Humidity levels will be quite tolerable Saturday! The day will offer sunshine, scattered clouds and hardly a drop of rain as east-northeast winds, sustained 5 to 15 mph, persist.

The onshore breeze carries into Sunday. Conditions will start to become more humid and there will be a better chance for showers in the area. Temperatures will make a run for the mid and upper 80s, both days.

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During the tournament, none of them will be referring to the stadium at 347 Don Shula Drive in Miami Gardens as the Hard Rock Stadium. It will be the Miami Stadium.

Heimo Schirgi, FIFA’s chief event operations officer, was leading his team to monitor everything from security to weather, flights, and tickets.

“This is where all of the information from all of the over 500 official sites that we have throughout the three countries comes together, and where we can do some centralized and informed decision making,” Schirgi said.

The FIFA World Cup, held every four years since 1930, runs from June 11 to July 19. There are 104 matches scheduled at 16 host cities, including Miami.

It is the first time the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will host a FIFA World Cup, and the first time the tournament features 48 teams.

“The whole world is already here, and we are super excited,” said Schirgi, who was born in Austria and grew up in Turkey and South Africa.

The 12 groups of four teams each will play the first 72 matches, including four games from three groups at the Miami Stadium.

“Some of the biggest matches we have in terms of demand and interest are right here in Miami,” Schirgi said.

Uruguay plays against Saudi Arabia at 6 p.m. on June 15 and against Cape Verde at 6 p.m. on June 21. Brazil plays against Scotland at 6 p.m. on June 24. Colombia plays against Portugal at 7:30 p.m. on June 27.

During the tournament’s knockout stage, there will be 32 matches, including three key games at the Miami Stadium.

The winner of Group J will play against the runner-up of Group H at 6 p.m. on July 3. The quarter-final match is at 5 p.m. on July 11, and the bronze final match is at 5 p.m. on July 18.

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Según la policía, la balacera fue reportada a las 4:53 a.m. en la cuadra 6700 de Collins Avenue.

La policía informó que los agentes llegaron al lugar y encontraron a un hombre con una herida de bala.

Funcionarios del Departamento de Bomberos de Miami Beach trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Hospital Jackson Memorial en estado crítico.

“Debido a la investigación, el tráfico en dirección norte por Collins Ave. ha sido cerrado a la altura de la calle 67 y desviado hacia el oeste por Harding Ave. e Indian Creek Drive”, dijo un portavoz del departamento de policía a Local 10 News.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

Cualquier persona con información debe llamar al Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach o a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

Investigators told her father, who lives in California, that a boat had struck her off Dania Beach, hours before her body washed ashore on Wednesday night in Hollywood Beach.

Williams, who had recently gotten married, was also a scuba diver who loved the ocean and had lived near it in South Florida for about four years, according to her grieving father.

Williams vanished on Wednesday while swimming in the area of Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park at 6503 North Ocean Drive, according to the Hollywood Police Department.

Hollywood police officers responded to a 911 call at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday after witnesses saw her body, east of the North Boardwalk and south of the Hollywood North Beach Park.

“We saw two fishermen and then what looked like a body on the beach ... We saw them drag her up ... it was disheartening,” Gianluca Fiore, a witness, told Local 10 News on Thursday morning.

There were Hollywood police officers on and off the beach late into the night, near North Surf Road, between New Mexico and Thomas streets.

Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation investigators worked with Hollywood detectives. The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and reported Williams’s cause of death as “blunt force injuries.”

Detectives asked anyone with information about the case to call 954-764-4357 or 954-967-4567, or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous.

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Despite this, President Donald Trump faced criticism over his renovation projects, and this prompted lawsuits involving nonprofit organizations.

The $14.8 million “Great Reflecting Pool” is between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The Cultural Landscape Foundation sued the U.S. Department of the Interior.

“That’s clean, beautiful water,” Trump said on Thursday about the water in the “American flag blue” pool.

The 250-foot “Independence Arch” would be at the Memorial Circle roundabout, near the Lincoln Memorial. Public Citizen sued the National Park Service to stop it.

The National Capital Planning Commission held a public meeting on Thursday, and opponents judged the arch as a “waste of taxpayer money” and a“vanity project.”

The $400 million "White House State Ballroom" required the demolition of the East Wing. The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued the National Park Service.

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett is considering U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s order to stop the above-ground construction of the ballroom.

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A pesar de ello, el presidente Donald Trump fue objeto de críticas por sus proyectos de renovación, lo que provocó demandas por parte de organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro.

El “ Gran Estanque Reflectante ”, con un costo de 14,8 millones de dólares, se ubica entre el Monumento a Lincoln y el Monumento a Washington. La Fundación del Paisaje Cultural demandó al Departamento del Interior de Estados Unidos.

“Es agua limpia y hermosa”, dijo Trump el jueves refiriéndose al agua de la piscina de color “azul bandera estadounidense”.

El “Arco de la Independencia”, de 76 metros de altura, se ubicaría en la rotonda de Memorial Circle, cerca del Monumento a Lincoln. La organización Public Citizen demandó al Servicio de Parques Nacionales para impedir su construcción.

La Comisión Nacional de Planificación de la Capital celebró una reunión pública el jueves , y los opositores calificaron el arco como un “despilfarro del dinero de los contribuyentes” y un “proyecto vanidoso”.

El salón de baile estatal de la Casa Blanca , con un costo de 400 millones de dólares, requirió la demolición del ala este. El National Trust for Historic Preservation demandó al Servicio de Parques Nacionales.

La jueza del Tribunal de Apelaciones de Estados Unidos, Patricia Millett, está considerando la orden del juez de distrito estadounidense Richard Leon de detener la construcción del salón de baile en la superficie.

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• La comisión de planificación solicita más detalles sobre el arco de 250 pies que Trump planea construir cerca del Monumento a Lincoln.
• El Kennedy Center procede a eliminar las referencias a Trump después de que un juez dictaminara que fueron añadidas ilegalmente.

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According to police, the shooting was reported at 4:53 a.m. in the 6700 block of Collins Avenue.

Police said officers arrived at the scene and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound.

Miami Beach Fire Department officials transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

Northbound traffic on Collins Avenue was shut down for hours at 67th Street during the investigation, police said.

Residents in the area started their day with questions and concerns, especially when the SWAT team was spotted in the neighborhood, searching nearby apartment complexes for a suspect.

“I saw them gathering on the sidewalk with their weapons, getting ready to go inside and make sure that it was safe, and that’s when I rode my bike by and asked an officer ‘Is everybody safe?’ And he goes, ‘Yes,’” Thomas Antone said.

“It just happened so fast,” another resident, Rene Welcome, said. “I saw people and then I saw the police having it roped off and stuff ... It was worse than I thought.”

According to authorities, a person of interest has been taken into custody for questioning.

No other details were immediately released.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Miami Beach Police Department or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

La senadora Lisa Murkowski, quien no busca la reelección este año, fue la única republicana que votó en contra debido al fondo de conciliación de $1,800 millones USD denominado “Anti-Weaponization”.

También hubo controversia por una propuesta de $1,000 millones USD para que el Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos mejore la seguridad en la Casa Blanca, incluido el nuevo salón de baile.

Desde enero, los demócratas han pedido una reforma del DHS en el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) y en la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos.

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Mayor Daniella Levine Cava made the announcement after negotiations to purchase the property broke down.

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The fuel bunker on the exclusive Fisher Island has been the subject of several lawsuits and a high-profile dispute over its future.

Levine Cava said the county’s goal is to ensure a reliable fuel supply for PortMiami’s operations.

The same crowd that roared at the start of the series was stunned, with their beloved Hurricanes shut out through the first two periods for the first time since mid-January. They were fewer than 15 minutes away from a 2-0 hole that only five of 55 teams have overcome to hoist the Cup.

The topsy-turvy ride that followed ended with Carolina winning in emotional fashion and making this a competitive series between two of the best teams in the NHL. Game 3 is Saturday night in Las Vegas.

If it is anything like the first two, it is best to expect the unexpected the rest of the way.

“It’s obviously a new series, a five-game series now,” said defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, who leads the Hurricanes with three points so far in the final. “A lot of emotions throughout the games, too. For almost 50 minutes there it’s kind of low, and then kind of even, then really high, then low again, and then high. It’s a roller coaster for sure."

This final is shaping up to be more like a seesaw, with wild momentum swings back and forth. This is the first Cup final in league history in which each of the first two games featured a multigoal comeback victory.

Carolina is now the first team in 82 years to win a game in the final when down by more than one goal within the final 10 minutes of regulation. That would also make Vegas — which fell behind by two goals in the opener — the first team since 1944 to blow such a lead.

“The sport of hockey is funny that way," Golden Knights center William Karlsson said Friday. "I think that’s why we all love it. It can go either way at any times .... But it’s hockey. It’s a game of mistakes, and it’s bound to happen.”

The Hurricanes after cruising through the first three rounds with 12 wins and just one loss met their match in Vegas, and that was evident in Game 1. What also became clear is that neither of team is going to get pushed around for an entire night, even if there are stretches of domination by one side or the other.

“It’s going to be hard to play your best game — that's the point,” Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. “It would be great if you could do it for the whole 60 minutes. But it’s probably not going to be that way because they’re a very, very good team.”

Counterpart John Tortorella emphasized that again before he and his team flew home, insisting he likes where Vegas is at two games into its biggest challenge yet this postseason. The Golden Knights have stolen home-ice advantage and get to play the next two on The Strip, where Tortorella can better control matchups.

“There’s no difference,” Tortorella said. "We’re going to play. We know how to play. We know how we want to play.”

So do the Hurricanes, and it's what they displayed at the end of Game 2. Logan Stankoven provided the spark, Mark Jankowski kept it going and Jordan Staal scored on a power play after Tortorella's failed goaltender interference challenge became a difference-making moment.

Of course, the Golden Knights dominating for much of the first two periods and the start of the third showed why they've been such a buzzsaw since Tortorella took over in late March. Brind'Amour acknowledged the vibes around his team were better than they could have been if not for the turnaround, but neither team should expect to feel too good about itself for toon long in a series like this.

Players are embracing that as part of the fun.

"This is exciting," Jarvis said. “This is what playoff hockey’s all about is tight games and momentum swings, and you never really know what’s going to happen next. I don’t think you can ask any more of a playoff series.”

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Durante el torneo, ninguno de ellos se referirá al estadio ubicado en 347 Don Shula Drive en Miami Gardens como el Hard Rock Stadium. Será el Miami Stadium.

Heimo Schirgi, director de operaciones de eventos de la FIFA, dirigía a su equipo para supervisar todo, desde la seguridad hasta el clima, los vuelos y las entradas.

“Aquí es donde se reúne toda la información de los más de 500 sitios web oficiales que tenemos en los tres países, y donde podemos tomar decisiones centralizadas e informadas”, dijo Schirgi.

La Copa Mundial de la FIFA , que se celebra cada cuatro años desde 1930, tiene lugar del 11 de junio al 19 de julio. Hay 104 partidos programados en 16 ciudades anfitrionas, incluida Miami .

Es la primera vez que Estados Unidos, Canadá y México organizan una Copa Mundial de la FIFA , y la primera vez que el torneo cuenta con 48 equipos.

“El mundo entero ya está aquí, y estamos muy emocionados”, dijo Schirgi, quien nació en Austria y creció en Turquía y Sudáfrica.

Los 12 grupos de cuatro equipos disputarán los primeros 72 partidos, incluyendo cuatro encuentros de tres grupos en el Estadio de Miami.

“Algunos de los partidos más importantes, en términos de demanda e interés, se celebran aquí mismo en Miami”, dijo Schirgi.

Uruguay juega contra Arabia Saudita a las 18:00 del 15 de junio y contra Cabo Verde a las 18:00 del 21 de junio. Brasil juega contra Escocia a las 18:00 del 24 de junio. Colombia juega contra Portugal a las 19:30 del 27 de junio.

Durante la fase eliminatoria del torneo se disputarán 32 partidos, incluyendo tres encuentros clave en el Estadio de Miami.

El ganador del Grupo J se enfrentará al segundo clasificado del Grupo H a las 18:00 horas del 3 de julio. El partido de cuartos de final se disputará a las 17:00 horas del 11 de julio, y el partido por el tercer puesto a las 17:00 horas del 18 de julio.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a range of scenarios generated by computer models Friday, spanning from 10,000 cases to more than 20,000. If accurate, a worst-case scenario could approach the worst Ebola outbreak in history, the West Africa epidemic in 2014-2016 — which resulted in more than 28,000 reported cases and more than 11,000 deaths.

“Without strong public health interventions, the modeling work suggests an outbreak of that scale is possible,” said Dr. Satish Pillai, incident manager for the CDC’s Ebola response, in a briefing with reporters.

Jennifer Nuzzo, director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center, said the modeling “affirms what we have worried about since the beginning: This outbreak is following dangerous trajectory” if more is not done to stop the spread of Ebola.

But she cautioned it can be extremely difficult to predict how outbreaks will progress. “I wouldn’t read too much into the specific numbers. It’s really hard to make an accurate projection when you have limited data,” she added.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that there have been about 400 confirmed cases, including 63 deaths. Experts say there likely others that haven't been diagnosed or reported.

Viruses that cause Ebola disease spread through contact with bodily fluids such as vomit, blood and semen. There are no specific treatments or vaccines for the Bundibugyo virus at the heart of the current outbreak. The disease is often fatal.

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency in May. Some experts believe infections may have been occurring in February, but health officials initially tested for a different kind of Ebola virus.

The outbreak response has been complicated by an armed conflict between Congo’s government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, as well as attacks by the Islamic State-affiliated group the Allied Democratic Force. The violence has caused massive displacement of people living in the conflict areas, officials say.

Earlier this week, Nuzzo said the risk to the United States seems low. “I don’t think it’s a scenario that it’s going to come here and spread broadly,” she told reporters. The CDC echoed that assessment in an article released Friday.

That's due in part to decisions but the U.S. government to ban the entry of people without U.S. passports, as well as U.S. green-card holders who visited Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days. Also, people with U.S. passports who traveled to those countries are undergoing health screenings and being funneled into four receiving airports.

CDC's modeling report attempts to project how things might play out, depending on different factors — including how many infections and deaths have already happened, and how successful responders are in quickly identifying and isolating infected people before they can spread the infection to others.

Assuming around 50 people had died and about 20% of infected persons were successfully isolated by late May, most simulations suggest at least 20,000 cases and 4,000 deaths will occur in Africa over three months.

Pillai said the actual isolation rate is unknown but is considered to be “on the lower end of the scenarios” that CDC modeled.

Higher isolation rates, of 50% or 70%, could result in the number of cases being more like 10,000, CDC officials said. But if the actual number of deaths were greater in late May that currently recognized, that could make the outcomes worse, CDC officials said.

Some CDC modeling during the large Ebola outbreak in West Africa proved to be way off. The CDC issued modeled numbers in 2014, when the epidemic was spiraling out of control and international health officials were quickly trying to build a response.

The CDC estimated that in a worse-case scenario where nothing was done, as many as 1.4 million people might become infected. That turned out to be more than 50 times higher than what happened.

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The fired employees included four intelligence analysts and a supervisory analyst. The FBI declined to comment.

“This action is manifestly unjust, completely unsupported by the facts, and subverts standard FBI policy and procedure,” their lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement. “These individuals deserved far better for the exceptional and faithful public service they rendered to protect our country.”

The January 2023 intelligence product produced by analysts in the FBI's Richmond, Virginia, field office emerged as a political flashpoint after it was issued, with Republicans in Congress repeatedly citing it as part of their broader contention that the FBI during the Biden administration was targeting conservatives.

Then-director Chris Wray repeatedly denied that charge and the FBI has said the document was quickly retracted and an internal review was launched. Merrick Garland, the attorney general under President Joe Biden, has said he was “appalled” by the memo.

Earlier Justice Department investigations into the memo challenged the analytical tradecraft but did not find intentional misconduct by the analysts involved.

The firings are part of a broader personnel purge under Patel, a Trump loyalist who over the last year, has pushed out dozens of employees who either contributed to investigations of the president or who were perceived as not in alignment with the administration’s agenda. The Justice Department has engaged in similarly sweeping firings of prosecutors since Trump took office last year.

In February, for instance, the FBI fired a group of counterintelligence agents who participated in the investigation into President Donald Trump over his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Richmond memo, which emerged from a domestic terrorism investigation, sought to examine a potential link between what it called “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” ideology and racially and ethnically motivated extremists. It warned of the potential for violence and also highlighted what the authors described as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.” FBI leadership quickly condemned those findings once the document became public.

An internal FBI review described in a 2023 letter to Congress and based on interviews with 26 people “found that all individuals involved in the creation, review and approval of the product failed to adhere to analytic tradecraft standards and failed to recognize that the product, as drafted, equated the subjects' interest in their self-described form of religion with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (RMVE) ideology without sufficient evidence or articulable support.”

The failure to adhere to standards, including on proper domestic terrorism terminology, “created the appearance that the FBI conducts investigative activity based on religious affiliation,” the letter said. “One of the FBI's most fundamental principles is that investigative activity may not be based solely on the exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.”

A Justice Department inspector general report in 2024 summarized the earlier FBI review by saying that though there were departures from proper analytic tradecraft, “no evidence of a malicious intent or an improper purpose” were found.

MS NOW earlier reported the firings.

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The memo comes at a time of growing anxiety over AI in American society, from replacing people's jobs to helping to identify targets on the battlefield. The Trump administration has been pushing to unleash the power of AI for the U.S. military, while some military leaders and companies that contract with the Pentagon have been noting caution and calling for guardrails.

Trump's memo addressed much of his Cabinet, including the secretaries of defense and homeland security as well as the attorney general and director of national intelligence.

Trump is requiring an updated directive on autonomous weapon systems to account for AI's rapidly evolving capabilities. It directs the Department of Defense “to ensure the deliberate adoption of AI systems that respect the chain of command and operational authorities.”

The current directive, issued in 2023 under the Biden administration, states that such weapons systems will be designed "to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force,” according to the Congressional Research Service.

Trump's memo also restricts the use of AI to “censor free speech, embed ideological bias, or conduct unlawful surveillance against the American people.”

“The use of AI by the national security enterprise must always be consistent with United States civil liberties and protections afforded by the Constitution and laws and regulations safeguarding the privacy of American citizens,” the memo states.

The Defense Department has already been accelerating its use of AI in recent years. The technology can help reduce the time it takes to identify and strike a target, while aiding in the mundane tasks of organizing equipment maintenance, supply lines and other logistics.

But concerns about protecting civil liberties and human oversight of autonomous weapon systems have drawn increasing attention. They're at the center of a dispute that erupted this year as the Pentagon seeks to leverage the power of American tech companies to boost the military's AI capabilities.

The company Anthropic said it wanted assurances in its contract that the military would not use its technology in fully autonomous weapons and the surveillance of Americans. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the company must allow for any uses the Pentagon deemed lawful.

Anthropic sued after Trump tried to stop all federal agencies from using the company’s chatbot Claude and Hegseth sought to label the company a supply chain risk, a designation meant to protect against sabotage of national security systems by foreign adversaries.

Concerns about military use of AI arose during Israel’s war against militants in Gaza and Lebanon, with U.S. tech giants quietly empowering Israel to track targets. But the number of civilians killed also soared, fueling fears that these tools contributed to the deaths of innocent people.

U.S. military leaders who attended an annual special forces conference in Tampa, Florida, spoke about the benefits of AI as well as the need for human safeguards.

Adm. Frank Bradley, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, told attendees that troops “have to be very careful about how we come to (AI’s) employment and its inspiration into the delivery of lethality.”

Bradley said he can see a future where AI determines what targets to hit but that “we, as humans, have to have the confidence that ... it’s going to deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered.”

Protesters from the country's teachers' union, CNTE, blocked main throughways in Mexico City, bringing central parts of the city to a standstill this week to demand better working conditions. Demonstrators knocked down figures of World Cup soccer players, broke into a government building and on Friday played a soccer match on a blockaded street. At the same time visitors from across the world began flooding in to the Mexican capital ahead of the competition that starts June 11.

“The proximity of the World Cup places a lot more pressure on the government,” said Abel Escalante, a 52-year-old special education psychologist who traveled from the southern state of Chiapas to protest, who was blocking the street around the city’s iconic Angel de la Independencia monument on Friday.

The protests come just days before Mexico City hosts the tournament's opening ceremony, co-hosted by Mexico, the United States and Canada. In addition to kicking off the competition, the Mexican capital, Guadalajara and Monterrey will also host a number of matches.

They are joined by a range of other social movements that have jumped on the World Cup to increasingly place pressure on the government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at a time when authorities seek to present a friendly face to the world.

“This isn’t an event for the Mexican people. Tons of people are going to come, but they’re going to be people with all this disposable income. It’s for the elites. The few average people who do go will have to scrape together all the money they have to live off of," Escalante added.

Sheinbaum responded to mounting protests on Friday morning, saying that “the door is open” for teachers to negotiate with the government over their demands for better retirement packages.

But she added groups of protesters, who broke in to a government building the day before, were trying to provoke a violent reaction from authorities, which she said was not going to happen. She promised that Mexico's main square known as the Zocalo, which the teachers tried to take over at the end of May to stage a sit-in, would remain open for World Cup events.

Sheinbaum's government has come under criticism by activist groups for prioritizing World Cup celebrations over pressing social needs, like addressing the soaring cost-of-living fueled in part by foreign tourism or the country's forced disappearance crisis.

More groups planned protests in the coming weeks as celebrations were slated to kick off. Building on top of all that is a robust protest culture in the Mexican capital, with unions and activist groups that regularly take over public spaces in demonstrations.

Protests of families searching for their disappeared and rural teachers pushing for better working conditions have mounted as the local government has made a push to beautify the city.

Local workers have painted bridges bright purple, planted orange Mexican marigolds across the city and plastered streets with cartoon axolotls, an endangered species that has become the sort of mascot of Mexico City.

Last weekend, families searching for their loved ones plastered the faces of the disappeared people across the city and sprayed graffiti next to one of those bright purple bridges now lining the city's streets.

“Mexico, champion of disappearance,” it read.

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The team's participation in the World Cup has been complicated by Iran's war with Israel and the United States. Problems with processing visas had earlier led Iran to move its training base from Tucson, Arizona, to Tijuana, on Mexico’s border with California.

One U.S. official said all players on the Iranian team were approved for visas and were in the process of receiving them. A second official said visas had been issued for players, coaches, trainers and some support staff. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the visas publicly.

