El accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 10:45 a.m. entre Oakland Park Boulevard y Northeast 26th Street, en el vecindario Coral Ridge de la ciudad, lo que llevó a las autoridades a cerrar los carriles en dirección sur entre ambas intersecciones.

Un video mostró una motocicleta con graves daños y un Hyundai Kona blanco en el lugar.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale, los paramédicos trasladaron al motociclista al Broward Health Medical Center con heridas que ponen en peligro su vida.

Hasta alrededor de las 11 a.m., la policía no había proporcionado un plazo estimado para la reapertura de los carriles en dirección sur de la US 1.

Las autoridades indicaron que todas las personas involucradas permanecieron en el lugar, aunque no precisaron si alguien recibiría una multa o enfrentaría cargos.

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Officers with the Sunrise Police Department said the crash occurred at approximately 4 a.m. in the 2000 block of Nob Hill Road.

They said a man, whose age and identity have not been released at this time, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The other driver involved in the crash was treated at the scene for minor injuries, according to police.

“This is not even an expressway, so like I wondered how it happened because the speed limit is really low here, said Mona, a Sunrise resident.

Police said circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation and no other details were immediately released.

Sgt. Hunter Foster had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Mississippi Attorney General’s office earlier this week after its monthslong probe concluded his use of force had been justified.

On Thursday, the state released videos of the fatal shooting of Kohen Wiley, including Foster’s body-worn camera footage of the June 14 encounter in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Memphis, Tennessee.

Senatobia Mayor Greg Graves confirmed Foster’s resignation Friday.

Foster’s attorney Martin Zummach declined to comment when reached Friday. Zummach has said Foster had “no choice” but to fire his weapon at the vehicle driven because it was moving at him.

Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, has disputed that her friend, who was driving, headed toward the officers.

Ben Crump, an attorney for Kohen’s family, said the footage shows the fatal shot came from the side of the car, disputing that Foster was in imminent danger. An independent autopsy commissioned by the family concluded the same. An image of the vehicle shows its shattered right front passenger window. The family’s legal team called for the federal government to investigate the shooting.

Kohen would have celebrated his second birthday in early November.

The group of officers were at the Walmart store in response to an unrelated incident, according to a Mississippi Bureau of Investigation report. A Walmart employee then alerted them of two women running from the store.

The videos show Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, holding Kohen as she and her friend run across the parking lot and enter their vehicle. Five officers approach the parked car with guns drawn. The car reverses away and crashes into a parked vehicle nearby as officers yell for it to stop.

The vehicle then accelerates forward as Foster steps toward it, directly in front, with his gun drawn. The wheels turn away from him, and he appears to put his hands on the hood as he jumps out of the way. He fires his gun, shattering the window of the front passenger side, where Kohen was seated on his mother’s lap. The car continues to drive away.

Vellesiya Wiley has denied that she and her friend stole diapers from the store and they have not been charged, according to state and county court records.

The crash happened at around 10:45 a.m. between Oakland Park Boulevard and Northeast 26th Street in the city’s Coral Ridge neighborhood, leading authorities to shut down the southbound lanes between those two intersections.

Video showed a heavily-damaged motorcycle and a white Hyundai Kona at the scene.

According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, medics took the motorcyclist to Broward Health Medical Center with “life-threatening” injuries.

As of around 11 a.m., police hadn’t given a timeline as to when the southbound lanes of U.S. 1 may reopen.

They said everyone involved remained at the scene, though they did not indicate whether anyone would be cited or charged.

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Deputies said they responded to the area just before 9 a.m. after receiving a report of “a sick or injured person.”

Sky 10 flew over the scene just before 10:15 a.m., where deputies were present and crime scene tape had been set up. The man’s body was covered by a yellow tarp.

MDSO homicide detectives said they’re conducting an “unclassified death investigation,” authorities said.

They said the cause of death will be determined by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office.

No additional information about the man involved was immediately available.

A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office undercover deputy saw Brenton Burke in a silver Chevrolet Silverado 1500 at about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday at Dadeland Mall in Kendall, according to a deputy’s arrest report.

“I then passed the truck, made a U-turn within the parking lot, and as I was passing by the truck for a second time, I observed [Burke] kneeling on the ground,” the undercover deputy wrote, according to the report.

Burke, of Miami Gardens, was at the parking lot of Saks Fifth Avenue, “underneath the steering column, pulling wires,” the deputy wrote, according to the report.

Burke got into the Chevrolet, which did not have a tag, and while leaving the mall at 7573 North Kendall Drive, turned westbound into North Kendall Drive, according to the report.

“I proceeded to engage my emergency equipment, attempting to conduct a traffic stop at which point, he refused to stop,” the deputy wrote, according to the report.

Burke continued fleeing southbound on Southwest 77th Avenue, and the chase ended after he crashed into a fence at about 8:50 p.m. on Thursday at Northwest 42nd Court and 18th Street in the area of the Miami International Airport, according to the report.

The Chevrolet Silverado had been stolen from Bomnin Chevrolet at Dadeland, the 5th-floor parking garage, and Burke “had disconnected the LoJack within the vehicle” at the mall’s west parking lot

Deputies took Burke to the MDSO Kendall District Station for an interview and arrested him. Broward County court records showed Burke has a felony case pending.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Burke shortly after 2:45 a.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

In Miami-Dade, Burke faced four charges in two new cases and a warrant case.

In one case, he faced a charge of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding police, and criminal mischief of $1,000 or more. In a second case, he faced a charge of grand theft vehicle. The warrant case was for leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

In Broward, Burke, also known as Kareem Bell and Kareem Orien Bell, faced seven charges in a Hollywood Police Department case that remained active on Friday morning.

“Burke was found to be driving an altered vehicle bearing a Florida dealer tag registered to R.A. B. Auto ... That vehicle was revealed to be stolen out of West Palm Beach ... There were two or more stolen vehicles present,” a police officer wrote about Feb. 1, 2024, in Hollywood, according to an arrest affidavit on Aug. 16, 2024, in a chop shop case.

Burke faced five counts of dealing in stolen property, a second-degree felony; one count of operating a chop shop, a third-degree felony; and one count of possession of a major component of a motor vehicle with an altered vehicle identification number.

Broward court records show there had been a warrant out for his arrest since Feb. 7, 2025. He was arrested on Feb. 20 during a burglary at the Infinity Dealership in Tamarac, according to the arrest report. He was released on Feb. 21 on a $17,500 bond. His next hearing in the case is at 9 a.m. on Oct. 16 before Broward County Circuit Judge George Odom Jr.

Location: Deputies arrest Burke after a crash at Northwest 42nd Court and 18th Street

Here's a look at some of the companies that have announced layoffs or hiring reductions this year that are tied in some way to massive spending on AI.

Barclays

The U.K. bank and financial services company revealed in a quarterly financial report this week that it is looking to cut 5,000 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce.

The company said that it was seeking “organisational simplification and technology change efficiency driven by AI.” Approximately 60% of the cuts will be from support functions, including developers.

Financial institutions are among the most active in deploying AI, in many cases at the expense of workers. Norway's DNB and Commerzbank in Germany have also announced job cuts in parallel with a push into AI.

Kroger

Kroger said last week that it will lay off 3,000 corporate employees over the next three years as the national grocery chain ramps up its use of artificial intelligence.

“Technology is reshaping what’s possible,” CEO Greg Foran wrote in a memo to employees. “The way work gets done is changing across every industry; we must adapt and take advantage of technology. We need to adopt capabilities, reduce duplicative work and look closely at where work is best fit to be done.”

Kroger last month outlined its AI strategy, meant “to improve the customer experience, make work easier for associates and produce better business outcomes.”

The Cincinnati company is the largest standalone U.S. supermarket chain with 409,000 employees and more than 2,700 stores operating under various brands, including Ralphs, King Soopers, Smith’s and Fred Meyer.

Meta

The company that runs Facebook and Instagram said it would lay off about 8,000 workers, or about 10% of its workforce, as it continues to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert hires.

The company said in April that it was making the cuts for the sake of efficiency and to allow new investments in parts of its business, as first reported by Bloomberg, which also said the company will leave about 6,000 jobs unfilled.

Meta had already warned investors that its 2026 expenses will grow significantly — to as much as $169 billion — driven by infrastructure costs and employee compensation, particularly for the artificial intelligence experts it’s been hiring.

Microsoft

Software giant Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to thousands of its U.S. employees.

The company planned to make the offers in early May to about 8,750 people, or 7% of its U.S. workforce, according to two people familiar with the plan who were not authorized to speak about it publicly.

Microsoft has spent billions of dollars operating an ever-expanding global network of data centers powering cloud computing services, AI systems and its own suite of productivity tools, including the AI assistant Copilot.

Standard Chartered

The U.K.-based bank is planning to cut more than 15% of its back office employees by 2030.

Standard Chartered said in May that it was “scaling practical uses of automation, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to streamline processes, improve decision‑making and enhance both client service and internal efficiency.”

Coinbase

The cryptocurrency trading platform is cutting approximately 14% of its workforce partly due to AI.

In a blog post, CEO Brian Armstrong said that AI was changing the way that Coinbase worked.

“Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks,” he wrote. “Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what’s possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it’s accelerating every day.”

Armstrong said that the company needed to take action.

“We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native,” he wrote.

Pinterest

Pinterest announced in January that it planned to lay off under 15% of its workforce as part of a broader restructuring as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence.

In a securities filing, the company said that it was making the cuts to support “transformation initiatives” — which include reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and prioritizing AI-powered products. It said it was also working to reshape its “sales and go-to-market approach.”

Snap

The owner of social media platform Snapchat is eliminating about 16% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 jobs.

“The headcount reduction is designed to further streamline our operations and reallocate resources toward our highest-priority initiatives, leveraging increased operational efficiencies to accelerate our path toward net-income profitability,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

CEO Evan Spiegel said in a letter to staff in April that another 300 open roles would not be filled.

Block

Financial technology company Block is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 plus employees, reconfiguring to capitalize on its use of artificial intelligence.

“The core thesis is simple. Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company,” Jack Dorsey said in a letter to shareholders in Block, the parent company to online payment platforms such as Square and Cash App. “A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better,” he said.

Dorsey’s comments explicitly naming AI as a key driver behind the decision were also posted on X, or Twitter, a company he co-founded.

The announcement has sent shares of the company sharply higher this year, up 19%, reversing a 12% decline in the previous year.

Woodruff took the place of Chad Patrick on Milwaukee's 13-man pitching staff as the Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays submitted their World Series rosters Friday before playing Game 1 in Milwaukee.

This is the latest step in a remarkable comeback for Woodruff, a two-time All-Star who had expected to undergo season-ending shoulder surgery this past summer. Instead, the 33-year-old gets a chance to pitch in the World Series for the first time.

“It would mean a ton,” Woodruff said Thursday about the possibility of being on the World Series roster. “This is why I play. The playoffs are my jam, per se. I love this time of year. I love pitching in the big moments. I just kind of feel like I’m ready for this.”

Woodruff went on the injured list in early May after a reduction in his velocity prompted him to leave a game in the second inning. He returned in late June, dealt with another velocity dip during a July 4 start at Arizona and hasn’t pitched since.

He expected to undergo anterior capsule surgery, a procedure similar to one he had three years ago. Woodruff then learned the surgery wouldn’t be necessary, and he has been trying to work his way back ever since in hopes of pitching again in October.

Woodruff said he felt good after throwing 23 pitches in a live batting practice session Tuesday. Even so, this move represents a major gamble.

This move represents a gamble for the Brewers.

A club may request permission from the commissioner to replace a player on the active roster for the remainder of a series if he sustains an “acute, non-chronic injury or ailment (not recurring soreness over time).” That means the Brewers couldn’t have somebody fill Woodruff’s spot if they include him on the roster and he has a recurrence of the shoulder issue.

Woodruff’s 3.10 career ERA is the best in Brewers history for anyone who has pitched at least 500 innings for the team. Even while dealing with his drops in velocity this season, Woodruff went 2-2 with a 2.98 ERA in nine starts.

He has a 1-3 record and 3.18 ERA in eight career playoff appearances.

Although the Brewers have reached the postseason eight times in the last nine seasons, Woodruff's last playoff appearance came way back in 2021 because of a variety of injuries. He underwent shoulder surgery in the fall of 2023 and didn’t pitch again until July 2025. A lat strain prevented him from pitching in last year’s playoffs.

“Obviously this is a guy that’s one of the most successful, dominant big-game pitchers I’ve ever been around,” Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold said Thursday while discussing the uncertainty regarding Woodruff’s situation. “And there are also some rule constraints that we’re having to work through with the health, et cetera, that have to be a consideration because he hasn’t pitched in a game since July 4. A lot of unknowns there, but obviously the good version of that guy is somebody you’d love to have on your roster.”

Patrick had been on Milwaukee's roster for their NL Division Series victory over the San Diego Padres and their NL Championship Series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he hadn't pitched in either series. Patrick went 9-4 with a 3.40 ERA during the regular season.

Tampa Bay altered its pitching roster by including left-hander Garrett Cleavinger rather than right-hander Brody Hopkins. The Rays have the same roster they used for their AL Division Series victory over the New York Yankees.

Hopkins had taken Cleavinger's spot for Tampa Bay's AL Championship Series matchup with the Cleveland Guardians. Although Cleavinger was on the ALDS roster, he didn't actually pitch in that series.

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Jail records show Avery Terrill Yarber was taken into custody Thursday by Hialeah police detectives and faces one count of third-degree grand theft and one count of mail theft.

Investigators estimated the value of the three phones and the ring at $6,597, before applicable taxes on the phones, the report states.

According to the report, a U.S. Postal Inspection Service special agent installed two surveillance cameras inside a company vehicle on Oct. 9. One camera recorded the driver’s area, while the other captured the rear interior of the vehicle.

A Hialeah Police Department Special Investigations Section sergeant monitored footage of Yarber’s delivery routes over multiple days, authorities said.

On Oct. 14, GPS data showed Yarber had parked the postal vehicle at 1555 W. 37th St. in Hialeah, according to the report.

Police said between 11:50 a.m. and 12:10 p.m., a sergeant observed Yarber opening four packages — three containing iPhone boxes and one Priority Mail package containing a ring.

“The sergeant observed the defendant remove the three phones and place them inside a bag,” the report states.

At approximately 12:30 p.m., Yarber was allegedly seen placing shipping labels inside a Fanta Ghost Face Punch soda can, according to the report. Special Investigations Section detectives later retrieved the opened packages and discarded labels at approximately 1:27 p.m., authorities said.

Phones, ring valued at nearly $6,600

The three phones were identified as two iPhone 18 Pro devices with 512 gigabytes of storage and one iPhone 18 Pro Max with 256 gigabytes of storage, the report states.

Investigators said they valued the two iPhone 18 Pro devices at approximately $1,399 each and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299, for a combined phone value of $4,097 before taxes.

The ring was valued at approximately $2,549, according to the report.

An investigator who examined the recovered property described a black ring box containing a ring marked “14K.” The report also described an engraving inside the ring that read “M-[infinity symbol]-A” and “Smiling Rocks.”

Police said the opened and damaged packaging, shipping labels and related evidence were impounded in the Hialeah Police Department property room.

Investigators say packages were outside suspect’s assigned route

According to the report, postal investigators determined that Yarber worked out of the Promenade Postal Store at 3690 W. 18th Ave. in Hialeah.

He would travel to a processing and distribution center in Doral to collect Priority Mail for delivery to the Promenade location, where the mail would be assigned to delivery carriers, the report states.

A postal investigator told Hialeah police that Yarber was not authorized to take the packages involved in the investigation because they were “out of his normal daily work route,” according to the report. He also was not authorized to open the packages or keep their contents, the report states.

Police said Yarber was transported to HPD headquarters on Thursday for an interview, where he was read his Miranda rights, waived those rights and continued speaking with detectives.

Police said Yarber provided a statement, but that statement was redacted in his publicly released arrest report.

USPS responds

In a statement provided to Local 10 News, A USPS spokesperson said its Office of Inspector General generally does not confirm or deny information about ongoing investigations unless the details become public record.

“The USPS OIG considers the allegations of theft of U.S. Mail by any Postal Service employee to be a very serious issue,” the statement said. “When such allegations are made, USPS OIG special agents vigorously investigate those allegations.”

The agency also encouraged customers who suspect mail theft by a postal employee to report their concerns through the USPS Office of Inspector General hotline at https://www.uspsoig.gov/hotline.

As of Friday, Yarber was being held on a $3,500 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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In a letter on Thursday, Cordero-Stutz notified Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Board of County Commissioners that her office would discontinue the Sergeant-at-Arms Program effective Nov. 9, saying the move is part of an effort to redirect resources amid what she describes as a “budget shortfall.”

Levine Cava pushed back in a response dated the same day, warning that ending the program with less than three weeks’ notice creates a significant security challenge at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, which houses county government offices, serves residents seeking public services and functions as a major transit hub. The building is also being used as a polling location.

Levine Cava acknowledged the sheriff’s authority as an independent constitutional officer to set her office’s priorities but said the county has a responsibility to protect employees, elected officials and members of the public who visit government facilities.

“Neither responsibility should be diminished by disagreements between our offices,” Levine Cava wrote, referring to public safety and accountability for taxpayer dollars.

She asked the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office to provide a detailed transition plan before Nov. 9 outlining what security coverage will remain, how responsibilities will be coordinated and how existing threat assessments and future security concerns involving elected officials, county employees and the Government Center will be shared and addressed.

The dispute comes as questions have emerged about spending by MDSO, including a reported expenditure of more than $132,000 on new cowboy hats for deputies.

In her letter, Levine Cava also challenged the sheriff’s characterization of the office’s budget situation, pointing to the county’s adopted $1.23 billion budget for the Sheriff’s Office for fiscal year 2026-27.

According to the mayor, the allocation is the largest in the office’s history and exceeds the sheriff’s certified budget request by more than $186 million.

Levine Cava said the sheriff’s appeal of the adopted budget remains pending. She also criticized the office for not providing all the budget information requested by the administration during the budget process, including information sought through public records requests.

“Throughout the budget process, my administration prioritized public safety while balancing the needs of other essential services our residents depend on,” Levine Cava wrote.

Levine Cava also said her administration would work with Commission Chairman Anthony Rodriguez, the commission and county departments to identify measures needed to maintain security throughout the Government Center during the transition.

She urged both offices to keep the issue separate from their broader budget disagreement, emphasizing that protecting public servants and residents must remain a shared responsibility.

Read the full letter here:

Miami-Dade Sheriff: “the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO) will discontinue the Sergeant-at-Arms Program effective November 9, 2026.”

Miami-Dade Mayor: “Your decision to discontinue the program with less than three weeks' notice presents a significant security challenge.” pic.twitter.com/0pgcFL6pOz

— Christina Boomer Vazquez, M.S. (@CBoomerVazquez) October 23, 2026

El tribunal federal que encabeza el proceso busca determinar si los fondos otorgados a empresarios durante los mandatos de Fernández (2007-2015) y de su fallecido esposo Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) retornaron al patrimonio familiar mediante el alquiler de habitaciones de hoteles que no fueron ocupadas y maniobras realizadas con otros inmuebles del matrimonio en la provincia de Santa Cruz y en la capital argentina.

La fiscalía acusa a Fernández —actual líder del peronismo opositor — de haber sido jefa de una asociación ilícita. A su hijo, el diputado peronista Máximo Kirchner, lo acusa de haber sido el organizador de esa estructura delictiva. Como partícipes fueron señalados exfuncionarios y empresarios. Sobre los acusados también pesa la imputación de lavado de dinero.

La máxima condena por esos delitos es de 10 años de prisión.

La casi veintena de procesados presenció el inicio del debate de forma virtual. Fernández, de 73 años, lo hizo desde el apartamento donde cumple desde 2025 una condena de cárcel e inhabilitación perpetua para ejercer cargos públicos por la concesión irregular de obras viales al empresario Lázaro Báez, quien está entre los acusados en el juicio actual.

La exmandataria niega las imputaciones y sostiene que es víctima de una persecución de sectores políticos confabulados con la justicia para desterrarla de la arena política. La dirigente afronta además otras investigaciones por distintos delitos.

En el primer día del debate oral la Fiscalía expuso las imputaciones. Hizo alusión a “la existencia de una asociación ilícita de carácter estable y permanente” liderada por los dos expresidentes, varios exfuncionarios y otras personas de su confianza “montada en base a una división de roles definidos... dentro y fuera de la estructura administrativa del Estado destinada a cometer múltiples delitos para sustraer y apoderarse de millonarios fondos públicos”.

En el marco de esa asociación ilícita, las firmas Hotesur y Los Sauces, pertenecientes a los Kirchner, habrían sido parte de un único circuito de lavado de dinero para canalizar los fondos de origen ilícito a su patrimonio.

La investigación en torno a Hotesur puso la mira en el presunto lavado de activos mediante varios hoteles en Santa Cruz. La acusación apunta a que empresas de la construcción vinculadas a Báez simulaban la contratación de habitaciones que en realidad quedaban vacías o registraban una ocupación mínima, pagando a la firma hotelera con “fondos provenientes de la defraudación al Estado en la obra pública vial".

En tanto, la otra pesquisa sobre la inmobiliaria Los Sauces investigó las presuntas maniobras de lavado mediante “operaciones inmobiliarias y hoteleras, los contratos de locación y las transferencias provenientes de empresas” de Báez y de otros dos empresarios.

Miami returned to practice after losing its opener 131-106 to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. With several new faces on the roster, Spoelstra said challenging moments can help players learn more about one another and establish a collective identity.

“We can all talk, we can all communicate, we can all be on the same page when things are flowing, shots are going down, the game is kind of easy,” he said. “When it goes the other way, that’s when we really introduce ourselves to each other.”

Spoelstra said learning how to respond to difficult stretches is an important part of the NBA season, even though losing is never enjoyable.

“I just like now that introduction to each other, how we handle adversity, how we collectively build a resolve,” he said. “And that will, will be something that we’re gonna work on and get better at.”

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Si gana la votación del domingo, convertir esas promesas en realidad tendría un alto costo para Brasil.

Lula, de 80 años, busca su cuarto mandato no consecutivo frente a Bolsonaro, de 45 años, un aliado del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Una derrota del mandatario en funciones supondría un gran impulso a la influencia de Trump en la región y el regreso al poder de la familia Bolsonaro, de tendencia derechista.

Entre las promesas de Lula para intentar reducir la distancia con Bolsonaro están:

Reducción de la semana laboral

Diez días antes de la segunda vuelta, el Congreso brasileño aprobó una legislación para reducir la semana laboral del país de seis días a cinco y las horas de trabajo semanales de 44 a 40 sin disminuir el salario. Bolsonaro respaldó la medida hacia el final de la campaña. Muchos líderes empresariales sostienen que recortar las horas de trabajo sin ganancias correspondientes de productividad eleva los costos laborales, perjudica a las pequeñas empresas y corre el riesgo de alimentar la inflación y el empleo informal.

Ampliación del programa insignia de asistencia social

Lula anunció en septiembre un aumento del 15% en los pagos del principal programa de asistencia social de Brasil, Bolsa Família, que calcula los beneficios según el tamaño de la familia y el número de hijos. El aumento entró en vigor esta semana, días antes de las elecciones, y beneficiará a casi 50 millones de personas. Los críticos describen las transferencias permanentes de ingresos financiadas por el gobierno como una herramienta populista clásica para garantizar la lealtad de los votantes. El gobierno indicó que el aumento costará a los contribuyentes 5.800 millones de reales (1.200 millones de dólares) por el resto del año.

Alivio de deudas para quienes ganan menos y exenciones fiscales para pequeñas empresas

Lula respaldó el miércoles un alivio crediticio e incentivos fiscales para pequeñas empresas, dándoles acceso a préstamos gubernamentales de bajo interés a través de bancos públicos y permitiéndoles renegociar parte de sus deudas. El gobierno calcula que el programa costará 3.000 millones de reales (600 millones de dólares) durante los próximos tres años.

También presentó un programa nacional de refinanciación de deudas destinado a borrar los registros de morosidad de millones de brasileños de bajos ingresos. Analistas de la oposición y comentaristas del mercado describen la condonación de deudas respaldada por el Estado y las renegociaciones subsidiadas como un alivio de corto plazo que no aborda las deficiencias de educación financiera.

Costos de transporte asequibles

Lula emitió algunas medidas ejecutivas destinadas a frenar los costos del combustible, incluido un decreto que elimina los impuestos federales a la importación y venta de gasolina por un periodo de 30 días, con la opción de nuevas prórrogas. Estas medidas incrementaron el alivio fiscal federal sobre la gasolina y subsidiaron los costos del diésel para los importadores. El gobierno también extendió las exenciones fiscales y amplió el apoyo al etanol para mantener la competitividad de los biocombustibles alternativos en los surtidores. El costo estimado de las medidas es de 5.200 millones de reales (1.000 millones de dólares), según el gobierno de Brasil.

Lula también envió al Congreso un proyecto de ley para establecer el transporte público gratuito los fines de semana. Los expertos señalan que el costo de una iniciativa de este tipo depende del modelo elegido y oscila entre 5.000 millones y 16.000 millones de reales (entre 1.000 millones y 3.200 millones de dólares).

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Many in both parties believe the fight over control of the Senate could come down to Alaska, where Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman. Also on the Alaska ballot is a Daniel J. Sullivan from the tiny fishing community of Petersburg. He has said he decided to run on his own, but Republicans have contended he is a Democratic plant to siphon votes away from their candidate.

The lawsuit Thursday by Republican President Donald Trump's Department of Justice in federal court in Alaska demands that the state be blocked from certifying a Peltola win if Daniel J. remains on the ballot. “The United States accordingly brings this lawsuit to protect the integrity of the 2026 Senate election in Alaska,” the lawsuit says, contending that federal law requires states to protect the integrity of federal elections.

The Alaska Supreme Court rejected a previous Republican effort to remove Daniel J. Sullivan from the ballot, and the state's Republican officials made the decisions about how to list him on the ballot. He will appear without a party designation next to his name, while the senator will be listed as the Republican incumbent. Alaska's ranked choice voting system also will allow voters to select both of the men if confused.

The senator's campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment nor did Daniel J. Sullivan, whose presence on the ballot is at issue in the lawsuit.

The Department of Justice has increasingly been used to bolster the president's political operation, targeting his enemies and suing Democratic-controlled states before the election. Democrats and many voting rights advocates have long feared that the administration will try to block certification of elections that Trump's party loses, much as he unsuccessfully tried to do when he lost the White House race to Democrat Joe Biden.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said that was unlikely outside of extreme circumstances. “It is not DOJ’s intention to, and it’s never our intention to, improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process," he told reporters Thursday in Virginia before the lawsuit was filed.

The lawsuit was signed by Associate U.S. Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who represented Trump allies and Jan. 6 defendants before becoming one of the top appointees at the department.

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the lawsuit would likely only kick in if Republicans narrowly lost the Alaska Senate race and he said the lawsuit not seem to have legal merit. “The statute simply doesn't let the Department of Justice enjoin certification,” he said. “The lawsuit could well be mooted by a wide Democratic victory or a narrow Republican one, and if not, the court will likely dismiss it next month.”

The U.S. Constitution grants states the power to run their own elections. Elections for federal office like the Senate must comply with standards set by Congress. That division of power has frustrated Trump, who repeatedly has tried to seize control of election procedures through executive orders that courts have blocked.

The final step for a state election is formally certifying the winner, the act that the administration's lawsuit seeks to block. The process in Alaska is complicated by the state's ranked choice voting system, which Trump opposes, and many expect it to take weeks before a winner is known. Also on the ballot is a measure to repeal that system.

Trump has complained about Daniel J. Sullivan's presence on the ballot, making reference to it during a rally in Alaska this month and in repeated social media posts, including one this week where he called it “CHEATING.”

“We are looking at powerful legal options to remove the fraudulent Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. from the Ballot, and holding the Democrats accountable for their Election Interference, in the pursuit of Justice and Fairness,” the president wrote on Wednesday.

Clogging a ballot with third party candidates to siphon off votes from the other major party is a long-standing tactic in the country's two-party system. Republicans have been linked to an effort to persuade Ohio voters to support a socialist in that state's Senate race, which could help Republican Sen. Jon Husted fend off a challenge from former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Though Eleanor had made one of the great documentaries about the filmmaking process in “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” capturing the chaos of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s film “Apocalypse Now,” she hadn’t come to “Marie Antoinette” to make her own film. She was there to help capture moments for marketing.

“She loved to show how things are made,” Sofia told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “The truth of what’s really going on behind that was always interesting to her.”

Eleanor Coppola had a vision for a documentary

The film's release came and went, and life moved on, but it frustrated Eleanor that her work was never put together the way she wanted, that Milena Canonero’s beautiful costumes that she so lovingly captured were never highlighted. Then one day during the COVID-19 pandemic, Eleanor decided to revisit the footage and started dreaming a little bigger: Maybe there was something there after all.

Though Eleanor wouldn’t live to see it finished, she was right: There was something there. And Sofia would see it to completion: “Making Marie Antoinette,” a luminous and intimate look at the creative process, is now playing in select theaters. On Nov. 6, it’ll be available to stream on Mubi.

“I always loved Frederick Wiseman’s films that don’t have any plot. They’re just like fly on the wall,” Sofia said. “And I thought, oh, maybe it’s cool for the movie just to feel like what it was like on the set. So that was kind of the starting point.”

Eleanor and Sofia worried early on about the lack of drama. There were no “Hearts of Darkness” crises. Sofia even finished “Marie Antoinette” on time and on budget.

“It’s like the opposite of ‘Hearts of Darkness,’” Sofia said. “In a way it’s sort of a nice counterpoint because that movie’s so macho and masculine and this is so feminine.”

And it's also true to what really happened. Going through the footage they discovered a trove of gems that Eleanor captured, including the first time she met Sofia’s then-boyfriend Thomas Mars, and the late Marianne Faithfull, in her beautiful costume, praising Eleanor’s films.

