The race between Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, and Bresnahan is considered one of the Democratic Party's best opportunities to pick up a seat in the November election in its bid to take control of the U.S. House and block President Donald Trump's agenda.

Cognetti is airing the ad in a district that's been buffeted by AI data center projects and as the opposition to data centers that has upended races for local offices across the country is spreading to top-of-the-ticket contests.

Speaking to the camera, Cognetti invokes the region's industrial heritage as a coal and shale gas powerhouse, saying, “Big companies have come before, taken what they wanted and left us with their mess to clean up. Now it’s data centers.”

She then criticizes the secrecy that developers often use to veil details of projects from the public, the tax breaks developers often get from states and the rising electric bills that have hit the mid-Atlantic region to satisfy the growing energy demand of data centers, which house rows of computers for storing, processing and transmitting data.

“Big Tech needs to pay their own way. Not hide behind NDAs. No tax breaks. Don’t raise our electric bills, don’t poison our water. And hire local, union labor," Cognetti says.

If not, “then get out,” she says. “This is our home. We are not for sale.”

Trump has made data centers a top priority to help the U.S. compete against China for AI superiority.

However, communities across the U.S. have fought many of the projects, including in northeastern Pennsylvania, where complexes of data centers and new high-voltage transmission lines are planned. Fights between communities and developers have landed in court.

The 30-second ad will run on broadcast TV channels, cable and digital platforms, Cognetti's campaign said. It is costing about $200,000 for the initial run of two weeks.

Bresnahan has introduced legislation called the Local Control Protection Act, which he says would put limits on a corporation's right to sue over local zoning decisions denying an application to build a data center.

“We should never let billion-dollar corporations supersede the voices of those who live in the community,” Bresnahan said in a statement accompanying the bill's introduction in June.

The bill has yet to move out of committee or gain a cosponsor.

Republicans have made protecting Bresnahan a high priority. Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance visited the district last year.

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Now Romania is trying something new to stop the incursions: shooting down the drones.

Romanian pilots shot down the first of three drones in as many days from F-16 fighter jets starting Friday as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border. After determining the drones were of Russian origin, Romania summoned Moscow’s ambassador in protest and expelled a Russian diplomat on Monday.

Drones have crossed into Romanian territory multiple times from Ukraine to the north and east, including in May when a drone injured a mother and child after crashing into an apartment block in the eastern town of Galati along the Danube River.

Romanian authorities largely responded by scrambling jets, collecting debris, erecting fallout shelters near the border and frequently admonishing Moscow for its war spilling into its territory.

Romania and Poland also acquired the MEROPS system, which fires short counter-drones to take down incoming stray drones, following a spate of incursions along NATO’s eastern flank late last year.

Drones have crossed into the territories of multiple EU countries, but have been a persistent problem for Romania's leadership in the capital Bucharest. At least 19 have entered Romania’s airspace this year, while there have been 50 cases of drones or drone fragments identified on its territory since the war started in 2022, according to Romania's Ministry of National Defense.

Romanian President Nicusor Dan on Sunday congratulated the Romanian pilots for downing the drones and blamed Russia for the incursions.

“It is unacceptable and intolerable for the Russian Federation to continue violating Romanian airspace,” he said.

Romania shifts the approach to stray drones

Despite passing legislation last year to shoot down drones in its airspace, which was strongly opposed by nationalist political parties, Romania has avoided shooting them down until now.

Romanian military analyst Radu Tudor said the May drone incident in Galati may have “changed something in the Romanian authorities’ mentality” in how to approach the issue.

“This was somehow a kind of psychological trigger, in order to say: ‘OK, enough is enough,’” Tudor said. “Until now, it probably was an Allied decision in NATO not to respond with firepower, because it was somehow a danger of escalation.”

“I think it’s not only a change of attitude of Romania, I think it’s a change of attitude in NATO,” he added.

Before the three interceptions over the past week, Romanian pilots also shot down a stray Ukrainian drone above Estonia in May. Romanian pilots and planes are based in Lithuania to provide broad strike capabilities for NATO.

“They saw so many signals that Russia is trying to provoke NATO,” Tudor said. “Romania is the only NATO country who shot down four drones on the eastern flank — three on Romania and one in Estonia.”

The message sent to Moscow mirrors a statement by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the organization's summit in Ankara, Turkey, earlier this month: “‘Don’t play with us’.”

Russian diplomat expelled

In response to the drone incursions, Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russia’s ambassador in Bucharest on Monday and presented him with fragments of a drone, saying Moscow “bears exclusive responsibility for all these grave incidents.” The ministry also expelled a member of the Russian mission, who was given five days to leave the country.

“The Russian side learned what they already knew: the drones downed on Romanian territory belong to them,” Foreign Minister Oana Toiu wrote in a post on X. “Drone fragments recovered by the Ministry of National Defence and the ongoing prosecutor investigation confirm their Russian origin beyond any doubt.”

The Russian embassy in Romania responded in a statement posted on its Facebook page, saying Russia “has never directed and does not direct combat drones” to Romanian territory and denied the allegation as “completely unfounded.”

“An unprovoked expulsion of a Russian employee will not go unanswered,” the embassy said.

Tactical shift to down errant drones

Cristian Popovici, the Romanian defense ministry’s head of public relations and a former air defense officer, said tactics have been developed to eliminate errant drones.

“We recorded more than 100 attacks with drones near our border with Ukraine, and many of them resulted in debris or even drones that penetrated our airspace,” he told The Associated Press. “Our pilots and our air force, we developed the tactics, procedures, and now we can face and we can eliminate this threat.”

The change began when Romanian pilots shot down a drone over Estonian airspace and from that point the military applied “lessons learned” and had a “100% rate success in three days with three drones,” Popovici said.

Despite the new approach to stray drones, Popovici said Romania does not plan to become entangled in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

“We are in a peacetime, we are not involved in this fight,” he said. “If Russia wants to escalate with NATO, it’s up to them. I’m not sure it’s a wise move now.”

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The General Electricity Company warned in a statement Tuesday that a group of people on Monday stormed Mellitah Oil & Gas complex located around 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Tripoli and closed the gas lines use to operate power plants to generate electricity. That could cause a complete blackout in multiple areas and ultimately a collapse of the electricity network.

Demonstrators across western Libya, including in Zawiya, Tripoli and Misrata, have been protesting for several days over hourslong power outages affecting those cities, demanding better power services and for the Government of Unity led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to step down.

Libya  plunged into chaos  after a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator  Moammar Gadhafi  in 2011. In the chaos that followed, the country split, with rival administrations in the east and west backed by rogue militias and foreign governments.

Currently, Dbeibah heads the internationally recognized government in the capital, Tripoli, in the west under the Government of Unity; Osama Hammad heads the administration in the east, where the powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter  continues to hold sway.

Data from the Congolese health ministry showed that 1,437 patients have died out of the 3,262 cases, in what officials have said is the fastest Ebola outbreak on record, concentrated in the eastern Ituri province.

The 2018-2020 outbreak that was recorded in Congo and neighboring Uganda lasted roughly two years, with more than 3,400 reported cases, including over 2,200 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Only the 2014-2016 outbreak across West Africa, considered the worst in history, had a higher toll with 28,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths.

The speed of transmission in the current outbreak comes amid concerns from residents that many communities in the affected provinces are either unreachable or have been abandoned by responders in recent days over safety concerns amid attacks from angry residents and rebels.

“The fact that, in just 10 weeks, we have reached nearly the same number of cases recorded over an almost two-year outbreak is alarming and should stop us in our tracks," Onesphore Bangenza, Mercy Corps response team lead in Bunia, Ituri's capital, said Tuesday.

“There is no doubt that the virus is moving faster than we can contain it,” Bangenza added.

The ongoing outbreak, which was declared on May 15, is unlike most previous Ebola outbreaks because the Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments.

Efforts to slow the transmission have been challenged by rebel violence in eastern Congo as well as health workers striking to protest the nonpayment of their wages.

The outbreak continues to spread faster than health officials can track despite an expanding response. A key challenge is that patient zero has yet to be identified in the outbreak while displacement from armed conflict and illegal mining in the region have made it difficult to trace thousands who have come in contact with infected individuals.

Despite distrust between communities and health workers mostly seen at the early stages of the outbreak, signs of progress have emerged.

“We can never again wage war against the Ebola teams. We have lost members of our families. As a community, we have a vested interest in fighting Ebola to return to normal life,” said Fabrice Mumbesa, a resident of Mongbwalu, a mining town at the center of the outbreak where residents previously burned down several treatment centers.

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Genevieve es un huracán de categoría 4, después de haber alcanzado brevemente la categoría 5 a primera hora del lunes, el primero en la región del Pacífico oriental en dos años, informó el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. Se esperaba que permaneciera mar adentro, en una trayectoria aproximadamente paralela a la costa de México.

Genevieve tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 220 km/h (140 mph), según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos, con sede en Miami. El centro de Genevieve se ubicaba a unos 830 kilómetros (515 millas) al suroeste del extremo sur de la península de Baja California y se dirigía hacia el noroeste a 17 km/h (10 mph).

No había alertas ni avisos costeros en vigor, pero el centro de huracanes indicó que el oleaje del sistema —que probablemente causaría “condiciones de oleaje y corrientes de resaca que ponen en peligro la vida”— estaba afectando partes de la costa suroeste de México y la península de Baja California.

Se esperaba que Genevieve fluctuara en intensidad antes de debilitarse más adelante en la semana.

Más al noroeste en el Pacífico, el huracán Fausto se ha debilitado a tormenta tropical mientras continúa en una trayectoria en dirección general hacia las islas hawaianas. Los meteorólogos señalaron que se espera que Fausto pase al norte de Hawái, pero que los residentes aun así deberían seguir el avance de la tormenta por posibles impactos.

El centro de huracanes informó que el fuerte oleaje y las corrientes intensas estaban aumentando en las costas orientadas al este a lo largo de las islas de Hawai. Fausto tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 100 km/h (65 mph). Su centro se ubicaba a unas 545 kilómetros (340 millas) al este-noreste de Hilo, Hawai, y avanzaba hacia el oeste-noroeste a 24 km/h (15 mph).

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The agency said the advisory covered the nearby Ariake and Yatsushiro Seas on the western coasts of Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Fukuoka and Saga prefectures about 900 kilometers (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo. The advisories were lifted within two hours.

The U.S. Geological Survey initially said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1, but revised it later to 6.8.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in a message posted on X, urged residents to avoid the coastline where a tsunami of up to 1 meter (3 feet) was predicted. She said her government has set up a task force to gather information, assess possible damage and prepare for rescue operations if needed.

Takaichi later told reporters that there have been reports of a number of injuries and damages to roads, bridges and buildings, as well as blackouts and fire, though details are still unclear. Takaichi warned people cooking to be careful with fire and with shards of broken glass.

“We are putting people’s lives as the top priority,” Takaichi said, urging residents in the strongly shaken areas to use caution in light of possible strong aftershocks.

Shinji Kiyomoto, JMA’s Earthquake and Tsunami Countermeasures planning officer, told a news conference that the shallow earthquake was triggering active seismic activity in the area, urging residents to especially be cautious over the next two to three days for another big quake. He said, however, that no tsunami was observed from the inland quake.

Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said there were no reports of damage to major public facilities and infrastructure in the region, though authorities were still assessing the extent of damage from the quake. Local fire departments received many emergency calls.

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority said no abnormalities were found at three nearby nuclear power plants.

Shinkansen bullet trains and local trains in Kyushu have been suspended for safety checks, while the runway at the Aso Kumamoto Airport was closed, with “no prospect of resuming operations” according to a notice on the airport's website.

The Japanese Defense Ministry said it dispatched aircraft to the area to assess the situation.

Kumamoto was hit with a deadly quake in 2016 that left more than 50 people dead, 1,800 injured and tens of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

In a report on the human rights situation, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it had documented 499 civilians killed and 1,216 wounded by the fighting between the neighbors that has defied international peace efforts.

In one case, the report said, civilians trying to rescue others from the rubble of an airstrike were hit by a second one.

The report also explores other human rights issues, including a deadly crackdown on protests in western Afghanistan over restrictions on women’s clothing, and decrees that essentially legalize child marriage.

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fighting on and off for months. Tension escalated significantly in February, when Afghan forces launched a raid into Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan, and Islamabad declared it was in “ open war.”

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants who carry out deadly attacks that have killed thousands over the years in Pakistan, especially the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. The group is allied with the Afghan Taliban, which has ruled Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led troops. Kabul denies the allegation.

In the deadliest attack of the fighting, a Pakistani airstrike hit a drug treatment center in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in March, killing hundreds of civilians. Rights group Amnesty International said last week the bombing should be investigated as a possible war crime.

Pakistan has not given an overall figure for civilian casualties caused by the cross-border fighting in its territory. The U.N. mission, known by its acronym UNAMA, noted it is only mandated to monitor incidents in Afghanistan.

Pakistan denies targeting civilians

In a written response to UNAMA’s report, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said Afghanistan’s Taliban government “continues to maintain a permissive environment for a range of (militant) organizations.”

The response did not mention Afghan civilian casualties but said Pakistan’s military strikes "were directed exclusively at identified terrorist hideouts, sanctuaries, and support infrastructure linked to groups responsible for attacks inside Pakistan.”

The hundreds of civilian casualties listed by UNAMA include 22 — five of them children — who were killed in two successive airstrikes on a residential building in the eastern province of Paktia on June 28. At least 185 others were wounded.

Most of the deaths and injuries were caused by the second strike, when locals were trying to rescue the victims of the first one.

“International humanitarian law provides special protections for medical personnel and humanitarian workers, including first responders. Attacks against them while performing their duties are strictly prohibited," said Fiona Frazer, director of human rights at UNAMA.

Afghan women still face harsh restrictions

UNAMA’s report also highlighted problems faced by women, who are subject to draconian restrictions by Afghanistan’s Taliban government. They include a ban on education beyond primary school, a strict dress code, bans on working in nearly all professions and a requirement to be accompanied by a male relative when outside the home.

The report detailed a crackdown in the western city of Herat in June, where at least 30 women were arrested on allegations of dress code violations. At least one person was killed and several others were injured when authorities opened fire during a rare protest against the detentions.

Rules governing women’s clothing stipulate they can only go out in public when wearing full hijab — which includes a headscarf and robe covering the entire body — as well as a face covering that leaves only the eyes visible. The regulations are policed by the feared Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

However, interpretations of the rules and what constitutes wearing the hijab correctly vary and can be arbitrarily enforced.

The UNAMA report said Vice and Virtue officials visited health clinics and shops in various parts of the country to advise them to refuse entry to women not accompanied by a male relative.

The report also said new rules on separation in marriage “ implicitly sanction child marriage " by allowing for marriage contracts to be arranged for minors.

El incendio seguía estabilizado a las 6 de la mañana tras una noche tranquila y la superficie quemada no había cambiado: 420 kilómetros cuadrados (162 millas cuadradas), informó la prefectura de Gironda.

Las autoridades indicaron que se detectaron varios rebrotes durante la noche al norte de Le Porge y en una zona de dunas al norte de Cap Ferret, pero los bomberos lograron controlarlos.

Las zonas se encuentran a lo largo de la costa atlántica al oeste de Burdeos, donde los equipos han combatido el incendio desde que se desató cerca de Saumos la semana pasada.

El incendio, que arde desde la semana pasada, ha sido sumamente impredecible y en ocasiones se transformó en una tormenta de fuego retroalimentada, mientras arrasaba un área cuatro veces mayor que París y obligaba a 220.000 personas a huir de sus hogares.

Aunque su avance se ha detenido, los funcionarios han advertido repetidamente que la vegetación humeante y el descenso de la humedad podrían desencadenar nuevos brotes.

Las autoridades francesas ordenaron el martes la evacuación de casi 4.000 personas de lugares de acampada, residencias turísticas, pueblos vacacionales y parques de ocio en la zona de Lacanau, en la costa atlántica, ante un deterioro del tiempo que amenazaba con intensificar las condiciones de los incendios.

La autoridad regional de Gironda indicó que las evacuaciones abarcaban el municipio de Lacanau-Océan y ambas orillas del lago de Lacanau. Se indicó a la gente que llevara sus pertenencias personales, siguiera las instrucciones de emergencia y se mantuviera alejada hasta que las autoridades permitan el regreso.

Los bomberos y los ingenieros militares reanudaron el trabajo temprano el martes en cortafuegos tácticos diseñados para impedir que las llamas se propaguen. Las autoridades señalaron que se han creado 103 kilómetros (64 millas) de barreras.

La prefectura informó que 93 bomberos han resultado heridos durante la operación.

Un tramo de la autopista A63 permanecía cerrado, mientras que el tráfico ferroviario al sur de Burdeos estaba suspendido, salvo en la ruta hacia Tolosa.

Miles de evacuados regresan a casa

El avance cauteloso en Gironda se produjo mientras miles de personas empezaban a regresar a casa después de que un incendio forestal separado en la vecina región de Landas desplazara a más de 30.000 residentes y turistas.

El presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, afirmó el lunes por la noche que el incendio en Landas había sido contenido y las autoridades regionales lo describieron como “fijo”, lo que significa que su avance se había detenido y no se estaban produciendo nuevos incendios.

Unas 15.000 personas recibieron autorización para regresar desde la noche del lunes a Sanguinet, Parentis-en-Born y algunas partes de Biscarrosse.

Entre los residentes que pudieron volver se encontraban los del pueblo de Biscarrosse y un gran camping, aunque otros vecindarios seguían siendo inaccesibles.

El regreso era un paso significativo para las comunidades que se vaciaron mientras las llamas arrasaban bosques y zonas turísticas en plena temporada de vacaciones de verano. Las carreteras entre Biscarrosse, Parentis-en-Born y Sanguinet reabrieron de forma restringida para residentes y viajes esenciales.

Las autoridades advirtieron que el incendio en Landas no estaba completamente extinguido. Puntos calientes residuales, el viento y la sequía podrían provocar rebrotes, y se esperaba que las operaciones de vigilancia y enfriamiento continuaran durante días o posiblemente semanas.

La mejora del panorama en ambas zonas enfrentaba un nuevo desafío el martes con el ascenso de las temperaturas.

El servicio meteorológico nacional de Francia puso a Gironda bajo alerta amarilla por calor desde el mediodía, y pronosticó temperaturas en el interior de 33 a 35 grados Celsius (de 91 a 95 grados Fahrenheit).

Se esperaban vientos del sureste en todo el departamento, con brisas marinas del oeste a lo largo de la costa.

Sucesivas olas de calor han dejado los bosques y los matorrales excepcionalmente secos, lo que ha ayudado a alimentar incendios en Francia y en otros lugares del sur de Europa.

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The order underscored a wildfire emergency of exceptional scale across southwestern Europe.

Fires in France and Spain have forced roughly 330,000 people to evacuate. Spain braced for its fourth heat wave of the summer, with several blazes still out of control, including its largest on record.

Firefighters held the French blaze in check through a calm night, bringing flare-ups near coastal dunes under control and keeping the burned area unchanged at 420 square kilometers (162 square miles).

Authorities described the Gironde fire as stabilized, not fixed, meaning it could still spread again as temperatures rose and humidity fell.

The precautionary evacuation order covered campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences and leisure parks around the resort of Lacanau, including Lacanau Ocean and both shores of Lacanau lake, Gironde regional authorities said.

“We are at a point of fragility,” Eric Brocardi, spokesperson for France’s national firefighters federation, told BFMTV on Tuesday. “We will continue attacking this fire despite the forecast rise in temperatures.”

France’s national weather service placed Gironde under a yellow heat warning from midday Tuesday, forecasting inland temperatures of 33 to 35 Celsius (91 to 95 Fahrenheit). Southeast winds were expected across Gironde, with westerly sea breezes along the coast.

More than 1,160 square kilometers (448 square miles) have burned across France this year, according to the Interior Ministry.

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate service and the World Meteorological Organization.

Western Europe recorded its hottest June on record, with extreme heat and widespread dryness contributing to the spread and intensification of fires in France and Spain, Copernicus said.

The Gironde blaze has been raging since last week and has proven wildly unpredictable, transforming at times into a self-feeding firestorm. It has burned an area four times the size of Paris and prompted the evacuation of 220,000 people.

Officials warned that smoldering vegetation, rising temperatures and falling humidity could produce fresh outbreaks along the vast perimeter.

Military engineers and forest-fire prevention crews resumed work early Tuesday on firebreaks designed to prevent the flames from spreading. Authorities said 103 kilometers (64 miles) of firebreaks had been completed.

A total of 93 firefighters have been injured, the prefecture said.

The A63 highway remained partly closed, while rail traffic south of Bordeaux was suspended except on the route toward Toulouse.

Thousands return as second fire stops advancing

In neighboring Landes, thousands of evacuees were allowed home after a separate wildfire stopped advancing. The fire had displaced more than 30,000 residents and vacationers.

“The fire is fixed, which is good news in the Landes,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday evening. Regional authorities said that meant its advance had been stopped and there were no new fire starts.

About 15,000 people were authorized to return home Monday night in Sanguinet, Parentis-en-Born and some parts of Biscarrosse.

Residents of Biscarrosse’s aviation village and a large campground were among those allowed back, although several other neighborhoods remained inaccessible.

The return marked a significant step for communities evacuated as flames swept through forests and tourist areas during the height of the summer vacation season.

Authorities warned that the Landes fire was not extinguished.

Residual hot spots, wind and drought could cause flare-ups, and surveillance and damping-down operations were expected to continue for days or possibly weeks.

Spain braces for worsening conditions

Hundreds of firefighters backed by military emergency brigades and water-dropping aircraft continued battling several major wildfires in Spain.

Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Tuesday that nonstop work through the night left him “reasonably positive,” but warned that conditions could deteriorate as temperatures rose again.

Spain’s national weather service said the country was bracing for its fourth heat wave of the summer, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 C (104 F) in some areas.

Authorities have evacuated about 79,000 people and ordered another 30,000 to remain in their homes. The government declared a national emergency over the fires.

The greatest concern remained two large fires that had at times come close to merging into a single blaze in wooded hills about an hour’s drive west of Madrid.

Another fire in the eastern province of Castellón also forced mass evacuations.

A fire burning through hilly, rural terrain in Ávila, west of Madrid, has become Spain’s largest on record, scorching more than 500 square kilometers (193 square miles), the government said.

“Look at how the valley is burned. Look at the houses, the people,” said David Gonzalez, a 48-year-old gardener who used his van to deliver supplies to firefighters in Ávila.

“We are feeling a lot of anger and helplessness. It’s something inhuman,” he said.

Fires have burned 1,530 square kilometers (590 square miles) this year in Spain, Ecology Minister Sara Aagesen said.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for a national pact to fight wildfires, saying climate change is making them worse.

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Adamson reported from Paris. Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.

Respect for it, though, has come under strain: Some countries have denied entry to asylum seekers. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States has led a policy of sending asylum seekers to third countries — upending years of U.S. policy.

More than 41 million refugees remain forcibly displaced: Nearly 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The ranks could grow: The International Committee of the Red Cross counts more than 130 armed conflicts around the globe.

The convention took key steps toward defining what a refugee is, laying out their rights, and establishing standards of treatment. Nearly 150 countries are parties to the convention or its 1967 protocol. However, many nations, including many hosting large refugee populations, still aren't party to the convention, leaving millions out of its protections.

“It codified a simple but powerful principle that people forced to flee persecution, conflict or violence must be able to find safety and protection,” said Elizabeth Tan, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' director of international protection and solutions.

Its core principle is “non-refoulement,” prohibiting the return of people to a place where they would face persecution, torture or other serious harm. It all rests on the idea that no society is immune to war, persecution or sudden upheaval.

Here’s what six refugees say about their experiences and the importance of the convention.

Escaping Nicaragua's deadly crackdown

Human rights lawyer Juan Carlos Arce considers himself among millions of people whose lives have been saved by the convention: He fled Nicaragua by foot in 2018 after a bloody government crackdown against protesters killed hundreds.

The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, for which Arce worked, had documented the violence and was deemed a “terrorist organization” by President Daniel Ortega’s government. He fled to Costa Rica where he was granted asylum.

In Costa Rica, rights defenders and Nicaraguan opposition leaders were attacked and even assassinated, so he moved to Barcelona, Spain, last year under a resettlement program organized by UNHCR and the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.

“Feeling safe and protected, that is priceless,” he said under Barcelona’s Arc de Triomf, as tourists and residents walked by.

From refugee to Olympic basketball player

Wenyen Gabriel said his parents worked hard too. He was born in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in 1997 after his parents fled civil war in southern Sudan. They later moved to Egypt as refugees, before being resettled in New Hampshire.

Little Wenyen was 2 at the time. Big Wenyen — he’s 2.08 meters (nearly 6 feet, 10 inches) tall — earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Kentucky and played in the NBA. In 2024, he played for the young country of South Sudan at the Olympic Games in Paris.

While he at times felt “a little bit different from the people in the community” in New Hampshire, there were other refugee families around.

“We had to struggle and figure out how to become something inside of the United States,” he said at the headquarters of the refugee agency UNHCR, for which he became its newest goodwill ambassador on Monday. “It’s not easy to make something of yourself in a foreign country.”

The US was once welcoming

Hershel Greenblat was born during World War II, in 1941, inside a cave in Ukraine as his Jewish family hid from the Nazis.

After the war, his family sneaked into Austria, where they lived in U.S. Army camps for displaced persons. After initially considering moving to Israel, they opted for the U.S. after receiving approval in 1949 to immigrate there.

He recalled how his father woke him in the middle of the night as the Army transport ship approached the Statue of Liberty. The kids received welcome boxes packed by American middle-schoolers.

In Atlanta, where his family has lived for decades, Greenblat said refugees today often get a different welcome. He said he wasn’t previously familiar with the convention despite it being sparked by the displacement of WWII — but said refugees deserve protections and opportunities for work and education.

“Refugees in the ’50s worked their butts off to get what they wanted, what they needed,” said Greenblat, now 85.

Rohingya fleeing Myanmar

Sayed Alom, a humanitarian aid worker and one of the 700,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar into neighboring Bangladesh in 2017, has been languishing in refugee camps there ever since. The Rohingya are the largest group of stateless people, according to UNHCR, and Bangladesh is not a party to either the 1951 convention or the following 1967 protocol.

Myanmar’s military forces “raped our mothers and sisters, burned down our homes, threw our children into the river and set them on fire,” he recalled in an interview in refugee camps outside Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “We were persecuted until we could no longer live there.”

Alom, who expected to return home quickly, says the limbo situation has become “imaginably worse,” with kidnapping for ransom, as well as threats from nature, including extreme heat, flooding and landslides destroying the camps.

A Palestinian living for decades in Lebanon

More than seven decades after fleeing her village, 88-year-old Hussniyah Ahmad Ghozlan still remembers the journey that brought her family to Lebanon.

Ghozlan was a child when they fled during the 1948 war after their village — Yajur, southeast of Haifa, Israel — was depopulated.

“We got by because we worked, raised our children and built our lives,” she said in an alley near her home in Shatila camp for Palestinian refugees in Beirut.

Asked whether she knew of the 1951 Refugee Convention, Ghozlan laughed and said she had not, explaining that she never learned to read or write. But even if she had, Lebanon is not a signatory to the treaties meant to protect her.

Swimming to refuge in Germany

Swimmers Yusra and Sarah Mardini fled war-torn Syria in 2015, joining the wave of refugees from their home country that year, in a saga that has been turned into a highly-regarded movie.

They went first to Lebanon, then Turkey, where they paid smugglers to take them by sea to Greece: They jumped out of an overloaded boat to keep it from sinking. After an arduous trek across southeast Europe, they received refuge in Germany. Yusra was named a UNHCR goodwill ambassador in 2017.