The second official could not say if any Iranian applicants had been denied. It was not immediately clear when the Iranian team’s passports would be returned to them to allow them to travel, but the official said it could be as early as Friday or Saturday.

The squad has been preparing for the World Cup at a training camp in Antalya, Turkey, before departing for Tijuana. The team said it has already received visas from Mexico’s embassy in Ankara.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack credited the U.S. Embassy in Ankara for processing visas for the Iranian team. “Sports transcends borders, and we look forward to welcoming competitors and fans from around the world,” Barrack wrote in a social media post Friday.

Iran plays its first two games in Inglewood, California, against New Zealand on June 15 and Belgium six days later, then heads to Seattle to face Egypt on June 26. Iran and the U.S. could meet in the round of 32 on July 3 in Arlington, Texas, if both teams place second in their groups.

President Donald Trump in March had discouraged Iran from participating in the tournament, saying he didn’t think it was “appropriate” and raising concerns over players' “life and safety.” A day later, Iran’s national team pushed back, saying “no one can exclude” it from playing.

Iran finalized its team Monday, including 17 home-based players whose clubs have not played since February because of the war. Star forward Sardar Azmoun was dropped in March, reportedly because of a social media post that angered Iranian authorities during the war.

Iran's sports minister said in March that it would “not be possible” for the team to participate in the World Cup, but the republic's soccer federation said in May it was moving ahead with a team. The federation had insisted that all players and staff be granted visas, including those who had military service in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

In an Instagram post on Friday, Samantha and the Busch's children, Brexton and Lennix, wrote: “The prayers, messages, flowers, meals, hugs, and countless acts of kindness have carried us through the most heartbreaking days of our lives. While our hearts are absolutely shattered, we have felt God’s presence and arms wrapped tightly around us through each and every one of you.”

Busch died May 21 after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming complications, according to a statement released by the family soon after his death. According to his death certificate, Busch had pneumonia for “days to weeks.”

Busch's unexpected death devastated the NASCAR community.

He was thought to have had a sinus cold while racing at Watkins Glen on May 10 and radioed in to his team saying that he needed a “shot” from a doctor after the race. He continued racing and won the Truck Series race at Dover before finishing 17th in the All-Star race, five days before his death.

Busch also attended the opening of a go-kart track with 11-year-old Brexton days before his death.

Friday's message on social media was the first statement from his wife and children.

“The love that has surrounded our family during this unimaginable time has brought comfort in the middle of so much pain,” Samantha Busch wrote. "Knowing the impact Kyle had on others and seeing how they are honoring him through each unique act of generosity is a true testament to how special Kyle is to so many people. There are moments when the weight of this loss feels impossible to carry, yet time and time again God, through you all, has shown us we are not alone.

“From family and friends to fans and complete strangers, thank you for showing up for us. Thank you for loving our family so well. Thank you for loving Kyle. Thank you for honoring him. We may never find the words to fully express what your support has meant to us, but please know that we are deeply grateful.”

Busch won Cup Series championships championships in 2015 and 2019 for Joe Gibbs Racing. The younger brother of NASCAR driver Kurt Bush, Kyle Busch won a record 234 combined races across NASCAR’s top three national series. He had 63 Cup victories and added 102 O’Reilly Auto Parts wins and 69 Trucks victories.

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The new list of 31 is down from more than 200 previously recognized traditions that troops could choose from. The list no longer includes atheists, Unitarian Universalists, pagans and Wiccans.

“This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of ‘officially approved’ religions,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. “Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.”

Parnell added the department values the free exercise of religion and chaplains facilitate service members' “ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all.”

The list creates broad categories of some Christian traditions — Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist — without specifying denominations within those traditions, which can span the theological and ideological spectrum.

Service members can choose to identify as “no religion,” “other religions” or agnostic. Also included are Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, the Baha’i faith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Unitarian Universalist Association, which was cut from the list, said in a statement, "This may make it more difficult for our uniformed UUs to access the spiritual care that they need.” The denomination said it is working on a strategic response to support UU service members.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity with his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting worship services for employees and often speaking of the United States as a Christian nation.

He first announced the impending changes to the faith categories in December, saying the large number of faith codes had become unmanageable.

“Secretary Hegseth is not ‘streamlining’ anything. He is elevating one narrow religious worldview from the top of the chain of command,” said the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, a Baptist minister and head of the progressive Interfaith Alliance. “The First Amendment does not allow the government to create a hierarchy of faiths, and it certainly does not allow the Pentagon to decide which beliefs are worthy of recognition.”

The military is religiously diverse, and nearly 70% of troops identify as Christian, according to a 2019 congressional report. Almost a quarter of troops were listed as other, unclassified or unknown.

“As a member of a minority religion, I think it’s really important that we be counted,” said Irene Glasse, a pagan religious professional and Marine Corp veteran. “It erases us, and so many of us have served so proudly, so well, and so honorably.”

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is not up for reelection this year, was the only Republican to oppose it over the “Anti-Weaponization” $1.8 billion settlement fund.

“The notion that anyone who violently beat police officers on Jan. 6 should get a dime of taxpayer dollars is so abhorrent to the American people we are going to fight it tooth and nail,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.

We cannot trust the Trump administration to abolish their corrupt $1.8 billion slush fund.

Congress must kill it by legislation.

Permanently.

— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) June 3, 2026

There was also controversy over a $1 billion proposal for the U.S. Secret Service to improve security at the White House, including the new ballroom.

Since January, Democrats have been calling for DHS reform at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol.

Yes, we did.

Yes, we do.

Yes, they are. https://t.co/vMKwnac0gJ

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) May 29, 2026

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Jimmy, 9, was kidnapped at gunpoint when he got off of his bus, just a block from his home, in the area of Southwest 162nd Avenue and 232nd Street on Sept. 11, 1995.

The murderer in this case would end up confessing to killing Jimmy and then he was later convicted and executed for the crime. But in the decades since that time, the family turned their grief into advocacy and launched the Jimmy Ryce Center, primarily with a focus on bringing bloodhounds to law enforcement agencies and other search groups in order to aid and help the search for other missing children in the future.

Redland street named after Jimmy Ryce, whose abduction, murder called attention to child safety https://t.co/pOCMbpZJXt pic.twitter.com/MmrFLMUFHm

— Christina Vazquez (@ChristinaWPLG) June 5, 2026

Now, a portion of Southwest 162nd Avenue has been given the “Jimmy Ryce Avenue” designation to honor him.

“It’s a tragedy that shook the nation and it was some 30 years ago. And renaming the street where the tragedy took place, in order to recognize him, honor him and honor the work that came after him with the foundation and with our law enforcement, really is the very least that we could do in Miami-Dade County,” Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins said.

Edward Montizaan, who maintains a memorial in the area, said that Jimmy “had a short life and that was terrible, but out of the tragedy, a lot of good has come with bloodhounds that the law enforcement has been able to get through the Jimmy Ryce Foundation.”

Family members said they focused on bloodhounds, believing that Jimmy would be alive today if a bloodhound had immediately been brought in to search for him.

Henry Nowak, 18, died after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the English city of Southampton in December. Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed to police he was the victim of a racist assault by Nowak, who was white. When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded man as a suspect before noticing his injury and trying to resuscitate him.

Digwa, 23, was convicted of murder for stabbing Nowak with an 8-inch (21 centimeter) Sikh dagger and sentenced this week to life in prison with a minimum 21-year term.

The case has been seized on by anti-immigration activists and politicians, despite the fact that both Nowak and his killer were British. On Tuesday, police in Southampton were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares after a demonstration over Nowak’s death attended by far-right figures and others.

Vance said in a post on social platform X on Friday that there should be “righteous anger” in response to the murder, which he blamed in part on “the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.”

In a statement issued in response to Vance's comments, Starmer's office criticized people “trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.”

“The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes,” Downing Street said in a statement. “Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.”

Ed Davey, leader of the centrist opposition Liberal Democrats, said “we all need to resist attempts like this to politicize Henry Nowak’s death and divide our country — whether they come from MAGA politicians like Vance or their cronies here in the U.K..”

Politicians including Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right party Reform UK, have claimed that the police response is evidence of “two-tier” policing, with a bias against white people in the British justice system.

The U.S. State Department echoed the “two-tier” policing claim in a post on X Thursday, expressing condolences to Nowak's family and saying that “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline.”

The British government rejected the “two-tier” allegation, which is not backed by statistical evidence.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct, which investigates allegations of police wrongdoing, is probing the actions of police officers responding to Nowak’s stabbing.

The victim’s father, Mark Nowak, has said the case was not about racism or religion, and that he wanted his son’s death to lead to safer streets and not to be used to create “further division, hatred or tension.”

Jimmy, de 9 años, fue secuestrado a punta de pistola cuando bajó de su autobús escolar, a solo una cuadra de su casa, en el área de Southwest 162nd Avenue y 232nd Street, el 11 de septiembre de 1995.

El asesino en este caso terminó confesando el homicidio de Jimmy y posteriormente fue condenado y ejecutado por el crimen. Pero en las décadas transcurridas desde entonces, la familia transformó su dolor en activismo y fundó el Centro Jimmy Ryce, enfocado principalmente en proporcionar sabuesos a las agencias del orden público y otros grupos de búsqueda para ayudar en la localización de niños desaparecidos en el futuro.

Ahora, una parte de Southwest 162nd Avenue recibió la designación de “Jimmy Ryce Avenue” en su honor.

“Es una tragedia que conmocionó a la nación y ocurrió hace unos 30 años. Cambiar el nombre de la calle donde ocurrió la tragedia para reconocerlo, honrarlo y honrar el trabajo que surgió después con la fundación y con nuestras agencias del orden público, realmente es lo mínimo que podíamos hacer en el condado Miami-Dade”, dijo la comisionada de Miami-Dade Danielle Cohen Higgins.

Edward Montizaan, quien mantiene un monumento conmemorativo en el área, dijo que Jimmy “tuvo una vida corta y eso fue terrible, pero de la tragedia ha surgido mucho bien gracias a los sabuesos que las agencias del orden público han podido obtener a través de la Fundación Jimmy Ryce”.

Los familiares dijeron que se enfocaron en los sabuesos porque creen que Jimmy estaría vivo hoy si uno de estos perros hubiera sido utilizado de inmediato para buscarlo.

“They can watch it on television,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday as he flew to Wisconsin for an event with farmers, after he was asked about tickets that have climbed as high as $8,000 each when the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs square off in Manhattan for the first time in the series.

"It’s sorta semi-free to watch it on television,” the president added. “That’s the way life goes.”

Trump further noted that if the Knicks weren't successful — as they haven't been most seasons since last advancing to the finals in 1999 — “you could go very easily.”

The president of course doesn't have to purchase tickets to attend major sporting events. Trump has been to a lot of them in his second term, including the 2025 Super Bowl, Daytona 500 and Ryder Cup.

But a centerpiece of his reelection campaign was a promise to tame inflation and bring down the price of groceries and other cost-of-living essentials. He has increasingly come under pressure to make good on that pledge as November midterm elections draw nearer — and as the war in Iran has caused gas prices to spike and global commodities markets to wobble, raising new fears about inflation and the strength of the U.S. economy.

A longtime Knicks fan, Trump said on Air Force One that he watched Game 1, which New York won 105-95 in San Antonio. “I think the Knicks have an amazing team the way they played," he said.

“Started off slow and it just got stronger and stronger," Trump said of Game 1. He pointed to Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns when asked to name his favorite player on the team.

Trump was also asked about Spurs star Victor Wembanyama having stood with his arms crossed for the national anthem before Game 1. That touched off a conservative firestorm online, even though Wembanyama is French, meaning his country's anthem wasn't being played.

Trump was complimentary of Wembanyama, saying that he “looks like he's gonna be a great player.” But he ducked a chance to weigh in on the national anthem controversy, suggesting he'd not seen Wembanyamba's crossed arms.

"Is that what he did? What did he mean by that?” Trump asked, before recommending that reporters seek the answer from Wembanyama himself.

Trump confirming his attendance for Game 3 follows NBA Commissioner Adam Silver saying on Wednesday that a presidential appearance at a finals game might be unifying in “our increasingly divided society.”

“It creates a sense of connectivity among people," Silver said. "It creates a sense of belonging, and I feel that every day.”

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An earlier version of this story said the Knicks were last in the NBA Finals in 1994. The last year the team competed in the Finals was 1999.

A memo from Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Bill Whitaker to fellow staffers at the CBS News show expressed anger over the recent firings at the show, and said the three had had “a hard time” deciding whether to stay — but ultimately decided to remain.

“Here’s why we are staying: We don’t want to see ‘60 Minutes’ die,” the three wrote in a joint memo obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.

They expressed their regret over the recent firings of colleagues implemented by Bari Weiss, the new CBS News editor-in-chief, and the executive producer she installed last week, Nick Bilton. He replaced Tanya Simon, who was let go after a 30-plus year tenure with the show, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, among other top staffers. Scott Pelley was then fired this week after a tense confrontation with CBS News bosses.

“We want to express how sorry we are that these principled, fair and honest journalists were treated so shabbily, with such indecency," the three correspondents said in their memo. But they said they were “working to build trust” with Bilton, their new boss, and left open the possibility that they could leave later, if need be.

“If we can continue doing the work that made this show what it is — committing acts of independent, fearless journalism and storytelling — we’re here for it," the three wrote. “If not, we leave.”

“Here’s to Season 59!” the note ended.

Persuading the three to remain was a crucial step in Bilton’s task of getting the show back on track for the next season, which launches in September.

The show is suddenly down four correspondents. In addition to the three dismissed, Anderson Cooper — whose primary job is on-air work for CNN — said earlier this year he was leaving of his own accord after two decades.

Bumps had been showing at “60 Minutes” for more than a year. Much of it came after President Donald Trump sued the show over its editing of a 2024 interview with then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

That became part of a broader shakeup at CBS News after Weiss was named to the new role of editor-in-chief by parent company Paramount late last year following David Ellison’s arrival as the network’s corporate leader.

Ellison’s company, Skydance, merged with CBS parent company Paramount, which later settled the Trump lawsuit for $16 million. That upset some at “60 Minutes” and many believe it indirectly led to the departure last month of popular longtime CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, who had called the settlement “a big fat bribe.”

CBS News has been at the center of the American broadcast-news ecosystem since its radio days before the dawn of television, though Weiss earlier this year announced the shutdown of CBS News' radio operation. The network's nightly newscase was seen for decades as one of the most widely trusted institutions in the nation under longtime anchorman Walter Cronkite.

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Those responses in the most pressure-packed of scenarios helps explain why they're back to even in the Stanley Cup Final after losing the opener to the Vegas Golden Knights heading into Saturday's Game 3 on the road. If anything, they seem to be thriving on it with a perfect record in overtime and road games in the postseason, along with avoiding consecutive losses since mid-January.

“It's a special time of year, and it's a really cool opportunity and experience we all get to have,” goaltender Frederik Andersen said Friday. “And if we weren't enjoying it as well, it would be a big shame, right?”

The Hurricanes improved to 13-2 in the playoffs in dramatic fashion Thursday, rallying from a two-goal deficit in the third period to win 4-3 in overtime and split the first two games of the best-of-seven series. The thriller ended with Seth Jarvis hammering a one-timer past Carter Hart from the left side with the man advantage, a moment the Hurricanes are hoping is a breakthrough moment for their regular-season goals leader and the power-play unit after both have sputtered in the postseason.

The story is just as much about the Hurricanes' ability to navigate through turbulence. The win marked marked Carolina's 13th straight win when coming off a loss, a run that started after consecutive losses at Detroit and St. Louis on Jan. 12 and 13.

“It goes to talking about belief," forward Andrei Svechnikov said. "I think we believe in the group. We’re confident in what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. We believe in our system, and we just try to go there and play our game, and that’s what we’ve kind of been doing.”

Carolina's first postseason loss came in the Eastern Conference Final against Montreal, with the Hurricanes emerging from an 11-day between-rounds break — the longest in the playoffs in more than a century — and giving up four first-period goals in a 6-2 loss.

They responded with four straight wins, twice in overtime and then two in romps by a combined 10-1 margin to close out the series.

Coming off a 5-4 loss in Game 1 to Vegas, Carolina responded again, though it looked grim facing a 2-0 deficit and being outplayed in a second period that coach Rod Brind'Amour admitted was “kind of a dud."

The Hurricanes scored three unanswered goals in a span of roughly five minutes in the third period, the last being captain Jordan Staal's deflection from the top of the crease on the power play.

Then Carolina shook off Vegas scoring an OT-forcing goal with 1:21 left in regulation to cash in for a second straight time on a power play with Jarvis banging in the winner. That came on a well-executed sequence with Shayne Gostisbehere — who assisted on Staal's score — working up top.

Gostisbehere sold that he might shoot the puck enough to heighten the attention of the Golden Knights' defenders packed in the middle, while Nikolaj Ehlers even hopped in the slot as though jumping over a shot. That kept Hart locked an extra beat in the middle as Gostisbehere instead passed to Jarvis on the left side for the winner.

Before those scores, Carolina's power play stood at 7 for 60 (11.7%) in the playoffs after ranking fourth in the regular season (24.9%).

Now Carolina is 6-0 in overtime in the playoffs, including in all four Game 2 home wins, and a 6-0 on the road.

“For almost 50 minutes there (emotions are) kind of low, and then kind of even, then really high, then low again, and then high,” Gostisbehere said. "It’s a roller coaster, for sure. But it’s just managing them. We’re still human beings. We’re going to be nervous out there and have emotions, but the more you do it, the more you do anything, you get used to it.”

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El detective Robert Rutkowski, el agente Zachary Kerin y Keith Costa, capitán fuera de servicio del Departamento de Bomberos de Fort Lauderdale, trabajaron juntos el 1 de mayo en Pompano Beach.

“La cámara corporal muestra un rescate increíble. Muestra la diferencia entre la tragedia y la supervivencia medida en apenas segundos. La conductora está viva hoy gracias a sus rápidas acciones”, dijo el sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony en un comunicado.

La mano de Kerin resultó herida mientras rompía la ventana del lado del pasajero del automóvil para poder sacar a la mujer del vehículo.

Personal de Pompano Beach Fire Rescue y otros agentes de la BSO también respondieron al canal en el área de South Palm Aire Drive y South Powerline Road.

Rutkowski dijo que tomó un dispositivo de flotación de un agente que ya lo tenía listo y rápidamente saltó al agua.

Los agentes habían atado una cuerda amarilla al dispositivo de flotación rojo, la sostuvieron y la utilizaron para ayudar durante el rescate.

“Nuestro trabajo era salvar una vida; eso fue lo que hicimos”, dijo Rutkowski, según un video publicado por la BSO. “Tuvimos éxito”.

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Solari, who had struggled with Parkinson’s disease for at least a decade, was found dead near an indoor pool at his house in the provincial town of Ituzaingó, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, authorities said, without identifying a cause of death.

His family confirmed his death on social media, saying they would hold a public funeral to allow people to bid farewell to the rock legend. As news of his death broke, fans began gathering at his home, with some bearing flowers and wearing T-shirts printed with his nickname.

“We will mourn as is fitting, listen to his songs and, above all, take care of one another, as he taught us to do,” the family's statement said.

As the lead singer of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota — known more simply as “Los Redondos” — Solari became a countercultural icon for disaffected Argentines coming of age as their country transitioned from a bloody military dictatorship to a democracy characterized by newfound freedoms but also instability and hyperinflation in the 1980s.

During the consumerist frenzy that gripped Argentina the 1990s, under the free-market policies of then-President Carlos Saul Menem, Solari's classic rock anthems, punchy dance tunes and cryptic lyrics gave voice to a spirit of rebellion against the excesses of capitalism and influences of foreign powers. Los Redondos released 10 studio albums, eschewing major record labels to maintain artistic independence.

The band broke up in 2001, but Solari found continued success as a solo artist, releasing five more albums under his own name that mixed mainstream rock and electronic influences and drawing hundreds of thousands of fans to parks and stadiums across Argentina.

At a massive concert in 2016, he announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “Mr. Parkinson is nipping at my heels. But here I am,” he said. The crowd went wild. He later retired from touring, speaking candidly in interviews about the debilitating effects of the disease.

Tributes poured in from politicians, artists and soccer stars across the country.

The Argentine Soccer Association said Solari's voice “became a popular rallying cry” and “echoed in the stands” of the soccer-crazed country.

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, a prominent activist group which sought to find relatives who had been killed or “disappeared” by the 1976-83 dictatorship, said the singer “inspired society as a whole to doubt, to question and to think critically.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's former president who is serving a corruption sentence under house arrest, posted one of his famous lyrics on social media, popularized as a call to live courageously: “Just living costs you your life.”

Solari is survived by his wife, Virginia Mones Ruiz, and 25-year-old son Bruno.

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Detective Robert Rutkowski, Deputy Zachary Kerin, and Keith Costa, an off-duty Fort Lauderdale Fire captain, worked together on May 1 in Pompano Beach.

“The body-worn camera shows an incredible rescue. It shows the difference between how tragedy and survival was measured in just seconds. The driver is alive today because of their quick actions,” Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony said in a statement.

Kerin’s hand was injured as he shattered the car’s passenger-side window, so they could pull the woman out of the car.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel and other BSO deputies also responded to the canal in the area of South Palm Aire Drive and South Powerline Road.

Rutkowski said he grabbed a flotation device from a deputy who had it ready to go, and he quickly jumped in the water.

Deputies had tied a yellow rope to the red flotation device, held it, and pulled it during the rescue.

“Our job was to save a life; that’s what we did,” Rutkowski said, according to a video BSO released. “We were successful.”

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The three-time AL MVP will rest and have limited activity before getting re-evaluated and having additional imaging in about four to six weeks. The Yankees said in a statement that Judge is expected to return “at some point this season.”

“Very disappointed,” Judge said before the Yankees opened a three-game series against the Red Sox. “That’s why we went through every measure we could to get an expert to take a look to see what was going on in there, but definitely not what you want to hear — any fracture or anything like that.”

“He really is going to have some downtime,” general manager Brian Cashman said. “So once he gets cleared to have the imaging and stuff like that, hopefully it comes back positive at that point and then we can start mapping out a return to play protocol and expect him back and get a clearer picture of when that would be.”

Judge underwent a CT scan on Thursday and had an MRI earlier in the week when he met with a specialist. The Yankees initially said Judge had shoulder soreness before clarifying the injury was to a rib on his right side, which was first revealed when Judge underwent testing on Monday, the team’s off day.

