The top scorer in league history stuck to the strategy he has taken into the past several summers when he declined to announce his future immediately after the Lakers' final postseason defeat.

He hasn't ruled out retirement or a return to the Lakers, and he said nothing about the possibility of moving to another team as he contemplates an unprecedented 24th NBA season.

“I don’t know what the future holds for me, obviously, as it stands right now tonight,” the 41-year-old James said. “I’ve got a lot of time now. I think I said it last year after we lost to Minnesota. I’ll go back and recalibrate with my family and talk with them and spend some time with them, and then obviously when the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do.”

James' record 23rd season ended with a heartbreaking 115-110 loss, completing a four-game sweep of the short-handed Lakers by the defending NBA champions. Los Angeles began the playoffs without NBA scoring champ Luka Doncic and second-leading scorer Austin Reaves due to injury, yet James led the Lakers to a first-round upset of Houston before running into the league's best team in the second round.

“It’s amazing what he’s doing out there at this age," Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said. “It's very impressive. It's hard to put it to words. He's not very old in the grand scheme of life, but for the NBA, he's pretty old, and he doesn't seem like it out there. He was a force. He was the top of the scouting report all series. His size gave us issues at times. He was impressive out there. I'm not sure we'll see anything like that again, his longevity and his greatness.”

James has played in more games, won more games, scored more points and taken more shots than everybody else who ever put on a uniform, but he has never put a limit on his time in the game.

Instead, he repeated his oft-stated declarations that he'll figure it out with his family over a few glasses of wine in the next couple of months.

“Nobody has any idea what the future holds, and I don’t either,” James said. “I’ll take time to recalibrate and look over the season and see what’s best for my future, and when I get to that point, everyone will know.”

James showed only marginal signs of age's encroachment in his 23rd season, continuing to play versatile basketball at an elite level throughout the Lakers' successful regular season.

Injuries forced his largest compromises: He missed training camp and the first 14 games of the season with sciatica, and he missed eight additional games during the regular season, eliminating him from consideration for inclusion on the All-NBA teams for the 22nd consecutive time.

With Doncic winning the NBA scoring title and Reaves emerging as a legitimate top-level NBA scorer, James willingly assumed a supporting role as the No. 3 option in the Lakers' offense — and it worked.

His 20.9 points per game were his fewest since his rookie season, largely because his 3-point shooting accuracy declined to 31.7%, and his 33.2 minutes per game were his fewest ever. Yet he contributed 7.2 assists and 6.1 rebounds with another season of steady performances — and when the Lakers needed him to step up, he did it repeatedly.

“It was so many different seasons in one season with our ballclub,” James said. “Obviously injuries played a big part in it, but as far as our identity, I thought it was super-resilient.”

James was chosen for the All-Star Game for the 22nd time, and right before the midseason break, he became the oldest player in NBA history to record a triple-double. He surpassed Robert Parish's record for the most regular-season games played in late March.

The Lakers picked up steam down the stretch in the regular season, winning 16 of 18 heading into April and kindling hope of being a dark-horse candidate to give trouble to the Thunder or Spurs in the playoffs. But that's when Doncic and Reaves both incurred major injuries, sidelining both indefinitely.

James handled the disappointment by stepping up and coolly taking charge of the Lakers' offense again. While nearly every NBA observer wrote off Los Angeles' chances of any playoff run, James and his supporting cast improbably knocked off the fifth-seeded Houston Rockets in six games in the first round, sending the Lakers into the second round for only the second time since 2020.

“For our group to have the moment that we had when Luka goes down with the hamstring and AR goes down with the oblique and we’re staring down the barrel of a playoff series with Houston, I thought our guys responded and were just super-resilient,” James said. “To win that series was big-time for the group that went out there.”

James' reasons to prolong his career in Los Angeles would be multifold.

He has spent the past two seasons playing alongside Bronny James, his oldest son and a backup guard for the Lakers. They even got significant playoff minutes together this season, allowing LeBron to live another dream.

His family loves living in Southern California — and while his sons are both out of the family home, he has spoken frequently of his desire to watch the progress of his 11-year-old daughter, Zhuri, a competitive volleyball player.

And the Lakers' outstanding play down the stretch suggested they could be among the NBA's best teams with full health for Doncic, James and Reaves — who is expected to sign a massive contract to stay with the Lakers this summer.

Whether the Lakers can actually contend for a championship next season will be one factor that James must weigh, but finding a true title contender to join at this stage of his career would be difficult even if the Thunder and the rising San Antonio Spurs didn't appear to be head and shoulders above the rest of the league.

For now, James will take time off to enjoy life away from the daily grind that has allowed his career to reach unprecedented lengths — and if he decides not to come back, he doesn't appear to have regrets about how this season ended."

“I left everything I could on the floor,” James said. “I control what I can control, and I can leave the floor saying even though I hate losing, I was locked in on what we needed to do.”

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The French Riviera festival beginning Tuesday will include 12 days of nonstop world premieres before culminating May 23 with the presentation of the Palme d’Or, the festival's top honor and one of the film industry's most prestigious awards.

The festivities kick off with the opening-night film, “The Electric Kiss,” a French period-comedy, and the awarding of an honorary Palme d’Or to the “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson.

What isn’t at Cannes has been as buzzed about as much as what is. Hollywood is largely absent this year.

While blockbusters like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Elvis” have touched down at previous incarnations, studio films this year have been either scared away by the possibility of a rocky reception or by the high cost of flying in A-listers to the Cote d’Azur. The closest thing in Cannes' slate is an anniversary celebration for “Fast & Furious.”

Speaking to members of the press Monday, Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux said Hollywood “is reshaping” in the midst of Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

“I hope the studio films will come back,” Frémaux said.

Cannes has become better known for its lengthy standing ovations than its boos. This year, a long list of big-name filmmakers will have center stage.

Among the filmmakers set to unveil new movies are Pedro Almodóvar (“Bitter Christmas”), James Gray (“Paper Tiger”), Na Hong-jin (“Hope”), Pawel Pawlikowski (“Fatherland”) and Ryusuke Hamaguchi (“All of a Sudden”).

If Cannes has waned as a global launchpad for studio releases, it has grown as a breeding ground for Oscar contenders.

Two years ago, Sean Baker’s “Anora” won the Palme in Cannes before winning best picture. Last year, Cannes selections like “Sentimental Value,” “The Secret Agent” and “It Was Just an Accident” went on to play prominent roles in awards season.

More often than not, the specialty distributor Neon has been at the forefront of the Cannes-to-Oscars pipeline. Neon has backed the past six Palme d’Or winners, an unprecedented streak that it may be poised to extend. Neon is attached to more than a quarter of the 22 films in competition for the Palme d’Or.

On Tuesday, the jury deciding that award and others will hold a news conference before beginning their sequestered movie watching. South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is serving as president of the nine-member panel, along with Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård and others.

How much any of this will serve as backdrop for “The White Lotus” remains to be seen. The fourth season of Mike White’s acclaimed HBO series is based around a trip to Cannes. Last month, the show began shooting on the French Riviera.

While Cannes may be light on big Hollywood movies, it isn't lacking in stars. Set to appear over the next two weeks are Kristen Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Adam Driver, Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Rami Malek, Sebastian Stan, Sandra Hüller and many others.

Ajay Mitchell scored 10 of his 28 points in the frantic final period as the Thunder overcame the Lakers' tenacious effort and improved to 8-0 in the playoffs with their toughest victory of the postseason.

“We've done our job so far, that's all it really means,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “We've gone out there, we've executed, we've played at a high level and we've been able to win eight tough games against really good opponents. That's all it means. Nothing is guaranteed.”

LeBron James had 24 points and 14 rebounds in the final game of the unprecedented 23rd season for the top scorer in NBA history, but he missed a driving bank shot with 20 seconds left that would have put the Lakers ahead.

The 41-year-old James has repeatedly said he hasn’t decided whether to play next season, so there was no ceremony or momentousness around this game. Instead, the Lakers desperately tried to extend their year, only to lose to Oklahoma City for the eighth time this season.

“I don't know what the future holds for me, obviously, as it stands right now, tonight,” James said. “I've got a lot of time. I'll go back and recalibrate with my family and talk with them, and when the time goes, obviously you guys will know what I decide to do.”

Austin Reaves scored 27 points before missing a tying 3-point attempt with eight seconds left for the Lakers, who advanced one round farther than almost anybody expected after losing NBA scoring champion Luka Doncic and Reaves to significant injuries a month ago.

Los Angeles still lost six of its final seven playoff games and fell well short of the conference finals for the third straight season.

“I didn't want our season to end,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said. “I wanted to keep this thing going. I enjoyed every bit of this year.”

Oklahoma City faced its first fourth-quarter deficits of the entire playoffs in Game 4 as the Lakers repeatedly refused to fold. The Thunder still got it done, and they've earned at least the rest of the week off before they open the conference finals against the winner of San Antonio’s second-round series with Minnesota. The Spurs and Timberwolves are even heading to Game 5 on Tuesday night.

“They won more of the minutes tonight than we did, and that hadn’t been the case (earlier in the series),” Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault said. “They outplayed us for stretches. They’re a really good team with prideful players. We did not expect them to give us an unearned win, and we went out and earned it.”

Oklahoma City went 8-0 against the Lakers this season, winning all four regular-season matchups as well — but this one was the toughest. The Lakers took the lead and kept it close down the stretch with big buckets from Reaves and Rui Hachimura, who scored nine of his 25 points in the fourth quarter.

Holmgren’s dunk with 2:03 left put the Thunder up 109-103, but Hachimura coolly converted a four-point play. Marcus Smart then drove the lane and hit a layup while being fouled in the final minute, converting a three-point play for a 110-109 Lakers lead.

But Holmgren got the ball inside and triple-pumped for a dunk with 32.8 seconds left, and James missed on his drive. After Gilgeous-Alexander hit two free throws, Reaves missed again, and the Thunder hung on to secure their sixth berth in the Western Conference finals in the last 16 seasons.

The Thunder won the first two games of the series at home by 18 points apiece, and they routed the Lakers 131-108 in Game 3.

Doncic missed the final 15 games of the Lakers’ season after incurring a grade 2 hamstring strain on April 2 in Oklahoma City, and he watched the season finale on the bench in a black sweatsuit. The Slovenian superstar apparently didn’t get close to returning from the injury, which often requires two months of recovery.

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No problem. The All-Star guard followed it up with one of the best 24-minute stretches by a player in NBA playoff history Monday night.

After scoring only four points in the first half, Mitchell responded with 39 in the second half, tying the NBA playoff record for most points in a half as the Cavaliers rallied for a 112-103 victory over the Detroit Pistons in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

“It’s pretty impressive. I'm not sure I’ve seen in the playoffs a turnaround like that where a guy is struggling and just absolutely turns the switch and complete opposite of the first half,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said.

Mitchell equaled Eric “Sleepy” Floyd's record on a free throw with 27.6 seconds remaining. He had a chance to break the record, set in 1987 when Floyd's Golden State Warriors faced the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals, but missed his second foul shot.

“Everybody let me know that I missed a free throw to break the record, though," Mitchell said. "I will say that, but we’re two and two headed to Detroit. That was what we came home to do and that’s all that matters.”

Mitchell didn't score until he made a free throw with 4:19 remaining in the second quarter. He also missed his first six shots from the field before hitting a 3-pointer from the left corner with 2:48 left in the first half.

Despite Mitchell's early struggles, the Cavaliers only trailed 56-52 at halftime. James Harden and Evan Mobley both kept Cleveland in the game in the first half as they combined for 26 points.

“I airball the first layup and was missing shots short," Mitchell said. "Sometimes it’s natural, right? I wasn’t really trying to get in there and force it and then just doubling down on the defensive end, trying to take whoever I’m guarding, take them out of the equation. I’m not tripping, we were down four at half.

"I always tell y’all it’s not just about the scoring, it’s about your overall impact on the game. And for me, it was just like, ‘OK, now I have an opportunity to try to get downhill’ and then started going in.”

Mitchell was 12 of 18 from the field in the second half, including three 3-pointers, and was 12 of 13 at the line. Cleveland's previous mark for most points in a half was 31 by Mitchell in Game 7 of its first-round series against Orlando in 2024.

Mitchell tied a franchise record for points in a quarter with 21 in the third as the Cavaliers seized control, outscoring the Pistons 38-21 in the quarter. He scored 15 during Cleveland’s 24-0 run that went from the last 12 seconds of the first half to the first six minutes of the third quarter.

The 24-0 run was the longest in an NBA playoff game since since Minnesota also scored 24 straight in Game 6 of its Western Conference semifinal series against Denver in 2024. It was also the longest spurt by Cleveland in a postseason game since play-by-play stats were kept in 1997-98. The previous high was 19 in an Eastern semifinal series contest against Boston.

“Donovan Mitchell was killing us, and that’s pretty much it," Pistons center Paul Reed said.

It was Mitchell's eighth playoff game with at least 40 points, his fourth with the Cavaliers. He has at least 30 points in three straight games as the series shifts to Detroit for Game 5 on Wednesday with it even at two games apiece.

Cleveland is still looking for its first road playoff win this season, and will need at least one if it hopes to make the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2018.

“We’ve had two good games to build off of, but it’s going to be a hostile environment," Mitchell said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. And I think I know we’re ready for the challenge.”

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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.6% to 62,828.07. South Korea's Kospi dropped 2.7% to 7,610.10, in what analysts are categorizing as fallout from overreliance on fraying AI hopes.

“Global equities remain dangerously dependent on a tiny cluster of AI leaders, creating a rally structure that looks powerful on the surface but increasingly fragile underneath,” said Stephen Innes, analyst with SPI Asset Management.

He believes South Korea may be among the first major economies that will undergo what he called "the political redistribution phase of the AI boom.”

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dipped 0.4% to 8,670.70. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost earlier gains and fell less than 0.1% to 26,395.36, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.4% to 4,210.44.

Oil prices continued to rise, as the war with Iran threatened to drag on. Benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.57 to $99.64 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, climbed $1.30 to $105.51 a barrel.

U.S. President Donald Trump described the U.S.-Iran ceasefire as on “life support” after rejecting Iran’s latest proposal to end the war. That raises the stakes for Trump’s trip this week to China. China is the biggest buyer of Iran’s sanctioned crude oil.

The war has already sent the price for a barrel of Brent racing up from prewar levels of roughly $70 and delivered inflation through the global economy. The war has shut the Strait of Hormuz and kept oil tankers stuck in the Persian Gulf instead of delivering crude to customers worldwide.

Still, some companies are reporting bigger profit than analysts expected, which means the U.S. economy is holding up even though households are feeling discouraged by expensive gasoline and tariffs.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% from its prior all-time high set Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 95 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.1% to reach its own all-time high.

All told, the S&P 500 rose 13.91 points to 7,412.84. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 95.31 to 49,704.47, and the Nasdaq composite gained 27.05 to 26,274.13.

In the bond market, Treasury yields ticked higher. The 10-year yield rose to 4.40% from 4.38% late Friday.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 157.43 Japanese yen from 157.12 yen. The euro cost $1.1754, down from $1.1787.

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Host city Vienna has been bedecked in hearts and the contest’s “United by Music” motto for a week in which singers and bands from 35 countries will compete onstage for the continent’s musical crown. But five countries — Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland — are boycotting to protest Israel's inclusion.

Several pro-Palestinian demonstrations are planned in Vienna during Eurovision week, and security is tight, with police officers from across Austria deployed in the capital, and support from forces in neighboring Germany.

Last month a 21-year-old Austrian man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024, and the head of Austria’s DSN intelligence service, Sylvia Mayer, said “the terror threat posed by Islamist terror groups, as well as Iran-affiliated groups, is still at a high level.”

Israeli singer Noam Bettan is among 15 acts competing for votes from viewers and national juries in Tuesday’s semifinal at the Wiener Stadthalle arena. The top 10 will go through to Saturday’s grand final, along with 10 from Thursday’s second semifinal. The U.K., France, Germany and Italy automatically qualify because they are among the contest’s biggest funders. Austria, last year’s winner, goes through to the final as host country.

Bettan is seeking to get Israel, which came second in 2025, into Saturday’s final with the ballad “Michelle.” Like last year’s Israeli competitor, Yuval Raphael, he has practiced singing while being booed.

Hoping to cement its status as bookmakers’ favorite is Finland, with the intense “Liekinheitin” (“Flamethrower”) by violinist Linda Lampenius and pop singer Pete Parkkonen.

Other competitors in Tuesday’s semifinal include Greece’s Akylas with fan-favorite party-rap track “Ferto” (“Bring It”); Portuguese quintet Bandidos do Cante with the soulful “Rosa”; and singer Senhit, representing tiny San Marino with “Superstar,” a party anthem featuring a guest appearance by Boy George.

Long a forum for good-natured — and sometimes more pointed — national rivalries, Eurovision has found it hard to separate pop and politics in recent years. Russia was expelled in 2022 after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The 2024 contest in Malmo, Sweden, and last year’s event in Basel, Switzerland, saw pro-Palestinian protests that called for Israel to be expelled over its conduct of its war against Hamas in Gaza and allegations it ran a rule-breaking marketing campaign to get votes for its contestant.

When organizers declined to kick Israel out, five countries announced in December that they would not participate this year.

The European Broadcasting Union, which runs Eurovision, has toughened voting rules in response to the vote-rigging allegations, halving the number of votes per person to 10 and tightening safeguards against “suspicious or coordinated voting activity.”

Dean Vuletic, author of "Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest," is confident Eurovision can weather the latest storms.

“We’ll see demonstrations, but we’ll also see a lot of colorful events going on which will really represent what Eurovision is about, which is bringing Europeans together,” he said.

“If you look at the history of Eurovision, it’s gone through so many crises, so many political challenges, so many geopolitical changes in Europe, and it’s always managed to survive.”

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Decades later, she’s still going to camp there. A separate band program was created for adults in 2013, where she felt encouraged to take up another instrument: trumpet.

“I was thrilled because I love this place,” said Guess, 71, of Baltimore, a retired lawyer for the U.S. Department of Defense who plans to return to the New England Adult Music Camp in August. “It is serene, beautiful, a perfect setting. And it’s not all that different from what it was 50-some years ago.”

Whether they are looking to make friends, improve their skills or just take some time out for themselves after sending their own kids to camp and college, adults can find a variety of summer music programs across the United States, ranging from electronic, folk, rock 'n' roll and jazz to chamber and opera.

For many campers, it offers a way to relive the nostalgic musical experiences of their youth and make new social connections.

“Emotionally, making music is good for the soul,” said Carole Lieberman, a California-based forensic psychiatrist who has played multiple instruments herself. “It makes you feel creative, allows you to provide the music you like for yourself and can boost your spirits."

“Cognitively, research demonstrates that learning to play a musical instrument and playing it helps your brain make better neurological connections,” she added. “It can help to ward off dementia.”

For Guess, playing music is about being “in that zone” with other musicians.

“When you’re playing music together, you rise above all the pettiness of life,” she said. “And it’s just the most spiritual thing I can think of.”

A camp for every playing level

The camps cover a range of playing abilities. Some listings specifying beginner, intermediate and advanced levels can be found in camp guides put out by organizations such Musical America Worldwide and The Instrumentalist.

The Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, where Guess attended band camp in middle school, branched out to offer a variety of summer musical programs for adults, including a weeklong Symphonic Band Camp for experienced players in August.

In Walla Walla, Washington, the Midsummer Musical Retreat has grown to include multiple performance groups, large and small, for varying levels since it began in 1983.

Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, hosts the Band Camp for Adult Musicians, where players at an intermediate level and beyond are coached by retired military members and college professors.

The camp's founder was inspired by his kids' experience at band camp, director Leigh Hurtz said.

Now in its 37th season, many players are retired and have attended the camp together for years. Some have come with their children and grandchildren.

“They were lawyers or doctors, or working full-time, mothers,” Hurtz said. “There are also people who sold their tuba for a couch in college so they could have a couch, and 20 years later, it’s like, ‘I need a tuba again!’”

In addition to putting on concerts, the camps have their own traditions. At the one in Pennsylvania, everyone gets together on the first night for a family dinner. Walla Walla has a camper-created sketch comedy night. New England has campfire gatherings and a lobster dinner. Campers often have access to other activities such as kayaking, yoga or cocktail hours, or in open-mics solo or with a small ensemble of fellow campers.

Camps also can offer special sessions covering certain genres or instruments such as jazz, drum circles, klezmer, German band and ukulele, and host talks about topics like performance anxiety and music theory.

Camps offer support and encouragement

Linda Haller, 70, of Laconia, New Hampshire, had retired as an obstetrician-gynecologist a few years ago when she learned about a community band for adults promoting “music for life” nearby. She felt motivated to try the clarinet again after last playing it in high school. So she joined.

“It hasn’t all come back, but I’m getting to the point where I think I’m playing almost as good as I did back then,” she said. Haller, who also plays piano, said the rhythms and counting came right back to her.

She attended the camp in Sidney, Maine, for two years, where she progressed from a beginner’s band to intermediate. She said she enjoyed the camaraderie.

“Returning to an instrument learned in childhood is powerful because it combines memory, discipline and renewed growth,” said Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist based in New York.

“It strengthens attention, fine motor coordination, and memory pathways while reducing stress and improving mood,” Alpert said. “But equally important is the emotional experience of reengaging with something that once required patience and repetition.”

The community band Haller plays with is affiliated with the New Horizons International Music Association, a nonprofit that provides entry points for adults to create music, including those who have no musical experience. The organization counts over 200 bands, orchestras and choruses worldwide for 10,000 adult musicians since 1991.

Its philosophy, also adopted by other programs for adult musicians, is "Your best is good enough.”

New Horizons also sponsors its own camps, including an “American Music Abroad” trip to the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary in June, and one near Cincinnati, Ohio, in July.

The programs are popular, said Russ Grazier of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who has taught at New Horizons camps and is the artistic director of the New England Adult Music Camp.

He notes that the ensemble participation rate for adults over age 60 has doubled from about 150 to 300 people at a local music and arts center he leads. He said he thinks the social connection is key.

“And that's something missing from a lot of people's lives these days," Grazier said. "So any time we have an opportunity to have a space outside of the home where we're connecting with new people and sharing a common interest, it has remarkable benefits for our health and our aging.”

The Omaha-area district, where Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon is retiring, is one of the Democratic Party's biggest targets this midterm season. It's also a national focus every four years in presidential contests because Nebraska is one of just two states that splits its electoral votes. The 2nd District has gone to Democratic presidential candidates three out of five times since 2008 — a “blue dot” in an otherwise sea of red.

Three Democrats are seen as the top contenders in Tuesday's primary: state Sen. John Cavanaugh, political activist Denise Powell and district court clerk Crystal Rhoades. Republican Brinker Harding, an Omaha City Council member endorsed by President Donald Trump, is running unopposed on the GOP side.

Cavanaugh, more than anyone else on Tuesday's ballot, has been under attack from both parties.

Some Democratic opponents argue that a primary victory for Cavanaugh would jeopardize the district's “blue dot” status because he'd be leaving his valuable state legislative seat, making it easier for Republicans in the Nebraska Legislature to change the law that allows the state to split its electoral votes.

The issue has defined the primary contest perhaps more than any other.

Opponents say the ‘blue dot’ is in danger

The Democratic argument against Cavanaugh has little to do with his politics or policies.

His opponents and groups backing them have flooded mailboxes, airwaves and social media warning that if he wins the congressional primary, Nebraska's Republican governor would appoint a conservative Republican to replace him in the Legislature.

That move, they say, could give state Republicans enough votes to enact a conservative wish list that includes stricter limitations on abortion and transgender rights.

It could also empower Republicans to enact midcycle redistricting or change the state's unusual system of splitting presidential electoral votes, some Democrats argue. Republicans failed in 2024 to pass a bill that would have made Nebraska the 49th state to award its Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis.

“Our Blue Dot. We fought hard for it. But if John Cavanaugh goes to Congress, it could all fall down,” cautions one TV ad by the super PAC New Democrat Majority.

EMILY’s List, a national group that supports women running for office, has put its reach and money behind Powell, calling Cavanaugh’s candidacy “a gift to MAGA Republicans.”

Republican groups also target Cavanaugh

Republican groups have sent out mailers and social media posts claiming Cavanaugh “is in agreement with President Donald Trump” and showing a photo of Cavanaugh overlaid on a photo of the president, making it appear as if the two are standing together.

“Clearly, the Republicans know that I’m the strongest general election candidate,” Cavanaugh said. “And so they’re trying to hurt me.”

The attacks on Cavanaugh show Democrats and Republicans believe he has the best chance of winning the general election, said Paul Landow, a former Nebraska Democratic Party executive director.

He called the “blue dot” attacks disingenuous, noting Republicans already have a filibuster-proof majority in the Legislature but have still failed to pass key elements of their agenda because it is unpopular even among GOP lawmakers. The argument that a Cavanaugh win could weaken the state’s “blue dot” also assumes Democrats won’t pick up additional legislative seats this year, he said.

“There’s so many things that have to fall into place for this alleged danger to the ‘blue dot,’” Landow said. “It’s just wild speculation.”

The Democratic primary grows contentious

While all the Democratic contenders cite affordability and opposition to Trump administration policies — from immigration and healthcare to military actions — the top three contenders began attacking one another more aggressively in the days leading up to the primary.

Candidates and allied groups have spent more than $2.6 million on TV and digital advertising since Jan. 1, according to the advertising tracking company AdImpact. Nearly all of that has been by or on behalf of Cavanaugh and Powell.

Cavanaugh has spent about $375,000. Powell's campaign has spent almost as much — $345,000 — but with the help of groups backing her, campaign advertising has been overwhelmingly pro-Powell.

Powell co-founded Women Who Run Nebraska, a political action committee that supports progressive female candidates, and she has a decade of Democratic political activism. She's never held office but said her deep connections have helped her with independents and third-party voters who make up nearly 30% of the district's electorate.

“My name recognition has increased dramatically,” Powell said, adding that "people are really connecting with my message.”

Rhoades carries her own name recognition after 20 years in public service and running a slew of successful local Democratic elections — including that of Omaha Mayor John Ewing, who unseated a longtime Republican last year. Rhoades has raised a fraction of what Cavanaugh and Powell have amassed, but said she's intentionally eschewing campaign ads and instead blanketing the city with door-knocking and personal contact with voters.

Both Powell and Rhoades have leaned heavily into the concern that Democrats' influence in the district will erode if Cavanaugh is elected to Congress.

