The peak high-tides in the area are from about 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Monroe County’s upper keys were under a coastal flood warning for major saltwater flooding until 5 a.m. on Tuesday.

Monroe’s middle and lower keys were under a coastal flood advisory until 5 am. on Tuesday. Some storm drains may overflow, and some seawalls and docks may be overtopped.

Monroe’s mainland, and coastal Miami-Dade and Broward counties were under a coastal flood advisory until 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

In Hollywood, Mark Roseman and Erica Rubin had a seawall in their neighborhood, but with an open gate, the water was getting through.

Some business owners in the city are taking steps to ensure the water doesn’t cause any damage.

Local 10 caught up with business owner Ian Jarrett as he was placing sandbags outside his convenience store after water seeped inside on Sunday.

“We have to adapt to the climate change because I think they need to renew the beach area, upgrade it, you know?” he said.

After spending the last 25 years here in Hollywood, Jarrett said king tide flooding has never been this bad.

“Last year when we have king tides, they put up barriers and the barriers really did work, but this year the water was so much that it came over the barriers,” he said.

Officials asked drivers to avoid water of unknown depth and residents to protect flood-prone property.

For more details about the specific advisories, visit this page.

A chemical peel uses a solution to remove damaged outer layers of skin, creating a controlled injury designed to trigger the skin’s natural healing process.

“Taking off dead skin, it’s exfoliation,” skin therapist Luna Lombardi said. “It breaks the skin bonds, which triggers the shedding of the skin.”

Lombardi said chemical peels can range from superficial treatments with little or no visible shedding, to medium and deeper peels that penetrate farther into the skin and require more downtime.

Common ingredients include glycolic or lactic acid, salicylic acid and TCA.

“The skin is shedding and rebuilding itself,” Lombardi said. “It’s a controlled injury, so you’re shedding the dead and rebuilding the new.”

What can chemical peels do?

According to Lombardi, chemical peels can help smooth rough texture, even out some discoloration and improve the appearance of some acne, scars, fine lines and sun damage.

The process can also trigger collagen production as the skin repairs itself.

“When you have a controlled injury, depending on how deep the chemical peel goes, it builds up collagen,” Lombardi said.

The type of peel used depends on the individual and the results they are hoping to achieve. Lombardi said she always begins with a skin consultation before treatment.

And while some people may hope to see dramatic results after a single peel, Lombardi said multiple treatments may be necessary.

“Some people think they’re going to do one peel and remove years of hyperpigmentation — that doesn’t exist,” she said, adding that four to six sessions may be recommended.

Depending on the peel and a person’s skin, those treatments may be spaced several weeks apart.

What to do after a chemical peel

Downtime can also vary significantly depending on the strength of the treatment. Dermatologists say it can range from just a few days to two or three weeks for a deep peel.

After treatment, protecting the newly treated skin is important. Lombardi recommends keeping the skin moisturized, staying out of the sun and using sunscreen.

She also warns against picking at peeling skin.

“No, no — picking the face is a huge no-no,” Lombardi said. “You have to be very careful with baby skin that’s going to grow.”

Consumers should also think twice before attempting stronger chemical peels themselves.

The FDA warns against using high-concentration chemical peels at home without professional supervision, saying they can cause serious burns, changes in skin color and scars.

Before undergoing a chemical peel, experts recommend understanding what is being applied to the skin, how deeply the treatment is designed to penetrate and making sure the procedure is performed by a licensed, trained professional.

Both incidents unfolded near Northeast 166th Street and Northeast Sixth Avenue.

After the shooting, paramedics could be seen working to stop the victim from bleeding as they provided emergency care.

A man told Local 10 News that the victim had been shot down the road and then rushed to the area looking for help.

The shooting victim was eventually transported to an area hospital.

Meanwhile, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office investigators were already at the scene investigating a separate incident involving a person who had reportedly been struck by a vehicle.

That investigation began just before 10:40 p.m.

Local 10 News cameras captured officers shutting down the area near a bus stop and a CVS as they investigated.

Within the marked-off scene, a walker appeared to have been smashed. A short distance away, a minibus could be seen as MDSO investigators appeared to examine its front end.

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital as a trauma alert.

No additional information was immediately available about the conditions of either person or the circumstances leading up to the two incidents.

The Guard's spokesman said such street protests should denounce what he called the U.S. government’s war-mongering policies. He said Americans should "revise their decision” about their leaders.

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, settlers rioted, throwing rocks, blocking roads and setting Palestinian property on fire to prevent a Palestinian man escorted by the Israeli military from returning to his home in the village of Jalud.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Full coverage is available here.

An Iranian spokesman advises Americans to reconsider their leaders

Gen. Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, held a news conference dubbed “A letter to the American people” in Tehran, Iran's capital.

He said that the only way for the war to end is for Washington to admit defeat and leave — a message apparently meant for the U.S. public just weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections for the U.S. Senate and Congress.

Later in remarks to The Associated Press, Mohebbi urged Americans to take to the streets and protest Trump's policies.

He accused the United States of using Iran’s nuclear program as a ruse to “plunder Iran’s wealth” and to turn the country “back into a colony.” The U.S. military action and economic sanctions would not get Tehran to submit.

Meanwhile, Iran’s currency fell to a new record low Tuesday, with traders in Tehran exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar, a sign of how the conflict has further eroded Iran's economy.

Settlers block a Palestinian man from returning to his West Bank home

Over a hundred Israeli settlers scuffled with Israeli soldiers who were trying to escort a Palestinian man to his home in the West Bank village of Jalud.

The homeowner, Mahmoud Tubasi, told the AP that the soldiers initially brought him to his home but that rioting settlers forced him to leave with his family in a military vehicle. He said he still can't access the house, which settlers have besieged for two months.

Israel’s military acknowledged that the overnight mission to return the family “was not completed” and that three officers were injured by settlers who threw rocks, blocked roads and set Palestinian property on fire.

Israeli police said they arrested three settlers suspected of participating in the riot, which was condemned by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gidon Saar and President Isaac Herzog.

The Israeli military has struggled to quell the latest wave of settler violence. Rights groups have accused the military of colluding with the settlers.

Israel says strike kills Hamas commander

An Israeli strike on an apartment west of Gaza City killed two people, including a Hamas commander who the Israeli military said was involved in plotting attacks and recruiting new members for the militant group.

Shifa Hospital officials said Tuesday the strike also wounded five others.

Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the overnight strike targeted Izz al-Din Bik, a commander in the Hamas militant group’s northern Gaza brigade. Hamas did not immediately confirm his death.

More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire took effect nearly a year ago, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which maintains detailed records that are generally seen as reliable. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants, but says women and children make up around half of the fatalities.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

Smith will also tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that he stands behind the criminal cases that he brought against Trump, a Republican, and that he and his team acted without regard to politics.

“I made these decisions without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election,” Smith will say, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal conduct. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the president was a Republican or Democrat.”

The hearing is expected to focus on subpoenas for phone records

Even as Smith defends his investigations, he is expected to be pressed anew by Republican senators about his team's access to the phone records of GOP lawmakers as prosecutors investigated Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

In previous testimony, Smith has stood behind subpoenas that prosecutors issued for the phone records of Republican members of Congress who were in touch with Trump when violent supporters of the president rioted inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He has said that such subpoenas are a “common practice” in investigations and were necessary in this instance to understand the “scope of the conspiracy” between Trump and his Republican allies.

Nonetheless, the revelation that Smith's team secretly obtained the phone records during his investigation has animated some Republican lawmakers, who point to it as proof of overreach by the Biden administration Justice Department and a hard-charging prosecutor.

In July, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, referred Smith to the Justice Department for potential prosecution on allegations that he lied at a previous hearing about his collection of the records — something Smith's attorneys have vigorously disputed.

“I stand by my testimony before the House of Representatives," Smith will say. “I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.”

Smith's testimony Tuesday will be before the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, first disclosed that Smith's prosecutors had obtained what's known as “toll records” — data that reveals the date, length and time of phone calls between two parties but not the content of the communications.

Smith has repeatedly justified the move as necessary to document any contact that Trump or surrogates may have had with lawmakers on Jan. 6, 2021, as the president beseeched his supporters to halt the certification of the election results.

“My office didn’t spy on anyone,” Smith said during a hearing in January.

Smith is the subject of a criminal referral from Republicans

Smith was appointed in 2022 by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to take over investigations into Trump's efforts to reverse his election loss and Trump's retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Both investigations resulted in felony indictments, but Smith abandoned the cases after Trump won back the White House in 2024, citing longstanding Justice Department opinions that say sitting presidents cannot be federally indicted.

Smith has remained a top target of retribution for Trump and his administration, which last year announced that it would revoke the security clearances of the lawyers representing the former special counsel. The Office of Special Counsel, an independent watchdog agency responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by federal employees, also announced last year an investigation into Smith.

Jordan's referral to the Justice Department centers on a December 2025 exchange in which Smith was asked about subpoenas that prosecutors had issued for the toll records.

Smith said the records he requested did not include the content of the communications. But Jordan maintains that answer was misleading in light of records released by Grassley showing that Smith had obtained the contents of 44 lawmakers’ text messages in a separate subpoena to the National Archives and Records Administration that sought the communications of various Trump advisers and aides.

In response, Smith’s lawyers called his answers “unimpeachably truthful” and noted that he was responding to questions explicitly about toll records, which did not include the contents of any text messages.

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that “such actions are absolutely unacceptable” and that Russia's charge d'affaires in Tallinn was being summoned to his ministry.

A fire broke out overnight on Aug. 15 at a building in the Estonian capital used by Milrem Robotics, but was quickly brought under control, the BNS news agency reported. On Aug. 17, two Latvian suspects were detained in neighboring Latvia, and a third followed the next day. The suspects were handed over to Estonia.

Milrem has supplied THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles to Ukraine.

The Estonian Internal Security Service said that it has concluded that the arson attack “was a deliberate and pre-planned act commissioned by Russian security services.”

It said in a statement that “the modus operandi of the Milrem attack is consistent with other acts of sabotage carried out in Europe on behalf of Russia,” adding that it “assesses that the attack is directly attributable to the Russian Federation.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “such statements are unfounded, ill-considered, absolutely not reflecting the reality, not containing any substantiation whatsoever.”

“We cannot take such statements seriously, and we won’t,” Peskov said.

Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations.

The Associated Press has tracked around 200 incidents of sabotage and malign activity across Europe blamed on Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

That includes organizing plots to set fire to warehouses, launching drones and trying to kill enemies abroad as well as stealing defense technology and carrying out cyberattacks on critical European infrastructure.

In a recent case that pointed to an escalation of such activity, Germany blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August using a drone laden with explosives.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michael wrote on X that “we will not be intimidated.”

The latest decline came just 27 days after the rial hit its previous record low of 2.2 million to the dollar on Sept. 2. The currency has repeatedly reached new lows since the war began in February.

Meanwhile, Iran’s top diplomat said indirect negotiations with the United States aimed at reopening the critical Strait of Hormuz have become “more serious,” while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ chief spokesman Gen. Hossein Mohebbi on Tuesday called on Americans to take to the streets and protest the conflict.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian media late on Monday that the “current focus is solely on the Strait of Hormuz,” the chokepoint of the war.

Araghchi made the comments shortly before departing New York — where he attended last week’s gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly — and after meeting with Pakistani and Qatari mediators.

Araghchi said that the Qatari intermediaries were expected to soon engage with the U.S. side.

“They are set to raise the matter with the American side once more, after which the final U.S. response will be conveyed to us,” Araghchi said. “If there is a response, the Qataris will convey it to us and a decision will be made in Tehran on that basis.”

U.S. and regional officials have confirmed to The Associated Press that mediators are working with Iran and the U.S. on trying to broker a deal to end the fighting and open the strait.

The mediation efforts continue even after U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this week spurned an Iranian proposal to reopen the strait in seven days if the U.S. agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, release frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on Iranian oil sales, among other conditions.

Iran sends a provocative message to the US public

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday made an appeal to everyday Americans to push their government to end the U.S. war against Iran, a provocative message that comes just weeks before critical midterm elections in the United States.

Mohebbi, the Guard spokesman, read a letter during a news conference in Iran's capital, Tehran, appealing to Americans to pressure their government and claiming that the only way for the war to end is for Washington to admit defeat and leave the Mideast.

Mohebbi’s remarks come as Trump’s Republican party faces fierce headwinds as it looks to maintain control of Congress. But polling shows the war has darkened the American electorate’s mood ahead of the Nov. 3 election in which elevated gasoline prices, a byproduct of the conflict, loom large.

Mohebbi also accused the U.S. of using Iran’s nuclear program as a ruse to “plunder Iran’s wealth” and to turn the country “back into a colony.”

He added that the U.S. and others failed in their belief that military and economic action would get Tehran to submit and that Washington “has no choice but to acknowledge defeat and leave the region.”

“This is how the war will end,” he said.

Trump and his top aides are insistent that Iran’s economy cannot sustain a conflict much longer and have expressed confidence that Tehran will be forced to capitulate.

The U.S. president predicted soon after launching the war that the conflict would last a matter of weeks. More recently, he’s said that the war will likely end after the November elections in the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Monday appearance on Fox News said Iran was heading toward an economic “cataclysm.” Administration officials say that a combination of new sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade aimed at preventing Iranian oil from going to market has imperiled Tehran.

“And so when you’re denying them money through oil sales and sanctions, you’re not just punishing them,” Rubio said. “You are preventing them from getting access to money that they will use to try and kill Americans and others around the world and their own people and build weapons and threaten the world and ultimately break out to a nuclear weapon program.”

La capital del país, Bangkok, se recuperaba tras días de lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones generalizadas, pero persistían algunas interrupciones. El principal aeropuerto de Tailandia, que había sufrido cancelaciones de vuelos, lidiaba con un gran retraso en la entrega de equipaje.

Según el portavoz del gobierno, Ekkapob Pianpises, los fondos aprobados, por 4.100 millones de baht, serían distribuidos por el Ministerio del Interior para compensar a las personas afectadas por las inundaciones en todo el país.

La lluvia se ha detenido en gran medida en Bangkok, pero algunos vecindarios, particularmente en el este, siguen anegados. El gobernador de la ciudad, Chadchart Sittipunt, indicó que el tráfico debería volver a la normalidad en la mayoría de las vías principales en un plazo de dos días, aunque en algunas zonas bajas podría tardar hasta siete días en secarse el pavimento.

Aunque se esperaba que Bangkok se mantuviera seca, el Departamento Meteorológico de Tailandia indicó que se pronosticaban fuertes lluvias en otras partes del país para el martes.

El ministro de Industria, Varawut Silpa-archa, señaló que las inundaciones habían causado daños estimados en 22 millones de baht (unos 655.000 dólares) a empresas en todo el país. Funcionarios informaron que residentes de 29 de las 76 provincias de Tailandia seguían afectados por las inundaciones el martes. De las 19 muertes, cuatro ocurrieron en Bangkok.

Caos en el aeropuerto de Bangkok tras cancelaciones de vuelos

Thai Airways, una de las principales aerolíneas que gestionan el equipaje en el aeropuerto Suvarnabhumi de Bangkok, pidió disculpas a los pasajeros afectados por un enorme retraso de maletas, que la compañía atribuyó en parte a la escasez de personal causada por las inundaciones.

El martes se veían cientos de maletas alineadas en la zona de llegadas. La Fuerza Aérea tailandesa informó que había enviado personal al aeropuerto para ayudar con el problema del equipaje.

“Me disculpo sinceramente con todos los pasajeros por las molestias ocasionadas. Thai Airways está haciendo todo lo posible para garantizar que los pasajeros se reencuentren con su equipaje lo antes posible”, declaró Chai Eamsiri, director general de la aerolínea.

La aerolínea también canceló más de 10 vuelos nacionales e internacionales el martes y el miércoles.

Los vendedores mantienen el ánimo pese a grandes pérdidas

En Bang Kapi, uno de los vecindarios más golpeados de Bangkok, los residentes se movían por calles anegadas y algunos usaban pequeñas embarcaciones para desplazarse.

Poco después de las inundaciones se instaló un mercado improvisado en una pasarela elevada justo afuera de un centro comercial, y vendedores de un mercado cercano, donde el agua seguía a la altura de las rodillas, se trasladaron allí para vender carne, verduras y hierbas. La música sonaba a todo volumen desde altavoces y los vendedores llamaban a los clientes que caminaban entre el agua o atravesaban el centro comercial para llegar hasta ellos.

Lon Cheng, un vendedor camboyano que ha vivido en Tailandia por más de 20 años, llamaba alegremente a los clientes y bailaba al ritmo de la música detrás de su puesto de verduras.

Contó que había sufrido enormes pérdidas por las inundaciones.

“El primer día... gasté unos 70.000 baht (unos 2.100 dólares) y solo pude vender por 20.000 baht (unos 600 dólares)”, relató. “Fue una gran pérdida, pero aun con pérdidas necesito vender”.

Los países vecinos también han sido golpeados por las inundaciones. En Myanmar, al menos 10 personas murieron y decenas estaban desaparecidas después de que las fuertes lluvias provocaran inundaciones generalizadas y aludes de tierra en la región costera meridional de Tanintharyi, informaron medios locales.

Las inundaciones repentinas también afectaron al menos a 10 provincias de Camboya, impactando a 44.889 familias y obligando a casi 4.000 personas a evacuar, según funcionarios de gestión de desastres. En el complejo de templos centenarios de Angkor, trabajadores preparaban compuertas de agua y sistemas de desvío para reducir el riesgo de inundaciones en el sitio arqueológico.

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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.

But in the Aquarium of the Pacific's frog nursery, hundreds of critically endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs and tadpoles live comfortably under the watchful eye of animal conservationists before being released into the wild. Once the most populous vertebrate in their mountain habitat, the wild population of these tiny amphibians had dwindled to fewer than 200 by 2021.

The Long Beach aquarium last month celebrated its release of 1,000 frogs since 2020, when a wildfire destroyed much of its remaining habitat. More than 650 frogs were released in August, and nearly 400 of those were raised at the aquarium. Captive rearing and breeding efforts under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began in the early 2000s.

“Although they’re pretty slow growers, given the right conditions, frogs are pretty successful, so my hope is that we can get them back,” said Erin Lundy, the aquarium’s conservation initiatives manager.

Mountain yellow-legged frogs play an important role in native ecosystems. They are a source of food for several animals and, as tadpoles, they help keep waterways clean by eating large amounts of algae and other decaying organic matter.

Fungus, invasive species and fire devastated the frog population

Their populations were first threatened in the late 1800s when nonnative trout that fed on tadpoles were introduced to their habitats for recreational fishing. In areas where the trout were removed, frog populations began to recover. They are also susceptible to chytrid fungus, which has caused the decline or extinction of hundreds of species of amphibians worldwide.

The mountain yellow-legged frog was dealt a devastating blow in fall 2020, when the Bobcat Fire destroyed about 95% of its habitat. Subsequent rainfall turned burn areas into mudslides and filled waterways with runoff. Scientists were able to salvage a handful of tadpoles from the area, which the aquarium raised and released.

The Aquarium of the Pacific oversees the tadpole-to-frog metamorphosis of hundreds of tadpoles sent from the Los Angeles and San Diego zoos, which bred them.

Lundy could barely contain her excitement when a shipment of nearly 500 tadpoles recently arrived from the San Diego Zoo. The tadpoles — some descended from frogs in the San Jacinto Mountains and others from the San Bernardino Mountains — were separated into two groups because of their slight genetic differences.

“These guys look amazing,” Lundy said. “These are really, really healthy tadpoles.”

Human care — and instinct — help ensure the frogs' survival

The tadpoles are fed four to five times a day and eat “ravenously” at this stage of development, Lundy said. Scientists spread a mixture of spirulina, fish food and calcium on small plates, allowing the tadpoles to graze as they would on algae-covered rocks in the wild.

Some of the tadpoles were already growing legs, their bodies wiggling furiously in the water as they swarmed the plate of food Lundy set down.

In another tank, a cluster of tiny frogs not yet ready to be released into the wild had stacked themselves under a heat lamp. They were only about two weeks out of water, she said.

“Hi babies!” she cooed as she lifted the lid of their enclosure to show them off.

When they have all four limbs and no more tail, they're eligible to be released. About 60% to 65% of the aquarium's tadpoles survive to this stage, which is considered high, Lundy said.

Lundy and her care team periodically change the water flow rates in the tanks so the baby frogs grow strong limbs and are accustomed to swimming in different conditions. She was feeding them live crickets and fruit flies, but threw in beetles to better emulate their diet in the wild.

Nevertheless, she used to worry they wouldn’t know what to do when they were released.

“I was like, ‘There’s no way you guys have any idea,’” Lundy said. “The good news is, I don’t always think frogs think that hard.”

During one release, she watched as one precocious mountain yellow-legged frog jumped from its container, landed on a rock and immediately ate a housefly — something it had never seen before.

It turns out, a frog just knows how to be a frog.

The Russian onslaught has used new jet-powered drones that fly too fast and too high for Ukrainian ground-based air defenses to shoot down.

Ukraine is scrambling to keep pace by developing faster interceptor drones, in the latest example of how the war has driven military innovation, but making and deploying new weapons takes months.

Russia’s ballistic missiles have also got through as Ukraine is desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptor missiles, which are the only reliable way of stopping Moscow’s ballistic attacks.

Patriot stockpiles are low, largely because of the Iran war, and Ukraine has received only small numbers of them this year despite President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleading. Ukraine said that its air defenses shot down two ballistic missiles overnight, which suggested that Kyiv had recently received some more Patriots.

Air defense needs are mounting with the approach of the bitter winter months, which in the years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022 have brought an escalation of strikes on Ukraine’s power grid. That strategy denies Ukrainian civilians heating and running water, among other things.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces hit data processing centers in Kyiv that Moscow says are used by the Ukrainian military, which is increasingly deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield.

Other Russian targets included facilities in the Ukrainian capital and the Kyiv region where drones and cruise missiles were stored, as well as an electrical substation, a drone manufacturing facility, and port infrastructure facilities in the southern Odesa region, the ministry said.

Ukrainian authorities said that the barrage hit apartment buildings, houses and public transportation in Kyiv, wounding one person.

In Odesa, the attack wounded eight people overnight and damaged residential buildings, civilian infrastructure, a school, an animal shelter and port infrastructure, local officials said.

Ukraine hasn’t sat back in the face of the Russian blitz. Its long-range drones have targeted Russian missile and drone manufacturing plants and launch sites. It also has hit Russian oil refineries, causing fuel shortages.

The two armies are largely deadlocked on the long front line in eastern and southern Ukraine.

Zelenskyy says that Moscow intends to increase recruitment for another battlefield push.

He said late Monday that another 10,000 North Korean troops are heading to Russia, adding to the 8,000 he said are already there.

Russia and North Korea have made no secret of their military cooperation.

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Five young British men were arrested early Sunday on explosives and terrorism charges near the RAF Fairford base, which has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year’s war with Iran.

Counterterror detectives said they were investigating “multiple lines of inquiry,” including whether the suspects had a link to Iran. Iran has denied involvement.

The men — all British nationals in their 20s, according to police — were released on bail Monday. The head of U.K. Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, stressed that the suspects face stringent conditions and “absolutely remain under investigation.”

Trump told reporters on Monday he was surprised that the men were allowed to be freed.

“I'm surprised that they released them. I wouldn’t have done that,” he said.

Rubio echoed the sentiment, saying: “I know a lot of people are disturbed by the news that some of these people have been released on bail, as some of the people are being investigated.”

He added in an interview with Fox News that the case “clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor," but did not name a specific country or give more details.

It appears police did not find explosives in suspicious vehicles

A police cordon remained in place around three vans found near the Fairford base on Tuesday, as armed police and counterterrorism officers continued to examine the scene.

Earlier, army bomb-disposal experts used a robot to examine the vans. It wasn't clear what was found inside the vehicles, but the decision to bail the suspects — and the fact that residents who were evacuated have started to return home — suggested that no viable explosives were found.

A local farmer said she called police after seeing the vans blocking a road as she drove home late Saturday night, and that nearby she came across a group of men, some with their faces covered. She said they ran away when they saw her vehicle.

She declined to be identified because she was describing what she saw as potential security lapses.

Officials hint at possible Iran role

Taylor, the counterterror police chief, said lines of inquiry include whether the suspected offenses were committed by “proxies or individuals, either knowingly or unknowingly, working on behalf of a foreign state.”

Investigators haven't concluded whether the incident was state-backed or what the motive was, but authorities have strongly hinted that Iran is possibly involved. They are also investigating a possible link to Russia or non-state militant groups. RAF Fairford has also been the focus of protests by anti-war campaigners.

Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said the U.K. “shouldn’t be cowed by saber rattling from Iran,” adding that “the Iranian regime is one that wishes harm to our country, our allies, and the freedom and democracy that we enjoy.”

Iran and allied militant groups have been accused of plotting or carrying out attacks on U.S., British and Jewish targets in the past, allegedly acting through local proxies while denying responsibility.

British intelligence services saying Russia and Iran have both used proxies to commit crimes on U.K. soil. In March, officials said the number of national security cases involving activity by hostile states, including Iran, increased by 50% in the six months to December 2025.

Questions about possible security or intelligence failures

It was unclear whether the arrested men had been on security services' radar. Local residents described seeing heightened security around RAF Fairford in recent days, with heavy vehicles parked across entrance gates.

Trump said the suspects were detained following cooperation between the U.S. and Britain, and had been “under view” for some time. Police, however, said the arrests were triggered by a late-night call about the suspicious vehicles near the base.

The farmer who called the police alleged that it took several hours between her call and when police “suddenly decided to evacuate people” in the area.

“But meanwhile, those vans were right in the middle of the village next to everyone’s houses and no one did anything,” she said.

Streeting, the defense secretary, said Monday that the farmer only had a “partial picture” of the operation.

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Hui reported from London.

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos, con sede en Miami, informó que el huracán de categoría 2 impactó tierra justo al sur de Las Barrancas, México, unos 130 kilómetros (80 millas) al norte de Cabo San Lázaro y a unos 115 kilómetros (70 millas) al sur de Mulegé, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 175 kilómetros por hora (110 millas por hora), mientras avanzaba hacia el noreste a 20 km/h (13 mph).

El centro de huracanes indicó que Polo era una tormenta de categoría 3 el lunes, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 185 km/h (115 mph). Se esperaba que dejara entre 15 y 30 centímetros (de 6 a 12 pulgadas) de lluvia en partes de Baja California.