Judge said he first experienced pain while making a diving catch on April 26 in Houston and added that crashing into the right-field fence to complete a catch on May 3 against Baltimore “didn’t help.” The pain intensified last weekend, when he was 2 for 12 against the Athletics, leading to an array of tests and findings from Dr. Gregory Pearl, a vascular surgery specialist in Dallas.

“I kind of felt the symptoms for the past month and we did everything we could to make sure, we could be out there,” Judge said. “In Sacramento it just got a little worse. So, I fought it as long as I could.”

Including a stint on the COVID-19 injured list in July 2021, Judge is on the IL for the 10th time since debuting Aug. 13, 2016. He missed 45 games with a fractured right wrist in 2018, 54 games with a strained left oblique in 2019 and 42 games with a fractured toe in 2023 after crashing into a wall while making a catch at Dodger Stadium.

In 2023, the Yankees went 19-23 while Judge was on the injured list. In 2019, they were 37-17 and 25-20 the previous season.

“Obviously you’re not going to replace Aaron Judge, and we all know how important he is to our club, but we’re also very confident in our ability to go out there and absolutely have the expectation to continue to win games,” manager Aaron Boone said.

The Yankees recalled Spencer Jones from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre for his second stint with the team to replace Judge.

Jones went 4 for 24 on May 8-21 after being called up to replace Jasson Domínguez, who injured the AC joint in his shoulder while crashing into the left-field fence on a catch against Brandon Nimmo on May 7 against Texas.

Judge has a rib injury for the second time in his career.

He was diagnosed with a stress fracture in one of his right ribs in March 2020. The injury occurred when he dived for a ball in September 2019, but Judge didn’t miss any time because of the 2020 season being delayed by the pandemic.

The 34-year-old is hitting .248 with 17 home runs and 38 RBIs. But he has just one homer in his last 18 games since May 10 and ended an 11-game homer and RBI drought with a game-ending, two-run drive on May 24 against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Judge entered the game against Tampa Bay in a 1-for-24 slump that dropped his batting average to .246. He was hitless in 15 at-bats before singling in the first inning.

“That was probably the biggest thing,” Judge said. “I just couldn’t swing the way I wanted to.”

Judge won the batting title last season, when he hit a career-high .331 with 53 homers and 114 RBIs in 152 games. He missed 10 games from July 26-Aug. 4 with a flexor strain in his right elbow that he sustained on a throw to home July 22 in Toronto. He underwent a plasma-rich injection and did not require offseason surgery.

Giancarlo Stanton played 17 games in the outfield when Judge was hurt last season. Stanton has been out since April 24 with a strained right calf and started taking live at-bats on the field Wednesday, though he was ruled out for New York’s upcoming road trip.

José Caballero started the first two games against Cleveland and has made four starts in right field since being acquired from Tampa Bay at the July 31 trade deadline. Max Schuemann made his first career start in right field Thursday and made a diving catch on Steven Kwan in the second along with a leaping catch on Brayan Rocchio in the seventh.

Judge had started 52 games in right field. Jones made his fifth start in right field Friday and Cody Bellinger has started two games.

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Attorney Yaakov Roth, speaking during an exchange with U.S. Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett, said only Congress could halt the $400 million project. The administration has been asking the court to allow it to press on with the ballroom without congressional approval.

At issue is an April 16 order from U.S. District Judge Richard Leon for Trump’s Republican administration to halt aboveground work on the 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom. Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, allowed for construction to continue on belowground work on a bunker and other “national security facilities” at the site.

The hearing Friday centered on who has standing to challenge government steps once they have already been taken and whether that standing overrides national security.

In response to hypothetical scenarios put forward by Millett, Roth agreed that the government could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and the White House — and the descendants of immigrants who came through Ellis Island and the enslaved people who built the White House would not have legal standing to oppose the move after the fact.

Millett, nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, asked Roth when the construction on the ballroom was a “fait accompli?”

“Was it when you started doing the underground work, which is now totally completely integral and connected and inseparable from a massive ballroom on top?" she asked. "When did it become impossible for courts to stop this project?”

Roth replied: “I think it would have been improper to enjoin it even on Day One."

The exchange was one of many during the two-hour hearing before the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The hearing concluded without a decision by the judges.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued to challenge the project in December, a week after the White House finished demolishing the East Wing to make way for a ballroom that Trump said would fit 999 people.

It is hard to determine how the judges might rule. While there were numerous questions for Roth over the administration’s authority and changing explanations of how it is moving forward, plaintiff attorney Tad Heuer also faced numerous questions.

The judges pressed Heuer on standing in the case and on how basic aesthetic questions can override the national security concerns.

“We have never opposed the underground construction of the bunker, which is where the government until recently has said the national security concerns lay,” Heuer said. He said construction should be halted until Congress weighs in.

“Congress can allow ballrooms to be built — it’s its property,” Heuer said.

Government lawyers have argued that the project includes critical security features to guard against a range of threats, such as drones, ballistic missiles and biohazards.

“These upgrades, alterations, and improvements are essential to protecting the President, his family, and his staff, as well as the White House itself, and the entire project flows from them,” they wrote in a court filing.

Jarrett was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2011 after 50 career wins on the sport's top circuit, including championships in 1961 and 1965. He was part of the second five-member NASCAR Hall of Fame class.

Jarrett, known as “Gentleman Ned” for his demeanor, may have been better known by younger NASCAR fans for his broadcasting career. One of his signature moments in the booth came in the 1993 Daytona 500 when he didn't try to restrain from rooting as his son, Dale Jarrett, held off Dale Earnhardt for the win.

Dale Jarrett won the Cup Series in 1999. The Jarretts became the second father-son combination to win Cup Series championships, following Lee and Richard Petty. Bill Elliott and his son, Chase, later completed the father-son achievement.

NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell said Ned Jarrett was a racing legend.

“Despite his calm demeanor, ‘Gentleman’ Ned Jarrett was as fierce a competitor as NASCAR has ever seen," O'Donnell said in a statement. "His on-track accomplishments speak for themselves with wins and championships across several NASCAR divisions.

“But it was his off-the-track persona that separated Ned from his peers. He was as kind as his nickname indicated. And his endearing personality helped him excel in his second career as a broadcaster. Ned was an outstanding ambassador for the sport for more than six decades and he will be dearly missed.”

Jarrett's family described him as "a devout Christian and a devoted, loving family man.”

“He was a friend to everyone he met and NASCAR’s oldest living champion," Jarrett's family said in a statement. "By all accounts, he was a true NASCAR legend. While we mourn his passing, we celebrate the remarkable life of an amazing man and truly the best father anyone could have wished for. Rest in Peace, Dad.”

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Robin Pendery of Enumclaw, Washington was a seasonal mountaineering ranger assigned to Denali National Park and Preserve. She fell Thursday while on climbing patrol on Mount McKinley, and died despite immediate rescue efforts, the park service said.

The death is under investigation. It comes only a week after three climbers from a Latvian mountaineering expedition died after falling near a treacherous pass on McKinley. A fourth climber was rescued. They were part of a seven-person team traversing a route known for its exposed sections, where many climbers have died or been injured over the years.

McKinley stands at about 20,310 feet (6,190 meters), and Pendery fell near what's known as the 14,000-foot (4,328-meter) camp.

“Our mountaineering rangers dedicate themselves to serving visitors and helping others in one of the most challenging environments in the world,” Denali Superintendent Brooke Merrell said in a statement Friday. “Today, we mourn the loss of a valued colleague, friend and teammate.”

The Bears' board of directors voted Thursday to move forward with a stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana. The team had been doing its due diligence on a tract of land near Wolf Lake, but it said Friday that an exact site had not been selected.

“We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city," the Bears said in a statement that the team attributed to chairman George McCaskey and team president Kevin Warren. "It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.”

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun welcomed the team's announcement. A committee in the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill in February that established a Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority to finance, construct and lease a stadium.

“We look forward to building a partnership as strong as the ’85 Bears defense, creating opportunities and economic growth that will benefit our state and the Bears organization for decades to come," Braun said in a statement. “An NFL franchise in Northwest Indiana will be an economic boost to the entire region like we haven’t seen before.”

The Bears, a charter NFL franchise, have played in Illinois since the team’s founding in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys. They moved to Chicago in 1921 and called Wrigley Field home before they started playing at Soldier Field in September 1971.

The Bears’ lease runs through 2033, but they can pay a fee to break the lease early. Soldier Field is about 40 miles south of Halas Hall — the team's headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois — and Hammond is about 20 miles south of the team's lakefront stadium.

Matt Hill, a spokesperson for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, said the governor "remains open to a sensible solution that protects taxpayers.”

“The Bears have built a storied legacy in Illinois for over 100 years but have spent the last six years, and especially the last few months, shifting their position on a stadium location," Hill said in a statement. “That has hindered their progress. Today appears to be another instance of that after Illinois leaders have been working with the Bears in good faith.”

The Bears also had been considering Arlington Heights — about 30 miles northwest of Chicago — as a potential location for their new stadium.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill early Monday morning that would have cleared the way for Arlington Heights and Chicago to create local stadium authorities, creating a pathway for the Bears to avoid paying property taxes on a new stadium in Illinois. But the House adjourned without taking up the measure on the last day of the state’s spring legislative session.

State Rep. Kam Buckner, whose district includes Soldier Field, posted on social media that he spoke with Warren on Friday morning.

“He ended the conversation by committing to continue discussions around their pursuit of a new stadium in Illinois,” Buckner said.

While the Bears said as recently as May 21 that Hammond and Arlington Heights were the only sites under consideration, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been lobbying for the team to stay in the city.

The mayor's office issued a statement that said the city "will continue to engage in discussions grounded in the interests of our residents."

The Bears still have to secure NFL approval for the location of their new stadium. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the team has kept the league apprised of all developments.

The Bears have been pursuing a new home for years, but the process has been hampered by repeated twists and turns.

The team announced in September 2021 that it had signed a purchase agreement for 326 acres of land in Arlington Heights. The $197 million deal with Churchill Downs Incorporated was finalized in 2023.

In September 2022, the team unveiled a nearly $5 billion plan for Arlington Heights that called for an enclosed stadium that could host Super Bowls and Final Fours. The conceptual illustrations also provided for a year-round entertainment district with restaurants and shopping.

But the Bears shifted their focus toward building a new stadium next to Soldier Field after Warren was hired as team president in January 2023, replacing the retiring Ted Phillips. The plan to transform Chicago’s Museum Campus got an enthusiastic endorsement from Johnson and a tepid reception from Pritzker and state legislators when it was announced in April 2024.

The team switched gears again in May 2025, announcing it had made “significant progress” with local leaders in Arlington Heights.

Amid lingering efforts to secure tax incentives in Illinois, along with as much as $855 million in public money for infrastructure at the Arlington Heights site, the Bears began to take a closer look at possible options in Northwest Indiana.

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said the Bears decided on Hammond because it's “a successful city of opportunity and possibility, an excellent choice for such a significant investment.”

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The microreactor being developed by Antares Nuclear Inc. at the Idaho National Lab reached “criticality” on Thursday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. The milestone occurs when a nuclear reactor achieves a self-sustaining chain reaction capable of producing a steady release of energy.

Antares is the first private company to bring an advanced reactor to criticality under a pilot program begun last year by the Trump administration meant to supercharge nuclear energy production in the U.S. The demonstration was conducted in partnership with the Energy Department and other contractors with support from the U.S. Army.

“We are very excited by this news today,” Wright said Friday on a call with reporters. “I think June 4th will be a historic day in the American nuclear renaissance.”

Antares and its partners "have shown America can do bold things,” Wright added. “America has great technology, great entrepreneurs that are ready to drive energy innovation to power our future, lower energy costs and make our country more powerful."

Trump administration pushing to ramp up nuclear power

The achievement shows that the Trump administration’s push to remove regulatory barriers is helping to advance new nuclear technologies, Wright said.

President Donald Trump signed executive orders in May 2025 intended to speed up the development of nuclear power, including steps that grant Wright authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects. Trump's orders limit some authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

Skeptics warn that nuclear energy poses risks and say microreactors may not be safe or feasible and have not proved they can meet demand for a reasonable price.

While the Antares system is years away from commercial use, achieving criticality is a notable step. The California-based company, which is initially targeting military applications, said it expects to begin producing electricity by late 2027 and see its systems deployed in the field by the end of 2028, CEO Jordan Bramble said Friday.

"Nuclear in America has been defined for too long by delays, by companies that said they would and then didn’t,” Bramble said in a written statement.

At a briefing on Friday, Bramble said achieving criticality “is the first step on a roadmap toward producing electricity ahead of deploying this technology for customer sites.”

“Microreactors are a technology that’s here today," he added. “2026 is the year where microreactors are becoming real. We’re months to years out from being able to start deploying this technology to military installations.”

July 4 goal for test reactors

The Trump administration has set a goal of achieving the criticality milestone in at least three test reactors by July 4 — the nation's 250th anniversary.

Officials have selected 11 advanced reactor projects, including Antares, to move their technologies toward deployment.

In February, the Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is the country's potential to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use. The nearly 700-mile flight transported a 5-megawatt microreactor manufactured by Valar Atomics in southern California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah.

The reactor — which did not have nuclear fuel — eventually will be able to generate up to 5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 5,000 homes, said Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics. The company hopes to start selling power on a test basis next year and become fully commercial in 2028, he said.

Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the transport flight, which attracted significant news coverage, was little more than a publicity stunt.

He offered a similar response to the claims by Antares and Wright.

“This stunt is a rudimentary first step that has absolutely no bearing on whether the Antares reactor will be safe or commercially viable,” Lyman said in an email Friday.

The Energy Department's statement that the test “confirms that the reactor can operate safely” is false, Lyman said, adding that more testing of the reactor is needed.

The administration has not resolved how nuclear waste will be disposed, although Wright has said the Energy Department is in talks with Utah and other states to host sites that could reprocess fuel or handle permanent disposal. States including Tennessee, Nebraska and Idaho have expressed interest in handling nuclear waste.

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The nearly $70 billion package, which cleared the Republican-held Senate in a middle of the night vote and now heads to the House, was declared a “rotten bill” by the Democratic leader and an "ATM for ICE” by pro-immigrant advocates.

But for those aligned with Trump’s campaign promise for the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, it all but guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out the administration's immigration enforcement operations — and comes on top of some $170 billion Congress already approved for the department last summer, as part of Trump's big tax breaks bill.

“We’re going to continue to arrest people, we’re going to continue to detain people and we’re going to keep deporting people,” Trump border czar Tom Homan told CBS News on Friday.

He hinted at summer sweeps of enforcement actions coming next to New York City.

More money, fewer guardrails

The work of Congress comes at a pivotal time for the Republican president and his party as they face restless voters before the midterm elections. About one in three U.S. adults know someone who has been impacted by Trump’s immigration operations, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted in April. And as America celebrates its 250th anniversary, most say it’s no longer a great place for immigrants.

The funding package from Congress is just a slim dozen-page bill that carries none of the usual guardrails or directives typically demanded in legislation. It turns loose $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and billions for the Border Patrol, and others, prepaying the department’s operations into 2029.

“Their options are limitless in terms of what they can do with this money,” said Vanessa Cardenas, the executive director at America's Voice, a longtime advocacy organization for immigrants.

“That is such a hard thing to accept as a taxpaying citizen that our dollars are going to this massive, mass deportation machine, while Americans are struggling to meet health care costs, and have access to food and they’re paying so much in gas.”

The administration has sought to shift the debate over its immigration operations, installing new leadership at Homeland Security in the aftermath of violent scenes of immigration enforcement earlier this year and the shooting deaths of Americans Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Rather than the dramatic street sweeps, the administration is working behind the scenes on actions that are stripping immigrant groups of their ability to remain in the U.S., by doing away with Temporary Protected Status or making it more difficult to secure green cards.

The so-called Dreamers, young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children, have reported delays in renewing their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, exposing them to potential deportation.

But protests on American streets continue, including over detention conditions at the Delaney Hall facility in New Jersey.

At the same time, Homeland Security continues to hire more ICE agents — it's hosting an employment fair next month in Florida — build more detention facilities and partner with countries around the world to take people who are being deported from the U.S.

In a statement, the department said Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin are “laser focused on ensuring the hardworking men and women” of ICE and Customs and Border Patrol are fully funded. It said the package from Congress “will ensure our critical national security operations continue despite any Democrat attempts to hold our great patriotic employees hostage in the future.”

Power of the purse becomes a blank check

Typically a funding package from Congress would run hundreds pages or more, with a range of specific instructions about how the money can be spent and on what timelines.

Congress, after all, holds the power of the purse, and often uses that constitutional role to put checks on the administration.

But after Democrats refused to fund Homeland Security earlier this year following the violence in Minnesota, Republicans retaliated by using the congressional budget resolution process to muscle the package through on their own, outside the traditional appropriations channels.

It’s the same process both parties have used in the past, most recently on Trump’s 2025 tax cuts bill.

“All this important oversight" that typically comes with the appropriations process "doesn’t happen,” said Bobby Kogan, a former staff member of the Senate Budget Committee who's now at the Center for American Progress, a think tank.

Overnight, Democrats in the Senate worked to exert that authority, offering amendments to ensure Congress had some say in the process. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, for example, sought to protect “Dreamers” from deportation as their DACA renewals are being delayed. But those efforts all failed.

Deportations not enough, for some

Meanwhile the administration is under enormous pressure to deliver on its promise to boost deportations to some 1 million a year, after the Republican president's first year numbers fell short.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, is a leader of the Mass Deportation Coalition that is pushing the Trump administration to stick to its promises.

“Everyone’s talking about it like ICE is about to get another massive cash injection, and that’s not how I see it at all," he said. "They're getting like life-support money.”

“We’re not asking them to keep going,” Howell said. “We're asking them to start.”

Howell said there's little chance the Trump administration will be able to reach the president's deportation goals unless it drops its priority to go after what they call the “worst of the worst.”

His group put out a framework earlier this year that proposes more comprehensive sweeps to arrest immigrants, particularly in the workplace. He also wants to see the Trump administration make it more difficult for immigrants who are in the U.S. to use the banking system, get social services and obtain drivers licenses. Republicans in Congress have offered bills tackling some of those issues.

The administration has been amping up its own rhetoric and recently posted a new website that characterizes immigrants as “aliens” — with outer-space themes — and suggests ways the White House is working to prevent people from staying in the U.S.

The 104th-ranked Arnaldi withdrew before the first all-Italian men's Grand Slam semifinal against Flavio Cobolli on Friday at Roland Garros.

Arnaldi believed he caught a virus and said he could not play competitive tennis.

“I think it’s a virus because I was feeling pretty cold,” he said. “I had a fever. I just know that I can’t move, and I can’t eat, and I can’t drink.”

His withdrawal handed Cobolli a place in Sunday's final against second-seeded Alexander Zverev.

Arnaldi said he felt fine during practice on Thursday, until he had dinner.

“I started to feel so-so with my stomach,” he told a press conference also attended by Cobolli, who sat at the other end of the interview desk.

“I was, like, ‘All right, just didn’t digest very well.’ But then I woke up at 1 a.m. and I started vomiting. Then I tried to sleep. I couldn’t sleep at all. At 6, 7 a.m. I vomited again. This time was pretty bad.”

He summoned a doctor to his room and took medicine.

“I was hoping that it would just be something from dinner or something like that, but then throughout the day I couldn’t eat," Arnaldi said. "Every time we did something or would drink, I would go back to the bathroom."

He reached the semifinals after countryman Matteo Berrettini retired in their quarterfinal due to a hip injury before the end of the second set. Arnaldi spent a total of 19 hours, 42 minutes on court, more than any other player has taken to make the semifinals at any major tournament since the ATP Tour began recording match times in 1991.

“It’s tough, because for how the tournament was, for how many hours I spent on court, I was feeling actually very good,” Arnaldi said.

“To have to withdraw from the first slam semifinal is not something that you wish to anybody. I tried to get ready and tried to stay as much as I could here and tried to see if I could go on court, but every time I get up, I feel dizzy, and I don’t feel like the best. I’m pretty sure if I eat again, I’m not going to feel, like, good. That was the right decision for me to take."

Cobolli said he was saddened by the news.

“When he came to me almost one hour ago, I almost cried,” he said. “Matteo is a big inspiration for all of us.”

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Gilbert, 53, plans to officially announce his run for the 24th Congressional District on Sunday at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Miami Gardens and livestream it on his new site.

“I grew up here. I went to school here. I served here. And every step of that journey is the reason I’m running,” Gilbert said in a statement on his site.

Oliver, who was elected to the commission in 2020 and served as the commission chair from 2022 to 2024, announced he was resigning from his commission seat effective Jan. 3.

Miami-Dade School Board member Steve Gallon III announced he is running for Gilbert’s commission seat.

The list of candidates running for Wilson’s seat also includes former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime, Dr. Rudy Moise, Christine Sanon-Jules, an entrepreneur, and North Bay Village Commissioner Andy Daro, an independent.

Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones asked his supporters on Thursday to meet him on Tuesday at the Koinonia Worship Center in Hollywood.

Jones, 42, announced on May 27 that he was not going to seek reelection for Florida Senate District 34, which he had represented since 2022.

“I also told you that when I was ready to share what comes next, you would hear directly from me,” Jones said in a video released on X.

After Wilson announced her retirement on May 29, Florida Rep. Ashley Gantt announced her campaign for Jones’s seat and released a statement saying Jones was seeking Wilson’s seat.

“As Congresswoman Wilson passes the torch and Senator Shevrin Jones announces his campaign for Congressional District 24, this moment also creates an opening, and I believe I am ready to fill it,” Gantt said in the statement.

Florida Democrats faced conflict after a Republican majority passed a redistricting map on April 29 and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on May 4.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced on May 22 that she had decided not to run for reelection in the 25th Congressional District, but instead run in the 20th District. She faced backlash from Black Democrats.

On Tuesday, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that he had not decided whether or not to endorse Wasserman Schultz, whom he praised for her “strong” track record.

“I think we all recognize the sensitivities of the moment in terms of an unprecedented Jim Crow-like assault on Black political representation that has been unleashed by the Supreme Court’s outrageous decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, and it’s an environment that all of us need to be sensitive to,” Jeffries said.

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Gilbert, de 53 años, planea anunciar oficialmente su candidatura al 24º Distrito Congresional el domingo en la Iglesia Bautista Misionera Antioch en Miami Gardens y transmitirlo en vivo en su nuevo sitio web .