Now that Syria’s war is over, Yusra is hopeful: Some 1.3 million Syrians have returned. But after such an ordeal, change doesn’t just happen overnight. “You can’t just snap your fingers,” she said.

“I do believe that my country and its people are very strong and that I’m going to contribute in the best way possible.”

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Brito reported from Barcelona, Spain. Associated Press journalists Ali Sharafeddine in Beirut; and R.J. Rico and Emilie Megnien in Atlanta contributed to this report. Freelance journalists Habi Zullah and Ro Yassin Abdumonab contributed from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

The meeting comes as both face growing pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for reelection and is embattled in part because of his deteriorating relationship with Trump. Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war that has wreaked economic havoc and driven prices higher ahead of midterm elections this November.

The two leaders also plan to discuss the framework agreement the U.S. and Israel signed with Lebanon over the Israel-Hezbollah war and the expansion of the Abraham Accords, according to a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the meeting.

“We have a little difference,” Trump said Monday when asked by reporters if he and the Israeli prime minister were on the same page with Iran. “But pretty close, yeah.”

Trump and Netanyahu's relationship has ebbed before

Trump has had a hot-and-cold history with Netanyahu over the years, but upon his return to the White House last year, their alliance seemed stronger than ever. When they started the war together in February, it was with a united front, touting their respective militaries as acting in lockstep to take out Iran’s leadership and pave the way for a government more friendly to the West.

But as Iran fought back — sending drones and missiles slamming into U.S. bases and high-rises in cities in the Gulf, and choking off the Strait of Hormuz — Trump came under immense pressure both at home and by allies in the region to end the conflict.

Since then, Netanyahu, who wanted to continue the fighting in Iran and against its ally, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, has been sidelined as Trump sought a deal with Tehran. His visit to the White House this week comes as the disagreements with Trump and Vice President JD Vance have burst into the open over the war in Iran and more.

“The Americans are making it clear to the Israelis they are the ones who are running the war,” Israeli journalist and political analyst Amit Segal wrote Monday in the daily newspaper, Israel Hayom. “It is clear to everyone that Israel has been put in the back seat.”

Netanyahu keeping focus on Iran's nuclear program

With U.S.-Iran tensions flaring again in recent weeks, Netanyahu plans to share with Trump Israeli intelligence on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to a person familiar with Netanyahu’s visit, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

On Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo, Netanyahu said he hoped to sit down with Trump “to hear what he has in mind” for Iran.

“Because I think, in many ways, it’s his decision” on how to move forward, Netanyahu said. “If he can do so without returning to intense military fighting, that’s fine. Why not?

"But one way or the other, they have to end their nuclear program,” he said of Iran.

Netanyahu also used the interview to warn Iran against attacking his country, saying Israel’s response would be “very forceful.”

Steps to allow other forces in Gaza and in Lebanon

But even as Netanyahu sees an opportunity, he also needs to persuade Trump that he won’t play spoiler to U.S. diplomatic and reconstruction efforts in Gaza and in Lebanon, where the president has previously complained that “too many people are being killed” by Israeli strikes.

Israel has taken recent steps in both places.

In Lebanon, where the Israeli military occupies much of the south, Israel agreed to allow the Lebanese army to deploy to some villages as part of a “pilot program” testing their ability to secure areas where Hezbollah once operated. The U.S. State Department said Monday the next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon will take place next week in Rome with a focus on expanding the program.

On Gaza, Israel’s security cabinet green-lit on Sunday a measure that would, in theory, grant entry to the first members of an international stabilization force outlined last year in a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Few countries have pledged troops for the force, however, and Israel would approve their entry into Gaza on a case-by-case basis.

The troops — including from Morocco and Uganda — would only be allowed to operate in a small, desolate area in Rafah in the south, where the plan is to vet and house some displaced Palestinians.

The Israeli military continues to carry out strikes it says target militants but that have also killed civilians.

Support for Israel has eroded

Israel has lost a significant amount of bipartisan support in the United States, particularly over its conduct in Gaza.

In June, Vance warned Israeli officials that Trump was their only friend among world leaders. Vance is expected to attend the meeting with Netanyahu, according to a person familiar with the plan who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

An AP-NORC poll published earlier this month found a dramatic erosion of support among American adults for Israel.

“We’ve lost America. Thank you, Bibi,” wrote Ben Caspit, a political commentator for Israel's Maariv newspaper.

___ Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Darlene Superville and Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed reporting.

Luis Arraez got the scoring started with an RBI single in the third that drove in rookie catcher Jesús Rodríguez, who opened the inning with a double.

With two outs in the fourth, Willy Adames singled and McCray sent a 406-foot shot the other way to left-center for his sixth career home run and first since a two-homer game at San Diego on Sept. 7, 2024.

The 25-year-old outfielder went 2 for 22 in 22 big league games last season and had been hitless in six at-bats this year since getting recalled July 10 from Triple-A Sacramento.

McCray started in right field for injured Jung Hoo Lee.

Mahle (3-9) allowed three hits and two walks while striking out three. He threw 54 of his 88 pitches for strikes and was lifted after giving up a leadoff single in the seventh.

Sam Hentges, Dylan Smith and Erik Miller combined to retire Milwaukee's last nine batters. Miller got three outs for his third save, finishing the three-hitter.

Brewers starter Brandon Sproat (3-6) permitted three runs and six hits in six innings. He picked off a pair of runners at first base.

San Francisco lost Casey Schmitt to an apparent leg injury, as the third baseman exited in the second after pulling up awkwardly while rounding first base. Christian Koss replaced Schmitt.

Schmitt adds to San Francisco’s growing injury list as the team was already without third baseman Matt Chapman (abdominal strain) and Lee (right elbow soreness).

Up next

Brewers RHP Logan Henderson (4-1, 3.05 ERA) opposes Giants RHP Landen Roupp (7-8, 3.93) on Tuesday night.

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Democrats are hoping to retain control of the governor’s office and flip both chambers of the Legislature to earn full control of Wisconsin state government for the first time since 2010. But they have failed to coalesce around one candidate for the top job, spurring fears that they could miss an opportunity to win in November.

Early in-person voting begins as Democrats meet for only debate

The five Democratic candidates are scheduled to meet for their only debate Tuesday night ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.

Insurgent democratic socialist Francesca Hong has garnered strong support among the most liberal wing of the party. Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate race, is hoping that voters in his hometown of Milwaukee help him overcome Hong, whose base is in Madison. Those two cities hold the largest number of Democratic voters in Wisconsin.

Also in the race is Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who is running with the endorsement of Gov. Tony Evers. Crowley had dropped out of the race on July 8, but got back in on July 17, the day after Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out amid a campaign finance scandal.

Both Crowley and Barnes are trying to become Wisconsin's first Black governor.

The winner of the Democratic primary will advance to take on Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany in November. Tiffany, who is running with the backing of President Donald Trump in a state Trump won in 2016 and 2024, faces only nominal opposition in the primary.

Judge hearing arguments over canceling already-filed absentee ballots

And hours after polls open for early voting, a judge was scheduled to hear arguments in a Democratic lawsuit seeking to allow voters who already returned their ballots to cancel those and cast a new one. As of Monday, more than 100,000 ballots had already been returned by mail.

The lawsuit was filed last week with support from the Wisconsin Democratic Party. They are seeking an order from a judge to immediately allow for already-cast ballots to be canceled, a rarely used practice known as ballot spoiling.

Democrats argue it's necessary given that Rodriguez and former state economic director Missy Hughes ended their campaigns, and Crowley got back in the race, after tens of thousands of ballots had already been returned.

Hughes and Rodriguez’s names remain on the ballot.

In-person absentee voting, which began Tuesday, runs through Aug. 9. All absentee ballots must be received by the time polls close on election day Aug. 11 in order to be counted.

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Mayes-Osterman is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. She reported for this story from Milwaukee.

Clayton is expected to be confirmed along party lines after a contentious hearing two weeks ago in which he repeatedly refused to say that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Still, Democrats have said they have more confidence in Clayton than they do in Trump’s temporary pick for the job, Bill Pulte, who has no known intelligence experience and investigated the president’s perceived enemies in his previous post as a federal housing regulator.

Senators from both parties have expressed concerns about Pulte, who took over on an interim basis last month after Tulsi Gabbard resigned. Pulte was in charge when Trump delivered a speech from the White House earlier this month doubling down on his false claims about the 2020 election, which he lost, and released classified documents that he said were relevant to his arguments.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said he had worked in the past with Clayton, who is the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman. After the hearing, Warner said he would oppose Clayton’s nomination but acknowledged that Democrats are “between a rock and a hard place” with Pulte in the job.

The Senate voted 51-43 along party lines on Monday to advance Clayton’s nomination.

Clayton won’t say Biden won the election

The Democratic pushback on Clayton comes as Trump has made revisiting 2020 a primary focus, repeatedly trying to cast doubt on that election and amplifying debunked theories about Biden’s win.

Clayton told senators that he had no involvement with Trump’s primetime speech, but he said repeatedly that the election was “certified” for Biden, declining to say outright that the Democrat won.

Warner said at the end of the hearing that he was “bitterly disappointed.” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said he thought Clayton’s performance was “abysmal,” and that “makes it much less likely that he will get Democratic votes.”

Republicans tried to quickly confirm Clayton

Republicans were hoping to confirm Clayton in June so he could replace Gabbard without Pulte serving as interim. But Trump delayed Clayton’s nomination before the Senate left for a two-week recess, allowing Pulte to take the job temporarily.

Clayton did not mention Pulte in the confirmation hearing. But he emphasized his own government and national security experience, attempting to assuage senators in both parties.

“I saw firsthand how a strong national security apparatus depends on decisive judgment, discipline, integrity, and effective communication and cooperation across different branches of the government,” Clayton said. “If confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will commit to upholding these principles every day.”

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who expressed frustration last month when the hearing was delayed, said that Clayton has a reputation for operating with “morality, decency and integrity” in his previous positions.

“Jay Clayton is a highly qualified nominee with a deep experience combating a wide range of national security threats,” Cotton said.

It's been a jumbled and frenetic period during what would have otherwise been Graham's expected glide path toward a fifth term. He won his June primary outright, and no Democrat has won a statewide-elected office in South Carolina for two decades.

Graham's sudden death earlier this month at age 71 has sparked a rushed and compressed process leading to a special primary election in just two weeks.

The close of a one-week filing period for the South Carolina contest comes Tuesday, the same day as the first of two funerals across Washington and Graham’s home state. The rare open Senate seat has drawn some of the state's top Republicans, longshots, familiar faces — and Graham's sister. If no candidate receives a majority vote, a runoff election will be held Aug. 25.

Darline Graham, the interim appointee, is a political unknown

For years, Darline Graham had been her older brother's political confidant, appearing in his ads, by his side at rallies and an indelible part of his biography, from their shared roughshod beginnings to his adoption of her following their parents' deaths.

In the hours after her brother died, Darline Graham stepped into Lindsey Graham's shoes in the Senate as the appointee to fulfill the remaining months of his current term, selected by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to serve until January. Now she's running for the nomination to replace him more permanently.

Darline Graham is a political unknown to the South Carolina voters who for decades returned her brother to Washington. Although she had been part of his campaigns, she's never been a political commodity in her own right, and there have been questions in South Carolina's GOP circles over whether goodwill toward her brother's memory is enough to send her to the Senate.

For now, Darline Graham is surrounded by her late brother's official and political staff. She had the support of President Donald Trump — to whom her brother was a top congressional ally — to seek the seat, as well as his endorsement before she had said publicly that she would do so.

McMaster made no reference to Darline Graham as a placeholder or symbolic appointment, although a person familiar with McMaster’s thinking but unauthorized to speak publicly said the governor, in selecting her, had never contemplated that she would run for the seat herself.

Two congressmen are vying for the nomination

Fresh off an unsuccessful primary run for governor, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman entered the Senate race and has snapped up endorsements from other House members, including Rep. Nancy Mace, as well as law enforcement officials across the state. One of the most conservative members in the House, Norman is well-known across South Carolina.

Before the emergence of Darline Graham — and their Oval Office meeting after she was sworn in — Trump had previously suggested he could back a potential candidacy from Rep. Russell Fry, who officially entered the special primary shortly after.

Fry, well-known in his strongly pro-Trump, Myrtle Beach-area district, is working to elevate his name ID across other parts of the state since getting into the race and is promoting himself as a stalwart backer of Trump's policies.

Mark Sanford returns for another campaign

The former South Carolina congressman and governor whose political ascendency was stalled by a 2009 affair is making yet another attempt to return to public office.

Sanford's Senate bid comes just three months after he shuttered a bid to retake his former U.S. House seat, saying then he was quitting the race to set up a nonprofit to address the national debt, his signature issue.

Sanford had entered that contest on the last day of filing, when the race already was full of other Republican candidates, many of whom had spent months laying the groundwork for their campaigns.

Other GOP hopefuls include a former Graham challenger

Mark Lynch, a Greenville businessman who tried to oust Graham in the regular Republican primary last month, swiftly relaunched his campaign following Graham's death. He's expected to put much of his own money into his Senate run.

Other candidates include:

— Duke Buckner, a Walterboro attorney who is a perennial candidate. He has challenged U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, South Carolina's lone congressional Democrat. Buckner also is a former public school English teacher.

— Mark McBride, the former mayor of Myrtle Beach. He unsuccessfully sought federal office before, including a 2004 Senate primary loss to former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. McBride also lost to Fry in the 2022 GOP primary for the 7th Congressional District.

— Darius Mitchell, a resident of Columbia, who calls himself a “Hip Hop Republican.” In social media posts, he has voiced support for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

— Clark Neilson, a businessman in Charlotte, North Carolina, who has said he plans to build a home on land he owns in Charleston County. He said he's in the process of becoming a South Carolina resident.

— Sam Shepherd, a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur. He lives in Lexington County and has said he is focusing his campaign on cutting taxes and federal spending.

Who is the Democratic nominee in the Senate race?

Dr. Annie Andrews, a Charleston physician, won her party’s primary in June. Having set up her entire campaign based around challenging Graham, Andrews will soon find out her new general election opponent.

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European shares opened moderately higher after a day of losses for most Asian markets, while U.S. futures were mixed.

Oil prices declined more than 2%.

Trading was temporarily halted at times as Kospi dropped to its lowest level since April, closing 10.8% lower at 6,023.66. Shares in chipmaker Samsung Electronics sank 13.4% while those of SK Hynix tumbled 14.7%.

In early European trading, Germany's DAX gained 0.6% to 25,511.93, while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.5% to 8,450.71. Britain's FTSE 100 picked up 0.6% to 10,846.42.

The future for the S&P 500 slipped 0.1% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3%.

On Monday, SK Hynix's U.S.-traded shares fell to below the $149 initial public offering, or IPO, price for its Wall Street debut earlier this month, closing at $143 a share.

A key factor driving the selling of AI-related shares, analysts said, is the expectation that rising competition from Chinese AI startups and chipmakers might undermine gains for leading global companies whose shares have skyrocketed in the past months due to the AI frenzy.

A 466% jump in the price of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT in its trading debut Monday underscored such concerns. CXMT raised at least $8.6 billion in its IPO in Shanghai. But its shares dropped 4% Tuesday.

Tuesday’s chip stock sell-off also followed a report in the technology news publication The Information that China has begun mass production of homegrown deep ultraviolet, or DUV, chipmaking tools. Such equipment is used to print minute circuit patterns onto silicon wafers.

“We believe the market was likely spooked by the progress of China’s chipmaking equipment capabilities, and was worried that this progress would threaten the competitive position of global chipmaking and chip equipment leaders,” said equity analyst Jing Jie Yu of Morningstar.

“That said, we believe the sell-off today is largely a knee-jerk reaction and overdone,” he said. The dominant position of global chipmaking leaders is unlikely to be threatened meaningfully, he said.

Elsewhere in Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 4% to 62,364.92. The Taiex in Taiwan skidded 4.7%, with shares of leading chipmaker TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, falling 3%.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.4% to 25,310.85, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 1.2% to 3,813.31.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6% to 8,947.80.

India's Sensex edged 0.1% lower.

Oil prices extended their declines as the U.S. and Iran refrained from strikes in their on-again, off-again war. Regional officials said Monday that mediators had made progress in getting the U.S. and Iran back to negotiations after they paused attacks.

Brent crude, the international standard, fell 2.2% to $84.03 a barrel. It was trading around $72 per barrel before the Iran war began in late February.

U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 1.7% to $81.20 a barrel.

On Monday, the benchmark S&P 500 gained less than 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.5% higher, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite edged 0.2% lower.

Shares of several major chipmaking stocks declined, pulling benchmarks lower. Shares of AMD, or Advanced Micro Devices, sank 5.2%, Nvidia dropped 5%, and Micron Technology fell 2.3%.

In other dealings early Tuesday, the U.S. dollar rose to 163.82 Japanese yen from 163.75 yen. The euro fell to $1.1367 from $1.1369.

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Kurtenbach reported from Bangkok.

Graham's remains will arrive at the U.S. Capitol, where the Republican served for more than 30 years as an indefatigable dealmaker who talked and laughed and badgered his colleagues into action. Later, a funeral service will be held at Washington National Cathedral with lawmakers and foreign leaders, a testament to his stature on the global stage.

President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks at the cathedral, alongside Fox News' Sean Hannity and other conservative leaders. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy are planning to be in attendance, a nod to Graham's role as a foremost believer in the power of the U.S. and its military to intervene in the world's problems.

It's the start of two days of services, with burial Wednesday in his home state of South Carolina. Graham died suddenly on July 11 at his home in Washington of a likely aortic tear, according to preliminary findings. He had just returned from a whirlwind trip to a NATO summit in Turkey, where he celebrated his birthday, and a visit to Ukraine. He was 71.

A place of honor to ‘say our final goodbyes’

The morning service in the Capitol Rotunda provides a place of tribute where former presidents and military leaders and other prominent Americans have been memorialized. In recognition of his service in the Air Force, an Armed Forces Body Bearer Team will carry Graham's remains into the Capitol. Vice President JD Vance is expected to speak.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said earlier it was only fitting to give Graham a special Capitol honor “as we say our final goodbyes."

“For so many of us in the Senate and the House, myself included, Lindsey was more than a colleague, he was a friend,” Thune said.

First elected to Congress in the 1994 Republican revolt that swept the GOP to power, Graham was part of a new era of conservatives to take their seats in the House — and among the first Republicans from his Southern state since Reconstruction.

He quickly rose to prominence as a manager in Bill Clinton's presidential impeachment, and was elected to the Senate in the 2002 election. There, he formed alliance with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in what would become the “three amigos” globetrotting the world focused on national security issues.

For decades, Graham had been at the center of the action — a member of virtually every bipartisan gang in Congress — with a relentless ability to shapeshift and adapt to political realities, particularly when it came to Trump.

The ‘Trump whisperer’ had one last mission: Russia sanctions

Perhaps nowhere was Graham's political dexterity on display as when he navigated his on-again, off-again relationship with Trump.

Graham had denounced Trump as a “kook” who was “unfit for office” when the two were early rivals during the 2016 presidential primary campaign.

Once Trump was elected, Graham gradually situated himself alongside the new president — until Trump sparked the mob who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, trying to overturn Joe Biden's election.

“Count me out. Enough is enough,” Graham said that night in a fiery floor speech.

Weeks later, Trump invited Graham to the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, rekindling their alliance. The senator had said he wanted the president to be successful, and as Trump won a second term in 2024, Graham also wanted to remain relevant.

Graham had become what Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called the “Trump whisperer,” someone other senators — and even world leaders — relied on to understand the president's thinking.

Days before his death, Graham had won Trump's support for a long-fought bipartisan proposal to impose sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, one of the strongest U.S. efforts yet to hamper Russian President Vladimir Putin's ability to prolong the conflict.

Senators said as a tribute to Graham they should quickly approve the Russian sanctions package, and they were scheduled later Tuesday to take a first procedural vote. Zelenskyy is expected to be on hand and meeting with senators in the evening.

Graham's champions and potential successors

At the Washington cathedral, a roster of socially conservative and anti-abortion leaders are expected to participate in the services, including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Marjorie Jones Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and the Reverend William Franklin Graham III.

Graham never married, but he helped support his younger sister, Darline Graham, who is now a potential successor in the Senate.

She has been appointed by the state's governor to fill the remainder of his term in the Senate, and is running in a potentially crowded primary field for the fall election. The filing period for the special primary election closes Tuesday, with voting set for Aug. 11.

While Graham was at college, his mother died of Hodgkin lymphoma. Months later, his father died and Graham started his first semester of law school. He became the guardian for his sister, who was then 13, and later in life often extolled the benefits of Social Security that helped keep them financially afloat.

Graham went on to serve as a judge advocate general in the Air Force, and remained a reserve or National Guard member for decades. In the Senate, Graham briefly switched back to active status to help advise the Air Force during the Iraq War. He was awarded the Bronze Star medal for service in 2014 before formally retiring as a colonel in 2015.

The planned injections come 18 months after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis began stepping up executions at a rate unseen in modern times in Florida. DeSantis hasn't said why he scheduled two executions six hours apart, and Florida prison officials haven't said whether the timing creates any logistical challenges for staff.

James Aren Duckett, 68, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon at Florida State Prison near Starke, followed later that day by 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone, who also would become the oldest prisoner executed in Florida's modern history.

Duckett was convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl while working as a police officer in a small central Florida city in 1987, and Occhicone was convicted of the 1986 killings of his ex-girlfriend’s parents.

Duckett and Occhicone would become Florida’s 11th and 12th inmates to be executed this year if their sentences are carried out.

The Florida Supreme Court denied appeals for both men last week. Duckett’s attorneys had asked for another stay, claiming that Duckett is innocent and that the state’s handling of the DNA evidence is the reason for the inconclusive results. Occhicone’s attorneys argued that several age-related ailments, including kidney and prostate problems, could make his execution especially painful, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.

Both men still had appeals pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Record numbers for governor's final two years

DeSantis, who leaves office in January, oversaw a record 19 executions in 2025, more in a single year than any other Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. in 1976. The previous high was eight executions set in 2014.

If Tuesday’s executions proceed, that would bring the total for DeSantis’ final two years in office up to 31 overall, compared to just nine executions during the first six years of his administration. With another execution already set for August, 2026 could also be a record-breaking year.

DeSantis initially signed a death warrant for Duckett in February, setting a March 31 execution date. But the Florida Supreme Court issued a stay just days ahead of that date to allow for DNA testing of old evidence that couldn’t be performed at the time of the original trial because of technological limitations. The results came back inconclusive, meaning they did not exonerate Duckett or definitively connect him to the crime. Judges have allowed the jury verdict to stand.

When Occhicone's death warrant was signed late last month, his was the only execution scheduled for Tuesday. But after the Florida Supreme Court removed Duckett's stay on July 8, DeSantis signed a new death warrant soon after and added Duckett to Occhicone’s execution date, which hadn't been done in Florida in more than 60 years. Florida Department of Corrections records show multiple executions on a single day were more common in the past, with the last being on May 12, 1964.

Nationwide, it's not uncommon for two different states to hold executions on the same date, but it's less common for a single state to perform two. Before Florida, the most recent U.S. state to execute two inmates on the same day was Arkansas in April 2017. And Texas executed two convicted killers on the same day in 2000, the year it put to death 40 prisoners.

Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty has urged DeSantis to halt both executions.

“July 28 represents an unprecedented escalation of Florida’s use of the death penalty,” the group’s executive director, Grace Hanna, said in a statement. “These are two profoundly different cases, but they point to the same troubling reality: Florida continues to expand the use of capital punishment, despite mounting evidence that it is not what Floridians want.”

Decades on Death Row

The governor's office has rarely commented on executions over the past 18 months. DeSantis has previously said his goal is to bring justice to victims’ families who have waited decades for death sentences to be carried out.

“Some of these crimes were committed in the ’80s,” the governor said at a November 2025 news conference. “Justice delayed is justice denied. I felt I owed it to them to make sure this ran very smoothly. If I honestly thought someone was innocent, I would not pull the trigger.”

Occhicone would become Florida's oldest inmate to be executed, just weeks after two 74-year-old men briefly held that spot, the second man just a week older than the first at his time of death. Recent executions have highlighted the nation's aging death-row population and renewed questions about the humanity of administering capital punishment to inmates who might die soon from natural causes.

Occhicone also would become the second-oldest prisoner known to be executed in modern U.S. history after 83-year-old Walter Moody Jr. in Alabama in 2018. Moody was condemned for a wave of mail bombs in 1989 that killed a federal judge and wounded a Black civil rights attorney.

Florida executions are all by injection of a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.

Trump is set to welcome Zelenskyy to the White House as the Ukrainian leader travels to Washington to honor Graham, whose final act as a public official was visiting Kyiv and securing an agreement on a package of sanctions that seek to punish countries that purchase Russian oil, gas and other exports.

Zelenskyy posted on X early Tuesday that he had arrived in the U.S. and listed the goals for his visit.

“Our schedule includes meetings with President Trump, his team, and those who can support our defense," the Ukrainian leader said. "Our number one priority is anti-ballistic defense and strategic cooperation with America. Peace needs to be brought closer.”

Zelenskyy is now being bolstered by an unusual source: Laura Loomer, known primarily for her incendiary social media posts and her influence with the president. Traveling through Ukraine, Loomer has witnessed Moscow’s barrage firsthand and interviewed Zelenskyy while admitting she was “bamboozled by Russian propaganda.”

Loomer said she spoke to Trump after she met with Zelenskyy in Ukraine last week, and she also expects to meet with the U.S. president once she returns from her trip.

“It’s looking good for Ukraine, right?” Loomer said during an interview with The Associated Press. “Going into this meeting next week at the Oval Office is looking pretty good.”

Ahead of the meeting, Zelenskyy has also warned that Russia has been aiding Iran as the war persists by capturing satellite imagery of U.S. bases in the Gulf region that later appear in Iran. The Ukrainian president also asserted that there was a “clear correlation” between Russia’s images and subsequent Iranian strikes.

“The purpose is clear,” Zelenskyy said earlier this month. “None of us in the world should turn a blind eye to one very simple fact: Evil always seeks ways to make things worse and spread further.”

On Monday, Trump downplayed any impact of potential Russian assistance for Iran.

“I don’t think they’ve been doing it, certainly not at a high level,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to Michigan. “And if they have, it has been very un-impactful.”

Still, he said he would raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Zelenskyy has a busy itinerary during his latest visit to Washington. In addition to his White House meeting, Zelenskyy will head to the Capitol to meet with senators on Tuesday evening after Graham’s funeral at Washington National Cathedral, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Republican leadership is hoping to advance Graham’s sanctions legislation this week, although the Senate is juggling several other priorities before lawmakers leave Washington for the August recess.

The bill has dozens of backers from both parties and is seen as the main policy tribute to Graham, who died unexpectedly this month from a tear in his aorta. It imposes tariffs on goods from the world’s top five purchasers of Russia oil or natural gas, including China and India.

The legislation also includes sanctions against Putin, senior Russian political and military leaders, and Russian financial institutions and energy projects.

Trump met with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit earlier this month in Ankara, Turkey, and announced that the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot air defense systems, a long-running request from Kyiv in order to counter Russian missile attacks.

The air defense systems are expensive to make and are in high demand. Noting that he and Zelenskyy have “actually developed a good relationship,” Trump said the U.S. will help Ukraine produce the Patriots and that the country would be able to produce them “pretty quickly.”

The 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, had pleaded not guilty in the District Court of Western Australia state to six charges of rape, three charges of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of choking in a Perth hotel room in September 2024.

