The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was set up under a 2014 peace deal that saw the largest Muslim rebel group give up the goal of a separate Muslim state in the south of the largely Catholic country in exchange for broader autonomy. The group’s 40,000 fighters promised to demobilize and join civilian life.

Since the 1970s, about 150,000 combatants and civilians have died in the southern Philippines, while development was stunted in the country’s poorest region. Western and Asian governments feared the tenacious insurgencies could help foster Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia. With bombing attacks and kidnappings, Mindanao used to be a haven for al-Qaida and the Islamic State group before a U.S.-backed Philippine offensive weakened the militants.

More than 20,000 soldiers and police forces were deployed for elections, while troops carrying long arms patrolled roadsides.

There are 80 seats at stake in the elections that will determine members of parliament. The region comprises five provinces, three cities and 63 villages with nearly 2.4 million voters. Election officials said they expected an 80% turnout after polling was postponed for several years.

The region's chief minister, who heads the executive branch, will be elected by parliament in its first session.

Commission on Elections Chairman Erwin Garcia told a news conference Sunday that the security situation has been peaceful, but warned those who will attempt to sow violence or buy votes that they will be charged.

“The elections stand on generations of Bangsamoro struggle for homeland, identity, and self-determination, in the face of dispossession, marginalization, conflict and sacrifice,” he said in an earlier statement.

High pressure to the north, over portions of Georgia, Mississippi and the Carolinas, will continue to funnel in winds out of the northeast off the Atlantic. This will keep us in an active weather pattern. By the end of the week, an upper-level low will swing in and keep rain chances elevated.

The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook post in which he called the death “measles-related.”

The post did not identify the woman other than as a resident of Jefferson County, a rural area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh.

“This is a heartbreaking loss for the family and an unfortunate reminder that measles can be a serious and potentially life-threatening disease,” Furlong said in the post.

The post did not say whether the woman was vaccinated against measles. No more information about the case would be released, it stated.

Pennsylvania's two previous measles-related deaths involved infants. Both occurred in August and a coroner reported that the virus itself caused one of the deaths.

One infant, a boy, died shortly after birth of a ruptured spleen. The boy had measles that did not contribute to the rupture, according to Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni.

Rather, measles was listed as a “significant condition” at the time of death.

The other infant, a 6-week-old girl with a genetic defect that left her highly vulnerable to infection, died due to measles, Diamantoni told The Associated Press.

The girl was born with a condition called Amish lethal microcephaly that causes an unusually small head and underdeveloped brain. Children with the condition typically live 6 months or less.

The first dose of measles vaccine is typically given to infants around 1 year old, meaning neither infant was old enough to be vaccinated.

As of Friday, Pennsylvania had 676 measles cases in 37 of the state's 67 counties. Of those cases, 124 involved hospitalizations and four people who were vaccinated against measles, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The three measles-related deaths reported by state and local officials as of Sunday did not square with figures of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which showed no such deaths this year.

"The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) does not currently have any death records from 2026 that indicate measles is the underlying cause," read the CDC website Sunday.

Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, and Republican President Donald Trump’s administration have clashed over details of the two previous deaths in the state.

Las sospechas expuestas en la decisión del juez Flávio Dino podrían complicar aún más la situación del senador Flávio Bolsonaro, cuando faltan pocas semanas para que se enfrente al presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva en las elecciones nacionales de octubre.

El senador Bolsonaro, el hijo mayor del exmandatario, está siendo investigado por corrupción, lavado de dinero y evasión fiscal por recibir millones de dólares de un desacreditado banquero para financiar la película biográfica sobre su padre, titulada “Dark Horse” ("Caballo Negro").

Dino, quien fue designado al cargo por Lula y actualmente supervisa una de las investigaciones en torno a la película, afirmó que se había reforzado la hipótesis de la existencia de un sofisticado plan de asignación y desvío de fondos públicos —que involucraba enmiendas al presupuesto del Congreso federal y al gobierno municipal de Sao Paulo.

La policía federal de Brasil realizó el jueves un operativo contra el legislador federal y aliado de Bolsonaro, Mário Frias.

La policía incautó documentos relacionados con la productora de la película y de Frias, quien envió cerca de 2 millones de reales (400.000 dólares) a una organización sin fines de lucro vinculada al filme. Sospechan que una organización criminal canalizó los fondos a empresas que fueron subcontratadas de manera irregular, sin evidencia de que se hayan prestado los servicios contratados.

El juez indicó el domingo que había fuertes indicios de que Frias, quien ocupó un cargo en el gabinete de Bolsonaro, desempeñó un papel clave dentro de la presunta red criminal.

La red también podría tener vínculos con la organización criminal Primer Comando de la Capital, o PCC, indicó Dino. El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, declaró a dicha agrupación como una organización terrorista extranjera a principios de este año.

Frias niega haber cometido irregularidad alguna. “Nunca asigné ningún fondo del presupuesto del Congreso para financiar o beneficiar de alguna manera la producción de la película”, afirmó el domingo en redes sociales. Previamente se había referido al operativo del jueves como una “cortina de humo”.

El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil se ha visto envuelto en turbulencias en las últimas semanas, con sospechas de sobornos, sesgo político e interferencia policial que se ciernen sobre varios de sus integrantes.

Dino tuvo desacuerdos públicos recientes con el juez André Mendonca, quien fue designado al banco por Bolsonaro. Mendonca ordenó el martes la destitución del director general de la policía federal, Andrei Rodrigues, y del director de inteligencia de la fuerza, Leandro Almada, por supuestamente encabezar investigaciones ilegales contra Mendonca.

Dino revocó el miércoles la decisión de su colega y restituyó en el cargo a los dos mandos policiales. El presidente del tribunal, Edson Fachin, suspendió posteriormente las decisiones contrapuestas.

El caos se origina del colapso de Banco Master, el cual cuenta con activos valorados en hasta 16.000 millones de dólares y que fue cerrado en noviembre pasado luego de una amplia investigación relacionada con un esquema de fraude que involucraba miles de millones de reales.

El exdirector ejecutivo de Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro, fue arrestado a principios de este año. Desde entonces se ha revelado que tenía vínculos con muchos políticos de alto rango —incluido el senador Bolsonaro—, pero también con varios jueces del Supremo Tribunal Federal, entre ellos Alexandre de Moraes, quien presidió el caso en el que Jair Bolsonaro fue condenado a 27 años de prisión por intento de golpe de Estado.

“Atravesamos la peor crisis en la historia del Supremo Tribunal Federal y ciertamente una de las más graves en nuestra turbulenta historia como república”, dijeron el domingo exministros, economistas, ejecutivos y los presidentes de federaciones sindicales, en una carta dirigida a Fachin y publicada por medios locales.

“Investigar los hechos y exigir responsabilidades a quienes puedan haber violado la ley y la dignidad de sus cargos es esencial para que podamos recuperar la confianza en las instituciones y preservar nuestra democracia”, añadieron.

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Murray was placed in the concussion protocol for evaluation and announced by the Vikings as out for the rest of the game against the Green Bay Packers.

Murray took off on a third-and-7 play from the Vikings 33 and ran around the right end, leaning forward to avoid contact as Packers outside linebacker Lukas Van Ness got his hand on Murray's helmet at the end of his pursuit. Cornerback Javon Bullard arrived a split-second later and slammed his shoulder into the side of Murray's exposed head, drawing an unnecessary roughness penalty and knocking off the quarterback's helmet.

Vikings right tackle Brian O'Neill and left guard Donovan Jackson immediately turned toward the sideline to motion for the medical team, with Murray lying on his side and his legs kicking back and forth. The eighth-year player, who spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Arizona Cardinals, eventually walked off the field under his own power with athletic trainers by his side.

Carson Wentz entered the game at quarterback and led the Vikings to a field goal on that drive. Wentz was pegged as the primary backup ahead of J.J. McCarthy, the 2024 first-round draft pick who started 10 games last season for Minnesota. McCarthy was inactive Sunday and the Vikings' emergency quarterback, meaning he can only enter the game if Wentz is also injured.

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Local 10 News cameras captured the Fort Lauderdale Grand Hotel’s front overhang, with a large piece of it appearing to have fallen on the ground.

The area outside the hotel was blocked off by yellow tape and parking cones.

Fire rescue crews said they responded to the scene on Sunday morning.

Officials said there were no reported injuries.

There is no word on the cause of the damage or what measures will be taken to repair it.

It happened around 11 a.m. in the area of No Name Harbor inside Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne.

According to authorities, a man was snorkeling before he was found unresponsive in the water.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews took the victim by helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where they said he remains in critical condition.

Authorities are investigating the circumstances that led to the near drowning.

Officials said Sunday that the 2-year-old beige Labrador named Gael is back with his MGPD handler.

The positive update comes several days after the department issued a desperate plea to the public.

It started Monday around 9:30 p.m. when officers said Gael jumped out of a police cruiser and ran across the street on northwest Second Avenue.

Local 10 News obtained surveillance video showing Gael running down the street, sprinting past businesses.

The search throughout the week would be extensive, as SKY 10 captured the department’s mobile command trucks on scene while officers went door to door searching for their four-legged colleague.

“All of our canines are very special to our department,” Miami Gardens Police Spokeswoman Diana Delgado said at the time. “They’re all trained to the best of their capacity, and with the best trainers.”

Miami Gardens PD posted a thank you message to all the members of the public who called in tips and helped to locate Gael.

The details into how and where Gael was found have yet to be released.

It happened along the 4000 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach.

According to traffic investigators, a 2017 Nissan Sentra was making a U-turn on Hillsboro Boulevard when it was struck by a 2022 Suzuki GSX-R570 motorcycle.

The impact caused the Nissan to flip over, officials said.

According to authorities, the driver of the motorcycle, Maxwell Patel, died at the scene.

An underage girl who was inside the Nissan was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center, where she was pronounced deceased.

The driver of the Nissan and an underage boy were both taken to Broward Health North by first responders, with the boy later being taken by helicopter to Broward Health Medical Center for additional treatment, authorities said.

Officials said three other passengers in the Nissan, two adults and a child, were also taken to Broward Health Medical Center.

Both hospitalized juveniles are listed in critical condition, authorities said.

The Lions had to defend a 2-point conversion to hold on for the victory. They blew a three-touchdown lead in the third quarter. And, a review went their way that overturned a touchdown for the Saints.

“Football is a weird game,” Jared Goff said.

Indeed.

The Saints had a chance to score a touchdown in overtime to extend the game and Tyler Shough connected with Noah Fant for an 8-yard throw in the end zone.

After coach Kellen Moore chose to go for the win instead of tying the game with time on the clock, Shough threw an incomplete pass in the end zone on a 2-point attempt.

“The Lions have a great offense, and I didn’t want to give them 1:34 to try to make a play and beat us," Moore said.

Detroit was at its best with the ball when Jahmyr Gibbs had it.

Gibbs finished with a career-high 29 carries for 156 yards and two touchdowns along with five catches for 30 yards.

“That guy is our hot hand,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said.

New Orleans rallied from a 21-0 deficit and pulled into a 24-all tie on Shough's 9-yard touchdown pass to Juwan Johnson with 1:07 left in the game.

Detroit went three and out on offense on the subsequent drive, giving the Saints the ball with a chance to win it but Ryan Wright missed a 62-yard field goal attempt as time expired.

“We hung in there and made the last play to win and that’s the most important thing,” Campbell said.

Goff was 26 of 39 for 206 yards with two touchdown passes without turning it over and that proved to be a difference in the game.

Shough, coming off a promising rookie year, threw two interceptions and lost a fumble before closing strong to finish 35 of 56 for 410 yards and three scores.

“Our defense did a lot of good things in the first half to keep us in the game,” Moore said. “We just couldn’t find a rhythm on offense.”

The Saints suddenly showed signs of life on offense late in the third, scoring two touchdowns on Kendre Miller’s 8-yard run and Slough’s 1-yard pass to a fully extended Devaughn Vele to pull within a touchdown.

Trailing by seven late in the game, Shough converted a fourth-and-12 from his 23 with a 15-yard pass to rookie receiver Bryce Lance. Three snaps later, he threw a 43-yard pass to Chris Olave to set up the touchdown pass to Johnson.

The Lions advanced to the New Orleans 1 late in the fourth with a chance to seal the victory, but a holding penalty pushed them back and led to a field goal for a 24-17 lead with 2:32 left.

Pivotal call

The Saints had a touchdown overturned by video review early in the second quarter.

“I’ll be the first to say, I thought we lost that one," Campbell said.

Goff dropped back to pass and was sacked by Chase Young, forcing what appeared to be a fumble that was scooped up for a defensive touchdown.

The veteran quarterback said he didn't know why the rule went in his favor.

“I was trying to figure it out on the fly," Goff said.

While it looked like a fumble, the call on the field was changed by review because Goff started his throwing motion to make it an incomplete pass.

“It’s unfortunate, but we know what the rule says,” Moore said. “Once the arm starts forward it doesn’t matter where the ball ends up.”

Injury report

Saints: RB Alvin Kamara (knee) and DE Cameron Jordan (ankle) were inactive.

Lions: Starting OG Christian Mahogany injured his right knee early in the game and was carted off the field.

Up next

Saints: Play at Baltimore on Sept. 20.

Lions: Play at Buffalo on Sept. 17.

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Chicago's coach had good instincts.

Williams, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL draft, looked like a league MVP candidate on Sunday, throwing for 269 yards and two touchdowns and running for 65 yards and two more scores as the Bears trounced the Carolina Panthers 59-37 in the highest-scoring season opener in NFL history.

“I could kind of tell (Saturday) night when we did our quarterback meeting one last time that he was just on top of it,” Johnson said. “Everything he was rattling out, like where my eyes need to be and what I’m thinking. ... So I went to bed and just slept really well.”

Johnson's prolific Bears broke a franchise record for points in an opener, a mark that had stood since 1948, when Chicago hung 45 points on Green Bay at Wrigley Field.

The 59 points were the most allowed by the Panthers since they began play as an expansion team in 1995.

D'Andre Swift, who received a $33.75 million contract extension earlier this week, paid immediate dividends for the Bears, rushing for 124 yards on 18 carries with three touchdowns, while Kyle Monangai had 100 yards on the ground, including a 61-yard touchdown burst in the second half.

“He's had a good week, huh?” Johnson said of Swift. “He earned (the contract), every step of it. We really value what he brings to the table. He has had a great spring and I don't think anybody in our camp is surprised he is out of the gate in strong fashion.”

It was the fourth-most points in Bears history. The most came in their notorious 73-0 win over Washington in the 1940 NFL title game.

“That's how we want to look each week,” Williams said. “That's who we want to be each week.”

Chicago and Carolina scored eight more points than the previous record of 88 set in Tampa Bay’s 48-40 win over New Orleans in 2018.

Although Carolina's Bryce Young fell to 0-4 in openers, it was by far the best season debut of his career. The 2023 No. 1 overall pick threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for a score.

Jalen Coker, who emerged as Carolina's No. 2 receiver last year, had eight catches for a career-high 138 yards and two TDs.

But the Panthers were done in three turnovers — a muffed punt by Jimmy Horn, a fumble by Tetairoa McMillan fumble and a pick by Young — and a leaky defense that committed untimely penalties.

The Bears put up 552 yards on offense and had 26 first downs. They were 10 of 14 on third-down conversions.

“It was an incredible day by the Bears,” Panthers coach Dave Canales said. “There were some things that we did to give a really good offense more opportunities. They don’t need any more opportunities. They were already creating their own.”

The Bears turned the ball over on their first possession, but quickly recovered and scored seven touchdowns on their next 12 drives, including the final four possessions to close the game.

Williams showed pure command, completing several pinpoint passes while racking up 196 yards through the air in the first half, including a perfectly placed 22-yard touchdown strike to Cole Kmet.

“He couldn't have put ball in a better spot and Cole made a heck of a catch there, too,” Johnson said.

He also showed the elusiveness that makes him hard to contain. He ran for 52 yards and two TDs — including a 29-yard scamper — before the break as the Bears took a 31-24 lead into the locker room.

Bears shrug off a fourth-down try that went wrong

Chicago's lead might have been bigger had it not been for a questionable decision by Johnson.

With the Bears leading 21-14, Johnson went for it on fourth-and-1 at the Chicago 21, but Williams came up short on a QB sneak.

“I felt pretty about the call,” Johnson said.

In the end, it didn't matter. Mistakes ended the Panthers' hopes in the second half.

After Chuba Hubbard scored his second TD to tie the game at 31-all, Carolina defensive end Derrick Brown was flagged for a late hit on Williams, allowing a drive to continue. That led to Swift's 1-yard TD run.

The Panthers went for it on fourth down near midfield on their next possession but Young couldn't connect with McMillan on a lofted pass down the left sideline. Chicago cashed in on the next play as Monangai broke through a hole in the middle and raced 61 yards for a 45-31 lead — a play that Williams called his favorite of the game.

“That's a crushing thing when you're in that situation when you are midfield and you get a downhill run like that,” Williams said.

On Carolina's next drive, McMillan fumbled, giving the Bears the ball back. Williams cashed in with a scoring strike to a wide-open Jahdea Walker for a 52-31 lead with 6:27 remaining.

Injuries

Bears: LT Braxton Jones left late in the third quarter with an upper-body injury. CB Tyrique Stevenson injured his shoulder. Neither appeared to be serious.

Panthers: DT Bobby Brown left in the second half with a back injury.

Up next

Bears: Host Minnesota next Sunday.

Panthers: At Atlanta next Sunday.

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It was located in the northbound express lanes of I-95 near the exit for northwest 125th Street in North Miami, officials said.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, several vehicles were involved in the crash.

Two people were rushed to nearby trauma facilities for treatment, rescue officials said.

There has been no word on what caused the crash.

“We do like Reliant Stadium,” he said with a big smile. “Woo.”

Allen threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Joshua Palmer with 1:36 remaining to lift the Bills to a 36-31 victory in a back-and-forth game.

Allen had 334 yards passing with two touchdowns and ran for two more scores after losing his previous four games at Reliant Stadium.

“It feels good to start the season off right,” Allen said.

It was the Bills' first win at Houston since Nov. 19, 2006.

The Texans led 31-30 when Allen split two defenders to find Palmer. The 2-point conversion failed.

One play earlier, Houston's Kamari Lassiter got his hands on a pass from Allen in the end zone but couldn’t grab the interception.

“We got lucky,” Palmer said. “He dropped it. Next play I caught it.”

The Texans had a chance to win in the closing seconds, but Greg Rousseau had his second strip-sack of the day, taking down C.J. Stroud at the Buffalo 28. Terrel Bernard recovered to seal the victory.

It was a disappointing outing for Houston's vaunted defense, which led the NFL in yards allowed and ranked second in points allowed last season.

“We had multiple opportunities to make plays, had chances to make plays on the football and we didn’t make plays,” Texans coach DeMeco Ryans said.

Houston allowed its most points since a 36-22 loss to Cleveland on Dec. 24, 2023.

“We’ve got to do a better job, especially closing out the game,” defensive end Will Anderson said. “It just wasn’t our standard. That’s not who we are. That’s not who we want to be as a defense. ”

Dalton Kincaid had five receptions for 130 yards and DJ Moore had five catches for 100 yards and a touchdown in his Buffalo debut after a trade from Chicago.

Buffalo's Joe Brady started his head coaching career with a win after he was promoted from offensive coordinator following Sean McDermott’s firing after nine seasons.

“You saw a lot of the conviction, everything we sort of talk about,” Brady said. “We didn’t care how pretty. There’s no such thing as an ugly win.”

David Montgomery, who was traded from Detroit this offseason, had a three-TD day in his Houston debut. He had scoring runs of 1 and 18 yards in the first half and his 7-yard touchdown reception put Houston up 28-27 early in the fourth.

Stroud threw for 274 yards and two touchdowns but lost two fumbles.

Tyler Bass' 33-yard field goal made it 30-28 Buffalo with 10 1/2 minutes to go.

Ka'imi Fairbairn’s 58-yard field goal put Houston back ahead with about seven minutes remaining before Allen’s game-winning drive.

Buffalo went up 10-7 when Allen scrambled for a 21-yard touchdown early in the second quarter.

Montgomery’s second score came when he scampered 18 yards untouched to make it 14-10 with about five minutes left in the first half.

Lassiter was flagged for pass interference on Moore in the end zone to give the Bills the ball on the 1 on their next drive. Allen’s scoring dive two plays later put Buffalo up 17-14.

Moore grabbed a ball in front of a diving Reed Blankenship and dashed 43 yards to the end zone later in the second to push the lead to 24-14.

A 12-yard touchdown reception by Nico Collins cut the lead to three at halftime.

Rousseau sacked Stroud on Houston’s first drive, causing a fumble that Ed Oliver recovered on the Houston 32. That led to Bass' 46-yard field goal.

A 1-yard run by Montgomery put the Texans up 7-3 near the end of the first quarter. The score was set up by a 25-yard reception by Collins three plays earlier.

Bills' receiving duo puts up big numbers

Moore and Kincaid gave the Bills just the second game in franchise history where a tight end and a receiver both had 100 yards receiving. The first time it happened was when Andre Reed had 144 yards receiving and Pete Metzelaars added 122 in Week 2 of the 1992 season.

Brady raved about what Moore brings to the team.

“He opens it up for everybody,” Brady said. “He opens it up for Dalton Kincaid, for the run game and James Cook. He opens it up for Keon Coleman... and Josh Palmer. And then on big-play opportunities, he made them. We’re so much better with him.”

Injuries

Houston LB Jake Hummel left in the second half with an abdominal injury.

Up next

Bills: Host Detroit on Thursday night in their first game at their new stadium.

Texans: Host Cincinnati next Sunday.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported shooting at about 2:00 p.m. near southwest 173rd Street and 100th Court.

Deputies arriving at the scene said they found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said they transported him to Jackson South Medical Center in critical condition.

The subject fled the scene in an unknown direction, according to deputies.

Detectives with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office General Investigations Unit have taken over the investigation.

No further information was immediately available.

The suspicions laid out in Justice Flávio Dino’s decision may complicate matters further for Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, only weeks before October’s national elections in which he will challenge President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Sen. Bolsonaro, the ex-leader's eldest son, is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance the biopic about his father, titled “Dark Horse.”

Dino, a Lula appointee who oversees one of the investigations into the film, said the hypothesis that there existed a sophisticated scheme for the allocation and diversion of public funds involving federal congressional budget amendments and the Sao Paulo city government had strengthened.

On Thursday, Brazil’s federal police targeted federal lawmaker and Bolsonaro ally Mário Frias in an operation.

Police seized documents from the film’s production company and from Frias, who sent about 2 million reais ($400,000) to a nonprofit linked to the film. They suspect a criminal organization channeled funds to companies that were irregularly subcontracted, without evidence that the contracted services were provided.

The judge said Sunday that there were strong indications that Frias, who held a cabinet position during Bolsonaro’s term, played a central role within the alleged criminal network.

The network may also have links to the criminal organization the First Command of the Capital, or PCC, Dino said. U.S. President Donald Trump declared the group a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.

Frias denies wrongdoing. “I never allocated any congressional budget funds to finance or benefice the production of the film in any way,” Frias said Sunday in a post. He had previously described Thursday’s operation as a “smoke screen.”

Brazil’s Supreme Court has been embroiled in turmoil these past few weeks, with suspicions of graft, political bias and police interference looming over several of its members.

Dino recently clashed with Justice André Mendonca, who was appointed by Bolsonaro. On Tuesday, Mendonca removed federal police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues and the force’s intelligence director, Leandro Almada, for allegedly leading illegal investigations against Mendonca.

Then on Wednesday, Dino overruled his colleague and restored the two senior police officials to their posts. Chief Justice Edson Fachin later suspended their opposing decisions.

The chaos gripping the court stems from the collapse of Banco Master, a mid-sized bank worth up to $16 billion in assets, which was shut down last November after a sprawling investigation into a fraud scheme involving billions of reais.

Banco Master’s former CEO Daniel Vorcaro was arrested earlier this year. It has since emerged that he had links with many high-ranking politicians. They include Sen. Bolsonaro but also several Supreme Court justices, including Alexandre de Moraes who oversaw the case in which Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

“We are experiencing the most serious crisis in the history of the Supreme Court and certainly one of the most serious in our turbulent republican history,” said former ministers, economists, executives and the presidents of trade union federations on Sunday in a letter to Fachin published by local media.

“Investigating the facts and holding accountable those who may have violated the law and the dignity of their positions are essential so that we can regain confidence in the institutions and preserve our democracy,” they added.

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The U.S. captain delivered again and the Americans continued their domination of international play, winning a fifth straight women's FIBA World Cup title with a 97-79 victory over France on Sunday.

The Americans have won 36 straight World Cup games, dating to the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup, where they lost to Russia.