“Crecí aquí. Fui a la escuela aquí. Serví aquí. Y cada paso de ese camino es la razón por la que me postulo”, dijo Gilbert en un comunicado en su sitio web.

Oliver, quien fue elegido miembro de la comisión en 2020 y se desempeñó como presidente de la misma de 2022 a 2024, anunció su renuncia al cargo a partir del 3 de enero.

Steve Gallon III, miembro de la Junta Escolar de Miami-Dade, anunció que se postulará para el puesto de comisionado que actualmente ocupa Gilbert .

La lista de candidatos que se postulan para el puesto de Wilson también incluye al excomisionado de Miami-Dade, Jean Monestime, al Dr. Rudy Moise, a Christine Sanon-Jules , una empresaria, y al comisionado de North Bay Village, Andy Daro , un independiente.

El senador de Florida, Shevrin Jones, pidió el jueves a sus seguidores que se reunieran con él el martes en el Centro de Adoración Koinonia en Hollywood.

Jones, de 42 años, anunció el 27 de mayo que no se presentaría a la reelección para el Distrito 34 del Senado de Florida , al que había representado desde 2022.

“También les dije que cuando estuviera listo para compartir lo que viene después, lo escucharían directamente de mí”, dijo Jones en un video publicado en X.

Después de que Wilson anunciara su retiro el 29 de mayo, la representante de Florida, Ashley Gantt, anunció su candidatura para el escaño de Jones y emitió un comunicado diciendo que Jones aspiraba al puesto de Wilson.

“Ahora que la congresista Wilson me pasa el testigo y el senador Shevrin Jones anuncia su candidatura para el Distrito 24 del Congreso , este momento también crea una oportunidad, y creo que estoy preparado para aprovecharla”, dijo Gantt en el comunicado.

Los demócratas de Florida se enfrentaron a un conflicto después de que la mayoría republicana aprobara un mapa de redistribución de distritos el 29 de abril y el gobernador Ron DeSantis lo promulgara como ley el 4 de mayo.

La representante estadounidense Debbie Wasserman Schultz anunció el 22 de mayo que había decidido no presentarse a la reelección en el distrito congresional número 25, sino hacerlo en el distrito número 20. Su decisión generó críticas por parte de los demócratas afroamericanos .

El martes, el líder de la minoría en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, Hakeem Jeffries, declaró a los periodistas que aún no había decidido si respaldaría o no a Wasserman Schultz, a quien elogió por su sólida trayectoria.

“Creo que todos reconocemos la delicadeza del momento en lo que respecta a un ataque sin precedentes, similar al de las leyes de segregación racial de Jim Crow, contra la representación política de la población negra, desatado por la indignante decisión de la Corte Suprema de desmantelar la Ley de Derechos Electorales, y es un entorno al que todos debemos ser sensibles”, dijo Jeffries.

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It turned garages into impromptu rehearsal spaces for would-be rock stars across the American suburbs. For those who couldn’t play, couldn’t try to play or couldn’t get some friends with instruments together, there was always the air guitar. (Does anyone ever play an acoustic air guitar?)

Nearly 100 years ago, Americans' love of tinkering, music and just making things louder combined when George Beauchamp created and Adolph Rickenbacker produced the first commercially successful electric guitar. That was “the Frying Pan.”

The tinkering continued. Musician and inventor Les Paul put strings and pickups on a block of wood called “the Log” and made it one of the first solid body electric guitars. And now we’re talking.

Imagine the intro to Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” without the electric guitar. Would that song about a guitar player even exist? It’s the engine powering Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.” It spawned the ax man, the guitar god and the apotheosis of look-at-me American exceptionalism, the guitar solo.

It’s in your face and loud. It goes to 11, after all.

It was so provocative that many felt deep betrayal when Bob Dylan plugged in.

It became so ubiquitous, so essential to rock and pop music, that MTV created its successful “Unplugged” franchise, where bands were forced to play nonelectric instruments as an acoustic counterprogramming novelty.

And like all the best American inventions, it was exported around the world, where it still has the power to make kids dream. As long as they have somewhere to plug in.

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Trump noted that the size of the office has been “way too high for way too long” and that “if he cut, I wouldn’t mind that."

“He'll do a very good job,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to Wisconsin for an event on agriculture. “He'll watch it closely, but Bill Pulte is very good, he's very talented.”

The Republican president said in an earlier interview with The Wall Street Journal that he has asked Pulte to start the process of firing employees. In the interview, Trump said he has already conveyed his view to Pulte, who has served as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency but has no apparent national security expertise.

“I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, which the Journal said was in reference to intelligence community officials who had served in the Democratic administrations of Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Trump told the Journal that he wants Pulte to “start the process” of firing personnel and that the eventual permanent director of national intelligence should continue it. The president has indicated that he would not formally nominate Pulte for the position.

“Frankly, it might be good for him to shake it up before people come,” Trump said. “Because, if he (Pulte) reduced the size, in conjunction with me … and in conjunction with possibly the person coming in … he can do a lot of the hard work and we wouldn’t have to saddle somebody that goes in.”

Pulte was tapped by the president earlier this week in a surprising move that has been met with bipartisan resistance in the Senate, which confirms presidential nominations. The temporary appointment has now snarled the renewal of a critical national security surveillance program on Capitol Hill, with Democrats key to the vote pointing out that they did not trust Pulte — whose office oversees 18 intelligence agencies — to help administer the surveillance program.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Pulte will stay in the position depending on how long it takes to get his successor confirmed. The president also said he was considering five people who were “all very good, all people that you know very well, all people that do that kind of thing.”

“They're very respected people,” Trump said of his intelligence candidates, without naming them.

Under Pulte’s predecessor, Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI office had already taken steps to scale back its size. In August, the Trump administration said that the office’s budget would be cut by more than $700 million per year, while slashing the size of its workforce.

At the time, Gabbard said the office had become “bloated and inefficient” while she announced the roughly 40% workforce reduction.

Gabbard resigned last month after revealing her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

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In true “Torts” fashion, he is not explaining why.

"I like our team, where we’re at," Tortorella said Friday. “We’re good. We’re ready to play. I like a lot of things about what’s gone on in the first two games. I’m not giving you specifics.”

Tortorella and the Golden Knights return home for Game 3 against the Hurricanes on Saturday night with plenty of lessons to learn from. It's the first time in NHL history that each of the first two games of a Cup final featured a team erasing a multigoal deficit to win.

Vegas trailed 2-0 in the opener and won 5-4, then led 2-0 on Thursday night until past the midway point of the third period. After Carolina scored three times in just over five minutes, it took captain Mark Stone tying it 6 on 5 with goaltender Carter Hart pulled for an extra skater to force overtime.

“We have pretty good control, and then some minor mistakes and it ends up in the back of the net,” center William Karlsson said. “Just kind of ride it out all game long and hopefully not give Carolina any chances to come back.”

Teammates credited the crowd in Raleigh for aiding the Hurricanes' comeback, and with that came an appreciation to be playing the next two games at the arena on The Strip nicknamed the Fortress. The Golden Knights have only been in existence for nine years, but their home-ice advantage quickly became one of the best in the league.

“We feed off the crowd,” forward Keegan Kolesar said. "You can tell from (Game 2), once things started going their way, they’re playing a lot faster, a lot harder when their crowd is involved. Go back to even the COVID year, it makes you realize how important fans are because when they’re not in that building, it can be pretty miserable, so really excited to have that back in our building.”

The Knights are 6-2 at home during the playoffs. They are also 7-3 on the road.

Tortorella has preached consistency since taking over when Bruce Cassidy was fired in late March, and that applies to not changing much depending on where games take place.

“There’s no difference," Tortorella said. "We’re going to play. We know how to play. We know how we want to play.”

Carolina went a perfect 6-0 on the road through the first three rounds, including the Eastern Conference Final at hockey-mad Montreal.

“I don’t think we really care, to be honest, where we play," said Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen, who has a 1.27 goals-against average and .931 save percentage away from home in the playoffs this spring. “We’re really just focused on our foundation in our game, and that’s really what sets us up for success.”

Lingering over Vegas is the potential absence of top-pairing defenseman Brayden McNabb, who took an 87.3 mph slap shot to the face 11 minutes into Game 2 and did not return. If McNabb is unable to play in Game 3, fellow left-handed shooter Ben Hutton or righty Kaedan Korczak are likely replacements.

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At 9 p.m., on June 12, the U.S. team will be playing Paraguay. The arena’s doors will open at least one hour before the game, according to organizers.

At 7:30 p.m., on June 27, Colombia will be playing against Portugal. Security will not allow big bags.

The other two parties are on July 11 for the quarterfinals and on July 19 for the final. The times had yet to be announced on Friday afternoon.

Although the events and parking are free, the arena requires ticket registration through SeatGeek. For more information, visit this page.

Useful links

• Broward County government’s World Cup page
• Lauderhill government’s World Cup page

Related stories

• FIFA cancels World Cup tickets to about 60 fans who got them for free due to error
• Shakira and Burna Boy to play in first of three World Cup opening ceremonies
• Thousands of free World Cup tickets available for veterans, military members and first responders

El 12 de junio , a las 9 de la noche , la selección de Estados Unidos se enfrentará a Paraguay. Según los organizadores, las puertas del estadio se abrirán al menos una hora antes del partido.

El 27 de junio , a las 19:30 , Colombia jugará contra Portugal. El personal de seguridad no permitirá el ingreso de bolsos grandes.

Los otros dos partidos se disputarán el 11 de julio, los cuartos de final, y el 19 de julio , la final. Los horarios aún no se habían anunciado el viernes por la tarde.

Aunque los eventos y el estacionamiento son gratuitos, el recinto requiere la reserva de entradas a través de SeatGeek. Para más información, visite esta página .

Enlaces útiles

• Página del gobierno del condado de Broward dedicada a la Copa Mundial
• Página del gobierno de Lauderhill sobre la Copa Mundial

Historias relacionadas

• La FIFA cancela las entradas para el Mundial de unos 60 aficionados que las habían obtenido gratis debido a un error.
• Shakira y Burna Boy actuarán en la primera de las tres ceremonias de apertura del Mundial.
• Miles de entradas gratuitas para el Mundial disponibles para veteranos, militares y personal de primeros auxilios.

Amarr Knox, Shawn Fulcher, Corey Hines and Tony Madlock were alleged to have engaged in game manipulation when Alabama State played at Southern Mississippi on Dec. 5, 2024. Southern Miss was a six-point favorite and won 81-64.

According to the NCAA, two known bettors offered the players a total of $2,000 to throw the game. The players accepted and were later paid.

Knox, Hines and Madlock were Alabama State's top three scorers for the 2024-25 season and Fulcher was a reserve. Knox’s layup with a second left lifted the Hornets to their first NCAA Tournament win, 70-68 over Saint Francis in the 2025 First Four.

The two bettors were indicted in January by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on wire fraud and bribery charges related to sports contests.

The NCAA discovered the game-fixing after Hines transferred to Temple, which notified the enforcement staff that Hines had been contacted by the FBI and shown text messages concerning a sports integrity issue when he was at Alabama State. None of the players was active on a college team last season.

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Pino, 55, is charged in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez after a boat crash on 2022’s Labor Day weekend.

Authorities said Pino, then 52, was behind the wheel of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 when he lost control and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig.

On Friday, 76 potential jurors were quizzed on their jobs, life experiences and any biases they may be coming in with and what they knew about the case.

But Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez expressed frustration at both Pino’s attorneys and prosecutors.

The former filed some late motions and provided late witnesses. The latter said that they conducted a deposition and would, in light of some of this new information and things that were turned over from the defense, have to do some more work and asked the judge for a one week continuance.

That request did not go over well.

“Let me tell you all: we are not delaying this trial,” Tinkler Mendez said.

Tinkler Mendez called the defense’s late filings “willful violations” of what’s called the Richardson rule, pertaining to potential violations of pre-trial discovery procedures.

Opening statements are set to begin as early as Monday, provided that a jury can be seated Friday.

Pino, de 55 años, está acusado por la muerte de Lucy Fernández, de 17 años, tras un accidente de bote ocurrido durante el fin de semana del Día del Trabajo de 2022.

Las autoridades indicaron que Pino, entonces de 52 años, estaba al mando de un bote Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 cuando perdió el control y chocó contra una baliza de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, causando la muerte de Fernández. Otras dos adolescentes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años.

El viernes, 76 posibles jurados fueron interrogados sobre sus empleos, experiencias de vida, posibles prejuicios y lo que sabían sobre el caso.

Pero la jueza Marisa Tinkler Mendez expresó su frustración tanto con los abogados de Pino como con los fiscales.

La defensa presentó varias mociones fuera de plazo y proporcionó testigos de manera tardía. Por su parte, la fiscalía indicó que realizó una declaración jurada y que, a la luz de nueva información y materiales entregados recientemente por la defensa, necesitaba realizar trabajo adicional y solicitó a la jueza una prórroga de una semana.

La solicitud no fue bien recibida.

“Déjenme decirles algo a todos: no vamos a retrasar este juicio”, dijo Tinkler Mendez.

La jueza calificó las presentaciones tardías de la defensa como “violaciones deliberadas” de la llamada regla Richardson, relacionada con posibles incumplimientos de los procedimientos de descubrimiento de pruebas previos al juicio.

Los alegatos de apertura están programados para comenzar tan pronto como el lunes, siempre que el jurado pueda quedar conformado el viernes.

In its announcement Thursday, S&P Dow Jones Indices said its index committee weighed responses received from a “wide range of market participants,” but ultimately decided not to make any changes to its criteria for determining when a company should be added to the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, or S&P SmallCap 600 indexes.

Some of the criteria for inclusion include headquarters in the United States, listing on NYSE or Nasdaq and profitability over the past year.

S&P also requires companies that complete IPOs to be traded on an “eligible exchange” for at least 12 months before they can be considered for inclusion into an index. The committee weighed shortening that requirement to six months, but opted not to do so.

The committee also decided against creating exceptions to its guidelines solely based on market capitalization, or how the stock market gauges a company’s value.

The move by S&P comes as other major U.S. index operators have taken steps to add very large companies soon after they make their stock market debut.

In March, Nasdaq announced new guidelines that allow for expediting the addition of large companies fresh off their initial public offerings into its benchmark Nasdaq 100 Index.

Nasdaq's guideline change is meant to ensure that the index, which tracks the 100 largest, non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq, accurately reflects the market sooner, rather than possibly months after a very large company goes public.

In its decision, S&P noted that there may be trade-offs in sticking to its guidelines for index eligibility, but said its current approach provides its indexes “substantial market coverage and sector balance.”

Many pension plans and mutual funds use S&P and Nasdaq indexes as an investing benchmark.

The moves by S&P and Nasdaq come as several of the biggest artificial intelligence companies in the U.S. are setting the stage for blockbuster IPOs this year.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to go public this month with plans to raise up to $75 billion, which would make it the largest-ever stock market debut.

Meanwhile, Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, announced Monday its plans for a proposed IPO, while OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, is planning an IPO as soon as this fall.

Cooper, 28, was held on suspicion of two counts of domestic violence and one count of criminal mischief, according to Douglas County jail records. He was arrested by Parker Police at 11:16 p.m. Thursday and booked into jail at 2:38 a.m. Friday.

Cooper had his first appearance Friday in the 23rd Judicial District Court and is due back in that court Monday for a disposition hearing.

The Broncos said in a statement to The Associated Press that they “are aware of the matter and are gathering more information.”

The AP left a message with Cooper's agent seeking comment.

A seventh-round draft pick out of Ohio State in 2021, Cooper is entering his sixth season with the Broncos. He has started every game since 2023 and has 31 1/2 career sacks, including eight last season when he also registered a sack in the playoffs.

He had a career-best 10 1/2 sacks in 2024 and late that season signed a four-year, $54 million contract extension.

The Broncos began the football field portion of their offseason program earlier this week and Cooper participated in the Thursday practice that was open to media members.

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The tickets were “allocated at no charge (0 USD) due to a prior payment issue during the checkout process,” FIFA said in a statement Thursday.

“FIFA regrets the error and any inconvenience caused,” soccer’s ruling body said. “The tickets requested by these fans remain reserved, and the affected fans have been invited to complete payment of the correct amount.”

It is the latest glitch in an often controversial World Cup ticketing program that the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey are investigating for possible violations of consumer protection laws.

The mispriced tickets were sold through the official World Cup site on May 21, FIFA said in an email message to buyers.

That date was more than three months after FIFA President Gianni Infantino said all 104 World Cup games had sold out.

Tickets are still being sold by FIFA for games at the World Cup, which opens next Thursday in Mexico City. It is unclear if seats for games in less demand will drop in price under FIFA’s surge pricing model that has been controversial for fans.

FIFA also is operating its own resale platform — and taking 15% commission from both buyers and sellers — in order to cut out ticket dealers from the market. However, sales platforms such as Seat Geek were offering widespread availability Friday for many games.

Tickets for the 2026 World Cup are wildly more expensive than any previous edition, which FIFA has justified as helping earn billions of dollars it will give to member federations for developing the game globally.

FIFA took control of pricing and selling tickets as part of bringing World Cup operations in-house. The long-time model at previous editions was working with host nations’ local organizing committees.

When the soccer federations of the United States, Canada and Mexico won hosting rights in 2018, they promised to sell hundreds of thousands of tickets at $21 each for group-stage games.

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According to deputies, Raymond Wayne Chambers was last seen at about 2 p.m. May 17 in the 11800 block of Southwest 216^th Street.

Deputies said Chambers has not contacted any relatives and may be in need of services.

Chambers was described by authorities as a Black male who is 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds. He has brown eyes and brown hair.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Deputy M. Ritch at 305-715-3300, email u308129@mdso.com or call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Según los agentes, Raymond Wayne Chambers fue visto por última vez alrededor de las 2 p.m. del 17 de mayo en la cuadra 11800 de Southwest 216th Street.

Los agentes indicaron que Chambers no se ha comunicado con ningún familiar y podría necesitar asistencia.

Las autoridades describieron a Chambers como un hombre afroamericano que mide 6 pies de estatura y pesa aproximadamente 180 libras. Tiene ojos marrones y cabello marrón.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe llamar al agente M. Ritch al 305-715-3300, enviar un correo electrónico a u308129@mdso.com o comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said the policy “threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo,” and he accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law.

“In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of ‘national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” he wrote. “In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The policies enacted after the National Guard shooting last year meant that immigrants from 39 African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries have been “categorically barred” from receiving final decisions on, among other things, their asylum, work permit, green card, and citizenship applications.

“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: the federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represented the plaintiffs in the case. “These unlawful policies caused enormous harm to families, workers, asylum-seekers, and communities across the country who were left in limbo, unable to work, access protections, or move forward with their lives.”

The policies apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS, which approves applications for immigrants to work and become citizens. The agency, which is within the Homeland Security Department, often grants asylum, but only for those already in the United States when they apply. Immigration judges grant asylum to those stopped at the border; the ruling does not affect them, nor do the policies that sparked the lawsuit.

The broad ruling would impact all pending cases at USCIS involving people from the travel ban countries, not just those included in the lawsuit, Shev Dalal-Dheini, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

“It is an important legal victory to ensure that legal immigration pathways remain open and that USCIS is held accountable to doing their congressionally mandated job of adjudicating applications,” she said.

It is part of an ongoing effort by the administration to tighten U.S. entry standards for travel and immigration, which critics say unfairly prevent travel for people from a broad range of countries. The administration suggested it would expand the restrictions after the arrest of an Afghan national suspect in the shooting of two National Guard troops over Thanksgiving weekend.

In its motion to dismiss, which the court denied, the government argued that Congress gave the executive branch broad authority over immigration policy, including “the entry of aliens into the United States as well as discretion within the statutory scheme to confer as well as withdraw various discretionary benefits.”

“This case rests on a remarkable premise: that a federal court should prevent an agency from issuing the very policy guidance that provides government personnel with the guardrails necessary to ensure consistent, non-arbitrary, and individualized decisionmaking consistent with federal law,” the government wrote in its brief.

Immigration groups celebrated the ruling.

“This ruling sets a powerful precedent that the administration cannot ignore the law as laid down by Congress and cannot arbitrarily bar immigration benefits on the basis of national origin by fiat,” Jamal Abdi, president at the National Iranian American Council, said. “Fortunately, this is still a nation of laws, and those who uphold America’s values have recourse to challenge and push back on such discriminatory, arbitrary policies.”

Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran who heads a coalition that supports Afghan resettlement efforts called #AfghanEvac, said the ruling was a “significant victory for the rule of law and for thousands of Afghan allies and other immigrants who followed every requirement asked of them.”

“Just this week in Dallas and Fort Worth, we met people who feared losing jobs because delayed work permit renewals threatened their livelihoods, families who postponed education, travel, and homeownership because they did not know when their cases would be resolved, and future Americans who had expected to become citizens only to see their applications stall without explanation,” VanDiver said.

Darryl Brown, a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, was caught with the missing items after the photojournalist used a geo-tracking device to trace her missing gear to his home, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.

The journalist, Angelina Katsanis, was on assignment for The Associated Press at Delaney Hall on Saturday night when she was struck in the knee by a wood beam during a clash between police and demonstrators.

As she hobbled to a medical tent to seek attention, Katsanis left behind her gear bag, which was marked with her name and contact information. When she was eventually allowed to return to the area — now in a wheelchair — the bag was gone.

“I checked my Airtag and the bag was already on a highway pretty far away at that point,” Katsanis recalled. “Right away, I had a feeling it was the police because they were the only ones with access to that area.”

As Katsanis sought treatment in a nearby hospital, the Airtag pinged to a home in Sparta, New Jersey, which was listed as belonging to Brown, according to the attorney general’s office. The device was later recovered on the side of a road, miles away from the home where it was initially taken.

A subsequent review of Brown’s body camera footage showed him “interacting” with the bag at the protest location, according to the attorney general’s office. A search warrant executed at his home Wednesday turned up several of the missing items, some bearing Katsanis’ name and phone number, the complaint said.

Information for Brown’s attorney was not immediately available. A message left at a phone number listed for Brown was not immediately returned. He faces charges of third-degree theft. He has been suspended without pay, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Katsanis, who has training in covering hostile environments, said the incident had left her deeply shaken.

“I’ve thought a lot about how the officers are supposed to be there to uphold the law and protect us and protect property — and this is the exact opposite of that,” she said.

The detention center has become a flashpoint for protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, with frequent clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement.