The accuser cannot legally be named. She was 20 at the time.

Prosecutor Danielle Clarke told the court Barrientos was an “entitled man” with a “moderate degree of fame" who had been sexually violent toward an “impressionable" young woman.

“She meant nothing to him,” Clarke told the court in her closing arguments.

“What could have been and should have been consensual sex quickly escalated into sexual violence and a non-consensual nightmare,” she added.

Defense lawyer David Edwardson replied that the accuser's "evidence is riddled with inconsistencies, embellishments and outright lies.”

Edwardson will complete his statement early on Wednesday. The jury could begin considering their verdicts late Wednesday after Judge Linda Black gives them their final directions.

Barrientos testified Monday that he did not slap or choke the woman, but he agreed to the allegation that he bit her multiple times.

“In England we would call it a love bite,” Barrientos told the court.

The performer denied the woman repeatedly told him to stop and told him he was hurting her.

“There was kissing in between; I would give her a love bite and then kiss her,” Barrientos said from the witness box. “I don’t recall any blood.”

Photos of the woman with bruising and bite marks on her face and neck were shown to the court.

Barrientos met the woman at a Perth nightclub after his performance.

“The vibes were good and she had a really good energy about her,” he said.

Prosecutors previously said the woman initially agreed to have sex with Barrientos, but withdrew her consent when she started to fear for her safety.

Barrientos agreed that his bodyguard took the woman’s phone before she entered the hotel room.

But he denied the prosecutor’s accusation that the phone was removed to trap the woman.

“It is standard practice for someone in the limelight to protect privacy,” Barrientos said.

The Colombian-born entertainer had been touring Australia and had performed in Sydney and Melbourne before he encountered the woman. He was in the east coast city of Brisbane, where the tour was to end, when he was arrested several days later.

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The crash was reported just before midnight in the area of North Flagler Drive and East Sunrise Boulevard as the train was heading south, first responders confirmed.

Victor Carvalho was at a nearby bar and saw the accident.

“As we see the rails coming down, there was a car right behind and it was apparently, I don’t what happened, but she just went over the rails and immediately start hearing the horns and boom, strait away it just crashed straight on to her on the right side of the vehicle,” he said.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials said the car was dragged by the train to the 400 block of Northeast Flagler Drive.

The husband of the woman who was driving the red car told Local 10 News that the car became lodged underneath the train after the collision.

Surveillance video shows the moments after the train struck the car. You can see sparks flying as the Genesis is dragged down the tracks beneath the Brightline train.

FLFR officials said the woman was able to exit the car by herself and crews found her on the ground next to the vehicle when they arrived.

Carvalho, who just completed CPR, first aid, and firefighting training, raced to the scene to help the victim.

“My adrenaline just immediately kicked in and I knew from the start, of what I was trained from the course has taught me, I went straight to action,” he said. “I jump over the fence, I’m on 911 calling the operator, telling the whole situation. I escorted the lady on the floor as she opened the door herself making sure she’s OK. I just made sure she sits upright, make sure she looks to the ground, make sure she looks at her feet, make sure she doesn’t go to a level where she’s passing out.”

According to the woman’s husband, she suffered a broken hand and busted lip, but is expected to be OK.

FLFR officials confirmed that the woman was transported to Broward Health Medical Center with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

A hair stylist at a nearby barbershop told Local 10 News that she’s never seen anything like this before.

“The Brightline train is just stopped right in front of me, and the car is just jammed right underneath. Actually, by a miracle, the driver’s seat where the driver was, was the only seat that wasn’t completely smacked by the train,” Madeline Abreu said.

The circumstances leading up to the collision remain under investigation.

Phillies closer Jhoan Duran (1-4) entered with a 7-5 lead before loading the bases with no outs and allowing a tying two-run single by Heriberto Hernández, who scored the winning run.

Hernández and Conine homered against Phillies ace Zack Wheeler. Jakob Marsee had a run-scoring double and Otto Lopez added an RBI triple for the Marlins, who hadn’t won a game since July 9. The Phillies have struggled since the All-Star break, losing seven of 10.

The Marlins built a 5-2 cushion in the first two innings against Wheeler before blowing it in the sixth and rallying in the ninth on Conine’s first career walk-off hit and Miami’s fifth walk-off win of the season.

Bryce Harper drew a leadoff walk against reliever Cade Gibson and scored on Alec Bohm’s single to make it 5-3 in the sixth. J.T. Realmuto then hit a fly ball against Tyler Zuber that bounced over the right field wall for a double that pulled the Phillies within one. Justin Crawford singled in Bryson Stott before Realmuto was awarded the go-ahead run on a throwing error by Hernández.

Harper gave Philadelphia an early lead with his 22nd homer of the season — a 419-foot, two-run drive off starter Tyler Phillips in the first.

Wheeler was lifted after giving up six hits with six strikeouts in three innings. Manager Don Mattingly said Wheeler might have been feeling nauseous, but there appeared to be no injury concern with the veteran.

Phillips allowed three hits and two runs while walking two and striking out five. He was lifted after five innings and 76 pitches. Calvin Faucher (5-5) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.

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Philadelphia RHP Aaron Nola (3-8, 5.82) will start the second game of the series against Miami RHP Sandy Alcantara (10-6, 4.01).

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Miami overcame two-run, ninth-inning deficit in the ninth on Monday to beat division-rival Philadelphia 8-7 and snap a 12-game losing streak — the longest such stretch in franchise history.

It was the Marlins’ first win since beating Seattle at home on July 9 and ensured they would not suffer their fifth straight sweep.

“Everybody feels good,” McCullough said. “It’s no lie everyone in the building has been grinding hard now for a couple of weeks and frustrated with things, but certainly it feels great to get a win and I think in the fashion that we did it’d be hard to ever question this group’s toughness and willingness to compete.”

Griffin Conine singled in the winning run against Philadelphia closer Jhoan Duran, who entered in the ninth with a 7-5 lead before loading the bases with no outs.

Heriberto Hernández hit the tying single against Duran before racing home on Conine’s single and jumping into his teammates’ arms in celebration on the field.

“I’ve never been a part of anything like the last two weeks,” said Conine, who also homered in the first inning. “I think we handled it fine. It’s just like at a certain point, it’s the same way you feel when you’re 0-for-15 at the plate. You feel like you’re never going to get a hit again. And that’s not true. You know that deep down you will, but the way it feels is like — it felt like we were never going to win again.”

The Marlins had lost 11 straight games three times in their history. They lost 11 consecutive games twice during separate stretches in 1998 when the club lost 108 games, and again in June 2011.

Before Monday’s game, McCullough said he saw Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” on a recent day off and couldn’t help but think of his team’s misfortunes.

“I feel a bit like Odysseus,” he said. “Like I’m away from home for 10 years. At some point, I’m going to return home. I don’t know what baseball god I infuriated but it’s where we’re at, so today is an opportunity.”

The Marlins used that opportunity early.

After Bryce Harper put Philadelphia ahead with a two-run shot in the first, Miami responded by scoring five straight runs against ace Zack Wheeler.

After blowing the lead in the sixth, the Marlins scored three in the ninth, including Conine’s first career walk-off hit.

“As far as what this does, pressure’s off,” Conine said. “Now we’re on a winning streak. Now we want more of it. So it’s like forget the last two weeks and move on. I think we can learn from it, and I think that we will.”

The Marlins had done plenty of winning before the All-Star break and were at 52-42 and three games behind NL East-leading Atlanta. They also had the third NL wild-card spot.

But the unraveling began in the weekend home series against Cleveland prior to the break. Outside of a 7-2 to loss against San Diego on July 25, Miami had lost the other 11 games by three runs or less, including a 5-3 collapse against San Diego on Sunday.

Miami could barely generate offense during its losing streak, going .208 with a .607 OPS during that stretch. Seven players recorded a hit on Monday — six of them had multiple hits.

“Everybody is going to leave here tonight feeling much different than we have over the last 12-odd games,” McCullough said. “We’ll come in tomorrow and look — we got Game 1 of the series. As rough as it’s been, we still need to try to get back to winning series. Winning the first game of a big divisional series like this is important.”

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La Autoridad Nacional de Gestión de Desastres de Pakistán informó que 109 personas han muerto en todo el territorio desde el 26 de junio. Muchos de los fallecimientos fueron causados por el derrumbe de viviendas y techos, y casi la mitad se registró en la provincia noroccidental de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, en la frontera con Afganistán.

La actualización más reciente se dio a conocer un día después de que la autoridad de gestión de desastres revisara las medidas de preparación ante inundaciones en todo el país. Los funcionarios analizaron planes para emitir advertencias oportunas a las comunidades que viven a lo largo de los ríos, de modo que los residentes puedan trasladarse voluntariamente a zonas más seguras o ser evacuados antes de que las aguas de la inundación aneguen sus comunidades.

La semana pasada, fuertes lluvias azotaron partes del país, incluida Lahore —la capital cultural de Pakistán— donde varios vecindarios se inundaron, lo que obligó a los viajeros a tomar desvíos largos. Imágenes en redes sociales mostraban a residentes caminando entre el agua. Esto generó críticas de los habitantes, que cuestionaron la preparación del gobierno y su respuesta ante el clima extremo.

Las autoridades han advertido en los últimos meses que no pueden descartar que no se vaya a repetir el clima extremo que desencadenó las devastadoras inundaciones de Pakistán en 2022. El desastre sumergió cerca de un tercio del país, causó la muerte de 1.737 personas y obligó a millones a desplazarse.

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The suspect, Alan Triana, was accused of shooting at another driver on Nov. 23.

According to Triana’s attorney, video recovered from a Tesla involved in the incident shows Triana was being followed by that driver from Dolphin Mall to Allapattah, and that driver had opened fire in an attempt to get Triana to stop.

Several weeks before that incident, authorities said Triana was involved in a domestic dispute with his younger brother, Mason Triana, which resulted in Mason Triana barricading himself inside the home and opening fire at police.

Two Miami police officers were shot in the leg during the incident. Mason Triana was killed after exchanging gunfire with police.

According to police, the boy was found in the area of Sheridan Street and State Road 7.

Officers say the boy, who is nonverbal, is around 10 to 12 years old with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone who thinks they recognize the boy, has information on his guardians or knows where he lives is urged to contact the Hollywood Police Department at 954-764-HELP or call 911.

Stafford is the reigning NFL MVP and a Super Bowl champion himself, but he also spent enough seasons of his career on mediocre teams to recognize just how good he has it here in his 18th year.

“It was a blast to be out here today,” Stafford said. “I’m surrounded by so many great players, and I don’t take that for granted, both on our side of the football and on the defensive side. It’s a blessing to come out here every single day and compete against these guys and play with the guys on the offensive side. Just an exciting time.”

After sitting out of Sunday's opening practice as part of the Rams' plan to keep their franchise quarterback in top shape for the season ahead, Stafford looked remarkably sharp in his first workout of training camp. He repeatedly found All-Pro Puka Nacua and Davante Adams in solid coverage with long, precise throws that had the crowd at Loyola Marymount cheering.

The Rams made a handful of bold personnel moves in the past four months to maximize the size of their remaining championship window with their 38-year-old quarterback, but coach Sean McVay said on the opening day of camp that he won’t measure his team’s success or failure “by whether or not we win a Super Bowl."

“That’s not what I believe,” McVay added. "I’m not living that way. I’ve gotten caught up in things like that before and those are things that are way beyond our control.”

Stafford agrees with his coach's mindset, realizing the journey is more important than the destination.

Having said all that, he's still thrilled by the chance to start this trip by going against pass-rushing monster Myles Garrett and elite cornerback Trent McDuffie in practice each day.

“We can't help but make each other better, (but) pieces of paper and names on a roster, those don’t win football games,” Stafford said. “Teams and players and groups do. ... Sean said it the other night, we’ve got potentially a high ceiling, right? We’ve got great players that have done a lot in this league. What can we do to continue to raise our floor, so if I’m off a little bit, we can still go find a way to win a football game? If our defense is off a little bit, we can still find a way to go win a football game. Continuing to raise that floor is something that’s going to be a huge part of our journey this season.”

Stafford is coming off arguably the best season of his long career after throwing for 4,707 yards with 46 touchdowns and just eight interceptions for the league's most productive offense. He led the Rams to 12 wins and the NFC championship game, where he passed for 374 yards and three touchdowns without a pick — and it still wasn't enough to hold off the eventual champion Seattle Seahawks, largely because LA's defense couldn't get off the field when it mattered most.

The Rams addressed that defensive failure head-on this year, acquiring Chiefs cornerback duo McDuffie and Jaylen Watson before swinging the blockbuster trade last month for Garrett.

Los Angeles is loaded on paper — but it's also theoretically just one Stafford injury away from lining up with rookie Ty Simpson or backup Stetson Bennett running the offense.

That's why McVay and Stafford are doing everything possible to keep his sometimes-balky back in top shape along with the rest of him. The Rams’ plan for their quarterback is just the latest instance of the preseason-hating McVay’s overall determination to expose his veteran players to the least amount of wear and tear possible before Week 1.

“That's part of the plan, to be able to keep him on a pitch count,” McVay said, noting that the Rams' plan to cut Stafford's camp practices in half is the product of six years of preparation and experience. “Hey, whether it was a weird way or not, we learned a lot about how to try to be able to maximize him.”

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Schmitt appeared to hurt his left leg after rounding first base following a single to right field. He showed discomfort and was grasping at his lower left leg after the play.

Schmitt was able to walk off the field on his own power, limping with a trainer at his side as he left the game. Schmitt was replaced by backup Christian Koss and the Giants went on to beat the Brewers 3-0.

“Scary moment there for him,” manager Tony Vitello said after the game. “He’s a unique personality, but he’s definitely got a level of toughness to him. And you go out there and he was really struggling just to kind of even move around there with (head trainer Dave Groeschner) checking on him.”

Schmitt will undergo an MRI and it is not yet known whether he'll be added to the injury list. Regardless, Vitello doesn’t expect Schmitt to be back right away.

“At this point, (he is) probably going to miss some significant time,” Vitello said. “But based off what we see tomorrow, be interesting what (Groeschner) has, hoping it’s as limited an amount of time as possible.”

Schmitt adds to San Francisco’s growing injury list as the team was already without third baseman Matt Chapman (abdominal strain) and outfielders Jung Hoo Lee (right elbow soreness), and Victor Bericoto (left oblique strain).

Vitello commented that with Schmitt’s injury, rather than rush starter Chapman back, they’ll look to another player to fill in at third base.

Schmitt is hitting .271 with 21 home runs and 55 RBIs, all career bests. Schmitt signed a one-year, $810,000 contract this past year.

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There are a lot of changes parents and students need to know before heading back

Starting with free and reduced school lunch eligibility, the county is participating in the federal Community Eligibility Provision Program.

That means students at 141 schools are automatically eligible for free lunch.

The remaining 80 schools will determine lunch eligibility through a meal benefits application process.

All Broward schools will continue to offer free breakfast.

“There are 80 schools where the kids will get free breakfast only, and their lunch status is determined once the parents fill out a meal application,” said Dr. Valerie Wanza, Broward Schools’ chief strategy and innovation officer.

The district’s Redefining Plan is also top of mind, with six campuses closed this year and as many as 10 schools that could be on the chopping block because of lower enrollment.

Those closures would be for the 2027-28 school year. It is unclear which schools are on the list, but factors such as enrollment, campus condition and projected enrollment are being considered.

Wanza said parents need to make sure their child is registered at the correct school.

“So the thing that they need to know is make sure that they are registered at their child’s school, that they’re receiving the appropriate parent messages, and all of the great things that schools are sending out to welcome them to their new school,” Wanza said.

The county is launching a school bus camera program with 1,300 buses equipped with AI-powered camera technology.

Officials are warning drivers about tough penalties for passing a bus while students are getting off.

Violators could receive a $225 citation.

The Redefining Plan will be finalized on Aug. 25.

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The Secret Service confirmed that Marquez Christopher Pinder, 29, is a current agent assigned to South Florida.

“The United States Secret Service takes seriously any criminal misconduct allegations involving one of our employees.

“As the Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office, I have been informed that a local law enforcement agency is investigating one of our employees. We are fully cooperating with the investigation. I am unable to comment on details about the ongoing investigation however, I can say that the employee is on administrative leave and has been since the moment we were notified.

“The Secret Service is built upon the trust and confidence placed in us by our protectees and the American people. We hold our employees to the highest standards. The Secret Service remains committed to accountability, professionalism, and integrity, and any misconduct will be addressed swiftly and appropriately upon completion of the investigative and judicial process.”

Michael Townsend, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and Sweetwater Police Chief Sergio Diez announced the arrests of Pinder, 26-year-old Jared Lamar James and 29-year-old Elijah Delano Dyous over the weekend.

An arrest warrant states that one of the victims was an undergraduate student at UM when he attended interest group meetings to become a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Because he is now a graduate law student at UM, he is a member of the alumni chapter, authorities said.

A second victim is currently employed by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Online jail records show James was arrested Friday and Pinder was taken into custody on Sunday. Dyous, of West Park, was arrested Friday in Broward County.

Authorities said an investigation uncovered evidence of alleged hazing incidents involving prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles.

According to investigators, the hazing began April 1 inside an apartment unit at IDENTITY Miami, located at 400 SW 107th Ave., in Sweetwater and continued through April 2 and April 3 at the same location. On April 4, authorities said the hazing continued at a home in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.

Authorities said the beatings were carried out by the three suspects.

According to an arrest warrant, one of the victims identified Pinder as the “dean of pledges” and James as the “vice dean of pledges.”

The warrant states that part of the pledging process involved “getting down,” in which they were placed into the “KUT,” which stands for “Knowledge, Understanding, Teaching.”

According to the warrant, the victims were asked questions about the fraternity’s history and if they got an answer wrong, they would be placed in a “stress position,” described as “a half squat with one arm pointed forward.”

Detectives said while they were in that position, the victims would be struck on their buttocks with a paddle, and canes would also be used on the victims.

According to the warrant, two victims were subjected to hours of these “sessions” each day and were told to tell the suspects if they felt they were reaching their “physical limit,” including by urinating blood or feeling like they would pass out.

Detectives said one of the pledges did urinate blood during a bathroom break, which another pledge witnessed, but after informing the suspects, he was told it was too soon for anything like that to occur.

According to the warrant, the beatings intensified on April 4 when one of the victims bled through his underwear and pants.

When the other pledge notified Pinder of the injuries, all present fraternity members -- which included several men who did not participate in the beatings, but engaged in “acts of intimidation” -- became upset and instructed the two pledges to strip their clothing and throw it in the garbage, the warrant stated.

Detectives said the health of one of the victims began deteriorating following the April 4 beating and he began to suffer from “vomiting, fevers and immense pain on his buttocks.”

The warrant states that he went to an urgent care facility, but was transported to Jackson South Medical Center, due to large portions of his buttocks becoming necrotic.

The victim had to get substantial portions of skin and soft tissue surgically removed and receive extensive skin grafts to cover the areas that were removed, the warrant stated.

“Had (the victim) not received necessary emergency medical care, his injuries would have resulted in renal failure leading to death,” the warrant stated.

Detectives said the second victim also had to seek medical care for wounds to his backside, although he denied that he had been subjected to paddling.

According to the warrant, a search warrant was obtained for that victim’s medical records, which revealed that he had extensive medical treatment from April 6 to April 24 and had even been intubated.

Detectives said despite his denials, his injuries were consistent with the statements provided by the first victim that they had both been subjected to severe beatings to their backsides.

Pinder, James and Dyous are each charged with two counts of attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm and hazing with a deadly weapon.

Pinder appeared in bond court Monday, where he was ordered held on a $75,000 bond. If he posts bond, he will be placed on house arrest with a GPS monitor and he is not allowed to have any contact with the victims or his fraternity brothers.

“Among some, fraternity hazing might be seen as a tradition creating a sense of belonging and brotherhood, but since 2001, hazing in Florida has killed Chad Meredith, Robert Champion and Andrew Coffey while seriously injuring others. This case, with the victims requiring hospitalization, provide clear-cut examples of hazing’s danger,” Fernandez Rundle said. “In Florida, hazing is abuse and it is a crime. Its victims too often lie in their graves and in hospital beds.”

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While fluent in Haitian Creole, Wenski, 75, is among the leading voices urging the U.S. Senate to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.

With the expiration of TPS on Monday, more than 300,000 beneficiaries will be vulnerable to deportation and no longer have a work permit.

“Many of them are working in health care. In the Archdiocese of Miami, in our nursing homes, I have over 40 people on TPS that will lose their work permits today, and we will have to let them go,” Wenski said about Catholic Health Services, one of Miami’s largest ministries.

Wenski said he was preparing for a flight on Monday before a meeting with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to lobby for a solution for TPS beneficiaries.

“We are looking for them to support a bill in the Senate that would embrace the House bill that was passed,” Wenski said about H.R. 1689.

U.S. Rep. Laura Gillen, a Democrat from New York, introduced the bill on Feb. 27 in the House, and it passed 224-204 on April 16.

Wenski said it could be done through a discharge petition, a legislative maneuver to force a bill out of a stalled committee and onto the floor for a full vote.

“That would give the Haitians a three-year extension on their TPS,” Wenski said.

Related report: North Miami advocate on end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians: ‘Be prepared’

In Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, the streets were quieter than normal on Monday.

“People have been here for decades, many of them own homes, own businesses, own other assets (and) are crucial and essential workers,” said FANM political director Paul Christian Namphy. “If people are going out in the community, they’re taking a bigger risk and that’s why we are encouraging all of our community members, keep your movements to a minimum.”

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody said she has been in communication with the Trump administration about alternatives for Haitians.

“We have got to start looking at these on a case-by-case basis,” Moody said.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said Haitian immigrants “who are vetted” and are not criminals are welcome. Scott faced questions about Haitians’ deportations.

“My heart goes out to them,” Scott said.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, who is campaigning for Florida governor with Trump’s endorsement, voted against H.R. 1689.

“It is a temporary program, but it was abused by Joe Biden,” Donalds said about TPS. “We have to get to a semblance and a standard on immigration.”

Wenski hopes to change minds in the Senate. Immigration policies should reflect both “justice and mercy,” Wenski recently wrote in a statement urging leaders to pursue “compassionate and humane solutions that protect family unity” and “recognize” the crisis Haitians face.

“Policies should seek not only to enforce the law but also to reflect our nation’s longstanding commitment to protecting human dignity and promoting the common good,” Wenski wrote. “To make America Great again is a worthy goal but you don’t make America great by making America mean.”

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El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional confirmó el paso de un tornado en el condado de Winnebago, a unos 145 kilómetros (90 millas) al noroeste de Milwaukee. Se reportaron daños en algunas ciudades, entre ellas Appleton y Menasha, donde el jefe de policía Matt Albrecht manifestó que algunas viviendas y negocios quedaron “gravemente afectados”.

El tornado se originó a partir de un gran sistema de tormentas que atravesó la región de los Grandes Lagos, alimentado por una acumulación de calor y humedad, explicó Scott Berschback, meteorólogo del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

Heather Schroeder contó que escuchó crujidos y chasquidos a su alrededor mientras el tornado destruía una lavandería, una panadería y una taberna del vecindario que estaban agrupadas en una esquina de una calle en Menasha, a unos 50 kilómetros (30 millas) al sur de Green Bay.

Rescatistas sacaron a alguien de una de las construcciones, indicó Schroeder, quien trabaja cerca. Señaló que no estaba claro si la persona había sobrevivido. Los autos quedaron volcados y había una fuga de gas en la lavandería, agregó.

“No queda nada”, lamentó Schroeder.

El tornado arrancó techos de viviendas y volcó vehículos en un vecindario de Menasha, a pocas cuadras de las orillas del lago Winnebago. Un video mostró una estela de destrucción, en la que algunas casas quedaron reducidas a sus paredes exteriores.

Greg Van Driest estaba trabajando en el centro de Appleton cuando el cielo se oscureció como si fuera de noche.

“La palabra que todos estábamos usando era ‘inquietante’”, comentó. “Es como: ‘Guau, mira eso’... Mirabas afuera y pensabas que eran las 3 de la mañana, de lo oscuro que estaba”.

No hay reportes de muertos ni heridos, pero continúan las búsquedas

Gordon Hintz, el principal funcionario electo del condado de Winnebago, indicó que no tenía conocimiento de que hubiera fallecidos ni heridos, pero que los rescatistas seguían buscando.

“Obviamente, las imágenes se ven devastadoras”, expresó Hintz. “Está claro que hubo daños significativos, con líneas eléctricas caídas y cosas así”.

Hintz señaló que ha escuchado múltiples reportes de edificios destruidos y vehículos volcados. Indicó que se activaron todas las alertas de tormenta que podían emitirse con anticipación para que la gente se pusiera a salvo.

“Obviamente, cuando miras los daños, a la Madre Naturaleza realmente no le importa”, añadió.

Holley Kamba, meteoróloga del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, dijo que la agencia estaba recibiendo reportes de daños en el sur del condado de Outagamie y el este del condado de Winnebago.

“Hemos estado recibiendo llamadas sobre daños, con muchos árboles caídos, líneas eléctricas derribadas”, explicó Kamba. “Hemos estado buscando algunas fotos de los daños estructurales”.

Hasta ahora no se han reportado heridos, señaló.

El gobernador de Wisconsin, Tony Evers, dijo que el estado “está listo para ayudar a las comunidades en todo lo que podamos”.

Aproximadamente a las 12:25 de la tarde el tornado se ubicaba sobre el lago Winnebago y se desplazaba hacia el sur, en dirección al condado de Fond du Lac, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

Meteorólogos del servicio meteorológico en Green Bay emitieron una alerta de tornado para la región de Fox Cities, que incluye a Appleton, Menasha y Neenah, a las 11:59 de la mañana.

“Los escombros voladores serán peligrosos para quienes se vean sorprendidos sin refugio. Las casas móviles sufrirán daños o serán destruidas. Se producirán daños en techos, ventanas y vehículos. Es probable que haya daños en árboles”, decía la alerta.

La zona ya había estado bajo una advertencia de tormenta eléctrica severa durante unos 45 minutos, y los meteorólogos indicaron que la tormenta era capaz de generar vientos de hasta 97 km/h (60 mph).

Daños extensos y una ciudad entera sin electricidad

Imágenes en redes sociales mostraron daños extensos en Appleton, incluidas viviendas sin techos, un auto arrojado sobre un jardín y calles cubiertas de ramas.

El Departamento de Policía de Appleton indicó en redes sociales que estaba al tanto de “varios árboles caídos y grandes ramas de árboles por toda la ciudad”. Los semáforos no funcionaban y algunos caminos estaban “fuertemente congestionados”, indicó el departamento.

Tom Nelson, ejecutivo del condado de Outagamie, dijo que no tenía confirmación de fallecidos ni heridos en el condado, que incluye a Appleton. Pero señaló que hubo “daños extensos y severos” en Menasha y Fox Crossing.

“Todo indica que este fue un sistema devastador que ha causado daños extensos”, manifestó Nelson.

En Menasha, la empresa eléctrica indicó que se creía que toda la ciudad, de unos 18.000 habitantes, estaba sin electricidad. Las autoridades abrieron un refugio en una iglesia para personas que buscan seguridad temporal o que no pueden permanecer en sus hogares. El centro para adultos mayores y la biblioteca de la ciudad habían estado recibiendo a residentes, pero se quedaron sin electricidad y se vieron obligados a cerrar.

La tormenta golpeó Menasha y el lado este de la vecina Fox Crossing aproximadamente a las 12:20 de la tarde, señaló Albrecht.