The winner of Tuesday's primary will head to a highly competitive general election. Trump won the district in 2016, and the retiring Bacon, who has clashed with Trump, has held the House seat for five terms.

Other Tuesday contests

Also on Tuesday's ballot is the race for U.S. Senate, where Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts is seeking a full term, following his 2023 appointment and 2024 special election victory to replace Republican Ben Sasse.

Ricketts faces four Republican primary challengers, but he’s already looking ahead to an expected general election contest against independent candidate Dan Osborn, an industrial mechanic and military veteran who came within 7 points of defeating Republican U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer in her 2024 reelection bid. Running in the Democratic primary are William Forbes and Cindy Burbank.

In the race for governor, incumbent Republican Gov. Jim Pillen faces five primary challengers, while former state Sen. Lynne Walz and frequent candidate Larry Marvin compete for the Democratic nomination. Marvin previously ran for U.S. Senate four times since 2012.

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Peoples reported from New York.

Rather than waning, a national redistricting battle that began 10 months ago has intensified as the November elections draw nearer — inflamed by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and provided grounds for states to try to eliminate voting districts with large minority populations.

Missouri was the second Republican state after Texas to heed Trump's call last year to redraw congressional districts to help the GOP win additional seats in the midterms. At issue before the Missouri Supreme Court is whether the new districts violate a state constitutional requirement to be compact, and whether they can remain in place for this year's elections despite an initiative petition seeking to force a public referendum.

In South Carolina, the issue facing Republican lawmakers is whether redrawing the state's lone Democratic-held seat could open the door to a clean sweep for Republicans or backfire with additional losses by making more districts competitive for Democrats. State senators must decide whether to allow consideration of a redistricting plan put forth in the House after the legislature's regular work ends Thursday.

Congressional redistricting also is under consideration in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court's recent ruling invalidated a majority-Black district as an illegal racial gerrymander. The state's May 16 congressional primaries already have been postponed. What remains undecided is how many seats Republicans will try to pick up while redrawing the districts.

Alabama also is poised to switch its congressional districts for this year's elections, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned an order for it to use a map with two largely Black districts.

Republicans think they could gain as many as 14 seats from new House maps enacted so far in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Tennessee. Democrats, meanwhile, think they could gain six seats from new maps in California and Utah. The Virginia Supreme Court last week struck down a redistricting effort that could have yielded four more winnable seats for Democrats.

South Carolina weighs political risks of redistricting

A South Carolina House committee is to consider Tuesday whether to send a congressional redistricting plan to the full chamber for debate. The House also appears poised to pass legislation that could delay the June 9 congressional primaries until August to allow time for new districts to be enacted. That comes even as some absentee and overseas military ballots already have been cast.

But any redistricting effort also must clear the Senate, where support is less certain. Two-thirds of senators have to agree before the regular General Assembly session ends Thursday to let the legislature take up redistricting later.

Trump said on social media Monday that he was closely watching the redistricting vote, urging South Carolina senators to “be bold and courageous" and to delay the House primaries so new districts can be drawn.

Although Republicans have a supermajority in the chamber, several senators aren’t sure the proposed map guarantees the GOP will win seat held by long-serving Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn. And they think enough Democratic voters could be pushed into other districts that the plan could backfire, resulting in a 5-2 or even a 4-3 Republican split.

Some also question whether it is fair for Republicans to get all the seats in a state where the Democratic presidential candidate has gotten at least 40% of the vote every election this century, even if Trump is asking for the new map.

Louisiana GOP looks to target one or two seats

State Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, a Republican who oversees the Louisiana Senate committee tasked with redistricting, said his panel plans to vote Tuesday on a U.S. House map, with a full Senate vote expected Thursday.

The committee has several options, including versions that would leave Democrats favored in only one district or none. Kleinpeter said a map eliminating all majority-Black districts would be difficult to hold up in court.

Last Friday, dozens of people urged lawmakers to retain two majority-Black districts during a grueling nine-hour hearing that featured civil rights activists and the only four Black congressmen elected to represent the state since the end of the Reconstruction era.

Missouri map splits Kansas City district

Missouri currently is represented in the U.S. House by six Republicans and two Democrats under a map passed by the Republican-led legislature after the 2020 census. But with Trump's backing, Republican state officials adopted a new map last September that improves their chances of winning an additional seat by targeting a Kansas City district held by longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who previously was the city's first Black mayor.

The new House map places portions of Kansas City in neighboring Republican districts and stretches the remainder of Cleaver's 5th District far eastward into Republican-heavy rural areas. A state judge in March rejected an assertion that the map violates a constitutional compactness requirement, finding that the new districts on average are more compact — even if the 5th District is not. That was appealed to the state Supreme Court.

A separate case also being argued Tuesday at the state Supreme Court contends the new districts should have been automatically suspended in December when opponents submitted more than 300,000 petition signatures seeking to force a statewide referendum.

But Republican Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins contend the new districts can be suspended only if — and after — Hoskins determines the petition meets constitutional requirements and has enough valid signatures. Hoskins has until Aug. 4, the day of Missouri's primary elections, to make that determination.

A state judge in March agreed with the Republicans' position while also ruling that the plaintiffs lacked grounds to sue and had done so too soon.

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Brook reported from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Collins from Columbia, South Carolina, and Lieb from Jefferson City, Missouri.

A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Martin County circuit court, just north of Palm Beach County. Prosecutors have issued a subpoena seeking copies of all prescription medication records for the legendary golfer at a Palm Beach pharmacy from the start of the year through the end of March. Defense attorney Doug Duncan said in a court filing last month that Woods has a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to his prescription medications.

If the judge determines the drug records are necessary, Duncan has also asked for a protective order limiting their release only to prosecutors, law enforcement officers, state experts and Woods' defense team.

Woods has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. A sheriff’s office report said deputies found two pain pills in his pocket, and he showed signs of impairment after his SUV clipped a truck's trailer and rolled onto its side.

Woods was traveling at high speeds on a beachside, residential road on Jupiter Island with a 30 mph (nearly 50 kph) speed limit when his Land Rover caused $5,000 in damage to the truck, according to an incident report. Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer test that showed no signs of alcohol, but refused a urine test, authorities said.

Trump has veered between venting that China, the world’s biggest buyer of Iranian oil, hasn't done more to get the Islamic Republic in line, and acknowledging that Xi's government helped de-escalate the conflict last month by nudging Tehran back to ceasefire talks when negotiations wobbled.

But ahead of the U.S. leader's high-stakes visit, the White House has set low expectations that Trump will be able to persuade Xi to change China's posture.

Instead, the administration seems determined not to let differences on Iran overshadow efforts to make headway on other difficult matters in the complicated relationship — ranging from trade to further Chinese cooperation to block exports of fentanyl precursors.

“We don’t want this to be something that derails the broader relationship or the agreements that might come out of our meeting in Beijing,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Bloomberg TV last week.

US administration sanctioned China ahead of the trip

Beijing publicly insists that it wants to see the war end, and has been working diplomatically behind the scenes to help its ally Pakistan push to broker a peace agreement. It has also sent a “subtle message of discontent to Iran” for closing the Strait of Hormuz, and to the U.S. for its blockade of Iranian shipping, said Ahmed Aboudouh, a specialist on China’s influence in the Middle East with the London-based Chatham House think tank.

“They are very cautious, risk-adverse, and they don’t want to be involved in anything that would drag them into something that they don’t consider their problem,” he said.

In recent days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have stepped up their calls for China to use its influence to help reopen the strait, through which about 20% of the world's crude flowed before the war began.

The State Department announced on Friday that it was sanctioning four entities, including three China-based firms, for providing sensitive satellite imagery that enables Iranian military strikes against U.S. forces in the Middle East. Earlier, the Treasury Department moved to target Chinese oil refineries accused of purchasing oil from Tehran, as well as shippers of the oil. The sanctions cut off the companies from the U.S. financial system and penalize anyone who does business with them.

Beijing has called the sanctions “illegal unilateral pressure” and enacted a blocking statute — passed in 2021 and never used until now — that prohibits any Chinese entity from recognizing or complying with the sanctions.

Ahead of Trump's arrival, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week hosted his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Beijing. The Chinese foreign minister used the moment to defend Iran’s right to develop civilian nuclear energy.

Xi has also offered implicit criticism of the U.S. over the war. He has said that safeguarding international rule of law is paramount, adding it “must not be selectively applied or disregarded,” nor should the world be allowed to revert “to the law of the jungle.”

Both China and the US want to avoid a return to a tariff war

Trump on Monday downplayed differences with China over Iran and underscored that Xi wants to see the strait reopened. “He’d like to see it get done,” Trump said of the Chinese leader.

Like Trump, Xi also has plenty of reason to not let differences over Iran impact other facets of the relationship, analysts say. China imports about half its crude oil and almost one-third of its liquefied natural gas from Middle East countries affected by the closure of the strait, according to China’s General Administration of Customs.

Beijing wants to guard against further deterioration of the U.S.-China relationship — something that would add further challenges to its economy.

“I think for Xi, a win is continued stability without surrender,” said Craig Singleton, senior director for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' China program. “He wants the summit to validate China’s superpower status, preserve the tariff predictability, and to reaffirm that Washington has to deal with Beijing on Beijing’s terms.”

Yet, since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes in late February, there have been difficult moments between Trump and Xi that threatened to set back the relative stability in their relationship.

China has long supported Iran’s ballistic missile program and backed it with dual-use industrial components that can be used for missile production, according to the U.S. government.

Last month, Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on China after reports that Beijing was preparing to deliver a shipment of new air defense systems to Iran, but later backed away from the threat, claiming that he had received written assurance from Xi that he would not provide Tehran with weaponry. Days later, Trump said cryptically that the U.S. Navy had intercepted a Chinese vessel carrying a “gift” for Iran. He has not offered further explanation.

“There have been moments where it seemed like it was going to spill over,” said Patricia Kim, who co-leads the Assessing China Project at the Brookings Institution. “But I think, again, the two sides are pretty invested in not allowing this to destabilize the broader relationship.”

Both Trump and Xi may be eager to avoid creating dark economic clouds, as they did last year, when the two powers appeared on the precipice of a massive trade war.

Trump had set tariffs on Chinese goods at 145% and China announced a further tightening of rare-earth export controls that would have hurt U.S industry — before the governments backed off from inflicting maximalist penalties on each other. The two sides reached a fragile truce in their long-running trade disputes in October.

Trump and other administration officials have made the case that the conflict — particularly the closure of the strait — has caused greater harm to China and its Pacific neighbors than it has to the United States, which is far less dependent on Middle East oil.

“China is an export-driven economy. That means they depend on other countries to buy from them,” Rubio told reporters last week, making the case that it was in China's interest for Iran to let traffic resume. “You can’t buy from them if you can’t ship it there, and you can’t buy from them if your economy is being destroyed by what Iran is doing,” he said.

But for now, China has shown little interest in wading deeper into the conflict and has appeared reluctant to be seen siding with Washington.

“It will be difficult to get the Chinese deeply involved under any circumstances,” said Kurt Campbell, a former deputy Secretary of State during the Biden administration and chairman of The Asia Group. “They will want to be careful because they can see political quicksand as well as the next guy.”

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Associated Press writers Didi Tang in Washington, Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and David Rising in Bangkok contributed to this report.

Now, after a year-long investigation into another deadly shooting that he was involved in months earlier, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office found his use of deadly force justified.

On Monday, authorities released the body-worn camera video from that case.

It was on April 13, 2025 when Jaramillo responded to a domestic dispute involving Kelly Hudson and his estranged wife at a southwest Miami-Dade County home.

According to investigators, Hudson’s wife called 911 multiple times, saying her husband had followed her from Georgia to South Florida.

She told dispatchers she was trying to hide at her parents’ home because Hudson was violent, had been stalking and hurting her, and was armed.

Body camera video shows Hudson stepping out of a car while following the deputy’s commands. When asked if he was armed, Hudson is seen lifting his shirt, revealing a gun in his waistband.

Investigators say Hudson then reached toward the weapon, prompting Jaramillo to open fire.

The State Attorney’s Office says the deputy repeatedly ordered Hudson not to reach for the gun, but when Hudson continued moving toward it, the deputy fired several times.

Hudson was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

After reviewing the body camera video, witness statements, and evidence, the State Attorney’s Office concluded Jaramillo’s use of deadly force was legally justified.

It was at a townhall meeting of the West Broward Democrat Club at Flamingo Park in Sunrise where redistricting in the state was a main topic of discussion.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked about what district she will choose to run from.

“I’m reaching out to leaders across our community and talking to them about how they feel about to about what they think about the idea of who represents them,” she said.

It’s possible she runs in District 20, which has historically had an African-American representative.

Tension was seemingly already building as former District 20 Rep. Shelia Cherfilus-McCormick, who was at Monday’s event, said she is running once again for the seat she resigned from in April, just prior to an Ethics Committee hearing amid allegations of stealing.

“There’s a fight in the entire south to make sure Black voices are not deluded and Black representation is being held,” said Cherfilus-McCormick.

This as voters of District 20 made their stance clear, some of whom were wearing shirts that read “Protect Black Representation.”

“For 34-years we’ve had Black representation and I think we should keep it that way,” said Lauderhill resident Herbert Waters.

The conversation taking focus as Florida’s new congressional districts, drafted by Governor Ron DeSantis, are expected to give Republicans better odds of winning four more seats in the House this November.

Wasserman Shultz has yet to officially announce which district she will be vying for.

“I’m not on anyone’s timetable,” she said. “I’ll have the conversations that I need to an ill reach a decision on short order.”

Qualifying closes June 12, which is when voters will know who is running for their district.

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Residents like Audrey Gonzalez, who has lived in the area for 35 years, were on high alert, preparing to evacuate if necessary.

“(I’m) very, very concerned,” she said, adding that she’s been “coming out in the middle of night, just to make sure that it wasn’t coming towards our way.”

The fire could be seen from West Broward High School, though students remained in class.

West Broward resident Roxanne Gill said, “We could hear it crackling. That’s how bad it was. I had to hose down my house.”

“Everyone was hosing down all their trailers before the fire department came,” she said.

At long last, rain began to fall in the late afternoon, which was a welcomed sight for residents.

“This is amazing, we have been praying for this because it was very dry and the prediction was like it’s not gonna dry until tonight, so I’m super, super grateful right now,” said Elba Navarro. “I live nearby and honestly I didn’t sleep last night. I was waking up every two hours running to the window to see how close the fire was.”

As the fire moves deeper into the everglades, the concern for neighbors now is the displaced wildlife showing up at their front doors.

“Not just only something happened to them that of course I’m concerned but alligators, coyotes, snakes, they run and they run to our house because we have lakes,” said Navarro.

“It’s just about staying ready,” Kelly said, “and all these guys in here are ready.”

Mackenzie Blackwood made 19 saves in his first start this postseason after relieving Scott Wedgewood during a 5-1 loss in Game 3 on Saturday, and the Avalanche moved within one win of taking the first spot in the Western Conference finals. Game 5 will be in Denver on Wednesday.

“You’re never going to be perfect after 30 days off, so I just try to do my best to stay sharp,” said Blackwood, who learned the day before he would be starting.

Nazem Kadri scored on a power play in the second period, and Nathan MacKinnon — who had a brief absence to fix a bloody nose from a puck to the face — and Brock Nelson added empty-net goals in the final minute.

Nico Sturm tied the game at 2 for Minnesota with his first goal of the postseason about two minutes after Colton scored, but the Wild were outshot 20-4 over roughly the first half of the game by an energized Colorado offense.

Rookie Danila Yurov scored his first career postseason goal on a deflection midway through the first period for the Wild during a four-minute power play prompted by a double minor penalty on defenseman Josh Manson, but they failed to consistently get pucks deep into the offensive zone and allowed their crowd-noise advantage to all but disappear during their slog of a second period before coming to life down the stretch.

“The style of game that we needed to play to win the game, we didn’t,” coach John Hynes said. "We made the conscious choice not to play that way tonight, so we’ll readdress that and then we’ll get ready for Game 5.”

After leading the NHL in goals during the regular season while posting the league's best record, the Avalanche scored 14 times over the first two games before Wild goalie Jesper Wallstedt stonewalled them in Game 3.

But Colton, whose wrist shot was set up by a slick across-the-slot pass by linemate Nicolas Roy, became the 15th player to score for the Avalanche in just eight postseason games this spring. Then Kelly made it 16.

“They were doing a lot of what we want to do — quick with the puck, get it down deep, work our players down low," Wallstedt said. “They got a lot of pucks to the net. They were creating rebounds. They were creating scoring chances. We want to do the exact same thing. It just took a little longer for us to get there.”

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Trump, who turns 80 next month and was the oldest person elected U.S. president, will see his doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on May 26, the White House said in a brief statement Monday evening.

The president's health has been the subject of tremendous scrutiny, so much so that Trump said he regretted getting imaging on his heart and abdomen last year because it raised public questions about his health.

Trump — who has been frequently critical of former President Joe Biden for age-related health and fitness issues — has recently remarked how good he feels despite his years. Earlier Monday, Trump that he feels the same as he did 50 years ago. “I feel literally the same,” he said at an Oval Office event. “I don’t know why. It’s not because I eat the best foods.”

Last week, he joked about his exercise regimen, saying that he works out “like about one minute a day, max.”

Presidents have wide discretion over what health information they choose to release to the public. Trump's doctor reported after an annual physical exam in April 2025 that the president was “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief.

His physician, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, said Trump was 20 pounds lighter since a 2020 checkup that showed him bordering on obesity.

Months after the visit reported last April, Trump had a checkup after noticing what the White House described as “mild swelling” in his lower legs. Tests by the White House medical unit found that Trump had chronic venous insufficiency, a condition common in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins.

At the time, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also addressed bruising on the back of Trump's hands that has sometimes been covered by makeup. Leavitt said it was the result of irritation from frequent handshaking and aspirin use. Trump takes aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Trump went on to have an October medical exam that the White House called a “semiannual physical,” where he also got his yearly flu shot and a COVID-19 booster vaccine. He later told The Wall Street Journal that he underwent advanced imaging on his heart and abdomen in October as preventive screening.

In his first term, Trump had at least four medical exams in office, aside from a stay at Walter Reed when he got COVID-19 in October 2020.

His upcoming dental evaluation follows two other recent visits to a local dentist near his estate in Florida, where Trump often spends his weekends.

The checkup is scheduled to take place about 10 days after Trump is expected to return from a summit in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Mitchell tied an NBA playoff mark with 39 points in the final two quarters as he rallied the Cavaliers to a 112-103 victory Monday night.

“What a shift, right? Really struggled in the first half and then big-time, second-half performance by Don,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said.

The home team has won all four games in the series, which shifts to Detroit for Game 5 Wednesday night.

Mitchell matched the mark of Eric “Sleepy” Floyd on a free throw with 27.6 seconds remaining. He had a chance to break the record, set in 1987 when the Golden State Warriors faced the Los Angeles Lakers, but missed his second foul shot.

“Everybody let me know that I missed a free throw to break the record, though,” said Mitchell, who finished with 43 points. “I will say that, but we’re two and two headed to Detroit. That was what we came home to do and that’s all that matters.”

James Harden had his 40th playoff double-double with 24 points and 11 assists. Evan Mobley had 17 points as Cleveland remained unbeaten at home in six playoff games.

Caris LeVert had a season-high 24 points for Detroit. Cade Cunningham scored 19, the first time he has been held under 20 in 11 playoff games this season, and Tobias Harris added 16.

Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who takes pride in the physical style his team plays, was not pleased with the free throw disparity. Mitchell had more trips to the foul line (15) than Detroit (12).

“There is no way one guy on their team should have more free throws than our team. We’re not a settling for jump shots team," he said. “We didn’t do enough to help ourselves, but ever since we came to Cleveland, the whistle has changed.”

Even though Mitchell struggled in the first half and the Cavaliers shot 15 of 38, with most of their shots being 3-pointers, the Cavaliers felt pretty fortunate to be down 56-52 at halftime.

Atkinson's message at halftime was to play with more pace and attack downhill, which opened things up.

Mitchell scored 15 during Cleveland’s 24-0 run that went from the last 12 seconds of the first half to the first six minutes of the third quarter. Cleveland trailed 56-52 at halftime before taking control.

The Cavs were 10 of 12 from the field and made three 3-pointers. They also converted five turnovers by the Pistons into nine points.

“When (Mitchell) sees a gap, he’s going to go. We’ve got to eliminate his touches and catches on the run,” Cunningham said. “That run, we just never caught our footing again. That was the first time they really got loose in the series.”

The 24-0 run was the longest in an NBA playoff game since since Minnesota also scored 24 straight in Game 6 of its Western Conference semifinal series against Denver in 2024. It was also the longest spurt by Cleveland in a postseason game since play-by-play stats were kept in 1997-98. The previous high was 19 in an Eastern semifinal series contest against Boston.

“We understood if we could just get some stops and get out in transition and get some easier looks, we’ll be in good shape. We were doing a solid job, we just weren’t scoring,” Mitchell said, “I think understanding that we were in a good spot and did a good job of weathering a storm.”

Mitchell and Harden accounted for 49 points apiece with their points scored and points off assists. Mobley was a force on both ends of the court with eight rebounds, five assists, three steals and five blocked shots.

“Don’s going to get all the flowers, but we should give a lot of flowers to Mobley for tonight’s performance,” Atkinson said.

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“It’s been hell,” said resident Michele Swan.

“It’s a disaster,” added William Swan.

“There’s noise, the house shakes,” said homeowner Mark Gilden.

“I thought my house was going to cave in,” said 83-year-old Sara Albornoz.

The residents, many retired and in their 70s and 80s, live just east of Memorial Regional Hospital along Grant, Hayes and Garfield streets. For years, the South Broward Hospital District has been buying homes in the neighborhood as part of Memorial Regional Hospital’s massive expansion plans. Many of those homes have already been demolished.

Residents who remain say vacant lots around them are now being used for parking, construction staging, equipment storage and temporary offices tied to the hospital’s expansion project. Only a handful of homeowners remain.

Some residents thought they would spend the rest of their lives there.

Instead, they say their neighborhood has slowly disappeared around them.

“I’m dealing with my husband that is very ill,” Albornoz said.

Alexandra Grada said construction activity has changed daily life for her family.

“I now have a toddler and a fresh newborn and we now have not even been able to walk in our own neighborhood,” she said.

“Is it fair to pull out of the bottom of us what we work all our life for?” Michele Swan asked.

Despite their frustrations, residents insist they are not trying to stop the hospital’s expansion.

“The hospital has to expand. I understand that,” Gilden said.

Still, residents say the process of buying them out has become unfair.

“We’re gonna lose this house,” William Swan said.

Residents told Local 10 offers were made years ago, but they claim negotiations later stalled.

“No, I haven’t heard anything else -- not from the hospital district or from the city,” Gilden said.

Seven homeowners have now hired attorney Kyle Teal, who specializes in property rights and eminent domain issues.

“They’re living in the middle of a construction zone,” Teal said.

“There’s been some negotiating, but it’s not what I consider to be in good faith,” he added.

Teal said residents want the hospital district to formally begin eminent domain proceedings rather than continue what he describes as piecemeal voluntary negotiations.

“It ensures a fair process. Property owners are protected,” Teal said.

Teal claims the hospital district has refused to begin that process and instead has attempted to negotiate directly with homeowners individually.

“I’m not capable of negotiating with the hospital district on my own,” Gilden said.

“They don’t want this to be a story about taking people’s property, but the reality is that’s what’s happening,” Teal said.

Residents also say they cannot afford to relocate using the offers they have received.

“We got an offer that was market value at the time, but now we can’t even buy an equivalent home with that amount of money,” Grada said.

“I couldn’t afford the taxes or the cost of living someplace else,” William Swan said.

“You’re taking our property and you don’t want to compensate for the expansion of where we have to go,” Michele Swan said.

“We only have our self security,” she said. “This is paid off so we can live, we can survive on our two checks.”

“Even if we got the house, we can’t afford the taxes today according to people that are telling us how much they’re paying in taxes,” she added.

Residents are also questioning how and why the City of Hollywood has allowed construction staging and parking areas in a neighborhood zoned single-family residential while people are still living there.

The City of Hollywood told Local 10 the use was permitted because the land is owned by Memorial and located close to the construction area.

“They said we are looking to do this enabling, parking, equipment storage, and we permitted it,” said Joann Hussey, a spokesperson for the City of Hollywood.

“We thought this would be the least amount of impact,” Hussey said.

Residents living there disagree.

“I had to ask a dump truck to move out so I could get out of my driveway,” William Swan said.

“The noise woke her up twice at 7 a.m.,” Grada said of her newborn child.

Russell Long, the city’s chief building official, acknowledged some complaints were legitimate.

“Some of them are justified,” Long said.

Teal believes the current conditions surrounding the remaining homes are influencing residents’ decisions about whether to stay or sell.

“Frankly, they’re trying to wear them down,” Teal said.

A November 2025 letter obtained by Local 10 informed homeowners of disruptions tied to the expansion project and offered independent appraisals for residents interested in selling.

In a written statement to Local 10, the South Broward Hospital District said all home purchases in the neighborhood are voluntary and that homeowners who wish to sell are offered fair market value supported by independent appraisals.

The district also said it remains open to negotiations with homeowners and their attorneys and remains committed to being “a responsive and transparent neighbor” during the hospital’s expansion.

The district said Memorial Regional Hospital’s expansion project represents one of the largest healthcare investments in the region in years and will expand healthcare access for South Florida residents.

Local 10 News also asked Memorial Healthcare System why eminent domain proceedings have not been initiated involving the remaining homes.

The hospital district says it is intentionally choosing not to pursue eminent domain, arguing voluntary negotiations give homeowners more flexibility, more control over timing and the ability to decide whether and when to sell.

Memorial says eminent domain could ultimately force homeowners into lengthy court proceedings and remove their choice altogether.

Teal argues the current voluntary process leaves residents at a disadvantage.

“Their only potential buyer holds all the leverage and they hold none,” he said.

Teal said he is weighing additional legal options for his clients.

Residents say what they ultimately want is simple.

“That’s all we want is honesty and fairness,” Michele Swan said.

“I just want a fair deal negotiated by a professional in my best interest and I’m ready to go,” Gilden said.

Morton died Saturday in Mill Valley, California, the Broncos confirmed through his family.

Morton is one of only four QBs to start the NFL’s biggest game with two organizations. The other three — Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Kurt Warner — all ended up with at least one win. Morton's only Super Bowl ring came as a backup.