Los meteorólogos habían pronosticado que Polo golpearía el territorio continental mexicano con vientos que amenazaban la vida y con inundaciones repentinas previstas. Podría llevar lluvias intensas e inundaciones a partes del suroeste de Estados Unidos más adelante en la semana.

Mientras tanto, el centro de huracanes informó que la tormenta tropical Rachel se desplazaba en paralelo a la costa de México la madrugada del martes. La tormenta se encontraba 485 kilómetros (300 millas) al oeste-suroeste de Acapulco y a unos 505 kilómetros (315 millas) al sur de Manzanillo, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 95 km/h (60 mph), mientras avanzaba hacia el oeste-noroeste a 19 km/h (12 mph).

El huracán Nolo seguía siendo un fuerte huracán la noche del lunes, pero se estaba alejando de Hawái.

La península de Baja California se preparaba para Polo

El gobierno del estado mexicano norteño de Sonora anunció la noche del lunes que suspendería todas las actividades “no esenciales”, incluidas la escuela, los deportes y el trabajo no esencial en la capital del estado y en más de una docena de municipios.

La Marina de México señaló que tenía personal listo a lo largo de la costa norte del Pacífico y desplegó tres embarcaciones que podrían transportar ayuda a comunidades costeras aisladas por Polo. Autoridades locales a lo largo de la península de Baja California indicaron que tenían albergues listos, mientras que se suspenderán los viajes en la zona y se cerrarían los puertos en toda la región.

Una temporada de tormentas más intensa de lo normal en el Pacífico

La actividad de tormentas en el Pacífico ha estado por encima del promedio durante lo que ya es el pico de la temporada de huracanes, según Bob Oravec, meteorólogo principal del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Explicó que ese patrón es coherente con los años de El Niño, cuando el Pacífico suele registrar más tormentas tropicales y huracanes.

Se esperaba que el impacto se extendiera al suroeste de Estados Unidos, con Arizona, Utah, Nuevo México y Texas recibiendo varios centímetros de lluvia. Los cañones áridos y las extensiones rocosas con poca vegetación favorecen las inundaciones repentinas, y el tiempo tropical añade más riesgo, afirmó Andrew Mangham, hidrólogo principal de servicios del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional en Albuquerque, Nuevo México.

“Nos alcanzará aquí en muy, muy poco tiempo. Y eso no es realmente lo que queremos. Queremos lluvias agradables, ya sabe, durante todo el verano”, comentó Mangham.

Las inundaciones y los deslaves siguen siendo un riesgo en Hawai

El huracán Nolo se había desplazado el lunes hasta ubicarse a unos 685 kilómetros (425 millas) al oeste-suroeste de Honolulu. La tormenta estaba unos 535 kilómetros (330 millas) al sur-sureste de French Frigate Shoals, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 195 km/h (120 mph), y se movía hacia el norte-noroeste a 24 km/h (15 mph).

Nolo empapó comunidades del sur y del sureste de la Isla Grande de Hawai durante el fin de semana. Integrantes de la Guardia Nacional de Hawai rescataron a 19 personas de las inundaciones durante el fin de semana, informó la Guardia Nacional de Estados Unidos en una publicación en Facebook.

Según el centro de huracanes, el huracán se acercaba al Monumento Nacional Marino papahanaumokuakea, un área de conservación marina, y advirtió que la tormenta podría generar condiciones peligrosas en la zona a partir del martes.

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Janetsky informó desde Ciudad de México. Eduardo Verdugo en Puerto San Carlos, México; Julie Walker en Nueva York; Mead Gruver en Fort Collins, Colorado; y Eugene Garcia y Gregory Bull en Hilo, Hawai, contribuyeron a este despacho.

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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.

The Category 2 hurricane struck land just south of Las Barrancas, Mexico, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Cabo San Lazaro and about 70 miles (115 kilometers) south of Mulege with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph) while moving northeast at 13 mph (20 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

On Monday, Polo was a Category 3 storm with top sustained winds of 115 mph (185 kph), the hurricane center said. It was expected to produce 6-12 inches (about 15 to 30 centimeters) of rain across parts of Baja California Sur.

Forecasters had predicted Polo would hit the Mexican mainland with life-threatening winds and flash floods expected. It could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the U.S. Southwest later in the week.

Meanwhile, the hurricane center reported Tropical Storm Rachel was moving parallel to Mexico's coast early Tuesday. The storm was about 300 miles (485 kilometers) west-southwest of Acapulco and about 315 miles (505 kilometers) south of Manzanillo with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph) while moving west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph).

Hurricane Nolo was still a major hurricane on Monday night, but was edging away from Hawaii.

Baja California peninsula was preparing for Polo

The government of the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Monday night announced it would suspend all “nonessential” activities, including school, sports and non-essential work in the state capital and more than a dozen municipalities.

The Mexican navy said it had personnel ready across the northern Pacific coast and deployed three vessels that could ship aid to coastal communities isolated by Polo. Local authorities along the Baja California Peninsula said they had shelters ready, while travel will be suspended in the area and ports across the region will be closed.

Pacific storm activity greater than normal this season

Pacific storm activity has been above average during what is already the peak of hurricane season, according to National Weather Service lead forecaster Bob Oravec. He said that pattern is consistent with El Niño years, when the Pacific often sees more tropical storms and hurricanes.

The impact was expected to stretch into the U.S. Southwest, with Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Texas receiving inches of rain. Arid canyons and rocky expanses with little vegetation are conducive to flash flooding and the tropical weather adds more risk, said Andrew Mangham, senior service hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“We’re getting caught up here in a very, very short time,” Mangham said. “And that’s not really what we want. We want nice rains, you know, all summer long.”

Floods and mudslides remain a risk in Hawaii

Hurricane Nolo on Monday had moved to about 425 miles (685 kilometers) west-southwest of Honolulu. The storm was about 330 miles (535 kilometers) south-southeast of French Frigate Shoals with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 kph) moving north-northwest at 15 mph (24 kph).

Nolo drenched communities in south and southeastern parts of Hawaii's Big Island over the weekend. Hawaii National Guard members rescued 19 people from flooding over the weekend, the U.S. National Guard said in a post on Facebook.

The hurricane was approaching Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a marine conservation area, according to the hurricane center, which said the storm could bring dangerous conditions to the area starting Tuesday.

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Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Eduardo Verdugo in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico, Julie Walker in New York, Mead Gruver in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Eugene Garcia and Gregory Bull in Hilo, Hawaii, contributed to this report.

The minister's remarks come as concerns mount that President Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the $14 billion arms deal after that meeting.

“As for arms sales, we are in continuous discussions with the Americans on this,” Taiwan's Defense Minister Wellington Koo told reporters in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. “We haven’t received any notice of any changes to sales or our cooperation.”

Koo said he received assurances from the U.S. side that its policy towards the island remained unchanged.

Koo also said that 66 advanced F16-V fighter jets have reached a production stage where they’re ready to be delivered. The jets for Taiwan were supposed to be delivered in 2024, according to local media, but the project has been delayed by the pandemic and production line issues.

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are a major source of tension between Beijing and Washington because China claims the island as its territory. While the U.S. does not formally recognize Taiwan as a country, it is the island's largest informal ally and bound by law to ensure that Taiwan can defend itself.

Taiwan says it purchases arms so that it can defend itself in case of an invasion by China. China’s People’s Liberation Army sends fighter jets and ships toward the island almost daily.

Analysts said they expect U.S. arms sales to continue, though there may be a pause in the short term.

“There are two more summits between the U.S. and China scheduled within this year, so I think neither side really wants to break things off, and the Taiwan issue will be put aside temporarily,” Tamkang University professor Ma Chun-wei said. However, he said, Taiwan remains key from a security perspective, and "arms sales to Taiwan will still be inevitable going forward.”

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AP videojournalist Taijing Wu contributed to this report from Taipei, Taiwan.

The journalist is a prince who had long been employed as a broadcaster and editor with Uganda Broadcasting Corp. He picked the regnal name of Edward Rukidi Nyabongo. He performed rituals overnight, was ushered into the palace and will be formally unveiled to his followers later on Tuesday.

Traditional kingdoms were banned in the 1960s, after Uganda's independence from British colonial rule, by a republican president who said that he wanted to unify the country. They were restored in 1993.

Traditional leaders don't wield any formal authority in this East African country and are legally barred from engaging in partisan politics. But they wield immense authority among their people as guardians of traditional culture.

The coronation ceremony in Fort Portal, a remote town in western Uganda and not far from the Congo border, will be watched by thousands in person and on televised broadcasts.

Nyabongo pledged unity in an interview with the local New Vision newspaper before his coronation, saying also that “heritage must be matched by discipline and hard work. My family never let me treat royal descent as an entitlement; it was presented to me as a duty to prepare for.”

He wasn't particularly high in the line of succession, but elders within the kingdom’s ruling clan, known as the Babiito, selected him from a pool of eligible princes after King Oyo Nyimba’s death from cancer at age 34 in August without a publicly known heir.

The queen mother, Best Kemigisa, disputed that decision and charged that the written will of King Oyo hadn't been followed in the selection of Nyabongo.

Kemigisa said that Oyo left behind a young son whose identity would be unveiled at the right time, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Nyabongo and the decision of the Babiito to choose him. Local media cited disagreeable scenes — including a brief disagreement over custody of the king’s remains — at Oyo’s Sept. 12 funeral.

Although Oyo’s alleged son has yet to be revealed, purported photos of a “Baby Oyo” have flooded social media, giving hope to devotees of the deceased monarch. But critics say that the child, if he exists, should have been introduced to the kingdom's elders while his father was still alive.

“They have demonstrated that these are the norms of the kingdom,” Nicholas Sengoba, a prominent political analyst in Uganda, said of the Babiito's selection of Nyabongo. “Many of these positions may not be popular.”

Oyo was crowned in 1995, at the age of 3, after his father’s death. He was a curious child in colorful robes and an object of adoration for his hundreds of thousands of followers.

At his coronation, he went through a series of tribal rituals and was led into the royal cemetery to perform a coming-of-age ceremony: successfully tossing nine coffee beans into his father’s tomb.

Oyo once held the unofficial title of the world’s youngest king, a mesmerizing figure even for world leaders introduced to him at national events, including South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was one of those who befriended the Tooro royal family as if they were part of his extended family. Gadhafi made multiple trips to Uganda and supported Oyo and Kemigisa for years before Gadhafi’s death in October 2011.

Oyo was guided by regents appointed by the kingdom until he became an adult at 18.

The 1,476 people being sent back are among 5,000 Myanmar nationals who will be repatriated in stages from Malaysia, where 10,388 Myanmar nationals were being held at immigration detention depots nationwide as of Aug. 15, according to Malaysia’s Home Ministry.

Buses believed to be carrying Myanmar returnees arrived at a stadium in Manjung town in Malaysia’s central Perak state early Tuesday, amid tight security. Ships believed to be from Myanmar were docked at the nearby Lumut naval base.

Home Ministry official Makhzan Mahyuddin was quoted by national Bernama news agency as saying the returnees comprised 1,370 men, 79 women, 20 boys and seven girls, aged between eight and 60.

The ministry said they would be sent back safely on two Myanmar navy warships and a hospital ship. It is unclear if any of the returnees were minority Muslim Rohingya, who are rejected by the Myanmar government. The ministry didn't provide further details of their identities and circumstances, but stressed their return was voluntary.

“This move also sends a clear signal that the government is serious about addressing irregular migration and the issue of undocumented foreign nationals through law enforcement, repatriation and more systematic management and data collection,” the ministry said in a statement.

Many refugees in Malaysia come from Myanmar's Rohingya minority

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and rights groups slammed the repatriation, saying the security and humanitarian situation in parts of Myanmar remains volatile and returnees could face serious risks such as persecution and forced military conscription in an active war zone.

Myanmar is involved in an armed conflict and political instability following the military’s seizure of power in 2021.

Malaysia is home to about 215,600 refugees and asylum seekers registered with the UNHCR, including about 126,000 Rohingya who make up one of Southeast Asia’s largest refugee communities. Despite hosting them, Malaysia is not a party to the U.N. Refugee Convention and treats refugees as undocumented migrants.

The government recently launched a system to register refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia and to build a biometric database, as it seeks to manage and regulate the population independently from the UNHCR.

Rohingya have faced growing public hostility in Malaysia due to their growing numbers, fueled by concerns over jobs, public services and security.

Malaysia says Myanmar must accept the refugees' return

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has defended the repatriation policy as a diplomatic effort to find a long-term solution, saying Malaysia cannot host refugees indefinitely and Myanmar must take responsibility for its citizens.

Anwar said he plans to invite Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing to Malaysia to discuss the long-running refugee and undocumented migrant issue that has dragged on for decades.

“I am inviting him to say that we can be friends and trade, we can accept Myanmar, but Myanmar must accept them back,” he said in a podcast posted online Sept. 16. “To me, that’s better diplomacy than just shouting angrily at Myanmar.”

Myanmar Foreign Ministry official Han Win Aung has said the plan follows repatriation operations in 2021 and 2022, when Myanmar received more than 1,100 of its nationals stranded in Malaysia.

He said the repatriation involves genuine citizens and is not about bringing back the Rohingya people, who are not recognized as an ethnic group in Myanmar and denied citizenship.

Malaysia's Home Ministry said in the statement that subsequent repatriations would proceed once identity verification, documentation, logistics and operational coordination between the two countries are finalized.

Two advocacy groups, Amnesty International and Asylum Access, in a joint statement urged the government to halt repatriations, saying the government's new system must not be used to fast-track unlawful deportations. Rights groups have also urged the government to restore the UNHCR’s access to detention centers to screen vulnerable refugees.

U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices stabilized over uncertainties about U.S.-Iran talks and the possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial route for global oil shipments.

In early European trading, Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.3% to 10,721.04. France’s CAC 40 gained 0.1% to 8,086.40, while Germany’s DAX added 0.3% to 25,460.81.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.6% to 65,481.27. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.3% to 6,870.81 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 0.5% to 24,523.57.

Hong Kong-traded shares of Shein fell 10.7%, after the online fashion retailer reported that its adjusted net profit fell 67% in the three months ending June 30 compared with the year-earlier period.

The Shanghai Composite index gained 0.2% to 3,830.45 after the Xinhua News Agency reported late Monday that China's State Council had discussed “improving the effectiveness” of macro policies to help boost its economy.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.3% to 8,709.30. Taiwan’s Taiex was 0.8% lower, while India’s Sensex fell 0.5%.

On Monday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.8%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.9%.

Stocks have been pressured by rising U.S. Treasury yields as investors demand higher returns amid growing concerns about inflation and rising government debt.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, near its highest since 2007, was at about 5.24% early Tuesday. It reached 5.27% on Monday, up from about 5.17% on Friday.

Central banks have been raising interest rates to help curb inflation. Australia’s central bank lifted its benchmark rate on Tuesday for the fourth time this year, taking it to the highest level in 15 years.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in three years, and the Bank of Japan increased its key rate to the highest level in 31 years.

Oil prices remained elevated as mediators continued to work with the United States and Iran on reaching a deal to end the fighting and open the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump at the weekend rejected an offer from Tehran to reopen the key waterway.

Brent crude, the international standard, fell 0.3% to $97.55 a barrel after rising earlier. It remained well above its level of roughly $72 a barrel in late February, before the war with Iran.

The U.S. dollar rose to 157.43 Japanese yen from 157.39 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1335, down from $1.1371.

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Associated Press journalist Rod McGuirk contributed to this report.

These things have often been true in recent years when world leaders orate at one another during their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, which concluded Monday. This year, though, the discourse seemed even more urgent than usual. Across the words of more than 150 speeches, two things emerged as clear: Many leaders deeply want the world body to work. And many have concluded that it isn't.

“Where are the United Nations?” Alexandra Hill Tinoco, the foreign minister of El Salvador, asked Monday. “Do we have an organization that is still relevant?”

That was the question that hung over the weeklong gathering as leader after world leader — in different words, with different details — probed at the very heart of the organization that was founded eight decades ago to prevent a conflict like World War II from ever happening again.

At the heart of the U.N. ethos sits a word that most regular people never use: “multilateralism.” The optimistic principle — that problems that cross borders, regions and oceans can be solved by cooperation and shared power — is a potent one, advocated by almost everyone (the United States under Donald Trump being a notable exception).

But that flavor of multilateralism was conceived and built in a different era, when globalized challenges like pandemics, climate change and artificial intelligence did not sit quite so front and center. Even today, those that hold the true power — the ability to veto anything that comes before the U.N. Security Council without giving a reason — are the same five nations given it at the end of World War II.

“Multilateralism is under siege," said Mulipola Anarosa Ale-Molioʻo, Samoa's deputy prime minister.

It's not surprising, then, that the theme of this year's leaders' meeting at the General Assembly was “restoring trust.” From the barrage of remarks about it being broken, it seemed obvious that something needs to give in order to, as Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf put it, create “a shared home rather than an organization held hostage to the dominance of power politics.”

“There are problems,” said the foreign minister of Sri Lanka, Vijitha Herath, “which no country can solve alone.”

There's a close relationship between multilateralism and trust

One sticking point that the scores of speeches revealed was the scratchiness between two vital notions — multilateralism and sovereignty. Nations from North Korea to the Marshall Islands invoked high principles to say that all must work together while simultaneously underscoring that they will never allow their sovereign rights to be violated. This produces contradictions that remain unsolved.

“We have never been so connected, yet we are increasingly unable to trust one another," said Grand Duke Guillaume, Luxembourg's head of state.

The tradition of American individualism plays a role here, as embodied by Trump's consistently aggressive tone toward the U.N. To many in the United States, multilateralism hints at dark echoes of “one world government” and the notion of giving up power — and thus liberty — to other stakeholders. This trait, while often recessive in U.N. meetings, is true of many nations that fear incursion, war and domination.

In reality, though, multilateralism is the way the world works today — economically and, arguably, politically. From AI to rising temperatures, many nations just aren't equipped to go it alone. And while cooperation on AI was a centerpiece this year, so too was the outlook that nations such as China offered — that each country must make its own decisions about the emerging technology.

“States alone cannot make progress," said Christophe Mirmand, Monaco's minister of state.

The hue and cry for multilateralism, always present when smaller nations meet larger ones, has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21, when most of the meetings were held remotely. It has been amplified further as members — particularly island nations, whose very existence is threatened by warming oceans — increasingly assert that the world is happening at them rather than with them.

If bigger countries with different interests can make all the major decisions on problems and opportunities that transcend map borders, these smaller nations say, then they will be left in the dust. The only answer, they say, is a United Nations that truly equalizes voices and has the fortitude to make that principle stick.

“The message to small nations is clear: Be as sovereign as we allow you to be," said Philip Edward Davis, prime minister of the Bahamas. "A sovereignty that requires permission is not a sovereignty.”

Fixing the imbalance of political oomph is difficult

Whenever the United Nations gathers, its origin story is always lurking in the background: World War II. Nowhere is that more evident than when talk of expanding the Security Council and its permanent members comes up.

The 15-member Security Council, which holds the U.N.'s only real authority, has five permanent members — the United States, Russia, Britain, China and France — that hold veto power. While other nations rotate in and out, their power is limited; they can neither veto nor prevent vetoes. Those five nations have held the power since the beginning (in Russia's case, as the Soviet Union). For so many other nations, that's not OK.

“The veto is a relic," said Matthew Wale, prime minister of the Solomon Islands, whose existence is threatened by climate change. Many island nations want permanent representation on the council. José Antonio Kast, Chile's president, put it more forcefully: “We simply cannot continue to play by the same rules of an order that was established in 1945 in 2026.”

The notion of permanent representation for Africa, which currently holds three rotating seats, has long been a goal of African leaders, who speak about it every year. They're getting louder, and they're getting more adamant.

“Africa can no longer remain on the sidelines of situations that shape its destiny,” said Constant-Serge Bounda, the Republic of Congo’s foreign minister. He and others want two permanent Security Council seats for Africa — with veto power. “Africa is not asking for a favor,” he said. “It is claiming its rightful place.”

Taken together, these various outcries point back to the theme of the meeting. Everyone respects the United Nations. Everyone sees potential in its optimistic, egalitarian vision of a fraternity of nations. But even as they praise the possibilities, the fact that so many leaders denounce the reality left an echo after this week that is hard to ignore: Stop talking. Start doing. Yes, let all voices be heard. But then act.

Or, as Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Austria's minister for European and International Affairs, framed it: “The United Nations was not created to discuss international problems. It was created to solve them." To many who ascended to the rostrum this past week, that simply is not happening.

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Ted Anthony has overseen Associated Press coverage of the U.N. General Assembly's annual meeting of leaders since 2018 and has been covering international affairs since 1994.

Republicans haven't abandoned the Southern battlegrounds, which President Donald Trump carried narrowly in 2024, though they are shifting greater resources to states they see as more competitive. The party now is spending heavily to defend reliably Republican Texas, and Trump is planning to campaign for the Republican incumbent in Ohio, both places the president won easily in 2024.

Some Republicans also have become more vocal in their complaining that Trump has squandered an opportunity to more comfortably hold off Democrats this fall. Among their grievances, they say the president failed to bring the unpopular war in Iran to a close, has dismissed the pinch of high fuel prices and engaged late in the midterm campaigns.

And though Democrats must still win several seats Republicans hold to win back the majority, the GOP is looking more at protecting seats they already hold than picking up Georgia, and they are signaling serious problems in North Carolina.

“There is a Republican turnout problem due to the administration's failure to address the economic concerns of voters,” North Carolina Republican strategist Paul Shoemaker said of the state's U.S. Senate race.

GOP Senate leaders look beyond Georgia

Republican Senate campaign leaders are looking past Georgia businessman Mike Collins' challenge of first-term Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff to states they viewed as more competitive to focus future spending, according to two Republican Senate campaign sources familiar with Senate leadership's thinking. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.

Ossoff has swamped the successful trucking company executive in fundraising. Collins has also struggled to broaden his support beyond Georgia's Republican base.

Despite Senate Majority Leader John Thune's two-day campaign and fundraising trip to Georgia this month, some local party leaders were publicly pessimistic.

"He just doesn’t have what it takes to beat Ossoff,” said Tim Waters, Peach County Republican Party chair. “It’s hard enough trying to beat an incumbent, and you have the president of the same party in a tough midterm, right? I don’t think he’s got much of a shot.”

Republicans had viewed Georgia early in the 2026 campaign as a potential firewall, should Democrats win in a critical number of states where Republican seats are on the ballot. Democrats must win a net of four seats to win back the majority.

But Ossoff has already spent $57 million in advertising and had $13 million reserved through the election, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. And while outside groups aligned with Collins had spent more than $52 million, AdImpact shows, Collins' campaign confirmed it had no advertising time immediately reserved.

Tillis is among the NC Republicans warning about Senate race

Retiring Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis stopped short of suggesting GOP candidate Michael Whatley's chances of holding the seat for the party had vanished, but implied it was time to take a hard look at how long to continue spending heavily against Democratic former two-term Gov. Roy Cooper.

“We've got to place our bets on the candidates that are the best run, either ahead or within striking distance,” Tillis told reporters Monday in the Capitol. “You've got to change your posture going into the last — we've got 36 days.”

Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chairman, has been a darling of Trump, who campaigned for him this month. But enthusiasm for Trump seems to have fallen even with a number of Republicans who voted for him, said Shoemaker, a Tillis adviser. Trump narrowly won North Carolina in 2024.

“The blue-collar, working-class voters that Donald Trump brought to the Republican Party is the one that's being most impacted by higher energy prices, and it's dampened their enthusiasm to turn out and vote,” Shoemaker said.

Senate Leadership Fund, the Senate GOP's leadership super PAC, had $19.5 million in advertising booked in North Carolina, having spent $30.4 million to date.

“Do I think Roy Cooper is going to win the race? I absolutely do,” said Michele Woodhouse, former Republican chair for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District and a devout Trump supporter.

“Roy Cooper, for Republicans, is the worst Democrat candidate who could be running for this seat," Woodhouse said. “He’s never lost in a statewide race. He’s very popular.”

Senate GOP PAC spends heavily in Texas as Trump heads for Ohio

In Texas, where Democrats have not won a Senate election since 1988, Republicans' Senate Leadership Fund is spending more than it is in any of the states it set out to defend early in the year. The group this month pumped more than $100 million into advertising in Texas to back up state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who faces Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in a race viewed as very competitive.

Trump endorsed Paxton over four-term incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary. GOP campaign leaders considered Paxton a potential drain on Republican resources because he has for years faced legal, ethical and personal questions. They include a felony indictment, impeachment charges and extramarital affairs, though Paxton was never convicted.

Senate GOP leaders had suggested Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., would carry a good portion of the advertising load after Paxton beat Cornyn in the May GOP Senate runoff. Neither the National Republican Senatorial Committee nor SLF had included spending on Texas in its midterm budget.

As of Monday, MAGA Inc., has committed more than $20 million to ads supporting Paxton so far this month, compared with the $124 million from SLF.

Should Democrats win North Carolina and Texas, they would only need to win two of the remaining competitive Republican-held seats — in Alaska, Iowa, Maine and Ohio — as well as hold competitive Democratic-held seats in Georgia, Michigan and New Hampshire to capture the majority.

Trump plans to visit Ohio on Saturday to support Sen. Jon Husted as the Republican tries to fend off a competitive challenge from Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown. The president plans to campaign with Husted in Vandalia, near Dayton in southwest Ohio.

Senate Republican campaign leaders have complained that spiking gas prices, a result of the seven-month-long war with Iran, are among the issues weighing against candidates that Trump has exacerbated.

Campaigning with Whatley last week, Trump called higher fuel prices “a very inexpensive price to pay” for preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Though gas prices are near historic highs, they are still below the nationwide record set in 2022.

It's prompted some candidates, such as Iowa's GOP Senate nominee, Rep. Ashley Hinson, to speak out.

“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn't have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran,” she said last week.

South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds dismissed that the Republican majority was slipping away, but suggested senators needed to act on fuel prices.

“We have to stay focused on the fact that we know that gas prices are too high, and diesel is way too high," the Republican said.

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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa and Sloan from Washington. AP reporter Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.

Much of Reed's first three decades of life had been shaped by abuse and neglect: first, she says, at the hands of her biological mother, then in foster care and, when she became an adult, in a series of romantic relationships. She had lost custody of three older children a decade earlier, in part because she lacked stable housing. By March 2022, when she had finally landed an apartment in a transitional housing program, she had lost all faith in herself.

None of that was apparent this September, when she traveled to the nation's capital to tell members of Congress how her life changed when she enrolled her children in Head Start.

Reed says Head Start helped her heal from three decades of trauma and abuse. Staff connected her to job training, taught her how to be a better mother, helped her advocate for her son’s disability accommodations at his elementary school, and urged her to join the council that oversees Head Start across Spokane County, Washington. She was elected the council's president last year.