Those demonstrations intensified in recent weeks as advocates said detainees inside launched a hunger strike over poor living conditions at the 1,000-bed facility. The federal government has denied allegations of substandard conditions and accused protesters of inflaming tensions.

Katsanis said she suffered swelling and bruising on her leg but did not break any bones.

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That mission is already making a tangible impact.

Two months ago, “Good News South Florida” introduced viewers to Edward and Clara Knox, a Richmond Heights couple spending their retirement years in a home that had fallen into severe disrepair. Today, thanks to an outpouring of community support, volunteers, donations, and partnerships, restoration work is underway—and hope has been restored alongside it.

A major milestone was recently reached when the project received its building permit, clearing the way for construction to begin in earnest. Volunteers and supporters celebrated the achievement with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the start of a long-awaited transformation.

The effort began when Rixys Alfonso, CEO of the Nonprofit Executive Alliance, brought the Knoxes’ situation to the attention of Local 10.

“I want to support Mr. Knox and I want to do all I can to make sure he is not homeless,” Alfonso said.

She shared video showing the deteriorating condition of the couple’s home and issued an emotional appeal for help. The call resonated with volunteers throughout South Florida.

“We just need to roll up our sleeves and get this project done,” said volunteer Liudmila Esquerdo.

“If you’ve asked yourself how can you make a difference, this project is it,” added volunteer and police officer Robert McKay.

Local 10 shared the Knoxes’ story with viewers on April 3, launching a community response that continues to grow.

“I got faith that this is actually going to happen,” Edward Knox said at the time.

That faith quickly turned into action.

Today, what may appear to be a construction zone is actually a symbol of progress. Crews and volunteers have removed the home’s failing roof and begun critical repairs.

“I gave the go-ahead to remove the roof, which was the real issue facing this structure, and everything else is good to go,” said structural engineer Eliezer Diaz.

Additional materials have already been secured through donations.

“We already have the tiles donated. We have the windows. We have the doors, so we are going to secure the home once we have the roof,” said Joe Puentes, co-founder of WikiVoice.

For Edward and Clara Knox, the speed of the progress has been both surprising and uplifting.

“It’s moving faster than I thought it would,” Edward Knox said. “Great. Feel great. And all of the band of angels are working so fast.”

Those “angels” are volunteers donating their time, skills, and labor—not for a paycheck, but for the opportunity to help neighbors in need.

Max Santiago, a volunteer with Bedrock Renovations, traveled home from Tallahassee during his summer break to participate.

“I usually never come home during the summer break,” Santiago said. “But coming back and being able to help someone that’s in the community that I grew up in is awesome.”

The project remains entirely volunteer-driven and continues to welcome community involvement.

“This is a 100-percent volunteer project,” said volunteer and real estate appraiser Deiky Vergel. “We welcome anyone in the community that wants to be part of it.”

As work continues, Edward Knox remains grateful—and optimistic that more helping hands will join the effort.

“When I pray, I say, ‘Lord, find some more angels,’” he said. “Just like he found this group, he’ll find some more.”

How to Help

Community members who would like to support the restoration of the Knox home have several ways to get involved.

Those in the construction industry are invited to attend a networking event on June 18. Supporters can also make secure monetary donations to the project.

The special networking event is taking place at Fogo de Chao Miami, located at 8815 SW 72nd Place. Admission tickets are $30 and include light appetizers, complimentary drinks and the opportunity to meet the Knox family and those who have volunteered to restore their home. For more information and to purchase your ticket, click here.

One hundred percent of donated funds go directly toward the restoration of the Knox home. Local 10 will continue providing monthly updates, allowing donors and volunteers to see firsthand how community contributions are making a difference.

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The move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.

The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Detainees who were brain-dead or suffering from infection, for instance, have died shortly after ICE released them in the past.

Two health experts who have investigated ICE custody deaths criticized the change Friday.

“Tracking deaths immediately after custody is a standard approach that allows health systems in jails, prisons and immigration detention to learn about gaps in care that may occur before a person leaves a facility,” said Dr. Homer Venters, former chief medical officer of the New York City jail system. “Eliminating reporting of these deaths represents a willful act of ignoring the most serious health outcome that can reflect inadequacies in care or help track outbreaks.”

ICE detainees also routinely die at hospitals where they are taken for treatment after their conditions deteriorate inside detention facilities, records show. Those detainees, however, have generally been considered to remain in ICE custody.

The Washington Post first reported the policy change Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, later confirmed the move in a statement that framed it as “common sense.”

“Under this updated policy, when an individual is no longer in ICE custody then ICE will no longer be responsible for monitoring or reviewing deaths that may occur,” the statement said.

The statement said ICE remained committed to transparency and that the revised policy includes procedures for “timely notification, review and reporting of deaths occurring in ICE custody.” ICE did not immediately release its full updated policy.

The decision to limit death reporting comes as a greater number of ICE detainees have been dying. At least 18 detainees have died since Jan. 1, which is on pace to surpass last year’s death toll, which was the highest in two decades. Detainees are dying by suicide at an unprecedented pace, and experts say many other deaths from natural causes likely would have been preventable with timely medical care.

Dr. Sanjay Basu, a University of California-San Francisco epidemiologist who recently published an analysis of more than 270 ICE custody deaths, said the policy change will “make the mortality statistics appear lower without any actual improvement in care.”

“The period immediately following release is when deaths attributable to inadequate care during confinement become apparent,” he said. “Missed diagnoses, interrupted medications, untreated infections, and decompensating chronic conditions don’t always kill someone while they’re still in the building.”

As of early April, ICE was holding more than 60,000 detainees across its national network of detention facilities, up from around 40,000 at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. ICE denies allegations that detainees suffer from medical neglect, saying they receive comprehensive health care services.

Before announcing Thursday’s policy change, DHS acting assistant secretary Lauren Bis told the AP on Tuesday that no detainees died in its custody in May. That was the first month without a detainee death since November. At the time, Bis did not address AP questions about whether any death reporting policies had changed.

“As we have repeatedly stated, deaths in ICE custody are exceedingly rare,” she said then.

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Associated Press reporter Michael Biesecker in Washington, D.C., contributed.

The defendant, David J. Rush, has both the means and motive to flee while the case against him is pending, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick ruled, citing Rush's professional experience.

“He's in a different position than most people to flee and avoid detection by law enforcement,” Fitzpatrick said.

Rush is charged with fraudulently claiming tens of thousands of dollars in compensation for military leave after he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2015. He was arrested last month after investigators searched his home and seized more than 300 gold bars, roughly $2 million in U.S. currency and about 35 luxury watches, according to an FBI agent's affidavit.

Rush's attorney, Jessica Carmichael, noted that Rush isn't charged with any crimes related to the discovery of the gold bars, which she referred to as “basically a non-issue” and “nothing more than a sensational tidbit.” She said Rush properly obtained the gold bars and kept them locked in a safe in his basement.

“Mr. Rush never claimed they were his,” she said.

Between last November and March, Rush requested and received a “significant quantity" of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for "work-related expenses,” according to the FBI affidavit. Justice Department prosecutor Gavin Tisdale said Rush wasn't supposed to have the gold bars at his home.

“That's the issue — his skirting of rules and regulations,” he said.

Tisdale briefly summarized the case against Rush in open court after a portion of the hearing was sealed from the public. The evidence against Rush “grows stronger by the day,” Tisdale told the magistrate.

“Mr. Rush simply cannot be trusted to abide by this court's conditions,” he said.

Rush enlisted in the Navy in 1997 and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserves as a lieutenant in 2015, according to the affidavit.

Authorities claim Rush lied about his education and military background on job applications, falsely claiming to be a former Navy pilot who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Clemson University in South Carolina and a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

Investigators determined that he didn't serve as a Navy pilot and didn't attend either school.

Berlin Open organizers said Williams will compete in doubles at the grass-court event starting on June 13. Her partner and the date of her first match will be announced later.

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion stepped away from tennis in 2022. She has yet to say whether she plans to play at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open.

She will make her eagerly anticipated return to professional tennis playing doubles alongside Victoria Mboko at Queen’s Club next week. Berlin is the week after. Wimbledon is two weeks after that.

“Every tournament I add to my schedule right now feels special, and Berlin is no exception," she said. "I’m excited to compete in front of the German fans and continue building momentum throughout the grass-court season.”

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El distrito anunció el viernes que las comidas estarán disponibles en 170 escuelas de todo el condado Miami-Dade desde el 8 de junio hasta el 31 de julio para niños y adolescentes de 18 años o menos.

No existen requisitos de ingresos, solicitudes ni registro para participar.

A diferencia de años anteriores, las comidas deberán consumirse en el lugar. No habrá servicio de comidas para llevar.

Funcionarios escolares indicaron que el programa está diseñado para ayudar a garantizar que los niños continúen recibiendo comidas nutritivas mientras las escuelas están cerradas por las vacaciones de verano.

Los funcionarios del distrito alientan a padres y tutores a aprovechar el programa para ayudar a mantener a los niños saludables y bien alimentados durante los meses de verano.

Las familias pueden encontrar los lugares participantes y obtener información adicional visitando SummerBreakSpot.org.

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The district announced Friday that meals will be available at 170 schools across Miami-Dade County from June 8 through July 31 for children and teens 18 years old and younger.

There are no income requirements, applications or registration needed to participate.

Unlike previous years, meals must be eaten on-site. Grab-and-go meal service will not be available.

School officials said the program is designed to help ensure children continue receiving nutritious meals while school is out for the summer.

District officials encourage parents and guardians to take advantage of the program to help keep children healthy and well-nourished during the summer months.

Families can find participating meal sites and additional information by visiting SummerBreakSpot.org.

The jury found both Rebecca Grossman and Scott Erickson, a former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, negligent in the deaths of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander.

The damages awarded Wednesday were for wrongful death and emotional distress. The trial judge will ultimately determine how much each defendant has to pay.

Court was scheduled to resume Friday as jurors must still decide whether to award punitive damages to the boys' parents, Nancy and Karim Iskander.

Grossman was sentenced in 2024 to serve 15 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving in a separate criminal trial. She is a co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and the wife of a prominent burn doctor.

The boys' parents also filed lawsuits in civil court against both Grossman and Erickson, who was driving ahead of her when the Iskander brothers were killed. That trial began in April.

The deadly crash occurred on the evening of Sept. 29, 2020, in Westlake Village, a city on the western edge of Los Angeles County.

Brian Panish, the Iskander family's attorney, argued that Grossman and Erickson were both driving recklessly after drinking margaritas together. The two were dating at a time when Grossman and her husband were separated.

Panish said Grossman was driving 73 mph (117 kph) when her car struck the boys in a crosswalk on a road where the posted speed limit was 45 mph (72 kph).

He said Grossman was following Erickson, who was also speeding and narrowly missed the family.

“This was a totally preventable collision," Panish told the jury in closing arguments Wednesday. “They went out for a walk and they never came home.”

Grossman's attorney, Esther Holm, denied that her client was intoxicated. She said Grossman was distracted when she saw the boys' mother dive out of the way of Erickson's vehicle.

“Ms. Grossman was not driving impaired," Holm told the jury. “She did not see the children, as her attention was diverted by Ms. Iskander.”

Erickson's attorney, Jeff Braun, called the boys' deaths a tragedy but emphasized that the vehicle he was driving "made no contact with the children.”

Joseph Magnano, 23, did not speak during the arraignment at Superior Court in Hartford but later hugged officers outside the courtroom. Many displayed badges over their street clothes.

Magnano was fired by the Hartford mayor after the fatal shooting of Steven Jones on Feb. 27. The shooting drew wide public outcry and questions about the police department’s policies when responding to people in mental distress.

The president of the local police union continued to defend Magnano while speaking to reporters Friday. The union has filed several grievances with the city over his firing, seeking to have him reinstated.

“They told him he was a criminal for doing what he was trained to do,” James Rutkauski said.

Magnano's lawyer, Patrick Tomasiewicz, declined to comment after the hearing. Free after posting $50,000 bail following his arrest last month, Magnano is due back in court on July 21. He is expected to enter a not guilty plea at some point.

Jones, 55, who had a history of mental illness, was holding a large knife on a city street when officers arrived on that winter day.

Police body camera video shows three officers, over several minutes, repeatedly telling Jones to drop a knife. The officers also tell him they’re there to help.

“Steve, you’re OK. We’re going to make sure you’re OK,” Officer James Prignano says. “Just drop the knife. We’re going to go talk to somebody, OK?”

Jones can’t be heard saying anything in the videos.

About 12 minutes after the 911 call, Magnano arrives, draws his pistol and shouts at Jones to drop the knife, telling him, “You’re going to get shot.” A woman is heard screaming, “Don’t shoot him!”

The videos show Prignano motioning at Magnano, appearing to tell him to back away. As Jones slowly walks toward Magnano, the officer gives a final warning before shooting at him nine times, about 30 seconds after he got out of his cruiser. Jones died four days later.

Connecticut Inspector General Eliot Prescott, who filed the manslaughter charge and is prosecuting the case, said an investigation found Jones was not an imminent threat and the shooting was not justified.

In his own incident report, Magnano, who had been on the force for a year and four months, said he was “fearful of Jones making a sudden lunge towards either an officer or citizen.”

Hartford Police Chief James Rovella has not commented publicly on the shooting. He and several high-ranking officers also went to court Friday. “It's too early to comment,” he said.

Jones’ relatives did not attend the hearing but local NAACP officials were present Friday.

“They take an oath to protect and serve,” Corrie Betts, president of the Greater Hartford NAACP branch, said of police. “So when they’re called to a mental health call and an individual ends up dead, is that protecting and serving?”

En una visita a militares y policías que despejaron la ruta sin encontrar resistencia, Paz dijo en rueda de prensa que desbloqueará las carreteras “con diálogo y con los instrumentos legales de la Constitución para defender a las mayorías”. Precisó que el Legislativo está analizando ahora ”un marco legal para las Fuerzas Armadas" en caso de que su gobierno aplique un estado de excepción, como demandan varios sectores.

Hasta ahora cientos de familias de La Paz debían caminar kilómetros por cerros para abastecerse en los campos de cultivo de verduras y frutas que desde más de un mes escasean en la ciudad.

En tanto, manifestantes reforzaban un bloqueo en los accesos a una planta estatal en la vecina ciudad de El Alto que abastece de combustible y gas licuado doméstico. Esa ciudad es el epicentro de las duras protestas y es por donde ingresan vitales suministros desde Santa Cruz y Cochabamba, las regiones agrícolas del país.

Hasta el momento los operativos de policías y militares, que no llevan armas letales, han dado escaso resultado. Tras el paso de las fuerzas del orden regresan los bloqueos.

El conflicto ha disparado los precios de los alimentos en la capital política de Bolivia que desde hace semanas está virtualmente paralizada, con escaso transporte y protestas de choferes por la escasez de combustible. Según el vocero presidencial José Luis Gálvez hasta el momento han fallecido 10 personas por falta de auxilio médico debido a los cortes de rutas. Los hospitales han reportado escasez de oxígeno medicinal.

En tanto, el sector empresario estimó en 2.000 millones de dólares las pérdidas provocadas por las protestas.

Paz, que lleva poco más de seis meses en el gobierno, ha priorizado el diálogo con los movilizados y la apertura de “corredores humanitarios” en La Paz y ha evitado sacar a las fuerzas del orden con armamento para evitar posibles incidentes que agravarían el conflicto, según el gobierno.

“Estamos en un momento de inflexión entre la democracia y la dictadura”, dijo hace unos días el ministro de la Presidencia, José Luis Lupo, en referencia al cambio de ciclo político tras los 20 años de gobierno populista de Evo Morales (2006-2019) y Luis Arce (2020-2025) en los que se potenciaron los sindicatos que ahora piden la renuncia de Paz.

“Está en marcha un golpe de Estado”, declaró el viernes Manfred Reyes Villa, el alcalde de Cochabamba, la otra región más afectada por los bloqueos carreteros después de La Paz.

Paz ha recibido el apoyo humanitario de varios países para trasladar alimentos. El mayor respaldo provino del gobierno estadounidense, cuyo secretario de Estado Marco Rubio habló por teléfono con Paz la víspera para “reafirmar el compromiso de Estados Unidos de apoyar la democracia boliviana y al gobierno del presidente Paz en la reconstrucción del país tras 20 años de políticas socialistas fallidas”.

Paz firmó en marzo junto a varios mandatarios conservadores el Escudo de Américas, una iniciativa multinacional impulsada por el mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump para coordinar esfuerzos en la lucha contra las organizaciones criminales.

Los gobiernos integrantes del Escudo de las Américas —Costa Rica, República Dominicana, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panamá, Paraguay y Trinidad y Tobago— denunciaron el viernes un presunto plan “para derrocar al gobierno” de Paz “con dinero del narcotráfico” y llamaron a los movilizados a aceptar el diálogo propuesto por el gobernante boliviano, en un comunicado difundido por el Departamento de Estado.

NATO allies were bewildered in May when Trump said he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland just weeks after ordering the same number pulled from Europe, following a spat with Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the Iran war. The Trump administration says troop reductions in Europe have long been planned and coordinated with allies.

The Republican president announced on social media two weeks ago that he was sending troops to Poland — the same day the Pentagon had officially ordered the cancellation of a rotation of soldiers heading there, one of the defense officials said.

The unit's equipment was already on the way. Sending it cost the military $32 million, said U.S. Transportation Command, the military agency largely responsible for moving troops and gear across the globe.

The abrupt changes are forcing the military to “retroactively engineer” a policy in line with the president’s latest pronouncement, the official said. Both officials were briefed on the decisions and, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters.

The uncertainty is not only rattling European allies worried about the message being sent to Russia, but it also risks hurting morale among American troops — some of whom had their rotations canceled shortly before departure — and comes as the Army budget is already strained.

Changes to troop deployments to Poland add up

The rotational deployment to Poland of 4,000 troops from the Army’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based in Fort Hood, Texas, was canceled in a memo sent to the military at the beginning of May. European allies found out mid-month.

Some of those troops were told shortly before traveling not to get on a flight to Poland, while those who had been sent ahead — initially around 1,000 troops — are still waiting for confirmation they are being sent back, a U.S. military official said.

The military also is still waiting for details from the Pentagon on how to satisfy Trump's order to send 5,000 troops to Poland, that official said. The working assumption is that they will come from units already in Europe, rather than an additional deployment from the U.S., the official said.

U.S. Transportation Command had chartered a ship to take the team's equipment from Texas to Poland and transport a departing unit's gear back to America. The incoming team's portion of the cost was $32 million, including chartering the ship and loading and unloading the gear.

Because the ship was chartered to take one unit to Europe and bring another back, it is hard to say if that amount would have been saved had the decision to halt the deployment been made before the new team had already begun moving overseas.

However, the military official said the unscheduled move of personnel and equipment back from Europe is most likely not a cost the Pentagon budgeted for and would be an additional expense.

Total costs of canceling the rotation are hard to quantify because of many factors, said Joe Costa, a former senior Pentagon official who now focuses on challenges faced by the U.S. military as director of the Atlantic Council’s Forward Defense program.

They most likely stem from returning equipment and troops sent ahead of the deployment and would probably be on the low end of the rotation’s overall cost, Costa said. The greater impact is on the readiness of troops who were trained for one mission and may be deployed on another, he said.

U.S. military contracts with private companies to transport troops and equipment contain cancellation clauses that often add extra fees if a deployment is called off, said John Deni, a senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council who has studied such costs.

“The question is what additional costs were incurred by deciding to send them back prematurely, changing the arrangements, changing the plan?” said Deni, a former U.S. military adviser and planner who focused on forces in Europe.

It is not clear if the Pentagon can recoup those costs or those associated with moving the unit to Europe. The Defense Department did not answer questions about the costs of changing the deployment plans, and the White House referred a request for comment to the department.

Pentagon officials have repeatedly said they planned to lower troop levels to have Europe shoulder more of its own defense and that the decision was part of a “comprehensive, multilayered process.”

Last month's memo also led to the cancellation of a deployment to Germany of a battalion trained in firing long-range rockets and missiles.

Pulling troops stationed in Germany would be more expensive

When Trump first threatened to remove 5,000 troops from Europe, Pentagon officials initially suggested pulling back the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which is based permanently in Germany, the defense official said.

Instead, officials decided to cancel the rotation of the other unit to Poland. Then Trump threw that plan into confusion as well.

Pulling the troops stationed in Germany could cost in the low billions because there is no dedicated space and infrastructure in the U.S. to accommodate them and their families, Costa said.

“The other option is basically breaking up the unit,” Costa said. “They move the equipment in different places. They move the people to different places. That carries significant readiness costs because now you’re artificially jamming pieces of units into places where they don’t necessarily belong.”

Pulling or pausing deployments also can hurt morale among soldiers and families because they plan for them months and years in advance, Deni said. The uncertainty can be disruptive.

"That’s often the last thing you want to do to military families,” Deni said.

It is still unclear what will happen to U.S. troops stationed in Europe, the two officials said. Options include moving military units assigned to Germany to Poland, but that could take several years and cost more, the military official said.

Troop changes happen during an Army budget shortfall

The moves come as the Army is facing a budget shortfall, which the service's top uniformed officer, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, recently acknowledged to Congress.

Estimates put the deficit somewhere between $2 billion and $6 billion, according to an Army official who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive defense matters. One impact has been cutting training courses for soldiers nationwide, which ABC News earlier reported.

In a statement, the Army said it has issued guidance to its commands to “make tough and sound resource decisions that optimize and prioritize resources toward their most critical requirements, to include major training and readiness events.”

The Army official also noted that the service has been tasked with missions like the National Guard deployment in Washington, a bolstered presence along the U.S.-Mexico border and its part in the Iran war — all of which have strained its budget.

The Department of Homeland Security expects to reimburse the Army for its role in the border mission.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers at a May 15 hearing that he was “optimistic” there would progress on those payments “within a week or two.” But to date, the Army has not been reimbursed.

“We want those backfilled payments," Driscoll said then.

The U.S. military in Europe also is scaling back support for non-combat related training and ruthlessly prioritizing critical functions, the military official said.

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Head’s daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the actor passed away due to complications from pneumonia.

The stage and TV performer became well known to British audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won’t-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee. The ads were later re-shot for a U.S. audience for Taster's Choice.

Head achieved wider fame as librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the title character in the cult-favorite supernatural series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which ran from 1997 to 2003.

He most recently played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham’s character Rebecca, in “Ted Lasso.”

“Our grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them,” his daughters said. “How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us.”