His first Super Bowl start was in a turnover-plagued Super Bowl V to end the 1970 season — a 16-13 loss by the Cowboys to the Colts. Morton threw the Cowboys’ first touchdown pass in a title game.

Seven years later, and after an unsuccessful stint with the New York Giants, Morton led the Broncos to a matchup against his former team. He threw for 39 yards and four interceptions before getting pulled for Norris Weese in a 27-10 loss, which marked the first of four straight Super Bowl defeats for Denver.

Known for his strong arm, Morton turned in a college football Hall of Fame career at California, where he played for coach Marv Levy and assistant Bill Walsh. Morton went fifth in the 1965 NFL draft to the Cowboys. Oakland also took him in the 10th round of the AFL draft.

He joined a Cowboys team coached by Tom Landry that had veteran Don Meredith at QB. Morton played in four games that season. He then split time with up-and-coming Roger Staubach in 1970-71, the year the Cowboys went to their first Super Bowl.

The next season, Morton and Staubach also split time — at some points, even alternating every play. But ultimately, it was Staubach who took over the starting job, then led the Cowboys to the Super Bowl and a 24-3 win over Miami. Staubach was the MVP of that game and it wasn’t hard to imagine the end of Morton’s time in Dallas.

The Cowboys dealt their backup to the Giants in 1974 for a package that included a pick Dallas would use to take defensive lineman Randy White, who became a Super Bowl MVP and Pro Football Hall of Famer.

Morton struggled in New York, but enjoyed a renaissance after getting traded to Denver before the 1977 season — the season that put the Broncos on the map.

The veteran QB became the final piece for a Broncos team under a new coach, Red Miller, who inherited a strong defense that would become known as the Orange Crush.

Morton led the Broncos to a 12-2 record and playoff wins over the Steelers and Raiders. He famously spent the week in the hospital with a hip injury before spearheading the win over rival Oakland.

Four years later — and after the Broncos had toyed unsuccessfully with finding his replacement — Morton teamed with a new coach, his former Cowboys teammate Dan Reeves. In 1981, Morton threw for 3,195 yards and 21 TDs, both career highs (he matched his best mark in TDs).

He retired after starting three games in the strike-shortened 1982 season. Denver would trade for John Elway, who supplanted Morton as the franchise’s most famous and revered No. 7.

Morton threw for 27,908 yards over his career with 183 touchdowns and 187 interceptions. Morton ranked in the top 20 all-time in yards passing and TD passes when he retired following the 1982 season.

He was voted into the Broncos’ Ring of Fame in 1988, along with two other standouts from that ’77 team — Haven Moses and Jim Turner.

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AP National Writer Eddie Pells and AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow contributed to this report.

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Toews tried to send the ill-fated clearing attempt from the crease toward the corner, but it made a direct hit on MacKinnon's face instead. The league's leading goal scorer during the regular season collapsed to his knees in pain before an athletic trainer arrived to press a towel under his nose and help him skate off the ice.

Blood was all over, including streaming down the inside of MacKinnon's visor, and he went up the tunnel for further treatment shortly before the second intermission. MacKinnon returned in time for the third period and tacked on an empty-net goal in Colorado's 5-2 win.

“If he was going to be able to get out there, he was going to be out there," coach Jared Bednar said. “I just felt for him because I just went through that. It doesn’t feel very good.”

Bednar went to a hospital with facial fractures and a corneal abrasion in his eye last month, missing a two-game road trip after being hit with a puck on his right cheek that soared into the bench area during a game.

MacKinnon has six goals and six assists in eight playoff games this spring for the Avalanche, who lead the Wild 3-1 going into Game 5 on Wednesday.

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According to an arrest report obtained Monday by Local 10 News, Janice Garcia, of Miami, surrendered herself Sunday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

She faces charges of DUI and DUI causing serious bodily injury.

According to the report, the crash happened just after 3:30 a.m. on April 11 as Deputy Josh Brown and another deputy were patrolling the Kendall District as a two-officer unit.

Deputies said Garcia struck Brown with her blue Mazda MZ3 as he was outside his patrol car in the 8500 block of Southwest 99^th Court.

Brown told detectives that Garcia flashed her vehicle’s high beams at him, and his partner said Garcia was driving very close to the edge of the roadway.

According to the report, Brown tried to move out of the car’s path, but was struck and propelled through the air.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel transported the deputy to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Authorities confirmed Brown suffered a concussion and numerous other injuries throughout his body, and had to receive a skin graft and undergo ankle surgery.

According to the report, Garcia appeared to be distraught after the crash and had “slurred speech, bloodshot, watery eyes” and her breath smelled like an alcoholic beverage.

A member of MDSO’s Impaired Driving Enforcement Squad said Garcia told him “Tell me what my rights are” before agreeing to participate in field sobriety tests, which she failed.

She also agreed to provide blood samples, which showed her blood-alcohol content level was .156 percent and .154 percent, above Florida’s .08% limit for drivers, the report stated.

Garcia is expected to appear in bond court on Monday.

The Hispanic Police Officers Association posted a photo of Brown on its Instagram page after Garcia’s arrest, showing some of his injuries.

“For those who have asked how they can support Deputy Brown and the Brown family during this difficult time, attendance at the hearing would certainly not go unnoticed,” the post read in part. “Please continue keeping Deputy Brown and his family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Tras la lluvia de críticas que desató entre los padres y organizaciones civiles locales la iniciativa de recorte del ciclo escolar, la Secretaría de Educación Pública informó en un comunicado que luego de un análisis exhaustivo de impacto de las medidas y una deliberación colectiva se acordó “mantener el calendario escolar 2025-2026 en sus términos originales”, y que las clases culminarán el 15 de julio.

La polémica surgió luego de que el secretario de Educación Pública, Mario Delgado, informó el 7 de mayo en un video que se difundió en su cuenta de X que se adelantaría para junio el fin del período escolar por la “extraordinaria ola de calor” que se vive en el país, que aseguró que se extenderá por dos meses, y por el torneo mundialista que se desarrollará entre el 11 de junio y el 19 de julio.

Organizaciones civiles locales que defienden los derechos de los niños y adolescentes y agrupaciones de padres rechazaron la propuesta alegando que el recorte de más de un mes de clases afectaría el derecho a aprender de los infantes y complicaría la situación de los padres que no tienen quien cuide a sus hijos durante las vacaciones.

La Copa Mundial se disputará en 11 sedes en Estados Unidos, tres en México y dos en Canadá. Las sedes mexicanas de la justa deportiva serán la Ciudad de México, donde se jugará el partido inaugural, Guadalajara y Monterrey.

The fire in the area of Florida City was 50% contained after burning about 300 acres, according to the Florida Forest Service.

Miami-Dade firefighters responded to the area of Southwest 344 Street and South Dixie Highway.

“We are working on protecting the communities around Florida City and Homestead, and also making sure that roads stay open,” M-DFR Chief Ralph Baena said.

The smoke from the fire affected air quality and drivers’ visibility. Drivers from Florida City to the Florida Keys experienced road closures on Sunday.

“You can smell it in the air,” Rafael Granadas said in Florida City.

M-DFR personnel warned people with respiratory conditions to keep their windows and doors closed and set their air conditioning systems to recirculate. Emmanuel Villa works outdoors.

“It’s going to be hard at work, breathing all this smoke at work,” Villa said in Florida City about his work in the Florida Keys.

The fire “danger” was moderate and the “potential” high on Monday in Miami-Dade, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ fire danger index report.

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Mercedes Cevallos and Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

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The 81-year-old will be sworn in Tuesday to extend his presidency over a further five-year term that may well be his last — although not necessarily the last for the Museveni family.

The president's son and presumptive heir, army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, oversaw dayslong rehearsals of the military parade that will animate the eighth inauguration of Museveni, with Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flying noisily over official ceremonial grounds in Kampala, the Ugandan capital.

Many Ugandans now accept that Museveni’s presidency — the only one that millions of people have known — is nearing its end. What remains uncertain is the nature of the transition and how orderly things would be in the time he has left in office.

Two possible routes to the top

Kainerugaba looks poised to take over. He has declared his wish to succeed his father and said recently that the mission is unstoppable.

Still, his path is narrow and could follow one of two ways: either a bloodless but unconstitutional takeover by Kainerugaba or a constitutional amendment that allows lawmakers with the ruling party — who have an overwhelming majority — to pick him as Museveni’s successor. An electoral win is seen as a hurdle too high for Kainerugaba, whose challengers would include opposition leader Bobi Wine, the popular entertainer who has twice run for president and rejected the outcome of the January election that gave Museveni his next term.

Anita Among, the parliamentary speaker, said last month that legislators would do everything possible to assist Kainerugaba in his pursuit of the presidency.

“For the sake of MK, just assure MK that we will do whatever it takes,” Among told a group of lawmakers celebrating the general's birthday, mentioning Kainerugaba's initials. “In the 11th parliament, opposition got swallowed. In the 12th parliament, it is going to be walloped.”

In addition to the speaker, many other leaders have been scampering to show allegiance to Kainerugaba. While their moves display a quest for political survival, they also underscore Kainerugaba’s rise as Uganda’s de facto leader as his father ages and relies more on the army chief to exercise authority.

“Many Ugandans close to power have learned this lesson. That the president is old and exhausted, both intellectually and physically,” Andrew Mwenda, a close ally and friend of Kainerugaba, wrote last month in The Independent online newspaper. “He has a limited ability to monitor many things across a large spectrum of sectors.”

Kainerugaba, 52, joined the army in the late 1990s, and his rise to the top of the armed forces has been controversial, with critics dubbing it the “Muhoozi Project” to prepare him for the presidency.

Museveni and Kainerugaba often denied the existence of such a scheme, but it has become apparent in the last two years that hereditary rule is possibly what the president prefers.

Museveni, who has not said when he would retire, has no rivals within the ruling party – the reason many believe the military will have a say in choosing his successor.

“While people are waiting for the legal transition from Museveni, the de facto transition has already happened,” said Angelo Izama, an analyst who runs the Uganda-based Fanaka Kwawote think tank. “Kainerugaba, more than the president, is the final voice on defense and security matters.”

A more confrontational style than his father's

Kainerugaba’s associates describe him as a dedicated military officer who often eschews ostentatious displays of wealth. He attended military schools in the U.S. and Britain before taking charge of a presidential guard unit that has since been expanded into an elite group of special forces.

In addition to his military duties, he is the founder of a political activist group known as the Patriotic League of Uganda. Its members and well-wishers range from government ministers to businesspeople.

But Kainerugaba lacks the public charisma and folksy style of Museveni, who has kept power in part by striking deals with his political rivals and even convincing some to serve in his government. Kainerugaba's style is more confrontational, expressed often in harsh online posts that can give offense. He has ordered the arrest over alleged corruption of multiple generals, including some known to have once been his friends.

Museveni first took power by force in 1986 as the leader of a guerrilla force whose goal was to democratize Uganda after years of chaos and civil war. He said at the time that Africa’s problem was leaders who overstayed their welcome. Much later, he changed his stance to say his criticism was of leaders who prolonged their rule without an electoral mandate.

Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional security, is often credited with presiding over relative peace and stability. But many others see an increasingly authoritarian streak at odds with his early promise of democracy. Term and age limits have been scrapped and some rivals jailed or sidelined.

Lawmakers recently passed a punitive bill whose stated purpose is to deter foreign interference, but which drew widespread concern over its potential to hurt the work of non-governmental organizations and opposition groups.

The legislation forbids an “agent of a foreigner” from obtaining grants or other monetary support from external sources exceeding 400 million Ugandan shillings — roughly $110,000 today — within a 12-month period without the approval of the interior minister.

Wine's party, the National Unity Platform, condemned the legislation as “unconstitutional, irrelevant and brought in bad faith to further persecute those with divergent views.”

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The eight-time All-Star went 1 for 5 with a single and a strikeout hitting second behind Shohei Ohtani and ahead of Freddie Freeman in a 9-3 loss in the series opener against the San Francisco Giants.

“We just have to make sure we swing at good pitches,” Betts said before the game. “Those guys are good, too. They drive nice cars, too. We just have to control the zone, swing at good pitches.”

The Dodgers have dropped eight of their last 12 games and were looking for Betts to help jumpstart a stagnant offense. They have scored three runs or fewer in nine of those 12 games.

"I know I’m not the hero,” said Betts, the 2018 AL MVP. “It’s important for everyone to know it’s going to take all of us and not just one guy getting through their struggles or whatever it is.”

Betts was batting .179 (5 for 28) with two home runs in eight games before he went on the injured list April 5 with a right oblique strain.

"I just didn’t really realize how long it takes for it to really heal,” he said. “I felt pretty good pretty fast actually. But just some of the movements I couldn’t do kind of lingered for a long time. I was trying to hurry but obviously the doctors were saying it just takes a month for it to heal.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Betts would start at shortstop Monday and Tuesday before taking Wednesday off.

“After seven days, six days, I think he’s going to want to be in there regularly, but we’ll kind of see,” Roberts said.

Betts was on a tear in spring training, hitting .357 with a .786 OPS in five games before briefly leaving the team for the birth of his third child. He cooled off the first two weeks of the regular season before getting hurt.

Roberts is taking a wait-and-see approach toward Betts' offense. The 33-year-old shortstop was 2 for 5 in two minor league rehab games.

“Certainly two games of rehab, taking batting practice, a day of live at-bats, is not ideal,” the manager said, “but I think with Mookie you just don’t know. The hope is that he can kind of hit the ground running.”

With Betts' return, infielder Alex Freeland was sent down to Triple-A Oklahoma City. He was hitting .235 with two homers and eight RBIs in 33 games.

The front office chose to keep second baseman Hyeseong Kim over Freeland.

“What it came down to is Hyeseong has performed better,” Roberts said.

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Already, testimony about Altman's turbulent tenure at the ChatGPT maker has become prime fodder for internet jokes. One piece of evidence that has inspired countless memes was a text exchange between Altman and a company officer, Mira Murati, in 2023 during his short-lived ouster as CEO, when Altman asked if things were moving “directionally good or bad” and she wrote back: "Sam this is very bad."

Musk, the world's richest man, is seeking Altman's second ouster from the company leadership as part of a civil lawsuit accusing him of betraying their shared vision for OpenAI. Since its start as a nonprofit funded primarily by Musk, Open AI has evolved into a capitalistic venture now valued at $852 billion.

Even if Musk loses, the trial has invited further scrutiny of Altman’s leadership at a pivotal time for the company and its competition with Musk’s own AI firm and another rival, Anthropic, formed by a group of seven ex-OpenAI leaders. All three firms are moving toward planned initial public offerings that are expected to be some of the largest ever.

A jury that’s already heard about Altman’s character from a parade of his former allies and adversaries will ultimately decide the verdict. But the repercussions could reverberate widely.

“This is not looking good for any of them and I think that that’s a little bit unfortunate for the AI industry at a time when the public perception of AI is quite negative and seems to be getting worse,” said Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute.

Musk warned Altman would be one of America's ‘most hated’ men

The lawsuit accuses Altman and his top lieutenant, Greg Brockman, of double-crossing Musk by straying from the San Francisco company’s founding mission to be an altruistic steward of a revolutionary technology. The lawsuit alleges they shifted into a moneymaking mode behind his back.

Shortly before the trial began, Musk abandoned a bid for damages for himself and instead is seeking an unspecified amount of money to be paid to fund the altruistic efforts of OpenAI’s charitable arm. In a text exchange with Brockman proposing a possible settlement, Musk warned that Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America” as a result of the trial.

While Musk, the head of SpaceX, Tesla and a slew of other companies, was well known by the San Francisco Bay Area jury pool, fewer knew who Altman was before the start of the trial, even if they were familiar with ChatGPT.

As the trial has played out in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California over the last two weeks, jurors have heard from witnesses including OpenAI ex-board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, who spoke about the decision to fire Altman in 2023 before they were themselves ousted from the board of directors when Altman returned to his role.

In video testimony last week, Toner said a starting point for the decision to oust Altman was when OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, a respected AI scientist, reached out to confide some of his own concerns.

“A phrase we used was ‘a pattern of behavior,’ so no one single cause,” Toner said. “The pattern of behavior related to his honesty and candor, his resistance of board oversight.”

Sutskever was instrumental in the unsuccessful attempt to oust Altman but later said he regretted his role in the shakeup. In his own testimony Monday, Sutskever confirmed that he wrote a 2023 memo to OpenAI’s board that characterized Altman as pitting his executives against one another and exhibiting a “consistent pattern of lying” that was causing a loss of trust and productivity.

Sutskever said Altman’s behavior contributed to an environment that was “not conducive” to the company's goals, including its mission to safely build artificial general intelligence. He said he later backtracked and supported Altman’s reinstatement because he was concerned about what would happen to a company he worked hard to create and “cared very much about.”

“I felt that, had I not done this, the company would have been destroyed, and I felt that this was a Hail Mary,” he testified.

OpenAI begins presenting its side

The trial has carried risks also for Musk, who is pursuing an initial public offering this summer for his rocket ship maker, SpaceX, which could make him the world's first trillionaire. Among the witnesses has been Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who served as a conduit between Musk and OpenAI's leaders and also didn't disclose that Musk was the father of her two young twins, according to trial testimony.

Not until midday Monday, on the third week of the trial, did OpenAI begin calling its own witnesses, starting with Bret Taylor, the current chair of OpenAI’s board who painted a more positive portrait of Altman’s leadership.

“I think Sam has done a great job as CEO,” Taylor said. “He’s been forthright with me and the other board members.”

Syracuse University professor Shubha Ghosh, an expert in business and technology law, said regardless of the outcome of the case, he has doubts about Altman staying on as CEO of OpenAI in the long run.

“A lot this of might depend upon a testimony,” he said. “And I don’t know what he’s going to say or how he’s gonna say it. But even like the best case, movie theater type performance, with all the music playing and the angels descending or whatnot, I don’t see him coming off as a fairly strong leader, especially (since) this case has gone this far."

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Trump departs Tuesday for a summit in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in what could potentially be the first of four meetings this year.

“We’re doing a lot of business with China and making a lot of money," Trump said last week. "We’re making a lot of money — it’s different than it used to be.”

The summit is primarily about keeping the economic relationship stable, with only modest policy announcements expected. A trade truce reached last October likely will be extended, while China may announce plans to buy American soybeans, beef and Boeing airplanes. U.S. officials also have teased the creation of a Board of Trade to keep the sides talking on economic issues.

Some in the Trump administration believe "the outcome that matters more than any set of deliverables is stability and space for continued engagement, both to build domestic resilience and to facilitate future deal-making," said Brett Fetterly, a managing principal at the consultancy The Asia Group who focuses on China.

Engagement would only be the first step toward addressing the competition between the U.S. and China, as tit-for-tat tariffs, the AI and electric vehicle buildout, and the Iran war could upend relations.

China and the US are buying less from each other

Despite Trump's claims about making money, China bought nearly $50 billion less in American products last year than it did in 2022, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Some of that decrease reflects Beijing stopping soybean purchases during last year's trade war. The Trump administration has made clear that it wants to support American farmers and factories by having China import more from the U.S., with the goal of further narrowing a trade imbalance that totaled $202 billion last year.

The United States also now imports more goods from Taiwan than China, a change provoked in part by the AI race that has U.S. firms buying computer chips and servers from the self-governing island.

But going back to Trump's first term, China also began to route its U.S.-bound products through other Asian countries, while American companies shifted supply chains for computers and other electronics to Vietnam and India.

China's share of goods imported to the U.S. has fallen from 22% at the start of Trump’s first term in 2017 to just 7.5% in the first three months of this year, according to government data analyzed by Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and co-author of the book “How to Win a Trade War.”

The US wants a board to guide trade with China

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has said he “highlighted” in an April 30 call with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng the value of a “new government-to-government Board of Trade.”

Greer indicated the board could improve trade in goods without national security concerns. That could mean agricultural products, for instance, but not computer chips or other sensitive technology.

The initiative could make it easier to resolve trade disputes and help American efforts to sell more to China. It might help prevent a repeat of last year when Trump hiked tariff rates on Chinese goods by 145%, before finalizing a truce in an October meeting with Xi in South Korea.

The board also would give the Trump administration an alternative to severe tariff hikes, which have become a logistical and legal problem. The Supreme Court ruled that Trump lacked the authority to unilaterally impose many of last year's tariffs, while his temporary replacement tariffs that followed were deemed illegal by a federal court last week.

The Trump administration says the U.S. and China would need to get sign-off at home to create the board that could manage tens of billions of dollars in trade. Administration officials also would like to create an investment forum to discuss financing of operations in each country.

Traveling to China as part of the U.S. delegation are some 17 CEOs, including Tesla's Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook and Boeing's Kelly Ortberg, the White House says.

Washington and Beijing have different goals

In some ways, Trump's and Xi's governments have been talking past each other. Trump assumes America can keep its edge on AI, so he judges the trade imbalance as the big issue to solve. But Xi sees a world disrupted by climate change and the Iran war, shifts that could give a boost to Chinese technologies such as solar panels and EVs.

“Washington and Beijing are competing at different levels and different domains, with different theories of victory,” said Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow specializing in U.S.-China relations at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. “President Trump leveraged tariffs not as a weapon against China but as leverage to secure a trade deal. Xi Jinping is angling to win a cold war with the United States."

The U.S.-Israel war against Iran also is leading to an inflection point on energy, said Ali Wyne, a senior research and advocacy adviser on U.S.-China relations at the International Crisis Group.

The Trump administration is banking on the world continuing to rely on oil and natural gas, whereas China sees the price spikes following the disruption to energy shipments in the Strait of Hormuz as supporting a green energy transition that favors its industrial strategy.

“The structural frictions between the United States and China, they are growing in number and severity,” Wyne said.

The tensions beneath the sunny talk

Several potential strains could easily upset the cheery talk of friendship — raising questions about whether any meaningful progress can be made at the summit on issues like:

— China's control of the majority of rare earth mining and almost all of the processing for those minerals widely needed for electronics. The Trump administration is trying to develop its own rare earths production with new partnerships and investments in companies, a strategy that would unfold over several years.

— The U.S. push to limit China's access to the most advanced computer chips. These chips, designed by companies such as Nvidia and AMD, have the processing power to further develop AI.

— China's dominance as an automaker. Its worldwide exports of vehicles increased 21% last year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. China can sell EVs at a much cheaper price than automakers in the U.S., Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea.

— Tariffs. After the Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs, the administration launched national security investigations under a provision of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose new tariffs based on excess industrial capacity and efforts to prevent slave labor that could potentially withstand legal scrutiny.

— U.S. sanctions on a Chinese oil refinery and dozens of tankers and shippers for involvement in transporting Iranian oil. Beijing responded to the action earlier this month by demanding that no one abide by the U.S. penalties against Chinese businesses. The countries also are jousting over management of the Panama Canal.

La cancillería peruana indicó que los pasajeros llegaron en tres aeronaves hasta Juliaca, una importante ciudad peruana del sur cercana a Bolivia. Más de 140 pasajeros eran estudiantes que habían viajado a la ciudad boliviana de Potosí para participar en el 200 aniversario de una importante escuela llamada Pichincha que había invitado a una delegación escolar peruana.

El canciller Carlos Pareja agradeció al gobierno boliviano el traslado de los escolares y varios padres de los menores, que habían llegado a Bolivia desde escuelas de las regiones peruanas de Arequipa, Puno y Cusco.

Sindicatos y campesinos protestan contra el mandatario boliviano con bloqueos de vías ante la falta de respuestas a la crisis económica, la escasez de combustibles y las demoras en el resarcimiento de daños por la gasolina de “mala calidad”, según denuncian los sindicatos. Los cortes mantienen aislada a la capital de Bolivia del resto del país desde hace más de una semana provocando el desabastecimiento y el encarecimiento de alimentos.

Las clases escolares también fueron suspendidas el lunes por un paro de maestros en reclamo de mejoras salariales.

Paz, de perfil conservador, asumió en noviembre de 2025 en medio de la peor crisis en cuatro décadas, tras los gobiernos de izquierda de Evo Morales (2006-2019) y Luis Arce (2020-2025), con una inflación anual que bordea el 20%, falta de dólares y escasez de combustibles.

El gobierno ha culpado a sectores afines a Morales de estar detrás de la ola de protestas.

Workers were seen inspecting the site of the proposed arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery with tools and equipment. Part of the site was fenced off and pink flags typically used as survey markings were planted in the grass.

The work on the site was announced in a court filing Thursday in a federal lawsuit challenging the proposed arch. It consists of "surveys and geotechnical testing which are being used to generate information that will assist Defendant National Park Service (NPS) in completing procedural prerequisites” that are part of the decision-making process.

The 250-foot-tall (76-meter) proposed arch is one of several projects the Republican president is pursuing to leave his lasting imprint on Washington. With the potential to change the city's sightline, it has already sparked opposition, including through the lawsuit filed by a group of veterans and a historian.

The arch design, proposed by Trump, has already gotten early approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were appointed by Trump.

The proposed monument rises from the four lions guarding its base to a torch held aloft by a Lady Liberty-like figure on top, which would be flanked by two eagles — all gilded. The phrases “One Nation Under God” and “Liberty and Justice for All” would be inscribed in gold lettering atop either side of the monument.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the Public Citizen Litigation Group representing the four plaintiffs.

The group of veterans and a historian have sued in federal court to block construction on the grounds that the arch would disrupt the sightline between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House at Arlington National Cemetery, among other reasons.

The court filing on behalf of the Trump administration said the National Park Service had not issued a final agency action authorizing construction of an arch and should it do so, it would provide at least 14 days notice before any work could begin.

The document said the plaintiffs had been notified of the survey work beforehand and said the survey work did not constitute "construction, or a demolition in preparation for construction, of an arch."

Nicolas Sansone, a lawyer with the Public Citizen Litigation Group that brought the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs, said the government taking the preparatory steps for the construction of the arch is a confirmation that it intends to move forward. "Unless and until Congress has passed a law authorizing the arch, though, the project is unlawful, and the government has no valid basis for pursuing it,” Sansone added.

The 2024 rule adopted under former President Joe Biden was meant to refocus the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees about 10% of land in the U.S. It allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.

But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said the rule could have blocked access to hundreds of thousands of acres (hectares) of land — preventing energy and timber production and hurting ranchers who graze on public lands.

Supporters argued that conservation had long been a secondary consideration at the land bureau, neglecting its mission under the 1976 Federal Lands Policy Management Act. While the bureau previously issued leases for conservation purposes in limited cases, it never had a dedicated program prior to the Biden administration.