“En este momento, no sabemos, no estamos seguros de cuán graves son los daños, porque muchas carreteras en esas mismas áreas están intransitables”, explicó Albrecht. Dijo que los rescatistas laboran para ingresar al área afectada con el fin de “buscar heridos, buscar víctimas” y despejar las vías.

Instó a la gente a permanecer refugiada donde esté. “Ahora mismo, hay muchas líneas eléctricas caídas, árboles caídos, múltiples situaciones peligrosas. Por favor, manténganse alejados”, pidió.

Al atardecer del lunes, el mal clima en Wisconsin estaba disminuyendo, salvo por algunos chubascos y truenos, dijo Berschback. Indicó que la tormenta se desplazaba al sur de Milwaukee, a través del área de Chicago, mientras comenzaba a disiparse.

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Mayes-Osterman informó desde Chicago y Seewer desde Toledo, Ohio. Christopher L. Keller en Albuquerque, Nuevo México; Laura Turbay en Little Rock, Arkansas; Sophie Bates en Jackson, Mississippi; Hannah Schoenbaum en Salt Lake City; y Michael R. Sisak en Nueva York contribuyeron a este despacho.

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The administration notified Congress late last week that it intends to spend $175.8 million to replace outdated and aging undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America to prevent China from moving in. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the notification on Monday.

The administration has expressed deep concern about China's activities in the Americas, pushing back on Chinese ownership of ports at either end of the Panama Canal, infrastructure projects funded by China's Belt and Road initiative in the region, and Chinese investment in the telecommunications sector.

A State Department official said China’s economic activities in the Western Hemisphere pose risks to U.S. national security and prosperity. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly to the subject and spoke on condition of anonymity, said China's offerings may seem cheaper but in the end wind up being more expensive due to cost overruns, hidden maintenance fees and poor performance.

The underseas cable funding appears to be part of a broader push to restore support for initiatives aimed at blunting Chinese influence globally that would cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more. That is even as President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping put on a show of cooperation and Xi prepares to visit the U.S. this fall.

US weighs wider spending to counter China globally

The State Department is considering spending nearly half a billion dollars more on programs aimed at China throughout the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Asia, according to an internal State Department document obtained by AP.

“The United States must respond to the CCP’s growing economic, technological, and diplomatic leverage around the world which undermines our national interests,” the document says, using the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party.

Many of those proposed programs are designed to “reclaim diplomatic leverage” through investments in areas where the U.S. had previously been spending money but stopped as the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, carried out deep government budget and personnel cuts last year.

Those cuts, which dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and eliminated several hundred diplomatic posts worldwide, also affected previously approved projects, including some aimed at countering China.

A senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss future administration plans, confirmed the Trump administration’s intent to boost funding on countering China but could not speak to specifics. The official acknowledged discussions of large-scale projects but said many were still in the discussion phase.

Congress told about undersea cable project to keep China away

The program described to Congress on Friday is called the “Countering CCP Control of Caribbean and Central America Undersea Cables project.”

It will “fund the installation of strategically-selected undersea cable infrastructure” and support foreign governments in partnering with private sector undersea cable installers, according to the notification. The money will “support replacement of outdated undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America region with secure, U.S. and trusted alternatives,” it said.

Even as it pursues the war with Iran and peace efforts in Gaza and Lebanon, the Trump administration has put a focus on the Western Hemisphere, capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, ramping up pressure on Cuba’s socialist government in the months since and imposing severe sanctions on the government in Nicaragua.

Under the new program, funding is anticipated to be given to or in support of undersea cable projects benefiting El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Haiti, the document said. The U.S. has tenuous ties with Nicaragua and would not be working with the government there.

China's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Other anti-China efforts could focus on cyber and critical minerals

At the same time, the administration has drawn up plans to spend more than $340 million for over 50 specific anti-China projects around the world, including many in the Western Hemisphere, according to the internal State Department document outlining various proposals.

The administration notified Congress in May that it had spent several hundred million dollars in counter-China funding from the 2024 budget that was approved by the Biden administration. However, many other projects funded for 2024 and 2025 had been put on hold.

Among the plans to be resurrected are the creation of security operations centers in Argentina and Belize to monitor Chinese threats to critical infrastructure and cyber platforms throughout the region. Also coming back would be initiatives to protect Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay from alleged Chinese attempts to infiltrate port operations and illegally exploit offshore fishing and critical minerals extraction.

More broadly, the proposal, which is still under consideration, would work against Chinese influence in the selection of a successor to the Dalai Lama “by developing proprietary technology to ensure secure communications and information collection.” It also would go after international support for China’s space program and push back against Chinese firms seeking to export surveillance and censorship technology.

The document did not describe the initiatives in detail.

Trump is expected to meet with Xi in September around the time of the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders in New York. To prepare for that meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week at a regional security conference in the Philippines.

Trump has oscillated between anger and elation with Xi, whom the U.S. leader has sought to cultivate as an ally even while China pursues goals antithetical to many of his administration's. The ultimate impact of the proposed new programs won't be known for many months or years.

Chilean police on Saturday arrested a retired military colonel who had been a fugitive for three years after being convicted of kidnapping and murdering Jara during Chile’s military dictatorship and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Despite the arrest, the musician's family says they are not completely satisfied.

“We learned that retired Colonel Nelson Haase Mazzei, who had been a fugitive from justice since 2023, was found and imprisoned. We appreciate this news,” said Jara's daughter, Amanda Jara, in a letter published Sunday night. However, she added, “it is difficult to consider this justice.”

The prominent military figure had been sentenced to 25 years and two days in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Jara and then-Director General of Prisons Littré Quiroga Carvajal.

Haase Mazzei, 80, was convicted in 2018 and his sentence was increased in 2023, along with those of six other military officers. The crimes are considered to be among the most emblematic examples of the brutality that marked the 17-year dictatorship of late Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The former official fled before beginning his prison term. He was finally located and arrested this weekend — three years later — with Judge Paola Plaza of the Santiago Court of Appeals ordering his “immediate imprisonment,” the Judiciary said in a statement. The institution added that Haase Mazzei was the last of those convicted to begin serving his sentence.

One of the symbols of the so-called New Chilean Song, a musical and social movement born in the 1960s, Jara was murdered on Sept. 16, 1973, just five days after the coup that overthrew former President Salvador Allende.

Jara, then a 40-year-old member of the Communist Party of Chile who also worked as a professor at the State Technical University, was arrested on campus and taken to Chile Stadium, now renamed Víctor Jara Stadium. There, he was separated from the nearly 5,000 other prisoners and taken to a private area. Along with Quiroga, he was tortured, violently assaulted and finally executed. The singer suffered multiple fractures and his body had 44 bullet wounds, according to the findings of an investigation into his death and other crimes of the period.

In 1991, months after Pinochet’s downfall and the restoration of democracy, an official report by the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation found that Jara was the victim of a political execution and classified his killing as a grave human rights violation. It also found that, in just three months, 890 people were killed as a direct consequence of the military coup.

In recent decades, Chile has established a series of truth commissions to investigate and determine responsibility for the violations committed between 1973 and 1990, ranging from murders and torture to forced disappearances and the illegal adoption of children.

Official documents estimate that during its 17 years, the military dictatorship left some 40,000 victims, including more than 2,000 people who were executed, 1,469 victims of enforced disappearance and thousands more tortured. The courts have convicted hundreds of state agents and civilians for the crimes committed during the darkest period of Chile's modern history. However, there are no single, consolidated institutional figures that include all those sentenced.

Since 2024, the country has also promoted the so-called National Search Plan aimed at unifying the figures and outlining a road map for the search of disappeared detainees whose whereabouts remain unknown — a task that for years has largely fallen to the families of victims who to this date are still trying to figure out what happened with their loved ones.

“We hope that the police will manage to find all those who fled for crimes against humanity,” Amanda Jara concluded in her letter. She now heads the Víctor Jara Foundation.

Sasse, 54, a father of three, received treatment for stage-four pancreatic cancer at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, and started taking daraxonrasib, an experimental drug.

“I bleed a lot on my scalp,” Sasse, who served as the 13th president of the University of Florida, recently told CNN’s Jake Tapper about the drug’s side effects.

After months of treatment with the oral pill by Revolution Medicines, Sasse told the New York Times that he experienced a 76% to 80% decrease in overall tumor volume while experiencing severe skin rashes.

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the MD Anderson Cancer Center found that patients who received standard treatment survived a median of 6.5 months, while those taking the drug lived for a median of 13 months past the start of treatment.

Dr. Kelsey Klute, of The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha, Nebraska, described daraxonrasib as a game changer.

“Not only are we seeing that this drug can more effectively control the cancer and help people live longer, but it’s also doing that with less serious side effects,” Klute said.

The targeted therapy applies to patients with cancers caused by mutations in the RAS gene family, which drive more than 90% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cases.

Daraxonrasib is not yet fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The application is under priority review, and the drug is available to oncologists for some patients through FDA expanded access.

In a court filing Monday, David Hearn's attorneys requested an order for the government to turn over a complete transcript of all grand jury proceedings. They also want prosecutors to disclose the legal instructions they gave to grand jurors about the elements of Hearn's alleged crime.

Hearn pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of property destruction and has a trial scheduled to start Sept. 28 in D.C. Superior Court. The charge, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years upon conviction, accuses Hearn of causing at least $1,000 in damage to the pool.

But his lawyers question whether prosecutors properly presented the grand jury with adequate evidence to support the amount of damage alleged in Hearn's indictment. A National Park Service official testified that the pool already was damaged before Hearn allegedly touched it, couldn't quantify any damage attributable to Hearn and said the same repairs would have been required regardless of his conduct, defense attorneys said.

“The witness’s testimony established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr. Hearn," his lawyers wrote. “According to the witness, the pool was leaking more than one million gallons of water per week; its expansion joints had exceeded their service life; and the liner already contained a rip."

Hearn's attorneys are basing those arguments on their limited review of grand jury testimony. They want court-ordered access to all the proceedings.

A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office in Washington didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Hearn's arguments.

Hearn previously asked the court to dismiss the case, which stems from the troubled multimillion-dollar renovation project championed by President Donald Trump. His attorneys argued the government has failed to properly preserve important physical evidence from the Reflecting Pool.

Trump, a Republican, has claimed that vandals have damaged the pool, but administration critics attribute the problems to shoddy repair work. During a speech Monday at General Motors in Michigan, Trump claimed a “sick” person cut the liner in the pool but said the attraction is receiving treatment.

“It’s in the hospital now, but it’s going to get better very soon,” Trump said. “It’s almost ready to open.”

Hearn and his supporters claim his prosecution is a politically motivated attempt by the Trump administration to deflect blame and scapegoat others.

Hearn told The Associated Press he was detained by National Guard troops and U.S. Park Police for five hours after stopping by the pool during a bike ride on June 19. He said he reached in to examine the pool’s newly peeled coating and briefly touched a chunk attached to the side of the pool, but said he obeyed a park worker who told him to let go of it.

Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish, ninth, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says on its website.

At least three other people have been charged in the same court with misdemeanors for allegedly removing pieces of paint from the pool.

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Bellinger was placed on the 10-day injured list on Sunday, a day after he got hurt running the bases during a 3-1 win at Philadelphia. He had more tests on Monday in New York that revealed the extent of the injury.

“So the good thing is he’s obviously able to move around right now,” manager Aaron Boone said before Monday night's 9-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox. “So we’ll continue to do that and just allow this thing to heal and get him right.”

The loss of Bellinger is another major injury for a New York team already playing without reigning AL MVP Aaron Judge, who has been out since May 31 because of a fractured rib. Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton has been sidelined since April 24 because of a strained right calf.

The Yankees trail AL East-leading Tampa Bay by 2 1/2 games after topping the White Sox in the opener of a four-game series.

“We’ve had some tough injuries to some really important people,” Boone said. “But again, that is part of it. As I say, the season waits for no one.”

Max Schuemann started in left field on Monday night. Spencer Jones, who was brought up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre when Bellinger was placed on the IL, was in center, and Jasson Domínguez was in right.

Schuemann was checked on by Boone and a trainer after he slipped on the warning track while going after Braden Montgomery's RBI triple in the first inning. But he stayed in the game.

The MLB trade deadline is next week, but Boone downplayed the effect of Bellinger's injury on the strategy for general manager Brian Cashman and the team's front office.

“I get the sense that they have been working on this in different ways, shape and form for the last several weeks, getting ready for trade deadline stuff,” Boone said. “I expect them to try and do all they can to improve our team, but again, you never know how that’s going to shake out.”

Bellinger, 31, felt tightness in his hamstring while rounding first on a double in the eighth inning on Saturday night. He is batting .259 with 11 homers and 53 RBIs in 102 games this season.

Bellinger re-signed with the Yankees last winter for $162.5 million over five years. He was the MVP of the All-Star Game on July 14 in Philadelphia.

Judge and Stanton are with the team in Chicago, and Boone said Stanton is continuing with his running progression.

“The strength stuff, explosive stuff he’s doing in the weight room has been very good,” Boone said. “So we just got to get him up to a level obviously on the running side of things to be able to go out there.”

Left-hander Carlos Rodón and right-hander Clarke Schmidt are both expected to throw again this week, Boone said. Rodón is coming back from elbow inflammation, and Schmidt had Tommy John surgery a year ago.

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It’s the 73rd anniversary of what is considered to be the birth of the revolution.

Absent from the celebrations for the first time is 95-year-old Raul Castro.

It was on July 26, 1953 that brothers Fidel and Raul Castro assaulted the Moncada Barracks in Santiago in a failed attempt to overthrow the government.

They would succeed six years later.

Every year, the communist island commemorates the anniversary in a different province.

On Sunday, it was in Pinar Del Rio.

Raul Castro released a statement saying, in part:

“Receive my affection and recognition for having earned, through your effort, dedication to the revolutionary cause.”

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel used his speech to issue a scathing condemnation of Washington D.C.’s fuel embargo and economic sanctions that has led to a critical humanitarian crisis on the island.

As for the Cuban people, they are fed up, staging protests every day, banging their pots and pans in frustration.

Dicho de otro modo, el incendio ya no era impulsado solamente por las condiciones meteorológicas, sino que estaba creando su propio clima. La nube de tormenta también desató vientos violentos y erráticos capaces de empujar las llamas en todas direcciones.

El fenómeno, llamado pirocumulonimbo, o pyroCb, es raro en Europa y se ha documentado con mayor frecuencia en Norteamérica y Australia, donde ocurre sólo en algunos de los incendios más extremos. La federación nacional de bomberos de Francia indicó que es el primero del que se tiene registro en el país.

El incendio estalló cerca de Saumos el 22 de julio y desde entonces ha consumido más de 420 kilómetros cuadrados (162 millas cuadradas) de bosques y matorrales, ha dañado o destruido más de 240 viviendas y ha obligado a 220.000 personas a evacuar en la región de Gironde.

El servicio departamental de bomberos y rescate señaló que el incendio había generado un pirocumulonimbo alrededor de las 18:20 del viernes, dos días después de que estalló la conflagración. La nube perdió fuerza por la noche, a medida que la humedad iba en aumento, y luego se formó de nuevo en varias ocasiones.

Una nube cargada de electricidad

En repetidas ocasiones, el calor y el humo se elevaron hasta una enorme y densa nube de tormenta, electrificada e iluminada desde su interior.

“Imaginen una fogata tan grande y caliente que el humo que se eleva de ella se convierte en una nube como la de una tormenta”, indicó Theodore M. Giannaros, meteorólogo especializado en incendios del Observatorio Nacional de Atenas.

“Eso es un pyroCb --una nube de tormenta nacida del calor intenso que produce un incendio forestal”.

Se necesita más que un enorme incendio.

No existe una cierta temperatura a la que se forme uno, indicó Giannaros; lo que se necesita es el tipo de atmósfera que alimenta las tormentas secas: aire muy caliente y árido cerca del suelo, con aire más fresco y húmedo por encima.

El aire caliente cargado de humo y humedad asciende entonces rápidamente. A medida que sube y se enfría, el vapor de agua se condensa alrededor de partículas de ceniza.

Por encima del nivel de congelación, las gotas se convierten en cristales de hielo cuya colisión separa las cargas eléctricas, como en una tormenta eléctrica común.

Rayos y más destrucción

Debajo de esta tormenta hay un paisaje con las condiciones propicias para arder. Y esta nube amplifica el desastre.

El aire ascendente atrae los fuertes vientos hacia el incendio, mientras que las corrientes descendentes devuelven las ráfagas hacia la superficie.

Esos cambios pueden hacer girar a las llamas, dividirlas en varios frentes o llevarlas a avanzar a toda velocidad en una nueva dirección.

“Es un bucle de retroalimentación, no un efecto de una sola vía”, afirmó Giannaros. “Una vez que se forma, la nube se convierte en su propio sistema meteorológico, se asienta sobre el incendio y complica su pronóstico”.

Estos sistemas también pueden generar columnas giratorias de fuego, por lo general un remolino de fuego, que Giannaros describe como un torbellino de fuego y calor en lugar de polvo.

Los tornados son más raros, aunque uno golpeó Redding, California, en 2018 con vientos equivalentes a un EF-3, cobrando la vida de un inspector de incendios.

Para los bomberos, las rutas de escape se pueden cerrar sin aviso cuando aparecen nuevos focos.

Se vuelve imposible atacar al incendio de forma directa, obligando a las brigadas a retirarse y defender a las comunidades.

El peligro, advirtió Giannaros, es que el fuego avance más rápido de lo que se puedan organizar las evacuaciones.

Hasta ahora, los pyroCb habían sido esencialmente un fenómeno australiano y norteamericano. Tan solo en Canadá se registraron 142 en 2023.

Un fenómeno inusual en Europa

Portugal registró uno durante su temporada de incendios de 2017. Ahora Francia se ha sumado a la lista.

El continente se está calentando más rápido que cualquier otro —a aproximadamente el doble del promedio mundial desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea y la Organización Meteorológica Mundial—, con olas de calor cada vez más frecuentes e intensas, y una sequía que se extiende por todo el sur y convierte a las zonas boscosas en combustible.

Las condiciones más cálidas y secas le dan a los incendios extremos mayores condiciones para la formación de estas nubes, señaló Giannaros, pero los científicos aún no cuentan con suficientes datos de largo plazo para establecer una tendencia.

El proyecto europeo de investigación ROSETTA busca cerrar esa brecha.

El malentendido más común, dijo, es creer que la nube es sólo un efecto secundario. Mientras permanezca sobre las llamas, está ayudando a decidir hacia dónde avanzará el fuego.

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Trump visited a sprawling General Motors facility in the Detroit suburb of Milford that is a testing ground for its vehicles. He pumped a fist after watching a trio of drag races that involved muscle cars and luxury vehicles like the Corvette Z06, Cadillac Escalade V, and EV Hummer — events the announcer promised were “all America First power.”

It was the kind of thundering speed the president is expecting at an IndyCar race in Washington next month, which is part of America’s 250th birthday celebrations.

In a subsequent speech inside a design facility, the president cheered GM’s plans to expand production domestically in coming years and declared himself a president who was standing up for auto workers “at long last.”

“I’ve done more for you than your parents, OK?” he joked.

Michigan was one of the 2024 battlegrounds Trump flipped after it backed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. But the state has seen parts of its economy affected by the president’s tariffs, including on imported cars and auto parts. Automakers have long said tariffs increase the cost of doing business, which leads to higher prices for consumers.

Company officials led Trump on a tour where he saw various GM models, including the latest versions of the Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado — the production of which he argued had been boosted by tariffs.

At one point, POTUS grabbed a pen and signed the hood of a white Corvette that was made specifically for America’s 250th birthday.

“They’ve come a long way,” he said to reporters about the Detroit-based automaker during the tour. “It’s amazing what tariffs are doing for GM.” Trump said he’s been good to the company but he declined to say more.

“The rest of the world doesn’t love me, but that’s OK,” he said, alluding to tariffs. “It’s called ‘America first.’”

Trump’s visit previews Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary

The president’s speech lasted more than an hour and was wide ranging — hitting on the economy, the war in Iran and the U.S. military operation that toppled the leader of Venezuela.

He also touched on communism, crime rates, his administration’s efforts to transform the nation’s capital and even how carefully he treads to keep from tripping while on stage or deplaning from Air Force One.

With early primary voting already underway, Trump called on stage Republican Reps. Lisa McClain, Tom Barrett and Tim Walberg, as well as gubernatorial candidate John James and Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

Rogers is unopposed in the Senate primary, but the GOP gubernatorial contest pits James, who is backed by Trump, against Perry Johnson, a businessman turned politician who has launched unsuccessful campaigns before, including for president in 2024.

Trump’s new Canada tariffs could hurt Michigan

A new round of steep import levies is taking effect on dozens of U.S. trading partners. Yet Trump has singled out Canada with tariffs as high as 50% on a wide array of its products, including cars.

The GM facility he toured is in Oakland County, which encompasses much of Detroit’s northern suburbs. Once a Republican stronghold, it has increasingly leaned Democratic, backing Biden against Trump in 2020 and Vice President Kamala Harris against Trump four years later.

GM says its facility is the oldest dedicated vehicle testing operation in the United States, where 4,200 employees work to refine nearly every vehicle the company makes before they reach consumers. It has more than 150 miles of test roads and the early innovations perfected on site include the first mass-produced automatic transmission, known as the “Hydra-Matic.”

Michigan’s economy relies heavily on Canada, meaning the new tariffs — coupled with inflation still running high and gas prices rising again as the already unpopular war in Iran escalates — have created additional economic concerns statewide. Some advocacy groups citing import and tariff data, says tariffs have cost Michigan businesses billions of dollars just since last spring.

The latest tariffs come at a time when voters across the country were already increasingly dissatisfied with Trump’s handling of the economy.

Jason Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party who tried unsuccessfully to distance it from Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in 2021, said that more than coinciding with his new round of tariffs, Trump’s visit is a function of Michigan’s relatively late primary and is meant to ensure that James secures the nomination.

But Roe also said it was a risk for the president to tie himself too closely to top Republicans before the general election, calling it “kryptonite to November voters.”

Trump, who won the White House on a promise to lower the cost of living, also has seen his approval ratings sag, meaning kitchen table issues could be a liability for Republicans trying to hold control of Congress in the Nov. 3 elections.

“We’re happy to have the president here, campaigning with Republicans. We think it highlights the fact that the only thing they care about is Donald Trump and refuse to stand up to him,” said Curtis Hertel, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party. ”It’s good for us every time the president is here because he’s incredibly unpopular.”

The US and Canada have squabbled over a new border bridge

The Supreme Court struck down many of Trump’s sweeping tariffs, but his administration has tried to find ways around that, including by arguing that he can impose them on Canada because that country is discriminating against American exports of products including automobiles.

But Trump’s latest round of tariffs came after he voiced frustration with Canada for having retaliated and imposed its own levies on U.S. imports in response to Trump’s initial tariffs last year. Trump launched the first round after alleging Canada should do more to stop fentanyl smuggling.

In January, he visited a Ford plant in Dearborn and addressed the Detroit Economic Club, offering a defense of tariffs even as auto industry leaders blamed them for increasing the cost of doing business. The president marked his second term’s first 100 days with a rally in Warren, where he mostly mentioned grievances left over from the 2024 campaign,

Monday’s visit coincided with the opening of a new bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, that was beset by tensions between the U.S. and Canadian governments.

Canada canceled a planned joint celebration for the $4.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge and instead held its own event after Trump announced the new Canadian tariffs.

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Saar's death was confirmed Monday by relatives. She would have turned 100 this week.

A central figure of the 1960s Black Art Movement, Saar pioneered assemblage boxes, or sculptures made of found objects, and reclaimed Jim Crow-era memorabilia as powerful totems of Black liberation.

“Her symbolically rich body of work has evolved over time to demonstrate the environmental, cultural, political, racial, technological, economic, and historical context in which it exists,” according to Roberts Projects, the Los Angeles gallery that represents her.

Saar began her career in design and shifted to art at age 35. She continued to make art into her 90s. She grew up in Pasadena and was part of a community of Black artists in nearby Altadena; she often cited Simon Rodia's Watts Towers as an early source of inspiration.

Saar’s practice incorporated painting, printmaking, sculpture and found objects including dolls, washboards and other antiques. Boats, clocks, cages and altars recur in her practice, as well as symbols of the occult and cosmology. She often referenced her astrological sign of Leo in the form of lions, punctuating many works.

“Her appropriation of Black collectibles, heirlooms, and utilitarian objects are transformed through subversion,” the gallery said. “Among the older generation of Black American artists, Saar is without reproach.”

Made in 1969, “Black Girl’s Window,” was groundbreaking. Still, it wasn't widely celebrated until decades later, and it was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019. “There weren’t that many galleries in Los Angeles at the time and there certainly weren’t any for Black artists,” she once said in an interview.

“The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” created in 1972, is one of her most important works. It features memorabilia she collected that denigrated Black people, included a “mammy,” or 19th century minstrel character who smiled while serving white slave owners.

In Saar's hands though, the figure is reclaimed: She smiles, but holds a rifle and has a hand grenade.

It came in response to the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Saar said King's death “triggered a rage within me, and the mystic transformed into the warrior.”

“I had a lot of hesitation about using powerful, negative images such as these — thinking about how white people saw Black people, and how that influenced the ways in which Black people saw each other,” Saar said. “What saved it was that I made Aunt Jemima into a revolutionary figure.”

After more than 130 years, Quaker Oat announced it would retire its Aunt Jemima brand in 2020, acknowledging the logo and its origins were “based on a racial stereotype.”

Saar taught and mentored generations of Black artists, including painter Kerry James Marshall.

Though Saar’s work was exhibited in a 1975 solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in the decades that followed large institutions have exhibited her work only sporadically. In 2019 though, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MoMA mounted concurrent solo shows.

In spring 2026, Saar was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

“She had boundless energy for making art. I think she had a lot to say and was tired of the art world being dominated by white males,” said Angela Robinson Witherspoon, who produced and directed a documentary in 2023 on Saar's life. “Betye Saar: Ready to Be A Warrior” features interviews with John Legend, Tina Knowles and other prominent voices.

“She was raising her three young daughters and she wanted to be part of the Civil Rights Movement,” Robinson Witherspoon said.

“Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar,” which focuses on costume design, is currently on view at Robert Projects in Los Angeles, and a collection of more than 100 of her dolls are on view at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan.

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Associated Press writer Anna Furman contributed reporting from Los Angeles.

While Tuesday morning could feature spotty storms for the Keys, a sun/cloud mix is expected for Dade and Broward with showers and storms possible during the afternoon. Temperatures will make a run for the low 90s-- humidity will make it feel like the triple digits.

The award, given annually to the top female college athlete, was celebrating its 50th annivesary Monday. The best player in every sport is invited to the ceremony each year.

“When you're a young college athlete, you don’t understand the importance of it,” said Meyers Drysdale, who starred in basketball at UCLA and won the award in its second year in 1978. “There’s so many basketball players, which is, you know, pretty exciting. But just the great athletes from all the different sports, I think that’s what I’m appreciative of the Honda Awards, that they recognize so many athletes from so many different sports.”

Out of all the individual sport winners, an overall Athlete of the Year is chosen to receive the Honda Cup. In addition to athletic performance, the award honors college athletes for their leadership, academics and community service.

“It’s great that it honors more than just what is done on the court or field,” said Jen Rizzotti, who won the award in 1996 after a successful basketball career at UConn. “They make sure that they’re well-rounded and have a balanced portfolio. They give back in the community, they’re great in the classroom.”