“We are the standard,” said Stewart, who scored 22 points in the victory and earned MVP honors of the tournament for the second time. “USA Basketball has continued to show up and go for gold and to have done that however many times consecutively is an insane stat. We want to make sure that we continue to build on that standard and everybody else knows it.”

Despite the final score, this game wasn’t easy; the Americans faced their biggest deficit in the tournament since that loss to Russia when they were down 14 points in the first half to France. They calmly rallied behind Stewart and Jackie Young to get within two at halftime, with Caitlin Clark hitting a 3-pointer just before the buzzer.

“I think we felt really good about where we were at,” said Clark, who finished with 12 points. “I think France was 8 for 14 (from 3-point range). We dug ourself a hole, but we climbed out of it, and I felt like we were never rattled by anything.”

The U.S. dominated in the second half, starting the third quarter with a 11-2 run to go up 54-47. Stewart, who has now four World Cup titles to her name, had four points during the game-changing burst.

France was able to get within 55-51, but the Americans used a 16-3 spurt that included two unsportsmanlike fouls against France on the same play. The Americans were up 73-57 heading into the fourth quarter, and France never was able to close the gap.

“I’m really happy with the way that we let the rest of the world know that our goal is always gold,” Stewart said. “Just really proud.”

The U.S. improved to 9-0 in gold-medal games since finishing second in 1983 to the Soviet Union.

This was the second-youngest team the Americans have sent to a World Cup. There were many newcomers on the roster including Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, who were playing for the national team for the first time. But it was the veterans who carried the team to the victory.

The Americans had looked more vulnerable in this tournament than at any time during their remarkable run. A three-point win over Italy in pool play was the closest a team has come to the U.S. in group stage in 50 years. The 10-point victory over Spain was the closest semifinal contest during the streak. The Americans had been winning by an average of 26 points over the past four medal-round games.

None of that matter in the end as the Americans finished the same way they had the previous four World Cup tournaments — as champions.

The loss nevertheless gave France its best finish ever in the event. The French were hoping for the top prize after they came close against the U.S. in the 2024 Paris Olympic gold-medal game two years ago. That one-point loss still stung two years later.

Dominique Malonga scored 21 points and Gabby Williams added 20 for France.

"Of course we’re disappointed right now, but I think we’re showing little by little, France is a basketball country,” Williams said. “That was my goal, when I joined this team, was to change the culture. Obviously we have higher expectations, but we’ll get there.”

France got off to a strong start. The U.S. trailed 20-17 after the first quarter and the French scored the first 11 points of the second, capped by Williams’ 3-pointer, to take a 31-17 lead. But the Americans rallied and trailed 45-43 at the half on Clark’s 3 just before the buzzer.

Spain topped host Germany to win the bronze medal.

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This one won’t help them forget the previous one, a three-point loss to Buffalo in the first round of the playoffs. But it was the best possible way to begin one of the most anticipated seasons in franchise history.

Lawrence threw for 245 yards and four touchdowns, opening the season much like he closed last year, and the Jaguars routed rebuilding Cleveland 34-10 on Sunday to spoil the debut of new Browns coach Todd Monken.

“It was a great first step for where we're trying to get to,” Jaguars defensive end Josh Hines-Allen said.

Jacksonville scored on six of its first seven possessions, with Lawrence connecting with Parker Washington, rookie Josh Cameron, Brenton Strange and Jakobi Meyers for touchdowns. Three of four targets were wide open.

Lawrence completed 18 of 23 passes and finished with a career-high rating of 150.6. He was one of the best quarterbacks in the league down the stretch in 2025 while leading the Jaguars to the AFC South title.

His play under coach Liam Coen was a main reason Jacksonville entered this fall as a trendy pick to return to the postseason and maybe reach its first Super Bowl. The opener was a solid start.

“It was awesome,” Lawrence said. “Guys were ready to play.”

Washington, a pending free agent who’s in contract negotiations with Jacksonville, made a diving catch on Lawrence's first TD pass and flashed a “pay me” sign to the 42,000 in attendance inside a venue being fully renovated.

Lawrence made it look easy all afternoon against a defense that traded five-time All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett in the offseason and was entering its first season under new defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg.

Cleveland had equally troubling issues on the other side of the ball.

Deshaun Watson, making his first start in nearly two years, threw an interception on the opening drive.

“We did exactly what we wanted to start the game,” Monken said. “We’re going to try to put them on their heels and then we turn it over. And then we couldn’t get a first down to get our defense off the field. That is a recipe to get run out of the arena.”

Watson nearly threw another pick on the team’s second possession and later recovered his own fumble to avoid a turnover.

It was a stark contrast to his previous outings against the Jags. Watson had been undefeated in seven starts against Jacksonville, winning at home, on the road, in London with a swollen eye, in tight games, blowouts and even once while recovering from a broken rib and a bruised lung.

But he was overwhelmed Sunday, getting sacked five times and hit way more often.

Rookie receiver KC Concepcion Jr. also fumbled, and the Browns were penalized 11 times for 75 yards. They also went just 1 for 8 on third down and failed to score a touchdown on two trips inside the 20-yard line.

Cleveland finished with 272 yards and two highlights: Raheim Sanders returned a kickoff 74 yards to set up a 26-yard field goal in the third quarter, and Watson connected with Denzel Boston for a 46-yard TD with 1:52 remaining.

“We were hoping for a ‘W.’ We put in so much work, especially myself, to come in and be successful,” Watson said. “But it's the NFL; it doesn't go that way all the time. You play and you learn. ... The NFL, it's a hard league. You got to be week to week and try to be better each and every time.”

Key injuries

Browns: RB Dylan Sampson (knee) was ruled out in the first half. LG Zion Johnson (left knee) left in the first half but later returned.

Jaguars: DE B.J. Green (elbow) was ruled out at halftime. WR Brian Thomas Jr. (shoulder) went to the locker room in the second quarter but returned for the final series of the first half.

Van Lanen returns 8 months after knee surgery

Jaguars right tackle Cole Van Lanen started the opener eight months after knee surgery. Van Lanen tore a ligament in his right knee in the regular-season finale, missed most of training camp and didn’t play a down in the preseason. But he managed to make it back in time for the Browns.

He played the first half before giving way to backup Walker Little. It was a fairly quick return for a 312-pound lineman.

Up next

Browns play at Tampa Bay next Sunday.

Jaguars play at Denver next Sunday.

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Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the Saudi government and aided the hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, but the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks.

The families have asked Trump to declassify and release the relevant records. Asked about it Sunday during his trip to Ireland, the president said he would consider it.

“I’m going to look at it when I get back,” Trump said just before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington after a weekend in Ireland. “I know they asked me Friday.”

The relatives of 9/11 victims have been engaged in a lengthy legal battle against the Saudis. One of them, Terry Strada, called on Trump during the remembrance in New York City on Friday to “tell the Saudis to stop lying.”

Strada, who lost her husband Tom Strada on 9/11, said U.S. presidents had chosen “to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families.”

Strada, who was one of the 9/11 family members who read aloud the names of victims at this year’s remembrance, added that the current administration should “stand with the families, stand with the survivors.”

“It has been one betrayal after another,” she said. “President Trump can still change that.”

Captain Angela Stanford wishes there were more of them.

“I think we just didn’t make enough putts,” Stanford said. “And if you listen to everything I’ve ever said, Europeans always putt better. I don’t know why.”

That strength on the greens led Europe to a 15-13 victory on Sunday after three days at Bernardus Golf.

Jennifer Kupcho stunned Europe fans with two huge putts — totaling 120 feet — on Nos. 17 and 18 late Saturday to snatch an unlikely point for the Americans from the last match of the day and tie the score at 8-8 after four sessions.

The team broke out a crate of Dutch beer on the bus to celebrate.

“Had to pull out some bottles for Jen,” the team said on its official X account.

But despite that high, Stanford said her team didn't come to terms with the speed — or lack of it — of the greens at Bernardus Golf.

“Even when we showed up in July here, they were faster," she said, adding that she didn't think that recent rain — and heavy downpours on Sunday — were to blame.

“We don’t play on greens as slow usually,” she added.

Stanford shouldered the blame for not preparing her players better for the conditions.

“This is the one thing I am kicking myself is that I just didn’t keep pushing, you know, we got to figure out how to hit our putts a little bit harder, which is really difficult ... to change the way you putt,” she said.

It wasn't just quick greens the Americans missed.

The support in the Netherlands was also a factor, specifically the loud European fans hugely outnumbering and out-singing the Americans who made the trip across the Atlantic.

"Our Americans were there, but they weren’t as rambunctious as ... we’re used to,” said one of Stanford’s assistants, Paula Creamer.

“We are very momentum people and with our fans it’s important that we can feed off and get that energy from them," she added.

They should have that support in two years at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

“The good news is they can show back up in Kentucky in a couple of years and make it right,” Stanford said.

What's not yet clear is whether Stanford will be leading the team there.

On the last green, shortly after the defeat, she wasn't immediately ready to commit to another edition.

“Well, we have a pretty good pipeline. There are a lot of captains in line on the American side, a lot of good ones coming," she said. "So, yeah, I think we have a lot lined up ready to go.”

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Se trató de la cuarta edición anual de la carrera Kennedy Kids 5K, dedicada a la salud mental de los adolescentes y la prevención del suicidio.

La carrera de 5K se realizó en Barry University, en Miami Shores.

Los organizadores describieron el evento como una actividad familiar, con camiones de comida, música y vendedores locales de la comunidad.

Aunque la carrera estuvo marcada por un ambiente de celebración, el motivo detrás del evento tiene un tono solemne.

La actividad se realiza en honor de Kennedy Bailey, una adolescente que se quitó la vida durante esta misma semana hace cuatro años.

Kennedy era una apasionada corredora, por lo que el evento celebra lo que más amaba, pero también se ha convertido en una fuente de fortaleza para familias de todo el país.

Entre ellas está Gaby Galeas, quien corrió el domingo en honor de su hijo, Brandon Lainer, quien se quitó la vida hace siete años.

“Perdí a mi hijo Brandon en 2019 por suicidio, y estoy aquí por esa razón, y por todos aquellos que han perdido la vida y también por quienes están luchando”, dijo mientras sostenía una fotografía de su hijo. “Él siempre está con nosotros, y eso es lo que me mantiene adelante, además de querer crear conciencia y hablar sobre algo de lo que muchas personas no quieren hablar, que es la salud mental y el suicidio, y ayudar a quienes están atravesando dificultades”.

El evento también es oportuno porque septiembre es el Mes Nacional de la Prevención del Suicidio.

Los organizadores recordaron que existen recursos gratuitos para las personas que necesitan apoyo y que hay ayuda disponible las 24 horas del día, los siete días de la semana, llamando al 988.

Todo lo recaudado durante el evento del domingo beneficiará a la Kennedy Kids Foundation, que apoya a adolescentes y sus familias que enfrentan problemas de salud mental.

Her shock came after she saw those winning numbers — “21.47” — shining back at her after the 200-meter run Sunday at track's Ultimate Championship.

It was the fourth fastest time in history. It also was a time that wrapped up the 100-200 double in Budapest, banked her another $150,000 to go with the $150K she won the night before, beat her old personal best by .21 and locked in her status as the fastest woman in the sprint game with 22 months left before the LA Olympics.

“Shocked the heck out of me," Jefferson-Wooden said. "Honestly, I wanted to PB. I was thinking, like, 21.6-low, 21.5. But I skipped all over 21.5 and went 21.4. I did not know 21.4 was in the scope of things tonight.”

The only three faster times were a pair by two-time Jamaican world champion Shericka Jackson — who ran one of those, a 21.41, three years ago on this very track in Budapest; and the world record, set by Florence Griffith Joyner. which has stood at 21.34 since 1988.

Jefferson-Wooden sped to her win minutes after another American, Kenny Bednarek, who trains with her down in Florida, ran a personal-best 19.52 to also complete the 100-200 double.

“For me, this year was about applying the pressure and letting them know, like, ‘Hey, I’m not here to play games,'” Bednarek said.

His biggest threat, Noah Lyles, pulled out of this meet last week with a nagging injury he suffered back at U.S. Nationals in July. Bednarek's $300,000 will still spend well.

Bednarek's wins — this one by a .24-second margin over Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo — give track and field a year to dissect what could be a good matchup between Americans who have long gotten past their brief shoving match at the end of the 200-meter finals at nationals last year.

For anyone to shove Jefferson-Wooden, they'd have had to get much closer than they did Sunday.

In a sign that Flo-Jo's record might be in jeopardy, Jefferson-Wooden’s 21.47 came on a cool evening and into a headwind (0.6 meters per second). None of the other three fastest times did. It was also part of a frenetic schedule in which she ran four races — two 100s and two 200s — in the span of about 26 hours, which is not normal in any track meet.

“No, I did not see that one coming,” said Gabby Thomas, the reigning Olympic champion who finished second in 21.77. “I think it's really impressive. I'd love to get up there and compete at that level. Gives me something to shoot for.”

Kerr adds Ultimate title and shares a moment with Ingebrigtsen

Among those congratulating Josh Kerr after his latest victory — this one in the 1,500 at Ultimate — was Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the Norwegian champion who has been going back and forth with Kerr about race tactics, schedules and other topics over the past two years.

“Just talkin' (expletive),” Kerr said with a laugh. “No, he congratulated me on my performance, said it was very impressive. I told him he's walking the line with some words. I think he regrets (some words) that he said. But that's life. Competition's going to continue in 2027.”

Kerr won in 3 minutes, 29.35 seconds to add to titles he won this year at world indoors in the 3,000 meters and the Commonwealth Games in the mile. He also broke Hicham El Guerrouj's 27-year-old world record in the mile earlier this summer.

Olympic champion Cole Hocker, also part of the ongoing drama in this event, finished fourth with his season-best time of 3:30.74. Ingebrigtsen won the 5,000 on opening night but withdrew from the shorter race, saying his fitness wasn't good enough for two races so close together in the wake of Achilles surgery earlier this year.

Kerr said he had no problem being part of what, at times, feels like a soap opera interrupted occasionally by running.

“I believe I'm the best in the world, other people think they are, as well, and that's what creates a rivalry," he said. "I don't really care what they're going to say in a post-race interview. I need to go out there and race them.”

Dos Santos gets the win while Rai Benjamin cashes in for $150K anyway

Brazil's Alison dos Santos closed out his dominant season in style. Two weeks after setting the world record in the 400 hurdles, he cracked the 46-second mark again, finishing in 45.98.

It was only the third-ever sub-46 mark; the other belongs to Karsten Warholm (45.94) at the Tokyo Olympics. Dos Santos ran 45.80 on Aug. 27 in Zurich.

America's Rai Benjamin finished a distant second, but this felt like a win of sorts. Though much has been made of the $150,000 top prizes at Ultimate, Benjamin earned $75,000 for second to go with the $75,000 he won the night before, where he also finished a distant second in the 400 flat.

“I feel like a lot of chatter online was, ‘He’s crazy, he's not going to medal, he won't do good in either event,'” Benjamin said. “But I believe in myself and I knew I could come out here and do something great. And I got the 150 anyway.”

US completes the mixed relay double

Jacory Patterson opened up a nearly .4-second lead on the third lap and Aaliyah Butler widened it to help the Americans cruise to a win in the 4x400 mixed relay, giving them a sweep of the team events. The four winners split an $80,000 first prize.

And in probably the most effervescent victory of the meet, Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi danced, clapped and leaped his way to victory in the high jump. Tamberi, injured much of the year, needed a special invitation to make it to Ultimate. He cleared 2.37 meters (7 feet, 9 1/4 inches), the highest jump of the year, to win the $150K.

“Now I can say to everyone, never stop believing in your dreams, never put a limit on yourself,” he said.

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Trump made the unusual pitch at the party's midterm convention in Dallas last week, promising a “Trump Dividend” if voters keep the GOP in power on Capitol Hill. The president later told CBS News Texas that he did not think Congress would need to authorize the payments, though he did not specify how he could spend more than $1 trillion without lawmakers' authorization.

But Johnson, R-La., said congressional approval is needed. “I would assume, yes, he'd need Congress to act, and that's a creative idea,” he said.

A few hours later, Trump said he would deliver on his promise. “The 5,000’s going to happen, 100%,” he told reporters before boarding Air Force One in Ireland, where he attended a pro golf tournament at his resort.

Johnson, meanwhile, said he would work to get Trump's proposal through Congress despite a small Republican margin.

“He’s the big ideas president. We’re going to try to implement everything we can,” he said. "I commit that Congress will work through it and find consensus on that like they have to do everything else.”

The dubious election-year gambit could cost more than $1 trillion, putting further strains on the country's nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and exacerbating concerns of inflation. The economy is confronted by persistent inflation and increasing interest rates, a tough combination for governing Republicans as they seek to hold on to control of Congress.

The president argues that payments would be possible because of the strong economy, but consumer sentiment is weak as gasoline prices rise because of the war with Iran and wages struggle to keep pace with inflation.

Trump told reporters earlier Sunday that the payments would be “easy enough” because the United States has a strong economy.

“We can easily handle that because we're taking in so much money,” he said. “We've never done better.”

Just one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the presidency, according to a July poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That compares with 37% in June and 42% who approved of his work when he took office. Majorities also disapprove of his handling of the economy and immigration, issues that were central to Trump’s election in 2024.

On Sunday, Trump said the gas price will “drop like a rock” but indicated no deal any time soon with Iran to end the conflicts and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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It was the 4th annual Kennedy Kids 5K Race for teen mental health and suicide.

The 5K was held at Barry University in Miami Shores.

Organizers described the event as family-friendly, featuring food trucks, music and local vendors from the community.

Though the race was met with celebration, the reason behind the run comes with a somber tone.

It’s in honor of a young teenage girl, Kennedy Bailey, who took her own life on this very week four years ago.

She was a passionate runner, so the event celebrates what she loved most, but it also has become a source of strength for families across the country.

That includes Gaby Galeas, who was running Sunday in honor of her son, Brandon Lainer, who took his own life seven years ago.

“I lost my son Brandon in 2019 to suicide, and I’m here for that reason, and for all those who have lost their life and that are struggling as well,” she said while holding a picture of her son. “He’s always with us, and that’s what keeps me going, and also wanting to raise awareness and talk about this thing that a lot of people don’t like to talk about, which is mental health and suicide, and to help those that are struggling.”

The event is also timely because September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

Organizers are reminding everyone that there’s free resources available for people in need of support, and help is available 24/7 by dialing 9-8-8.

All proceeds collected at Sunday’s event will benefit the Kennedy Kids Foundation that supports teens and their families struggling with mental health issues.

Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had been asked about the issue by everyone, including Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin and even some of the golfers. Irish Open winner Shane Lowry was among them, Trump said.

“Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it, the Republican president said. “And I said, ‘On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off'" of Irish whiskey.

Irish whiskey currently faces the standard tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15% to 10% in July.

Trump announced in April that he was lifting certain tariffs on U.K. whiskey, which includes Scotch and spirits made in Northern Ireland, creating an imbalance with Ireland.

Trump’s surprise announcement was met with loud whistling and cheers from the crowd of spectators. Details on how soon the tariff would be lifted were not immediately available.

Chris Swonger, president & CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, called Trump's announcement “another positive step toward reducing barriers to spirits trade” and said everyone would benefit from it during the coming holidays.

“As U.S. hospitality businesses enter the critical holiday season, this action will provide a welcome boost for retailers, restaurants, consumers and the American economy,” Swonger said.

In May, the Irish Whiskey Association called for the tariffs to be removed, arguing that such a step would help many U.S. companies with Irish products in their portfolios and avoid uncertainty for consumers.

Trump said on April 30 that he gave the United Kingdom a tariff break on whiskey after King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the White House. “The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking!” Trump posted on social media.

The Scotch Whisky Association said July 24 that the zero-tariff policy had come into effect.

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This story has been corrected to reflect that the current tariff rate on Irish whiskey is 10%, not 15%, after being reduced in July, and that Trump said on April 30, not in May, that he gave the United Kingdom a tariff break on whiskey.

The Buckeyes slid down five places to No. 6, leaving the top five for the first time in two seasons.

Oregon, meanwhile, plummeted 15 spots to No. 21 after a 39-31 road loss to an Oklahoma State team that had lost 21 straight against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents.

No. 19 Michigan returned to the poll thanks to a 17-10 win over then-No. 11 Oklahoma. The Wolverines had gone unranked last week, after they needed an extra second and a second-chance Hail Mary to beat Western Michigan.

LSU-Ole Miss matchup headlines Week 3

By MAURA CAREY

Week 3 features one of the more highly anticipated matchups of the season, with Lane Kiffin returning to Oxford as No. 7 LSU and No. 8 Ole Miss go head-to-head.

It’s a revenge game on both sides, as Pete Golding, Trinidad Chambliss and Co. look to prove they’re better off, and Kiffin and his haul of transfers seek the last word.

LSU enters the matchup as a narrow 2.5-point favorite on the road.

Ask a voter: Break down the LSU-Ole Miss game. What do you think will happen?

By KOKI RILEY

There will be a lot of eyeballs on the LSU-Ole Miss game coming up this week for a lot of reasons. Can you break down the game and take a guess at what you think will happen? -

AP sports editor Dave Zelio

Since I cover LSU, hopefully I can answer this one with some extra expertise.

I think the Tigers have a slightly better roster and a coaching staff (especially on offense) that I trust more, but they also turned the ball over four times against Louisiana Tech. Even if the defense looks unstoppable, the offense is a work in progress, especially through the air.

Dave is putting me on the spot here, but I think Ole Miss wins 24-21. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

Texas is No. 1, but history offers a warning

By MAURA CAREY

The Longhorns’ move from No. 4 to No. 1 is the biggest jump to the top spot since Alabama made the same move in September 2024 after beating No. 2 Georgia.

It’s also Texas’ earliest No. 1 ranking since Sept. 27, 1965.

The Longhorns will have to overcome another trend at the top. The AP No. 1 team has now lost three straight true road games against top-five opponents. The last No. 1 team to win one was LSU with a 46-41 victory over No. 2 Alabama in 2019.

Ask a voter: Why isn’t Miami No. 1?

By KOKI RILEY

Why isn’t Miami #1 ???

Aiden

A fair question, given how dominant the Hurricanes have been at the start of this year and their impressive roster.

The only problem is that they haven’t been challenged yet. Stanford is either the worst or second-worst team in the ACC, and Florida A&M is an FCS team. A trip to Wake Forest next week will give us a little better feel for Miami’s quality, but the real test comes in November against Notre Dame. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

A look at the ACC

By MAURA CAREY

No. 5 Miami benefited from Ohio State’s loss, improving two spots in the poll to break the top five. The Hurricanes are 2-0 and have outscored opponents 122-13 over the past two weeks.

No. 16 SMU and No. 23 Louisville each moved up one spot, while No. 25 Virginia held steady. Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh also received votes.

The rankings will likely look quite different next week after SMU and Louisville go head-to-head.

Ask a voter: Thoughts on Texas Tech after recent struggles?

By KOKI RILEY

What are the thoughts on Texas Tech after recent struggles?

Trendon A.

This is a good question because I really think Texas Tech’s sluggish start has gone a bit under the radar.

I was a little more pessimistic than some on the Red Raiders heading into the season because of the losses on the defensive line and the Brendan Sorsby situation. The portal haul was more than strong enough to keep them in my preseason rankings, but their unconvincing start to the year has led me to wonder if I’m putting them too high in my poll still. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

BYU earns highest ranking in Big 12

By MAURA CAREY

BYU jumped over Texas Tech, improving from No. 15 to No. 11, to become the top-ranked team in the Big 12 following a 28-17 win over Arizona.

Texas Tech held steady at No. 13 for another week after beating Oregon State 35-24.

BYU had the biggest jump of the week aside from Michigan, which returned to the poll at No. 19.

The Big 12 has four ranked teams, with Utah up three spots at No. 17 and Houston holding steady at No. 22.

What do the Gators need to do to be ranked?

James B.

By MAURA CAREY

Florida is off to a strong start and voters are noticing. The Gators have received the second-most votes of any unranked team in back-to-back weeks, falling behind Washington this week.

The Jon Sumrall-led Gators rolled past Florida Atlantic and Campbell, but they haven’t quite been challenged yet. Florida doesn’t face a ranked opponent until Ole Miss in Week 4. They travel to Auburn on Saturday, and a win against an undefeated conference opponent could be enough to crack the Top 25.

Ask a voter: Would Texas or Georgia win in a head-to-head matchup?

By KOKI RILEY

Who do you think would win in a head-to-head matchup, Texas or Georgia, given what you’ve seen thus far this season?

CL Smith

Texas is my No. 1 team, so I’m going with the Longhorns. One team has Colin Simmons and Cam Coleman, while the other has question marks at receiver and edge rusher.

— Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

AP Top 25 temperature check

By MAURA CAREY

Heating up: Texas (1), Indiana (4), Miami (5), LSU (7), Ole Miss (8), Texas A&M (9), Alabama (10), BYU (11), USC (12), Penn State (14), Tennessee (15), SMU (16), Utah (17), Iowa (18), Michigan (19), Missouri (20), Louisville (23).

