Wright and Rodríguez were overseeing the signing of deals with Chevron and Italy’s Eni to increase oil output at Venezuela’s oil Orinoco Belt.

“Today is a transformative day,” Wright said during his speech at the palace. He later told reporters that the “deals will lead to a more than doubling of Venezuelan oil production in the next few years.”

Chevron announced plans to invest more than $7 billion through 2031 with the aim of increasing production in the Orinoco Belt to about 600,000 barrels a day. ENI announced a 25-year contract with rights to explore the Junin 5 oil field.

“Chevron’s history in Venezuela spans more than a century, and our expanded position reflects our confidence in the country’s deep resource potential,” Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive officer, said in a statement.

President Donald Trump and Rodríguez recently announced another deal to increase oil production. It involves the Pentagon and North American Blue Energy Partners, owned by Venezuelan billionaire Alejandro Betancourt, who has been the subject of money laundering probes in the U.S., Switzerland and Spain.

Betancourt hasn’t faced any charges. The Venezuelan National Assembly approved the deal to give NABEP — in which the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital has a 35% ownership stake — 100-year rights over 17 oil fields.

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According to Hialeah police, the shooting was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Aquabella community in the area of Northwest 91st Avenue and 170th Street.

Hialeah police officers and Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the scene.

Police said detectives learned that multiple people met at the location for a “pre-arranged physical fight” in order to “resolve an ongoing dispute.”

“During the confrontation, a handgun was produced and multiple shots were fired,” Lt. Eddie Rodriguez told Local 10 in an email Wednesday. “Witness statements and physical evidence revealed that the gunshots were directed at a victim who was fleeing on foot, as well as toward an occupied black Chevy Tahoe attempting to leave the scene. A round did (strike) the driver’s side of the vehicle.”

Rodriguez confirmed that no one was injured by the gunfire.

He identified the suspects as Luis Padilla Delatorre and Michael Isaac Delgado, both of whom are 17. He said both teens could be facing anywhere between 15 to 20 years of prison.

Delatorre and Delgado both face felony charges of attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon/firearm and shooting/throwing a deadly missile.

They were both transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center.

It happened on Aug. 21 outside the McDonald’s at 1310 S. Federal Highway in Dania Beach.

“They basically jumped an old man,” said parent Yanelle Perez, who witnessed the fight. “My children saying it’s a new trend that’s happening after school.”

Perez, a mother of two children who attend nearby Olsen Middle School, was there to pick up her kids when the fight broke out, so she started filming.

“I don’t know what happened inside the McDonald’s, I just see this whole gang of kids, as you can tell in video, and this one man. It’s only one man,” she said. “This lady is running for her life, an older woman. These kids are just attacking him and you can tell he can’t help himself. It’s disgusting.”

When asked why she was sharing her video and story, she said, “I just feel like parents need to be aware.”

Olsen Middle School Principal Janet Giancarli sent a message to parents in regard to the incident, which characterized the incident thusly:

“An adult male approached the students and initiated a physical confrontation outside of the restaurant. The Broward Sheriff’s Office responded and investigated. No one was injured.

“We understand that a video of this incident is now circulating on social media and is concerning. While the incident did not occur on school grounds or during the school day, we take any situation involving our students seriously and we will continue to work closely with law enforcement regarding this matter. The safety and well-being of our students remain our highest priority.”

Perez disputes the principal’s characterization of what happened.

“I can’t see that happening,” she said. “He was basically begging them to leave him alone.”

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At the time of landfall, its tropical storm winds (winds exceeding 39 mph) extended out only about 25 miles from its center but the punchy storm brought wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph, with gusts as high as 90 mph, to the coastal town of Port Arthur south of Beaumont.

Significant flash flooding continues through early Thursday

As we’ve discussed in the newsletter this week, the primary threat from Edouard is flash flooding, which was ongoing for parts of southeastern and east-central Texas Wednesday morning.

Radar estimates show rain totals approaching almost 20 inches along a narrow corridor just north of Kountze in central Hardin and south-central Tyler counties about 30 miles northwest of Beaumont, where a flash flood emergency was in effect early Wednesday.

Additionally, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center upgraded its flash flood threat level mid-Wednesday morning to high (threat level 4 of 4) for the Big Thicket to Piney Woods region of southeastern Texas. High risk days are very rare – occurring on only about 4% of days – but account for about 1 in 3 flood-related deaths and 80% of flood-related damages.

The highest rainfall total officially observed so far is around 18 inches near Little Pine Island Bayou, Texas, within this high risk zone. Widespread totals of 4 to 8 inches have been recorded elsewhere across southeastern Texas and east of the Houston-Galveston proper, which largely avoided any heavy rain and flood issues.

The flood threat will inch farther inland, stretching into communities of east-central Texas, southeast of Dallas-Fort Worth, through Thursday morning. The National Weather Service is forecasting another 4 to 8 inches possible on Wednesday into early Thursday along Edouard’s path.

Despite weakening to a tropical depression, Edouard maintained a coherent circulation on radar while over 100 miles inland over Texas Wednesday morning. What’s left of Edouard’s remnant spin should wash out quickly by late Thursday into early Friday over north Texas and southern Oklahoma.

Nothing brewing behind Edouard

As we discussed in Tuesday’s newsletter, the Atlantic basin will stay eerily quiet into what is traditionally the peak week of the hurricane season.

The only dark-horse contender shown by forecast models is mid-to-late next week from low pressure along a washed out frontal boundary over the northern Gulf, a familiar story this season. For now, the odds of anything happening here are very low but we’ll watch the trends in the week ahead.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, alleges that DHS and the U.S. Justice Department are interfering with fair elections by using inaccurate federal databases in an attempt to buttress allegations of voter fraud.

The federal government is engaging in an “attack on the freedom to vote,” Angelica Salas, the coalition’s executive director, said at a downtown Los Angeles news conference. “This is voter intimidation.”

The lawsuit — filed on behalf of the coalition by the UCLA Voting Rights Project — becomes part of a swirl of legal moves that states, including California, have taken to fend off federal actions that threaten to create confusion during the midterms.

“It's not an accident the federal government is trying to interfere with the right to vote. ... They believe they can intimidate naturalized U.S. citizens,” said Xavier Becerra, the Democratic nominee for California governor who is acting as a senior adviser to the voting project.

Part of a broader effort to search for noncitizens on voter rolls

The lawsuit alleges that the administration might be comparing voter rolls with undisclosed government databases. Those systems can include outdated information and be riddled with errors, it said, and could produce inaccurate results that disproportionately affect naturalized voters.

“Comparing government databases to try and arrive at a list of noncitizen registrants has been shown to result in erroneous data,” the lawsuit said. “Congress has never authorized such activities and in fact has ... prohibited invasion of voter privacy through government data matches in this way.”

The Trump administration has been targeting noncitizen voting to allege it could be a source of significant fraud during the midterm elections, even though actual voting by people who are not citizens is rare. He is pushing for the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to voters verified as U.S. citizens, and his Justice Department has sued to force the release of detailed voter data in 30 states and the District of Columbia, though it has not yet succeeded in those cases.

Asked to respond to the lawsuit, a DHS spokesperson said in an email: “The department accessed publicly available data from states’ voter rolls and cross referenced them with known illegal aliens in our systems. It’s not rocket science; it’s an easy step to secure our elections.”

“DHS is laser focused on prosecuting and removing aliens who vote and preventing the dilution of the votes of U.S. citizens,” the statement added.

Judge had previously halted use of a federal citizenship database

In June, a federal judge ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool can no longer be used, which critics had referred to as an unlawful centralized federal database of voter information.

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.

The lawsuit said it isn’t clear if the administration used that system to generate projections about noncitizens on voting rolls in the states or if other unknown datasets were involved.

By May, the Trump administration had run millions of voter registrations through government databases to determine their eligibility, a process that critics feared could purge valid voters from the rolls before the November elections. At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification program, or SAVE, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and tens of thousands of those have been flagged as potential noncitizens or people who have died.

State officials push back against DHS noncitizen claims

Specifically, the lawsuit by the immigrant rights group asks the court to stop the administration from pursuing a review of California’s voter list and to rescind the letter sent to the state requesting voter information. It also asks the court to declare the administration’s actions unconstitutional.

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is claiming without providing evidence that 250,000 noncitizens might be on the rolls in just four states, including 190,832 in California.

California’s secretary of state, Democrat Shirley Weber, said in response, “I have serious doubts about the reliability of your data and accuracy of your claims, since my office has not shared our statewide voter registration list with DHS or any other federal agency or official.”

According to the lawsuit, federal officials have not disclosed evidence supporting those figures.

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Ronald Jeffery Johnson was arrested Saturday following the incident at Broward Health Medical Center, located at 1600 S. Andrews Ave., according to an arrest report from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.

Police said an officer was working an off-duty detail in full uniform at the hospital when medical staff asked him to respond to the waiting room.

According to the report, the officer found Johnson yelling at medical staff from across the registration desk. Police said Johnson’s behavior was causing a disturbance and “creating fear” among other patients in the waiting room.

Police said when they intervened, Johnson ― who has a Georgia arrest warrant connected to a terroristic threats case ― looked at one of them and stated, “I want to fight you,” before charging toward the officer.

A struggle followed, with police saying Johnson grabbed the officer and resisted efforts to restrain him.

“I physically subdued his intentional, aggressive and violent behavior towards me and he was taken into custody,” the officer wrote in the report.

The officer suffered a cut to his left hand during the struggle that required multiple stitches, the report states.

Police said Johnson was first treated at the hospital for facial injuries before being taken to the Broward County Main Jail for booking.

Jail records show he is facing charges including aggravated battery on a first responder, resisting an officer with violence, assault on an officer, firefighter or emergency medical technician, and disorderly conduct.

Records show Johnson remained in custody Wednesday at the Broward County Main Jail, where his bond was set at $8,500.

According to a local news outlet in north Georgia, Johnson was arrested in 2023 on a terroristic threats charge after being accused of threatening to beat someone with a boat paddle at a park in Cave Spring, Georgia.

That threat, authorities said, happened in front of the victim’s 8-year-old, earning him a cruelty to children charge.

Ronald Jeffery Johnson fue arrestado el sábado tras el incidente en Broward Health Medical Center, ubicado en 1600 S. Andrews Ave., según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale.

La policía dijo que un agente estaba trabajando fuera de servicio, completamente uniformado, en el hospital cuando el personal médico le pidió que acudiera a la sala de espera.

Según el informe, el agente encontró a Johnson gritándole al personal médico desde el otro lado del mostrador de registro. La policía dijo que el comportamiento de Johnson estaba causando un disturbio y “generando temor” entre otros pacientes en la sala de espera.

La policía dijo que cuando intervinieron, Johnson, quien tiene una orden de arresto de Georgia relacionada con un caso de amenazas terroristas, miró a uno de ellos y declaró: “Quiero pelear contigo”, antes de abalanzarse contra el agente.

Luego se produjo un forcejeo, y la policía dijo que Johnson agarró al agente y se resistió a los intentos de inmovilizarlo.

“Sometí físicamente su comportamiento intencional, agresivo y violento hacia mí y fue detenido”, escribió el agente en el informe.

El agente sufrió una cortada en la mano izquierda durante el forcejeo que requirió varios puntos de sutura, señala el informe.

La policía dijo que Johnson fue atendido primero en el hospital por lesiones faciales antes de ser trasladado a la cárcel principal del condado Broward para ser fichado.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta cargos que incluyen agresión agravada contra un socorrista, resistencia a un agente con violencia, agresión contra un agente, bombero o técnico de emergencias médicas, y alteración del orden público.

Los registros muestran que Johnson permanecía detenido el miércoles en la cárcel principal del condado Broward, donde su fianza fue fijada en $8,500 USD.

Según un medio de noticias local del norte de Georgia, Johnson fue arrestado en 2023 por un cargo de amenazas terroristas después de ser acusado de amenazar con golpear a alguien con un remo de bote en un parque de Cave Spring, Georgia.

Las autoridades dijeron que esa amenaza ocurrió frente al hijo de 8 años de la víctima, lo que le valió un cargo de crueldad contra menores.

Multiple explosive devices were found Tuesday morning at a substation near the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg in northeastern Germany. Hours later, a short circuit knocked power lines out of service at the Bergheim power substation near Cologne in western Germany — an incident described by security officials as a deliberate act.

Neither incident affected the general power supply in their areas. Authorities are investigating the incidents but have not named any suspects, nor have they said if they could be connected. They say possible suspects could include a foreign power or left-wing extremists.

The developments come as Germany is on high alert after the government on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4 using a drone laden with explosives.

“A substation is the nerve center of our daily lives. Anyone who attacks it isn’t just attacking a tin roof — they’re attacking our country, our economy, our daily lives, and all of us,” said Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Bergheim is located. “Critical infrastructure is the Achilles’ heel of our society. Perhaps we haven’t taken this issue seriously enough over the years.”

Authorities suspect ‘terrorism’ in the incident in eastern Germany

Brandenburg police said Wednesday on X that they had launched an investigation into the suspected formation of a terrorist organization “in conjunction with causing an explosion involving explosives and the destruction of important work equipment.”

“What we are currently experiencing is a hybrid threat and we therefore cannot rule out the possibility that foreign powers are behind it,” Brandenburg Interior Minister Jan Redmann told public broadcaster ARD.

Emergency responders searched the area for evidence, prompting road closures, authorities said Wednesday. Large groups of investigators combed through the area for clues.

Officials described the explosives as “rocketlike objects equipped with a propellant charge” similar to fireworks. They said there were more than a dozen, but that only one managed to carry a cable into the high-voltage power line to establish a conductive connection to the ground, the German news agency dpa reported.

Short circuit in western Germany was caused deliberately, officials say

Bright flashes of light could be seen along several power lines at the Bergheim power substation near Cologne in western Germany on Tuesday evening, said Reul.

“It wasn’t a broken switch, it was intentional. It was a criminal act,” Reul said. “We are investigating two possibilities: sabotage directed by a foreign government and left-wing extremism. We cannot rule out either possibility at this time.”

RWE, the company that operates the power substation, said five coal-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 4,200 megawatts were taken offline after the incident.

Police said investigators found six launch devices in a nearby cornfield. Chief Detective Michael Esser told reporters that the devices were supposedly designed to use pyrotechnic devices to lift a wire high above the power lines.

The investigation has so far found that “the perpetrators deliberately caused a short circuit by placing conductive material — presumably cables — over the overhead line.”

Security officials from both regions were in contact and closely checking for possible connections between the Brandenburg and Bergheim incidents, Reul said.

Two power plant units were running again by Wednesday afternoon; another one was expected to go back online later on Wednesday. Work is underway to bring the two remaining units back online by the weekend.

German power infrastructure has previously been affected under similar circumstances. Suspected left-wing extremists set fire to high-voltage lines near a power plant in southwest Berlin in January.

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Sky 10 flew over the stretch of land between the current end of Pembroke Road and U.S. 27, where the proposed extension would be built.

Miramar city leaders are expected to discuss the plan at a commission meeting Wednesday night.

Under the proposal, Pembroke Road would be extended to U.S. 27. The project would also require Pembroke Road to be widened into a four-lane divided road.

The plan includes an extension of Miramar Parkway to the south. That stretch would become a two-lane undivided street from Southwest 192nd Terrace to Pembroke Road.

If the plan moves forward, FDOT would issue the city a permit as part of an agreement because the agency owns the right of way for U.S. 27.

The proposal could also mean road closures and additional traffic tied to the project, potentially creating headaches for drivers who oppose the idea.

So it's not a shock there is some preseason commentary that the Cowboys could be in line for a strong season.

Longtime handicapper Bruce Marshall is one of those who argue this season is indeed different, saying the NFC East shapes up well for “America's Team” as well the New York Giants under new coach John Harbaugh.

Philadelphia won the division at 11-6 last season while the Cowboys (7-9-1) and Giants (4-13) struggled.

“Maybe this is the year Dallas does something because I think the Eagles are very vulnerable and Washington was sort of proven a one-year fluke,” Marshall said. “I think the NFC East could almost be turned sort of upside down. I have a lot upside, I think, in (Giants quarterback) Jaxson Dart, but (the) Giants (are) interesting and Dallas (is) kind of interesting.

“Dallas almost fits the Seattle thing.”

The Seahawks went 10-7 in 2024 and then went 14-3 last season and won the Super Bowl.

Bookmakers aren't quite buying the Cowboys yet. They are 20-1 at Caesars Sportsbook to win the Super Bowl and 25-1 at BetMGM Sportsbook and DraftKings Sportsbook.

The Eagles remain in the favorites in that division to go all the way, receiving 17-1 odds at Caesars and DraftKings and 18-1 at BetMGM.

No change in the Rams' chances

Bookmakers and handicappers had already counted on defensive tackle Aaron Donald returning to the Los Angeles Rams, so his announcement Sunday didn't change the odds because it already was priced in.

The Rams remain substantial, consensus favorites at 5-1 to win the Super Bowl, and much of that has to do with the arrival from Cleveland of pass rusher Myles Garrett, the AP Defensive Player of the Year last season.

Given that LA also has the reigning MVP in quarterback Matthew Stafford as well as a strong roster and one of the game's most creative coaches in Sean McVay, it's hardly a surprise the Rams are such big favorites.

“They deserve to be the favorite,” said Johnny Avello, director of race and sports for DraftKings. “They have the quarterback, they have the running back, they have the defense. Now, are they a shoo-in to get there? No, they are not. Last year, they could've won it all with the team they had.”

Since 1996, according to Pro Football Reference, the Rams are the 29th team with 5-1 odds are better. The previous 28 failed to win the Super Bowl.

“I'm a Rams fan, so I'm usually going to be negative going into a season,” said Joey Feazel, head of football at Caesars. But he added, “They do look from top to bottom like one of the most impressive teams on paper.”

Odds are against the Seahawks again

Depending on the sportsbook, the defending champion Seahawks have 11-1 or 12-1 odds to win the Super Bowl. That puts them behind only the Rams in the NFC.

But the Seahawks were 80-1 at one point last season at BetMGM.

“They're similar to the Ravens, where they've taken action, of course, but not to the degree that some of these other teams have,” BetMGM sports trader Christian Cipollini said.

High hopes for the Ravens and Bills

Baltimore and Buffalo, as usual, are expected to contend to come out of the AFC and win the Super Bowl.

Both teams have new coaches, but they bring back franchise quarterbacks: Josh Allen for the Bills and Lamar Jackson for the Ravens.

The Bills are 10-1 across the board and the Ravens are 10-1 to 13-1, which includes 11-1 at BetMGM

“Similar stories, but the betting public at least likes the Bills a lot more than the Ravens this year,” Cipollini said. “A lot of these teams are kind of in the same range, but we're protecting ourselves a bit just because of the amount of action that we've taken on the Bills. So we'd rather be a little bit longer on the Ravens.”

Waiting and watching for Fernando

Kirk Cousins will start at quarterback for Las Vegas, but it seems a matter of time before No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza gets his chance.

The uncertainty of when Mendoza will play has hurt his odds for rookie honors. He is +550 at DraftKings, 6-1 at BetMGM and 7-1 at Caesars for Offensive Rookie of the Year. Arizona running back Jeremiyah Love is favored at all three books.

“I would think it's Love ... because you know he's going to be the guy,” Marshall said. “I don't know how much Mendoza's going to play. ... Mendoza hasn't looked that great. Quarterbacks, it's hard to make an impact like that, especially coming into a bad team.”

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, Carlos Martinez, 15, was initially attacked by two students during a fight at the school on Monday.

Cellphone video circulating on social media appears to show two people punching, kicking and at one point body-slamming Martinez.

Martinez’s arrest report states that he later retrieved a knife and sprinted down the hallway in efforts for “retaliation on his attackers.”

Investigators said surveillance video showed Martinez “reaching into his pants and retrieving a light-colored blade shaped object.”

The report states that the video shows that he later returns to retrieve his belongings and “places the light-colored blade shaped object into his pants pocket before attempting to flee the scene.”

According to the report, the 18-year-old student who was injured told investigators, “I don’t know that kid at all.” He said Martinez was being “jumped by two random kids” and that he was watching the fight when everyone suddenly started running, according to investigators.

The report states the 18-year-old student told investigators he felt a push in his back, but initially thought one of the students running away had pushed him. Another student then told him, “Yo, you’re bleeding.” He said that was when he felt something dripping down his back, according to police.

Police said that the 18-year-old student told them that he “has never had any interaction, conversation or encounter” with Martinez.

The student suffered a puncture wound to the right side of his back that required stitches, according to the arrest report.

Police said Martinez also suffered injuries during the incident. The report states that he suffered “multiple self-inflicted lacerations” to the index and middle fingers of his right hand, which also required stitches.

The report states that an assistant principal later saw Martinez “fleeing the scene of the incident into the schools parking lot.”

Police said the assistant principal stopped Martinez and asked why he was bleeding. According to the report, Martinez admitted to having a knife in his rear pants pocket on the right-hand side, and the assistant principal confiscated it.

Investigators described the knife as having a 5-inch blade and being 10 inches long overall.

Police said the incident prompted a lockdown at the school. According to the arrest report, multiple Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office units responded to help maintain order while parents arrived at the school to pick up their children.

Martinez appeared in court Tuesday, where prosecutors said they intend to charge him as an adult. A judge ordered him to remain in secure detention and prohibited him from having contact with the other students involved in the incident.

Martinez’s parents told Local 10’s Trent Kelly after Tuesday’s court hearing that their son had been mistreated and threatened by other students for days.

“He was threatening my son, mistreating him,” his father said.

Jail records show Martinez is facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, possession of a weapon on school property and interference with an educational institution.

Local 10 has reached out to MDSPD for information on the identities of the other two students arrested and the charges they are facing.

That ride included Lane Kiffin’s closely watched move from Ole Miss to LSU.

A slew of schools were desperate to find the right man to help them win games and generate revenue for athletic departments that have a lot of bills to pay in the new era of college athletics.

Michigan coach Sherrone Moore's firing and arrest created a job opening with college football's winningest program and Kyle Whittingham took the job, shortly after stepping down at Utah.

Here's a look at some notable first-year coaches at Power Four schools:

Lane Kiffin, LSU

Kiffin expects his sixth head-coaching job — the fifth at the college level after one in the NFL — will define his legacy. He knows he’ll have the resources needed to win big at a school that won three national championships from 2003 to 2019.

Kiffin said he recently stopped using social media, helping him focus on his high-pressure job that is watched carefully and influenced not just by LSU's athletic administration, but also top politicians in Louisiana.

“I don’t know that you could ever predict there would be a job taken with so much stuff around it,” Kiffin said this month, alluding to Gov. Jeff Landry’s role in an athletic department shakeup that paved the way for LSU to hire him away from College Football Playoff-bound Ole Miss last November.

LSU agreed to pay Kiffin $91 million over seven years after firing Brian Kelly with $54 million and six years still remaining on his contract.

“The magnitude of being LSU, and then the leaving (from Ole Miss) and the timing of it — it’s been a lot,” Kiffin conceded.

The Tigers, No. 11 in the AP Top 25, open at home against Clemson on Saturday night.

Kyle Whittingham, Michigan

Whittingham's success in Year 1 with the Wolverines may be determined by Bryce Underwood's development. The second-year quarterback threw for 11 touchdowns with nine interceptions last year, a far cry from what was expected from the nation's top-ranked recruit.

In Underwood's defense, Moore didn't have a QB coach working him as a freshman. He does now and much more additional support, including virtual reality goggles that he wears to get mental repetitions.

“We’re pulling out all the stops to try to help Bryce become the player we feel he can be," Whittingham said in an interview with The Associated Press. "He’s so eager and has a great work ethic. He’s a leader and he wants to be great.”

The 16th-ranked Wolverines host Western Michigan on Saturday night.

Jon Sumrall, Florida

Sumrall led Troy (2022-23) and Tulane (2024-25) to four straight conference championship games. No one expects him to do the same with the Gators, who have endured four losing seasons in five years, but his passion, approach and charisma have players and fans believing a turnaround is on the horizon.

“This is a sleeping giant,” Sumrall said. “I’m telling you right now: It ain’t a matter of if we’re going to win here. It’s how fast we’re going to win. It’s coming.”

Florida, which is second among unranked teams receiving votes in the AP Top 25, opens at home Saturday night against Florida Atlantic.

James Franklin, Virginia Tech

The Hokies have not had sustained success since Frank Beamer retired in 2015. Brent Pry was fired after an 0-3 start in his fourth season that dropped his record at Virginia Tech to 16-24.

Franklin was let go at Penn State with a 3-3 mark last year and 104-45 record overall. He is aiming to bounce back at Virginia Tech.

“I want the people that love Virginia Tech to watch us and say, ’That’s what Virginia Tech football’s supposed to look like,” Franklin said.

The Hokies, who received six votes in the AP Top 25, are 55-point favorites against Virginia Military Institute on Saturday night at home.

Matt Campbell, Penn State

The former Iowa State coach has been busy rebooting a program that started last year No. 2 in the preseason AP Top 25 and fell apart in Franklin's final season.

With 50 players back from last season’s roster, Campbell added transfers from 16 different schools, including 24 from Iowa State.

“This year’s so uniquely different,” Campbell said. “Everybody’s in an earn-it position. Everybody’s either in a new scheme at a new place, got new coaches and everybody’s going in with kind of the same starting line."

The 18th-ranked Nittany Lions host Marshall on Saturday.

Alex Golesh, Auburn

The Tigers were national champions 16 years ago and have fallen from the ranks of college football's elite with only one double-digit win season, going 12-2 in 2013.

Auburn is hopeful hiring Golesh, who was 23-15 in three years at South Florida, can restore the program's stature.

“We’ve stripped it all the way down and have tried to rebuild it from the ground up,” Golesh said in a telephone interview. “When you're taking over program that hasn’t had recent success, the biggest thing we’ve tried to do is establish an identity. We want to be something people can point to and say what you are and we want to be known for being physically and mentally tough.”

The Tigers, who have three votes in the preseason poll, play Baylor on Saturday at home.

Eric Morris, Oklahoma State

Mike Gundy, one of football’s most colorful coaches, was fired with a 1-2 record last season and a 170-90 mark overall at his alma mater. Gundy was replaced by a man whose mentor was one of the most unfiltered coaches of all time.

Morris played for the late Mike Leach at Texas Tech and coached for him at Washington State.

“Of all of Mike's guys, I've probably stayed as true to him as anyone day to day," Morris said in a telephone interview. “I psychologically build up these kids and build tough teams, believing in accountability and discipline.”

The Cowboys, who received eight votes in the poll, host Tulsa on Saturday.

Bob Chesney, UCLA

The Bruins bailed on Deshaun Foster with an 0-3 record in his second season and are hoping Bob Chesney is the next Curt Cignetti.

Chesney sustained the success Cignetti had at James Madison before becoming a breakout star in coaching at Indiana. He's got quite a challenge at UCLA, leading a program with three winning records in the 10 years and an 8-16 conference mark in the Big Ten.

Chesney has actively engaged the campus and community in effort to stir up interest in the moribund program and help increase attendance at the Rose Bowl.

“Our record will be a direct result of what we do on a day-to-day basis," said Chesney, who overhauled the roster with 40 transfers including key players from James Madison. "I think our guys understand that and believe in the standards we have, believe in the way we do things, and ultimately hold each other accountable."

UCLA opens on the road Saturday night at California.

Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan State

Fitzgerald and the Spartans seem to be a perfect fit because both have a lot to prove. The former Northwestern coach was fired four years ago due to a hazing scandal. He sued the school and agreed to a settlement after the institution said evidence did not establish any player reported hazing to Fitzgerald or that he condoned or directed hazing.

Michigan State is desperately hoping Fitzgerald, its third coach since 2023, can fix a program that has won five or fewer games in each of the past four seasons.

“I wouldn’t say I have a chip on my shoulder. I wouldn’t say our program has a chip on our shoulder,” Fitzgerald said. “I’d say we have a bag of chips on our shoulder."

The Spartans kick off the Fitzgerald era on Saturday night against Toledo.

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Platner, who won the nomination in June but dropped out in July after Politico reported that a former girlfriend said he sexually assaulted her, had been scheduled to speak Monday at the rally in Ellsworth, near his hometown of Sullivan. He has denied the allegations.

Platner was expected to speak about labor history and the importance of unions in the U.S. Event organizers were urged not to let him speak by the former girlfriend and another woman who has accused him of domestic abuse.

Organizers said Wednesday that the planned speech was drawing negative media attention, and he will instead lead a veterans' march after the rally.

“Graham is not speaking,” said Carol Leonard of Hancock County Activists, a progressive group organizing the rally. “The media frenzy got just too insane, and we became concerned about safety.”

Platner is an oyster farmer and combat veteran who filled theaters around Maine during a barnstorming campaign that resulted in a decisive win over Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her campaign before the primary.

He has no experience in elected office but fashioned a campaign focused on working-class issues such as the high costs of housing and healthcare.

Platner’s campaign was frequently interrupted by scandals, such as the emergence in late May of media reports that he previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women while he was married.

High-profile backers including independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stood by him in the wake of those allegations, but his support crumbled after the sexual assault allegations surfaced.

Platner also had a tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, though he said he did not realize its association with Nazism until he was several weeks into the campaign. He later had the tattoo covered up with a different design.

Platner also apologized for old online comments that included insulting language about women, police and rural residents.

After he dropped out of the race, Democrats held a nominating convention in July in which they chose former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson to run against Collins.

Jackson, who got the Senate nomination after losing a gubernatorial primary, campaigned with Platner in the spring but has distanced himself from him following the sexual assault allegations.

The Ellsworth event is scheduled for midday and will include speakers, live music and the veterans' march.

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His first day comes as the district faces several challenges, including a proposal to potentially close more than two dozen schools because of declining enrollment.

Villalobos says under-enrolled schools can struggle to offer students a wide range of programs.

“When you have schools that are under enrolled, there are programs that are lacking that ultimately students are suffering because they are not receiving them,” Villalobos said.

He said schools operating at full capacity are more likely to have stronger elective programs, including music, art and physical education.

The possible school consolidations are raising concerns among parents.

Villalobos says the list of schools being considered for closure is preliminary. He is pausing community meetings to give the proposal a closer look.

“I wanna make sure that we have a proper set of research and communication, not only for my purposes as the new superintendent coming in, but also making sure that the board members have a better understanding of why those schools were selected, the process in which they were selected,” Villalobos said.

He says community meetings are expected to resume sometime after the second week of October.

Su primer día llega mientras el distrito enfrenta varios desafíos, incluida una propuesta para posiblemente cerrar más de dos docenas de escuelas debido a la disminución de la matrícula.

Villalobos dice que las escuelas con baja matrícula pueden tener dificultades para ofrecer a los estudiantes una amplia variedad de programas.

“Cuando tienes escuelas con baja matrícula, hay programas que hacen falta y, en última instancia, los estudiantes están sufriendo porque no los están recibiendo”, dijo Villalobos.

Dijo que las escuelas que operan a plena capacidad tienen más probabilidades de contar con programas electivos más sólidos, incluidos música, arte y educación física.

Las posibles consolidaciones de escuelas están generando preocupación entre los padres.

Villalobos dice que la lista de escuelas que están siendo consideradas para el cierre es preliminar. Está pausando las reuniones comunitarias para analizar más detenidamente la propuesta.

“Quiero asegurarme de que tengamos un conjunto adecuado de investigaciones y comunicación, no solo para mis propósitos como el nuevo superintendente que está llegando, sino también para asegurarme de que los miembros de la junta tengan una mejor comprensión de por qué se seleccionaron esas escuelas y el proceso mediante el cual fueron seleccionadas”, dijo Villalobos.

Dice que se espera que las reuniones comunitarias se reanuden en algún momento después de la segunda semana de octubre.

La policía arrestó el miércoles a Michelle Luchau-Rebora, de 32 años y residente de Pinecrest, después de que se entregara en el Departamento de Policía de Homestead, que investigó el caso junto con la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Según documentos oficiales, Luchau-Rebora trabajaba como pasante en el centro de tratamiento de alcohol y drogas New Home CORPS, ubicado en 1020 N. Krome Ave., “en calidad de terapeuta de salud mental”, cuando, en junio del año pasado, comenzó una relación sexual con un cliente.

Las autoridades dijeron que Luchau-Rebora mantenía actividad sexual durante las sesiones de terapia mientras se encontraba en el centro y agregaron que también “facilitaba coartadas en su nombre, lo que le permitía obtener autorización para salir del centro restringido y mantener relaciones sexuales en múltiples ocasiones”, en varios lugares, incluida su casa, la casa de su madre en Key Biscayne y Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Según los agentes, Luchau-Rebora “le exigió que no le contara a nadie sobre su relación porque afectaría su capacidad para trabajar como terapeuta”.

Según los informes de arresto de Luchau-Rebora, la víctima reportó la relación inapropiada al centro después de que ella terminara la relación y posteriormente fue despedida.

Ahora enfrenta cargos graves de conducta sexual inapropiada por parte de una psicoterapeuta.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $5,000 USD.

“Esta es una situación lamentable relacionada con acusaciones contra una persona que se desempeñaba como pasante en New Hope CORPS. Al tener conocimiento de dichas acusaciones, New Hope informó de inmediato el asunto a las autoridades y organismos correspondientes, dio por terminada la pasantía de esta persona y cooperó plenamente con la investigación posterior.”

Stephen Alvarez, director ejecutivo de New Hope CORPS.

But the driver of the No. 22 Penske Racing Ford said nothing would make him appear cooler in the eyes of his five children than securing a cameo in the upcoming sequel to “Days of Thunder,” which will star Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway and is set for release in 2028.

“Yeah, are you kidding me — that's like wicked cool dad points to be in ‘Days of Thunder,’” Logano said Wednesday at the NASCAR playoff media day.

Logano isn't the only driver pushing for a role in the follow-up to the 1990 movie starring Cruise as fictional NASCAR driver Cole Trickle.

Chase Briscoe wants in, too.

“Absolutely, I would love to be,” Briscoe said. “I would think they are going to use some of the drivers. Maybe our car will just be in it, but I would love to be in there.”

Kyle Larson thinks it would be cool to be around while the movie is in production, but joked, “I’m not an actor, so I don’t want to make the film worse.”

Filming is scheduled to begin early next year.

Logano said he has watched “Days of Thunder” numerous times, often alongside his children, who love the movie.

NASCAR drivers Richard Petty, Rusty Wallace, Neil Bonnett and Harry Gant all appeared in “Days of Thunder,” so Logano is hopeful he might be able to pull some strings and get a small part in the sequel.

“Hopefully that happens,” Logano said with a laugh. “I wouldn’t say no, that's for sure. Absolutely I'd do it.”

Cruise surprised drivers last weekend when he showed up for the Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway, emerging from a black Chevy Suburban and attending the drivers' council meeting.

He and some of the screenwriters spoke to drivers and team owners to get a feel for their routines and how the sport has changed since the original movie's debut 36 years ago.

“It was really neat,” Briscoe said. “All of a sudden, Tom Cruise walked in and none of us knew that was happening. And he’s just sitting there and talked with us for like 20, 25 minutes about his goal of what to do with the movie and how he wants to paint us out to be.”

Briscoe described Cruise as “super nice.”

Charlotte-based Hendrick Motorsports had an instrumental role in the first movie, helping build, prepare and repair the stock cars used during the production. Trickle’s primary car included a sponsorship from City Chevrolet, a real-life car dealership owned by Rick Hendrick.

It's unclear at this point if Hendrick Motorsports will be involved again, but Larson is hoping it works out.

There is a good chance it will.

Four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, now vice chairman at Hendrick Motorsports, openly lobbied for Cruise to make a “Days of Thunder” sequel. Over the years, Gordon and Cruise have developed a friendship, with Cruise showing up at a 2015 NASCAR banquet to honor the retiring Gordon.

Larson said meeting Cruise was cool, and he can't wait to learn about the moviemaking process.

“He’s a celebrity like I’ve never met before in my life,” Larson said. “You could tell he was different from the rest of us, in a cool way, like really, really cool. He kind of already knows a little bit about us, so I thought that was neat.”

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Dubbed America's best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots.

As Jon Batiste put it in a eulogy on Wednesday, Wilson sounded like the South.

She died in her native Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning, the Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard confirmed.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Cassandra Wilson, the Grammy Award-winning and legendary jazz artist. Cassandra Wilson transitioned peacefully at home, surrounded by family, close friends, and her manager,” said a statement from her manager to jazz radio station WBGO.

From Jackson to the world

Born and raised in Jackson to musician Herman B. Fowlkes and teacher Mary Fowlkes, Wilson showed an early love of music listening to Motown, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. At 6, she started piano lessons. She played clarinet in marching bands. She performed at coffeehouses and in cover bands while studying at Millsaps College and Jackson State University.

In the early ‘80s, she mentored under jazz greats in New Orleans before moving to New York City and joining Steve Coleman’s M-Base Collective — eventually becoming its main vocalist.

Her instantly recognizable voice earned her four Grammy nominations and two wins for best jazz vocal album. Those were in 1997 for “New Moon Daughter” and 2009 for “Loverly.”

In 2015, it was Wilson who gave a special concert at the famed Apollo Theater to commemorate the 100th birthday of blues singer Billie Holiday, the legendary American jazz vocalist who died in New York City at age 44. That same year, Wilson released her last album, “Coming Forth by Day,” an homage to Holiday.

In 2022, Wilson was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, one of the highest honors awarded to jazz musicians in the United States.

Tributes pour in

“She had an unmistakable vocal tone, phrasing and her approach of weaving folkloric, R&B and diasporic music together with experimental and popular genres had a major impact on me,” Batiste said in his tribute to Wilson on Instagram.

“Her Mississippi heritage was always present in everything no matter how expansive her artistry evolved,” he wrote in the caption of a clip showing them together on Brazilian TV in 2009. “She was one of the first people to take me on tour around the world, the great Cassandra Wilson.”

Jackson Mayor John Horhn said the city “has lost an extraordinary native daughter, and the world has lost a singular musical voice.”

“Cassandra Wilson carried the sound, spirit and history of Mississippi with her wherever her music reached,” said the mayor's statement, shared with WJTV. “Her work had rare depth of character and a profound understanding of how music moves people, tells stories and connects generations.”

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Police arrested Michelle Luchau-Rebora, 32, of Pinecrest, on Wednesday after she turned herself in at the Homestead Police Department, which investigated the case alongside the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

According to official documents, Luchau-Rebora was working as an intern at the New Home CORPS alcohol and drug treatment facility, located at 1020 N. Krome Ave., “in the capacity of a mental health therapist”, when, in June of last year, she started a sexual relationship with a client.

Authorities said Luchau-Rebora would engage in sexual activity during therapy sessions while at the facility, adding that she also “facilitated alibis on his behalf, which allowed him authorization to leave the restricted facility and engage in sexual intercourse on multiple occasions,” at several locations, including her home, her mother’s home in Key Biscayne and at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

According to deputies, Luchau-Rebora “demanded that he not tell anyone about their relationship because it will affect her ability to work as a therapist.”

Based off Luchau-Rebora’s arrest reports, the victim reported the inappropriate affair to the facility after she ended the relationship and she was subsequently fired.

She is now facing felony charges of sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist.

As of Wednesday morning, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.

Local 10 News reached out to New Hope CORPS for comment, and they responded with the following statement:

“This is an unfortunate situation involving allegations concerning an individual who was serving as an intern with New Hope CORPS. Upon becoming aware of the allegations, New Hope promptly reported the matter to the appropriate authorities and agencies, terminated the individual’s internship, and fully cooperated with the subsequent investigation.”

Stephen Alvarez, Executive Director of New Hope CORPS

Also, two-time NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard was hit with a $700,000 penalty, president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank was banned for six months and team president of business operations Gillian Zucker was suspended for one year.

The league came down hard on the organization after a nearly yearlong investigation led by an outside law firm.

The Clippers had said multiple times that they had done nothing wrong and expected to be exonerated.

The team maintained that stance after the league's announcement.

“We vehemently reject the NBA’s findings, which are the result of a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative rather than facts and evidence,” the team said in a statement. “What the league told us privately differs from what it announced today publicly, and they have not held themselves close to the standard Commissioner (Adam) Silver set at the start of this investigation to ensure its fairness and accuracy.”

The Clippers said they will “now fight just as hard to demonstrate our innocence. We intend to vigorously challenge these findings and penalties through every avenue available to us and look forward to an ethical and impartial arbitration process.”

The league said it and the players' union agreed to confirm the penalties as final and binding on all parties. It said the outside law firm continues to receive information involving the investigation, and the league “will consider further action as appropriate.”

“I am deeply disappointed by the flagrant violations of our rules and by the Clippers' institutional and leadership failures that led to this misconduct,” Silver said in a statement. “The severity of the penalties reflects the seriousness of the violations.”

The NBA began investigating in September 2025 whether a $28 million endorsement contract between Leonard and Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC — a company that filed for bankruptcy last year — broke league rules, following a report by journalist Pablo Torre. Earlier this year, Aspiration co-founder Joseph Sanberg was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding investors and lenders of at least $248 million.

The league said Ballmer knowingly sought to help Leonard obtain off-court income deals, approved a business deal that he knew was a precondition for Aspiration to enter into an endorsement contract with Leonard, and for failing to create conditions under which his team followed league rules.

“I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle and regret the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family,” Leonard said in a statement issued through his new agent, Harrison Gaines.

The NBA said Leonard, through his former business manager and uncle Dennis Robertson, “violated the circumvention rules by pressuring the Clippers to assist him in obtaining off-court income opportunities, successfully obtaining those opportunities, and failing to reimburse payments by the Clippers for personal expenses.”

“I entered into my contract with the Clippers as well as the agreements in question in good faith, fully committed to fulfilling my obligations and with no knowledge of any intent on anyone’s part to circumvent the salary cap,” Leonard said in his statement.

The league said Ballmer was suspended for “knowingly seeking to help Mr. Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities,” among other issues.

Leonard's trade to the Toronto Raptors has been on hold pending the outcome of the investigation. The Raptors had said they still want Leonard, and he apparently is just as eager to return to the team where he won an NBA title and was Finals MVP in 2019.

“As I return to Toronto, I am focused on what I can control, closing this chapter, and moving forward with a clean slate,” Leonard said in his statement.

The Clippers and their personnel will be under a compliance and monitoring program by the league for five years and Robertson was banned from doing business with NBA teams for five years.

The league penalized Frank for his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Leonard and his family. Zucker was banned for being primarily and directly culpable for the illegal endorsement arrangements and for lying to investigators. Both will lose their salaries during their bans.

It's not the first time the Clippers have run afoul of NBA rules under Ballmer, who bought the team for $2 billion in August 2014.

They were fined $250,000 a year later for violating rules against offering unauthorized business or investment opportunities to players during their courting of free agent DeAndre Jordan. A presentation to him improperly included a $200,000-per-year deal with luxury carmaker Lexus.

Ballmer, 70, was CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

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Medvedev protested a decision Wednesday during his second-round victory at the U.S. Open after the umpire ordered a point to be replayed because two birds sat on top of the net during multiple shots of a rally.

Medvedev led 4-1 in the second set with Sebastian Gorzny serving. Two small birds sat atop the net in Louis Armstrong Stadium during the middle of a point and play continued, with both players hitting multiple shots before Medvedev angled a forehand toward the corner that caused one of the birds to fly up. Umpire Timo Janzen quickly signaled for play to stop as Gorzny began to hit a shot that would not have gotten back into play.

“This is the most ridiculous decisions I’ve seen in my life,” Medvedev said. “This is very bad.”

Medvedev, no stranger to chaotic moments in Armstrong, was asked following his 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 victory where that one ranked.

“This would be definitely in the top five,” he said. “But the thing is that when they came in, I thought, OK, the referee is going to stop the point, and he let it play, like, ‘OK, let’s play.’ And the moment I hit the winner, he was, like, ‘Stop! Stop! Stop!’”

Medvedev lost his first-round match in Armstrong last year, when his meltdown after the umpire allowed Benjamin Bonzi a second serve because a photographer mistakenly entered the court too soon led to a delay of more than six minutes. His antics on the same court in 2019, followed by a postmatch interview in which he encouraged fans to continue raining down boos on him, led to a $9,000 fine.

He quickly let go of Wednesday's incident.

“It’s OK,” the 2021 champion said. “It happens.”

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The giveaway, featuring the Miami Beach Senior High School graduate and sponsored by sports betting site DraftKings, took place at the Sunoco at 15290 NW Seventh Ave. in northwest Miami-Dade’s Biscayne Gardens area.

About 3,500 gallons of gas were made available to local drivers. One of them, Anthony Celestino, said it usually costs him about $100 to fill his tank.

He said the 45-minute wait was “worth it.”

“Come get your 100 bucks,” Celestino said. “It’s free.”

Johnson, known during a portion of his playing days as Chad Ochocinco for his jersey number of 85, spoke to Local 10 News reporter Jolena Esperto.

The former wide receiver said he’d like to make a television career at Local 10 his second act.

“I can actually start tomorrow,” he said, later adding, “I assume I’m pretty OK in front of the camera. I tend to be shy at times, but I’m a hard worker.”

The giveaway was set to stretch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

La entrega, que contó con la participación del graduado de Miami Beach Senior High School y fue patrocinada por el sitio de apuestas deportivas DraftKings, se realizó en la gasolinera Sunoco ubicada en 15290 NW Seventh Ave., en el área de Biscayne Gardens, al noroeste de Miami-Dade.

Unos 3,500 galones de gasolina estuvieron disponibles para los conductores locales. Uno de ellos, Anthony Celestino, dijo que normalmente le cuesta alrededor de $100 USD llenar su tanque.

Dijo que la espera de 45 minutos “valió la pena”.

“Vengan a buscar sus 100 dólares”, dijo Celestino. “Es gratis”.

Johnson, conocido durante parte de su carrera como jugador como Chad Ochocinco por el número 85 de su camiseta, habló con la reportera de Local 10 News, Jolena Esperto.

El ex receptor abierto dijo que le gustaría que una carrera en televisión en Local 10 fuera su segunda etapa profesional.

“De hecho, puedo comenzar mañana”, dijo, y luego agregó: “Supongo que me desenvuelvo bastante bien frente a la cámara. Tiendo a ser tímido a veces, pero trabajo duro”.

La entrega estaba programada de 10 a.m. a 2 p.m.

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Rubio described the alleged corruption scheme during an interview that aired on Fox News Radio on Wednesday. The U.S. Department of State released the transcript.

Nicolás Maduro was “stealing the oil of the people of Venezuela and giving it for free to Cuba. Cuba would take that oil, and they weren’t using it to benefit the Cuban people. They were selling the majority of that oil for cash, and that cash was going into their pockets,” Rubio told Brian Kilmeade, a political commentator with Fox News.

Rubio said the power outages have nothing to do with U.S. sanctions, but with Cuban officials’ mismanagement.

“These blackouts are not new; they’ve been having blackouts for five or seven years. You know why? Because their system doesn’t function; it doesn’t work. They have equipment from the 1940s and ’50s, and they haven’t re-upped it or invested in it at all, because the economic model doesn’t work,” Rubio told Kilmeade.

Rubio described the solution to U.S.-Cuba relations as codified in the federal law that established the U.S. embargo.

“Normalization between our countries cannot fully happen ... unless there’s a functioning democracy, or at least steps towards a functioning democracy. So in many ways, when it comes to Cuba policy, it’s governed not simply by the desires of an administration; it’s governed by law,” Rubio said.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, who assumed the Cuban presidency in 2019, making him the island nation’s 17th president, has denied accusations of corruption and claimed that the U.S. has been waging “psychological warfare” and an “energy blockade” against the Cuban people.

Raúl Castro, who served as Cuba’s president for about a decade and as the defense minister for about 50 years, was hospitalized, according to sources in communication with Local 10 News Cuba Analyst Andy Gomez, the former director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban Studies.

Cuban officials remained silent on Wednesday after the Diario Las Américas, a Miami-based newspaper in Spanish, reported on Tuesday that Castro, 95, who formally retired in April 2021, had suffered a stroke and was on life support.

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• The transcript of Rubio’s interview recorded on Tuesday and aired on Wednesday
• The interview on YouTube
• Rubio’s statement on Nicaragua

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Officers with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department took Malachie Forestal, 40, into custody on a felony charge Tuesday at the Dr. Henry W. Mack/West Little River K-8 Center, located at 2450 NW 84th St. in unincorporated Miami-Dade County’s West Little River neighborhood.

According to an arrest form, Forestal and the victim got into an argument at the school over the victim’s unfinished work, which the victim attributed to the aforementioned weed-whacker failure.

The argument between the two eventually escalated into a physical fight, police said.

According to the victim, he told police that Forestal “spoke to him disrespectfully” when informed the work wasn’t completed, authorities said.

Later that morning, police said the victim began picking up trash in the school’s cafeteria when Forestal became upset about where the victim had left his keys.

When the victim attempted to walk away, police said Forestal blocked his path, so the victim walked around him and into a hallway, after which Forestal followed the victim, “then entered the hallway, struck him, and grabbed him,” according to an arrest report.

Arriving officers spoke to Forestal, who told them “he did not swing at or strike the victim, claiming instead that he only physically grappled with him” after alleging “the victim spoke disrespectfully to him, stating, ‘I’ll f--- you up, b---,’” per official documents.

However, investigators reviewed surveillance video which contradicted Forestal’s account, instead revealing that he “did swing at and grab the victim in the hallway before school staff members intervened and separated them,” according to an arrest form.

Forestal is now facing a felony charge of battery on a specified official or employee.

As of Wednesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

Agentes del Departamento de Policía de las Escuelas de Miami-Dade detuvieron el martes a Malachie Forestal, de 40 años, por un cargo grave en el Dr. Henry W. Mack/West Little River K-8 Center, ubicado en 2450 NW 84th St., en el vecindario de West Little River, en una zona no incorporada del condado Miami-Dade.

Según un formulario de arresto, Forestal y la víctima discutieron en la escuela por un trabajo que la víctima no había terminado, lo que atribuyó a la falla de la desbrozadora mencionada anteriormente.

La discusión entre ambos finalmente se convirtió en una pelea física, dijo la policía.

Según la víctima, dijo a la policía que Forestal “le habló de manera irrespetuosa” cuando le informó que el trabajo no estaba terminado, indicaron las autoridades.

Más tarde esa mañana, la policía dijo que la víctima comenzó a recoger basura en la cafetería de la escuela cuando Forestal se molestó por el lugar donde la víctima había dejado sus llaves.

Cuando la víctima intentó alejarse, la policía dijo que Forestal le bloqueó el paso, por lo que la víctima lo rodeó y entró a un pasillo, tras lo cual Forestal lo siguió, “luego entró al pasillo, lo golpeó y lo agarró”, según un informe de arresto.

Los agentes que llegaron al lugar hablaron con Forestal, quien les dijo que “no lanzó golpes ni golpeó a la víctima, afirmando en cambio que solo forcejeó físicamente con él”, después de alegar que “la víctima le habló de manera irrespetuosa, diciéndole: “Te voy a j—, p—””, según documentos oficiales.

Sin embargo, los investigadores revisaron un video de vigilancia que contradijo la versión de Forestal y reveló que “sí lanzó un golpe y agarró a la víctima en el pasillo antes de que miembros del personal de la escuela intervinieran y los separaran”, según un formulario de arresto.

Forestal ahora enfrenta un cargo grave de agresión contra un funcionario o empleado especificado.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza que figuraba como “por determinar”.

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Davie Fire Rescue personnel responded to the crash in the area of Southwest 130th Avenue and Griffin Road.

Police officers closed the eastbound lane of Griffin Road at Southweest 130th Avenue.

This is a developing story.

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Personal de Davie Fire Rescue respondió al accidente en el área de Southwest 130th Avenue y Griffin Road.

Agentes de policía cerraron el carril en dirección este de Griffin Road a la altura de Southwest 130th Avenue.

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“Saying this plainly: If you are a senior who takes the bus that’s free, this matters to you,” Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert said. “If you are someone who is going to call (the) police and want them to get there in a reasonable time, this matters to you.”

Championing the concept is Gov. Ron DeSantis, which, if approved by at least 60% of voters, would increase the exemption on homesteads ― primary residences owned by a permanent resident.

The ballot measure would raise the homestead exemption for non-school property taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028. It would be subsequently adjusted for inflation.

“It is deceiving. Amendment 3 is deceptive,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. “It is being presented like a simple tax cut, but it doesn’t eliminate the cost of providing services that our communities depend on.”

Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo said the measure has “a lot of unintended consequences.”

“It strikes me like a payday loan,” he said. “You have no idea what the interest is, what the charges are.”

DeSantis has brushed off some concerns from local leaders as scare tactics.

“I think what people are saying, if this passes, ‘Oh my gosh, you are not going to have law enforcement or any services or anything like that,’ and that is just not true,” DeSantis said.

But critics argue that, as a budgetary gut-punch, Amendment 3 would result in local leaders facing tough choices — from cutting services to potentially raising taxes or fees elsewhere to make up for the revenue shortfall. For most municipalities, police and fire comprise a significant portion of local budgets.

“And if communities are forced to raise taxes or fees to make up some of that lost revenue, then renters and small businesses would likely end up paying more, even though they never received the tax break in the first place,” Levine Cava said.

DeSantis has argued cities and counties “are still getting way more property tax revenue than they were getting 7 to 8 years ago.”

A recent report by Miami-Dade County’s property appraiser found that while estimated taxable value countywide increased year-over-year, the annual rate of growth is cooling.

According to the Tax Foundation, homestead property accounts for a sizable share of Florida’s property tax base.

According to the group, if voters approve the proposed constitutional amendment, a legislative fiscal analysis “estimates local government revenues could be reduced by $4.6 billion in the first year and by $8.4 billion in the second year, but the constitutional amendment includes no plan for how to pay for such a large tax cut.”

“There is definitely a theory to the case that, yes, they are definitely not going to be able to raise spending. That is just true,” DeSantis said.

That phrasing from the governor — a “theory to the case” — is in part what alarms some local leaders.

“Without studying how it is going to affect our local communities, I can tell you in our Village of Pinecrest, over the first five years our revenue will be decreased by $15 million, and there is discussion on how will replace that revenue,” Pinecrest Mayor-elect Shannon del Prado said. “Will it come from Tallahassee? If a stop sign is down, will Tallahassee have to come and fix it for us? If we have a pothole, will we have to call Tallahassee to get it repaired?”

According to the Tax Foundation, “While intended to relieve the growing property tax burden on Florida residents, drastically reducing and potentially even eliminating property taxes on the primary residences of most Florida homeowners would shift property tax burdens in highly distortionary ways and make Florida’s tax code far less stable and competitive.”