Delta State basketball great Lusia Harris won the first Honda Cup in 1977. UCLA's Lauren Betts became the 20th basketball player crowned as the top athlete Monday night. That's more than any other sport.

“To receive an honor like this — the highest award you could possibly receive — is pretty unbelievable," Betts said. "All the women that have come through and won this award is incredible.”

The Bruins have the most Honda Cup champions with seven.

“That's crazy when you say that,” Betts said of UCLA's success winning the award. “I think I'm representing something bigger than myself.”

Bruins’ softball star Rachel Garcia won it twice. That's only been three other times with Maya Moore, Caitlin Clark and Florida swimmer Tracy Caulkins.

“I think it’s pretty unbelievable. To receive an honor is, like, the highest award you could possibly receive. I mean, the legacy that it’s left throughout the years. I mean, it goes back 50 years now, which is pretty unbelievable,” Betts said. “And, you know, all the alumni have come through and won these awards. I mean, I just I can’t even describe how amazing it is. I’m just super grateful.”

Tennessee star Chamique Holdsclaw won the award in 1998. She loved the chance to get to know so many athletes from other sports.

“It exposed me to different things and to people playing different sports,” Holdsclaw said. “I was learning about things like women's lacrosse and growing up in New York City and playing at Tennessee we didn't have that. I think it was great that the award recognized greatness in every sport.”

The award ceremony has come a long way from the first in 1977. Missy Marlowe won the Honda Cup in 1992 after a successful gymnastics career at Utah. That came after competing in the Olympics in 1988. Marlowe remembered receiving the Honda Cup at an NCAA convention back in the day.

After a 12-year run in Los Angeles, the award ceremony moved to New York in 2024 and has been there ever since.

“It’s inspiring. It’s a really neat break from reality to remember what we used to do a long time ago,” Marlowe said. “To see this this tradition continue for 50 years is incredible because it’s easy to start something and have it go for a while and then kind of die off. So the determination and the work that’s gone into keeping this so prevalent for 50 years, and in fact, gain in importance, is amazing.”

Julie Shea was the first non-basketball winner of the Honda Cup after a stellar track career at N.C. State. She was honored to be back and see all the positive changes for women’s athletics with many players making money for their name, image and likeness.

“I sold programs and popcorn and peanuts at the football games,” Shea recalled. “I’m happy for them. But I’m like, hey, you know, I just was born in the wrong era.”

Shea was one of 20 former winners who took part in the ceremony in New York on Monday.

“That’s what’s great about the Honda Cup and what college women’s sports is all about is bringing people together,” Joyner said. “Being able to see some of the people winning and them seeing us, not even born when we were doing what we were doing.”

Joyner-Kersee won the award in 1985. She was an inspiration to Stanford volleyball player Ogonna Nnamani (2005). Nnamani, who suffered from asthma when she was an athlete, saw Joyner-Kersee succeed in the Olympics while also being afflicted with the same thing. Nnamani said that if Joyner-Kersee could do it she could too.

“I got to tell her that she inspired me because of what she was able to do,” said Nnamani, who is a doctor now.

Jackson secured the Democrats' nomination on Saturday to run against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Party delegates held a special nominating convention for the post after Graham Platner, who won the June primary, withdrew from the race in the wake of sexual assault accusations that he has denied.

The last-minute scramble for a new candidate in a top-tier race was reminiscent of how Harris ascended to the Democratic presidential nomination two years ago.

She became the party's nominee in August 2024 after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection campaign following a disastrous debate performance against then-former President Donald Trump. Trump would go on to defeat Harris, winning every presidential battleground state.

In a fundraising email to supporters Monday, Harris said she relates to the hurried nature of Jackson's candidacy and called on Democrats to support him.

“I know what it is like to step up to the plate with a short runway to Election Day. Troy will have just 101 days between his nomination for Senate and when voters in Maine will cast their ballots," Harris said in the email.

Democrats are counting on a win in Maine to have a chance to take back control of the Senate. They also need to win three other Republican seats and to hold all the seats they currently have.

Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former president of the Maine Senate, initially ran for governor during this year's primary. He lost that race but quickly became the party's preferred candidate to replace Platner, with whom he had campaigned before Platner's candidacy fell apart.

Representatives for Jackson's campaign and the Maine Democratic Party did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It was not clear whether Jackson had approached Harris for an endorsement or her statement of support was unsolicited.

Jackson's campaign said in a statement earlier Monday that it is working on making up a fundraising deficit against Collins, who has raised more than $16 million. Jackson has raised $2 million since securing the nomination, the campaign said.

Jackson “is harnessing historic energy across the state to deliver the change Mainers have been demanding over Collins’ three-decade career in Washington,” the campaign said in a statement.

Republicans in the state were swift to mock Harris' endorsement and drew comparisons to the fact that neither Harris nor Jackson won a party primary before becoming the nominee.

“She knows exactly what he's going through,” said Blake Kernen, a spokesperson for Collins.

There are several Broward County School Board seats up for election this year.

In District 1, there are two people seeking the seat. They are in incumbent, Maura McCarthy Bulman, and her opponent, Carmen Gimenez.

Gimenez is a former candidate for governor and for mayor of Hallandale Beach.

“In my opinion, Gov. DeSantis is right when he mentioned that Broward County School Board is a disaster,” she said. “I represent two universities. The private University of Angola in the United States and Los Angeles University in Florida and Georgia, so I know what is the best way for our kids to be guided to have a bright future.”

Broward County’s District 1 includes Dania Beach, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, West Park, and part of Miramar.

Gimenez is hoping to unseat Bulman, who was elected in 2024.

“It has been my greatest honor to represent District 1 on the school board for the past two years,” she said. “I’m running for a full year term to continue the work that I’ve started, improving our facilities, bringing programming to my schools, trying to get more enrollment.”

Bulman, an attorney, addressed the school district’s budget challenges and the board’s decision to close underenrolled school campuses.

“I think we’ve made some very difficult decisions this year, and we’re gonna have to keep doing that to be fiscally responsible, to right size the district, and to make sure that we are using the best care of our taxpayer dollars,” Bulman said.

Gimenez told Local 10 if elected, she plans to “modernize the district’s school bus transportation system” and discussed how she would address the budget shortfall.

“I’m going to talk to the state of Florida government party who is dedicated to give us funds to Broward Schools,” she said.

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We’ve looked at how El Niño condenses hurricane season activity and often shuts down the season early. We’ve written about the rapid pace of the current El Niño and how it’s having an earlier-than-usual influence on wind shear across the Caribbean, where El Niño’s influence is most noticeable during the peak months of the hurricane season. We’ve also examined how the odds of a hurricane hit change for each state in a relative sense in El Niño years like this one. We’ve even singled out the subtropics as a hotspot in seasons when El Niño comes to town.

Where might we see increased or reduced tropical activity this season?

Today we’ll analyze how strong El Niños like this one transform the typical pattern of tropical activity across the Atlantic. When we isolate only the strongest El Niño years of the modern satellite record (since around 1966), we find a stark reduction in tropical activity – as measured by the Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE – across most of the Gulf and Caribbean and around South Florida compared to the typical 30-year averages. This reduction in tropical activity is statistically significant and consistent with previous research that shows significantly less damage to the mainland U.S. during El Niño years.

Also the increase in tropical activity east of the U.S. in the subtropics around Bermuda, though not statistically significant, is consistent with other research finding storms tend to recurve over the open Atlantic more frequently during El Niño years.

During strong La Niña years, the pattern is essentially flipped, with a statistically significant increase in tropical activity across nearly the entire belt from Africa through the Caribbean – the primary hurricane thoroughfare known as the Main Development Region or MDR – and across the Gulf. It’s no surprise that these years are often the busiest and most destructive of our hurricane seasons.

That said, the wiggles and wobbles of activity during El Niño years are smoothed out in these analyses to show the overall effect of El Niño or La Niña on the season. Hurricanes – even big, strong hurricanes – can still happen during strong El Niños and nothing in these analyses suggests one can’t hit this year. What this does tell us is the strike risk is reduced to the U.S. this season and we should expect overall fewer storms closer to home than what we might expect in a non-El-Niño season.

Cold brew kind of summer

Even with Arthur in June and Bertha last week (two weak, short-lived storms), overall tropical activity across the Atlantic – as measured by the strength and duration of storms – continues to run well below average.

Forecast models are muted through at least the first week of August, which would keep 2026 on pace as the slowest start to a hurricane season since 2009. We’ll have more details of the longer-range picture in future newsletters this week, but in brief, the Atlantic is in rough shape headed into the peak weeks of the hurricane season, which bodes well for noticeably less activity this season.

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It was filed by current Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, who is also running in the primary.

A candidate must have lived in the state for seven consecutive years to run for governor and records show that within the past few years, Fishback bought a home in Washington, D.C.

But despite making that his “primary home,” he never abandoned his Florida residency.

La demanda fue presentada por el actual vicegobernador Jay Collins, quien también compite en las primarias.

Un candidato debe haber vivido en el estado durante siete años consecutivos para postularse a la gobernación, y los registros muestran que, en los últimos años, Fishback compró una vivienda en Washington, D.C.

Pero, a pesar de haber establecido esa como su “residencia principal”, nunca renunció a su residencia en Florida.

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The crash happened in the 6200 block of Northwest 12th Street.

The impact tore through multiple rooms of the home, leaving debris scattered throughout a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Car parts from the Mercedes were mixed among personal belongings inside the damaged residence.

Neighbors said the woman renting the home was inside her bedroom when the car came plowing in.

Neighbor Alexis Almonte, who lives next door, said the collision sounded like an explosion.

“It sounded like a bomb,” Almonte told Local 10 News.

The victim and Almonte said speeding has long been a problem along nearby Northwest 63rd Avenue.

Almonte said he rushed outside after hearing the crash and found the victim injured.

“I see the car over there. I see the lady on the floor,” he said. “She got cut. She’s lucky to be alive.”

A temporary support beam has since been installed inside the home to help keep the damaged structure standing.

According to neighbors, this is not the first vehicle to crash into the home.

“It’s the third time someone hit the house,” Almonte said, adding that residents have previously asked the City of Sunrise to install a speed bump or other traffic-calming measures.

While Local 10 was at the scene Monday morning, several vehicles were seen speeding through the area.

Almonte urged drivers to slow down and remember families live in the neighborhood.

“There’s people living over here — children,” he said. “We have to take care of each other.”

Sharon Bermudez, who owns the home, was there with some people helping her clean up on Monday.

“He crashed right into the girl’s bed, and the car ended up on top the girl,” she said.

Investigators have not said what caused the crash or whether the driver will face any charges.

There were no visible skid marks on the roadway, suggesting the driver may not have braked before impact.

The extent of the homeowner’s injuries has not been released.

El Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) informó que se cree que Juliet Arioso, de 13 años, está en compañía de Jason Castillo, de 45 años.

Las autoridades estatales indicaron que ambos podrían dirigirse hacia el sur en una Hyundai Santa Fe roja modelo 2021 con la placa 77ERLW.

Juliet es descrita como una adolescente de 5 pies y 3 pulgadas de estatura, con cabello castaño y ojos marrones.

Las autoridades recomendaron a cualquier persona que los vea llamar al 911 y no acercarse a ellos.

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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Juliet Arioso, 13, is believed to be in the company of 45-year-old Jason Castillo.

State officials said the two may be headed south in a red 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe with the tag 77ERLW.

Juliet is described as 5-foot-3 with brown hair and brown eyes.

Authorities advised anyone who sees them to call 911 and to not approach them.

La policía chilena arrestó y encarceló el fin de semana a un coronel militar retirado que estaba prófugo de la justicia desde hace tres años tras haber sido condenado por el secuestro y asesinato del popular cantautor chileno Víctor Jara durante la dictadura militar de Augusto Pinochet. Pese a la detención, la familia del artista asegura que “es difícil considerar esto como justicia”.

“Nos enteramos de que el coronel en retiro Nelson Haase Mazzei, quien se encontraba prófugo de la justicia desde el 2023, fue encontrado y encarcelado. Una noticia que valoramos”, dijo en una carta la hija del artista, Amanda Jara, publicada la noche del domingo. Sin embargo, "es difícil considerar esto como justicia”, completó.

Fue el sábado cuando las autoridades detuvieron al exoficial del Ejército Nelson Haase Mazzei, un prominente militar contra quien pesaba una condena de 25 años y dos días de cárcel por el homicidio y secuestro de Jara y del entonces director general de Prisiones, Littré Quiroga Carvajal.

Haase Mazzei fue condenado en 2018 y tuvo la pena aumentada en 2023 junto a otros seis militares por el crimen, considerado uno los más emblemáticos acerca de la violencia política y brutalidad que caracterizó la dictadura de Pinochet, que dirigió al país entre 1973 y 1990 y dejó decenas de miles de víctimas, entre asesinados, torturados, exilados y detenidos desaparecidos.

Pero el exfuncionario, de 80 años, se dio a la fuga tras conocer la sentencia. Finalmente fue localizado y arrestado tres años después, con la ministra de la Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago, Paola Plaza, ordenando su “ingreso inmediato a prisión”, informó el Poder Judicial. La institución agregó que Haase Mazzei era el único de los condenados que no había empezado a cumplir su pena.

Símbolo de la llamada Nueva Canción Chilena, un movimiento musical y social nacido en la década de 1960, Jara fue asesinado el 16 de septiembre de 1973, tan solo cinco días después del golpe de Estado que derrocó al expresidente Salvador Allende.

Entonces con 40 años, el artista --quien también era director de teatro, ejercía como profesor en la Universidad Técnica del Estado y militaba en el Partido Comunista de Chile-- fue detenido en el recinto educacional y conducido al Estadio de Chile, hoy rebautizado estadio Víctor Jara. Allí, fue separado de los casi otros 5.000 prisioneros y llevado a una zona particular del local. Junto a Quiroga, fue torturado, violentamente agredido y por fin ejecutado.

Jara tenía múltiples fracturas en su cuerpo y 44 impactos de bala.

En 1991, meses después del debacle de Pinochet y con la restauración de la democracia, un informe oficial de la Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación determinó que Jara fue víctima de una ejecución política y calificó su asesinato como una grave violación a los derechos humanos. Asimismo, encontró que, en tan solo tres meses, 890 personas fueron muertas a consecuencia directa del golpe militar.

“Esperamos que la PDI (Policía de Investigaciones) logre encontrar a todos los fugados por crímenes de lesa humanidad”, concluyó en su carta Amanda Jara, quien hoy también está al frente de la Fundación Víctor Jara.

En las últimas décadas, Chile ha establecido una serie de comisiones de la Verdad para investigar y averiguar responsabilidades de las violaciones cometidas entre 1973 y 1990, que van desde asesinatos y torturas hasta desapariciones forzosas y adopciones ilegales de niños.

Documentos oficiales estiman que a lo largo de sus 17 años, la dictadura militar dejó a unas 40.000 víctimas, entre ellas más de 2.000 ejecutados y 1.469 víctimas de desaparición forzada. Los tribunales han condenado a cientos de agentes estatales y civiles por los crímenes en el periodo, aunque no existe una cifra única e institucional consolidada que agrupe a todos los sentenciados.

Desde 2024, el país impulsa además el llamado Plan Nacional de Búsqueda, con el objetivo de unificar las cifras y trazar una hoja de ruta para la búsqueda de detenidos desaparecidos cuyo paradero aún es desconocido, una labor que por años ha recaído en el esfuerzo de familiares y agrupaciones de víctimas de la dictadura.

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Jeanine Delvalle gave Local 10 Animal Advocate Jacey Birch a tour of her learning barn in Southwest Ranches.

It’s filled with bunnies, fluffy chickens, horses, goats and even a little lamb.

You would see all these animals at a normal farm, but at this barn, the animals have a much greater calling.

“They think that they’re just here playing and interacting with animals while really I’m using the animals to help them to communicate, to help them to strengthen their fine motor skills,” said Delvalle.

As a pediatric developmental specialist, she works with children under the age of 10 that may be struggling with disabilities or communication.

“I have seen children who came to me non-verbal, and their motivation was so great to interact with the animals that they started saying words,” she said. “‘More feeding, more bunny, more horse, more goat,’ and those words turn into phrases, and those phrases turn into a child that can now communicate.”

She quickly discovered she could improve young lives exponentially through the love and special power only animals can provide.

“(The animals) have changed my life entirely,” she said. “I have always been obsessed with animals, but it’s led us to where we are here.”

And “here” now includes more than 60 animals as part of a booming practice where success is seen through simple animal care.

The children who come to the farm for the animal assisted therapy take care of the animals in every single way, including cleaning and feeding them.

The smiles come from confidence, as the children show compassion to the innocent creatures they nurture.

“When we are working with the bunnies or the chickens or the horses or the goats, they are touching, they are smelling, they are feeling,” said Delvalle. “I feel like the animals are a safe haven for them, I feel like there is a connection.”

A deep connection of love for animals, which will last a lifetime.

Jeanine Delvalle le dio a Jacey Birch, defensora de los animales de Local 10, un recorrido por su granero de aprendizaje en Southwest Ranches.

Está lleno de conejos, gallinas esponjosas, caballos, cabras e incluso un pequeño cordero.

Todos estos animales podrían verse en una granja común, pero en este granero tienen una misión mucho más importante.

“Ellos creen que solo están aquí jugando e interactuando con los animales, cuando en realidad yo uso a los animales para ayudarlos a comunicarse, para ayudarles a fortalecer sus habilidades motoras finas”, dijo Delvalle.

Como especialista en desarrollo pediátrico, trabaja con niños menores de 10 años que pueden enfrentar discapacidades o dificultades de comunicación.

“He visto niños que llegaron conmigo sin hablar, y su motivación por interactuar con los animales fue tan grande que comenzaron a decir palabras”, dijo. ““Más comida, más conejo, más caballo, más cabra”, y esas palabras se convierten en frases, y esas frases se convierten en un niño que ahora puede comunicarse.”

Rápidamente descubrió que podía mejorar exponencialmente la vida de los niños a través del amor y el poder especial que solo los animales pueden brindar.

“Los animales han cambiado mi vida por completo”, dijo. “Siempre he estado obsesionada con los animales, pero eso nos llevó hasta donde estamos hoy.”

Y ese “hoy” ahora incluye a más de 60 animales como parte de una práctica en pleno crecimiento, donde el éxito se refleja a través del simple cuidado de los animales.

Los niños que llegan a la granja para recibir terapia asistida con animales cuidan de los animales en todos los aspectos, incluyendo limpiarlos y alimentarlos.

Las sonrisas nacen de la confianza, mientras los niños muestran compasión por las inocentes criaturas que cuidan.

“Cuando trabajamos con los conejos, las gallinas, los caballos o las cabras, ellos tocan, huelen y sienten”, dijo Delvalle. “Siento que los animales son un refugio seguro para ellos, siento que existe una conexión.”

Una profunda conexión de amor por los animales que durará toda la vida.

Aunque domina el criollo haitiano, Wenski, de 75 años, es una de las voces más destacadas que instan al Senado estadounidense a prorrogar el Estatus de Protección Temporal para los haitianos.

Con la expiración del TPS el lunes, más de 300.000 beneficiarios estarán en riesgo de deportación y ya no contarán con un permiso de trabajo.

“Muchos de ellos trabajan en el sector de la salud. En la Arquidiócesis de Miami, en nuestros hogares de ancianos, tengo más de 40 personas con Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) que perderán sus permisos de trabajo hoy, y tendremos que despedirlas”, dijo Wenski sobre Catholic Health Services, uno de los ministerios más grandes de Miami.

Wenski dijo que se estaba preparando para un vuelo el lunes antes de una reunión con legisladores en Washington, DC, para presionar a favor de una solución para los beneficiarios del TPS.

“Esperamos que apoyen un proyecto de ley en el Senado que incorpore el proyecto de ley aprobado por la Cámara de Representantes”, dijo Wenski sobre el proyecto de ley HR 1689 .

La representante estadounidense Laura Gillen, demócrata por Nueva York, presentó el proyecto de ley el 27 de febrero en la Cámara de Representantes, y fue aprobado por 224 votos a favor y 204 en contra el 16 de abril.

Wenski dijo que podría hacerse mediante una petición de descarga, una maniobra legislativa para sacar un proyecto de ley de un comité estancado y llevarlo al pleno para su votación final.

“Eso les daría a los haitianos una extensión de tres años en su TPS”, dijo Wenski.

Informe relacionado : Activista de North Miami sobre el fin del Estatus de Protección Temporal para los haitianos: “Prepárense”.

Las políticas de inmigración deben reflejar tanto “justicia como misericordia”, escribió recientemente Wenski en un comunicado en el que instaba a los líderes a buscar “soluciones compasivas y humanas que protejan la unidad familiar” y “reconozcan” la crisis que enfrentan los haitianos.

«Las políticas no solo deben buscar hacer cumplir la ley, sino también reflejar el compromiso histórico de nuestra nación con la protección de la dignidad humana y la promoción del bien común», escribió Wenski. «Hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser grande es un objetivo loable, pero no se logra la grandeza de Estados Unidos convirtiéndolo en un país mezquino».

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Georgieva, the first IMF head to visit Buenos Aires in eight years, expressed confidence that Argentina could meet its debt obligations. As the fund’s largest debtor with about $58 billion in outstanding IMF loans, Argentina faces a key repayment period beginning next year, when Milei is expected to seek reelection.

“Argentina is in a much stronger position, and this is the result of the government’s hard work and the perseverance and sacrifice of the Argentine people,” Georgieva said at a news conference alongside Economy Minister Luis Caputo.

Georgieva recalled that Argentina’s debt was among the first issues discussed when she took over as IMF managing director in 2019.

“We were debating whether the country would be able to keep up with servicing its debt obligations to everyone. That is not the question we should be asking today,” she said.

Georgieva’s visit comes as Argentina’s economic outlook has improved, with bond prices rising, central bank reserves increasing and inflation falling. Annual inflation has slowed to 33%, down sharply from 210% when Milei took office in late 2023. Last week, Moody’s upgraded Argentina’s sovereign credit rating, months after similar upgrades by S&P and Fitch.

“What we have today is a much healthier picture,” Georgieva said. “Market confidence has returned.”

Georgieva is scheduled to visit Vaca Muerta on Tuesday, one of the world’s largest reserves of unconventional oil and natural gas. Its development is expected to become one of Argentina’s main sources of foreign-currency earnings in the coming years.

Georgieva also said she sees no need for additional IMF disbursements before the 2027 presidential election.

“We may be on a good track for Argentina to join the club of emerging markets that have borrowed from the Fund, reformed their economies and borrowed no more,” Georgieva said.

Investors are closely watching Argentina’s ability to meet its upcoming debt payments. The country will begin repaying principal on its IMF loans in September, adding to its interest payments, while its broader foreign-currency debt obligations are set to rise sharply in 2027.

Caputo has said the government expects to cover those payments with funding from multilateral lenders, proceeds from privatizations and domestic borrowing rather than by returning to international capital markets.

Despite the improving economic indicators, Milei has faced declining approval ratings as his austerity policies have coincided with weak consumer spending, stagnant wages, rising household debt and a modest increase in unemployment.

The president’s declining popularity has raised questions about his prospects for reelection in 2027 and increased investor uncertainty over whether his economic reforms would continue under a future administration.

Asked about that possibility, Georgieva acknowledged that these risks are best managed "by building strong policies during the time we have now ... policies that inspire confidence among the people of the country and the international community.”

Georgieva also said Argentina still has work to do in areas including construction, expanding credit for small businesses and mortgages, and reducing informal employment.

Turns out, he went shoeless for another reason: to prevent his metal spikes from making marks on the greens following a complaint by a rules official.

“Alright, let’s clear this up,” Glover posted on Instagram Monday. “For 23 years on the PGA Tour I’ve worn spikes. 23 years ago, most of us did. It hasn’t been that long since we were NOT allowed to tap them down. Yesterday was the first time I’ve ever had a complaint."

Glover's decision to remove his shoes came after he sank a birdie putt on the 10th Sunday at TPC Twin Cities. Once the ball rolled in, the 2009 U.S. Open champion walked off the green, removed his shoes and carried them to the hole to pull his ball out.

Glover walked back off the green and put his shoes back on.

Fellow golfer Michael Kim posted on social media that several players had complained to rules officials about spike marks on the bent grass greens, thinking it was Glover.

“First of all, it’s not the officials place,” Glover said. “I wasn’t breaking any rules. Secondly, there were people in the groups in front of me and behind me wearing metal spikes as well. The greens at 3M are bent grass, were soft, and appeared to have been watered a fair amount (because of the forecast I’d imagine). I don’t care what you wear on your feet, metal or soft spikes, in those conditions they are going to get beat up. I did my best around the hole to tap down my damage as I was leaving the area.”

Glover repeatedly mentioned that PGA Tour rules now allow players to tamp down spike marks on the greens, including a mention about playing in the Rocket Classic in Detroit this week.

“I’ll be wearing metal spikes, and the people playing behind me are still allowed to tap down the marks,” Glover said. “Did I mention that?”

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U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for Aug. 13 to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a monthslong extradition process.

The brothers weren’t in court Monday or required to be there and have remained in jail since making a brief court appearance two days after their July 18 arrest.

The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities with their promotion of wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire. The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the U.S., Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Attorneys for the brothers said Monday that they want the U.S. government to turn over documents that U.K. officials submitted to secure their arrest.

“They don’t have anything but the accusations,” attorney Joseph McBride said after the hearing. “It’s just their word against our word right now.”

The U.K. has until mid-September to turn over all of its materials to the State Department, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alejandra López said in court.

The brothers have long claimed that their violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes.

Jackie Perczek, another one of their attorneys, said the Tates have shown they are not a flight risk by returning to Romania every month after they were accused there of luring women for sexual exploitation.

“For three years they have not fled,” she said. “They’ve traveled the world and every month they return to Romania.”

The former professional kickboxers, who have dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship, have millions of social media followers and are vocal supporters of President Donald Trump. The White House has said the brothers shouldn’t expect any help from the president.

McBride said shortly after the Tates were arrested that “they’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they did not commit,” he said.

McBride said the extradition attempt was politically motivated, though he provided no details.

Prosecutors in Britain said the new charges relate to four new accusers and were brought after authorities received evidence from police in Bedfordshire, in southeastern England. The allegations, which span from 2010 to 2017, include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses relating to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.”

The brothers are already charged with rape, bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain relating to three other accusers in the U.K. between 2012 and 2015.

The brothers moved to Romania in 2016 and were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations, and the Romanian case hasn’t gone forward because of legal and procedural problems.

Andrew Tate, 39, became known a decade ago when he was a contestant on the U.K. reality television show “Big Brother.” He was booted from the show when a video appeared to show him assaulting a woman.

He has amassed over 10 million followers on X but has been banned from other platforms, including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, for violating hate speech guidelines. He has made widely condemned comments, such as saying women who are sexually assaulted should bear some responsibility for the attacks and sharing graphic descriptions of how he might attack women.

Judge John P. Cronan said that although a federal law requires that advisory commissions have a balance of viewpoints, it didn't specify how this should be done. The New York judge said Trump has wide discretion in picking members.

The lawsuit was filed by several plaintiffs, including the progressive Interfaith Alliance as well as Hindu, Muslim and Sikh groups. They argued that the commission was imbalanced because it consisted almost entirely of conservative Christians, along with one Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and that several commissioners were on record questioning church-state separation and supporting the idea of America as a Judeo-Christian country.

Critics of the the commission said such fears were borne out when it issued a draft report in June that challenged the understanding of a separation of church and state in recent generations, calling instead for “bridges” between the two.

But Cronan said the lawsuit, which sought a more ideologically and religious diverse commission, failed to meet legal criteria to proceed.

