and end temporary legal protections for migrants fleeing war and natural disasters in their homelands.

Justices give US corporations big wins

The Cisco and ExxonMobil rulings, issued the same day, open U.S. courts in one case involving a foreign government while shutting the door in another. But they involved very different statutes.

The Cisco decision was the latest to rule against plaintiffs seeking to use U.S. courts as a venue to seek justice over the acts of foreign governments, especially those that took place abroad. Falun Gong members sought unsuccessfully to overcome that skepticism by arguing that a substantial portion of Cisco’s activities involving China took place in the United States.

The Cuba case hinged on whether the 1996 Helms-Burton law removes the shield from lawsuits in U.S. courts that typically cover foreign countries and state-owned businesses. The justices reversed a lower-court ruling that found that the Cuban state-owned companies are immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts.

Supreme Court OKs ExxonMobil suit over property seized by Castro’s government

The Supreme Court has ruled that ExxonMobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts over property on the island nation that was seized after Fidel Castro took power.

The 6-3 decision was the second in as many months in favor of U.S. owners of Cuban property confiscated by the Communist government more than 65 years ago.

The outcome in the two cases could be an additional lever for the Trump administration to exert pressure on Cuba, which is already being squeezed by a U.S. oil embargo.

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Supreme Court kills suit claiming Cisco’s technology helped China persecute Falun Gong members

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit that claimed the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

The justices ruled that American courts are the wrong forum, rejecting plaintiffs’ attempts to litigate under the 18th-century Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA), first enacted in 1991.

An Associated Press investigation last year showed that American tech companies, to a large degree, designed and built China’s surveillance state, encouraged by both Republican and Democratic administrations, even as activists warned such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious groups and target minorities. Last month, AP won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for its stories.

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Wall Street points to another day of losses, led by an ongoing sell-off in tech

Futures for the S&P 500 fell 1.2% before the opening bell Tuesday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 0.4%. Futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 2.6% following a 1.3% loss Monday. The Nasdaq has suffered heavy selling for days as investors grow anxious over massive spending by artificial intelligence companies and looming interest rate hikes in the U.S., which will make it more expensive for companies to fund growth through borrowing.

Chip companies were among the biggest losers in overnight trading, with Micron and Intel both down more than 7%. Qualcomm fell 6.3%. Companies that specialize in memory and data storage were also taking a beating. Sandisk fell nearly 9% and Seagate was down 7.2% early.

And Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns xAI, slipped another 1% before the bell after a 16.4% tumble to start the week.

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Iran’s president visits Pakistan for crucial talks on ending war

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also joined the delegation in Masoud Pezeshkian’s first visit to Islamabad since the conflict started with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on Feb. 28.

Iran’s talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war come as discrepancies emerge on what has been agreed to so far, and as more violence broke out in Lebanon.

Technical teams have been working on details of the deal following high-level negotiations in Switzerland Monday led by Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters that no visits were scheduled for the U.N. watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency — to examine Iranian nuclear sites bombed by the United States last year. Vance previously said the negotiations in Switzerland won an agreement for the inspectors to visit the sites.

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Discrepancy on Iran’s use of unfrozen funds

Following the high-level talks in Switzerland, Vice-President JD Vance had said if Iranian financial assets were unfrozen, they “would actually go to buy American soy, American corn and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people.”

However, Iran has no current demand for U.S. crops, and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Tuesday that Tehran’s decisions on what to import would be based on “prices and quality.”

“It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers,” Baghaei said in Tehran.

Iran’s ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, also questioned Vance’s contention that the U.S. and Qatar would have to approve how Iran uses unfrozen funds. “Iran is the only country who decides what to do with those assets,” he told reporters.

Trump says Iran will buy US corn, soy and wheat. It won't likely happen soon

Trump has heralded the peace talks with Iran as a win for U.S. farmers, saying that the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian money will be tied to that country buying American-grown corn, soybeans and wheat.

“These are things that are desperately needed by Iran,” Trump posted on social media. “This is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it is necessary to help.”

But Iran is unlikely to start buying a vast amount of U.S. farm products.

“I don’t expect that trade would be very large in the short run,” said Joseph Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Glauber noted that Iran was “unlikely” to abandon its other trade partners on food for America. He said Iran’s major suppliers include Brazil, India, Turkey, the European Union, Canada, Australia and Argentina and that Trump’s demand to buy from the U.S. would “create some hard feelings with some of our competitors.”

Authorities arrest 2 more suspects in planned attack on Trump’s UFC show

Two more people in Missouri and Washington state have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a planned attack targeting Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House earlier this month.

Law enforcement officials disrupted the plan a few days before the June 14 White House event, according to court documents.

William Lee Spartacus Falkner of Belfair, Washington, was arrested Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to court documents filed Monday in the Western District of Washington. Jordan W. Rincker, 28, was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the Western District of Missouri. A defense attorney appointed to represent Falkner did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment, and court records do not reveal if Rincker has obtained an attorney. Neither man has had the opportunity to enter a plea.

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Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalize elections can no longer be used.