Head Start was, Reed says, “a warm blanket in a time where I constantly felt cold.”

That could be changing.

Last month, President Donald Trump’s administration proposed gutting Head Start regulations that spell out how programs must support families with financial, education or housing concerns. Many of the services now mandated would become optional.

Head Start was founded to help both kids and parents

Reed’s transformation was no fluke: Head Start’s services for low-income parents have been central to its model for decades.

“Being told that somebody believes in you and thinks you’re a good parent after so much loss — it didn’t feel real at first,” Reed said. “It took probably a year or two for me to be like, ‘OK, maybe I am. Maybe I just went through something that was really hard, but I was doing the best that I could.’”

Head Start, a six-decade-old preschool program, works to lift children and their families out of poverty. Its two-generation approach is rooted in the idea that improving caregivers' lives is as essential to a child's success as what happens in the classroom. Parents can also serve on committees that help set the direction of their kids' preschool.

“It’s always had that family connection,” said Loukisha Smart-Pennix of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, which oversees several Head Start centers. “That’s been part and parcel of what Head Start was built on.”

Smart-Pennix said she's proof the approach works. When she was in the program as a preschooler in the 1970s, Head Start connected her mother with a factory job. Two decades later, when Smart-Pennix enrolled her son, the center employed her and pushed her to go to college. By the time her daughter was old enough to enroll, she earned too much to qualify. (Generally, families qualify for Head Start if their income is at or below the federal poverty line, currently $33,000 for a family of four.)

Under current regulations, Head Start asks parents to set goals — to return to school, to buy a home — and then helps them stay on track to achieve them. Parents have described how Head Start has helped them stay sober, finish school, pay off debt or simply keep the lights on. Operators are required to give hiring preferences to current and former Head Start parents, so many end up working for the program. Some eventually run their own preschools.

The Trump administration proposal would water down many of the family support regulations. Goal-setting with families would be optional, as would hiring preferences for Head Start parents. It would also scrap requirements for an open-door policy that gives parents liberal access to their child's classroom and cancel a mandate that staff visit homes and hold parent-teacher conferences at least twice per year. Programs would no longer be required to help parents navigate Medicaid, even as the government-funded health insurance program's rules are becoming more complex.

Head Start preschools would also have the option of eliminating parent committees, formal groups that weigh in on curriculum and programming. And policy councils, which have parent members, would see their authority weakened under the proposal.

Alex Adams, who leads the Department of Health and Human Services office overseeing Head Start, said the goal of the changes is to empower local leaders and to increase efficiency, enabling programs to serve up to 236,000 more children without additional funding.

“A one-size-fits-all mandate from Washington cannot fully account for the realities facing these 1,600 grantees” that operate Head Start preschools, Adams told reporters in August. “Federal mandates can certainly hinder local decision-making, drive up costs and limit the program’s reach.”

The Department of Health and Human Services said the proposal still recognizes the importance of parents in a child's learning, “but substantially reduces hyper-specificity for how to fulfill requirements, specifically around how programs must engage parents and families in education and child development services.”

“The proposal gives programs room to make thoughtful adjustments when local circumstances call for them,” the department said in a statement.

A push to enroll more children in larger classes

Head Start backers see the proposal not as a chance for flexibility but as another effort by the Trump administration to undermine the longstanding program. Days after Trump, a Republican, took office in early 2025, some Head Start programs temporarily closed their doors due to problems accessing their federal money. Later, a White House budget draft proposed eliminating funding for Head Start. The funding was restored after widespread backlash.

Adams emphasized programs wouldn't have to use the flexibility in the proposal if they want to continue operating as they have.

“It’s not a mandate," Adams told reporters. "The opportunity for these programs to make a different decision does not necessarily mean they must make a different decision.”

But advocates are skeptical. The administration's proposal eliminates requirements for small class sizes and scraps caseload limits for family support specialists. Centers instead would abide by their state's early learning regulations, which are often more lenient.

With more kids, fewer teachers, rising costs and no material increase in funding, advocates worry programs would be forced to dilute some of Head Start’s signature offerings. The Trump administration's own projections show that to add 236,000 slots for kids, Head Start centers would have to eliminate about 25,000 teacher jobs, increase class sizes and cut three-quarters of the staff who provide in-home education for new parents.

Reed says she worries the changes could mean fewer success stories like hers.

That's how she ended up in Washington, D.C. When Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., took a seat next to her, Reed grew nervous.

“Is it OK if I just read something from my phone?” she asked, shaking. Murray nodded.

She told the senator, a former preschool teacher, about the day she moved from a domestic violence shelter into transitional housing.

“At the bottom of our stairs was a Head Start center,” she said. “I had no idea how much it would change our lives.”

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The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of President Donald Trump’s second-term trade war with America’s longtime ally and trading partner.

The import ban “certainly won't do anything to help the trade tensions between the United States and Canada,'' said trade attorney Patrick Childress, a partner at Holland & Knight and a former U.S. trade official.

The latest sparring began over the summer when Trump reached back to a Great Depression law to impose 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports, charging that Canada discriminates against U.S. dairy, auto and alcoholic beverage producers. Canada promptly counterpunched with tariffs of 15%, 25% or 50%, matching U.S. imports dollar for dollar.

To punish Canada for retaliating against his tariffs, Trump decided to ban a list of Canadian products, effective 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday.

The economic impact is likely to be minimal. Childress noted that the products on the banned list were already facing Trump’s tariffs. ”For a lot of these goods, the 50% was already acting as a de facto ban by making importation from Canada into the United States uneconomical,″ he said.

Jacob Jensen, director of trade policy at the center-right American Action Forum think tank, calculates that the ban would cover $967 million worth of Canadian imports, based on 2025 numbers. Of that, 87% would be alcoholic beverages that the U.S. targeted because of some Canadian provinces responding to Trump’s provocations by banning U.S. booze from store shelves.

Also banned are some dairy products — including the milk byproduct whey. The two countries have long clashed over Canada’s attempts to protect its dairy industry from foreign competition by imposing hefty tariffs once dairy imports have exceeded a quota.

The ban also covers motorcycles. Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) in Quebec confirmed that its three-wheel Can-Am Spyder and Canyon motorcycles “will be excluded from importation into the U.S.’’ But BRP said the impact likely won’t be felt until next year because it has completed most production and shipments for the current season.

“This marks yet another escalation in the trade war that may result in further retaliation on the Canadian side,” Jensen said. He expects Canadian exporters and U.S. importers “impacted by these bans will be highly motivated’’ to demand that trade officials on both sides find some way to reach a “resolution of this whole ordeal.’’

The impasse imperils efforts to renew the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a North American trade pact Trump pressured America’s neighbors into accepting in his first term and which he once declared “the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country.’’

The deal allowed most goods to cross North American borders duty free. But since returning to the White House last year, Trump has announced a series of tariffs that have clouded the future of trade in the region.

Trump has directed most of his ire at Canada. He is openly seeking to pull Canadian manufacturing south. And he has inflamed public opinion in Canada by repeatedly suggesting that the country become America’s 51st state.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney came to power last year on a promise to stand up to Trump. In addition to retaliating against Trump tariffs — China is the only other country to do so, with very different results — Carney has sought to reduce Canada’s reliance on the United States, which last year accounted for more than 70% of Canadian exports.

“There is now a price to be paid for access to the United States market,” Carney said earlier this month. The Canadian prime minister wants to double Canada’s non-U.S. trade over the next decade.

Carney has embraced the prospect of Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member.

And he said last week that trade negotiations with India are making “good progress” and that the two countries are aiming to conclude talks by the G20 summit in mid-December.

Carney also broke with the U.S. earlier this year, striking a deal with China to allow a limited number of Chinese electric vehicles into Canada at a sharply reduced tariff in exchange for China lowering tariffs on Canadian canola.

“We take note of the coming into force of the Administration’s previously announced trade measures," said Gabriel Brunet, a spokesman for Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. "Our first priority remains on protecting and supporting Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses from these unjustified actions. Our core focus is on what we can control: building strength at home, diversifying our partnerships abroad, and building Canada strong for all Canadians.”

Trump expressed confidence that the Canadians would cave in.

“They’re gonna come in and they’re gonna say, ‘Sir, we are sorry,’” he told reporters Monday. “They’ve treated the United States very, very badly. I think a deal will be made but it’s gonna be fair.”

Trade attorney Childress said the standoff is likely to continue for months, not weeks. The import bans and the tariffs so far “probably won’t cause enough economic upheaval to force either party back to the negotiating table,’’ he said.

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AP Writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this story.

Curtis Wilkie Beasley was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto in a 1995 attack on Carolyn Monfort. The Florida Supreme Court last week rejected appeals that executing a man his age who is suffering from cognitive decline would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Beasley, who would become Florida's seventh prisoner over the age of 70 to be executed this year, is set to receive a three-drug injection at the state prison starting at 6 p.m.

It was one of two executions scheduled this week in the U.S. Tennessee plans to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years on Wednesday by administering a lethal injection to Christa Pike, 50, who was convicted of killing a classmate in a jealous rage when they were both teens.

Arrested while working under a fake name

According to court records, Beasley had been staying at Monfort’s Dundee home, south of Orlando, in August 1995 while he was pressure washing and painting nearby apartments owned by her son-in-law. Monfort's daughter went to her home after being unable to reach her for two days and found her body in a blood-splattered laundry room.

Monfort suffered multiple blunt-force trauma injuries to the head, and a bloody hammer head was found wrapped in a towel nearby, according to investigators.

Authorities began searching for Beasley after a witness reported seeing him driving what turned out to be Monfort's car. Investigators determined Beasley had traveled to Miami and later relocated to Alabama, where he was arrested while working under a fake name for an electrical company, officials said.

Beasley was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1998.

A final appeal remains pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Florida has carried out more than half of the nation's executions this year

Beasley would be the nation’s 29th execution this year, most of which have taken place in Florida.

The state is getting closer to last year's 19 executions, which was a record in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. In July, Florida executed two prisoners in one day, the first state in nearly a decade to do so.

Two more are scheduled for this year, but Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has temporarily paused the next one.

William Lee Thompson, 74, is scheduled to be executed Oct. 13 over raping and fatally beating a woman at a Florida motel in 1976. After a doctor this month determined Thompson might be suffering from dementia, DeSantis ordered a panel of three psychiatrists to examine him Thursday to determine if he is competent to be executed.

DeSantis, who leaves office in January, issued similar stays in 2023 and 2025 but both executions proceeded following evaluations.

William Reaves, 77, has an Oct. 20 execution date. He was convicted of fatally shooting a deputy outside a convenience store in 1986.

All Florida executions are carried out via lethal injection of a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.

It turns out the third-string quarterback for the Chicago Bears is pretty good, too.

Keenum passed for two touchdowns in his first start in almost three years, and the Bears shut down Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles for a 27-7 victory on Monday night.

Stepping in for Caleb Williams, Keenum was 24 for 34 for 247 yards. He also scored his first rushing touchdown since 2019 on a 1-yard plunge with 7:19 left, capping a 13-play drive that took more than eight minutes off the clock.

“He knows where everyone is supposed to be on every single play and so he is really quick to recognize coverage,” Bears coach Ben Johnson said. “He knows why we’re calling the play and what we’re looking for and if we’re not getting that he’s accelerating through it really quickly. That’s what you get when you’re 15-plus years playing that position in this league.”

It was Keenum’s first action since he started for Houston in a 36-22 loss to Cleveland on Dec. 24, 2023. Williams was sidelined by a right hamstring injury, and Tyson Bagent backed up Keenum after he cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol on Sunday.

“To get a shot again like this? Yeah, you dream of it,” Keenum said. “That’s why I'm still here doing this when I get knocked down. I got knocked down my whole career. I just keep getting up, coming to work, just keep bouncing back.”

Kalif Raymond had six receptions for 90 yards and a touchdown as Chicago (2-1) rebounded from an ugly 9-3 loss to Minnesota.

Philadelphia (2-1) turned the ball over three times and failed to record a takeaway for the third consecutive game to begin the season. Hurts was 16 for 25 for 153 yards, and Saquon Barkley rushed for 82 yards on 15 carries.

“I think we all have to own that loss right there,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “I don’t think anybody coached well. I don’t think anyone played well. It was a true team loss. And when it’s a true team loss, you know I have to look at myself first.”

Down 20-7, the Eagles lined up to go for it on fourth-and-1 at their own 49 with about four minutes left in the third quarter. But Hurts was unable to draw a flag for offside, and the Eagles took a delay-of-game penalty before punting it away.

Hurts was picked off by T.J. Edwards on a fourth-and-5 play from the Chicago 46 in the final minute of the third. Edwards dropped a potential interception on third down on Philadelphia’s first drive of the second half.

“I liked the decision to go for it on fourth-and-5,” Sirianni said. “Hindsight, I feel like I should have went for it on that fourth-and-1 1/2.”

Keenum capped Chicago's first drive with a shovel pass to Luther Burden for an 8-yard touchdown, and he connected with a wide-open Raymond on a 41-yard TD in the second half.

On the drive that ended with his seventh career rushing touchdown, making it 27-7 with 7:19 remaining, Keenum drew an offside penalty on Moro Ojomo on a fourth-and-2 play from the Eagles 39.

“Poised, calm and honestly a guy who was having a lot of fun,” Raymond said of Keenum. “The whole week he was like, you guys having fun, because I am. That's the way he was. He loves the game.”

Trailing 7-0, Hurts drove Philadelphia deep into Chicago territory in the second quarter before he absorbed a late hit by linebacker D'Marco Jackson along the sideline. Hurts was pulled off the field to be checked for a concussion, and backup Andy Dalton was intercepted by rookie Dillon Thieneman in the back of the end zone with 6:14 left.

Hurts said he was waiting for clearance to go back in when Dalton turned it over.

“I was just waiting for the thumbs-up,” Hurts said. “I felt fine, we already checked it. I don’t know the extent of the process. Obviously wish we could have expedited things. I know I felt fine.”

Hurts scored on a quarterback sneak as time expired in the first half, but Chicago controlled the final two periods. Philadelphia gained just 62 of its 248 yards in the second half.

Chicago finished with 24 first downs and 128 yards rushing. The Bears had 28 first downs and 281 yards on the ground in a 24-15 win at Philadelphia last season.

He is back

Zach Ertz had one reception for 9 yards for Philadelphia in his first game of the season. The veteran tight end rejoined the Eagles when he was signed to the team's practice squad last week.

The 35-year-old Ertz spent his first eight-plus seasons with the Eagles, earning three Pro Bowl appearances.

Injuries

Bears: LT Braxton Jones departed with 10:22 left in the third because of a knee injury. ... Raymond was shaken up on a punt return with 3:12 remaining in the third, but he returned to the game. ... DB Cam Lewis had a hip injury.

Up next

Eagles: Host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.

Bears: Host the New York Jets on Sunday.

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Killed in the crash was 10-year-old Peyton and injured was her brother Brent.

Authorities said the two were riding an e-bike when they were struck by a vehicle in the area of Northwest 117th Street and Seventh Avenue on Sept. 9.

Several days later, deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said they located the vehicle from the incident, which had been described as a silver or gray 2009-2012 Nissan Versa.

On Monday, authorities announced the arrest of Arick Metayer in connection to the case.

Deputies said Metayer, 33, was taken into custody on Monday night.

He is facing felony charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving death, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and tempering with physical evidence.

As of Monday evening, Metayer was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

Klitschko, a Ukrainian former world champion boxer, has had full custody of the girl, Kaya, for most of her life, and she has lived with him in Ukraine. Kaya is Panettiere's sole heir. The filing in a Los Angeles County court cites items seized in a federal investigation of the actor’s death, unnamed and unauthorized people accessing her residence in Los Angeles, and valuables that are missing.

The petition says it is “urgent and essential” that Klitschko be granted the legal status of temporary guardian of his daughter's estate.

“Without an immediate appointment for these purposes, there is a high probability that property belonging to Hayden’s Estate may be lost, damaged or dissipated before a duly appointed personal representative can be in place to protect it,” the filing says.

Klitschko's lawyers filed the petition on Thursday, but it did not become publicly known until Monday, when it was reported by TMZ. The filing emphasizes that his intention is solely to protect his daughter's future assets until a permanent administrator can be put in place.

Panettiere, the former star of the TV series “Heroes” and “Nashville,” died Aug. 16 at age 36. A coroner's report obtained by The Associated Press said her death was from an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl, and she had been in rehab just weeks before. She was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina.

The petition says that federal agents have taken Panettiere’s property in an investigation, and there is no authorized person to deal with them and assure it is returned.

The filing says that before her death, Panettiere and Klitschko hired security to protect her home because an unnamed person had gained unauthorized access. The petition says it's expected the same person will continue to try to “misappropriate” property belonging to her estate.

A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Oct. 8.

In her memoir released earlier this year, Panettiere acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and having postpartum depression after her daughter's birth in 2014. Kaya went to live with Klitschko full-time when she was 2. Panettiere's father told investigators that when she died she had plans to visit her daughter in Ukraine days later.

Klitschko, 50, an Olympic gold medalist, held several heavyweight titles between 2000 and 2015. He and Panettiere began dating in 2009 and got engaged in 2013.

His older brother Vitali, also a former champion boxer, is mayor of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. The two brothers, sons of a Soviet major general, have worked to protect their country during its war with Russia.

For residents, the steel barriers have become an unmistakable warning of what may follow: blocked streets, snarled traffic and long detours across Islamabad and neighboring Rawalpindi.

The latest deployment came ahead of a march by supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan demanding his release. Cranes have lifted red, blue and green containers from trucks and lowered them into place along roads.

Originally scheduled for Sept. 27, the march was postponed until Oct. 4, but many of the containers remain in place. Since last week, police have positioned them along key routes leading to the Red Zone, home to Parliament, government offices and foreign embassies.

Khan, a former cricket star turned politician and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s main political rival, has been imprisoned since 2023. He is serving multiple prison sentences following convictions on corruption and other charges. Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party say the cases are politically motivated.

Khan was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in April 2022. Sharif returned to office after lawmakers elected him prime minister following the Feb. 8, 2024, parliamentary election. Khan’s party says its mandate was stolen in that vote, an allegation the government denies.

The containers are hard to miss in the city

Now against Islamabad’s green hills and tree-lined avenues, the rows of brightly colored containers are hard to miss. Some sit beside busy roads, ready to be moved. Others are stacked two high or positioned across traffic lanes, turning broad avenues into narrow, controlled passages.

“It looks like a city of containers,” Islamabad housewife Sahiba Bibi said.

She said this time the disruption began before demonstrators had even set out for Islamabad from across the country, particularly from northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Khan’s party governs.

PTI's top leadership said it delayed the march because authorities had blocked key approaches to the capital, including Attock Bridge, a major crossing for convoys traveling from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Containers and spiked metal sheets had been placed along the route that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and his supporters were expected to take, party organizers said.

Even where roads remained open, the preparations narrowed traffic lanes and created long lines of vehicles. Commuters searched for alternate routes, while shopkeepers along potential protest paths weighed whether to close their businesses, fearing damage if unrest or clashes broke out.

Authorities say they pay rent to owners of container trucks for the use of the containers. But some drivers say police stop them on highways, seize their vehicles and take their keys.

Rehmat Gul, a container-truck driver, said police stopped him and took his keys before impounding his truck. The container was later placed on a road near Rawalpindi, he said.

When the containers arrive, people know their lives will be disrupted

“Fuel prices have almost doubled because of the ongoing tensions between the United States and Iran,” said Abdul Hafeez, a government employee who commutes from Rawalpindi to Islamabad for work and also drives his children to school. “At a time when we are already struggling to keep our kitchens running, roadblocks force us to travel farther.”

“If the government does not block the roads, we have no problem with these protests,” he said.

For many residents, the containers are no longer merely a security measure. Their arrival signals that another political confrontation is approaching and that ordinary life may be disrupted.

The government, however, says the precautions are necessary.

“PTI has a track record of disruption and vandalism during protests, and its supporters would not be allowed to enter the capital,” Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told reporters in Peshawar last week.

Afridi rejected the government’s characterization, saying PTI’s sole purpose was to hold a peaceful rally demanding Khan’s release.

Authorities used similar measures in November 2024, sealing roads into Islamabad as Khan’s supporters attempted to reach the capital despite a ban on rallies. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters.

That experience has taught residents not to wait for a formal road-closure announcement.

Once cranes begin lowering containers into place, many start changing their routes, and some begin stocking up on food.

Authorities say Nathalie Belizaire, 29, abandoned her four children to go on a three-night cruise aboard the Carnival Conquest.

The ship left PortMiami for the Bahamas on Friday and returned Monday morning, which is where officers with the North Miami Beach Police Department were waiting to arrest Balizaire.

According to her arrest report, “the defendant left all four minor children including a 2-month old infant and a 2-year-old child inside the residence.”

Police said they received a call over the weekend from the father of the 2-month-old who was concerned after discovering the children may be home alone.

That man told investigators he saw a social media post from Belizaire highlighting the cruise, and when he inquired about the children, she told him she would be dropping them off with their great-grandmother, according to an arrest form.

When the father arrived at the apartment on Saturday night, he told police he only heard a TV on and voices of the children, which prompted his call to 911.

After first responders forced their way into the home, a police reported stated, “Upon entry, all four minor children were discovered inside the residence without adult supervision and were hiding together in the bathroom.”

This is not the first time Belizaire has been in trouble with the law.

In January of last year, she was arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying her neighbor in the face over claims of harassing Belizaire’s daughter.

For that, she was charged with aggravated battery.

Now Belizaire is facing four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm following her arrest Monday morning.

At Calusso in Fort Lauderdale, executive chef Jonathan Kaiser works under relentless pressure to create culinary art to one day be awarded a coveted Michelin Star.

Kaiser is featured on this season of Apple TV’s docuseries “Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars,” showing how one of South Florida’s own handles the heat on the world stage.

Inside Calusso at Pier 66, Kaiser leads a kitchen where every single detail is under intense scrutiny.

Now, millions of viewers worldwide are getting a front-row seat to that high-stakes pressure.

A born and bred Broward County boy, hospitality is in Kaiser’s blood.

For him, putting Calusso on a global platform isn’t just a personal milestone, it’s a major moment for South Florida’s evolving dining scene and a win for his kitchen.

OpenAI’s decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid a broader push within the industry to slow the development of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures can catch up. The announcement comes a day before AI executives are set to huddle with President Donald Trump in Washington as technology companies face new pressure to be accountable for how their models can be abused.

The Wall Street Journal was first to report the delay of OpenAI’s model release.

In a statement from OpenAI's head of safety systems Saachi Jain, the version “didn't quite meet the bar.” It had become more persistent in completing tasks, but OpenAI needed to balance that capability against unauthorized behavior.

Jain insisted the company was committed to ensuring the model was safe whether in the company's testing or is in the hands of users. "We have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment,” she said.

OpenAI paused training of its most advanced models last week, saying training would resume “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards.”

That was after it disclosed instances in which AI agents exceeded their instructions, including by accessing government websites without authorization.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined other industry leaders in calling for a slowdown, warning that companies do not yet have adequate safeguards to control the most capable systems. Altman was scheduled to deliver the keynote address for OpenAI's annual conference for software developers on Tuesday in San Francisco. OpenAI President Greg Brockman is expected to attend the White House's event Tuesday.

Deputies arrested Tyler Carbone around 10:15 p.m. Sunday inside Terminal 3 of FLL.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, a deputy working at the airport was alerted by an employee to a disturbance by the restrooms.

After approaching, that deputy said he found a man standing inside the threshold to the woman’s bathroom.

The man, later identified as Tyler Carbone, told the deputy that there was urine all over the restroom, and in an arrest report, BSO noted that Carbone’s clothes were all wet, according to the report.

When the man was asked to walk outside and sit down, deputies said Carbone “became verbally irate and began yelling,” which led to him being placed in handcuffs and arrested.

An alleged confession that Carbone stated while in the back of a squad car was redacted from his arrest report.

As of Monday night, Carbone was being held at the North Broward Bureau jail on a $150 bond.

Kurt Olsen's resignation from the so-called “grand conspiracy" probe represents further turmoil in a meandering investigation that has proceeded in fits and starts since its inception as prosecutors pursue an ill-defined right-wing theory of a conspiracy against Trump. It comes just weeks after the departure of another Trump ally, Joseph diGenova, who had been leading the closely watched investigation in Florida.

The person who confirmed Olsen's resignation spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. Olsen didn't immediately respond to an email on Monday.

Olsen’s prominence as an election denier elevated his profile in the Trump orbit, but his absence of experience as a Justice Department prosecutor made him an unconventional pick for such a high-profile investigation.

Investigators have focused attention on multiple major investigations of Trump, including the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and have demanded testimony from officials from both of those probes as they search for any signs of a potential conspiracy to deprive Trump of his rights.

Olsen’s role in the investigation came into focus earlier this month when an attorney for former CIA Director John Brennan revealed that he had discussed with Olsen a subpoena compelling Brennan to testify before the grand jury in Fort Pierce on Oct. 25. Wainstein said Olsen told him that Brennan also remains a “target” of a narrower false statements investigation.

It's the latest sign of upheaval in the yearlong conspiracy investigation. Last April, a lead national security prosecutor in the Brennan investigation was replaced on the team after raising questions about the strength of the case. Days later, diGenova was sworn in.

The 81-year-old diGenova served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Reagan administration and for years has been a prominent Trump ally, including backing his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and publicly and repeatedly claiming that the president was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy.

DiGenova resigned earlier this month without bringing a single criminal case. It remains unclear whether any will be, or what information has been gathered to support any basis for the idea of a plot against Trump by the government officials who investigated him.

Olsen, who unsuccessfully pushed the Justice Department in 2020 to back the president’s false claims, joined the Justice Department months ago after serving in a White House post as director of election security and integrity.

Olsen helped Texas’ Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, launch a longshot bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 win and later represented Kari Lake during her attempt to overturn her loss in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race. Arizona courts sanctioned Olsen for making false statements in that case.

According to the Hollywood Police Department, surveillance cameras captured the suspect earlier this month.

That person of interest was seen in the area of Thomas Street and the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk after two cars were burglarized on Sept. 5 just after midnight, according to police.

Anyone with information or who thinks they recognize the suspect is urged to contact Hollywood police of Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

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According to Hollywood police, the department received a call from someone just before 8 a.m. Sunday about a person passed out inside their vehicle near North 62^nd Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.

Police said Jacquees, whose real name is Rodriguez Jacquees Broadnax, was found asleep inside of a white Jeep Gladiator at the intersection.