Cooling down: Ohio State (6), Oregon (21), Oklahoma (24), Washington (unranked).

Steady: Georgia (2), Notre Dame (3), Texas Tech (13), Houston (22), Virginia (25).

Ask a voter: What do you think will happen when Tennessee comes to Neyland this weekend?

By KOKI RILEY

With Faizon Brandon looking like he’s already started to settle in, what do you think will happen when Texas comes to Neyland this weekend?

Peyton M.

Texas faces UTSA next weekend, but I’m looking forward to that Tennessee matchup in Week 4.

I’m a little worried for Faizon Brandon if Texas slows down Tennessee’s running game and Arch Manning puts up points early on the other side of the ball.

Tennessee still has a chance, though, since it’s in Neyland.

— Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

Knocking on the door

By DAVE ZELIO

There are 15 teams receiving votes but not quite enough to crack the AP Top 25.

The top two are Washington and Florida, but Group of Six powerhouse Boise State is third and then comes a grouping that is fun to look at:

Oklahoma State (1-1) is fourth among ‘also receiving’ votes after stunning then-No. 6 Oregon over the weekend, followed by Western Michigan (1-1), which followed its controversial loss to Michigan with an easy win over Monmouth. Then comes Tulsa (2-0), whose opening win was against … Oklahoma State.

Also in this group is North Dakota State, which moved up to the Bowl Subdivision this season and is only the second team in the FBS to be 3-0 along with No. 12 USC

In and out

By DAVE ZELIO

The only new team in the poll this week is No. 19 Michigan (2-0), which knocked off then-No. 11 Oklahoma to return from a one-week poll hiatus among the unranked following its controversial Hail Mary win over Western Michigan.

Previously No. 19 Washington (2-0) dropped out after a 16-14 win at home over Utah State. The Huskies picked off Utah State’s Hail Mary attempt in the end zone to narrowly avoid the loss.

Ask a voter: What made Oregon your No. 1 in the preseason, and what can they fix?

By KOKI RILEY

Koki, you had Oregon ranked at #1 in your preseason poll. What metrics determined that, and what can they fix immediately?

Morgan

Thanks for making me look so good in front of everyone, Morgan.

Yes, Oregon was my preseason No. 1, which shows how perfect my rankings were ahead of Week 1.

I still think the Ducks have a shot to turn things around because of their pure roster talent, but Dante Moore and the passing game have to turn things around immediately, and the defense needs to be more aggressive.

I’ve been kinda stunned that they haven’t been wrecking games at the line of scrimmage defensively. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

Ask a voter: Texas can enjoy its ranking ... for now

By KOKI RILEY

I have Texas losing to both LSU and Texas A&M, so they can enjoy their ranking for now.

Dennis C.

That wouldn’t stun me, given that both of those games will be on the road.

I will note that Texas A&M didn’t look amazing this week despite the lopsided score. Arizona State outgained the Aggies by 114 yards. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

Mestemaker shines in Oregon upset

By MAURA CAREY

Oklahoma State quarterback Drew Mestemaker proved to be a double-threat too difficult for Oregon to stop on Saturday. Mestemaker threw for 317 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 109 yards and another score in the 39-31 upset.

The quarterback was one of nearly 20 players to follow coach Eric Morris from the University of North Texas to Oklahoma State.

Some of Mestemaker’s former North Texas teammates also played a critical role in the win this weekend. Caleb Hawkins rushed 23 times for 110 yards and a score and Wyatt Young caught five passes for 121 yards and a touchdown.

The Top 25 origin story

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A version of The AP Top 25 college football poll started in 1936, the brainchild of former Sports Editor Alan J. Gould.

The number of teams ranked, the number of voters on the panel and how the ballots are tabulated have fluctuated over the years, but no news organization has been ranking teams and naming a college football national champion longer than the AP.

Check out the QB highlights

By MAURA CAREY

Arch Manning bounced back from a rough first half in what would become the biggest statement-making game of his career. He finished the game 23-of-37 for 195 passing yards, a touchdown and a fluky first-quarter interception. He also led three consecutive touchdown drives in the fourth quarter to overcome a 20-point deficit and knock off No. 1 Ohio State.

Georgia’s Gunner Stockton had the best game of his career, tying a school record with five passing touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ 70-20 win against Western Kentucky.

Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis threw for 366 yards, four passing touchdowns and one rushing score in a 52-21 rout of Weber State.

Louisville’s Lincoln Kienholz had another impressive outing, throwing for 332 yards and two touchdowns and running for 42 yards and two scores vs. Villanova.

AP Top 25 rankings

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

1. Texas

2. Georgia

3. Notre Dame

4. Indiana

5. Miami (Fla.)

6. Ohio State

7. LSU

8. Ole Miss

9. Texas A&M

10. Alabama

11. BYU

12. USC

13. Texas Tech

14. Penn State

15. Tennessee

16. SMU

17. Utah

18. Iowa

19. Michigan

20. Missouri

21. Oregon

22. Houston

23. Louisville

24. Oklahoma

Virginia

Bryce Underwood and Michigan beat Oklahoma

By MAURA CAREY

Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood was under the spotlight this week after saying “that’s cool” in response to his job being in jeopardy. But he played Saturday like a fire was lit under him, carrying Michigan to a 17-10 win against No. 11 Oklahoma.

Underwood ran the ball in for a 38-yard rushing touchdown to give Michigan an early lead. And the Wolverines capitalized on a fourth-quarter interception with a one-yard rushing touchdown to break a tie.

It was a tough day for Sooners’ quarterback John Mateer, who lost all momentum after back-to-back scoring drives with a pick at Oklahoma’s 30-yard line.

Ask a voter: How would you rank UGA after their first two weeks?

By KOKI RILEY

How would you rank UGA after their first two weeks? They played cupcakes but scored a historic amount. Would this keep them at 1 over Texas?

Ethan C.

There’s very little we can take away from Georgia’s first two weeks. That’s why I’ve tended to lean on my preseason evaluation of the Bulldogs, which tends to be much lower than many of my colleagues in the poll.

I worry about Georgia’s lack of playmaking at receiver and its pass rush. The latter was especially an issue last season, and I’m not convinced the Bulldogs did enough this offseason to fix it.

I’m fascinated to see how right or wrong I am once they start playing better teams.

Georgia wide receiver Talyn Taylor (1) catches a pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Western Kentucky, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)

— Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

How did SEC freshman QBs Faizon Brandon and Keelon Russell fare?

By MAURA CAREY

The Southeastern Conference’s pair of promising freshman quarterbacks, Faizon Brandon and Keelon Russell, were each tested on the road this week, and they both passed.

Brandon followed a historic debut by leading Tennessee to a 45-24 win against Georgia Tech. Coach Josh Heupel said his performance may not have been flashy on paper, but with 148 passing yards, two touchdowns and no turnovers, it was what the Volunteers needed from the young signal-caller.

Meanwhile, Russell completed 16 of 23 passes for 188 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. He led four second-half touchdown drives to put the game out of reach and boost Alabama to a 45-17 win over Kentucky after the Tide trailed 14-13 at halftime.

Ask a voter: Will Michigan be considered for ranking after beating Oklahoma?

By KOKI RILEY

Will Michigan be considered for ranking after beating Oklahoma?

Gage

Spoiler alert, but Michigan made my Top 25 this week.

I don’t think this win fully makes up for last week’s debacle against Western Michigan, especially given how poor Oklahoma looked on offense, but give credit where credit is due.

Michigan looked much better this week. I was particularly impressed with how the Wolverines controlled the line of scrimmage defensively. — Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

Peeking at Oregon on this Top 25 voter’s ballot

By KOKI RILEY

Koki, please walk us through your balloting for Oregon from the preseason poll to today’s poll, where you dropped them out altogether.

AP sports editor Dave Zelio

Not to spoil my column too much, which is up now at Nola.com, but it was always going to take a pretty crazy turn of events for Oregon to drop from No. 1 in my preseason poll to unranked in two weeks.

That’s what we saw on Saturday when the Ducks were outgained by nearly 300 yards against Oklahoma State following a rough showing the week before at home against Boise State.

The Ducks will probably crack my rankings again soon, but almost nothing they’ve done so far suggests they’re a Top 25 team.

— Sports writer Koki Riley has been an AP Top 25 voter for three seasons. You can follow him on X: @KokiRiley

How the votes are counted

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For decades, voters called, emailed and faxed their votes to the AP and ballots were tabulated by hand.

Now voting happens online and the count is automated first before AP checks for miscues.

The poll operates on a 1 to 25 point system, with the No. 1 team receiving 25 points down to the 25th team receiving 1 point. In between, the poll lists the teams with the most points from 24 down to 2. Teams that receive votes but not enough to make the top 25 are noted separately.

In case you missed it

By MAURA CAREY

Week 2 was rife with viral moments, starting with a $1.2 million kick on College GameDay. In Pat McAfee’s kicking contest, Texas freshman Connor Kacena-Merrell won $600,000 personally and $600,000 for charity after drilling a barefoot 33-yard field goal.

Oklahoma State’s upset over Oregon led fans to storm the field — and in 2024 Vanderbilt fashion, the goalpost was carried off into the nearest body of water: the Theta Pond.

Akron’s “OC for a day” winner Marty Whims led the Zips’ opening drive as promised. The drive had a promising start before ending in a lost fumble.

Big Ten teams are among this week’s losers

It wasn’t a great week for the Big Ten, which saw its two highest-ranked programs suffer road losses. Ohio State and Oregon entered the season at Nos. 1 and 2. Now the question is whether they will retain top-five status.

Ohio State allowed 21 unanswered points in the final 15 minutes after leading 23-3 through the first three quarters. The Buckeyes fell to Texas 24-23.

The Oregon Ducks lost 39-31 in a major upset by Oklahoma State.

On the upside, Indiana held its own among the top 10-ranked Big Ten teams with a 55-0 win over Howard.

Who decides the rankings?

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AP Top 25 voters are writers and broadcasters who cover college football.

AP employees do not vote, but they do choose the voters, and they seek wide representation from all over the country. This season, there are 69 voters.

The focus begins with voter representation in states with a Bowl Subdivision school, and the total number of voters from each state increases with the number of FBS teams. There are also spots reserved for national voters.

The AP allows broad latitude for voters to determine their rankings. They are urged to base their votes on performance, not reputation or preseason speculation (except, of course, for the always provocative preseason poll); to avoid regional bias, for or against; to pay attention to head-to-head results; and to make significant changes if desired.

Teams to watch

By MAURA CAREY

Texas is eyeing the No. 1 spot after scoring 21 unanswered points in a come-from-behind 24-23 win against Ohio State. The Buckeyes, meanwhile, hope to retain top-five status.

Oklahoma State delivered a 39-31 upset over No. 6 Oregon, putting the Ducks’ status in question.

Michigan could be on its way back into the rankings after a 17-10 win against No. 11 Oklahoma.

Shelton had to begin his first attempt to win a Grand Slam title without Rodman in the stands. She was busy with her own career, playing for the Washington Spirit of the NWSL on Sunday.

Rodman, a star for the U.S. women's national team, was with the Spirit for their 3-0 loss at home to Boston Legacy FC.

But she arrived at some point before the end of Shelton's 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 loss to Alexander Zverev, wearing a shirt with Shelton's face on it, cheering and at one point appearing to wipe away tears during the trophy ceremony.

“Trinity, I thought you have a game today,” Zverev said jokingly during his post-match comments. “Well done to you as well. You’re the lucky charm ... not today, but usually.”

Rodman had been at multiple matches at the U.S. Open during Shelton's run to his first major final, including his victory over defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals that ended at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in U.S. Open history.

She wore a black shirt reading “I (heart) my boyfriend” while watching Shelton's victory in the second round.

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According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had purposely left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule. The visitors were on their way back from a security conference in Kyiv.

“It is highly probable that the Russian drone ’s intended target was in fact the diplomatic train, which had departed the station earlier than scheduled,” the company said in a Telegram post.

Bildt, the former Swedish PM, shared a video on X of the attack at Yahodyn station, near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing with Poland.

“This wasn't our train, but the one just minutes after us by the Polish border crossing,” Bildt said. “It was evacuated as the Russian drone approached and no one was hurt. Very good safety system. Our train just had an evacuation warning.”

Bildt, Johnson and fellow passengers had been in Kyiv for the Yalta European Strategy conference, which is an annual gathering of leaders and experts across politics, business, security and media.

Another train, with former CIA Director David Petraeus on board, was still at Yahodyn station when the drone struck, according to Ukrzaliznytsia.

There were no immediate reports of casualties on any of the trains.

Ukrzaliznytsia said it “constantly adjusts train schedules” to guard against strikes.

“I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning,” Johnson wrote in a post on X.

“What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day — even on civilian railways,” he added.

Earlier on Sunday, a Russian drone hit a truck less than a mile from Polish territory, according to border guards, forcing the temporary closure of the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing.

Mas, the Spaniard who leads the Movistar team and has finished second overall three times, finished 2 minutes, 15 seconds ahead of four-time Vuelta winner Primoz Roglic.

Felix Gall finished third overall in the 21st and final stage, 2:44 behind Mas.

Pogacar led Mas by 3 minutes, 50 seconds when he crashed in the eighth stage.

Mas was the Vuelta runner-up in 2018, 2021 and 2022; and he placed third in 2024. He also finished fifth and sixth at the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

Mas’ victory marks the greatest Grand Tour achievement for a Spanish cyclist since Alberto Contador won the Giro d’Italia in 2015. Contador was also the last Spaniard to win the Vuelta in 2014.

Norwegian rider Tobias Johannessen won the final stage, a 102-kilometer (63-mile) leg featuring climbing and descending in the medieval city of Granada. There were four circuits of Granada to conclude the stage; with the overall times neutralized for the final lap.

Johannessen edged Alessandro Romele in a two-man sprint. Mas crossed the line arm-in-arm with his six Movistar teammates several minutes later.

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While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify, though industry pioneers have raised such concerns.

“We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that ... shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” Trump told reporters during a weekend trip to Ireland. “But whoever wins with AI wins.”

Asked later Sunday if he was trying to minimize the risks from AI, Trump said, “I'm not downplaying,” adding that artificial intelligence is “going to be more good than bad, but by a lot.” Speaking with reporters during the flight back to Washington, he repeated his earlier comment regarding the stakes for “whoever wins AI.”

The Republican president spoke a day after Dario Amodei, CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, said the industry should put the brakes on its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Other tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, publicly agreed with Amodei.

Asked by a reporter if the industry should slow down or be regulated, Trump said after watching a golfer tee off in the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg that the United States is leading China in the development of AI and “frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping is due at the White House later in September to meet with Trump, and AI likely will be among the items they discuss.

AI has become a major election-year issue in the U.S. as some of the country's largest companies seed small towns with a national network of computing warehouses while Americans from both parties increasingly raise alarms about less farmland and water supplies and rising electricity bills. Trump has kept up his support for data centers even as both Republicans and Democrats run from them and many communities try to block them.

Former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said his party should make AI a campaign issue.

“I would talk about this, and I would say, ‘Here’s our plan for safety, here’s our plan for making sure our kids are not corrupted by this.’ ... I would be thinking about the economic impacts in very concrete ways and understanding what does it mean if there’s going to be job displacement. Where is that going to hit? How are we going to respond?” he said at an event last week with the top Democrat in the U.S. House, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, according to a transcript released by his office.

White House meetings and a call for action by members of Congress

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council at the White House, said he expects meetings will be held this week involving administration officials who oversee cyber and science and technology policy to discuss the next steps. Trump also could meet with members of Congress, some of whom have also been sounding alarms about the fast pace of AI development.

“I think the president wants to hear from them as well,” Hassett said.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged the need for “some guardrails, some safety measures” so AI “doesn’t run away.” But, like Trump, he also wants to ensure the U.S. does not “lose our edge in the global competition on this with China because that would be a national security threat.”

Johnson, R-La., said industry leaders need to be summoned for “one big meeting and work this out together in the same room." He said he has discussed the issue with Trump and believes a meeting held quickly should be the “next step.”

“So we’re going to pull everybody together and make sure we do this in the right way,” Johnson said, adding that it is a "top priority for me and for the Congress.”

“But we don’t need everybody to panic right now,” Johnson said.

Jeffries criticized Republican leaders for allowing members to go back to their districts for the final part of September.

“We should take decisive action now so that we can slow down, as the CEOs have recently acknowledged, … the pace of development in order to protect the American people and ensure that AI is proceeding safely,” Jeffries said. Action on AI will be a “high priority” when House Democrats meet Tuesday as a group.

Neither Johnson nor Jeffries provided concrete steps about what Congress might do. Lawmakers agree that more guardrails are needed, but even narrow attempts at imposing rules have fallen apart over the years, evidence of the congressional reluctance to regulate the technology industry.

Industry insider urges cooperation between Washington and Beijing

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee who resigned over AI concerns and has gone public with his fears, argued for international rules along with industry self-regulation.

Coxon said he has grown concerned that AI models would soon gain super capabilities that could exceed human control.

“You’re building a human-level or superhuman-level mind, without understanding what it wants, or thinks, or the way it thinks,” Coxon said.

At a time of a fierce global competition for AI dominance, Coxon also urged cooperation between the U.S. and China, the two countries who are leading the race, to slow down and address safety.

“I do hope that the people in China who are looking at the same problems as we are, so they’re trying to build the same technology, will come to the same conclusion that it has to be done in a measured manner, and it should be easy to cooperate on some sort of mutual -- of mutual slowing,” Coxon said.

Otherwise, he said, “we risk running the same race with China, which could be equally dangerous."

White House adviser challenges AI leaders over regulation

Tech founder and investor David Sacks responded to the AI leaders' calls for regulation with a social media post challenging them. Sacks, co-chairman of a White House advisory council on science and technology, said Amodei and other leaders are the ones setting the pace for development.

Sacks said they have the power to slow development on their own.

“The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it,” Sacks wrote.

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Hassett was interviewed on CNN's “State of the Union,” Johnson appeared on CNN and NBC's “Meet the Press,” Coxon was on NBC and ABC's “This Week,” and Jeffries was on ABC.

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Tang reported from Washington.

The Warner Bros. sequel starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman earned an estimated $30 million from 4,146 theaters, according to estimates Sunday from Rentrak. The film knocked “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” out of the top spot after the superhero blockbuster led the domestic box office for six consecutive weekends.

“Practical Magic 2” added about $16 million from 77 international markets, giving it a worldwide opening of approximately $46 million.

The debut landed at the low end of Warner Bros.’ projected range of $30 million to $35 million. The Susanne Bier-directed film carries a reported $75 million production budget.

“It's the kind of movie that you can build an evening at the movie theater around with your friends,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Rentrak.

Dergarabedian said the return of Bullock and Kidman was crucial to rekindling interest after such a long gap between films. He said the bigger test will come next weekend, when the sequel faces little direct competition.

“It's not necessarily about that opening weekend,” he said. “Weekend two will tell the tale, no question about it.”

“Practical Magic 2” reunites Bullock and Kidman as sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, members of a family of witches whose love lives have long been haunted by an ancestral curse. The sequel finds them trying to end the curse for good and introduces a younger generation of the Owens family, played by Joey King and Maisie Williams. Lee Pace also joins the cast.

The film is adapted from the work of author Alice Hoffman and arrives 28 years after the original “Practical Magic.” The 1998 film topped out at $46 million during its initial domestic run but gradually developed a devoted following through home viewing, streaming services and social media.

The latest film received two out of four stars from The Associated Press, whose review said the sequel abandons some of the campy fun that helped the original find an unlikely second life, but is buoyed by the strong performances and chemistry of Bullock and Kidman.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” slipped to second with $8.4 million, a 54% drop from the previous weekend. The Sony and Marvel blockbuster starring Tom Holland has now collected roughly $935.2 million domestically.

That puts the film within about $1.4 million of the $936.6 million North American total for 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens” and the top spot on the all-time domestic chart.

“Think about this movie opening at the end of July, and here we are in the middle of September,” Dergarabedian said. He expects Sony to keep the film in theaters as it pursues an unprecedented $1 billion in unadjusted domestic ticket sales.

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” followed in third with $7.4 million during its ninth weekend. The Universal Pictures mythic epic, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, has crossed $600.5 million domestically and $1.68 billion worldwide.

The movie also passed 2015’s “Jurassic World” to become Universal’s highest-grossing global release. It has also collected a record $506 million from IMAX screens worldwide, accounting for 30% of its global total.

Dergarabedian said the staying power of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey,” which both opened in July, demonstrates the range of films moviegoers are willing to embrace.

“People aren’t just looking at the movie theater as the home for the traditional cookie-cutter blockbuster,” he said. “They’re looking at the movie theater like they do almost as a streaming service, where there’s this incredible array and mix of genres, stars and types of films.”

“Runner” opened in fourth place with $6.6 million. The Angel Studios action-comedy stars Alan Ritchson as a former soldier who joins forces with an unlikely partner, played by Owen Wilson, to complete an organ delivery while being pursued by a ruthless cartel.

Directed by Scott Waugh, “Runner” opened in more than 2,500 North American theaters.

Ketchup Entertainment’s “Coyote vs. Acme” rounded out the top five, collecting $6.2 million in its third weekend. The live-action and animated Looney Tunes feature has now earned about $47.8 million domestically.

In sixth place, “Buddy” brought in $3.5 million during its third weekend, pushing its North American total to $21.3 million.

Sony’s “Insidious: Out of the Further” followed in seventh with $3.35 million. The latest installment in the long-running horror franchise has generated roughly $60.5 million domestically and $155.2 million worldwide after four weekends.

The South Korean science-fiction thriller “Hope” opened in eighth with $3.3 million from 1,560 locations. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the monster epic stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Hoyeon and centers on a remote village thrown into chaos by the arrival of a mysterious creature.

“The Uprising,” directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Andrew Garfield, debuted in ninth with $3.25 million. The Focus Features historical action drama follows an uprising of commoners against the tyranny of King Richard II in medieval England.

“By Any Means” finished 10th with $2.5 million in its second weekend.

Domestic box-office revenue for the year stands at $7.5 billion, up 19.2% from the same point in 2025.

“What a great summer, a record-breaking summer and a solid start to the fall,” Dergarabedian said. “It’s not like we had a blockbuster debut like we did last year with ‘Demon Slayer,’ but a solid start to a fall movie season that I think will deliver for sure.”

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak:

1. “Practical Magic 2,” $30 million.

2. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” $8.4 million.

3. “The Odyssey,” $7.4 million.

4. “Runner,” $6.6 million.

5. “Coyote vs. Acme,” $6.2 million.

6. “Buddy,” $3.5 million.

7. “Insidious: Out of the Further,” $3.35 million.

8. “Hope,” $3.3 million.

9. “The Uprising,” $3.25 million.

10. “By Any Means,” $2.5 million.

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Elsewhere in Europe, the Bundesliga’s biggest club needed a second-half winner from Harry Kane to beat the league's smallest side as Bayern Munich won 2-1 at promoted Elversberg.

Also, European champion Paris Saint-Germain finally earned its first league win of the season with a 1-0 victory at Brest.

Barcelona extends perfect start

Xavi Espart scored the opener for Barcelona with a low, bouncing shot from the edge of the area after getting set up by Raphinha five minutes in for his first goal with the senior squad.

Espart joined Barcelona’s La Masia academy as an under-10 player and made his senior team debut last season.

For Barca’s second, Raphinha dribbled around the goalkeeper and crossed for Yamal, who used one touch to smash it in from inside the 6-yard box.

Yamal then added a penalty shortly after the break for his sixth league goal of the season and his third straight brace in the Spanish league.

A poor back pass from Espart, who was playing as a left back, allowed Ivan Romero to pull one back for Levante. Then Roger Brugué scored again for Levante before Karim Adeyemi restored a two-goal advantage in stoppage time as Barcelona improved its perfect start with its sixth win in six matches across all competitions.

Also, Atletico Madrid won 3-0 at Real Sociedad with late goals from Alejandro Grimaldo, Jonathan David and Giuliano Simeone.

Kane's 99th Bundesliga goal avoids upset

Lennart Karl put Bayern ahead early on before substitute Maurice Krattenmacher equalized for Elversberg in the 61st.

Kane's winner came in the 72nd as the England forward scored through traffic after Elversberg gave away possession under high pressing.

It was Kane's 99th Bundesliga goal in 97 matches.

Elversberg entered the match ahead of Bayern in the table after stunning two former champions: Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Dembele's backheel assist for PSG in France

A backheel pass from Ousmane Dembele set up a goal for Ferran Torres five minutes in for PSG.

The two-time defending Champions League winner had gone four straight domestic games without a win and again struggled as Brest created several chances.

It was Torres' fourth goal in two matches after a hat trick in a 6-1 rout of Slovan Bratislava in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Haaland's goal decides Manchester derby

Erling Haaland’s hotly contested goal settled the Manchester derby.