Head was born in London on Feb. 20, 1954 to Seafield Head, a documentary filmmaker, and Helen Shingler, an actor. His older brother, Murray, is also an actor.

Other notable roles included playing Geoffrey Howe, the deputy to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep, in the Oscar-winning “The Iron Lady.”

Head portrayed a prime minister himself in the sketch comedy show “Little Britain,” as well as King Uther Pendragon, the father of Prince Arthur, in the “Merlin” TV series. He also appeared in “Motherland," Manchild,” and “Silent Witness,” along with acting in many plays, musicals, and recording music as a singer.

He was predeceased by his longtime partner, animal welfare activist Sarah Fisher, 61, in 2025.

The pressure has been on Alexander Zverev to finally win an elusive Grand Slam title and now the second-seeded German is only one victory away from raising the French Open trophy.

Zverev reached the fourth major final of his career after beating 20-year-old Jakub Mensik 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the Roland Garros semifinals on Friday.

In Sunday’s final, Zverev will face 14th-ranked Flavio Cobolli.

Cobolli advanced when 104th-ranked Matteo Arnaldi withdrew before their all-Italian semifinal due to a virus.

Arnaldi spent 19 hours, 42 minutes on court to reach the semifinal — more than anyone at a Grand Slam since 1991. He said he was vomiting overnight.

“I tried to get ready ... but every time I get up I feel dizzy,” Arnaldi said. “I can’t move and I can’t eat and I can’t drink. So there was really no way that I will be able to play.”

Zverev has been an overwhelming favorite for the title ever since the top-ranked Sinner struggled in the first week’s heat wave and wasted a two set and 5-1 lead against Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the second round.

Alcaraz, the two-time reigning champion, withdrew before the tournament with an injured right wrist.

The 27th-ranked Mensik, who was playing in his first Grand Slam semifinal, struggled with five double faults.

Mensik overcame post-match cramps that landed him in a wheelchair last week, got past Andrey Rublev in five sets, and beat rising Brazilian João Fonseca in straight sets in the quarterfinals.

“He beat so many unbelievable players. I knew it was going to be the toughest challenge that I had so far. And I managed. I won. I’m happy,” Zverev said.

It will be Zverev’s second French Open final, having wasted a lead of two sets to one against Alcaraz in the 2024 championship match.

Zverev had an even bigger advantage — two sets to none — in the 2020 U.S. Open final and lost that one, too, to Dominic Thiem. He was also beaten in straight sets by Sinner in the 2025 Australian Open final.

“That’s in the past,” Zverev said of his loss to Thiem. “I don’t try to think too much about it before Sunday.”

Wind and mishits

Despite overcast and windy conditions at the start, the roof was open on Court Philippe-Chatrier and both players struggled with mishits early on.

Mensik relied often on serve-and-volley tactics while Zverev was more solid from the baseline of the red clay court.

Mensik double-faulted twice late in the first set, leading to the first break.

Zverev broke again early in the second after running down a drop shot from Mensik and then went ahead 5-2 when Mensik double-faulted again.

Mensik's medical timeout

Early in the third, Mensik had his neck treated by a trainer and then left the court for a medical timeout.

When play resumed, Zverev moved Mensik off the court with well-angled shots and the Czech player threw his racket in desperation at a ball he knew he couldn’t reach.

There were more shouts for “Sascha” — Zverev’s nickname — but the crowd attempted to help Mensik back into the match with chants of “Let’s go, Mensik, Let’s go.”

When Mensik produced two well-executed drop shots to finally break Zverev’s serve and take a 4-2 lead in the third, he pumped his fist as the crowd came to life.

It was just the second set that Zverev dropped in the tournament.

“He started playing amazing the third set,” Zverev said. “This is best-of-five-set matches: You know things (are) going to happen. Opponents are going to play better. You have to deal with it. You have to manage it. I did. And I hope to play another great match on Sunday.”

When Mensik rushed the net after a slice serve to the deuce court midway through the fourth set and Zverev used his long wingspan to produce a looping cross-court return that dipped over the net beyond his reach, Mensik just smiled — perhaps realizing in that moment that Zverev simply had too much game for him.

Abuse allegations

Moments after Zverev’s last Grand Slam final in Australia in 2025, a person in the stadium yelled out the names of two of his ex-girlfriends who accused him of physical abuse.

One case was resolved following an agreement between German prosecutors, lawyers for Zverev and his former partner. The ATP Tour investigated another case and concluded there was insufficient evidence.

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Ronald Ebrain Hernandez-Belisario, de 43 años y residente de Doral, enfrenta un cargo de agresión agravada contra un agente de la ley, bombero o funcionario.

Según un informe de arresto, la víctima, una especialista de control de estacionamiento, trabajaba el jueves en el área del centro de Doral cuando observó un Honda gris estacionado en una zona de pago señalizada en la cuadra 8500 de Northwest 53rd Terrace.

La policía indicó que la especialista verificó la matrícula de Florida del vehículo y descubrió que no se había realizado el pago por el espacio de estacionamiento. Luego hizo contacto con Hernandez-Belisario, quien estaba sentado dentro del vehículo y aparentemente hablaba por teléfono, y le informó que debía pagar antes de abandonar el área, según las autoridades.

La policía señaló que la especialista regresó más tarde y encontró que el automóvil seguía allí y que Hernandez-Belisario aún no había pagado el estacionamiento.

Cuando ella comenzó a emitir la citación, Hernandez-Belisario presuntamente se marchó y golpeó a la especialista con el espejo lateral del pasajero del vehículo.

Según la policía, la especialista no sufrió heridas graves y rechazó recibir tratamiento médico.

Posteriormente, los investigadores localizaron a Hernandez-Belisario en una dirección de Doral asociada con el registro del vehículo. La policía indicó que la víctima lo identificó durante un procedimiento de identificación.

Después de ser informado de sus derechos, Hernandez-Belisario aceptó hablar con los investigadores, según el informe.

La policía indicó que Hernandez-Belisario les dijo a los agentes que no se dio cuenta de que estaba obligado a pagar por el estacionamiento mientras permanecía dentro del vehículo. También afirmó que salió del área apresuradamente, pero sostuvo que fue la especialista quien golpeó el espejo lateral del pasajero, según las autoridades.

De acuerdo con el informe, Hernandez-Belisario dijo a los investigadores que no estaba bajo la influencia de drogas ni alcohol en ese momento, aunque sí toma medicamentos para la ansiedad.

La policía indicó que el incidente fue captado por la cámara corporal de la víctima.

Hernandez-Belisario fue trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, el ciudadano venezolano permanecía detenido por el cargo de agresión agravada, además de una retención migratoria.

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Ronald Ebrain Hernandez-Belisario, 43, of Doral, faces a charge of aggravated battery on a police officer, firefighter or official.

According to an arrest report, the victim, a parking enforcement specialist, was working in the downtown Doral area on Thursday when she noticed a gray Honda parked in a marked pay zone in the 8500 block of Northwest 53rd Terrace.

Police said the specialist ran the vehicle’s Florida tag and discovered that payment had not been made for the parking space. The specialist then made contact with Hernandez-Belisario, who was sitting inside the vehicle and appeared to be on a phone call, and informed him that payment was required before leaving the area, authorities said.

Police said the specialist later returned and found that the car was still there and Hernandez-Belisario had still not paid for parking.

As she began issuing a citation, Hernandez-Belisario allegedly drove away and struck the specialist with the vehicle’s passenger-side mirror.

The specialist was not seriously injured and declined medical treatment, according to police.

Investigators later located Hernandez-Belisario at a Doral address associated with the vehicle’s registration. Police said the victim identified him during a show-up identification procedure.

After being advised of his rights, Hernandez-Belisario agreed to speak with investigators, according to the report.

Police said Hernandez-Belisario told officers he did not realize he was required to pay for parking while remaining inside the vehicle. He also said he left the area in a hurry, but claimed the specialist struck his passenger-side mirror, authorities said.

According to the report, Hernandez-Belisario told investigators he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time, but does take medication for anxiety.

Police said the incident was captured on the victim’s body-worn camera.

Hernandez-Belisario was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

As of Friday morning, the Venezuelan national remained there on the aggravated battery charge as well as on an immigration hold.

Esa misión ya está teniendo un impacto tangible.

Hace dos meses, “Good News South Florida” presentó a los televidentes a Edward y Clara Knox, una pareja de Richmond Heights que pasaba sus años de jubilación en una vivienda que había caído en un grave estado de deterioro. Hoy, gracias a una gran muestra de apoyo comunitario, voluntarios, donaciones y alianzas, los trabajos de restauración están en marcha, y la esperanza ha sido restaurada junto con la vivienda.

Recientemente se alcanzó un importante hito cuando el proyecto recibió su permiso de construcción, despejando el camino para que las obras comenzaran formalmente. Voluntarios y colaboradores celebraron el logro con una ceremonia de corte de cinta, marcando el inicio de una transformación largamente esperada.

El esfuerzo comenzó cuando Rixys Alfonso, directora ejecutiva de la Nonprofit Executive Alliance, llamó la atención de Local 10 sobre la situación de los Knox.

“Quiero apoyar al señor Knox y quiero hacer todo lo posible para asegurarme de que no quede sin hogar”, dijo Alfonso.

Ella compartió videos que mostraban el deteriorado estado de la vivienda de la pareja e hizo un emotivo llamado de ayuda. La petición resonó entre voluntarios de todo el sur de Florida.

“Solo tenemos que arremangarnos y terminar este proyecto”, dijo la voluntaria Liudmila Esquerdo.

“Si alguna vez te has preguntado cómo puedes marcar la diferencia, este proyecto es la respuesta”, agregó el voluntario y oficial de policía Robert McKay.

Local 10 compartió la historia de los Knox con los televidentes el 3 de abril, impulsando una respuesta comunitaria que sigue creciendo.

“Tengo fe en que esto realmente va a suceder”, dijo Edward Knox en ese momento.

Esa fe rápidamente se convirtió en acción.

Hoy, lo que podría parecer una zona de construcción es en realidad un símbolo de progreso. Equipos de trabajo y voluntarios han retirado el techo deteriorado de la vivienda y han comenzado reparaciones críticas.

“Di la autorización para retirar el techo, que era el verdadero problema que enfrentaba esta estructura, y todo lo demás está listo para avanzar”, dijo el ingeniero estructural Eliezer Díaz.

Materiales adicionales ya han sido asegurados mediante donaciones.

“Ya tenemos las tejas donadas. Tenemos las ventanas. Tenemos las puertas, así que vamos a asegurar la vivienda una vez que tengamos el techo”, dijo Joe Puentes, cofundador de WikiVoice.

Para Edward y Clara Knox, la rapidez del progreso ha sido sorprendente y alentadora.

“Va más rápido de lo que pensaba”, dijo Edward Knox. “Excelente. Me siento muy bien. Y toda esta banda de ángeles está trabajando muy rápido”.

Esos “ángeles” son voluntarios que donan su tiempo, habilidades y trabajo, no por un salario, sino por la oportunidad de ayudar a vecinos necesitados.

Max Santiago, voluntario de Bedrock Renovations, regresó a casa desde Tallahassee durante sus vacaciones de verano para participar.

“Normalmente nunca regreso a casa durante las vacaciones de verano”, dijo Santiago. “Pero volver y poder ayudar a alguien de la comunidad donde crecí es increíble”.

El proyecto sigue siendo impulsado completamente por voluntarios y continúa recibiendo a personas interesadas en colaborar.

“Este es un proyecto 100% voluntario”, dijo el voluntario y tasador de bienes raíces Deiky Vergel. “Damos la bienvenida a cualquier persona de la comunidad que quiera formar parte de él”.

Mientras continúan los trabajos, Edward Knox sigue agradecido y optimista de que más personas se sumen al esfuerzo.

“Cuando oro, digo: ‘Señor, encuentra algunos ángeles más’”, dijo. “Así como encontró a este grupo, encontrará algunos más”.

Cómo ayudar

Los miembros de la comunidad que deseen apoyar la restauración de la vivienda de los Knox tienen varias formas de involucrarse.

Las personas de la industria de la construcción están invitadas a asistir a un evento de networking el 18 de junio. Los colaboradores también pueden realizar donaciones monetarias seguras para el proyecto.

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Paul Quinn, 52, was found guilty in April following a six-week trial at Manchester Crown Court on two counts of rape, one count of choking with intent, and one count of grievous bodily harm. Quinn’s sentence comprises 21 years in custody with an extended license of three years when he will be let out of prison but subject to release conditions. He will be eligible for parole in 14 years.

“You sat back and enjoyed your liberty at the expense of an innocent man,” Justice Robert Bright told Quinn at Friday’s sentencing hearing.

Quinn was aged 29 at the time of the rape but had been a sex offender from the age of 12.

Andrew Malkinson, 60, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in July 2023 after DNA evidence linked Quinn to the crime. Malkinson spent 17 years behind bars for the brutal 2003 attack on a 33-year-old woman in Greater Manchester, who had picked him out from a police lineup.

Malkinson, who was working as a security guard at a local shopping center at the time of the attack, was found guilty in 2004 and sentenced to a life sentence, with a minimum term of seven years. He always maintained his innocence and as a result served ten years more in jail than the minimum sanctioned by the judge in the case. He was eventually released from prison in 2020, but his name remained on Britain’s sex offenders register.

Malkinson voiced his fury at the fact that Quinn did not get a life sentence.

“I hope that this man does not get parole and that he serves longer than me," he said in a statement released through Appeal, a U.K. charity that campaigns against wrongful convictions. “Anything less is not justice.”

Advancements in genetic technology allowed Malkinson’s legal team and Appeal to find Quinn’s DNA on fragments of the victim’s clothing.

Malkinson is seeking recompense from British authorities for the time he spent in prison and has mulled whether the victim had been unduly pressured by police during the lineup.

“While Andy is relieved this chapter of his ordeal is now closed, it is not the end of this matter as far as he is concerned,” said Toby Wilton, of law firm Hickman & Rose, which represents Malkinson.

Fallout from the case continues, with a public inquiry now underway after a 2024 review found failings that could have exonerated Malkinson a decade before he was eventually released.

Five former Greater Manchester Police officers, and one currently serving with the force, are under investigation while two top officials at the body that assesses potential miscarriages of justice have resigned.

The police force has since apologized to Malkinson.

“We know this outcome has come two decades too late for those impacted by this case," said Detective Chief Superintendent Rebecca McKendrick, the senior investigating officer on the case. “However, we will not allow time to be a barrier to justice for anyone who has further information about Paul Quinn and any further potential sexual offending.”

The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, “it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause” its development.

Anthropic said its internal research institute plans to explore the issue in collaboration with others and “take actions" to help build the systems for a credible slowdown or pause, without being more specific.

Anthropic rival OpenAI argued for a different approach in a report published Wednesday, saying that “democratic governments — not private companies acting alone — must ultimately determine the rules, safeguards, and accountability mechanisms.”

“Our view is that decisions about the pace of AI innovation should not be left to any one lab, company, or special interest group,” it said.

AI models are getting faster, with rapid increases in how quickly they can carry out software tasks like coding on their own, Anthropic said in its post. Based on current trends and given enough computing power, an AI system could be able to design and develop its own successor, in what is known as “recursive self-improvement.”

Self-building AI would be a major technological milestone that would bring benefits in science, healthcare and other areas, Anthropic said, but it “also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems.”

Some tech industry figures have long warned of such a scenario.

Anthropic’s post comes after a different warning this week from a team of researchers at the University of Toronto who showed how AI tools could be used to create a new kind of AI “worm” that adapts its hacking strategy as it spreads from device to device and takes over a vast computing network.

“I think it’s really important that people understand that it’s not just the biggest, most powerful language models that pose the security concerns,” lead researcher Nicolas Papernot said in an interview.

The authors of the Anthropic post, company co-founder Jack Clark and Marina Favaro, head of the research institute, said the pause would be used to enable “societal structures and alignment research" to keep up with AI advances. Alignment is industry shorthand for making sure the technology matches human values and intentions.

The proposed coordination would let advanced AI labs verify that global rivals have actually stopped or slowed their work, “and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret.”

The company said a coordinated global mechanism is needed because without it a slowdown in AI development could let the “least cautious” players catch up and add to pressure on companies and governments as they make tough choices about AI safety.

Anthropic's post comes as the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI race to sell shares on the stock market, in an IPO that could value Anthropic at nearly a trillion dollars.

Papernot notified Canadian cybersecurity authorities prior to releasing the report, which shows how researchers developed the worm in a laboratory by using an “open-source” AI tool that is easy for software developers to cheaply access and modify.

“In the past, cyber attackers would focus on targets that are very high value,” he said. “Banking systems, hospitals, electricity grids, water treatment systems, schools.”

Papernot agreed that there should be more collaboration between companies, government agencies and academic researchers to develop countermeasures as AI-powered hacking tools supercharge the search for computer vulnerabilities.

“That old laptop you have in your basement that you don’t check on regularly doesn’t seem like a very high-value target, but It can be used as a launch pad to attack these higher-value targets,” he said. “Anything connected to the internet is now at risk because of how low the cost has become to mount these cyberattacks.”

The five astronauts moved into the SpaceX capsule that is docked at the station while cosmonauts worked to fix the leak, which is on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory.

The decision was made “out of an abundance of caution,” NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said via X.

The crew left the capsule and returned to regular operations after repair work was paused.

That part of the space station has suffered from cracks and leaks over the years. NASA said Roscosmos decided to do a more extensive repair after fresh problems were found.

The space agencies have been working to determine the cause of the cracks.

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Case is the first woman to receive the award, according to the organization.

The honor recognizes people whose work reflects compassion, leadership and a dedication to serving others while making a meaningful impact in the community.

During the ceremony, Case also announced a $28,000 donation to The HOPE Fund, which was established in 1998 to assist Broward PBA members and their families during times of crisis and personal tragedy.

The fund also awards the Sergeant Christopher Reyka Scholarship Award each year to a child of a Broward County PBA member. Case announced she will fund a $1,000 scholarship going forward.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for our law enforcement officers. They keep our roads and community safe. I tip my hat in gratitude and admiration for their bravery,” Case said in a statement. “It is such an honor to be named Humanitarian of the Year by the esteemed Broward County Police Benevolent Association.”

Case said officers “show up when we need them,” patrol neighborhoods, protect businesses, attend community events and help members and their families in times of need.

“They truly exemplify what it means to be a humanitarian,” she said.

Rod Skirvin, president of the Broward County PBA, said Case was selected because of her longtime commitment to philanthropy and public service.

“Rita Case represents the very best of what it means to serve a community,” Skirvin said in a statement. “Her compassion, generosity and unwavering commitment to helping others has touched countless lives throughout South Florida.”

Skirvin said Case has supported charitable causes, stood beside first responders and helped those in need.

“On behalf of the BCPBA, it is my honor to present Rita Case with our Humanitarian of the Year Award in recognition of a lifetime dedicated to making a difference,” he said.

Case and the Rick Case Automotive Group have long supported charitable organizations across South Florida. According to the company, Rita and her late husband, Rick Case, created and led fundraising initiatives that have raised more than $125 million for organizations in the region.

Those efforts have supported groups including the Boys & Girls Clubs, Feeding South Florida, Habitat for Humanity, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Junior Achievement of South Florida, United Way, Women In Distress and many others.

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While that might feel unusual based on recent, early-blooming seasons – with 8 of the last 11 hurricane seasons notching the first tropical or subtropical storm before June 1 – a longer view of history shows us it’s not uncommon.

In fact, over the past 30 years, the typical date of the first Atlantic named storm is June 20. While that’s the average date, there are wide bookends to this first milestone, and in years like 2009, 2004, and 2000 the first named storm didn’t come until August.

So patience is a virtue when it comes to the Atlantic hurricane season.

First shot at development could come late next week

As we detailed in yesterday’s newsletter, a broad area of spin is forecast to set up across Central America by the middle part of next week and conditions could support gradual development in the western Caribbean or southern and central Gulf by late next week.

Long-range models have trended up in their support for development by next weekend (weekend of June 13), but we’re still over a week out and models don’t currently suggest significant organization. Both the European ensemble system and Google’s machine learning-based DeepMind model, historically our two best performing models in the hurricane world, indicate low odds for now.

Most likely, anything that tries to develop will be large and disorganized, as early and mid-June tropical systems tend to be. That said, June tropical systems can be notorious rainmakers so we’ll follow the trends into next week.

For much of the Gulf Coast, including us in Florida, garden-variety soaking rains could be a welcome relief for the ongoing drought.

Si bien esto puede parecer inusual si nos basamos en las recientes temporadas de floración temprana (en 8 de las últimas 11 temporadas de huracanes se registró la primera tormenta tropical o subtropical antes del 1 de junio), una perspectiva histórica más amplia nos muestra que no es algo infrecuente.

De hecho, en los últimos 30 años, la fecha típica de la primera tormenta con nombre en el Atlántico es el 20 de junio. Si bien esa es la fecha promedio, existen amplias variaciones en torno a este primer hito, y en años como 2009, 2004 y 2000 la primera tormenta con nombre no llegó hasta agosto.

Por lo tanto, la paciencia es una virtud cuando se trata de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico.

El primer intento de desarrollo podría producirse a finales de la próxima semana.

Como detallamos en el boletín de ayer, se prevé que una amplia zona de remolinos se establezca en Centroamérica a mediados de la próxima semana, y las condiciones podrían favorecer un desarrollo gradual en el Caribe occidental o en el sur y centro del Golfo Pérsico a finales de la próxima semana.

Los modelos a largo plazo muestran una tendencia al alza en su apoyo a la formación de un huracán para el próximo fin de semana (fin de semana del 13 de junio), pero aún falta más de una semana y los modelos no sugieren una organización significativa. Tanto el sistema de predicción europeo como el modelo DeepMind de Google, basado en aprendizaje automático (históricamente nuestros dos mejores modelos en el ámbito de los huracanes), indican bajas probabilidades por ahora.

Lo más probable es que cualquier sistema que intente desarrollarse sea grande y desorganizado, como suele ocurrir con los sistemas tropicales de principios y mediados de junio. Dicho esto, los sistemas tropicales de junio son conocidos por generar lluvias torrenciales, así que seguiremos de cerca las tendencias la próxima semana.

Para gran parte de la costa del Golfo, incluyéndonos a nosotros en Florida, las lluvias torrenciales habituales podrían ser un alivio bienvenido ante la sequía actual.

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Investigators said it all happened after Olivia Rios-Papillo and the victim’s vehicles collided on Kendall Drive, near Southwest 152nd Avenue.