“Yeah its AI,” he said after bonding out of jail Monday. “I’ll be in court and they will drop all of them.”

According to an arrest report, Jacquees wouldn’t wake up despite an officer repeatedly tapping on the driver’s side window and firefighters shaking the truck.

Firefighters eventually punched out the right front window to reach the singer, the report stated.

According to police, Jacquees, 32, was combative with first responders as he was being transported to a hospital and punched a police officer in the arm as the officer tried to keep him from leaving the ambulance.

“Ah s--- man, the police pulled up,” Jacquees said outside the jail. “They said I was sleeping at the light. I said why didnt you advise me to go to my house that is across the street, and then I didn’t want them to lock me up so he started putting his hands on me.”

Police said the officer struck the singer in the face with his forearm as Jacquees was resisting being placed on a stretcher.

Jacquees was ultimately arrested on charges of DUI, resisting an officer without violence and battery on an officer, firefighter or EMT.

Jacquees was initially being held at the Broward County Main Jail on a $3,500 bond.

Jacquees, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, has had various hit songs over the years, including “B.E.D.” and “You.”

After many months of enduring high gas prices, they continue to go up.

“Unbelievable,” said motorist Alex Vasquez. “This too shall pass, that’s what I keep saying.”

Parts of South Florida are paying over $4.50 a gallon.

According to AAA, Monday’s average gas price in Broward County was $4.38 a gallon while in Miami-Dade County, it’s slightly lower at $4.31 a gallon.

Over time, drivers say the cost adds up.

“Ten dollars here, $10 there, before you know it, you’re behind $200, $300,” said driver Virgil Bolohan.

Before the war with Iran, national gas prices were under $3 a gallon.

Since then, prices have gone up 50% nationwide as the conflict blocks transit through the all-important Strait of Hormuz.

AAA said the latest surge in gas prices has come from higher oil costs.

It’s led to drivers searching for more creative ways to save at the pump.

“I shop around, I have a couple apps, and I kind of cross around and see which is the best deal,” said Bolohan. “You gotta do what you gotta do.”

Overall, drivers are hoping for some relief soon and less strain on their wallet.

“Let’s hope there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not an oncoming train,” said Vasquez.

El mercado de apuestas de Brasil está en turbulencia desde que Lula, nueve días antes de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales, firmó una orden para prohibir todas las plataformas. En una elección muy reñida, esa prohibición es una de las pocas medidas suyas que incluso respaldan simpatizantes del rival Flávio Bolsonaro. Y eso podría ser decisivo de cara a la ajustada votación del domingo.

El gobierno de Brasil informó el lunes que retiró 506 sitios web que presuntamente seguían ofreciendo el servicio. La decisión de Lula pone fin a la operación, oferta, intermediación y publicidad de las apuestas. La medida necesitará la aprobación del Congreso en un plazo de 120 días para seguir vigente, y no enfrentar objeciones de ningún juez del país.

Millones de brasileños sucumben al juego en línea

Valdivia, un profesional de la salud que habla cada semana con decenas de apostadores en línea para ayudarlos a dejar la adicción, empezó a apostar durante el Mundial de 2022. Solía apostar unos 100 reales brasileños (20 dólares) en cada partido y sí obtuvo ganancias. Se convenció de que entendía qué hacía funcionar al voleibol, y que eso algún día podría darle una fortuna.

Pero dos años después, cada apuesta de Valdivia saltó a 10.000 reales (2.000 dólares), y no estaba recuperando nada. Mentía constantemente a su pareja sobre la pérdida de dinero. Tuvo que ceder su pequeña empresa de medios y dejó de hablar con sus amigos. Tras divorciarse, sus primos intervinieron; instalaron una aplicación para bloquear las apuestas en su teléfono móvil y su computadora. Desde el año pasado, está en recuperación.

“Esta es una adicción que no te da mal aliento. No hablas raro, no hueles. A nadie le parece extraño si te quedas en el teléfono todo el día”, manifestó en una entrevista telefónica Valdivia, quien aún tiene deudas por 30.000 reales brasileños (5.700 dólares).

“Es difícil que nuestros jueces y el Congreso mantengan esto vigente. Pero quizá esta prohibición dure lo suficiente como para que sintamos el impacto en la economía y en la salud mental de la gente”, comentó Valdivia, quien planea votar por Lula.

Brasil tiene uno de los mayores mercados de apuestas en línea del mundo, que generó más de 4.000 millones de dólares en ingresos en 2025, según un instituto que representa a la mayoría de las plataformas que operan en la nación sudamericana. El banco central del país sostiene que es incluso más: unos 30.000 millones de reales (5.700 millones de dólares) gastados en apuestas cada mes. Esa cifra incluye gastos de beneficiarios del programa federal de transferencias de efectivo Bolsa Familia, a quienes se les bloqueó el acceso a esas plataformas el año pasado.

Unos 2 millones de brasileños son adictos a esas plataformas, según un estudio de la Universidad de Sao Paulo publicado en agosto.

Medida con motivación política en medio del enojo de Lula con los clubes de fútbol

Creomar de Souza, analista político de Dharma Political Risk and Strategy, una consultora con sede en Brasilia, señaló que, pese a las críticas de Lula a las empresas de apuestas, está claro que eligió un momento electoral para hacerlo. Sostiene que muchas encuestas han mostrado que más del 70% de los brasileños está a favor de prohibir todas las plataformas de apuestas.

“La prohibición no perjudica en absoluto a Lula; necesitamos algo más de tiempo para ver si lo ayuda en la elección a medida que los votantes lo asimilan”, afirmó de Souza, quien añadió que el propio presidente de Brasil impulsó la regulación de las empresas de apuestas apenas hace dos años.

“Si el Congreso tira abajo esta orden, tampoco perjudica a Lula. Puede sacar alguna ventaja y presionar, presentarse como un candidato antisistema en una elección que debería ser reñida”.

Un integrante del equipo del gobierno de Brasil dijo a The Associated Press que Lula sí consideró una prohibición parcial, pero cambió de rumbo después de que los clubes de la primera división de fútbol afirmaron en un comunicado conjunto la semana pasada que retirar esas plataformas significaría el fin del “futebol”, la mayor pasión del país. Los 20 clubes de la Serie A de Brasil están patrocinados por plataformas de apuestas deportivas. El funcionario habló bajo condición de anonimato por no estar autorizado a hablar públicamente.

Pocos brasileños han antagonizado públicamente la medida debido a los evidentes riesgos que las apuestas en línea han traído a la economía y la salud mental del país. Incluso el aspirante presidencial Flávio Bolsonaro evitó criticar el fondo de la decisión. Pero las empresas de apuestas se preparan para impugnar la medida en distintos tribunales, como grupo y de manera individual.

La orden podría ser anulada por un juez o perder vigencia si vence su plazo en el Congreso

Matheus Puppe, experto en derecho digital en Brasil, dijo que espera que la orden de Lula sea anulada pronto debido a varios problemas que implica prohibir por completo un sector de la economía sin una transición. Si un tribunal no lo hace, indicó, el Congreso podría simplemente no votarla y dejar que la orden caduque.

“Fue abrupto, el gobierno no devolvió la tasa de licencia pagada por las plataformas, no se ocupó de los trabajadores de esas empresas”, expresó Puppe. “Hay muchos fundamentos para cuestionar esto”.

“Pero será difícil ver a algún juez hacerlo antes del domingo”, agregó.

Valdivia coincide en que los riesgos para la orden son altos. Argumenta que es necesaria, ya que pocos adictos eligen dejarlo sin alguna ayuda de la familia y los amigos.

Puppe dijo que prohibir las plataformas legales “solo hará que la gente busque las ilegales”.

Aun así, la prohibición hace mucho más difícil que quienes no tienen conocimientos tecnológicos sigan apostando, lo que cambia de manera drástica el tamaño del mercado.

“Recuerdo cuando me di cuenta de que mi entonces pareja sabía lo que me estaba pasando. Andábamos en bicicleta en Buenos Aires, vimos un anuncio sobre los riesgos de las apuestas en línea y ella simplemente se bajó y me dio un abrazo”, recuerda Valdivia.

“Estoy en recuperación. Pero podría estar hablándote con mi pareja todavía conmigo; ya tendríamos un hijo, y yo habría gastado ese dinero en una casa para nosotros junto a la playa. Eso nunca lo recuperaré”.

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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.

Caleb Williams was inactive with a right hamstring injury, leaving coach Ben Johnson to choose between Keenum and Tyson Bagent. The 26-year-old Bagent returned to practice on Saturday and cleared the NFL's concussion protocol on Sunday.

The 38-year-old Keenum is in his second season with Johnson and Chicago after signing with the team in April 2025. It was his first regular-season action since he started for Houston in a 36-22 loss to Cleveland on Dec. 24, 2023.

Keenum has played in 81 regular-season games, including his NFL debut in 2013 with the Texans. He was 30-36 as a starter going into the matchup with the Eagles.

Williams left last weekend's 9-3 loss to Minnesota after he got hurt on a scramble midway through the fourth quarter. Johnson has said the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft is week to week.

Williams threw for a franchise-record 3,942 yards while leading Chicago to the NFC North title last season. He had 27 touchdown passes and seven interceptions.

Bagent was 5 for 9 for 54 yards after he replaced Williams against the Vikings. He was sacked by Dallas Turner on the final play of the game.

Bagent had a record-setting career at Division II Shepherd University before signing with Chicago in May 2023 as an undrafted free agent. He made four starts while appearing in five games as rookie, passing for 859 yards and three touchdowns with six interceptions.

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Military cybersecurity experts have routinely helped monitor systems and deter potential hackers since election equipment was designated “ critical infrastructure ” in 2017.

But Hegseth's announcement comes after President Donald Trump gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure, a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That agency last week released an election infrastructure security plan that lays out potential threats to election systems and lists services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote.

Both announcements come just weeks before Election Day on Nov. 3 and with early voting already underway. The short timeline “suggests this is just theater,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research.

“If the administration was serious about assisting state and local election officials, they shouldn’t have dismantled all of the federal government’s election cybersecurity capacity and fired all their experts in early 2025,” he said.

Though cybersecurity assistance from the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command is routine, many elections experts, civil rights groups and Democratic election officials are on guard for signs of meddling in voting or ballot counting by the Trump administration. The president continues to push false claims that elections are rife with fraud while trying to interfere with longstanding election procedures.

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an attempt by Trump to restrict mail voting but has allowed the use of a federal database to check the citizenship of voters.

In a memo dated Sept. 22 and publicly announced Monday, Hegseth directed defense intelligence officials to mobilize every resource “to defend our election infrastructure from foreign malign influence and ensure that every lawful voter can cast their ballot free from foreign intimidation, coercion, or fear.”

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One day after the New York Mets finished last in the NL East for the first time in 23 years, the team's embattled president of baseball operations was asked a pointed question.

Knowing what he knows now, would he have taken a full swing at re-signing Pete Alonso?

“I think that's a very fair question. The truth is in this job, I don't get mulligans,” Stearns said Monday. "I also recognize Pete had a tremendous year. And the totality of our production at first base wasn’t good enough.”

When the Mets didn't attempt to retain Alonso in free agency last fall, their homegrown franchise home run leader bolted for a $155 million, five-year contract with Baltimore as Stearns focused on improving the pitching and defense instead.

“I think I’ll retire the phrase `run prevention,’” Stearns said with a grin. “I don’t know that that one worked particularly well.”

Alonso topped the American League with 43 homers and 113 RBIs, playing in every game for the third consecutive season as the 31-year-old slugger became the first player in major league history to win an RBI crown in both leagues.

New York, meanwhile, never recovered from a 12-game losing streak in April. Despite a record $358 million opening-day payroll, the Mets struggled badly at the plate, were mediocre on the mound and finished 74-88 for their worst mark since 2017.

“This past weekend that we just experienced in Washington, where you are literally playing out the string, it’s miserable. That is a miserable experience for players, for coaches, for executives,” Stearns said during a 33-minute news conference at Citi Field to wrap up the season.

“I think we have an extraordinarily motivated organization, from ownership on down, to ensure that never happens again.”

The absence of Alonso at first base was magnified when lineup mainstays Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor were both sidelined for long stretches because of calf injuries.

Soto finished with a .908 OPS, the second-lowest of his career, while Lindor set full-season career lows with 49 RBIs, three stolen bases, a .225 batting average and a .733 OPS.

Mets first basemen had 18 homers, 77 RBIs and a .667 OPS — the third-lowest OPS at the position, ahead of only Seattle and Arizona.

Alonso received standing ovations from Mets fans before every at-bat during the Orioles’ three-game sweep at Citi Field this month. He took a rare curtain call on the road Sept. 15, when his 300th career homer tied the score for Baltimore in the ninth inning and chants of “Fire Stearns!” rang out from the crowd of 28,097.

Last week, the Mets added former Minnesota Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey to the front office when he was hired as senior adviser for baseball operations. Falvey will report directly to Stearns.

New York played better late in the season, going 27-22 after the Aug. 3 trade deadline despite a massive selloff and 40-41 overall under Andy Green, who took over as interim manager when Carlos Mendoza was fired June 26.

Green was given the full-time gig and a three-year contract last week.

Part of the improvement was fueled by rookie outfielders Carson Benge and A.J. Ewing, who combined for 31 homers and 47 stolen bases while playing strong defense. Rookie pitcher Nolan McLean went 12-10 with a 3.16 ERA in 31 starts.

But going into a critical offseason for Stearns, the Mets have major question marks at first base, second base, in the bullpen and the rotation.

“Over the second half of the season, last few months of the season, we saw some really encouraging signs and we saw some elements of our team take shape that gives us all great optimism for both the near- and long-term future,” Stearns said.

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South Carolina coach Shane Beamer suspended Stewart indefinitely on Sunday for punching Alabama tight end Josh Ford in the helmet in the fourth quarter of the Gamecocks’ 49-18 loss at No. 7 Alabama on Saturday. Beamer already ruled Stewart out for Saturday's game against No. 24 Kentucky prior to the one-game suspension issued on Monday.

“Dylan Stewart’s egregious contact reflects behavior that is unacceptable and not aligned with the standards of the Southeastern Conference,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement. “Such action against an opponent carries a serious risk of injury and has no place in our conference competition. This suspension is appropriate, and any future misconduct by Dylan Stewart will result in more severe disciplinary action.”

The one-game suspension is separate from Beamer's indefinite suspension.

Stewart was an Associated Press preseason All-America first-team pick and is widely projected to be a first-round pick in next year’s NFL draft. He missed the first two games of the season because of a back injury.

“Our expectation at South Carolina, is that our student-athletes conduct themselves with the highest level of integrity at all times,” South Carolina athletic director Jeremiah Donati said. “Keeping one’s composure, even in the most competitive environments, is our standard. That standard was not met in this instance and we support the league’s decision along with our head coach’s decision regarding the current disciplinary measures enacted in this case.”

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En una nota titulada “Defendiendo con hechos”, Milei anunció que instruyó a la Cancillería a iniciar el proceso de arbitraje para “impedir la explotación ilegítima de los recursos hidrocarburíferos” del proyecto Sea Lion. Agregó que la “explotación unilateral” de los recursos de las islas Malvinas, que los ingleses llaman Falklands, va en contra del derecho internacional y perjudica los derechos de soberanía de Argentina.

“LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS y se defienden con hechos, no palabras”, publicó Milei en su cuenta de X.

El presidente le dio a Reino Unido dos semanas para que tome las medidas necesarias para impedir que continúe el proyecto en las Malvinas. En caso de que Londres no cumpla con el plazo, Argentina acudirá al Tribunal Internacional del Derecho del Mar.

El canciller Pablo Quirno calificó la decisión de Milei como “un paso histórico y sin precedentes” y dijo que el presidente está actuando de acuerdo con el derecho internacional y por la vía pacífica.

Milei también anunció el lunes que iniciará “procedimientos sancionatorios” contra vuelos que considera ilegales entre las Malvinas y Punta Arenas, en Chile, operados por la empresa británica Thales UK Limited. El presidente dijo que los vuelos se realizaron en una aeronave de matrícula británica y que no recibieron autorización de Argentina.

Reino Unido, que controla las islas Malvinas, no hizo declaraciones inmediatas sobre el comunicado argentino. En 1982, Argentina y Gran Bretaña libraron una guerra por el archipiélago que terminó con la victoria británica.

Este mes, el gobierno de Milei presentó un proyecto de ley de seguridad para sancionar a compañías petroleras que operan “ilegalmente” en las Malvinas, cuya soberanía Argentina reclama desde 1833. Además, el presidente dijo que crearía un consejo de seguridad nacional presidido por él y que ampliaría el rol de las Fuerzas Armadas para proteger la infraestructura crítica del país.

En la reciente Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, Milei enfatizó su reclamo de soberanía sobre las Malvinas, al que calificó como una “causa nacional” para Argentina e invitó a las partes a encontrar una “solución pacífica” a la disputa.

Además, el presidente acusó a las Naciones Unidas de no hacer cumplir las resoluciones internacionales que obligan a las partes a “abstenerse de introducir modificaciones unilaterales mientras la disputa permaneciera abierta”.

“Hoy vengo a decirles que la Argentina no se va a sentar a esperar a que la ONU y la comunidad internacional estén a la altura de su propio mandato”, dijo Milei.

El primer ministro británico Andy Burnham también habló sobre la disputa esa semana y dijo que el Reino Unido se mantendrá firme ante las amenazas y defenderá el derecho de los habitantes de las Falklands a ser británicos. En un referendo en 2013, los isleños votaron a favor de seguir siendo un territorio británico de ultramar.

In Caracas, hundreds of activists in sky blue shirts — the color of Machado’s Vente Venezuela party — rode motorcycles and drove through the city’s main avenues, honking their horns and waving Venezuelan flags. Similar demonstrations were held in state capitals including Valencia, Maracaibo and Merida.

“This is not a matter of parties or politics,” said Flavio Valentini, a Vente Venezuela activist in Caracas who grabbed a megaphone and addressed the crowd. “This is a movement for the people and by the people.”

Machado has been living in exile for the past nine months, and has had her plans to return to Venezuela spoiled multiple times. Opposition activists have accused Venezuela’s government of blocking her return, a claim denied by Venezuelan authorities.

Machado’s party said this week that on Monday night, the opposition leader made three unsuccessful attempts to return.

“We hope this transition process leads us to presidential elections and consolidates a free, democratic country that will be the main ally of the United States,” said Anthony Romero, a leader for Vente Venezuela in the nation’s capital.

Machado, one of Venezuela’s most popular political leaders, was barred from running in Venezuela’s last presidential election by courts under the control of former President Nicolás Maduro. But her stand-in candidate is widely believed to have won the election with almost two thirds of the vote.

Maduro claimed victory nevertheless, and unleashed a violent crackdown against dissidents who protested the official results, forcing Machado and dozens of opposition leaders to go into hiding.

Last year, Machado smuggled herself out of Venezuela after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to restore democracy in the South American country. A U.S. military operation removed Maduro in January. But Machado has been unable to return to Venezuela since then. The government is now led by Delcy Rodríguez, a Maduro ally who has opened Venezuela’s oil industry to foreign investment and is now working closely with the Trump administration.

Machado’s team said Monday that the opposition leader, who is now based in Panama, attempted to return to Venezuela by sea, but the company that chartered her boat canceled the trip hours before leaving, alleging its vessel was unfit for navigation. Machado later tried to fly to Curacao, her team said, from where she could take a speed boat to Venezuela, but her plane was denied landing permits. In total, Machado has made seven unsuccessful attempts to return to Venezuela this year, her party says, with some critics questioning whether the Trump administration is also involved in the efforts to stop her from returning.

Trump administration officials deny they are holding Machado back, but have said that on some occasions they have advised that she not return to the country due to safety concerns.

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a news conference that Machado has “every right to enter her country whenever she wants to return.” On Wednesday, Rubio said he was unaware of Machado’s most recent efforts to go back to the South American country.

Rubio said the United States would like to see thousands of Venezuelans return to their country and “open the businesses that they lost.” The Secretary of State has long argued that before holding new elections, Venezuela must stabilize its economy and rebuild its institutions, like its courts and its electoral council.

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Bernal’s video showed the blue merle French bulldog — “its bones visibly protruding through loose skin” — alone in a downtown Miami high-rise balcony, a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

Bernal “observed the dog being kept in the same balcony area for approximately two weeks,” was “extremely emaciated” in a neglected ParkLine Condominiums’ balcony where feces and urine were “accumulating,” according to police.

“I am very frustrated and sad for him,” Bernal said

Shortly after 12:20 a.m., on Saturday, police officers arrested Kevin Benjamin, who listed his occupation as a DJ, and rescued the French bulldog from his apartment at 400 NW First Ave., according to the arrest report.

“The city of Miami police department, oh my goodness, they are unbelievable,” said Cata Balzano, whom Commissioner Ralph Rosado recognized as proactive for reporting the dog’s state to police.

The dog’s “ribs, spine, and other bony structures were visibly prominent through its skin, which appeared loose and lacked normal body condition,” a police officer wrote, adding that an animal control welfare officer “determined that the dog was severely malnourished and dehydrated for over a long period of time and in need of immediate care.”

Gabriella Dominguez, a spokeswoman for Miami-Dade County Animal Services, released a statement on Monday saying the dog remained under the county’s care.

“The investigation remains ongoing,” Dominguez wrote in the statement.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Benjamin, 27, on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He faced a felony charge of intentional cruelty to animals. He was released on a $5,000, according to court records.

“The charge of animal cruelty for us is a felony, and it’s something we take extremely seriously,” Chief Edwin Lopez said.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over Benjamin’s case. The court set his arraignment hearing at 9 a.m. on Nov. 25.

Related report: Downtown Miami neighbors help police rescue neglected French bulldog

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

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City staff told Local 10 News there are two issues at hand: One is the seawall needs to be replaced, and as a result, there’s been a relatively new issue with the sidewalk eroding.

It’s going to cost the city $12 million to replace and reimagine the existing seawall from Andrews Avenue to the Florida East Coast Railway bridge.

In an email to Local 10, city staffers said there’s a design plan underway to improve pedestrian connectivity and the overall Riverwalk experience, but that is taking time.

In a statement, the city said the design should be complete by January, adding: “Once design is complete, the city must follow the required procurement process to competitively bid and award a construction contract. As of now, construction is anticipated to begin in summer 2027.”

Those anticipating the change say they have faith the city will come through with its promise.

Personal de la ciudad dijo a Local 10 News que hay dos problemas: uno es que el muro de contención debe ser reemplazado y, como resultado, ha surgido un problema relativamente nuevo con la erosión de la acera.

A la ciudad le costará $12 millones USD reemplazar y rediseñar el muro de contención existente desde Andrews Avenue hasta el puente ferroviario de Florida East Coast Railway.

En un correo electrónico a Local 10, personal de la ciudad dijo que está en marcha un plan de diseño para mejorar la conectividad peatonal y la experiencia general en Riverwalk, pero esto está tomando tiempo.

En un comunicado, la ciudad dijo que el diseño debería estar terminado para enero y agregó: “Una vez que se complete el diseño, la ciudad deberá seguir el proceso de contratación requerido para realizar una licitación competitiva y adjudicar un contrato de construcción. Por ahora, se prevé que la construcción comience en el verano de 2027”.

Quienes esperan el cambio dicen que confían en que la ciudad cumplirá su promesa.

Un video de un vecino mostró a un bulldog francés blue merle, “con los huesos visiblemente sobresaliendo a través de la piel suelta”, solo en el balcón de un edificio de gran altura en el centro de Miami, escribió un agente de policía, según un reporte de arresto.

El vecino “observó que el perro permanecía en la misma área del balcón durante aproximadamente dos semanas” y estaba “extremadamente demacrado” en un balcón descuidado de ParkLine Condominiums, donde se estaban “acumulando” heces y orina, según la policía.

Poco después de las 12:20 a.m. del sábado, agentes de policía arrestaron a Kevin Benjamin, quien indicó que su ocupación era DJ, y rescataron al bulldog francés de su apartamento en 400 NW First Ave., según el reporte de arresto.

Las “costillas, columna vertebral y otras estructuras óseas del perro eran visiblemente prominentes a través de su piel, que parecía suelta y carecía de una condición corporal normal”, escribió un agente de policía, quien agregó que un agente de bienestar de control de animales “determinó que el perro había estado gravemente desnutrido y deshidratado durante un largo período y necesitaba atención inmediata”.

Gabriella Dominguez, portavoz de Servicios para Animales del condado Miami-Dade, emitió un comunicado el lunes en el que indicó que el perro permanecía bajo el cuidado del condado.

“La investigación continúa en curso”, escribió Dominguez en el comunicado.

El Departamento de Correcciones de Miami-Dade ingresó a Benjamin el sábado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Enfrentó un cargo grave de crueldad intencional contra animales. Fue liberado bajo una fianza de $5,000 USD, según registros judiciales.

La jueza de circuito del condado Miami-Dade Carmen Cabarga quedó a cargo del caso de Benjamin. El tribunal programó su audiencia de lectura de cargos para las 9 a.m. del 25 de noviembre.

Reporte relacionado: Vecinos del centro de Miami ayudan a la policía a rescatar a bulldog francés descuidado

Según la policía de Hollywood, el departamento recibió una llamada poco antes de las 8 a.m. del domingo sobre una persona inconsciente dentro de su vehículo cerca de North 62nd Avenue y Hollywood Boulevard.

La policía dijo que Jacquees, cuyo nombre real es Rodriguez Jacquees Broadnax, se mostró agresivo con los socorristas mientras era trasladado a un hospital.

El hombre de 32 años fue arrestado por cargos de conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol o drogas, resistirse a un agente sin violencia y agresión contra un agente, bombero o técnico de emergencias médicas.

Jacquees inicialmente permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward bajo una fianza de $3,500 USD, pero poco antes del mediodía del lunes ya no aparecía en la base de datos en línea de la cárcel.

Jacquees, quien es de Atlanta, Georgia, ha tenido varias canciones exitosas a lo largo de los años, entre ellas “B.E.D.” y “You”.

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The fire broke out at around 5 p.m. in the 2900 block of Northwest 44th Street.

Crews reportedly arrived to find smoke coming from the home.

There’s no word as of around 5:30 p.m. on whether anyone was injured or displaced.

El incendio comenzó alrededor de las 5 p.m. en la cuadra 2900 de Northwest 44th Street.

Según reportes, los equipos llegaron y encontraron humo saliendo de la vivienda.

Hasta alrededor de las 5:30 p.m., no se había informado si alguna persona resultó herida o desplazada.