According to the Florida Policy Institute, “The loss of property tax dollars under Amendment 3 would ultimately shift costs onto renters, consumers and small businesses as local governments look to generate revenue.”

Voters will be able to weigh in on the measure on Nov. 3.

“Para decirlo claramente: si usted es una persona mayor que usa el autobús gratuito, esto le importa”, dijo el comisionado de Miami-Dade Oliver Gilbert. “Si usted es alguien que va a llamar a la policía y quiere que llegue en un tiempo razonable, esto le importa”.

El gobernador Ron DeSantis promueve la propuesta que, si es aprobada por al menos el 60% de los votantes, aumentaría la exención para viviendas principales propiedad de residentes permanentes.

La medida electoral aumentaría la exención de vivienda para impuestos a la propiedad no destinados a las escuelas a $150,000 USD en 2027 y $250,000 USD en 2028. Posteriormente, se ajustaría según la inflación.

“Es engañosa. La Enmienda 3 es engañosa”, dijo la alcaldesa de Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava. “Se presenta como una simple reducción de impuestos, pero no elimina el costo de proporcionar los servicios de los que dependen nuestras comunidades”.

El comisionado de Miami, Damian Pardo, dijo que la medida tiene “muchas consecuencias no intencionadas”.

“Me parece un préstamo de día de pago”, dijo. “No tienes idea de cuáles son los intereses ni cuáles son los cargos”.

DeSantis ha desestimado algunas preocupaciones de líderes locales calificándolas de tácticas para infundir miedo.

“Creo que lo que la gente está diciendo es que, si esto se aprueba, “Dios mío, no habrá fuerzas del orden ni ningún servicio ni nada por el estilo”, y eso simplemente no es cierto”, dijo DeSantis.

Pero los críticos argumentan que, como un duro golpe presupuestario, la Enmienda 3 haría que los líderes locales enfrentaran decisiones difíciles, desde recortar servicios hasta posiblemente aumentar impuestos o tarifas en otros sectores para compensar la pérdida de ingresos. Para la mayoría de los municipios, la policía y los bomberos representan una parte significativa de los presupuestos locales.

“Y si las comunidades se ven obligadas a aumentar impuestos o tarifas para compensar parte de esos ingresos perdidos, entonces los inquilinos y las pequeñas empresas probablemente terminarían pagando más, aunque nunca recibieron la reducción de impuestos en primer lugar”, dijo Levine Cava.

DeSantis ha argumentado que las ciudades y los condados “siguen recibiendo muchos más ingresos por impuestos a la propiedad de los que recibían hace 7 u 8 años”.

Un informe reciente del tasador de propiedades del condado Miami-Dade encontró que, aunque el valor imponible estimado en todo el condado aumentó en comparación con el año anterior, la tasa anual de crecimiento se está desacelerando.

Según la Tax Foundation, las propiedades con exención de vivienda representan una parte considerable de la base de impuestos a la propiedad de Florida.

Según el grupo, si los votantes aprueban la enmienda constitucional propuesta, un análisis fiscal legislativo “estima que los ingresos de los gobiernos locales podrían reducirse en $4.6 mil millones USD durante el primer año y en $8.4 mil millones USD durante el segundo año, pero la enmienda constitucional no incluye ningún plan sobre cómo pagar una reducción de impuestos tan grande”.

“Definitivamente existe una teoría para sostener que, sí, definitivamente no podrán aumentar el gasto. Eso simplemente es cierto”, dijo DeSantis.

Esa expresión del gobernador, una “teoría para sostener el caso”, es en parte lo que alarma a algunos líderes locales.

“Sin estudiar cómo va a afectar a nuestras comunidades locales, puedo decirles que en nuestra Villa de Pinecrest, durante los primeros cinco años, nuestros ingresos disminuirán en $15 millones USD, y se está discutiendo cómo reemplazaremos esos ingresos”, dijo la alcaldesa electa de Pinecrest, Shannon del Prado. “¿Vendrán de Tallahassee? Si una señal de alto se cae, ¿Tallahassee tendrá que venir a repararla por nosotros? Si tenemos un bache, ¿tendremos que llamar a Tallahassee para que lo reparen?”

Según la Tax Foundation, “Aunque pretende aliviar la creciente carga de los impuestos a la propiedad sobre los residentes de Florida, reducir drásticamente y potencialmente incluso eliminar los impuestos a la propiedad sobre las residencias principales de la mayoría de los propietarios de viviendas de Florida trasladaría la carga de los impuestos a la propiedad de maneras altamente distorsionantes y haría que el código tributario de Florida fuera mucho menos estable y competitivo”.

Según el Florida Policy Institute, “La pérdida de ingresos por impuestos a la propiedad bajo la Enmienda 3 terminaría trasladando los costos a los inquilinos, consumidores y pequeñas empresas mientras los gobiernos locales buscan generar ingresos”.

Los votantes podrán pronunciarse sobre la medida el 3 de noviembre.

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Jail records show Fredi Benjamin Darmon is facing one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.

Deputies said they responded July 28 to a reported road rage incident in the 1700 block of Stirling Road.

The victim told deputies he was driving westbound in the 1200 block of Stirling Road when he was cut off by Darmon, who was driving a Mercedes-Benz, according to an arrest report.

The two men argued, and Darmon allegedly pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at the victim, the report states.

Deputies said the victim told them he was “100% certain” the object was a gun and that he feared for his life and safety.

The victim said he pulled out his cellphone and began recording after Darmon displayed the gun, but he did not capture the entire incident, according to the report.

The victim later described the weapon to deputies and flagged down a BSO deputy, the report states.

Deputies searched the area but were unable to locate the vehicle or Darmon at the time, according to the report.

On July 29, the victim identified Darmon from a photo lineup, deputies said.

As of Wednesday, he was no longer listed as an inmate in the Broward County jail records system.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Fredi Benjamin Darmon enfrenta un cargo de asalto agravado con un arma mortal sin intención de matar.

Agentes dijeron que respondieron el 28 de julio a un reporte de un incidente de ira al volante en la cuadra 1700 de Stirling Road.

La víctima dijo a los agentes que conducía hacia el oeste por la cuadra 1200 de Stirling Road cuando Darmon, quien conducía un Mercedes-Benz, se le atravesó, según un informe de arresto.

Los dos hombres discutieron y Darmon presuntamente sacó un arma y apuntó directamente a la víctima, indica el informe.

Agentes dijeron que la víctima les aseguró que estaba “100% seguro” de que el objeto era un arma y que temió por su vida y seguridad.

La víctima dijo que sacó su teléfono celular y comenzó a grabar después de que Darmon mostró el arma, pero no captó todo el incidente, según el informe.

Posteriormente, la víctima describió el arma a los agentes y detuvo a un agente de la BSO, indica el informe.

Agentes registraron el área, pero en ese momento no pudieron localizar el vehículo ni a Darmon, según el informe.

El 29 de julio, la víctima identificó a Darmon en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfica, dijeron agentes.

Hasta el miércoles, ya no figuraba como recluso en el sistema de registros de la cárcel del condado Broward.

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For decades, Valdes, 61, also known as Fernando Armando Valdes Perez, pretended to oppose communism on the island, according to the feds.

Cuba had tasked him with “infiltrating and reporting on Cuban exile and dissident communities in Latin America and the United States as early as the mid-1990s,” according to Nestor Yglesias, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman.

“Valdes gained the trust and confidence of late anti-Castro dissident Luis Posada Carriles and remained in close proximity to other well-known Cuban and Cuban American figures in South Florida until his arrest,” Yglesias wrote in a statement released on Wednesday afternoon.

Valdes, a Cuban national and Guatemalan citizen, had permanent U.S. residency status, according to Yglesias. It was done fraudulently, according to Matthew Elliston, the director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations’ Miami Field Office.

 “Individuals who conceal ties to foreign intelligence services and exploit our immigration system pose a serious threat to the integrity of that system and to our national security,” Elliston said in a statement. “ICE will continue working with our federal partners to identify, arrest and remove those who obtain immigration benefits through fraud.”

ICE worked with FBI Miami and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to arrest Valdes on July 10 at Miami International Airport, and he was deported on Aug. 7, according to Yglesias.

“Following his arrest, Valdes was processed, placed in removal proceedings and removed,” Yglesias wrote in a statement.

Durante décadas, Valdes, de 61 años, también conocido como Fernando Armando Valdes Perez, fingió oponerse al comunismo en la isla, según las autoridades federales.

Cuba le había encomendado “infiltrarse e informar sobre las comunidades de exiliados y disidentes cubanos en América Latina y Estados Unidos desde mediados de la década de 1990”, según Nestor Yglesias, portavoz del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE).

“Valdes se ganó la confianza del fallecido disidente anticastrista Luis Posada Carriles y permaneció muy cerca de otras figuras cubanas y cubanoamericanas conocidas en el sur de Florida hasta su arresto”, escribió Yglesias en un comunicado divulgado la tarde del miércoles.

Valdes, ciudadano cubano y guatemalteco, tenía estatus de residente permanente en Estados Unidos, según Yglesias. Lo obtuvo de manera fraudulenta, según Matthew Elliston, director de la Oficina de Operaciones de Detención y Deportación de ICE en Miami.

“Las personas que ocultan vínculos con servicios de inteligencia extranjeros y se aprovechan de nuestro sistema de inmigración representan una grave amenaza para la integridad de ese sistema y para nuestra seguridad nacional”, dijo Elliston en un comunicado. “ICE continuará trabajando con nuestros socios federales para identificar, arrestar y deportar a quienes obtengan beneficios migratorios mediante fraude”.

ICE trabajó con el FBI de Miami y la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos para arrestar a Valdes el 10 de julio en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, y fue deportado el 7 de agosto, según Yglesias.

“Tras su arresto, Valdes fue procesado, puesto en proceso de deportación y deportado”, escribió Yglesias en un comunicado.

Rubio describió el presunto esquema de corrupción durante una entrevista con Fox News Radio el miércoles. El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos publicó la transcripción.

Nicolás Maduro estaba “robando el petróleo del pueblo de Venezuela y entregándoselo gratis a Cuba. Cuba recibía ese petróleo y no lo utilizaba para beneficiar al pueblo cubano. Vendían la mayor parte de ese petróleo a cambio de dinero en efectivo, y ese dinero iba a parar a sus bolsillos”, declaró Rubio a Brian Kilmeade, comentarista político de Fox News.

Rubio afirmó que los cortes de electricidad no tienen nada que ver con las sanciones de Estados Unidos, sino con la mala gestión de los funcionarios cubanos.

“Estos apagones no son algo nuevo; llevan cinco o siete años padeciéndolos. ¿Saben por qué? Porque su sistema no funciona, simplemente no sirve. Tienen equipos de las décadas de 1940 y 1950, y no los han renovado ni han invertido en ellos en absoluto, porque el modelo económico no funciona”, declaró Rubio a Kilmeade.

Rubio señaló que la solución para las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba está establecida en la legislación federal que instauró el embargo estadounidense.

“La normalización entre nuestros países no puede producirse plenamente […] a menos que exista una democracia funcional, o al menos se den pasos hacia una democracia funcional. Así que, en muchos sentidos, la política hacia Cuba no se rige simplemente por los deseos de una administración; está regida por la ley”, afirmó Rubio.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, quien asumió la presidencia de Cuba en 2019, convirtiéndose en el decimoséptimo presidente de la nación insular, ha negado las acusaciones de corrupción y ha afirmado que Estados Unidos libra una “guerra psicológica” y mantiene un “bloqueo energético” contra el pueblo cubano.

Raúl Castro, quien se desempeñó como presidente de Cuba durante aproximadamente una década y como ministro de Defensa durante cerca de 50 años, fue hospitalizado, según fuentes que mantienen comunicación con Andy Gomez, analista de temas cubanos de Local 10 News y exdirector del Instituto de Estudios Cubanos de la Universidad de Miami.

Los funcionarios cubanos permanecieron en silencio el miércoles después de que Diario Las Américas, un periódico en español con sede en Miami, informara el martes que Castro, de 95 años, quien se retiró formalmente en abril de 2021, había sufrido un derrame cerebral y se encontraba conectado a equipos de soporte vital.

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• La transcripción de la entrevista de Rubio
• La entrevista en YouTube
• La declaración de Rubio sobre Nicaragua

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His death became intertwined with the killing of Christopher Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G., six months later. Together, the deaths of two of rap’s biggest stars came to symbolize a combustible era commonly reduced to three words: East versus West. The mystery was compounded by reluctant witnesses, distrust of law enforcement and questions about why police in Las Vegas and Compton hadn't pursued charges until now.

Now, a Las Vegas jury has delivered something that seemed elusive for decades: a conviction.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon in Shakur’s 1996 killing. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours. Davis was the only person ever charged in the case.

The verdict provides a legal answer to one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries. But after decades of books, documentaries and podcasts on theories about Shakur’s death, another question remains: Can a conviction bring closure — and if so, for whom?

The emotion of that long wait was visible in the courtroom on Monday. Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur, cried after the verdict was read and reached back toward someone sitting behind her. She and other members of Shakur’s family later embraced prosecutors.

When Davis was charged in 2023, Shakur's sister called the development “a pivotal moment,” while making clear that accountability remained the goal.

“It’s important to me that the world, the country, the justice system, and our people acknowledge the gravity of the passing of this man, my brother, my mother’s son, my father’s son,” she said at the time.

Prosecutor Binu Palal echoed that distinction after Monday’s verdict.

“To all of us, to me, Tupac Shakur was an icon or an idea,” Palal said. “But to the family, Tupac Shakur was a brother, a son, a cousin, a loved person ripped from them 30 years ago.”

Can a verdict bring closure?

Chuck Creekmur, co-founder of the hip-hop website AllHipHop, said he believes Shakur’s family may finally find some measure of closure, but he expects questions and theories surrounding the rapper’s death to persist.

“I thought it was a closing chapter,” he said. “But now, I realize I’m pretty convinced it’s just opening another chapter.”

For some, the verdict may provide a sense of resolution — or at least accountability — but closure might still be out of reach.

On “The Breakfast Club” Tuesday, Charlamagne tha God also reflected on what the verdict could mean for Shakur’s family.

“Nothing brings your loved one back,” he said. “All you think about is what his life would have been like the past 30 years, and you’re constantly reminded of him because he’s such an iconic figure. So you’ll never truly have, you know, peace.”

It was never simply about East vs. West

The prosecution’s case against Davis centered on an individual act of retaliation rather than a sweeping, coast-to-coast battle between gangs and their associated record labels.

Hours before Shakur was shot on Sept. 7, 1996, he and members of his entourage were captured on surveillance video beating Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, inside the MGM Grand after a Mike Tyson fight. Prosecutors said Davis then obtained a gun, gathered a group that included Anderson and went looking for Shakur and Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight.

Davis was not accused of firing the fatal shots. Prosecutors argued he provided the weapon and helped orchestrate the attack.

For Creekmur, the trial exposed how inadequate the familiar East-West label has always been. He pointed to the fractured friendships, gang affiliations, street politics, business interests and media amplification.

“This trial really peeled back the layers on how deep this really goes, and how far from hip-hop it really was,” he said. “It just really wasn’t about hip-hop at all.”

Creekmur said that if the conflict had truly been about hip-hop, the rivalry would have played out through diss records rather than escalating into street violence.

“If it was hip-hop, it would have ended with a few songs,” he said.

‘They just happened to be on two different coasts’

For those who lived through the era, the reality was more complicated than the East-West label suggested. Shakur was born in New York, maintained friendships there and had close relationships that didn’t fit neatly along geographic lines.

“That was Bad Boy and Death Row,” said veteran hip-hop journalist Dave “Davey D” Cook, who wrote about Shakur during his years in Oakland. “They just happened to be on two different coasts.”

The trial presented a collision of personal feuds, record-label allegiances and evolving street-gang relationships. Shakur and Death Row had associations with Mob Piru, while Davis was a leader in the South Compton Crips.

“I think the public missed the nuance and the accuracy of what was really going on,” he said. “It was being sensationalized on radio and in magazines.”

He remembers how charged the atmosphere became in the '90s. After Shakur’s death, Wallace appeared on a Bay Area radio program and said, “We’re not that powerful, yo.” Some listeners heard the last word as “yet,” Cook recalled, interpreting the remark as provocative.

Years later, he listened again and heard it differently.

“Tensions were so high, and there was so much angst in the air that we didn’t even hear him clearly,” he said.

Keffe D’s own words caught up with him

Davis, 63, spent years publicly talking about a killing that was never prosecuted — and those words ultimately became central to the case against him.

Prosecutors pointed to his accounts in interviews with investigators, documentaries, online appearances and his 2019 memoir, “Compton Street Legend.” His defense argued the stories were exaggerated or fabricated for money and notoriety.

“The strength of our case was Mr. Davis … and his mouth,” Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said after the verdict.

Charlamagne made a similar point while giving Davis “Donkey of the Day” on the popular radio show.

“If you give a man enough microphones, he’ll create Exhibit A,” Charlamagne said. “There was a time when investigators had to interrogate suspects. Now all you gotta do is give a brother a podcast setup.”

But Charlamagne saw a larger lesson in Davis’ decades of public storytelling.

“Sometimes surviving consequences for too long convinces you that consequences no longer exist,” he said.

What mysteries remain after the verdict?

Wallace’s 1997 killing remains unsolved, while speculation about who else might have been involved in Shakur's killing persists, along with more outlandish theories questioning whether he died at all.

For prosecutors, the verdict closes the case — at least for now.

“At this point, we don’t believe we have sufficient evidence to charge anyone else with the death of Tupac Shakur,” Wolfson said.

Creekmur expects it to be harder to put some larger questions to rest.

“The fact that there were no convictions, it allowed conspiracy theories to fester,” he said, “just like an open wound.”

Creekmur said the verdict may provide “a certain kind of closure,” though he doubts it will settle all of the questions surrounding Shakur's death.

Cook offered a similar assessment.

“I think that’s one chapter in this larger narrative that has been closed,” he said.

Sevierville, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, will also be placing markers throughout the city for a self-guided walking tour of places that were important to the singer, actor and philanthropist. She grew up in rural Sevier County and transformed the theme park into the county's largest employer and a major tourist destination.

In a press conference held Wednesday, park officials announced plans to add a new character to the park called the Dream Maker, inspired by Parton's Imagination Library, as well as adding a waterfall and stained glass windows to a chapel inside the park to reflect her deep faith.

The park will add kiosks for visitors to share their thoughts about Parton and new additions are also coming to The Dolly Parton Experience, a multibuilding section that includes exhibits about her life and career.

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They said it happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Northwest Seventh Street and 12th Avenue.

According to police, officers responded to the scene after receiving reports of a crash involving an underage pedestrian.

Miami Fire Rescue crews rushed the girl to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in serious but stable condition, authorities said.

Police did not say whether the driver would be facing any charges, but did indicate that the investigation remained active and ongoing.

Las autoridades informaron que el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 2:30 p. m. de este miércoles, en la zona de Northwest Seventh Street y 12th Avenue.

Según la policía, los agentes acudieron al lugar después de recibir reportes de un accidente en el que estaba involucrada una peatona menor de edad.

Paramédicos del Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate de Miami trasladaron de urgencia a la menor al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde se encuentra en condición grave pero estable, informaron las autoridades.

La policía no indicó si el conductor enfrentará algún cargo, pero señaló que la investigación continúa activa y en curso.

This may be the 45-year-old's best chance based on his overall body of work this season.

Hamlin enters NASCAR's modified 10-race playoff format known as “The Chase” with a 25-point cushion over second-place Ryan Blaney and an even bigger advantage over the rest of the 16-driver field after finishing the regular season with the most driver points.

The new format — which was last used in 2013 — is designed to reward performance throughout the entire season and provide a larger sample size to determine a champion. Fans have been clamoring for its return because of its simplicity.

And the drivers love it.

Hamlin, speaking at Wednesday's playoff media day in Charlotte, called it a “giant leap forward in crowning a champion."

“I think all of the drivers would tell you it’s a more fair way to do it,” Hamlin added.

Chase Briscoe agreed.

He said the format feels like it will produce a more “legitimate” champion.

“I'm not saying the past champions weren't legit, but before, you could win the first 35 races and go to Phoenix (for the season championship) and blow up and finish fourth in points,” Briscoe said. “It’s not going to be like that anymore. I think this says so much more about your body of work.”

Unlike previous years, there will be no elimination rounds. That means no points “reset” midway through the playoffs.

The champion will be determined by which driver amasses the most points over the final 10 races.

Hamlin begins with 2,100 points, 25 more than Blaney and 35 better than third-place Tyler Reddick based on the new format.

Fourth place starts 40 points behind Hamlin, fifth is 45 points back and so on in descending 5-point increments down to 16th-place Ryan Preece, who starts 100 points behind.

Kyle Larson, who starts in seventh place, won last year's Cup championship. But even he is good with the change.

“For the sport, I'm happy with the change for sure, and I think this format has proven to be very exciting," Larson said referring to Preece's dramatic win last weekend at Daytona, which allowed him to qualify for The Chase.

Larson is more concerned with catching up to the speed of the Toyota cars, which have been running faster all season than the Fords and Chevrolets. Of the top six cars entering the playoffs, five are Toyotas.

One notable change to this year's format is that wins are weighted heavier.

Drivers get 55 points for a race win, a substantial increase from the previous structure of 40 points.

The remaining positions pay the same points as the regular season (35 for second, 34 for third, 33 for fourth, etc.) and stage points also are the same (10 points for first, nine points for second, eight points for third, etc.).

While wins are rewarded, consistency is the key to winning a championship, Christopher Bell believes.

“The previous format and system, it was just three races at a time,” Bell said. "And if you had a bad race, it’s like just survive. Just gotta get above the cut line. Once you get above the cut line, you're like, ‘OK, we’re in great shape now.' Whereas now, there are no freebies. You can’t have a bad race and get a reset in three weeks. So, you’re going to have to perform every week.”

The Chase begins Saturday at Darlington.

Hamlin and Joey Logano are the only drivers still on the Cup Series circuit who were around the last time NASCAR used this playoff format 13 years ago.

Logano said there isn't much he can take overall from the experience. But he said it harkens back to something seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson once told him.

“Jimmie would say, 'It's 10 weeks of hell,'” said Logano, who is going for his fourth Cup title after a late-season push to make the playoffs. "And it's pretty true. It's a grueling 10 weeks. But hey, there is a pretty cool trophy at the end of it.

“The feeling of winning the whole thing is worth the grind,” he added with a smile.

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A mass exodus of 10 schools in 15 months left the Pac-12 in tatters, dimming the future of a conference that was once the proud home of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cheryl Miller, Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson, Lisa Leslie, Jackie Joyner-Kersey and many more.

League brass and the two remaining schools worked behind scenes to pull the conference out of a death spiral and now, more than four years since the first two schools left, the Pac-12 is back as something of a startup.

“We’re literally launching a new league,” Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould said. “We've been doing all the things that are already established in a traditional conference, but we wound ours down. So now we’re winding it back up and it’s a fun time.”

The new version of this venerable old conference officially launched on July 1, when seven new members joined Oregon State and Washington State. The soccer, volleyball and cross-country seasons kicked off last month.

Next gen Pac-12 kicks off in full force this week with the start of the football season.

Newcomer Fresno State gets it started at No. 14 Southern California on Thursday night with all eight teams, capped by Washington State's Apple Cup rivalry game against former Pac-12 member No. 17 Washington on Sunday.

“It's really exciting,” said Kirby Moore, the first-year Washington State coach and Washington state native. “Very few times do you get to be a part of history and be the first in the Pac-12 Conference coming back together.”

There were plenty of doubts it would ever happen.

Losing USC and UCLA in 2022 was a big blow to the conference, yet one it could possibly recover from. Once eight more schools bolted over a span of about six weeks, it appeared as if the lights would go out on “Pac-12 After Dark.”

The once-powerful conference jokingly became the “Pac-2,” but no one with remaining ties to the league was laughing as staff were laid off and the future looked bleak. There were lots of discussions and legalities to sort through over money for the former members as well as complications over new membership

“I guess when I accepted this position in February of 2024, the idea or possibility that the conference wouldn't survive was certainly swirling in the back of my mind because there was just so much uncertainty at that time,” Gould said.

Within a few months, the conference began showing signs of life.

The Pac-12 worked out a deal for Oregon State and Washington State to play Mountain West Conference schools for the 2024 season, with deals for other sports in separate scheduling agreements.

Behind the scenes, the league was working on a re-expansion.

Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State became the first new members in late 2024 after bolting the Mountain West. Utah State joined the Pac-12 not long after that and powerhouse Gonzaga gave the league a higher national profile by joining as a basketball-only member.

Texas State's addition in 2025 was the final piece, giving the conference an FBS-mandated eight football schools.

“Things shifted very, very fast,” Gould said.

There were still hurdles to clear.

The Pac-12 and Mountain West became embroiled in legal wrangling over “poaching” fees and three of the conference's new members filed a separate lawsuit over exit fees from the Mountain West. Both lawsuits were settled earlier this year.

Gould and the Pac-12 also had to negotiate new media rights deals, a massive stumbling block under previous commissioners that, in large part, led to the exodus to other leagues. The Pac-12 worked that out by negotiating deals with CBS, USA Network and The CW, ensuring all its football games and many basketball games will be on linear TV — meaning no more fumbling through the channels to find "Pac-12 After Dark."

“We are super, super fortunate that we have that kind of reach and that kind of accessibility for all of our football games and the majority of our basketball games, because it’s more important than ever, given that we’re launching this new league,” Gould said.

The Pac-12 also had to address its College Football Playoff chances.

As a Power Five (now Four) league, the conference would have had an automatic bid under the new 12-team format. Because the re-imagined conference dropped into the Group of Six conference category, the trajectory to a playoff spot is no longer a straight line.

The Pac-12 hopes to boost its CFP chances by scheduling “flex” games during the final week of the regular season, creating the best possible rematches to enhance its postseason chances.

“We’ve gotten a lot of other conferences that have said, ‘Hey, that’s a really interesting way of thinking about this opportunity or solution,’” Oregon State athletic director Kevin Griffin said “There may be some challenges as we actually execute, but what I’m most proud of as a conference is the ability to think differently and have a different type of solution.”

The Pac-12 spent four years searching for solutions to prevent the conference's extinction.

The result is an old conference with a new look and feel.

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MCSO Sheriff Rick Ramsay said major crimes detectives, working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, identified David Allen Snyder, formerly of Key West, as the man responsible for the 1973 killings of sisters Marguerite “Maggie” Jenkins, 18, and Mary Jenkins, 16.

He said Snyder died of natural causes Oct. 28, 2008, in Mountain View, Idaho. He was 57.

The sisters had traveled from New Jersey to the Florida Keys for vacation in April 1973. according to Ramsay.

Investigators said they were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island on May 2, 1973. The next day, a resident discovered their bodies in a wooded area about 100 yards from U.S. 1 near Mile Marker 99.5, according to Ramsay.

Investigators determined the sisters had been severely beaten and appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds. The case remained unsolved for decades, with investigators unable to identify a suspect.

A breakthrough came years later as investigators revisited evidence using newer forensic technology.

In 2018, sheriff’s detectives and FDLE developed additional markers from a partial male DNA profile recovered from a bloodstain on one of the victims’ underwear, according to Ramsay.