Authorities said after the crash, which happened at around 5:10 p.m., Rios-Papillo was “arguing” with the victim and “took a black (bag)” her passenger had on him, telling the victim that if he didn’t send her passenger $50, “she was going to shoot him and blood would be spilled on the ground.”

An FHP arrest report states Rios-Papillo had her right hand “inside of the black bag the entire time.”

Troopers said the victim, fearing he’d be shot, sent the passenger $50 on Cash App.

“Rios-Papillo told (the victim) that he could leave as they got into their vehicle and left,” the report states.

Troopers said the man reported what happened and later called back to say he saw Rios-Papillo parked outside of a Ross Dress For Less a few blocks away trying to fix her car.

According to the arrest report, a trooper found Rios-Papillo and her passenger there and spoke with them.

Rios-Papillo “denied ever saying anything about a firearm,” the trooper wrote in the arrest report, saying that she only told the man to pay the $50 “because the crash was his fault.”

Troopers said the victim’s Tesla camera recorded the entire interaction, however, and they took Rios-Papillo into custody on charges of strong-armed robbery, attempted evidence tampering, aggravated assault, having no valid driver’s license and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage.

As of Friday morning, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” in online jail records.

Los investigadores indicaron que todo ocurrió después de que los vehículos de Olivia Rios-Papillo y la víctima chocaran en Kendall Drive, cerca de Southwest 152nd Avenue.

Las autoridades informaron que, después del choque, ocurrido alrededor de las 5:10 p.m., Rios-Papillo estaba “discutiendo” con la víctima y tomó una bolsa negra que llevaba su pasajero, diciéndole a la víctima que si no le enviaba $50 USD a su pasajero, “iba a dispararle y habría sangre derramada en el suelo”.

Un informe de arresto de la FHP señala que Rios-Papillo mantuvo su mano derecha “dentro de la bolsa negra todo el tiempo”.

Los agentes indicaron que la víctima, temiendo que le dispararan, envió $50 USD al pasajero a través de Cash App.

“Rios-Papillo le dijo a la víctima que podía irse mientras ellos subían a su vehículo y se marchaban”, indica el informe.

Los agentes señalaron que el hombre reportó lo sucedido y posteriormente volvió a llamar para informar que había visto a Rios-Papillo estacionada frente a una tienda Ross Dress For Less, a pocas cuadras de distancia, intentando reparar su automóvil.

Según el informe de arresto, un agente localizó allí a Rios-Papillo y a su pasajero y habló con ambos.

Rios-Papillo “negó haber dicho algo sobre un arma de fuego”, escribió el agente en el informe de arresto, indicando que ella afirmó que solo le pidió al hombre que pagara los $50 USD “porque el accidente fue culpa de él”.

Sin embargo, los agentes indicaron que la cámara del Tesla de la víctima grabó toda la interacción, por lo que tomaron a Rios-Papillo bajo custodia por cargos de robo mediante fuerza, intento de manipulación de evidencia, agresión agravada, conducir sin una licencia válida y abandonar la escena de un accidente con daños materiales.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con una fianza registrada en línea como “pendiente de establecer”.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — also known a FinCEN — issued an advisory Friday to banks that tells them to watch out for identity theft, payroll tax fraud, and money laundering schemes tied to hiring unauthorized workers.

This comes after President Donald Trump in May signed an executive order that requires banks to take a closer look at the citizenship of their customers.

The order directs bank regulators and government departments to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans or credit cards. However, the order is less aggressive than banks had previously expected, as earlier reports suggested the White House was drafting an order that would make collecting customers’ citizenship information mandatory.

Still, without encouraging a blanket debanking of broad segments of the population, the order and latest advisory acts to discourage people in the U.S. illegally from interacting with the larger U.S. financial system.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement that the Trump administration "will not allow illegal aliens to abuse financial institutions to steal billions of dollars from hardworking American taxpayers.”

“Schemes to pay unlawful workers often rely upon access to the U.S. financial system, including U.S. banks," he said.

Since banks have never collected any information about their customers’ citizenship or immigration status, there are no reliable public figures on how much risk these customers pose to the financial system.

The banking industry had been aggressively lobbying for months to stop the White House from issuing an executive order that would have made collecting customers’ citizenship status mandatory, arguing it would be expensive and require vast amounts of paperwork. Since the order only offered guidance to the banks instead of a mandate, it appears the banks were able to win over the White House.

The advisory calls on financial institutions to be alert for more than a dozen so-called '"red flags" that indicate an individual is in the U.S. illegally.

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Tradition is known for having issues with feral hogs, which is why trapper Jay with Treasure Coast Wildlife Trappers set up a hog trap equipped with a camera to monitor activity.

Instead of hogs, the camera captured a black bear.

Jay showed where the bear was spotted, in the backyards of homes along Southwest Lake Fern Circle in Tradition.

Early Sunday morning, the camera alerted him that something was at the trap.

He checked the footage.

“And we’re like, ‘Oh my God. There’s a bear by the trap,’” Jay said.

The footage showed an adult black bear.

The bear first appeared around 2 a.m. Three hours later, at nearly 5 a.m., it was still in the area and had become curious about the camera.

Neighbors also took an interest in the unexpected visitor.

“Pretty interesting, to say the least,” resident Rachel Murray said with a laugh.

“We got a lot of critters in the backyard. This is our first bear,” resident Bob Lopopolo said.

The bear returned Monday morning.

Once again, it visited the trap, checked out the camera and remained in the area for hours.

Bear sightings in the neighborhood are rare. Jay said anyone who encounters a bear should keep their distance.

“What you want to do at that point is make loud noises. You want to kind of haze the bear. You want that bear to be afraid of humans,” he said.

Even if residents do not see the bear, Jay said they should remain cautious.

“Just keep your eye out. Be safe. When you’re out there, make sure you have a flashlight at night, you have your dogs on a leash and that you stay vigilant,” he said.

The trapper said the most recent sighting occurred several days ago, and the bear has not returned since. He hopes the animal has moved on but is encouraging residents to stay vigilant in case it wanders back.

Tradition es conocida por tener problemas con cerdos salvajes, por lo que el trampero Jay, de Treasure Coast Wildlife Trappers, instaló una trampa para cerdos equipada con una cámara para monitorear la actividad.

Pero en lugar de cerdos, la cámara captó a un oso negro.

Jay mostró el lugar donde fue visto el oso, en los patios traseros de viviendas ubicadas a lo largo de Southwest Lake Fern Circle, en Tradition.

La madrugada del domingo, la cámara le envió una alerta de que algo estaba cerca de la trampa.

Revisó las imágenes.

“Y dijimos: ‘Dios mío. Hay un oso junto a la trampa’”, contó Jay.

Las imágenes mostraban a un oso negro adulto.

El oso apareció por primera vez alrededor de las 2 a.m. Tres horas después, cerca de las 5 a.m., seguía en el área y había mostrado curiosidad por la cámara.

Los vecinos también mostraron interés por el inesperado visitante.

“Bastante interesante, por decir lo menos”, dijo entre risas la residente Rachel Murray.

“Tenemos muchos animales en el patio trasero. Este es nuestro primer oso”, dijo el residente Bob Lopopolo.

El oso regresó la mañana del lunes.

Una vez más, visitó la trampa, inspeccionó la cámara y permaneció en el área durante horas.

Los avistamientos de osos en el vecindario son poco comunes. Jay dijo que cualquier persona que se encuentre con un oso debe mantener la distancia.

“Lo que se debe hacer en ese momento es hacer ruidos fuertes. Hay que ahuyentar al oso. Queremos que ese oso le tenga miedo a los humanos”, dijo.

Aunque los residentes no vean al oso, Jay indicó que deben mantenerse atentos.

“Simplemente estén pendientes. Manténganse seguros. Cuando estén afuera, asegúrense de tener una linterna por la noche, llevar a sus perros con correa y mantenerse vigilantes”, dijo.

El trampero señaló que el avistamiento más reciente ocurrió hace varios días y que el oso no ha regresado desde entonces. Espera que el animal haya seguido su camino, pero está alentando a los residentes a mantenerse vigilantes en caso de que vuelva a aparecer.

Solari, que sufría desde hace años de Parkinson, murió en su vivienda situada en la localidad de Ituzaingó, a unos 30 kilómetros al oeste de la capital argentina. La fiscalía de Morón, a cargo de la investigación del hecho, informó que el cuerpo del artista fue hallado “en cercanías de una pileta interna de su domicilio y habiendo intervenido la emergencia médica”.

Familiares del cantante publicaron un comunicado en las redes sociales confirmando el deceso. Señalaron que lo despedirán en la intimidad y que el sábado se realizará el adiós público, aunque el lugar no fue definido.

Apenas conocida la noticia los primeros fanáticos del artista comenzaron a congregarse en las inmediaciones de la vivienda. Entre los reunidos había padres acompañados por sus hijos adolescentes con banderas y camisetas alusivas al “Indio”. Hombres y mujeres se acercaron con flores. Fanáticos también se congregaban en la histórica Plaza de Mayo en el centro de Buenos Aires para rendirle homenaje.

El poder de convocatoria de Solari era enorme. Fue un compositor de gran talento y al mismo tiempo muy popular, que supo interpretar el sentir de la sociedad argentina a lo largo de su larga trayectoria que comenzó a mediados de la década de 1970.

En sus canciones mostraba una fuerte resistencia al capitalismo, la influencia de las potencias extranjeras y la violencia institucional manifestada en los abusos de las fuerzas de seguridad. Mientras, rescataba a los sectores más postergados.

Era idolatrado por un público masivo de distintas generaciones que recorría grandes distancias en kilómetros para asistir a sus recitales. Fuera de Argentina, el público uruguayo también adoptó plenamente la cultura y la mística del grupo.

Los conciertos de “Los Redondos", como también era conocida la banda que fundó, eran denominados “misas ricoteras” por sus seguidores.

Rockeros que acompañaron al fallecido cantante durante su vida y muchos que lo admiraron manifestaron su pesar en las redes sociales. "Te llevo en cada recuerdo, en cada canción de ayer... ahora sos la luz que viaja entre nosotros y para siempre”, dijo Eduardo Beilinson —conocido como Skay Beilinson—, quien fue compañero de “El Indio” en la banda que lo convirtió en un ídolo de masas.

“Se fue el líder de una de las más importantes tribus argentinas”, destacó el músico Fito Páez. “Sí que era un ser magnético y de un profundo carisma”.

Dirigentes de la política y del fútbol, así como representantes del arte y la cultura lamentaron la muerte Solari.

La expresidenta Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) apeló a frase del cantante para despedirlo en sus redes sociales: ”Vivir sólo cuesta vida". La dirigente política, que cumple prisión domiciliaria por corrupción, y Solari se profesaban mutua admiración.

“Su obra trascendió las fronteras del rock para proyectarse sobre la literatura, el arte y la identidad de millones de personas”, afirmó la Asociación Argentina de Actores.

Un talentoso que sabía conectar con su público

Con una de las discografías más influyentes en el rock, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota compuso álbumes como "Gulp!”, “Oktubre”, “Lobo suelto, cordero atado” y “Luzbelito”.

La banda se disolvió en 2001 y “El Indio” comenzó a desempeñarse como solista, afianzando su poder de convocatoria en cada presentación que realizaba junto a Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado, la banda que lo acompañaba. “El Tesoro de los Inocentes”, en 2004, fue su primer trabajo como solista.

Su gran éxito siguió intacto y llegó a reunir hasta 400.000 personas en sus recitales en pequeñas ciudades.

Solari describió la enfermedad que lo aquejaba como “muy invalidante”.

“Hay días en que me quiero matar y hay días que ni se nota... Por el camino se va notando la progresión, el éxito que va teniendo el profesor Parkinson con mi vida”, señaló en entrevistas periodísticas.

Pero acotaba que no tenía miedo a la muerte. “La pienso en términos poéticos. Vivo de la misma manera que cuando tenía 20 años, en el presente”.

La despedida, una cuestión de Estado

Mientras cada vez más fanáticos se congregaban frente a la residencia de Solari y en la Plaza de Mayo, el velatorio del artista se convirtió en cuestión de Estado por temor a que se repitan los graves incidentes durante la despedida del astro futbolístico Diego Maradona, fallecido en 2020, cuando miles de sus seguidores desbordaron los controles de seguridad e ingresaron a la Casa Rosada —la sede del gobierno nacional— para llegar hasta el féretro.

El gobierno del Javier Milei descartó que el velatorio se realice en la sede del Poder Ejecutivo así como en el Congreso, donde tradicionalmente se velan a los expresidentes y a los artistas populares.

“Se efectuaron las consultas correspondientes con el Ministerio de Seguridad de la Nación y las áreas técnicas competentes. Como resultado de esa evaluación, se concluyó que el Palacio Legislativo no reúne las condiciones de infraestructura, logística y seguridad necesarias para un evento de esta magnitud”, informó el presidente de la Cámara de Diputados, Martín Menem.

El funcionario agregó que el gobierno “se encuentra a disposición de la familia para trabajar conjuntamente en la elección de un lugar que esté a la altura de lo que el Indio Solari representa para la sociedad argentina y donde puedan garantizarse todas las condiciones de seguridad necesarias”.

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La corresponsal en Buenos Aires, Débora Rey, contribuyó con este reporte.

Saturday will be the dry day of the weekend, even into the Keys. Late Saturday night into Sunday, a few showers return. Nothing that will ruin the weekend with plenty of dry time. Our normal pattern of 90° and afternoon thunderstorms will continue by Monday.

Marie has denied the allegations and cannot be prosecuted over Otis' case because of France’s statute of limitations. But the complaint could allow other women, whether their cases are time-barred or not, to join the proceedings, Otis’ lawyer, Mathias Darmon, said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The complaint, seen by the AP, alleges rape of a minor and human trafficking.

Sent to Paris in 1986 by Elite Model agency, Otis, who was then 17, was housed in Marie’s apartment, “mistakenly believing that he wanted to support her modeling career,” according to the complaint. “While living in the apartment, she alleges that she was raped on multiple occasions by the accused, who subsequently arranged for her to be provided to other wealthy men across Europe.”

Otis was never paid for her modeling work, the complaint said.

“The goal is to give other victims the opportunity to find the courage to join our complaint,” Darmon said. “We are opening the door for all those affected by this internationally significant case to come forward and have their voices heard.”

Otis, 58, became a supermodel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, appearing on the covers of Elle, Vogue and Vanity Fair and featuring in the Pirelli calendar.

Marie, a 76 year-old French national, supervised operations at Elite from 1985 to 2010, during a period when the agency dominated the modeling industry. He helped launch the careers of some of the world’s best-known supermodels.

French broadcaster France Info reported Friday that Otis said she wanted to “denounce an entire system of sexual abuse of models that lasted for years in the fashion industry,” drawing parallels to the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

A complaint previously filed in 2021 by Otis and several other former models alleging rape and sexual assault by Marie in the 1980s was dismissed because the claims were beyond the statute of limitations.

Under French law, victims who were minors at the time of alleged sexual abuse can file a criminal complaint until 30 years after reaching adulthood, allowing them to do so until age 48.

In Florida, the average price for regular gas is $4.47. With summer travel on the horizon, Local 10 and Tropical Financial Credit Union are teaming up to bring drivers some relief.

“Right now, a lot of people across South Florida are feeling the pressure of everyday expenses, and even something as routine as filling up the gas tank can create real stress,” said Richard Shaw, Tropical Financial Credit Union President & CEO. “We wanted to do something simple but meaningful to help lighten the load, which is why we partnered with Local 10 on this gas card giveaway.”

All you have to do to sign up is complete the contest form below to be eligible to win a $100 fuel gift card. The deadline to enter is Sunday, May 31, at 11:59 p.m.

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“Even a little relief can make a difference, and we want people to know we’re here for them,” added Shaw.

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Thursday's letter, the first public message Zelenskyy has written directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, was a sweeping critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power as well as some taunts about his age.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Zelenskyy’s open letter proposing the meeting as “boorish.”

“Is it a way to create conditions for personal meetings and talks, or create an environment which makes any personal meetings impossible?” Putin said at a question-and-answer session at his annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “I think it’s the second.”

Putin added that a Russian businessman whom he didn’t identify traveled to Kyiv last month and met with Zelenskyy to hear his offer of a personal meeting.

However, Putin said that he currently sees “no point” in such a meeting, especially after a May 22 drone attack by Ukraine on a college dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region that Moscow said killed 21 and wounded scores of others.

In response to Zelenskyy’s barbs about his age and long stay in power, the 73-year-old Putin pointed at other global leaders who are older, adding that “the main thing isn’t age; the main thing is the ability to work.”

He also mocked Zelenskyy's rocky Oval Office meeting in 2025 and thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for “educating” Zelenskyy “before the eyes of the whole world” and teaching him a proper dress code.

“There is still a lot to be done,” he said.

Zelenskyy acknowledged shifting U.S. priorities, saying it would be wrong to simply wait for the Trump administration to return its attention to ending the fighting in Ukraine while it remains heavily focused on the Iran war.

In Washington, Trump said Thursday it “would be great” if Putin and Zelenskyy meet.

Putin has previously offered for Zelenskyy to come to Moscow for talks, an offer that the Ukrainian leader pointedly rejected. Putin said last month he doesn’t exclude a meeting in a third country, but only when there is a deal to sign.

On Thursday, Putin again rejected Zelenskyy’s push for an immediate ceasefire, arguing that Moscow wants a comprehensive settlement, not a temporary truce.

Putin said Russia is open for a compromise on Ukraine in line with understandings reached at his last year’s summit with Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, adding that Ukraine needs to accept them to make a deal to end the conflict.

“Naturally, the Ukrainian side would like us to suspend the advances made by Russian troops,” he said. “But it would be better to end the war by agreeing to the compromises that were discussed in Anchorage.”

Asked about Iran, Putin voiced hope for an eventual deal to secure lasting peace. He shrugged off claims that Moscow provided Iran with satellite images, saying that Tehran could use widely available commercial ones.

"As for weapons, Iran hasn’t asked us for them and we haven’t supplied any weapons to Iran,” he said, adding that Russia stands ready to take enriched uranium for storage as part of a potential peace deal, and that Moscow has stayed in contact with Iran, the U.S. and Israel.

Global turbulence

In a speech earlier Friday at the forum, Putin said developing countries have gained an increasingly important role in the global economy, while the share of output by Western countries has shrunk.

He accused the West of undermining the global economy and finances with unilateral sanctions. By freezing Russian assets abroad through sanctions, Western nations eroded trust in their own currencies, he said.

“The sanctions and blocking of Russia’s sovereign reserves have irreversibly impacted the standing of international currencies, the dollar and the euro,” he said. “Just like Russia, any other country could lose access to their legitimate assets in dollars or euros, as well as Western financial and payment systems.”

He alleged that high state debt had helped undermine global trust in Western institutions.

“The roots of the current global turbulence lie in the transition from a vertical, hierarchical model, which served the interests of a small number of states, to a more complex, distributed and multipolar one,” Putin said. “Russia views global changes not only as a threat but also as immense opportunities. And to capitalize on them, we aim to act swiftly and pragmatically.”

The Russian leader said the world needed a “modern, flexible and responsible financial architecture — free from risks, bans and barriers.”

Putin stresses Russia's macroeconomic stability

Putin played down Russia’s economic slowdown and sought to emphasize its macroeconomic stability. He noted that Russia’s state debt is a fraction of that in Western countries and its budget deficit is considerably smaller, compared with the West.

The forum comes at a time when Russia’s economic outlook has clouded amid the conflict in Ukraine. The government raised taxes and increased domestic borrowing to keep its budget deficit under control.

On Thursday, Putin told heads of international media on the forum's sidelines that it was an exaggeration to say Russia's economy was struggling. He noted that his government had taken deliberate steps to cool the economy to keep inflation under control.

Putin has used the St. Petersburg forum, likened to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to showcase his country’s economic advances and encourage foreign investment. While Western officials and business leaders have stayed away after Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, Russia has sought guests from elsewhere to underline its declared goal of promoting a “multipolar world.”

Saudi Arabia sent a large delegation this year, and the presidents of Uzbekistan and Tanzania and vice president of China also gave speeches Friday. A U.S. official, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., head of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, is attending for the first time in years.

Cook was singled out in the audience during a question-and-answer session following Putin's speech. Cook praised the beauty of St. Petersburg and Putin thanked him for the remarks about his hometown and asked to convey his greetings to Trump.

Hours before the forum opened Wednesday, a Ukrainian drone attack set ablaze an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and also hit a nearby naval base.

Putin declared that Russia was “calmly and resolutely” moving to reach its goals in Ukraine. He acknowledged the damage from Ukrainian drone attacks deep inside Russia and vowed to build up defenses.

“They do inflict a certain damage,” he said. “For us, it means only one thing: we need to strengthen our security, strengthen air defenses, and we will do that.”

How long the government can withstand the economic strain -- and what it will ultimately take for it to make changes -- remains unclear.

The communist island is seeing an exodus of international companies. Hotels, along with Visa and Mastercard, are shuttering operations as they rush to meet an end-of-week deadline to avoid sanctions threatened by the Trump administration.

The latest economic blow targets Grupo de Administración Empresarial, known as GAESA.

“GAESA is an economic conglomerate created by Raul Castro while Fidel was still alive,” said Cuba analyst Andy Gomez.

The U.S. government believes the conglomerate controls billions of dollars in assets. It was created in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union and is run by the Cuban military apparatus.

“So the purpose of GAESA was to lift the economy, not just for the government but for the nation,” Gomez said.

Critics argue it evolved into something else.

“They own the tourist sector, they own mining, they own the gas stations. They own everything. So you have people literally starving, a power grid that hasn’t been maintained in 10 years, and yet you have this military government sitting on these assets,” said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Gomez said he sees only one path forward.

“I see for them no way out but sitting down and negotiating with the United States,” Gomez said. “Now I say negotiate.”

But Gomez warned that any such process would take time.

“This cannot be done overnight,” he said.

“There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba,” Gomez added.

Amid the worsening social and economic fallout, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Perez Oliva Fraga, the grandnephew of Fidel and Raul Castro, is reportedly seeking business investments from Russia.

La oficina de la alcaldesa anunció en un comunicado de prensa la renuncia del director de Operaciones del Condado, Jimmy Morales, y de la directora de PortMiami, Hydi Webb.

La medida ocurre una semana después de que residentes de Fisher Island demandaran a un desarrollador, solicitando a un tribunal que impida la venta del depósito de combustible sin su consentimiento por escrito, argumentando que la transacción viola un acuerdo previo.