The Norwegian struck in the 60th minute at Old Trafford to seal a 1-0 win for 10-man Manchester City over fierce rival Manchester United in the Premier League.

At first, the goal was ruled out for offside, but after VAR review the onfield decision was overturned. That sparked a roar of celebration from the away fans.

Coventry’s nightmare start to the season continued with a 5-0 home loss to Brighton.

Old Firm derby in Scotland

Dan Neil scored a double and Rangers beat Celtic 3-0 in the first Old Firm derby of the season — in the Scottish league cup quarterfinals.

Celtic fans were barred from the game following a Scottish league review of the disorder that marred the Scottish Cup quarterfinal match between the teams in March.

There were no immediate reports of disorder from the latest encounter.

Napoli ends losing streak with Serie A win

Napoli ended a run of three straight losses across all competitions by beating visiting Bologna 1-0.

Midfielder Stanislav Lobotka scored in the 66th.

Juventus was beaten 3-2 at Sassuolo with Vasilije Adzic, who is on loan from the Turin squad, scoring the decisive goal in stoppage time.

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The person, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team didn't announce the severity of the injury, said the Rams will place Garrett on injured reserve. The two-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year was ineffective in the Rams' 27-7 loss to San Francisco in Australia on Thursday night.

“This was the worst version of myself that I’ve put out there, and I’ve got to be better,” Garrett said after recording no tackles in a game for just the fourth time in his career. “I’ve got to find a way to recover and get back to the player I know I can be and I’ve shown that I’ve been before.”

Garrett, who played 62% of the snaps in the season opener, will be eligible to return in Week 6.

“I wasn’t the player that I wanted to be, and I feel like I wasn’t the player I’ve been before when I’ve stepped onto that field,” Garrett said. “I’ve got to do what I can to get back to that.”

The Rams sent edge rusher Jared Verse and three draft picks, including a first-rounder in 2027, to Cleveland to get Garrett in the summer. Three-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald then returned from a two-year absence to rejoin the Rams, but he didn't play in the season opener.

Garrett missed a lot of practice time in training camp because of his knee, but the nature of his injury wasn’t known. Coach Sean McVay said Garrett had swelling in his knee. It's uncertain how Garrett injured his knee, if it occured during a specific instance or accumulation of wear and tear.

Garrett played all 17 games three times in his last five seasons with the Browns and played 16 games in the other two seasons.

The Ringer first reported Garrett's status.

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Still, it wouldn't have felt quite the same to pass Aryna Sabalenka and become No. 1 in a tournament where Sabalenka then beat Rybakina to defend her title. It would not only have been confusing to casual fans, but a letdown to the player.

Nothing to worry about there. Rybakina was too good for Sabalenka and anyone else in the sport right now, so her 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory Sunday triggered a dual celebration.

“I feel that it’s going to be amazing to wake up knowing that you achieved such big things,” Rybakina said.

There could be more to come. The 27-year-old who was born in Russia but represents Kazakhstan is on top of her game, with two Grand Slam titles in 2026. She beat Sabalenka in both finals, and even the former No. 1 concedes it would be tough to get back to the top if Rybakina stays at the level she displayed in Flushing Meadows.

“She continues to play like that, then yeah, I’m in trouble,” Sabalenka said.

The 28-year-old from Belarus had won the previous two U.S. Open titles, appeared in three straight finals and reached at least the semifinals every year since 2021. Rybakina, meanwhile, had never even gotten past the fourth round before this year.

“For some reason, New York wasn’t my best place for tennis for the past years," Rybakina said, "but definitely now it changed.”

So much has at the top of women's tennis.

It began toward the end of 2025, when Rybakina beat Sabalenka for the title at the season-ending WTA Finals. Then it was the same result at the Australian Open final, and Rybakina has gone on to match Sabalenka and French Open winner Mirra Andreeva with a tour-high three titles. Her 49 victories are one behind No. 3 Jessica Pegula for tops this year.

“I always believed that it’s possible,” Rybakina said. "We’ve been having great results. Of course, not every year is the same. I won Wimbledon in 2022. Then I wasn’t winning the Slams, but I played the final of the Australian Open the next year. I think we were always there.

“I feel like now I have a great team, great people around me, and we just continue the work. It finally paid off.”

Rybakina played so well over the past year — and Sabalenka struggled this summer — that she was assured of accumulating enough points to move up from No. 2 if she reached the semifinals at the U.S. Open. Perhaps the only thing that could have prevented that was a foot injury that Rybakina sustained at the Cincinnati Open. She stopped playing in her quarterfinal match against Iga Swiatek and then couldn't get back on the court for a few days.

So Rybakina had a lot weighing on her mind in New York, but it never seemed to affect her tennis.

“I feel like this tournament was just kind of more stressful because I was playing for No. 1 one of the matches, and then, of course, this injury which happened the week before,” Rybakina said. “So every day was kind of a challenge, but I felt like in these situations I was more calm than when similar things were happening before.”

She now needs only the French Open title to complete the career Grand Slam, and that one always figured to be the toughest to get because the red clay slows her powerful shots in ways that hard courts and grass can't.

There will surely be more meetings at the big events with Sabalenka, who held the No. 1 ranking for 99 consecutive weeks.

“Ninety-nine?” Sabalenka said. “Well, that’s amazing. Let’s see if Elena can beat me in that,” she said with a laugh.

Sabalenka still leads their rivalry 10-8, and they have split four meetings this year. But Rybakina won the matches that mattered most.

“I don’t know what future will bring, but it’s always very difficult matches against Aryna, and I feel like we push each other to be better after such tough battles,” Rybakina said.

“I don’t know what future is going to bring, but I hope success and some more wins.”

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The Steelers made Porter inactive 90 minutes before kickoff, which also happened to be the club's self-imposed deadline to work something out before the season starts.

Porter is entering the final season of the rookie contract he signed in 2023. While the Steelers have re-signed several players from his draft class — including edge rusher Nick Herbig and tight end Darnell Washington — they were unable to come to terms with Porter.

The 26-year-old tweaked his back during a mobility test when the Steelers reported to training camp in July and spent the majority of the preseason on the physically unable to perform list, though coach Mike McCarthy said in August the club was at an “impasse” in negotiations with Porter.

Porter returned to practice last week and McCarthy said repeatedly that Porter was still in the “ramping up” phase, putting his status for Atlanta in doubt. Porter, who hasn't allowed a touchdown pass as the primary defender since his rookie season, said in May that he wanted to be among the highest-paid defensive backs in the league.

The team has a long-standing tradition of not negotiating during the course of the season, meaning the two sides will have to wait until mid-January at the earliest to get something done.

Pittsburgh does have the option of placing the franchise tag on Porter for 2027 if it wants, a tactic it most recently used on former running back Le'Veon Bell in 2017 and 2018. Bell was an All-Pro in 2017 but opted to sit out the following season when the team placed the tag on him again.

The Steelers also made quarterbacks Drew Allar and Will Howard, guard Gennings Dunker, defensive linemen Kevin Jobity Jr. and Gabriel Rubio inactive.

Quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Michael Penix Jr. are both inactive for the Falcons because of injuries, meaning Cooper Rush will get the start. Cornerbacks Billy Bowman Jr. and Malcolm DeWalt, linebacker Christian Harris and tackle Ethan Onianwa are also inactive for Atlanta.

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It was “All By Myself,” the song the Quebec superstar’s voice has been measured against since 1996, saved for the encore of her first full concert in more than six years — her first since stiff person syndrome, a rare, progressive neurological disease, attacked her muscles, including those of the throat.

Few doubted she could still sing. What nobody knew was whether she could get through a whole show, and then get up and do it again a few nights later.

Dion gave the crowd three words: “Je vais bien.” (“I’m doing fine.”)

“When she hit that note, I grabbed my friend’s arm. I’d been holding my breath without realizing. Then I started crying. ‘She’s back. She’s really back,‘” said Élodie Marchand, 42, a primary schoolteacher from Nantes.

A disease that goes for the throat

Dion, 58, had not played a full concert since March 8, 2020. She was diagnosed in 2022 with stiff person syndrome. She canceled a world tour, then what was left of it, and went quiet. On Saturday night, 25 songs in 2 hours and 15 minutes at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, was the first night of the engagement meant to prove she can work again.

The sold-out run is punishing: 16 shows in five weeks, 10 more booked for May 2027, 26 nights in all before tens of thousands of people each time.

The last time France saw her sing, it lasted four minutes. At the Olympic opening ceremony in July 2024, Dion sang from the Eiffel Tower — one song, one night — and the world called it a resurrection. Saturday she had to do it 25 times, then get up and do it again Wednesday.

Stiff person syndrome affects one or two people in a million. It stiffens muscles and sets off spasms violent enough to break bones, triggered by loud noise, by touch, by emotional stress. An arena holding 30,000 people is all three at once. Singing with it, Dion told NBC in 2024, felt like being strangled.

“Touring can be very difficult even when you’re 100%,” she said in a statement in 2023, canceling the last of her dates.

‘I promised myself I wouldn’t cry’

She cried before she finished the first song. In a Dior gown and a Boucheron necklace, she pressed her hands together in prayer, then missed her cue in “On ne change pas,” on the line about the skinny little girl from Charlemagne, Quebec.

“I promised myself I wouldn’t cry,” she said. The crowd answered by chanting the riff from “Seven Nation Army.”

She said she had learned to live with the fragility and made it her reason to keep going. Then she sang for another two hours.

The voice has lost some of its top; it is not the instrument that sold 250 million albums. Every big note is now a decision she makes in front of 30,000 people.

She took most of them. She sang “My Heart Will Go On” and “The Power of Love,” then Catalani’s “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” — Maria Callas’ signature aria — in pink feathers while fake snow fell. Her disease attacks the larynx. She went for it anyway.

Willo Perron’s set put her among gray megaliths, a pop Stonehenge. An 18-voice gospel choir came on in robes.

Michelle Obama watched from the seats. Outside, fans wore sashes reading “Celine Dion 2026,” like beauty pageant winners, and T-shirts from the LVMH house that shares her first name.

“My daughter kept saying, ‘Mum, we can’t go all the way to Paris for Celine,’” said Isabelle Gagnon, 52, a teacher from Montreal. “Tonight my daughter was singing beside me, and I thought: you see? This is why we came.”

“In Montreal, you grow up knowing those songs whether you mean to or not,” said Antoine Beaulieu, 31, a graphic designer. “I used to pretend I was too cool for Celine. Tonight I knew every word, so clearly that was a lie.”

More performances to come

Camille Morel, 38, a pharmacist from Lyon, put her phone away. “I wanted to actually be there,” she said. “My voice is completely gone. I’m supposed to be working tomorrow — good luck to them.”

Then the encore, and the note: the last “anymore” a cappella, the note bent upward, the orchestra surging in beneath her. She fanned herself, laughing at her own relief.

She closed with two Jean-Jacques Goldman standards and a last line to the room: I love you, my loves. Take care of yourselves.

It had taken her 2,379 days to get back. She has 25 more nights to go.

That will be of little comfort to Manchester United after a 1-0 defeat to 10-man Manchester City at Old Trafford.

United was enraged after VAR awarded Haaland his winning strike in the 60th minute.

At first, the goal was ruled out for offside, but after VAR review the onfield decision was overturned, sparking a roar of celebration from the away fans, including Oasis' Noel Gallagher.

United's players were incensed because City midfielder Enzo Fernandez was in an offside position during the buildup. The Premier League said the goal was allowed because, despite diving to head the ball, the Argentine did not get a touch before it reached Haaland at the far post.

However, soccer rules state a player is interfering with play when “clearly attempting to play a ball" or “challenging an opponent for the ball.”

‘Error of judgment’

The refereeing body that oversees Premier League matches, Pro Ref, said Sunday evening that the VAR “did not recognize the likely impact” of Fernandez’s position and “should have recommended an onfield review.”

Pro Ref said it had made contact with United to acknowledge an “error of judgment” relating to the winning goal.

United defender Lisandro Martinez, who was challenging Fernandez, had called the goal an “injustice” and coach Michael Carrick was also perplexed.

“I just don't get it, I really don't get it,” he said. “It’s worrying, it really is if that’s how the game is seen by those who are officiating."

Asked at the time if he thought he would get a better explanation from the referee's governing body or even an apology, Carrick said, “I look forward to that.”

While acknowledgement of the error came soon afterward, it was too late to prevent United falling to a second defeat of the season after four games.

Red card for Foden

City's fans may have felt justice was done after Phil Foden was sent off in the 23rd for kicking out at Bruno Fernandes.

Foden and City's players remonstrated on the field and coach Enzo Maresca said Fernandes should also have been shown a red for the altercation.

With an extra man United hit the post either side of halftime - first from Marcus Rashford's long-range free kick and then Kobbie Mainoo's low shot from the edge of the area.

It was Maresca's first derby since taking over from Pep Guardiola at the end of last season and victory extended City's 100% start to the season. City moved level on points with defending champion Arsenal at the top of the standings.

“The red card changed the plan of the game, but credit to the players and their effort, spirit and togetherness was brilliant,” Maresca said. “It is already an abnormal situation when you are able to win a game with 10 players. It is fantastic. Then this game is a derby so it is even better.”

United is 13th in the standings with just one win from four games.

Carrick's team plays Brighton in the English League Cup on Wednesday, having been knocked out of the competition at the earliest stage against fourth division Grimsby last season. United plays winless Fulham next weekend before the international break.

“We haven’t got as many points as we would have liked at this point, for sure. There’s no getting away from that. But we don’t need a break or a restart. We’ve just got to move on and get winning again,” Carrick said.

Another record for Haaland

Haaland's goal makes him the outright top scorer in the Manchester derby in the Premier League with nine.

He moved ahead of Wayne Rooney and Sergio Aguero, both on eight.

He has reached that total in eight games, compared to Rooney's 21 appearances and Aguero's 13.

It was Haaland's sixth goal of the season in all competitions.

“You can see he’s happy, not only today, even day by day in the training sessions,” Maresca said. "As much as we keep Erling happy, we are all happy. How do you say in English, ‘happy wife, happy life?’

“Happy Erling, happy life.”

City extended its record as the team to have won more games against United at Old Trafford in the Premier League than any other opponent, with 10 victories.

Liverpool is second with eight wins. Arsenal and Chelsea have six.

Coventry routed

Coventry's nightmare start to the season continued with a 5-0 home loss to Brighton.

After running away at the top of the Championship last season it has been a rude awakening for Frank Lampard's team since its return to England's top flight.

Four straight defeats leaves Coventry rooted to the foot of the standings without a goal and a goal difference of minus 10.

Brighton led 1-0 at halftime through Charalampos Kostoulas before going on a scoring spree after the break with goals from Malick Yalcouye, Pascal Gross, Lewis Dunk and Yasin Ayari.

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Companies have traditionally imported goods from Asia through Gulf countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Now, some are trying a more direct approach.

“The latest tensions in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as well as those in the Strait of Hormuz, have negatively impacted us,” said Mohamed Ali Nur, director of Mogadishu Seaport. “But we have also taken measures to avoid that disruption.”

Nur said his port has worked with exporters to find alternative routes.

“For the first time, we brought a ship carrying sugar directly from Sri Lanka,” Nur said. “This could be a strategy we developed because of these tensions.”

Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Saudi Arabia have been battling the Houthis for 12 years.

The recent escalation has ended a ceasefire that had largely stopped civil war across Yemen since 2022.

Now the number of people from Yemen fleeing the fighting is soaring.

On Sunday, the International Organization for Migration said over 85,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of the month. More than 2,000 people have reached Djibouti, which neighbors Somalia, the agency said.

At Mogadishu’s busy seaport, cargo ships continue to unload food and other commodities. Somalia is particularly dependent on maritime trade for many of the goods its people use every day.

For ordinary Somali consumers, changes in shipping routes can eventually be felt in the markets, where imported food and other goods are sold. Longer or more complicated journeys can mean higher transportation costs and delays in getting products onto store shelves.

Capt Ali Jemdi, who is originally from Syria and ships cargoes of sugar, said uncertainty in the region is already creating concerns for ships operating along the routes.

“There is some trouble over there because of the war,” he told The Associated Press, referring to the Arabian Gulf and surrounding waters. “The Bab el-Mandeb may also have some issues for the vessel.”

He said the instability could make maritime transportation and trade more difficult.

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Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said the three-time Cy Young Award winner threw as hard as he has in more than a month off the mound on Saturday.

“That was a good sign,” Hinch said Sunday before Detroit wrapped up a series against Colorado.

The Tigers have planned a two-day celebration of Verlander's career when they host the Pittsburgh Pirates in two weeks during the last series of the regular season — and they hope he can pitch.

“We’re aiming for that weekend, which we know will be an emotional and important weekend for him,” Hinch said.

The two-time World Series champion and 2011 AL MVP shared his plans to retire in July, shortly after he was added as a Legend Pick to the American League All-Star roster in his 21st season in the majors.

The right-hander threw on Saturday with hitters standing in the batter's box but not swinging to give him feedback on his pitches.

Verlander went on the injured list with hip inflammation early in the season. When he was nearing a return midway through the season, he pulled a hamstring during a bullpen session.

He was scheduled to pitch in June and make what would have been his first start with the Tigers at Comerica Park since August 30, 2017 — the day before he was traded to the Astros.

The Tigers plan to help Verlander prepare to possibly pitch by having him throw in live batting practice or a simulated game.

“He’s going to pitch through whatever, but we can’t have a setback,” Hinch said.

The 43-year-old Verlander is the oldest player in Major League Baseball. He signed a $13 million, one-year contract to rejoin the Tigers in February and has pitched only once this season. He allowed five runs in 3 2/3 innings during a 9-6 road loss at Arizona on March 30.

Verlander went 183-115 from 2005 to 2017 with the Tigers. He won the AL Rookie of the Year award in 2006 and both the AL MVP and Cy Young Award in 2011. He helped Detroit reach the World Series in 2006 and 2012, along with four straight division titles from 2011-14.

He was the 2017 ALCS MVP in Houston and helped the Astros win the World Series that year and was a key player for them when they won another title in 2022. He won his second and third Cy Young Awards in 2019 and 2022.

Verlander has a career record of 266-159 with a 3.33 ERA in 556 starts playing for the Tigers, Astros, New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. He has 3,554 strikeouts while tossing 26 complete games, including nine shutouts.

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Zverev won his second major championship and disappointed a crowd that was desperate to see the first Grand Slam title by an American man since 2003, beating Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday in the U.S. Open final.

Zverev finally broke through in the majors by winning this year’s French Open and followed up by adding the title in New York that he so painfully let slip away in 2020.

The No. 1 seed in a Grand Slam for the first time, he capitalized on Shelton’s shaky start in his first major final, played a nearly flawless tiebreaker on serve and then turned back a comeback attempt in front of a crowd that feverishly cheered Shelton on — including girlfriend Trinity Rodman, who made it from her own soccer match in Washington before the finish.

“I know today 99.9% of the people wanted Ben to win, so I’m very sorry first of all,” Zverev said during the trophy presentation. “But second, it was an incredible atmosphere to play in. Even though I know that the crowd was against me, the crowd was always incredibly fair.”

Shelton was trying to win the first title by an American man since Andy Roddick won in Flushing Meadows in 2003, as well as become the first Black player to win the men's crown since Arthur Ashe in 1968.

But Zverev was too good in majors this year and apparently didn't even know how good he was. He finished the match on his serve but didn't seem to realize it, dropping back behind the baseline as if set to return. Only a few moments later did he figure out he had won, raising his arms in celebration.

“You’re one of the very best players in the world, maybe the best player in the world this year,” Shelton told Zverev.

Zverev was the best player in the biggest events this year

Zverev improved to 25-2 in major matches this year and won $5.5 million, matching the prize earned by women’s champion Elena Rybakina on Saturday as the largest in Grand Slam history.

He thought this title would come in 2020 and still acknowledges it should have. He won the first two sets against Dominic Thiem and got within two points of victory before becoming the first man to blow a two-set lead and lose in the final since 1949.

Whatever ghosts were left from then are long gone now.

Zverev also reached the final at Wimbledon, falling to Jannik Sinner, and became the No. 1 seed in New York when the top-ranked Sinner had to withdraw with a knee injury. He made the most of opportunities that came when Carlos Alcaraz had to sit out two majors and Sinner missed another, after they played in three straight Grand Slam finals in 2025.

“I think God has seen how hard we worked, how much we suffered, how much pain we went through and I think 2026 is the outcome of all the years that happened before,” Zverev said, addressing his team.

Shelton had already eliminated the defending champion when he beat No. 2 seed Alcaraz in a five-set quarterfinal that ended at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in U.S. Open history.

But he fell short on Sunday in his attempt to become the first man to beat the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds en route to the U.S. Open title since 1975.

The No. 8 seed fell to 0-6 against Zverev, winning a set Sunday for only the second time.

The 23-year-old Shelton figures to get more chances, but Americans who have grown tired of waiting to celebrate a men’s title wanted it now.

Shelton's early struggles and Zverev's style limit the crowd early

Fans stood and screamed when Shelton emerged from the tunnel before the match, but he didn’t give them any reason to keep the cheers going once play began. Serving first, he lost the opening two points and then eventually handed the game to Zverev with a double-fault.

Zverev maintained that lead the rest of the set, which ended on another double-fault by Shelton.

Zverev’s deliberate playing style helped limit the crowd’s effectiveness. Fans are expected to quiet down as a player is preparing to serve and stay quiet until the ensuing point has completed.

Zverev bounces the ball a number of times — sometimes around 10, maybe a dozen, others nearly 20, insisting there is no set pattern or plan — before he begins his toss, so it guarantees lengthy stretches of silence.

Fans tried to get around that by occasionally cheering when he missed a first serve — another tennis no-no that the chair umpire scolded them for — but Zverev, who said before the match he enjoyed hostile crowds, did not seem affected.

Then, with fans chanting “USA! USA!” Zverev turned back Shelton's chance to even the match in the tiebreaker.

Shelton returned Zverev’s opening serve long, was beaten by a superb passing shot and then came up on the wrong end of a 16-shot rally as Zverev went up 3-0. Zverev then hit serves of 147 mph and 124 mph that Shelton couldn’t get back in play. Shelton cut it to 5-2 and then got a return in play for the only time, but Zverev won the point and then hit another serve at 139 mph to close it out.

Shelton kept fighting, at one point diving in an attempt to get a volley back, resting his head on his hands when he couldn't and then banging his hand to the court. He picked himself back up and finally broke Zverev for the only time to win the third set.

But with Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and number of their teammates in attendance, Shelton couldn’t pull off a championship comeback like those New York Knicks did in June. He was broken to begin the fourth, the second time in the match he dropped his opening service game, forcing him to play from behind again.

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But one corner of the country has a lot of time for the president, whose Irish golf resort has brought jobs, tourists and the international spotlight to the village of Doonbeg on the country’s boggy, wind-lashed Atlantic coast.

Even in Doonbeg, though, Trump has his opponents, who have staged protests and even enlisted tiny snails to try to block his golf course plans.

Snails snag Trump's ballroom plan

Trump spent much of Saturday and Sunday here, attending the Irish Open at the Trump International Golf Links. Since his organization bought the then-financially struggling resort in 2014. It has been an economic boon for the region, but also a source of friction.

The latest flashpoint is Trump’s planned ballroom — not the one at the White House, but a 320-capacity venue at the golf resort.

A group of environmentalists has tried to block construction, saying it will harm tiny narrow-mouthed whorl snails that live in the area and are protected under European Union rules.

After several years of wrangling, Clare County Council approved the ballroom in February, on condition Trump’s Irish company draws up a plan to monitor and manage the snails.

The company, which says construction will not harm the miniature mollusks, is seeking to alter the conditions, while a lone Irish objector with a history of blocking development projects has launched a new appeal to overturn planning permission. A final decision on all of that is pending.

Many local organizations supported the planning application, and some in Doonbeg see the environmental complaint as opportunistic. Local councilor Rita McInerney said that “much of the objection came from people who simply wanted to object to what Trump was doing.”

Trump’s golf course is an economic lifeline

Trump's visit, a mix of work and family vacation for the president, brought road closures, hundreds of police officers and scores of protesters to the remote rural part of County Clare, some 175 miles (280 kilometers) west of Dublin.

But many people in Doonbeg say the disruption is worth it.

“This is brilliant for the west Clare area,” said Martin Kelly, who runs a local construction firm and says the Trump resort creates “a massive amount of employment.”

“We’re lucky to have it,” he said.

That’s also the view of Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, who told Trump in Dublin on Saturday that the Doonbeg course is a “valuable asset to the area” that “illustrates the strength of the economic relationship between our two countries.”

Some protest but others support the golf resort

Trump's presence drew protests, though far smaller than the thousands who marched Saturday in Dublin. Dozens of people stood on Doonbeg’s main street on Sunday with Palestinian flags and placards protesting Trump’s support for the Gaza war and his polices on immigration and the environment.