Ramsay said updated profile was entered into a national DNA database, but it did not produce a match at the time.

Authorities said FDLE investigators continued working the case and in 2023 began using genetic genealogy and family-tree research alongside DNA databases. That work eventually pointed investigators toward Snyder.

Earlier this year, authorities obtained a DNA sample from one of Snyder’s relatives and submitted it to the FDLE crime laboratory for testing. The laboratory results confirmed Snyder as the source of the DNA profile, according to MCSO officials.

Investigators also determined that Snyder lived in several locations in Key West between 1972 and 1974, placing him in the area around the time of the killings.

Ramsay credited the investigators and FDLE with pursuing the case despite the passage of more than 50 years.

“I want to thank the Detectives of our Major Crimes Division for their hard work alongside the FDLE in bringing closure to the family of these two victims,” Ramsay said in a statement. “This case highlights the importance of our law enforcement partnership with the FDLE and our commitment to solving crimes no matter how long it may take.”

El sheriff del condado de Monroe, Rick Ramsay, informó que detectives de la División de Delitos Mayores, en colaboración con el Departamento de Aplicación de la Ley de Florida (FDLE), identificaron a David Allen Snyder, quien anteriormente residió en Key West, como el responsable de los asesinatos ocurridos en 1973 de las hermanas Marguerite “Maggie” Jenkins, de 18 años, y Mary Jenkins, de 16.

Ramsay señaló que Snyder murió por causas naturales el 28 de octubre de 2008 en Mountain View, Idaho. Tenía 57 años.

Las hermanas habían viajado desde Nueva Jersey hasta los Cayos de Florida para pasar unas vacaciones en abril de 1973, según Ramsay.

Los investigadores indicaron que fueron vistas por última vez pidiendo aventón en Stock Island el 2 de mayo de 1973. Al día siguiente, un residente encontró sus cuerpos en una zona boscosa, a unos 90 metros de la carretera U.S. 1, cerca del marcador de milla 99.5, de acuerdo con Ramsay.

Los investigadores determinaron que las hermanas habían sido brutalmente golpeadas y aparentemente también habían sufrido heridas de bala. El caso permaneció sin resolver durante décadas, ya que los investigadores no lograron identificar a ningún sospechoso.

Años después se produjo un avance importante cuando los investigadores volvieron a analizar las evidencias utilizando tecnologías forenses más modernas.

En 2018, detectives de la Oficina del Sheriff y especialistas del FDLE lograron obtener marcadores adicionales a partir de un perfil parcial de ADN masculino recuperado de una mancha de sangre encontrada en la ropa interior de una de las víctimas, según Ramsay.

Ramsay explicó que el perfil actualizado fue ingresado en una base de datos nacional de ADN, pero en ese momento no se encontró ninguna coincidencia.

Las autoridades señalaron que los investigadores del FDLE continuaron trabajando en el caso y, en 2023, comenzaron a utilizar técnicas de genealogía genética e investigación de árboles genealógicos en combinación con bases de datos de ADN. Ese trabajo finalmente condujo a los investigadores hasta Snyder.

A principios de este año, las autoridades obtuvieron una muestra de ADN de uno de los familiares de Snyder y la enviaron al laboratorio criminalístico del FDLE para su análisis. Los resultados confirmaron que Snyder era la fuente del perfil de ADN, según funcionarios de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Monroe.

Los investigadores también determinaron que Snyder vivió en distintos domicilios de Key West entre 1972 y 1974, lo que confirma que se encontraba en la zona durante la época en que ocurrieron los asesinatos.

Ramsay reconoció el trabajo de los investigadores y del FDLE por continuar con el caso a pesar de que habían transcurrido más de 50 años.

“Quiero agradecer a los detectives de nuestra División de Delitos Mayores por su arduo trabajo junto con el FDLE para brindar respuestas y un cierre a la familia de estas dos víctimas”, declaró Ramsay. “Este caso pone de manifiesto la importancia de nuestra colaboración con el FDLE y nuestro compromiso de resolver los crímenes sin importar cuánto tiempo haya transcurrido.”

They were given advice on how to eat and hydrate, what to do after arriving and the best options of when to sleep on the approximately 8,000-mile flight that will take about 16 hours and cross the international dateline that will make a Wednesday departure turn into a Friday arrival.

Niners defensive lineman and avid world traveler Keion White has a simple approach.

“I don’t know if you can OD on melatonin, but I’m going to try,” he said. “Take five melatonins, go to sleep on the plane. As soon as I wake up, I’m taking five more. Just keep rolling like that.”

While some members of the 49ers organization, including coach Kyle Shanahan, have been lamenting the season-opening trip, White is embracing it after already playing games in Germany and London earlier in his career.

He plans to watch TikTok before he arrives to get ideas of what to do and then get on public transportation and explore after team meetings on the first day to help make sure he stays up all day and gets onto a normal sleep schedule as quickly as possible.

“I’m an experience guy,” he said. “If I’m up, walking around, just going to go do stuff, I’ll be up. Just go explore. We will have meetings and everything like that, but once I do that, I’m out exploring Melbourne and getting around town.”

Both the 49ers and Rams studied the process intently in the offseason, even sending advance staffers to Australia to report back on how long it took to adjust to the time change. But they came up with far different answers leading up to the game on Sept. 11.

The Niners will leave Wednesday night in California, arrive in Melbourne on Friday morning and then take time to adjust to the new time zone. They will hold a light practice on Saturday, take Sunday off and then have a normal stretch of three practices on Monday through Wednesday before playing the opener on Friday morning.

They will leave right after the game and are expected to land back in the Bay Area on Friday afternoon. They then will be able to take the weekend off before preparing for the Week 2 game against Miami on Sept. 20.

“It’s a big adjustment on the body,” Shanahan said. “So, the recommendation for everybody has been to tell us when to go, and it’s made a lot of sense. I know how our players feel also. I was a little bit on the fence. Science wasn’t and what I was reported on and our players weren’t at all. So that helped me get off the fence.”

The Rams consulted with their own scientists and came up with the opposite approach. They will do most of their practice at home and aren’t expected to arrive in Australia until about 24 hours before the game, hoping the short stay leads to no jet lag.

The better option might not be known until after the game.

The approach by the Niners has made the past few days a whirlwind. The players got the weekend off after playing the final exhibition game on Thursday night in Las Vegas and resumed practice on Monday — the day after the roster was reduced to 53 players.

The front office had to make those cuts, put together a practice squad and figure out which players would be healthy for Week 1 to make sure they had the correct roster in place before departing.

“There’s a lot behind the scenes,” general manager John Lynch said. “Our logistics folks, our folks that work in the cafe, have just gone to tremendous lengths, our health and performance team, to make sure that we’re giving our players the best opportunity to feel right when they play down there in Australia. Everything from getting visas, which much more complicated than I ever knew, and they’ve been outstanding. ... Hats off to those guys for pulling off a monumental task, and it’s not done yet.”

Lynch said he had to make sure all the practice squad players he wanted to sign had passports with one needing his parents to send it overnight. It was an even bigger scramble for offensive lineman Jarrett Patterson, who was acquired in a trade from Houston on Sunday.

“They were like, hey, do you have a passport? We're leaving for Australia in three days,” he said. “I was like, ‘Whoa!’ It's obviously a quick turnaround getting here a couple hours after I found out and now getting ready for Australia.”

But in all, the players are welcoming the challenge and opportunity. Cornerback Deommodore Lenoir said he'd travel 30 hours if needed to play in an NFL game and rookie De'Zhaun Stribling has a must-see item on his to-do list before making his debut.

“I kind of want to see a kangaroo, just because," he said. "To see how big they are.”

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In court papers filed Tuesday, the Justice Department supported OpenAI's argument that training its models on troves of writings found on the internet is protected by the “fair use” doctrine of copyright law.

The Justice Department wrote that “the creative possibilities and public benefits” of training large language models on such content “far outweigh any competitive harm.”

It told the court that siding with The New York Times and other publishers who argue OpenAI's practice violates copyright law would thwart “creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility.”

“The entire reason that AI models are rapidly reshaping the economy and national security is that they help people, including those working in creative fields, make things and get things done,” Justice Department attorneys wrote. The “creative benefits often overlap with national security interests,” the department added, because AI models can “help national security officials analyze and draw inferences from (unprotected) real-world facts such as those conveyed in New York Times articles.”

The Times criticizes the government's position

The lawsuit, and the government's involvement in it, are symptoms of something happening all over the world, particularly in recent months: the rush to keep up with the rapid rise of AI tools over the past five years. In many cases, disputes about AI and its practices are winding their way through courts that still lack precedents — and in some cases language — to match the subject matter.

The New York Times said Wednesday that the administration “is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole.”

“Both AI and creators can thrive — AI companies simply need to pay fairly for the content that makes their products possible, as copyright law requires,” Graham James, a spokesperson for the paper, said in an emailed statement. “The Administration’s proposal to let companies take that content without permission or compensation would undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on, and which AI needs to function.”

The New York Times says OpenAI threatens its financial livelihood

The Times sued OpenAI in 2023, arguing that the company was threatening its journalists’ livelihoods by effectively stealing billions of dollars’ worth of their work, in some cases spitting out The Times’ material verbatim to people seeking answers from generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT. The threat to news publications became even more apparent when, in 2024, Google introduced AI-generated summaries at the top of online search results, cutting off the advertising dollars that come when people click a link to the information’s original source.

The Times has since been joined by other news organizations, including MediaNews Group-owned newspapers the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, digital media publisher Ziff Davis and the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. The company has been sued by several writers — including comedian Sarah Silverman — who say their books were ingested to train OpenAI’s AI models without their permission.

The Times’ arguments differ from those brought by book authors. In its original lawsuit and an amended complaint filed earlier this year, it focused on the unfair competition of companies that “seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.”

Cousins ran the first-team offense nearly the entire preseason with rookie and No. 1 overall draft pick Fernando Mendoza working mostly with the second unit.

The Raiders kept three quarterbacks; Aidan O'Connell returns for his fourth season.

“I’m really happy with all three of our quarterbacks," Kubiak said. "Kirk’s had a really good offseason, a very good (training) camp, and he’s earned it.”

The Raiders signed Cousins, who enters his 15th season, to a two-year deal with $20 million in guaranteed money. His previous club, the Atlanta Falcons, is responsible for $8.7 million this season.

Acquiring Cousins was a way to ease Mendoza into the NFL without expecting him to try to lead the offense right away. But Cousins wasn't brought to Las Vegas to simply be a mentor. He has experience in Kubiak's system and is expected to carry what has been a positive training camp into the season.

He is 88-77-2 as a starter with Washington, Minnesota and Atlanta. His greatest success came in 2022 when Cousins quarterbacked the Vikings to a 13-4 record.

“I think you can see the constant things in ... film study,” Kubiak said. "Where I’ve seen him grow is in his leadership and his command.”

Though this announcement was hardly a surprise, it's unclear when and if Mendoza will see the field this season. The Heisman Trophy winner, who also led Indiana to the national championship, showed flashes of why the Raiders took him at the top of the draft. He also exhibited the inconsistencies of someone who has never taken a snap in an NFL regular-season game.

Now the challenge will be to make sure Mendoza gets the necessary preparation for when he is called to go into a game. That won't be easy with Cousins receiving the first-team repetitions as the Raiders go into regular-season mode.

“Every player that is not starting the first game, then they’re helping us on the (scout) team,” Kubiak said. "We’re just trying to find every edge we can find to continue to get him better and his teammates better.”

When asked if Mendoza would play this season, Kubiak was succinct.

“We'll get to Miami first,” he said.

Jeanty might play in opener

Running back Ashton Jeanty, who suffered an injury in practice Aug. 23, could be ready to go in the opener.

When asked if he was optimistic that Jeanty would play against the Dolphins, a smiling Kubiak said, “Yes."

Should Jeanty not be ready, rookie Mike Washington Jr. will start. He had a promising preseason, and general manager John Spytek said Kubiak “stood on a table” to argue that Washington should be drafted in the fourth round.

“I’ve been wrong about a lot of players too, and Mike is a rookie, hasn’t played one game,” Kubiak said. "Our scouting department has done a phenomenal job bringing in these young guys, and I know we talk a lot about Mike, but our entire draft class, I’m extremely excited about. We’re counting on those guys.”

Rookie DE out for the season

Defensive end Keyron Crawford, selected in the third round this year, is out for the season because of an Achilles injury. He worked his way into the rotation and appeared set to receive significant playing time.

“He’s come a long way,” Kubiak said. "He’s an extremely hard worker, a guy that has a bright future ahead of him, and he’ll continue to develop even this year. When he’s rehabbing, he’s going to be dialed into the meetings and he’ll still improve. But I’m excited about getting him healthy for next season.”

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The No. 3 seed needed only 56 minutes on Wednesday to defeat Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1. Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, beat Venus Williams in her first match.

“To be out of there in under an hour, it doesn’t always happen,” Pegula said. “So I think I’m just going to take that one and run, I guess, until the next round.”

Some players won't get there for a while. With rain coming down again in New York, play was suspended again on outside courts, allowing play under the roofs in Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium to continue uninterrupted.

No. 8 seed Ben Shelton followed Pegula on Ashe and beat Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 7-5, while No. 7 Daniil Medvedev raced past Sebastian Gorzny — except for a brief delay to protest the chair umpire's decision to replay a point when two birds sat on the net — 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.

Defending champions Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz were set to play on Ashe at night.

Those are second-round matches, while some players were still playing their first. When the U.S. Open switched to a Sunday start last year, it spread out the first round over the first three days, so Wednesday would have arrived with everyone playing in the second round had the weather cooperated.

It hadn't, and some players were not only still playing their first match, but they had to hope the weather cleared enough later so they wouldn't have to resume it Thursday.

That poses a mental challenge, with Paula Badosa saying she didn't even know how to prepare for the resumption of her match against Daria Kasatkina, which was halted Tuesday with her one game from winning to set up a second-round match against No. 4 Coco Gauff.

“I didn’t know if I was going to play just two points or six, or I don’t know how much, how many I play or one more set,” the Spaniard said Wednesday before finishing off her 6-1, 6-4 win.

“So I knew that if I was winning this match, I’m playing the next day. So, yeah, it was everything a bit different. I was very nervous that I even couldn’t eat, so a lot of different stuff I did today, but sometimes it is how it is, and I tried to play with the things I had there.”

At least she got through. No. 12 Rafael Jodar, the 19-year-old from Spain who came in after a strong summer, was routed 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 by Bu Yunchaokete of China when his first-round match was finally completed.

The tournament was trying to catch up from Tuesday’s rain delays, with 25 singles matches being played on the men’s side alone.

Alex Michelsen pulled off an upset in one of them by ousting fellow American Brandon Nakashima, the No. 16 seed, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

No. 7 Karolina Muchova, the Wimbledon runner-up, beat Katie Boulter 6-1, 6-0 to reach the third round, while No. 11 Marta Kostyuk got past 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-1, 7-5.

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The suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, was new to the Tucson area and did not know the victims, the Tucson Police Department said in a news release Tuesday night.

While searching his home, detectives found a note that “indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” the department said.

Shooter confronted the victims in a parking lot outside bar

Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were in the parking lot of the Venture-N bar around 12:30 a.m. Monday when they were confronted and then shot by Ceesay, police said. Ceesay then shot himself with a 9mm handgun and never tried to enter the bar, police said.

Both Siqueiros and Capara died at the scene, and Ceesay was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police said Ceesay was carrying a note with a list of other LGBTQIA+-associated businesses in the region.

He had no prior contacts with the police department and was not prohibited from possessing firearms, the police department said.

Police say there is no active threat to LGBTQIA community

Police officers have contacted each of the businesses on the list, and the department said there is no known active threat to the community. The department is working with community organizations to provide support, and officers were expected to staff a candlelight vigil for Siqueiros and Capara set for Wednesday evening at a local park.

Rainbow-colored candles, flowers and photos honoring the pair lined the exterior wall of the Venture-N, a cozy neighborhood bar not far from the University of Arizona campus. The shooting rocked the LGBTQIA+ community in a city normally known as an affirming place to live.

Vigil organizers say the bar has been ‘a steadfast safe place’ for community

Tucson Queerstory, one of several groups organizing the candlelight vigil, wrote on social media that Venture-N has been “a steadfast safe place for Tucson's queer community,” and encouraged people to show support as the bar works to recover and re-open.

“Tucson has long been known for its welcoming environment and strong queer community. To now add another hate crime to that history is heartbreaking and infuriating,” the organization wrote.

The group urged people to “remind ourselves that we need one another, and to remind the larger community that we are united in our right to exist.”

Family members of Capara and Siqueiros have expressed gratitude and are “overwhelmed by the outpouring of love,” Tucson Queerstory wrote in a separate social media post.

The spinning, meandering decagon appears to be even bigger and more unstable than the hexagon of clouds around Saturn’s north pole that was spied by NASA’s twin Voyagers in the 1980s, the Spanish-led team reported Wednesday.

This new jet stream formation popped up in the Hubble Space Telescope’s sights in 2023 after earlier observations came up empty. The researchers suspect the bizarre atmospheric phenomenon may have formed between 2017 and 2023, when Saturn’s south pole was tilted away from Earth and therefore out of view.

It could still be evolving, with a single side of the decagon already exceeding 10,000 miles (16,700 kilometers).

The findings are significant because it shows “the ‘unique’ hexagon is not as extraordinary as we thought," lead author Agustin Sanchez-Lavega with the University of the Basque Country said in an email.

The findings were published in the journal Science Advances.

Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.

Both sit on jet streams, but the hexagon is practically stationary whereas the decagon migrates eastward at a tame 6 mph (10 kph).

“Saturn still has the ability to surprise us," the University of Leicester's Leigh Fletcher said in a statement. He measured the wind in the decagon as part of the study using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

By comparing these two formations on opposite ends of Saturn, scientists can learn more about the weather patterns of giant gas planets, according to Sanchez-Lavega.

“This is a highly interesting phenomenon that appears to be unique to Saturn, and we want to know why,” he said.

Sanchez-Lavega wonders whether they might be related to the cyclones on Jupiter that are arranged in polygonal shapes. Improving views of Saturn's southern hemisphere over the next several years should allow astronomers to capture more details of the decagon and perhaps solve “this intriguing atmospheric mystery,” he said.

It’s unclear whether the decagon will last as long as the hexagon, which has been visible by spacecraft for more than 40 years. That is longer than a Saturnian year, which is equivalent to 30 Earth years.

“For the time being, all I can confirm is that the decagon is still there,” Sanchez-Lavega said.

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The two-time MVP has stated ever since he underwent surgery in December to repair torn ligaments in his left knee that his goal was to be on the field when the season begins.

And while doctors initially cautioned Mahomes that it could be October before he was ready to play, the quarterback surged past all expectations in his rehab, working with the first team throughout training camp.

Mahomes did not play in any preseason games. But that was always by design.

“He's going to keep practicing just like he's been doing,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday, after their first practice following roster cuts. “These are more like practice here, a lot of one-versus-one play these next couple of days. That's a good thing.”

The Chiefs will practice again Thursday before a long weekend, then resume work Monday. After that, they'll be into their game-week schedule, pointed toward a Monday night showdown between two of the favorites to win the AFC West this season.

One question looming over Mahomes' return: Will not playing in a preseason game affect his performance? The only other time he has gone an entire preseason without a game snap came during the pandemic, when all of the exhibition games were canceled.

“Me and Pat, we've kind of been working this offseason, the timing and stuff you need to work on,” Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy said, when asked about the rapport with his quarterback. “I feel like when it's time to play, we'll all be ready.”

Worthy always thought Mahomes would be ready for the start of the season. In fact, he returned to Kansas City early this summer to work out with Mahomes, who was spending his days rehabbing his knee while watching World Cup games on TV.

“His will and want-to is beyond anything I've ever seen,” Worthy said. “He kind of leads the team in that way. You have your leader leading like that and guys fall behind. He's just a ‘will’ guy, always willing to work.”

Exactly who is protecting Mahomes should he play Week 1 is another question mark.

Left tackle Josh Simmons remained out of practice Wednesday with a lingering back injury, forcing Kansas City to shuffle the offensive line. Undrafted rookie Kahlil Benson has been moving around in his absence, while Jaylon Moore has also gotten first-team reps.

Perhaps wary of the injury woes up front — guard Trey Smith has been dealing with a hip injury — the Chiefs made a couple of moves to build their depth in recent days. They sent a conditional sixth-round pick to Baltimore for undrafted rookie Diego Pounds, and they acquired Joshua Ezeudu from the Giants for a seventh-round selection.

“It's just a matter of them getting adjusted to everything, from the snap count to the plays to the calls to the pass protection,” Reid said. “It was great to get them in there. There were a couple of hiccups in there but for the most part they did a great job.”

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Caruana Galizia’s killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed a culture of impunity on the Mediterranean island nation, the European Union’s smallest.

Yorgen Fenech, a prominent Maltese businessman, was indicted in 2021 on charges of complicity and criminal conspiracy. Prosecutors accused him of being the mastermind of the slaying and of having ordered and paid for it.

He pleaded not guilty and the jury on Wednesday, voting 8-1, found him not guilty on both counts.

Fenech was the last of a half-dozen people charged in the plot to be prosecuted.

A woman targeted for her anti-corruption investigations

Caruana Galizia, 53, was killed on Oct. 16, 2017, by a car bomb that was detonated while she was driving near her home.

She had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta, with investigative reports targeting people in then-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle whom she accused of having offshore companies in tax havens disclosed in the Panama Papers leak. She also targeted the opposition and business leaders in Malta.

At the time of her death, she was facing more than 40 libel suits.

An independent inquiry into the killing published in 2021 concluded that the Maltese state “has to bear responsibility” for the assassination due to a culture of impunity that emanated from the highest levels of government.

The case forces a prime minister to resign

Fenech was involved in a consortium that won a controversial contract with the Maltese government to build a power station.

His arrest in 2019, as he was sailing away from Malta on his yacht, sparked a series of mass protests in the country that culminated with Muscat’s resignation.

After he was acquitted of all charges Wednesday, he walked out of the Valletta courtroom to a chaotic scene outside, with hecklers yelling as he walked away. He made no comment.

One of his lawyers, Gianella De Marco, expressed satisfaction with the verdict.

“We are happy that justice has prevailed,” she told reporters. She said the outcome showed that the jury didn't believe a key prosecution witness who was granted a presidential pardon in exchange for his testimony.

Caruana Galizia's children were at the forefront in demanding accountability and justice for her death. Her sons were in the courtroom when the verdict was read out but left without commenting to reporters.

In a statement later posted to Facebook, the family said the verdict denied Caruana Galizia the “justice she deserves."

“Nine years after Daphne’s brutal assassination, the institutional failures that enabled her murder remain unaddressed and unreformed. Lasting justice means no person should ever face the same risks again," the statement said. "Our country failed to protect Daphne. It owes it to her to prevent other lives being lost.”

No cameras were allowed in the courtroom, as is typical in Maltese criminal trials.

A half-dozen other people implicated

In 2022, George Degiorgio and his brother Alfred Degiorgio both pleaded guilty to carrying out the slaying. They were each sentenced to 40 years in prison.

In 2025, two other men were sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty possible, after being convicted of complicity in the murder. Jamie Vella and Robert Agius were accused of supplying the bomb that killed Caruana Galizia.

Another man, Vincent Muscat, pleaded guilty in 2021 for his role in the slaying, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A self-confessed middleman, taxi driver Melvin Theuma, was granted a presidential pardon in 2019 in exchange for testimony.

The slaying, and the culture it exposed, led to calls for reforms of Malta's judicial and legal systems and greater protection for journalists. Tim Gibson, the deputy advocacy director for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said Wednesday that the group would continue to seek justice.

He said Wednesday's verdict was ”heartbreaking for her family, who - almost nine years after her death - are still waiting for justice. We will continue to stand by them, and to seek accountability for all those involved in her murder.”

The initial two-page decision by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia marks the second time in a year that Google has received a reprieve from a Justice Department proposal to dismantle its internet empire. Meanwhile, what courts have described as the company's anti-competitive practices have enriched Google's corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., which has a market value of $4.11 trillion.

The judge's full opinion, which includes the specific remedies, will remain under seal for 14 days to allow the parties to review it and propose any necessary redactions.

“We’re very pleased the Court rejected the DOJ’s proposal to break apart tools that help small businesses reach new customers and grow,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's vice president for regulatory affairs.

After a judge declared Google's ubiquitous search engine as an illegal monopoly in 2024, the Justice Department pushed for a penalty that would have required the company to sell its popular Chrome web browser. But it was rebuffed last September by another federal judge overseeing that case.

Now Brinkema has also rejected the government's argument that Google should be forced to sell parts of the technology underlying a Byzantine system that generates a significant portion of the company's nearly $400 billion in annual ad sales.

Critics of Big Tech condemned the ruling.

“It takes an Olympic level of mental gymnastics to find that Google is operating an illegal monopoly and then decide to do nothing about it," said Sacha Haworth, executive director of The Tech Oversight Project. “With Big Tech continuing to suffocate new and innovative businesses from gaining traction, Judge Brinkema, like (U.S. District Judge Amit) Mehta before her, is sending the wrong message at the wrong time.”

Brinkema is adopting an approach that the Justice Department adamantly opposed last November when the judge heard closing arguments during the trial’s remedy phase. The ad tech case dates back to the government’s 2023 filing of an antitrust lawsuit that resulted last year in an illegal monopoly judgment.

Justice Department lawyers warned Brinkema in court documents that if Google is allowed to hold on to all its ad technology, the company will still be able to find ways to “manipulate computer algorithms that are the engine of its monopolies in ways too difficult to detect.”

In its counterarguments, Google contended would be unduly harsh to break up a complex network that distributes ads that online publishers depend upon to help finance digital services used by millions of consumers.

The technology underlying advertising exchange targeted in the case handles 55 million requests per second, according to estimates provided by Google in court filings. “This is technology that absolutely has to keep working for consumers,” Google had warned leading up to Brinkema’s ruling.

In her decision, Brinkema said she agreed to most of the remedies suggested by the two sides.

Even though the changes ostensibly will shake up the status quo in ways that could decrease Google’s revenue or at least slow its future growth, the ruling seems likely to be viewed by most investors as the equivalent of speed bump for a company that has recently been turbocharged by AI technology.

That has been the prevailing perspective about the punishment handed down by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the search monopoly case. Since that decision came down in Washington D.C., Alphabet’s stock price has surged 45% to create an additional $1.3 trillion in shareholder wealth.

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The Cuban Americans took a moment to ponder the island’s future without Raúl Castro, who still has the Cuban military rank of “General of the Army” and a symbolic seat as a deputy in the National Assembly.

“They are going to do a beautiful funeral, and then Donald Trump will handle the rest,” Hernandez said.

Castro, 95, who served as Cuba’s president for about a decade and as the defense minister for about 50 years, was hospitalized, according to sources in communication with Local 10 News Analyst Andy Gomez, the former director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban Studies.

Cuban officials remained silent on Wednesday after the Diario Las Américas, a Miami-based newspaper in Spanish, reported on Tuesday that Castro, who formally retired in April 2021, had suffered a stroke and was on life support.

“The more things change, the more they remain the same, so I don’t think there is going to be much of a change in Cuba. That’s the sad part,” Robert said. “I still have family members there and I don’t think they are going to see any benefit out of this.”