Sofia Coppola helped to finish what her mother started

Before Eleanor died in April 2024, she told her daughter that she wanted this film to be finished and her book, “Two of Me: Notes on Living and Leaving,” published. And, while grieving, Sofia, along with family friends and longtime collaborators, got to work to realize her vision.

“It was always kind of just finishing what she started out,” Sofia said. “Like any documentary, I’ve learned, you find the shape of it as you go. The hardest part was me being in it. Like, I would never in a million years think to show footage of me being vulnerable.”

In one moment, she’s sitting in a trailer with her mom and is visibly annoyed that she’s being filmed.

“Maybe I should rest so I can come onto set fresh and not having done a press junket in my trailer with my mom,” Sofia says.

Any mother and daughter, no matter their age, knows this kind of interaction well. But it didn’t make including it any easier.

“I’m like, oh, do we have to have that?” Sofia said. “It’s embarrassing that I’m being irritable and snotty with my mom. But it is real. So she would love that. I didn’t want it to be a puff piece. I wanted to show all the sides of that experience because that’s what she was looking for.”

The film also shows Sofia learning in real time to assert herself on a massive production.

“I hope that it’s helpful for people to see that there is evolution of people as, you don’t just walk on set and be this experienced person, like you have to find it,” Sofia said. “And you have to do things your own way, and it’s not always the way that everyone else does it.”

While it was coming together, they realized they had Eleanor’s words from that time to draw on as well from journal entries that they could overlay with the footage. In the film, they're read by Diane Lane, an actor who has known the Coppolas since she was young, having appeared in many of Francis’ films going back to “The Outsiders" and “Rumble Fish.” She also starred in Eleanor’s directorial debut, “Paris Can Wait."

“She really loved my mom,” Sofia said. “She knew her so well. So, she could kind of embody her, the feeling of my mom.”

20 years later, ‘Marie Antoinette’ has become beloved

“Marie Antoinette” had a rough entry into the world. It was infamously booed at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to receive mixed reviews from a pool of critics who were mostly male, but there were some outliers.

Roger Ebert, in a four-star review, wrote that, “every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.” At the box office, it wasn’t a disaster, but it wasn’t a hit either, with some $60 million in worldwide ticket sales.

But in the past 20 years, it’s undergone a significant cultural reappraisal. And thus its 20th anniversary year has become a big celebration, with “Making Marie Antoinette,” a 4K theatrical re-release of the film itself, a behind-the-scenes book with photographs from her friend Andrew Durham and an exhibition at Petit Trianon in the Palace of Versailles that runs through January.

But perhaps most importantly for Sofia, it’s a chance to remind (or show) the world who her mother was as an artist and a documentarian.

“It’s such a gift that she gave us this footage and that I got to kind of spend this year of grieving her in this way,” Sofia said. “She had such a specific way of doing things and seeing the world.”

Los agentes informaron que acudieron al área poco antes de las 9 a.m. después de recibir un reporte sobre “una persona enferma o herida”.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena poco antes de las 10:15 a.m., donde había agentes presentes y se había colocado cinta policial. El cuerpo del hombre estaba cubierto con una lona amarilla.

Los detectives de homicidios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO) indicaron que están llevando a cabo una “investigación de muerte sin clasificar”, según las autoridades.

Señalaron que la causa de muerte será determinada por la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado Miami-Dade.

No se disponía de información adicional sobre el hombre involucrado de inmediato.

Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides surrendered Friday and made their first appearance in federal court in Washington, where their lawyers pressed for a speedy hearing at which they could contest the allegations against them.

The Department of Justice says Floris and Benavides lied to Congress in 2023 about the involvement of a specialized foreign-influence task force in investigations into Biden as well as their knowledge of the laptop.

Floris' attorneys called her “a patriot” and said she has “served our nation as a dedicated FBI intelligence officer for nearly 20 years.”

"Yet today, the DOJ has accused her falsely of a crime on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts," her attorneys said in a statement. “It’s no coincidence the government is filing these nonsense charges now, years later, on the eve of an election.”

The case was filed 10 days before the Nov. 3 elections and marks the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged investigative actions the Department of Justice has undertaken in the run-up to the midterm contests.

The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race. It also comes amid a broader, backward-looking effort by FBI Director Kash Patel, who before taking over the nation’s premier law enforcement agency was a harsh critic of it, to scrutinize high-profile episodes from the bureau’s recent past that for years have animated President Donald Trump’s conservative base.

“Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law,” Patel said in a statement posted on X.

The revelation of the laptop’s existence in October 2020 injected a thorny storyline in the race between Trump, the Republican incumbent, and Hunter Biden's father, Joe Biden, Trump's Democratic challenger, who went on to win the race.

The laptop’s contents were publicized by the New York Post, which said it had obtained from Trump ally Rudy Giuliani a hard drive of a computer dropped off by Hunter Biden at a Wilmington, Delaware, repair shop. The laptop contained emails that appeared to show discussions of the younger Biden’s foreign business dealings.

The peculiar circumstances of the laptop’s discovery raised concerns among Democrats and former intelligence officials about the possibility of Russian disinformation, particularly when the Trump administration’s own intelligence community was assessing that Russia was attempting to interfere on Trump’s behalf in the election and as Giuliani had traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens.

Hunter Biden was subsequently charged with, and convicted of, gun and tax offenses during his father’s administration. Joe Biden pardoned him in his final weeks in office.

The Justice Department historically looks to avoid public and overt investigative acts in the direct lead-up to an election that involve candidates or that risk influencing an outcome. But officials in the last two weeks have made a series of bold moves in cases with political undertones, including a search of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s house in an immigration fraud investigation and a corruption indictment unsealed Thursday against powerful Democratic Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas.

Floris and Benavides, two experienced intelligence officials, led the FBI's since-disbanded Foreign Intelligence Task Force, or FITF, when the laptop was discovered. They are accused by the Justice Department of making false statements in Congress in 2023 by saying that the FITF was not involved in investigations related to Hunter Biden when contemporaneous messages proved otherwise, according to a criminal complaint filed against them.

The case brings renewed attention to the work of the task force, which was established in the first Trump administration to police influence campaigns staged by Russia and other nations aimed at sowing discord, undermining democracy and spreading disinformation. The task force became a magnet of congressional Republican criticism during the Biden investigation and was disbanded in February 2025 by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in one of her first acts on the job.

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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was involved in the case. Authorities confirmed the suspect, who has not yet been identified, allegedly threatened to slit Moskowitz’s throat in the voicemail.

The arrest comes just days after a suspicious letter containing white powder was delivered to the district office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Sunrise.

The letter prompted a response from hazardous materials crews, police and the FBI. Later tests confirmed the substance was not hazardous.

Similar suspicious envelopes have been arriving in the mailboxes of federal lawmakers in Central Florida and several other states.

For Moskowitz, a two-term Democrat who represents Congressional District 23, the latest threat is at least the second in recent years.

In 2024, a man named John Kevin Lapinski Jr. was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for creating a potential assassination plot targeting several people, including Moskowitz, as well as Jewish institutions.

Investigators found firearms, body armor and a manifesto containing antisemitic rhetoric at the time.

Moskowitz is Jewish, as is his Republican opponent, Scott Singer.

Authorities said the latest arrest took place in Boca Raton, within the congressional district Moskowitz currently represents.

El Departamento de Aplicación de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) participó en el caso. Las autoridades confirmaron que el sospechoso, cuya identidad aún no ha sido revelada, presuntamente amenazó con cortarle la garganta a Moskowitz en el mensaje de voz.

El arresto ocurre apenas unos días después de que una carta sospechosa que contenía un polvo blanco fuera entregada en la oficina distrital de la congresista estadounidense Debbie Wasserman Schultz en Sunrise.

La carta provocó la movilización de equipos especializados en materiales peligrosos, la policía y el FBI. Posteriormente, las pruebas confirmaron que la sustancia no era peligrosa.

Sobres sospechosos similares han estado llegando a los buzones de legisladores federales en Florida Central y varios otros estados.

Para Moskowitz, un demócrata que cumple su segundo mandato y representa al Distrito Congresional 23, esta es al menos la segunda amenaza que recibe en los últimos años.

En 2024, un hombre llamado John Kevin Lapinski Jr. fue declarado culpable y condenado a 25 años de prisión por elaborar un posible plan de asesinato dirigido contra varias personas, incluido Moskowitz, así como contra instituciones judías.

En ese momento, los investigadores encontraron armas de fuego, chalecos antibalas y un manifiesto que contenía retórica antisemita.

Moskowitz es judío, al igual que su oponente republicano, Scott Singer.

Las autoridades indicaron que el arresto más reciente ocurrió en Boca Ratón, dentro del distrito congresional que Moskowitz representa actualmente.

The song everyone was singing was about living life and measuring life, and there were a bunch of weird numbers — like 525,600. He wouldn't be the same after hearing it.

“I was like, ‘What is this?’” recalls Fisher. “That shifted things for me. I don’t think I’ll ever really be able to put a finger on it other than the fact that it was something that was supposed to happen.”

That song was, of course, the barn-burning Act 2 opener “Seasons of Love” from the landmark rock musical “Rent,” now celebrating its 30th anniversary of storming Broadway.

“'Rent' hit me. It just did,” says Fisher.

He's joining an astonishing list of Broadway's who's-who to celebrate the milestone Monday with a benefit performance of the show from the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Stars from Broadway and beyond

Original cast members returning to their old roles include Tony-winner Idina Menzel, Tony-nominee Adam Pascal, Tony-nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony-winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Fredi Walker, Taye Diggs and Anthony Rapp.

Other “Rent” alumni include Tony-winner Natalie Venetia Belcon, Tony-nominee Nicholas Christopher , Tracie Thoms, Jose Llana, Tony-nominee Ephraim Sykes and Tony-winner Aaron Tveit.

Some Broadway celebs scheduled to take part include Tony-winner Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Zegler, Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz, Tony-nominee Will Chase, Telly Leung and Christopher J. Hanke. Fisher jokingly calls it “'Rent'-cella,” after Coachella.

Seats have been snapped up, but $30 livestream tickets are available. The stream will be accessible for 24 hours following the performance and proceeds go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

“It’s rare that a show has a life like this and is still exciting and inspirational enough to have a 30th festival, if you will. It’s a really, really special thing,” says Fisher.

‘Rent’ was a phenomenon

Jonathan Larson’s tale of free-spirited artists and street people in New York’s gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village of the early 1990s was inspired by Puccini’s “La Boheme” and found a ready-made audience in young people, as it still does.

“He believed that going to musical theater didn’t just have to be an escape. It didn’t have to just be looking at phantoms and things that happened hundreds of years ago. It could be about the life we’re living right now,” says Rapp.

Rapp says it's appropriate that ticket sales will go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which has been offering meals, medication and healthcare to artists since the 1980s. “They can help make a difference to help people get direct aid and direct support in communities around the country.”

Rapp, who originated the role of the scarf-wearing Mark Cohen, was part of the workshop for the off-Broadway production and knew there was something special, if raw, in the fledgling show. “The soul of it was so powerfully there,” he recalls.

He also recalls hearing “Seasons of Love” — with its famous line “525,600 minutes/How do you measure a year in the life?” — for the first time when the cast, musical director Tim Weil and director Michael Greif gathered around a piano.

“I’ve never heard a song like it and certainly not in theater,” Rapp says. “We all leaned forward. Every single element of it was so etched deeply into my soul and my memory.”

He predicted the show might make a splash, but a smallish one: “I meant like the way that off-Broadway things over in the corner could make a bit of a splash and have some energy around it, but certainly never anticipated mainstream and never anticipated Broadway.”

The ripple effects of ‘Rent’

Rapp sees the rock and defiant snarl from “Rent” in the DNA of such shows as “Hadestown,” “Spring Awakening,” “Next to Normal,” “Dear Evan Hansen” and “Hamilton.”

“When you break a dam open, water rushes through. It’s like that,” he says. “Now, there’s a whole new universe of shows that have followed in our footsteps because we broke down the dam that seemed unbreakable.”

“Rent” won Tony Awards for best musical, score and book and a Pulitzer Prize. It lasted on Broadway for 12 years and more than 5,000 performances, launching the careers of its young original cast.

There was a 2005 film version, multiple tours, an off-Broadway revival, international productions, a Hollywood Bowl concert and a live staging on Fox in 2019, which starred Fisher in Rapp's old role.

Larson never lived to see his triumph: He died at age 35 of an aortic aneurysm after its final off-Broadway dress rehearsal in January 1996.

“The torch has been passed and carried by so many incredible artists over the years,” says Rapp. “I think it would thrill Jonathan Larson so much to know that so many wonderful human beings came through and kept his work alive and that they want to come back and celebrate it.”

En una carta enviada el jueves, Cordero-Stutz notificó a la alcaldesa del condado Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, y a la Junta de Comisionados del Condado que su oficina suspenderá el Programa de Sargento de Armas a partir del 9 de noviembre, señalando que la medida forma parte de un esfuerzo para redirigir recursos ante lo que describe como un “déficit presupuestario”.

Levine Cava respondió en una carta fechada el mismo día, advirtiendo que poner fin al programa con menos de tres semanas de aviso representa un importante desafío de seguridad en el Centro Gubernamental Stephen P. Clark, que alberga oficinas del gobierno del condado, atiende a residentes que buscan servicios públicos y funciona como un importante centro de transporte. El edificio también está siendo utilizado como centro de votación.

Levine Cava reconoció la autoridad de la sheriff, como funcionaria constitucional independiente, para establecer las prioridades de su oficina, pero afirmó que el condado tiene la responsabilidad de proteger a los empleados, funcionarios electos y miembros del público que visitan las instalaciones gubernamentales.

“Ninguna de las dos responsabilidades debería verse disminuida por los desacuerdos entre nuestras oficinas”, escribió Levine Cava, refiriéndose a la seguridad pública y la rendición de cuentas sobre el dinero de los contribuyentes.

Solicitó a la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade que proporcione un plan de transición detallado antes del 9 de noviembre, en el que se especifique qué cobertura de seguridad permanecerá vigente, cómo se coordinarán las responsabilidades y cómo se compartirán y abordarán las evaluaciones de amenazas existentes y las futuras preocupaciones de seguridad relacionadas con funcionarios electos, empleados del condado y el Centro Gubernamental.

La disputa surge mientras han aparecido cuestionamientos sobre los gastos de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), incluido un gasto reportado de más de $132,000 USD en nuevos sombreros de vaquero para los agentes.

En su carta, Levine Cava también cuestionó la descripción de la sheriff sobre la situación presupuestaria de su oficina, señalando el presupuesto aprobado por el condado de $1,230 millones USD para la Oficina del Sheriff correspondiente al año fiscal 2026-27.

Según la alcaldesa, la asignación es la más grande en la historia de la oficina y supera la solicitud de presupuesto certificada por la sheriff en más de $186 millones USD.

Levine Cava indicó que la apelación presentada por la sheriff contra el presupuesto aprobado sigue pendiente. También criticó a la oficina por no proporcionar toda la información presupuestaria solicitada por la administración durante el proceso presupuestario, incluida la información requerida mediante solicitudes de registros públicos.

“Durante todo el proceso presupuestario, mi administración dio prioridad a la seguridad pública mientras equilibraba las necesidades de otros servicios esenciales de los que dependen nuestros residentes”, escribió Levine Cava.

Levine Cava también indicó que su administración trabajará con el presidente de la Comisión, Anthony Rodriguez, la comisión y los departamentos del condado para identificar las medidas necesarias para mantener la seguridad en todo el Centro Gubernamental durante la transición.

Instó a ambas oficinas a mantener este asunto separado de su disputa presupuestaria más amplia, enfatizando que proteger a los servidores públicos y a los residentes debe seguir siendo una responsabilidad compartida.

The designation by the Energy Department means that more federal financing will be available for helium producers and that the government will monitor it more closely. Helium is primarily produced as a byproduct of natural gas processing. The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas and of helium. Qatar and Russia are the other top helium producers.

Exports of Qatar’s helium supply have been severely curtailed by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a result of its war with Israel and the U.S. Iranian strikes on Qatar’s infrastructure have also impacted supply. Russia imposed temporary export controls on helium in April to protect its domestic supply.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration is freeing America from reliance on foreign sources of critical materials, strengthening domestic manufacturing, supporting American jobs and securing the materials essential to U.S. economic and national security.

“President Trump is bringing back America’s manufacturing industry, and that means making sure we have the materials needed to build things in America again,” Wright said in a statement.

Helium is the 20th critical material identified by DOE

Metallurgical coal used for steelmaking was the last one to be added, in 2025. The only other gas on the list is fluorine.

To make the critical materials list, a non-fuel mineral element or substance must serve an essential function in one or more energy technologies and there must be a high risk of disruption to the supply chain.

Helium makes balloons rise, but that's not why the DOE is interested in it. Helium plays an important role in wind, solar and nuclear energy production, space exploration, medical imaging and research.

Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson said helium's unique properties make it irreplaceable, such as the fact that it's non-combustible and has the lowest boiling point of any gas. The nation needs an ample supply for semiconductors, quantum and super computing, and superconducting magnets, added Robertson, who oversees the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation.

“We need to make sure that we can build those here. And helium is one of those components that could be a single point of failure, where we cannot let that happen. That’s why we’re designating it within our statutory authority, but I think why it’s important is not necessarily for our birthday parties,” Robertson said in an interview. “It’s really towards the future of American competitiveness and energy security, which we believe is national security.”

David Isaacs, vice president of the Semiconductor Industry Association trade group, noted helium plays an essential role in the industry's cooling, photolithography, leak detection and more.

"We look forward to continuing to work with government and industry leaders in the U.S. and across the world to strengthen semiconductor supply chain resilience,” Isaacs said.

The United States designates both critical minerals and critical materials, and there is some crossover between them. The U.S. Geological Survey included helium on a 2018 list of critical minerals, but later lists omitted it because the domestic supply of helium was considered secure.

Despite environmental concerns with recovering helium from natural gas, there are also opportunities, said Greeshma Gadikota, director of the Lenfast Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University.

“If we burn the natural gas, there are a lot of CO2 emissions associated with that,” Gadikota said. "But if you just extract the helium and use it, the uses of it don’t contribute necessarily to greenhouse gas emissions.

“So from a climate standpoint, if we are going to continue down the line of extracting natural gas and recovering helium," she added, “I would prefer to see natural gas being used in a form where we directly produce hydrogen and we produce solid carbon.” Hydrogen is a clean burning fuel, and solid carbon can provide permanent carbon sequestration and can be used widely in industrial applications, including rubber and pigments.

U.S. production of helium is constrained

There used to be a strategic national stockpile in Texas for helium, much like America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Congress mandated in 2013 that it be privatized. The Bureau of Land Management completed the sale of the federal helium system to the industrial gas company Messer in 2024.

The U.S. produced 81 million cubic meters of helium in 2025, or 43% of the global supply. Of that, 38 million cubic meters of helium was exported. The U.S. has produced roughly 80 million cubic meters of helium annually since 2021.

There are large helium reserves in Wyoming, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Utah. Though there are abundant helium resources, helium extraction plants are at their limits and it takes years to permit and build new ones, which continues to constrain U.S. production, according to DOE.

The plants extracting the most helium, as of 2023, were located in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma, according to federal data.

Some in the helium industry have urged the U.S. government to formally designate helium as a critical resource. The North American gas exploration company Avanti Helium Corp. says it’s urgent, and an increase in North American supply is needed to avoid becoming dependent on foreign sources.

“We are very pleased to have helium recognized as a critical material," said Avanti Helium CEO Chris Bakker. "The U.S. has the potential to remain self-sufficient in helium. However, this will require investment in exploration for new reserves and inclusion on the critical materials list will bring significant support to these efforts.”

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Shorty’s Bar-B-Q in Miami was hit with 55 violations during a Thursday inspection triggered by a complaint and the findings are downright disturbing.

Inspectors reported rodent droppings on the floor and on shelves where clean aprons were stored, flying insects landing on chicken wings and bread, food held at unsafe temperatures, and employees failing to wash their hands properly.

The inspection also uncovered a dishwashing machine that wasn’t sanitizing properly, mold-like buildup in the ice machine and iced tea dispenser, and filthy, deteriorating kitchen conditions.

Fifty-five violations are unacceptable, and customers deserve better.

Below is a list of some of their violations.

**SHORTY’S BBQ

11575 BIRD ROAD

WESTWOOD LAKES/WEST MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

55 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor in dry storage area. Observed approximately 5+ rodent droppings near electrical box in dry storage area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on shelf where clean aprons are stored in dry storage area.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed three flying insects landing on chicken wings in back prep area. Observed four flying insects flying in the air near the ware washing area. Observed two flying insects landing on bread near cook line area. Observed approximately 10+ flying insects landing on kitchen prep table near back exit door.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed household pesticide stored in dry food storage area, next to flour.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the stream table with incorrect time marking.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the steam table in the kitchen area.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed HWS by the dishwashing area have a knife inside of it.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine have slime and black mold like build up.”

“Accumulation of debris inside ware washing machine.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in cooler door handles at the cook line with food debris build up.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed two ceiling tiles missing in kitchen area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles in disrepair in kitchen and back storage area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling vents soiled in kitchen area.”

“Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Observed clean pot lids stored on floor in dishwashing area.”

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing. Observed cove molding on kitchen floor missing.”

“Employee drinking from an unenclosed beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area and the container does not have a dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container. Observed employee drinking from an open container with no lid at the cook line.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed personal items stored on prep table in kitchen area.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed standing water on floor inside walk in cooler.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed chest freezer in kitchen area in disrepair. Observed walk in cooler door in disrepair.”

“Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Observed gray plastic container inside walk in cooler cracked.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed bucket of mayonnaise on floor.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed holes in wall in dry storage area by dish washer station.”

“Iced tea dispenser not cleaned at least once every 24 hours. Observed ice tea dispenser have mold like build up.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed hood filters at the cook line soiled. Observed reach in cooler gaskets at the cook line heavily soiled.”

“Old food stuck to clean dishware/utensils. Observed food debris on clean plates at the dry rack area.”

“Uncleanable knife block in use to store knives.”

“Utility lines are unnecessarily exposed. Observed utility lines in dry storage area exposed.”

“Dish machine not sanitizing properly. Discontinue use of dish machine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dish machine is repaired and sanitizing properly.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee leave cook line station to clean dishes and then come back to cook line and begin food preparation with no hand washing.”

“Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee touch face and a clean tong without proper handwashing.”

El restaurante Shorty’s Bar-B-Q en Miami recibió 55 infracciones durante una inspección realizada el jueves a raíz de una denuncia, y los hallazgos son realmente preocupantes.

Los inspectores reportaron excrementos de roedores en el piso y en estantes donde se almacenaban delantales limpios, insectos voladores posándose sobre alitas de pollo y pan, alimentos mantenidos a temperaturas inseguras y empleados que no se lavaban las manos adecuadamente.

La inspección también reveló una máquina lavavajillas que no desinfectaba correctamente, acumulación de sustancias similares al moho en la máquina de hielo y el dispensador de té helado, así como condiciones de suciedad y deterioro en la cocina.

Cincuenta y cinco infracciones son inaceptables, y los clientes merecen algo mejor.

A continuación, una lista de algunas de las infracciones.

**SHORTY’S BBQ

11575 BIRD ROAD

WESTWOOD LAKES/WEST MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

55 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Presencia de actividad de roedores, evidenciada por excrementos encontrados. Se observaron aproximadamente más de 10 excrementos de roedores en el piso del área de almacenamiento de productos secos. Se observaron aproximadamente más de 5 excrementos de roedores cerca de una caja eléctrica en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos. Se observaron aproximadamente más de 10 excrementos de roedores en un estante donde se almacenan delantales limpios en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos”.

“Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños y vivos. Se observaron tres insectos voladores posándose sobre alitas de pollo en el área trasera de preparación. Se observaron cuatro insectos voladores en el aire cerca del área de lavado de utensilios. Se observaron dos insectos voladores posándose sobre pan cerca del área de cocción. Se observaron aproximadamente más de 10 insectos voladores posándose sobre una mesa de preparación de alimentos cerca de la puerta de salida trasera”.

“Presencia de pesticida/insecticida etiquetado exclusivamente para uso doméstico en el establecimiento. Se observó un pesticida doméstico almacenado en el área de almacenamiento de alimentos secos, junto a la harina”.

“Los alimentos que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura por razones de seguridad, identificados en el procedimiento escrito como alimentos mantenidos mediante el uso del tiempo como medida de control de salud pública, no tenían una indicación de tiempo y no se pudo determinar cuándo fueron retirados del control de temperatura. Consulte la orden de suspensión de venta. Se observaron papas horneadas (84 °F, mantenimiento en caliente), costillas (126 °F, mantenimiento en caliente), pollo cocido (104 °F, mantenimiento en caliente) y alitas de pollo (110 °F, mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de vapor con indicaciones de tiempo incorrectas”.

“Alimentos que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura por razones de seguridad, distintos de los cortes enteros de carne asada, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron papas horneadas (84 °F, mantenimiento en caliente), costillas (126 °F, mantenimiento en caliente), pollo cocido (104 °F, mantenimiento en caliente) y alitas de pollo (110 °F, mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de vapor del área de cocina”.

“Lavamanos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó un cuchillo dentro del lavamanos ubicado junto al área de lavado de platos”.

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra y verde similar al moho en el interior de la máquina y el depósito de hielo. Se observó acumulación de una sustancia viscosa y residuos negros similares al moho en la máquina de hielo”.

“Acumulación de residuos en el interior de la máquina lavavajillas”.

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la máquina lavavajillas”.

“Acumulación de restos de alimentos y suciedad en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observó acumulación de restos de alimentos en las manijas de las puertas de los refrigeradores del área de cocción”.

“Faltan paneles del techo. Se observó la ausencia de dos paneles del techo en el área de cocina”.

“Techo o paneles del techo dañados o en mal estado. Se observaron paneles del techo deteriorados en la cocina y en el área trasera de almacenamiento”.

“Techo, paneles del techo o conductos de ventilación sucios por acumulación de restos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o sustancias similares al moho. Se observaron conductos de ventilación sucios en el área de cocina”.

“Equipos o utensilios limpios y desinfectados almacenados incorrectamente. Se observaron tapas de ollas limpias almacenadas en el piso del área de lavado de platos”.

“Molduras de unión entre el piso y la pared rotas o faltantes. Se observó la ausencia de molduras en el piso de la cocina”.

“Empleado bebiendo de un recipiente sin tapa en un área de preparación de alimentos o de utensilios limpios, sin un mecanismo dispensador que evite el contacto de las manos con la zona del recipiente donde se colocan los labios. Se observó a un empleado bebiendo de un recipiente abierto y sin tapa en el área de cocción”.

“Artículos personales de empleados almacenados dentro o encima de un área de preparación de alimentos, alimentos, equipos y utensilios limpios o artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron artículos personales almacenados sobre una mesa de preparación en el área de cocina”.

“Áreas del piso cubiertas con agua estancada. Se observó agua estancada en el piso del refrigerador de acceso peatonal”.

“Equipos en mal estado. Se observó un congelador horizontal deteriorado en el área de cocina. Se observó la puerta del refrigerador de acceso peatonal en mal estado”.

“Recipiente de almacenamiento de alimentos o tapa del recipiente agrietados o rotos. Se observó un recipiente de plástico gris agrietado dentro del refrigerador de acceso peatonal”.

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observó un cubo de mayonesa en el piso”.

“Agujeros u otros daños en la pared. Se observaron agujeros en la pared del área de almacenamiento de productos secos, junto a la estación de lavado de platos”.

“Dispensador de té helado que no se limpia al menos una vez cada 24 horas. Se observó acumulación de una sustancia similar al moho en el dispensador de té helado”.

“Superficies que no entran en contacto con alimentos sucias con grasa, restos de alimentos, suciedad, sustancias viscosas o polvo. Se observaron filtros de la campana extractora sucios en el área de cocción. Se observaron empaques de las puertas de los refrigeradores del área de cocción extremadamente sucios”.

“Restos de alimentos viejos adheridos a platos y utensilios limpios. Se observaron restos de alimentos en platos limpios ubicados en el área de estantes de secado”.

“Uso de un bloque para cuchillos que no puede limpiarse adecuadamente para almacenar cuchillos”.

“Tuberías y líneas de servicios innecesariamente expuestas. Se observaron líneas de servicios expuestas en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos”.

“La máquina lavavajillas no desinfecta correctamente. Se debe suspender el uso de la máquina lavavajillas para desinfección y establecer un procedimiento de desinfección manual hasta que la máquina sea reparada y desinfecte adecuadamente”.

“Empleado comenzó a trabajar con alimentos, manipular equipos o utensilios limpios, o tocar artículos de un solo uso sin envolver, sin lavarse primero las manos. Se observó a un empleado salir del área de cocción para lavar platos y luego regresar al área de cocción y comenzar a preparar alimentos sin lavarse las manos”.

“Empleado se tocó la cara o el cabello y luego participó en la preparación de alimentos, manipuló equipos o utensilios limpios, o tocó artículos de un solo uso sin envolver, sin lavarse las manos. Se observó a un empleado tocarse la cara y luego tocar unas pinzas limpias sin lavarse adecuadamente las manos”.

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Deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect in an arrest report as Shadaryl Eddie.

The incident occurred in March 2025 at a rental property in the 2200 block of Northeast 12th Street in Oakland Park.

On March 12, Eddie presented the male victim with a Broward County Housing Authority voucher for the property, along with a birth certificate and Social Security card bearing the victim’s information, in an effort to gain entry into the residence, according to investigators.

Investigators said the man was the legitimate recipient of the housing voucher. However, Eddie allegedly used the identity of her deceased sister, who died in December 2024, to carry out the scheme, an arrest report states.

The Broward County Housing Authority uses taxpayer funds to help eligible individuals secure housing.