Many objected to what they saw as Trump’s attempts to strong-arm smaller countries, and his insistence on Saturday that and his frequent complaints that other countries are taking advantage of the U.S. in trade relations.

“Our fear as people in Ireland is that our government will try to appease him because of the importance of foreign direct investment in Ireland,” said Sarah Clancy, who helped organize the protests in Doonbeg. “Even if we’re economically linked with the United States, we don’t see that as a reason that we can’t stand our ground, even if our government sometimes lets us down.”

Others said they oppose Trump’s policies but feel there is a limit to what anyone in Ireland, a country with a population of less than 6 million, can do.

“All of these rural coastal areas depend on tourism,” said Lily De Sylva, who works for a local community radio station. “So, yes, the Trump resort is important.

“I wouldn’t welcome him here or anywhere, but I can’t stop him.”

Paul O’Loughlin traveled from Wicklow in southeast Ireland to attend the tournament. He said some of his friends refused to come to a Trump-owned golf course.

“I don’t think us not going is going to make any difference to him,” O’Loughlin said. “I respect the protesters, I think they’re great coming down and making their point. But it’s falling on deaf ears, isn’t it?”

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The Miami Joy Project hosted Superhero Miles, an event where runners dressed up as their favorite superheroes.

Organizers said the event was to support children with special needs and medically complex conditions.

Participants were able to collect superhero costume pieces along the 5K path, with capes, masks, gloves and other items helping to transform the runners into costumed heroes.

Local 10’s Samiar Nefzi was there for all the fun, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

The Miami Joy Project organizó Superhero Miles, un evento en el que los corredores se vistieron como sus superhéroes favoritos.

Los organizadores dijeron que el evento tenía como objetivo apoyar a niños con necesidades especiales y condiciones médicas complejas.

A lo largo del recorrido de 5K, los participantes pudieron recoger diferentes piezas de disfraces de superhéroes, como capas, máscaras, guantes y otros artículos que ayudaban a transformarlos en héroes disfrazados.

Samiar Nefzi, de Local 10, estuvo presente durante el evento, y su reporte completo puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

El choque ocurrió en los carriles expresos en dirección norte de la I-95, cerca de la salida hacia Northwest 25th Street, en North Miami, informaron las autoridades.

Según Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, varios vehículos estuvieron involucrados en el accidente.

Dos personas fueron trasladadas de emergencia a centros de trauma cercanos para recibir tratamiento, informaron las autoridades de rescate.

Hasta el momento no se ha informado qué provocó el accidente.

La oficial Kenia Fallat, portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Miami, dijo que el adolescente sufrió laceraciones en la cabeza y que las otras tres personas fueron víctimas de disparos.

“Las circunstancias que rodean el incidente parecen estar relacionadas con un asunto doméstico”, dijo Fallat.

Agentes de policía y personal de rescate respondieron a la vivienda alrededor de las 6:30 a.m., en la esquina de Northwest 17th Avenue y Third Street, cerca de LoanDepot Park.

Una niña, con la camiseta cubierta de sangre, fue vista mientras agentes de policía la alejaban del lugar donde ocurrió el tiroteo.

El personal de rescate trasladó de emergencia al hombre al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital. Su estado era crítico, mientras que el adolescente se encontraba estable, según Fallat.

Agentes de policía esposaron a un hombre y lo mantuvieron detenido en la parte trasera de una patrulla. Conos naranjas y cinta de la escena del crimen bloqueaban la entrada de una vivienda ubicada en la esquina.

“Tienen que detener la violencia, en todas partes”, dijo Maurice Fortune, quien vive en la zona. “Puedes perder la vida en cualquier momento, ¿sabes a lo que me refiero? Esto es ridículo, porque me mudé aquí hace apenas dos semanas. Vine para cambiar de ambiente y es como... esto es... una locura”.

“Siempre es una tragedia ver que le disparen a alguien”, dijo otro hombre.

Los detectives pidieron a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre este u otros casos que llame de manera anónima a Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News Mariana Ortiz contribuyó a este reporte.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito localizaron el vehículo involucrado en el accidente y ahora se encuentra bajo custodia de la agencia.

No se ha realizado ningún arresto y los investigadores instan al conductor involucrado a presentarse y entregarse a las autoridades.

El avance en la investigación se produce días después de que los hermanos Peyton y Brent fueran atropellados mientras circulaban en una bicicleta eléctrica cerca de Northwest 117th Street y Northwest Seventh Avenue el miércoles por la noche.

Según MDSO, los agentes respondieron al accidente con fuga aproximadamente a las 8:40 p.m.

Los investigadores dijeron que el conductor de un Nissan Versa plateado o gris, modelo entre 2009 y 2012, circulaba en dirección norte por Northwest Seventh Avenue y se aproximaba a Northwest 117th Street cuando giró a la izquierda hacia 117th Street.

El vehículo atropelló a Peyton y Brent mientras circulaban por Northwest 117th Street en la bicicleta eléctrica, dijeron las autoridades.

Los investigadores señalaron que el conductor huyó del lugar en una dirección desconocida.

Los agentes llegaron y encontraron a ambos menores inconscientes y tendidos sobre la vía.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladó a los hermanos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en estado crítico.

Peyton murió el jueves a causa de sus heridas.

Patrice, tía de los menores, dijo esta semana a Local 10 News que Peyton y Brent eran inseparables.

“Siempre estaban juntos. Siempre estaban juntos”, dijo.

Patrice recordó a Peyton, de 10 años, como una animadora llena de vida.

“Era animadora, ya sabes, llena de vida. Todo el mundo la quería”, dijo Patrice. “Y ahora que esto ocurra y que nadie se presente, simplemente no tiene sentido”.

Brent permanecía hospitalizado el viernes después de una cirugía, mientras que cerca de la intersección donde fueron atropellados se instaló un memorial improvisado con velas, globos y otros homenajes.

La familia pidió al conductor que se entregara.

“Tiene que entregarse, punto”, dijo Patrice. “Simplemente entrégate”.

“Solo espero que alguien se presente”, agregó. “Ten corazón, por favor. Porque podrían haber sido los hijos de cualquiera”.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre la identidad o el paradero del conductor debe comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS (8477).

Según Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue (BSFR), varias personas llamaron al 911 alrededor de las 8:30 p.m. para reportar el accidente en la cuadra 4000 de West Hillsboro Boulevard.

Los equipos de rescate llegaron al lugar y encontraron un vehículo volcado y a varias personas con heridas críticas, informaron las autoridades.

Según los socorristas, debido a la gravedad del accidente, los comandantes del incidente declararon un “incidente con múltiples víctimas de nivel 1”, lo que provocó el despliegue de unidades adicionales de rescate y transporte.

Coconut Creek Fire Rescue también colaboró en el lugar.

Las autoridades dijeron que tres pacientes pediátricos fueron trasladados como “alertas de trauma de nivel 1”.

“Uno requirió maniobras continuas de reanimación y fue trasladado por tierra al Broward Health Medical Center”, dijeron funcionarios de BSFR a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico. “De los otros dos pacientes pediátricos, uno fue trasladado por vía aérea”.

Las autoridades confirmaron que una cuarta persona resultó herida y que otra fue declarada muerta en el lugar.

Las autoridades no proporcionaron información adicional sobre la persona que murió ni sobre los tres niños heridos.

Se advirtió a los conductores que esperaran afectaciones al tránsito a lo largo de West Hillsboro Boulevard mientras continúa la investigación del accidente.

A disturbance midway between Miami and the Bahamas will keep the afternoon storm chances pretty high today through Tuesday followed by another system (non-tropical) moving in from the Caribbean for the Wednesday-Thursday timeframe.

It’ll heat up into the lower 90s before those cooling storms roll in so plan on summer heat lingering despite the fact that autumn is about a week away. If you have any outdoor plans, the morning hours look mainly dry with our best storm chances occurring between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. the next few days. We’re taking a bite out of our drought with all the rain lately although we’re still well below normal for the year.

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Officer Kenia Fallat, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department, said the teen suffered lacerations to the head, and the three others were shooting victims.

“The circumstances surrounding the incident appear to be domestic-related,” Fallat said.

Police officers and fire rescue personnel responded to the house at about 6:30 a.m. at the corner of Northwest 17th Avenue and Third Street, near LoanDepot Park.

With blood all over her shirt, a young girl was seen being guided by police away from where the shooting occurred.

Fire rescue personnel rushed the man to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. His condition was critical, and the teen’s condition was stable, according to Fallat.

Police officers handcuffed a man and detained him in the back of a patrol car. Orange cones and crime scene tape blocked the entrance to a corner house.

“They gotta stop the violence -- everywhere,” Maurice Fortune, who lives in the area, said. “You can lose your life at any moment, you know what I mean? This is ridiculous, because I just moved here two weeks ago, so I came here to switch my environment up and it’s like -- this is ... it’s crazy.”

“It’s a tragedy always to see somebody get shot,” another man said.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Traffic Homicide Unit detectives located the vehicle involved in the crash and it is now in the agency’s custody.

No arrest has been made and investigators are urging the driver involved to come forward and turn themselves in.

The development comes days after siblings Peyton and Brent were struck while riding an e-bike near Northwest 117th Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue Wednesday night.

According to MDSO, deputies responded to the hit-and-run crash at approximately 8:40 p.m.

Investigators said the driver of a silver or gray 2009-2012 Nissan Versa was traveling northbound on Northwest Seventh Avenue and approaching Northwest 117th Street when the driver made a left turn onto 117th Street.

The vehicle struck Peyton and Brent as they traveled along Northwest 117th Street on the e-bike, authorities said.

Investigators said the driver then fled the scene in an unknown direction.

Deputies arrived to find both children unresponsive and lying in the roadway.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the siblings to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

Peyton died from her injuries Thursday.

Patrice, the children’s aunt, told Local 10 News this week that Peyton and Brent were inseparable.

“They always were together. Always were together,” she said.

Patrice remembered 10-year-old Peyton as a cheerleader who was full of life.

“She was a cheerleader, you know, full of life. Everybody loved her,” Patrice said. “And now for this to happen and no one to come forward, it’s just senseless.”

Brent remained hospitalized Friday following surgery and a makeshift memorial of candles, balloons and other tributes was set up near the intersection where the siblings were struck.

Their family pleaded with the driver to surrender.

“They need to turn themselves in, period,” Patrice said. “Just turn yourself in.”

“I just hope somebody just comes forward,” she added. “Have a heart, please. Because this could have been anybody’s kids.”

David Mathews of Bike-Friendly A.T.L., an Atlanta based nonprofit, dropped off a ghost bike after commuting about 11 hours to honor of the young life tragically cut short.

“These are gifts of love, compassion, to the families that I say are put on an island,” Matthews said.

Anyone with information about the driver’s identity or whereabouts is asked to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).

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According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, multiple people called 911 around 8:30 p.m. to report the crash in the 4000 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard.

Fire rescue crews arrived to find an overturned vehicle and multiple critically injured patients, they said.

According to first responders, due to the severity of the crash, incident commanders declared a “Level 1 Mass Casualty Incident,” prompting additional fire rescue and transport units to respond.

Coconut Creek Fire Rescue also assisted at the scene.

Authorities said three pediatric patients were transported as “Level 1 trauma alerts.”

“One required ongoing resuscitative care and was transported by ground to Broward Health Medical Center,” BSFR officials told Local 10 News in an email. “Of the two other pediatric patients, one was transported by air.”

Officials confirmed that a fourth person was injured and one person was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities did not immediately provide additional information about the person who died or the three injured children.

Drivers were warned to expect traffic disruptions along West Hillsboro Boulevard as the investigation into the crash continues.

Ugochukwu finished behind Tuukka Taponen, who became the first Finnish driver to win an F3 race.

The result in the season-ending race at the new Madring track was enough to give Ugochukwu the title over Britain's Freddie Slater, who ended eighth Sunday. The drivers had entered the final race level on points.

“To win the championship is testament to the consistency and the job we have done throughout the year,” Ugochukwu said.

The 19-year-old Ugochukwu, a member of McLaren's driver development program, had seven podium finishes this season, with two victories. Last year, he was on the podium twice and finished 16th in the drivers' standings in his first season in F3.

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Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country and causing Moscow to ban diesel exports in July, removing supplies from the already tight global market.

But the global crunch also came after the war on Iran curtailed oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Fuel prices are weighing on Americans as they prepare to vote in midterm elections in November.

Trump was asked by a reporter if he had spoken with Zelenskyy following his recent conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He responded by calling on Zelenskyy to halt strikes against Russia.

“Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open, which is being played at his Doonbeg golf club.

“We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting, that’s hurting the world,” he said.

Diesel exports from Gulf countries way down since Iran war began

According to a report published Friday by the International Energy Agency, net exports of diesel and gasoil from the Gulf countries in August stood at “just over a quarter” of what they were before the war on Iran began in February.

“Disruptions to Russia’s refining system and a near-halt to product exports following intensified Ukrainian attacks have compounded these losses,” the IEA wrote. It added that in February, combined next exports of diesel and gasoil from the Gulf and Russia “accounted for almost 45% of global seaborne trade.”

Kyiv says Russia's oil industry both funds and directly fuels Moscow's more than four-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has ramped up its air campaign against Ukraine in recent weeks, using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones to pierce Ukraine’s defenses. Moscow’s attacks have targeted Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter in what officials say is meant to demoralize civilians.

Civilians were killed and injured overnight into Sunday as Russia and Ukraine exchanged large-scale drone strikes.

Two people were killed and 14 more wounded near an oil and industrial hub in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to local officials, while Ukrainian authorities reported on Russian drones pummeling the Black Sea port of Odesa and starting a fire near a border crossing with Poland.

Ukraine targets more Russian oil facilities

The two Russian civilians died after a drone slammed into a tree near their parked car in the city of Nizhnekamsk, according to the office of regional head Rustam Minnikhanov. Nizhnekamsk houses a key cluster of oil refineries and other industrial plants. Mayor Radmir Belyaev said that a fire had broken out at an unspecified “enterprise.”

Ukraine also claimed to have hit a major oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, in Russia’s Krasnodar region near Crimea. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) agency said its drones struck a key oil processing unit and the refinery’s tank farm overnight into Sunday.

Krasnodar authorities said the strike on “an enterprise” in Slavyansk-on-Kuban injured three people and damaged an oil pipeline.

Russian forces shot down 389 Ukrainian drones during the night, Russia’s defense ministry said Sunday.

Russia targets Odesa and western Ukraine

In Ukraine, at least nine people were injured in a “massive” Russian nighttime attack on Odesa, according to Serhii Lysak from the city's military administration. Odesa is home to Ukraine's main port hub on the Black Sea and has faced sustained drone and missile strikes, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of trying to choke off its exports.

A Russian drone attack on Saturday struck a residential high-rise in Odesa, killing two people and injuring 26 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Russian overnight strikes also pounded western Ukraine, though there were no immediate reports of casualties. One drone set fire to a gas station near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing with Poland, according to Ukraine's top diplomat and a spokesperson for the local customs force.

“This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.

Ukraine’s border crossings with Poland are a conduit for much of the military and humanitarian aid sent by Western allies.

Valentyna Chernysh, a spokesperson for the Volyn Customs Office, told The Associated Press that the Yahodyn crossing was intact and no one was harmed.

Earlier this week, two people died when Russian drones hit the Starokozache border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday. The following day a “direct threat” to a Polish-Ukrainian crossing point was avoided due to the cooperation between Warsaw and Kyiv, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses shot down or suppressed 409 Russian drones of various types overnight, including a newer jet-powered version that is faster and more difficult to intercept. It said Russia had attacked Ukraine with 453 drones in total.

The system's vulnerability has been drawing increased attention, with election security advocates criticizing state election officials for failing to fix it before the November elections. Georgia election officials say they have taken steps to address the potential harm, but some advocates say the state is not going far enough.

The vulnerability does not allow votes to be changed or cast doubt on election results, but it could let someone see how others voted. That is important because ballot secrecy is a fundamental right under the state constitution and violations could create an opening for legal challenges.

While the flaw has been known for a few years, the widespread adoption of AI tools and the blistering pace of its sophistication have election security experts raising alarms.

This is "a bit of a wake-up call because it illustrates how much more easily vulnerabilities can be exploited now that AI can do all of the technical work for you,” said J. Alex Halderman, a voting technology specialist at the University of Michigan who was part of the team that exposed the flaw.

Other jurisdictions across the country use the same voting equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems, a company that has since been sold and renamed Liberty Vote. But many have applied a software update to fix the flaw, and some other states do not allow the public release of records that are needed to exploit it, said Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group focused on election technology.

Georgia, a presidential battleground with one of the nation's most closely watched U.S. Senate races this year, is the only place where the system is used statewide. Lindeman said that, combined with an open records law that has allowed access to key documents, creates a “perfect storm."

"It’s really embarrassing that this is still a possibility,” Lindeman said.

How does voting work in Georgia?

Georgia voters make their selections on touchscreen voting machines that print paper ballots voters insert into scanners to tally the votes.

Such cast-vote records detail the votes from each ballot. Those records and electronic ballot images created by the scanners are randomized. But the software flaw allows them to be put back in the order they were cast, according to a report by researchers who discovered it in 2022.

Along with other publicly available data, that information could be used to match voters to their ballots, the researchers wrote.

Max Springer, a Princeton University researcher who was not involved in the original research and studies AI, said he gave a publicly available AI assistant that research. He said it was able to reverse the shuffling of electronic ballot records from Georgia's May primary and then tell him what other records it would need to match names to ballots.

He then gave the AI assistant the early voting list for the counties he examined and the cast-vote record file, which could be obtained through a public records request. It was able to create “buckets of ballots and potential voters,” he wrote in a blog post. In many instances, that made it possible to match voters to their ballots.

In cases where ambiguity remained, he wrote, he got the public audit log for the ballot scanners and precinct check-in records and was able to match most ballots to specific voters.

“AI coding tools are essentially supercharging laymen people to exploit vulnerabilities,” Springer said in an interview.

Why does ballot secrecy matter?

Georgia's Constitution says elections “shall be by secret ballot” and state law requires voting machines to “permit voting in absolute secrecy so that no person can see or know any other elector’s votes.”

A lack of ballot secrecy can make it easier to buy or sell votes and increase the danger of coercion to vote a certain way by family members, political organizations, employers or government officials. It also is information that could be invaluable to political campaigns.

Gabriel Sterling, special projects manager in the secretary of state’s office, pushed back on the concerns. He said it would be easier to use mail ballots if vote-buying or coercion was the goal and that it likely would be cheaper for campaigns to just increase outreach to voters who fit a certain profile than try to identify voters this way.

State Election Board member Salleigh Grubbs proposed a rule during the board’s August meeting that would have required the secretary of state’s office to apply the software update recommended by the manufacturer by Tuesday.

“Each (voter) has one vote, and no one is entitled to know how it was cast,” Grubbs said. “That privacy protects more than the individual voter. It protects the integrity of the entire election.”

In a letter to the election board, an agency lawyer argued that the update has not been certified by the secretary of state, the implementation would take months and the legislature has not provided necessary funding. The board rejected Grubbs' proposal. Some members said they did not believe they had the authority to order the secretary of state to act and they raised concerns about the short timeline before the November midterms.

Board member Sara Tindall Ghazal, who voted against the proposal, said it is “intensely frustrating” that the software update has not been applied. But she pointed out that it is a felony to reveal how someone voted, which should serve as a deterrent.

“I hate the fact that it’s even physically possible, but there are very, very severe penalties if somebody were to actually do this,” she said.

What’s being done?

The secretary of state's office sent guidance to county election officials instructing them to refer open records requests for certain records to the secretary of state's office. It will release them with the problematic information blacked out and decline to release other information and documents.

Sterling said the office is working with a vendor to scramble the original order of ballot images and cast-vote records before they are made public. Halderman said that precaution would be necessary to keep someone from reconstructing the order.

While some other jurisdictions have applied the software update that reportedly fixes the problem, some have done what Georgia is now trying to do by restricting public access to the records needed to exploit the flaw.

Marilyn Marks is executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance, which advocates for election transparency and security and raised the alarm about the vulnerability. She argued that withholding documents is not the solution and that steps need to be taken to ensure ballots cannot be traced to voters in the first place.

“When Georgia’s election records contain identifiers that can be used to trace ballots to voters, the only legal and acceptable answer is to stop recording that information — not restrict public access to sensitive unlawful information to insiders and commercial vendors,” she said.

With time growing short before the elections, Marks said a workable interim solution would be to collect ballots in locked boxes at precincts and then shuffle and scan them at a central tabulating center.

The pilot “said we are going down,” Tiffany, a Republican, told reporters at a downtown Wausau firehouse. “'Pull your seat belt tight.' I gave it a yank and pulled it good and tight. It was probably about 10 seconds later ... we hit the water.”

Tiffany said he and the pilot, Leonard Boltz, remained on top of the plane in Lake Wausau until it began sinking before deciding to try and swim to shore. He said they swam about 100 to 150 feet (30 to 45 meters) until they reached water shallow enough to stand in.

“We’re really fortunate that God was looking after us last night," said the 68-year-old Tiffany.

The Marathon County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the emergency landing happened just before 9 p.m. Saturday. Boltz called 911 after the pair got out of the plane. They were rescued by emergency responders in a fire department airboat just after 9 p.m.

“The gravity of this is probably just hitting me at this point,” Tiffany said Sunday. "We were making jokes every step of the way last night, though we knew it was a serious situation, we tried to keep it light through the whole thing.”

David Crowley, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, wished Tiffany a “quick recovery” in a post on X and lauded the “heroism of the pilot.”

Tiffany said he was returning from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner when the single-engine, four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft lost power as it approached Wausau Downtown Airport.

Tiffany said he suffered a cut above his right eye that required 12 stitches. Boltz, who Tiffany said is a retired Air Force pilot, also suffered cuts and received four stitches.

He said the incident will not impact his gubernatorial campaign.

A no-wake buoy was placed near the plane, which remained in the lake, and boaters were being asked to avoid the area until the plane can be removed, the sheriff's office said.

A Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson said the agency would investigate the incident. A National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson said that agency is waiting for the FAA to assess the plane as to whether the damage was substantial enough for it to get involved.

Although Black men vote overwhelmingly Democratic, even small shifts in their support can help swing razor-thin elections. They are often some of the most scrutinized but least understood voters, a blind spot that Thompson wants to fix.

His mission led him to a Philadelphia barbershop one recent Friday night, where Thompson's organization, Win With Black Men, organized a conversation that mixed with the sounds of buzzing clippers and a break to eat cheesesteaks.

“We know the shop is like our own country club that we come to, so we really just want to start having a conversation about what’s important to us in our community,” Thompson told the few dozen people who were getting their hair cut, sat in chairs lined up around the room or stood wherever they found extra space.

The two-plus hour discussion, which included local politicians, union leaders, lifelong residents, recent arrivals and a few high schoolers, had immense political stakes. While Philadelphia is a liberal stronghold and not at play in this year's midterm elections, it is crucial in presidential elections. If Democrats cannot run up their numbers in the city, where Black residents are 40% of the population, it's much harder for them to win Pennsylvania. Democrats face similar tests across the country.

“I am a middle-class Black man who lives in D.C. I have no idea what the various day-in-the-life needs would be of the brother who goes to the Bill Pickett rodeo in Houston, the brother that may work on a peanut farmer in Albany, Georgia, versus the brother that lives in Oakland or one who lives in Detroit and goes to work at a car factory plant,” Thompson later told The Associated Press. “When you're polling, messaging, making TV decisions for Black men with one monolithic filter, you're going to lose a broad swath.”

As the conversation got underway, Thompson raised the key question that he has been pondering: Why didn’t some Black men enthusiastically support Harris, the first Black woman nominated for president by a major political party?

A heated exchange highlights unanswered questions

One exchange reflected the raucous but familiar debates some Black men have had with each other since Trump’s return to the White House.

Stanley Thigpen, a civil engineer, had a theory about Black men and Trump, who he described as “Big T over in 1600,” a reference to the White House's address at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Thigpen said he is not a supporter, but “what we fail to realize is Trump has always been a prominent figure in Black culture,” he said. Groans, laughs and objections immediately followed.

“I gotta push back on that,” interjected Al Glay, a real estate agent.

“You can’t push back on that!” Thigpen retorted. “Rappers rapped about Trump.”

Glay recalled Trump's statements about five Black and Latino teenagers, now sometimes known as the Exonerated Five, who were wrongly accused and convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York's Central Park.

“He was blatantly racist,” he said. “How can you support that?”

Another man brushed that off. “They’re all racist anyway.”

“You looked your mom in your face, you looked your aunt in the face,” Glay said. “You looked everybody in the face, and you saw Kamala, and you voted for the white man?”

The barbershop then briefly erupted.