Bobby McEnaney with the Natural Resources Defense Council said repealing the rule ”means less protection for the clean drinking water, less protection for endangered wildlife that depend on healthy habitat, and less accountability when corporations leave these landscapes damaged and degraded."

In documents released Monday, administration officials said it exceeded the land bureau’s authority for outside parties to be allowed to obtain conservation leases.

Industry groups and their Republican allies in Congress strongly opposed the rule and had lobbied to repeal it. They said the change under Biden violated the “multiple use” mandate for Interior Department lands by catapulting the “non-use” of federal lands — meaning restoration leases — to a position of prominence.

“This action provides greater clarity and predictability for independent oil and natural gas producers—many of whom rely on consistent permitting and leasing processes to operate efficiently and invest in domestic energy supply,” Dan Naatz with the Independent Petroleum Association of America said in a statement.

The federal government's vast land holdings are concentrated in Western states including Alaska, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Since taking office, Trump has pursued a flurry of actions aimed at boosting fossil fuel production from those taxpayer-owned sites. The Republican administration also has sought to sideline some renewable energy projects, claiming they were unfairly subsidized under Biden.

The repeal is effective 30 days after it is published in the Federal Register, which was scheduled for Tuesday.

It comes after Republicans in Congress in recent months canceled land management plans adopted in the closing days of Biden's administration that restricted development in large areas of Alaska, Montana and North Dakota.

In addition to its surface land holdings, the Bureau of Land Management regulates publicly owned underground mineral reserves — such as coal for power plants and lithium for renewable energy — across more than 1 million square miles (2.5 million square kilometers). The bureau has a history of industry-friendly policies and for more than a century has sold grazing permits and oil and gas leases.

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Online jail records show Cira Quinones Lewis, 60, faces charges of driving with a suspended license and failing to return driver’s license or register with insurance company. She is also being jailed on an immigration hold.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash occurred late Sunday morning along the westbound lanes of I-75 to the west of Indian Trade Road.

Lewis was driving a black Ford Fiesta and was there to assist her son, whose vehicle had become disabled on the side of the road due to a flat tire, according to an arrest form.

Police said Lewis came to a stop in the outside lane of I-75, which caused a pileup after the vehicle behind her stopped, but the vehicle behind that one did not.

Authorities confirmed that two people have died from their injuries, while three others were injured, including a 1-year-old girl who was hospitalized in critical condition.

One of the deceased victims has been identified as Lucia Casco, 58, who was a passenger in the vehicle that was directly behind Lewis.

All of the injured victims were taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.

First responders closed all westbound lanes of I-75 while processing the scene. The highway fully reopened shortly after 4 p.m.

As of Monday morning, Quinones Lewis remained held at the Broward County Main Jail.

The circumstances leading up to the crash remain under investigation, and it’s unclear which driver was at fault.

“Honestly, I think he would just now be coming back if he was like a normal human being, but he’s not,” teammate Mike Conley said after Edwards scored 16 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter to fuel a Game 4 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday that tied their second-round series at two games apiece.

“We’re thankful for what he’s sacrificing for us and putting us on his back," Conley added. "We expect it from him. He expects it. So we just try to keep him healthy, keep him going forward.”

After returning from a hyperextended left knee that caused a deep bone bruise in nine days, Edwards had 18 points in a 25-minute reserve role to help the Timberwolves take the opener from the Spurs on the road on May 4. Edwards was back in the starting lineup for Game 3 at home on Friday and played 41 minutes.

He logged 40 minutes in Game 4 and was on the floor for the entire fourth quarter, a move coach Chris Finch made only three times during the regular season. Edwards also played the final 12 minutes in the opener of the first-round series at Denver on April 18, one week before his latest injury.

“Man, I’ve been doing a lot of stuff to get in shape. I've got the best physical therapist in the world when it comes to my body, David Hines, so big shoutout to him,” Edwards said, referring to the team's vice president of medical operations and performance. “He’s on a whole other level when it comes to that stuff.”

Edwards was limited to a career-low 61 games during the regular season, largely because of persistent pain in his right knee. Before 2025-26, he never missed more than three games in any season.

“We’re lucky to have him. He’s special, no doubt, especially given what he’s been fighting through over the last month and a half,” Finch said.

Edwards shot 13 for 22 from the floor on Sunday, including 3 for 5 from 3-point range. He took advantage of Victor Wembanyama's stunning ejection by getting to the rim, too, including a crucial finger-roll layup he dropped in through traffic with 2:24 left for a four-point lead in the 114-109 victory.

Edwards was hesitant to express much satisfaction afterward, chiding himself and the rest of the starting lineup for a lackluster third quarter while revealing that, yes, even he has his physical limits.

“I was gassed a little bit," Edwards said, "so I came out like super low on energy, just walking up and down the floor.”

His performance had more to it than simply determination and durability, though. On Mother's Day, Edwards acknowledged a deep sense of motivation and purpose in Game 4 in honor of his late mother, Yvette Edwards, who died of cancer in 2015 when he was just 13. His grandmother also died later that year.

“I couldn't lose this game for her," Edwards said before praising the support he has received from family members and close friends in Atlanta over the last decade since losing his mom and grandma. “It’s not a bunch of people that's just willing to do anything you say. These people really want to see me succeed, and they don’t let me take a day off. They stay on me.”

With that, the intensely private Edwards quickly shifted the focus in the postgame interview room at Target Center back to basketball.

“So I appreciate everybody that’s in my circle, but that’s enough about me," he said. "Just ask about my team.”

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A cold front is on the move, and it is set to bring welcome rain into our region on Tuesday. While the morning will be warm and dry, we will watch numerous scattered storms develop by the afternoon. Some thunderstorms could bring gusty winds, heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Highs will reach the upper 80s and lower 90s.

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida indicted Trenton Richard David Johnston and his 28-year-old friend Brandon Michael Tardibone for a cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme, prosecutors announced on Monday.

Johnston, who overstayed his visa, “impersonated support representatives from a popular search engine and cryptocurrency-related companies to gain unauthorized access to victims’ digital accounts and cryptocurrency wallets,” according to prosecutors.

Federal agents accused Johnston and Tardibone of also using “a series of financial transactions” to hide the nature of the stolen funds, according to prosecutors.

Johnston faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Tardibone faces charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and harboring an alien in the U.S.

Homeland Security Investigations Miami investigated the case, with the help of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Golden Beach Police Department.

El informe de la CIDH se difundió a un mes de la controversia que surgió tras el reporte del Comité de la ONU contra la Desaparición Forzada (CED por sus siglas en inglés) que solicitó remitir urgentemente la situación de México a la Asamblea General para que considere medidas para erradicar las desapariciones forzadas, lo que fue rechazado por el gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum.

La crisis que padece México bien la conoce la activista Conchita Belmontes, quien hace tres días recibió la notificación de que el cuerpo de su hijo, al que buscó por casi diez años, estuvo todo ese tiempo en el servicio forense del estado occidental de Jalisco, pero tardaron casi una década en identificarlo.

Belmontes dijo a The Associated Press entre llantos que el reporte de la fiscalía estatal sobre el hallazgo de los restos de su hijo Juan Antonio le generó “mucho coraje e impotencia” porque “todo este tiempo tuvieron el cuerpo de mi hijo, pero nunca me lo dijeron y me hicieron pasar todos estos años de dolor y sufrimiento”.

El caso Juan Antonio Olmeda Belmontes, quien desapareció en junio de 2016 en Jalisco, se suma a los más de 70.000 cuerpos que según la CED permanecen en las morgues sin identificar, lo que ha profundizado la crisis que enfrenta México, que acumula casi 134.000 desaparecidos.

La radiografía del fenómeno

Al hacer un diagnóstico del fenómeno, la CIDH admitió que las cifras reflejan la “grave situación” del país, que se ha agravado por “la falta de eficacia de las medidas de prevención, la persistencia de altos niveles de violencia, la desconfianza en las autoridades y la impunidad estructural".

Entre las víctimas de desapariciones, la comisión apuntó que hay una “multiplicidad de perfiles”, incluyendo a niños y jóvenes reclutados por el crimen organizado, mujeres y niñas víctimas de violencia de género y la trata de personas, periodistas, integrantes de la comunidad LGTBIQ+ y activistas.

Para atender la problemática que arrastra México desde hace varias décadas, la CIDH remitió al gobierno 40 recomendaciones, entre las que destacó la necesidad de fortalecer las instituciones estatales, la participación central de las víctimas y sus familias y “la identificación y el desmantelamiento de redes de connivencia" entre el crimen organizado y agentes estatales.

La CIDH también urgió al Estado mexicano a adoptar “medidas extraordinarias para reorganizar las investigaciones y la jurisdicción".

La CIDH ofrece apoyo

Andrea Pochak, vicepresidente de la CIDH y relatora para México, descartó que el informe de ese organismo que es autónomo de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) busque establecer una responsabilidad jurídica del Estado mexicano y planteó que la comisión está abierta a brindar cooperación técnica para atender la crisis.

En ese sentido recordó que desde hace varios años la CIDH ha prestado apoyo a México, tal como ocurrió con el grupo de expertos independientes que apoyó las investigaciones del emblemático caso de los 43 estudiantes de la escuela normal de Ayotzinapa que desaparecieron en 2014.

A diferencia de lo que fueron las tensiones que generó el informe de la CED, en esta oportunidad el gobierno de Sheinbaum recibió favorablemente las recomendaciones de la CIDH.

Mientras se avanza en el diagnóstico, para Belmontes la realidad es otra. La activista, de 65 años, que padece cáncer de colon, afirmó que pese al hallazgo de su hijo no detendrá su lucha para que los responsables de la demora en la identificación del cuerpo respondan ante la justicia. “Seguiré luchando para que otras madres no pasen lo mismo que yo pasé”.

Superintendent Howard Hepburn presented “the 1,000-position reduction plan,” which includes 700 vacant positions and 300 current employees.

The list includes mental health counselors, social workers, and student support instructional specialists.

“They are cutting people that actually work with children,” said Anna Fusco, the president of the Broward Teachers Union. “Everybody that works with students is educating in a different way. I’m a classroom teacher if I have a kid who came in and said my mom died that’s a mental health issue. I’m gonna call my school counselor or my social worker.”

Student support instructional specialist Patrusca Vil doesn’t know if she’ll have a job next school year. Her whole department is on the chopping block.

“Without us, all support staff, we’re with the children. If you want kids to come back, you have got to give resources and give them reasons to come back.”

Hepburn said the budget emphasizes protecting educators, and a big effort was made to prioritize cutting vacant positions and central office staff.

Adam Cervera, a School Board member, suggested cutting positions that will not affect classroom operations.

“The only thing that organizational chart does is ensure that the KCW staff will have jobs next year,” Cervera said about the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center. “But, is that really the goal?”

The School Board recently approved $254.3 million to increase some salaries. Voters will have a referendum on the ballot on Nov 3 to decide on the renewal of a property tax increase that was approved in 2022.

Watch the special School Board meeting

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The pole was blocking northbound traffic on South Dixie Highway at Southwest 88 Street.

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

Tavarus Williams was charged as an adult in the May 4, 2022 shooting death of Cairi McNear in the courtyard of an apartment complex at 7126 NW 14th Place in the unincorporated Gladeview area, just north of Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.

Williams, now 19, told a judge he was guilty of second-degree murder. Investigators with what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department arrested him days after the shooting and said that Williams shot McNear eight times following an argument.

Williams received a 25-year sentence followed by a decade of probation.

Family members of both McNear and Williams were in a Miami courtroom on Monday.

Aurianna McNear, Cairi McNear’s mother, offered forgiveness to Williams, saying she hopes to be a mentor to him.

“I am merciful for you. I want to get to know you. I want to become, at some point when my heart heals, to love you,” she said. “I want you to replace what you took from me. Cairi was my heartbeat.”

She said, “Your life for my son’s life, but in a positive manner. You become my godson. Does that sound reasonable to you?”

Williams said yes.

Angela Williams, Tavarus Williams’ aunt, also spoke.

“The fact that he’s done something wrong, he may have not known it at the time, he’s come to accept it and we just want to say thank you for forgiving him,” she said.

She added, “Thank you for forgiving my nephew.”

Williams told both the judge and the victim’s family that he hopes that one day they can see him as someone that they can care about and not someone that they hate.

In addition to his prison and probation terms, Williams must write a letter of apology, which Local 10 News learned that he has already submitted to the victim’s family.

He also must undergo substance abuse and mental health treatment and make a donation to a victim’s compensation fund.

Williams, as a condition of his sentence, cannot mention McNear in any sort of song or rap lyrics and is now allowed to communicate with Aurianna McNear.

That communication must be done so through the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and cannot be in any sort of threatening manner.

Miami enters the final week of the regular season in fifth place in the ACC, holding a 35-15 overall record that includes a 15-12 mark inside the conference.

Hurricanes catcher Alex Sosa was named the ACC’s Player of the Week for his efforts while leading Miami to a big series win over the Louisville Cardinals.

Sosa hit .692 during the series, going 9-for-13 at the plate with three home runs, two doubles, nine RBI and five runs scored during three-game series.

After transferring to Miami from North Carolina State, Sosa has had an excellent 2026 season.

He leads all Hurricanes players with 15 home runs while hitting .342 and racking up an impressive 62 RBI, 55 runs and 63 hits through his 50 games in Miami.

Sosa joins Derek Williams, Dylan Dubovik and Jake Ogden as Canes players to be named ACC Player of the Week this season.

For their final weekend series of the regular season, the Hurricanes will face a big test.

Miami heads to Tallahassee to face No. 11 Florida State in what promises to be a competitive few days of baseball.

Whether he was chipping or putting, it was a challenge.

Aronimink is marked by its 180 bunkers that frame the landing areas, except for the longest hitters. The first official day of practice for the PGA Championship brought a reminder that accuracy this week is more about shots into the green than avoiding bunkers or the healthy rough.

These are big greens with big slopes.

“Off the tee it's not extremely challenging,” said Keegan Bradley, who won on a soggy Aronimink in 2018 at the BMW Championship. “But the greens get really crazy, and they are really mounded and hilly just like a lot of Northeast courses. So to put the ball in the right spot is really important.”

The course was full, inside and outside the ropes, despite temperatures that struggled to reach 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius), which can happen with the PGA Championship moving to May and being held in northern part of the United States. Bethpage Black was even colder in 2019 until it warmed as the week went on, and that's expected to be the case this week.

Thomas was among the few who made a scouting trip during one of his weeks off. It was a chance to get reacquainted with a course that has fewer trees than the last time he played in 2018, and was in perfect condition. The last day for member play was Nov. 2.

“It's pretty generous off the tee,” Thomas said. “I don't remember, but it feels like at some point you can tell they took out a lot of trees. The holes that feel open, the rough is healthy. But the greens have a lot of slope. It's going to be dependent on how firm and fast they can get.”

There was another reason for an early trip to Aronimink. He could get in 18 holes without feeling as though he lost an entire day. That's typical in the days leading to a major championship.

“Practice rounds at the PGA are the most miserable ever,” Thomas said after playing nine holes Monday morning as the first one out on the back nine. “Unbearably slow.”

More than the U.S. Open?

“Tied for last,” he replied.

And to emphasize the importance of the heavily contoured greens, Thomas said practice rounds look like players working on the short-game area with so much chipping and putting.

“It certainly seems like it’s going to be distance control on your approach shots,” Jordan Spieth said. “Because if you’re able to really be hitting your mid- to short irons, controlling the spin and getting it into these tiers, you can actually ... have a lot of pretty close looks for birdie if you get in the right section. If you miss the section, they are going to be really difficult to either get up-and-down or to two-putt. Just lots of pitch on the greens.”

Spieth has a lot to gain this week, as has been the case since he showed up at the PGA Championship in 2017. A victory would give him the final leg of the career Grand Slam, a feat achieved by only six players, most recently Rory McIlroy last year at the Masters.

“If I can win one more tournament in my life, it would obviously be this one for that reason,” Spieth said. “But the easiest way to do that is to not try to, in a weird way. Just go out and get ready for the first hole, get a good game plan in and attack it the way it needs to be attacked.”

Brandt Snedeker and Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Canada were the final two additions to the 156-man field at Aronimink. The 45-year-old Snedeker qualified by winning the Myrtle Beach Classic last week for his first PGA Tour title in eight years; Yellamaraju was added because the winner of the Truist Championship, Kristoffer Reitan, already had qualified through his world ranking.

Tom Hoge got in as an alternate when Jake Knapp was forced to withdraw with a thumb injury.

The PGA Championship strives to have the top 100 in the world ranking, and it was close until Lucas Herbert won LIV Golf Virginia and Shaun Norris was runner-up (by 14 shots) on the European tour. Both cracked the top 100. Neither is at Aronimink.

Scottie Scheffler, the world's No. 1 player and defending champion, played nine holes. That was the case for most players, with Matt Fitzpatrick being an exception. This is his first time at Aronimink, and he saw the entire course. One part stood out.

“The green complexes, yeah, for sure,” Fitzpatrick said. "They are very severe in spots. It will be interesting to see where obviously the pins get put. There’s certainly two or three holes where you can’t have more than four pins.

“I look at the golf course that I just played, and it definitely favors length off the tee because a lot of the bunkers will be taken out of play,” he said. “So I think for me, the greens are going to be the defense for the week.”

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The measure passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, reflecting widespread support for punishing those found responsible for what was the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. The remaining 27 lawmakers were absent or abstained from voting.

Rights groups have criticized the measure, saying it makes the death penalty too easy to impose while also doing away with procedures safeguarding the right to a fair trial. Defendants can appeal their sentences but the appeals have to be heard by a separate, special appeals court rather than regular appeals courts.

Because the bill empowers a panel of judges to hand down the death penalty by a majority vote — and requires the trials to be conducted in a livestreamed Jerusalem courtroom — it has drawn comparisons to the 1962 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, which was broadcast live on television.

Eichmann was executed by hanging, the last time the death penalty was carried out in Israel, though technically capital punishment remains on the books for acts of genocide, espionage during wartime and certain terror offenses.

Opponents of the bill also say that livestreaming the proceedings before guilt is established risks turning the trials into a spectacle. They have raised questions about the reliability of the evidence that may be presented, saying it could have been extracted by harsh interrogation methods.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 as hostages. Israel’s ensuing blistering offensive on Gaza has killed over 72,628 Palestinians, including at least 846 killed since a ceasefire took hold last October.

That's according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants but says around half the deaths were women and children. The figures by the ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.

Israeli forces also killed hundreds of militants in battles in the coastal enclave, and took an unknown number of suspects into Israeli custody where they now await trial.

Simcha Rothman, one of the bill’s sponsors who is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's ruling coalition, said the overwhelming consensus for the bill in the Knesset shows Israeli lawmakers can come together “around a common mission.”

Several Israeli rights groups — including Hamoked, Adalah and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel — said on Monday that while “justice for the victims of October 7 is a legitimate and urgent imperative,” any accountability for the crimes "must be pursued through a process which includes rather than abandons the principles of justice.”

The bill is separate from a law passed in March that approved the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane.

That law applies to future cases and is not retroactive so it could not apply to the October 2023 suspects.

According to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, the country still holds about 1,300 Palestinians from Gaza without charge in its detention facilities. At least 7,000 Palestinians from Gaza had been held in Israeli custody since October 2023, and 5,000 of them were later released.

The 1,300 number does not include those held on suspicion of attacking Israel on Oct. 7 or involvement in holding the hostages.

The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling in April that struck down a majority-Black U.S. House district in Louisiana as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, significantly weakening a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act.

Alabama officials had pointed to the Louisiana case as reason for the Supreme Court to end a judicial order to use a court-imposed House map until after the 2030 census. The high court on Monday overturned that order and directed a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the Louisiana decision. That could free the state to instead use a map approved in 2023 by the Republican-led legislature that includes only one district where Black residents comprise a majority.

Anticipating a court reversal, Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 primary for some congressional districts and instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. Alabama had asked for an expedited decision ahead of the primary.

Alabama Republicans praised the decision.

“Today, the Supreme Court vindicated the state’s long-held position. Now, the power to draw Alabama’s maps goes back to the people’s elected representatives. That’s our Legislature,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a video statement. Marshall said his job was “to put the legislature in the best possible legal position to draw a congressional map that favors Republicans seven-to-zero.” He concluded with the statement, “Stay tuned.”

Republican House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter called the decision “a massive victory not just for Alabama, but for conservatives across the country.”

In a dissent to Monday's brief ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Louisiana case had reversed only one of the grounds upon which the Alabama case had been decided. Although the Voting Rights Act violation is gone, Sotomayor said a lower court could still find that Alabama had intentionally discriminated against Black voters in violation of the 14th Amendment.

The decision was a setback for Black residents and groups that had waged a legal fight for several years to get a second Alabama congressional district where Black voters had an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.

“We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. And anybody who is alarmed by these developments — as everybody should be — better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness while we still can," NAACP National President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

Deuel Ross, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney who argued the Alabama case, said, "We will consider all of our options to fight to protect the rights of these voters and keep the court ordered map in place.”

Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in the Alabama redistricting case, said she was disappointed in the decision.

“For me, I feel like this is a step backwards towards the Jim Crow era for congressional representation. The state is not going to stop here,” Dowdy said, predicting Alabama will eventually go after the remaining district.

Primaries are just a week away

The decision comes a week ahead of the May 19 primaries, setting up a potentially confusing scenario for voters. Alabama lawmakers last week approved legislation to allow special primaries in four impacted congressional districts if the state is able to switch maps. The special elections would be set by the governor.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen called the decision a “historic win for Alabama voters.” Allen said the May 19 primaries will proceed as scheduled and his office will remain in close contact with the governor’s office "as this situation continues developing.”

The change would give Republicans a chance to reclaim the district now represented by Rep. Shomari Figures, a Democrat. Figures was elected in 2024 under the court-ordered map. His election gave the state — where Black residents comprise more than one quarter of the population — two Black representatives in its congressional delegation for the first time in history.

Figures called the Supreme Court action an “incredibly unfortunate decision” that “sets the stage for Alabama to go back to the 1950s and '60s in terms of Black political representation in the state.”

Alabama is one of several states trying to change their congressional district boundaries before the November elections as part of a nationwide redistricting battle being won, so far, by Republicans.

Voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade, immediately after a census, to account for population changes. But President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans last year to redraw congressional districts to their advantage in a bid to hold onto a narrow House majority in the midterm elections.

Democrats in California countered with their own redistricting. And numerous Republican-led states have followed. The high court’s Louisiana ruling provided fuel for Republicans to intensify their redistricting efforts.

So far, Republicans think they could win as many as 14 additional seats in the November elections from new districts enacted in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Tennessee. Democrats think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah. But Democrats suffered a major setback when the Virginia Supreme Cour t overturned a voter-approved redistricting amendment that could have yielded four more seats for the party.

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Cici Gensler, who has been volunteering to foster the kittens for about two years, said she takes at least five at a time. She has saved more than 200.

“They really need you, and that just fills my heart, like I just feel so good giving them the love and the care that they need, rather than them being on the street,” Gensler said. “I feel so good, I took care of something that wasn’t going to make it without me, and I feel like I’ve made a difference in a life.”

Annette Jose, the director of M-DAS, said they need about 300 more fosters to help with the first few weeks, which are crucial to survival.

“The most euthanized animal in a shelter is the neonate just because they are so frail and because they are so vulnerable, but they are also the most adoptable,” Jose said.

M-DAS partnered with the National Kitten College, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving neonatal kittens, in December.

“In the next 3 months, they are expecting 800 kittens to come in,” said Marnie Russ, the founder of the National Kitten College. “We really work with fosters to take the fear out of what they are doing. I mean who doesn’t want to bottle feed a kitten?”

M-DAS adopts out 2,600 kittens on average annually.

Last year, in April, there were 169 neonates placed with foster families. This April, with more volunteers, there were 323.

With all supplies provided, fostering requires a time commitment of a few weeks filled with feeding and kitten cuddles.

“While this kitten right now needs extra help, this kitten, in a couple weeks will be the most adoptable animal in the shelter,” Russ said. “It will be the first animal out beyond anything else, puppies or anything.”

For more information about how to apply to foster a pet in Miami-Dade County, visit this page.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it approved Boeing’s proposed fix for the workhorse MD-11s “after extensive review.” And then FedEx started flying them to deliver packages again Sunday.

The UPS plane crashed in November 2025 shortly after taking off once the left engine flew off the wing as the plane rolled down the runway. Three pilots on the plane that was headed for Hawaii loaded with packages and fuel were killed along with 12 more people on the ground near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport.

Boeing developed a plan to replace a key spherical bearing and step up inspections of the parts that hold the engines to the wings. The National Transportation Safety Board has said that in 2011 Boeing had documented four previous failures of the part that helps secure the MD-11’s engines to the wings on three different planes, but at that point the plane manufacturer “determined it would not result in a safety of flight condition.” These planes were built by McDonnell Douglas, which was later bought by Boeing.

The FAA grounded all MD-11s after the crash because of concerns that the planes might not be safe. Earlier this year, UPS retired its entire fleet of the aircraft, which made up about 9% of its total fleet. But FedEx had remained committed to getting them back in the air even though they only account for about 4% of its fleet. The other package hauler that used MD-11s, Western Global Airlines, has not commented publicly since the crash and didn't respond to an email about the FAA's decision.

FedEx said in a statement that it worked closely with Boeing, the FAA and its own experts to inspect and repair its planes, and the government certified that it had complied with Boeing's recommendations. It owns 46 of these planes though even before the crash it had been storing more than two dozen of them.

“Safety is our highest priority at FedEx,” the company said.

But FedEx does plan to eventually retire its MD-11s and replace them with more efficient models. They had announced that long-term plan even before the crash.

Aviation lawyers who are representing some of the families that have sued over the Louisville crash said they hope the FAA made sure these planes will be safe.

“We hope the FAA does a thorough job of investigating the fixes before the MD-11 fleet is allowed to return to flight,” lawyer Bradley Cosgrove said.

But aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti said he’s surprised it took this long to get these planes flying again given how quickly the NTSB identified key concerns that likely contributed to the engine falling off. The NTSB is planning two days of investigative hearings on the UPS crash next week to delve deeper into what happened.

“I’m confident that the solution will work, and I would like to see the MD-11s back up in the air. It will be a safe airplane with regards to its engines after these corrective actions are made,” said Guzzetti, who used to investigate crashes for both the NTSB and FAA.