He also wrote that the commission is diverse in other ways, such as including both clergy and lay people. And he said the commission has “adherents of at least five different religions” — by citing the one Jewish member and then members of various Christian denominations and identities.

The Interfaith Alliance argued that the commission lacked balance because members believed “the law should protect the exercise of religious beliefs over the civil rights of minority groups.” But Cronan wrote that because Trump's executive order creating the commission rejected the idea of “religious liberty as inconsistent with civil rights,” he wasn't obligated to appoint someone who disagreed with that founding premise.

The Interfaith Alliance has been vocal in criticizing the commission, saying its recent draft report failed to address crucial issues such as anti-Muslim attacks and saying it supports policies privileging some religious groups over others.

“Today’s dismissal wrongly ignored that the Commission privileges one narrow religious and ideological view,” the Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said in a statement. "Interfaith Alliance and our multifaith partners will keep standing up to Christian nationalism wherever it threatens our democracy. Our fight for true religious freedom continues.”

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On Monday, Leonie M. Hermantin, an advocate at the center, met with a woman affected by the expiration of the Temporary Protected Status.

“We are really urging people to, yes, have faith, but also to be prepared,” Hermantin said.

Hermantin said parents of U.S.-born minor children need to plan for the possibility of a family separation with the change of immigration status.

“We ask parents to sign, to prepare a temporary affidavit that provides guardianship that lets someone be a temporary guardian ... to make medical decisions and to allow children to travel,” Hermantin said.

Hermantin, who is fluent in Haitian Creole, translated for a woman who told Local 10 News that she and her mother were both victims of violence in Haiti before they fled to the U.S.

“I love my country, but this current situation does not make it safe for me to return to my country,” the woman said, according to Hermantin. “I don’t have asylum yet, I just submitted the application, so today feels like I am losing everything.”

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security determined that “the environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.” Hermantin said Haiti isn’t safe.

“Gang violence has metastasized from Port-au-Prince to other parts of the country — making it unsafe for folks to return,” Hermantin said.

Earlier this year, a federal district court judge issued an order temporarily blocking the termination, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on June 25 cleared the path for DHS to end TPS.

Related report: Miami archbishop calls on Senate to support bill extending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a court-order extension for Employment Authorization Documents that expired on Monday.

DHS also ended the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program, which allowed eligible U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to apply to help family members in Haiti before visas were available.

“Girls were raped, burned, their homes were burned, taken over,” Hermantin said about some of the migrants who benefited from the program. “They have no home to return to. They have nothing to return to.”

Hermantin said the neighborhood’s West Dixie Highway area is usually full of pedestrians, but it was “eerily” quiet on Monday. “It’s a really tough reality to face,” Hermantin said. “Some are still waiting for a last-minute reprieve. They are still waiting for hopefully an extension ... people were praying really hard at church yesterday.”

While some are making plans to return to Haiti or move to countries like Brazil, where they have family, Hermantin said some have decided to stay.

“People are definitely going underground,” Hermantin said.

She said she is worried about the implications of “this traumatic experience” on child safety, the dignity of the elderly, food security, mental health, and labor shortages.

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There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, when the entire 17-member team responsible for it was laid off by the Trump administration. But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released the latest report Monday, with data that lets researchers look at trends from 2021 to 2025.

Fewer adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported using tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and binge drinking in the previous month, the survey found.

And in the past year, fewer in that age group reported:

— illicit drug and marijuana use

— starting drinking alcohol, vaping or marijuana

— substance, alcohol or drug use disorders

Adolescents also saw declining trends for major depressive episodes and fewer reported serious thoughts of suicide, making a suicide plan and attempting suicide.

Young adults aged 18 to 25 saw similarly favorable trends.

Still, many young people face mental health challenges. Nearly 20% of adolescents surveyed had moderate or severe anxiety symptoms in the previous two weeks, compared with about 7% of adults over the age of 18.

Overall, the survey found more than half of people over 12 used an illicit drug, drank alcohol, used tobacco or vaped nicotine in the previous month. That includes 44% who drank alcohol, 16% who used a tobacco product, 10% who vaped nicotine and 16% who used an illicit drug.

The trends among young people are promising, but "there's still a lot of work to be done," said Robyn Oster, policy director for the Partnership to End Addiction.

“Nearly 45 million people still have substance use disorder and still not nearly enough people are getting treatment,” Oster said. “It’s still well over 80% of people who needed it did not get substance use treatment in the past year, let alone quality treatment.”

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El choque ocurrió en la cuadra 6200 de Northwest 12th Street.

El impacto atravesó múltiples habitaciones de la vivienda, dejando escombros esparcidos por un dormitorio, la cocina y el baño. Partes del Mercedes quedaron mezcladas entre pertenencias personales dentro de la residencia dañada.

El vecino Alexis Almonte, quien vive al lado, dijo que la colisión sonó como una explosión.

“Sonó como una bomba”, dijo Almonte a Local 10 News.

El propietario de la vivienda y Almonte dijeron que el exceso de velocidad ha sido un problema durante mucho tiempo en la cercana Northwest 63rd Avenue.

Almonte indicó que salió corriendo tras escuchar el choque y encontró al propietario herido.

“Veo el carro allá. Veo a la señora en el suelo”, dijo. “Está cortada. Tiene suerte de estar viva”.

Desde entonces se ha instalado una viga de soporte temporal dentro de la casa para ayudar a mantener la estructura dañada en pie.

Según los vecinos, no es la primera vez que un vehículo choca contra la vivienda.

“Es la tercera vez que alguien golpea la casa”, dijo Almonte, agregando que los residentes han pedido previamente a la Ciudad de Sunrise que instale un reductor de velocidad u otras medidas para calmar el tráfico.

Mientras Local 10 estaba en la escena la mañana del viernes, varios vehículos fueron vistos pasando a alta velocidad por el área.

Almonte instó a los conductores a reducir la velocidad y recordar que hay familias que viven en el vecindario.

“Hay gente viviendo aquí — niños”, dijo. “Tenemos que cuidarnos unos a otros”.

Los investigadores no han indicado qué causó el choque ni si el conductor enfrentará cargos.

No había marcas visibles de frenado en la carretera, lo que sugiere que el conductor podría no haber frenado antes del impacto.

La gravedad de las lesiones del propietario no ha sido revelada.

The video released Monday is the latest public plea from the journalist about 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie since her disappearance on Feb. 1 from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona. Savannah Guthrie said her family will never stop looking for her.

“The world can be a cruel and unforgiving place, and I know that you have tried to do things the right way,” she said. “So I’m asking you, begging you, to do the right thing now. Make the right choice. Help us find her. Tell us where to look for her. I truly believe it is never too late to do the right thing.”

Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will on Feb. 1. They found blood near the front doorstep of her home just outside Tucson, and the FBI later released surveillance videos showing a masked man on the porch that night.

Volunteers and search teams scoured the nearby desert terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders in the weeks after she vanished. A volunteer group recently searched for her body near the Arizona-Mexico border. Authorities have not said how many purported ransom demands were made after Guthrie’s disappearance, though three news organizations reported receiving such notes and turned them over to investigators.

The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes as nothing more than extortion attempts, but said it’s still evaluating others that might be legitimate. The federal agency hasn’t specified which ransom notes might be genuine.

Savannah Guthrie has previously made a series of social media postings about her mother after she went missing. In the days after the disappearance, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings acknowledged they were aware of media reports of a supposed ransom letter and were ready to talk and listen, but wanted proof their mother was alive. Weeks later, Savannah Guthrie said her family was offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of her mother. She also acknowledged for the first time that her mother might not be alive, but added that there was still hope.

Carter Camacho, 18, of Smyrna, Georgia, told police officers who apprehended him outside the Capitol on Feb. 17 that he intended to confront members of Congress and “scare them into speaking the truth,” according to federal prosecutors. But he didn't make it into the building, and nobody was injured.

Camacho is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 8 by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C. He has remained jailed since his arrest.

Camacho pleaded guilty to two counts: illegal possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds and receipt or distribution of child pornography. The latter charge stems from a search of his phone after his arrest.

Surveillance video captured Camacho exiting a parked car and running toward the west side of the Capitol with the shotgun in his hands. He complied with Capitol Police officers' commands to stop and get down on the ground.

Camacho told police that he purchased the shotgun for “home defense” less than a week before he drove from Georgia to the Capitol, prosecutors said. He also said he had left pepper spray and other tactical gear in his car “just in case I don’t want to shoot anyone,” according to prosecutors.

“He further indicated that he considered using the shotgun to breach a door to be able to enter the Capitol,” they wrote.

El lunes, Leonie M. Hermantin, defensora en el centro, se reunió con una mujer afectada por el vencimiento del Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS).

“Realmente estamos instando a las personas a que sí, tengan fe, pero también estén preparadas”, dijo Hermantin.

Hermantin dijo que los padres de hijos menores nacidos en Estados Unidos necesitan planificar la posibilidad de una separación familiar con el cambio de estatus migratorio.

“Les pedimos a los padres que firmen, que preparen una declaración jurada temporal que otorgue la tutela y permita que alguien sea tutor temporal… para tomar decisiones médicas y permitir que los niños viajen”, dijo Hermantin.

Hermantin, quien habla con fluidez el criollo haitiano, tradujo para una mujer que dijo a Local 10 News que tanto ella como su madre fueron víctimas de violencia en Haití antes de huir a Estados Unidos.

“Amo a mi país, pero la situación actual no hace que sea seguro para mí regresar”, dijo la mujer, según Hermantin. “Todavía no tengo asilo, apenas presenté la solicitud, así que hoy siento que estoy perdiendo todo”.

El año pasado, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) determinó que “la situación ambiental en Haití ha mejorado lo suficiente como para que sea seguro que los ciudadanos haitianos regresen a casa”. Hermantin dijo que Haití no es seguro.

“La violencia de las pandillas se ha propagado desde Puerto Príncipe hacia otras partes del país, lo que hace que no sea seguro que las personas regresen”, dijo Hermantin.

A principios de este año, un juez de un tribunal federal de distrito emitió una orden que bloqueó temporalmente la cancelación, pero el fallo de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos del 25 de junio despejó el camino para que el DHS pusiera fin al TPS.

El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS) emitió una extensión por orden judicial para los Documentos de Autorización de Empleo que vencieron el lunes.

El DHS también puso fin al Programa de Permiso de Reunificación Familiar para Haitianos, que permitía a ciudadanos estadounidenses elegibles y residentes permanentes legales solicitar ayuda para que sus familiares en Haití pudieran viajar antes de que hubiera visas disponibles.

“Niñas fueron violadas, quemadas, sus casas fueron incendiadas y tomadas”, dijo Hermantin sobre algunos de los migrantes que se beneficiaron del programa. “No tienen un hogar al cual regresar. No tienen nada a qué regresar”.

Hermantin dijo que el área de West Dixie Highway, en el vecindario, suele estar llena de peatones, pero el lunes estaba “inquietantemente” tranquila.

“Es una realidad muy difícil de enfrentar”, dijo Hermantin. “Algunos todavía esperan un alivio de último minuto. Siguen esperando, con la esperanza de una extensión… ayer la gente estaba orando con mucha fuerza en la iglesia”.

Mientras algunos hacen planes para regresar a Haití o mudarse a países como Brasil, donde tienen familiares, Hermantin dijo que otros han decidido quedarse.

“Definitivamente la gente está pasando a la clandestinidad”, dijo Hermantin.

Agregó que le preocupan las implicaciones de “esta experiencia traumática” para la seguridad de los niños, la dignidad de los adultos mayores, la seguridad alimentaria, la salud mental y la escasez de mano de obra.

The surprise move during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine followed U.S. opposition to giving U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk another four-year term. The reappointment on Friday got overwhelming support, including from France.

The U.S. walkout reflects not only the more strained relations between President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, but also wider tensions between the U.S. and Europe. These include questions over Trump's commitment to NATO, possible changes to U.S. troop deployments in Europe, and Trump’s desire to control Greenland, which belongs to NATO member Denmark.

Trump has complained that Europeans, who weren't consulted, did not help the U.S. during the Iran war. Amid the tensions, Macron has taken a lead in trying to build up Europe's military and ensure a nuclear umbrella as one of the continent's two nuclear powers, along with Britain.

After Monday’s brief walkout, deputy U.S. ambassador Dan Negrea accused France of feigning “moral outrage” and pretending to lecture the world about every topic, including human rights.

The United States has stood by France in every conflict where its "freedom has been imperiled” and tolerated its grandstanding “out of a sense of camaraderie and mutual respect,” he said, but no more.

What sparked the walkout was a social media post Friday from France’s U.N. Mission in Geneva criticizing U.S. opposition to a second term for the U.N. rights chief. The General Assembly voted 144-10 with 13 abstentions in support of Türk, with the U.S. among the “no” votes.

“The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it,” the French Mission tweeted.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., in responding on X, accused France of coddling ”some of the worst human rights abusers” and voting “for someone who has been lecturing, free, sovereign democracies like the United States, the UK, and Israel, while cozying up to the world’s worst oppressors.”

Türk’s job as the U.N. rights chief, by its nature, is tricky: It requires speaking out against rights violations by the governments of the countries that make up the membership of the world body.

For instance, Türk has sharply criticized Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza as well as having urged a “massive rethink” of U.S. immigration policy before the World Cup, citing issues around “racial profiling, surveillance and immigration enforcement.”

At Monday’s meeting, Negrea drilled in on France.

“Today, I remind them that it is the United States that remains the beacon of liberty for the world,” he said. “As such, we will not be affording them the benefit of listening to their politicized drivel until they renounce their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric and behave in a manner commensurate with their seat on this council.”

France’s U.N. Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont never mentioned the walkout when asked to take the floor at the end of the council meeting to respond.

Instead, he noted that France — which helped the United States gain its independence — took part in the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

“The United Nations was created with the goal of working towards international peace and security, human rights and development,” he said. “All of that forms the spirit in which France works within the United Nations … to preserve this institution, its independence, its ability to act in service of the charter and act to serve human rights and peace.”

On Monday, there was a preliminary hearing for singer D4vd in Los Angeles; Andrew and Tristan Tate were fighting extradition in Miami; and a woman who killed her three kids was on trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

On Tuesday, attorneys for the man accused of murder in the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur are scheduled to appear in court in Las Vegas and a convicted school shooter could be sentenced in Winder, Georgia.

Also this week, a trial over the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie continues in Buffalo, New York.

Here's a look at the cases, what's happening this week and what's at stake:

A judge ruled there was enough evidence to put D4vd on trial

Prosecutors say the singer, whose legal name is David Burke, killed a 14-year-old girl after she threatened to reveal their sexual relationship. Burke has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have said they will vigorously defend him.

The indie-pop musician's online presence has brought him a huge following. His breakthrough single in 2022 was called “Romantic Homicide,” one of several of his songs with more than a billion plays on Spotify.

Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo decided Monday the evidence prosecutors presented at a preliminary hearing that spanned five days provided probable cause for a trial on charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains.

Andrew and Tristan Tate fight extradition

The social media influencers are accused of rape and sex trafficking in the United Kingdom, but are currently in the United States.

On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for Aug. 13 to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a monthslong extradition process.

The Tates promote their wealth, male dominance and misogyny through a social media empire that's made them some of the world’s most polarizing internet personalities. The former professional kickboxers, who have dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship, have millions of social media followers and are vocal supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie is on trial

Prosecutors have charged Hadi Matar with terrorism. Matar was previously convicted of a state-level attempted murder charge in the 2022 attack at a cultural institution where Rushdie was poised to speak about threats to writers and artists.

Rushdie testified against him last week in federal court in Buffalo, New York. Matar's attorneys have said their client may testify.

Trial begins for Massachusetts woman who killed her 3 kids

Lindsay Clancy strangled her 8-month-old, 3-year-old and 5-year-old children on Jan. 24, 2023 at her Massachusetts home. Prosecutors have charged her with murder.

The case casts a spotlight on postpartum mental health. Clancy’s attorneys say she sought help for postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Prosecutors say she carefully planned the killings.

If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

Jurors on Monday heard opening statements and testimony from Clancy's former husband, Patrick Clancy. The trial is expected to last several weeks.

Georgia school shooter to be sentenced to life in prison

Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55 counts, including murder, in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at a high school north of Atlanta that left two students and two teachers dead. A judge must now decide whether he will have the possibility of parole.

A forensic psychologist who evaluated Gray after the shooting at the request of the teen’s attorney said Monday that Gray had a chaotic, lonely upbringing.

A jury in March convicted his father, Colin Gray, on charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors said he gave his son the assault-style rifle used to open fire at the school.

Judge to consider evidence in the killing of Tupac

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is set to go on trial in August over the killing of the rap icon. He's accused of orchestrating the killing.

His attorneys are scheduled to ask a judge on Tuesday to exclude an interview he conducted with police in 2008.

Shakur’s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. The case had gone cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he said he provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur.

The Justice Department asked the justices to halt for now lower court decisions blocking the sweeping changes in nearly half the country.

The request comes shortly after Trump delivered a primetime address elevating his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of elections, and could be one of several voting-related challenges before the court ahead of the high-stakes midterm contest.

Trump ordered the government in March to create a “state citizenship list” of eligible voters and deliver mail ballots only to people on that list.

Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued, saying the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to set election rules, not the president. Their attorneys have said Trump's proposed changes are ripe for abuse and could cause chaos.

A judge in Massachusetts blocked the executive order for the plaintiff states, and a divided 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel left her ruling in place over the weekend.

The executive order calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to send state officials federal citizenship lists to determine eligible voters. It tells the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on the lists.

The order also calls for ballots to have secure envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking. Federal funding could be withheld from states and localities that don’t comply.

The appeal argues that Trump's order lays out “general policy guidance” and doesn’t directly dictate how states run their elections. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to freeze the judge's order as lawsuits play out, calling it indefensible.

“And the injunction is especially indefensible because the agencies are still deliberating over how (if at all) to implement the Order, yet the district court preemptively decided that whatever the agencies may choose to do will necessarily be unlawful,” Sauer wrote.

He urged the high court to move quickly, arguing that any new policies would have to be in place as soon as August to be effective for the November elections. A response to the appeal is due Aug. 3.

Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for Trump, even as he has used the method to cast his own votes. He has blamed it for his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 and has claimed without evidence that it opens the door to fraud. He returned to that theme Monday during an appearance at a General Motors facility in Michigan as he was making an appeal for Congress to pass his voter ID and proof-of-citizenship bill.

“And hopefully there will be no mail-in ballots,” he said, calling them 'inherently corrupt."

Using mail ballots has become increasingly popular with voters of both parties, with about 30% of all ballots cast that way during the 2024 presidential election, according to federal data. The process also is secure. A 2025 Brookings Institution study found only about four cases of fraud out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration before on mail-in ballots, finding in June that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day.

Trump has promoted the proposed changes in his executive order as safeguards to keep non-U.S. citizens from voting. He's also repeatedly pressed for the passage of the legislation that requires proof of citizenship to vote.

Noncitizen voting has been shown to be rare, and is a felony that can be punishable by deportation.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Boston, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, agreed in June to halt implementation for the Nov. 3 elections.

Her ruling differed from that of another federal judge based in Washington. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump, found in May that it was too early to block the order because it had not yet been implemented.

The office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is leading the lawsuit for the states, did not immediately comment on the Trump administration’s appeal. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office declined to comment.

The Postal Service also would not discuss its plans regarding implementing Trump’s order or its rule, citing the ongoing litigation. In Kansas, Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s office said it has not heard from the Postal Service about plans going forward.

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Associated Press writer John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, contributed to this story.

La conservadora Fujimori se presentó de forma breve ante la prensa e indicó que su gabinete, al cual juramentará la tarde del martes, trabajará “con sentido de urgencia”.

Fujimori indicó que el primer ministro será Luis Galarreta, de 55 años, a quien definifió como un “hombre leal” que sabe que gobernar exige decisión y firmeza, pero también "capacidad para lograr acuerdos".

Galarreta también fue elegido como primer vicepresidente de Fujimori. El próximo primer ministro dijo que en 100 días se verán parte de las promesas de campaña de Fujimori e incluyó la lucha contra la delincuencia, el crecimiento económico y la generación de empleo.

Entre 2017 y 2018, Galarreta fue líder del Parlamento cuando el partido de Fujimori tuvo amplia mayoría. Fue un periodo de choque contra el entonces débil mandatario Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) quien renunció antes de que el Congreso lo removiera por una investigación por presunta corrupción.

A su vez Fujimori anunció como su próximo ministro de Economía a Elmer Cuba, un economista que la asesoró hace una década en su entonces postulación a la presidencia y luego fue uno de los directores del Banco Central entre 2016 y 2021. Cuba también ha asesorado a empresas de cemento, minas y petróleo.

Finalmente, Fujimori anunció que nombrará al excandidato presidencial Carlos Espá como su canciller. Espá fue uno de los más de 30 postulantes a la presidencia en la primera vuelta. Espá —abogado, politólogo y periodista— trabajó como director de Comunicaciones de la embajada de Estados Unidos en Lima entre 2008 y 2023.

En declaraciones a la prensa, el próximo canciller indicó que cree en el “imperio de la ley” a nivel local e internacional y se presentó como austero, disciplinado y trabajador.

En marzo, cuando aún era candidato presidencial, dijo que en un eventual gobierno suyo las relaciones con China serían a nivel de socio comercial, pero no de “aliados” ni “amigos”. “El principal producto de exportación no tradicional chino es la corrupción y Perú lamentablemente tiene una fragilidad institucional que es muy vulnerable a la corrupción cuando viene de afuera”, dijo.

Las declaraciones de Espá se produjeron después de que en febrero el Congreso destituyera al entonces presidente José Jerí —quien gobernó apenas cuatro meses—, luego de que la fiscalía le abriera una investigación por presunta corrupción al mantener citas no oficiales con empresarios chinos.

Espá recordó que dos empresas estatales chinas controlan el 100% de la distribución de la electricidad en la capital de Perú y las calificó de “monopolio”.

China ha felicitado a Fujimori por su triunfo y calificó la relación bilateral de “socios estratégicos integrales”. La cancillería china anunció que enviará al ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología, Yin Hejun, a la investidura de Fujimori.

China es el principal socio comercial de Perú, incluidas diversas inversiones en minería, energía y un puerto en el Pacífico con una ruta marítima que acorta la distancia entre Sudamérica y Asia.

Kristopher and Amanda Karolkiewicz and their six children, aged 5 to 15, died Friday in their home in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Authorities were summoned for a fire and then discovered the bodies.

The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department said in a release Monday that autopsies determined all the family members died of gunshot wounds, and that Kristopher Karolkiewicz took his own life.

“The investigation shows that this was a murder-suicide,” Capt. Jacob Sparks wrote.

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The fire appears to have been set intentionally in multiple parts of the home after the killings, but officials still are investigating the origin point, Sparks said. The family’s pets perished in the blaze.

Messages seeking comment were sent Monday to the couple’s relatives.

Kris Karolkiewicz was 47; his wife, who went by Mandy, was 39.

The couple met at work at a beverage company in 2008 and began dating that summer, according to a parenting-oriented blog that Mandy Karolkiewicz kept over a decade ago.

Their first child was born on April 25, 2011, which she hailed as “the best day of my life (so far).” Two more sons followed over the next four years, as she shifted from a banking job to a part-time position at a local insurance agency and later stopped working outside the home. The couple was planning to adopt more children at the time.

The blog frequently expressed her Christian faith, her joy in the family and her love and appreciation for her husband and his parenting. “My kids have that actual example of a selfless, Christ-like father,” she wrote in 2015.

Kris Karolkiewicz, too, hailed their life together: “I’m a very lucky guy,” he wrote in a 2019 Facebook post ahead of their 10th anniversary.

Kris Karolkiewicz was a vice president of sales and marketing for the American Heart Association from September 2023 to earlier this month, when his employment ended, an organization spokesperson said. The association did not release further details, saying it does not comment on personnel matters. While with the AHA, he worked remotely for a division responsible for CPR and first aid training and products, it said.

Recently, Mandy Karolkiewicz was a substitute teacher at an elementary school, earning praise for going “above and beyond for students, especially when they’re having a hard day, responding with empathy, patience, and care,” as the local school district put it in a Facebook post in January. A message seeking comment was sent Monday to the Grand Haven Area Public Schools system, which — without identifying anyone — exhorted the public in a post Friday to “avoid speculation” about the deaths.

Although her blog ended in 2016, Mandy Karolkiewicz continued sharing updates on her family and activities in TikTok videos, including clips of a trip to China earlier this month with two of her children.

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Peltz reported from New York and Collins from Hartford, Conn.

One of the men charged, 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, works in the Secret Service's Miami field office and is described in an arrest warrant as a “dean of pledges” for a Miami chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

The Secret Service said it’s cooperating with investigators and has placed Pinder on administrative leave. He was released from jail after posting a $75,000 bond Monday and faces arraignment before a judge Sept. 24.

The three men were charged last week after police uncovered evidence of “alleged hazing incidents involving prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles,” the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office said in a news release.

Police said in court documents that a University of Miami graduate student and another young man had injuries that could have been fatal had they not been treated. One required skin grafts to his backside and suffered kidney damage, the documents said, while the other had a tube placed in his windpipe to help him breathe.

Accused agent has worked for Secret Service since 2023

Charges against the three men include felony counts of hazing with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with great bodily harm and attempted manslaughter.

“In Florida, hazing is abuse and it is a crime,” Katherine Fernandez Rundle, state attorney for Miami-Dade County, said in a statement Sunday. “Its victims too often lie in their graves and in hospital beds.”

An attorney for Pinder, Justin Beckham, did not immediately return phone and email messages seeking comment Monday. Court and jail records did not list attorneys for the other two men.

Pinder has worked as a Secret Service agent since 2023, agency spokesman Matt Fagiana confirmed Monday.

"Any misconduct will be addressed swiftly and appropriately upon completion of the investigative and judicial process,” Michael Townsend, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Miami field office, said in a statement.

A spokesman for Kappa Alpha Psi did not immediately return a phone message left at the fraternity's Philadelphia headquarters.

Arrest warrant describes bloody paddling, emergency medical care

According to Pinder's arrest warrant, the graduate student told police that he and another young man had their backsides beaten by Pinder and the other defendants during four nights in early April at an apartment and a home off-campus. The paddling started when the victims failed to correctly answer questions about the fraternity and its history, a police investigator said in an arrest warrant filed in court.

The warrant did not name either victim.

The beatings stopped on the fourth night when one of the victims had blood seeping through the seat of his pants, according to the warrant. It said fraternity leaders ordered both victims to strip off their clothes and place them in garbage bags before going home.

One of the victims suffered vomiting, fevers and intense pain before being admitted to a hospital, where he required skin grafts on his buttocks and treatment for kidney damage, according to police.

Without emergency medical treatment, the warrant said, “his injuries would have resulted in renal failure leading to death.”

The second victim told police he knew the other victim from the fraternity. He denied being paddled, the warrant said, but acknowledged receiving emergency medical care in April.

That person's medical records showed he had been hospitalized with injuries to his backside and “was intubated during his stay in the hospital to prevent further physical deterioration and death,” the arrest warrant said.

Florida lawmakers in 2005 made hazing a felony punishable by up to five years in prison if it results in serious injury or death. The law was spurred by the 2001 death of Chad Meredith, a University of Miami freshman who drowned after drinking alcohol and then attempting to swim across a lake at the urging of campus fraternity leaders.

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Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia.