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A neighbor’s video showed a blue merle French bulldog — “its bones visibly protruding through loose skin” — alone in a downtown Miami high-rise balcony, a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

The neighbor “observed the dog being kept in the same balcony area for approximately two weeks,” was “extremely emaciated” in a neglected ParkLine Condominiums’ balcony where feces and urine were “accumulating,” according to police.

Shortly after 12:20 a.m., on Saturday, police officers arrested Kevin Benjamin, who listed his occupation as a DJ, and rescued the French bulldog from his apartment at 400 NW First Ave., according to the arrest report.

The dog’s “ribs, spine, and other bony structures were visibly prominent through its skin, which appeared loose and lacked normal body condition,” a police officer wrote, adding that an animal control welfare officer “determined that the dog was severely malnourished and dehydrated for over a long period of time and in need of immediate care.”

Gabriella Dominguez, a spokeswoman for Miami-Dade County Animal Services, released a statement on Monday saying the dog remained under the county’s care.

“The investigation remains ongoing,” Dominguez wrote in the statement.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Benjamin on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He faced a felony charge of intentional cruelty to animals. He was released on a $5,000, according to court records.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over Benjamin’s case. The court set his arraignment hearing at 9 a.m. on Nov. 25.

Related report: Downtown Miami neighbors help police rescue neglected French bulldog

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

“Don’t let the Fake News get away with their lies about our epic Public Service Announcements that have been running on tv,” White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X on Sunday.

But the Republican administration's ads attracted mounting criticism on Monday, including from members of Trump’s own party.

“It shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters.

“It would not have been something that I would have done. And I know that the White House is not covered by the same guidance that we are, but it’s not something that I would have done," said Sen. Mike Rounds, another South Dakota Republican.

Multiple legal experts consulted by The Associated Press said the ads appear to run afoul of federal statutes, including a law against congressionally appropriated funds being used for “publicity or propaganda” and a law that limits the partisan political activities of government employees.

They said the new ads, which are airing on network and cable TV and streaming, differ from other administrations’ PSAs because they aren’t designed to help Americans access any specific program.

“You watch all three ads, they’re sheer propaganda,” said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics czar under Republican President George W. Bush. “This is increasingly looking like what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.”

The heightened scrutiny comes as the Trump administration has increased spending on the ads and bought time on popular TV shows, including college football and National Football League programming. It remains unclear which part of the government is supplying the funds.

With both chambers of Congress led by Republicans, any oversight would likely have to come from Trump's allies, decreasing the likelihood of hearings or other accountability efforts before November's midterm elections.

Three ads have aired in less than a week, totaling well over $1M

The first ad in the campaign, which began airing last Wednesday, features clips of Trump talking about defeating communism interspersed with onscreen text promoting the “largest tax cuts in history,” “reigniting American manufacturing” and a call to “defend law and order and police.”

Later in the week, a second ad began running, showing scenic videos of Mount Rushmore at night with quotes and clips from Trump’s Fourth of July weekend speech there honoring the country’s 250th anniversary.

The latest of the ads, a spot first aired over the weekend, is virtually identical to an ad for Trump’s Republican reelection campaign in 2024. It shows him walking down a hallway as his voice can be heard warning of a “final battle” against “globalists” and “warmongers.”

All three ads end with a message that says: "Paid for by the U.S. Government.” The White House hasn't responded to inquiries about which part of the government is paying.

According to AdImpact, which tracks media spending, the spots have so far cost more than $1.4 million and run across a wide range of TV networks around the country. The actual amount spent could be significantly more, depending on whether networks classified the ad as a political ad.

The ads are different from past PSAs, experts say

In defending the campaign, the White House published a list of PSAs from recent Democratic and Republican administrations.

Among the examples it cited were Bush’s Republican administration touting a Medicare law, Barack Obama's Democratic administration promoting Affordable Care Act subsidies and Joe Biden's Democratic administration running ads promoting COVID-19 vaccinations.

“The announcements are very clearly not campaign ads; President Trump is not on the ballot and there is no call to action,” the White House wrote. “Instead, the announcements are a reminder for Americans to love their country and know why it’s worth defending — at home, at the border, and abroad.”

Kathleen Clark, a legal ethics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said in her view the new ads differ from the examples the White House provided because they aren’t aimed at helping members of the public benefit from specific government programs.

“These ads are nothing more than government propaganda, aimed at helping Trump,” she said.

Painter, who joined the Bush administration after the Medicare PSAs went out, said that ad campaign toed the line on appropriateness because it included misleading information about Medicare Part D. But he said Trump's campaign is a far more egregious violation of the statute that blocks congressionally appropriated money from being spent on publicity or propaganda.

“There's nothing in here about a particular policy that's at all focused," Painter said of Trump's ads. “One of them is just about the evils of the deep state. Another one of them is about communists and Marxists.”

In its support for the ads, the White House also referenced the administrations of President Woodrow Wilson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, both of whom used posters, radio and film to rally the country during World Wars I and II.

James Kimble, a communication professor at Seton Hall University who studies domestic propaganda, said it's true that Wilson's Democratic administration used propaganda to rally Americans. But he said most Americans no longer view its actions in a positive light.

“By almost any objective measure, looking back, we find what they did pretty repulsive," he said.

Skepticism of the campaign grows on the Hill

Top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees last week wrote to the White House demanding the ads be taken down and requesting more information on how much money was spent to create and air them.

In the days since, more than a dozen Democrats and a handful of Republicans have spoken up to further criticize the ads. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the latest ad “an absolute violation of what a democracy is supposed to look like.”

“Americans sat down to watch football, not to be force-fed Trump’s propaganda on their own dime,” he said in a Senate floor speech Monday.

Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, said on CBS's “Face the Nation” on Sunday that no public official should spend public money on private ads for themselves.

And Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, had his own harsh words for the administration on Monday.

“Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics,” he wrote in an X post.

The Republican chairs of the Senate and House appropriation committees didn't respond to requests for comment.

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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Steven Sloan contributed to this report.

As proof, consider the descriptions offered about their summer vacations.

“It was short,” Wembanyama said.

“The longest, shortest summer ever,” Brunson said.

Short offseasons are the goal for every team in the NBA — because they want to play as long as possible, like the champion Knicks and runner-up Spurs did last season. And the journey toward potential title runs have now started in earnest around the league, with media days being held for most teams on Monday and practices for everybody happening on Tuesday.

“Right now, the best team in the NBA is the New York Knicks,” Miami forward Giannis Antetokounmpo said at Heat media day Monday, tipping his cap to the reigning champions. “And they have one of the best players, Jalen Brunson. ... But we’re going to do our job. We’ve got to do our job, man. If we do our job and we win games, then we’ll see.”

It’s not an unheard-of approach, obviously, but it worked wonders for the Knicks last season when they ended a 53-year title drought for the franchise.

“Not being satisfied, I think, is the biggest takeaway moving forward,” Brunson said. “You still want to figure out how you can grow as a person and as a player.”

There is no shortage of teams in the league with confidence that they can contend, especially in this era of parity — with eight different franchises having won titles in the past eight seasons. Among the key moves from recent months: Philadelphia loaded up by adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown, Miami added Antetokounmpo and Klay Thompson, the Toronto Raptors brought back Kawhi Leonard, LaMelo Ball headed to Minnesota and DeMar DeRozan is set to pair up with Nikola Jokic in Denver.

James — the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, entering Year 24 of his career — was asked what he can do for the 76ers.

“Whatever the team needs for me to do,” James said, wearing his new 76ers uniform in public for the first time. “I think the luxury of my game is I can do everything. Literally, I can do everything.”

And while the Eastern Conference is loaded with depth, it’s two Western Conference teams — the Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder — that are favorites to win the 2027 championship, according to most sportsbooks.

Here’s a good sign for the Thunder and a bad sign for the remainder of the NBA: “I feel like I got better this summer, for sure,” back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said at Oklahoma City media day.

Wembanyama said the Spurs grew from the pain that came with losing to the Knicks.

“I’ve had a few sleepless nights; maybe not sleepless nights, but hard to find sleep sometimes or hard emotions. Haunting, sometimes,” Wembanyama said. “But there’s just a point where you accept that you have to go through it and you have to feel all of it.”

At Golden State’s media day, Stephen Curry — a perennial All-Star and the league’s all-time 3-point king — said the Warriors’ expectations will remain high.

“Championship mentality is always a part of who you are, but we’re not putting that type of pressure on ourselves on Day 1,” Curry said. “Let’s figure out what good basketball looks like for this team, and we’ll figure that out as we go.”

Indiana, which lost Game 7 of the finals in 2025 to Oklahoma City, now has Tyrese Haliburton back after he missed all of last season with a torn Achilles, and that means the Pacers will also likely be among the many legit contenders in the East.

“I am healthy. I am 100%. There will be no restrictions,” Haliburton said. “That is not news. There is no source. I am the source. I’m good. I’m ready to go for the year.”

Leonard’s return to the Raptors — he led Toronto to the 2019 NBA title — came after a year where the end of his tenure with the Los Angeles Clippers was overshadowed by a salary-cap-circumvention scandal that led to massive sanctions against his now-former team such as the forfeiture of five first-round picks, a $30 million fine and a one-year banishment of owner Steve Ballmer.

“I think the best decision is to move forward and focus on my time being a Toronto Raptor,” Leonard said. ”I already was a distraction for the past 70 days and wasn’t able to meet my teammates, do any of that minicamp stuff with them. Moving forward, I just want to talk about the Toronto Raptors. ... I just want to focus on basketball again.”

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Rain showers may begin to show in parts of Dade and Broward by Tuesday morning. As the day unfolds, more showers and storms will be possible. Near seasonable temperatures are forecast-- lows in the mid and upper 70s, highs in the mid and upper 80s.

Thompson is under contract through 2030 at an annual salary cap hit of $7.15 million, a steal for his production and size. Robert Thomas at $8.15 million with St. Louis and Frank Nazar at $6.6 million with Chicago are on similar team-friendly deals.

They are among players who signed long term before this past summer of high spending, when Leo Carlsson’s offer sheet set off a domino effect of big-money deals. Suddenly this group looks grossly underpaid, perhaps with a tinge of regret, but also generally happy with prioritizing security for themselves and their families.

“It’s tough to kind of gauge where the cap’s going to go and honestly where your career’s going go,” Thompson said. “Do I think there’s guys that wish they would have held out a little bit? And am I one of those guys? Yeah, obviously you would have liked to sign a big ticket and get as much money as humanly possible. But at the end of the day, you’re still talking about (a lot of money).”

Thompson’s father, Brent, bounced around during his career on a series of one- and two-year contracts that moved the family around North America. That played into his decision to choose stability over the risk of something shorter.

“When you sign it, too, there’s a big weight off your shoulders,” Thompson said. “There’s so many things that go on inside your head. I think when you sign one of those long-term deals, it just kind of frees you up to just focus on what you can do to just help the team win and not have to worry about that next contract.”

Thomas signed a few weeks before Thompson in 2022 and joked that he wished he could predict the future.

“If anybody could predict the future, then I don’t think there will be guys signing eight-year deals,” Boston captain David Pastrnak quipped. “But it’s timing. It’s a little bit of luck.”

Nazar signed for $46.13 million a little over a year ago, knowing the cap was going up and that he could have waited and made a little more. He, too, set career highs with 15 goals, 26 assists and 41 points.

“Obviously, no matter what, you’re going to think about it,” Nazar said. “If anything, it’s a good thing. Leave some money on the table for other guys, and hopefully we can bring in some guys and do something really special.”

That’s how Montreal’s Cole Caufield views his situation in the middle of his eight-year, $62.8 million contract. Having forwards Caufield, Nick Suzuki and Juraj Slafkovsky all making less than $8 million annually through 2030 and No. 1 defenseman Lane Hutson at $8.85 million through ’31 is a big reason the Canadiens could be good for a long, long time.

“Obviously, money’s money, and we get paid a lot of it to do what we do,” Caufield said. “Right now it’s probably the biggest five, six years of our careers, and based on what we’ve built, I think what’s more important is winning.”

Coming off winning the Stanley Cup with Carolina, Jaccob Slavin may be the best value in the league at an average annual cap hit of under $6.4 million through 2032-33. Not an offensive defenseman like Colorado’s Cale Makar, whose $163.2 million contract is the richest in league history, Slavin joked that “defense doesn’t pay” and isn’t worried that he should have held out for a few more bucks.

“I don’t kick myself for signing when I did,” Slavin said. “I wanted to be in Raleigh. I didn’t want to be anywhere else.”

Jack Eichel, who won the Cup with Vegas in 2023 and helped the Golden Knights reach the final before losing to the Hurricanes, is just beginning his eight-year, $108 million contract signed last October. During that process, he and agent Pat Brisson were in touch with the union and saw the rising cap coming, yet Eichel harbors no regrets.

“It’s an incredible deal for me and my family,” Eichel said. “There’s no signer’s remorse. Yeah, I’m a happy guy.”

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Mayor Nick Sortal, a former journalist, is seeking his second term as Plantation mayor. If re-elected, he plans to conserve green space.

“What I want to do is create, for Middle Acres Park and North Acres Park in Plantation Acres, to start with, I’m going to create a land trust for perpetuity. I think that would go a long way to keeping Plantation clean and green,” Sortal said.

The cost of living is also high on Sortal’s list of concerns, and he hopes to create more affordable housing options — not just to attract new residents, but to keep those already there.

“City Council now will never approve a new project unless it has an affordable housing component and it has some ownership components,” Sortal said.

Plantation City Councilman Tim Fadgen, who is challenging Sortal for mayor, pointed to his financial experience.

“I think that my background as a CPA is what we need at this point in time,” Fadgen said.

Fadgen agrees with requiring new developments to include affordable housing components, but he would also like to see more restrictions on short-term rentals.

“But the short-term rentals, I feel, is something that could really affect the ability for us to offer better housing prices. Because you got these large companies that own these houses and people buy them,” Fadgen said.

Elected to the Plantation City Council in 2020, Fadgen said he proposed a rollback this year and plans to double down on reducing the millage rate.

“Whenever we have an opportunity to reduce the millage, we’re going to reduce the millage. So if Amendment 3 happens, it’s going to be reduced for us,” Fadgen said.

It’s similar to the 2024 campaign “Join President Trump’s Fight for America” ad. Except now, it is “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”

“We will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists; we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists,” Trump says. “We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

Spending on the single ad was about $319,000, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks and analyzes advertising. And, it’s one of three ads.

“I like the message, but it shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Monday.

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democratic minority in the U.S. House, criticized the expense as a “misuse” of taxpayers’ funds.

The White House released a statement on Friday describing the ads as “public service announcements” meant to remind “Americans to love their country.”

Carol Evans, the vice president of policy at Common Cause, recently told CNN that the “quasi-campaign ads” were meant to boost Trump’s image.

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"This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the warmongers from our government... we will liberate America from these villains once and for all."

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— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) September 28, 2026

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, compareció ante el Congreso Nacional para una interpelación —inédita para un canciller-- para rendir cuentas sobre una decena de temas, entre ellos las recientes fricciones diplomáticas con Argentina y Estados Unidos, así como la adhesión del país a la alianza de seguridad Escudo de las Américas, encabezada por el gobierno de Donald Trump.

“Nuestra posición geográfica, comercial y estratégica nos obliga a mirar simultáneamente hacia Occidente y hacia Oriente”, dijo el canciller al final de la cita, al calificar de “falso” el dilema de un “mundo dual”.

“Aspiramos a tener las mejores relaciones con China y también con Estados Unidos, ambos socios fundamentales”, acotó.

Por casi tres horas el ministro contestó a las preguntas de los diputados respecto a las recientes posturas adoptadas por su cartera.

En las últimas semanas la cancillería estuvo en el punto de mira debido a una serie de espinosas controversias, como las negociaciones con Estados Unidos por la aplicación de aranceles, la relación comercial con China y la posición frente a la candidatura de Michelle Bachelet a las Naciones Unidas por parte del gobierno de José Antonio Kast, que terminó por retirar su apoyo a la expresidenta.

La interpelación es un dispositivo de fiscalización parlamentaria chileno que permite a la Cámara de Diputados citar a un ministro para que responda preguntas relacionadas con el ejercicio y la conducción de su cargo.

Pérez Mackenna defendió que su gestión impulsa una política exterior de Estado que se basa en “principios esenciales”, como el "respeto irrestricto" por el derecho internacional, el respeto de la soberanía, la solución “pacífica de las controversias", la promoción de la democracia, el multilateralismo y la “preservación de la integridad territorial”.

Sin embargo, dijo que no es posible “desconocer el mundo en el que nos encontramos”, al que tajó de “dividido, polarizado, con el mayor nivel de conflictos desde el fin de la trágica Segunda Guerra Mundial”.

“En este entorno geopolítico, Chile se plantea como un país serio, estable y enfocado en la búsqueda de alianzas que mejor sirvan a nuestro interés”, completó, agregando que el país seguirá buscando ampliar el abanico de socios y abrirse al mundo “más que antes”.

Sobre la iniciativa Escudo de las Américas, a la que Chile se adhirió la semana pasada durante la celebración de la Asamblea General de la ONU, destacó que se trata de una alianza para combatir al crimen organizado y expulsar a las organizaciones criminales del país y de la región.

Pérez Mackenna hizo un llamado por sumar esfuerzos para mantener el “prestigio” del que goza Chile en el tablero internacional. “Chile es un país confiable, serio y estable. Así nos reconocen. Y este prestigio gana fuerza en momentos de desconfianza y aguas turbulentas”, puntualizó.

In one neighborhood, Vanessa Collado is still searching for her 8-year-old calico cat, Cheetah, after she said a neighbor witnessed an unleashed dog grab the cat in its mouth less than two weeks ago.

“She was the only calico in a litter of black cats, so that’s why I picked her,” Collado said. “I loved her so much and her colors, and she was so playful since (she was) a kitten.”

Collado said the attack happened shortly after her family left home for an evening walk in a neighborhood they had recently moved to.

“He’s frantic, he’s telling us Cheetah had just been attacked by a dog, that it was unleashed and several houses away from its own house,” Collado said of the neighbor who witnessed the attack.

Collado said she could not find Cheetah or locate the dog following the attack, prompting her to contact authorities.

According to Collado, the dog’s owner eventually came outside shortly before police arrived.

“I was just asking him what happened to my cat, ‘Where is she? Tell me please anything,’” she said.

Collado said the owner told her he had tried to separate Cheetah from his dog but was initially unable to do so.

“He says that he took her into the backyard because when his dog returned to the house he also tried to separate Cheetah out of the dog’s mouth and he couldn’t,” Collado said. “At that point that’s where he was able to separate them and that she ran off.”

Collado filed reports with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and Animal Services.

She said she later learned through neighbors’ sworn affidavits that the same dog, named Bandit, had been investigated in 2022 after another cat was attacked and killed. Video from that incident showed the dog’s owners intervening and spraying the dog with a water hose.

According to Collado, Bandit was deemed aggressive. Local 10 News attempted to confirm those details with Miami-Dade Animal Services but was told the investigation into the matter could take up to 90 days.

Local 10 News also attempted to speak with the dog’s owner but was unable to reach them.

Collado has posted fliers throughout the neighborhood and continues leaving food and water on her front porch in hopes Cheetah will return.

“I just want answers for her,” Collado said. “I just want to know what happened to my cat.”

She said she is also concerned about the potential danger to others in the neighborhood.

“The dog was unleashed, that’s the big issue,” she said. “Yes, I want to find Cheetah, but the bigger issue is the safety for the neighborhood now.”

Family mourns dog killed in separate attack

About 15 minutes north, another Miami-Dade family is mourning the loss of their 13-year-old schnauzer-poodle mix, Billy.

Juan Alviz said Billy had been part of his life since he was a teenager.

“Billy was to me the kind of dog that saw me go from 13 years old to 26,” Alviz said. “You walk into the door and you expect him, but he’s not there.”

Alviz said his grandmother was walking Billy when another dog suddenly ran toward them.

“A dog aggressively came running right after him, thankfully not at our grandma who was walking Billy, but went right after Billy,” Alviz said. “All you hear is a scream.”

Billy died on the street after being attacked by a German shepherd mix.

The family filed a police report and also launched an investigation with Animal Services.

Alviz said the dog involved in the attack has roamed the neighborhood without a leash or supervision, leaving neighbors concerned.

“That danger is what has people in our community scared,” he said. “They’re scared to walk their own dogs, they’re scared to walk their kids.”

Local 10 News went to the home of the dog’s owner and asked about the attack.

“Yes, but I cannot explain because I don’t have any explanation,” the owner said when asked whether it was their dog that attacked Billy. “My dog is very gentle, you know. I don’t know what happened.”

When asked why the dog was outside without a leash or someone walking it, the owner responded, “You can talk to my lawyer.”

As Collado searches for Cheetah and Alviz’s family mourns Billy, both families say they want accountability and hope to prevent other families from experiencing similar losses.

“I think that’s part of the negligence of dog owners, that we have to really push for there being some kind of, I guess, repercussion to this happening even on the first instance,” Alviz said.

Miami-Dade Animal Services confirmed to Local 10 that the German shepherd that Alviz says killed his dog has been deemed aggressive. They said the owners have received a citation and a fine.

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Now the basin has eclipsed another seasonal milestone, tallying more activity to date than any other hurricane season on record.

This includes more Category 5 hurricane hours than any season observed prior.

Last week, Polo surpassed Hurricane John in 1994 as having spent the most time as a Category 5 hurricane.

This week is forecast to feature four simultaneous named storms across the eastern Pacific for the first time in over 50 years (since 1974).

Although the eastern Pacific hurricane season was a bit of a late bloomer considering the ripe conditions in place bolstered by a record-setting El Niño, over the past month it quickly made up for lost time, rattling off one record after another and notching its most active 30-day period of hurricane activity.

Polo approaching the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico as a still-major hurricane

Polo was still a major Category 3 hurricane as it neared the Baja California Peninsula of northwestern Mexico early Monday.

The hurricane is forecast to strike the west coast of Baja California Sur in the municipality of Comondú Monday afternoon at near-major hurricane strength, likely the strongest hurricane to hit the area since Hurricane Jimena in 2009.

Meanwhile, a predecessor rain event or PRE is shaping up over the Four Corners of the southwest U.S. today courtesy of abundant tropical air streaming northward from Polo and the remnants of once Hurricane Odalys to its west. A spigot of tropical moisture will continue to peel off ahead of Polo through Tuesday, contributing to significant and widespread flash flooding across parts of the Desert Southwest and spreading eastward into the Central and Southern Plains for Wednesday.

The National Weather Service is predicting a prolonged flood threat (flash flood threat level 3 of 4) for these areas through much of the week so folks in these areas should monitor the rainfall forecasts and associated flood warnings closely in the days ahead.

Nolo spares Hawaii its worst

As we discussed in Friday’s newsletter, the forecast trend was positive for Hawaii as Nolo approached late last week. The 105 mph Category 2 hurricane paused about 150 miles south of the Big Island late Friday before slowly turning west and south and away from the state on Saturday into Sunday.

Earlier forecasts had suggested Nolo could be a direct threat to the Big Island, but unlike Lowell a few weeks ago which drew closer on approach, Nolo turned away at the 11^th hour.

Officially, winds gusted above hurricane strength (74 mph) in higher elevations of Maui and Honolulu counties. Rainfall did top a foot on the wetter windward side of the Big Island, with the highest totals around 16 inches at Laupāhoehoe Natural Area Reserve – a far cry from the 43 inches received in the same area during Hurricane Lala in August or the 35 inches initially forecast for Nolo last week.

Nolo triggered a serious landslide and downed numerous trees, closing roads across the Big Island, according to local reports. Overall, however, the state seemed to fare OK compared to other recent hurricanes, with limited power outages mainly for customers on Maui as an emergency shutoff was enacted to prevent wildfires during the strong winds.

Atlantic barely maintaining a pulse

The Atlantic hurricane season continues to putter along at a record-low pace despite a few weak and short-lived systems in the far corners of the basin last week.

As the last vestiges of Tropical Depression Fay peter out over the open seas, the only area of interest this week is yet again over the open subtropical Atlantic – an area we featured back in July as being the place to watch this hurricane season.

A disturbance designated Invest 91L will likely add to the list of weak, short-lived, and forgettable systems so far this year. If it manages to eke out a name, it would be Hanna.

Haiti has not had a president since a squad of gunmen killed Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid at their home. U.S. prosecutors have charged more than 40 people with crimes related to the assassination and a dozen have been convicted, including five who are serving life sentences.

Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Florida pastor and dual Haitian American citizen who authorities said aspired to be Haiti’s president, was set to stand trial Monday in the next case to go before a jury. He faces eight charges connected to the assassination, including conspiring to kidnap or kill a person outside the U.S., and has pleaded not guilty.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. say South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone of the conspirators’ choosing.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, and its history of dictatorship, political upheaval and foreign intervention has long stymied the consolidation of democratic rule.

Prosecutions are being handled in the US instead of Haiti

Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly from Colombia, attacked his home near Port-au-Prince. The scheme to kill Moïse included paying mercenaries with money obtained from U.S. government programs that were intended to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to court records.

In 2025, justice officials in Haiti asked the U.S. and Canada for help after a local court of appeals ordered a new investigation into Moïse’s killing, the third inquiry of its kind since he was shot 12 times at his private residence. His wife, Martine, also was wounded in the attack.

The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects.

Any proceedings in Haiti “continue to face significant difficulties,” the country’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security said recently.

Haiti has been overwhelmed by gang violence: More than 3,000 people were killed this year by June and about 1.5 million people have been displaced in recent years, according to the United Nations.

Prosecutors say the conspiracy began months before the killing

The plan to oust Moïse began to truly take shape in April 2021, when Sanon met in South Florida with a former Haitian senator and several U.S. businesspeople, according to an indictment. The group agreed that, once in power, Sanon would award contracts to Florida-based Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and Counter Terrorist Unit Security, collectively known as CTU, for infrastructure projects, security forces and military equipment, investigators said.

CTU initially retained about 18 Colombian nationals with military training to provide security for Sanon, according to prosecutors. Conspirators also spent months obtaining weapons and body armor and attempting to build relationships with Haitian gangs, officials said.

By June 2021, the conspirators realized Sanon had neither the constitutional qualifications nor sufficient popular support to become president. They then backed Wendelle Coq Thélot, a former Haitian Superior Court judge. She died in January 2025 while still a fugitive.

Former first lady describes the attack

Martine Moïse described the attack while testifying earlier this year at the trial of four men who were ultimately convicted in the conspiracy to kill her husband.