Castro’s last public appearance was on June 6 at a ceremony to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior. He did not attend the official annual event to commemorate the historic assault of July 26, 1953.

Related report: Cuban officials remain silent despite reports of Raúl Castro being hospitalized

Before communism

Castro was born on June 3, 1931, in the village of Birán, in Cuba’s Holguín province. His father, Angel Castro, was born in Spain, and his mother, Lina Ruz González, was born in Cuba.

Castro was the youngest of seven: Two brothers, Fidel and Ramon, and four sisters, Angela, Juana, Emma, and Agustina. He was a student at Catholic Jesuit schools, the Colegio Dolores in Santiago and the Colegio de Belén in Havana.

Castro attended the University of Havana. He was a member of the Socialist Youth, a group of the Popular Socialist Party, and participated in the guerrilla campaign in the Sierra Maestra.

Guerrilla fighter

Castro was arrested after the guerrilla attack on the Moncada military barracks on July 26, 1953, and was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but he only served 22 months.

Castro received then-Cuban President Fulgencio Batista’s amnesty, and he was released from the Presidio Modelo prison on May 15, 1955, at the Isle of Pines.

Castro went into exile in Mexico. In 1956, in Mexico City, Castro met Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who had graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in 1953.

Castro, his brother Fidel, and Guevara were on board the yacht Granma that landed with dozens of guerrilla fighters on Dec. 2, 1956, in eastern Cuba’s Playas Las Coloradas.

Castro joined his brother, Guevara, and fellow guerrilla fighters in the Sierra Maestra mountains. The group overthrew Batista, who then fled Cuba on Jan. 1, 1959.

Castro married Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois, a fellow guerrilla fighter who was born in Santiago de Cuba, on Jan. 26, 1959. The couple had four children: Three daughters, Déborah in 1960; Mariela in 1962; and Nilsa; and one son, Alejandro, in 1965.

Rise to power

As his brother rose to power, Castro was named Cuba’s minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1959.

In 1996, Castro ordered the shootdown of civilian aircraft with Brothers to the Rescue pilots and crew members. The Cuban Air Force struck and killed Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.

Castro became Cuba’s provisional head of state on July 31, 2006. His wife, Espín Guillois, died on June 18, 2007.

Castro also served as the acting president of Cuba’s Council of State and the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008. The National Assembly elected him president on Feb. 24, 2008.

In 2011, Castro was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party. In 2013, the National Assembly elected him to a second five-year term.

In 2014, Castro announced the start of normalizing relations with the U.S., and negotiated with Russia to cancel 90% of a debt that had started with the Soviet Union.

Castro welcomed then-U.S. President Barack Obama and then First Lady Michelle Obama to Havana on March 20, 2016.

Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25, 2016, at 90 years old.

Castro served as president until April 19, 2018, when Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, his handpicked successor, replaced him.

In 2021, Castro stepped down as the leader of the Communist Party, and Díaz-Canel Bermúdez also replaced him.

While wielding power behind the scenes, Castro has continued to make public appearances in his military uniform.

On April 23, a U.S. federal grand jury in Miami indicted Raúl Castro for his role in the 1996 Cuban military strikes on two unarmed Cessnas with four members of Brothers to the Rescue.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed the charges: Conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, four counts of murder, and two counts of destruction of an aircraft.

Castro did not make or release a statement about the charges.

Related report: Latest updates from Local 10 Cuba Analyst Dr. Andy Gomez

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Los cubanoamericanos se tomaron un momento para reflexionar sobre el futuro de la isla sin Raúl Castro, quien aún ostenta el rango militar cubano de “General del Ejército” y un puesto simbólico como diputado en la Asamblea Nacional.

“Van a celebrar un funeral precioso, y luego Donald Trump se encargará del resto”, dijo Hernández.

Castro, de 95 años, quien se desempeñó como presidente de Cuba durante aproximadamente una década y como ministro de Defensa durante unos 50 años, fue hospitalizado, según fuentes en comunicación con el analista de noticias de Local 10, Andy Gómez , exdirector del Instituto de Estudios Cubanos de la Universidad de Miami.

Los funcionarios cubanos guardaron silencio el miércoles después de que el Diario Las Américas, un periódico en español con sede en Miami, informara el martes que Castro, quien se retiró formalmente en abril de 2021, había sufrido un derrame cerebral y estaba conectado a un respirador artificial.

“Cuanto más cambian las cosas, más permanecen igual, así que no creo que vaya a haber muchos cambios en Cuba. Esa es la parte triste”, dijo Robert. “Todavía tengo familiares allí y no creo que vayan a beneficiarse de esto”.

La última aparición pública de Castro fue el 6 de junio en una ceremonia para conmemorar el 62.º aniversario del Ministerio del Interior de Cuba. No asistió al acto oficial anual para conmemorar el histórico asalto del 26 de julio de 1953.

Informe relacionado : Funcionarios cubanos guardan silencio a pesar de los informes sobre la hospitalización de Raúl Castro.

Antes del comunismo

Castro nació el 3 de junio de 1931 en la localidad de Birán, en la provincia cubana de Holguín. Su padre, Ángel Castro, nació en España, y su madre, Lina Ruz González, nació en Cuba.

Castro era el menor de siete hermanos: dos hermanos, Fidel y Ramón, y cuatro hermanas, Ángela, Juana, Emma y Agustina. Estudió en colegios católicos jesuitas, el Colegio Dolores en Santiago y el Colegio de Belén en La Habana.

Castro estudió en la Universidad de La Habana. Fue miembro de la Juventud Socialista, un grupo del Partido Socialista Popular, y participó en la campaña guerrillera en la Sierra Maestra.

guerrillero

Castro fue arrestado tras el ataque guerrillero al cuartel militar Moncada el 26 de julio de 1953 y fue condenado a 13 años de prisión, pero solo cumplió 22 meses.

Castro recibió la amnistía del entonces presidente cubano Fulgencio Batista y fue liberado de la prisión del Presidio Modelo el 15 de mayo de 1955, en la Isla de Pinos.

Castro se exilió en México. En 1956, en la Ciudad de México, Castro conoció a Ernesto “Che” Guevara, quien se había graduado de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1953.

Castro, su hermano Fidel y Guevara viajaban a bordo del yate Granma, que desembarcó con decenas de guerrilleros el 2 de diciembre de 1956 en Playas Las Coloradas, al este de Cuba.

Castro se unió a su hermano Guevara y a otros guerrilleros en la Sierra Maestra. El grupo derrocó a Batista, quien huyó de Cuba el 1 de enero de 1959.

Castro se casó con Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois, una compañera guerrillera nacida en Santiago de Cuba, el 26 de enero de 1959. La pareja tuvo cuatro hijos: tres hijas, Déborah en 1960; Mariela en 1962; y Nilsa; y un hijo, Alejandro, en 1965.

Ascenso al poder

Cuando su hermano ascendió al poder, Castro fue nombrado ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba en 1959.

En 1996, Castro ordenó el derribo de aeronaves civiles con pilotos y tripulantes de Hermanos al Rescate a bordo. La Fuerza Aérea Cubana derribó y mató a Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña y Pablo Morales.

Castro se convirtió en jefe de Estado provisional de Cuba el 31 de julio de 2006. Su esposa, Espín Guillois, falleció el 18 de junio de 2007.

Castro también se desempeñó como presidente interino del Consejo de Estado y del Consejo de Ministros de Cuba entre 2006 y 2008. La Asamblea Nacional lo eligió presidente el 24 de febrero de 2008.

En 2011, Castro fue elegido primer secretario del Partido Comunista. En 2013, la Asamblea Nacional lo reeligió para un segundo mandato de cinco años.

En 2014, Castro anunció el inicio de la normalización de las relaciones con Estados Unidos y negoció con Rusia la cancelación del 90% de una deuda que se había originado con la Unión Soviética.

Castro dio la bienvenida al entonces presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, y ​​a la entonces primera dama, Michelle Obama, en La Habana el 20 de marzo de 2016.

Fidel Castro falleció el 25 de noviembre de 2016, a los 90 años de edad.

Castro ejerció como presidente hasta el 19 de abril de 2018, cuando Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, su sucesor elegido personalmente, lo reemplazó.

En 2021, Castro renunció como líder del Partido Comunista, y Díaz-Canel Bermúdez lo reemplazó.

Si bien ha ejercido el poder entre bastidores, Castro ha seguido haciendo apariciones públicas con su uniforme militar.

El 23 de abril, un gran jurado federal estadounidense en Miami acusó formalmente a Raúl Castro por su participación en los ataques militares cubanos de 1996 contra dos avionetas Cessna desarmadas en las que viajaban cuatro miembros de Hermanos al Rescate.

El 20 de mayo, el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos hizo públicos los cargos: conspiración para asesinar a ciudadanos estadounidenses, cuatro cargos de asesinato y dos cargos de destrucción de una aeronave.

Castro no hizo ni emitió ninguna declaración sobre los cargos.

Informe relacionado: Últimas actualizaciones del Dr. Andy Gomez, analista de Local 10 Cuba.

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El martes se llevó a cabo una votación en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, luego de que el alcalde de North Miami Beach, Michael Joseph, y Hector Roos, quien trabajó anteriormente en las campañas de Cherfilus-McCormick para el Congreso, fueran acusados de no cumplir con múltiples citaciones.

Desde entonces, el asunto ha sido remitido al Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos en relación con un posible procesamiento penal.

Las condenas por desacato al Congreso pueden conllevar una multa de hasta $100,000 USD y una sentencia de un año de prisión.

Cherfilus-McCormick renunció al Congreso en abril, poco antes de que el Comité de Ética de la Cámara de Representantes se dispusiera a votar sobre su posible expulsión.

Esto ocurrió después de que el comité la declarara culpable de 25 violaciones éticas y de financiamiento de campaña.

Cherfilus-McCormick está acusada de robar o utilizar indebidamente alrededor de $5 millones USD en fondos federales de ayuda por COVID-19 que estaban destinados a un negocio de atención médica administrado por su familia.

Anteriormente se declaró no culpable de cargos penales relacionados con los fondos de ayuda.

La votación del martes se realizó verbalmente, lo que significa que no existen registros de los votos individuales de los legisladores.

Local 10 News se comunicó con Joseph para solicitar comentarios y actualizará esta historia si/cuando responda.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de las Escuelas de Miami-Dade, Carlos Martinez, de 15 años, fue atacado inicialmente por dos estudiantes durante una pelea en la escuela el lunes.

Un video de celular que circula en redes sociales parece mostrar a dos personas golpeando y pateando a Martinez y, en un momento dado, derribándolo con fuerza contra el suelo.

El informe de arresto de Martinez indica que posteriormente tomó un cuchillo y corrió por el pasillo con la intención de “tomar represalias contra sus atacantes”.

Los investigadores dijeron que un video de vigilancia mostró a Martinez “metiendo la mano en sus pantalones y sacando un objeto de color claro con forma de cuchilla”.

El informe indica que el video muestra que posteriormente regresa para recoger sus pertenencias y “coloca el objeto de color claro con forma de cuchilla en el bolsillo de sus pantalones antes de intentar huir de la escena”.

Según el informe, el estudiante de 18 años que resultó herido dijo a los investigadores: “No conozco a ese muchacho en absoluto”. Dijo que Martinez estaba siendo “atacado por dos muchachos al azar” y que él estaba observando la pelea cuando, de repente, todos comenzaron a correr, según los investigadores.

El informe indica que el estudiante de 18 años dijo a los investigadores que sintió un empujón en la espalda, pero inicialmente pensó que uno de los estudiantes que huían lo había empujado. Luego, otro estudiante le dijo: “Oye, estás sangrando”. Dijo que fue entonces cuando sintió que algo le goteaba por la espalda, según la policía.

La policía dijo que el estudiante de 18 años les informó que “nunca ha tenido ninguna interacción, conversación o encuentro” con Martinez.

El estudiante sufrió una herida punzante en el lado derecho de la espalda que requirió puntos de sutura, según el informe de arresto.

La policía dijo que Martinez también sufrió lesiones durante el incidente. El informe indica que sufrió “múltiples laceraciones autoinfligidas” en los dedos índice y medio de la mano derecha, que también requirieron puntos de sutura.

El informe indica que un subdirector vio posteriormente a Martinez “huyendo de la escena del incidente hacia el estacionamiento de la escuela”.

La policía dijo que el subdirector detuvo a Martinez y le preguntó por qué estaba sangrando. Según el informe, Martinez admitió que tenía un cuchillo en el bolsillo trasero derecho de sus pantalones y el subdirector lo confiscó.

Los investigadores describieron el cuchillo como uno con una hoja de 5 pulgadas y una longitud total de 10 pulgadas.

La policía dijo que el incidente provocó un cierre de emergencia en la escuela. Según el informe de arresto, varias unidades de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade acudieron para ayudar a mantener el orden mientras los padres llegaban a la escuela para recoger a sus hijos.

Martinez compareció ante un tribunal el martes, donde los fiscales dijeron que tienen la intención de acusarlo como adulto. Un juez ordenó que permaneciera bajo detención segura y le prohibió tener contacto con los otros estudiantes involucrados en el incidente.

Los padres de Martinez dijeron a Trent Kelly de Local 10 después de la audiencia judicial del martes que su hijo había sido maltratado y amenazado por otros estudiantes durante varios días.

“Estaba amenazando a mi hijo, maltratándolo”, dijo su padre.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Martinez enfrenta cargos de agresión agravada con un arma mortal, posesión de un arma en propiedad escolar e interferencia con una institución educativa.

Local 10 se comunicó con el Departamento de Policía de las Escuelas de Miami-Dade para obtener información sobre las identidades de los otros dos estudiantes arrestados y los cargos que enfrentan.

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A surveillance video shows Serge Jean Jr. “on the sidewalk hanging out in front of the store” on Nov. 21, 2024, at 3185 NW 207 St., near the Hard Rock Stadium, according to the Miami Gardens homicide detective’s request for a warrant.

Witnesses reported a shooting. When police officers arrived, Jean was in a “prone position ...conscious and alert ... unable to move,” the Miami Gardens detective wrote, according to the affidavit in support of the warrant.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel airlifted Jean to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, where he died on Dec. 10, 2024, after complications with his wounds, according to the affidavit in support of the warrant.

Before Jean died, he identified his killer as “Von,” records show.

Surveillance video also shows Devon Clarke arriving at the store as the passenger of a black Nissan Maxima, according to the arrest warrant signed by Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda on March 12.

Homicide detectives believe Jean punched Clarke, who stumbled backward before pulling out a gun and firing at Jean, according to the arrest warrant.

Jean tried to run away, but Clarke fired a second time, shot him in the back, and he collapsed face down, according to the arrest warrant.

Clarke caught up to Jean and shot him a third time in the head at close range before getting away in the Nissan Maxima, according to the arrest warrant.

Clarke was in handcuffs about a year and nine months later, according to police.

Miami Gardens police officers arrested Clarke at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at 3620 NW 211 St., according to a police officer’s arrest report.

Miami-Dade County corrections booked Clarke shortly after 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Clarke faced a charge of second-degree murder with a weapon, according to Miami-Dade County court records. He was denied bond.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over the case.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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Un video de vigilancia muestra a Serge Jean Jr. “en la acera pasando el rato frente a la tienda” el 21 de noviembre de 2024, en 3185 NW 207 St., cerca del Hard Rock Stadium, según la solicitud de una orden judicial del detective de homicidios de Miami Gardens.

Testigos reportaron una balacera. Cuando llegaron los agentes de policía, Jean estaba “boca abajo, consciente y alerta, sin poder moverse”, escribió el detective de Miami Gardens, según la declaración jurada en respaldo de la orden judicial.

Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladó a Jean en helicóptero a HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, donde murió el 10 de diciembre de 2024 tras complicaciones por sus heridas, según la declaración jurada en respaldo de la orden judicial.

Antes de morir, Jean identificó a su asesino como “Von”, muestran los registros.

El video de vigilancia también muestra a Devon Clarke llegando a la tienda como pasajero de un Nissan Maxima negro, según la orden de arresto firmada por la jueza del Circuito del Condado Miami-Dade Cristina Miranda el 12 de marzo.

Los detectives de homicidios creen que Jean golpeó a Clarke, quien trastabilló hacia atrás antes de sacar un arma y dispararle a Jean, según la orden de arresto.

Jean intentó huir, pero Clarke disparó por segunda vez, le disparó por la espalda y Jean cayó boca abajo, según la orden de arresto.

Clarke alcanzó a Jean y le disparó por tercera vez en la cabeza a corta distancia antes de huir en el Nissan Maxima, según la orden de arresto.

Clarke fue esposado aproximadamente un año y nueve meses después, según la policía.

Agentes de la policía de Miami Gardens arrestaron a Clarke a las 11:30 a.m. del martes en 3620 NW 211 St., según el reporte de arresto de un agente de policía.

El Departamento de Correcciones del Condado Miami-Dade ingresó a Clarke poco después de las 6:15 p.m. del martes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según los registros de reclusos.

Clarke enfrentaba un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado con un arma, según los registros judiciales del condado Miami-Dade. Se le negó la fianza.

La jueza del Circuito del Condado Miami-Dade Carmen Cabarga quedó a cargo del caso.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News Mercedes Cevallos contribuyó a este reporte.

La Tierra pronto va a superar el umbral de temperatura segura acordado por el mundo en el pacto climático de París de 2015 debido al calentamiento provocado por la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas, según un sombrío informe, el primero de su tipo, publicado el miércoles por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA).

En lugar de rendirse, científicos y funcionarios de la ONU recomiendan intentar limitar el calentamiento excesivo y luego hacer que la temperatura vuelva a bajar hasta el umbral acordado. Pero aun así significará décadas de aumento de desastres relacionados con el clima, subida del nivel del mar, extinciones y derretimiento de hielo y glaciares.

“La humanidad está pasando a toda velocidad el límite para evitar una catástrofe climática”, declaró el secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, António Guterres.

Tras un periodo de calentamiento por encima del límite, la nueva estrategia prevé volver a situarse por debajo del límite poniendo fin al uso de combustibles fósiles y desarrollando algún tipo de método para extraer del aire el dióxido de carbono de las industrias.

“Es una llamada de atención. Tenemos que vivir con este mundo más cálido”, señaló el coautor del informe Richard Betts, científico del clima de la Universidad de Exeter. “Pero todavía hay mucho que podemos hacer para limitar el calentamiento”, añadió.

Superar el viejo umbral de calentamiento

Después del pacto climático de París, las Naciones Unidas ordenaron a su brazo de ciencia climática estudiar distintos límites de calentamiento. Un objetivo de 1,5 grados Celsius (2,7 Fahrenheit) por encima de las temperaturas de mediados del siglo XIX se volvió generalmente aceptado después de que los científicos hallaran impactos dramáticos que afectan a las personas y al planeta a 2 °C (3,8 °F), pero no a 1,5 grados.

El mundo se encuentra ahora en 1,4 °C (2,5 °F) por encima de los niveles preindustriales, según han calculado algunos científicos. La medición se basa en un promedio de 20 años, en lugar de las temperaturas de un solo año.

Pese a que expertos afirmaban que no hay manera de limitar el calentamiento a 1,5 grados, durante mucho tiempo funcionarios de la ONU sostuvieron que la ventana de 1,5 aún estaba abierta. El informe del miércoles finalmente admitió que el mundo cruzará el umbral de 1,5 “en los próximos años”.

El informe indicó que el escenario más optimista tiene un pico de calentamiento de 1,8 °C (3,2 °F) hacia mediados de siglo si los países persiguen objetivos climáticos ambiciosos, pero que las políticas actuales de los gobiernos deberían empujar las temperaturas a 2,6 °C (4,7 °F) por encima de los niveles preindustriales para 2100.

Así que, en lugar de prevenir un calentamiento de 1,5 grados, la ONU dijo ahora que quiere que los responsables de políticas “se preparen para y naveguen un futuro” en el que el planeta cruce ese límite y luego corrija el rumbo y enfríe las temperaturas. El informe prevé que las temperaturas globales superarán 1,5 “en los próximos años”, seguirán una trayectoria con forma de joroba de mayor calentamiento, alcanzarán un pico y luego se enfriarán gradualmente hasta quedar por debajo de la marca de 1,5, idealmente para finales de siglo. El informe y los expertos lo llaman “rebasamiento”.

“Seamos muy claros: el objetivo de 1,5 sigue siendo la meta. Pero ahora necesitamos abordarlo de otra manera, desde arriba”, dijo la directora general del PNUMA, Inger Andersen.

El límite de 1,5 no es “algún acantilado climático mágico” en el que simplemente se acabó el juego, dijo el científico del clima Andrew Weaver, de la Universidad de Victoria, quien no formó parte del estudio. “Cada décima de grado que evitamos sigue significando menos daño”.

Limitar cuánto suben las temperaturas por encima del umbral es clave

Lo más importante es, primero, limitar la nueva temperatura máxima y luego reducir el tiempo por encima de 1,5 grados, señaló Andersen.

Pero el mundo probablemente estará en ese periodo de rebasamiento durante “muchas, muchas décadas”, dijo Betts.

Cada cinco años de retraso en reducir las emisiones añade al menos una décima de grado al pico de calentamiento, afirmó el coautor del informe Joeri Rogelj, científico del clima del Imperial College London.

“Si actuamos ahora podemos limitar el rebasamiento”, indicó el informe. “No un mundo seguro, pero sí más seguro que permanecer por encima” de 1,5 grados a largo plazo.

“Este está entre los informes climáticos de la ONU más sombríos que he leído. Tiene el tono inconfundible de desesperación, frustración y urgencia —pero no de resignación”, expresó Weaver.

El científico del clima Bill Hare, director general de Climate Analytics, dijo que “aunque el PNUMA hace un buen trabajo describiendo el hoyo en el que nos hemos metido, hace un mal trabajo mostrándonos que hay una salida”.

Adaptarse a un mundo más mortífero, con más hambre y más sed

Los gobiernos necesitan aumentar los esfuerzos para adaptarse al empeoramiento del calentamiento, que golpea con más fuerza a los pobres, “porque algunos impactos simplemente no pueden evitarse”, afirmó Andersen.

El informe llama a esta fase “afrontamiento y contención”.

Durante este periodo de rebasamiento, más personas morirán o enfermarán debido al empeoramiento del cambio climático y su clima extremo, señaló el informe. La producción de alimentos caerá, la gente pasará hambre, las escaseces de agua empeorarán, las economías se verán perjudicadas y especies como los corales se extinguirán, indicó el informe.

Aunque los detonantes detrás de las recientes inundaciones mortales en Nepal, que se produjeron como parte del desprendimiento de un glaciar del Himalaya, son complejos, Betts dijo: “Por desgracia, sí esperamos ver más cosas así y esta es exactamente la razón por la que necesitamos limitar el pico de calentamiento”.

El informe advierte sobre “puntos de inflexión” con efectos irreversibles y en cascada, incluida la pérdida de las capas de hielo de la Antártida Occidental y Groenlandia, la pérdida de la selva amazónica y el colapso del sistema de circulación del océano Atlántico que mantiene cálida a gran parte de Europa.

“Algunos lugares podrían volverse más o menos inasegurables o incluso inhabitables”, señaló el informe.

La última fase del rebasamiento consiste en enfriar el planeta eliminando dióxido de carbono del aire y almacenándolo en algún lugar. El informe dijo que el enfoque tradicional para esto es plantar más árboles, pero sostiene que plantar árboles podría, como máximo, recortar una décima de grado de las temperaturas globales. Por ello, los autores dijeron que se necesitarán enfoques más novedosos de eliminación de carbono.

Otros científicos calificaron eso de poco fiable y costoso.

El científico del clima Rob Jackson, de la Universidad de Stanford, quien no participó en el informe, afirmó: “No pudimos detener el tren desbocado de las emisiones globales para evitar 1,5 °C de calentamiento”. Y añadió: “Ahora los escenarios de rebasamiento nos exigen detener el tren rápidamente y hacerlo retroceder. ¿Es nuestra mejor esperanza? Absolutamente. ¿Es probable? En absoluto”.

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According to Florida City police, the crime happened on the afternoon of April 8, but officers took Indya Lashae Reed into custody on Tuesday. They said the baby’s mother, Ciara Ashanti Minton, was also involved in the fight; she was arrested on Monday.

Police said Minton and Reed, both 20, walked into the Wingstop at 33550 S. Dixie Highway and began arguing with a worker inside.

Arrest reports state that Minton, of Florida City, “used to date” the worker’s brother and the two were arguing over “past issues between them,” namely, an instance where the victim “spoke bad” about Minton’s baby while she was pregnant.

Those reports state that the victim “ignored” Minton, so Minton “pass(ed) her baby” to Reed, of southwest Miami-Dade, who then “pulled out a canister of pepper-spray” and “began to spray the victim in the face.”

Minton then began to hit the victim, scratching her face, according to police. The two fled before officers arrived, the reports state.

Investigators, who said “the scent of pepper spray (was) still lingering in the air” when officers got to the restaurant, said CCTV footage showed the attack.

Police said a wanted flyer was put out for Minton and they went to her home on Monday to take her into custody on a misdemeanor battery charge.

Authorities said Minton explained that the acrimony between her and the worker stemmed from a “dispute” in Homestead about two years prior where the woman told Minton, while pregnant, “F--- your baby” and threatened her with a hoverboard.

Police said Minton told officers that she had “no intentions (of) fighting” the woman, saying she “didn’t know (she) worked” at the Wingstop.

Authorities said Reed said the same thing when officers went to her home to arrest her on an aggravated battery charge on Tuesday.

Minton would bond out of jail on Monday. Meanwhile, Reed was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $1,000 bond as of Wednesday.

After drawing more than 14,000 fans to Mexico City's Palacio de los Deportes and another 15,000 in Medellín, Colombia, the US leg of the tour begins Sept. 7 in Highland, California, with stops in San Antonio, Orlando, Los Angeles, and Chicago, among other U.S. cities, as well as Toronto and Montreal in Canada. She will also participate in Billboard Latin Music Week in October in Miami.

Unlike on past tours, García said she’s focused on the “here and now,” making a point of doing things such as reading the local newspaper in the cities she visits so she can "enjoy and savor” the experience.

The greatest challenge, she said in an interview with The Associated Press, has been to preserve her essence and captivate the public despite performing in larger venues.

“One of the things I wanted to do with this tour is to play a lot more instruments than I used to do,” said García, a seven-time Latin Grammy winner. “When you sit behind a piano and see all the musicians, it creates an atmosphere of greater intimacy.”

In addition to playing piano, García performs with her inseparable guitar and shares acoustic moments onstage with regional Mexican musicians. She said she hopes to continue her relationship with the genre for many more years, after releasing songs such as “Te lo agradezco” with Carín León and “La Siguiente” with Christian Nodal.

“I feel like it's in my DNA, embedded in my entire system, and it's something I think I'll hardly abandon,” she said. "Beyond whatever the trends may be, I do it in a way that feels very natural to me, with a lot of passion and, of course, a lot of respect.”

One of the most popular songs from “Puerta Abierta," the album behind the tour, is the regional Mexican song “La mala era yo” ("I Was the Bad One") with Mexican singer Yuridia, with whom García said she always wanted to work.

“Yuridia has always been very coherent with her songs, with what she does. She has an incredible connection with the audience, besides having a great voice," said García. “I had wanted for a while to make a song that felt more like a conversation between two women who stop blaming the other and being victims.”