Authorities said the man initially received $8,357 from the housing authority. They said on July 3, 2025, he received a letter informing him that he owed the agency $8,357 because the housing voucher had allegedly been obtained fraudulently.

Investigators said Eddie was identified as the person living in the rental unit. The report states that the male victim’s housing authority account was credited $8,357, leaving him without those funds at the time of the investigation.

Authorities also said the male victim lost rental income and incurred expenses to evict Eddie from the apartment. The total financial loss was estimated to exceed $11,000, according to the report.

Jail records show Eddie faces one count each of fraudulent use of the personal identification information of a deceased person, involving a value of $5,000 or more, and grand theft of $5,000 or more but less than $10,000.

As of Friday morning, Eddie was being held at BSO’s North Broward Bureau. Her bond had not been immediately set.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward identificaron a la sospechosa en un informe de arresto como Shadaryl Eddie.

El incidente ocurrió en marzo de 2025 en una propiedad de alquiler ubicada en la cuadra 2200 de Northeast 12th Street en Oakland Park.

El 12 de marzo, Eddie presentó a la víctima, un hombre, un vale de la Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado Broward para la propiedad, junto con un certificado de nacimiento y una tarjeta del Seguro Social que contenían la información de la víctima, con el objetivo de obtener acceso a la residencia, según los investigadores.

Los investigadores indicaron que el hombre era el beneficiario legítimo del vale de vivienda. Sin embargo, Eddie presuntamente utilizó la identidad de su hermana fallecida, quien murió en diciembre de 2024, para llevar a cabo el fraude, según el informe de arresto.

La Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado Broward utiliza fondos de los contribuyentes para ayudar a las personas elegibles a obtener vivienda.

Las autoridades indicaron que el hombre recibió inicialmente $8,357 USD de la autoridad de vivienda. Señalaron que el 3 de julio de 2025 recibió una carta en la que se le informaba que debía $8,357 USD a la agencia porque el vale de vivienda presuntamente había sido obtenido de manera fraudulenta.

Los investigadores indicaron que Eddie fue identificada como la persona que vivía en la unidad de alquiler. El informe señala que se acreditaron $8,357 USD a la cuenta del hombre en la autoridad de vivienda, dejándolo sin esos fondos al momento de la investigación.

Las autoridades también indicaron que el hombre perdió ingresos por alquiler y tuvo que asumir gastos para desalojar a Eddie del apartamento. La pérdida económica total se estimó en más de $11,000 USD, según el informe.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Eddie enfrenta un cargo por uso fraudulento de información de identificación personal de una persona fallecida, por un valor de $5,000 USD o más, y otro cargo por robo mayor de $5,000 USD o más, pero inferior a $10,000 USD.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Eddie permanecía detenida en la Oficina Norte de Broward de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO). Su fianza aún no había sido fijada.

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None of our long-range models show any development contenders into early November.

How common are tropical threats in November?

The hurricane season runs through the end of November, and November hits have happened on the U.S. mainland. But of all months of the six month hurricane season, November is the least likely month for a tropical storm or hurricane strike.

If tropical systems threaten the mainland U.S. in November, they’re most likely to threaten Florida. Of the 12 tropical storms and hurricanes to hit the U.S. mainland in November since recordkeeping began in 1851, every single one has passed through Florida, even if another state was also affected.

To be clear, these are uncommon events when they happen. A named storm impact stateside in November is about a once-in-every-15-year event. For hurricanes, it’s rare to see a November strike – about a once-in-50-year event – but not unprecedented.

Head to the western Gulf in November

Hurricane Nicole was the last November hurricane to hit back on November 10^th, 2022. The latest hurricane to hit the U.S. was Kate in 1985, which struck east of Panama City Beach on Nov. 21 with 100-mph (Category 2 strength) winds, the strongest November U.S. landfall on record.

For South Florida, our latest landfalling hurricane happened back in 1935 with the so-called “Yankee Hurricane” that came ashore near Miami as a Category 2 hurricane on Nov. 4.

Those looking for a November virtually guaranteed free of tropical threats should head west to Texas where no named storm has ever been recorded during the hurricane season’s final month.

The localized ceasefire is set to begin Thursday, with the American first lady saying in a news release that the situation there is “on the brink of disaster.”

The White House said Melania Trump had initiated the discussions and that she and a representative worked directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the ceasefire.

There was no immediate confirmation of the ceasefire from Ukraine, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was grateful to the first lady for helping organize the Oleshky mission. The effort was discussed during the latest call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump, he said.

“The military are dealing with coordination of the timing of a ceasefire in that area to support this humanitarian mission,” Peskov said. “Those who want to leave it would be able to do so.”

He would not say whether those who evacuate will be taken to Russia- or Ukraine-held territory. He also demurred when asked how long the evacuation will last, saying only it would likely take several days.

Melania Trump has made helping children in conflict one of her signature issues and hosted a U.N. Security Council meeting on the issue earlier this year. She has written Putin to work on efforts to reunite families with children who have been displaced by the war.

“What she wants to do is save children, and that’s her focus,” the president said of the first lady during a question-and-answer exchange with journalists in Washington.

The development comes as tensions have increased to new highs between the Trump administration and Ukraine’s government. Kyiv has faced restrictions on the satellite internet system that it relies on to knock down Russian attacks, with Trump and other top U.S. officials sending mixed messages about who was responsible for throttling the Elon Musk-made Starshield system.

Trump also has recently waived new Russian sanctions, reached an agreement with Russia to import diesel and pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make a deal to end the war that began in February 2022. In renewed efforts to revive the peace process, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Norway this week for talks with Zelenskyy before meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Zelenskyy did not mention the ceasefire in Oleshky during a remote appearance at the Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank. He did note that American Patriot missile interceptors were still on hold and Starshield and Starlink speed limits were still in place.

He also spoke of the importance of the United States to renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war, including a possible joint meeting with Trump and Putin.

Food and medical supplies have been scarce for months in Oleshky, which sits on the Dnipro River that separates Ukrainian forces from the city’s Russian occupiers. There is no electricity, heat or running water. Roads leading from town are mined and dotted with burned-out cars. Drones buzz overhead.

Once a city of about 24,000 residents, Oleshky was captured by Moscow’s forces on the first day of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Its buildings were shelled and burned, and its infrastructure damaged. In June 2023, floodwaters inundated the city after the Kakhovka Dam collapsed from an explosion that an Associated Press investigation found was likely caused by the Russian military. Hundreds of residents were killed.

Those left in the city along Ukraine’s southeastern front face death from hunger or disease as another harsh winter looms. Ukraine has appealed repeatedly for a local ceasefire to organize evacuations. Russia, as the occupying power, is obligated by international law to ensure civilians under its control have what they need to survive.

Melania Trump said in the White House news release that civilian leaders from Ukraine and Russia will visit Oleshky residents to determine the level of assistance they require.

“Residents who wish to evacuate will receive coordinated support and transportation to their preferred destination,” she said. “I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine.”

Melania Trump also said “an impartial American media organization” will accompany and document Russian and Ukrainian teams on the ground throughout the process.

"This will play a significant role in ensuring that the wishes of each family are faithfully respected,” she said.

The statement did not identify the media organization.

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Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim and Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report.

Ninguno de nuestros modelos de pronóstico a largo plazo muestra posibles sistemas en desarrollo hasta principios de noviembre.

¿Qué tan frecuentes son las amenazas tropicales en noviembre?

La temporada de huracanes se extiende hasta finales de noviembre, y se han registrado impactos durante ese mes en el territorio continental de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, de todos los meses de la temporada de huracanes, que dura seis meses, noviembre es el mes con menor probabilidad de que una tormenta tropical o un huracán toque tierra.

Si los sistemas tropicales amenazan el territorio continental de Estados Unidos en noviembre, lo más probable es que afecten a Florida. De las 12 tormentas tropicales y huracanes que han impactado el territorio continental de Estados Unidos en noviembre desde que comenzaron los registros en 1851, todos han pasado por Florida, incluso si otro estado también resultó afectado.

Cabe aclarar que estos fenómenos son poco frecuentes. El impacto de una tormenta con nombre en Estados Unidos durante noviembre ocurre aproximadamente una vez cada 15 años. En el caso de los huracanes, es poco común que uno toque tierra en noviembre, aproximadamente una vez cada 50 años, pero no es algo sin precedentes.

Diríjase al oeste del Golfo en noviembre

El huracán Nicole fue el último huracán de noviembre en tocar tierra en Estados Unidos, el 10 de noviembre de 2022. El huracán que más tarde en el mes ha impactado Estados Unidos fue Kate en 1985, que tocó tierra al este de Panama City Beach el 21 de noviembre con vientos de 100 mph (intensidad de categoría 2), convirtiéndose en el huracán más fuerte registrado que haya tocado tierra en Estados Unidos durante noviembre.

En el sur de Florida, el huracán que más tarde en el mes ha tocado tierra fue el llamado “Huracán Yanqui” de 1935, que llegó a tierra cerca de Miami como un huracán de categoría 2 el 4 de noviembre.

Quienes busquen un lugar prácticamente libre de amenazas tropicales en noviembre deberían dirigirse al oeste, hacia Texas, donde nunca se ha registrado una tormenta con nombre durante el último mes de la temporada de huracanes.

Two former FBI intelligence officials who specialized in foreign election interference were charged Friday with making false statements about their roles in investigating the origins of Hunter Biden’s laptop. It's the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged investigative actions the Justice Department has undertaken in the run-up to the midterm elections.

First lady Melania Trump has brokered an upcoming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, the White House announced on Friday. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian or the Russian governments. The localized ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city along Ukraine’s southeastern front is set to begin Oct. 29.

Here’s the latest:

Trump to vote this weekend in Florida

The president is an early voter.

“I think we’re voting tomorrow in Florida,” Trump told reporters as he was preparing to depart for a rally in Fort Myers and a weekend in Palm Beach, where his club is located.

Saturday is the first day of early voting in Florida, and it runs through Oct. 31.

At another point in the gaggle with journalists, Trump was asked about this year’s early voting figures and which party that benefited.

“Nobody knows,” he responded.

Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. Another candidate with the same name is on the ballot.

This move has sparked concerns about a lengthy battle between the U.S. government and states over election certification. The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit Thursday, demanding Alaska be blocked from certifying a win for Democrat Mary Peltola if the other Sullivan remains on the ballot.

The Alaska Supreme Court previously rejected efforts to remove the other Sullivan.

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Mamdani to campaign with Gov. Hochul in Brooklyn

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hitting the campaign trail with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday, bringing a bit of progressive shine to her reelection run.

The democratic socialist mayor will join the more moderate governor at McCarren Park in Brooklyn — a liberal hotspot — to chat with voters and hand out campaign flyers, Hochul’s campaign said.

Hochul is hoping for heavy support from Democrats in the Big Apple in her race against Republican Bruce Blakeman, a local official from Long Island who’s aligned with President Donald Trump.

The pair of Democrats, who have struck up a political alliance despite some ideological differences, will also hold a canvassing event in Brooklyn on Sunday. Mamdani endorsed Hochul earlier this year and has been revving up his public support for her as the election nears.

Zelenskyy says Starshield is still facing restrictions in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is still experiencing Starlink and Starshield speed throttling, and missile interceptor shipments are still being withheld.

In a remote address to the Washington think tank Hudson Institute, Zelenskyy said Friday that the limits on “Starlink and Starshield are still there and this has not been restored.”

And he says his country is still awaiting the delivery of Patriot “interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles” and hopes the U.S. administration will provide those weapons.

His comments come as the Trump administration has given mixed messages as to who is responsible for the slowdown in the Elon Musk-built satellite internet system.

Melania Trump helps forge a ceasefire deal in Russian-occupied Oleshky, the White House says

First lady Melania Trump has brokered an upcoming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, the White House announced on Friday.

The localized ceasefire is set to begin Oct. 29.

The White House said that the first lady had initiated the discussions and that she and a representative worked directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the ceasefire. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian or the Russian governments.

The first lady has made helping children in conflict one of her signature issues, hosting a U.N. Security Council meeting on the issue earlier this year. She also has personally written to Russian President Vladimir Putin to work to reunite children displaced by the war with their families.

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GOP Rep. Ralph Norman’s son is endorsing a Democrat in the South Carolina Senate race

In an op-ed Friday, Warren Norman wrote that he is supporting the Republican gubernatorial nominee but not Republican Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham.

Norman’s father lost the special GOP Senate primary to Graham earlier this year. The developer and lifelong Republican writes “there is no true conservative to vote for in this election,” adding that backing Annie Andrews “will be the first time in my life I’ve voted for a Democrat in a partisan election.”

Norman adds there hasn’t been enough said in the race to replace the late senator about what “Graham will actually do for South Carolina, or whether she’ll stand up to the people funding her campaign when it counts.”

Some of Rep. Ralph Norman’s supporters have mounted a write-in campaign, and the congressman has said he wouldn’t campaign with Graham.

Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro does 2 new ads for Democratic candidates in key races for the state legislature

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro is appearing in two new ads for state Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, where he’s running for reelection and pushing for his party to win control of the Legislature.

The ads are part of an overall $10 million campaign as Shapiro tries to flip control of the state Senate from Republicans for the first time in over three decades.

Speaking directly to the camera, Shapiro says he needs Democrats to help him pass a higher minimum wage and control data center development. The ads are for candidates in the Philadelphia suburbs and northeastern Pennsylvania.

Shapiro is running for reelection against Republican Stacy Garrity this year and is considered a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

In addition to legislative candidates, he’s been campaigning around the state for swing seat House candidates challenging Republican incumbents.

Susan Collins uses Troy Jackson’s ‘shut up’ debate line in new ad

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is out with a new ad capitalizing on her opponent Troy Jackson’s debate comment telling her to “shut up.”

“Troy has something to say to Maine women. Shut up,” the ad’s narrator says.

The ad references a comment Jackson made during a debate Oct. 15, when Collins said a person disrupting the event was “obviously one of Troy’s supporters.”

Jackson responded: “Oh, shut up. I don’t even know that kid.”

He added later that he didn’t regret the statement and that he had no idea who the person interrupting the debate was.

Jackson campaign spokesperson Maggie Amjad called the new ad part of a series of personal attacks. “Maine women know which candidate is fighting for them, and it’s Troy Jackson,” Amjad said in an emailed statement.

Collins, the only Republican running this year in a state Kamala Harris carried in 2024, is seeking a 6th term. Jackson, a Democrat, is a former state Senate president and lumberjack.

US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on high-tech investments in China, other adversaries

The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing and artificial intelligence in China, Russia, North Korea and other “countries of concern.”

The U.S. government has been working for years to deny China and other adversaries investments that could help them boost their military power.

That program began in 2023 when then-President Joe Biden signed an executive order putting restrictions on outbound U.S. investments in sectors such as semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence going into China. Treasury later established the Outbound Investment Security Program.

In December 2025, Congress passed a law that codified and expanded the program to target more technologies and more foreign countries, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Russia.

The inclusion of Russia in the proposed rule has come days after Trump waived sanctions on Russia following a diesel deal with President Vladimir Putin.

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Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to fully ban student IDs for voting in midterms

The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections.

The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification. The Supreme Court cited a longstanding legal principle that judges shouldn’t change voting rules too close to Election Day.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent.

New Hampshire passed a law this year that said student IDs would no longer be an expressly accepted form of identification for obtaining a ballot. The secretary of state then issued guidance barring them as a backup way to prove a voter’s identity.

A judge left the law in place but blocked the guidance in early October, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court. The Republican National Committee weighed in to support the state.

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Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11.

The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett came as lawyers for the British broadcaster complained that Trump had delayed his appearance in his own lawsuit. Charles Tobin, attorney for the BBC, said that with two months left in the discovery period, “we still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff.”

Meanwhile, it remained uncertain whether former special counsel Jack Smith would be allowed to sit for a deposition. Federal rules require current and former employees to receive permission from agency heads before testifying in court cases. Smith has requested permission but has not received an answer, and the judge ruled that the department must respond to him by Nov. 2.

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Trump says he ‘heard something about’ Justice Department probe into longtime ally Corey Lewandowski

Trump told reporters that he had “heard something about” the Department of Justice investigating allegations that Corey Lewandowski profited off his past role as an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, after media reports of an investigation surfaced Thursday.

Lewandowski, who worked at the agency as a special government employee during Kristi Noem’s tenure as Homeland Security secretary, was a longtime ally of Trump. The details of the allegations against Lewandowski aren’t yet clear, though the president said Thursday after a report in The Wall Street Journal that he had heard of the probe.

The president notably didn’t defend Lewandowski, who was his first campaign manager in 2016.

“I don’t know exactly what it is,” Trump told reporters. “All I know is, I want my people to be honest. And if they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted.” He added, “I’ll have my DOJ go and do whatever they have to do.”

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Trump backs Ramaswamy on ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother

The backlash over an Ohio campaign advertisement attacking Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor, spread beyond the state’s borders Thursday, causing fresh headaches for Republicans with less than two weeks until the midterm elections.

The latest episode began when Gov. Mike DeWine criticized Vivek Ramaswamy, a fellow Republican that he endorsed as his successor, for running an ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother criticizing her. Acton’s mother lost custody of her children decades ago after her husband was indicted for raping Acton as a child.

But Trump took the opposite approach hours later, posting on social media that Ramaswamy’s ad was “hitting pay dirt” and questioning DeWine’s loyalty to the party.

Trump’s stance only hardened throughout the day. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said, “Amy Acton’s mother said horrible things about Amy Acton” and “she’s fair game.”

Trump’s aggressive defense of Ramaswamy practically guarantees that more of his party’s candidates will face questions about the issue at a moment when they already risk being dragged down by the president’s low popularity.

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Vance era un huracán de categoría 1, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 150 km/h (90 mph), mientras se arremolinaba a unos 730 kilómetros (455 millas) al sur-suroeste de Acapulco, y podría convertirse en un huracán mayor de categoría 3 en las próximas horas, señaló el centro.

Se desplazaba hacia el norte-noroeste a cerca de 8 km/h (5 mph) y probablemente continuará en esa vía durante el fin de semana, acercándose a la zona de Puerto Vallarta para el lunes. Las bandas exteriores del huracán ya estaban canalizando vientos con fuerza de galerna y mares agitados hacia el Golfo de Tehuantepec en México, indicó el centro.

Ha sido una temporada de huracanes intensa en el océano Pacífico, con tormentas formándose en cadena cerca de Hawai y México, mientras las condiciones de El Niño, agravadas por el calentamiento global, generan fenómenos meteorológicos inusuales, como las graves inundaciones y los tornados de esta semana que azotaron el suroeste de Estados Unidos y la prolongada sequía en el Corredor Seco de Centroamérica.

Vance sería el séptimo huracán mayor consecutivo este año en el Pacífico, después de Nolo, Odalys, Polo, Rachel, Simon y Trudy. El Comité de Huracanes de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial no utiliza nombres menos comunes que comienzan con Q, U, X, Y y Z.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

Agentes del Departamento de Policía de Sunrise informaron que el accidente ocurrió aproximadamente a las 4 a.m. en la cuadra 2000 de Nob Hill Road.

Indicaron que un hombre, cuya edad e identidad no han sido reveladas hasta el momento, fue declarado muerto en el lugar.

El otro conductor involucrado en el accidente recibió atención médica en el lugar por heridas leves, según la policía.

La policía indicó que las circunstancias del accidente continúan bajo investigación y no se divulgaron otros detalles de inmediato.

The building was under construction when it collapsed at about 1 p.m. along a busy commercial street in Nairobi's Eastleigh area, which is often crowded with thousands of traders and residents.

Nairobi police chief Issa Mohamud said the building had more than 10 upper floors under construction. Rescue operations were complicated, with police firing tear gas at people who had begun looting neighboring shops, as officers sought to clear the area and provide access to emergency response teams.

Joseph Kaula made it out just in time. A plasterer working on the fifth floor, he said he heard screams and spotted other workers rushing outside, shouting that the building was collapsing.

“I was the last person to walk out before it collapsed and the whole area was filled with dust,” Kaula said.

Kaula suspects a few of his colleagues were trapped in the basement.

One injured woman was rescued and hospitalized, and another person who was crying for help had gone silent, the police chief said.

Mohamud also warned of a possible secondary collapse, as the collapsed building was leaning on its neighbor.

There was little in the way of heavy equipment immediately available. Hours later, a group of rescuers in hard hats were using poles stripped from trees to poke at the huge pile of rubble. One excavator began to move concrete bound with steel away. By evening, at least two more back shovels arrived.

Rescuers were hoping to reach into any spaces left in the basement and the ground level, which had been rented out for an electronics shop, a butchery and a grocery while construction continued on the upper floors.

Residents said some of their loved ones who were trapped had made phone calls calling for help immediately after the collapse, but that their phones later became unreachable. A tent was set up where people could report the missing. How many might be inside the wreckage wasn't known.

Building collapses are a recurring problem in Nairobi. County officials responsible for issuing building permits have been accused of failing to conduct adequate inspections to ensure developers comply with safety guidelines and construction standards.

“Investigations will be carried out,” Mohamud said. “We’ll make sure people face the law for any negligence.”

Nairobi Gov. Johnson Sakaja said the building had been approved for construction, but did not have a certificate of occupation, so opening shops on the ground floor was against the law. Kenya's county governments need stronger enforcement powers, he said, arguing that lenient penalties for non-compliance are just a “slap on the wrist” for developers that violate regulations.

The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of the capital, Amman.

Images being broadcast on Jordanian state television show two gunmen who appear to be holding pistols approaching the church and firing shots. A third man who appears to be holding a semiautomatic rifle then appears and opens fire, and all three then run toward the church.

A government statement said that the attack was “carried out by unknown assailants,” but didn't say whether any gunmen were captured or killed. It said that “investigations are underway at full speed.”

Karak is home to a minority Christian population. In 2016, gunmen ambushed police in a series of attacks in Karak, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing 10 people, including seven officers, and wounding dozens. Jordanian security forces killed those gunmen after a long standoff.

Jordan’s director of public security, Maj. Gen. Obeidallah Maaytah, said at a news conference that 27 of the wounded in Friday's shooting were still being treated.

King Abdullah II said on X that Jordan “will confront the terrorist act that targeted Karak with the harshest penalties” and offered his “deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs, and our wishes for recovery to the wounded.”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Syria’s Foreign Ministry issued statements denouncing the “terrorist attack” and offering condolences to the victims' families and the people of Jordan. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called his Jordanian counterpart and “affirmed Iraq’s solidarity with Jordan in the face of terrorism,” Hussein’s office said in a statement.

The Oklahoma City star’s run of 141 consecutive regular season contests with at least 20 points ended Thursday night when he subbed himself out toward the end of a game against the Denver Nuggets.

Gilgeous-Alexander had just hit a 3-pointer, pushing his total for the night to 17 points and giving the Thunder a 17-point lead when Denver called timeout with 1:43 remaining. Gilgeous-Alexander initially was going back onto the floor when play resumed, but as he walked onto the court he noticed that the Nuggets had subbed out their entire starting lineup.

The outcome of the game had been conceded, and realizing that, the two-time reigning NBA Most Valuable Player returned to the bench and knew the streak was ending. The Thunder won the game 96-84, improving to 2-0 for the season.

“I feel like you always treat the game with respect,” Gilgeous-Alexander told reporters in Oklahoma City after the game.

The 141-game streak — which started on Nov. 1, 2024 — topped the previous mark held by Wilt Chamberlain. He scored 20 or more points in 126 consecutive regular season games spanning from Oct. 19, 1961 through Jan. 19, 1963.

Thunder coach Mark Daigneault was willing to give Gilgeous-Alexander at least one more possession to try and hit the 20-point mark on Thursday. It was a difficult decision for Daigneault; in the NBA, when the outcome is decided and one team empties its bench, typically the other does as well.

“He’s got a historic streak going, which is a remarkable streak, obviously,” Daigneault said. “And I just think for the class that it shows and the perspective that it shows for him to say, ‘Hey, I’m out now. The game’s calling for me to be subbed out of the game.’ ... Of all the things that I admire about him, that’s towards the top of the list in terms of moments that I appreciate about him. It shows tremendous class as a competitor.”

Gilgeous-Alexander averaged 32.1 points per game during his record streak, and the Thunder went 116-25 in those 141 games.

He scored at least 30 points in 92 of those 141 games, reaching 40 points on 21 occasions and scoring 50 or more points five times. There were only six games where he finished with exactly 20 points.

Thursday’s game was a rare struggle for Gilgeous-Alexander, who missed all seven of his shots from the field in the first half and went into the break with just two points — his lowest first-half total since the streak started. He had 15 points after halftime, and another 3-pointer in the final 1:43 would have given him 20 points once again.

But Daigneault said Gilgeous-Alexander’s “competitive class” was proved by the star guard electing to call it a night.

“It’s a historic record,” Daigneault said. “It’s a little bit of a dilemma if you’re in my position. But he put me in a great position there. I would have left him. I was going to leave him.”

Gilgeous-Alexander will hold this record for some time.

The longest current run of consecutive 20-point regular season efforts is now held by Toronto’s Kawhi Leonard — who has done it each of his last 58 games. The next longest streak of 20-point games is held by Phoenix’s Devin Booker, who has 10 in a row.

“God willing, I have many more games to start another streak,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “It’s not the end of the world.”

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The company also announced its first major job cuts in roughly a decade, telling investors it laid off 5% of its workforce, or about 4,000 employees, last quarter.

The New York company reported a profit of $3.71 billion, up 28% from a year ago, or $5.42 a share. Excluding a one-time gain from AmEx's sale of its stake in Global Business Travel Group, the company earned a quarterly per—share profit of $4.68. That figure beat Wall Street estimates.

AmEx's revenue and profits rose as customers both charged more on their cards and paid more to hold an AmEx card.

Last year, AmEx updated its Platinum Card, adding several new perks for cardmembers while raising the annual fee from $695 to $895. Reviews of the update were generally positive at the time.

However, the biggest question for Wall Street was whether AmEx cardmembers, even given the company's wealthier customer base, would stomach a $200 price increase.

So far, AmEx says that nearly all of the customers who have been moved to the higher fee Platinum Card have decided to keep it. Net card fees, which include the annual fees on cards like Platinum, rose by more than $400 million from a year earlier.

The company also continues to see increases in spending on its cards. The average AmEx customer spent $6,735 on their cards last quarter, or $2,245 a month. That's up 5% from a year earlier.

Some of that higher spending is likely tied to inflation, said Chief Financial Officer Christophe Le Caillec in an interview.

AmEx customers spend heavily on travel and entertainment. Airline fares, for example, have risen sharply from a year ago due to higher fuel prices and other inflationary pressures. However, the company is also seeing an increase in the number of transactions per cardmember.

AmEx CEO Steve Squeri told investors that layoffs over the past there months were about making the company more efficient, not a reflection of any downturn in business. One concern among investors had been AmEx's rising operating costs, as the company has had to compete with other credit card companies, including Capital One and JPMorgan Chase on perks and rewards that are costly to manage.

The company now forecasts it will earn an adjusted profit of between $17.60 and $17.90 per share for the full year, raising the lower end of its previous forecast of $17.30 to $17.90 per share.

Now, the U.S. Senate contest between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is another tantalizing opening, and as the long race enters its final few days, the contest could well turn on its unusual points of friction.

Can a campaign rooted in hope douse one of fear? Will Paxton’s embrace of President Donald Trump propel or cost him? Can the world’s richest man tip the scales? And is Talarico his party’s salvation or just another expensive mirage?

The answers will have echoes beyond Texas and not just by helping decide which party controls Congress in Trump’s final two years in office. A Talarico victory in a Republican state could signal a redrawing of the national political map. A win by Paxton would extinguish a dream by Democrats that the state's shifting demographics would eventually prevail after decades of Republican dominance.

“We’re going to shock the world when we take back Texas,” Talarico told a crowd this week. Hours later, Paxton, at his own rally, told an energized crowd: “If we lose Texas, we lose America.”

Paxton paints a dark picture

As Paxton describes it, this election is like a drop of water above the Continental Divide — the line running down the spine of the Rocky Mountains where, on one side, the drop flows to the Pacific Ocean and, on the other, the Atlantic.

“They end up 3,000 miles apart. That’s what our elections are like now,” he explained to a crowd near the U.S.-Mexico border. “It’s the America our founders gave us versus something they wouldn’t recognize.”

But a Senate seat that seemed like a Republican lock when the year began has instead become a referendum on Paxton's fraught background that includes being impeached by his own party over corruption accusations and a very public divorce. Still, he was able to win the coveted endorsement of Trump and defeat the incumbent, Sen. John Cornyn, in a primary.

Now, in the campaign's closing days, he is casting Talarico as an extreme liberal out of step with the state.

A vote for Talarico “is a vote for every dangerous idea that Democrats across the country are putting forward,” he said, which means violent criminals will destroy the country and the U.S. Supreme Court will become a radical liberal rubber-stamp.

Earlier that day, Talarico's rally had a different tenor, and without one direct attack on the Republican Party in a race in which he will need GOP voters to win.

“We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis,” he told a revved-up crowd at the University of Houston. “But we can change that in this election, in this state, in this race, if we come together not as Democrats or Republicans but as Texans.”

That reminds him, he often says these days, of David locked in a battle against Goliath, or, in this case, billionaire megadonors.

“(David) may not have had as many weapons, but he had faith, he had hope and he had a slingshot,” said Talarico, a Presbyterian seminary student. “You are my slingshot.”

His strategy? Stir every Texan's hopes despite the “D" beside his name.

Is Talarico the Democrat to win Texas?

Texas Democrats have had their hopes dashed before, notably when former congressman Beto O'Rourke lost a race to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 by less than 3 percentage points.

Talarico has generated at least as much enthusiasm, has amassed more money and has a less formidable opponent in Paxton.

Supporters who lived through O'Rourke's and others' attempts often hold contradictory feelings: a confidence that Talarico can win in such a deeply conservative state and a nagging suspicion that he, like many before him, will fall short.