She said she went to bed around 10 p.m. and awoke to the sounds of gunfire about three hours later. She said she turned to her husband in bed next to her to ask what was going on.

“Honey, we are dead,” Jovenel Moïse said, according to his wife’s testimony.

Martine Moïse said gunfire continued as she crawled downstairs to check on her two adult children. She said she then returned to her and her husband’s bedroom, where she and Jovenel Moïse got on the floor on either side of the bed and used it as protection from gunfire.

Men eventually burst into the room and opened fire with what sounded like an automatic weapon, Martine Moïse said. She was struck several times. She said she heard men speaking in Spanish before someone shot Jovenel Moïse multiple times, killing him.

After the attackers cleared out, Martine Moïse said she expected to find the dead bodies of the 30 to 50 security officers assigned to protect the house, but there were none. She said she later learned that they were paid to leave their posts.

Sanon’s trial is set to begin

Sanon was previously scheduled to be tried with the four other men who were convicted earlier this year, but his case was separated and delayed for health reasons. Prosecutors have said Sanon helped raise money for the conspiracy and arranged travel to Haiti and lodging for himself and others on the island.

The latest defendants charged include Joseph Badio, a former Haiti Ministry of Justice employee, and 17 others described as Colombian mercenaries. They were recently transported to the U.S. from Haiti.

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It happened Friday during a football game at Nova High School.

Tavel, a 10th-grade student, was cheering on the varsity football team.

Seven children attacked him at the school, located at 3600 College Ave. The beating lasted more than a minute. He was hospitalized for a day.

Natasha Brown says her son was targeted because of who he is friends with.

“Nova has identified a few students,” she told Local 10 News. “They’re doing their investigation.”

Brown added, “For the safety of my son, they’ve asked if I could keep him at home, so I’ll be doing that.”

She said she hopes to hear an update from DPD soon. Brown said she’s not letting the case go.

“I am not,” she said. “He’s my only child.”

Brown said she is happy with how Broward County Public Schools is handling the case.

BCPS released a statement to Local 10 News about the matter, saying that the “safety and security of our students and staff is a top priority.”

“The school’s administration is fully cooperating with Davie Police as they investigate the fight that took place at the football game on Friday,” the statement read. “Any Nova High School students determined to have been involved in the incident will face appropriate disciplinary consequences.”

BCPS has reportedly contacted the students they believe to be in the video and have also contacted the parents.

Ocurrió el viernes durante un partido de fútbol americano en Nova High School.

Tavel, estudiante de décimo grado, estaba animando al equipo principal de fútbol americano.

Siete menores lo atacaron en la escuela, ubicada en 3600 College Ave. La golpiza duró más de un minuto. Permaneció hospitalizado durante un día.

Natasha Brown dice que su hijo fue atacado por las personas con las que mantiene amistad.

“Nova ha identificado a algunos estudiantes”, dijo a Local 10 News. “Están realizando su investigación”.

Brown agregó: “Por la seguridad de mi hijo, me han pedido que lo mantenga en casa, así que eso haré”.

Dijo que espera recibir pronto una actualización del Departamento de Policía de Davie. Brown afirmó que no dejará de seguir el caso.

“No lo haré”, dijo. “Es mi único hijo”.

Brown dijo que está satisfecha con la manera en que las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward están manejando el caso.

BCPS emitió un comunicado a Local 10 News sobre el asunto, señalando que la “seguridad y protección de nuestros estudiantes y personal es una prioridad máxima”.

“La administración de la escuela está cooperando plenamente con la Policía de Davie mientras investiga la pelea que ocurrió durante el partido de fútbol americano del viernes”, indicó el comunicado. “Cualquier estudiante de Nova High School que se determine que estuvo involucrado en el incidente enfrentará las medidas disciplinarias correspondientes”.

Según reportes, BCPS se ha comunicado con los estudiantes que creen que aparecen en el video y también ha contactado a sus padres.

“The White House’s words and actions leave little doubt that it will immediately reinstitute a complete ban of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO if allowed the opportunity,” lawyers for CNN, MS NOW and Politico wrote in a filing late Monday.

”Because the ban is an unlawful assault on the most fundamental First Amendment freedoms and will inflict irreparable harm on Plaintiffs and the public if not restrained, this Court should preliminarily enjoin its enforcement pending the resolution of this case,” the filing said.

It was the latest development in the back-and-forth saga of the Trump administration and the news media during the second term of his presidency. It has been a contentious relationship that has raised multiple First Amendment questions, produced sanctions and restrictions on White House and Pentagon reporters and led to several lawsuits that are winding their ways through the federal court system.

A two-week temporary restraining order on Trump's ban of the three organizations, issued by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly last week, restored the outlets’ White House access, but expires Oct. 8. The preliminary injunction requested in Monday’s filing would extend the White House access until the case is finally resolved.

In a statement emailed to The Associated Press immediately after the filing, the lead attorney for the three news outlets called the ban “a blatant violation of the First Amendment and due process.”

“The president and his administration have continued to make clear that this ban has only one purpose: to punish reporting he doesn’t like,” said the lawyer, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.

“That’s retaliation and viewpoint discrimination, pure and simple,” Boutrous said. “With the district court’s temporary restraining order expiring this week, it is critical to ensure that the White House continues to be prevented from implementing this unconstitutional ban on the free press.”

The White House still says access is a privilege, not a right

The filing came a day after the Trump administration made clear it was not backing down from its contention that the sudden ban, which began Sept. 19, was justified.

“When it comes to the White House, it is the people’s house,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said on ABC on Sunday, invoking an argument the administration has made since the beginning. “It is a privilege, and not a right, to be there.”

Monday's 42-page filing reiterated many of the arguments that the news outlets made in their original lawsuit against Trump and the White House, filed two days after the reporters were banned.

It also added mention of the White House broadcast pool rotation, which has become a battleground in the last few days in the standoff between Trump and the media.

The White House, it said, “has persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently implementing its ban, including by barring CNN from fulfilling its role as designated television network pooler on Sept. 26 — to the detriment of CNN, its fellow pool members and, ultimately, the American public.”

When the ban was implemented, CNN was removed from its duties as part of the broadcast pool, which consists of the five main networks: CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News. In solidarity, the other networks decided to suspend the pool until CNN was allowed back in.

On Friday, CNN was allowed to cover the president with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the National Archives. But in a new setback Saturday, the White House banned the network from Air Force One, preventing it from covering Trump’s trip to a college football game in Tennessee. The rest of the pool declined to provide a replacement, in solidarity with CNN.

Blanche defended that decision, too. “The president has every right to decide who gets to fly on his plane,” he said in the Sunday interview. He added that Trump was “sick and tired of certain media outlets just refusing to report accurate news.” He added that news coverage he described as “misinformation” amounted to a national security issue.

“That is what is a national security problem, when you have complete misinformation coming out of the White House,” he said.

Kelly threw cold water on that argument in his ruling last week granting the temporary restraining order against the White House ban. “The court is skeptical … that defendants’ interest in safeguarding national security is the actual motivation” for removal of access, Kelly wrote.

His ruling did not directly address the TV pool rotation. In the new filing, the plaintiffs describe the important function the pool provides and makes the case that it's an important part of the regular access to the president, and his activities, that the media has traditionally had — and must be restored.

It singles out the Air Force One case. “CNN received no official communication from the White House explaining its exclusion,” the filing says. “Because CNN was excluded and no replacement designated, no primary television network pooler accompanied the President on the trip.”

Pool access issue has presented networks with tough choices

For now, networks in the pool have decided to address the ongoing standoff on a case-by-case basis, according to a person familiar with the pool’s operation, speaking on condition of anonymity to give details of ongoing discussions.

On Sunday, Fox covered a pool event; on Monday, NBC was covering the president in the Oval Office. CNN is not in the rotation until Thursday. If the network is again barred from a pool event, the networks will decide together, presumably based on the newsworthiness of the situation, whether to provide a replacement or to refrain from coverage as they did previously.

The issues at stake are difficult. On the one hand, the networks want to take a stand on behalf of press freedom and against efforts to intimidate coverage. On the other, media outlets have an obvious purpose of providing news to their audiences.

“There are not a lot of good options,” said David A. Schulz, director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School.

Should the White House continue to bar CNN, Schulz said, networks may choose “to exert their market power and say, ‘We’re not going to play ball with you.’”

The question, Schulz added, is: “Who’s going to back down first?”

The networks “may well feel like they’re between a rock and a hard place,” noted RonNell Andersen Jones, a law professor at the University of Utah.

“Capitulation might be perceived as abandonment of core components of press freedom,” Andersen Jones said. “But the practicalities of lengthy White House news blackouts are also complicated, and refusing to cover major news at the highest levels of government might itself feel like a failure to serve the goals of democracy.”

Courts have largely rejected the administration’s previous efforts, which reflect untrue claims about widespread voting fraud and come ahead of November’s midterm elections where Democrats seek to take control of one or both chambers of Congress and check Trump’s power.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington, D.C., wrote in a 24-page opinion that federal agencies didn't have the authority from Congress to add such conditions to the grants, and that the conditions didn't meet legal thresholds requiring them to relate to the underlying grant purpose.

Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor its subagency handling the grants, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, immediately responded to a request for comment. The grant conditions were the latest in a line of actions by Trump’s administration to shape how elections are run, a task that has long been the job of states.

The plaintiffs that sued were Columbus, Ohio; Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee; and El Paso and Harris counties in Texas, joined by two other Texas counties, Dallas and Travis.

They declared victory and said what the Trump administration had sought was a gross abuse of power.

“The end result is exactly what we wanted,” said Tyler Chance Yarbro, the director of law for Nashville and Davidson County.

A Harris County commissioner, Lesley Briones, accused the Trump administration of using the safety and security of communities as a "bargaining chip for partisan politics."

Twenty-five state attorneys general or governors filed a similar lawsuit.

Over the summer, a FEMA antiterrorism grant announcement included a list of election-related requirements, saying that 20% of grants for states and urban areas would be withheld until they comply.

The program includes more than $1 billion for states and local and tribal governments for a variety of programs aimed at preventing terror at crowded places, online, with border security — and around elections. FEMA expects to award 56 grants.

The list of items for states includes verifying the citizenship of all registered voters and election workers.

Places that use electronic voting systems that use barcodes or QR codes to count votes would have to submit plans to switch to hand-marked paper ballots. Every jurisdiction would have to show it audits results.

In the lawsuit, the cities and counties said FEMA had no authority to impose those conditions, “not under its governing statute and not under the Constitution.”

Congress authorized FEMA to help jurisdictions protect critical infrastructure from terrorism and cyberattacks, not to decide who can vote, how ballots must be counted or how states maintain voter rolls, the cities and counties wrote.

“Never before has FEMA purported to regulate how states and counties run elections,” they said in the lawsuit.

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Italy stormed to a dominant 4-1 win at Turkey in the Nations League on Monday with the Azzurri’s best performance for a long time, in Mancini’s second match in charge.

It was a far cry from Friday’s 2-0 loss at home to Belgium when Italy looked to still be struggling, six months on from failing to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup.

Italy will no doubt face a much tougher test in its next match, however, when it plays France away on Friday.

France also has a new coach in Zinedine Zidane, and he saw his team — without the injured Kylian Mbappé — snatch a 1-0 win at Belgium.

“These boys deserved the win, especially what so many have been saying over the past three days,” Mancini said. “They didn’t deserve that kind of talk. We are on a long journey. ... Besides the victory itself, the boys did some really good things.”

Dream debut for Kayode

Brentford defender Michael Kayode scored one goal and set up another in an impressive Italy debut for the 22-year-old.

Italy took the lead with less than nine minutes on the clock when Zeki Çelik scuffed an attempted clearance on a corner and the ball fell to Alessandro Bastoni, who swept it into the roof of the net.

It was a sort of redemption for Bastoni, who was sent off in the first half of Italy’s World Cup qualifying playoff against Bosnia and Herzegovina — which the Azzurri went on to lose on penalties.

Davide Frattesi doubled Italy’s lead in the 22nd minute, tapping in the rebound after Kayode’s shot had been parried by Turkey goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, following a well-worked team move by Italy.

Kayode got on the scoresheet five minutes later, following a similar move, with Pio Esposito sending him clear to fire into the bottom right corner.

It was the first time in five years that Italy scored three goals in the opening half-hour of a competitive match.

Barış Alper Yılmaz caught Italy napping to pull one back for Turkey right at the start of the second half but Esposito restored the visitors’ three-goal advantage three minutes later, nodding in a rebound after Sandro Tonali’s curled effort had come off the post.

Esposito had been joined in the starting lineup by his older brother Sebastiano, who was making his debut, marking the first time since 1915 that two brothers had started a match for Italy.

Epic Zidane celebration after late Olise stunner

France dominated and hit the woodwork twice but needed a stunning, late goal from substitute Michael Olise to finally break the deadlock.

France was without Mbappé, who has already returned to Real Madrid, after limping off with an injury to his left knee moments after scoring a record-extending 67th goal for his country in Friday’s 1-0 victory against Turkey.

It took something special to break the Belgians down and that happened two minutes from time, when Olise — who had only come on in the 75th minute — received the ball inside his own half and sprinted down the right before cutting in and driving into the bottom left corner.

Zidane celebrated by running down the touchline screaming, before fiercely kicking a ball that was in his path.

“I went along with the play — I wanted to be part of it," Zidane said with a smile. “I saw him go on a dribbling run and thought to myself: ‘He’s going to score!’ I was fully behind him, anyway.”

Zidane had made nine changes to his starting lineup, including handing debuts to Jérémy Jacquet, Andy Diouf and Lucas Da Cunha.

Belgium goalkeeper Senne Lammens made a number of important saves, while Désiré Doué hit the crossbar in the 12th minute and Da Cunha saw a fierce effort from 25 yards come off the post.

Sweden stays perfect

In League B, Sweden made it two wins out of two with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Poland, while Bosnia-Herzegovina won 4-2 at Romania.

Both games in Group B2 ended in goalless draws. Northern Ireland drew 0-0 against Hungary, while Ukraine’s match at Georgia ended in the same scoreline.

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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded shortly after 1:35 p.m. to the area near Southwest Eighth Street.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers temporarily closed two southbound lanes and the Express Lanes.

The driver of the cement truck was injured, according to MDFR.

This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule had so many problems in 2024 that its two test pilots were stuck at the International Space Station for nearly a year. NASA later reclassified the botched mission as a crew-endangering “Type A mishap,” its most severe ranking.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced Monday that Boeing should be ready to launch a new and improved Starliner to the space station — with cargo but no crew — by December. Astronauts will not strap in until 2028 because of the need for further safety redesigns that will take months, if not years, to complete.

Manager Dana Weigel stressed that everyone must be confident that all of Starliner's problems have been resolved before putting astronauts back on board.

“Bottom line: We’re on the right path," said NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, who will command the next Starliner flight.

Hoburg said Starliner's original test pilots — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, now both retired — are “American heroes and I am deeply humbled to follow in their footsteps.”

NASA always wanted two U.S.-based means of getting astronauts to and from orbit. The space agency shelled out billions of dollars to Boeing as well as SpaceX for ferry service once the space shuttles retired.

Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private business to send astronauts to orbit in 2020. His company will launch its 14th crew for NASA later this week. After struggling to carry out a pair of empty Starliner test flights, Boeing's Starliner flew astronauts Wilmore and Williams, but they had to hitch a ride back with SpaceX nine months later.

SpaceX intends to phase out its Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules in another few years and focus on its newer, larger Starship, which reached orbit for the first time Monday.

That is why NASA is so keen to redeem Boeing’s repeatedly bedeviled ride. The extra Starliner upgrades and new rocket certifications will cost NASA another $359 million, Weigel said. Among the many fixes: new valves and seals.

While the aging space station is due to be abandoned and deorbited by 2031, several private U.S. companies are working on their own orbital outposts that will need reliable taxi service. SpaceX's Starship is way too big to dock and Musk has moon and Mars travel as the company's overriding goals.

Why not simply bag Starliner and shop elsewhere?

“We always were committed to seeing this through with Boeing," Isaacman said, "and now we're on a very good path.”

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Sidelined since Sept. 16 by a strained right calf, the Yankees captain took live batting practice on the field Monday, a day ahead of the series opener. He walked twice, hit a comebacker to the mound and took a called third strike against teammates Ryan Weathers and Elmer Rodríguez.

“I’ve been doing a lot of convincing, I feel like, so I’m going to keep doing that,” Judge said. “The most important thing is just making sure I’m healthy and ready to go for this long stretch. We've got another month of baseball to play.”

A three-time AL MVP, the 34-year-old slugger had a platelet-poor plasma injection Sept. 21. He was sidelined by a fractured rib from May 31 to Sept. 8 and played in just seven games before the latest injury.

“He’s making progress. We’ll continue to see where he’s at,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

Speaking in front of his locker, a diamond-and-garnet pendant of a judge’s gavel hanging from his neck, the outfielder said he hasn't run the bases since the injury but had been working on an AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill.

“I’ve been hitting for a while, so it feels great, which is definitely a big step forward because you kind of produce a lot of weight on that back leg,” he said.

Judge was limited to 66 games this season. He hit .241 with 18 homers, 41 RBIs and an .871 OPS, including .174 with one homer and three RBIs in September.

He hopes not to be limited to designated hitter — teammate Ben Rice was the DH in 96 games.

"I’m trying to come back as an outfielder because I think it helps our team the most, but however they see I fit in the best, I am going to try to do that," Judge said.

Judge didn't express concern about trying for a quick return from an injury to his soleus muscle, which is part of the Achilles tendon.

“Guys take risks every single day. I know a lot of guys in here are banged up and dealing with stuff,” he said. "So, yeah, I understand the risks."

In his 11th big league season and still without a World Series title, Judge is sensing the passage of time as motivation for pushing to get back on the field.

“The biggest thing is just understanding how short I get. The time I get to be a Yankee and play this game of baseball is a very short window,” he said. “Ten years have gone by since I debuted out here. Time flies and I just think about that more than thinking about age. I feel like I’ll still be a good baseball player at 45. So, yeah, it’s more just, your window to play this game is short so you don’t want to miss an opportunity."

Stanton, Grisham and Weathers

Giancarlo Stanton, out since April 24 because of strained calf muscles in both legs, also is a roster possibility along with center fielder Trent Grisham, sidelined since straining his right hamstring on Sept. 4, and Weathers, who hasn't pitched since Aug. 22 because of a left forearm flexor strain. Weathers appeared unlikely since he threw BP to Judge, Stanton and Grisham.

“There’s a few roster decisions still that we keep kind of bouncing back and forth, thinking about lineup construction," Boone said. "So those are still things that I’m wrestling with to some degree. Ultimately, we’ve got to settle on it tomorrow and go let it rip.”

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At Arc Culinary in Sunrise, a recipe for success is served every day.

Local 10 News was there as students prepared a special dish for our Food for Thought guests.

The dining room was teeming with foodies ready to please their palates. In the kitchen, instructors and student chefs fired up the grill.

On the menu were sesame-crusted chicken satay and Silk Road noodles.

All of the ingredients came courtesy of Food for Thought partner Publix, a longtime supporter of Arc Culinary. Publix volunteers also assisted with the preparation and service work.

“Helping them by donating this product that they can actually use and learn these skills is amazing for us,” Publix Media Relations Manager Lindsey Willis said.

Arc Culinary is Arc Broward’s commercial business enterprise. Students with developmental disabilities and other life challenges enroll in a 16-week culinary arts certificate program that sharpens their skills and equips them for real-world career opportunities.

“We have two chef instructors who support small cohorts of individuals so that they are adequately prepared to go out and get into meaningful jobs in the hospitality industry,” Arc Broward President and CEO Julie Price said.

Tony Valdez, 19, a graduate of the program who is now employed at Arc Culinary, said getting paid feels “awesome” and “makes me love my work even more.”

The dining guests were loving it, too.

Valdez prepared the day’s dessert: coconut lime cupcakes.

All things at Arc Culinary were as they should be. The program is not only feeding souls; it’s fueling livelihoods.

“High standards, incredible outcomes and really providing opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful difference in their community and in their own lives,” Price said.

To this, we can all say: Bon appétit.

Arc Culinary has placed 100% of its culinary arts certificate program graduates into stable jobs.

Among other workplaces, graduates are in the kitchens of local nonprofits providing services to clients.

In total, they produce more than 1 million meals in South Florida.

Los líderes del ELN, aún alzados en armas, fueron juzgados en ausencia por el reclutamiento de 60 menores de edad entre 2004 y 2018, por lo que el juez ordenó librar órdenes de captura en su contra para poder hacer efectivas las penas. Tres de los menores murieron en las filas de la guerrilla, agregó la fiscalía.

Entre los condenados a 20 años y cuatro meses de prisión figuran Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista, alias “Gabino”, quien fue el máximo comandante de la guerrilla entre 1998 y 2021; Eliécer Herlindo Chamorro Acosta, alias “Antonio García”, actual máximo comandante de la insurgencia; Israel Ramírez Pineda, alias “Pablo Beltrán”, segundo al mando; y Gustavo Aníbal Giraldo Quinchía, alias “Pablito”, el tercero en la línea de mando.

“Pablo Beltrán” fue el jefe de la delegación del ELN en la fallida mesa de negociación de paz que instaló el pasado gobierno del progresista Gustavo Petro (2022-2026) y “Gabino” participó como “consejero”. Los diálogos fueron suspendidos en enero de 2025 por el gobierno luego de una escalada violenta del ELN contra un bando enemigo en zona fronteriza con Venezuela.

La fiscalía indicó que también fueron condenados otros siete cabecillas de menor rango a pagar hasta 12 años de prisión. Las condenas de primera instancia fueron apeladas, agregó la decisión.

Las víctimas de reclutamiento forzado fueron menores de entre ocho y 17 años, según detalló la fiscalía en un comunicado, que eran atraidos a las filas de la guerrilla con “falsas promesas, amenazas y violencia física”.

La guerrilla, alzada en armas desde 1964, los forzaba a realizar distintas actividades dentro del grupo armado como resguardar, cocinar, patrullar, participar en combates, cobrar extorsiones e instalar explosivos, según la investigación.

La fiscalía indicó que presentaron evidencias de que los menores fueron víctimas de castigos, entrenamientos con armas, amenazas, ajusticiamientos y violencia sexual.

“Algunas niñas fueron sometidas por parte de cabecillas de esa organización y obligadas a utilizar métodos anticonceptivos y a practicarse abortos”, detalló la fiscalía.

Scott Campbell, representante en Colombia del Alto Comisionado ONU para los Derechos Humanos, dijo a The Associated Press que la condena contra el ELN es un “avance importante” en la lucha contra el reclutamiento de menores y la impunidad de ese “horrendo crimen” en Colombia.

Su oficina ha istado al sistema de justicia a investigar y sancionar a los responsables del reclutamiento que “está estrictamente prohibido por el derecho nacional e internacional”.

El reclutamiento forzado de menores por parte de grupos armados ilegales en Colombia se cuadruplicó en cinco años, por la escalada de violencia en los territorios, la pobreza, la falta de educación y la limitada disponibilidad de servicios sociales e infraestructura, según un reciente informe de UNICEF.

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El periodista de The Associated Press Manuel Rueda contribuyó a este despacho.

"The agreement is good for Greenland, for Denmark, for the United States, for NATO and Europe, and for international peace and security,” Christina Lassen said.

The agreement bolstering the U.S. military presence in Greenland is aimed at strengthening NATO’s security in the Arctic and North Atlantic. It keeps Greenland as part of Denmark and, at least for the moment, eases tensions over President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the vast island to become part of the United States. The agreement would still apply if Greenland eventually chooses independence.

In brief remarks on the agreement at the end of her speech, Lassen said, “Progress can still be made when we consult the compass.”

Trump expressed his desire to acquire Greenland as long ago as 2019 and, during his current second term, he issued threats to seize the semiautonomous territory from Denmark, a NATO ally. He said the U.S. needed to “take Greenland,” to prevent Russia or China from doing the same, but said he would rather make a deal ” for the mineral-rich territory.

Trump’s designs on Greenland strained relations within NATO, with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warning a U.S. takeover would amount to the end of the Atlantic alliance. It also unsettled many of Greenland’s roughly 56,000 people wary of a U.S. takeover and resource grab.

Officials from the U.S., Greenland and Denmark negotiated for months behind the scenes, searching for solutions to address some of Trump’s security concerns about the island and the president gave a thumbs up to the deal..

Just before last Tuesday’s signing, at the U.N., Trump said, “This is tremendous for Europe and for the United States and for everybody. And for Greenland, it’s going to be incredible.” He did not respond to questions about whether a U.S. acquisition of Greenland was off the table.

The United States has had a military presence in Greenland since the end of World War II in 1945, but the numbers decreased from thousands of soldiers on 17 bases and installations to roughly 200 soldiers on the remote Pituffik Space Base in the northwest today. The base supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for the United States and NATO.

Addressing world leaders at the General Assembly just before the signing, Trump said the U.S. would “immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence in the appropriate locations,” including “building two very major military bases.”

En su taller, ubicado junto a un mercado mayorista de alimentos en el norte de Lima, trabaja hasta 16 horas mientras afina los rasgos de una cabeza sonriente y manos gigantes de Robert Prevost. A su lado, los obreros de su equipo ajustan y sueldan una estructura metálica que soportará un peso de más de cuatro toneladas.

“Este trabajo es especial porque (Prevost) es un personaje público”, dijo Gutiérrez, de 43 años, mientras lijaba los pómulos de la cabeza de casi metro y medio de altura. En unos lienzos tiene apuntados algunas medidas del rostro: alto de la nariz, 31 centímetros; largo de la boca, 38 centímetros; ancho de cada ojo, 18 centímetros.

“Siempre estamos retocando, volviendo a corregir”, añadió el escultor que en ocasiones duerme en un colchón a pocos pasos de su obra porque a medida que se acerca la fecha de entrega aumentan sus horas de trabajo. Calcula que cuando traslade la estatua al puerto más antiguo de Perú lo hará de noche en un camión que cargará el papa gigante con los brazos abiertos aliviado del diurno tráfico feroz de Lima.

La estatua también tiene un diseño para soportar cargas de vientos de 120 kilómetros por hora y estará empotrada en una cimentación de dos metros bajo tierra. La estatua ha sido financiada por Caja Huancayo, una entidad bancaria local, y el costo supera los 70.000 dólares, de acuerdo con datos del municipio de El Callao.

Prevost vivió unos 22 años en Perú hasta 2023 cuando fue llamado al Vaticano por Francisco para ejercer un cargo clave. Fue obispo de Chiclayo, una ciudad de la costa norte de Perú, a 700 kilómetros de El Callao. En el puerto fue administrador apostólico encargado.