Some experts speculated after the crash that the MD-11s might never fly again if the repair proved to be more expensive that it was worth in these older planes. But Boeing found a way to address the safety concerns with just replacing the bearing and stepping up inspections.

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Associated Press writer Jack Dura contributed to this report from Bismarck, North Dakota.

There's no telling who will be the bettors' choice by the time the race actually starts Saturday at Laurel Park. Taj Mahal (5-1), Chip Honcho (5-1), Incredibolt (5-1) and Ocelli (6-1) were also among the favorites following Monday's draw, but none have particularly short odds in what could be the largest Preakness field in 15 years.

The last time 14 horses made it to the starting gate was in 2011.

Post time Saturday is 7:01 p.m. at Laurel, which is hosting the middle race of the Triple Crown this year as Pimlico in Baltimore is rebuilt.

Golden Tempo is the third Kentucky Derby winner in five years not to enter the Preakness, but three other horses from the Derby are in the field — Ocelli, Incredibolt and Robusta (30-1). Great White (15-1) is also back after being scratched from the Derby when he threw his jockey just before entering the gate.

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Spurs, just above the drop zone, moved two points clear of relegation rival West Ham.

Tottenham went ahead in the 50th minute on Mathys Tels' strike.

However, Tels’ foul on Ethan Ampadu with 15 minutes left led to a Leeds penalty that was converted by Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

Spurs takes on Chelsea away and Everton at home in their last two games, while West Ham is away at Newcastle before facing Leeds at home on the final day of the season.

One of the two teams will join the already relegated Burnley and Wolves in next season’s Championship.

Spurs went into the game on a high after two consecutive victories, but though they dominated the first half in terms of possession and shots on goal, they didn’t break the deadlock until five minutes into the second half.

Pedro Porro’s corner kick was cleared to an unmarked Tels, who coolly struck into the far corner of the net from 20 meters out. It was the center forward’s first goal since Jan. 7.

Tels turned villain 24 minutes later when his high foot was adjudged to have made contact with Ethan Ampadu’s head.

The referee pointed to the spot and Calvert-Lewin, who was denied a first-half penalty after a video review, confidently dispatched the spot kick.

In an edgy last few moments and a remarkable 15 minutes of added time there were no more goals. Spurs will content themselves that their destiny remains in their hands.

“We played a good game but there was big pressure," Tottenham coach Roberto De Zerbi said. “We didn’t play calmly. We wanted to win immediately without passes. When you are fighting for relegation you can’t play every game calmly.

“Leeds played a good game and we hope they play like that against West Ham in the next game.”

Spurs have taken eight out of a possible 12 points since De Zerbi’s debut defeat at Sunderland on April 12.

“We deserve to stay up," he said. “We will fight until the end. . . . Even if we had won today it wouldn’t have been finished yet.”

Hull secures playoff spot

Hull will play Southampton or Middlesbrough in the Championship playoff final after second half goals from Mo Belloumi and Joe Gelhardt gave it a 2-0 win over Millwall in London.

Belloumi’s 64th-minute strike with his left foot broke the deadlock in the second game of the two-leg affair and Gelhardt made sure with a low shot that squirmed past the Millwall goalkeeper.

The win means Hull have one match to secure a place in the Premier League for the first time since it was relegated in 2017.

Southampton and Middlesbrough drew the first leg 0-0 on Saturday and will play their return tie on Tuesday.

The playoff final is set for Wembley on May 23.

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According to the report, Leroy Wright Jr., 46, of Miami, was arrested Friday on charges of offenses against students by authority figures, unlawful sexual activity with a minor and depiction of obscene material involving a minor.

Police said the principal of Miami Jackson Senior High School was emailed by someone on April 28, who told her that Wright, a reading teacher at the school, was “having a relationship” with a student.

The principal eventually submitted a “personnel investigative model report” to the M-DCPS Office of Professional Standards last Thursday and the report was then submitted to the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, the report stated.

According to the report, police interviewed the person who emailed the principal on Thursday and that person identified the victim to them.

Police said they then interviewed the victim at his home, in the presence of his mother, and the student told them that he first met Wright at the beginning of the school year when Wright approached him and asked him to join the Freshman Club, which he was the adult sponsor for.

Police said the student joined the club.

According to the report, the victim claimed that the first sexual incident occurred on April 29 when he hugged his teacher as he was exiting Wright’s classroom.

Police said the student claimed that Wright hugged him back and then kissed him for about 6 minutes while groping him.

Wright also kissed the student on May 1 and groped him that day and while driving him home on May 4, authorities said.

According to the report, Wright waived his Miranda rights and provided some kind of admission, although his exact statement to detectives was redacted from the publicly released report.

Police said Wright was informed prior to his arrest that the victim’s cellphone had been “forensically examined.”

He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Friday and remained there Monday morning without bond.

His attorney appeared on his behalf during a court hearing Monday. He’s set be back before a judge on Wednesday.

A neighbor of Wright told Local 10 News was in disbelief after hearing of the PhD-holder’s arrest.

“He is too educated for that. No. Not my friend,” she said.

The school district released a statement over the weekend, confirming Wright would be fired.

“The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,” the statement read. “The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remain our top priority.”

“That focus hasn’t changed," Sankey said at the APSE Southeast Region meeting at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. "We’re open to the conversation, but there are a lot of ideas out there that have to be supported with analysis and information, not speculation.”

Sankey said all changes in college athletics must come with appropriate research — something he believes the SEC has provided in support of a four-team expansion to 16. To Sankey, the Big Ten-backed plan and whether it would offer much difference from 16 teams, is an unknown. A decision on the 2027 format would need to be made later this year.

The playoff expanded from four to 12 teams in 2024, and after decision-makers failed to reach an expansion agreement, the CFP will use the same model for the 2026-27 season. The discussion carries major implications for the college football schedule in general, including when it kicks off, the role of still-lucrative conference championship games and when the season comes to a close in January.

“We're trying to inform that with research. We've done that, from our perspective, with 16,” Sankey said. “We want to understand, through some analytic support, games that matter in an expanded environment, and games that might not matter.”

Sankey cited Oklahoma's late push into the playoff last season as the blueprint, saying it was “good for college football.”

An NCAA committee last month recommended that Football Bowl Subdivision teams play a 12-game schedule over 14 weeks beginning in 2027 with the season starting on the Thursday of what is now designated Week Zero and ending the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Last week, the American Football Coaches Association proposed changes to the schedule that included eliminating conference championship games, reducing scheduled bye weeks from two to one and reducing the minimum number of days between games to no fewer than six. Sankey suggested he was hearing different from league coaches.

“The American Football Coaches Association without, like, picking up the phone and having a conversation with those of us in the decision-making role, issues a set of statements and says we want to get the season done earlier," said Sankey, who contended the AFCA plan had “mutually exclusive" options. “And oh, by the way, we just met with our football coaches, (who) said, ‘If we’re going to go to Week Zero, two open weeks is the priority, not an earlier rush into the postseason.’ Two open weeks work for injury purposes, for recovery purposes, for development purposes, is the priority.”

Sankey did acknowledge a host of headaches when it comes to scheduling, with power leagues moving to a nine-game conference schedule and the ongoing desire to use non-conference dates as a chance for a marquee game to polish a CFP resume. In March, President Donald Trump issued an exective order barring postseason games from airing during the annual Army-Navy matchup in December; the AFCA has since proposed a dedicated window for the Army-Navy game with flexibility for other same-day games outside of the window.

The commissioner and AFCA are seemingly more aligned on that matter.

“We now have two executive orders about Army-Navy, and I think everyone wants to honor Army-Navy, but you do have limits," he said. "Conference championship games still exist, and there are contracts around those for the first week of December, so plenty of opinions about whether they continue or not. Then you’re the Army-Navy game, then you’re the NFL Saturday, and we’ve already infringed upon that, and you can see the impact upon both sides — ratings, the NFL and college football on that Saturday. So where do you fit all the games?”

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Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, sergeants in the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, filed the lawsuit in Miami federal court earlier this month against Artists Equity, a film production company owned by Affleck and Damon. Court filings don't say how much the officers are suing for, but the civil complaint says they're seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees, as well as a public retraction and correction.

“The Rip” features Affleck and Damon as South Florida police officers who find millions of dollars inside a house. Parts of the movie were inspired by a real 2016 case, where police found over $21 million linked to a suspected marijuana trafficker in a Miami Lakes home.

Affleck and Damon have said while promoting the film that the story is loosely based on accounts from Miami-Dade Police Capt. Chris Casiano, who served as a technical advisor on the film. Damon told The Associated Press during a January interview that he and Affleck spent time with Casiano and other narcotics officers in preparation for the film.

“We really wanted to kind of understand what those dynamics were like,” Damon said. “I mean, these units are very tight because they’re really putting their lives in each other’s hands, and they’re doing something that’s very dangerous.”

An attorney for Artists Equity declined to comment when reached Monday by the AP. But in a March 19 response to the plaintiffs' demand letter, Leita Walker, an attorney for Artists Equity, wrote that the film does not purport to tell the true story of that incident or portray real people, which had been stated by a disclaimer in the film's credits.

Although Smith and Santana aren't named in the film and weren't involved in its production, the lawsuit claims that Santana was serving as the lead detective assigned to the real case, and Smith was the sergeant who supervised the investigative team. The film's inclusion of real details about the case gives the impression that the characters are based on the plaintiffs, the suit said.

This, the lawsuit claims, has given friends, family members and colleagues the impression that the plaintiffs committed the criminal acts that appear in the film, which include (SPOILER ALERT) conspiring to steal seized drug money, murdering a supervising officer, communicating with cartel members, committing arson in a residential neighborhood, endangering the lives of civilians, repeatedly violating core law-enforcement protocols and executing a federal agent rather than making an arrest.

Walker wrote in March that the plaintiffs haven't even identified which particular character is supposed to be based on Smith or Santana, so even if “The Rip” was actually about a real-life narcotics team, there's no way to connect any of the characters to the plaintiffs.

“The Rip,” directed by Joe Carnahan, debuted in January on Netflix. It's currently rated 78% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Associated Press video journalist Brooke Lefferts in New York contributed.

The stalled diplomacy and recent exchanges of fire could tip the Middle East back into open warfare and prolong the worldwide energy crisis sparked by the conflict. Iran still has a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global oil and gas shipments, and America is blockading Iranian ports.

Asked at the White House if the ceasefire was still in effect, Trump said it’s on “life support.”

“I would call it the weakest right now after reading that piece of garbage they sent us,” Trump added. “I didn’t even finish reading it.”

Trump also said he supported a suspension of the federal tax on gasoline — just over 18 cents per gallon and 24 cents for diesel. Congress, which is controlled by Republicans, would have to approve. The tax brings in more than $23 billion each year.

His pledge came after fuel prices surged past $4.50 a gallon last week. Trump predicted that the price of oil and gas would drop “like a rock” as soon as hostilities are over.

The two sides remain far apart

Trump has demanded a major rollback of Iran’s nuclear activities, while Iran is pushing for a more limited agreement that would reopen the strait and lift the blockade ahead of further negotiations.

On Monday, Trump claimed that Iran had said it would allow the U.S. to come in and help extract its highly enriched uranium but went back on that in its latest ceasefire proposal. “They changed their mind because they didn’t put it in the paper,” he said.

Iran has not publicly agreed to give up its uranium, saying it has a right to enrich and that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.

Two regional officials told The Associated Press that Iran has offered to dilute part of its highly enriched uranium and transport the rest to a third country. Russia has previously offered to take it. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy.

Trump is expected to use a trip this week to China to urge President Xi Jinping to pressure Iran. Beijing is the biggest buyer of Iran’s sanctioned crude oil, giving it leverage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who launched the war with Trump on Feb. 28, has also demanded that all of Iran’s highly enriched uranium be removed from the country.

He told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday that if that can’t be accomplished with negotiations, Israel and the U.S. agree “we can reengage them militarily.”

Iran’s proposal included far-reaching demands

Iran’s proposal asked that the U.S. recognize its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, formalizing its control over the international waterway. Iran has effectively closed the strait since the start of the war, allowing only a small number of ships to pass and charging tolls.

But experts say such an arrangement would likely violate international law that provides for freedom of navigation. That proposal is also likely to be widely rejected by the international community. The strait was open to international traffic before the war.

Iran is also demanding war reparations from the U.S., the lifting of international sanctions, the unfreezing of Iranian assets held abroad and an end to the war between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to Iranian state TV.

Israel and Hezbollah have continued to exchange blows, mainly in southern Lebanon, since a nominal ceasefire took hold last month.

“We did not demand any concessions — the only thing we demanded was Iran’s legitimate rights,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Monday. “The American side still insists on its one-sided views and unreasonable demands.”

Pakistan still trying to negotiate a deal

Two regional diplomats familiar with the ongoing talks said that Pakistan was continuing its efforts to broker a compromise.

One of the diplomats said Pakistan was trying to arrange a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war and paving the way for a broader dialogue on issues where the two sides remain divided.

Pakistan had hoped to help finalize the memorandum last week, but the effort did not materialize, and mediators are still working on various proposals, the diplomat said.

The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the behind-the-scenes diplomacy, added that Islamabad is receiving support from other regional countries in its peace efforts.

Iran keeps up its executions

Meanwhile, Iran executed another man it accused of spying for both the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Erfan Shakourzadeh had worked on satellite communications and relayed classified information to those intelligence services.

Iran has carried out a string of executions since nationwide protests swept the country in January. Activist groups have long accused Iran of carrying out closed-door trials during which defendants are unable to fully defend themselves. Iran’s judiciary chief has repeatedly said that Tehran would increase the speed with which it carried out hangings to fight back against its enemies at home and abroad.

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Magdy reported from Cairo and Kim from Washington. Associated Press reporter Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed.

The lawsuit comes after state authorities disclosed that ChatGPT gave information to the shooter about what time and location would maximize victims on campus, as well as the type of gun and ammunition to use. Authorities say he was also told that an attack can get more media attention if children are involved.

“OpenAI knew this would happen. It’s happened before and it was only a matter of time before it happened again,” Vandana Joshi, whose husband Tiru Chabba was one of two people killed, said in a statement Monday. Six people were also wounded.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday in federal court, says OpenAI should have built ChatGPT with guardrails to let someone know that police may need to investigate “to prevent a specific plan for imminent harm to the public.”

OpenAI has denied any wrongdoing in what it called a “terrible crime.”

“In this case, ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet, and it did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity,” Drew Pusateri, a spokesman for the company, said in an email to The Associated Press.

Separately, in April, Florida’s attorney general said there was a rare criminal investigation into ChatGPT over whether the AI tool offered advice to Phoenix Ikner that enabled the April 2025 shooting in Tallahassee. The 21-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and several counts of attempted murder. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty.

Investigators said Ikner, a Florida State student, was on campus for an hour before he walked in and out of campus buildings and green spaces while firing a handgun. The shooting took place on a weekday just before lunchtime near the school’s Student Union, which has food and shops. The lawsuit says Ikner asked ChatGPT about the busiest times there.

Joshi’s husband, a 45-year-old father of two from Greenville, South Carolina, was a regional vice president of the food service vendor Aramark Collegiate Hospitality. The other man who was killed, Robert Morales, 57, was a campus dining coordinator at Florida State.

OpenAI “put their profits over our safety and it killed my husband. They need to be responsible before another family has to go through this,” Joshi said in a statement released by her lawyer.

OpenAI is currently valued at $852 billion.

Several lawsuits have sought damages from AI and tech companies over the influence of chatbots and social media on loved ones’ mental health.

In March, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children using their services. In New Mexico, a jury determined that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

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Officials said 11 people were hospitalized following the sudden explosion that occurred around 2 p.m.

Jim Scott said getting the call that his wife Paola had been rushed to the hospital was unnerving, and the reason why was unexpected.

“Wy wife has burns over 50% of her body, on her stomach, and both legs, and right arm,” he said. “I am thinking car accident, last thing on my mind is a boat blew up. One of my wife’s friends doesn’t know how to swim, so she helped her to shore.”

That friend, 62-year-old Ruth Gutierrez, has since been discharged from the hospital.

Gutierrez returned to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital with her daughter Samantha Peña to visit her friends still recovering inside.

“She said her injury is minor compared to the rest, her right arm, a part of her body, back and hair was burned as well, she thinks the hat she was wearing covered and saved her face,” said Peña. “Her whole body hurts.”

Gutierrez credits her friend Paola with saving her life.

“Her friend who is worse off than her helped her come back up to the boat,” said Peña, adding that her mother mentioned that she smelled gasoline before the explosion. “The only thing she remembers is that they were singing happy birthday, she said about the smell, and then a couple of minutes after, everything exploded. She remembers that someone replied and said that was a normal thing but she doesn’t know who was it.”

Added Scott: “They went to light a candle on the birthday cake and struck the match and then woo, it blew up.”

Seasoned boat captain Patrick Lee says he witnessed the explosion.

“A gasoline explosion is just, whoosh, quick and it is just terrible,” he said. “When we looked back out, we saw three people flying off the boat and a puff of smoke.”

Jackson Memorial Hospital staff are also caring for Adriana Rojas.

Her husband Anthony Torres said she is suffering from severe burn injuries.

“I know nine of them were submitted here, two of them got away without a scratch, which is a miracle and it is a miracle that no one was killed,” he said. “She was screaming, ‘Help me! Help me! I’m burned! The boat blew up! Help me! Help me!’”

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is actively investigating the cause of the explosion.

There has been no word on whether the boat captain or charter company will face any citations or charges.

According to police, the victims arrived Thursday afternoon at the McDonalds located at 17730 Collins Ave. to pick up a DoorDash delivery order when one of them accidentally brushed Clifford Atis, 36, of northwest Miami-Dade, with his elbow.

Police said Atis immediately punched the victim in the face and when the second victim attempted to intervene the defuse the situation, Atis said “I’m going to shoot you guys” before leaving the restaurant and heading toward his vehicle.

After Atis retrieved a gray item from his car, the victims, who went outside to tell him to wait for police to arrive, ran back inside the restaurant after seeing him holding what they believed to be a gun.

Police said they later found the weapon inside Atis’ vehicle.

Officers took Atis into custody on two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and one count of battery.

As of Monday afternoon, Atis remained behind bars at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $10,000 bond.

Hours after announcing Game 5 between the Frost and Victoire would not be played on time, the league announced it was rescheduled for Tuesday night in Laval, Quebec.

Two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press the illness is limited to Montreal. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the PWHL is not revealing that information.

The PWHL said medical assessment has determined that the symptoms are not consistent with hantavirus.

The rodent-borne disease has drawn attention in recent days after several Canadians were identified as contacts linked to a deadly outbreak aboard an Antarctic cruise ship, though no Canadian cases have been confirmed.

“The decision was made following consultation with medical personnel and in accordance with the league’s commitment to the health and wellbeing of players, fans, staff and all those involved in the competition,” the PWHL said in its initial news release.

The winner will face the Ottawa Charge in the Walter Cup Final after they defeated the Boston Fleet in the other semifinal matchup. Minnesota won the title in each of the league’s first two years of existence and is going for a three-peat.

The regular-season champion Victoire and third-seeded Frost have alternated wins, splitting each of their two games at home, including Montreal's 1-0 triple-overtime win in Game 2. The Frost forced Game 5 with a 3-1 win at Minnesota on Friday night.

The teams flew together by charter to Minnesota for Games 3 and 4 but traveled back to Montreal separately on Saturday.

The PWHL said earlier in the day that Games 3 and 4 of the best-of-five final at Ottawa were set for May 18 and May 20.

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Cummins, who worked as a senior vice president at Serco, a government contractor that works with local and federal agencies, would take over a TSA bruised by the longest partial government shutdown in history which ended late last month.

During periods of the shutdown, employees at the TSA, currently overseen by acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill, went without pay, thousands didn't show up to work and hundreds quit entirely. It left travelers frustrated over delays and missed flights and politicians pointed fingers over who was to blame for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security.

Cummins has experience in transportation at Serco, and says on a LinkedIn profile, which appears to have been taken down, that he was co-awarded a “dozen patents in transportation systems." His profile also touted that he was the director of operations for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002.

A spokesperson for Serco did not immediately return a request for comment from Cummins.

His nomination comes as the Trump administration has increasingly signaled it is backing away from promises to dismantle FEMA, an agency that has faced withering criticism by the president. The nomination of Hamilton, who argued abolishing FEMA was not in the country’s best interests, is the latest indication of that change.

If confirmed, Hamilton would be the principal adviser to Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on emergency management and FEMA’s first permanent administrator in Trump’s second term. The agency has gone through three temporary leaders, including Hamilton’s brief tenure from January to May 2025.

He would take over an embattled agency still reeling from Kristi Noem’s turbulent leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, of which FEMA is part. FEMA’s workforce has been worn down by mass staff departures, policies that hamstrung operations and a 75-day-long DHS shutdown that ended April 30.

Hamilton will need to ensure the agency is prepared for summer disaster season, just weeks away, while answering to Trump, who is likely to expect major reforms after a council he appointed recommended sweeping changes last Friday.

“Now is the opportunity to stabilize FEMA,” said Michael Coen, the agency’s chief of staff in the Obama and Biden administrations.

Fired after defending FEMA

Hamilton, who had never been a state or local emergency management director and who had publicly criticized FEMA in the past, was a controversial choice when Trump named him temporary leader in January 2025, just days before the president floated the idea of “getting rid” of FEMA.

His rupture with DHS officials began as he defended a federal role in supporting disaster-impacted states, tribes and territories.

“Once the conversation shifted to, ‘Now we’re going to abolish,’ I immediately expressed concern,” he said last September on the “Disaster Tough” podcast with John Scardena, a former FEMA incident management team leader.

DHS officials even subjected him to a polygraph test, accusing him and other officials of leaking details of a private meeting. He passed, but said he knew his dismissal was inevitable.

At a May 7 appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, asked Hamilton if he believed FEMA should be abolished.

“I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” he replied. The next day, he was fired.

Hamilton will have to rebuild trust

Defending FEMA despite knowing it would likely cost him his job garnered respect and trust among people whose job it is to lead communities through crisis, said Scardena, now president of the consultancy Doberman Emergency Management Group, which trains emergency managers.

“He won myself over and I think a lot of people by what he did,” Scardena said.

But multiple current FEMA employees who requested anonymity for fear of retribution for speaking publicly told The Associated Press they had concerns over some of the actions taken under Hamilton.

In 2024, Hamilton shared posts on X promoting misinformation about FEMA spending during Hurricane Helene.

During his temporary leadership, FEMA ceased door-to-door canvassing to reach survivors after disasters, and canceled a multibillion-dollar resilience grant program, since restored by a federal judge. The Department of Government Efficiency gained access to internal FEMA networks containing survivors’ private information. FEMA staff were fired for fulfilling a reimbursement payment to New York City for housing undocumented immigrants as part of FEMA’s Shelter and Services program.

Hamilton has said he believes FEMA needs major reform. He has said that he wants FEMA to move faster, that the agency is saddled with responsibilities he sees as outside its remit, and that some states have become too dependent on the agency. A Trump-appointed council last week urged sweeping changes to FEMA, which would require congressional action.

“I think he’s going to need to rebuild trust across the agency,” said Deanne Criswell, FEMA administrator under former President Joe Biden, adding that she believes Hamilton cares about FEMA and she appreciated his outreach to emergency management directors and former officials during and after his tenure.

Senate confirmation process could raise questions of experience

Hamilton could face pushback in the Senate confirmation process over never having led an emergency management agency, a common stepping stone to becoming administrator of an agency with over 21,000 employees.

Federal law requires the FEMA administrator to have “a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management and homeland security” and at least five years of “executive leadership and management experience.”

Hamilton trained as a Navy hospital corpsman before spending a decade as a Navy SEAL on SEAL Team Eight. He then became a U.S. State Department emergency management specialist handling overseas crisis response, then directed emergency medical services at DHS.

Según BSO, Anthony Adams, de 18 años, y Aamir Adams, de 19, fueron detenidos el viernes por múltiples cargos, incluyendo asesinato premeditado e intento criminal, instigación y conspiración. Aamir Adams también enfrenta un cargo de violación de libertad condicional.

Local 10 News solicitó copias de ambos informes de arresto.

Según BSO, el tiroteo fue reportado alrededor de la 1 a.m. del viernes cerca del bloque 7900 de Southwest Seventh Court.

Una portavoz de BSO dijo que los detectives llegaron a la escena y encontraron a dos personas con heridas de bala.

El personal de North Lauderdale Fire Rescue trasladó a ambas víctimas a un hospital local, donde una de ellas murió.

Un equipo de Local 10 News estuvo en la escena más tarde esa mañana mientras los investigadores colocaban marcadores de evidencia en el suelo antes de que un Ford Mustang fuera remolcado. La ventana del lado del conductor había sido destrozada por las balas.

Una portavoz de BSO dijo que los detectives encontraron posteriormente el vehículo de los sospechosos cerca del bloque 1300 de Avocado Isle en Fort Lauderdale, donde al menos uno de los sospechosos fue detenido.

La relación entre ambos sospechosos no ha sido divulgada aún.

Hasta el lunes por la tarde, ambos permanecían detenidos en la Cárcel Principal del condado de Broward sin fianza.

Los oficiales detuvieron a Fabrice Jack Janvier el viernes en el bloque 900 de Northwest 196th Terrace.

Según las autoridades, una repartidora de Amazon intentaba entregar un paquete cuando Janvier salió de la casa de al lado y le lanzó un machete.

La policía dijo que Janvier luego recogió el machete y lo levantó “como si tuviera la intención de golpearla”, lo que hizo que la repartidora corriera hacia su vehículo y se alejara mientras Janvier “la perseguía con el machete”, según el informe de arresto.

Los oficiales que respondieron fueron a la casa de Janvier y hablaron con él allí. Los oficiales observaron el machete en su poder, pero con la ayuda del padre de Janvier lograron que saliera de la casa de forma segura para ser detenido sin incidentes.

Janvier enfrenta un cargo de intento de agresión agravada con arma mortífera y hasta el lunes por la mañana permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $10,000.

The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a constitutional amendment that voters narrowly passed just last month. The 4-3 state court decision found that the Democratic-controlled legislature improperly began the process of placing the amendment on the ballot after early voting had begun in the Virginia's general election last fall.

Democrats argued unsuccessfully that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that, even if early voting is underway, an election does not happen until Election Day itself.