Paxton has tried to leverage cultural issues against Talarico, emphasizing his support for transgender rights and previous statements such as “God is nonbinary.”

But Talarico has proved to be a nimble counter puncher, hammering Paxton about corruption and tying him to the struggling economy while also trying to sidestep partisanship and proffering a positive agenda.

In a state with a majority of Republican voters, Paxton is betting on the partisan loyalties holding.

"It's simple math,” said Carmen Calderone, the Nueces County GOP chair, in his warm-up speech at Paxton's rally. "We can win if we turn out the vote."

Paxton's campaign slogan for his final bus tour sledgehammers that point home: “Come and take it.”

Elon Musk and the most expensive Senate race

Total ad spending sits just under $340 million since each candidate locked up his nomination, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

While Talarico's campaign outpaced Paxton's, big donors, including the world’s richest man, have come to the Republican's aid via super PACs. Musk has headquartered his companies Tesla and SpaceX — as well as himself — in Texas, and he has staked millions of dollars to defend its Republican monopoly in Congress. Trump, too, has flown to Texas several times and praised Paxton's work as attorney general, if not his appearance and attire.

To Talarico, it's a trifecta of Goliaths — “the richest man in the world, the most powerful man in the world, the most corrupt politician in Texas” — and plays into his own campaign message.

Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, said Talarico's more forward-looking message can meet an electorate weary of partisan politics as “high-stakes drama,” while Paxton's message of doom if Talarico wins may struggle with voters dissatisfied with the economic status quo in a state — and a nation — led by Republicans.

“The fact that people are shocked into reassessing their own partisan beliefs is because of a sour economy," he said.

Paxton, who has never wavered in his public fealty to Trump, is now hoping that Texas will be a place where the president's presence, in person and on camera, will help deliver a victory. While Trump's poor approval ratings might dampen that advantage, Paxton just needs to motivate enough Republicans to turn out.

His challenge is that there is ample evidence that Talarico has won over independents and even several better-known Republicans. Neil Bush, the brother of Republican President George W. Bush, endorsed the Democrat this week, along with a few others from an older guard of the Republican Party.

While Trump's influence on the race is less clear, Musk's isn't.

He's contributed a total of $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund. The fund gave $158 million to Texas PAC, the largest contributor to Paxton’s campaign. Musk also gave $10 million to the Paxton-supporting Lone Star Liberty PAC.

Paxton, now with an advantage in total spending, doesn't talk about Musk. But it's played into the hands of Talarico's corruption spiel.

“Ken Paxton is funded by one dude," he told supporters at the rally. “He wants his very own personal United States senator.”

“The first oil tanker has sailed off to customers, and regular supplies will continue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said without elaborating.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said earlier this week that the first shipment would amount to 40,000 tons of diesel, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.

Marine intelligence firm Kpler said the vessel was signaling it was headed to New York to arrive Nov. 7 and would be the first Russian diesel delivery to the United States since July 2023.

The abrupt reversal of U.S. sanctions policy on Russia over its invasion of its neighbor was seen as an attempt by Trump to address high fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections.

The diesel shipment of 40,000 tons amounts to around 300,000 barrels, or about 7% of the roughly 4 million barrels of diesel the U.S. economy consumes in a single day.

The import agreement, which Trump says foresees millions more tons of Russian diesel reaching the U.S. in coming months, is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.

Russia’s diesel production has come under strain from repeated Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on its oil refineries. The attacks caused fuel shortages, which now have eased. Trump last month asked Kyiv to stop the attacks.

The U.S. diesel decision caused alarm and dismay in Ukraine, which has pleaded with foreign countries to tighten sanctions on Moscow and deny it revenue for its invasion launched in February 2022.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Trump’s decision “a weak decision by strong partners.”

The diesel agreement was a sudden policy reversal, coming just weeks after Trump signed into law a sweeping sanctions package that directed him to impose up to 100% tariffs on the top five importers of Russian oil or natural gas. He later put the measures on hold.

The development is the latest twist in the at times volatile relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy, which in recent weeks has reached a new low.

Starlink still isn't back to normal despite US promises, Zelenskyy says

Zelenskyy said he spoke Friday with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, after they consulted with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. They also spoke with the Ukrainian leader earlier this week in Norway.

Kyiv is keen to add momentum to peace efforts in a planned three-way meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the United States that may take place next month at a venue to be decided, Zelenskyy said in comments via video link to the Hudson Institute research organization in Washington.

"We need diplomacy to move forward,” Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine's pressing issues are protecting its power grid from Russian attacks ahead of winter, getting more U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors to counter Russia's ballistic missiles, and finding more financial support from foreign countries, Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine is still experiencing Starlink and Starshield speed limits that are choking its drone operations, Zelenskyy said. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this week that the service would be fully restored within 72 hours, according to the Ukrainian leader.

Moscow airports close, and other developments

Meanwhile, Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports — Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky — stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons. The disruption continued through the afternoon.

At Sheremetyevo airport, passengers were told to take shelter, Russian news agency Interfax reported. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that air defenses downed 21 Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital.

Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war for the first time since August.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said each side released 270 prisoners. Ukraine said 270 of its soldiers and civilians were freed, most of them held in captivity since 2022.

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In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott argued that the $46 billion wall project was justified despite a bipartisan coalition of landowners, local businesses and environmentalists who view it as a waste of taxpayer money that could be destructive to a region with historically low migrant crossings.

“Our number one goal right out the gate is we have to know who and what is coming into the United States,” Scott said on Thursday. If the Big Bend region were left without a wall or other border infrastructure while other areas along the border get those fortifications, he said, “I am 100% convinced it will be completely overrun and destroyed.”

The fight over Big Bend has become a major test for how far the Republican administration is willing to go for the border wall, President Donald Trump's signature infrastructure project.

Scott, a former Border Patrol agent, was tapped by Trump to complete it.

His agency is responsible for executing a plan funded last summer by Republicans in Congress to line the roughly 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) border with Mexico with a mixture of 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) steel walls, vehicle barriers, new roads and surveillance technology to prevent illegal immigration and smuggling.

The Trump administration says it is building about 12 miles (19 kilometers) a week. Scott, who gets daily progress updates, said it will be complete by the end of Trump's second term. The primary border wall — some areas also get a secondary layer — will be done by the end of December 2027.

“We’re actually ahead of schedule,” Scott said.

Big Bend is a test for the Trump administration's plans for the wall

The wall plan has run into resistance in places like Big Bend. The Trump administration suffered a major setback earlier this month when a judge ordered a pause on border wall construction in the region, citing what could be a likelihood that plaintiffs “will suffer serious, irreparable harm without an injunction.” The administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift the order.

The ruling included any construction in Big Bend National Park, an area that has seen a loud bipartisan outcry, including from some Republican lawmakers.

After bulldozers were spotted in the park tearing up ground in August, Scott ordered a pause on all construction-related activity there while he went to talk to people in the region. He said the agency is making other outreach to locals to discuss how to build projects so they don’t mar the park.

“We’re talking through and figuring out what is the right solution for that area,” he said.

Scott said he can’t get into specific details on what the agency’s plans are for the park due to the numerous ongoing lawsuits, but he reiterated that the project won't include tall steel walls.

He also said that the agency’s stated goal of protecting the country and knowing what’s coming in and going out is “non-negotiable.”

He said the region's formidable natural barriers were not enough to prevent people from entering the country illegally through other more navigable points. And he expressed concern that cartels that control smuggling from Mexico into the U.S. would exploit any opening.

CBP has come under fire for immigration enforcement tactics

Scott leads an agency of 67,000 employees responsible for controlling who and what comes into the country through official border crossings like airports or seaports and stopping illegal smuggling and migration outside those official border crossing points.

The agency came under heavy scrutiny last year when its officers were sent into cities deep inside the country to help carry out Trump's immigration crackdown alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

As protests against an operation rocked Minneapolis, a Border Patrol officer and a CBP officer both fired shots in an encounter that killed a U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti. The shooting eventually prompted the Trump administration to wind down high-profile city-based crackdowns. A CBP officer who was the face of the missions, Gregory Bovino, who led a helicopter raid at a large apartment building and used chemical agents to confront demonstrators, retired earlier this year.

Scott said while CBP still helps ICE, it's now less involved in immigration enforcement far from the country's borders because ICE has since hired more officers to its ranks. Scott wouldn't comment on the investigation into the Pretti killing, saying that it was being handled by the FBI and was ongoing. And when asked about Bovino's tactics, he said the officer didn't report to him during the operations.

Scott spoke to the AP just outside the border with Canada, where he met with border security representatives from other countries to share information about threats and trends. During his trip, he visited an operations center where he said Canadian and American law enforcement work together.

That border has far fewer threats than the U.S. border with Mexico. Scott said cartels in Mexico are increasingly sending drones into the United States to move contraband and keep tabs on Border Patrol agents. In Mexico, the cartels have been using drones to attack each other or Mexican law enforcement.

The Department of Homeland Security, which includes CBP, recently announced temporary flight restrictions targeting unauthorized drone activity in a zone extending a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the U.S.-Mexico border as a way to counter cartels.

“We want to make sure," Scott said, “that threat does not come into the United States.”

The key threshold, heavily debated among scientists, in simple terms would be when the dense, humid, moisture-generating forest shifts to a drier ecosystem. That would come with irreversible consequences for biodiversity and the climate, as the forest absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that drives global temperature to rise. Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon, which is spread across several countries in South America.

Here is a look at the two presidential candidates and how their different visions of the Amazon may intersect with a potential tipping point:

Both candidates expected to handle Amazon policy differently

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, trying to win a fourth nonconsecutive term, has sought to curb deforestation and finance a sustainable economy through international donations and public and private funding. If he wins, he is expected to continue such policies.

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has said he doesn't believe climate change is real while casting himself as an environmental defender. He has offered few details on his plans for forest protection or financing. He has called for a “modernization” of environmental laws and giving landowners in the Amazon more decision-making power, which environmentalists say would weaken safeguards and allow deforestation to accelerate.

Deforestation surged under Jair Bolsonaro, who governed from 2019 through 2022, as he dismantled enforcement agencies and loosened environmental norms. Meanwhile, under Lula's current government, the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record was announced last week.

Tipping points could apply to many ecosystems

A tipping point is a critical threshold beyond which a small change can trigger a major shift in an ecosystem or climate system. Scientists study such risks in regions or systems like the Amazon, Antarctic ice sheets and circulation patterns of the Atlantic Ocean.

For the Amazon, some research suggests that losing more than 20% of the forest, combined with global warming of around 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since the early 1800s, could trigger widespread changes. About 17% of the Amazon has already been cleared and temperature rise is currently at about 1.4 C (2.5 F).

Crossing that threshold could set off a self-reinforcing cycle in which parts of the rainforest lose their ability to recover from drought, fire and other disturbances, giving way to a drier ecosystem.

“As the climate changes and puts increasing stress on the Amazon, the forest holds until it can’t anymore and collapses, either in parts or all at once, a process that could take decades or centuries once the tipping point is crossed," said Bernardo Flores, an Earth system resilience expert and member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, an independent scientific initiative dedicated to protecting the basin and guiding sustainable development.

David Lapola, who studies how the Amazon responds to rising carbon dioxide levels, is more cautious. A lead author of an upcoming U.N. climate report chapter on tipping points, he said models suggest a risk of collapse, but observations and experiments have yet to establish that losing 20% of the forest would trigger it.

“That doesn’t mean we should stop worrying, that we should forget about this problem. We need to investigate it, to have a scientific task force to get to the bottom of it,” he said.

How far away the Amazon may be from a tipping point

A 2024 study led by Flores, the resilience expert, and published in Nature, estimated that 10% to 47% of the Amazon could face multiple threats by 2050, potentially turning parts of the forest into different ecosystems and worsening climate change in the region.

Still, Flores said that we cannot know precisely how closely the Amazon is to a tipping point, and forest degradation could mean its closer than models suggest. “I think the main sign would be the Amazon starting to become very dry and experiencing extensive burning,” he said.

Forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought, affects about 40% of the Amazon and has outpaced clear-cutting in recent years.

How the rainforest has already changed

Climate scientist Carlos Nobre, among the first to warn that extensive deforestation could push the Amazon past a tipping point, said changes already underway show the forest is approaching that threshold.

“Today, we know that the southern Amazon is particularly vulnerable,” Nobre said. “The dry season is now four to five weeks longer. Conditions are approximately 20% to 30% drier, and temperatures are two to three degrees Celsius higher.”

Rising temperatures and more frequent droughts are stressing trees and increasing mortality, weakening even intact forests’ ability to absorb more carbon than they release, Lapola, the U.N. report author, said. Those forests could cease to be a net carbon sink by the mid-2030s if the decline continues, though the projection remains uncertain.

Parts of the Amazon already emit more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that drives global warming, than they absorb, according to research by Luciana Gatti of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.

Her latest study, published Wednesday in Nature, found that the Amazon released an annual average of 1.17 billion metric tons more carbon dioxide than it absorbed from 2010 through 2024. Fires, worsened by climate change, were the main source of emissions.

Nobre said preventing further damage requires sustained cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and economic alternatives to clearing forests for cattle ranching and farming, the leading drivers of deforestation.

“We must achieve zero deforestation, forest degradation and fires,” he said.

At the U.N. climate talks in 2023, Brazil launched its “Arc of Restoration,” an initiative to replant and foster agroforestry practices to restore 24 million hectares in the southern Brazilian Amazon: 6 million by 2030 and another 18 million by 2050. But meeting such goals could depend on who Brazilians elect on Sunday.

“If we succeed, we can save the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest and one of its greatest reservoirs of biodiversity,” Nobre said.

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Enjoy Friday, because the chance for heavy rainfall is increasing this weekend across the East Coast metro areas. This will also increase the potential for flooding in the metro areas of Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Strong wind gusts of 35 mph or higher on Sunday could also cause minor wind damage, primarily near coastal areas.

We’re also entering the next phase of king tides, bringing the potential for saltwater flooding. King tides through the weekend will reach moderate flood levels along the East Coast, with saltwater flooding possible on streets and in communities.

Champi alcanzó a principios de esta semana un máximo de 298 km/h (185 mph) de vientos sostenidos, pero se ha debilitado a 155 km/h (96 mph) al acercarse a Taiwán desde el suroeste. Se prevé que su centro permanezca mar adentro cuando pasa por el extremo noreste de la isla antes de girar hacia el norte, rumbo a las islas del suroeste de Japón.

La Administración Central de Meteorología de Taiwán instó a los residentes de las zonas costeras a evitar actividades al aire libre y conducir, y a tener cuidado con la caída de objetos.

Una persona murió tras ser arrastrada por las olas en Liuqiu, una pequeña isla frente a la costa sureste de la isla principal de Taiwán, informó el Departamento de Bomberos. Más de otras 170 personas resultaron heridas por la tormenta.

Más de 2.600 personas han sido evacuadas de zonas montañosas vulnerables, indicó el gobierno.

Se cancelaron los 262 vuelos nacionales de Taiwán, junto con 669 vuelos internacionales, según el Ministerio de Transporte. Los servicios de tren de alta velocidad en la costa occidental operaban con normalidad.

La capital, Taipéi, en el norte de Taiwán, registró lloviznas y ráfagas de viento. Los servicios de transporte, incluido el metro, permanecieron abiertos.

El presidente taiwanés Lai Ching-te visitó el Centro Central de Operaciones de Emergencia de la isla en New Taipéi City, que se extiende desde cerca de la capital hasta la costa norte de Taiwán.

Champi tiene un enorme radio de alrededor de 320 kilómetros (200 millas), lo suficientemente grande como para cubrir la mayor parte de Taiwán. Los expertos esperan que su máximo impacto en Taiwán se prolongue hasta el sábado y que llegue al sur del territorio principal de Japón el lunes.

En el suroeste de Japón, el tifón ha herido a una persona, dejó vuelos en tierra y provocó cortes de electricidad.

En la isla de Ishigaki, casi 2.000 viviendas se quedaron sin electricidad.

Se han cancelado decenas de vuelos de entrada y salida de las islas del suroeste, incluidas Miyako, Ishigaki y Okinawa.

En Filipinas, la Guardia Costera prohibió el viernes que barcos y ferris se aventuraran en las aguas cada vez más agitadas frente a varias localidades y ciudades del norte.

El principal aeropuerto nacional de Batanes, en la capital provincial de Basco, fue cerrado el viernes y se cancelaron dos vuelos locales, informaron funcionarios de aviación filipinos. Las ventanas del aeropuerto fueron tapiadas como medida de seguridad.

En la provincia de Cagayan, casi 200 personas fueron evacuadas a lugares más seguros como precaución. Se suspendieron las clases en todos los niveles en la localidad insular de Calayan, frente a Cagayan, debido al tifón, señalaron funcionarios provinciales.

A principios de este mes, Champi pasó por varias islas del Pacífico, incluida Guam, donde se declaró una zona federal de desastre.

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France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s office took charge of the case and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez spoke of a “terrorist crime.”

A suspect was arrested and taken into police custody, police said. Nuñez said the shootings happened at three separate locations in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, near Paris, and that they took less than 15 minutes in total.

“A deadly rampage took place this morning," he told reporters in Trappes. According to Nuñez, the attacker fatally shot one person and wounded five others, three of them very seriously, with their lives in danger.

Nuñez said the attack was considered a “terrorist crime” by prosecutors, with a possible racist motive.

He praised the five officers from the anti-crime brigade who stopped the suspect.

“I commend them for their swift response,” he said.

Aurore Bergé, the minister for gender equality and fight against discriminations, said the 12-year-old girl was very seriously injured.

"If a racist motive is established, I hope that the whole nation will stand alongside the residents of Trappes, La Verrière, and the victims. We cannot tolerate even the slightest racist remark in the French Republic,” she said.

Asked about reports that the suspect's home had been booby-trapped with gas cylinders, Nuñez said: “We have heard those reports. The investigation will establish the facts.”

Nuñez said the suspect fired "what appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon.”

Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh said the gunman appeared to have fired relatively randomly, targeting passersby at several locations including a playground.

“This is probably one of the first attempted mass killings motivated by Islamophobia and racism,” he told reporters. ”This was a terrorist attack with racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones.”

Rabeh previously said the person killed was of African origin, while one of those critically wounded was of North African origin.

France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s office said it opened a criminal investigation into several offenses, including “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise with the aggravating circumstance that the act was committed on account of the victim’s actual or perceived membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nationality or religion.”

The shooting happened as France braces for another day of protests against the high cost of living on Saturday, with major museums closing their doors and the government deploying a significantly larger security presence to prevent a repeat of last week’s violent unrest, which shocked the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his “deep sorrow” following the shooting and paid tribute to the victims.

“In this terrible ordeal, the nation stands with them,” he wrote on X.

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Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.

The stint follows the artist's 2022 blockbuster run, when he performed 15 consecutive nights at the famous arena. And he's not the only one embracing the format. Residencies in Las Vegas, once viewed as the final stop at the end of a long career, have attracted younger performers like Usher, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. In 2024, Adele embarked on a 10-date Munich residency. And last year, Bad Bunny's 31-date residency in Puerto Rico single-handedly boosted the island’s fragile economy, generating over $200 million while extending his efforts to elevate the U.S. territory's global profile.

Celine Dion, who holds the record for the highest-grossing residency in Vegas, recently embarked on one just outside Paris. It's her first concert series since revealing her diagnosis with stiff-person syndrome.

Industry insiders and artists alike say there are many reasons why residencies have taken hold in the music business, despite arguments that the format may shift costs to fans who could save money attending a tour in their hometown rather than spending the cash on travel.

Residencies fulfill evolving needs

Residencies aren't exactly a novel concept, explains Mitch Rose, Creative Artists Agency's head of North American touring, who represents artists including Styles and Perry.

“Go back in time to early Vegas, in the '60s when Frank Sinatra had a residency and Tony Bennett had a residency,” he said. “They played multiple shows across a year at a hotel. That was the birth of a residency.”

Over time, however, Vegas residencies became synonymous with a particular kind of artist: one close to retiring. That changed in the 2000s, when Dion revitalized the format with her yearslong “A New Day …” and “Celine” runs. John Meglen, co‑CEO of Concerts West, was instrumental in both the Vegas residencies and the one in France.

“Most people thought we were crazy,” he said, noting the expense. “It was 200 shows a year, 40 weeks a year. Five shows a week.”

But it worked. Across 16 years and 1,141 performances, Dion grossed $681.3 million, according to Billboard.

Nowadays, residencies are commonplace. Rose says attendees treat them like festivals: destination experiences.

“Think of Coachella,” he says. “People from all around the world come to the desert mid-April to share an experience. And residencies are the same vibe. When we announced Harry’s residency, the Garden was the only place in America that we were playing in 2026. … There's a uniqueness.”

And often, residencies inspire artist pop-up shops and fan meetups, adding to the festival-like atmosphere.

Both artists and the industry benefit

R&B singer Usher hosted his popular “Usher: My Way The Vegas Residency” in 2022 and 2023, part of a high-profile run that included a 2024 Super Bowl halftime show. At the time, he told The Associated Press that part of the appeal was the consistency.

“I like the idea of what I’ve found in Las Vegas. It gives me an opportunity to settle. I have children now. I got a life,” he said.

There are clear financial benefits, too. Residencies save on the major expense of transporting production, people and equipment, Meglen said.

Another upside? “If you do a residency in one city, you’re not on an airplane or in a bus. It's good mental healthcare for the artist,” Rose said.

Residencies also offer an opportunity to develop massive stage productions that don't have to be hauled around the world. Nowhere is that more clear than at the 516-foot-wide (157-meter) Sphere in Las Vegas, with its state-of-the-art technological attractions and high-resolution LED screen that wraps halfway around a 17,500-seat audience.

In 2026, Carín León became the first Latino artist to hold a residency there. “It’s a venue that lets you express a lot of stuff because of all of the tools,” he said. “For me, it was perfect.”

Some say residencies shift expenses to the fans

Styles' New York audience spends anywhere from under $100 to $1,000 to attend, not counting the cost of travel for out-of-towners.

“I understand why residencies make sense for an artist and why it would be less stressful and make their lives easier. But as a fan, I don’t understand how they cost as much money as they do,” said Sara Feigin, a Styles fan and New York-based photographer. “You’re playing over 30 days at the same venue, why is this $300?”

She believes that if residencies are more affordable for talent, tickets should be cheaper too.

A representative for Styles declined to comment.

For Ticketmaster events like Styles' residency, the base price for a ticket before various fees and taxes (or the “face value” cost) is determined by the event organizer.

Meglen says it’s crucial that traditional touring continue, but there’s room for both: Residencies give “all these other markets a breather,” as he puts it, in turn creating future demand. “I don’t know any artist that keeps touring over and over and over in the same markets that their ticket sales go up.”

Residencies can be found all over the globe

Where a residency takes place depends on the artist. Consider Bad Bunny. “Nobody could do what he did in Puerto Rico, right?” said Rose. “Major markets are always going to be the first choices of residencies. … And I don't think every city works.”

As for Dion, “Paris is Celine’s biggest market in the world,” says Meglen.

Otherwise, entertainment capitals with many large venues like Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York top the list. And fans who live far from these locations should expect to travel, because residencies don't appear to be going anywhere.

“Everything is cyclical and the residencies are certainly having a moment,” said Rose. “And as long as there’s a Las Vegas or an act big enough to do multiple nights in arenas, it will never go away.”

Protests last week devolved into mayhem, with people setting fires, storming public buildings, smashing shop windows, looting and clashing with police. It was France's most violent unrest in years.

Demonstrators plan to take to the streets again Saturday to denounce the high cost of living. Students, members of the CGT labor union and activists from the “ yellow vest ” movement, whose demonstrations against social injustice shook France in 2018 and 2019, are all set to join.

While some protests have been banned for security reasons in several cities, including Lyon, Nice and Montpellier, marches are expected in many other places including in Paris and Marseille.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes would be deployed, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons. In addition, elite police units will help secure public buildings like city halls in a “highly mobile” security operation, he said.

“There have been numerous calls from radical far-left groups on social media to commit acts of violence and vandalism. There have also been renewed calls for looting, with those messages clearly being spread by rioters," Nuñez said at a news conference.

“We will be absolutely uncompromising" with those involved in violence, he added, warning that police will have a “very firm approach to making arrests, and there will be legal consequences.”

Paris museums to be closed

In a statement to The Associated Press, the Culture Ministry said the Louvre, the Orsay and Picasso museums as well as the Grand Palais would be closed. The ministry called on all institutions under its authority to adopt any necessary measures to ensure “visitor safety, staff protection and the preservation of artworks,” according to the statement.

After two days when admission was by invitation only, Art Basel Paris opened to the public Friday — but only for the day, with the threat of unrest prompting organizers to cancel the weekend program. One of the world’s most prestigious contemporary art fairs, Art Basel includes exhibitions by 211 international galleries at Paris’ Grand Palais.

"This decision has not been taken lightly, and the safety of everyone involved in the fair remains our utmost priority," organizers said in a statement Thursday.

Saloni Doshi, an art collector who traveled to Paris from India for the fair, grew worried last Saturday as she saw the fires and panicked people, and she received phone calls from friends asking whether Paris was safe. She agreed with the organizers' rationale to close.

Antoine Donzeaud and Elisa Rigoulet, the owners of the gallery exo exo, felt the same.

“We understand this decision, which we consider reasonable and consistent with the urgency of the social demands currently unfolding in France,” they said in a text message.

But some visitors were disappointed.

“It’s very sad, because we just came here to the fair, and we could not get in because they canceled it for the weekend,” said Fabián Hernández, 32, from Mexico City. “So it’s very busy today, and it’s disappointing to me because I love the art fair, you know? But it is what it is.”

An anti far-right protest is planned

A demonstration Saturday in the city of Orléans, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of Paris, will also be closely watched.

About 50 organizations have called for a protest against the far right on the sidelines of the two-day congress of Marine Le Pen’s nationalist, anti-immigration party ahead of next spring’s presidential election. Organizers include labor unions, left-wing political parties, student organizations and anti-racism groups.

Hugues Moutouh, the prefect of the Loiret region, said that 20,000 to 30,000 demonstrators from across the country were expected.

Le Pen, whom opinion polls place as the front-runner in next year’s election, accused left-wing organizations and political parties of trying to “disrupt a political party’s democratic congress,” on news broadcaster Franceinfo.

Still, she said she had “no concerns” about security because the government had “recognized the need for measures allowing the congress to proceed safely.”

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Associated Press writers David Biller and Samuel Petrequin in Paris contributed to this report.

On Sunday the Pittsburgh Steelers face the New Orleans Saints in an NFL match at the 80,000-capacity stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis, around a short train ride from the city center.

Zinedine Zidane scored the only goal as France beat Spain in a friendly match in January '98 to mark the opening of a gleaming national stadium, something which was commonplace in other countries but which France was crying out for. It was used as the centerpiece of hosting the World Cup that year.

There were huge celebrations a few months later when Zidane's two goals against Brazil led Les Bleus to their first World Cup triumph.

Night of terror

Fast forward to a sombre November night in 2015.

Tens of thousands of fans are gripped by fear after bombs explode outside the stadium early into France's friendly against Germany. As mass confusion reigns as to what is happening outside the stadium — and, terrifyingly — in several places across Paris, fans are stuck inside the stadium for hours. Both soccer teams stay in the same dressing room until it's finally safe to leave.

The November 13 terror attacks began at Stade de France and spread across the city in assaults that killed 132 people and injured over 400. One person died and least 14 were injured outside the stadium, but casualties could have been far heavier without the actions of a quick-thinking security guard.

Here are some other key moments in Stade de France's history:

Neon Dion

Céline Dion sells out two nights running in June 1999.

The Canadian singer's iconic vocal range thrills fans, and the two nights form part of a live album called “Au Cœur du Stade” (At the heart of the stadium) released that summer.

American rock star Bruce Springsteen has also performed at the stadium, as did Beyoncé & Jay-Z in 2018 on July 14 — which is Bastille Day, France's national day.

In 2019, it was the turn of K-pop sensation BTS and they returned this year.

Merci Paris

The curtain came down on the successful 2024 Paris Olympics with an extravagant closing ceremony, including a spectacular live entrance from the top of stadium by actor Tom Cruise and performances from rapper Snoop Dogg and Billie Eilish.

Earlier in the closing ceremony, Dion’s love affair with France culminated with her singing Edith Piaf’s “L’hymne à L’amour” (Hymn to Love) from the balcony of the Eiffel Tower.

Anticlimax

France was favored to win the 2016 European Championship after beating Germany to reach the final against Portugal, and even more so when Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was stretchered off with an injury in the first half.

But a nervous France side misses chances and cracked under pressure as Portugal won 1-0 with an extra time goal from substitute Eder.

First world record

Fans witnessed the stadium's first world record in track and field in August, 2016 as Olympic champion Ruth Jebet won the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase.

The 19-year-old Jebet, born in Kenya and running for Bahrain, clocked 8 minutes, 52.78 seconds at a Diamond League meet.

The stadium also hosted the 2003 world championships, which saw 110-meter hurdler Allen Johnson, the 1996 Olympic champion, winning his fourth worlds gold medal for the U.S. team.

Chaos at the gates

Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure lengthy waits at the gates for the Champions League final against Real Madrid in May, 2022.

The showpiece game was delayed and kicked off with security struggling with the flow of frustrated supporters trying to get in. Madrid eventually wins the match 1-0, with a goal by Vinícius Júnior.

UEFA claimed there were thousands of ticketless fans trying to gain access, a claim also echoed by Gérald Darmanin, France’s Interior Minster at the time.

But two years later, UEFA reached a confidential settlement to compensate Liverpool fans — who complained of heavy-handed policing — for dangerous chaos, saying that a near “mass fatality catastrophe” was avoided.

Darmanin apologized to Liverpool fans after wrongly blaming them for the chaotic scenes.

Liverpool fans were robbed as they left the stadium and made their way to transport hubs, with no police protection.