There's a full circle moment for political outreach

Thompson got his start as an organizer for Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Thompson co-founded Win With Black Men in 2023 to mobilize Black men and highlight their priorities.

The organization’s efforts were turbocharged after Harris entered the presidential race and concerns spread that Black men wouldn’t enthusiastically back the then-vice president.

Harris visited the same shop — Philly Cuts in West Philadelphia — during her campaign, nine days before she lost to Trump. She discussed ways to improve Black male representation in education, including increasing pay and reducing student loans with the local state representative.

The recent conversation was much more free-form.

Men debated how to provide role models and educational opportunities for Black youths, whether the city's food deserts were the result of intentional policy and whether artificial intelligence posed greater risks or rewards for them in the labor market. But all agreed on greater government investment in their communities.

Thompson said he had found that Black men across regions, educational backgrounds and income levels are interested in policies that could help them serve as breadwinners and caregivers, build paths to independent wealth and obtain educational opportunities that boost financial independence and versatility.

Some shared feelings of disillusionment with politics that crossed party lines.

“For the longest time, we always have a reason to distrust government, because we know our history, right?” said Maurice Anderson, one of the barbers.

He remembered that Democratic President Bill Clinton signed legislation that boosted criminal penalties that disproportionately sent Black people to prison.

“What has happened,” he said, “is that we’re tapped out.” But even that was a trap, he added: “They want you to fall back.”

State Sen. Vincent Hughes, a Democrat, acknowledged the disillusionment.

“It’s always important that we’re having dialogue because we’ve got to turn that anger into action,” he said afterward.

John White Jr., 77, a former state representative and members of the Philadelphia City Council who led federal housing policy during the Clinton administration, said the men were having “the same types of conversations we were having back then.” He urged them to translate frustration into civic engagement.

Black men are set to be highly sought voting group in 2028

Political strategists increasingly regard men of color as a crucial voting group as the political landscape undergoes a generational shift.

“Black men are not a monolith,” said Terrance Woodbury, a political pollster whose firm, HIT Strategies, consulted on the Harris campaign.

Black men age 18 and older — roughly 4.3% of the U.S. population, according to the latest census estimate — have unique historical experiences that make their voting patterns distinct from other groups. In July, Black men age 20 and older had an unemployment rate of 6.2%, nearly double the 3.5% unemployment rate for white men, according to federal data.

A Federal Reserve survey of 2022 data found that their families had a median wealth of $44,890 compared with the median white family wealth of $285,010. In 2023, Black men's imprisonment rate was about 5.5 times the rate for white men, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

About one-quarter of Black men supported Trump in 2024, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 registered voters in all 50 states. That compares with 12% in 2020, when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Thompson says he has heard from Black men of different backgrounds — urban and rural, high- and low-income — about how deeper realities such as trauma, mass incarceration, economic discrimination and cultural stereotypes make some Black men more skeptical of mainstream institutions and traditional campaign outreach efforts.

Woodbury, the pollster, said several potential Democratic presidential candidates have already begun consulting his firm on outreach to Black men.

“There is no one looking at 2028 who does not understand the disproportionate impact that Black men will play in South Carolina,” he said in reference to the first Democratic presidential primary state.

Thompson believes Black men are more likely to vote for candidates who offer an inspirational message rather than a pessimistic one. But just as Trump's own dire messaging to Black communities resonated with some Black voters, Thompson said fears about the administration's policies on policing civil rights, corporate diversity programs and how the nation's history is taught, have also emerged as motivating issues for Black voters in the midterms, he said.

“We have the freedom today that countless ancestors prayed for, died for,” Thompson said. “And there are so many ways that we can use it. We just have to motivate and mobilize.”

The Chicago-born pope made his first public comments to commemorate the anniversary, speaking in English at the end of his traditional Sunday noon blessing from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.

“Two days ago marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States of America,” Leo said. “I renew my prayers for those who lost their lives and for those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.”

He added that “at a time when conflict and violence afflict so many of our brothers and sisters, I invite everyone to pray that the Lord will bestow his gift of peace upon the world.”

Speaking in Italian he added: “The memory of the tragic events of 25 years ago pushes us to renew our commitment to peace, above all with prayer.”

On Sept. 11, 2001, the former Robert Prevost was in Rome attending a big assembly of his Augustinian religious order. At the time, he was the Chicago provincial leader of the Augustinians. Prevost was elected superior of the entire order on Sept. 14, his birthday, a position he held for two consecutive terms until 2012.

Vatican News on Sunday republished excerpts of his first homily as superior, delivered on Sept. 21, 2001. In it, the future American pope reflected on the attacks.

“We cannot fail to remember the tragic events that shook the United States on Sept. 11,” he said in his homily. “The violence that the world witnessed last week in the United States is a tragic expression of a series of problems that are becoming increasingly acute everywhere.

"Hatred and violence will continue to grow as long as so many people are forced to live in extreme poverty and are oppressed by so many forms of injustice.”

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The Yemeni government vowed to send more forces to the Red Sea coast and one official conceded a “painful” defeat last week when Houthis captured the port city of Mokha and an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.

The escalation – especially Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure and its shipping in the Red Sea – adds pressure on global oil supplies and prices, and that could give Iran leverage in its war with the United States.

As Yemen risks descending into another civil war, the United Nations estimated that more than 80,000 people in the impoverished country have been displaced by the fighting since the start of September.

One woman said a mortar shell fell nearby as she fled in the middle of the night from the town of Khawkha in Hodeida province along the Red Sea, shortly before it was captured by Houthis.

“I saw with my own eyes cars and buses burning, and bodies of children and women were lying on the road in a horrific scene,” said the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern for her and her family’s safety.

Houthis claim attacks against Saudi Arabia

Saudi authorities sounded sirens Sunday afternoon in the southern city of Abha and Khamis Mushait province, warning residents to take shelter from potential incoming fire. Both areas were repeatedly attacked by the Houthi in recent weeks.

The Houthis claimed to have used drones and missiles to target Saudi Arabia, including a military base just over the border with Yemen. Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree didn’t provide evidence or say when the attack occurred.

The Saudi civil defense overnight said a projectile fell in a different area near the border with Yemen along the Red Sea, injuring two people and damaging a mosque and several other buildings. The statement blamed the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia did not announce any new attacks targeting the Houthis.

The Houthis are targeting Saudi oil infrastructure and shipping as part of a recently declared blockade, but they have said they do not intend to threaten other countries' commercial shipping.

Yemen says 500 soldiers killed as it vows to fight back

The National Resistance, a government-allied force that had controlled coastal areas, said more than 500 government fighters were killed on the west coast over the past four weeks — its first comprehensive toll.

It also said more than 1,000 Houthis had been killed in Hodeida and Taiz provinces. A spokesman for the Houthis didn't respond to a request for comment.

Yemen is home to over 40 million people who fear a return to the civil war that began more than a decade ago and killed 150,000, bringing many others to the brink of famine. Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Saudi Arabia have been battling the Houthis for 12 years. A ceasefire that began in 2022 had mostly halted the fighting.

A senior government official in Yemen said its forces will return to the Red Sea coast and fight back. People fleeing the Houthi advance told The Associated Press they saw forces withdrawing and urging people to run.

Sultan al-Arada, a member of the ruling presidential leadership council, described the collapse of government forces in the port city of Mokha and elsewhere on Yemen’s west coast as “painful and regrettable.” He said in the televised interview aired late Saturday that forces “are currently regrouping and will return to the battle.”

On Sunday, Rashad al-Alimi, who leads the presidential council, sought to downplay the defeats as “incidental,” according to comments published by the country's state-run SABA news agency. The government, he said, "will remain clear and fixed on the goal of retrieving (state) institutions and of reclaiming sovereignty over all national territories.”

On Sunday, the Yemeni military said it launched airstrikes on Houthi positions in Mokha, the coastal town of Dhubab and elsewhere in Taiz province. The rebels reported strikes by the Saudi-backed forces in Taiz province and artillery shelling in Saada province, a Houthi stronghold on Yemen's northern border with Saudi Arabia.

The advance puts Houthis closer to a major US base in Djibouti

The Houthis' advance puts them just 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the U.S. military base in Djibouti, on the other side of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. It's the main U.S. base in Africa and one of several foreign military bases in Djibouti, including those of China, France and Japan.

The small Horn of Africa nation is already seeing the arrival of displaced Yemenis making the perilous water crossing. More than 2,000 Yemenis have reached Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.

Djibouti's Economy and Finance Minister Ilyas M. Dawaleh, said on X that the country's navy, coast guard and other specialized agencies were conducting rescue operations and providing emergency assistance.

Yemenis displaced by fighting worry about their survival

The U.N. migration agency said Sunday that more than 82,000 people in Yemen have been displaced since the beginning of September.

“The displaced people are in a very bad condition,” said Ahmad al-Masawi, the director of the Al Salam camp in the southern port city of Aden, who appealed to international organizations for assistance. “They left their homes quickly without any clothing or anything. They are crammed in camps, houses and even on roads."

Hussein Haydara sat outside a shelter at the camp in a white undershirt, as his children waited to be assigned to a tent. He worried about how far the shelter is from schools, hospitals and markets, and wondered how they will survive the next weeks or months.

Haydara had fled his home in Hodeida once before, when the Houthis took it over in 2015. But this time feels more precarious.

“With the first displacement, we had time to plan things but this time we were forced to escape all of a sudden. One could hardly take their children and the lightest stuff possible,” he said.

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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Omar Farouk in Mogadishu, Somalia, and Noha ElHennawy in Cairo, contributed to this report.

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According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the fire was reported at about 7:30 a.m. at the stadium, located at 1350 NW 55th St.

Firefighters arrived to find some smoke showing and stretched a hose line to the room.

However, crews discovered that the building’s sprinkler system had already extinguished the fire.

Firefighters checked to make sure the flames had not spread to other areas, and authorities said the damage appeared to be contained to the telecom room.

A fire investigator will work to determine what caused the fire.

Según Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, el incendio fue reportado alrededor de las 7:30 a.m. en el estadio, ubicado en 1350 NW 55th St.

Los bomberos llegaron y encontraron algo de humo, por lo que tendieron una manguera hasta la sala.

Sin embargo, los equipos descubrieron que el sistema de rociadores del edificio ya había extinguido el incendio.

Los bomberos revisaron el lugar para asegurarse de que las llamas no se hubieran propagado a otras áreas, y las autoridades dijeron que los daños parecían estar limitados a la sala de telecomunicaciones.

Un investigador de incendios trabajará para determinar qué provocó el fuego.

A week after having to come from the back of the grid for an epic win in front of his home fans at Monza, Antonelli was virtually gifted the victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.

The young Italian took advantage of an unlucky break for Lando Norris to win in F1's return to Madrid and increase his lead in the drivers' standings.

“It’s good to win and I think the pace at the end was good,” Antonelli said. “But if I have to be realistic and honest, you know, today we didn’t deserve to win. Lando deserved to win today.”

Antonelli was second early on at the new Madring track in the Spanish capital, but pole-sitter Norris relinquished his lead after he wasn't able to pit when a virtual safety car was deployed. He had already passed the pit entrance and had to pit on the next lap in a move that dropped him a few positions.

“Lucky for the virtual safety car, feel a bit bad for Lando,” Antonelli said on the radio after the race.

He had come from 19th place to win at the Italian GP last weekend.

“It doesn’t feel as good because I think Lando today deserved to win,” Antonelli said. “But overall, you know, we’ll take it.”

Norris ended third, behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen in “one that just got away from us.” He said he was “insanely unlucky” with the safety car and “there was nothing I could do.”

“I was the only one on the whole grid that didn’t get the chance to do the pit stop. That’s just unfortunate," Norris said. “Of course I feel like I deserved more today, but the others also did a good race and I have to give credit to that too.”

Charles Leclerc, who led most of the race after opting not to pit when the virtual safety car was deployed, ended fourth after having to change tires late.

Leclerc's Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton saw his race last only seven laps after he reported a problem with his brakes and retired. The seven-time world champion had also struggled last weekend in the Italian GP, when he finished sixth following an early dust-up with Leclerc.

The Spanish GP returned to the Madrid region for the first time in 45 years. It last took place at the Jarama circuit in the capital’s outskirts in 1981.

It was the eighth race win this season for Antonelli, who now leads teammate George Russell by 81 points with nine races remaining. Russell finished fifth Sunday.

"Realistically, I’m not in the fight for the drivers’ (championship), and that just allows me to focus race by race and try to get some good results,” Russell said.

The start of the race gained importance with the new track yielding few overtaking opportunities, and Antonelli was able to challenge Norris into the first turn. He got past the McLaren driver after cutting the corner to avoid a collision but had to give the position back.

Verstappen also had to give back the position to Hamilton after gaining advantage while going off the track shortly after the start.

Virtual safety car changes fortunes

The race changed on Lap 15 when the virtual safety car was deployed after the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll stopped on the track with a brake problem.

Norris missed the opportunity to pit under the safety car and Antonelli took advantage to stop and come out in front of the McLaren. Leclerc stayed out and moved to first place on a different strategy.

“We did a good job with the strategy, playing our cards to suit our situation," Leclerc said. “If we had been on the opposite strategy, I would have finished fourth as well, so either way, we extracted the most we could out of our race.”

Norris ended pitting a lap later, when the virtual safety had ended, so he lost more time and returned to the track in fifth position. He also lost time because his stop was slower than usual because of a problem with the right-front wheel.

With the hard tires holding on well, the front-running drivers did not have to pit again and Leclerc had to come in late for his required stop, relinquishing the lead.

Spaniards squabble early

The home grand prix was one to forget for the local drivers.

The only two Spaniards on the grid, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz, started on the back and touched each other early in the race.

“He squeezed me into the wall,” Alonso said. “(At) the start, he crashed into two people, now he squeezed me into the wall on breaking.”

Sainz had also collided with other drivers after an aggressive start at his home race. He received a five-second penalty for the incident with Alonso, and eventually retired with a car issue.

“He complained on the radio and got them to punish me,” Sainz said of Alonso.

Spanish King Felipe VI was among those on hand for the race in the Spanish capital.

Organizers expected a total attendance of nearly 350,000 spectators throughout the weekend.

Protests ahead of the race

Hours before the start, a few hundred residents from neighborhoods in northern Madrid protested against the return of the race.

Many of them were clad in bright yellow T-shirts and carried signs reading “Stop Formula 1 in Madrid.”

There was plenty of support for the event locally, but some residents complained about the noise generated by the cars, the road closures and the environmental effects of the race, which is contracted to take place in the Spanish capital for 10 years.

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Agentes de la policía de Miami y personal de rescate de bomberos respondieron alrededor de la 1:30 a.m. del sábado a una casa ubicada en Southwest 18 Street, cerca de 23rd Avenue.

El personal de rescate de bomberos trasladó al hombre al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, y detectives respondieron a la escena del crimen cerca de Shenandoah Park.

Los detectives pidieron a cualquier persona con información sobre este u otros casos que llame a Crime Stoppers del condado Miami-Dade al 305-471-8477 para permanecer en el anonimato.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mariana Ortiz, contribuyó a este reporte.

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Vamos! The Solheim Cup is back in the hands of Team Europe.

The blue wave came early in the Sunday singles at Bernardus Golf and never went away, all the way through to Woad holing a putt from 2 feet on No. 17 to win her match and guarantee the Europeans would reach the 14 1/2 points needed to reclaim the crystal trophy from the United States.

Woad, one of Team Europe's four rookies, punched the air and jumped into the arms of her teammates who flooded onto the green in celebration.

Within 10 minutes, Ciganda, inevitably, officially got the Europeans to the victory target.

The Spaniard, who got the decisive point when Europe retained the Solheim Cup in 2023, completed a 4-and-2 victory over Jennifer Kupcho, a feisty American who had roared “Vamos!” ("Let's go!") when holing an outrageous 93-foot putt on the way to beating Ciganda in a spiky four-balls match on Saturday.

“Today I knew she had no chance,” Ciganda said. “I was like, I want to kill you.”

Strains of “Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé” drifted across the course as the last matches finished and the European team and staff celebrated, spraying Champagne over each other and draping flags over their shoulders.

Captain Anna Nordqvist, her assistants along with the players and their caddies formed a line, put their arms over one another’s shoulders, and walked as one up the 18th fairway toward the green where Celine Boutier — the remaining European player on the course — was wrapping up her match.

When Boutier finished, she piled into the mass celebrations.

The final score in the Netherlands: Europe 15, the United States 13.

To a backdrop of blue-and-yellow smoke, Nordqvist hoisted aloft the Solheim Cup on a podium in front of a first-tee grandstand filled with jubilant Team Europe fans, then gave each of her celebrating players and assistants a touch of the trophy.

“This feels so good,” said Nordqvist, who announced her retirement from playing two weeks ago. “There’s just been so much hard work this week and in the last two years leading up to this.”

The Europeans have now won three of the last five editions, the only loss in that stretch coming in Virginia two years ago. The U.S. team didn't have possession of the trophy for long and is still without a win on the road since 2015.

“The Europeans played great today, and that’s the way it goes,” U.S. captain Angela Stanford said. “Their backs were against the wall, they had nothing to lose, and that’s exactly what they did — they came out and played well.”

The teams were tied at 8-8 after two days and set out Sunday in heavy rain for the 12 singles matches, with Europe going out fast, putting blue all over the scoreboard and ultimately winning six of the first eight matches. Ciganda, in Match 11, added the crucial other victory.

Early wins for Charley Hull and Linn Grant laid the platform for victory, the only wobble for Europe coming when U.S. player Alison Lee came from 4 down after 11 holes to beat Esther Henseleit, 1 up, for the greatest comeback in Solheim Cup history.

Rookies contributed massively for Europe all week and especially Sunday, with Woad, Nastasia Nadaud and Julia Lopez Ramirez all winning matches in the singles.

Nadaud, a 21-year-old Frenchwoman, was a revelation this week, winning three points. Only Grant, Lee (both 4) and Lauren Coughlin (3 1/2) collected more.

“I think it’s been one of the best teams that we’ve had in the last few years,” Ciganda said. “Everyone just a unit, a team. That’s what Europe is about.”

The U.S. leads the all-time series 11-8, with one draw.

Redemption for Woad and Hull

A big part of the narrative of the week was the misfiring performances of Europe's highest-ranked players.

Hull and Woad, two English players, were paired in each of the first four sessions — a first for a Solheim Cup — and only contributed a half-point.

Redemption came Sunday, with Hull leading from the front — she beat Megan Khan, previously undefeated in singles, 3 and 2 in Match 1 — and Woad going 4 up after nine holes against Auston Kim before winning 2 and 1.

“She’s been playing so good this week and not really getting anything off of it,” Nordqvist said of Woad. “But holing the winning putt, I don’t think that’s ever going to be hard to (forget) for her.”

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Hernandez, quien trabajaba cerca, dijo que escuchó a los perros ladrar y los gritos de auxilio de la mujer cerca de la cuadra 200 de Northwest Ninth Terrace.

“Vi a los dos perros encima de ella, pude correr hacia ellos y gritar, y por suerte la soltaron”, dijo Hernandez.

Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue reportó que encontró a la mujer con heridas en la parte posterior de la cabeza, el cuello, el brazo derecho y el tobillo derecho.

“Se le veía el cráneo. Tenía agujeros en los brazos y las piernas y en la parte posterior de las piernas”, dijo Cobi Brooks, testigo. “Estaba realmente destrozada, espero que sobreviva”.

MDFR utilizó un helicóptero para trasladar a la mujer al Jackson South Medical Center.

La mujer, quien tuvo que someterse a una cirugía, permanecía hospitalizada la mañana del sábado y su condición era estable.

Servicios para Animales del condado Miami-Dade incautó a los dos perros.

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Beijing has barred unauthorized drone flights, citing security reasons, and has designated the city’s administrative area as restricted airspace.

The latest revised rules come after a fatal accident in late June when a small aircraft crashed into a Beijing skyscraper, killing the pilot and injuring 13 others.

Under regulations approved in March and which came into effect May 1, existing drone owners in Beijing had to register their devices with their real names and identities, but owners have been allowed to keep their registered drones under strict requirements.

However, according to the revised regulations approved this month, which will be effective from Nov. 15, the possession or storage of drones or key components within Beijing's city limits will also be banned. The revised rules were released Sunday by authorities.

Authorities can confiscate the drones of those who do not comply and can impose fines on individuals and companies.

Beijing authorities will be offering subsidies for existing drone owners to sell their devices at designated buyback locations, according to the state-owned newspaper Beijing Daily. Drone owners can also consider scrapping and recycling their drones with a small subsidy provided, or shipping them outside of Beijing before the new rules come into effect.

Drone users can still fly drones outdoors in other parts of the country, but real name registrations are required. Beijing, the Chinese capital, often has more stringent security rules than other parts of China.

Bringing drones into Beijing from outside the city, including by tourists, is already prohibited.

Addressing the BRICS summit of leading developing nations on its second day in New Delhi, Modi also warned that the “weaponization of technology and critical minerals” could hinder global development and shared prosperity.

Founded in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, BRICS has expanded to 11 members representing about half the world’s population and a significant share of global economic output. It has sought greater representation for developing countries in global institutions and promoted alternatives to Western-dominated financial systems.

“The number of conflicts and tensions in the world is continuously increasing, and this is having an increasingly negative and far-reaching impact on the lives of ordinary people,” Modi said, alongside bloc leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

“Pandemics, climate disasters and supply-chain disruptions have shown that in today’s interconnected world, no crisis remains confined to a single region,” Modi said, while announcing that the bloc agreed to establish an integrated early warning system for infectious diseases, aimed at boosting preparedness and response to future outbreaks.

In his closing remarks at the summit, Modi urged the bloc nations to convert the summit’s agreements into tangible and time-bound action and move them from “files to real-life impact.”

The discussions over the past two days, he said, reinforced the belief that “BRICS is not merely a group of countries, but an ecosystem of solutions.” He wished China success as it takes over the BRICS chair for the next term.

The group in a joint declaration Saturday had expressed concern over escalating tensions in the Middle East and Sudan, and called for disputes to be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.

The bloc reiterated support for a multipolar world order and reforms to the United Nations, including its Security Council, as well as global financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The leaders opposed unilateral sanctions and coercive economic measures and criticized sanctions not authorized by the U.N. They also criticized rising tariffs and nontariff barriers, saying they undermine global trade and supply chains.

The bloc backed greater use of local currencies in trade and stronger cross-border payment systems, while calling for cooperation on food security, energy, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and climate action.

The declaration was a significant breakthrough, as forging consensus among Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — which hold competing positions on key regional and geopolitical issues — posed a complex diplomatic challenge amid ongoing conflicts and heightened tensions.

Meanwhile, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they fired drones and missiles toward southern Saudi Arabia, putting new pressure on a key U.S. ally in the region. And a new Israeli strike in Gaza has killed two people.

Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

Iran says 1 person killed in strike on commercial ship

State-run media said an Iranian commercial vessel was struck off Qeshm Island, the largest island in the Persian Gulf that sits on the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and three wounded.

Separately, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations monitor reported a vessel was hit by a projectile while transiting the strait, with no details. It was not immediately clear if it was the same strike.

There was no immediate statement by the U.S. military, which previously has struck Iranian-flagged vessels as it keeps up a blockade of Iranian ports. On Saturday, the military said its forces had redirected 100 commercial vessels over the past 60 days.

Houthis claim new attacks on Saudi Arabia

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they fired drones and missiles toward neighboring Saudi Arabia.

The Houthis’ military spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, claimed in a statement that they targeted a military base in Sharurah province in the Najran region. He didn’t provide evidence or say when the attack took place. Sirens went off in the province on Saturday, according to the Saudi civil defense, which didn’t report casualties or damage.

The civil defense overnight also said a projectile fell in al-Tawwal governorate near the border with Yemen along the Red Sea, injuring two people and damaging a mosque and several other buildings. The statement blamed the Houthis.

The escalation in fighting between the Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government risks a return to civil war. Yemen's government has vowed its forces will respond after withdrawing from the rebels' swift advance in recent days along the Red Sea coast to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Across the strait, the small Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti is already seeing the arrival of fleeing Yemenis making the perilous crossing. More than 2,000 people have arrived there, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.

Israeli strike in Gaza kills 2

An Israeli strike hit a car in Gaza City, killing two people, according to al-Shifa hospital, which received the bodies. Smoke rose from the vehicle's mangled, bloodied frame.

“They had no heads,” said resident Ahmad Shreim, who came across the remains while on his way to pick up his daughter from school. He said “nowhere is safe” in Gaza.

The Israeli military said it targeted two Hamas members.

While the heaviest fighting has subsided since a ceasefire took hold in October, Israeli airstrikes have killed 1,369 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by international organizations. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants.

Syrians protest over high fuel prices

Protests broke out in different parts of Syria over increased fuel prices Sunday, with demonstrators blocking a main highway in Idlib province for several hours.