Pese a que los católicos en Perú han ido disminuyendo desde 98,5% en el censo de 1940 hasta 76% en el censo de 2017, la llegada de Prevost ha despertado interés en miles de peruanos. Algunos negocios han comenzado a fabricar camisetas, dulces e incluso una cafetería ofrece el rostro del papa en sus tazas de capuchino.

Para Gutiérrez la estatua de Prevost es uno de los desafíos más importantes de su carrera de dos décadas. Antes el artista ha restaurado iglesias coloniales en los Andes y elaborado otras estatuas de personajes de culturas preincas. “Esto para mi es un aprendizaje”, comenta.

León XIV, de 71 años, visitará Sudamérica por primera vez en noviembre, en una gira que incluye Uruguay, Argentina y finaliza en Perú.

La balacera ocurrió poco después de las 5 p.m. en el área de Northwest 15th Avenue y 68th Street.

La policía dijo que respondió a una alerta de ShotSpotter y encontró a la víctima, de unos 40 años, herida en una pierna. Paramédicos la trasladaron al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Unos 15 minutos después, las autoridades dijeron que Micah Lendale Tilley se acercó a un agente en un callejón cercano y dijo: “Yo lo hice”.

“¿Hiciste qué?”, respondió el agente, según la policía.

“La balacera”, dijo Tilley al agente, según las autoridades. “Me estaba defendiendo”.

Las autoridades dijeron que un video de vigilancia mostró a la víctima bajando de un Ford Fiesta azul con un arma y cruzando la calle cuando Tilley, de Opa-locka, “comenzó a dispararle con una pistola”.

Dijeron que Tilley luego sacó un rifle de un Subaru “y comenzó a dispararlo en dirección a la víctima”.

Las autoridades dijeron que mientras la víctima huía por Northwest 68th Street, Tilley “persiguió a la víctima mientras continuaba disparando su rifle negro en su dirección”.

Según un reporte de arresto, Tilley dijo a los detectives durante una entrevista que “vio a la víctima salir de su vehículo con un arma de fuego en la mano, lo que provocó que disparara contra la víctima” y dijo “que disparó dos armas de fuego diferentes, un rifle y una pistola, pero no podía recordar cuál utilizó primero”.

La policía arrestó a Tilley por cargos de intento de asesinato, uso de un arma de fuego durante la comisión de un delito grave, descarga ilegal de un arma de fuego, exhibición indebida de un arma de fuego y solicitación criminal.

La fianza de Tilley aparecía como “por determinar” en los registros carcelarios de Miami-Dade hasta la tarde del lunes. Permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

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The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. in the area of Northwest 15th Avenue and 68th Street.

Police said they responded to a ShotSpotter alert and saw the victim, in his 40s, wounded in the leg. Medics took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

About 15 minutes later, authorities said Micah Lendale Tilley approached an officer in a nearby alleyway and said, “I did it.”

“Did what?” police said the officer replied.

“The shooting,” authorities said Tilley told the officer. “I was defending myself.”

Authorities said surveillance video showed the victim getting out of a blue Ford Fiesta carrying a gun and crossing the street when Tilley, of Opa-locka, “began firing a handgun at him.”

They said Tilley then pulled a rifle out of a Subaru “and began firing it in the direction of the victim.”

Authorities said as the victim ran away on Northwest 68th Street, Tilley “pursued the victim while continuing to fire his black rifle in his direction.”

According to an arrest report, Tilley told detectives during an interview that “he saw the victim exit his vehicle with a firearm in his hand, causing him to shoot at the victim” and said “that he fired two different firearms, a rifle and a handgun, but could not remember which firearm he used first.”

Police arrested Tilley on charges of attempted murder, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, unlawful discharge of a firearm, improper exhibition of a firearm and criminal solicitation.

Tilley’s bond was listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday afternoon. He was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

The work shows that major wildfires, which are worsening with the planet’s warming, could have lasting effects beyond immediate exposure.

Post-wildfire air quality needs to be monitored longer term, the research suggests, and recovery efforts need to consider what might remain in contaminated soot, residue and dirt well after burning stops.

The wildfires, caused by wind spreading a brushfire spurred by downed power lines, burned on the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023, destroyed the town of Lahaina and killed more than 100 people. They were among the deadliest in U.S. history.

New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday found higher metal levels, associated with respiratory harm, in nearby residents up to a year and a half after the fires.

University of Hawaii researchers studied the urine of 1,400 adults and found substantially elevated concentrations of metals such as arsenic, cadmium, copper and antimony.

Burned buildings, cars and electronics can release harmful chemicals

These metals could be the result of burned buildings, vehicles, electronics and other materials lost in the wildfires, the researchers say. They can cause a different human impact than simply the burned vegetation that is typically studied after fires of this magnitude.

“What we’re dealing with, especially in the aftermath of what we experienced in Lahaina, is a much more complicated mixture of these chemical exposures,” said Alika Maunakea, the study’s co-author and an anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

The researchers found antimony nearly 40 times higher in the Maui participants than U.S. biomonitoring data. They found manganese 3.8 times higher, barium 2.3 times and arsenic 2.2 times.

Having more metals in the body was more likely to result in abnormal lung function, such as having less breathing capacity and difficulty moving air in and out of one’s lungs, during standard breathing tests, the study found.

Those lung effects aligned with the geographic distribution of smoke and ash; those nearest to Lahaina, and Wailuku and Kahului, experienced a different impact than in those near Kula.

“It’s really important to identify potential sources of these exposures and to mitigate and reduce potential risks for re-exposures that might be contributing to these effects,” Maunakea said. “What happens to the land and environment can shape what people breathe, take into their bodies, and develop over time. The consequences of that can unfold over many years.”

Warming planet can worsen wildfires

Wildfires are getting larger, more intense, faster-moving and more frequent in certain parts of the globe, experts say, in part due to the warming and drier weather associated with climate change. Human-caused climate change has upped the likelihood of many major fires around the world in recent years and led to fires in regions that typically do not see them as often.

The researchers did note a limitation of the study in that it cannot assess exactly how much of the impact came directly from the wildfires versus chronic or other exposures — such as Hawaii’s geology, diet, historic agricultural and industrial activity and environmental sources — given there is no comparable data from before August 2023.

However, previous studies have also found significant long-term human impacts from wildfires and other environmental crises. The impacts have included lung issues and mental health issues such as depression.

“This is bigger than wildfires. These climate-related disasters can change the environment in ways that continue after the immediate emergency is over,” said Ruben Juarez, study co-author and professor of health economics at the university. “Floods, hurricanes, fires, and other disasters definitely can disturb soil, debris, buildings, and legacy contaminants that we have in Hawaii, creating these pathways for exposure. … Disaster response should not stop when visible danger is gone.”

Dr. Kekoa Taparra, a physician and assistant professor who studies chronic diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the research expands our understanding of the health burden of the fires, particularly over an extended period.

“This type of work echoes that climate-related disasters affect human health well beyond the immediate injuries and deaths we see during the event itself,” said Taparra, who was not involved in the study released Monday but has studied the health impacts of disasters. “Historic wildfires in Lahaina and even Los Angeles have highlighted how these disasters can produce longer-lasting consequences through displacement, disruption of healthcare and social networks, environmental exposures, and potentially increased mortality.

“As these events become more frequent and severe, understanding and measuring their full health impact will be essential to building more resilient communities and health systems.”

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It was, by Pyongyang's standards, a relatively mild speech that contained no direct threats.

The annual opportunity for the country, whose formal name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to speak on the world stage fell this year to Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong. Like many nations, he touted the notion of U.N.-focused multilateralism, yet repeatedly insisted that North Korea could — and would, if necessary — go it alone.

“Gone are the days when an individual member state unilaterally imposed its will on the rest of the world and dominated the international political arena,” Kim said. “Instead, multilateralism and multipolarization have emerged as an irresistible aspiration and trend of the times based on justice and equity.”

North Korea is frequently at odds with South Korea, Japan and the United States, which are tightly aligned in matters of security in East Asia. Kim asserted once again that his nation, no matter the external threat, is prepared to defend itself.

“No physical conflict has occurred on and around the Korean Peninsula, a hot spot of the world, and the security index is being maintained at a higher level than any other part of the globe,” he said. “We owe it to the fact that the DPRK has a war deterrent in place powerful enough to break anyone’s will to start a war of aggression against the DPRK and that we are thoroughly containing and managing the hostile forces’ intention to use force.”

A range of remarks across subjects

As is typical for North Korean speeches at the U.N. — and, for that matter, for many nations' speeches — Kim's remarks ranged across the nation's priorities and goals, with special emphasis on its ability to defend itself in a volatile security situation in East Asia. A sampling:

— On Japan: “An A-class war criminal.”

— On the regional balance of power in East Asia: “maintained by the DPRK’s self-defensive capabilities.”

— On the United Nations itself: “The organization still fails to recover from functional paralysis owing to the high-handedness and unilateralism of a handful of countries pursuing only chauvinistic interests.”

— On nuclear weapons: “The DPRK’s nuclear deterrent is the absolute might and irresistible force designed, from A to Z, to safeguard the sovereignty, security and peace against aggression and threat from outside.”

“The DPRK will continue to strictly control and manage every external threat by dint of her supremacy in overwhelming strength,” Kim said.

Intense rhetoric is a hallmark of North Korea

North Korea's rhetoric is often overheated and its criticism of rivals often over the top. Monday was no exception. What seemed noteworthy, though, was how pro forma it felt: There were no threats of anything that might destabilize the region or cause other nations from Japan to South Korea to the United States to brace for any specific moves.

Saying that “a more offensive and aggressive military bloc with a nuclear element” and its activities have provoked North Korea and destabilized the Korean Peninsula, Kim condemned what he framed as the collusion of Tokyo, Seoul and Washington against Pyongyang. He made no mention of North Korea's role in tensions on the peninsula, including sporadic missile launches that send its rivals scrambling.

Two days before the U.N. meeting in which he was speaking began, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, days after it threatened to bolster its nuclear deterrent capabilities.

Kim is a relatively mid-level official in leader Kim Jong Un's third-generation government, and thus spoke as one of the final speakers of the final day of the leaders' meeting, or General Debate.

The Korean Peninsula split in two after North Korea and South Korea fought a bloody war from 1950 to 1953, backed by China and the United States, respectively. Though an armistice was eventually signed, the two countries remain in a technical state of war, and the border between them is guarded by a heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone.

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Ted Anthony, Asia-Pacific news director for The Associated Press from 2014 to 2018, has visited North Korea multiple times.

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Tavel, a 10th-grade student, was cheering on the varsity team at Nova High School in Davie.

“They were punching me, kicking me,” Tavel said on Sunday.

Seven kids attacked him at the school at 3600 College Ave. The beating lasted more than a minute.

“Every time I talk about the video, I get emotional. He’s my only child,” Natasha Brown said on Sunday.

The teen suffered cuts all over his face and leg. Brown said he was hospitalized for a day

“He woke up yesterday,” Brown said. “He’s in pain.”

Davie police officers are investigating, and Brown wants answers.

“He doesn’t know the reason why he was attacked,” Brown said.

A spokesperson for the school district released the following statement to Local 10 News on Monday: “The safety and security of our students and staff is a top priority. The school’s administration is fully cooperating with Davie Police as they investigate the fight that took place at the football game on Friday. Any Nova High School students determined to have been involved in the incident will face appropriate disciplinary consequences.”

Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps. Prosecutors said Pike feared Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to a secluded area where she and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer. The case got widespread attention because of the brutality of the killing, the ages of the people involved and because a satanic symbol was carved into the victim’s body.

Pike does not deny her guilt, but her attorneys and supporters argue a death sentence is not appropriate for a crime committed at that age by a teen with untreated mental illness after a childhood of brutal sexual abuse and neglect. Slemmer’s mother wants the lethal injection to go forward, saying she has waited decades to see Pike’s sentence carried out.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Monday that he would not grant clemency. Pike’s attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to stay the execution.

The request for clemency points to Pike's traumatic past

Pike's attorneys said she experienced an exceptionally traumatic and abusive childhood.

Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell said Pike was sexually abused starting from when she was a toddler and that she was raped at ages 11 and 17. He said Pike's lawyers at the penalty phase of her trial did not present the jury with what he said was critical information about her past or argue that her age should be a consideration.

Pike was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Pike told police she initially only wanted to fight Slemmer but ended up killing her in a frenzied attack. In her clemency petition, Pike’s attorneys said her untreated mental illness and background made her unable to “put the brakes on.”

“I was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid. It took me numerous years to even realize the gravity of what I’d done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone’s child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime,” Pike said in a statement included in her clemency petition.

Ferrell said more today is known about adolescent brain development and that Pike's death sentence is an outlier. He noted that Pike's boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole because of his age. He was denied parole last year. A third teen admitted to being an accessory and received probation.

In the modern death penalty era, Ferrell said, other 18-year-olds who were sentenced to death in Tennessee have since had their sentences reduced.

The Death Penalty Information Center said 275 people nationwide have been executed for crimes they committed at age 18, 19 or 20 in the modern death penalty era, but that death sentences for those in that age group have become increasingly rare.

“If Christa Pike was tried today, I do not believe a jury that knew about the documented sexual abuse and neglect she experienced as a child would sentence her to death,” Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said.

The victim’s mother wants the execution to go forward

Speaking by telephone from Florida, Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, also pointed to her daughter's age and said Slemmer never got a chance to grow up.

“Every time I think about it, I think about Colleen feeling that pain and trying to get up and run,” Martinez said.

Martinez said her daughter volunteered with the Special Olympics, loved roller skating and wanted to pursue a career in computers.

“She was easygoing. She was a computer geek to begin with. She and my husband would build and tear apart the computers constantly,” Martinez said. “She trusted everybody, and that was her downfall.”

She said her daughter called her from Job Corps on the night of the murder, but the call was dropping because of bad reception. When Martinez called back, her daughter had already gone out.

“Not a day goes by, or a minute goes by that I do not think about Colleen. Holidays are the worst. Colleen’s birthday was last week. She would have been 51,” Martinez said.

The killing rocked the city of Knoxville. Prosecutors said Pike cut Slemmer with a box cutter and beat her with a large chunk of asphalt. Elements of the crime stoked fears of Satan worship during the “satanic panic” of the 1980s and 1990s. Shipp, Pike's boyfriend, has admitted that he was the one who carved a pentagram, a star-shaped symbol associated with Satanism, into her body.

Executions of female inmates are rare in Tennessee and nationwide

If Pike’s execution proceeds as scheduled, it would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman since 1820, Maher said.

Executions of female inmates are also rare in the U.S. Since 1976, 18 women have been executed in the country, representing about 1% of all executions, according to the center.

Most recently, Missouri in 2023 executed Amber McLaughlin, a transgender woman, for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S. In 2021, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, marking the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put a female inmate to death. Georgia executed a woman in 2015.

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The officials and their families come from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru — all nations with right-leaning leaders friendly with President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Colombia, Ecuador and Peru this month, pledging U.S. support for their efforts to combat drug and human trafficking.

Those leaders have complained that many of those targeted by the visa revocations were hindering their efforts to fight crime.

The State Department announced the revocations Monday, saying they were being done “to fulfill the commitments to defend democratic governance across our hemisphere against corruption and narco-trafficking.”

“Undermining a democratically-elected government is a threat to security and rule of law in the Americas and will not be tolerated,” it said in a statement.

The Trump administration is billing the revocations as part of its broader efforts to clamp down on corruption, particularly related to the narcotics trade and illegal migration, by members of the U.S.-led “Shield of the Americas” bloc in the Western Hemipshere that Trump created this year.

The State Department has been denying permission to travel to the United States as a way to crack down on immigration or as a pressure tool against some governments, ranging from bans on South African officials accused of discrimination against white people to refusing to issue visas to the Palestinian delegation to attend an annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations.

The 27 targeted include Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca and more than 20 other Bolivian prosecutors and judges, 12 of whom were named as current visa holders and nine who will be denied visas should they apply. Two Colombians, a business mogul and a lawmaker, along with two Ecuadorians and one Peruvian judge are also affected.

Mariaca is accused of abusing his public position by soliciting and accepting bribes to facilitate narcotrafficking and is also accused of helping violent criminals evade justice, according to the documents.

“His actions endanger President Trump's efforts to combat narcoterrorism while undermining the very democratic institutions Bolivia, as a Shield participant, is working to strengthen,” the statement said.

Mariaca condemned the Trump administration’s visa restrictions against him, portraying them as political pressure on his office. He vowed to pursue investigations, including a sensitive case involving Fernando Cerimedo, an Argentine political strategist with ties to Trump’s circle who advised President Rodrigo Paz’s campaign.

“The work we have been doing has not pleased certain political sectors, both inside and outside our country,” Mariaca said at a news conference in the Bolivian city of Sucre. “No political pressure, national or international, can stand in the way of establishing the facts, which must be investigated.”

Mariaca, who was elected to a six-year term by lawmakers in 2024 under Bolivia’s previous left-wing government, has faced criticism over his office’s handling of drug-trafficking cases.

He led prosecutors in the eastern region of Santa Cruz when alleged Uruguayan drug kingpin Sebastián Marset, now in U.S. custody, escaped a police operation in 2023. He has since clashed with Paz, who has aligned Bolivia with Washington after nearly two decades of socialist rule.

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Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed to this report.

The ruling marks the most significant judicial milestone yet in the decade-long quest for accountability over Giulio Regeni’s death. Rome's chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi welcomed the outcome, saying the verdict was achieved despite what he described as a lack of “meaningful cooperation” from Egyptian authorities during the investigation. The defendants were tried in absentia.

“We are satisfied for having brought the case out of the quagmire into which it had risked sinking,” Lo Voi told reporters after the verdict.

Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, 2016, while conducting research on independent trade unions in Egypt. His body was found nine days later on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital bearing signs of extensive torture, according to Italian investigators.

Rome prosecutors had charged the four Egyptians: Tariq Sabir, Hisham Helmi, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif with aggravated kidnapping in connection with Regeni’s disappearance. Sharif had also faced charges related to Regeni’s injuries and death.

Helmi, Ibrahim and Sharif were sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for charges related to Regeni’s abduction, but not for his death. Sabir was acquitted.

The case quickly became one of the most contentious issues in relations between Italy and Egypt. Italian prosecutors maintained that members of Egypt’s security services abducted, detained, tortured and killed Regeni, while Egyptian authorities repeatedly denied state involvement and disputed the findings of the Italian investigation.

The investigation was marked by years of disputes over evidence and judicial cooperation. Italian magistrates accused Egyptian authorities of withholding key information requested through international legal channels, an allegation Cairo rejected.

The proceedings faced repeated delays because the defendants remained in Egypt and never appeared before the Italian court.

Italy’s Constitutional Court ultimately cleared the way for the trial to proceed in absentia, allowing hearings to begin in Rome despite longstanding disputes over notification of the accused.

In June, prosecutors sought a life sentence for Sharif, whom they identified as the man who physically carried out the killing, and prison terms of 17 years and six months for Sabir, Helmi and Ibrahim.

For Regeni’s family, the case became a decade-long campaign for accountability. Their calls for “truth and justice” drew broad support across Italy, where yellow banners bearing Regeni’s name became symbols of solidarity and demands for answers over his death.

The ruling marks the most significant judicial milestone yet in a case that has repeatedly tested relations between Italy and Egypt and drawn international attention to human rights concerns in Egypt.

A Doral detective reported Abraham Martinez, the alleged seller, gave Edwin Mir a “gray duffel bag” at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday at 7971 NW 33 St., and Mir stored it in the trunk of his red Chevrolet sports utility vehicle, according to a police arrest report.

Mir, 35, a convicted felon also known as “King Skillz,” was last released from prison in 2013 after two convictions for a 2005 armed robbery in Miami-Dade, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

The detective followed Mir, who was driving the SUV, and Anthony Marino, a passenger in the SUV, before ordering a traffic stop at Northwest 36th Street, just east of 79th Avenue, according to the police report.

Another detective who arrived as a backup unit saw “in plain view the muzzle of a suspected rifle in the trunk,” and they found “a loaded AR-15″ inside of the “gray duffle bag,” according to the police report.

Back outside of the club, Martinez, 25, told a Doral sergeant that he worked as a correctional officer and to “cut him some slack,” according to the police report. But when police officers found a security guard’s uniform in Martinez’s car, he allegedly changed his story: “He was suspended from being a correctional officer,” and worked as a security guard, according to the police report.

During their arrests, Doral police officers found “tusi,” a man-made synthetic powder drug, in a small plastic baggie in Martinez’s wallet and in a baggie in Marino’s crossbody bag, according to the report.

Marino, 28, also known as Anthony Marinocamejo, was also carrying two plastic straws with drug residue and a loaded gun, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Marino shortly after 6:25 a.m. on Saturday and held him at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday afternoon, according to inmate records.

Marino, Martinez, and Mir appeared in bond court on Sunday, according to Miami-Dade County court records.

Marino faced two charges: A felony charge of possession of a controlled substance while armed and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use. His bond was $8,000.

Martinez faced three felony charges: Prohibited firearm transaction, possession of a controlled substance while armed, and impersonating a law enforcement officer. His bond was $10,000.

Mir faced a felony charge of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. His bond was $10,000.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques was set to preside over the three cases.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately carrying out the policy adopted after an executive order from President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the government to continue providing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy.

The Trump administration argues that the policy was properly adopted and the judge overstepped. It halts surgeries, hormones and social accommodations like wigs while allowing mental health therapy to continue.

It was adopted after an executive order required the Bureau of Prisons to revise its medical care policies so that federal funds aren’t spent “for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex."

The government asked the high court to freeze Lamberth's order while the lawsuit continues to play out, saying the Bureau of Prisons had “determined that sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, and social accommodations could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria.”

The agency said in 2025 that it was providing hormone therapy to more than 600 inmates.

The bureau doesn’t dispute that gender dysphoria can cause severe side effects, including depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, Lamberth wrote. The Washington-based judge was nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan.

An divided appeals court panel left the order in place.

ACLU attorneys for the inmates said the policy is “a direct threat to the well-being of transgender people in federal custody and an open violation of their fundamental rights,” and withholding necessary gender-affirming healthcare constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

The conservative-majority Supreme Court has previously upheld state laws banning certain medical treatments for transgender youth, and restricting sports participation by transgender athletes in women's sports.

It has also handed down shorter term decisions allowing the Trump administration to move ahead for now with other policies rolling back protections for transgender people serving in the military and holding a passport consistent with their gender identity.

Trump announced the new plant at an Oval Office event alongside steel executives and Iowa Republicans, including two running for office. The event highlighted Iowa's elevated status for Republicans and for Trump, who on Monday pledged to campaign there in coming weeks.

“We're going to do a great rally. We'll all be there together,” Trump said alongside Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is running for the U.S. Senate, and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who is up for re-election. Also joining him were Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Joni Ernst, who are not seeking new terms in office.

The new steel plant is being built by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota company owned by India’s Essar Group, an industrial conglomerate. Trump said the project will become the largest steel plant in the United States. It is expected to produce 10 million tons of steel a year after it's fully built out.

The plant was projected to begin production in 2030, supplied by a new $2.5 billion iron ore mine that Mesabi developed along Minnesota's Mesabi iron range. The resulting steel will be produced from start to finish in the United States, the White House said.

Trump said the American steel industry is “roaring back to life,” crediting it to the 50% tariffs on steel imports that he imposed last year.

“Everyone is building their plants here because they don’t want to pay tariffs,” Trump said. “It’s really not that complicated.”

Trump in June also approved the takeover of iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, a move that had been blocked by Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor, and initially opposed by Trump as a 2024 Republican presidential candidate. After returning to office, Trump later backed a deal that gave the federal government a say in some company decisions.

The Oval Office announcement at times took on the tone of a campaign event. Introducing Hinson, Trump described her as a “young lady who is going to be hopefully elected to the Senate.”

“She's outstanding, one of the top anywhere in the country,” Trump continued. “They talk about her all the time.”

Trump told Ernst she had done a wonderful job in the Senate and said he would miss her: “I can't believe you're leaving,” he said.

Trump and Vice President JD Vance both have touched down in Iowa this year to shore up Republican enthusiasm and energize voters before the Nov. 3 elections.

Jeff Kaufmann, chairman of Iowa's Republican Party, said the announcement was made possible by the state's Republican leadership, including from Reynolds.

“Investments of this magnitude do not come to Iowa by accident,” he said. “They come to states with low taxes, responsible budgets, fewer burdensome regulations, and leaders who understand that the role of the government is to help job creators succeed, not stand in their way.”

Mesabi Metallics is based in Nashwauk, Minnesota. The Essar Group is an industrial conglomerate formed in India in 1969, with ventures in industries from energy and mining to technology and retail, according to its website.

Joe Broking, CEO at Mesabi Metallics, called the announcement a “major moment for U.S. made steel," saying the factory would be supplying a critical product that U.S. national defense, cars and trucks, shipbuilding, household appliances, energy and infrastructure depend on.

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Christopher Alan Staseiwicz, 35, of Naples; Keith Vincent Stasiewicz, 34, of Boynton Beach; and Christopher David Wilson, 31, of Cape Coral, each face two charges.

According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, people at the Hadley Resort + Marina, located at 82749 Overseas Highway, called authorities at around 6:30 a.m. to report “an ongoing ruckus caused by the suspects” that lasted for about four hours.

Deputies said their boorish behavior included “fighting amongst themselves, banging on other guests’ doors, threatening to fight other guests and activating a fire alarm for no reason.”

“One witness stated the three suspects were combative when asked to respect the sleep of other guests,” MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said in a news release.

Deputies arrested the three on charges of disorderly conduct and intentionally activating a fire alarm when no threat existed.

Records show the three were being held with no listed bond in MCSO’s Plantation and Key West jail facilities.

Christopher Alan Staseiwicz, de 35 años y residente de Naples; Keith Vincent Stasiewicz, de 34 años y residente de Boynton Beach; y Christopher David Wilson, de 31 años y residente de Cape Coral, enfrentan dos cargos cada uno.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe, personas en Hadley Resort + Marina, ubicado en 82749 Overseas Highway, llamaron a las autoridades alrededor de las 6:30 a.m. para reportar “un alboroto continuo causado por los sospechosos” que duró unas cuatro horas.

Los agentes dijeron que su comportamiento grosero incluyó “pelear entre ellos, golpear las puertas de otros huéspedes, amenazar con pelear con otros huéspedes y activar una alarma de incendios sin motivo”.