The appeal is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent Supreme Court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act.

“The Court overrode the will of the people who ratified the amendment by ordering the Commonwealth to conduct its election with the congressional districts that the people rejected,” wrote lawyers for Virginia Democrats and the state's Democratic Attorney General, Jay Jones. They added, “The irreparable harm resulting from the Supreme Court of Virginia’s decision is profound and immediate.”

The filing is a sign of Democratic desperation after the Virginia decision deprived them of four winnable House seats in the mid-decade redistricting race that President Donald Trump kicked off last year. Democrats are still favorites to recapture the House of Representatives, but their GOP rivals have claimed to have gained more than a dozen seats through redistricting. The voter-approved Virginia map would have partly offset that.

Democrats are taking a legal long shot in asking the justices to reverse the Virginia court's ruling. The Supreme Court tries to avoid second-guessing state courts' interpretations of their own constitutions. In 2023, it turned down a request by North Carolina Republicans to overrule a state Supreme Court decision that blocked the GOP's congressional map.

Politically, the appeal could help a party struggling to compete with Republicans in the unusual mid-decade redrawing of congressional boundaries by providing fodder for election-year messaging about a partisan Supreme Court. The court recently allowed Louisiana Republicans to proceed with redistricting after the justices struck down a majority Black district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Democrats have been set on their heels because, days after the Virginia ballot measure passed, the Supreme Court's conservatives reversed decades of rulings and effectively neutered the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Southern states to eliminate some majority Black districts and further pad Republican margins in Congress.

The Virginia amendment had been launched long before that ruling. It was intended as a response to Republican gains in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, and to blunt a new map in Florida that just became law. Once the Virginia amendment passed, it briefly turned the nationwide redistricting scramble into a draw between the two parties.

That was unraveled by the Virginia Supreme Court's decision. The justices are appointed by the legislature, which has flipped between the two parties in recent decades, and the body is generally not seen as having a clear ideological bent.

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Riccardi reported from Denver.

Their pitch back in 1990 didn't work. Or at the very least, the results took quite a while to come to fruition.

But now, after the Kansas City Chiefs poured millions of dollars into altering their 53-year-old stadium so that it could fit the field dimensions required by soccer's global governing body, the dream of the Hunt family is about to become a reality. Their stadium will host six pool-play games beginning next month, along with a round of 32 match and a World Cup quarterfinal.

"Clark has been keen on really living that legacy, finding a way for Kansas City and Arrowhead Stadium specifically to host World Cup matches," Matt Kenny, the Chiefs' executive vice president of operations and events, said Monday during a stadium tour.

The first match at Arrowhead Stadium will feature defending champion Argentina against Algeria on June 16. Ecuador and Curacao will play the following week, while Tunisia will play the Netherlands and Algeria will face Austria later in pool play.

The two knockout games are scheduled for July 3 and July 11, after which Arrowhead Stadium will revert to a football stadium.

The Chiefs expect to play their first preseason game about a month later.

All of the games played in the U.S. will be played in the homes of NFL teams, from MetLife Stadium — the home of the New York Jets and Giants — to Levi's Stadium outside San Francisco and SoFi Stadium outside Los Angeles. But what makes Arrowhead Stadium unique is that it was built in 1972, in a much different era for professional sports, and the notion of hosting soccer matches was never a thought.

To accommodate the larger field, several rows of permanent seats were removed from the north sideline, which is where the visiting team is on NFL game days, and replaced with modular seating for use during the football season. Those seats were then removed again when Arrowhead Stadium began to transition into a soccer venue.

For World Cup purposes, it will be known as Kansas City Stadium.

Perhaps an even bigger upgrade came to the playing surface itself. The Chiefs installed an air system beneath the field to help with the quality of the Bermuda grass pitch, which was re-sodded with a different shape crown for the World Cup matches.

“FIFA has some basic requirements in respect to playability. They want consistency with the way the ball bounces. Obviously, the width and the size of the pitch across venues,” Kenny said. “It's been the better part of 10 years from the bid to actually executing the matches here, and it's been a massive collaboration.”

The work is not quite done. Even with teams due to arrive in only a few weeks — Argentina, England, the Netherlands and Algeria will be based in the area — cranes were still working Monday to remove signage to avoid sponsorship conflicts, and putting up the fanfest, pavilions and other infrastructure that will consume vast areas of Arrowhead Stadium's expansive parking lots.

Don't expect the kind of robust tailgating experience folks are accustomed to seeing in Kansas City, either. The majority of fans will be bussed into Arrowhead Stadiums from satellite parking areas, and only a few thousand parking spots will be made available.

“The challenges were really tied to us understanding exactly what FIFA needed, what we could do to balance our unique situation,” Kenny said. “We're hosting a quarterfinal match, so that's a testament to our planning and the work that's been done.”

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Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. It prevents restrictions on mifepristone imposed by a federal appeals court from taking effect for the time being.

The court is dealing with its latest abortion controversy four years after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.

The case before the court stems from a lawsuit Louisiana filed to roll back the Food and Drug Administration’s rules on how mifepristone can be prescribed. The state claims the policy undermines the ban there, and it questions the safety of the drug, which was first approved in 2000 and has repeatedly been deemed safe and effective by FDA scientists.

Lower courts concluded that Louisiana is likely to prevail, and a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail access and telehealth visits should be suspended while the case plays out.

The drug is most often used for abortion in combination with another drug, misoprostol. Medication abortions accounted for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023, the last year for which statistics are available.

The current dispute is similar to one that reached the court three years ago.

Lower courts then also sought to restrict access to mifepristone, in a case brought by physicians who oppose abortion. They filed suit in the months after the court overturned Roe.

The Supreme Court blocked the 5th Circuit ruling from taking effect over the dissenting votes of Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas. Then, in 2024, the high court unanimously dismissed the doctors’ suit, reasoning they did not have the legal right, or standing, to sue.

In the current dispute, mainstream medical groups, the pharmaceutical industry and Democratic members of Congress have weighed in cautioning the court against limiting access to the drug. Pharmaceutical companies said a ruling for abortion opponents would upend the drug approval process.

The FDA has eased a number of restrictions initially placed on the drug, including who can prescribe it, how it is dispensed and what kinds of safety complications must be reported.

Despite those determinations, abortion opponents have been challenging the safety of mifepristone for more than 25 years. They have filed a series of petitions and lawsuits against the agency, generally alleging that it violated federal law by overlooking safety issues with the pill.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been unusually quiet at the Supreme Court. It declined to file a written brief recommending what the court should do, even though federal regulations are at issue.

The case puts Trump’s Republican administration in a difficult place. Trump has relied on the political support of anti-abortion groups but has also seen ballot question and poll results that show Americans generally support abortion rights.

Both sides took the silence as an implicit endorsement of the appellate ruling. Alito is both the justice in charge of handling emergency appeals from Louisiana and the author of the 2022 decision that declared abortion is not a constitutional right and returned the issue to the states.

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Officers took Fabrice Jack Janvier into custody on Friday along the 900 block of Northwest 196th Terrace.

According to authorities, an Amazon driver was attempting to deliver a package when Janvier came out of the home next door and threw a machete in her direction.

Police said Janvier then picked up the machete, “raising it as if he intended to strike her with it,” causing the Amazon driver to run to her vehicle and drive away while Janvier, “chased after her with the machete,” according to an arrest form.

Responding officers went to Janvier’s home and spoke with him there, with officers observing the machete in his possession, but with the help of Janvier’s father, officers were able to have him safely exit the home to be detained without incident.

Janvier is facing a charge of attempted aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and as of Monday morning, he remained behind bars at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $10,000 bond.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, The Cultural Landscape Foundation said the administration's moves to repaint the bottom of the Reflecting Pool blue without undergoing relevant reviews ran afoul to federal preservation laws governing historic sites. The group argued that the changes at the Reflecting Pool are part of President Donald Trump's broader effort to push through dramatic renovations in Washington without proper reviews and undermine the tone of the area.

"The design intent, to create a reflective surface that is subordinate, is fundamental to the solemn and hallowed visual and spatial connection between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, the group's president and CEO, said in a statement. “A blue-tinted basin is more appropriate to a resort or theme park.”

Trump has taken a personal interest in the project, calling the area “filthy” before workers repainted the Reflecting Pool a color he has called “American flag blue.” His motorcade was driven over a drained and repainted Reflecting Pool last week to give him a chance for a firsthand review of the project.

Speaking at a Rose Garden event Monday evening, Trump said the pool would be reopened “sometime next week, week after.” He did not mention the lawsuit in his remarks but said the end result would be beautiful and rebuffed criticism that it was just a new paint job. “This is not paint," he said. "This is highly sophisticated stuff.”

The suit was filed against the Interior Department and the National Park Service, which oversee much of the renovations underway in Washington. Katie Martin, an Interior Department spokeswoman, said in a statement that Trump “has done more to make our nation’s capital a shining beacon than any other president in the history of this country.”

“The Department is proud of the work being carried out by our Park Service to ensure this magical spot can be enjoyed for not only our 250th, but for many generations to come,” she said.

Over the past year, Trump has bulldozed the East Wing to make way for a ballroom. His name was added to the facades of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center, which he plans to close for a two-year renovation. His face adorns a banner at the Department of Justice’s headquarters, among others. He is pushing for a triumphal arch near Arlington Cemetery and has closed parks, including Lafayette Square across from the White House, for a rehab.

Many of those projects are also subject to litigation.

Monique Verdieux, de 56 años, huyó hacia la autopista después de ver a hombres armados quemando casas en su vecindario. Su familia se dispersó en distintas direcciones y comentó que no está segura de dónde están.

“Ahora estoy durmiendo en la calle”, declaró Verdieux, destacando que no era seguro regresar.

Las pandillas han tomado el control de más del 90% de Puerto Príncipe desde el asesinato del presidente Jovenal Moïse en julio de 2021 en su casa. Las bandas, según la policía, han ampliado sus actividades —incluidos saqueos, secuestros, agresiones sexuales y violaciones— hacia el interior del país. Haití no ha tenido presidente desde el asesinato.

En un comunicado difundido el lunes, el grupo humanitario Médicos Sin Fronteras anunció la evacuación de su hospital en Cité Soleil tras intensos enfrentamientos ocurridos el domingo en el vecindario, ubicado en Puerto Príncipe. La organización, conocida por sus siglas MSF, informó que atendió a más de 40 víctimas de disparos en un lapso de 12 horas, mientras brindaba refugio temporal a 800 personas que huían de la violencia. Uno de los heridos fue un guardia de seguridad que fue alcanzado por una bala perdida en los terrenos del hospital.

“Logramos evacuarlo y su condición ahora es estable”, dijo Davina Hayles, jefa de misión de MSF en Haití. “Pero es impensable que nuestros equipos y los civiles deban convertirse en víctimas de estos enfrentamientos”.

Durante las últimas dos semanas, el productor haitiano de ron Barbancourt y dos de las mayores embotelladoras del país han advertido sobre el deterioro de las condiciones de seguridad cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional Toussaint Louverture, en Puerto Príncipe, donde las operaciones ahora están severamente restringidas.

En un comunicado difundido el domingo, las empresas indicaron que la respuesta del gobierno a la crisis ha sido “en gran medida insuficiente”, y señalaron que el mal estado de las carreteras que conducen al aeropuerto dificulta la labor de las fuerzas de seguridad haitianas para patrullar la zona. Las empresas se encuentran entre los principales contribuyentes fiscales de Haití.

“No se puede asegurar un aeropuerto si se permite que las carreteras a su alrededor se deterioren”, se lee en el comunicado.

En abril, llegaron a Haití las primeras tropas extranjeras vinculadas a una fuerza de las Naciones Unidas para reprimir a las pandillas, con el fin de ayudar a contener la violencia en curso.

El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU aprobó a finales de septiembre un plan para autorizar una fuerza de 5.550 integrantes que aún no ha llegado por completo a la nación insular. Hasta ahora se ha desplegado un número desconocido de tropas de Chad.

En un informe publicado a principios de este año por la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones se llegó a la conclusión de que la violencia de pandillas había desplazado a más de 1,4 millones de personas en Haití, y que aproximadamente 200.000 de ellas viven ahora en sitios hacinados y con escasos fondos en la capital del país.

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Surveillance video shows Michael Tilley and a woman grabbing two pieces of luggage belonging to American Airlines passengers from a carousel on April 18 at MIA, according to a deputy’s arrest report.

“Both subjects then exited the terminal, entered the vehicle, and fled the area,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

Tilley, of Miami Gardens, “pawned two pairs of shoes” on April 20 that had been in the stolen luggage, according to the deputy’s report.

Deputies arrested Tilley on Friday in Miami Gardens. Court records show Tilley was convicted of robbery in 2023 and sentenced to a 5-year probation. It was set to end on Oct. 28, 2028, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a new grand theft case against him on Saturday. He appeared in bond court, and a judge ordered him to stay away from MIA. His bond was $2,500.

Monique Verdieux, 56, fled to the highway after watching armed men burning houses in her neighborhood. Her family scattered in different directions and she said she's not sure where they are.

“I am now sleeping in the street,” Verdieux said, noting it was unsafe to return.

Gangs have overtaken more than 90% of Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenal Moïse in July 2021 at his home. Police say they have expanded their activities — including looting, kidnapping, sexual assaults and rape — into the countryside. Haiti has not had a president since the assassination.

In a statement released Monday, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders announced the evacuation of its hospital in Cité Soleil following intense clashes in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood on Sunday. The organization, known by its French acronym MSF, reported treating over 40 gunshot victims within 12 hours while providing temporary shelter to 800 people fleeing the violence. One of those injured was a security guard who was hit by a stray bullet in the hospital's grounds.

“We managed to evacuate him and his condition is now stable,” said Davina Hayles, MSF’s head of mission in Haiti. “But it is unthinkable that our teams and civilians should become victims of these clashes.”

For the past two weeks, Haitian rum maker Barbancourt and two of the nation's largest bottlers have also warned about deteriorating security conditions near Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport, where operations are now severely restricted.

In a statement released on Sunday, the companies said that the government's response to the crisis has been “largely insufficient,” and noted that the poor state of the roads leading to the airport makes it difficult for Haitian security forces to patrol the area. The companies are among Haiti’s main fiscal contributors.

“You cannot secure an airport if you allow the roads around it to degrade,” the statement read.

In April, the first foreign troops linked to a U.N. force arrived in Haiti to help quell ongoing violence.

The U.N. Security Council in late September approved a plan to authorize a 5,550-member force, which has not fully arrived in the island nation. An unknown number of troops from Chad have so far been deployed.

A report published earlier this year by the International Organization for Migration found that gang violence has displaced more than 1.4 million people in Haiti, with approximately 200,000 of them now living in crowded and underfunded sites in the nation's capital.

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Rodríguez was speaking at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the final day of hearings in a dispute between her country and neighboring Guyana over the massive mineral- and oil-rich Essequibo region.

“We will continue to defend our integrity, our sovereignty, our independence, our history,” said Rodríguez, who assumed power in January following a U.S. military operation that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela is “not a colony, but a free country,” she added.

Speaking to Fox News earlier on Monday, Trump said he was “seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st US state,” according to a post by Fox News' co-anchor John Roberts on social media. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.

Trump has made similar comments about Canada.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly later declined to comment on Trump’s plans in an interview of her own with Roberts on Fox News. Kelly said the president is “famous for never accepting the status quo,” and praised Rodríguez for “working incredibly cooperatively” with the U.S.

Rodríguez went on to say that Venezuelan and U.S. officials have been in touch and are working on “cooperation and understanding.”

Before addressing Trump's comments, Rodríguez defended her country’s claim to Essequibo at the United Nations' highest court, telling judges that political negotiations — not a judicial ruling — will resolve the century-old territorial dispute.

The 62,000-square-mile territory, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana, is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and other natural resources. It also sits near massive offshore oil deposits currently producing an average 900,000 barrels a day.

That output is close to Venezuela’s daily production of about 1 million barrels a day and has transformed one of the smallest countries in South America into a significant energy producer.

Venezuela has considered Essequibo its own since the Spanish colonial period, when the jungle region fell within its boundaries. But an 1899 decision by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States drew the border along the Essequibo River largely in favor of Guyana.

Venezuela has argued that a 1966 agreement sealed in Geneva to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the 19th-century arbitration. In 2018, however, three years after ExxonMobil announced a significant oil discovery off the Essequibo coast, Guyana’s government went to the International Court of Justice and asked judges to uphold the 1899 ruling.

Tensions between the countries further flared in 2023, when Rodríguez’s predecessor, Maduro, threatened to annex the region by force after holding a referendum asking voters if Essequibo should be turned into a Venezuelan state. Maduro was captured Jan. 3 during a U.S. military operation in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, and taken to New York to face drug trafficking charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

Rodríguez did not address the referendum in her remarks, but she told the court that the 1966 agreement is designed to allow negotiations between Venezuela and Guyana to resolve the territorial dispute. And she accused Guyana’s government of undermining the agreement with the “opportunistic” decision to ask the court to address the dispute.

“At a time when the mechanisms established in the Geneva agreement were still fully in force, Guyana unilaterally chose to shift the dispute from the negotiating arena to a judicial resolution,” she said. “This change was not accidental; it coincided with the discovery in 2015 of the oil field that would become world-renowned.”

When hearings opened last week, Guyana’s foreign minister, Hugh Hilton Todd, told the panel of international judges that the dispute “has been a blight on our existence as a sovereign state from the very beginning.” He said that 70% of Guyana’s territory is at stake.

The court is likely to take months to issue a final and legally binding ruling in the case.

Venezuela has warned that its participation in the hearings does not mean either consent to, or recognition of, the court’s jurisdiction.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the incident was reported at about 7:20 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of South Military Trail.

Deputies said two men who were known to the victim attempted to rob him at gunpoint.

During the encounter, one of the suspects fired a weapon at the victim, according to investigators.

Authorities said the victim managed to escape and was not injured.

One of the suspects, Gedarious Antwan Geffrard, 31, was taken into custody Saturday while the other suspect, Seth Jemmy Bain, 57, was arrested Sunday.

Both face charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill. Geffrard also faces charges of fleeing and eluding at a high speed, resisting without violence and various drug trafficking and possession charges.

As of Monday afternoon, both were being held at the Broward County Main Jail. Geffrard was being held without bond while Bain was being held on a $50,000 bond.

El juez de Sentencia Carlos Oblitas suspendió la audiencia y ratificó la orden de detención que pesa en contra del exmandatario y líder cocalero desde hace más de un año. Morales dijo desde la región cocalera del Chapare, donde está atrincherado resistiendo una orden de detención, que el proceso supone su “persecución política”.

El juicio quedó suspendido hasta que el acusado “sea aprehendido o comparezca voluntariamente” dijo el fiscal Luis Esteban Ortiz en rueda de prensa.

Tampoco se presentaron a la audiencia los abogados del acusado. El tribunal había declarado la rebeldía de Morales en la fase de instrucción.

Wilfredo Chávez, abogado del exmandatario, señaló en La Paz que se trata de “un juicio político que no respeta los derechos” del procesado. “La supuesta víctima ha planteado excepciones que el tribunal no ha tratado. No hay denuncia de la víctima, el caso debe archivarse”, sostuvo Chávez.

La presunta víctima reside junto a su madre en Argentina. La fiscalía maneja el caso con reserva debido a que en el momento de los supuestos abusos —en 2016— ella era menor de edad.

Morales tiene otras acusaciones, pero el proceso por supuesta “trata agravada” avanzó hasta la apertura de juicio oral en Tarija. Su detención no ha sido efectuada debido a que está protegido por sus seguidores, según ha justificado la policía.

El proceso judicial tiene lugar en momentos de alta tensión social en el país por el endurecimiento de las protestas en contra del conservador presidente Rodrigo Paz ante la falta de respuestas a la crisis económica, la escasez de combustibles y las demoras en el resarcimiento de daños por la gasolina de “mala calidad”, según denuncian los sindicatos. Los cortes de ruta mantienen aislada a La Paz del resto del país por más de una semana provocando el desabastecimiento y el encarecimiento de alimentos.

El centro de La Paz estaba colapsado el lunes por protestas, entre ellas la de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), que comenzó reclamando aumentos salariales y ahora pide la renuncia del mandatario ante la falta de respuestas.

El gobierno ha culpado a sectores afines a Morales de estar detrás de la ola de manifestaciones. “El conflicto (cortes de ruta) está focalizado en La Paz por grupos minoritarios que están radicalizando las protestas y buscan que el gobierno se caiga”, dijo el ministro de Gobierno Marco Antonio Oviedo a radio Panamericana.

Las clases escolares también fueron suspendidas el lunes en todo el país por un paro de maestros públicos en reclamo de mejoras salariales.

Paz asumió en noviembre de 2025 tras los gobiernos de izquierda de Morales y Luis Arce (2020-2025), en medio de la peor crisis en cuatro décadas.

“Hemos recibido un Estado quebrado y atravesamos una fractura social, política y moral que requiere de un pacto entre todos los bolivianos para salir adelante”, dijo el mandatario el sábado en la apertura de un diálogo con gobernadores, alcaldes y empresarios, entre otros interlocutores.

Tavarus Williams fue acusado como adulto por el asesinato de Cairi McNear el 4 de mayo de 2022 en el patio de un complejo de apartamentos en 7126 NW 14th Place en el área no incorporada de Gladeview, al norte del vecindario de Liberty City en Miami.

Williams, ahora de 19 años, le dijo a un juez que era culpable de asesinato en segundo grado. Los investigadores del entonces Departamento de Policía de Miami-Dade lo arrestaron días después del tiroteo y dijeron que Williams le disparó a McNear ocho veces tras una discusión.

Williams recibió una sentencia de 25 años seguida de una década de libertad condicional.

Familiares tanto de McNear como de Williams estuvieron presentes en el tribunal de Miami el lunes.

Aurianna McNear, la madre de Cairi McNear, le ofreció su perdón a Williams y dijo que espera convertirse en su mentora.

“Soy misericordiosa contigo. Quiero conocerte. Quiero llegar a, en algún momento cuando mi corazón sane, amarte”, dijo. “Quiero que reemplaces lo que me quitaste. Cairi era el latido de mi corazón.”

Angela Williams, tía de Tavarus Williams, también habló.

“El hecho de que haya hecho algo malo, puede que no lo haya sabido en ese momento, ha llegado a aceptarlo y solo queremos decir gracias por perdonarlo”, dijo.

Williams le dijo tanto al juez como a la familia de la víctima que espera que algún día puedan verlo como alguien por quien puedan sentir afecto y no como alguien a quien odien.

Además de su condena de prisión y libertad condicional, Williams debe escribir una carta de disculpa, que Local 10 News supo que ya entregó a la familia de la víctima.

También debe someterse a tratamiento por abuso de sustancias y salud mental, y hacer una donación a un fondo de compensación para víctimas.

Como condición de su sentencia, Williams no puede mencionar a McNear en ningún tipo de canción o letra de rap, y tiene permitido comunicarse con Aurianna McNear únicamente a través de la Fiscalía del Estado de Miami-Dade y de manera no amenazante.

Before he spent Sunday “just carving everyone up” in his second consecutive win at Watkins Glen International, the knives were playfully out for the Trackhouse Racing driver.

“My mates were all giving me (guff) yesterday about how I’m getting too old,” van Gisbergen said after his second consecutive win on the road course in New York. “I don’t feel old. I felt like that’s one of the best races I’ve driven. It was pretty cool.”

His seventh career Cup win might have featured his most impressive drive yet.

After giving up the lead with 24 laps remaining, van Gisbergen made up 23 spots and nearly 30 seconds in 17 laps. With his first victory since last October, he tied Chase Elliott for most road and street-course wins among active Cup drivers.

“We have a race car driver that is at a level that I don’t think this sport has ever seen before on these road courses,” said Trackhouse Racing founder and co-owner Justin Marks, who gave the driver nicknamed “SVG” his chance at NASCAR with a ride in the inaugural Chicago Street Race three years ago.

The three-time champion of Australia’s Supercars responded by becoming the first driver to win his Cup debut in 60 years. He has since been nearly unbeatable on road and street courses — winning six of the past seven races on the tracks with left and right turns.

The question now becomes whether van Gisbegen can achieve the same excellence on the ovals that dominate the Cup Series circuit.

The Watkins Glen win moved him up three positions into the 16th and last provisional spot in the NASCAR Chase. He is six points ahead of Chase Briscoe and 38 in front of three-time Cup champion Joey Logano, but van Gisbergen isn’t locked into the 10-race championship run as he was for last year’s playoffs, which have been overhauled this season.

With the end of the “win-and-in” format, van Gisbergen will need to stockpile points through consistently solid finishes in his second full year of racing full time in NASCAR’s top series.

“I really want to earn my way in this year, and that’s what you have to do,” he said. “I know that we need to get a lot better as a team, and I still need to improve a lot as a driver.”

Trackhouse also has work to do — teammates Ross Chastain (19th in points) and Connor Zilisch (32nd) are ranked well outside the Chase.

“It’s been easy to see that we’ve certainly been behind,” Marks said. “We’ve been working harder behind the scenes than we have ever in the history of this company because the way that we started this season, it’s unacceptable to us.”

Marks said there was “some light at the end of the tunnel” with the speed of the Trackhouse Chevrolets two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway. Chastain and Zilisch qualified in the top 20 while van Gisbergen was a disappointing 30th.

“I feel like I went backward a bit going to Texas,” he said. “It’s a track I haven’t been to much, and I’ve still got so much to learn there. Other tracks, I’m really getting to know them and what I want the car to feel like.”

Of the 14 races left in the regular season, there are 12 ovals, a road course (Sonoma) and a street course (the inaugural race in San Diego). If he can match his early performance (four top 15s in the first six ovals), van Gisbergen believes he can return to the Chase and solidify a NASCAR career that he would like to take into the next decade.

“I still enjoy it and still feel like I’m learning a lot, especially the last couple of years,” he said. “It’s probably more than I’ve ever learned, and I don’t feel like I’m getting any slower. I’ll keep doing it as much as I can.”

Marks on Project 91

Marks discovered van Gisbergen through the team’s Project 91 program, which aims to put international racing stars in one-off Cup rides.

After fielding van Gisbergen, Formula One champion Kimi Raikkonen and four-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves, Project 91 has been on hiatus since the 2025 Daytona 500 but isn’t out of commission. “I would say don’t forget about Project 91,” Marks said Sunday when asked about its status. “That’s all I’ll say right now.”