The concert unfolds with musicians and performers in constant motion. The visuals feature the same giant image of a girl that appears on the cover of “Puerta Abierta." The girl is García, wearing a haircut given by her father and her sister when the family couldn't afford to go to the hairdresser.

“It’s a way for me today to give a place — and a voice — to the girl I was once, and also to honor my roots and the sounds that I grew up with, many of which are on the album.”

In another song of the album, “La culpa," a collaboration with Venezuelan band Rawayana, she talks about the experience of life in the Caribbean, where people can love “without electricity and without water," they sing.

The recent earthquakes, like those that hit Colombia and Venezuela, added another hardship to Latin America.

“What we are experiencing is devastating, and I don't think anyone is prepared for this,” said García, who supports the ABACO organization in Colombia and other aid organizations in Venezuela. "The problem is that it becomes old news, news that no one talks about anymore. And the needs are changing. So, that’s why I think it’s important to support today, to support a month from now, and to support three months from now.”

Según la policía de Florida City, el delito ocurrió la tarde del 8 de abril, pero los agentes detuvieron a Indya Lashae Reed el martes. Dijeron que la madre del bebé, Ciara Ashanti Minton, también estuvo involucrada en la pelea; fue arrestada el lunes.

La policía dijo que Minton y Reed, ambas de 20 años, entraron al Wingstop ubicado en 33550 S. Dixie Highway y comenzaron a discutir con una empleada que estaba adentro.

Los reportes de arresto indican que Minton, de Florida City, “solía salir” con el hermano de la empleada y ambas discutían por “problemas pasados entre ellas”, específicamente por una ocasión en la que la víctima “habló mal” del bebé de Minton mientras ella estaba embarazada.

Esos reportes indican que la víctima “ignoró” a Minton, por lo que Minton “le pasó su bebé” a Reed, del suroeste de Miami-Dade, quien luego “sacó un envase de gas pimienta” y “comenzó a rociar a la víctima en la cara”.

Minton entonces comenzó a golpear a la víctima, arañándole el rostro, según la policía. Ambas huyeron antes de que llegaran los agentes, indican los reportes.

Los investigadores, quienes dijeron que “el olor a gas pimienta aún permanecía en el aire” cuando los agentes llegaron al restaurante, dijeron que las imágenes de las cámaras de vigilancia mostraron el ataque.

La policía dijo que se emitió un volante de búsqueda de Minton y que fueron a su casa el lunes para detenerla bajo un cargo menor de agresión.

Las autoridades dijeron que Minton explicó que la animosidad entre ella y la empleada se originó por una “disputa” en Homestead unos dos años antes, cuando la mujer le dijo a Minton, mientras estaba embarazada, “Que se j— tu bebé” y la amenazó con un hoverboard.

La policía dijo que Minton les dijo a los agentes que “no tenía intenciones de pelear” con la mujer y afirmó que “no sabía que trabajaba” en el Wingstop.

Las autoridades dijeron que Reed afirmó lo mismo cuando los agentes fueron a su casa para arrestarla bajo un cargo de agresión agravada el martes.

Minton salió de la cárcel bajo fianza el lunes. Mientras tanto, Reed permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $1,000 USD hasta el miércoles.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, a teacher found an unattended bookbag in the auditorium of the school, located at 4000 W. 18^th Ave., and searched it, trying to locate an ID. Instead, the teacher found a loaded 9 mm Walther handgun, the report stated.

Police said the teacher immediately took the backpack to the principal’s office and the principal notified the school resource officer.

According to the report, the officer searched the backpack and found a passport ID inside a wallet that belonged to Chenelle Antonette Doctor, 27, of Hollywood.

Police said Doctor is a substitute teacher employed by Kelly Services who was working on the high school campus Tuesday.

Doctor was then located and taken into custody, authorities said.

Police said Doctor spontaneously told the arresting officer that she forgot to take her gun out of her backpack that morning.

According to the report, the gun had a round in the chamber and a magazine inserted with seven live rounds. An empty magazine was also located in the backpack, authorities said.

Doctor was arrested on a charge of possession of a firearm on school property.

As of Wednesday morning, Doctor was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

Según un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de las Escuelas de Miami-Dade, un maestro encontró una mochila sin supervisión en el auditorio de la escuela, ubicada en 4000 W. 18th Ave., y la revisó, tratando de localizar una identificación. En cambio, el maestro encontró una pistola Walther de 9 mm cargada, indicó el reporte.

La policía dijo que el maestro llevó inmediatamente la mochila a la oficina del director y el director notificó al agente de recursos escolares.

Según el reporte, el agente revisó la mochila y encontró dentro de una billetera una identificación de pasaporte que pertenecía a Chenelle Antonette Doctor, de 27 años, de Hollywood.

La policía dijo que Doctor es una maestra sustituta empleada por Kelly Services que estaba trabajando el martes en el campus de la escuela secundaria.

Doctor fue localizada y detenida, informaron las autoridades.

La policía dijo que Doctor le dijo espontáneamente al agente que la arrestó que esa mañana olvidó sacar su arma de la mochila.

Según el reporte, el arma tenía una bala en la recámara y un cargador insertado con siete balas reales. También se encontró un cargador vacío en la mochila, informaron las autoridades.

Doctor fue arrestada bajo un cargo de posesión de un arma de fuego en propiedad escolar.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Doctor permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

Among this year's 16 celebrity contestants: actor Julia Stiles, Olympian Amber Glenn, and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” mainstay Guillermo Rodriguez. Reality show star Sarah Jane Nader will partner with Hailey Bills, comprising the third same-sex pairing in the show's history.

Season 35, hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and former “DWTS” pro Julianne Hough, premieres on ABC over two nights, Sept. 15 and 16. Returning to the judging panel are Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.

Meet the full celebrity cast:

Tatyana Ali

Best known for playing Ashley Banks (the sister to Ribeiro's Carlton) on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” the 47-year-old Ali is an actor, singer, producer and entrepreneur.

She'll partner with Jan Ravik.

Tyler Cameron

Cameron, 33, is a general contractor who gained fame after appearing as a contestant on the 2019 season of “The Bachelorette.” He's since appeared on several other reality programs.

He'll partner with Sharna Burgess.

Giada de Laurentiis

The celebrity chef, 56, debuted as a Food Network personality in the early 2000s, focusing on Italian food, and has published nearly a dozen cookbooks.

She'll partner with Alan Bersten.

Jenna Dewan

A professional dancer who began her career in Janet Jackson music videos, the 45-year-old Dewan starred in the 2006 dance-centric movie “Step Up.” She currently stars in ABC's “The Rookie.”

She'll partner with Val Chmerkovskiy.

Ezra Frech

The 21-year-old Paralympian won gold medals at the 2024 Paris Games in the 100-meter and high jump and also competes in the long jump. Born missing parts of his left leg, he underwent above-the-knee amputation as a child.

He'll partner with Daniella Karagach.

Amber Glenn

Glenn, 26, helped Team USA win a gold medal in the figure skating team event at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February. Known for her triple axels, she's also an LGBTQ+ activist.

She'll partner with Pasha Pashkov.

Taylor Hanson

The 43-year-old came to fame as a child with his brothers as part of the band Hanson, known for the hit single “MMMBop.” He also has performed as a member of the supergroup Tinted Windows, with bandmates from Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins and Fountains of Wayne.

He'll partner with Britt Stewart.

Maura Higgins

Having made her name on the U.K. version of “Love Island,” Higgins, 35, crossed over to the U.S. franchise as a host. She was a recent runner-up on NBC's “The Traitors.”

She'll partner with Mark Ballas.

Conner Leavitt

The 32-year-old first appeared on the reality show “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the husband of star Whitney Leavitt (a former “DWTS” contestant, too). He recently performed in the off-Broadway show “11 to Midnight.”

He'll partner with Adele Zaikman.

Ciara Miller

A fan favorite from Bravo's “Summer House,” the 30-year-old is a former ICU nurse. She has also appeared on “The Traitors.”

She'll partner with Brandon Armstrong.

Sarah Jane Nader

Nader, 23, currently appears on the Hulu reality show “Love Thy Nader,” alongside her sisters — notably, model Brooks Nader (another former “DWTS” contestant).

She'll partner with Hailey Bills.

Jackson Olson

The 28-year-old Olson is a second baseman for the Savannah Bananas, the team that pioneered the uniquely entertaining, gimmick-filled version of baseball that is Banana Ball.

He'll partner with Emma Slater.

Guillermo Rodriguez

The longtime Jimmy Kimmel sidekick, 55, began his career as a security guard before becoming a mainstay of Kimmel's show and bits for more than 20 years.

He'll partner with Witney Carson.

Harry Shum Jr.

Another trained dancer from the “Step Up” franchise, the 44-year-old Shum broke out on “Glee” and appeared in the Oscar-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” He currently stars on “Grey's Anatomy.”

He'll partner with Jenna Johnson.

Julia Stiles

Stiles, 45, is best known for her roles in iconic teen movies “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Save the Last Dance.” She continues to act, and made her feature directorial debut last year with “Wish You Were Here.”

She'll partner with Ezra Sosa.

Connor Wood

Wood, 30, is a comedian and podcaster who built a following online under the moniker “Fibula.”

He'll partner with Rylee Arnold.

Greig DeBow, the CEO of Pabst Brewing Co., said Wednesday that the company will pay up to $20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of 1,602 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and non-alcoholic Old Milwaukee beer. The beer went missing Aug. 17 in Southern California.

“I'm sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR,” DeBow said in a post on TikTok. “That's actually not cool though. We want it back."

Police in Montclair, California, said the beer was stolen from a warehouse in two separate incidents on the same day.

In the first heist, about $45,000 worth of beer headed to Tucson, Arizona, was picked up but never delivered, according to police. An hour later, a “purported subcontracting company” submitted fake documents to pick up another $25,000 worth of beer, Montclair police said. Both thefts occurred on Aug. 17 at an Anheuser-Busch distribution center about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Los Angeles.

All told, the thieves made off with 40,000 pounds of beer, Pabst said. Police estimated that the stolen beer was worth $70,000.

DeBow said the company wants the beer to be returned by Sept. 9. Anyone with information is asked to email hotline@pabst.com.

The theft was one of several recent high-profile food heists.

Late last year, 40,000 oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each other in New England.

And in March, Swiss food giant Nestlé said 413,793 KitKat brand chocolate bars bound for Poland were stolen after leaving its production site in Italy.

The purpose of the palace that has become his life's work since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 is to take the work of populist painters, commercial illustrators, comic artists and paperback cover-creators and treat it with a reverence normally reserved for Rembrandts.

“That’s really what the mission is, that there’s these incredibly familiar pieces that have not had the opportunity to be platformed in this manner, to be placed like this, to be curated in this way, for people to really see the genius behind it,” museum CEO Tracey Bates said in an interview with The Associated Press inside the museum.

The building opens to the public Sept. 22.

The 82-year-old Lucas made an unannounced appearance at a media preview day at the museum on Wednesday with his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, the museum's co-founder. He said he couldn't believe the place now exists after being conceived 17 years ago and having been “kicked out of” proposed locations in cities including San Francisco and Chicago, places where previous sites fell through.

"Part of the problem is that I’m a contrarian. I don’t like to do things people think can be done," he said, wearing a T-shirt that read “Dedicated to the people's art.”

“I’m used to doing the impossible," he said. "This one almost broke me.”

Visitors to the new museum will be greeted by a bright yellow Naboo N-1 Starfighter from 1999's “The Phantom Menace” that hangs in the lobby of the public research library. The opening exhibit, “Star Wars in Motion,” shows production versions of Luke Skywalker's landspeeder from the original film and speeder bikes from 1983's “Return of the Jedi.”

But Bates points out that “'Star Wars' only occupies 7% of the museum, actually.” And chief among the tasks of the CEO and her staff in the final days before opening is spreading the word about all it has to offer.

Nearly everything in the vast museum's 100,000 square feet of galleries comes from the personal collection of Lucas or Hobson, a major collector of African-American art.

The filmmaker began collecting original comic art from newspaper strips like “Alley Oop” when he was in college and it could be had for pocket change. When blockbuster money started rolling in, he started buying paintings from commercial artists, including Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish, that were deemed the height of uncool at the time. He joked at a San Diego Comic-Con panel last year that he needed a museum just to have somewhere to put it all.

Treating Rockwell like Renoir and Parrish like Picasso

Bates, who joined the project in 2020, spoke to the AP while sitting in the gallery devoted to Rockwell, the 20th century painter and illustrator who embodies the spirit of the museum more than Luke Skywalker or C-3PO.

“He’s one of the greatest storytellers of our lifetime, really,” she said. “I mean the level of nuance and depth in a Rockwell, I get lost in them constantly.”

Best known for his weekly covers of “The Saturday Evening Post,” with images of Boy Scouts and family Thanksgiving dinners, Rockwell's paintings were quintessential small-town Americana, which made them wildly popular but brought them scorn for their squareness.

Senior curator Ryan Linkof told the AP that when he joined the museum in 2018, he knew only the consensus view of the painter.

“Working here I really just grew to absolutely love the work and find him as an image-maker, him as an artist, him as the figure, the cultural icon, just to be incredibly sophisticated,” Linkof said.

The Rockwell gallery gives special prominence to a painting that shows he had greater depth than many realize: his rendering of Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old Black girl who is surrounded by marshals as she walks into an all-white New Orleans school in 1960. It's titled “The Problem We All Live With.”

The gallery also has a sculpture of the artist, newly commissioned for the museum, that recreates a famous comic portrait of him painting himself.

Lucas also stockpiled the work of Parrish, another painter and commercial illustrator whose imagery helped define the 20th century but who could be dismissed as cloudy fluff. His work is ethereal and angelic, marked by a signature shade of blue, and the paintings' luminosity gives them a glow that feels made for a museum, even though one of the most ornate paintings in the collection was made for a chocolate box.

Linkof walked with the AP through the Parrish gallery, a favorite of many early visitors, calling it “a little sanctuary, a little chapel in some ways, dedicated to the work.”

“He was known for these really gorgeous light effects and creating these atmospheric landscapes,” the curator said. "We wanted to respect that and create a space that really let the paintings create that sense of tranquility.”

Many galleries are organized not by artist, era or genre but by aspects of everyday life, merging eras and styles. One examines sports. Another civic activism.

“We’re interested in the stories that they’re telling, rather than these kind of somewhat artificial categories defined by discipline,” Linkof said. “The gorgeous idea of these myths, myths of everyday life, the stories that we tell ourselves.”

The museum has its share of higher-brow artists too, with work from Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Andy Warhol. If it tells a story, it has a place.

The building gives vibes of a spacecraft, a tree canopy and a cloud

Visitors will walk through the museum designed by architect Ma Yansong eight years after its groundbreaking in Exposition Park, next to Lucas' alma mater: the University of Southern California.

Ma and his firm were chosen in 2014, and an architecture gallery in the museum shows his proposed models for San Francisco and Chicago along with the origins of the Los Angeles project.

Given the name outside, it’s hard not to think of a spacecraft when looking at the building. The architect acknowledges this, and says visitors will especially feel it when standing in front of broad oval windows that give views of Los Angeles from spaces spread throughout the galleries.

But Ma's style is more organic than mechanical, and the museum gives the feeling that it hovers above the neighboring Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and surrounding buildings like the California Science Center.

“For me it’s like a cloud or like a tree canopy that’s floating above you,” Ma told the AP. “It feels formless almost. But you want to discover. So you have to start a journey. You have to start to walk around.”

As he looked around inside the museum, he said he couldn't wait to see people flowing through it.

“We designed an architectural space with emotion,” he said. “We want to see people’s reaction to those spaces.”

Comics, sci-fi and kid stuff permeate the space

The museum has as much sci-fi and fantasy from Lucas' collection as from his own work. The sword-and-sandal comic book and paperback art of artist Frank Frazetta has a dedicated space. Nearby are huge, heavy-metal-epic paintings of images from J.R.R. Tolkien by Paul Raymond Gregory, complete with skull-studded frames.

A children's section includes a painting of Eloise of “Eloise at the Plaza” fame by illustrator Hilary Knight, a painting of Pikachu modeled on a Van Gogh self-portrait from Pokemon illustrator Naoyo Kimura, and rooms full of anime and manga images.

And the comic art that started Lucas' collecting has several halls dedicated to it, with some of the earliest drawings of “Star Wars” inspiration Flash Gordon on display, along with Flash Gordon's own inspiration, Buck Rogers, and proto-“Peanuts” panels from Charles Schulz, along with edgier alt-comic work from artists including Robert Crumb.

El decreto publicado el miércoles establece que diferentes ministerios se dedicarán a “elaborar un análisis de la cadena logística de importación y distribución de carburantes, establecimiento de volúmenes para las estaciones de servicio y otras modalidades de venta”.

La intervención se produce en medio de cuestionamientos por el contrabando de combustibles debido a que en la nación andina hay un precio diferenciado del diésel para los grandes compradores, que cuesta casi un 84% más que para los demás consumidores.

El gobierno identificó como una de las razones primordiales de la escasez de diésel a “mafias” que operan dentro de la estatal Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) y en una agencia que realiza los controles.

“Tenemos que sacar este cáncer que tiene YPFB. Hay un cáncer que hay que extirparlo”, señaló el ministro de Obras Públicas, Mauricio Zamora, en conferencia de prensa.

Agregó que “el objeto es de que YPFB haga lo que tiene que hacer, dedicarse a la exploración y explotación de hidrocarburos y que salga de la comercialización porque ahí está el problema”.

Mientras tanto continúan formándose largas filas para comprar combustible sobre todo en Santa Cruz, la región productora de alimentos. Paralelamente se registran al menos cuatro cortes de rutas en contra de la suba del diésel que afectan el tránsito en carreteras al oriente y una que conecta con el centro de Bolivia.

En marzo la petrolera fue cuestionada por la distribución de combustible de mala calidad que dañó varios automóviles. El Estado estableció una compensación para los transportistas afectados.

Bolivia importa un 80% del diésel y casi un 50% de la gasolina que consume.

Eventually, Williams decided to come back to South Bend to show he could replace not one, but two NFL first-round draft picks.

On Sunday, Williams is expected to make his long-awaited first college start when the No. 4 Fighting Irish face Wisconsin at historic Lambeau Field, and it's starting to feel more like what Williams envisioned when he chose Notre Dame.

“I didn’t feel right,” he said when asked about changing schools. “I came here for a reason. This degree means something to me, but also these people mean something more to me."

He added: “With (Jadarian Price and Jeremiyah Love) gone, obviously the opportunity is there. We’re looking to replace these guys. We’re not looking to take any steps back at all in the running back room.”

It certainly hasn't been the journey most top-ranked recruits map out.

The prep star from Hannibal, Missouri watched Love hurdle his way into Heisman Trophy contention, and along with Price, field one of the top running duos in Notre Dame's storied history. They led the Irish to the national championship game in January 2025 and were good enough to keep Notre Dame in playoff contention after last season's 0-2 start on their way to becoming the first running back tandem from the same school to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.

But playing behind those two meant Williams was essentially relegated to spot or mop-up duty, and in today's college transfer environment that means other schools can offer more money, more playing time or both.

Williams called the experience “exciting" though the chance to team up with incumbent starting quarterback CJ Carr as the cornerstones of Notre Dame's offense was even more enticing.

“I want (people) to see the player that I can and have been,” he said. “You know, since I’ve been here, I might have taken a back seat, but I learned a lot in those years. Now, to just apply it and bring it to the field, and give these younger guys someone to look up to like I had, that’s the biggest thing.”

Williams showed his potential in 2024, playing in 13 games, rushing for 219 yards and logging another 172 yards receiving. Last year, the 5-foot-10, 210-pound Williams appeared in all 12 games but had just 24 carries for 224 yards and finished with five TDs.

His biggest game came in Notre Dame's season finale when he rushed 10 times for 83 yards, caught two passes for 40 yards and scored twice including a 51-yard TD run in 49-20 rout over Stanford. When the Irish were left out of the 12-team playoff, the team elected not to appear in a bowl game.

Williams knows the outside world remains skeptical of what Notre Dame's offense will look like without Love and Price, though he dismisses any suggestion the Irish runners can't get the job done.

"I’d be silly to say I don’t hear it,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot about how the running back room is going to be the weak spot, and I think you take that and use it. I think that’s the message that we’ve used in the running back room, and (running backs coach Ja’Juan Seider) has put on us.”

And Seider has no doubt Williams has always had what it takes.

“He has a know-how of what’s going on around him,” Seider said, noting Williams was one of last season's leaders. “He knows the big picture. He’s very similar to what CJ has as a quarterback. He can see the rotation of the safety. He can see the front change, and he can anticipate, which to me, that is what makes a great running back, to be able anticipate what’s going on around him and evade.”

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It’s the first time in at least 30 years that Castro did not attend the event, and no explanation was offered.

The event was presided by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who read a congratulatory message from Castro to his compatriots in the eastern city of Pinar del Río, where the rally was held.

The annual event commemorates the July 26, 1953, assault led by brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in Cuba’s eastern region. The military action against former dictator Fulgencio Batista failed, but it marked the beginning of the revolutionary struggle that culminated on Jan. 1, 1959.

Castro’s last public appearances were in June during an event to establish the Ministry of the Interior and on May 1 to celebrate Labor Day.

Castro no longer holds any formal positions, but his symbolic presence is strong, and he was recently identified as one of the negotiators in talks with the United States following the imposition of a U.S. energy embargo.

Facing a crowd of hundreds of people waving Cuban flags early Sunday, Díaz-Canel rejected a report that the U.S. State Department published last week that accused Cuba of running a leftist espionage and influence network against the United States and Latin America for decades.

“Every day they issue a threat against the revolution, and every week they announce a new punishment for Cuban companies and officials,” the president said.

In May, Castro was charged in a U.S. indictment with murder and other crimes for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian aircraft operated by Miami-based exiles in 1996 off the coast of the Caribbean island.

The accusations were widely rejected by Cuba’s government.

Cuba is going through one of the worst periods in its historically tense relationship with the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he hopes to “take over” the island after his January attack on Venezuela — a key ally of Cuba for decades — and imposed an oil embargo that has practically paralyzed the Caribbean nation, pressuring it to change its economic and political model.

“Cuba is the victim of a coldly calculated genocide,” Díaz-Canel said during his speech, in which he accused the Trump administration of imposing a policy of “maximum pressure” and intensified “economic strangulation.”

Daily blackouts are lasting more than 20 hours, workdays have been reduced, industrial production halted, and shortages of water and medicine are hitting an island already undergoing a severe crisis in the past five years given previous sanctions imposed by the U.S. and an internal financial reform that sparked inflation.

Meanwhile, hotel chains including Spain’s Meliá, payment processors like Visa and Mastercard and airlines such as Air Canada and Air France have left the island as its economic and financial crises deepen.

Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford submitted his resignation the same day, but the city's board of aldermen declined to acknowledge it and instead voted unanimously to fire the chief, according to the city clerk, who did not elaborate on their reasons.

The firing followed reporting by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News last month that alleged Vanderford used racist slurs in private text conversations with a colleague. It also comes amid the aftermath of the child's shooting and other incidents.

The toddler Wiley was fatally shot and another woman was wounded June 14 after a Senatobia police officer fired into a vehicle while investigating a shoplifting call at a Walmart. The boy's mother, Vellesiya Wiley, denied that she or a friend accompanying her had stolen anything, and no charges have been filed against them.

The officer who shot Wiley and the woman driving the car the child was in has been placed on administrative leave while the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation looks into the shooting.

The child's death stirs anger in the small Mississippi city

Kohen Wiley was Black, as is his mother. The death ignited anger in a small city where tensions between Black residents and the police have boiled over in recent years. Senatobia, with a population of more than 8,000, is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Memphis.

“I believe the Board has a responsibility to protect the integrity and trust of the Senatobia Police Department,” Alderman Demetrius Garrett wrote in a Facebook post. “I still believe in unity. But unity does not mean ignoring serious issues it means standing together for what is right."

The city had previously addressed the reporting about Vanderford's texts, saying in a statement on Aug. 25 that he had appeared before the mayor and board to answer questions and that he would continue to serve as police chief.

A Senatobia alderman calls for an independent investigation

Senatobia Alderman Chris McConnell called for an independent investigation of the police department.

“We need answers about departmental leadership, internal culture, the handling of complaints and misconduct, financial practices, and whether the Board has been receiving the information necessary to provide proper oversight,” McConnell said in a statement. “Our citizens deserve a police department they can trust.”

National civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Kohen Wiley's family, called the chief's firing the “right decision.”

“The racist language that cost Chief Vanderford his job is exactly why this family cannot simply be told to trust the process,” Crump said in a statement calling for the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations to release body-camera footage of the shooting. "Give this family the facts they have been owed since the day Kohen died.”

The Senatobia Police Department declined to comment on the firing, and Vanderford could not be immediately located for a response Wednesday.

Kohen Wiley's shooting death was one controversy among others

Vanderford was appointed police chief on Sept. 29, 2025, after the board of aldermen declined to reappoint the previous chief, Richard Chandler, in July of that year.

Chandler led the police department through several controversies. They included the 2023 arrest of a 10-year-old Black boy for urinating in public and an incident in which an officer threatened a woman with a Taser and pulled her from her car during a dispute over a handicapped parking space outside the same Walmart where the child was shot.

“You removed Richard Chandler," said Senatobia community activist Patrick Lumumba. “But you did not remove the culture of racism, and that's what Vanderford harbors.”

Following the child's death, Lumumba formed the Senatobia Committee for Accountability and Transparency, a community watchdog group that is demanding answers about the June shooting and advocating for better policing.

He voiced confidence in Lt. Angelica Maze, who will serve as the department's interim police chief, calling her a“good person.”

The news came little more than 24 hours before the opener against Arkansas Pine-Bluff on Thursday night.

Such is the chaotic nature of college athletics these days, with a multitude of cases slowly winding their way through the judicial system with rosters across the country in limbo as the season begins.

“It looks like we're ready to go!” Drinkwitz exclaimed, upon hearing the news of Webb's availability from a reporter's tweet. “You just wait for the tweets. That's what you do. You (reporters) wait for injury reports to tell you who's in and who's out. We wait for tweets from judges to tell you who's in and who's out. What a system we have.”

Webb was granted a temporary restraining in late July so that he could play a fifth season under rules that were recently adopted by the NCAA. The new eligibility model allows five seasons of competition in a five-year period, beginning with an athlete's full-time enrollment or the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first. But it was not supposed to include athletes who exhausted their eligibility under the old model after last season, and that has left those athletes challenging the plan in court.

Webb, one of the Tigers' most experienced players, has been practicing ever since he was granted the order, and he should play plenty against Arkansas Pine-Bluff in their opener. He's made 11 starts and appeared in 25 games over the past two seasons.

Nearly 400 athletes have sued the NCAA and other defendants, seeking additional eligibility and claiming the organization’s 5-in-5 rule is unfair because it excludes members of the high school Class of 2022. More than 30 lawsuits, several of them in federal court, are in different stages of litigation. Some include a handful athletes who signed professional contracts, which prompted every Power Four conference and others in the Bowl Subdivision to ban pros from returning to college – leading to even more court filings.

Drinkwitz has been among the coaches in multiple sports who have been vocal in their disdain for the state of college sports.

“College athletics is not in a great place. I said this several years ago when we had announcement of conference changes in the middle of fall camp, and I said, ‘Who considered the student athletes?’” Drinkwitz said last weekend. “This stuff is not good for any student athlete. And it’s a direct reflection of our inability as leaders to come up with a plan.”