“Un testigo declaró que los tres sospechosos se mostraron agresivos cuando les pidieron respetar el sueño de otros huéspedes”, dijo el portavoz de MCSO Adam Linhardt en un comunicado de prensa.

Los agentes arrestaron a los tres por cargos de conducta desordenada y activar intencionalmente una alarma de incendios cuando no existía ninguna amenaza.

Los registros muestran que los tres permanecían detenidos sin una fianza indicada en las instalaciones carcelarias de MCSO en Plantation y Key West.

The video posted on Sunday shows Dawkins' pregame walkout as he chants “The time has come,” followed by a series of big hits. The DHS post includes the caption “Our time has come.”

“The league has requested the DHS take down the video,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Monday.

Dawkins was a nine-time Pro Bowler and five time All-Pro safety during 16 NFL seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos before retiring in 2011.

DHS released a statement saying the United States Border Patrol “is actively tracking" a group of migrants coming from Honduras and used football jargon to add the department "is playing lockdown defense" at the border.

The statement did not address the NFL's request to take down the video, which had not been deleted as of Monday evening.

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Louis Geri declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced him to five years and 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Moss said he balanced the danger that Geri poses to the public with the defendant's history of “very serious mental health issues” and his need for adequate treatment.

“This was an extremely serious offense,” the judge said. “It may have been carried out in a bizarre manner, but the threat of violence was a serious one.”

Geri was arrested on Oct. 5, 2025, outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, where police officers were clearing the area before the annual Red Mass. Police said they found in Geri’s possession paperwork that expressed “significant animosity” toward the Roman Catholic Church, Jewish people and the Supreme Court. Some justices usually attend the celebration, but none went to last year’s ceremony.

On steps outside the church, Geri had set up a tent containing more than 100 homemade explosives along with a nine-page “list of written demands,” according to a court filing. Geri told police that he had explosive devices and said “several of your people are gonna die from one of these” if his demands weren’t met, the filing says.

Geri's written demands included requests for money, for an “expatriation flight” to Japan and for the Supreme Court to remove Arizona from the United States.

“The defendant’s intent was clear: If his list of demands was not met, innocent people would die and prominent, historic landmarks, such as the Washington Monument, the Supreme Court, and the White House, would be destroyed,” prosecutors wrote.

Geri's attorney said the Vineland, New Jersey, native, who had traveled to Washington from Arkansas, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than two decades ago and had stopped taking his medication in the months leading up to his arrest outside the church.

“His conduct was the product of a treatable medical condition spiraling out of control, not malice or an actual intent to harm,” defense attorney Elizabeth Mullin wrote.

Geri pleaded guilty in March to two felony counts: illegal possession of a destructive device and extortion by wrongful use of force, violence or fear.

Geri and prosecutors agreed that a prison term ranging from five years and 10 months to seven years and three months would be appropriate. Moss wasn't bound by that recommendation, but Geri could have withdrawn his guilty plea if the judge had imposed a longer sentence.

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The commanders of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, were found guilty of recruiting boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 17. Prosecutors said that some of the girls were sexually abused.

Sentences handed to the rebel leaders ranged from 11 years to 20 years in prison. Some of them recently participated in peace talks with Colombia’s government.

The trial was conducted in absentia because the commanders haven't been captured by Colombia’s government.

One of the leaders who was convicted, Israel Ramírez Pineda, also known by the alias Pablo Beltrán, now lives in Cuba and recently led a delegation that held peace talks with Colombia’s government.

The government canceled peace talks with the ELN last year after the group staged a string of attacks in the northeastern Catatumbo region in which at least 80 people were killed.

Human rights groups have pointed out that the recruitment of children by rebel groups and gangs in Colombia continues to be a problem, with these organizations now using social media to lure youth into their ranks.

In 2016, almost 14,000 fighters laid down their weapons following a peace deal between Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

But violence has resurfaced in some rural areas where there is little state presence and where groups like the ELN are fighting for control of drug trafficking routes, extortion rackets and illegal mines abandoned by FARC.

According to Colombia’s Human Rights Defenders’ Office, at least 1,500 children have been recruited by armed groups since 2021, with 625 cases reported in 2024. Recruits are given a wide range of tasks that include serving as messengers, gathering intelligence, cooking or engaging with the enemy — while girls are sometimes forced into sexual acts with commanders.

The United Nations has called on social media platforms to share evidence with Colombian prosecutors and take actions aimed at blocking rebel groups from using social media to recruit children. Its human rights office in Colombia welcomed the sentence against the ELN leaders, noting that recruiting children into armed groups is prohibited by international law.

“This is a very important development in the fight against the recruitment of girls and boys,” said Scott Campbell, the representative in Colombia for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. “We have urged the Colombian justice system to investigate, prosecute, and punish those responsible for the recruitment of girls and boys, and welcome this step forward.”

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Victoria Charlotin was last seen at about 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 24 at the 400th block of Northwest 149 Street, according to a MDSO’s flyer released on Monday.

Victoria, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs about 130 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair, according to the MDSO’s flyer.

MDSO Deputy M. Ritch Jr. asked anyone with information about Victoria’s whereabouts to call 305-715-3300, or 305-715-3257, or e-mail u308129@mdso.com.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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Now, Larson has won two of the last three after his dominant victory at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.

And he's in the pole position for another championship.

After sweeping each of the first two stages, breaking his own track record by leading 235 laps in the race, and passing Chase Briscoe for the lead with seven remaining and holding it the rest of the way, Larson has a 26-point cushion over Denny Hamlin heading to next weekend's race at Las Vegas, a comfortable margin with only six races remaining in the playoffs.

“I said it kind of in Gateway: I felt like we were close,” Larson said of his drought-ending win outside St. Louis. "I didn't feel like it was 51 races and then, yeah, just it seems like we were just building and ready to kind of capitalize if we got a moment like this, where our car and everything kind of came together.

“So just proud of everybody for working so hard for so long now, and then proud of just the execution that they've put in here.”

Things couldn't have gone much better for Larson

The No. 5 team couldn't have executed a whole lot better on Sunday.

After practice and qualifying was washed out the previous day, Larson began on the outside of the front row, thanks to metrics that combined his second-place finish the previous week at Bristol with ownership points. Larson immediately went to the front when the green flag was dropped and, other than during pit-stop cycles, pretty much spent the day there.

Briscoe did catch him with 30 laps to go, and even got around Larson, but his car began to get so loose that he kept brushing against the wall. That gave Larson the opening he needed to get back around the No. 19 car and drive off to victory.

He wound up with the maximum of 76 points on the day, an almost mythic number in the revamped version of the Chase playoffs, but one that became a reality when Larson took the checkered flag for a record-tying fourth time at Kansas Speedway.

“Nobody wants to go through the struggle,” said Larson's crew chief, Cliff Daniels, "but the struggle can be so constructive, if you let it be, if you lean in the right ways. We have a great company with a lot of great people on the shop floor, that are in teams, engine shop, car shop, leadership — everybody having the check of, ‘OK, we’re not where we need to be, so let’s not play the blame game. Let’s look within, and how do we elevate our process, our setups, just digging into all the things you have to do?’

“The sport goes in cycles,” Daniels continued. “Somebody told me a long time ago, when the sport goes in cycles, when you’re on top, you’ve got to take the best of it, and when you’re not, you’ve got to be patient and be ready when it is your turn.”

Patience and confidence pay off for Larson

That patience — and confidence — has paid off at the perfect time.

Larson heads to Las Vegas having won there three times in the Cup Series, second only to Joey Logano among active drivers, while his Hendrick Motorsports team has reached victory lane nine times, more than any other organization.

“I feel like we’ve shown a decent amount of patience. At the same time, we’ve been patient, just from the emotional level of not letting the struggle keep us down,” Daniels said. “Honestly, my opinion, I still don’t think as a company we’ve peaked yet. I don’t think as a team we’ve peaked yet. There’s still a lot of racing left and a lot of work to do. Am I encouraged about where we sit? Of course, but I would be naive to think that this is just going to carry all the way for the rest of the year.”

Larson likewise understands the playoffs aren't over. He was 49 points behind Hamlin after the opening race at Darlington, but he was able to trim 40 away with his win at St. Louis, took the lead by a point at Bristol and now has a 26-point advantage after Kansas.

That's a 75-point swing in just three races, underscoring just how quickly things can change.

“There's still six races, and I only have a 26-point lead on Denny. That could be swallowed up in a hurry,” Larson said. "Denny could have a max-point day and I could blow an engine, like Noah (Gragson) did in the first stage, and I'm down 70-some points right there.

“I'm just really trying to do the best job I can, and yeah, just show up to the racetrack and kind of block out all that stuff.”

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The Egan Maritime Institute said its exhibits and collections manager would survey the site and send a report to state underwater archaeologists, who then will work with the institute to determine which vessel the wreckage came from.

The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.

Officials from Egan, a nonprofit that operates the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, cautioned Monday that the newly exposed wreckage has not been identified with certainty.

The slow-moving nor’easter battered the Northeast coastline over the weekend with heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf, flooding low-lying communities from New Jersey to New England and knocking out power to more than 100,000 customers at times Sunday. The storm also raised concerns about coastal erosion as waves crashed into beaches and seawalls.

The Warren Sawyer ran aground on Dec. 22, 1884, while carrying 1,115 bales of cotton and 28 tons (25.4 metric tonnes) of scrap iron from New Orleans to Boston, according to the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. Its captain and seven-member crew were ultimately rescued.

The schooner remained intact on the island's Miacomet Beach for two weeks, allowing islanders to save 700 bales of cotton using skids and teams of oxen. Then, on Jan. 6, 1885, another storm tore the ship apart, scattering pieces of its hull, remaining cargo and cordage across more than half a mile (0.80 kilometers) of beach.

More than a century later, remains believed to be from the ship have continued to emerge from the sand.

Jason Graziadei, who has lived on the island for two decades and is editor of the online news site the Nantucket Current, said he went out to the beach Saturday amid heavy winds with his 8-year-old son after he got a tip about possible wreckage on the island's south shore.

He and his son found the wooden beams on a drive-on beach by the town’s wastewater facility that everyone calls the “Sewer Beds." He said they had to park their car and walk down to the beach because erosion from the storm had formed a steep drop-off.

The location made the discovery even more remarkable to him: It was directly beneath a route beachgoers had been driving all summer.

“Given where it was and where it emerged, it means that everyone who was driving onto the beach this summer was just directly over this,” Graziadei said. “I just think it is so funny and so cool.”

Graziadei said his son was excited by the discovery and began asking what had happened to the people aboard the ship and why it had run aground. The two could walk right up to the exposed wreckage.

“It’s amazing to think from, you know, over 100 years old that it’s still there,” Graziadei said.

State archaeologists inspected a roughly 42-foot (12.8-meter) section of hull exposed on Miacomet Beach in late 2022 and concluded it was likely part of the Warren Sawyer. A roughly 15-foot-square (4.6-meter-square) section of the lower stern appeared nearby in February 2023, but shifting sands buried it again before state archaeologists could return to document it.

Nantucket is one of the areas known as the “graveyards of the Atlantic,” with more than 750 wrecks estimated in the surrounding waters.

The institute urged visitors not to disturb the newly exposed wreckage. Massachusetts law prohibits removing, damaging or displacing underwater archaeological resources.

Police disclosed Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson.

Fortune was Black, and the discovery of her hanging body stoked fear because the scene recalled actual lynchings in the Southern state, which has a long history of racial violence. Some officials had called for a federal civil rights investigation before a Jackson police detective said the scene was “staged.”

“People justifiably didn’t know if we had a killer on the loose who might hang people for racial reasons,” Judge Jeffery Reynolds said Monday.

Reynolds presided at a hearing for Eric Clark, 45, who turned himself in Friday. The Hinds County Public Defender’s Office, which is representing him, declined to comment. Clark and two other men charged in Fortune’s death are Black.

The judge said the staged hanging was a “heinous” act that shocked the state capital.

Jackson police Detective Samuel Dukes testified last week that Fortune was killed as a result of a dispute over drugs. The body was discovered Aug. 3.

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According to police, the crash occurred in the area of West Broward Boulevard and Northwest 18^th Avenue.

Police confirmed that a man was struck by a vehicle.

Sky 10 was above the scene just after 10 a.m. as a white tarp covered the victim’s body and the SUV was stopped on the sidewalk.

The area was blocked off with crime scene tape.

Police confirmed that the driver of the SUV remained at the scene and was transported to Broward Health Medical Center to be treated for minor injuries.

While eastbound lanes of Broward Boulevard were shut down after the crash, all lanes have since reopened.

The circumstances leading up to the crash remain under investigation.

Bailey was named co-deputy director in August 2025 to serve alongside Dan Bongino at a time of high tensions between FBI and Justice Department leadership over the handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The appointment was unusual because the FBI for years has had only one person at a time serve as deputy director and because the position, the No. 2 job at the bureau, is typically held by a career agent.

An ardent backer of President Donald Trump, Bailey was serving as the Republican attorney general of Missouri when he was picked to be deputy director with Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and popular podcaster who also had not previously worked for the FBI. Bailey remained in his position after Bongino announced his departure and as the FBI in January added another deputy director, veteran agent Christopher Raia, to serve under Director Kash Patel.

Bailey announced his resignation from the FBI in a post on X on Monday in which he thanked Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Patel for “the opportunity to serve."

“With great pride in what we have accomplished, I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri. I am confident Director Patel will continue to reform the FBI, combat violent crime, defend the homeland, ensure strong organizational accountability, and restore public trust in this institution of excellence,” Bailey wrote.

His last day will be Friday, an FBI spokesman said.

Patel in his own post credited him for “dedicated service” and for “instituting critical reforms.”

Bailey maintained a low public profile during his brief tenure as deputy director, though he was present in January when agents executed a search warrant at the main election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of an election fraud investigation.

“It’s consistent with everything we thought it was, a dislocation,” coach Todd Bowles said Monday. “Right now we’re probably talking a minimum of three weeks.”

Undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels will start this weekend against the Green Bay Packers. Easton Stick is on the practice squad and likely will be promoted unless the Buccaneers add a veteran quarterback.

Mayfield was injured when his throwing hand hit Vikings linebacker Blake Cashman on a desperation pass on fourth down that was intercepted late in the fourth quarter of a 23-16 loss.

An MRI revealed that Mayfield didn’t suffer ligament damage or a fracture. He avoids surgery and possibly won't be placed on injured reserve, which means he would have to miss at least four games.

Mayfield, who signed a $165 million, three-year contract extension before the season, hadn’t missed a start since joining the Buccaneers in 2023. He has played through various injuries throughout his career, which began in Cleveland after the Browns selected him with the No. 1 pick in 2018.

The Buccaneers (0-3) are off to their worst start since 2014.

Mayfield has struggled behind a woeful offensive line. He has two touchdown passes and two interceptions, has lost three fumbles and has been sacked 13 times.

Daniels played six seasons at Kansas and threw 67 TD passes and 31 interceptions. He beat out veteran Jake Bowning for the backup job in training camp.

“His performance speaks for itself when he’s out there,” Bowles said. "His confidence speaks for itself and they rally around him. It’s going to be like every other rookie. But he played well in the preseason. He’s very bright. He’s not going to be out there by himself. We just expect him to do his job and play at a high level, as he expects of himself.”

Daniels will become the first rookie QB to start for Tampa Bay since Jameis Winston in 2015. Before Mayfield, Tom Brady started every game from 2020-22.

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The Trump administration already has slapped sanctions on 13 of the court’s staff members, among them key prosecutors and nine judges including the court’s Japanese President Tomoko Akane. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched what he called a “sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court.”

“The German government completely supports the court,” Wadephul said in The Hague shortly before his visit, adding that Berlin is seeking to “enable the court to be workable.”

Officials in the court’s host country, the Netherlands, have been warned that sanctions on the entire court are imminent and are looking at ways to help the tribunal keep operating, including paying staff, protecting witnesses and maintaining the detention facility, diplomatic and government officials with knowledge of the briefings told The Associated Press last week. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Sanctions could prevent the court from accessing financial and IT services, and even paying its U.S. employees. When the court’s former chief prosecutor was sanctioned in 2025, he lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts were frozen and he was barred from entering the United States.

Earlier on Monday, Wadephul said Berlin is “working together with other states on preserving its ability to function.” The court currently has 125 member states.

One possible measure to mitigate sanctions is the EU “blocking statute,” which could be used to protect European court staff by preventing European companies from complying with the U.S. measures.

It's unclear, however, whether the statute would shield the ICC itself, because it’s an international body, not a European one. EU citizens are entitled to a basic bank account, but that doesn’t provide access to credit cards or U.S. payment facilities.

Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen called the blocking statute the “nuclear option” in countering possible sanctions, but said the Netherlands has been in talks with the European Commission to ensure that if it is necessary it can be quickly enacted.

“We are ready for that, the commission is ready for that,” he told reporters at a news conference with Wadephul. Berendsen said he also is in talks with the United States in an attempt to head off possible further sanctions.

In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump called on ICC member states to quit the court. Days later, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten used the same podium to forcefully defend the court, telling the General Assembly: “I believe there can be only one response. To say: hands off the ICC, and all those other institutions that protect the international legal order.”

The ICC was established in The Hague in 2002 as a court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s most heinous atrocities: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. It takes on cases when nations are unable or unwilling to prosecute crimes on their territory.

The U.S. and Israel strongly object to the court’s arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza. The U.S. also has opposed investigations into its military actions in Afghanistan.

Like Russia, China, India and Israel, the United States is among countries that have never joined the panel, with Washington citing fears of politically motivated prosecutions of its military.

Wadephul said Germany was a principled supporter of the ICC.

“Germany knows from its own history where it leads when state power flouts the law and humanity. So supporting the ICC is not a purely foreign policy question for Germany. It is also part of our historic responsibility,” he said Monday as he set off for The Hague.

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According to the Margate Police Department, officers responded to a location in the city ― redacted from an arrest report ― regarding a 911 hang-up call on Sunday.

Police said Melissa Angelique McAllister, 37, of Lauderdale Lakes, told an officer who called back that the child had attempted suicide. The girl’s relationship to McAllister isn’t outlined in the MPD report.

Authorities said the child confirmed the suicide attempt, but also told medics taking her to Broward Health Coral Springs that McAllister “hit her over the head with a clothing iron.”

According to the report, the girl told an officer that it happened during a verbal dispute and that the force of the hit, on the left side of her face, caused her to hit a wall, leading to a hematoma that “hurt when she touched it.”

The girl told officers that she tried to call 911, but McAllister “took her phone away and disconnected the call.”

McAllister was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and hindering, delaying, or preventing communication to a law enforcement officer.

As of Monday afternoon, she was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $10,000 bond, records show.

“You guys know who I am, right?” James asked.

Sure do. No introduction needed.

LeBron James, the most famous basketball player in the world and the NBA's career scoring leader, was indeed in a No. 23 Philadelphia 76ers jersey. He's happy to play for the Sixers, happy to play with close friend and fellow All-Star Tyrese Maxey and happy to start a record 24th NBA season — with no promises of how long his career is going to last.

James did make one vow: He's not in Philadelphia to lose.

“I didn't leave my family,” James said Monday, “to lose in the second round.”

James, Maxey, Joel Embiid and the other new star Sixers player, Jaylen Brown, were all on hand for media day ahead of the start of training camp and what figures to be the most anticipated season in Philly since Julius Erving's heyday.

James is the undisputed star of the show.

The usual assortment of beat writers and bloggers were dwarfed inside the Sixers' complex in New Jersey by cameras and questions from media entities far beyond the NBA scope. James, naturally, handled himself like a true professional, used to the global spotlight since he was put on a basketball pedestal as a teenager.

“Understand that the noise is going to be the noise,” James said. “What happens outside of this building is going to consistently happen, and it's going to be doubled and triple and quadrupled down on you. It just comes with the territory. I understand it.”

Much as James did for Cleveland when he ended a 52-year championship drought for the city by leading the Cavaliers to the title in 2016, he's in Philadelphia largely to help snap a championship drought for the Sixers that stretches to 1983 — just one year before James was born.

The Sixers went 45-37 last season and were swept in the second round by the eventual champion New York Knicks.

Enter a summer makeover already boosted by the shocking trade with Boston for Brown and anchored by James’ arrival. The 41-year-old James — new teammate Justin Edwards called him “Unc” — signed a modest $8 million, two-year contract on the veterans’ minimum with the Sixers.

The contract might be the minimum. The outlook is pretty much championship-or-bust for a franchise that has failed to advance out of the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs since 2001.

So how will James mesh with Maxey? Pay heed with Embiid? Bond with Brown?

Pretty easily, actually — for now.

“I think the luxury of my game is, I can do everything,” James said. “Literally, I can do everything.”

He can back up the boast. He’s a 22-time All-Star, a 21-time All-NBA selection, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a four-time NBA Finals MVP, a three-time All-Star Game MVP and a member of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.

He also is coming off a season with the Lakers in which he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game. For his career, he has averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.

“Him being here is really cool,” Maxey said.

His pull with James had an added benefit — Maxey got him on the team text group chat.

VJ Edgecombe said he organized a thread once Brown was traded, but the idea got complicated once James signed in July.

“LeBron came, and obviously I don’t got LeBron James’ number,” Edgecombe said. “I can’t say, ‘go add 'Bron to the group chat.’ Besides, even if I had his number, why would I randomly add LeBron to a group chat? You get what I’m saying? So I told Tyrese to do it.”

James weighed his career options after flirting with retirement at the end of last season. The pull to stay at his family home in Los Angeles rather than moving to the East Coast was tempting. James noted that one son plays college ball at Arizona, his daughter just started middle school and “my oldest son, my former teammate, is starting his third year in Los Angeles.”

That, of course, would be Bronny James. Don't forget his wife, Savannah, whom James noted “is doing so many unbelievable things right now in her own personal journey.”

After time away with family, and still feeling physically and mentally strong in offseason workouts, James decided he wanted to keep playing.

With key members of Sixers ownership and the front office watching from the side, James declined to get into the issue of how much longer he wants to play. His lone focus, he said, was learning how to play with new teammates — most, like Embiid, haven't won a title — and trying to bring the championship mentality he knows so well from winning titles with the Cavaliers, Heat and Lakers to the Sixers.

“I hope that I can, you know, bring that experience, bring that knowledge, bring the blueprint to the guys that's trying to accomplish some things that they haven't done in their career,” James said. “I've seen everything that this league has to offer on the floor and off the floor, so I hope that every single day with my approach to the game, approach to the work, that it can translate to every single guy."

James started his career in Cleveland in 2003 and spent seven seasons with the Cavs before heading to Miami for four seasons — where he won his first two NBA titles. He then returned to Cleveland for four more seasons, including that title run in 2016, and left in 2018 for the Lakers. He won a title in LA in 2020.

He won't set a timetable on how many years he has left in his career.

“I don't want to speak on the future right now,” James said. “I think that would be doing a disservice to myself on just living in the moment, especially knowing that I am where I am in my career.”

Unbelievably, that's Philadelphia.

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Según el Departamento de Policía de Margate, agentes acudieron el domingo a un lugar de la ciudad, cuya ubicación fue censurada en un reporte de arresto, en relación con una llamada al 911 que fue colgada.

La policía dijo que Melissa Angelique McAllister, de 37 años y residente de Lauderdale Lakes, le dijo a un agente que devolvió la llamada que la menor había intentado suicidarse. La relación de la menor con McAllister no se detalla en el reporte de la Policía de Margate.

Las autoridades dijeron que la menor confirmó el intento de suicidio, pero también dijo a los paramédicos que la trasladaban a Broward Health Coral Springs que McAllister “la golpeó en la cabeza con una plancha de ropa”.

Según el reporte, la menor dijo a un agente que ocurrió durante una discusión verbal y que la fuerza del golpe, en el lado izquierdo de su rostro, provocó que se golpeara contra una pared, causándole un hematoma que “le dolía cuando lo tocaba”.

La menor dijo a los agentes que intentó llamar al 911, pero McAllister “le quitó el teléfono y desconectó la llamada”.

McAllister fue arrestada por cargos de abuso infantil agravado y obstaculizar, retrasar o impedir la comunicación con un agente del orden público.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenida en la cárcel principal de Broward bajo una fianza de $10,000 USD, según muestran los registros.

Las mareas más altas del año coincidieron con la luna llena, llevando varias pulgadas de agua al Broadwalk de Hollywood Beach la madrugada del domingo.

“La ciudad de Hollywood hizo un gran trabajo limpiando esto”, dijo Grace Moore, residente de Hollywood. “Pero caminé por entre 6 pulgadas y un pie de agua a lo largo de todo el Broadwalk”.

Se pudo observar a corredores esquivando las zonas inundadas mientras residentes que ya han experimentado mareas reales se preparaban para la subida del agua.

“Si vives aquí en Hollywood, las esperamos, sabemos que vienen, sabemos que ocurren cuatro veces al año”, dijo Dan Kennedy, residente de Hollywood.

Kennedy, quien ha vivido en el área durante décadas, dijo que los negocios cercanos también estaban lidiando con las inundaciones.

“Allá, los restaurantes, las tiendas, están bajo el agua”, dijo.

Kennedy dijo que incluso aconsejó a un cliente que se mantuviera alejado del área.

“Se suponía que debía reunirme con un cliente aquí hoy y le dije: “No vengas””, dijo.

Olas avanzan hacia la costa

Los efectos de las mareas reales ya comenzaban a hacerse evidentes la noche del sábado, cuando grandes olas comenzaron a avanzar hacia la carretera y sorprendieron a las personas que estaban caminando.

“El contacto con las olas y todo eso, nunca había visto algo así, para ser sincero”, dijo una persona.

Otra persona dijo que estaba comiendo pizza cuando vio cómo el agua avanzaba rápidamente.

La ciudad de Hollywood envió una alerta a los residentes advirtiendo que estaba vigente un aviso de inundación costera debido a las mareas reales.

En Fort Lauderdale, la policía cerró dos millas de importantes carreteras.

Un video de celular también mostró el agua avanzando hacia los escalones de entrada de una vivienda, donde una mujer dijo que la inundación la dejó atrapada en el interior.

“No podía salir por la puerta principal. No podía sacar a pasear a mi perro. No podía salir por la puerta lateral”, dijo.

Inundaciones llegan a Miami Beach

Más al sur, un video de dron mostró inundaciones en Miami Beach la mañana del domingo.

Se pudo observar a conductores avanzando lentamente mientras intentaban atravesar el agua.

Las inundaciones también afectaron a los negocios durante el fin de semana.

“Me dan pena los negocios porque prácticamente tuvieron que cerrar el sábado”, dijo Moore. “Y perder un sábado por la noche durante la temporada baja es difícil para todos”.

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