Springboks stun All Blacks

Host France didn't get to the 2023 Rugby World Cup final, leaving powerhouses New Zealand and South Africa to battle it out for a record fourth world crown.

New Zealand hopes took a huge blow when Sam Cane became the first player red-carded in a final following a high tackle.

Springboks captain Siya Kolisi and his teammates celebrated long into the night after a gritty 12-11 win.

That day, the Stade de France also became only the second stadium to host a soccer and rugby World Cup final, along with the International Stadium Yokohama in Japan (2002 and 2019).

Making history

Saints running back Alvin Kamara wants to make his history with his team.

“I want to win, (then) we'll always have that to brag about, that we won the first American football game played in France,” he said. “You know, we'll be a part of history. We'll say that to the next people who play in Paris, that the Saints won in that stadium.”

Quarterback Tyler Shough has already visited Stade de France, and it left quite an impression on him.

“The coolest part was going onto the locker room and you see all the national (soccer) players, (Paul) Pogba, (Kylian) Mbappé,” Shough said. “You see all the history there on the wall. Being a part of that gives you chills.” ___

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Attorneys for Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, said Thursday that the defense's proposed schedule was “absurd” and defendant Tyler Robinson was simply trying to delay.

Utah District Court Judge Tony Graf has scheduled a Friday hearing to set a trial date.

Robinson pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in last year's killing of Kirk while the ally of President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of several thousand people at Utah Valley University. The 23-year-old defendant turned himself in a day after the shooting, and his lawyers have not offered alternative theories for Kirk’s death. He could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

Prosecutors from Utah County in court filings anticipated a 17-week trial and said they would be ready by October 2027. But rather than hold the proceedings during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, they proposed the trial begin Jan. 31, 2028.

Erika Kirk’s attorney, Jeffrey Neiman, said the trial should start next October, the earliest date identified by prosecutors.

“Under the Defendants’ proposed schedule, Mr. Kirk’s two children, who were one and three at the time he was murdered, will be six and eight years old by the time the trial concludes,” Neiman wrote. “They will face the uncertainty of this criminal proceeding longer than they had their father in their lives.”

But Robinson's attorneys said in court filings this week that they must sift through tens of thousands of files turned over by prosecutors.

They said they'll have to conduct extensive investigations into Robinson's life in search of mitigating factors that could influence his sentence if convicted, and must devote “substantial time” to issues such as jury selection.

The defense lawyers said they respected the court's attempt to set a “realistic trial date.” Yet because it's a complex death penalty case, trying to predict when it will be ready for trial “is an exercise that, at this time, will necessarily be infected with false precision,” they wrote in a document filed Wednesday.

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Romanian naval authorities said that a search and rescue mission was underway after the ship caught fire and sank about 13 nautical miles (15 miles) east of the port city of Constanta, near Romania's territorial waters. The crew consisted of 10 Ukrainian citizens and three Azerbaijanis. Nine were rescued.

“This attack is a new example of the tragic consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” Romanian President Nicusor Dan said. “It is time for Russia to take peace initiatives of the United States and Europe seriously, accept the ceasefire proposals and end the war.”

At least seven other cargo vessels have been attacked this month off the Black Sea coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria, leaving two people dead and 25 missing.

Video released by the Interior Ministry showed only the ship's hull protruding above the surface in rough seas.

The naval authority identified the ship as the Comoros-flagged Khoryv, which the shipping data website MarineTraffic shows departed Turkey on Oct. 21 and was headed for Romania’s Sulina port.

“Rescue teams continue search operations to identify and rescue the other three crew members,” the naval authority said, adding that it wasn't possible to deploy a helicopter due to unfavorable weather conditions and low visibility.

On Saturday, Romanian pilots on air policing duties shot down two drones in Romania’s territorial waters over the Black Sea.

Four of the five nominees for the Johan Cruyff Trophy for men’s coach of the year are Spanish, as are two of the candidates for the women’s trophy.

The shortlists reflect how Spain, after years of winning men’s and women’s titles, has turned into a major exporter of coaching expertise.

After decades in the shadow of Italian, English and German counterparts, Spanish coaches are now in high demand as both clubs and national teams seek to tap into the philosophy credited for Spain’s success on the world stage.

Celebrated coaches like Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique have brought Spain’s possession-based style of play to Europe’s top clubs, with some adjustments.

“The cornerstone to the high esteem that Spanish coaches are enjoying now is their training and, above all, their ability to adapt to different contexts in European and global soccer,” Iván Cancela, who heads the Spanish soccer federation’s coaching academy, told The Associated Press.

Both Guardiola and Luis Enrique are among the academy’s graduates. The latter won last year’s Cruyff award – named after the Dutch great – and is a top candidate again after winning a second consecutive Champions League title with Paris Saint-Germain.

Luis de la Fuente is another top contender after winning the World Cup with Spain this summer. He led Spain’s Under-19 and Under-21 teams before taking over the senior side and has also taught courses for future managers organized by the Spanish federation.

“We are pioneers in coaching coaches for a long time now,” De la Fuente said last month. “We are an example to follow when it comes to coaching coaches, it is the root cause of why our coaches stand out.”

Benítez paved the way

It was relatively unusual for Spanish coaches to work abroad until Rafael Benítez made the leap to Liverpool from Valencia in 2004.

Many have followed in his footsteps.

Spaniards now make up the largest nationality group among Premier League coaches, with five teams managed by Spaniards. Two of them are candidates for the men's Cruyff Award: Mikel Arteta at defending champion Arsenal and Unai Emery, who won the Europa League with Aston Villa last season.

Spain had 107 coaches employed abroad in first-and-second-division clubs last season, up from 99 the previous season, according to UEFA, European soccer’s governing body. Portugal was second last season with 88.

Spaniards also are being recruited by other countries’ national teams. More than a dozen national teams currently have Spanish coaches, including Qatar, Czech Republic, South Korea and the Netherlands, which recently hired former Barcelona star Xavi Hernández.

The Dutch connection

In a way, Xavi’s move to the Netherlands is a full-circle moment because Spain traces its style of play back to Cruyff – who played for Barcelona in the 1970s and returned as coach in 1988.

Cruyff established a new playing philosophy in Spain based on maintaining possession and moving the ball with short passes between players constantly re-positioning themselves.

That style of play impacted how Spanish coaches spotted and developed talent.

“The Spanish player isn’t the fastest, they aren’t the strongest, or the tallest,” Cancela said. “But in my opinion, and I say this without wanting to sound boastful, but I believe that the Spanish player is the one that best interprets the game and is the most talented.”

Tiki-taka and its upgrades

Luis Aragonés, Spain coach from 2004 to 2008, made the possession-based approach a national trademark with a team built around midfield maestros Xavi and Andres Iniesta.

The so-called tiki-taka style lifted Spain to new heights with back-to-back European Championship titles in 2008 and 2012 and the country’s first World Cup trophy in 2010.

It eventually hit a wall as Xavi and Iniesta retired and Spain failed to translate possession into goals. De la Fuente, who took over as head coach after Spain's quarterfinal exit at the 2022 World Cup, modernized the system with faster attacking transitions, using one-on-one wingers like Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams to challenge defenses from the flanks.

Spain is now back at the top, with the 2024 European Championship title followed by the World Cup trophy this year.

Meanwhile, Spain rose to become world No. 1 in women’s soccer with a team built around a core of Barcelona players like Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas, now at London City Lionesses.

Barcelona coach Pere Romeu is among the five nominees for the coaching award for women’s soccer along with fellow Spaniard and former Barcelona coach Jonatan Giráldez of OL Lyonnes. They faced off in May in the Women’s Champions League final, which Barcelona won 4-0.

One-touch drills to hone passing skills

One thing that stands out with how Spanish coaches have been training their teams is the emphasis on drills involving the ball.

“You used to see lots of drills in training that were not using the ball, but in Spain the drills are all based on situations you can see in a real game,” said Javier Cano, president of EFA Pro, an association of professional Spanish coaches. “That is the great advantage that Spain has had for the past two decades.”

A good example is the Spanish “rondo,” or piggy-in-the-middle drill, that Cruyff made central to training in Barcelona.

The drill, whereby a small group of players must pass the ball between them in a compact area while one or two teammates try to intercept it, enhanced the basic skills of using one touch to execute – as well as open slight angles to receive – short passes under pressure, again and again.

That clockwork efficiency in keeping the ball has been evident in Spain’s World Cup victories for both men and women.

The Basque Country stands out

One of the quirks of this generation of elite Spanish coaches is how many of them come from northern Spain, specifically the Basque Country.

De la Fuente has family roots in the Basque Country, the home region of Emery and other coaches like Julen Lopetegui — who led Real Madrid and Spain — and José Mendilibar.

Arteta, Chelsea coach Xabi Alonso and Andoni Iraola of Liverpool played together as youngsters at Antiguoko, an amateur club in the Basque city of San Sebastian.

Antiguoko vice-president Roberto Montiel perfectly recalled the trio of young boys. Even though he noticed their talent, he barely could have imagined they would all reach such heights as coaches.

“It’s down to a little bit of everything,” Montiel told the AP. “We were lucky that these three great people and players coincided at our club. Then there is the DNA of Antiguoko and the Basque society that means we are all super competitive and share the passion for soccer.”

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Vance was a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph) as it churned about 455 miles (730 kilometers) south-southwest of Acapulco, and could become a major Category 3 hurricane before the end of Friday, the center said.

It was moving toward the north-northwest near 5 mph (8 kph), and this motion is expected to continue through the weekend, approaching the Puerto Vallarta area by Monday. The hurricane's outer bands were already funneling gale-force winds and rough seas into Mexico's Gulf of Tehuantepec, the center said.

It’s been an intense hurricane season in the Pacific Ocean, with storms spawning in assembly-line fashion near Hawaii and Mexico as El Niño conditions worsened by global warming create unusual weather, like this week's severe flooding and tornadoes hitting the southwestern United States and the prolonged drought in Central America's Dry Corridor.

Vance would be the seventh major hurricane in a row this year in the Pacific, following Nolo, Odalys, Polo, Rachel, Simon and Trudy. The World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee doesn't use less common names beginning with Q, U, X, Y and Z.

The shooting comes days before Tuesday’s election, when Israeli voters will decide whether to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another term.

In Jordan, gunmen opened fire inside a church, killing six people and wounding more than two dozen.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Friday. Read our full coverage here.

Israel's army says it killed 2 gunmen who killed soldiers

Israel’s military said its soldiers shot and killed two men who had launched an attack near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning. Two soldiers were killed and three others lightly wounded in the attack.

The army said it prevented a “terror attack against Israeli civilians” and that the gunmen had an M16 rifle and a handgun.

Following the attack, Israel's prime minister's office said it had ordered the army to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank.

Churchgoers in Jordan attacked

The shooting took place during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, home to a minority Christian population, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of the capital Amman.

A Jordanian government spokesperson said six people were killed and 28 others wounded.

Security services are investigating the incident, government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said in a statement.

In 2016, Islamic State militants launched an attack on the Karak Castle, a popular tourist site, killing 14 people, including a Canadian tourist. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Friday's attack.

Arab parties ask Israel’s top court to bar armed poll observers

Arab political parties running in Israel’s national election have asked the Supreme Court to ban partisan election observers from carrying guns at polling stations.

The petition, filed Thursday with the Israel-based legal group Adalah, said the ban was essential to protecting public safety and ensuring a free and fair election on Tuesday.

It followed announcements by Jewish parties led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that they planned to send about 2,000 election observers to Arab neighborhoods, citing allegations of voter fraud.

Palestinians make up about 20% of Israel’s population. Arab-led parties could prove decisive in the upcoming election, the first since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, if Jewish parties are willing to join them in a governing coalition.

UNICEF calls for halt to killing of children in Gaza

UNICEF said that the total number of children killed in Gaza has surpassed 350 since Israel and Hamas reached the agreement last October.

“This level of violence against children is unacceptable,” Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement.

Israel’s military says strikes target Hamas militants and that it takes steps to mitigate civilian harm.

Palestinians in Gaza face bread shortages

Crowds gathered outside bakeries across Gaza on Friday, banging on metal doors and scrambling to obtain bags of bread.

The World Food Program announced Monday that it had reduced the number of people receiving assistance in Gaza to 1.1 million from 1.6 million because of a severe funding shortfall.

Ibrahim Abu Osama, a resident of Gaza City, said some bakeries had shut down and flour prices had skyrocketed since then. He said he had been unable to find bread.

At the same time, commercial shipments into Gaza, including food, were halted for days following a dispute over fees imposed on merchants. Israel said Monday it would gradually resume the shipments. As of Thursday, commercial shipments had resumed, but not of food.

Yemen retracts statement against gatherings in Houthi-controlled areas

Yemen’s defense ministry retracted a statement warning that tribal mobilization gatherings in Houthi-controlled areas would be considered legitimate military targets, calling the statement “wrong and unacceptable.”

Defense Minister Taher al-Aqili apologized to Yemen’s tribes in a post on X on Thursday, saying the military would not target tribal gatherings, known locally as “Nakf,” or other civilian assemblies. He said the military would abide by international humanitarian law in all its operations.

The statement earlier released by the internationally recognized ministry had warned residents in Houthi-controlled areas against attending such gatherings, accusing the Iran-backed rebels of mobilizing supporters and recruiting children for combat.

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 1

Strikes by Israel's army killed at least one person in southern Gaza Friday morning, according to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Israeli military said the strike targeted a Hamas militant.

More than 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli military since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began in October 2025, according to the territory’s health ministry. The ministry maintains detailed records and is regarded as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. Part of the Hamas-run government, the ministry does not distinguish between civilians and militants but says women and children make up nearly half of those killed.

Foreign ministers meet in Turkey over regional conflicts

Turkey hosted meetings Friday with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the U.K., France, Germany and Italy to discuss conflicts in the Middle East and efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war.

Speaking after the talks, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the attendees agreed that "any renewed attack directed at Iran would lead to a further spread of war and conflict throughout the region.” He called for a diplomatic resolution of the U.S.-Iran conflict, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.

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The Pittsburgh star spoke at a news conference inside a downtown hotel shortly after the team arrived in the capital for Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints at Stade de France.

“I definitely think that the NFL is alert to what's going on," Rodgers said. "This game means a lot to the NFL. If it was unsafe, then I'm sure we wouldn't be here.”

A morning practice for the Steelers at Stade de France was canceled because of bad weather, the team said. There was wind and light rain in Paris.

The Steelers flew from Pittsburgh overnight and had planned the outdoor practice at 11 a.m. local time, but it was called off 90 minutes beforehand.

Sunday’s game is going ahead despite the civil unrest in Paris and other cities in France. More demonstrations are planned for this weekend.

The U.S. State Department late Thursday issued a security alert: “Numerous groups submitted plans for protests on Saturday, October 24. Americans in Paris for the NFL game on Sunday, October 25 should also exercise caution and be aware of their surroundings. While permits may be filed for demonstration routes, last-minute changes can happen and protests can occur outside planned routes.”

On Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said preparations were made in consultation with U.S. and French authorities. Street protests, he said, "are not unusual in France.”

A weekend event for Steelers fans was canceled Thursday because of security concerns.

Steelers coach Mike McCarthy said the team is “very confident” that the team's experience will be positive.

T.J. Watt says he is ‘good to go’

Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt is dealing with a calf issue, according to Thursday's injury report. Watt, who had already been on the report as resting, was listed as limited in practice Thursday.

At the team's hotel Friday, Watt didn't seem concerned.

“I feel really good, honestly," he said when asked about the time difference and his calf. "I just try to hydrate as much as possible, was able to sleep on the plane, just hit an espresso so I should be good to go."

McCarthy said he's not concerned about Watt's availability but that technically the decision would be made after Saturday's practice.

Watt, who has 4.5 sacks this season, said that after team meetings he and some other players would “do some things around town, camaraderie things and get a meal. Just try to hang out, fellowship as much as possible.”

Injury updates

Steelers safety DeShon Elliott (knee) has been a full participant this week. A decision on his game availability will be made after Saturday's practice, McCarthy said.

“He's one of our leaders. Just to watch him fight back from this injury — he's definitely someone you root for,” the coach said. “It's been a real milestone for him to get to this point. It's been a long road back, but he's a big part of what we're about in Pittsburgh.”

DE Sebastian Joseph-Day was placed on the injured reserve list Thursday.

Home cooking for Metcalf

Wide receiver DK Metcalf had a big day in Dublin last year, scoring on an 80-yard touchdown reception in Pittsburgh's win over the Minnesota Vikings. He had five catches for 126 yards in the 24-21 victory.

But it turns out he's not a big fan of the international games. He was asked if he has a wish list of new cities.

“No, sir, because I really don’t like traveling to play football outside the U.S.," he said, smiling, "but it’s kind of in our job description right now.”

The NFL is playing a record nine international games this season.

Storm Austen impacting Paris

A flag football event scheduled Friday near the Eiffel Tower was canceled because of the weather, NFL France announced.

Storm Austen was moving across the English Channel and was expected to bring strong winds to the region. The French national weather service put Paris and 22 other regions under an “orange alert” Friday because of the high winds.

The Saints are based in Versailles and practice at Stade Municipal Montbauron. The league said that because of “elevated wind and rain conditions” there would be no media viewing of practice.

The Saints came to Paris directly from New York after beating the Giants last Sunday.

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The disaster struck Nagqu, a city north of Tibet’s capital Lhasa that's some 4,800 meters (5,249 yards) above sea level, on Thursday. At least 339 homes collapsed, and officials told journalists they were concerned about further building collapses from aftershocks, as well as casualties from rockslides.

Search and rescue efforts are complicated by the geography and low temperatures, officials said. As of Friday afternoon, rescuers had done three rounds of searches, going through each household, and each village, said Dunzhu, the acting mayor of Nagqu city, said in a press conference.

More than 5,000 people from three local counties were deployed for rescue efforts. Supplies including 2,000 prefabricated housing units, around 3,400 tents and 2,000 folding beds, as well as flashlights and winter clothing arrived in the region.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:33 p.m. local time on Thursday, with its epicenter 191 kilometers (119 miles) east-northeast of Nagqu. It put the earthquake’s depth at 18 kilometers (11 miles).

The U.S. agency recorded at least seven aftershocks with magnitude between 4.3 and 5.2, all of them with a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to its website.

China’s official news agency Xinhua said on Friday that communication in some areas hit by the quake was down. Local railway authorities have taken emergency actions to halt trains passing through the region.

The earthquake also caused rockfalls that have forced local authorities to close a section of National Highway 317, allowing only emergency, rescue and official support vehicles through as crews worked to clear debris, according to Xinhua.

Intermittent snows are expected in the earthquake region over the next three days, Xinhua said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all-out efforts in rescue operations and medical relief work, issuing instructions Friday morning. The Chinese leader does so only in major disasters and accidents.

Nepalese government officials and climate policy experts welcomed the move, but said the $20 million represents only a fraction of the $4.7 billion the government estimates is needed for recovery and reconstruction.

“It’s a very small amount compared to what we lost,” said Maheshwar Dhakal, a senior official in Nepal’s climate and environment ministry. But Dhakal said that releasing the money sends a significant message: “This shows that the global community can take the right decision at the right time to help those who are most vulnerable to climate change.”

The government said it had received around $102 million from domestic and international donors as of the end of September. Dhakal said the government is working with neighboring countries like India and China, as well as multilateral development banks, to raise more of the money it needs for recovery.

It's the first payout from a UN fund to respond to climate disasters

The U.N. Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage approved the payout — the fund's first — at an emergency board meeting Thursday.

The fund is aimed at providing assistance to countries hit by climate change. It was created at the 2022 U.N. climate talks following years of demands from vulnerable developing nations, which contribute relatively little to emissions of planet-warming gases but often bear some of the worst consequences.

Countries have pledged more than $820 million to the fund, while it faces 176 requests for support from developing nations totaling about $2.8 billion. The fund’s board members will meet in December to consider more support requests.

The next round of U.N. climate negotiations is scheduled to begin in Turkey next month, and financing for countries impacted by climate-related disasters is expected to be a key issue.

Climate change helped fuel Nepal floods

Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah, speaking at the United Nations in September, said Nepal was paying a devastating price for a crisis it had barely contributed to causing.

“We did not create this crisis, yet we are paying a colossal price for it,” he said.

Human-caused climate change was a key factor in destabilizing the mountainside whose collapse triggered the devastating flood.

An analysis by the World Weather Attribution research group released in September found that warming temperatures had thinned glaciers and thawed permafrost, weakening the ice and frozen ground that helped hold mountain rock in place.

Climate scientists said that rising temperatures are causing glaciers to retreat across the Himalayas and thawing permanently frozen ground that helps bind fractured mountain rock together.

The Himalayan region contains the largest volume of snow and ice outside the polar regions. More than 63,000 glaciers in the area feed at least 10 major Asian river systems and support the food, water, energy and livelihood security of billions of people. However, studies have found that around 78% of the glacier area, which is located between 4,500 and 6,000 meters (14,763 to 19,685 feet) above sea level, is highly exposed to warming. United Nations reports have found that between 2000 and 2019, glaciers lost 267 billion tons of ice per year.

International aid cuts deepen crisis for climate-vulnerable countries

Massive cuts to international aid budgets, including that of the United States Agency for International Development, have made it harder for countries like Nepal to prepare and respond to climate-driven disasters, said climate experts.

“The (U.N.) loss and damage fund’s response to the floods is now demonstrating, in equally devastating fashion, the utter inadequacy of support from rich countries for countries like Nepal,” said Brandon Wu, policy and campaigns director at ActionAid USA.

Official development assistance from major donor countries fell 23% in 2025 according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The United States led the reductions, while Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Japan also cut aid spending.

“The reality is that we need trillions of dollars every year, but developed countries have not met their obligation,” said Harjeet Singh of the Fill the Fund campaign, a global group that pressures governments to contribute to the U.N. fund.

Singh called for a permanent mechanism capable of delivering emergency climate assistance quickly, rather than forcing disaster-hit countries through lengthy approval processes.

“Nepal needs billions to rebuild, and this Fund is responding only in millions,” he said.

The funding shortfall is expected to intensify demands at the upcoming U.N. climate talks for richer countries to increase their financial commitments.

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The pope had been due to attend a gathering on Tuesday marking the 40th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s World Day of Prayer for Peace.

The Vatican said Leo, 71, was advised not to travel “to facilitate his recovery” from last week's operation. The pope will instead send a message to the organizers, interfaith leaders and guests attending the “Disarmed and Disarming Peace” event.

In a separate statement, the pope's doctors said a follow-up chest X-ray confirmed he's recovering well, but given the short time that has elapsed since the operation, they recommended as a precaution that he not make the helicopter trip.

The Vatican said Leo wants to express his closeness to participants and reaffirm his belief that the “spirit of Assisi,” dialogue and the search for words and gestures of peace remain valuable resources at a time of conflict.

The Assisi meeting commemorates the landmark interfaith peace gathering convened by St. John Paul II in 1986.

The cancellation is the latest change to Leo’s schedule since last week, when surgeons removed a lobe where the nodule later diagnosed as malignant was located, in the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.

The pope will need no further treatment for lung cancer after tests confirmed the disease was localized, but his activities will be guided by medical advice during his recovery, the Vatican said.

Leo returned to the Vatican last Saturday and his surgeon said there are “no clinical reasons” to prevent him from traveling to Latin America next month.

Thoracic surgeons often advise patients not to fly for three weeks after surgery — which would give the pope just the interval needed to make his planned Nov. 6-17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, involving a dozen flights and two helicopter rides to high altitudes.

In his public appearances since returning to the Vatican, Leo appeared in good health, speaking with a strong and clear voice.

The army said two soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, were killed and three others were lightly wounded during an attack by Palestinian gunmen. The attack took place near the Yehuda Junction outside the West Bank city of Hebron.

The army said it had prevented a “terror attack against Israeli civilians” and that the two suspects, both Palestinians from Hebron, were armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun.

It said the men arrived at an Israeli military position in the morning, triggering an exchange of fire lasting approximately 20 minutes, after which the gunmen were killed by Israeli troops. The army said its forces prevented the men from advancing further where the attack could have resulted in civilian casualties.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office later said it had instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare for a full closure of the West Bank, starting Friday.

During a visit to the site of the attack on Friday, the prime minister said Israel would retaliate with a sweeping anti-terror operation in the Hebron neighborhood where the gunmen had resided.

“We will evacuate the residents, we will go house by house, we will also remove the weapons there, and all the terror infrastructure will be dealt with and destroyed,” Netanyahu said.

Israeli voters will decide next Tuesday whether to grant Netanyahu yet another term in office — or usher in a new era of Israeli politics. The election comes three years after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.

Israel’s government has warned of potential attacks by the country’s “enemies” in the lead-up to the election.

Netanyahu holds an emergency meeting

Netanyahu later met with his Security Cabinet and officials from top military and security agencies in an emergency meeting, blaming Hamas for Friday's attack.

“Our brave soldiers thwarted this attack with courage and determination,” he said, without elaborating on what the planned attack entailed.

“I commend them for their actions and wish our wounded a speedy recovery,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, known for extremist views, said that the attack shows that Israel needs to restrict the Palestinians’ freedom of movement in the West Bank.

He and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, another far-right member of Netanyahu’s Cabinet, both called for Israel’s military to wrest control of the West Bank from the Palestinian Authority, though there was no evidence Friday to suggest the governing body had any ties to the gunmen.

“There is no alternative to a comprehensive military campaign in Judea and Samaria to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, collect the weapons, and eliminate the terrorists, exactly as we did in Gaza and Lebanon,” Smotrich wrote on social media.

Dozens are arrested in West Bank security operations

Following the shooting on Friday, the army said soldiers and Israeli security and intelligence agencies conducted dozens of operations in the West Bank and apprehended dozens of people, including those affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups.

It also said it had located weapons, including M16 rifles and submachine guns.

Eyal Zamir, the Israeli army’s chief of staff, said a “large quantity of ammunition was found” in a vehicle used by the gunmen.

“This ammunition was intended to be used in a larger-scale attack,” he added.

Palestinian life is ‘impossible,’ says US congressional candidate

Closures of the West Bank are becoming more common. It was the fourth time in the past month that Israel had imposed restrictions across the territory, shutting gates and checkpoints connecting Palestinian villages to major roads.

Roads in the territory remain open to Israeli drivers, including settlers, who can still travel through the area but may face delays.

U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander, who was in the West Bank on Friday, said the Israeli army’s closure following the attack was an example of Israel enforcing an apartheid system on Palestinians.

“It’s part of the effort to take more control, to make Palestinian life impossible,” Lander, who was detained by Israeli forces on Wednesday, said in an interview.

Yishai Fleisher, an international spokesperson for Hebron’s Jewish community and a political candidate for the far-right Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, party, said Israel had the right to defend itself from a “hostile majority.”

“We are tired of the weapons and the brainwashing and incitement that is next door,” he said.

Former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel was supposed to help elevate Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers, bringing his innovative ideas to the West Coast. Instead, the Chargers are 0-6 because the offense has been terrible and Herbert has regressed significantly.

Former Giants coach Brian Daboll was expected to develop Cam Ward the way he helped Josh Allen in Buffalo. But the Tennessee Titans have the worst offense in the league and Ward has been inconsistent.

The New York Jets are 25th in yards and 27th in scoring in former Colts coach Frank Reich’s offense.

Several more of the 21 new offensive coordinators this season are also having a difficult time over the first six weeks.

Davis Webb already lost playcalling duties in Denver as Broncos coach Sean Payton reclaimed that job less than a month into the season.

Jalen Hurts was off to a slow start in Sean Mannion’s offense before he was sidelined because of blood clots.

Sam Darnold has taken a step backward under Brian Fleury after leading the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl last season.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been dismal on offense in Zac Robinson’s system. Baker Mayfield was out of sync in three games before he injured his thumb and undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels didn’t fare much better.

What’s wrong with Herbert and the Chargers?

McDaniel brought a fast-paced offense that features an outside-zone run scheme, rhythm-based passing structures and heavy pre-snap motion. Herbert, a two-time Pro Bowl QB with elite physical skills, hasn’t mastered it. He has thrown eight interceptions and his 68.8 passer rating is almost 25 points lower than his career-low. A depleted offensive line hasn’t helped.

Now the question is how long will coach Jim Harbaugh stick with McDaniel.

“We’re looking into everything at this point, and that process is ongoing-particularly offensively, scoring more points,” Harbaugh said before the team entered its bye this week.

McDaniel expressed confidence in getting the offense on track before the unit produced just two field goals and 259 total yards in a 22-6 loss to Kansas City last Sunday.

“I will be doing my very best because from an integrity standpoint I think it’s really insulting to do anything else,” he said. “That won’t change. I would be so embarrassed if I told you, ‘well now I’m going to try harder.’ Like what? What have you been doing? I’m confident in the players that we have. I think that the improvement that I see before the results generally lead to good things. But talk is cheap. We got to do.”

They’re not getting the job done in Los Angeles.

Can Daboll get the best out of Ward?

Daboll was instrumental in Allen’s growth during his time as offensive coordinator with the Bills. He was AP NFL Coach of the Year in his first season with the New York Giants in 2022 and won a playoff game with Daniel Jones. But Daboll was 11-33 over the next 2 1/2 seasons.

Titans coach Robert Saleh brought Daboll to Tennessee to work with Ward, hoping he could maximize the2025 No. 1 overall pick’s talent. Daboll’s passing scheme relies on concepts and focuses on quick, high-percentage throws, and includes heavy run-pass options.

Ward hasn’t figured it out yet. He has just four TDs, four picks and a 75.0 passer rating.

“I think the biggest thing is, particularly when you’re a young guy and you’re seeing so many things, you’re in a new system and there’s a lot of growing to do,” Daboll said Thursday. “Obviously, the results have not shown. We’re good with the direction we’re headed, but we’re not good with the results we’re getting.”

New offensive coordinators bring new systems, new schemes, new verbiage and terminology. It takes time for most quarterbacks and their coordinators to get in rhythm. For some, things click right away.