The government announced what it said were temporary price increases for gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products Sunday, citing rising global fuel prices as a result of the U.S.-Iran war. The price of gasoline was increased by about 30% and diesel by 40%.

Syrian Energy Minister Mohammed al-Bashir said Saturday that Syria is producing about 102,000 barrels of oil per day, while it needs about 325,000 barrels per day for domestic consumption and is relying on imports to make up the difference.

Iraq border crossings with Iran reopen

Iraqi authorities said passenger traffic had resumed at key border crossings with Iran after being closed Saturday following drone attacks launched from Iraq that closed Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline.

An umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq has denied they were responsible.

Crossings at al-Sheeb in southern Maysan province and Shalamcheh in southern Basra province resumed early Sunday, with trade to resume in the coming days, Iraq’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.

Egyptian and Iranian leaders meet in New Delhi

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian held talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, where the group of emerging economies has expressed concern about rising Mideast tensions. China again offered to play its “due role” to forge peace.

El-Sissi told Pezeshkian that Egypt expects Iran to make all possible efforts to de-escalate and achieve a “comprehensive, sustainable and peaceful settlement to the crisis,” according to a statement from the Egyptian presidency.

The Egyptian leader also urged an end to attacks on Arab countries.

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The attack drew attention back to the strait after threats to shipping in the Red Sea intensified last week. Iran-backed Houthi rebels battling government forces in Yemen captured an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted the Qeshm governor as blaming a “terrorist enemy” for Sunday's attack, which it said killed one and wounded four.

There was no immediate comment by the U.S. military, which has struck Iranian-flagged vessels during its blockade of Iranian ports and faces a new threat from Iranian ballistic missiles launched at its warships.

Qeshm Island, about 14 miles (22 kilometers) from the port city of Bandar Abbas, is key to Iran asserting control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Hours before the attack, Iran’s government remained defiant. “Our people can’t be bullied into submission. Iran won’t surrender,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a social media post.

President Donald Trump disagreed, saying on Sunday that Iran “wants to make a deal so bad” that “they’re calling constantly.” Trump spoke at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, where he was attending a tournament.

Later, when asked by a reporter whether the U.S. struck the Iranian cargo vessel early Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said: “I don’t want to say.” He then boarded Air Force One to head back to Washington.

Iran aims to brief regional countries on the strait

Iran had said foreign ministers from regional countries would meet Monday in Oman to discuss efforts by Iran and Oman, located on the other side of the strait, to manage shipping on it. But the foreign minister of Oman, Badr Albusaidi, said on X late Sunday that the meeting had been postponed “in the interests of consensus.”

Iran and Oman agreed to postpone the talks “at the request of some regional countries,” said Mohammad Ali Bak, an official in Iran’s foreign ministry who was quoted by IRNA on X.

Commercial ship traffic remains low in the Strait of Hormuz as attacks continue on what was seen as an international waterway before the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations monitor said Sunday that a vessel was hit by a projectile while transiting the strait, though it wasn’t clear if this was referring to the attack Iran had reported off Qeshm. The monitor said a severe fire had broken out and that local authorities were evacuating those on board.

The U.S. has asserted that plenty of oil is getting out as its military helps to guide ships along Oman's coast, at the risk of being struck.

Before the meeting in Oman was postponed, only Iraq had publicly confirmed plans to attend. Bahrain had said it would not attend, citing a lack of diplomatic relations with Tehran.

Since early in the war, Iran has expressed interest in having ships pay fees for transit. It has said traffic into the Persian Gulf would pass through Iranian waters, while the outbound route would pass partly through Iranian waters and partly through Oman’s.

There had been some optimism in the region about the planned meeting, with hope that Gulf nations might use it to assert a collective response to a war they had no part in starting. For months, they have faced Iranian attacks that Tehran has claimed target U.S. military assets on their lands.

On Sunday, Iran’s president said he had a “good talk” over the weekend with a top official from the United Arab Emirates on the sidelines of a global summit of leading developing nations.

Iran has fired thousands of missiles and drones at the Gulf country, a close U.S. ally.

Pezeshkian said he met with Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed, while attending the BRICs summit in New Delhi.

“We talked about the issues of concern so that it’s possible to put the past behind us, to look toward the future and how we can build the future together,” Pezeshkian said. His comments were aired live on Iranian state television.

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Anna reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Amir Radjy in Cairo, Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Didi Tang in Washington, contributed.

Oregon, meanwhile, plummeted 15 spots to No. 21, its lowest ranking in four years, after its 39-31 road loss to an Oklahoma State team that had lost 21 straight against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents.

Michigan, which fell out of the Top 25 after needing an extra second and second-chance Hail Mary try to beat Western Michigan a week ago, returned to the poll at No. 19 following its 17-10 win over No. 11 Oklahoma. The Sooners dropped 13 spots to No. 24.

Texas' comeback from 20 points down in the fourth quarter to win 24-23 was the largest fourth-quarter rally ever for a win against an AP No. 1 team, according to Sportradar, and avenged a season-opening loss to the Buckeyes a year ago that knocked the Longhorns out of the No. 1 spot.

Texas received 56 first-place votes from the voting panel of writers and broadcasters and holds down the No. 1 spot in the regular season for the first time since Oct. 13, 2024.

No. 2 Georgia and No. 3 Notre Dame held their places, Indiana moved up one spot to No. 4 and Miami was bumped up two to No. 5. Ohio State, LSU, Mississippi, Texas A&M and Alabama rounded out the top 10.

Five teams besides Texas received at least one first-place vote. Miami got four, Georgia and Indiana three apiece and Notre Dame and LSU one each.

Ohio State had been No. 1 in 17 of the previous 20 polls since winning the 2024 national championship. The Buckeyes held the top spot in every regular-season poll last year, slipping to No. 3 after losing to Indiana in the Big Ten championship game and ending at No. 5.

They were back to No. 1 in the preseason poll and stayed there until the loss at Texas dropped them to lowest ranking since they were No. 6 entering the 2024 College Football Playoff. Ohio State is 1-3 in its last four games, though each loss came to a top 10 team.

Oregon's fall is the biggest surprise of the season to date. The Ducks came in with a cast of returning stars and a transfer class that raised the program's hopes of winning its first national championship. But they struggled to beat Boise State at home in the opener and then allowed 554 yards and generated just 281 in their first loss to an unranked opponent since 2021.

The Southeastern Conference has nine ranked teams, including the top two and six of the top 10, and the Big Ten has seven. The Big 12 and Atlantic Coast conferences have four each.

In and out

Michigan rebounded from its controversial win over Western Michigan to beat Oklahoma as a 4.5-point home underdog and returned at No. 19.

A second straight uninspired performance sent Washington out of the rankings. A week after the Huskies beat Washington State 24-10, they won 16-14 over Utah State as a 26.5-point home favorite. Washington became the first 2-0 team to win and drop out of the rankings since 2014.

Poll points

— Texas hasn't been ranked No. 1 so early in a regular season since 1965.

— Ohio State's drop from No. 1 to No. 6 was the biggest since Texas fell to No. 7 after losing to the Buckeyes last year.

— Oklahoma's drop was its biggest in a non-pandemic year since it went from No. 5 to out of the rankings (then the Top 20) after losing its 1968 opener 45-21 to Notre Dame.

— The SEC's six top-10 teams ties the record it set and matched in two straight September polls in 2024. The SEC also had six top-10 teams in the 2020 pandemic season but the Big Ten was not playing at the time of those polls.

Conference call

SEC (9 ranked teams): No. 1 Texas, No. 2 Georgia, No. 7 LSU, No. 8 Mississippi, No. 9 Texas A&M, No. 10 Alabama, No. 15 Tennessee, No. 20 Missouri, No. 24 Oklahoma.

Big Ten (7): No. 4 Indiana, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 12 USC, No. 14 Penn State, No. 18 Iowa, No. 19 Michigan, No. 21 Oregon.

ACC (4): No. 5 Miami, No. 16 SMU, No. 23 Louisville, No. 25 Virginia.

Big 12 (4): No. 11 BYU, No. 13 Texas Tech, No. 17 Utah, No. 22 Houston.

Independent (1): No. 3 Notre Dame.

Ranked vs. ranked

No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Mississippi: It's the first top-10 matchup of these teams since 1962 and, in a delicious scheduling quirk, LSU is playing in Oxford a second straight year. No doubt, Rebels fans will emerge from tailgating in The Grove juiced up and ready to give Lane Kiffin a not-so-warm welcome in his return after his somewhat awkward departure last December.

No. 22 Houston at No. 13 Texas Tech: The teams have a common opponent, Oregon State. Houston beat the Beavers at home and Tech came from behind to win in Corvallis. Red Raiders have won 12 of the last 13 meetings and haven't lost to the Cougars at home since 1990.

No. 16 SMU at No. 23 Louisville: Both are coming off easy wins over FCS opponents. Kevin Jennings had a hand in four touchdowns in a 32-point win over an injury-plagued Cardinals team last year.

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“I kind of figured he would just come at me crazy,” Garcia said, explaining what he expected of his challenger. “Second round, I said I’m tired of him coming forward; I’m gonna stand my ground a little bit ... and then he got caught with a hellacious one."

Garcia’s sharp right hand to the jaw put Benn on the canvas early in the second round. Moments later, with the Englishman on the ropes, Garcia (26-2, 21 KOs) served a flurry of punches that prompted referee Thomas Taylor to step in and end the contest at the 1:25 mark and send the announced sold-out crowd of 18,855 into a frenzy.

”He’s exactly what I thought he was; he went in and tried to fight me. I think he needs to be a little bit more patient,” Garcia added. “I don’t think he has enough experience. I think he will be back. I have a new level of respect for him.”

Garcia closed -300 at BetMGM, meaning bettors would have had to lay $300 to win $100.

The bout was more than another high-profile main event, as it marked a career-defining crossroads for both fighters.

For Garcia, he solidified himself in the 147-pound weight class as a durable, legitimate titleholder rather than a gifted attraction whose career has often been defined by controversy, inconsistency and unrealized potential.

The convincing victory positioned Garcia for a lucrative welterweight fight against the division’s other leading names, including Teofimo Lopez, who was ringside, or another major showdown with Devin Haney, who was also in attendance.

For the 29-year-old Benn (25-2), it’s likely back to the middleweight division after failing in his first world-title opportunity and a chance to escape the considerable shadow of his father, former two-division champion Nigel Benn.

Benn was transported to a hospital after the fight for observation.

In the co-main event, Jai Opetaia (31-0, 24 KOs) patiently weathered several cagey rounds before stopping Noel Mikaelian in the ninth round of their scheduled 12-round lineal cruiserweight championship fight.

Opetaia stunned Mikaelian (28-4) with a multi-punch combination and two crushing hooks, then sent him backward into the ropes with a powerful right hand. Referee Harvey Dock administered a standing eight-count before determining Mikaelian could not continue, ending the competitive fight by TKO at 1:30.

Da’Mazion Vanhouter (13-0, 10 KOs) wasted no time in his scheduled 8-round heavyweight bout, delivering a crushing right hand at the 1:58 mark of the first round for a knockout of Raphael Akpejiori (19-4).

In the 10-round lightweight bout that opened the main card, Andres Cortes (26-0) retained his belt with a unanimous decision over Mark Magsayo (29-3), with all three judges scoring the fight 97-93.

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The Longhorns quarterback led No. 4 Texas back from a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat No. 1 Ohio State 24-23 on Saturday night.

Using his legs to keep drives going and his right arm to start the rally with a touchdown pass to Ryan Wingo, Manning delivered the kind of primetime performance that could redefine his career to date and propel the program's national championship hopes.

“His grit started it,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said.

Grit that earned a piece of history. The Longhorns’ 20-point comeback in the fourth quarter is the largest fourth-quarter rally to win against an AP No. 1 team, according to Sportradar.

Grit born out of the adversity of last season's failures. Texas started last season No. 1, lost at Ohio State and was soon unranked after a 3-2 start. Manning was the lightning rod for criticism because of erratic play in his first season as the full-time starter.

“Last September was a hard month for him,” Sarkisian said. "I think him getting through the adversity of last year helped him get through the adversity of tonight.

“When he comes back, everybody else comes back,” Sarkisian said, “That’s a guy who has some grit, some resilience.”

Saturday night looked like last season's version of Manning and the Longhorns at the start. His first pass was a completion that was fumbled away. Four plays later, a long throw turned into a fluke interception that set up Ohio State's first touchdown and a 10-0 Buckeyes lead.

Nothing was working until Texas was backed up near its own end zone in the third quarter and losing 23-3. Manning took a big hit on the sideline as he made a desperate scramble.

The hit seemed to wake up the entire offense. He completed 11 of his final 15 passes, directing three scoring drives of 12 plays or longer. Hollywood Smothers finished two of them with short touchdown runs, the last one with just 25 seconds left.

“It was a weird start,” Manning said. "I’m really proud of the way we responded. We could have let that thing go. It’s a testament to our coaches and our culture.”

Manning's final stat line of 23-of-37 passing for 196 yards and a touchdown won't light up a Heisman Trophy ballot. But pulling out the win in a game between two national championship contenders shows how far Manning has come as a competitor.

“We just had to get something going. I always knew we were going to be in it in the end,” Manning said. “I’m so glad we won.”

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The U.S. captain feels that victory has no bearing on the rematch Sunday for the women's FIBA World Cup title.

“This is a completely new game and everybody has their own things that continue to motivate them,” Stewart said after the U.S. topped Spain 76-66 in a semifinal Saturday. “I think that what I will continue to be preaching to this team is ‘we’re going to turn the page on everything.’ This is one game to win the the gold medal at the World Cup in Berlin and that’s our entire focus.”

It's easy for Stewart to say that as more than half the U.S. roster in the World Cup wasn't on that Olympic team. Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers are playing for their first championship with the national team. Stewart's already won three World Cup titles since making her debut in 2014.

Kahleah Copper was a huge reason the U.S. was able to beat France two years ago. She had 12 points in that game.

“I mean, they’re a different team, we’re a different team,” she said. “Two great teams gonna go at it head-to-head.”

The Americans have looked far from the team that has dominated the World Cup during this historic run of 35 consecutive victories and four straight championships. A three-point win over Italy in pool play was the closest a team has come to the Americans in group stage in 50 years. The 10-point victory over Spain was the closest semifinal contest during this remarkable streak. The Americans had been winning by an average of 26 points over the past four medal-round games.

“It’s literally about us. Everything that we do is going to dictate what happens in tomorrow’s game and making sure that that’s the main focus as we continue to look inward,” Stewart said. “Whether that’s lifting a teammate up or high fiving them or telling them shoot the next shot. There's going to be a ton of emotions in this game. It’s going to be the team that really kind of regulates that and handles that best that will have the advantage.”

French players are also downplaying the significance of that Olympic contest.

“That was two years ago,” Janelle Salaün said of the defeat. “There were different people involved, different players, so now we’re focusing on tomorrow and the here and now.”

Marine Johannes knows about the tall task the French have in front of them.

“If I’m (being) honest we have nothing to lose,” she said. “We actually know they are a great team. They won every World Cup for years and years. We are playing with these players all season in WNBA actually. We know how good they are. It’s one game, nothing to lose. We are going to play hard and we’ll see what happens.”

No matter what happens on Sunday, France is set for its best World Cup finish ever. The French team hasn't won a medal since the inaugural tournament in 1953, when the team finished third in the final round.

“It means a lot. This is the first time we’re taking it to this level,” France coach Jean-Aimé Toupane said after the semifinal win over Germany. “You guys can see how French basketball all around the world is improving.”

France winning a gold medal would be a seismic shift in the sport's landscape. The Americans have only lost once in the championships game, falling to the Soviet Union in 1983. They are 8-0 since.

“We didn’t come all this way for nothing – we’re here to win," France's Leila Lacan said. "We won’t settle for the silver medal, we’re going to go and get that gold.”

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The founder of DAF Collection said that the tag means her country is trying to take full advantage of the abundant raw material produced in Benin. For her, there is also the opportunity to support more women in her community who hope to earn a living from cotton.

“I am more focused on promoting the traditional fabric of northern Benin,” she said inside her showroom in the northern city of Parakou. “What comes from elsewhere is already everywhere. I wanted to do something special.”

Betting on cotton for years to come

Dosso is responding to government policy that discourages the export of raw material and stipulates that the West African country must do more to export finished products — from pineapple juice to garments marketed by world-famous brands, but still marked with Benin.

Benin is Africa’s top cotton producer, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Benin produced 1.15 million bales of cotton between 2025 and 2026, accounting for 0.9% of global production.

That sounds like a tiny share of the global market — by comparison, China produced 35.8 million bales in the same period — but cotton has long been the top cash crop for Benin, its primary export. The country is still betting on cotton for years to come, even as production has been in decline in eastern and southern Africa.

A hive of activity

Benin, which had been exporting almost all of its raw cotton to Bangladesh, moved toward value addition in 2020 with a private-public partnership involving the infrastructure developer Arise IIP.

The deal established the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone, or GDIZ, where young Beninese workers can be found processing pineapples, cashew nuts, ceramics and other export goods.

GDIZ processes about 40,000 tons of Beninese cotton to produce between 7 and 10 million garments annually. The expansion of the GDIZ and shifting exports toward finished products helped reduce Benin's current account deficit — when a country sends more money for goods and services abroad than it receives back — from 6.2% of gross domestic product in 2024 to 5.7% in 2025, according to the African Development Bank.

GDIZ is located 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Beninese commercial capital of Cotonou. Associated Press journalists recently toured the garment section, a hive of activity as station managers surveyed employees doing the work that goes into making garments: straightening collars, stitching buttons and pressing T-shirts with flat irons and folding them delicately. Garment makers like U.S. Polo Assn. and Kiabi were represented.

A grassroots network

A manager at GDIZ declined to answer questions, and laborers there weren't allowed to speak to journalists. A brief tour of the hub showed the ambition of GDIZ, a small-city-like industrial hub set on about 16 square kilometers (6 square miles) of land.

Souhaïbou Gambari, executive secretary of a national association of cotton producers in Benin, told the AP that his federation — and Benin's garment exports in general — rely “on a strong, well-structured grassroots network” of at least 183,746 producers organized in 2,206 village cooperatives across the country.

“Beyond farm operators alone, the cotton sector directly or indirectly supports the livelihoods of more than 2 million people in rural areas, making it the leading driver of social inclusion in Benin’s farming communities,” he said.

Cotton is an easy decision

Bales of cotton are ferried from far north, supplied by cooperatives of farmers who are united in the pursuit of strong prices and ease of access to farming supplies.

Growing cotton is an easy decision for smallholder farmers like Toussaint Bapetem. Although the price of a kilogram — 300 West African francs, or roughly $0.50 — has remained the same for years, Bapetem's produce has a market guaranteed by price-setting authorities.

Cotton, unlike maize and other rain-fed crops, doesn't attract thieves, he said, inspecting his offseason cotton plantation in a remote area near the Nigeria border.

With the help of about 18 workers, the father of four regularly plants three acres (more than a hectare) of his land with cotton, with another four acres (more than 1½ hectares) reserved for corn. His last harvest yielded 3.8 tons of cotton.

“Cotton is more profitable” than corn, which fetches 120 West African francs (about $0.20) per kilogram, he said.

Repaying debts and ensuring education

His cotton earnings since 2024 helped him “take care of my family and ensure my children’s education,” he said. “With the money from cotton, I repaid a debt of 500,000 francs ($885) and purchased a motorcycle.”

Bapetem said that he knew that some of his cotton was used to make garments locally, including attire he buys at the nearby Bétérou market “once or twice a year.”

Locally available garments are increasingly made by homegrown entrepreneurs such as Dosso. Her DAF Collection retains the services of about a dozen women employed as weavers, who huddle over rickety contraptions tethered to rocks as they stitch yarns of cotton and polyester into pieces of fabric.

Beloved especially by Fulani herders, the fabric known as pagne in French is wrapped around the waist or worn as a headscarf, a thing of everyday fashion.

Quitting her job as the mayor's secretary

“I was in a region where women were learning cotton weaving, but they didn’t have a market for their products,” said Dosso, who quit her job as a private secretary to the mayor of the northern town of Gogounou to focus solely on the fashion business that she started in 2016.

“That’s when I started to promote this skill,” she said.

She now advocates for “Made in Benin,” representing her country at international fashion shows and espousing the goal of having showrooms in all the major cities of Benin.

“My clients are all kinds of people. They are diverse and come from all social classes,” she said. “I can boast that I am one of the first in my field to talk about ‘Made in Benin.’”

‘It benefits us greatly’

One of Dosso’s contracted weavers, Chabi Baké, said that she understood the idea of making finished goods at home to be the appropriate one for Benin. The mother of five makes roughly $545 a month as a weaver, enough to encourage her to start building a house for her family.

“I am pleased with this thinking because it benefits us greatly,” she said. “It allows people to buy our products.”

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It's no secret that the Republican president loves the game of golf. He likes to watch, play and even design courses. He isn't shy about his friendships with the pros, and now may be adding Lowry to his roster.

“Shane played unbelievable,” Trump said. He said he'd watched Lowry on the Saturday night news hit nine putts in a row “and I thought that was ‘best of.’”

“But he also hit the ball really well, too,” Trump said. “He's a great guy" and “he's got an infectious personality.”

Trump spent the weekend at his golf resort in the Irish village of Doonbeg to watch the tournament. He was joined for Sunday's final day of competition by Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.

Golf is just one of the things the president does for fun, according to his friend, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

“The president works all day, every day. And there are two things that he does for enjoyment," Lutnick told reporters recently. "He plays golf on the weekend and he builds. He loves to build.”

Trump has built friendships with some of the pros. He name drops and lavishes them with praise whenever he talks about them.

“I have so many friends that are professional, top professional golfers,” Trump told Fox News Channel's “The Five” earlier this year. He then named Rory McIlroy,Tiger Woods,Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler, among them.

He also posts pictures on social media of him with pro golfers after their rounds. Trump has given awards to some and invited them to the White House. Others are helping him redesign Washington-area golf courses.

Here's some of what Trump has had to say about them.

DeChambeau

Trump said DeChambeau is among the “great pros.” The two have played together and DeChambeau has appeared at the White House. He celebrated his first U.S. Open title in 2020 at one of Trump’s golf properties in New York. Last year, he was chosen as the chairperson of Trump’s reconstituted version of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, an advisory committee.

Els

The South African pro golfer was in the Oval Office in May 2025 as part of the delegation accompanying Cyril Ramaphosa, his country's president, to a meeting with Trump. Fellow South African golfer Retief Goosen was also part of the group.

“Ernie Els is a great golfer. He's a truly great golfer and Retief Goosen, who's another really — we call him really a great golfer, too, Ernie, right?” Trump said. “These two guys are fantastic, and we could add Gary to the group, Gary Player. What a group of golfers South Africa has had. There must be something in the water, right?”

Trump awarded Player, who is considered one of the sport's greatest golfers, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2021. It is one of the most prestigious honors an American president can give a civilian.

McIlroy

After winning this year's Masters, McIlroy was a guest at Trump's White House state dinner for King Charles III and Queen Camilla in April 2026. Trump recognized the six-time major champion from Northern Ireland as he spoke about the “unconquerable courage” he said is shared by the United States and the United Kingdom.

“And speaking of that, where’s Rory McIlroy? ... Stand up, Rory. Will you please? That was unconquerable courage. That was very good, Rory,” Trump said of the Masters win.

“I had to interrupt my speech because I watched that man win a tournament that was, that was a tough, that was a tough one. Congratulations. Very proud of you,” Trump continued.

Nicklaus

“I love Jack. OK? Jack is great,” Trump told Fox News host Trey Gowdy in August after he asked who the president would have in his “dream foursome.”

Trump has enlisted the retired Nicklaus, who designs golf courses, to help him redesign the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews, the military base in the Maryland suburbs of Washington where Air Force One is parked.

Scheffler

“So great,” Trump told Gowdy about Scheffler, the top-ranked player on the PGA Tour.

Annika Sorenstam

Sorenstam, the only LPGA player to shoot 59 and a winner of the career Grand Slam, played golf with Trump, Player and the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at his course in Virginia in 2019.

Trump awarded Sorenstam the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which brought criticism to the Swedish great because the ceremony took place on Jan. 7, 2021, one day after the violent riot at the Capitol.

Sorenstam is now host of an LPGA event called The Annika. Last year, she gave a sponsor invitation to Kai Trump, the president’s granddaughter.

Woods

“I happen to love Tiger. Tiger is a great guy,” the president told Gowdy.

Days later, Woods pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge and a judge suspended his driver’s license for five years following a March rollover crash in Florida. He was arrested in March after his SUV clipped a truck on a residential road near his home on Jupiter Island.

Two pain pills were found in Woods’ pocket and he showed signs of impairment. Woods’ career has been derailed by multiple back and knee surgeries, car crashes and dependence on pain medication.