Paul Harris, who represents Wu, told The Associated Press early Tuesday that immigration authorities had sent a letter to his attorneys saying Wu, the former chairman of Hong Kong's once-biggest pro-democracy party, was being granted permission to remain as a visitor for six months. Wu’s family resides in the U.K.

The British authorities' decision came after Wu's entry on a seven-day immigration bail last week raised widespread concerns from rights groups and Hong Kongers living in the U.K. and the Chinese territory.

Wu was one of 47 activists charged in 2021 in Hong Kong’s biggest case under a Beijing-imposed security law that crushed a previously thriving democracy movement. He was sentenced in 2024 to four years and five months in prison for conspiracy to commit subversion over his role in an unofficial primary election.

Wu said in an AP interview Sunday that he was only allowed to stay in Britain until Wednesday as U.K. border authorities believed he might have other goals beyond just visiting, including seeking long-term residency. He worried that would cut short his plans to spend time with his family after years of separation. He also feared the immigration record could affect his future visits to his family in the U.K. again.

Wu said in a video published by online media outlet Green Bean that his heart was heavy over the past few days and he was happy that he eventually was allowed to spend more time with his family.

“I hope all Hong Kongers can live well and cherish their loved ones,” he said.

The Home Office confirmed Monday local time that Wu will not be removed on Wednesday and that he has permission to enter the U.K.

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Associated Press writer Brian Melley in London contributed to this report.

Lasko had surgery June 30 to address a fractured C6-C7 vertebra. Lasko collided with Double-A Midland teammate Devin Taylor during a game in Frisco, Texas. Both dove for a flyball, and Lasko remained motionless on the field after the play.

“I'm currently feeling much better,” Lasko wrote on X. "I have sensation from my feet up to my knees, along with a lot of involuntary leg movements. I also have been getting some sensation in the side of my thighs, hamstrings and back. I currently have about 75% usage of my left hand and about 50% in my right.

“I'm very happy with my progress and once again, so very thankful for all the love and support. It has continued to help me get up everyday and work my hardest.”

The 24-year-old Lasko was selected by the Athletics in the second round of the 2023 amateur draft from Rutgers. He was batting .209 with six homers, 34 RBIs and a .635 OPS for Midland this season.

Lasko appeared in 13 games at Triple-A Las Vegas last year. He also played 21 games in the Arizona Fall League for promising prospects, batting .357 with nine stolen bases.

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There were no reports of fatalities or injuries as of Monday evening, but emergency officials were still searching, said Gordon Hintz, Winnebago County’s top elected official.

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Damage was reported in cities including Appleton and Menasha, where Police Chief Matt Albrecht said some homes and businesses were “severely impacted.”

The twister was spun off by a large storm system that moved through the Great Lakes, fueled by a buildup of heat and humidity, National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Berschback said.

Hintz said it could be several days before power in the stricken area is restored.

Heather Schroeder said she heard cracking and popping all around her as the tornado tore apart a laundromat, a bakery and a neighborhood tavern that were clustered around a street corner in Menasha, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Green Bay.

Rescue workers pulled someone out of one of the buildings, said Schroeder, who works nearby. She said it wasn’t clear if the person had survived. Cars were turned upside-down, and there was a gas leak at the laundromat, she said.

“There’s nothing left,” Schroeder said.

The twister ripped roofs off homes and flipped vehicles in one neighborhood in Menasha, just blocks from the shores of Lake Winnebago. Video showed a trail of destruction, with some homes reduced to their outer walls.

Greg Van Driest was working in downtown Appleton when the sky got as dark as night.

“The word we all were using was ‘ominous,’” he said. “It’s like, ‘Whoa, look at that.’ ... You looked outside and you thought it was three in the morning, it was that dark.”

No reports of deaths or injuries, but searches continue

Hintz said he’s received multiple reports of buildings destroyed and vehicles overturned. All storm warnings that could be made ahead of time to get people to safety were activated, he said.

“Obviously when you look at the damage, Mother Nature doesn’t really care,” he said.

Weather service meteorologist Holley Kamba said the agency was receiving reports of damage in southern Outagamie County and eastern Winnebago County,

“We have been receiving calls of damage with a lot of trees down, power lines down,” Kamba said. “We’ve been searching for some pictures of the structural damage.”

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said the state “is ready to assist communities however we can.”

Weather service meteorologists in Green Bay issued a tornado warning at 11:59 a.m. for the Fox Cities region, which includes Appleton, Menasha and Neenah. It warned of flying and dangerous debris, damage to mobile homes, vehicles and trees, while warning people to seek shelter.

The area had already been under a severe thunderstorm warning for about 45 minutes, and meteorologists indicated the storm was capable of producing winds up to 60 mph (97 kph).

Extensive damage and an entire city without power

Images on social media showed extensive damage in Appleton, including homes stripped of roofs, a car tossed onto a lawn, and streets littered with tree limbs.

The Appleton Police Department said on social media that it was aware of “several downed trees and large tree limbs throughout the city." Traffic signals were out and some roads were “heavily backed up,” the department said.

Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson said he didn't have any confirmation of fatalities or injuries in the county, which includes Appleton. But he said there was “extensive and severe damage” in Menasha and Fox Crossing.

“All indications are that this was a devastating system that has caused extensive damage,” Nelson said.

In Menasha, the electric utility said the entire city of about 18,000 people was believed without power. Authorities were opening a shelter at a church.

The storm hit Menasha and the east side of neighboring Fox Crossing at around 12:20 p.m., Albrecht said.

“At this point, we are unaware, unsure of how bad the damage is because many roads in those same areas are impassable,” Albrecht said, adding emergency crews were seeking to enter the affected area to “look for injuries, look for victims” and clear the roads.

He urged people to stay away from the hard-hit areas: “Right now, there are many downed power lines, downed trees, multiple hazardous situations. Please stay out.”

Later Monday the storm was clearing out of Wisconsin and moving south of Milwaukee through the Chicago area as it began to dissipate, he said.

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Mayes-Osterman reported from Chicago and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Christopher L. Keller in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Laura Turbay in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sophie Bates in Jackson, Mississippi; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City; and Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report.

ICE plans to extend the no-bid contract of the firm that runs Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, through Sept. 30, 2027, at a potential additional cost to taxpayers of $776 million, the notice says. This is on top of a $452 million initial contract that the firm, Amentum Services Inc., was awarded in March when it was hastily installed to take over the camp’s operation from a contractor removed for poor performance.

For months, Democratic members of Congress and several advocacy organizations have called for Camp East Montana to be closed, citing reports that detainees have been routinely mistreated since its opening in August 2025.

A report released earlier this month by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union alleged that staff routinely beat detainees, denied them medical care, made them live in filthy conditions and fed them inedible meals. Reports by federal agencies have also found unsafe detention conditions and that the Army and ICE have wasted millions of dollars paying for unnecessary services. At least three Camp East Montana detainees have died.

The facility at Fort Bliss, an Army base near the U.S.-Mexico border, has housed an average of more than 2,000 male and female detainees a day since Oct. 1, though its population has declined significantly in recent months, according to ICE data.

“Extending Amentum’s contract while ignoring well-documented abuses is reckless and demonstrates the Trump administration’s full-scale assault on human rights,” said Angélica César, a fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU who was a lead researcher for the report. “Instead of holding private contractors accountable, DHS is choosing to perpetuate a system of harm and abuse.”

Chanel Mann, a spokesperson for Amentum, referred questions to ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, which didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.

ICE's notice was a justification for extending Amentum Services’ contract for a year without a competitive bidding process.

The agency argued that relocating detainees to other facilities would be “impracticable” due to a lack of available bed space elsewhere. Transitioning to a different contractor would require replacing Amentum’s “proprietary infrastructure” and finding new workers, which would lead to duplicative costs, it said.

“Any lapse in contract coverage would directly threaten the life, safety, and well-being of detainees, severely disrupt law enforcement operations, and expose the government to substantial operational, legal, and humanitarian risks,” the notice says.

ICE's notice said the Army's initial contract, awarded to Acquisition Logistics LLC, “did not accurately reflect ICE's operational needs or the actual usage of the facility.” Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience operating detention facilities.

In all, Virginia-based Amentum stands to be paid more than $1.2 billion if it operates the camp from March 2026 through September 2027, the notice says.

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According to the Miami Beach Police Department, the burglaries happened at around 4:15 a.m. at the Eden Roc Miami Beach, located at 4525 Collins Ave. in the Mid-Beach area.

Police said hotel staff called police to alert them that Patrick Lee Bryant, who “had previously been arrested” there, was back and “attempting to gain unauthorized access to guest rooms.”

Bryant, 37, of northwest Miami-Dade, had gained access to the fourth-floor balconies “by climbing toward guest rooms,” an MBPD arrest report states.

In the first room, he stole and drank the two apple juices, worth $10, police said. They said he was unsuccessful trying to get into the second, managed to get into the third but stole nothing, and was again foiled by a locked door on the fourth balcony.

Police said officers encountered Bryant at the top of the hotel’s pool terrace and took him into custody after a brief foot chase in which he resisted arrest.

Authorities said Bryant had warrants for burglary, theft and two probation violations and has “multiple previous theft convictions.”

He was set to be off probation on Aug. 18.

Additionally, they said he “has previously been charged as a prisoner escapee and should be considered a risk to escape and/or flee if released.”

Bryant, facing multiple new burglary charges, was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday afternoon.

The Czech capital has a movie theater that's among the few dozen in the world equipped with the coveted 70 mm IMAX screen to watch the first feature made entirely with IMAX film cameras.

“It completely changed my experience about the movie," said Nicolas Walak from Poland, who also saw the movie before on a normal screen before viewing it in Prague. "Everything was great. It was a great movie.”

Czech cinema adapts to meet demand for rare IMAX format

There are only 41 70 mm IMAX screens worldwide, with most in North America. Montpellier in France and the Belgian capital, Brussels, are the only other two in the European Union countries. Britain has another three.

To meet massive demand, the Czech branch of the Cinema City offers four to five screenings a day, one starting after midnight, and the majority are sold out.

Film fans from about 15 European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain, have been coming to watch “The Odyssey” in Prague, Cinema City said. Their number reached 22,000 by Monday, it said.

The 70 mm IMAX film presentation is Nolan's preferred format. The Oscar-winning filmmaker calls it the “best possible experience.”

Moviegoers travel up to three days to Prague

Daniel Jung drove with his two teenage sons, Felix and Leo, for three days from Norway through Denmark and Germany "just to see this movie. Tomorrow, we’re going back.”

Leo was in touch with Cinema City by email half a year before the July 16 premiere and followed the cinema operator on Instagram. He managed to book the tickets immediately after they became available.

“We were in the 11th row, right in the middle. We had the very best seats,” Leo said, calling the effort “absolutely worth it.”

“It’s just so big. We come from Norway, the screens we have are much smaller,” he said. “Now, we watched it in this huge format. I will always remember this experience.”

Felix said they had a good time on the way, visiting some places in Germany, but it would be worth it even if they just drove straight there.

Few IMAX left because of costs and other challenges

Due to the cost and other challenges, productions made using large format film are rare. The IMAX cameras are heavy and new versions with reduced noise had to be developed to be usable for making “The Odyssey.”

The film print sent to theaters is so big — weighing some 300 kilograms (661 pounds) and 18 kilometers (11 miles) long — that it has to be delivered to theaters in parts. The movie and the projector have to be in a climatized room and the projectionists need to be approved by IMAX for the job.

As movie theaters around the globe were acquiring digital IMAX equipment around 2008, the Cinema City decided not to get rid of the original analog projector in Prague. It was placed in a corner for three years until 2012 to screen Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.”

It was used to show several others, including Nolan's “Interstellar” in 2014 and “Oppenheimer” three years ago.

“We’re really grateful to him for that,” projectionist Tomáš Vyšinský said about his predecessor who saved the equipment.

“i will end ur career and ur life,” she told him in a text message sent the night before her death.

Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo decided that evidence presented during a preliminary hearing provided probable cause for a trial on charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains.

The dark and disturbing details presented over five days brought tears, gasps and horror to the courtroom. The evidence included grisly autopsy photos, explicit descriptions and depictions of sexual abuse and a stark picture of the final texts she sent minutes before she died and her phone went permanently silent.

The ruling was a major step in the 10-month investigation and prosecution of D4vd that began when the dismembered and decomposing body of a girl was found in the trunk of his Tesla in the Hollywood Hills in September while he was on tour.

D4vd shows no emotion as decision is read, and now heads to trial

D4vd, the 21-year-old whose legal name is David Burke, showed no emotion when the judge issued her ruling, watching calmly and intently in his orange jail clothes and glasses as he had throughout the proceedings.

He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers argued that the murder evidence was insufficient, but did not argue against the other two charges. They declined to comment outside court.

Prosecutors argued that the evidence was overwhelming.

“Based on the mountains of evidence presented,” Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman said, “all of the allegations have been proved way beyond the standard required.”

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said outside court that prosecutors presented only a “small fraction” of the evidence they have. They are still weighing whether to seek the death penalty, but Burke is eligible for it after Olmedo also found probable cause for lying in wait, killing for financial gain and killing a potential witness, special circumstances in a crime that allow for a death sentence.

Olmedo ordered that Burke continue to be held without bail. An arraignment is to be held on Aug. 31, and a trial could happen as soon as 60 days later.

The last night of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

Before the decision, prosecutors gave a moment-by-moment account of Rivas Hernandez's last night.

As she neared his Hollywood home shortly after 10 p.m. on April 23, 2025, in an Uber he had sent to pick her up, she sent her final text: “girly pop i’m almost there open ur door if ur home.”

Prosecutors allege Burke stabbed her to death when she came through the door.

The night before, the two argued via text about his relationship with a woman. She sent him an angry and profanity-riddled text saying she will tell her dad so many lies about him and that she would “end ur career and ur life.” She had sent several similar messages around the same time.

Prosecutors said that Burke met Rivas Hernandez when she was 11, began sexually abusing her when she was 13 and he was 18. A year before her death, the pair also exchanged messages about how she had become pregnant — she assured him the baby was his — and that she had an abortion.

During the preliminary hearing, prosecutors introduced photos of the two of them kissing and lying in bed. The pictures showed that she had “David” tattooed in red ink on a finger — one of two that had been cut off when her body was found.

Prosecutors said they have records showing Burke ordered chain saws and wading pools that he used to dismember her body in his garage, and that her DNA was found there on blood stains.

They said he then drove around for weeks and even months with the body in his trunk before the seemingly abandoned Tesla was towed from the Hollywood Hills.

Defense argues there's insufficient evidence for murder

The defense argued that the evidence didn't show the kind of malice that was required for murder.

“There’s no evidence that Mr. Burke harbored a deliberate intent to kill Miss Hernandez,” said Burke's attorney, Marilyn Bednarski.

She said the communications between Burke and Rivas Hernandez showed “no threat, no evidence of a history of violence” and that he had “the opposite of homicidal malice” toward her.

She argued that a medical examiner ruling that her death was a homicide from two puncture wounds was too vague and inconclusive to be evidence of murder. The defense did not directly give an alternative theory on how she died and isn't required to.

The defense also established that she had asked seven times to come to see him in the days before her death, and he reluctantly agreed only after she demanded it, and that she had threatened to kill Burke and to mutilate him.

Silverman told the judge that “the defense tried numerous times throughout these proceedings to dirty up the victim” despite her being a child.

Farrell, the detective, also said under defense questioning that the parents of both Burke and Rivas Hernandez knew about their relationship, that he had attended church with members of her family and that her parents had given their consent for her to go to London with him for a week.

Patrick Steinfeld, an attorney for Rivas Hernandez’s family said after the hearing that they were “horrified that the defense attorneys brought up evidence to put the blame on a 14-year-old girl.”

Her parents sat in the front row through most of the hearing, but sat out some of the more graphic parts and left in the middle of the sexual testimony after her mother began crying.

D4vd's career was reaching new heights at time of killing

D4vd (pronounced “David”) became an online musical phenomenon as a teen with a blend of indie rock, R&B and lo-fi pop. He had huge followings on TikTok, Soundcloud and Spotify, where his top songs, including his 2022 breakthrough “Romantic Homicide,” have more than a billion plays.

In 2024 he played the Coachella music festival and released his first full-length album, “Withered,” two days after authorities say Rivas Hernandez was killed.

Georgieva, la primera máxima autoridad del FMI en visitar Buenos Aires en ocho años, también despejó dudas sobre la capacidad del país sudamericano para cumplir sus abultados compromisos de deuda y afirmó que la economía argentina está “sólida” para enfrentar eventuales turbulencias financieras que podrían desatarse el próximo año por la campaña electoral para las elecciones generales, en las que Milei buscará la reelección.

“Argentina está en una posición mucho más sólida y esto es resultado de un trabajo arduo del gobierno y de la perseverancia y el sacrificio del pueblo argentino”, destacó la funcionaria del FMI en una conferencia de prensa en la estuvo acompañada por el ministro de Economía argentino, Luis Caputo.

Georgieva recordó que al asumir al frente del FMI en 2019 en su primera reunión se abordó el caso de Argentina y “discutíamos si el país podría mantenerse al día con el servicio de sus obligaciones de deuda para todos. Esta no es la pregunta que debemos hacernos hoy”.

Argentina sigue siendo el mayor deudor del Fondo, con obligaciones pendientes que rondan los 58.000 millones de dólares.

La titular del FMI ponderó “el progreso macroeconómico y estabilidad financiera” que alcanzó Argentina tras la llegada de Milei al poder en 2023.

“Lo que tenemos es una escena más saludable... déficit primario que cambió a superávit primario, la inflación ha disminuido de 210% a un aproximado de 30% hoy en día y se han acumulado reservas” en el Banco Central, enumeró Georgieva.

“La confianza del mercado ha regresado”, sentenció. “Estamos en un buen camino para que Argentina se una al club de los mercados emergentes que han pedido prestado al FMI, reformaron sus economías y luego dejaron de pedir prestado. Ese momento va a llegar”.

Cara y ceca del modelo

Tras ser considerado por el mercado un país incumplidor serial de sus deudas, la llegada al gobierno de Milei con su ambicioso plan de reformas y políticas de austeridad recibió rápidamente el respaldo del FMI y de los inversores.

El éxito de Milei para contener una inflación desbocada --la tasa interanual, ahora en 33%, superaba el 200% cuando asumió el cargo—, la disciplina fiscal y las medidas de desregulación tienen como contrapartida un estancamiento del consumo por el congelamiento de salarios, familias endeudadas y un leve repunte del desempleo.

La caída en el respaldo popular del mandatario plantea interrogantes sobre sus chances de ser reelecto en 2027 y abre un escenario de incertidumbre para los inversores que podría generar turbulencias financieras como sucedió en 2025, en coincidencia con las elecciones de medio término.

Consultada al respecto, Georgieva admitió que “los riesgos siempre están allí, los riesgos tienen que gestionarse. ¿Cómo se gestionan? Construyendo políticas fuertes en el período que tenemos ahora… que brinden confianza a las personas en el país y a la comunidad internacional”.

Aunque el escenario para el próximo año se plantea desafiante, la titular del FMI descartó nuevos desembolsos para asistir a Argentina.

“Mi convicción es que el país está por un buen camino, no va a haber necesidad de financiamiento externo por parte de FMI. Tenemos capacidad de respaldar a nuestros miembros, ese no es un problema. Somos prestamistas de última instancia, pero no veo que deba utilizarse en el futuro inmediato”, indicó.

Más tarde, la máxima autoridad del FMI se reunirá con Milei y sus ministros en la Casa Rosada, la sede del gobierno.

El martes Georgieva visitará Vaca Muerta, en la Patagonia argentina, una de las principales reservas de petróleo y gas no convencional del planeta. Por su potencial podría convertirse en los próximos años en una de las principales fuentes de divisas para el país sudamericano.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach (MBPD), los robos ocurrieron alrededor de las 4:15 a.m. en el hotel Eden Roc Miami Beach, ubicado en el 4525 de Collins Ave., en el área de Mid-Beach.

La Policía informó que el personal del hotel llamó a las autoridades para alertar que Patrick Lee Bryant, quien “había sido arrestado anteriormente” en ese lugar, había regresado y estaba “intentando obtener acceso no autorizado a habitaciones de huéspedes”.

Bryant, de 37 años y residente del noroeste de Miami-Dade, logró acceder a los balcones del cuarto piso “escalando hacia las habitaciones de los huéspedes”, según un informe de arresto del MBPD.

En la primera habitación robó y bebió los dos envases de jugo de manzana, valorados en $10 USD, informó la Policía. Las autoridades indicaron que no logró entrar a la segunda habitación, consiguió acceder a la tercera pero no robó nada y nuevamente fue frustrado por una puerta cerrada con llave en el cuarto balcón.

La Policía informó que los agentes encontraron a Bryant en la parte superior de la terraza de la piscina del hotel y lo pusieron bajo custodia tras una breve persecución a pie durante la cual se resistió al arresto.

Las autoridades indicaron que Bryant tenía órdenes de arresto por robo a una propiedad, hurto y dos violaciones de libertad condicional, además de contar con “múltiples condenas previas por hurto”.

Estaba previsto que terminara su libertad condicional el 18 de agosto.

Además, las autoridades señalaron que “anteriormente fue acusado de fuga mientras estaba bajo custodia y debe ser considerado un riesgo de fuga si es liberado”.

Bryant, quien enfrenta múltiples cargos nuevos por robo a una propiedad, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight hasta la tarde del lunes.

Según un informe de arresto, Chrisshonda Douglas fue arrestada la madrugada de este lunes tras la investigación del choque, que ocurrió poco después de las 12:20 a.m. del 13 de julio en los carriles hacia el sur de la Interestatal 95, cerca de Northwest 79th Street.

Los investigadores indicaron que un Nissan Altima negro conducido por Douglas chocó por detrás contra un camión Road Ranger que se había detenido para asistir al conductor de un vehículo averiado en el carril derecho.

El conductor del camión Road Ranger presenció el choque e identificó a Douglas como la conductora del Nissan, según el informe.

Tras el choque, Douglas y sus tres hijos fueron trasladados al Ryder Trauma Center del Hospital Jackson Memorial, informaron las autoridades.

Los investigadores dijeron que un niño de 9 años sufrió las lesiones más graves, entre ellas una fractura de cráneo con hundimiento y una hemorragia cerebral severa que requirió una cirugía de emergencia.

Un segundo menor, de 10 años, sufrió una fractura de cráneo, mientras que un tercer menor, que cumplió 12 años el sábado, sufrió lesiones leves en una pierna, según el informe.

Mientras Douglas recibía tratamiento en el hospital, los investigadores indicaron que mostró varios signos de deterioro, entre ellos escribir mal su propio nombre al personal médico.

Según el informe de arresto, los agentes detectaron un fuerte olor a alcohol en su aliento y observaron ojos enrojecidos, habla arrastrada, declaraciones repetitivas y dificultad para completar oraciones.

Cuando le preguntaron sobre el choque, Douglas les dijo repetidamente a los investigadores: “No me importa yo, solo me importan mis hijos”, lo que obligó a los agentes a repetir las preguntas varias veces porque dejaba de hablar a mitad de una oración o perdía el hilo de lo que decía, señala el informe.

Debido a que Douglas estaba recibiendo tratamiento médico, los investigadores indicaron que no era práctico realizar una investigación por conducir bajo la influencia en el lugar.

En su lugar, se obtuvieron muestras de sangre mientras permanecía en el hospital.

Según el informe, los análisis mostraron que Douglas tenía una concentración de alcohol en sangre de 0.222 en la primera muestra y de 0.176 en la segunda, ambas superiores al doble del límite legal de Florida de 0.08.

Tras ser puesta bajo custodia el lunes, Douglas fue trasladada al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Enfrenta los siguientes cargos:

• Conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol.
• Conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol causando lesiones corporales graves.
• Conducción temeraria causando lesiones corporales graves.
• Conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol causando daños a la propiedad o lesiones.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, Douglas permanecía detenida en el TGK con una fianza de $15,000 USD.

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According to an arrest report, Chrisshonda Douglas was arrested early Monday morning following the investigation into the crash, which occurred shortly after 12:20 a.m. on July 13 on southbound Interstate 95 near Northwest 79th Street.

Investigators said a black Nissan Altima driven by Douglas rear-ended a Road Ranger truck that had stopped to assist the driver of a disabled vehicle in the right lane.

The driver of the Road Ranger witnessed the crash and identified Douglas as the driver of the Nissan, according to the report.

After the crash, Douglas and her three children were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, authorities said.

Investigators said a 9-year-old child suffered the most severe injuries, including a depressed skull fracture and severe bleeding on the brain that required emergency surgery.

A second child, age 10, suffered a fractured skull, while a third child, who turned 12 on Saturday, sustained minor leg injuries, according to the report.

While Douglas was being treated at the hospital, investigators said she displayed several signs of impairment, including misspelling her name for medical staff.

According to the arrest report, troopers detected a strong odor of alcohol on her breath and observed bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, repetitive statements and difficulty completing sentences.

When asked about the crash, Douglas repeatedly told investigators, “I don’t care about myself, I only care about my kids,” causing troopers to ask questions multiple times because she would stop speaking mid-sentence or trail off, the report stated.

Because Douglas was receiving medical treatment, investigators said it was not practical to conduct a roadside DUI investigation.

Instead, blood samples were obtained while she was at the hospital.

According to the report, testing showed Douglas had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.222 in the first sample and 0.176 in the second sample—both more than twice Florida’s legal limit of 0.08.

After being taken into custody Monday, Douglas was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

She faces the following charges:

• Driving under the influence
• Driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury
• Reckless driving causing serious bodily injury
• Driving under the influence causing property damage or injury

As of Monday afternoon, Douglas remained at TGK on a $15,000 bond.

“Es manejar las relaciones internacionales en función de consideraciones ideológicas, reforzándolas con gobiernos que se perciben como aliados a su proyecto político y tomando distancia con países de izquierda”, dijo el lunes a The Associated Press Yann Basset, profesor de Ciencia Política de la Universidad del Rosario.

El conservador De la Espriella, apoyado por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, se posesionará el 7 de agosto.

El cierre de 14 embajadas —incluidas las de Haití, Barbados, Argelia, Rumania, Cuba, Nicaragua, Senegal y Sudáfrica— y 15 consulados forma parte de un plan de austeridad y reducción del Estado, explicó De la Espriella la víspera en sus redes sociales.

Sin embargo, aclaró que esto no significará romper relaciones diplomáticas con esos países, a excepción de Cuba y Nicaragua, porque “en mi gobierno no habrá vínculo alguno con tiranías”.

Para Manuel Camilo González, profesor del Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Javeriana, el rompimiento de relaciones con Cuba y Nicaragua significará que se suspenden de manera indefinida las comunicaciones entre ambos gobiernos, lo que podría afectar otras áreas de cooperación internacional con esos países y la atención a connacionales.

El presidente saliente Gustavo Petro pretendió durante su gobierno fortalecer las relaciones con Cuba, país al que le ha reconocido su colaboración con procesos de paz con grupos armados ilegales colombianos. En junio, Colombia envió a Cuba un barco con ayuda humanitaria en medio del cerco energético estadounidense.

Con Nicaragua Petro también intentó mantener un diálogo cordial pese a que la relación en los últimos años estuvo marcada por un litigio marítimo que el país centroamericano interpuso ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia.

Sin embargo, actualmente Colombia no tiene embajador en Nicaragua. La tensión entre ambos gobiernos se elevó en 2024, luego de que Petro se solidarizara con la poetisa nicaragüense Gioconda Belli, quien denunció ser perseguida por el gobierno de Daniel Ortega.