Drew Petzing’s offense in Detroit leads the NFL in scoring (32.8 points per game) and is fourth in total yards (393.8). He has plenty of talent led by Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown.

Eric Bieniemy’s return to Kansas City has helped spark the Chiefs. Andy Reid calls plays but Bienemy’s presence is valuable for the offense.

“He’s not going to let you slack off at all in anything,” running back Kenneth Walker III said. “You feel like you could do the play 100% correct and he’ll still have something to say. Having that is good because you’ve got no room to be satisfied. Everybody knows what to expect and he’s going to make sure we play for the team and not for ourselves.”

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“I regret not disclosing this when I had the opportunity to do so,” Davies said in his statement. He didn't elaborate on the circumstances of the relationship or when it happened.

Davies joined the country’s Air Force in 1984 and became chief of the New Zealand Defence Force in 2024. The military said leadership was transitioning to its vice chief, Rear Admiral Mat Williams.

“The resignation is for personal reasons, and results from errors of judgement made by me in the past, for which I am taking responsibility," Davies said. “The errors of judgement were contrary to the values of the Defence Force.”

The military said in a statement that it wouldn't comment further. The matter has been referred to an independent inspector-general who investigates military conduct.

Defense Minister Paul Goldsmith, an elected government official, said he had received the resignation. Goldsmith said in a statement that the situation was an “integrity matter" and he had agreed with Davies that his position was no longer tenable.

“I acknowledge his 42 years of service and his contribution to the New Zealand Defence Force, but note the circumstances of his resignation will be a great disappointment to the men and women of the Defence Force," Goldsmith said.

Davies graduated from the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff Course at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama in 2000, and the Royal College of Defence Studies in London in 2013, according to the New Zealand military's website. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998 for his role in the midwinter evacuation of a critically ill U.S. citizen from Antarctica.

One of them is José Antonio Bañuelos-Díaz, 42, who applied for citizenship in October 2025 after living in the country for 40 years and spending his entire adult life as a legal permanent resident. The federal government has alleged in charging documents that he improperly claimed to be a citizen in 2007 when registering to vote, then later lied about it on his immigration paperwork. The government hasn't accused him of casting a ballot.

Bañuelos-Díaz told The Associated Press he had no idea he had registered to vote until he was arrested Monday outside his Los Angeles home, though he recalls getting a driver's license around 2007. In California, people are prompted to register to vote when applying for a driver’s license.

“I have never voted because I know I can’t vote,” he said. “If there was a mistake, they should have called me out right away, not 20 years later.”

He was released from custody after his arrest but faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

Federal authorities on Monday charged more than two dozen legal permanent residents in California in a crackdown on people accused of illegally voting or registering to do so. As of Thursday morning, the government had filed charging documents in 10 of the 28 cases, offering additional details about how authorities relied on voter registration data to pursue broader criminal charges around immigration status.

Most of the immigrants charged in California have lived in the country for at least five years, and some of them for decades. They registered as Republicans, Democrats and independents, according to voter data, and they could face deportation if they lied on their citizenship application.

Lying on immigration forms carries a heavier sentence than illegal voting

Immigrants convicted of illegally voting in the United States face up to a year in prison. Those convicted of lying on applications to become American citizens face up to a decade.

The Justice Department said in a statement that six people would be charged with voting as a noncitizen, a misdemeanor. The 22 others were facing a combination of felony charges including lying on their naturalization application during interviews or on voter registration forms.

In one case, Homeland Security agents arrested Pamele Arbues Line immediately following her Oct. 15 naturalization interview in San Diego.

In charging documents, the federal government said Line had allegedly registered to vote five times and had submitted ballots in several elections but said in her paperwork and in the interview that she had never voted or claimed to be a U.S. citizen. She later admitted to registering to vote while getting her driver’s license renewed last year and said she voted once, according to the charging documents.

Line, who is from the Philippines, told authorities she thought she was a U.S. citizen because her mother had become naturalized after they moved to the United States more than four decades ago. But Line, now 56, was 19 at the time and not covered by her mother's citizenship, according to the government. She learned she was not a citizen in June when she went to get a renewed Social Security card, and she told agents she applied for naturalization the same day, according to the documents.

She faces at least 10 years in prison if convicted of two charges.

Trump tackles alleged noncitizen voting as midterms near

The cases are part of a Trump administration effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

The Department of Justice has sued California for not complying with a request to verify the citizenship of roughly 20,000 registered voters it says may be noncitizens. California, which has more than 23 million registered voters, has argued the state complies with federal law and that the Trump administration's numbers are likely significantly inflated.

State election officials also noted once a ballot is mailed in, it is separated from any individual voter identification, making it impossible to separate based on the information provided by the federal government.

Beyond voting, the Trump administration has also ramped up immigration enforcement nationwide and slowed down the approval of naturalization applications. Government data shows officials approved 58,000 naturalization applications between April and June 2026, less than a quarter of the number approved in the same period in 2025, according to the data.

Immigrants can apply to become U.S. citizens after holding green cards for at least three years. They must answer extensive questions about activities related to voting, political activities and crime, pass background checks and a civics test and meet English language requirements.

It's unclear what led authorities to those who were charged

The Department of Homeland Security did not say what initially drew attention to the immigrants charged but said in an email that the agency reviewed naturalization and other records in its investigation. Some of the court documents in the cases describe a benefits fraud audit performed by Homeland Security in August that started the process of identifying those charged this week.

“The voting rights of American citizens must be protected,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement announcing the charges this week.

Amandeep Kaur, who is among those charged, has lived in the country for eight years and is in the process of becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, said her husband, Kulwinder Singh.

Singh said she got her driver's license in 2024 but took the written test at the DMV in Hindi because she struggles with English. He doesn’t know if she registered to vote then. He said she received and returned a ballot in 2024 but they both thought it was a registration form.

Now, he said his wife is distraught with the news that she may have done something illegal.

“All she does is cry. It’s heartbreaking,” said Singh, who is a U.S. citizen.

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Lauer contributed from Philadelphia and Taxin from Santa Ana, California.

The S&P 500 fell 0.2%, adding to its decline from a day before. The index is on track for a second-straight week of losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 541 points, or 1%, as of 11:12 a.m. Eastern time.

The Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%, bolstered by gains for several big tech stocks that also helped ease losses elsewhere.

Rising oil prices weighed heavily on the broader market, where three out of every four stocks within the benchmark S&P 500 index fell. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil rose 2.4% to $115.86. It has surged from less than $97 at the start of October and is now at its highest level since March.

Several AI-related companies made big moves. Micron Technology jumped 3.4% and Microsoft rose 0.8% and helped ease the impact on major indexes from a broad drop for most stocks. Even a relatively small 0.3% gain from Nvidia went a long way to help offset losses elsewhere in the market.

The tech sector's influence is also capable of quickly switching over to a heavy weight. Stocks that have benefited from the frenzy over AI have been swinging over rising worries about their path ahead. Investors are worried about whether their high prices are justified. Many of those companies have been borrowing to fund investments in AI technology and high interest rates are making those loans more expensive.

The latest round of corporate earnings are being closely-watched to help get a better sense of whether those investments are paying off, or might pay off. Several influential AI-related companies report their latest financial results next week, including Google's parent, Alphabet, along with Microsoft and Amazon.

Industrial companies had some of the broadest losses. Caterpillar slumped 2.3% and Boeing fell 1%.

American Express slumped 3.3% and joined a drop for other financial companies, despite r eporting profits for its most recent quarter that beat analysts' forecasts. The company did announce its first major job cuts in roughly a decade.

Rising oil prices that weighed down much of the market helped boost energy companies. Chevron rose 2.4% and ConocoPhillips rose 4.2%.

European markets were lower. France’s main index fell 0.7%, though yields on French government bonds eased a bit.

Treasury yields in the U.S. edged higher following sharp drops on Thursday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury edged up to 4.99% from 4.96% late Thursday.

Yields have been rising globally, partly over worries about governments taking on too much debt. Inflation also remains a concern and is stubbornly well above 3% in the U.S. That prompted the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate at its last meeting in an effort to cool inflation.

Wall Street expects the central bank to hold rates steady at its meeting next week, but is leaning heavily toward another rate hike in December.

Wall Street will also get several big economic updates next week, including the Fed's preferred measure of inflation. The personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE, is expected to show that inflation rose at a 3.6% rate in September, sharply above the Fed's 2% target.

The U.S. war with Iran has severely cut the world's oil supply, driving energy prices higher and fueling a sharp jump in the cost of everything from gasoline to food and clothes.

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First responders rushed to the scene, located along the 15400 block of Southwest 148th Street in the county’s Country Walk area.

Sky 10 was over the scene around 11:30 a.m. and observed several law enforcement vehicles outside a home.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said the call was received as reports of a shooting.

Deputies said a man went to the home and shot a woman who lives there after a confrontation between the two escalated. He then turned the gun on himself, according to MDSO.

Medics rushed the woman Jackson South Medical Center in critical condition, while the shooter died, deputies said.

Cecilia Delfino, who lives next door, said she heard yelling followed by gunfire.

Delfino said she knew the woman who lived at the home and described her as kind.

Deputies have yet to reveal the identities of either the suspect or the victim.

“It appears that this situation is domestic in nature, however our homicide detectives are still trying to determine the familial ties,” said MDSO Public Information Officer Danny Castillo.

Williams passed for 308 yards and two touchdowns, and the Bears cooled off Drake Maye and the New England Patriots with a 30-24 victory Thursday night.

It was the second meeting between the young quarterbacks since they were part of the 2024 NFL draft. Maye, who was selected by New England at No. 3, directed the Patriots to a 19-3 victory over Williams and the Bears when the longtime friends were rookies.

But Williams, the No. 1 overall pick, leaned on Luther Burden and Colston Loveland while outlasting Maye and the Patriots in the rematch. Williams connected on 22 of 33 passes in his second game back after being sidelined by a right hamstring injury.

“These nights are awesome,” Williams said. “You play against another good team on a primetime game in a short week, these games are awesome because you get to see who you are as a team. That’s who we are. We’re a smashmouth football team, an innovative team. And when things happen and things don’t go our way and the water is rocky, we stay steady.”

Maye was 24 for 31 for 321 yards and two touchdowns. He also had a 7-yard run for New England's first TD with 11:33 left in the first half.

But Maye also was intercepted by Bears linebacker D'Marco Jackson in the end zone on a pass intended for rookie tight end Eli Raridon late in the second quarter.

“It’s those plays, I talk about it all the time,” Maye said. “You know those plays that can swing the game, can impact the game and that was definitely one of them right there. Yeah, I wish I definitely had that one back.”

New England (4-3) had won three consecutive games behind Maye, who threw 10 TD passes and one interception during the win streak.

“He gave us a chance," Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said. "He competed and I know he’d like to have that throw back to Eli, but I thought he really competed. Whether that was running around and scrambling or finding good places to go with the football. He gave us a chance. ... I’m glad he’s ours.”

Burden had four catches for 130 yards for Chicago (5-2), and Loveland had a 12-yard touchdown reception. Cairo Santos kicked a 58-yard field goal with 1:34 left, a career long and matching the franchise record, after he missed a 53-yard attempt earlier in the final quarter.

Williams became the first Bears quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards in consecutive games since Mitch Trubisky had a three-game run in 2018.

“I think he did a pretty good job throughout the night,” Bears coach Ben Johnson said. “I know he had a number of explosive plays. He found some of those guys at the second level that were huge for us.”

After Santos’ long field goal, Maye drove New England into range for Andy Borregales’ 47-yarder with 37 seconds to go. But Chicago recovered the ensuing onside kick.

Rhamondre Stevenson had five catches for 93 yards and a touchdown for the Patriots. Raridon had a 30-yard TD catch in the third quarter.

“We did some good things,” Vrabel said. “But again, didn’t do enough.”

It was Chicago’s first home game since Mike Ditka died on Oct. 9. The Bears saluted the Hall of Fame tight end and longtime coach with a pregame moment of silence, and they also handed out fake mustaches to the crowd of 60,520 at Soldier Field.

Ditka’s No. 89 jersey dotted the stands, and fans also donned Bears sweaters in a callback to what he wore on the sideline as a coach.

Chicago opened a 20-7 lead on Burden’s 24-yard touchdown with 14 seconds left in the first half. Burden got the ball on a screen on third-and-17, and Loveland, Kalif Raymond and Darnell Wright helped clear the way for his second TD reception of the season.

“The whole calvary came ... and it was like a wave carrying him through there,” Johnson said. “He saw a little crease and hit the jets.”

Set to receive the second-half kickoff, the Bears were in position to pull away. But the Patriots responded with Stevenson’s 48-yard touchdown reception on the final play of the period.

Stevenson slipped out of the backfield and Maye lobbed the ball over the head of Bears safety Cam Lewis. Stevenson ran away from Lewis and got a downfield block from DeMario Douglas before cutting past Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson on his way to the end zone.

Injuries

Patriots: CB Christian Gonzalez played after being listed as questionable because of an illness. ... S Kevin Byard departed after he was checked out by trainers with 9:44 left in first half. He later returned. ... DT Christian Barmore departed late in the game.

Bears: CB Malik Muhammad left in the third quarter with a toe injury. ... TE Cole Kmet hurt his right knee on a reception with 5:34 left. "We’ll know more tomorrow, but I don’t think it looked very good,” Johnson said.

Up next

Patriots: At Miami on Nov. 1.

Bears: At Seattle for a Monday night game Nov. 2.

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AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa embraced Infantino with a large hug Friday in front of the Asian membership at an extraordinary congress meeting in Tokyo, where he delivered his endorsement. It was a timely boost for Infantino as he campaigns for re-election amid strong opposition from Europe

“We affirm our full commitment to supporting you and your leadership as you seek a new mandate as the FIFA president,” Sheikh Salman said. “You’ve visited a lot of countries in Asia. I’ve spoken to a lot of members within this continent. I know your feeling and I think your commitment is clear as well.”

The AFC has 47 member associations. Even if all the members don't follow the direction of Sheikh Salman, those votes could be a key to guaranteeing another mandate for Infantino.

The FIFA election is in March and the deadline for candidates to file against Infantino is Nov. 18. So far none has filed.

Addressing his remarks to Infantino, Sheikh Salman indicated not every AFC member would go along with the endorsement, but most will.

“My feeling is, I’m sure, the feeling of most of my members,” he said. “And I’ve said that to you.”

Infantino's re-election chances have been enhanced by FIFA's plans to increase contributions to member associations from $10 million to $25 million, which he referenced Friday.

The AFC meeting was closed to the media, as were AFC meetings in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday. The official events were broadcast on the AFC's YouTube channel.

An abrupt about-face

This is an abrupt turnaround for Sheikh Salman. In August, the AFC joined the soccer governing bodies of Europe, and North and Central America in saying that Infantino had committed a “fundamental breach of trust.”

Infantino apologized last week in Zurich to FIFA's 37-member ruling council — which he chairs — for “mistakes” he made in assembling a now-scrapped $4.2 billion plan for the World Cup.

Sheikh Salman referenced the differences with Infantino in his speech Friday, but glossed over any details.

“Gianni, I want to make it clear. Yes, we had some issues we spoke about in the past,” Sheikh Salman said. “But let’s not relate the two things together. I think the last few (times) we met in Zurich you made it clear that there’s a true understanding between us.”

“The past I’m sure is part of our history,” he added, “We've all, I’m sure, learned important lessons from it. What matters now is how we move forward together. I think everyone has questions and I’m sure the answers we be available, whether to us in Asia, or the rest of the world.”

An Associated Press tally published earlier this month indicated Infantino — even before the AFC endorsement — is edging toward a simple majority of the 211 FIFA member federations.

Infantino's electioneering around the globe

Infantino has been traveling the globe to promote a new funding model, supported last week by FIFA's Council, which offers millions more dollars in financial support for small and large soccer countries.

“Thank you for being here,” Sheikh Salman said to Infantino. “I know you have been everywhere. I’m sure that you set a record for being in almost every country.”

Sheikh Salman then joked that, perhaps, Infantino had a “clone.”

That drew a laugh. But the largest applause came at the end of his brief address when he again repeated his support for Infantino.

“As one Asian family we are ready to move forward, united in your support, Gianni,” Sheikh Salman added. “I want to make that clear today.”

Infantino accepts the support

Infantino took the podium following Sheikh Salman and kept it light. But he did acknowledge some errors.

“When you do many things, you do — hopefully, as we did, many good things — you do some mistakes as well,” Infantino said. “The important thing, however, is, as you said, to learn always from the experience, from the mistakes, to apologize, to move ahead, to come together, to unite, to build for our future, for your future.”

The largest applause came as he mentioned how, since he took the leadership in 2016, more funding is flowing.

“Before I started as FIFA president — each of you, some of you are still (here) and still remember — that time,” Infantino said. “Each of you was receiving $1 million US dollars every four years. As of the first of January of next year, it will be $25 million US dollars.”

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La labor del Comité forma parte de la reforma a la ley del TSJ, la cual tiene como objetivo reducir la influencia de los legisladores en la selección de los jueces del máximo tribunal mediante el incremento del número de miembros del comité de postulaciones ajenos al Legislativo.

La reforma, aprobada en septiembre y promulgada por la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez, contempla el incremento de los integrantes del Comité de Postulaciones Judiciales de 21 a 23, 12 de los cuales fueron designados por representantes de asociaciones civiles, grupos académicos y organizaciones independientes.

El comité funcionará por un periodo de dos años y estará a cargo de evaluar y preseleccionar una lista de candidatos para escoger a los 32 magistrados del TSJ. Los 11 legisladores, incluidos ocho vinculados al oficialismo, fueron designados en septiembre pasado.

Varios de los 12 representantes de la sociedad se postularon por iniciativa propia y entre ellos figuran siete mujeres y cinco hombres, en su mayoría abogados. Dos de ellos ocuparon cargos públicos anteriormente.

Entre los seleccionados destaca Raquel Sánchez Carrero, coordinadora de la organización no gubernamental Foro Penal en el estado de Táchira, la cual se encarga de monitorear la situación de los presos en Venezuela, en particular aquellos encarcelados por motivos políticos.

“Fue una labor exigente, revisamos minuciosamente, evaluando méritos, trayectoria y solvencia ética”, dijo el presidente del comité, el diputado oficialista Giuseppe Alessandrello.

La juramentación se produjo más de 10 semanas después que se realizó el primero de tres ciclos de conversaciones entre delegaciones del Legislativo y exdiputados de la oposición, en las que se acordó iniciar un proceso que contribuya a la transformación del sistema judicial venezolano que, de acuerdo con organizaciones locales e internacionales dedicadas a la defensa de los derechos humanos, no es lo suficientemente independiente del poder político.

Las conversaciones, que se desarrollaron entre el 6 y 12 de agosto en Caracas, giraron en torno a la reforma de la ley del máximo tribunal que incluiría la renovación y ampliación del comité de postulaciones, además de la creación de un consejo de revisión de credenciales y requisitos de candidatos al TSJ para evitar irregularidades.

Washington es el principal impulsor de los diálogos. Después de la captura del presidente Nicolás Maduro y su esposa en un audaz operativo militar el pasado 3 de enero, el mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump propuso un plan de “tres fases” para Venezuela, el cual incluye la estabilización, la recuperación y la transición democrática.

La oposición ha acusado al oficialismo de aprovechar su abrumadora mayoría legislativa para nombrar aliados como magistrados y asegurarse el control del máximo tribunal. En los últimos 27, el TSJ se ha convertido en un actor decisivo en la trama política venezolana, con una gran cantidad de sentencias en contra de los críticos del gobierno.

Por su parte, el oficialismo ha dicho que los nombramientos de magistrados se hicieron bajo “estricto cumplimiento” de las leyes.

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The violations included rodent droppings, live and dead roaches, flies, mold-like buildup inside an ice machine and food stored at unsafe temperatures.

Museum Tower Café by Todd English had 30 rodent droppings in a storage area, while Habana 1900 racked up 29 violations, including rodent droppings throughout the kitchen and storage areas, dead roaches and improperly stored food.

Roach activity was also found at Bagel Time Cafe, Family Kitchen Restaurant and Catering, Denny’s and Wings & More. Family Kitchen was cited for repeat roach violations.

Sub City, meanwhile, had multiple refrigeration problems that left potentially hazardous foods well above the required cold-holding temperature.

All the places mentioned were allowed to re-open after a cleanup and re-inspection.

Below is what inspectors found.

**MUSEUM TOWER CAFE by TODD ENGLISH

150 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/20

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Observed 30 rodent droppings located in the second-floor dry storage area underneath shelves and several glue trap under shelf in the second-floor dry storage area and also one glue trap under oven at first floor kitchen area.”

“Observed one fly landing on top of white cutting board at prep table located at left side of kitchen entrance. Also observed four live flies landing on top of walk in cooler and walk in freezer door entrance.”

“Observed potato chips stored on floor inside walk in freezer. Also stored on the floor a bucket of pickles and water bottles inside walk in cooler. Observed in second dry storage area, oil, beans buckets stored on the floor.”

**HABANA 1900

8770 CORAL WAY

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 10/19

29 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 5+ rodent droppings on shelf where kitchen equipment is stored. Observed approximately 7+ rodent droppings on floor in storage area where utensils, dishes, and kitchen equipment is stored. Observed approximately 5+ rodent droppings on dish machine leg support. Observed 3+ rodent droppings on floor next to mixer in the kitchen area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor behind reach in freezer in kitchen area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed one dead roach on floor in the bar area. Observed one dead roach on floor near kitchen exit door.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 10+ flying insects on top of clean cups near front service area.”

“Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. Observed no parasite destruction letter present at time of inspection for swai that is used in ceviche.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw pork ribs stored over ready to eat desserts and tamales inside walk in cooler.”

“In-use ice scoop stored on soiled surface between uses. Ice scoop stored on dirty surface, located outside the ice machine by the kitchen.”

“In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed utensils in standing water, located by the cook line in the kitchen.”

“Interior of refrigerator or freezer in disrepair/has exposed insulation. Observed interior of walk in freezer in disrepair.”

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed reach in cooler interior soiled located by the cook line.”

“Objectionable odors in bathroom or other areas of the establishment. Observed objectionable odor in the first men’s and woman’s bathroom.”

“Dented/rusted cans present. See stop sale. Observed sweetened condensed creamer dented at the seam.”

“Manager or person in charge lacking proof of food manager certification.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed no soap in the HWS by the kitchen.

**BAGEL TIME CAFE

2478 NORTH STATE ROAD 7

MARGATE

ORDERED SHUT 10/10

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed approximately 5 live roaches in kitchen between dish machine and wall. Observed 1 live roach in kitchen under flat top grill.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Approximately 10 dead roaches between fryers on Cookline stuck to oil on floor.”

“AC vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. AC vents and returns visibly soiled.”

“Stored food not covered. Reach in Freezer - observed turkey bacon stored uncovered.”

**FAMILY KITCHEN RESTAURANT AND CATERING

3134 WEST COMMERCIAL BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDERED SHUT 10/19

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 8/18/26

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed approximately 2 live roaches inside of not in use 2 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen. Observed 1 live roach inside of outlet behind reach in cooler in kitchen. Observed 1 live roach on ground in storage area next to kitchen. Observed 4 live roaches on wall next to 3 compartment sink in kitchen Observed 1 live roach on shelf at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 17 dead roaches inside of not in use 2 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen observed approximately 3 dead roaches in drain pan under 2 door stainless reach in cooler. Observed 1 dead roach on floor under reach in cooler in kitchen Observed 1 dead roach in first aid box on wall behind reach in cooler in kitchen Observed approximately 5 dead roaches inside of cabinets at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. cooked turkey prepared yesterday (45F-48F - Cooling); cooked pork (55F-68F - Cooling). Per operator items were prepared last night and have been cooling overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today. See Stop Sale”

“Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within two hours and from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within six hours. Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. cooked turkey prepared yesterday (45F-48F - Cooling); cooked pork (55F-68F - Cooling). Per operator items were prepared last night and have been cooling overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. cooked turkey (44F); cooked chicken (44F). Per operator items have been in unit overnight.”

“Grease trap overflowing onto ground. Observed clear water overflowing from grease trap cover outside of back door to establishment.”

“Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Observed employee enter building from outside with gloved hands then proceed to handle knife without removing gloves and washing hands. Instructed employee to remove gloves and wash hands.”

**DENNY’S

12100 WEST SUNRISE BLVD.

PLANTATION

ORDERED SHUT 10/14

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Approximately 10 live roaches found in the dishwasher area, on the floor and on the wall behind the dishwasher.”

“Dead roaches on premises. 3 dead roaches found on the floor under the clean side of the dishwasher table.”

“Live, small flying insects found. 4 live small flying insects found on the wall on the clean side of the dishwasher table.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. In the kitchen on the flat top grill, cooked sausage (115-125F - Hot Holding). The sausage was reheated and was being hot held for later service. The sausage has been hot holding less than 3 hours. The sausage was moved to a hotter location to reheat to 165F to hot hold.”

**WINGS & MORE

2525 WEST DAVIE BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/14

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed in kitchen on prep line bottom shelving 4 live roaches crawling behind the steam table.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed at front counter Togo area, 1 dead roach behind the storage unit in kitchen. 3 dead roaches on the To go shelf with condiments bags in kitchen.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed at the front counter beer and soda station , 15 small flies landing on the drink nozzles. 10 small flies on wall near drink station. 5 small flies on the ice scoop inside ice bin,”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine near drink station with accumulation of mold like substance.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed mold like substance on can opener on prep table in back kitchen area. Operator place can opener in triple sink to wash. Repeat Violation.”

“Objectionable odors in bathroom or other areas of the establishment. Objectionable odor in back area of dining room near restrooms.”

“Server handled soiled dishes or utensils and then picked up plated food, served food, or prepared a beverage without washing hands. Observed employee place dirty dishes in triple sink then proceeded to prepare beverages for dine in guest without washing hands.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed inside walk in cooler held overnight coleslaw (49F - Cold Holding); cooked ribs (50F - Cold Holding); turkey (48F); fries (55F - Cold Holding); sliced cheese (48F - Cold Holding); blue cheese (53F - Cold Holding).”

“Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature when stored in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Observed in white chest freezer an opened box of raw shrimp stored over an open commercially package of mozzarella sticks.”

**SUB CITY

19900 NW 2ND AVE

MIAMI GARDENS

ORDERED SHUT 10/15

4 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Inadequate number/capacity of cold holding units to maintain time/temperature control for safety food at proper temperatures. Observed reach in cooler and walk in cooler not holding temperature. Observed reach in freezer fully stocked.”

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Observed reach in cooler on the cookline with an ambient temperature of 51F. Observed walk in cooler with an ambient temperature of 49F.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed burger (51F - Cold Holding); ham (52F - Cold Holding); turkey (52F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (54F - Cold Holding); tuna (52F - Cold Holding) stored in the reach in cooler since last night. Observed slice tomatoes (49F - Cold Holding); slice of cheese (50F - Cold Holding); turkey (49F - Cold Holding); ham (48F - Cold Holding); tuna (50F - Cold Holding); ground beef (49F - Cold Holding) stored in the walk in cooler over night. Stop sale issued.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed burger (51F - Cold Holding); ham (52F - Cold Holding); turkey (52F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (54F - Cold Holding); tuna (52F - Cold Holding) stored in the reach in cooler since last night. Observed slice tomatoes (49F - Cold Holding); slice of cheese (50F - Cold Holding); turkey (49F - Cold Holding); ham (48F - Cold Holding); tuna (50F - Cold Holding); ground beef (49F - Cold Holding) stored in the walk in cooler over night.”

Minnesota officials sued President Donald Trump's administration in March for access to materials they said they needed to independently investigate the shootings during Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis earlier this year. The Trump administration has suggested that state prosecutors don’t have jurisdiction to investigate federal officers, while Minnesota officials have said they don’t trust the federal government to investigate itself.

The state is still seeking the cell phones of the officers involved in both shootings and recordings of key interviews.

State prosecutors announced in July that the federal government had begun turning over evidence in the cases, including police body camera video and hard drives containing statements. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said at the time that the state expected to receive “all the evidence.”

But Minnesota investigators said in October court filings that the transfer of evidence stopped soon after the July announcement. Moriarty said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota told her on Sept. 10 that evidence sharing would be on pause indefinitely “in light of challenges with D.C.," according to the documents.

State prosecutors have again asked a judge to order federal agencies to hand over the evidence, arguing they "have identified no legal authority or rational basis justifying their obstruction of state criminal investigations."

In a reply filed Tuesday, attorneys for the Justice Department argued it's within their discretion to decline to share information with state authorities. They cited the department's rules for responding to record requests, known as the Touhy regulations, which apply only when formal legal proceedings are underway. The attorneys said there was no active court case when Minnesota made its requests.

Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said in a legal declaration that federal authorities still have Good’s clothing, the cell phone of the officer who killed her and interview recordings that state authorities have never been able to view.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, while she was leaving a Minneapolis protest on Jan. 7. Bystander video shows Good in the driver’s seat of an SUV, repeatedly honking the horn, when masked immigration officers order her to step out of the vehicle. She starts to pull forward, and an officer standing in front of the car fires at her windshield. The officer, now standing about an arm’s length from the open window on the driver's side, fires twice more, according to an analysis of the videos by The Associated Press and others.

Federal officials at the time said the officer acted in self-defense.

Good's death and that of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse who was killed weeks later by a federal officer in Minneapolis, ignited nationwide protests against the Republican president's immigration enforcement efforts.

No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the fatal shootings.

Evans said the federal government also has not shared a recorded statement from an officer who shot Pretti, the firearms used by the officers, their phones, projectiles and casings, and a gun taken from Pretti before he was shot.

Faulk revealed his diagnosis on the podcast “The Caring Neurologist” on Wednesday, telling the host, “I want to help as many people as I can.”