Extension for Stenhouse

Hyak Motorsports announced a multiyear contract extension Monday with 2023 Daytona 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who has been with the team since 2020.

“Ricky has been a huge part of what we’re building at Hyak Motorsports, and we’re proud to continue this partnership for years to come," team owner Gordon Smith said in a statement.

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The drivers involved in the crash shortly before 10:20 p.m. on Saturday at Southwest 46 Avenue and Pembroke Road were 19-year-old Mathis Frederick and Breyon Sampson, according to BSO.

Frederick was traveling eastbound on Pembroke Road in a 2022 Tesla Model Y, and Sampson was driving a 2018 Honda Accord when he was turning from Pembroke Road westbound to 46 Avenue southbound, according to BSO.

In a statement, deputies described the Honda and Tesla crash as a “T-bone type collision” that caused “the Honda Accord to split in half.” Surles was a passenger in the Honda, according to deputies.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel reported taking seven people, including a child, to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital. The cause of the fatal crash remained under investigation.

His Spanish club Atletico Madrid announced the surgery on Monday. The procedure usually requires months of recovery time and the World Cup begins in one month.

Atletico didn’t give a timetable for his return. It also didn’t immediately say when or where the surgery will take place.

The 24-year-old Cardoso sprained his ankle during training last week.

He has 23 appearances for the U.S. since his debut in 2020.

The U.S. opens its World Cup campaign on June 13 against Paraguay in Inglewood, California. Mauricio Pochettino ’s team also plays Australia and Turkey in Group D.

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Behind the scenes, it’s been Jessica Pegula, the 2024 U.S. Open runner-up, organizing the top tennis players in their protest with the Grand Slams over the share of tournament revenues devoted to prize money.

It comes naturally to Pegula, who grew up in a household of sports managers: Her parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.

“I think it maybe does (come naturally) just because I feel like I’ve taken on a bit of a leadership role with it,” Pegula said.

Already this year, No. 5-ranked Pegula was named to lead a new 13-person panel to suggest changes to the women’s tennis calendar, rankings points rules and the requirements about competing in certain events. Now she's taking on the prize money issue, too.

“I’m not afraid to go up to any type of player and go like, ‘Hey, are you interested in this or not?’" Pegula said. "Some players, they don’t care, sometimes they’re not worried about it. Sometimes they’re like, ’Yeah, for sure, I’m 100% in.' I’ve been reaching out to players on the men’s and women’s side.”

Sabalenka said last week the players should consider a boycott for a bigger slice of tournament revenue, while Sinner said there’s a lack of respect.

“At the end of the day the players are the ones that have the big voices,” Pegula said. “It’s been nice to see Aryna and Jannik kind of step out. I know a lot of other players feel the same way. But to have the two No. 1s very outspoken about it, that’s kind of what it takes to get them to listen.”

Players' share dropped in Paris

Whereas in the NFL and NHL athletes take home about 50% of the revenues, at most tennis events the number isn’t even half of that. The upcoming French Open is allegedly devoting under 14.9% to the players — down from 15.5% in 2024, according to a players’ protest statement issued last week.

Roland Garros organizers announced last month they were increasing overall prize money by about 10% for an overall pot of 61.7 million euros ($72.1 million), with the total amount up 5.3 million euros from last year. But the players’ said that the the underlying figures tell a very different story.

“It’s crazy. It’s an insane difference. Obviously they’re different sports. They’re run differently," Pegula said, comparing tennis to the NFL. "But tennis has been a very old-school sport. I think it’s one of the things that needs to change. Sometimes change is good. Sometimes that means fighting for things.”

The same group of players sent a letter a year ago to the heads of the four Grand Slams seeking more prize money and a greater say in decision-making. Wimbledon increased its 2025 total pot by 7%, the U.S. Open by 20% and the Australian Open this past January by 16%.

Still, the players say the Grand Slams don’t match the rate of 22% at regular ATP and WTA Tour events.

“The slams have kind of just gotten away with paying not that much because we’re a very individual sport,” Pegula said. “It’s hard to get players to come together. We’re not on a salary where football players or basketball players can afford not to play.”

Organizers at the French Open, which starts in less than two weeks, have not responded to requests for comment.

Wimbledon is due to announce its prize money next month and Pegula said the players have not had a response from the All England Club.

“We’re just going to kind of continue to talk amongst ourselves,” she said.

One of the big issues affecting tennis governance is that there are seven organizing bodies: The four Grand Slams, the ATP, the WTA and the International Tennis Federation.

“That’s what makes it so hard is that our sport is super fragmented. Hard to get everybody on the same page,” Pegula said. “That’s why it’s been huge to actually have the top 10 men and women really come together. I’m hoping that will get the Slams’ attention.”

Pegula advances in Rome

Before she gets to Paris, Pegula has been perfecting her clay-court game at the Italian Open, where she reached the quarterfinals with a 7-6 (6), 6-2 win over Anastasia Potapova on Monday. She routed Rebeka Masarova 6-0, 6-0 in the previous round.

Pegula will next face three-time Rome champion Iga Swiatek, who beat four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka 6-2, 6-1.

Sabres' playoff run

In between her matches and prize money activist duties, Pegula has been struggling to watch the Sabres’ run to the playoffs for the first time in 15 years due to the time difference between the U.S. and Europe.

The Montreal Canadiens beat the Sabres 6-2 in Game 3 on Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in their second-round playoff series.

“My gosh, I am so upset that I have not been able to see any of the games,” Pegula said. “I would give anything to just be at a playoff game. … I love it so much. It’s my favorite thing.”

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Nearly half of American business economists who responded to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics say that the conflict has negatively impacted their operations, according to a report released Monday, and most (54%) say they've been affected by rising energy prices. More than two-thirds reported steeper material expenses over the last three months, the highest level NABE has seen since July 2022.

The Iran war, which began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28, has plunged the world into an energy crisis. Crude oil costs continue to rise amid Washington and Tehran's ongoing standoff in the Strait of Hormuz — worsening price spikes for companies and households around the globe. As fuel gets more expensive, transportation costs are eating further into businesses' everyday operations. Supply disruptions for a range of other necessities, including fertilizer, are also causing growing strain.

Consumers are footing more and more of that bill as businesses pass higher costs to their shoppers, beyond the immediate sticker shock at the gas pump.

Nearly half (48%) of NABE's survey respondents — who are economists from businesses, trade associations and academia — indicated that their firms were passing on at least some cost increases to customers, which is actually down from 60% in January. But NABE found that a growing number (16%) also expect to raise prices over the next six months, while none plan to lower prices.

Most of the respondents say their firms are seeing strong sales now and have stable profit outlooks. That falls in line with what traders are more widely feeling on Wall Street, where eye-catching earnings from companies ranging from tech to big oil have helped propel markets to near-record highs recently.

Still, only 13% of the NABE survey's respondents said they expect their profits to rise in the near future. NABE says that's the lowest share it's seen since 2023.

Employment and spending could see more impacts soon. Nearly a quarter of NABE survey respondents said they plan to scale back investment and hiring in the next six months.

“Sales over the past three months were steady, but materials costs increased and profit margins declined,” Martha Moore, chair of the NABE’s survey, said in a prepared statement — noting that expectations had “softened” across several indicators, while the outlook for prices continues to accelerate.

Moore, who is also chief economist and managing director at the American Chemistry Council, pointed to rising recession concerns. Half of the survey's respondents see a more than one-in-four chance the U.S. falls into a recession within the next year, up from 44% of respondents who projected such a likelihood in January, NABE found.

The move, which effectively deputizes the global financial system to help disrupt Iran’s sanctions-evasion infrastructure, comes as the U.S. and Iran reached another impasse over how to end their war while their ceasefire has grown increasingly shaky.

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after he rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war.

The Trump administration is calling on banks to flag certain customers who may launder funds for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard — including newly formed companies moving unusually large amounts of money, firms that route payments through multiple intermediaries or transactions connected to Iranian crypto firms, among other indicators.

As part of the U.S. initiative to monitor Iranian oil sales, banks are being asked to watch out for oil labeled as “Malaysian blend” to disguise its Iranian origin, missing or falsified shipping documents or ship-to-ship oil transfers that obscure where cargo came from.

A Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network report released Monday says oil firms linked to Iran conducted roughly $4 billion in transactions in 2024.

And dozens of shipping companies based in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong — all connected to transporting sanctioned Iranian oil — processed about $707 million through U.S. accounts in 2024.

Along with a bombing campaign in Iran, the Trump administration has turned toward an economic-focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission, through sanctions and the threat of secondary sanctions on Iran's allies.

In April, Treasury sent a letter to financial institutions in China, Hong Kong, the UAE, and Oman threatening to levy secondary sanctions for doing business with Iran and accusing those countries of allowing Iranian illicit activities to flow through their financial institutions.

It happened shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday at the Orion gas station, located at 3990 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd. in Pembroke Park.

The intersection at Hallandale Beach Boulevard and Southwest 40th Avenue was blocked off for several hours as investigators processed the scene.

Detectives appeared to focus their investigation on a red Dodge Challenger, pulling out several pieces of apparent evidence over the course of the morning.

Dozens of evidence makers were also observed throughout the scene.

Units with Hallandale Beach police, Pembroke Park police and the Broward Sheriff’s Office were observed at the scene.

Authorities said BSO would be the lead on the investigation due to the homicide.

BSO spokeswoman Gerdy St. Louis later confirmed that the victim crashed his car after being shot.

“On scene, officers made contact with a witness who stated the victim, identified as Daniel Mathis, was involved in a verbal altercation with an unknown male at the Orion Gas Station located at 3990 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd,” St. Louis wrote in a news release. “At some point, the altercation escalated, and Mathis was shot.”

St. Louis said Mathis fled the scene in his vehicle, driving north over the center median of Hallandale Beach Boulevard before colliding with a Volkswagen SUV in a T-bone type crash.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel transported Mathis to Memorial Regional Hospital where he later died.

Anyone with further information about the shooting is asked to call BSO Homicide Detective Lacey Henry at 954-321-4200 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app.

Anonymous tips can be made by calling Broward Crime Stoppers directly at 954-493-TIPS (8477), or submitting a tip online at browardcrimestoppers.org.

The president cannot suspend the federal tax on his own. Congress would have to approve the move.

Lawmakers from both parties have pushed for a gas-tax suspension, saying it would provide much-needed relief for families and businesses that rely on their cars and trucks to get to work and school and run everyday errands.

As of Monday, the average national gas price was $4.52 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club, 50% higher than the average price of just under $3 a gallon before Trump began the war against Iran.

What the gas tax supports

The federal tax is currently set at 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel, an amount that does not include state taxes, which often are higher. The tax provides more than $23 billion per year in revenue for federal highway and public transit programs.

Asked by reporters at the White House how long the tax should be suspended, Trump said, “Until it’s appropriate.” While the tax is only a small percentage of the price of gas, “it’s still money,” Trump said.

As gas prices have spiked, the Trump administration has released millions of barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and temporarily lifted sanctions on some Russian and Iranian oil shipments already at sea. The U.S. is negotiating with countries reliant on Middle East crude to join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz, where about one-fifth of the world’s traded oil normally flows.

Trump needs Congress — and they're beginning to react

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said on social media Monday that he will introduce legislation to suspend the gas tax. Democrats have previously sponsored similar legislation. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., also said in a post on X that she will introduce a bill “to suspend the federal gas tax in light of Trump’s recent remarks.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he has not “been a fan” of a gas tax suspension, but added: "You know, I’ve got some colleagues out there who think it’s a good idea. So, we’ll hear them out.''

Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said he'd prefer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to “normalize gas prices" without legislation. “Obviously, any time you suspend the gas tax, that leaves a big hole in the highway trust fund, which also has implications down the road,” he said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said that "instead of suspending the tax, we should suspend the war.”

The ongoing spike in gas prices has set off alarms among some Republicans that it could hurt the party's chances in the midterm elections.

Sen. John Cornyn, who is in a tough runoff race later this month to keep his seat, said he wants to know how roads and bridges would be paid for if the tax is lifted. But he said there’s a “difference between a temporary suspension and a permanent suspension.”

“A temporary suspension to get through this sort of bumpy time because of the uncertainty about energy prices, I could live with that,” he said.

Trump has previously said higher fuel prices are worth paying to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. That hardline message appeared to soften Sunday as Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration was “open to all ideas,” including a suspension of the gas tax, during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

A bill sponsored by Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Mark Kelly of Arizona would suspend the federal tax through Oct. 1. A similar measure was sponsored in the House by Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire.

"Trump’s war of choice with Iran is driving up gas prices across the country — and Americans shouldn’t have to bear the additional economic burden of Trump’s reckless decision making,” Blumenthal said in introducing the bill.

Kelly told reporters Monday he still prefers his legislation but would take “whatever we can get at this point.”

“People need relief,” he said.

Several states, including Indiana and Georgia, have recently suspended their taxes to alleviate high prices amid the war. Kentucky and Utah have reduced their state tax. Other states are weighing similar suspensions or tax reductions.

There are drawbacks, industry group says

The gasoline tax is the single largest source of revenue for federal highway and public transit programs.

While proposed bills would offset any lost Highway Trust Fund revenue with general funds, the tax suspension could raise the federal deficit and jeopardize the long-term sustainability of investments for highway and public transit programs, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, which represents the transportation construction industry.

The group cites studies showing that many retailers do not pass on the full amount of the gas tax reduction to consumers. Research also suggests that state and federal gas taxes are just one component of a complex pricing scheme that includes the global price of oil and other factors.

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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Steven Sloan in Washington contributed to this story.

To mark the 30th anniversary, Helene McDowell and Christen Cherry were among the grieving relatives who met for a ceremony at the ValuJet 592 Memorial off Tamiami Trail.

“I think being here has been very cathartic ... I was the one that dropped her off at the airport that day, and it has always been a source of guilt for me,” McDowell said about her late mother.

The Value Jet pilot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, a short-range jet airliner, was attempting to return to MIA after a fire, and the plane crashed just about 10 minutes after takeoff, records show.

“It was negligence that killed all of our families,” said Cherry, who was grieving her mother and stepfather.

Federal investigators would later learn that “improperly packaged chemical oxygen generators” in the cargo compartment “quickly burned through flight control cables,” records show.

This prompted federal officials to enforce new mandatory safety standards for cargo holds, hazardous material regulations, and contractor oversight.

THE 110 VICTIMS

The passengers

Saeeda Alihassan, Atlanta

James Allaway, Miami

Isabel Anderson, Cookeville, Tenn.

Leslie Archibald, Opa-Locka, Fla.

Rizwan Arshad, Philadelphia

Giuseppe Bafunno, Blackwood, N.J.

Marlo Balandran, Topeka, Kan.

Thomas Balandran, Topeka, Kan.

Jen Barreiro, Bloomington, Ind.

Herbert Bell, Elkwood, Va.

Peggy Bell, Elkwood, Va.

Terri Bell, The Colony, Texas

Anthony Brown, Rose Hill, N.C.

Frances Brown, Baltimore

Lynn Brown, Rose Hill, N.C.

Joe Burnett, Shawnee Mission, Kan.

Cecelia Cabrera, Miami

Ronald Carpenter, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Lisa Carleton, Conyers, Ga.

Ninon Corneille, Lynn, Mass.

Edna Crye, Richmond, Ind.

Ken Crye, Richmond, Ind.

Karen Culver, Woodstock, Ga.

Rodney Culver, Woodstock, Ga.

Mansor Darbor, Atlanta

Bradley Ehrlichman, Indianapolis, Ind.

Betsy Favero, Duluth, Ga.

Franco Favero, Duluth, Ga.

Laura Favero, Duluth, Ga.

Charles Fluitt, Miami

Elizabeth Gabriel, Mooresville, N.C.

Deana Gabr, Conyers, Ga.

Pamela Gabr, Conyers, Ga.

Carlos Gonzalez, Alpharetta, Ga.

Angie Green, Nashville, Tenn.

Mark Griner, Marietta, Ga.

Steve Guiler, Buford, Ga.

Conway Hamilton, Miami

Laurie Hamilton, Miami

Carol Hanchey, Conyers, Ga.

John Hanchey, Conyers, Ga.

Elaine Hayman, Columbus, Ohio

Robert Hayman, Columbus, Ohio

Susan Heffernan, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Michael Howard, Hialeah, Fla.

Walter Hyatt, Nashville, Tenn.

Dan Jarvis, Gastonia, N.C.

Linda Jarvis, Gastonia, N.C.

Kathleen Kessler, Atlanta

Ison Kim, Shawnee Mission, Kan.

Rafael Lameda, Cookeville, Tenn.

Aliyagi Landry, Hollywood, Fla.

Dana Lane, Alpharetta, Ga.

Roger Lane, Alpharetta, Ga.

Ray Lathem, Alpharetta, Ga.

Andrew Leonard, Cloverdale, Ind.

Jeremy Leonard, Cloverdale, Ind.

Tabitha Leonard, Cloverdale, Ind.

Jimmy Lewis, Fayetteville, Ga.

Devlin Loughney, United Kingdom

Roger Loughney, United Kingdom

Philmore Marks, Miami

Betty McLemore, Tybee Island, Ga.

Clark McNitt, Powder Springs, Ga.

Judy McNitt, Powder Springs, Ga.

Laura McNitt, Powder Springs, Ga.

Lindsey McNitt, Powder Springs, Ga.

Neil McNitt, Powder Springs, Ga.

Judy Medeiros, Rex, Ga.

Robert Medeiros, Rex, Ga.

Ella Mitchell, Miami

Andrew Nevil, Raleigh, N.C.

Lucille Newbold, Nassau, Bahamas

Maxwell Newbold, Nassau, Bahamas

Whilhelmina Oliver, Athens, Ga.

Lisa Pearson, Kansas City, Mo.

Laurese Perkins, Miami

David Quinones

Elida Ramirez, Dunwoody, Ga.

Donna Rennolds, Whittaker, Mich.

Kim Rennolds, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Howard Rietz, Mt. Juliet, Tenn.

Terri Rugg, Richmond, Ind.

Dennis Sabo, Auburn, Ala.

Ana Sanchez, Metairie, La.

Karin Shier, Savannah, Ga.

Vi Shier, Fayetteville, Ga.

Ailven Shotwell, College Park, Ga.

Jarvis Shotwell, College Park, Ga.

Joyce Simonton, Macon, Ga.

Paul Smith, Montgomery, Ala.

Joulaun Snowden

Hugh Stanley, Gainesville, Ga.

Louise Stanley, Gainesville, Ga.

Fred Steinbrener, Acworth, Ga.

Jerrold Thompson, Kansas City, Mo.

Roosevelt Tillman, Lynchburg, Va.

Lila Viloleta, Alpharetta, Ga.

Delmarie Walker, Erie, Pa.

James Weimer, Cloverdale, Ind.

Janice Weimer, Cloverdale, Ind.

Teresa Wilson, Tybee Island, Ga.

Ruth Wolfe, Gainesville, Ga.

Robert Woodus, Upper Marlboro, Md.

The crew

Captain: Candalyn Kubeck, Bedford, Texas

First Officer: Richard Hazen, Mineola, Texas

Flight Attendant: Lori Cushing, Austin, Texas

Flight Attendant: Jennifer Stearns, Farmers Branch, Texas

Flight Attendant: Mandy Summers, Irving, Texas

Location

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Cira Quinones Lewis, de 60 años, enfrenta cargos de conducir con licencia suspendida y no devolver la licencia de conducir ni registrarse con una compañía de seguros. También está detenida bajo una orden de retención migratoria.

Según la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida, el choque ocurrió a última hora de la mañana del domingo en los carriles en dirección oeste de la I-75, al oeste de Indian Trade Road.

Un sedán Dodge blanco, una minivan azul y una motocicleta aparentemente estuvieron involucrados en la colisión.

Las autoridades confirmaron que dos personas murieron a causa de sus heridas, mientras que otras tres resultaron heridas, incluyendo una niña de un año hospitalizada en estado crítico.

Todos los heridos fueron trasladados al Broward Health Medical Center en Fort Lauderdale.

Los socorristas cerraron todos los carriles en dirección oeste de la I-75 mientras procesaban la escena. La autopista fue reabierta completamente poco después de las 4 p.m.

Hasta el lunes por la mañana, Quinones Lewis permanecía detenida en la Cárcel Principal del condado de Broward.

Las circunstancias que llevaron al choque siguen bajo investigación y no está claro qué conductor tuvo la culpa.

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Police officers accused Victoria Roman, who works as a graphic designer, of sharing images of a victim on Nov. 19 on Instagram, according to an arrest warrant.

Roman surrendered to police officers on Thursday in Davie, and corrections booked her at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.

Roman, of Miramar, appeared in bond court on Friday morning. A judge ordered her to stay away from devices with internet access.

Roman faced four counts of promotion of altered sexual depiction. Her bond was $60,000.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

Useful links

• The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
• The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s cyber tip line

According to BSO, Anthony Adams, 18, and Aamir Adams, 19, were taken into custody Friday on multiple charges, including premeditated murder and criminal attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy. Aamir Adams also faces a probation violation charge.

Local 10 News has requested copies of both of their arrest reports.

According to BSO, the shooting was reported at about 1 a.m. Friday near the 7900 block of Southwest Seventh Court.

A BSO spokeswoman said deputies arrived at the scene and found two people suffering from gunshot wounds.

North Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel transported both victims to a local hospital, where one of them died.

A Local 10 News crew was at the scene later in the morning as investigators remained at the scene, placing evidence markers on the ground before a Ford Mustang was towed away.

The driver’s side window was blown out by bullets.

A BSO spokeswoman said deputies later found the suspect vehicle near the 1300 block of Avocado Isle in Fort Lauderdale, where at least one of the suspects was detained.

The relationship between both suspects has not yet been released.

As of Monday afternoon, both were being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

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According to the report, the alleged rape occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of the beach.

Police identified the suspect as 35-year-old Shawn Markiece Peete, who detectives say was taken into custody Sunday after officers recognized him from a department-issued “Need to Identify” flyer that was circulated following the investigation.

According to investigators, officers were initially dispatched around 9:30 a.m. Saturday to the Shepley hotel at 1340 Collins Ave. after a woman reported she had been raped earlier that morning on the beach.

The victim told police she had gone to the beach alone late Friday night after checking into the hotel. She said she met a man who introduced himself as “Shawn” and used the street name “Nike,” which she said stood for, “N****, I kill everything.”

The two talked on the sand before the man allegedly became aggressive after repeatedly pressuring her to drink tequila, the report states.

The woman told detectives she attempted to leave the area because she feared for her safety, but the man followed her onto a beach access pathway.

According to the arrest report, Peete, who is homeless, grabbed the victim from behind, forced her to the ground, removed her pants and bathing suit bottom, and raped her for about five minutes while she screamed for him to stop.

Investigators said the victim managed to grab onto a rope lining the beach pathway and eventually broke free before fleeing toward Ocean Drive, where she flagged down a passerby on a scooter for help.

She later returned to her hotel room, showered, and contacted police, the report stated.

Detectives said the victim provided a description of the suspect and during her interview, complained abut pain in the back of her neck. She also had a visible bruise on her wrist.

According to the report, detectives reviewed surveillance video which captured the victim, suspect and Good Samaritan engaged in a conversation/confrontation near 11^th Street before the victim left on the scooter with the passerby.

The following morning, officers responded to a report of a man sleeping on the terrace of the Avalon Hotel at 700 Ocean Drive and identified the man as Peete, who they said matched the description of the suspect in the sexual battery case.

Peete was then transported to Miami Beach Police headquarters for questioning.

According to detectives, Peete waived his Miranda rights and admitted to having sexual intercourse with the woman but claimed she “seemed to be enjoying it.” Authorities said he told investigators the two had been drinking tequila together and “hooked up” on the beach.

Peete said the woman did tell him to stop at one point and he did, the report stated.

Detectives said Peete identified both himself and the victim in surveillance images shown during the interview and voluntarily provided a DNA sample.

Peete was ultimately arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Records reviewed by investigators show Peete is currently on probation out of Fort Lauderdale in connection with a misdemeanor controlled substance case filed in 2025.

As of Monday morning, Peete remained held at TGK. Online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”

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Authorities said the sexual battery attempt happened on Jan. 21, 2013, during an event called Igloo South Florida near the 2600 block of Southwest 31st Street in Dania Beach.

In a news release, BSO spokesperson Claudinne Caro said the victim became “incapacitated” during the event.

“The victim said she woke up in an unknown vehicle, with two unknown male subjects,” Caro said. “The victim said her pants had been pulled down. One of the subjects left DNA evidence behind on the victim. BSO investigated this case for years but without significant leads, the case turned cold.”

But authorities said this November, DNA advances led to a break in the case. They said the sample taken from the woman matched Jose Bello, 39, of Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Authorities said the woman was able to remember Bello’s face and pick him out of a photo lineup 13 years later.

Caro said BSO worked with the sheriff’s office in Hall County, in the Atlanta exurbs, to obtain a DNA warrant and BSO investigators eventually travelled there to serve it and interview Bello.

Authorities said results from the DNA warrant confirmed the initial test.

Deputies said Bello was arrested by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday.

Records show that as of Monday, he remained locked up in that agency’s jail facility just outside of Gainesville, Georgia, awaiting extradition to South Florida.

La mujer fue víctima de una estafa de compra de oro después de que unos estafadores la convencieron de comprar oro para entregárselo a Sumit Pandey, según la policía.

“Convencieron a la víctima de que sus activos estaban siendo transferidos a una cuenta gubernamental segura para su custodia”, escribió un detective de Coral Gables según una orden de arresto de Miami-Dade.

Desde agosto de 2025 hasta enero, la víctima compró aproximadamente $1.9 millones en monedas de oro, según la orden de arresto.

“Al utilizar números de teléfono no registrados y un sistema de contraseñas rotativas típico de los protocolos de seguridad gubernamental, [Pandey] reforzó una narrativa falsa que llevó a la víctima a creer que estaba cooperando con las autoridades”, escribió un detective de Coral Gables según la orden de arresto.

Agentes del Sheriff del Condado de Carroll en Arkansas contactaron al Departamento de Policía de Coral Gables el 18 de marzo, tras el arresto de Pandey en ese estado, y un juez de Miami-Dade emitió una orden de arresto el 21 de abril.

Las autoridades de Miami-Dade registraron a Pandey el viernes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Pandey enfrenta cargos de robo mayor en primer grado, fraude organizado, suplantación falsa de un agente durante la comisión de un delito grave y uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación. Su fianza es de $110,000.