Drinkwitz has been pressing for the Protect College Sports Act, a bill in the Senate that would give the NCAA some protection against the sort of lawsuits that are upending college athletics. But the bill remains weeks away from a potential vote.

“If that if that bill has passed, this stuff is not happening right now," he said, “because there’s a framework for what the future of college athletics looks like. And you know, (Texas A&M coach) Mike Elko said it a couple days ago, like, 'The season’s kicked off, and we have no — we do not know what the rules are for eligibility.' That’s embarrassing, man."

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The one-year moratorium — part of a wider assessment of how children in the nation’s largest school district interact with the technology — will include “all software that uses student-facing generative AI” for students in grades through 8th grade, the mayor's office said. It described the policy as the most expansive prohibition in the country.

At the same time, the city is establishing twice-yearly AI literacy classes for all public high school students, and it will set up pilots for some high schoolers to introduce them to a handful of AI platforms under the supervision of an educator. Companion chatbots will be prohibited across all grades, officials said.

The approach comes as students, parents and schools across the country are attempting to navigate the use of AI tools in the classroom and elsewhere, moving to teach kids to how to incorporate the technology while also stopping them from overly relying on it or using it to cheat.

“Each day when our children come to school we teach them to ask questions, to challenge assumptions, to interrogate the premise, to ask why. When it comes to AI in our schools, we hold an obligation to do the same," Mamdani, a Democrat, said at a news conference.

The city will also recommend screen time limits for students, suggesting a cap of 30 minutes a day for students in grades three to five and 45 minutes for students between 6th and 8th grade. Teachers will be allowed to use AI for instructional planning and operational tasks.

At least 37 states have official AI guidance that schools can use as a blueprint, though the isn't a single definition of what AI literacy means or how it should be taught. New York state last year approved a ban on students' use of cellphones in schools.

City education officials will also perform a wide review of all technology tools used in its school system and will eliminate certain tools if they are determined to be not essential to learning.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York, praised the screen time limits but said the city's AI policy “leaves many questions unanswered,” including details on how the education department "will be more aggressive in demanding the products it purchases have AI safeguards."

“If we are going to be serious, let’s start at the source, rather than expect school communities or individual educators to figure out after the fact if what their school uses fits the new policy,” he said.

New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week.

The sculpture, a tall, blue stick figure poised in action — as if to kick a ball or, from a different angle, having just kicked one — was designed by sculptor Joel Shapiro and installed in 2019.

The removal follows a longer-running saga with the Kennedy Center, where the Trump-aligned board is fighting in court for the right to plaster the president's name on the historic institution. It falls within a broader effort to reshape Washington to Trump's liking, including demolishing the White House's East Wing to build a ballroom, a proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery and a renovated golf course.

Shapiro, known for breathing life into otherwise minimalist stick figures, described “Blue” in a video posted to the Kennedy Center’s YouTube years ago as being “about action and risk and performance and energy. It’s a celebration of possibility.”

Shapiro died in 2025, and “Blue” will no longer celebrate possibility at the Kennedy Center, though it may be reinstalled elsewhere through the Joel Shapiro and Ellen Phelan Foundation.

A crane could be seen Wednesday taking down the sculpture’s appendages, the arms and legs wrapped protectively, as people in hi-vis vests worked around it in the sun.

“We are deeply grateful to Joel Shapiro for the years Blue has spent animating our campus and connecting visitors to his vision,” the Kennedy Center said in an emailed statement. “We are honored to have been stewards of his vibrant work and a part of his enduring legacy.”

Michael Sebastiani stood nearby as “Blue” was disassembled or, as he put it, “dismembered.” Sebastiani is part of the group Hands off the Arts, partly formed to push back against the Trump administration's changes to the Kennedy Center.

“Art is what makes you think, and that’s its role in life,” he said, saying the sculpture was “a very welcoming fixture, if you will, for folks coming into the city, and we’re just really sad to see her gone.”

Sebastiani said “Blue” was the mascot for National Dance Day on Sept. 19, with events held near it on a 2019 addition to the Kennedy Center campus called The REACH. “Blue,” said Sebastiani, “brings the joy and happiness that is part of that celebration.”

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A vote was held in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, as North Miami Beach Mayor Michael Joseph and Hector Roos, who previously worked on Cherfilus-McCormick’s congressional campaigns, were accused of failing to comply with multiple subpoenas.

The matter has since been referred to the U.S. Justice Department in regard to possible criminal prosecution.

Convictions for contempt of Congress can carry a fine of up to $100,000 and a one-year prison sentence.

Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress in April, shortly before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on her possible expulsion.

That was after the committee found her guilty of 25 ethics and campaign finance violations.

Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing or misusing around $5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds that were intended for a healthcare business run by her family.

She previously pled not guilty to criminal charges related to the relief funds.

Tuesday’s vote was held verbally, meaning there are no records of the lawmakers’ individual votes.

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Driscoll is a friend of Vice President JD Vance and has good relationships with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been widely reported, and some of Driscoll's allies in the Army were ousted this year by President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief.

Driscoll spoke with Trump on the current state of the Army before he submitted his resignation this week, The Associated Press has reported.

Any concerns were absent from Driscoll's post on X late Tuesday night, which was his first public statement since the White House confirmed his departure Monday. Driscoll said it has been “the honor of a lifetime” to serve as Army secretary under Trump and Hegseth.

Driscoll praised the soldiers, their families and the Army's civilian workforce for helping “modernize and accelerate how the Army mans, trains, and equips the most lethal fighting force on the face of the earth.”

“We could not have made the progress we did without the support of Secretary Hegseth,” he added.

Driscoll is departing as fighting reignites in the Middle East

His exit comes as the U.S. military has returned to launching airstrikes against Iran after a lull in hostilities during the more than six-month-old war, leaving the nation's largest fighting force without top civilian or uniformed leaders who have been confirmed by the Senate. It was not immediately clear who would fill Driscoll's role at least temporarily.

Hegseth in April ousted the Army's top uniformed leader, Gen. Randy George, an ally of Driscoll. Gen. Christopher LaNeve took over as the Army’s acting chief of staff and recently pulled the plug on a drone modernization program that Driscoll had championed.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers sent a letter this week to Driscoll and LaNeve to express “deep concerns” about eliminating the specialized drone unit and to request a briefing from the Army to explain its decision.

As Army secretary, Driscoll was a major force behind efforts to cut the red tape so military contractors could quickly develop more drones and counter-drone capabilities as modern warfare evolves.

Driscoll also was tapped last year for the unusual assignment of key negotiator to try to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly noted Driscoll's role in those negotiations in Monday's statement on his resignation, adding that Driscoll provided “outstanding leadership during historic military operations, restoring an emphasis on readiness and lethality.”

Lawmakers from both parties criticize Hegseth as Driscoll departs

Both Republicans and Democrats have lamented Driscoll's resignation, while some used it as an opportunity to criticize Hegseth's leadership.

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who is retiring and sometimes has clashed with Trump, urged the president in a social media post Wednesday to “find a new leader at the Pentagon who will retain and empower our military talent rather than diminish it.”

Besides George, Hegseth has fired more than a dozen top generals and admirals without explanation since he took office last year.

“Secretary Hegseth is cultivating a culture where dissent is punished and competence is secondary to personal allegiance,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Monday.

Before Hegseth was confirmed last year, Tillis had held out support until only moments before casting a crucial vote in favor.

“If we had a @SecWar who maintained the same priorities and forward-thinking, he would be fighting to retain talented leaders like Dan and the many flag officers he has forced into retirement,” Tillis said on X. “Instead, he is creating a leadership void at the top of our military ranks.”

The Pentagon is likely to face questions from senators when they return to Washington

Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota predicted Tuesday that the Pentagon will face serious questions from senators when they return to Washington in two weeks.

“I’m hearing the same language everybody else is — that he was frustrated with some of his top generals being released,” Rounds said of Driscoll. “That’s not the first time I’ve heard that, and I think that points to questions that we’re going to be asking when we get back, in terms of where is the leadership?”

Asked if he is still confident in Hegseth, Rounds said, “It’s a matter of whether or not the president is.”

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the criticism of Hegseth over Driscoll’s resignation.

Some Republicans defended Hegseth's leadership.

“I think Secretary Hegseth has every authority to go out there and say, ‘We’re going to have the right people cover in interim or in permanency, making sure they’re the most well equipped, they’re the most motivated, they’re the most driven to go out there, train and be ready for their job,’” said Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast, who is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

El tribunal emitió el fallo a última hora del martes en un caso relacionado con el candidato opositor, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro, quien utilizó el recurso en la convención de su partido para mostrar imágenes generadas por IA de su padre encarcelado, el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, respaldando su campaña contra el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Jair Bolsonaro fue condenado en noviembre a 27 años de prisión por liderar un intento de golpe de Estado. En la convención del Partido Liberal realizada en julio en Sao Paulo, una versión generada por IA del exmandatario apareció para instar a los asistentes a “abrir los brazos” para su hijo y apoyar su postulación presidencial.

En su decisión del martes, el tribunal electoral votó 4-3 para no sancionar al senador Bolsonaro, al determinar que el deepfake en cuestión no constituía un anuncio político para difusión pública, sino que se realizó para un evento privado antes de que su candidatura fuera anunciada oficialmente.

Sin embargo, en una votación separada de 5-2, el tribunal definió lo que califica como deepfake en la publicidad política como “contenido sintético producido o manipulado mediante inteligencia artificial o tecnología equivalente” con un grado de realismo “para crear, reproducir o alterar la imagen, la voz o el discurso de cualquier persona viva, fallecida o ficticia”.

Las elecciones presidenciales de Brasil tienen a internet como principal vehículo, aunque los anuncios en televisión y radio siguen marcando la conversación pública e influyendo en los votantes.

Las reglas se aplicarán a una enorme cantidad de contenido de los candidatos antes de la primera vuelta de votación del 4 de octubre. Las emisoras deben reservar 14 minutos al día para casi 1.000 anuncios de 30 segundos, además de bloques de 12 minutos y medio reservados exclusivamente para los candidatos presidenciales.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jay Hudson Harmon, 65, on hit-and-run and aggravated battery charges on Tuesday.

According to MDSO, the incident happened on the evening of Aug. 7 at the West Kendall Transit Terminal, located at 9155 SW 162nd Ave., a few blocks south of Kendall Drive.

An arrest report states that CCTV footage taken at around 9:40 p.m. showed Harmon driving his Jeep towards the victim, hitting him with his front bumper and knocking him to the ground.

Deputies said Harmon kept driving, “running the victim over with the passenger side front and back wheel of (his) vehicle” and left.

According to the report, medics took the victim to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital with injuries including “a right parietal laceration to his head, a perforated bladder, left tibial fracture and multiple rib fractures.”

Authorities said Harmon came back about an hour later and fessed up to being the driver, saying he purposely hit the man because he thought his son’s “life was in danger,” though no additional explanation is included in the MDSO report.

Harmon told deputies he “then drove home,” the report states, “then decided to come back to the scene after realizing what he had done at the bus stop.”

Deputies arrested Harmon at MDSO’s Hammocks District station on Tuesday.

As of Wednesday, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” in online jail records.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade arrestaron el martes a Jay Hudson Harmon, de 65 años, por cargos de abandonar la escena de un accidente y agresión agravada.

Según MDSO, el incidente ocurrió la noche del 7 de agosto en West Kendall Transit Terminal, ubicado en 9155 SW 162nd Ave., a pocas cuadras al sur de Kendall Drive.

Un informe de arresto indica que imágenes de cámaras de vigilancia tomadas alrededor de las 9:40 p.m. mostraron a Harmon conduciendo su Jeep hacia la víctima, golpeándola con el parachoques delantero y derribándola al suelo.

Los agentes dijeron que Harmon continuó conduciendo, “atropellando a la víctima con las ruedas delantera y trasera del lado del pasajero de su vehículo”, y se marchó.

Según el informe, paramédicos trasladaron a la víctima a HCA Florida Kendall Hospital con lesiones que incluían “una laceración parietal derecha en la cabeza, una vejiga perforada, una fractura de la tibia izquierda y múltiples fracturas de costillas”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Harmon regresó aproximadamente una hora después y admitió ser el conductor, afirmando que atropelló intencionalmente al hombre porque pensó que la “vida de su hijo estaba en peligro”, aunque el informe de MDSO no incluye ninguna explicación adicional.

Harmon dijo a los agentes que “luego condujo hasta su casa”, indica el informe, “y después decidió regresar a la escena tras darse cuenta de lo que había hecho en la parada de autobús”.

Los agentes arrestaron a Harmon el martes en la estación del distrito Hammocks de MDSO.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza que figuraba como “por determinar” en los registros de la cárcel en línea.

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Jail records show Pratapsinh Thakor is facing one count each of attempted felony murder causing injury and domestic battery causing harm.

According to the arrest report, Thakor and the victim are married and live together.

Deputies said the incident happened at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. The location of their home was redacted from the publicly released report.

Deputies said Thakor entered the bedroom he shares with the victim and stabbed her in the back while she slept. The victim woke up and begged him to stop, according to the report.

The report states the victim was able to take the knife away from Thakor, but he then punched her multiple times. She was able to get away and call 911, according to deputies.

When deputies arrived, they found the victim outside the apartment. The report states that deputies spotted Thakor holding her by the hair.

Deputies said the victim was taken to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital for further evaluation.

They said she suffered two lacerations to the left side of her back, a punctured lung, a laceration to her left arm and a bloody mouth.

The report states Thakor “denied any involvement in the stabbing.”

A motive for the stabbing remains unclear at this time.

As of Wednesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Pratapsinh Thakor enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato durante la comisión de un delito grave que causó lesiones y un cargo de agresión doméstica que causó daños.

Según el informe de arresto, Thakor y la víctima están casados y viven juntos.

Los agentes dijeron que el incidente ocurrió alrededor de la 1 a.m. del martes. La ubicación de su casa fue censurada del informe divulgado públicamente.

Los agentes dijeron que Thakor entró al dormitorio que comparte con la víctima y la apuñaló en la espalda mientras dormía. La víctima se despertó y le rogó que se detuviera, según el informe.

El informe indica que la víctima logró quitarle el cuchillo a Thakor, pero luego él la golpeó varias veces. Ella logró escapar y llamar al 911, según los agentes.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, encontraron a la víctima afuera del apartamento. El informe indica que los agentes vieron a Thakor sujetándola por el cabello.

Los agentes dijeron que la víctima fue trasladada al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital para una evaluación adicional.

Dijeron que sufrió dos laceraciones en el lado izquierdo de la espalda, un pulmón perforado, una laceración en el brazo izquierdo y sangrado en la boca.

El informe indica que Thakor “negó cualquier participación en el apuñalamiento”.

El motivo del apuñalamiento sigue sin estar claro en este momento.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

En el momento de tocar tierra, sus vientos de tormenta tropical (vientos que superaban los 63 km/h) se extendían solo unos 40 kilómetros desde su centro, pero la potente tormenta trajo ráfagas de viento de 96 a 113 km/h, conráfagas de hasta 145 km/h, a la ciudad costera de Port Arthur, al sur de Beaumont.

Las importantes inundaciones repentinas continuarán hasta la madrugada del jueves.

Como hemos comentado en el boletín informativo de esta semana, la principal amenaza de Edouard son las inundaciones repentinas, que continuaron afectando a partes del sureste y centro-este de Texas el miércoles por la mañana.

Las estimaciones del radar muestran acumulaciones de lluvia que se aproximan a casi 20 pulgadas a lo largo de un estrecho corredor justo al norte de Kountze, en el centro de los condados de Hardin y el centro-sur de Tyler, a unas 30 millas al noroeste de Beaumont, donde se declaró una emergencia por inundaciones repentinas a primera hora del miércoles.

Además, el Centro de Predicción Meteorológica del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional elevó el nivel de alerta por inundaciones repentinas a alto (nivel 4 de 4) a media mañana del miércoles para la región que abarca desde Big Thicket hasta Piney Woods, en el sureste de Texas. Los días de alto riesgo son muy poco frecuentes ( solo ocurren en aproximadamente el 4% de los días ), pero representan cerca de una de cada tres muertes relacionadas con inundaciones y el 80% de los daños ocasionados.

La mayor cantidad de lluvia registrada oficialmente hasta el momento esde aproximadamente 45 centímetros cerca de Little Pine Island Bayou, Texas, dentro de esta zona de alto riesgo. Se han registrado acumulaciones generalizadas de entre 10 y 20 centímetros en otras partes del sureste de Texas y al este de Houston-Galveston, donde en general se evitaron lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones.

La amenaza de inundación avanzará tierra adentro, afectando a comunidades del centro-este de Texas, al sureste de Dallas-Fort Worth, hasta la mañana del jueves. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional pronostica que podrían caer entre 10 y 20 centímetros adicionales entre el miércoles y la madrugada del jueves a lo largo de la trayectoria de Edouard.

A pesar de haberse debilitado hasta convertirse en depresión tropical, Edouard mantuvo una circulación coherente en el radar mientras se encontraba a más de 160 kilómetros tierra adentro sobre Texas el miércoles por la mañana. Los restos de la espiral remanente de Edouard deberían disiparse rápidamente entre la noche del jueves y la madrugada del viernes sobre el norte de Texas y el sur de Oklahoma.

No hay nada que se esté gestando detrás de Edouard.

Como comentamos en el boletín del martes, la cuenca del Atlántico permanecerá inquietantemente tranquila durante la que tradicionalmente es la semana de mayor actividad de la temporada de huracanes.

La única posibilidad, según los modelos de pronóstico, es que se produzca a mediados o finales de la próxima semana debido a una baja presión a lo largo de un frente frío sobre el norte del Golfo, una situación habitual esta temporada. Por ahora, las probabilidades de que ocurra algo son muy bajas, pero estaremos atentos a las tendencias durante la próxima semana.

The court issued the ruling late Tuesday in a case involving opposition candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, who used the mechanism in his party's convention to feature AI-generated images of his imprisoned father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, endorsing his campaign against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced in November to 27 years in prison for leading a coup attempt. At the Liberal Party’s convention in Sao Paulo in July, an AI-generated version of the former president appeared to urge attendees “to open arms” for his son and support his presidential bid.

In its decision Tuesday, the electoral court voted 4-3 not to punish Sen. Bolsonaro, ruling that the deepfake in question did not constitute a political ad for public airing, but one for a private event before his candidacy was officially announced.

However, in a separate 5-2 vote, the court defined what qualifies as a deepfake in political advertising as “synthetic content produced or manipulated via artificial intelligence or equivalent technology” with a degree of realism “to create, reproduce or alter the image, voice or speech of any living, deceased or fictional person.”

Brazil's presidential elections are heavily played online, though television and radio ads continue to set the talk of the town and sway voters.

The rules will apply to a vast amount of content from candidates ahead of the first round of voting on Oct. 4. Broadcasters must set aside 14 minutes a day for nearly 1,000 30-second ads, in addition to 12 1/2-minute blocks reserved exclusively for presidential candidates.

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La reforma, sin embargo, no anula los comicios, como había pedido recientemente Ortega en unas declaraciones que alarmaron al mundo.

Según explicó el diario oficialista “El 19 Digital”, la reforma a la carta magna aprobada por la Asamblea a última hora del martes establece que no podrán ser candidatos a cargos de elección popular ni ocupar cargos públicos los “golpistas” y “traidores a la patria”. Además, alarga el mandato presidencial y de otros cargos populares de seis a siete años.

También contempla que las leyes extranjeras no tendrán efecto jurídico en Nicaragua.

Los cambios tienen lugar poco después de que la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) aprobara en agosto la celebración de una reunión extraordinaria de cancilleres ante los llamamientos de Estados Unidos a actuar con firmeza después de las declaraciones de Ortega de querer eliminar las elecciones.

El miércoles, el secretario de Estado estadounidense Marco Rubio dijo en un comunicado que la reforma “socavó la farsa de la democracia en Nicaragua al modificar una vez más la Constitución del país para afianzar su dinastía ilegítima y privar indefinidamente a los nicaragüenses de unas elecciones libres y justas”.

Rubio instó a sus socios internacionales a romper las relaciones económicas con el país centroamericano porque “las dictaduras que niegan los derechos inalienables de sus ciudadanos no deberían disfrutar de los mismos beneficios económicos ni políticos” que el resto de los Estados.

Desde la violenta represión gubernamental de las protestas de 2018 el gobierno nicaragüense ha reescrito la Constitución restringiendo cada vez más las libertades hasta anular la división de poderes y oficializar el paramilitarismo y la represión, según ha denunciado en varias ocasiones la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU).

Las autoridades han encarcelado a políticos contrarios a sus ideas y líderes religiosos y han clausurado organizaciones de la sociedad civil mientras miles de personas han huido del país en busca de asilo, algunos incluso despojados de su nacionalidad.

En julio el octogenario mandatario —que cogobierna junto a su esposa Rosario Murillo— causó un escándalo cuando habló sin tapujos sobre la supresión de los comicios en el país.

“Aquí no volverá a haber elecciones... Jamás, jamás, jamás”, dijo durante el aniversario de la Revolución Sandinista que derrocó a la dictadura de Anastasio Somoza en 1979 y lo llevó por primera vez al poder. Ortega regresó a la presidencia en 2007.

Durante ese evento agregó que “aquí se acabó la historia de que los partidos puestos por los yanquis, puestos por los somocistas, volverán a llegar al gobierno”.

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It takes preparation, consistency, teamwork, and a commitment to doing things right every single day.

So today, we’re giving a well-deserved Clean Plate shout-out to these establishments.

Thank you for taking food safety seriously and for giving your customers something to feel good about.

It’s hard to do and when you do it, you deserve some serious kudos!

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**KOSHER GRILL, 1501 NW 3RD ST., MIAMI, 8/21

**ANCHORED CHEF(CATERING), 664 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAUDERDALE, 8/21

**WENDY’S, 3535 HOLLYWOOD BLVD., HOLLYWOOD, 8/19

**JW MARRIOTT POOL BAR, 1109 BRICKELL AVE., MIAMI, 8/17

**PHO NGUYEN VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE, 10820 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/14

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**TACO BELL, 4870 NW 183RD ST. (MIAMI GARDENS DR.), MIAMI GARDENS, 8/14

**WENDY’S, 697 NW 37TH AVE., MIAMI, 8/14

**KENDALL ICE ARENA, 10355 HAMMOCKS BLVD., WEST KENDALL, 8/13

**MAMACITA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL, 508 N. BROADWALK, HOLLYWOOD, 8/13

**EVERGLADES SAFARI RESTAURANT, 26700 SW 8TH ST., SOUTH-MIAMI DADE/REDLAND, 8/12

**SUBWAY, 12800 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/12

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**DOMINOS, 2454 SHERIDAN ST., HOLLYWOOD, 8/12

**PIU ARGENTINIAN ICE CREAM, 6310 GRIFFIN ROAD, DAVIE, 8/12

**RECOVECO, 6000 SW 74TH ST., SOUTH MIAMI, 8/11

**PALM BISTRO JOHN KNOX VILLAGE, 700 SW 4TH ST., POMPANO BEACH, 8/11

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The Americans will have to jell quickly if they hope to win a fifth straight FIBA women's World Cup. The tournament begins Friday, when the U.S. plays China in one of eight games in Berlin.

The Americans already have had a couple of practices in Berlin since their staggered arrivals, marking the first time that the 12 players on the squad were together as a team. The U.S. is working in a bunch of young, new players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, with half the roster making its World Cup debut.

Having little practice time is nothing new to the Americans.

“It’s good to get the group together. It’s a new group. The beneficial thing about us is that even though we haven’t practiced with each other much, but we know our games really well because we scout each other every single day (in the WNBA),” veteran guard Chelsea Gray said. “So we know people’s strengths. I think basketball players, we compartmentalize better than anyone. So this is no different, we're going to have to learn on the fly.”

They'll have less time to get ready because this World Cup format is different from the 2022 one. With 16 teams competing in Germany instead of the 12 they had four years ago, each country will play only three games in the preliminary round, down from five in Australia. That gives the U.S. fewer games to figure out rotations and work on its on-court chemistry, but it does give them more rest time.

“It’s just more of being really focused and locked in when we do have our time together, and we know that there’s a lot of information to install,” coach Kara Lawson said. “I don’t think it’s changed the way I would normally coach. It’s just being very direct with what we want done, and they were great today in practice at picking up a lot in a short period of time.”

If the Americans do win their group, which also includes China, the Czech Republic and Italy, they'll have two days off before the quarterfinals. Gray doesn't mind having fewer games.

“It's less on our bodies honestly, especially with the pause in the WNBA season,” the 33-year-old Gray said. “I like a little bit of a break."

Usually the World Cup begins right after the WNBA season finishes. This time, the league is pausing for two weeks because of the international competition.

“It's definitely different,” said Breanna Stewart, who has helped the U.S. win the last three World Cup gold medals.

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Requiere preparación, constancia, trabajo en equipo y el compromiso de hacer las cosas bien todos los días.

Así que hoy les damos un merecido reconocimiento de Clean Plate a estos establecimientos.

Gracias por tomarse en serio la seguridad alimentaria y por darles a sus clientes algo por lo cual sentirse bien.

¡Es difícil lograrlo y, cuando lo hacen, merecen grandes felicitaciones!

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**CHIPOTLE, 2750 SW 27TH TERRACE, MIAMI, 8/28

**JW MARRIOT MARQUIS HOTEL BALLROOM KITCHEN, 255 BISCAYNE BLVD., MIAMI, 8/27

**LOBBY LOUNGE HYATT, 50 ALHAMBRA CIRCLE, CORAL GABLES, 8/26

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**JW MARRIOTT POOL BAR, 1109 BRICKELL AVE., MIAMI, 8/17

**PHO NGUYEN VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE, 10820 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/14

**NRG COFFEE SHOP, 4053 SW 152ND ST., WESTCHESTER, 8/14

**PANDA EXPRESS, 18050 NW 57TH AVE., HIALEAH, 8/14

**TACO BELL, 4870 NW 183RD ST. (MIAMI GARDENS DR.), MIAMI GARDENS, 8/14

**WENDY’S, 697 NW 37TH AVE., MIAMI, 8/14

**KENDALL ICE ARENA, 10355 HAMMOCKS BLVD., WEST KENDALL, 8/13

**MAMACITA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL, 508 N. BROADWALK, HOLLYWOOD, 8/13

**EVERGLADES SAFARI RESTAURANT, 26700 SW 8TH ST., SOUTH-MIAMI DADE/REDLAND, 8/12

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**EMACK & BOLIO’S, 10350 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/12

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**DOMINOS, 2454 SHERIDAN ST., HOLLYWOOD, 8/12

**PIU ARGENTINIAN ICE CREAM, 6310 GRIFFIN ROAD, DAVIE, 8/12

**RECOVECO, 6000 SW 74TH ST., SOUTH MIAMI, 8/11

**PALM BISTRO JOHN KNOX VILLAGE, 700 SW 4TH ST., POMPANO BEACH, 8/11

**WENDY’S, 2370 SW 8TH ST., MIAMI, 8/10

**MCDONALDS, 7995 WEST FLAGLER ST., WESTCHESTER, 8/7

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Lianyong Wei, 51, died Aug. 23 at a hospital in the Northern Mariana Islands, ICE announced in a news release Tuesday.