También sostienen que la amenaza del condado de recurrir a la expropiación es inconstitucional. Una demanda federal separada también continúa su curso en el sistema judicial.

Local 10 News está trabajando para preguntar a la oficina de la alcaldesa si la más reciente demanda tuvo alguna influencia en los cambios de liderazgo y también contactó al desarrollador para solicitar comentarios.

Mientras tanto, en un comunicado, Levine Cava dijo en parte que está “profundamente agradecida” con Morales y Webb “por su extraordinario servicio al condado Miami-Dade y a nuestros residentes”.

“Su liderazgo, integridad y dedicación han ayudado a fortalecer nuestro condado”, dijo.

Local 10 News solicitó copias de sus cartas de renuncia.

El director de Servicios Públicos y Regulatorios, Roy Coley, fue ascendido al cargo de vicealcalde, donde supervisará varios departamentos e instalaciones del condado, incluido el aeropuerto y el puerto marítimo.

El subdirector del puerto, Frederick Wong, se desempeñará como director interino de PortMiami.

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Rogerio Miranda De Souza, 49, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday night on a new charge of indecent exposure, according to jail records.

South Miami police said the incident related to his latest arrest occurred May 11 and involved a different female victim.

According to an arrest report, the victim was driving south on U.S. 1 near the 5700 block of South Dixie Highway when De Souza drove his gray Tesla “extremely close” to the driver’s side of the woman’s vehicle, at which time she saw that he had his penis exposed and was stroking it.

Police said De Souza continued to follow the victim, even driving through a red light to catch up to the woman who was trying to get away from him.

According to the report, the victim eventually lost sight of De Souza near the 11400 block of South Dixie Highway.

Police said the victim remained there until Pinecrest police officers arrived, but they told her she would need to report the incident to South Miami police since the alleged incident occurred in their jurisdiction.

According to the report, the victim did not want to file a police report at the time, but decided to come forward after learning that De Souza had been arrested for a similar incident.

“She was frightened, she was scared. She did not want to come forward,” Detective Jackie Del Sol said. “She had actually seen it on the news and that’s what made her come forward. She had been involved in the same incident.”

Investigators said they were able to identify De Souza through the use of a license plate reader. Detectives later contacted his attorney, and De Souza surrendered to authorities Wednesday.

The arrest comes just weeks after De Souza appeared before a judge in a separate indecent exposure case.

In that incident, police said a woman reported being followed for nearly 30 minutes on May 15 after leaving a gym in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. According to investigators, De Souza repeatedly drove around the woman’s vehicle, cut her off in traffic and, at one point, was seen touching himself while driving alongside her.

Police said the woman provided detectives with a license plate number that helped lead investigators to De Souza.

At the time of that arrest, detectives told Local 10 News they were investigating another case involving similar allegations. However, authorities have not confirmed whether the latest arrest is connected to that earlier investigation.

De Souza appeared in bond court Thursday morning and was ordered held on a $25,000 bond. If he posts bond, he will be placed on house arrest with a GPS monitor. He has also been ordered by a judge to stay away from the victims in both cases.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward informaron que el hecho ocurrió poco antes de las 3:30 a.m. del 11 de abril en la cuadra 3000 de West Sample Road, en un área no incorporada a las afueras de Pompano Beach.

Los agentes indicaron que Sult President, de 47 años y residente de Pompano Beach, conducía una Nissan Pathfinder 2006 hacia el este por los carriles en dirección oeste en el paso elevado de Florida’s Turnpike cuando chocó de frente en el carril central contra una Hyundai Tucson 2025, causando la muerte de su conductor, Nicholas Addis.

Los paramédicos declararon muerto a Addis, de 36 años, en el lugar y trasladaron a President a un hospital con lesiones graves.

Los fiscales informaron en la corte que President tenía un nivel de alcohol en sangre de 0.23%, casi tres veces el límite legal, y los investigadores indicaron que conducía a velocidades de hasta 75 mph.

Desde entonces fue arrestado y trasladado al centro de detención North Broward Bureau en Pompano Beach, donde permanece encarcelado enfrentando cargos de homicidio vehicular, conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol causando una muerte, conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol con daños a una persona o propiedad y conducción temeraria, con una fianza total de $210,000 USD.

Si paga la fianza, un juez determinó que deberá portar dispositivos de monitoreo GPS y de alcohol, además de someterse a pruebas aleatorias. También deberá permanecer en el condado Broward, no podrá conducir y deberá entregar su pasaporte.

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The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect is dead and confirmed that the suspect and one of the victims were both students at USF.

Officials say HSCO deputies responded to a call just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when they found the victims at an off-campus apartment.

They said both victims are in stable condition.

Hours later, around 3:45 p.m., authorities say they found the presumed suspect dead at another apartment complex for USF students.

Deputies also confirmed that the suspect and one of the victims were roommates, while the second victim was not affiliated with the university.

“I could have walked out of my apartment, and it could have been me and that’s definitely very scary,” said resident McKenzie Miller.

The apartment where the suspect was found dead is just half a mile down the street from Avalon Heights, the student housing complex where prosecutors said two USF graduate students were stabbed to death in April.

Right now, officials say this week’s stabbing appears to be an isolated event and that there are no threats to the USF community.

Local 10 News también conversó con el comisionado de Pembroke Pines, Jay Schwartz, propietario de la escuela de vuelo vinculada a la aeronave involucrada en el accidente.

Los investigadores informaron que una aeronave despegó de North Perry Airport el 29 de mayo. Poco después del despegue, la aeronave sufrió una falla de motor, lo que obligó al piloto a intentar un aterrizaje de emergencia.

La aeronave se estrelló en las afueras del South Florida State Hospital.

Un estudiante piloto y un instructor de vuelo se encontraban dentro de la aeronave volcada. Ambos resultaron heridos, pero sobrevivieron, en parte gracias a las personas que acudieron a ayudar.

“Mientras conducía hacia el sur por University, de regreso a casa, vi esta aeronave sobre mí y parecía que estaba perdiendo altitud”, dijo Nathan Gansert, el buen samaritano que ayudó.

Según un informe policial, la empresa de la escuela de vuelo vinculada a la aeronave es Blue Sky, propiedad de Schwartz. El informe también indica que uno de los sobrevivientes dijo que la aeronave había estado experimentando problemas de motor el día anterior al accidente.

El miércoles, líderes de la ciudad reconocieron a Gansert por ayudar a rescatar a las dos personas que iban a bordo.

Gansert dijo que conducía cuando notó una aeronave volando inusualmente bajo antes de que desapareciera de su vista.

“Me di cuenta de que ya no la veía en el cielo”, dijo Gansert. “Doblé una esquina, luego otra y vi ramas de árboles en el suelo. Vi a una de las jóvenes comenzar a salir y me bajé de mi auto y corrí hacia allí para ayudar a la otra. Hice lo que mejor sé hacer y supongo que eso es ser humano”.

Schwartz agradeció a Gansert durante la ceremonia.

“Salvaste a nuestras muchachas”, dijo Schwartz. “Una de ellas está viendo esto ahora mismo. Solo han pasado cinco noches. Cuando las cosas mejoren, vamos a reunirnos”.

Se espera que ambos sobrevivientes se recuperen.

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Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies said it happened at just before 3:30 a.m. on April 11 along the 3000 block of West Sample Road in an unincorporated area outside of Pompano Beach.

Deputies said Sult President, 47, of Pompano Beach, was driving a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder, heading east in the westbound lanes on the overpass for Florida’s Turnpike when he hit a 2025 Hyundai Tucson head-on in the center lane, killing its driver, Nicholas Addis.

Medics pronounced Addis, 36, dead at the scene and took President to a hospital with serious injuries.

Addis is the son of former Coral Springs Mayor Vincent Boccard.

Prosecutors said in court that President had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23%, nearly three times the legal limit, and investigators said he was driving up to 75 mph.

He has since been arrested and taken to the North Broward Bureau detention center in Pompano Beach, where he remains behind bars on charges of vehicular homicide, DUI resulting in death, DUI with damage to a person or property and reckless driving. His total bond was set at $210,000.

If he bonds out, a judge ruled he must wear a GPS monitor and alcohol monitoring devices and submit to random testing. He must also remain in Broward County, he cannot drive and he must surrender his passport.

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Local 10 News also heard from Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz, who owns the flight school connected to the aircraft involved in the crash.

Investigators said a plane took off from North Perry Airport on May 29. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft experienced engine failure, forcing the pilot to attempt an emergency landing.

The plane crashed outside South Florida State Hospital.

A student pilot and a flight instructor were inside the overturned aircraft. Both were injured but survived, thanks in part to people who rushed to help.

“As I was driving south on University (Drive), going back home, I see this plane above me and it looked like it was losing altitude,” said Nathan Gansert, a Good Samaritan who helped.

According to a police report, the flight school company connected to the plane is Blue Sky, which is owned by Schwartz. The report also states that one of the survivors said the plane had been experiencing engine issues the day before the crash.

On Wednesday, city leaders honored Gansert for helping rescue the two people onboard.

Gansert said he was driving when he noticed a plane flying unusually low before it disappeared from view.

“I noticed I didn’t see it in the sky anymore,” Gansert said. “I turn the corner, turn the other corner and see tree branches on the ground. I see one of the girls start to climb out and I jumped out my car and ran over there and helped the other one. I did what I do best, and I guess that’s being a human.”

Schwartz thanked Gansert during the ceremony.

“You saved our girls,” Schwartz said. “One of them is watching right now. It’s only been five nights. When things get better, we’re going to get together.”

Both survivors are expected to recover.

The stars were stars.

The finals, though, tends to get won by the sum of the other parts.

Game 2 of the title series is Friday night in San Antonio, with the Spurs hoping to pull into a tie before the series heads to New York — and the Knicks aiming at becoming the first team since Houston in 1995 to start the NBA Finals with two road wins.

Tipoff is at 8:42 p.m. EDT and the game will be aired on ABC. The Spurs are 6.5-point favorites.

New York got 30 points from Brunson in the Game 1 win, in which the Knicks rallied from 14 points down in the third quarter and closed the game on an 11-0 run. And while Brunson got tons of credit, the Knicks pointed to other efforts, like the one from Josh Hart.

He had three points. That's not what mattered. It was everything else — 15 rebounds, six assists and four steals. The only other player to have that many rebounds, assists and steals in a finals game since all those stats began being tracked was Larry Bird in 1986.

“His energy is just relentless. It doesn’t stop,” Brunson said of Hart, his former Villanova teammate. “I mean, he eats candy all the time. That tells you who he is. He’s a big kid with an absurd amount of energy.”

The Knicks are trying to win their 13th consecutive playoff game, which would be the second-longest single-season streak in NBA history. Golden State won 15 consecutive playoff games in 2017.

“We know it’s a long series,” Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox said. “Obviously you want to win every game that you have on your home court, but it’s not the way it happens every day. We try to go in and fix the things we need to fix. Obviously, we want a different outcome.”

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Here's everything you need to know about “I Knew It, I Knew You.”

Taylor Swift goes country ... again

Swift doesn't sing with a familiar twang on “I Knew It, I Knew You,” but no matter — the song features some elements inextricable from the country genre: Live instrumentation, plucky banjo and harmonica that opens the track.

Most view Swift's last official foray into the country music genre to be 2012's “Red,” though the album is much more of a crossover experiment. It would be more astute to label “Speak Now” as her last true-blue, full-length, country music release — and that was more than 15 years ago.

Additionally: “I Knew It, I Knew You” is also Swift's first original material since “The Life of a Showgirl” was released in October.

The song is also co-produced by Jack Antonoff, her former, frequent collaborator. Swift started working with Antonoff on 2014's “1989” through 2024's “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Notably, the pair started their long collaboration after Swift's country era, perhaps with the rare exception of “Betty” from her 2020 “Folklore” album.

“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time. Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once,” Swift wrote on social media Friday, referencing the beloved cowgirl character. “And being a ‘Toy Story’ kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.”

The ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ rollout

Last weekend, billboards with the initials “TS,” stylized like the “Toy Story” logo, appeared in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Toronto, Mexico City and London — fitting, as “TS” works both for the beloved franchise and the musician.

On Monday, Swift confirmed the song was forthcoming, writing on Instagram, “I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5-year-old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?”

She also shared that preorders for three CD single versions of the track were available on her site. They quickly sold out: One features the song as it appears in the film, another is an acoustic version and the last is a piano version.

“It’s incredible just how meaningful it’s been having Taylor write and perform this song. Her connection to Jessie and the immediate way she understood what the character was going through was undeniable,” “Toy Story 5” director and writer Andrew Stanton said in a press statement at the time. “The song is so deeply connected to ‘Toy Story.’ So much so that on first listen, it instantly felt like it had always belonged there, like a long-lost family member. It was kismet.”

Is Taylor Swift headed to the Oscars?

Some fans online have begun speculating: Could this be an Oscar contender in the original song category?

Quite possibly, if it adheres to all relevant rules and regulations! For 2027 Academy Awards consideration, a feature film — and its song submissions — must have a qualifying theatrical release between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 this year. “Toy Story 5” will be released in theaters worldwide on June 19, so it qualifies there.

It also depends on when “I Knew It, I Knew You” is placed in “Toy Story 5.” There's a new rule this year: If the song plays over the end credits, it must also overlap with the last 15 seconds of the film before the credits actually begin.

At any rate, if Swift's song is submitted — and if she were to win — she'd be just that much closer to an EGOT. She has 14 Grammys and an Emmy. An Oscar would mean she'd only need a Tony. Could Broadway be next?

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Now, for the first time in its 100-plus-year history, the legendary brand is expanding beyond California — and it has chosen Miami as its first destination.

Located on the ninth floor of the Gale Miami Hotel & Residences in downtown Miami, Yamashiro Miami brings the glamour of old Hollywood together with Japanese-inspired design, elevated cuisine, and immersive entertainment.

“This is our first expansion outside of the 100 years that we’ve been open in LA,” said Executive Chef Gustavo Montes. “The vision being capturing that beautiful dynasty of Yamashiro and reimagining it to the Miami market.”

The nearly 9,000-square-foot venue spans multiple levels and features sweeping views of the Miami skyline, lush Japanese-inspired gardens, and a design that feels more like an escape than a traditional restaurant. The space seamlessly blends Hollywood elegance with Japanese architecture, creating an atmosphere that’s both luxurious and welcoming.

While the brand’s history is rooted in Los Angeles — even making appearances in films such as Kill Bill — the Miami location offers a completely original culinary experience.

“This menu here in Miami is a one-off menu,” Montes explained. “It is a new interpretation of Yamashiro. We’re looking to showcase the best ingredients and the best techniques in the world. So we try to showcase everything for quality, freshness, and simplicity.”

The menu highlights a range of inventive dishes that combine Japanese influences with Miami flair. Among the standouts is the Katsusando, a toasted sandwich layered with aioli and finished with a touch of 24-karat gold — a nod to Miami’s love of luxury. Another signature dish is the black cod, marinated with citrus and miso before being finished in the oven and brushed with a delicate sauce.

Montes believes the city is the perfect place for Yamashiro’s next chapter.

“Being a Miami local, I’m kind of one-sided on this,” he said. “But I feel like Miami has become a new culinary capital of the world. We have done a lot to change the landscape of the scene.”

The restaurant’s cocktail program is equally ambitious. One of the most talked-about experiences is the signature martini cart, which rolls directly to guests’ tables and allows them to customize every aspect of their drink, from the spirit selection to specialty garnishes, including caviar.

“The inspiration behind this cart was to create an experience for our guests,” Montes said. “You have the option of having an extremely dirty martini, of making a kimchi martini, or going very classical.”

Beyond dining, Yamashiro is expanding its entertainment offerings with the recent opening of the 400 Vinyl Room, an upscale lounge inspired by Hollywood’s Golden Age. The intimate, 60-seat venue exclusively spins vinyl records and features a music program rooted in funk, soul, disco, and 1980s Latin sounds, with themed nights throughout the week.

Montes says the goal is simple: create a destination where guests can celebrate life’s successes while enjoying exceptional hospitality.

“You should definitely come out and enjoy the fruits of your labor,” he said. “Yamashiro is here to provide A1 hospitality with A1 food.”

Even for guests familiar with the original Los Angeles location, Yamashiro Miami offers a distinctly South Florida experience. And the restaurant’s growth isn’t slowing down. Coming soon, Yamashiro plans to open additional indoor dining space with seating for approximately 180 guests, further expanding its footprint in downtown Miami.

To make a reservation at Yamashiro Miami, click here.

Ahora, por primera vez en sus más de 100 años de historia, la legendaria marca se expande fuera de California y ha elegido a Miami como su primer destino.

Ubicado en el noveno piso del Gale Miami Hotel & Residences, en el centro de Miami, Yamashiro Miami combina el glamour del viejo Hollywood con diseño inspirado en Japón, gastronomía de alto nivel y entretenimiento inmersivo.

“Esta es nuestra primera expansión fuera de los 100 años que hemos estado abiertos en Los Ángeles”, dijo el chef ejecutivo Gustavo Montes. “La visión es capturar esa hermosa dinastía de Yamashiro y reinventarla para el mercado de Miami”.

El local, de casi 9,000 pies cuadrados, se extiende por varios niveles y ofrece amplias vistas del horizonte de Miami, exuberantes jardines inspirados en Japón y un diseño que se siente más como una escapada que como un restaurante tradicional. El espacio combina a la perfección la elegancia de Hollywood con la arquitectura japonesa, creando una atmósfera lujosa y acogedora.

Aunque la historia de la marca está arraigada en Los Ángeles e incluso ha aparecido en películas como Kill Bill, la ubicación de Miami ofrece una experiencia culinaria completamente original.

“Este menú aquí en Miami es un menú único”, explicó Montes. “Es una nueva interpretación de Yamashiro. Buscamos mostrar los mejores ingredientes y las mejores técnicas del mundo. Tratamos de destacar todo por su calidad, frescura y simplicidad”.

El menú destaca una variedad de platos innovadores que combinan influencias japonesas con el estilo de Miami. Entre los más destacados se encuentra el Katsusando, un sándwich tostado con alioli y terminado con un toque de oro de 24 quilates, un guiño al gusto de Miami por el lujo. Otro plato distintivo es el bacalao negro, marinado con cítricos y miso antes de terminarse en el horno y cubrirse con una delicada salsa.

Montes cree que la ciudad es el lugar perfecto para el próximo capítulo de Yamashiro.

“Como residente de Miami, quizá soy un poco parcial”, dijo. “Pero siento que Miami se ha convertido en una nueva capital culinaria del mundo. Hemos hecho mucho para cambiar el panorama de la escena gastronómica”.

El programa de cocteles del restaurante es igual de ambicioso. Una de las experiencias más comentadas es su carrito de martinis exclusivo, que se lleva directamente a las mesas y permite a los clientes personalizar cada aspecto de su bebida, desde la selección del licor hasta las guarniciones especiales, incluido el caviar.

“La inspiración detrás de este carrito fue crear una experiencia para nuestros invitados”, dijo Montes. “Tienes la opción de pedir un martini extremadamente seco, preparar un martini de kimchi o irte por algo muy clásico”.

Más allá de la gastronomía, Yamashiro está ampliando su oferta de entretenimiento con la reciente apertura de 400 Vinyl Room, un salón exclusivo inspirado en la época dorada de Hollywood. El íntimo espacio, con capacidad para 60 personas, reproduce exclusivamente discos de vinilo y cuenta con una programación musical basada en funk, soul, disco y sonidos latinos de la década de 1980, con noches temáticas durante toda la semana.

Montes afirma que el objetivo es simple: crear un destino donde los clientes puedan celebrar los éxitos de la vida mientras disfrutan de una hospitalidad excepcional.

“Definitivamente deberían venir a disfrutar los frutos de su trabajo”, dijo. “Yamashiro está aquí para ofrecer hospitalidad de primera y comida de primera”.

Incluso para los clientes familiarizados con la ubicación original de Los Ángeles, Yamashiro Miami ofrece una experiencia claramente del sur de Florida. Y el crecimiento del restaurante no se detiene. Próximamente, Yamashiro planea abrir espacio adicional para comedor interior con capacidad para aproximadamente 180 comensales, ampliando aún más su presencia en el centro de Miami.

Para hacer una reservación en Yamashiro Miami, haga clic aquí.

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According to police, Raul Gabino Salvador, 88, was last seen driving his white Dodge Avenger with Florida tag JFQG08.

Police did not confirm the day he was last seen, but said he was wearing a gray polo shirt, black pants and black shoes.

Salvador is 5 feet tall and weighs about 140 pounds. He has white hair.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the Hialeah Police Department at 305-687-2525.

Según la policía, Raul Gabino Salvador, de 88 años, fue visto por última vez conduciendo su Dodge Avenger blanco con matrícula de Florida JFQG08.

La policía no confirmó el día en que fue visto por última vez, pero indicó que vestía una camisa tipo polo gris, pantalones negros y zapatos negros.

Salvador mide 5 pies de estatura y pesa aproximadamente 140 libras. Tiene el cabello blanco.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe llamar al Departamento de Policía de Hialeah al 305-687-2525.

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The Broward Sheriff’s Office arrested Darrien Marquez Fleno in Dania Beach and booked him into jail on charges of traveling to meet a minor and transmission of harmful materials to a minor.

According to his arrest report, Hollywood police officers were called to a Family Dollar store on South Federal Highway on Oct. 17, 2025, and were told by two people there that a man, later identified as Fleno, was inside the store, trying to meet a teenage girl for sex.

Officers made contact with Fleno and he agreed to provide a statement to detectives and allow them to search his cellphone, the report stated. His statement to detectives was redacted from the publicly released report.

According to the report, detectives discovered that Fleno had been communicating with who he thought was a teenage girl, but was actually a man who is a member of an organization called New York Predhunters.

Detectives said the man agreed to send the phone used to send and receive text messages with Fleno to South Florida for authorities to review.

According to the report, throughout the text messages, the topic of age was discussed multiple times and at one point, Fleno stated that he wouldn’t want to be seen with the teen in public because people might question what an older man was doing with a teenage girl.

Detectives said Fleno believed the “teen” lived in West Palm Beach and made arrangements to stay overnight with her at a hotel in Hollywood.

Police said Fleno sent the “teen” explicit photos of himself and made multiple sexual comments about what he wanted to do with her at the hotel.

As of Friday morning, Fleno was being held at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on a $100,000 bond.