The 53-year-old Faulk said he was not experiencing “issues” beyond hand rigidity and a few tremors, thanks to medication. He doesn't believe the symptoms have gotten worse in the 18 months he's been dealing with the disease.

Faulk is in his first season as Southern's coach after serving as running backs coach at Colorado. He played 12 NFL seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Lewandowski, who worked at the agency as a special government employee during Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, was longtime ally of Trump. The details of the allegations against Lewandowski aren't yet clear, though the president said Thursday after a report in The Wall Street Journal that he had heard of the probe.

The president notably didn't defend Lewandowski, who was his first campaign manager in 2016.

“I don't know exactly what it is,” Trump told reporters. “All I know is, I want my people to be honest. And if they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted." He added, "I'll have my DOJ go and do whatever they have to do.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that the probe was launched after a referral from the DHS inspector general, which included details about Lewandowski's time at the agency. Lewandowski was Noem’s lead adviser while at the department, where he appeared to play an outsized role even though his position was supposed to have a limit on days worked.

An attorney for Lewandowski, Adam Trigg, wrote in a texted comment to The Associated Press that “Mr. Lewandowski has not been contacted by the Justice Department regarding any investigation, and he denies any wrongdoing when he was proudly serving his country in a voluntary capacity.”

The Washington Sun reported this week that some open records requests from the department during Lewandowski’s time there were denied due to an ongoing criminal probe.

An investigation into a longtime Trump adviser would be a departure for the Justice Department, which has focused considerable efforts at investigating and attempting to prosecute longtime Trump political critics.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the AP.

James had 17 points and 10 rebounds in the biggest comeback win of his career, and fellow newcomer Jaylen Brown had 21 points in game that already may be tough for the Sixers to top this season, which they've started with wins over the NBA champion Knicks and the Eastern Conference finalist Cavaliers.

The Sixers refused to go down without a fight and nearly got into one when Maxey and his former Philadelphia teammate James Harden went nose-to-nose in the fourth before they were separated. Maxey was relentless on defense and was the catalyst for a 15-0 run in the fourth that gave the Sixers the lead and left the Cavaliers fumbling for answers.

Donovan Mitchell scored 32 points for the Cavs in their season opener.

James flirted in free agency with a third stint in Cleveland before he signed a two-year deal with the Sixers for the veteran minimum.

He won one of his four NBA titles with the Cavaliers and is trying to add a fifth ring in Philadelphia. The hype for the home opener was real, with tickets listed on secondary markets for around $4,000 in the lower bowl. The win against the Knicks only cranked up the enthusiasm for the first look in Philly at James and Brown — and they responded with an opener to remember.

The 41-year-old James — accused Thursday by President Donald Trump of disrespecting the United States by not standing still during the national anthem — had his moments. He brought the crowd to life with an uncontested two-handed jam in the first half and later a bucket off a steal by Maxey.

The Sixers missed 11 of 15 3-pointers and had 14 turnovers (only 12 total against the Knicks) in the first half and the packed house erupted in boos late in the second period.

Mitchell scored 22 points in the half as the Cavaliers stretched their lead to 29 points. That advantage was gone when Embiid scored seven straight points in the fourth to make it 96-95.

No matter the outcome, fans of both teams who watched on TV had something to complain about. A new lighting system at the 76ers’ arena appeared to bathe the court in a blue hue and added heavy colorized streaks and reflections from cameras on the ESPN broadcast.

Up next

Cavaliers: Have their home opener Saturday against Brooklyn.

76ers: Play back-to-back games at home this weekend — Saturday against Milwaukee and Sunday against Detroit.

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Los investigadores crearon modelos de las muertes relacionadas con las altas temperaturas de acuerdo a distintos grupos de edad en 854 ciudades de Europa durante las constantes olas de calor de junio, julio y agosto, y descubrieron que 50.391 personas murieron debido a las elevadas temperaturas, incluidos 32.619 decesos por calor adicional provocado por la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas, de acuerdo con un estudio que se publicará en un próximo número de Nature Health.

La cifra representa un incremento del 71% frente al récord anterior de muertes relacionadas con el calor veraniego en Europa, cuando 29.480 personas perdieron la vida en 2022, según los mismos investigadores, quienes a principios de este mes publicaron un estudio que rastrea las muertes estivales anuales relacionadas con el calor en esas ciudades europeas.

Además, aseguran que el número de muertes de este verano es mucho mayor, ya que no se contabilizó una ola de calor ocurrida en mayo y sólo se tomaron en cuenta los decesos en esas 854 ciudades, las cuales representan alrededor del 40% de la población de Europa, señalaron los autores del estudio.

Aproximadamente una tercera parte de los decesos ocurrió durante una ola de calor particularmente intensa entre el 17 de junio y el 1 de julio, cuando las temperaturas estuvieron 5,3 grados Celsius (9,5 grados Fahrenheit) por encima de lo normal, destacó el coautor del estudio Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, bioestadístico del Imperial College London.

“En buena parte de Europa occidental y septentrional, nuestra infraestructura simplemente no está diseñada para hacer frente al tipo de temperaturas que estamos viendo ahora, debido a los efectos del calentamiento causado por el ser humano”, afirmó la autora principal del estudio, Clair Barnes, climatóloga del Imperial College London. Añadió que algunas ciudades europeas registraron temperaturas de hasta 12 grados Celsius (21,6 Fahrenheit) por encima de lo normal este verano.

De esos 50.000 decesos, más de 32.000 se debieron al calor añadido por el cambio climático causado por el ser humano, aseguró el reporte. Italia, Francia, España y Alemania registraron el mayor número de muertes, según el estudio. De todas las capitales europeas, Roma fue la que tuvo más fallecimientos por calor entre 2000 y 2025, señaló el estudio publicado a principios de este mes.

Dosis extra de calor por la quema de combustibles fósiles

Este ya habría sido un episodio de calor natural fuera de lo normal, al cual se le suman los enormes efectos del cambio climático, explicó Barnes. Destacó que Europa es el continente que se calienta más rápido, ubicándose 2,5 Celsius (4,5 Fahrenheit) por encima de los tiempos preindustriales.

“Tan sólo el calentamiento de fondo por la actividad humana, principalmente por la quema de combustibles fósiles, está aumentando todas nuestras temperaturas en lo que suena como una cantidad bastante pequeña”, sostuvo. “Para muchas personas, sin duda, esos dos grados y medio (Celsius) adicionales de calentamiento son lo que hará que esas temperaturas pasen de incómodas a peligrosas, y potencialmente mortales”.

Más de la mitad de las personas que murieron por el calor en Europa este verano tenían al menos 85 años de edad, pero las temperaturas sofocantes también causaron la muerte de más de 800 personas de entre 20 y 44 años, indicó Konstantinoudis.

¿Cómo se calcula el número de decesos?

El equipo utilizó un método científico establecido y aceptado para determinar cuántas de las 50.000 muertes se debieron al calor natural del verano y cuántas se debieron a los gases de efecto invernadero. Llevaron a cabo simulaciones computarizadas en un mundo sin cambio climático e hicieron la comparación con los decesos de este verano. La diferencia es el número de fallecimientos causados por el calentamiento global.

El porcentaje de muertes por calor atribuibles al calentamiento global ha aumentado de alrededor del 45% a principios de la década de 2000 a 65% en la actualidad, subrayó Barnes.

“Los veranos se están volviendo más calurosos, y las herramientas analíticas para atribuir muertes al calor se están volviendo más precisas”, comentó el doctor Howard Frumkin, exdirector del Centro Nacional de Salud Ambiental en Estados Unidos, quien no participó en el estudio “En conjunto, estas dos tendencias arrojan recuentos cada vez más altos y cada vez más precisos de muertes relacionadas con el calor”.

El equipo científico también tuvo que recurrir a modelos estadísticos para llegar al recuento base de 50.000 muertes por calor, debido a que esos decesos se reportan en menor número y no suelen figurar en los certificados de defunción a pesar de ser un factor importante, explicó Konstantinoudis. Varios expertos externos coincidieron con él, al tiempo que calificaron los métodos empleados como de vanguardia.

Los investigadores aplicaron una ecuación matemática compleja que se ha utilizado en varios estudios revisados por pares, explicó Barnes, la cual incorpora edades específicas y temperaturas para cada una de las 854 ciudades, basándose en una temperatura localizada óptima que coincide con el menor número de muertes. Cuando hace más calor o más frío, la ecuación calcula las muertes en exceso por encima de las condiciones de menor mortalidad.

Posteriormente, los investigadores contrastaron sus cálculos con estimaciones en tiempo real de organismos gubernamentales. En su mayoría —aunque no siempre— coincidieron bastante bien, dijo Konstantinoudis. Los métodos del equipo para las olas de calor de mayo y junio en Reino Unido calcularon 2.700 muertes en exceso, y la agencia nacional de estadísticas sanitarias indicó que fueron 2.800, puntualizó.

Enfriamiento y adaptación no son suficientes

"Necesitamos prepararnos para el calor que ya no podemos evitar, con inversiones urgentes en sistemas de alerta temprana por calor, acceso igualitario a refrigeración baja en carbono y redes vecinales de apoyo que vigilen y brinden soporte a las personas con mayor riesgo, al tiempo que reducimos rápidamente el uso de combustibles fósiles que impulsa la crisis”, señaló la doctora Courtney Howard, presidenta electa de la Asociación Médica Canadiense, quien no participó en la investigación

Adaptarse es sólo una parte de la respuesta, sostuvo el doctor Jonathan Patz, de la Universidad de Wisconsin, campus Madison, quien no participó en la investigación.

“No podemos limitarnos a limpiar el desastre en el suelo sin pensar en cerrar el grifo”, declaró Patz, profesor de salud y medio ambiente. “Así que necesitamos prevención en distintos niveles. Necesitamos mejor refrigeración y proteger a las poblaciones vulnerables de la inevitable mayor frecuencia e intensidad de las olas de calor. Pero también necesitamos llegar a la raíz del problema y abordar de manera absoluta la quema de combustibles fósiles”.

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It took Black fewer strides to make the memorable lap than most.

Call it one of the upsides of being 6-foot-9.

Black made NHL history in his first career start when he became the tallest goaltender to ever appear in a regular-season game. Black is listed as two inches taller than Ben Bishop, Ivan Fedotov, Mads Sogaard and Mikko Koskinen, all 6-7.

The 25-year-old from Alpena, Michigan, who started playing when he was 8 and had a 5-inch growth spurt between his junior and senior years in high school when he shot up from 6-0 to 6-5 and kept right on going, made 18 saves in a 4-0 loss.

“It’s cool right, growing up, all the guys you kind of saw and watched as a kid, even as a goalie,” Black said. "Cool experience to play against the guys, would have been nicer to win.”

Black, called up from Florida's AHL affiliate in Charlotte recently after Jacob Markstrom went down with a shoulder injury, stopped Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang with his blocker pad on a wrist shot about two minutes in. He also turned aside a breakaway opportunity by Penguins forward Rickard Rakell before giving up a goal to 5-9 Pittsburgh forward Nick Robertson, who beat Black to the glove side.

Panthers head coach Paul Maurice praised Black's development in recent years. Florida signed Black as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2024. Black blossomed last season in Charlotte, posting a 25-13-4 record with a 2.47 goals against average and a .903 save percentage.

“A man that size, it takes a long time to grow into that body,” Maurice said with a smile before the game, adding with a laugh, “I think he’s done.”

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Owners are pushing for a salary cap, and that could prompt a lockout starting Dec. 2 and result in canceled games in 2027.

“It would be a real bummer to lose a season, that’s for sure,” Tampa Bay ace Drew Rasmussen said Thursday ahead of the World Series opener against Milwaukee. “I think the industry as a whole is in way too good of a place.”

This year's World Series is the first since 1991 between teams both in the bottom half of payrolls: Milwaukee ranked 19th as of Aug. 31 and Tampa Bay 25th. MLB says a cap is needed to help all teams compete more consistently, but players contend because of the method owners use to define expenses, a cap would lead to management taking a greater share of the sport’s revenue.

“The system that’s being proposed, which is similar to other leagues in terms of revenue-sharing system, not only will help us compete, but more importantly all of the teams with lower payrolls, too, which is something also I think the fans want,” Brewers owner Mark Attanasio said.

MLB’s proposal would cap spending in 2027 at $245.3 million using figures for luxury tax payrolls, and limit a player to 15% of a team's payroll. Free agents would be capped at $265 million over six seasons — far under Juan Soto’s record $765 million, 15-year deal with the New York Mets.

The players' association vows never to accept a cap.

“If they’re going to sit there and wave their little magic wand at us saying they’re going to get a salary cap, it’s not going to happen,” Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill said.

Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement to replace the five-year deal expiring Dec. 1 could turn into each side trying to outlast the other.

“My thought with it all is keep building on the former generations and build on what they gave us,” said Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski, who throws the first pitch of the Series on Friday night. “You don’t want to be the generation to send something backwards. You just keep building on what former generations have given you and hope for the best.”

Attanasio said the Brewers ranked 11th in non-player baseball operations spending this year and the Rays were ninth. The owner said about 250 people report to general manager Matt Arnold.

Milwaukee is ranked 30th and last in market size in MLB and could become the first small-market team to win the title since the 2015 Kansas City Royals.

“We have to keep an eye on the present and one eye on the future in every move that we make. Every trade we have to think about that,” Arnold said. “There are tradeoffs for what you can do to help the team today and what that looks like going forward.”

Tampa Bay is the No. 15 MLB market. While the Rays haven't spent lavishly on major league payroll, they were among the bigger spenders on player development this year.

Grievance withdrawn

The players' association filed a grievance against the Rays alleging the team didn't meet its obligation under the labor contract to use revenue-sharing proceeds to try to improve its performance on the field. The grievance, covering 2017, '18 and '19, was withdrawn in December.

Catcher cameras

In a bargaining session Thursday, owners proposed to allow the use of cameras on catchers for broadcasts.

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The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification. The Supreme Court cited a longstanding legal principle that judges shouldn’t change voting rules too close to Election Day.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent.

New Hampshire passed a law this year that said student IDs would no longer be an expressly accepted form of identification for obtaining a ballot. The secretary of state then issued guidance barring them as a backup way to prove a voter's identity.

A judge left the law in place but blocked the guidance in early October, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court. The Republican National Committee weighed in to support the state.

The decision comes less than two weeks before New Hampshire voters cast ballots in a closely contested U.S. Senate race.

New Hampshire state Rep. Donald McFarlane said he sponsored the bill to eliminate student IDs for voting because colleges don’t have the same controls when issuing those cards as government agencies.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision is a victory for common sense,” he said in an email. “It allows HB 323 to work as intended: strengthening voter identity verification, applying a consistent standard, and maintaining public confidence in New Hampshire elections.”

Ehr said that if elected, he wants to work on new legislation to make sure patients have affordable healthcare and transparency in billing.

Also, “making sure that we, the government, are facilitating an environment where competition happens,” Ehr, a Democrat, said.

Gimenez entered Congress in 2021, initially representing Florida’s 26th Congressional District. Redistricting shifted the seat to the 28th District, which stretches from southwest Miami-Dade County to all of Monroe County.

“We passed the largest tax cut in U.S. history. We eliminated taxes on tips on overtime, and we also eliminated taxes on Social Security,” Gimenez said.

Gimenez, the former mayor of Miami-Dade County, said there is work to do on affordable housing.

“We do have a lot of land here. Especially a lot of land that’s government-owned that we could put to better use than having it just serve the government,” Gimenez said.

Ehr said he wants to work on new legislation to take on property insurance fraud in the claims process.

On immigration, Gimenez said there is a need to establish a path to citizenship for migrants who follow the law. Ehr said more “unqualified and abusive” federal agents won’t help the immigration problem.

“We will have town halls. I will have myself and staff attend neighborhood meetings,” Ehr said about making himself available to his constituents if elected.

Eddy Rojas, an independent, is also running against Ehr and Gimenez.

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The plaintiffs — three veterans and a retired architectural historian — asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to prohibit the administration and the National Park Service “from taking any steps to construct, or to direct or facilitate construction of, any structure in Memorial Circle, absent congressional authorization, during the pendency of this litigation.”

The NPS and the executive office of the president filed a notice Wednesday in the lawsuit saying they planned to possibly begin construction as early as Nov. 5, pending the approval of the construction by the National Capital Planning Commission. The commission is scheduled to meet that day to consider final approval of the site and building plans.

The government's notice said construction could begin once that approval was finished, the Interior Department issued a final decision authorizing construction and the proper notification was published. “NPS may publish such notice as early as November 5, 2026, and construction could commence as early as November 5, 2026,” the notice said.

The arch has been one of Trump’s pet projects, one that he said might also include national security functions such as drones and snipers. Plans submitted to the NCPC by the Interior Department don’t include mention of the “military complex” he has said it would host, although the agency said the plan could accommodate such a feature. The structure is planned to be 250 feet tall (76 meters).

The plaintiffs' filing Thursday said notification “makes clear that the defendants have no intention of awaiting this court's decision on the cross-motions for summary judgment and have every intention of imminently beginning construction of the arch on Memorial Circle.”

Though the arch has received early approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were all tapped by President Donald Trump, the plaintiffs sued in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying the project needs to be approved by Congress.

The Public Citizen Litigation Group, which is one of the legal groups representing the plaintiffs, cited several projects being pursued by the administration that had moved forward with work despite pending lawsuits.

Chutkan ordered the two sides to meet and file a briefing schedule by noon Friday.

The arch is one of several projects around Washington that President Donald Trump has undertaken as he remakes the city, from renovating one of its storied public golf courses to threatening to demolish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Just this week, plaintiffs in the East Potomac Park golf course case argued in a five-hour hearing that the Trump had made clear that construction plans were forthcoming, despite the pending litigation.

The lawsuit in federal court in Washington is one of two challenging construction of the arch. The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit earlier this month opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against the planned monument.

That lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, criticized the speed at which the project slated for Memorial Circle has moved without going through the full review process.

The administration disputed that claim.

With some trial and error, and occasionally help from poll workers, the voters are generally able to cast their intended ballots. Nevertheless, some come away from the experience assuming the worst — that the anecdotal issues are proof of a partisan election-rigging scheme.

As early voting in November’s midterm elections gets underway in most states, with soaring turnout in many of them, the claims have returned in force, with voters — especially Democratic ones — in Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas documenting difficulties with the ballot marking devices.

Many voters have described their experiences on social media, with some falsely interpreting the troubles as attempts at election tampering to favor Republicans. The claims come as an AP-NORC poll shows many Democrats have lost trust in election results over the last four years, with many seeing the president interfering with the vote as a major concern.

Election officials say the touchscreen challenges are almost always the result of user error or an easily fixed screen miscalibration, and say the number of complaints this year isn’t higher than it has been in years past, despite the outsized attention on social media. They emphasize that voters can select a candidate as many times as needed, consult a poll worker for help and review selections before submitting their ballot.

Elections in the U.S. are decentralized, with thousands of election jurisdictions controlling the vote, each with different rules set by state and sometimes local governments. That structure makes the nation’s voting process extraordinarily complicated. It also shields it from widespread fraud.

“Almost all of the claims of vote flipping are understandable human error,” said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, who noted disinformation purveyors often seize on well-meaning concerns to sow doubt in the voting process. “Is there one of us who hasn’t had a butt dial or mistyped something on our phones? It is not nefarious.”

Many voters, including Dolly Parton’s sister, report issues

The complaints about touchscreen machines switching votes have gathered tens of thousands of likes, shares and views on social media in recent days, popping up in various high-population areas across the country, including Tennessee’s Williamson and Davidson counties, homes to Franklin and Nashville.

Stella Parton, the sister of the late country singer Dolly Parton, wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday that at her polling place near Nashville she had to “go back three times and correct my vote” because it kept defaulting to Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

She added: “I’m putting this out here because when we vote, we take it seriously but we try not to hold up the long lines. Do it anyway. Don’t let them rig this election.”

Chad Gray, election administrator in Williamson County, said officials there had found no discrepancies in the voting equipment. If problems or questions do arise, he said, people from each party will examine the devices and make sure they are working properly.

Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins told WSMV in Nashville that the issues reported in his area were “not a vote-flipping situation.” “It’s more like an unintended touch that they may not even realize,” Goins said.

Another Facebook user explained in a video that when his mother-in-law attempted to vote for Democratic candidates in Kendall County, Texas, the machine kept selecting Republicans. He said she was ultimately able to vote as desired and contended that it could have been user error, but still concluded people were “jacking with our elections.”

Staci Decker, elections administrator in Kendall County, said “100% of the time” the issue can be attributed to a voter tapping the wrong part of the box onscreen or from voters tapping the screen too hard, causing it to become miscalibrated. She said her policy is for staff to recalibrate the screens every few days to ensure the accuracy of the touchscreen.

“This is part of an attempt at every election (especially the bigger ones) to scare voters away,” Decker said in an email. “Every single piece of equipment used in our election is tested before it can be used in an election.”

Reports of voting machine errors common during high-turnout elections

In South Carolina, where an X user said a machine made it hard for her to vote for Democratic Senate nominee Annie Andrews, state election officials haven’t seen any unusual increase in reports of voters having trouble making selections, said Sydni Bain, a spokesperson with the state’s election commission.

“We commonly receive some of these reports during elections, particularly statewide elections with high turnout,” she said. “We encourage all voters to be careful in making their selections and to review their ballot before it is cast.”

In Bexar County, Texas, where an X user reported having to tap the screen forcefully to get the machine to register her choice of Democrat James Talarico instead of Republican Ken Paxton for Senate, election officials said they couldn’t confirm any equipment issues.

“This could possibly be user error,” said John Moreno, the county’s assistant public information officer. “If a voter has concerns about their ballot, they should bring it to the attention of the on-site judge.”

Kristin Miles, president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials and election administrator in Bastrop County, said “vote-switching” claims come up every election cycle.

“Nearly every case comes back to the screen calibration on older touchscreen machines, not a change to anyone’s vote,” she said.

Officials emphasized that machines are tested before each election and that in most jurisdictions, there is a postelection audit that consists of a manual hand count of a sample of paper ballots.

Voting machine company explains what to do if you encounter problems

Voters across the country cast ballots in various ways, including with ballot marking devices that print a paper record or with paper ballots they fill out by hand.

The counties where most of the recent vote-flipping social media reports are concentrated use ExpressVote ballot marking devices from a company called Election Systems & Software. The machines let voters make their selections on a touchscreen. Then, a paper record is typically printed for review before the votes are tabulated.

Katina Granger, senior manager of public relations for the Nebraska-based ES&S, said the company works closely with election officials and provides technical support when needed but has not been made aware of any widespread issue with voting machines this cycle.

She said when a voter is having difficulty, they should ask a poll worker for assistance. If they’ve already printed a ballot that doesn’t reflect their intended selections, “they should notify a poll worker rather than cast it so the jurisdiction can follow its procedures for replacing the ballot.”

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Associated Press writers Anna Wilder in Austin, Texas, and video journalist Kristin M. Hall in Nashville contributed to this report.

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Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade County’s supervisor of elections, said voters can rip it open and use Scotch tape to seal it before mailing it.

“The important thing is your signature,” Garcia said.

If the envelope is too damaged, voters can deliver their ballot to one of the county’s 28 early voting sites.

“You have to bring your ID,” Garcia said.

As of Thursday, more than 100,000 people had voted by mail in Miami-Dade. Elena Muñoz, a voter, decided to drop off her ballot instead of mailing it.

Thursday is the last day to request a mail-in ballot. Early voting continues from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily until Nov. 1st in Miami-Dade.

Related story: Here is everything you need to know about early voting in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe

Gonzalez was carrying his granddaughter when he noticed the lump was getting bigger and more sensitive.

“She would rub up against my breast, my chest, and the lump started getting a little bigger and a little sensitive,” Gonzalez said.

The lump had actually been there for years. About four or five years earlier, he had visited his primary care doctor, who recommended keeping an eye on it to make sure it didn’t grow or become painful.

Dr. Esther Ozeryansky with Memorial Cancer Institute says men, and sometimes even their doctors, can ignore or dismiss breast lumps.

As a mass gets larger and firmer, it may even erode through the skin or spread to the lymph nodes, making it more suspicious, she said. That’s often when men seek medical attention.

Gonzalez was eventually diagnosed with breast cancer. Doctors warn that delays in detection can mean more men are diagnosed at a later, more dangerous stage.

The risk is much lower for men than for women, but it still exists. A woman’s lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is about one in eight, compared with about one in 800 for a man, Ozeryansky said.

Gonzalez’s mother had breast cancer, and doctors say family history is important. However, male breast cancer, like female breast cancer, is often not genetic.

His message to other men is simple: Don’t ignore a lump just because you’re a man.

“Don’t take it for granted just because we’re men. To let it go. A lump or a small hurt, go to the doctor and get it checked,” Gonzalez said.

Doctors say men are treated for breast cancer the same way women are. Black men have a higher rate of the disease and tend to develop it at a slightly younger age.

But just like with women, when men are diagnosed early, the prognosis is excellent.

Attorneys representing Desulme filed the counterclaim to ask the court to reopen the qualification period for a special mayoral election on Dec. 1st. Butchko Sanchez said she denied Desulme’s request for a rehearing and injunctive relief because it was filed too late.

Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

Related story: Judge rules North Miami mayor ‘shall be disqualified as a candidate’

George Morgan, the remaining mayoral candidate who has never held public office, asked the court on Oct. 8 to disqualify Desulme over the way he paid his qualifying fees.

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling on Monday.

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Desulme, who was elected in 2024, accused Morgan, an engineer, of failing to pay his qualifying fee in full.

Attorney Benedict P. Kuehne, who represents Desulme, wrote that Desulme was in the process of appealing the disqualification, according to the counterclaim.

“The cost, burden, and disruption of having voters cast ballots for an unqualified candidate deprives the North Miami citizens of their right to elect their office holders,” Kuehne wrote, according to Desulme’s counterclaim.

Miami-Dade County started early voting on Monday.

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The girl’s injuries were so severe that she needed surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, according to the information shared with Local 10. Her mother provided pictures of the injuries.

Miami-Dade Animal Services told Local 10 the incident was not reported to the agency. Officials said they did not respond to the call and had no information on the dog.

Diablo’s owner said she had him since he was a few months old. She said she rented a space for him to live comfortably with a mother and her two children.

The owner said she was frustrated that police did not report the incident to animal control and that she initially was not allowed to surrender the dog.

“It was very frustrating. The police did not report it to animal control. They wouldn’t let me surrender,” she said. “I’m a very, very responsible dog owner. That’s why I felt like it was important to do the right thing for him.”

The surrender was emotional for the owner, who said she felt relief knowing Diablo could no longer hurt anyone but was also heartbroken to lose her pet.

“I feel good because I know he can’t hurt anybody anymore. It’s bittersweet because that was my baby. He’s gone,” she said.

When asked what she would tell another dog owner faced with the decision to give up a pet, she said, “You got to do what’s right.”

Blanchet, whose best finish this season was on another island in the Puerto Rico Open, added six birdies to his round. His only dropped shot came on the par-4 fourth, his 13th hole of the round, when he missed the green well to the left at Port Royal.

He led by one shot over Ben Kohles, Corey Conners, Danny Walker and Ben Silverman of Canada on a day when the wind was all over the place, from gusty to calm with a few passing showers.

Blanchet is at No. 114 in the FedEx Cup Fall, and points are all that matter this time of the year for so many players. Bermuda is one of five tournaments left in the season, and the top 100 keep full status for 2027.

An example of the wind not hurting as much as it often does at Port Royal came on the par-5 seventh hole as Blanchet was finishing his round.

“The wind was kind of calming down, so it was pretty favorable,” he said. “Hit a smooth 5-iron there to like 5 feet. That was sweet.”

His other eagle came on the 17th, the shortest par 5 but with water lurking to the left.

"Yeah. No. 17, I guess that was my last eagle. I hit a great drive," Blanchet said. He only had about 180 yards in, but left it out far too the right, only to hole the putt from just outside 50 feet.

“Just dripped in on the last revolution,” he said.

Kohles had a chance to sew up his PGA Tour card at No. 19 going into the Korn Ferry Tour Championship (the top 20 earn cards). But he was playing well enough that he went to the Baycurrent Classic in Japan and tied for 17th. Now he's at No. 80, virtually a lock for a card, and now can think about finishing in the top 60 to get into two $20 million signature events.

Kohles made a career-best six straight birdies, all of them in the 6-foot range until the last one, which was about 12 feet.

“It’s pretty nice I think to feel a lot more comfortable,” Kohles said. "Going into the fall it was funny. I obviously decided to play the fall out here and skip the last three Korn Ferrys, and as good as I played on both tours I wasn’t really locked on either one. So, it was really nice to have those three good finishes to start the fall and pretty much secure my top 100 for next year.

“Just feel like I’m just kind of freewheeling and trying to play my best and see where it puts me.”

Mackenzie Hughes and Emiliano Grillo were in the large group of players who shot 64 to wind up two shots back after the first round. Without the consistently blustery wind, the course played to an average score of 68.5.

“The conditions were amazing,” said Conners, who at No. 61, is the highest-ranked player in the field. “The wind blows pretty hard here and it was fairly mild today. The golf course is playing great, it’s in wonderful shape and was really a nice day. A little bit wet early, but for the most part we got really lucky with some pretty pleasant conditions to play in.”

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The area near North 62nd Avenue and Arthur Street remains covered in mud and debris after gas and mud spewed into the air, forcing the Florida Turnpike to close in both directions and nearly 300 homes to be evacuated.

Addarlin Dishmey, who lives in the neighborhood with his wife and two young daughters, spoke exclusively with Local 10 about the aftermath and how his family has been affected.

Dishmey said the company responsible initially sent his family to a motel, but the conditions were unacceptable. He described bugs in the bed and human hair on the pillows.

“There’s no way. Maybe a dog could stay there? Not even a dog,” Dishmey said.

His family is now staying in an Airbnb, which he said is better, but still not great.