Wei was arrested Aug. 21 by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on criminal charges stemming from an alleged assault on a family of five at their home, according to ICE. He was taken into ICE custody the next day pending removal proceedings.

ICE said a guard at the lockup in Saipan found Wei unresponsive during routine morning checks on Aug. 23. He was taken to a hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead after “life-sustaining interventions were initiated,” the agency said, noting that the cause of his death is under investigation.

Wei entered the U.S. territory in February 2019 and was authorized to stay for two weeks, according to ICE. U.S. authorities began removal proceedings in July 2026, and Wei's next hearing had been scheduled for this month.

The Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles said it had been notified of Wei’s death.

“We have expressed serious concerns to the relevant U.S. authorities over this incident and required a timely and thorough investigation into the cause of Mr. Wei’s death, notification of the findings, measures to prevent any recurrence of similar incidents, and assistance to the family of the deceased in handling the aftermath,” the consulate said in a statement.

Wei is at least the fifth Chinese national who has died in the custody of ICE or the U.S. Border Patrol since March 2025, according to tracking by The Associated Press. Two of the first four deaths have been ruled suicides and the other two were the result of medical complications.

At least 57 ICE detainees have died since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, a death rate that has alarmed public health experts, advocates for immigrants and the Mexican government.

ICE hasn't said whether Wei received the medical intake screening, which the agency promises to detainees within their first 12 hours in custody. Medical experts say a thorough screening is critical to preventing deaths.

It’s unclear why it took ICE more than a week to acknowledge Wei’s death, which was announced by authorities in the Northern Mariana Islands on Aug. 24. ICE has said it aims to issue a news release on detainee deaths within two business days.

The lockup in Saipan has held an average of 18 ICE detainees on any given day this year, according to ICE data. Roughly 50,000 people live in the Northern Mariana Islands.

“Following this incident, the Department is reviewing relevant procedures and will implement any necessary corrective actions to strengthen prevention and response measures,” Northern Mariana Islands corrections commissioner Anthony Torres said in a statement.

The coin's design — Trump's visage as “heads” and the Great Seal of the United States as “tails” — received the stamp of approval this year from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members Trump appointed. In past comments, the president said that the idea to stamp his face on a coin was “very unusual” but that he was “honored by it.”

The president's second term has brought several such brandings, or attempts at them, that have become tangled up in lawsuits. That includes moves to put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace, as Trump works to leave his stamp on history and on Washington, D.C.

The coins, which can be used as legal tender, drew some criticism, particularly because of federal law that bars the depiction of a living president on U.S. currency. But in some circumstances, the Treasury Secretary does have authority to authorize the minting and issuance of special coins.

The coins were struck to “honor 250 years of great American heritage,” the U.S. Mint wrote on its website. In an arc above Trump's face is written “LIBERTY," and below is “1776 (tilde) 2026.” On the flip side is the Great Seal of the United States, with the bald eagle gripping arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other. In a banner clutched in its beak is written “E PLURIBUS UNUM," Latin for "out of many, one.”

A roll of 25 coins will cost $61, and a bag of 100 will cost $154.50, and the U.S. Mint said it randomly hid some special-issue coins among the rolls and bags. Those will be marked “July 4th” because they were struck on that day, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Households are limited to only two orders, the U.S. Mint wrote, but that cap will be lifted at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday.

It said that between March and August, some 86 metric tons (94.8 tons) of gold were transferred to London from the combined total of around 313 metric tons (345 tons) held in New York and Ottawa, Canada. Before the move, New York housed 31.3% of the Dutch gold and Ottawa held 19.7%. After the move, both cities now hold 18.5%, the bank said.

The bank owns 612.4 metric tons (675 tons) of gold that was worth 72.2 billion euros (about $83.6 billion) at the end of 2025.

“With this relocation, we have improved the tradability of our gold reserves," the bank’s governor, Olaf Sleijpen, said in a written statement. “We expect that we will never need to use them, but we do need to strengthen our resilience and preparedness.”

More than 27 metric tons (30 tons) of gold were “physically transferred” from the United States and Canada to the Dutch bank's heavily guarded vault on a military base near the central town of Zeist, the bank said, without elaborating on exactly how the gold bars got across the Atlantic Ocean. A similar quantity of gold was transferred from Zeist to London.

The rest of the relocation was achieved by selling around 59 metric tons (65 tons) of gold in New York and using the proceeds to buy gold in London.

The Dutch bank, known by its acronym DNB, said that gold held at the Bank of England “must meet modern international trade standards and is regarded as the world’s most easily tradable gold and will therefore be the most readily available for DNB in a crisis situation. The gold reserves held in New York and Ottawa cannot be utilized as quickly and directly in such a situation.”

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Cuban officials remained silent after the Diario Las Américas reported on Tuesday that the 95-year-old leader who served as Cuba’s president for 12 years had suffered a stroke and was on life support.

Castro, who formally retired in April 2021, still has the Cuban military rank of general and a seat in the National Assembly.

Before communism

Castro was born on June 3, 1931, in the village of Birán, in Cuba’s Holguín province. His father, Angel Castro, was born in Spain, and his mother, Lina Ruz González, was born in Cuba.

Castro was the youngest of seven: Two brothers, Fidel and Ramon, and four sisters, Angela, Juana, Emma, and Agustina. He was a student at Catholic Jesuit schools, the Colegio Dolores in Santiago and the Colegio de Belén in Havana.

Castro attended the University of Havana. He was a member of the Socialist Youth, a group of the Popular Socialist Party, and participated in the guerrilla campaign in the Sierra Maestra.

Guerrilla fighter

Castro was arrested after the guerrilla attack on the Moncada military barracks on July 26, 1953, and was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but he only served 22 months.

Castro received then-Cuban President Fulgencio Batista’s amnesty, and he was released from the Presidio Modelo prison on May 15, 1955, at the Isle of Pines.

Castro went into exile in Mexico. In 1956, in Mexico City, Castro met Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who had graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in 1953.

Castro, his brother Fidel, and Guevara were on board the yacht Granma that landed with dozens of guerrilla fighters on Dec. 2, 1956, in eastern Cuba’s Playas Las Coloradas.

Castro joined his brother, Guevara, and fellow guerrilla fighters in the Sierra Maestra mountains. The group overthrew Batista, who then fled Cuba on Jan. 1, 1959.

Castro married Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois, a fellow guerrilla fighter who was born in Santiago de Cuba, on Jan. 26, 1959. The couple had four children: Three daughters, Déborah in 1960; Mariela in 1962; and Nilsa; and one son, Alejandro, in 1965.

Rise to power

As his brother rose to power, Castro was named Cuba’s minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1959.

In 1996, Castro ordered the shootdown of civilian aircraft with Brothers to the Rescue pilots and crew members. The Cuban Air Force struck and killed Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.

Castro became Cuba’s provisional head of state on July 31, 2006. His wife, Espín Guillois, died on June 18, 2007.

Castro also served as the acting president of Cuba’s Council of State and the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008. The National Assembly elected him president on Feb. 24, 2008.

In 2011, Castro was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party. In 2013, the National Assembly elected him to a second five-year term.

In 2014, Castro announced the start of normalizing relations with the U.S., and negotiated with Russia to cancel 90% of a debt that had started with the Soviet Union.

Castro welcomed then-U.S. President Barack Obama and then First Lady Michelle Obama to Havana on March 20, 2016.

Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25, 2016, at 90 years old.

Castro served as president until April 19, 2018, when Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, his handpicked successor, replaced him.

In 2021, Castro stepped down as the leader of the Communist Party, and Díaz-Canel Bermúdez also replaced him.

While wielding power behind the scenes, Castro has continued to make public appearances in his military uniform.

On April 23, a U.S. federal grand jury in Miami indicted Raúl Castro for his role in the 1996 Cuban military strikes on two unarmed Cessnas with four members of Brothers to the Rescue.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed the charges: Conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, four counts of murder, and two counts of destruction of an aircraft.

Castro did not make or release a statement about the charges.

Related report: Latest updates from Local 10 Cuba Analyst Dr. Andy Gomez

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Se cerraron escuelas y oficinas municipales, y se indicó a los residentes que permanecieran en casa. Algunas zonas al noroeste de Beaumont, por donde pasó el centro de la tormenta el martes, recibieron entre 25 centímetros (10 pulgadas) y 53 centímetros (21 pulgadas) de lluvia en cuestión de horas, informaron el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional y funcionarios de emergencias.

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes indicó que la tormenta fue degradada la noche del martes, horas después de tocar tierra cerca de la frontera entre Texas y Luisiana con vientos máximos sostenidos de 95 km/h (60 mph). El sistema iba perdiendo fuerza a medida que avanzaba tierra adentro, pero el miércoles seguía produciendo lluvias intensas y algunas inundaciones. Se esperaba que se desintegrara la noche del miércoles.

Mientras tanto, un episodio de actividad tropical continuaba en el océano Pacífico, donde dos huracanes y una tormenta tropical —que probablemente se convertiría en huracán— se agitaban en aguas abiertas el miércoles.

Edouard toca tierra a lo largo de la línea Texas-Luisiana e inunda algunas carreteras

Cuando el centro de Edouard pasó sobre Beaumont, Texas, a unos 130 kilómetros (80 millas) al noreste de Houston, dejó a su paso árboles caídos que bloqueaban carreteras, semáforos que no funcionaban y pasos a desnivel inundados, informó la policía de Beaumont en redes sociales. Algunos conductores quedaron varados en aguas de inundación y necesitaron ayuda.

Una estación meteorológica en Port Arthur, Texas, registró el martes una ráfaga de viento de 145 km/h (90 mph).

La tormenta se desplazó hacia el norte a primera hora del miércoles, lo que motivó alertas por inundaciones.

“Esta es una situación particularmente peligrosa. ¡Busque terreno más alto ahora!”, alertó el servicio meteorológico en una publicación dirigida a comunidades rurales de partes de los condados de Hardin y Tyler, en el sureste de Texas.

La publicación señaló que la tasa de lluvia prevista para el miércoles era de 2,5 a 13 cm (de 1 a 5 pulgadas) en una hora, además de lo que ya había caído.

Alrededor de 75.000 clientes de servicios públicos en al menos ocho condados estaban sin electricidad hasta la mañana del miércoles, según poweroutage.com.

2 huracanes y una tormenta tropical en el Pacífico

El centro de huracanes con sede en Miami informó que la tormenta tropical Marie se encontraba mar adentro, frente al suroeste de México en el Pacífico, y se esperaba que se convirtiera en huracán el miércoles. Se preveía que el oleaje generado por la tormenta afectara partes de la costa del suroeste de México y la península de Baja California durante los próximos días.

El centro indicó que probablemente se extenderá al sur de California durante el fin de semana.

El organismo advirtió que “es probable que este oleaje provoque condiciones de rompiente y corrientes de resaca que pongan en peligro la vida”.

Los meteorólogos esperan que el huracán Lowell en el Pacífico, una tormenta de categoría 4, se mantenga al menos durante los próximos días a varios cientos de millas de Hawaii, pero era probable que el oleaje del huracán afectara partes de las islas a partir del miércoles. Se espera que Lowell siga siendo una tormenta poderosa hasta el viernes.

En otra zona del Pacífico, Karina se ha fortalecido y se convirtió en una potente tormenta de categoría 4. Se esperaba un fortalecimiento adicional el miércoles, pero los meteorólogos indicaron que debería debilitarse en los próximos días.

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Stengle informó desde Dallas. Periodistas de The Associated Press Kathy McCormack en Concord, Nueva Hampshire; Dave Collins en Hartford, Connecticut; Julie Walker en Nueva York; y Hallie Golden en Seattle contribuyeron a este informe.

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

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The judge ordered the teenager, who has not yet been identified, to remain in “secure detention at this time” and prohibited him from having contact with the other students involved in the incident.

The case stems from a fight that occurred just before 12:30 p.m. Monday inside a back hallway at the Liberty City school that left an 18-year-old with a stab wound and a 15-year-old with a cut to his hand after an altercation occurred at the school located at 1100 NW 71st St. in the Liberty City neighborhood, according to Miami Fire Rescue officials.

Authorities said the 18-year-old was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in stable condition. The younger student was also hospitalized and was in stable condition.

An arrest report obtained Wednesday by Local 10 News lists the suspect’s age as 15 and confirms that he was found bleeding by an assistant principal and admitted to having a knife on him.

The parents of the teen accused in the stabbing told Local 10’s Trent Kelly after Tuesday’s hearing that their son had been mistreated and threatened by other students for days.

“He was threatening my son, mistreating him,” the teen’s father said.

A student who spoke with reporters Monday said bullying may have played a role in the confrontation.

A public defender also said the teen’s arrest report states that he was being jumped by two individuals and initially was the victim.

Cellphone video circulating on social media shows a crowd of students gathered in a hallway before two teens appear to confront the accused student. The video appears to show the two punching him and stomping on his head while he is on the ground.

The two teens then run away. The student who had been attacked gets back up and appears to chase them.

“When he got back up, he pulled something out of his pocket, which was a knife and started chasing after the person,” another student said.

The incident prompted a lockdown at the school as authorities searched for the suspect, according to investigators.

“They had the school on lockdown. Like what if he’s chasing after a person with a knife in his hand,” one student said.

Police confirmed that three arrests have been made in connection with the incident. Authorities said two of the three individuals are under the age of 18.

Editor’s note: Local 10 previously reported that the judge ordered home detention for the accused teen, but we learned that he would remain in secured detention. This story has been corrected.

El juez ordenó que el adolescente, cuya identidad aún no ha sido revelada, permanezca bajo arresto domiciliario con monitoreo electrónico y le prohibió tener contacto con la víctima.

El caso se deriva de una pelea ocurrida poco antes de las 12:30 p.m. del lunes dentro de un pasillo trasero de la escuela de Liberty City, que dejó a un joven de 18 años con una herida de arma blanca y a uno de 15 años con una cortada en la mano después de que ocurriera un altercado en la escuela ubicada en 1100 NW 71st St., en el vecindario de Liberty City, según funcionarios de Miami Fire Rescue.

Las autoridades dijeron que el joven de 18 años fue trasladado al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición estable. El estudiante más joven también fue hospitalizado y se encontraba en condición estable.

Los padres del sospechoso dijeron a Trent Kelly, de Local 10, después de la audiencia del martes que su hijo había sido maltratado y amenazado por otros estudiantes durante días.

“Estaba amenazando a mi hijo, maltratándolo”, dijo el padre del adolescente.

Un estudiante que habló con los reporteros el lunes dijo que el acoso escolar pudo haber influido en el enfrentamiento.

Un abogado de oficio también señaló que, según el atestado de la detención del adolescente, este fue agredido por dos personas y, en un primer momento, era la presunta víctima.

Un video grabado con un teléfono celular que circula en redes sociales muestra a un grupo de estudiantes reunidos en un pasillo antes de que dos adolescentes aparentemente confronten al estudiante acusado. El video parece mostrar a los dos golpeándolo y pateándole la cabeza mientras está en el suelo.

Los dos adolescentes luego huyen. El estudiante que había sido atacado se levanta y aparentemente los persigue.

“Cuando volvió a levantarse, sacó algo de su bolsillo, que era un cuchillo, y comenzó a perseguir a la persona”, dijo otro estudiante.

El incidente provocó un cierre de emergencia en la escuela mientras las autoridades buscaban al sospechoso, dijeron los estudiantes.

“Pusieron a la escuela bajo cierre. Como, ¿qué pasa si está persiguiendo a una persona con un cuchillo en la mano?”, dijo un estudiante.

La policía confirmó las otras tres detenciones están relacionadas con el incidente. Las autoridades indicaron que dos de los tres detenidos son menores de 18 años.

Nota del editor: Local 10 informó anteriormente que el juez había ordenado arresto domiciliario para el adolescente acusado, pero un enlace judicial confirmó que permanecerá bajo custodia en un centro de detención seguro. Esta nota ha sido corregida.

Según la policía de Hialeah, la balacera fue reportada poco después de las 2:30 p.m. del martes en la comunidad Aquabella, en el área de Northwest 91st Avenue y 170th Street.

Agentes de la policía de Hialeah y de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade respondieron a la escena.

La policía dijo que los detectives determinaron que varias personas se reunieron en el lugar para una “pelea física previamente acordada” con el fin de “resolver una disputa en curso”.

“Durante el enfrentamiento, se sacó un arma de fuego y se realizaron múltiples disparos”, dijo el teniente Eddie Rodriguez a Local 10 en un correo electrónico el miércoles. “Las declaraciones de los testigos y la evidencia física revelaron que los disparos fueron dirigidos contra una víctima que huía a pie, así como contra una Chevy Tahoe negra ocupada que intentaba abandonar la escena. Una bala impactó el lado del conductor del vehículo”.

Rodriguez confirmó que nadie resultó herido por los disparos.

Identificó a los sospechosos como Luis Padilla Delatorre y Michael Isaac Delgado, ambos de 17 años.

Delatorre y Delgado enfrentan cargos graves de intento de asesinato en segundo grado con un arma mortal/arma de fuego y disparar/lanzar un proyectil mortal.

Ambos fueron trasladados al Centro de Evaluación Juvenil.

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“Ironside House of Games” is taking Tuesdays off the bench, drawing people from across South Florida for an evening built around a simple idea: Put down the phone, pull up a chair and play.

“You can just meet people, have fun, have a drink and by 11 o’clock some great friends are made,” said Gomeh Saias, the fractional chief marketing officer with Miami Ironside.

Game Night begins at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at Ironside Cafe Bistro and it’s open to the public.

Mahjong classes are held in one space and open chess play is held in another. All throughout the gardens and cafe you’ll find more games — everything from Candy Land to backgammon, and Catan to Guess Who. The event has evolved and grown over time.

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“You know, it started off as just a few people playing backgammon and then it built its way up into 150 people on a given Tuesday,” said Saias. “People just showing up, the collection of games started to grow, the type of personalities. It just became this melting pot, which was so representative of Miami to me.”

Miami Ironside is a sprawling creative community in Miami’s Upper Eastside, home to restaurants, businesses and spaces that host a variety of cultural, recreational and wellness activities.

The Tuesday programming extends beyond traditional board games on game night.

It draws in people from south Kendall up through West Palm Beach for a weeknight hangout.

“Human connection doesn’t generally happen in very loud environments where you can barely see or talk to each other,” said Saias. “It was a way for Ironside to bridge that gap and bring back the authentic, old-school Miami where you can just show up as you were and that’s really the spirit of Ironside.”

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

“Ironside House of Games” saca los martes de la banca, atrayendo a personas de todo el sur de Florida para una noche basada en una idea sencilla: dejar el teléfono, acercar una silla y jugar.

“Puedes simplemente conocer gente, divertirte, tomar algo y para las 11 en punto ya se han formado grandes amistades”, dijo Gomeh Saias, director de marketing fraccional de Miami Ironside.

La Noche de Juegos comienza a las 6 p.m. todos los martes en Ironside Cafe Bistro y está abierta al público.

Las clases de mahjong se llevan a cabo en un espacio y las partidas abiertas de ajedrez en otro. Por todos los jardines y el café encontrarás más juegos, desde Candy Land hasta backgammon, y desde Catan hasta Guess Who. El evento ha evolucionado y crecido con el tiempo.

Consulta la página de Instagram de Miami Ironside haciendo clic aquí.

Para inscribirte en la Noche de Juegos de Mesa en Miami Ironside, haz clic aquí.

“Sabes, comenzó con solo unas pocas personas jugando backgammon y luego fue creciendo hasta llegar a 150 personas un martes cualquiera”, dijo Saias. “La gente simplemente llegaba, la colección de juegos comenzó a crecer, al igual que el tipo de personalidades. Simplemente se convirtió en este crisol de culturas, que para mí era muy representativo de Miami”.

Miami Ironside es una extensa comunidad creativa en el Upper Eastside de Miami, sede de restaurantes, negocios y espacios que albergan una variedad de actividades culturales, recreativas y de bienestar.

La programación de los martes va más allá de los tradicionales juegos de mesa durante la Noche de Juegos.

Atrae a personas desde el sur de Kendall hasta West Palm Beach para pasar el rato entre semana.

“La conexión humana generalmente no ocurre en ambientes muy ruidosos donde apenas puedes verte o hablar con los demás”, dijo Saias. “Fue una forma para que Ironside cerrara esa brecha y recuperara el Miami auténtico de la vieja escuela, donde simplemente puedes llegar tal como eres, y ese es realmente el espíritu de Ironside”.

Para enviar una idea para What Connects Us, envía un correo electrónico a whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

As of Wednesday morning, Apple Maps displayed “Lake America” for U.S. users looking at the lake that sits between the state of New York and Canada’s Ontario province. Users outside of the U.S. still saw the Lake Ontario name.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Earlier this week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox that Trump had reached out to the company “directly” about the change.

The president declared the new “Lake America” name last week — marking one of the latest provocations during his trade war with Canada that is now hiking tariffs on both sides of the border. His executive order on Friday directed the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service.

Google Maps rolled out the change over the weekend, citing Trump's order and its already-established practice of using names assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (or GNIS).

“People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,” Google said in a brief statement on Saturday, reiterating that such updates “follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country.”

Trump cannot force Canada to also change the name of Lake Ontario. And America’s northern neighbors quickly panned the idea.

“It’s Lake Ontario to Canadians and the rest of the world. Now and forever," Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote on social media Friday.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also rejected the move last week, invoking the lake’s Indigenous roots and noting that the name predates both the Canadian Confederation and U.S. Declaration of Independence. The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has moved to rename water spanning beyond U.S. borders. Last year, Trump ordered that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America — and Apple and Google, both based in California, later updated the name on their maps in the U.S.

But not all map providers have followed suit. MapQuest, in particular, has declared it won't be changing Lake Ontario's label — and gave users the option to name the lake “whatever you want" through a separate online tool. Both the Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico names still appear as default on its platform.

MapQuest, owned by California company System1, has reported a surge of downloads recently. On Wednesday, MapQuest topped the charts of free apps with new downloads in both the U.S. and Canada on Apple's App Store.

El proyecto de desarrollo, ubicado en el oeste de Miami-Dade cerca de Northwest 137th Avenue y el final de Dolphin Expressway, ha sido objeto de controversia.

“Hoy voté no, y la vez anterior, y la vez anterior”, dijo la comisionada Danielle Cohen Higgins. “Esto ha sido aplazado ocho veces diferentes”.

Cohen Higgins fue una de las que votó en contra.

“Este es un ejemplo de desgaste. Contaron los votos hasta que obtuvieron el número que necesitaban, y en general no apoyo ese procedimiento”, dijo Cohen Higgins. “Claramente, fue una solicitud extremadamente controversial que involucraba más de 140 acres de humedales muy, muy, muy sensibles fuera de nuestro Límite de Desarrollo Urbano. He sido consistente con estos temas y por eso voté no”.

“Una de las cosas que incluí en el acuerdo es que todo tiene que hacerse en el aspecto ambiental antes de cualquier construcción y cualquier permiso”, dijo la comisionada Raquel Regalado.

La comisionada Raquel Regalado, quien votó a favor, destacó las enmiendas a la solicitud que, según dijo, incluyen compromisos ampliados para la preservación de los humedales.

“Estamos hablando de más de 80 acres que vamos a poseer y mantener y vamos a tener, a perpetuidad, dinero para preservarlos y restaurarlos”, dijo Regalado.

El comisionado Rene Garcia señaló que Kelly Tractor ha “donado terrenos” al condado.

Mientras tanto, el vicealcalde de Miami-Dade, Roy Coley, dijo que Kelly Tractor demostró una necesidad económica “como participante internacional en el negocio de equipos y como participante en la respuesta a emergencias para todo el sur de Florida”.

“Ahora que se ha equilibrado la necesidad ambiental, nos parece mucho más aceptable”, dijo Coley.

En el pasado, un representante de la empresa dijo a los comisionados que han superado la capacidad de su espacio actual y necesitan adaptarse al crecimiento futuro.

“Cuando comenzamos esto hace tres años, el personal de planificación nos orientó hacia el proceso de enmiendas al texto, y hemos hecho todo lo que nos pidieron”, dijo el propietario Chris Kelly. “Somos propietarios del terreno desde 1984. Presentamos la solicitud hace tres años. Está justo en el Límite de Desarrollo Urbano. Está justo junto a la autopista. Tenemos un desarrollo de almacenes de 100 acres adyacente a nosotros”.

Un factor clave detrás de la controversia ha sido el proceso que utilizó la solicitud para llegar a la sede del condado, en forma de una enmienda al texto, que tiene umbrales más bajos que la solicitud más rigurosa que normalmente se requiere para pedir autorización para construir fuera del Límite de Desarrollo Urbano.

“Ahora las compuertas están abiertas y, tengan en cuenta, esta solicitud que se aprobó hoy no fue una solicitud para mover el Límite de Desarrollo Urbano. Fue una enmienda al texto y ahora exacerba el argumento de la pendiente resbaladiza”, dijo Cohen Higgins. “Ahora la comunidad de desarrolladores del condado de Miami-Dade tiene luz verde para venir. Esto absolutamente abre las compuertas.

“Ahora, para ser justos, sé que hay legislación para cerrar eso y no permitir enmiendas al texto en el futuro, pero en mi opinión, eso es simplemente un reconocimiento de que esto no se hizo correctamente”.

Garcia reconoció las preocupaciones, pero señaló lo que dijo que fue un extenso proceso de revisión.

“No discrepo con esa forma de pensar, pero con todo el escrutinio que tuvo esta solicitud, realmente ha ido mucho más allá de lo requerido”, dijo Garcia.

Coley dijo que la alcaldesa de Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, “exigió al solicitante que esencialmente hiciera todo lo que haría una solicitud del Límite de Desarrollo Urbano, y no obtuvieron mucho beneficio de una enmienda al texto”.

Regalado dijo que, aunque “desearía que hubiera sido una solicitud y no una enmienda al texto”, ella “ya limitó la enmienda al texto y eso va a regresar” a la comisión.

“Hace dos meses, ya aprobé una propuesta y fue aprobada por unanimidad, y ella votó a favor”, dijo Regalado.

Pero Cohen Higgins siguió sin estar convencida.

“No se hizo correctamente. Si estamos haciendo cambios legislativos para corregirlo, eso es una admisión de que está mal, así que no estoy segura de por qué aprobamos esto hoy. Pero obtuvieron los votos, así que felicitaciones a Kelly Tractor y lo siento mucho por el medio ambiente y por los muchos, muchos residentes que se opusieron vehementemente a esta solicitud”, dijo Cohen Higgins.

Un portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward dijo a Local 10 News que todos los estudiantes y empleados están a salvo. También confirmaron que los directores de ambas escuelas “se mantuvieron en comunicación con los padres y las familias durante todo el día para mantenerlos informados sobre la situación”.

Hollywood Hills High School está ubicada en 5400 Stirling Road, mientras que Stirling Elementary School está ubicada en 5500 Stirling Road. Ambas escuelas están en Hollywood.

Funcionarios del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood dijeron que los agentes realizaban una investigación cerca de 56th Avenue y Stirling Road.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena alrededor de las 9:45 a.m. y observó una fuerte presencia policial en los campus escolares mientras los agentes investigaban el área.

“Por precaución, las escuelas en el área inmediata fueron puestas bajo confinamiento mientras los agentes realizan su investigación”, escribió la Policía de Hollywood en un comunicado en Facebook.

No se dieron a conocer de inmediato detalles adicionales sobre la amenaza reportada.