Pandey compareció ante un tribunal el domingo. Un juez le ordenó mantenerse alejado de la víctima y demostrar que el origen de su fianza no proviene de actividades criminales. También tiene una orden de retención del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU.

Residentes como Audrey Gonzalez, quien ha vivido en el área durante 35 años, estaban en alerta máxima, preparándose para evacuar si fuera necesario.

“Estoy muy, muy preocupada”, dijo, añadiendo que ha estado “saliendo en medio de la noche, solo para asegurarme de que no se estuviera acercando hacia donde vivimos.”

El fuego podía verse desde West Broward High School, aunque los estudiantes permanecieron en clases.

La residente de West Broward Roxanne Gill dijo: “Podíamos escuchar el crepitar. Así de malo estaba. Tuve que mojar mi casa con la manguera.”

“Todo el mundo estaba mojando sus tráilers antes de que llegara el departamento de bomberos”, dijo.

Las autoridades dijeron que el intento de agresión sexual ocurrió el 21 de enero de 2013 durante un evento llamado Igloo South Florida, cerca del bloque 2600 de Southwest 31st Street en Dania Beach.

En un comunicado de prensa, la portavoz de BSO Claudinne Caro dijo que la víctima quedó “incapacitada” durante el evento.

“La víctima dijo que despertó en un vehículo desconocido con dos hombres desconocidos”, dijo Caro. “La víctima dijo que le habían bajado los pantalones. Uno de los sujetos dejó evidencia de ADN en la víctima. BSO investigó este caso durante años, pero sin pistas significativas, el caso quedó sin resolver.”

Sin embargo, las autoridades dijeron que en noviembre, los avances en ADN llevaron a un avance en el caso. Dijeron que la muestra tomada de la mujer coincidió con Jose Bello, de 39 años, de Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Las autoridades dijeron que la mujer pudo recordar el rostro de Bello y lo identificó en una fila fotográfica 13 años después.

Caro dijo que BSO trabajó con la oficina del sheriff del condado de Hall, en las afueras de Atlanta, para obtener una orden de ADN, y los investigadores de BSO viajaron hasta allá para ejecutarla y entrevistar a Bello.

Las autoridades dijeron que los resultados de la orden de ADN confirmaron la prueba inicial.

Los detectives dijeron que Bello fue arrestado por el Sheriff del Condado de Hall el martes.

Los registros muestran que hasta el lunes permanecía detenido en la cárcel de esa agencia a las afueras de Gainesville, Georgia, a la espera de ser extraditado al sur de Florida.

Según el informe, la presunta violación ocurrió alrededor de la 1:30 a.m. del sábado en el bloque 1100 de la playa.

La policía identificó al sospechoso como Shawn Markiece Peete, de 35 años, quien según los detectives fue detenido el domingo después de que oficiales lo reconocieron por un volante de “Se necesita identificar” emitido por el departamento tras la investigación.

Según los investigadores, los oficiales fueron enviados inicialmente alrededor de las 9:30 a.m. del sábado al hotel Shepley en 1340 Collins Ave., después de que una mujer reportó haber sido violada más temprano esa mañana en la playa.

La víctima le dijo a la policía que había ido sola a la playa tarde el viernes por la noche después de registrarse en el hotel. Dijo que conoció a un hombre que se presentó como “Shawn” y usaba el apodo callejero “Nike.”

Los dos conversaron en la arena antes de que el hombre supuestamente se volviera agresivo tras presionarla repetidamente para que bebiera tequila, según el informe.

La mujer le dijo a los detectives que intentó abandonar el área porque temía por su seguridad, pero el hombre la siguió por un sendero de acceso a la playa.

Según el informe de arresto, Peete, quien no tiene domicilio fijo, agarró a la víctima por detrás, la tiró al suelo, le quitó los pantalones y la parte inferior del traje de baño, y la violó durante aproximadamente cinco minutos mientras ella le gritaba que parara.

Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima logró aferrarse a una cuerda que bordeaba el sendero de la playa y finalmente se liberó antes de huir hacia Ocean Drive, donde detuvo a un transeúnte en scooter para pedir ayuda.

Posteriormente regresó a su habitación de hotel, se duchó y contactó a la policía, según el informe.

Los detectives dijeron que la víctima proporcionó una descripción del sospechoso y durante su entrevista se quejó de dolor en la parte posterior del cuello. También tenía un moretón visible en la muñeca.

Según el informe, los detectives revisaron videos de vigilancia que captaron a la víctima, el sospechoso y el buen samaritano en una conversación cerca de la calle 11 antes de que la víctima se marchara en el scooter.

A la mañana siguiente, los oficiales respondieron a un reporte de un hombre durmiendo en la terraza del hotel Avalon en 700 Ocean Drive e identificaron al hombre como Peete, quien dijeron coincidía con la descripción del sospechoso en el caso de agresión sexual.

Peete fue entonces trasladado a la sede de la Policía de Miami Beach para ser interrogado.

Según los detectives, Peete renunció a sus derechos Miranda y admitió haber tenido relaciones sexuales con la mujer, pero afirmó que ella “parecía estar disfrutándolo.” Las autoridades dijeron que les contó a los investigadores que los dos habían estado bebiendo tequila juntos.

Peete dijo que la mujer sí le pidió que parara en un momento y que él lo hizo, según el informe.

Los detectives dijeron que Peete se identificó a sí mismo y a la víctima en las imágenes de vigilancia mostradas durante la entrevista y proporcionó voluntariamente una muestra de ADN.

Peete fue finalmente arrestado y trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Los registros revisados por los investigadores muestran que Peete está actualmente en libertad condicional en Fort Lauderdale en conexión con un caso de sustancias controladas presentado en 2025.

Hasta el lunes por la mañana, Peete permanecía detenido en TGK. Los registros de la cárcel en línea indicaban su fianza como “por determinar.”

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league did not publicly release any details of its evaluation and investigative process.

Wembanyama will be eligible to play Game 5 on Tuesday in San Antonio. The series is tied at two games apiece.

Wembanyama was ejected from the Spurs-Timberwolves game on Sunday night because of the elbow, which he threw early in the second quarter after getting tangled with Reid and Minnesota's Jaden McDaniels while grabbing a rebound. Wembanyama swung his arms and his elbow struck Reid in the face.

Officials looked at the play and upgraded the foul to a Flagrant 2, which comes with automatic ejection. Wembanyama was seen on the bench after the decision was announced, appearing to ask teammates what a Flagrant 2 means.

Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said after the game that Wembanyama “gets hit on every play."

“At some level, you have to protect yourself,” Johnson said. “Every single play on every single part of the floor, people are trying to impose their physicality on him. I get it. We get it. That's part of the game. ... At some stage, he should be protected and if not, he's going to have to protect himself. And unfortunately, stuff like that happens.”

It was the first ejection of Wembanyama's career and, according to Sportradar, it was only the third flagrant foul for the French center — this season's unanimous pick as Defensive Player of the Year and an MVP finalist.

The NBA reviews all plays and typically exercises the right to upgrade, downgrade or rescind flagrant fouls and technical fouls after the fact. In this case, the person with knowledge said, Sunday's play will stand as called.

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The Astros said Monday that Cárdenas died Sunday at his home in Houston.

Cárdenas joined the Dodgers when they moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958. He was part of the first Spanish broadcast of the World Series in 1959 and the All-Star Game two years later.

“We mourn the passing of René Cárdenas, who in 1958 with the Dodgers became the first full-time Spanish-language broadcaster in MLB history and would ultimately spend 21 years behind the mic for Los Angeles,” the Dodgers said Sunday in a social media post.

The expansion Houston Colt .45s hired Cárdenas in 1961 for their inaugural season of 1962. He spent 14 seasons with a franchise that was renamed the Astros in 1965, when they moved into the Astrodome.

“With yesterday’s passing of Rene Cardenas, we lost a true legend and pioneer in broadcasting,” the Astros wrote Monday in a statement on social media. “As the franchise first Spanish broadcaster, Rene had a tremendous impact on the success of the Colt .45s/Astros in Houston’s large Hispanic community and beyond. We send our heartfelt condolences to Rene’s family and loved ones.”

Cárdenas returned to his native Nicaragua in 1975 before coming back to MLB in 1981, when he was the first Spanish broadcaster for the Rangers, according to retired Rangers public relations executive John Blake.

A second stint with the Dodgers lasted nearly two decades starting in 1982. He also returned to the Astros, becoming the first to call games in Spanish on television for Houston in 2008.

After retiring, Cárdenas wrote for the Astros’ Spanish-language website and for La Prensa, a Nicaraguan newspaper.

Cárdenas also called high-profile events in other sports, including the Muhammad Ali-Jimmy Ellis heavyweight boxing match at the Astrodome in 1971.

He was inducted into the Nicaragua Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000. He was inducted into the Broadcasters Wing of the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in 2002. He was inducted into the Astros Baseball Media Wall of Honor in 2013.

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Según un informe de arresto obtenido el lunes por Local 10 News, Janice Garcia, de Miami, se entregó el domingo en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Enfrenta cargos de conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol (DUI) y DUI con lesiones corporales graves.

Según el informe, el choque ocurrió poco después de las 3:30 a.m. del 11 de abril cuando el detective Josh Brown y otro detective patrullaban el Distrito de Kendall en una unidad de dos oficiales.

Los detectives dijeron que Garcia golpeó a Brown con su Mazda MZ3 azul cuando él estaba fuera de su patrulla en el bloque 8500 de Southwest 99th Court.

Brown le dijo a los detectives que Garcia le encendió las luces largas y su compañero dijo que Garcia conducía muy cerca del borde de la calzada.

Según el informe, Brown intentó apartarse del camino del auto, pero fue golpeado y lanzado por los aires.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transportó al detective al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital con heridas que ponían en riesgo su vida.

Las autoridades confirmaron que Brown sufrió una conmoción cerebral y numerosas otras lesiones en todo el cuerpo, y tuvo que recibir un injerto de piel y someterse a una cirugía de tobillo.

Según el informe, Garcia parecía angustiada tras el choque y tenía “el habla arrastrada, ojos enrojecidos y llorosos”, y su aliento olía a bebida alcohólica.

Un miembro del Escuadrón de Control de Conductores Bajo los Efectos del Sheriff le dijo que Garcia le dijo “Dígame cuáles son mis derechos” antes de aceptar participar en las pruebas de sobriedad de campo, que reprobó.

También aceptó proporcionar muestras de sangre, que mostraron que su nivel de alcohol en sangre era de .156% y .154%, por encima del límite de .08% de Florida para conductores, según el informe.

Se espera que Garcia comparezca ante un juez en la audiencia de fianza el lunes.

La Asociación de Oficiales de Policía Hispanos publicó una foto de Brown en su página de Instagram tras el arresto de Garcia, mostrando algunas de sus lesiones.

“Para quienes han preguntado cómo pueden apoyar al detective Brown y a su familia durante este momento difícil, la asistencia a la audiencia ciertamente no pasaría desapercibida”, decía en parte la publicación. “Por favor continúen teniendo al detective Brown y a su familia en sus pensamientos y oraciones.”

The woman was the victim of a gold-purchase scam after fraudsters persuaded her to buy gold to give it to Sumit Pandey, according to police.

“They convinced the victim that her assets were being transferred to a secure government account for safe keeping,” a Coral Gables detective wrote, according to a Miami-Dade arrest warrant.

From August 2025 to January, the victim purchased about $1.9 million in gold coins, according to the arrest warrant.

“By utilizing unregistered phone numbers and a rotating password system typical of government security protocols, [Pandey] reinforced a false narrative that led the victim to believe she was cooperating with law enforcement,” a Coral Gables detective wrote, according to the arrest warrant.

Carroll County Sheriff’s Office deputies in Arkansas contacted the Coral Gables Police Department on March 18, after Pandey’s arrest there, and a Miami-Dade judge issued an arrest warrant on April 21.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Pandey on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Pandey faced charges of first-degree grand theft, organized fraud, falsely impersonating an officer during the commission of a felony, and unlawful use of a communication device. His bond is $110,000.

Pandey appeared in court on Sunday. A judge ordered him to stay away from the victim and prove that the source of his bail isn’t from criminal proceeds. He also has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.

Detail in the warrant

Los oficiales acusaron a Victoria Roman, quien trabaja como diseñadora gráfica, de haber compartido imágenes manipuladas de una víctima el 19 de noviembre en Instagram, según una orden de arresto.

Roman se entregó a las autoridades el jueves en Davie y fue registrada en la Cárcel Principal del condado de Broward en Fort Lauderdale, según los registros.

Roman, residente de Miramar, compareció ante un juez en la audiencia de fianza el viernes por la mañana. El juez le ordenó mantenerse alejada de dispositivos con acceso a internet.

Roman enfrenta cuatro cargos de promoción de representación sexual alterada. Su fianza fue fijada en $60,000.

Según el informe, Leroy Wright Jr., de 46 años y residente de Miami, fue arrestado el viernes por cargos de delitos contra estudiantes por parte de figuras de autoridad, actividad sexual ilegal con un menor y representación de material obsceno que involucra a un menor.

La policía dijo que la directora de Miami Jackson Senior High School recibió un correo electrónico el 28 de abril de una persona que le informó que Wright, maestro de lectura en la escuela, tenía “una relación” con un estudiante.

La directora presentó finalmente un “informe del modelo de investigación de personal” ante la Oficina de Estándares Profesionales de M-DCPS el jueves pasado, y el informe fue luego remitido al Departamento de Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade, según el documento.

Según el informe, la policía entrevistó el jueves a la persona que envió el correo electrónico a la directora, y esa persona identificó a la víctima.

La policía dijo que luego entrevistó a la víctima en su hogar, en presencia de su madre, y el estudiante les contó que conoció a Wright al inicio del año escolar cuando el maestro se le acercó y le pidió unirse al Club de Primer Año, del cual Wright era el patrocinador adulto.

La policía dijo que el estudiante se unió al club.

Según el informe, la víctima declaró que el primer incidente sexual ocurrió el 29 de abril cuando abrazó a su maestro al salir del salón de clases de Wright.

La policía dijo que el estudiante afirmó que Wright le devolvió el abrazo y luego lo besó durante aproximadamente 6 minutos mientras lo manoseaba.

Wright también besó al estudiante el 1 de mayo y lo manoseó ese día y mientras lo llevaba a casa en su auto el 4 de mayo, según las autoridades.

Según el informe, Wright renunció a sus derechos Miranda y proporcionó algún tipo de admisión, aunque su declaración exacta ante los detectives fue redactada del informe divulgado públicamente.

La policía dijo que Wright fue informado antes de su arresto de que el teléfono celular de la víctima había sido “examinado forenses.”

Fue ingresado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight el viernes y permanecía allí el lunes por la mañana sin fianza.

El distrito escolar publicó un comunicado el fin de semana confirmando que Wright sería despedido.

“El tipo de comportamiento del que se acusa a este individuo no será tolerado, ya que va en contra de la conducta profesional que esperamos de todos nuestros empleados”, decía el comunicado. “El Distrito ha iniciado procedimientos de terminación de empleo y se asegurará de que el individuo no pueda buscar empleo futuro en el Distrito. En M-DCPS, la seguridad y el bienestar de todos los estudiantes siguen siendo nuestra máxima prioridad.”

The top-ranked Sinner set the tone when he broke 60th-ranked Popyrin in the opening game.

Sinner is heavily favored to win the Rome tournament with Carlos Alcaraz sidelined due to a right wrist injury.

Sinner hasn’t lost since Feb. 19, to Jakub Mensik in the Qatar Open quarterfinals. He’ll next face a fellow Italian, qualifier Andrea Pellegrino, who beat Frances Tiafoe.

If Sinner raises the trophy in Rome, he’ll become the second man after Novak Djokovic to triumph at all nine Masters 1000 events. Djokovic has won each event at least twice.

Sinner has won five straight Masters events and has the second-most consecutive wins at that level with 30. Djokovic has the record of 31.

Gauff saves match point

Earlier, Coco Gauff saved a match point in the second set of a 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 victory over fellow American Iva Jovic to reach the quarterfinals.

Gauff also survived in the previous round from falling behind by two breaks in the third set against Solana Sierra.

Gauff reached the Rome final last year and is preparing to defend her French Open title.

Roland Garros starts on May 24.

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The issue of how match officials deal with jostling between players at set-pieces was brought into full focus on Sunday when West Ham was denied a stoppage-time equalizer against title-chasing Arsenal.

In what has been described as the most significant video review in Premier League history, it was adjudged that Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya was being impeded by the flailing arm of West Ham player Pablo as they competed for the ball at a corner during a chaotic penalty-area scene where players from both teams were grabbing and pulling each other.

On many other occasions, similar levels of physical contact have gone unpunished, with Premier League officials seemingly having a high tolerance before intervening in a season when English soccer has gone back to basics with its tactics.

Pascal Zuberbühler, the former Switzerland goalkeeper who is the co-ordinator for FIFA’s Technical Study Group at the upcoming World Cup, acknowledged the need to be on top of the issue of grappling at corners “from the beginning” of the tournament.

“This is a trend — yes, of course — but I’m sure for our World Cup, we have the best referees there and the referees will be a key part of this situation,” he said on a video call with reporters.

“It’s difficult for the referees because a little foul on the goalkeeper in between so many people around you, it’s not easy to see this. But I’m very, very sure we, at FIFA, have the best referees anyway and we will deal with this in a very good way.”

For many, it was ironic that Arsenal — which wound up beating West Ham 1-0 to stay on course for a first Premier League title since 2004 — benefited from the controversial call.

Under manager Mikel Arteta, the Gunners have become the most dangerous team in England at corners and free kicks, embracing a designated set-piece specialist coach in Nicolas Jover and setting up specific patterns in dead-ball situations to cause maximum chaos.

Gilberto Silva, a World Cup winner with Brazil in 2002 and a Premier League champion with Arsenal in 2004, is also in the FIFA technical group and said dominating set plays was a “very strong weapon” for his former team.

However, he added: “I’m not so sure if the World Cup’s going to be the same way because you don’t have so much time to prepare the team for this tournament.

“Of course it can be a weapon to be used, and they have to use this, but not as a main one.”

The Premier League will be sending dozens of players to the World Cup — being held from June 11-July 19 in the United States, Canada and Mexico — as well as two of a total of 52 referees, and they'll have to adapt to a different threshold than the one they’ve been under for the previous nine months.

West Ham unhappy as debate continues to swirl

The late VAR call at the West Ham-Arsenal game remained a source of great debate into Monday, given its ramifications.

Not only did it propel Arsenal closer to the title, it also plunged West Ham closer to what would be a costly relegation from the lucrative Premier League.

With two games remaining, West Ham is in third-to-last place — the final relegation spot in the 20-team league.

The BBC reported Monday that the Hammers were set to contact English soccer’s referees’ body to raise its concerns about the decision and request further explanation. There was no official comment from the club, though its players and manager Nuno Espirito Santo were unhappy after the game.

Nuno said match officials had become confused.

“Even the referees don’t know what is a foul and what is not a foul — it creates doubt,” he said.

“You look at every corner in the Premier League and something like this is happening, not just today, but on all the pitches. I am talking about the lack of consistency.”

Arteta praised the match officials –— on-field referee Chris Kavanagh and VAR official Darren England, neither of whom are going to the World Cup — for having the “clarity … to make the right call” under so much pressure.

“Because,” he said, “you’re talking about a moment that can decide the history, the course, of two massive clubs that they are fighting with their lives to achieve their objectives.”

Former Premier League assistant referee Darren Cann, who ran the line in the 2010 World Cup final, said on the BBC that England “stepped up to the plate, he made the right decision and it’s the biggest VAR call in Premier League history.”

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According to the Biscayne Park Police Department, the victim hired Eric Bartholomew Brown, 66, of Miami Shores, in November 2021 and agreed to an $87,600 contract to have work done on the pool house at her home on Griffing Boulevard.

State records show Brown is a licensed contractor who runs a company called ROI Construction LLC.

A BPPD arrest report states that Brown “demanded payment for work not performed” and sent an electrician who did shoddy work.

“Multiple electrical components began to malfunction, including shorts, improper lighting function and an issue with her refrigerator,” the report states.

Authorities said not only did the electrician routinely arrive late ― he “installed the electrical panel upside down.”

Police said Brown lied about who the electrician was working under and did roof truss work that was not up to code. A village inspector, they said, noted “that columns were missing, tie beams were not properly secured and the trusses were not the proper size.”

According to police, the victim told investigators that in 2023, “Brown told her he would bite the bullet and purchase the roof trusses, notwithstanding (her) assertion that she had already paid for them and that Brown had not paid the truss company,” saying that Brown requested an additional $4,000 “for plumbing work for which she had already paid.”

Authorities said he later claimed a $52,000 shortfall and while she didn’t make the payment, he later pressured her for payment and she gave him a $25,200 check.

The victim said she “possesses written statements from Brown in which he agreed to repay her” but he’s failed to do so and did not respond to a letter demanding payment, according to the arrest report.

Brown, police said, “sent her a letter in which he allegedly attempted to extort additional payments for items not included in the contract.”

According to the report, the $243,000 figure includes “claimed liquidated damages under the contract.”

Authorities arrested Brown on Thursday on a contractor fraud charge, as well as charges of first-degree grand theft and elderly exploitation.

Court records show a Miami-Dade judge found probable cause for the charges and he was later released from jail on a $22,500 bond.

Moreno, quien gobernó entre 2017 y 2021, es procesado por presuntos delitos cometidos cuando ejerció la vicepresidencia durante la administración de Rafael Correa (2007-2017), con quien posteriormente rompió relaciones.

El caso al que la Fiscalía ha denominado “Sinohydro” investiga el supuesto delito de cohecho en la adjudicación del contrato para la construcción de la central hidroeléctrica Coca Codo Sinclair para lo cual, según el Ministerio Público, se repartieron sobornos por más de 76 millones de dólares.

El Fiscal General, Carlos Alarcón, sostuvo en el alegato inicial que entre 2008 y 2018 funcionó una red de corrupción para beneficiar a empleados públicos, incluido Moreno, y personas del sector privado que se encargaron de beneficiar a esa empresa china a cambio del 4% del valor de la obra. Añadió que demostrará que se realizaron transacciones nacionales e internacionales con ese dinero ilícito.

Moreno es identificado como el supuesto autor directo debido a que la Fiscalía lo señala de haber influido en la entrega del contrato, mientras su esposa, su hija, dos hermanos y un cuñado —que habrían recibido beneficios y ayudado a encubrir los pagos— son procesados como presuntos cómplices. En total 21 personas han sido vinculadas al caso.

El abogado del exmandatario, David Meza, afirmó que se demostrará que "no tuvo injerencia en el hecho" y que la acusación fiscal no considera que por orden de Correa, Moreno desempeñaba funciones en el área de desarrollo social y no tenía relación con el sector energético ni con la construcción de esa central.

Sinohydro comenzó la construcción de la central hidroeléctrica en 2010 con un costo de alrededor de 2.000 millones de dólares y la entregó en 2016. Desde el inicio de sus operaciones ha sido cuestionada por fallas estructurales.

Moreno regresó al país la semana pasada luego de residir cinco años en Paraguay y afrontará el juicio presencialmente en una de las salas de la Corte Nacional de Justicia en Quito. Se prevé que las audiencias se prolonguen durante varias semanas.

“Yo me quedo acá”, respondió Moreno a periodistas al ser consultado si tenía previsto regresar a Paraguay y dijo que las acusaciones en su contra son producto de “una venganza del expresidente Correa”, aunque no dio detalles.

El exmandatario ha negado las acusaciones en su contra y de sus familiares y ha señalado al también exvicepresidente Jorge Glas (2013-2017), que lo sucedió en el cargo, como responsable de la supuesta corrupción aduciendo que su sucesor dirigía los sectores estratégicos durante el gobierno de Correa.

Glas está preso cumpliendo otras dos sentencias por corrupción.

La ley penal ecuatoriana sanciona el delito de cohecho con penas de tres a 10 años de prisión.

En Ecuador también hay expresidentes vinculados a casos de corrupción como Correa, sentenciado a ocho de cárcel, por supuestos sobornos en el caso Odebrecht. Correa actualmente se mantiene prófugo y reside en Bélgica.

Además, están los exmandatarios Jamil Mahuad (1998-2000), condenado por disposición arbitraria de fondos públicos, y que reside en Estados Unidos, y Abdalá Bucaram (1996-1997), que retornó tras más de una década de exilio en Panamá tras la prescripción de los casos judiciales en su contra.

Missouri’s football program announced in a statement that Hardy was shot early Sunday morning and that the All-America running back underwent surgery for the gunshot wound later that day.

WJTV 12 News reported Hardy was shot in the upper leg, according to police, and the Laurel (Mississippi) Leader-Call reported the shooting happened at an outdoor concert at a bike club in Laurel.

“There had been a scheduled concert there of some rappers, or maybe a couple of different rappers,” Laurel police Sgt. Macon Davis told the Leader-Call. “It drew a large crowd, and then gunshots rang out at the end.”

Three people of interest were in custody, Davis told the Leader-Call. He described the scene as a “melee," saying at least two people were injured and it was a miracle others were not.

The Associated Press left Davis a voicemail requesting more information.

Missouri said it would provide more information on Hardy’s status as it becomes available.

“Ahmad is deeply loved by his teammates, coaches, friends, family and fans,” the statement said. “We will continue to stand beside him and his family through this difficult time, offering our love, prayers, strength and support. A timeline for his return to football activities is unknown at this time.”

Hardy earned first-team Associated Press All-America honors last season and was one of three finalists for the Doak Walker Award given annually to college football’s top running back. He rushed for 1,649 yards to rank second among all Bowl Subdivision players.

Hardy is from Oma, Mississippi. He started his college career at Louisiana-Monroe but transferred to Missouri before the 2025 season.

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The vehicle was spotted in the water shortly after 7 a.m. in the area of West 16^th Avenue and 68^th Street, just east of the Palmetto Expressway.

Hialeah Fire Rescue officials told Local 10 News that Hialeah Gardens police notified them about the vehicle and the agency sent their divers to the scene.

Residents in the area told Local 10 News they are worried that someone might have been inside the SUV when it plunged into the canal, however HFR officials said no one was found inside the vehicle.

Divers and tow truck operators worked together to eventually remove the SUV from the canal.

HFR officials said the scene has since been turned over to the police department for further investigation.