Rafael Piñeros, profesor de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, dijo a AP que los gobiernos tanto de Cuba como de Nicaragua pueden tomar una decisión recíproca y retirar a sus embajadores en caso de que se materialice la ruptura de relaciones por parte del gobierno electo.

De la Espriella insistió en que retomará la relación diplomática con Israel, suspendida por Petro desde 2024 como reproche al “genocidio” en la Franja de Gaza, para lo que suspenderá la apertura de la embajada en territorio palestino que propuso Petro y abrirá una en Jerusalén.

“Supone tomar una postura frente al conflicto palestino-israelí y ponerse, de alguna forma, del lado de Israel y desconocer la existencia de un Estado palestino”, indicó González.

El experto señaló que con lo anunciado por De la Espriella, Colombia se suma a “ese patrón de gobiernos de las nuevas derechas en América Latina que están en un alineamiento activo hacia Washington”.

Terms of the settlement were not made public.

“The recent resolution of this matter allows everyone to move forward, and I welcome that opportunity,” Agugua-Hamilton said in a statement provided to The Associated Press on Monday. "I am proud of my career, grateful to every player and coach whose path has crossed mine, and excited for what is to come next. My passion for coaching has always been less about wins and losses and more about making a positive difference in the lives of young people. That passion remains as strong as ever.”

Agugua-Hamilton was fired on April 4, a week after she led the Cavaliers to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000. She went 70-58, including a 29-42 mark in ACC play. Virginia became the first double-digit seed to reach the regional semifinals since 2022 and pulled off the upset of the tournament, knocking off No. 2 seed Iowa on the road in double overtime in the second round.

They became the first First Four team to advance that far before falling to TCU.

“It was a privilege to coach the remarkable young women who wore the Virginia jersey," Agugua-Hamilton said. "Thank you for your commitment, your resilience, and allowing me to be a part of your journey. The relationships we built and the memories we created will always hold a special place in my heart.”

The school declined to comment on the matter.

Before coaching at Virginia, Agugua-Hamilton led Missouri State to a 74-15 record from 2020-22, which featured two NCAA Tournament appearances.

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"Vamos a sentarnos a negociar con los Estados Unidos el problema de las tasas, como también los bienes que han sido excluidos de esta nueva realidad, en la que llevamos aproximadamente el 60% de bienes excluidos pero queremos negociar la ampliación de esa figura”, dijo el ministro en una rueda de prensa tras reunirse con representantes de distintos gremios empresariales a fin de trazar estrategias conjuntas para hacer frente a las tarifas.

El pasado jueves el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump anunció una nueva ronda de aranceles de entre 10% y 12,5% a las importaciones procedentes de 60 naciones, que suman el 99% de los productos que llegan al país desde el extranjero, después de acusarlos de no hacer lo suficiente para evitar el trabajo forzoso en sus producciones.

En el caso de Chile se aplicará la sobretasa del 12,5% a cerca de 40% de las manufacturas del país, entre ellas las industrias del salmón, la fruta, el vino y productos derivados de la madera. El cobre, principal producto de exportación enviado a Estados Unidos, quedó exento.

Representantes de los gremios empresariales coincidieron en que el arancel anunciado impactará a la industria chilena, aunque se mostraron optimistas de que ambos países, que tienen un tratado de libre comercio desde 2003, podrán llegar a un acuerdo próximamente.

"Para el sector agrícola este arancel del 12,5% es duro, nos hace menos competitivos”, señaló el presidente de la Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, Antonio Walker. “Estamos muy confiados en que esta negociación que va a hacer la cancillería va a ser exitosa; creemos que tenemos que respetar el tratado de libre comercio que tenemos con Estados Unidos”.

La subsecretaria de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Paula Estévez, indicó a su vez que se inicia ahora un proceso de negociaciones bilaterales y que está prevista una visita para agosto de una comitiva estadounidense para seguir con las conversaciones.

"Desde Chile hemos enviado cuáles son la listas de productos y también las informaciones necesarias económicas de por qué estos productos son complementarios a la economía estadounidense”, explicó.

Las exportaciones chilenas alcanzaron los 106.498 millones de dólares en el primer semestre de 2026, lo que supone una expansión de 9,6% respecto de igual período de 2025 y con China y Estados Unidos a la cabeza de los principales destinos, según datos del Ministerio de Economía.

No obstante el país sudamericano confía en eludir los aranceles, el canciller destacó la necesidad de redoblar los esfuerzos para expandir mercados y ampliar los socios comerciales. Pérez Mackenna destacó recientes conversaciones con economías del Sudeste Asiático, así como Bangladesh y la India, para potenciales acuerdos comerciales.

“Nosotros vamos a seguir, obviamente, comerciando con el mundo: con China, con Estados Unidos, con la India, con el Sudeste Asiático y con Europa. Es muy importante recordar que tenemos que aumentar la diversificación de nuestras exportaciones”, comentó.

Volker Türk spoke to The Associated Press as he wrapped up a visit to Lebanon, his second in just over a year. He met with government officials, civil society representatives and Lebanese people displaced by the war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.

The visit came about a week before Lebanese and Israeli officials are to meet in Rome for talks on implementing a framework deal reached June 26. It laid out a plan for the deployment of Lebanese military forces in areas in southern Lebanon and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, alongside the disarmament of Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has rejected the direct talks and says it will not disarm.

Türk said some Israeli actions in Lebanon could amount to war crimes, echoing criticism from other human rights groups over the widespread destruction of towns and villages, and the dozens of medical workers and journalists killed.

“Demolition of this type raises huge flags about compliance with international humanitarian law,” Türk said, describing what has happened as a “wholesale destruction” of civilian homes.

Israel has said that its attacks target Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure. It accuses the group of hiding among civilians, and says its troops in occupied parts of southern Lebanon have revealed weapons warehouses and tunnel networks belonging to the group.

The latest conflict started March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel after the U.S.-Israeli February attacks that set off the Iran war. Israel launched an aerial campaign and ground invasion in Lebanon, killing more than 4,000 people and displacing 1.2 million others. The Israeli military still occupies dozens of towns and villages in southern Lebanon.

Türk, who is based in Geneva, also met with a visiting team from his office investigating attacks in Lebanon during the war.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who met with Türk on Monday, said Lebanon remains committed to the agreement, but warned that Israel’s continued military presence and demolitions may “undermine its effectiveness.”

Lebanon "will not accept ongoing violations of its provisions,” Aoun was quoted as saying during the meeting from his office.

The agreement controversially includes both sides withholding from pursuing any form of legal accountability, a move widely criticized in Lebanon.

Türk, who has also criticized Hezbollah for its attacks on northern Israeli towns, called for an end to Israel's occupation in southern Lebanon, and for displaced people to return safely to their homes.

“I met yesterday a man who told me that he returned to his village in this zone ... south of this so-called yellow line,” he said. "The Israelis were there, they prevented him from going anywhere close to it, and he saw how the village was demolished.”

Türk said he had contacted Israeli authorities hoping to conduct a similar visit, but had received no reply. Israel was among 10 countries that voted against appointing Türk to a second term, alongside the United States and Russia, at the United Nations General Assembly.

El choque fue reportado poco antes de la medianoche en la cuadra 900 de Northeast Flagler Drive mientras el tren se dirigía hacia el sur, confirmaron los equipos de emergencia.

Funcionarios de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue indicaron que el automóvil fue arrastrado por el tren hasta la cuadra 400 de Northeast Flagler Drive.

El esposo de la mujer que conducía el auto rojo dijo a Local 10 News que el vehículo quedó atascado debajo del tren tras el choque.

Funcionarios de FLFR indicaron que la mujer pudo salir del vehículo por sí sola y los equipos la encontraron en el suelo junto al automóvil cuando llegaron.

Según el esposo de la mujer, ella sufrió una mano rota y un labio partido, pero se espera que esté bien.

Funcionarios de FLFR confirmaron que la mujer fue trasladada al Broward Health Medical Center con lesiones graves, pero no potencialmente mortales.

Una estilista en una barbería cercana dijo a Local 10 News que nunca había visto algo así antes.

“El tren Brightline está detenido justo frente a mí, y el auto está completamente atascado debajo. De hecho, por un milagro, el asiento del conductor, donde estaba la conductora, fue el único que no fue completamente golpeado por el tren”, dijo la estilista.

Las circunstancias que llevaron al choque siguen bajo investigación.

El Servicio Secreto confirmó que Marquez Christopher Pinder, de 29 años, es un agente actual asignado al sur de Florida.

“El Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos toma en serio cualquier alegación de conducta criminal que involucre a uno de nuestros empleados.

“Como el Agente a Cargo de la Oficina de Campo de Miami, he sido informado de que una agencia local de cumplimiento de la ley está investigando a uno de nuestros empleados. Estamos cooperando plenamente con la investigación. No puedo comentar sobre detalles de la investigación en curso, sin embargo, puedo decir que el empleado está en licencia administrativa y ha estado así desde el momento en que fuimos notificados.

“El Servicio Secreto se construye sobre la confianza depositada en nosotros por las personas que protegemos y el pueblo estadounidense. Mantenemos a nuestros empleados bajo los más altos estándares. El Servicio Secreto sigue comprometido con la rendición de cuentas, el profesionalismo y la integridad, y cualquier conducta indebida será abordada de manera rápida y apropiada tras la finalización del proceso investigativo y judicial.”

Michael Townsend, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office

La fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, y el jefe de policía de Sweetwater, Sergio Diez, anunciaron los arrestos de Pinder, Jared Lamar James, de 26 años, y Elijah Delano Dyous, de 29 años, durante el fin de semana.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que James fue arrestado el viernes y Pinder fue detenido el domingo. Dyous no aparecía en los registros carcelarios hasta la mañana del lunes.

Las autoridades indicaron que una investigación descubrió evidencia de presuntos incidentes de novatadas que involucraban golpizas prolongadas y repetidas con bastones y paletas. Indicaron que no responder correctamente preguntas sobre la fraternidad presuntamente conducía a las golpizas.

Según los investigadores, las novatadas comenzaron el 1 de abril en un apartamento en Sweetwater y continuaron el 2 y 3 de abril en el mismo lugar. El 4 de abril, las autoridades indicaron que las novatadas continuaron en una vivienda en una zona no incorporada del condado Miami-Dade.

Las autoridades indicaron que las golpizas fueron llevadas a cabo por los tres sospechosos.

Pinder, James y Dyous enfrentan cada uno dos cargos de homicidio involuntario en grado de tentativa con arma mortal, agresión agravada con arma mortal causando gran daño corporal y novatadas con arma mortal.

“Para algunos, las novatadas de fraternidad pueden ser vistas como una tradición que crea un sentido de pertenencia y hermandad, pero desde 2001, las novatadas en Florida han causado la muerte de Chad Meredith, Robert Champion y Andrew Coffey, mientras han dejado a otros gravemente heridos. Este caso, con las víctimas requiriendo hospitalización, proporciona ejemplos claros del peligro de las novatadas”, dijo Fernandez Rundle. “En Florida, las novatadas son abuso y son un delito. Sus víctimas con demasiada frecuencia yacen en sus tumbas y en camas de hospital”.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, las autoridades no han identificado públicamente la universidad con la que están afiliados los sospechosos.

Although the Democratic Socialists of America’s Workers Deserve More platform doesn’t necessarily line up exactly with the candidates’ own agendas, prominent Republicans over the weekend decried it. The DSA platform proposes drafting "a new constitution” with significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, including abolishing the Senate, replacing the president and the Supreme Court with leaders picked by Congress and allowing all permanent U.S. residents to vote. Alongside those changes, the platform, published earlier this month, calls for a number of social reforms.

“The barbarians are inside the gate — and Democrats are WELCOMING them in,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X. “Communism is no longer a far fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES!”

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative-leaning editorial board also warned about the agenda, calling it radical and writing that the job of Republicans and willing Democrats is to educate the country about it. But it cautioned Republicans to avoid communism attack lines, saying they wouldn't resonate with younger generations.

Progressive and DSA-backed candidates running in Democratic primaries across the country don’t all subscribe to the group’s full agenda. The left is also split between progressive and moderate wings that have different ideas about the best policies to carry the Democratic Party forward. But the DSA platform has created an opening for Republicans to attack Democrats with a broad brush as they look for an edge in races that will determine which party has a majority in Congress next year.

President Donald Trump this year has returned to an old habit of calling Democrats communists, saying they want to “destroy the traditional American way of life.” Other Republicans have followed suit, turning to more comfortable territory after months spent defending their party as disgruntled Americans fume about foreign wars and the high cost of living.

DSA agenda calls for dramatic overhaul of government and society

The DSA’s vision for the country laid out in mid-July proposes major changes that the group says can in part be achieved under the current system but ultimately would require “building a new society from the ground up.”

Among the suggested changes are expanding voting rights, publicly financing all elections, replacing the two-party system with a multi-party democracy, establishing public ownership of large corporations and expanding rights for immigrants while ending Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions and deportations.

In a recent appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” the group’s co-chair Megan Romer confirmed various aspects of the agenda while acknowledging that some of the proposals, like abolishing borders and prisons, would be considered parts of a long-term plan.

The Republican National Committee over the weekend called attention to the platform in a post that several GOP lawmakers seized on to raise alarm.

“These people are insane,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz replied on X.

“Watch this clip closely,” wrote Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican. “These ideas could be coming to your community sooner than you think.”

Progressive candidates have succeeded in recent races

The DSA's agenda comes as aligned candidates have triumphed in several recent Democratic primaries. They’ve capitalized on voter anger at the party establishment and rising skepticism of the U.S. alliance with Israel to edge out moderates in House races in New York and Colorado.

Democratic socialist candidates also have succeeded in mayoral elections in major U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., New York and Seattle. An upcoming Missouri primary pitting a DSA-backed former congresswoman against the moderate Democratic incumbent will further test the movement’s momentum.

In other elections, progressive candidates have outlined where they differ from the DSA's agenda. In an upcoming Michigan Senate primary, for example, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed has distanced himself from socialism, saying that he believes in capitalism but that it needs to be regulated.

Meanwhile, establishment Democrats including former Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison have forcefully pushed back against DSA candidates who run in the party’s primaries while criticizing the way the party is going.

“I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination,” Harrison wrote in a social media post in June. “Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign. Focus on building the party you actually support.”

Lopes Cabral’s curling shot into the far top corner of the Argentina net was a standout moment at the World Cup where the unheralded African team made a stellar debut.

His goal tied defending champion Argentina at 2-2 in extra time of their thrilling round of 32 game in Miami Gardens. Cape Verde would eventually lose 3-2.

Lopes Cabral’s goal was voted best of the 308 goals scored at the tournament, ahead of Eldor Shomurodov's delicate lob for Uzbekistan against Congo and Wilson Isidor of Haiti scoring with a powerful rising shot against Morocco.

FIFA drew up a shortlist of 12 goals for public voting that closed Monday.

Lopes Cabral’s celebration also entered World Cup lore as he broke free of teammates reaching to grab him before climbing into the tribune to hug his girlfriend and look for his mother.

“Before the game, I’d told my mom and my girlfriend that if I scored, I’d run over to them,” he said. “When I got there, I saw my mom crying. She hadn’t even realized I was right there. Everyone was busy tending to her because she had fainted when I scored.”

Cape Verde defied both World Cup finalists in its four games, after goalkeeper Vozinha’s standout display saw his team open with a 0-0 draw to stun eventual champion Spain.

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The update comes shortly before his home state's annual Fancy Farm picnic, which features speeches from politicians throughout the state seeking elected office. McConnell said in a written statement that he won't be able to attend the event.

“There’s no place I’d rather be on the first Saturday in August than with the good people of western Kentucky, feasting on pork and mutton," McConnell said.

He said that when he first attended the event 42 years ago, Fancy Farm was a lonely place for Republicans, but times have changed.

“So I hate that I’ll miss the fun this year, but I’m sending my best wishes to the St. Jerome community for a successful picnic,” McConnell said.

McConnell, 84, was admitted to the hospital on June 14 and revealed weeks later that it was due to a fall. He had polio in his early childhood and has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in walking and climbing stairs.

The statement from the Office of the Attending Physician said McConnell has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation since he left the hospital, which includes multiple sessions a day designed to rebuild strength and reduce the risk of future falls.

“His bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility. He is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office,” said the statement from the physician’s office in Congress.

McConnell said he appreciated the well wishes he has received in recent weeks, and "I’m looking forward to getting back to the Senate and to Kentucky soon.” McConnell is not seeking reelection but intends to finish out his term.

Trump has repeatedly urged Thune to scrap the legislative filibuster, which effectively sets a 60-vote threshold for most legislation in the 100-member Senate, or find another workaround to pass the voting bill, known as the SAVE America Act. But Republicans hold only a 53-47 majority, and Thune has consistently said they don’t have the votes to pass the bill or change the rules to get around the filibuster.

“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump wrote on social media.

He later insisted to reporters Monday that he has a good relationship with the Senate majority leader but said Thune has “got to get his job done.”

It's the latest escalation in a monthslong pressure campaign by Trump and others in the GOP base to pass the SAVE Act ahead of the midterms. A small but vocal group of Republican senators has also increasingly pressed Thune to find a way forward.

Thune responded Monday afternoon, telling reporters he would be supportive of cancelling the break if there was a path forward on the legislation.

“We voted on it one, two, three, four, five times already,” said Thune, who counted each number on his hand for reporters. “Show me how this ends. What’s the picture of victory at the end?”

House Republicans have also attempted to create another path for the legislation through the budget reconciliation process, which would allow grant money associated with voting rules to pass the Senate with a simple majority.

The House last week approved a budget framework that included $10 billion for voting-related changes aligned with the SAVE America Act. But Thune has said Republicans don’t currently have the votes for that approach, either.

Trump's pressure comes during an important period

The fight threatens to complicate the Senate's final legislative sprint before the August break, when Thune had hoped to focus on a long list of priorities that includes government funding, cryptocurrency legislation and sanctions on Russia. The August break, scheduled to start on Aug. 7, is a pivotal stretch for senators to return home and campaign ahead of the midterm elections.

Several Republican senators are facing competitive races, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted and Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan. Republicans currently hold a 53-47 Senate majority. Republicans are confronting broader political headwinds as well, including an unpopular war in Iran, surging gas prices and costs that remain high for voters.

Thune has enjoyed broad support from his GOP conference all year as he’s pushed back on Trump’s demands. He previously kept the SAVE Act on the Senate floor for weeks in an effort to build additional support, but was unable to secure the votes needed to advance it.

“You can stay here until the cows come home and it’s not going to change anything,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican who lost a primary earlier this year to a Trump-backed candidate. “We keep overpromising and underdelivering, which is not a recipe for voter morale or high voter participation in the midterm elections.”

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said he believes Thune’s position on SAVE is reflective of the majority of the GOP conference.

“The president has to look at the reality: The majority of Republican members support John Thune,” Tillis said. “I don’t even think it’s close."

Trump allies challenge Thune’s approach

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who has led the push for the bill in the Senate, escalated his pressure late last week, warning that how Republicans handle the SAVE America Act “could impact not only the November midterm elections, but also the Senate GOP leadership elections.”

“Leaders must lead. And if they don’t, they’re not leaders,” Lee wrote on social media Friday.

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said he believes Thune is “being a bit too cautious right now.”

“At some point, you have to vote,” Kennedy said.

Frustrated by the pressure when he doesn’t have a route to pass the bill, Thune has urged Trump, Lee and others to help him find the votes. Trump on Friday said he'd “certainly be willing” to help call senators.

Asked last week if Trump is frustrated with Thune, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that "his patience is running out.” But Trump told reporters on Air Force Once Monday while traveling to an event in Michigan, that he hasn’t “even thought” about potential replacements for Thune.

The late-summer dispute echoes a similar fight before last year’s August recess, when Trump pressed Thune to keep senators in Washington to clear a backlog of his nominees. The Senate ultimately left town without a deal after negotiations with Democrats collapsed.

The SAVE America Act would create new national rules

The SAVE America Act, which stands for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, would require Americans to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, mostly through a valid U.S. passport or birth certificate. It would also require a valid photo identification before voters can cast ballots, which some states already demand.

Voting experts have said the bill could disenfranchise some 20 million American voters who don’t have birth certificates or other documents readily available.

Trump has made it his legislative priority in 2026, saying it would “guarantee the midterms" and falsely claimed that election cheating is “rampant.” He previously declined to sign any other legislation until it was passed.

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles filed a motion Monday to dismiss its case against David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California, which has more than 750,000 members including janitors, security officers and other workers. The government will seek to have the case permanently withdrawn within weeks if Huerta continues to comply with the terms of his pretrial release and stays out of trouble, prosecutors said.

Huerta said in a statement that he was tackled, pepper-sprayed and detained for exercising his constitutional rights to protest and cast the case against him as part of a broader “weaponization of the judicial system.”

“There was never a real case, only an attempt to punish and silence me for exercising my constitutional rights,” he said in a statement. “I will keep exercising my constitutional rights and protest every abuse this administration commits, and I will keep working to build a country that treats immigrant families and all workers with the dignity they deserve.”

The case will be dismissed by the end of August if compliance continues

The Justice Department had earlier reduced the felony obstruction charge to a misdemeanor, and in moving to dismiss it entirely, is now backing away entirely from a prosecution that had been announced with fanfare on social media after Huerta's arrest more than a year ago. It's the latest courtroom setback for a department that has struggled, in offices across the country, in its prosecutions of people accused of assaulting or hindering federal officers while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles signaled in its own statement that law enforcement was justified in arresting Huerta, noting that he was charged with interfering with a judicial search warrant and asserting that the Justice Department does not arrest people for simply peacefully protesting. The office also said that Huerta has complied with the terms of his bond for more than a year and was prepared to dismiss the case if he continues to do so.

“Pursuant to an agreement entered into with our office, if Mr. Huerta continues to comply with his pretrial release terms, we expect the criminal case against him to be fully dismissed by the end of next month,” the statement said.

Huerta was arrested in June 2025 while protesting outside a business in Los Angeles where federal agents were investigating suspected immigration violations. The incident occurred amid widespread protests over the federal immigration crackdown that drove Trump to take the extraordinary move of deploying the National Guard to the nation’s second-largest city.

Authorities said Huerta sat down in front of a vehicular gate and encouraged others to walk in circles to try to prevent law enforcement from going in or out, and he pushed back when an officer told him to leave and put his hands on Huerta to move him out of the way of a vehicle.

According to a copy of a letter laying out the terms of Huerta’s diversion agreement, Huerta and the government agreed to a stipulated set of facts, including that he arrived at the search warrant location, positioned himself in the driveway outside the front gate “to oppose the policies and tactics of the enforcement activity he observed and encouraged others to do the same” and that, as a result, “at least one federal agent” who participated in the search warrant “credibly believed he was unable to enter the front gate.”

Huerta’s arrest brought pushback from advocates and senators

Union leaders and immigrant advocates rallied in cities across the country demanding Huerta's release, and he became the face of the pushback against the Republican president's effort to drive up immigration arrests. Top Democrats also fired back. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and California’s two Democratic senators wrote a letter to federal officials demanding answers regarding Huerta’s arrest. California Sen. Adam Schiff attended Huerta’s bond hearing.

“It is deeply troubling that a U.S. citizen, union leader, and upstanding member of the Los Angeles community continues to be detained by the federal government for exercising his rights to observe immigration enforcement,” the senators wrote.

Federal prosecutors initially charged Huerta with felony obstruction, with Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, saying that it didn't matter who was protesting "if you impede federal agents, you will be arrested and prosecuted.” In October, prosecutors reduced the charge against Huerta to a misdemeanor.

Huerta’s lawyers, Abbe Lowell and Marilyn Bednarski, said in a statement that the case against their client had no legal basis.

“This case, like others, sought to silence criticism of the administration’s improper immigration actions. Today’s filing is proof that David and other critics will not be silenced,” the lawyers said.

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Deputies arrested Cassandra Thompson, also known as Cassandra Costentine, at 10:20 p.m. on Friday at Miami International Airport on a pending Miami-Dade arrest warrant, records show.

A man had reported meeting Thompson on Dec. 11, 2024, at Gekko in Miami’s Brickell area, and welcoming her to his apartment, where she served him vodka, according to the arrest warrant.

“The victim recalled feeling unwell after he was served the beverage prepared by the subject,” a police officer wrote, according to the warrant. “He believed he lost consciousness or was so impaired that it caused him to be unresponsive.”

Surveillance video provided by the man showed Thompson “taking the victim’s phone and walking into the bedroom,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detective wrote, according to the arrest warrant.

The victim accused Thompson of stealing $10,000 in cash from his bedroom and of using his cell phone to steal more than $72,840 in cryptocurrency and $1,225 from Venmo, according to the warrant.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Thompson shortly after 12:25 a.m. on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Thompson faced four charges: Third-degree grand theft, money laundering unlawful proceeds, unlawful use of a communications device, and a computer offense involving fraud.

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

Los agentes arrestaron a Cassandra Thompson, también conocida como Cassandra Costentine, a las 10:20 p.m. del viernes en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami por una orden de arresto pendiente de Miami-Dade, según los registros.

Un hombre reportó haber conocido a Thompson el 11 de diciembre de 2024 en Gekko, en el área de Brickell en Miami, y haberla invitado a su apartamento, donde ella le sirvió vodka, según la orden de arresto.

“La víctima recordó sentirse mal después de que le sirvieran la bebida preparada por la sospechosa”, escribió un oficial de policía, según la orden. “Creyó que perdió el conocimiento o que estaba tan afectado que quedó inconsciente.”

Un video de vigilancia proporcionado por el hombre mostró a Thompson “tomando el teléfono de la víctima y caminando hacia el dormitorio”, escribió un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, según la orden de arresto.

La víctima acusó a Thompson de robar $10,000 USD en efectivo de su dormitorio y de usar su teléfono celular para robar más de $72,840 USD en criptomonedas y $1,225 USD de Venmo, según la orden.

El sistema correccional de Miami-Dade ingresó a Thompson poco después de las 12:25 a.m. del sábado en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, según los registros de reclusos.

Thompson enfrenta cuatro cargos: hurto mayor en tercer grado, lavado de dinero de ganancias ilícitas, uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación y un delito informático relacionado con fraude.

El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

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Records show that Doral police took Nicolas Xiviller, 27, into custody on Sunday in connection with the incident, which happened on Friday.

Authorities said surveillance video showed Xiviller going into Tennis Plaza, located at 2600 NW 87th Ave., just before 6:30 p.m. and “selecting a racket and swinging it aggressively as to simulate striking a tennis ball.”

“While doing so, the racket becomes hung up on a metal clothing rack and (Xiviller) forcefully pulls the racket to dislodge it causing it to break,” Doral police said in an arrest report, describing the video. “(He) proceeds to select another racket and begins swinging it aggressively again.”

Police said a Tennis Plaza employee told him to “stop misusing the equipment” and tried to “peacefully escort” him out of the store.

Authorities said Xiviller turned around and told the worker, “If you touch me again, I’ll kill you” while still wielding a racket, and “then walked towards the front door of the business and purposely smashed the racquet on the floor numerous times, permanently damaging it.”

According to the report, he told a store manager, “Te voy a romper la cara” ― Spanish for “I am going to break your face.”

Police said before leaving, video shows Xiviller as “he punches and headbutts the door forcefully before walking towards his vehicle and fleeing” on Northwest 87th Avenue.

All told, he caused a little less than $600 in damage, authorities said.

They said they later spotted him at the Wawa at 3300 NW 87th Ave. just before midnight on Sunday and took him into custody on charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and three misdemeanors, including criminal mischief.

Records show Xiviller, a native of Montevideo, Uruguay, who was listed on his arrest report as homeless, was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,900 bond as of around noon on Monday.