The disruption has also affected his daily routine. Dishmey said it now takes him 30 minutes to get to work and another 30 minutes to take his daughter to school.

At home, the damage extends to his backyard, where children’s toys, bikes, the pool area and an outdoor gym have been affected by the mud.

The outdoor gym is covered in mud, leaving Dishmey without a place to work out as he deals with the stress of the situation.

Dishmey also questioned why garbage and debris had not been picked up nearly a week after the incident.

Hollywood Fire Chief Jeff Levy said the response that day, including training and assistance from the Hollywood Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol, made a difference.

Levy said the incident could have been catastrophic if a spark had ignited the gas.

“Could have been catastrophic. If there was a spark, it could’ve caused an explosion. Thankfully, we didn’t have that. What we did have was a large gas vapor,” Levy said.

The gas line stretches from South Miami to South Texas.

Local 10 has reached out to the construction company responsible for the incident but has not received a response.

A social media personality known for promoting extreme devotion to male beauty, Peters, 20, is accused of giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, on Cape Cod, in May 2025.

Peters has denied the allegations through his lawyers, saying the sexual encounter was consensual.

Peters arrived at the courthouse in Orleans, Massachusetts, wearing a dark suit, walking a barking dog on a leash. He spoke only to the dog as he entered the courthouse and ignored reporters’ questions. Peters maintained a neutral facial expression during the brief arraignment.

He has agreed to a $10,000 bail, surrendered his passport and will not contact or post about the woman who has accused him of assault.

He didn’t comment as he left the courthouse. One of his attorneys said in a statement that Peters and the accuser were involved in a “professional and personal relationship” for almost a year.

“At no time did the complainant report anything to the police — or to anyone — because there was nothing to report,” attorney David Meier said.

The case is the latest legal challenge for Peters, who has a million followers on Instagram, and whose hourslong livestreams feature him rating people’s looks and talking about methods of becoming better looking that include surgery and drug use.

Earlier this year, he was charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida after police said he provoked a fight between two women and then posted a video of it online. That charge was later dropped. In a separate Florida case this year, he was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to a charge that he fired a gun in public.

The woman who accused Peters of rape told police he had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” videos. She said that during her visit to a Peters family home, he gave her two or three shots of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her while she was drunk. She told police that when she woke up the next morning, Peters was raping her.

The woman also described the alleged assault in a lawsuit she filed in Florida in April. In that lawsuit, she also accused Peters of injecting her with a fat-dissolving substance during a livestream without her consent.

Peters’ attorneys have called the lawsuit a “publicity grab.”

The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they consent to being identified publicly.

Las fuerzas especiales llegaron un día después de que el presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele anunció una operación militar para rescatar a los cuatro técnicos de aviación y amenazó con una respuesta más contundente si no son liberados con vida y sin daños.

Un funcionario del gobierno de El Salvador informó que otros 100 soldados serán desplegados hacia Haití la noche del jueves. El funcionario, quien habló bajo condición de anonimato al no estar autorizado a discutir el asunto, añadió que las autoridades salvadoreñas operan bajo el supuesto de que los cuatro desaparecidos siguen con vida.

The Miami Herald fue el primer medio en informar del despliegue.

La fuerza de supresión de pandillas emitió el jueves un breve comunicado en el que anunció la llegada de “un contingente” de El Salvador “para apoyar las operaciones en curso de búsqueda y de seguridad” en el lugar del ataque.

En sus primeros comentarios desde el ataque del domingo en Croix-des-Bouquets, el gobierno de Haití informó la noche del miércoles que los cuatro desaparecidos fueron secuestrados. Las autoridades han dicho que los soldados viajaban a bordo de un vehículo blindado que fue atacado por pandillas, las cuales también utilizaron explosivos.

Se trata del primer ataque de estas dimensiones desde que una Fuerza Internacional de Supresión de Pandillas (GSF por sus iniciales en inglés) comenzó sus operaciones en reemplazo de una fuerza encabezada por Kenia, la cual tuvo dificultades para ayudar a la policía haitiana a contener a las pandillas debido a la falta de recursos.

Diego Da Rin, analista del International Crisis Group, cree que la operación para localizar a los salvadoreños será como buscar una aguja en un pajar.

“Será casi imposible encontrarlos… al menos que las pandillas estén de acuerdo con entregarlos”, subrayó.

Añadió que aparentemente los salvadoreños no viajaban con el tipo de escolta de seguridad que se necesita para adentrarse en territorios bajo el control de pandillas, además de que no está claro qué hacían en esa zona.

El lugar donde ocurrió el ataque se encuentra bajo el control de la pandilla Chèn Méchan, mientras que los 400 Mawozo —una pandilla mucho más poderosa y con mayor arsenal— opera a poca distancia al oeste del área.

Nadie se ha atribuido públicamente la responsabilidad del ataque, y ninguna de las pandillas ha publicado al respecto en redes sociales.

Da Rin señaló que cree que los soldados desaparecidos podrían servir como herramienta de negociación para las pandillas.

“El silencio alrededor de la situación de los salvadoreños quizás les pueda ayudar a aumentar el ‘leverage’ que pueden tener para forzar a las autoridades a enterar en las negociaciones”, explicó. "Este secuestro no creo que se trate tanto de un intento por ganar dinero, sino de tratar de impedir incursiones en sus territorios”.

Las autoridades se han estado enfrentando con hombres armados en la zona desde el ataque, en lo que representa la primera vez que la fuerza de tarea de la Policía Nacional de Haití —que incluye a Vectus Global, la empresa de seguridad privada fundada por el ex SEAL de la Marina de Estados Unidos y fundador de Blackwater Erik Prince— trabaja en conjunto con la GSF.

Mientras continúan los intensos combates en lo profundo de territorio controlado por las pandillas, las autoridades han hecho un llamado a la población para que permanezca resguardada en sus residencias.

El ataque ocurrió en momentos en que la fuerza de supresión de pandillas cuenta con apenas un poco más de 2.000 de los 5.500 efectivos previstos.

"La GSF no estaba preparada para comenzar su campaña ofensiva contra las pandillas”, subrayó Da Rin. “El riesgo de lanzar operaciones de gran escala es que las pandillas vuelvan a unir sus fuerzas…y lanzar ataques coordinados”.

Destacó que la fuerza por lo general realiza incursiones y despeja territorio para que las fuerzas haitianas lo aseguren: “Ahora, todas las fuerzas están desempeñando un papel ofensivo”.

El líder de pandilla conocido como Krisla, que controla un área ubicada lejos del lugar del ataque, publicó el miércoles un video en el que mencionó a Bukele y los combates actuales.

“Ellos tienen armas más grandes y mejor tecnología que nosotros, pero lucharemos hasta el final”, subrayó. “No le pedimos a Bukele que viniera, no le pedimos a Bukele que enviara soldados. Bukele vino para proteger su dinero a costa de sus soldados”.

Da Rin señaló que algunos de los contratistas que trabajan con Vectus Global son de El Salvador.

La oficina de la presidencia de El Salvador no respondió de momento a una solicitud de comentarios.

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Janetsky informó desde Phoenix, Arizona.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

Florida Republicans’ efforts to downplay what happened are only drawing more attention to it.

Republicans sued to have a television ad about the diverted public money taken down before dropping the effort.

Now, a new ad doubles down and names names, as does Democratic attorney general candidate Jose Javier Rodriguez.

“What I’m hoping to talk about are $10 million dollars that should be available to the neediest Floridians in the Medicaid program, but through the efforts of my opponent James Uthmeyer, were stolen from the Medicaid program and used for political campaigns,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez promised to open an investigation if he’s elected.

An appeals court threw out a grand jury report labeled as “botched,” but more than a year ago, a Florida House of Representatives committee officially documented the scheme and Uthmeier’s role as its mastermind.

“The efforts of my opponent and his allies include suing television stations to try and prevent them from talking about Hope Florida and the extremely dangerous step of coordinating an effort to have several state’s attorneys send threatening letters to TV stations implying criminal liability,” he said.

Rodriguez is now a target personally for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who lashed out earlier this week.

“I’m just going to say this guy is a huge, huge dirtbag,” said DeSantis. “And I’m going to ensure that he ends up suffering a very stinging defeat in November.”

It is a last resort of sorts for owners along a parking plagued portion of Northwest 22nd Avenue in northwest Miami-Dade County.

Eddie Young is the owner of Famous Car Wash and he says business has been way down, all because of an ongoing Miami-Dade Sewer project that has closed roads, and it’s been going on for more than four years.

“We depend on the customers to come in here to pay our bills,” said Young. “We’re barely paying the water and light bill here man.”

The constant construction is putting the future of his once prized business up in the air.

“This our first time in almost four years asking anyone for help,” he said. “We’re in the process of shutting down man. It’s ridiculous man, and it seems like nobody cares.”

The county is installing 9,200 linear feet of sanitary sewer infrastructure and another 9,500 linear feet of water main and service lines.

However, the project started in 2022 and was supposed to be completed by 2024, but that construction timeline has been extended until at least March of 2027.

The original contract cost also ballooned from $7.2 million to $12.6 million because of unanticipated soil, roadway and underground utility issues.

Some businesses between 79th Street and 90th Street, like the car wash, did receive a grant, but that was well before the project was hit with a five-year timeline.

“It was something to help us, but it wasn’t enough,” Young said.

Friday will feature a mix of clouds and sunshine, with north-northeast winds sustained at 5 to 15 mph. Isolated showers cannot be ruled out, especially along the immediate east coast.

Temperatures will be seasonable, with lows in the low 70s and highs in the low to mid-80s.

Moderate saltwater flooding is also possible in low-lying, typically vulnerable areas along the east coast around Friday’s high tide, expected at approximately 7 a.m.

The filing comes after Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez ruled on Monday that Desulme wasn’t qualified for the Nov. 3rd election.

“Mayor Desulme is in the process of appealing that decision,” Attorney Benedict P. Kuehne, who represents Desulme, wrote, according to the counterclaim.

Desulme accused George Morgan, a mayoral candidate, of not paying the qualifying fee in full. Morgan asked the court to disqualify Desulme over the way he paid his qualifying fees.

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling.

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Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

After the judge’s ruling, Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

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The supervisor of elections sent the vote-by-mail ballots, and early voting started on Monday.

“The cost, burden, and disruption of having voters cast ballots for an unqualified candidate deprives the North Miami citizens of their right to elect their office holders,” Kuehne wrote, according to Desulme’s counterclaim.

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As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Matis, 67, of Coral Gables, pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges on Thursday for crashing his Cadillac into Bezy’s home over the summer, killing the senior as he slept inside. He’s now set to spend time in state prison.

It happened on the night of June 24 in the 2900 block of Southwest 57th Avenue, in Miami-Dade’s unincorporated Coral Terrace area, just outside of Coral Gables.

Matis was driving a Cadillac Lyriq on Palermo Avenue when he ran a stop sign and slammed the SUV into the home, crashing through the wall and killing the sleeping Bezy.

Deputies said he a blood alcohol content of more than thrice the legal limit ― 0.245% to 0.29% ― having accelerated to 43 mph without hitting the brakes when he blew through the stop sign.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office body camera video showed a dazed Matis stumbling after the crash and asking what happened.

“I accept responsibility for this,” Matis said during Thursday’s hearing. “I pray to Henri every night. I beg him for forgiveness.”

He received a six-year prison sentence, with two more years on house arrest and then another six years of probation. He’s banned from driving for life.

The plea is little consolation for Bezy’s family.

“It’s been very hard,” Bezy’s 88-year-old sister, Claire Bezy, said after the hearing. “Where there was someone, there’s nothing now. A complete void.”

Claire Bezy was in the house at the time.

“Her house has been destroyed,” Bezy’s friend, Gary Wilcox, said of Claire. “She’s left with the clothes on her back. She has to start over at 88 years old.”

As part of the agreement, Matis will also have to perform community service.

“I’ve been doing this 45 years on both sides,” Bruce Lehr, Matis’ attorney, said. “He showed the most remorse I have ever seen by any defendant.”

Matis will also pay Bezy’s family $250 on every anniversary of the crash.

Como parte de un acuerdo con los fiscales, Matis, de 67 años y residente de Coral Gables, se declaró culpable el jueves de cargos de homicidio involuntario por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol y homicidio vehicular, después de estrellar su Cadillac contra la casa de Bezy durante el verano, causando la muerte del adulto mayor mientras dormía en el interior. Ahora deberá cumplir una condena en una prisión estatal.

El incidente ocurrió la noche del 24 de junio en la cuadra 2900 de Southwest 57th Avenue, en el área no incorporada de Coral Terrace, en Miami-Dade, justo a las afueras de Coral Gables.

Matis conducía un Cadillac Lyriq por Palermo Avenue cuando se pasó una señal de alto y estrelló la camioneta SUV contra la vivienda, atravesando la pared y causando la muerte de Bezy mientras dormía.

Los agentes dijeron que tenía un nivel de alcohol en la sangre más de tres veces superior al límite legal, entre 0.245% y 0.29%, y que había acelerado hasta alcanzar las 43 millas por hora sin frenar cuando se pasó la señal de alto.

Un video de la cámara corporal de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade mostró a Matis aturdido, tambaleándose después del choque y preguntando qué había sucedido.

“Asumo la responsabilidad por esto”, dijo Matis durante la audiencia del jueves. “Rezo por Henri todas las noches. Le suplico que me perdone”.

Recibió una sentencia de seis años de prisión, seguidos de dos años de arresto domiciliario y otros seis años de libertad condicional. Además, tiene prohibido conducir de por vida.

El acuerdo ofrece poco consuelo a la familia de Bezy.

“Ha sido muy difícil”, dijo Claire Bezy, hermana de la víctima, de 88 años, después de la audiencia. “Donde antes había alguien, ahora no hay nada. Un vacío absoluto”.

Claire Bezy se encontraba dentro de la vivienda en el momento del choque.

“Su casa quedó destruida”, dijo Gary Wilcox, amigo de Claire. “Se quedó únicamente con la ropa que llevaba puesta. Tiene que empezar de nuevo a los 88 años”.

Como parte del acuerdo, Matis también deberá realizar servicio comunitario.

“He estado haciendo esto durante 45 años, en ambos lados”, dijo Bruce Lehr, abogado de Matis. “Él mostró el mayor arrepentimiento que he visto en cualquier acusado”.

Matis también deberá pagar $250 USD a la familia de Bezy en cada aniversario del choque.

“He didn’t know why he was being taken from the prison to Moscow, and he may have thought he was going to his death," Patricia Hubbard Fox said during an interview Thursday in San Antonio, where her brother was taken for evaluation.

“He’s been kind of laughing a lot,” she added. “Like relief laughing. ‘Oh my God, you know, I’m free. This is really happening.’”

President Donald Trump said he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call earlier this month to free Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired teacher from Michigan. Hubbard was accused of fighting alongside Kyiv’s forces after Russia's full-scale invasion of the country in 2022. In 2024, he was sentenced in closed court proceedings to nearly seven years in prison.

The U.S. government under the Biden administration had designated Hubbard as wrongfully detained, and his legal team also disputed the Russian allegation, saying he was not involved in any military activity.

Hubbard Fox said her brother was starved and beaten so severely in prison that some of his fellow inmates from Ukraine had to carry him.

“The only English they knew was ‘Die, American. Die,’” she said of the Russian guards. "And that just made him mad enough to not die, you know? ‘I’ll show them.’ I’m so proud of him.”

Hubbard, a U.S. Air Force veteran, taught English overseas and retired in 2012 to Cyprus, where one of his sons is an Orthodox Christian priest. He later moved to Ukraine to be with a woman he had met, his lawyers said, and remained in the country after the relationship ended. He was living there at the time of Russia’s invasion.

Hubbard Fox said she didn't know where her brother was until a woman in Ukraine tracked her down after seeing a prison roster with his name on it.

“God doesn’t answer prayers immediately sometimes, but he always answers my prayer,” Hubbard Fox said. “And I said, ‘Jesus, get him home.’”

She said in a separate interview Wednesday that her brother would probably come live with her in Colorado, and they both were looking forward to a family reunion.

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The IV team went through about 10 needles and tried several IV sites on both arms, attorney Randy Spivey wrote in the document, which provides the most detailed account of the execution attempt so far. They even struggled to push saline through the last IV site they established, Spivey wrote.

Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 when she tortured and killed Slemmer with her boyfriend, becoming one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death.

State protocol calls for a second dose of pentobarbital if the first doesn’t result in death, but it doesn’t spell out what to do if a person survives the second injection.

After being taken to a hospital, Pike was on a ventilator for several days. At one point, her attorneys did not expect her to survive. She ultimately regained consciousness and returned to prison after being discharged.

The failed execution has brought renewed scrutiny to how Tennessee carries out death sentences. The court document was part of a separate legal proceeding in which people on the state's death row are challenging Tennessee's lethal injection procedures.

"Our predictions about the likelihood of botched executions have come true — and will continue to come true — without substantial change,” Kit Thomas, an attorney representing people on death row in the case, said.

Nearly an hour of IV attempts

The execution team began trying to place the two IVs required by Tennessee’s execution protocols at 6:34 p.m., Spivey wrote, and when they struggled Pike helped, advising them to look in her upper arm for a viable vein.

They managed to set an IV in Pike’s right arm within about 6 minutes, but it took them nearly an hour to complete the same process in her left arm.

Pike was “wincing and grimacing” as the IV team members moved the needles around inside her left arm, Spivey wrote, and the team members repeatedly expressed doubts after inserting the needles.

One team member said a vein “might be blowing” at 6:57 p.m. while examining an IV in Pike's left arm, but two others said they couldn’t tell, Spivey wrote. “One of them said something like, ‘it’s either blood or blown, I need to know,'” Spivey wrote.

The team tried again with a different spot in her left arm, and the needle appeared to be severely bent when they pulled it out, the attorney said. “I think it's blown,” the attorney recalled one of the IV team members saying at 7:07 p.m. After more attempts, the team decided at 7:13 p.m. that they had successfully placed an IV in Pike's left arm, and they taped her hands down and hooked her up to a heart monitor.

Pike complained of burning arm pain

A series of phone calls were made to the execution chamber starting about five minutes later. Spivey said it appeared the execution team members responsible for pushing the pentobarbital into the lines — a process that happens in an adjoining room — were asking the IV team for repeated checks of Pike's left arm.

It’s not clear exactly when the pentobarbital was pushed into the IV lines, but at 7:34 p.m., Pike said her arm was hurting.

“I feel like my arm is about to bust. It burns,” she said, according to her attorney. She continued to talk to her spiritual adviser for the next 10 minutes before she began making an “agitated snoring sound,” Spivey wrote.

Over the next 30 minutes Pike strained, flinched, moved her head and seemed to struggle to breathe, Spivey said, and when he asked to use a phone he was led on a circuitous, seven-minute route through the facility instead of being allowed to use the phone in the execution witness room.

Spivey called fellow attorneys at 8:22 p.m. and asked them to stop the execution because a third dose of pentobarbital isn’t authorized under the state’s protocol. He then went back to the witness room and told the deputy attorney general that Pike needed immediate medical care.

Spivey was told an ambulance was on the way at 8:50 p.m., and 20 minutes later he was told that medical staff were providing life-saving measures, he wrote. An ambulance was seen arriving at the hospital at 9:14 p.m.

“Our enemies watch movements in these markets,” Hegseth wrote in a memo dated Tuesday and reviewed by The Associated Press. “When an American Service member, intelligence professional, or other Department civilian engages in a financial transaction on a military outcome, they create a signal.”

The one-page document, which was reported earlier by CBS News, comes months after a U.S. Special Forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket.

The memo stresses that troops are forbidden from using both classified and unclassified but nonpublic information to make trades on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. It says violators could be subject to administrative punishment and criminal charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice or federal law.

“Beyond operational security, financial stakes can warp judgment,” Hegseth said in the memo. "A logistician with money riding on a strike date has an interest in that date. An analyst with a position on an outcome has an interest in that outcome."

When asked about the new policy, a defense official said the Pentagon had no other information to offer beyond the memo.

In April, 38-year-old Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was charged by federal prosecutors and federal regulators with using his access as a Special Forces member to place a series of bets that totaled more than $32,500 on when Maduro might be removed from power.

According to the federal complaint in his case, he placed those bets between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2, with the vast majority occurring the night of Jan. 2 — just hours before the first missiles would fall on Caracas.

However, the issue of government officials and employees using their access to place bets on prediction markets is not confined to the Pentagon.

A group of new accounts on Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire just before President Donald Trump announced it in April, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the new customers. The White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets the same day the report came out.

Kalshi also fined and suspended three congressional candidates who the company said wagered on the outcome of their own elections in April.

The vaccine was custom-brewed for each patient to match their tumor. Adding it to a standard post-surgery treatment reduced by 42% the risk of melanoma returning two years after surgery, according to the most advanced study to date of this new strategy for fighting cancer.

“The field has been looking for a win and I think this one is a big one,” said Dr. Hussein Tawbi of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of the researchers in the international study.

The vaccine, called intismeran, is made with the same Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology that was behind COVID-19 vaccines. Experimental personalized cancer vaccines made with mRNA and some other approaches also are being tested against other types of cancer including lung, kidney and pancreatic.

Experts not involved with the new study say its success bolsters the field.

“This is a new frontier,” said Karen Knudsen, CEO of the Parker Institute, which helps fund cancer immunotherapy research.

“It’s a big step forward for science, for oncology, because this vaccine will apply to many different cancers,” said Dr. Michael Atkins, deputy director of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Moderna and Merck had announced in August that the late-stage trial of intismeran was successful but the detailed results were set to be released Saturday at a meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology in Madrid. Some of the data was leaked publicly late Thursday, prompting a full release ahead of the weekend's scientific presentation.

Most people think of vaccines as preventing an infection, like measles or whooping cough. There are already two cancer-preventing vaccines, the HPV and hepatitis B shots that block infection from those tumor-causing viruses. And research is underway to prevent some types of inherited cancer such as Lynch syndrome-caused colorectal cancer.

But a personalized vaccine designed to block surgically-removed cancer from returning is very different. For the intismeran study, scientists hunted gene mutations unique to each patient’s tumor, mutations that create proteins which shouldn’t be in the body unless those cancer cells start to grow again. The custom vaccine — nine doses given three weeks apart — teaches the patient’s immune system to watch out for and attack those so-called neoantigens.

How did it work? The study included more than 1,100 people with high-risk melanoma that was surgically removed. Everyone was given the standard follow-up therapy: Merck’s immunotherapy named Keytruda. The participants were randomly assigned to also receive custom-brewed vaccine doses or a placebo.

Two years later, 82% of the people in the vaccine group were still living without a recurrence of their cancer compared to 70% who had gotten standard Keytruda alone. The trial is continuing to track participants’ longer-term outcomes.

In 2024, Tony Hout joined the vaccine trial at MD Anderson after seeking care for a spot on his ear that had been bleeding intermittently and wouldn’t fully heal. Doctors recognized melanoma and during surgery discovered it had started to spread.

“I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can to be here for my family,” said Hout, 62, who has since moved to Cayuga, Indiana, and travels back to Houston every few months for a study check-up. Scans this week showed he’s still cancer-free.

The vaccine’s side effects were mainly the sore arm, fatigue and other reactions typical of mRNA coronavirus vaccination, MD Anderson's Tawbi said.

Moderna and Merck are talking with regulatory authorities about next steps for seeking approval of the vaccine.

Customized medicines generally are very expensive. The drugmakers aren’t discussing what such a cancer vaccine might cost.

But Moderna President Stephen Hoge said the company’s special cancer vaccine manufacturing facility in Massachusetts is providing doses for thousands of people enrolled in multiple studies underway internationally.

Hoge said it takes a few days to brew the vaccine but the whole process, starting with analyzing the tumor genetics to come up with what is essentially a recipe for each patient, can take roughly six weeks, sometimes more. Meanwhile, the melanoma patients had already started their standard Keytruda, a different kind of immunotherapy.

Moderna shares dropped 18% Thursday after the study’s full results were made public, but they remained more than 200% higher than they were in late August before investors were first told of the initial results.

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The special forces arrived a day after Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele announced a military operation to rescue the four aviation technicians and threatened a more forceful response if they’re not released alive and unharmed.

An official with El Salvador’s government not authorized to speak on the matter said an additional 100 soldiers were going to be deployed to Haiti on Thursday night. The official said Salvadorean authorities were operating under the assumption that the four missing Salvadoreans are still alive.

The Miami Herald first reported the deployment.

The gang suppression force issued a brief statement late Thursday saying that “a contingent” from El Salvador had arrived “to support ongoing search and security operations” where the attack occurred.

Haiti’s government said Wednesday evening that the four missing soldiers were abducted, marking its first comments since the attack that occurred Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets. Authorities have said the soldiers were traveling in an armored vehicle that came under fire from gangs that also used explosives.

It’s the first major attack since the international gang suppression force began operations, replacing a Kenyan-led force that struggled to help Haitian police quell gang violence given a lack of resources and funds.

Diego Da Rin, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, said he believes that finding the Salvadoreans will be like finding a needle in a haystack.

“It will be almost impossible to find them … unless the gangs agree to hand them over,” he said.

Da Rin said the Salvadoreans were apparently not traveling with the type of security detail needed so deep in gang-held territory, and it's not clear what they were doing in the area.

The attack occurred in territory controlled by the Chèn Méchan gang, with the 400 Mawozo gang operating just west of that area, a gang that is much more powerful and has far greater firepower.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and neither gang has posted about it on social media.

Da Rin said he believes the unaccounted for soldiers could serve as a negotiation tool for gangs.

“The silence surrounding the situation of the Salvadorans might actually help them increase the leverage they can use to compel the authorities to enter into negotiations,” he said. “I do not believe this kidnapping is so much an attempt to gain money, but rather an effort to prevent incursions into their territories.”

Authorities have been fighting armed men in the area ever since the attack occurred, with the Haitian National Police task force, which includes Vectus Global — the private security firm founded by former U.S. Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince — working with the gang suppression force as part of a joint operation. As the heavy fighting in deep, gang-controlled territory continues, residents have been warned to remain indoors.

The attack occurred as the gang suppression force numbers only a little over 2,000 of the 5,500 personnel envisioned.

“The (force) was not prepared to begin its offensive campaign against the gangs,” Da Rin said. “The risk of launching large-scale operations is that the gangs might rejoin forces… and launch coordinated attacks.”

He noted that the force generally makes incursions and clears territory that would then be secured by Haitian forces: “Now, all forces are playing an offensive role.”

On Wednesday night, a gang leader known as Krisla who controls an area that is not located near the site of the attack, posted a video in which he mentioned Bukele and the ongoing gunbattle.

“They have bigger weapons and more technology than we do, but we’ll fight to the end,” he said. “We didn’t ask Bukele to come here, we didn't ask Bukele to send soldiers here. Bukele has come here to protect his money at his soldiers' expense.”

Part of the contractors working with Prince's Vectus Global are from El Salvador, Da Rin noted.

El Salvador’s presidential office did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.

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Janetsky reported from Phoenix, Arizona.

In a statement, Means did not say why he was leaving. His departure comes as leading voices in the MAHA movement have expressed discontent with what they say is the Trump administration’s lack of progress on a variety of issues, including food security and regulating the weed killer glyphosate.

Means said he “leaves with tremendous respect” for President Donald Trump and Kennedy.

“The past two years have seen historic policy and cultural change to confront the chronic disease crisis and healthcare incentives that profit from us being sick,” Means said. “This movement is in the first inning and just getting started.”

Means was hired as a White House adviser early in the second Trump administration. He used his perch at the Health and Human Services Department to attack the nation’s leading physician groups, federal agencies and government scientists, claiming they only protect their own interests.

White House spokeswoman Allison Schuster said the Trump administration is “grateful” for Means’ time and “he has done a fantastic job for the MAHA movement.” A representative from Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.

Health activist Kelly Ryerson, a leader of American Regeneration who is also known as Glyphosate Girl on social media, said she is “impressed that he completed over two years at HHS fighting the food battle, despite all of the obstacles presented by corporate interests.”

“At the heart of MAHA is a shared belief that the nation’s health must not be sacrificed to corporate profit, and that a preventable slide into chronic disease is a threat to America itself,” she said.

Means is the brother of wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means, who failed to be confirmed as surgeon general earlier this year after doubts were raised over her vaccine stance.

Means, along with his sister, came to prominence within the MAHA movement by arguing that ultraprocessed foods, additives and pesticides could be blamed for many of the chronic health conditions facing Americans.

Means brought those arguments into the Trump administration and frequently clashed with senior White House officials who worried about alienating the powerful food industry.

At the same time, Means’ emphasis on food was a source of frustration for other figures within the MAHA movement who wanted to see Kennedy focus on “medical freedom” issues. For many, that meant rolling back federal recommendations and approvals for vaccines.

Despite Means’ efforts, the administration’s progress on food reforms has been slow going.

Kennedy had promised the release of a first-ever government definition of ultraprocessed food in April. Instead, FDA’s acting commissioner, Kyle Diamantas, told a conference that month that defining the class “is really hard.”

In August, Kennedy staffers again suggested a major announcement on the issue was imminent. Instead, the announcement focused on a proposal bringing greater scrutiny to food additives. It made only passing mention of ultraprocessed foods.

Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, said Means will be missed by her organization, which operates local and national campaigns warning against pollution, water use and electricity costs associated with data center construction.

Honeycutt said Means “brought an energy and fearlessness to the Hill, fighting for our children to have healthy food in schools and for America’s health.”

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It happened at the Corner Wine and Spirits located in the Downtown Doral shopping center.

Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News shows the car damaging the store’s entrance while breaking through the glass doors and coming to a stop inside the business.

Fortunately, there were no injuries reported.

According to the Doral Police Department, the driver stated she was attempting to use the self-driving mode on the vehicle when it suddenly accelerated and crashed into the store.

Officers said the woman who was behind the wheel was given a citation.

As for the business, it reopened on Thursday with the wooden boards covering the broken glass doors.