U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.

She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing Americans’ personal identifying information and that the federal agencies that created the SAVE program “knew that the database violates those statutory protections.”

The decision is a major legal setback for Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on having noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls. The modified SAVE system had been a key pillar of the second election executive order the Republican president signed earlier this year. The ruling leaves its future uncertain.

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Patrols and nanobubbles at the Reflecting Pool as Trump seeks a renovation do-over

National Guard members and U.S. Park Police patrolled the deck around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday as President Donald Trump’s administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

The patrols came two days after Trump said authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he insisted were responsible for damage to the peeling coating after an algae bloom occurred. The liner was installed as part of his $14 million-plus project.

The president has confirmed the problems most likely require draining the pool again for liner repairs and he promised a quick fix. Without offering substantiation, he also said vandals dumped fertilizer in the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter.

But the timeline was not clear Monday, with the White House saying damaged areas are still being assessed. Contractors and federal workers in recent days have been using chemicals and ozone nanobubbles to combat the algae.

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Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war

The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has yet to make a formal request to Congress. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, including Monday evening. A top deputy defense secretary told senators about the Iran funding request last week, according to two people familiar with the situation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the developments.

The push for billions of dollars in Iran war funding comes at a fraught political moment. Lawmakers are skeptical of the deal Trump struck with Iran to bring an end to the war, and wary of next steps. The White House has requested a remarkable $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — a nearly 50% increase over the current fiscal year’s funding levels.

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The new system is to start in 2028, and the Future Competition Committee that Woods leads still has work left on key details. Chief among them is which of the roughly 15 tournaments will be part of the “Championship Series,” and the 20 events on the lesser “Challenger Series.”

Other details involve bringing a form of match play to the postseason and creating a rotation of prestigious courses instead of going to East Lake in Atlanta every year.

“This work was never about any one player or person,” Woods said in his first public appearance since his arrest on a DUI charges on March 27. “It was about bringing together different perspectives, having honest, hard conversations, and thinking boldly about what is best for the game that we all love.”

The PGA Tour boards on Monday afternoon approved the recommendations. Woods jumped back into his role as chairman the last several weeks upon his return from seeking treatment out of the country since his arrest.

“It's great to see him back,” PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said. “Tiger has been involved throughout the process. He's contributed meaningfully. It's awesome to see him back and in great form.”

Rolapp preached “scarcity, simplicity and parity” when he took over last summer, and those pillars have become more clear. The season will be shorter — approximately February through August with some scheduled weeks off — without taking away playing opportunities.

The $20 million signature events for 72 players now will be part of the Championship Series and expanded to 120 players on average. Players are not required to play them all and those tournaments will not have sponsor invitations or an alternate list. There will be a 36-hole cut.

“When fans tune into the PGA Tour Championship Series, they know they will see the best players in the world competing head-to-head,” Rolapp said. He said it was important to credibility not to have sponsor exemptions because sponsors in other sports don't determine who plays.

The Challenger Series will be a path for players to earn their way to the top level. Those fields will be about 144 players, and Rolapp said purses would be at least $4 million. This year, all but three regular non-signature events had prize funds of at least $9 million.

Except for about seven times during the season, the Championship and Challenger Series tournaments will be held the same week. Rolapp said on the occasion of a week off for the elite circuit, the Challenger Series event would be elevated.

Rory McIlroy last week referred to the secondary tier as a “glorified Korn Ferry event,” referring to the tour's developmental circuit.

“I just think there's going to be certain events that might lose their status if a sponsor doesn't pony up $30 million,” McIlroy said.

Rolapp said he spoke to McIlroy on Tuesday — the Masters champion is skipping the Travelers Championship, the third signature event he has missed this year — and said the new model will serve the same player and offer a similar number of tournaments. Korn Ferry purses are $1 million.

“We've just organized the same tour into a much more interesting and competitive system," Rolapp said. “If you look at the Challenger Series events, they’ll be at venues you recognize. They’ll be for healthy purses. They’ll include a subset of the same 200 and change players that we have today. That is much different than what the Korn Ferry Tour is today.”

Each tour will have a separate points standings and there is no plan for players to move up to the Championship Series during the season unless they were to win twice.

The Championship Series eligibility would be determined by the top 90 players from the previous year, the top 20 players from the Challenger Series and other exemption categories for tournament winners, injuries or career milestones.

Missing from the announcement was any mention of the FedEx Corp., the financial muscle behind the PGA Tour's postseason since it began in 2007. The most recent FedEx deal ends in 2027.

“Our hope is to create more value for FedEx and everybody else. We’re in an existing contract, and we’re going to honor that,” Rolapp said.

As for the fall, the PGA Tour is moving toward a separate series of four to six tournaments in which top performers can earn their way back to the Championship Series. The tour said it still has plans for the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Americas and the PGA Tour University ranking system that creates places for top college players.

Finishing in August would give the elite players time to consider playing overseas, such as premier European tour events or the Australian Open. The PGA Tour recently became partners with Golf Australia without co-sanctioning the century-old event.

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