After the court appearance, Trump repeated to reporters that he thinks Woods is a “great guy” and said he is “unique in so many ways, and especially as an athlete, but also as a man.”

He said he thought the case was resolved fairly and that he’d previously suggested to Woods that he get someone to drive him around because of the pain he suffers.

Trump called Woods a “true legend” when he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. Woods is currently dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr.

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It was a moment Buhr, a second-year player in his first season as Iowa's starting kicker, has been thinking about for a while.

“I think I probably every day envision a type of kick like that,” Buhr said. “That’s kind of the mind of a kicker. You’re trying to do everything you can to try to put the ball between the uprights, live up to the dream.”

It was another close game in the in-state rivalry. The last nine games in the series have been decided by 10 points or less, including five consecutive by a single possession.

“It's a super cool rivalry,” said Buhr, who grew up in nearby Bettendorf, Iowa. “I grew up going to games here all the time. My dad had season tickets, so I've watched a lot of Iowa-Iowa State games. So to be here, be in this moment, it’s truly a dream come true.”

The game ended with a timing question when the Cyclones got the ball to their own 49 after Jaylen Raynor threw a 24-yard pass to Carter Pabst. It appeared time had run out after Pabst had been tackled inbounds, but a replay review showed there was one second left. Iowa State, though, was out of timeouts, and by rule there would not have been enough time to get off a snap once the ball was set.

“We knew it was going to come down to the wire,” Iowa State coach Jimmy Rogers said. “It took every bit of that game, but we ran out of clock.”

Iowa (2-0) started its winning drive on its own 45, moving 31 yards on nine plays. After Xavier Williams was stopped for no gain on third-and-1 at the 24, Buhr came in and, despite a high snap, hit the winner.

“It was a surreal moment,” Iowa quarterback Hank Brown said. “That entire field-goal unit did such a good job. Super impressed with them and impressed with Caden's clutch ability.”

It was the third field goal of the game for Buhr, who hit one from 32 yards to tie it with 6:22 to play.

Iowa State (1-1) built a 10-0 lead in the second quarter before Iowa tied it late in the quarter on a 1-yard touchdown run by Brown and a 45-yard field goal from Buhr.

“Probably the best thing in the equation is we fell down 10, and fought our way back,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said.

One to learn from

Ferentz told his team after the game that the win would be a good lesson with Big Ten play beginning for the Hawkeyes in two weeks.

“There's more of that coming, more of that coming for us,” Ferentz said.

Ferentz noted the physicality of the game.

“I think both teams are going to feel this one for a while,” he said.

By any other name…

During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Rogers called Iowa wide receiver Tony Diaz “Nate Diaz.”

Diaz then had eight catches for 95 yards against the Cyclones, and immediately brought up Rogers’ mistake during his post-game interview.

“He knows my name now,” Diaz said.

The takeaway

Iowa was able to pull out the win despite struggling to move the ball on the Cyclones for most of the game. The Hawkeyes had a 284-255 edge in offensive yards. “They made everything really tough for us,” Ferentz said.

Iowa State, which didn’t have a starter from last year returning after the hiring of Rogers in the offseason, kept the Hawkeyes out of rhythm on offense. and nearly pulled off the win “I'm proud of the locker room for how we played, but we still lost," Rogers said.

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Iowa State: Hosts Bowling Green next Saturday.

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According to the Florida City Police Department, 54-year-old Rocquel McCray was arrested at approximately 1:58 a.m. Friday.

Police said the threats were made through social media and were immediately reported to law enforcement.

During their investigation, officers learned that McCray had traveled from Jacksonville to Miami International Airport on Thursday before using a private transportation service to travel to Florida City, according to the department.

Police said McCray later contacted the Florida City Police Department and made additional threats to shoot at the police station while speaking with a dispatcher.

Officers located McCray shortly afterward at a local restaurant.

According to police, McCray resisted arrest before she was taken into custody on multiple felony charges. The department did not specify the charges in its news release.

Police said McCray is a former law enforcement officer whose employment with the Florida City Police Department ended in 2019.

“Threats against any individual, including city officials and law enforcement personnel, are taken seriously,” the department said in its release. “Anyone who engages in such conduct will be investigated and held accountable in accordance with the law.”

The department added that the safety of the community remains of the “utmost importance.”

A spokesperson for the Florida City Police Department confirmed Saturday that McCray was hospitalized after complaining of chest pains, but will be booked into jail once she is medically cleared.

The Longhorns' 20-point comeback in the fourth quarter is the largest fourth-quarter rally to win against an AP No. 1 team, according to Sportradar.

The Buckeyes had appeared in complete control after a dominant three quarters and led 23-3.

But Texas (2-0) rallied behind Manning, whose touchdown pass to Ryan Wingo early in the fourth started the comeback. Smothers scored on a 1-yard run with 7:14 to play before Ohio State (1-1) drove for what could have been a clinching field goal.

Connor Hawkins, who had earlier made three field goals, missed from 45 yards, setting up Texas’ winning drive.

“When that happened, I knew it was our time,” Manning said. “I’m really proud of the way we responded. We could have let that thing go. It’s a testament to our coaches and our culture.”

The gritty win could also give Texas a claim at No. 1.

The victory is arguably the biggest regular-season win in six seasons for coach Steve Sarkisian, and certainly for Manning, who had struggled to live up to Heisman Trophy expectations early in his career.

“I couldn’t be more proud of our team with the heart, the desire and the fight,” Sarkisian said.

Manning’s legs and passing earned several first downs as the Longhorns steadily clawed back and beat the Buckeyes for the first time in three tries over the past three seasons. Manning finished with 196 yards passing and completed 11 of his final 15 passes.

“We just had to get something going, I always knew we were going to be in it in the end," Manning said. “I'm so glad we won.”

The Buckeyes lost a game they had controlled.

Julian Sayin passed for 278 yards and Jeremiah Smith caught eight passes for 164 yards and a touchdown. But the offense produced just a single field goal after halftime, and Sayin’s desperation pass on the final play was intercepted before Texas players rushed on the field to celebrate the comeback.

“I felt, you know, we had them on the ropes and didn’t finish,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. "So we got to go back and figure out why that was.”

The matchup was the third time in three seasons the Longhorns and Buckeyes have played, including the playoffs in the 2024 season. They could meet again.

Ohio State's path to the postseason got a little harder with the loss as the Buckeyes' margin for error narrowed. Texas missed the postseason at 9-3 last year, including a loss to Ohio State.

“I told Ryan after the game, I hope to see you again,” Sarkisian said.

The takeaway

Ohio State: Smith was having the kind of game the Buckeyes' All-American had missed in his two previous matchups with the Longhorns. But key passes his way were covered or misfired late as the Longhorns contained him in the second half.

“I had a couple throws that should have been completions," Sayin said.

Texas: The Longhorns were nearly buried by early dropped passes, missed throws and turnovers in what looked like a primetime flop. Wingo's fourth-quarter touchdown catch made up for a wide open drop in a frustrating first half for the Longhorns.

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Texas hosts UTSA on Sept. 19.

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While LSU's defense was thoroughly dominant, allowing just 140 total net yards while producing seven sacks and three turnovers, Lane Kiffin's offense will have more than a few corrections to make before what might as well be billed the “Kiffin Bowl” next Saturday.

That's when the Tigers (2-0) visit No. 9 Mississippi, the program Kiffin left in favor of rival LSU at the end of the 2025 regular season — when Ole Miss was bound for the College Football Playoff.

LSU turned the ball over four times and committed 10 penalties for 101 yards against Tech (1-1), which odds makers had listed as a five-touchdown underdog.

Although the Tigers gained 528 yards and drove inside the 20 10 times, three of their red-zone possessions ended with field goals and two with interceptions. Safety Jordan McRae converted his pick of Leavitt on the goal line into a Louisiana Tech-record, 100-yard return for a touchdown that pulled the Bulldogs to 10-7 — a score which stood at halftime.

Tech trailed by just six points before LSU began to pull away on Leavitt's 9-yard TD run with 4:32 left in the third quarter. Leavitt added a 5-yard TD run and 10-yard scoring pass to tight end Trey'Dez Green, who finished with six catches for a game-high 104 yards receiving.

LSU edge rusher Princewill Umanmielen, a transfer who followed Kiffin from Ole Miss, had three sacks. The second forced Tech to attempt a 54-yard field goal that fell short, ending a possession that began on the LSU 19 after Tech cornerback Jenard Lockhart's 35-yard return of receiver Eugene Wilson III's fumble.

The takeaway

Louisiana Tech: Playing in Death Valley was a humbling experience for the Bulldogs' offense on the heels of an 80-6 victory over Northwestern State the previous week. In the first half at LSU, Tech had zero net yards and no first downs, its only scoring coming on McRae's interception.

LSU: While Leavitt completed 25 of 38 passes for 344 yards — including a 57-yard pass over the top to Jackson Harris — he has just two TD passes through the first two games and only one from inside an opponent's 20. Leavitt has been more effective running the ball on red-zone possessions, scoring a team-leading five TDs rushing through two games.

Up next

Louisiana Tech: Visits Baylor next Saturday.

LSU: Visits No. 9 Mississippi next Saturday.

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At least 108 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers were recovered as the search operation expanded around the vessel’s last known position.

The ferry, with more than 240 people on board, was traveling from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, on Borneo Island, officials said.

The captain had reported rough seas with waves up to 3 meters (10 feet) before issuing a distress call, saying the ship was listing, said I Putu Sudayana, who heads the Banjarmasin Search and Rescue Office. Authorities later received information indicating the vessel had overturned.

The rescue agency in Banjarmasin said it received a report two hours after contact was lost with the Virgo Transport 8 at about 2 a.m. Sunday.

A rescue ship was headed to the vessel's last known position, the agency said, and by Sunday afternoon authorities were deploying teams supported by a dozen vessels, including four navy ships, and two helicopters.

Survivors are rescued and dead bodies recovered

Initial information indicated the vessel’s last known position was in the Java Sea, about 148 kilometers (92 miles) from Banjarmasin. The ship's manifest said it was carrying 243 people — 213 passengers and 30 crew members — although it is common in Indonesia for the number of passengers to differ from the manifest. The vessel was also transporting 89 vehicles.

Sudayana, who is coordinating the search, said search teams, assisted by nearby tugboats and other passing vessels, had rescued 107 people and recovered six bodies by Sunday afternoon.

The 119-meter (390-foot) Virgo Transport 8 ferry was built in Japan in 1987 and operated there until last year before being sold to the current Indonesian operator, PT Virgo Karya Shipping.

Transportation Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said aerial searches showed the ferry was floating upside down and had not sunk. Rescuers were concentrating search efforts around the overturned ferry, he told reporters Sunday.

Videos released by the National Search and Rescue Agency on Sunday showed an overturned ferry floating in choppy waters during a helicopter search operation. Separate footage captured exhausted survivors disembarking from a rescue ship at a port in Banjarmasin, while injured victims were carried on stretchers before being taken by ambulances to nearby hospitals.

Distraught relatives wait for news at a port

Hundreds of relatives gathered at a command center in Banjarmasin's Trisakti port, awaiting word on family members believed to be aboard the ferry. Many anxiously checked passenger manifests and rescue lists as authorities continued searching for survivors.

“I was shocked when I saw my uncle’s name on the passenger list,” said a woman who goes by a single name, Bunga. “But I felt relieved after officials told me he had been rescued.”

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands where ferries are a common method of travel. Disasters occur regularly, with weak safety enforcement often blamed.

At least 211 people were rescued from an Indonesian ferry that caught fire last month in rough seas near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, while one person was found dead and four others remained missing. The incident happened less than two weeks after another Indonesian ferry, the Mutiara Sentosa 2, caught fire off the main island of Java, with the loss of at least five people.

Sunday’s accident comes just four days after a fire that gutted a passenger ferry in the Philippines killed at least 76 people, with at least 10 others still missing.

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Hernandez, who was working nearby, said he heard the dogs barking and the woman’s cries for help near the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Terrace.

“I saw the two dogs on top of her ... I was able to run over at them and scream and they luckily let go,” Hernandez said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel reported finding the woman with injuries to the back of her head, neck, right arm, and right ankle.

“Her skull was showing. She had holes in her arms and her legs and the back of her legs,” said Cobi Brooks, a witness. “She was really tore up ... I hope she survives.”

MDFR used a helicopter to fly the woman to the Jackson South Medical Center.

The woman, who had to undergo surgery, remained hospitalized on Saturday morning, and her condition was stable.

Miami-Dade County Animal Services seized the two dogs identified as American Bulldog-mix strays.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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Messi appeared to have Miami on its way to its first win over Nashville this season when he scored with a left-footed shot to make it 2-1 in the 62nd. Nashville's Sam Surridge equalized with his second goal of the night just a minute into stoppage time to keep his club unbeaten in four meetings with Miami this season.

The draw also kept Nashville nine points ahead of second-place Miami in the Eastern Conference standings.

Nashville struck just four minutes into the match when Surridge finished Andy Najar’s pass for his 14th goal of the season.

The score was evened in the 19th when Nashville defender Reed Baker-Whiting scored an own goal on a corner kick.

Messi had a shot blocked from outside the box in the 27th minute and sent a free kick wide shortly afterward before breaking through in the second half.

Rodrigo De Paul found Messi outside the penalty area, and the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner sent a left-footed shot into the bottom-left corner for his 19th MLS goal of the season.

Miami was looking to avenge a 4-1 loss to Nashville in the teams’ previous meeting on Aug. 15. Nashville also eliminated Miami from the Concacaf Champions Cup earlier this season.

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Nashville: Hosts the Chicago Fire next Saturday.

Inter Miami: Hosts Liga MX champion Cruz Azul on Wednesday in the Campeones Cup.

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For Miami, it was another painful late collapse.

The last time these two sides met, Nashville dominated Miami in a 4-1 victory. This time, the Herons looked determined to write a different story — but once again, a late goal denied them all three points.

Nashville came out on the front foot, immediately forcing Miami to defend deep in its own box.

Just three minutes into the match, Brazilian star Casemiro was caught out in the back, allowing Nashville forward Sam Surridge to race past him and calmly slot the ball into the net.

Nashville had an early 1-0 lead in a match Miami needed to win to keep its hopes of finishing atop the Eastern Conference alive.

Miami responded by pushing forward and looking for an equalizer. The pressure earned the Herons the first corner of the match, with Lionel Messi standing over the ball.

Messi played the corner short, but the opportunity came to nothing.

Minutes later, Messi created a chance for himself. With the ball on his left foot, he fired toward the bottom-right corner, forcing the Nashville goalkeeper into a full-stretch save. The ball deflected out for another corner.

This time, Messi made it count.

He curled the ball into the box, where it struck the head of Nashville defender Reed Baker-Whiting and flew into the back of the net.

The goal was officially credited as an own goal, but Miami wouldn’t care how it got there. The match was level at 1-1.

The equalizer seemed to wake Nashville up.

The visitors responded with wave after wave of pressure, forcing Miami to absorb the attack and defend its penalty area.

The Herons managed to weather the storm, but the match quickly became more physical. Fouls began piling up in midfield, disrupting the flow and slowing the pace of the game.

Nashville nearly regained the lead after a quick throw-in created space in Miami’s defense, but the Herons cleared the danger for another corner.

The ensuing set piece resulted in a dangerous free kick just in front of the 6-yard box, while Miami defender Fricio Caicedo also picked up a yellow card.

Miami’s wall stood firm and blocked the free kick, sparking a counterattack in the opposite direction. Nashville stopped the break with a tactical foul, earning Maxwell Woledzi a yellow card.

The physical play continued as halftime approached, with neither side able to establish control.

After a frenetic opening 45 minutes, the halftime whistle finally blew with the score tied 1-1.

Miami came out of the break looking to take control of possession and find the go-ahead goal.

Messi nearly delivered immediately.

On a Miami counterattack, Messi received a through ball and found himself one-on-one with the goalkeeper. He cut onto his left foot and fired toward goal, only to watch his shot crash off the post.

The Herons were inches away from taking a 2-1 lead.

Nashville answered with another dangerous free kick near Miami’s penalty area, but the Herons cleared the initial threat. The follow-up effort sailed wide, giving Miami a goal kick.

By the 60th minute, Miami had seized control of the match.

And once again, Messi was at the center of it.

The Argentine superstar collected the ball outside the box, created just enough space and fired a shot into the back of the net.

Miami had its lead.

The crowd inside Nu Stadium erupted into chants of “Messi! Messi! Messi!” as the superstar celebrated his go-ahead goal.

With 30 minutes remaining, Miami had a 2-1 advantage and appeared to be in position to claim a massive three points.

A victory would have moved the Herons within six points of Nashville for first place in the Eastern Conference.

But Nashville wasn’t finished.

The visitors began applying pressure once again, searching desperately for an equalizer. Miami’s defense held firm, soaking up attack after attack and attempting to protect its narrow lead.

The Herons nearly put the match away when Luis Suárez got a shot off after the Nashville goalkeeper bobbled the ball following a save.

The shot struck the post.

It was Miami’s opportunity to seal the victory, but the Herons couldn’t find the decisive third goal.

With less than eight minutes remaining in regulation, Miami appeared to be doing enough to slow the game down and see out a much-needed victory.

Then came the late drama.

Miami caught Nashville on a fast break, with Messi once again finding himself one-on-one with the goalkeeper. He fired toward goal, but a Nashville defender raced back and cleared the shot off the goal line.

Four minutes of stoppage time were added.

And Nashville needed only moments to make them count.

Surridge found himself in the right place at the right time, tapping the ball into the net to complete his brace and stun the Miami crowd.

The Herons pushed forward in the final minutes, desperately searching for a winner.

Their final opportunity came in the dying seconds, but the shot struck the left post.

The final whistle soon followed.

A match Miami appeared to have in its hands ended in another late heartbreak.

The 2-2 draw marked Miami’s second consecutive draw after the Herons also surrendered a late equalizer against Atlanta United in their previous match.

Miami will now turn its attention to Wednesday, when it faces Cruz Azul in the Campeones Cup with another opportunity to get back in the win column.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to her home around 10:30 p.m. after her private security detail made a “suspicious person” call, the department said.

When they arrived, they made contact with the person and advised them to leave, the sheriff’s department said. The person left voluntarily without incident.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home, according to her spokesperson, Eduardo Negrón.

“They are grateful to the security and law enforcement personnel who responded swiftly,” he said.

Negrón said the individual “illegally entered” the couple’s property and was stopped by security before reaching the home.

The sheriff’s department said a trespassing report was taken and deputies from the local station would increase patrols in the area as a precaution.

Former vice presidents typically receive federal government protection for six months after leaving office, while former presidents receive protection for life.

Then-President Joe Biden extended Harris’ protection beyond the traditional six months, but President Donald Trump revoked the extension last August. It otherwise would have ended this summer.

The opinion issued late Friday marked a victory for labor groups who had sued the agency. The labor organization had argued that plans by the Department of Homeland Security, which was then led by Secretary Kristi Noem, violated congressional protections that were designed to safeguard the independence of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The issue of the FEMA staffing was part of a much larger lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees and other labor groups, pushing back on efforts by the Trump administration to slash the federal workforce.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston wrote in her opinion that top Homeland Security officials late last year directed FEMA's leadership to submit a staffing plan that included a 50% staffing cut even though the agency's own supervisors objected.

“Frankly, the FEMA staffing plan number appears as if pulled from thin air,” wrote Illston.

FEMA responded in a statement late Saturday that while it does not comment on personnel matters and ongoing litigation, “DHS and FEMA are ready for the 2026 hurricane season."

“We’re ensuring workforce stability and a strong, deployable force for upcoming national events and potential disasters; making the agency leaner, faster and laser-focused on supporting state, local, tribal and territorial partners before, during and after disasters,” it said. “FEMA continues to maintain a roster of experienced leadership and support staff across headquarters and regional offices.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In the opinion, Illston wrote that it was clear that the government violated rules established after 2005's Hurricane Katrina that put decisions on staffing levels squarely in the hands of FEMA, not the Department of Homeland Security and that prevented DHS from “substantially” reducing the “functions” of FEMA.

Illston didn't order a specific remedy to carry out her opinion but directed the two sides to meet and decide on a course of relief.

Although FEMA has experienced terminations, the 50% staffing cuts ultimately were not carried out. In recent months, after top leadership changes at FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security, the agency has rehired some staffers who were let go.

FEMA was one of the agencies targeted in the federal government for staff reductions as part of a broad Trump administration plan to reduce the size of government. The embattled agency has been buffeted by mass staff departures, disruptions of grant programs, and delays of disaster aid.

In May, a Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council submitted a final report recommending sweeping changes to how the agency supports states, tribes and territories in disaster.

The final version backed away from the recommendation to cut the FEMA workforce by 50%, which was included in a December 2025 draft reviewed by The Associated Press.

The council instead recommended the agency conduct a “strategic review” to determine “appropriate staffing levels.”

In an August report, the Government Accountability Office said it found the departures of thousands of staff in 2025 resulted in a “loss of institutional knowledge and experienced personnel” and “exacerbated longstanding workforce challenges.”

More than 4,300 employees, or about 17% of FEMA’s workforce, separated from the agency in the 2025 budget year, with over 1,500 through voluntary reductions. The agency also made about 2,900 new hires.

The GAO recently recommended to Congress that it “consider requiring” FEMA to base “significant workforce decisions” on a more strategic planning process.

Without it, the GAO found, “FEMA cannot be assured that the agency is positioned to effectively meet its mission needs.”

Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and woman of faith who they hoped would not solely be remembered for her horrific death.

Additional arrests are expected in the case, Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said Friday. Police sought and arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, who is Black, when they encountered him walking on the street, authorities said. Ratliff should appear in Jackson Municipal Court no later than Monday morning, said André de Gruy, Mississippi’s state defender.

Brackney said Ratliff had an “association” with Fortune but would not elaborate on their relationship. She called Ratliff’s arrest on a murder charge “an important development” in the investigation.

“But it is not the conclusion. This case remains active, and additional arrests will be pending as our investigators continue to follow the evidence wherever it leads,” Brackney said Friday. “We understand that this case has received media attention from across the globe, and across this community.”

Police provide little new information on Saturday

The state medical examiner’s office determined Thursday evening that the death was a homicide, Brackney said, allowing police to execute the warrants they already had on hand.

Police did not respond to calls and messages from The Associated Press on Saturday about potential updates to the investigation beyond confirming it was still going on.

Ratliff was charged with murder, Hinds County jail records stated Saturday. The jail report stated that Ratliff was a resident of Jackson and contained little other information.

It couldn’t immediately be determined if he had a lawyer, and a message was left for the public defender’s office. If represented by a public defender, it would be the Hinds County public defender, de Gruy said.

Fortune’s mother said she is grateful to police

Christy Spivey, Fortune’s mother, said Friday after police told her of the arrest that “I just started crying and told them ‘thank you, thank you, thank you.’”

Spivey said police did not share a motive or whether DNA led them to the arrest. Spivey said she did not know the man who had been arrested, but she was asking her daughter’s friends if they knew him. Spivey described the family as “in disbelief” and “shock.”

“We still don’t have a lot of answers,” Spivey said.

Police discovered Fortune’s body hanging in the backyard of an abandoned home in Jackson on Aug. 3.

Spivey said she was certain that her daughter, 29, would not have killed herself.

“Absolutely not. Even if she could climb that tree, no, no, she would never, ever, ever,” Spivey said.

Fortune was a mother, an athlete and a deeply religious person

An obituary about Fortune posted on the website of Tucker Funeral Home in Central City, Kentucky, in August stated that Fortune’s “path was not always easy, and there were highs and lows.” It also stated that she skipped her junior year of high school, was a star cross-country runner, and had a strong faith in God. Services were held last month in Kentucky.

“She leaves behind a powerful legacy of resilience, rooted deeply in her unwavering faith. Even in her darkest hours, she never stopped believing in her Savior,” the obituary stated.

Fortune was also the mother of four children, but she rarely saw two of them, Spivey said. The last time Spivey saw her daughter was in late July for a planned family reunion in Kentucky that was canceled, but her daughter came to see her anyway.

“When she was there, there was this pull, like a spiritual pull to her. I needed her. I guess God knew that was going to be it,” Spivey said.

Spivey said she and Fortune’s father faced racism and violence as a mixed-race couple in Crittenden County, Kentucky, before Fortune was born.

Fortune was taken from her parents and placed in foster care as a child. During her high school years, she moved around among group homes and eventually ran away to Mississippi. The obituary stated that she had lived in Jackson for 10 years.

Spivey wasn’t sure where Fortune was living at the time of her death but said her daughter had been struggling with homelessness in recent years. Fortune had two sisters and was close with them. The father of one of her children was verbally and physically abusive to Fortune, Spivey said.

Before she died, Fortune had talked about starting a cleaning business and was trying to get her life in order.

“Say her name. Keep it going,” Spivey said. “Because I’m not going to stop until I get answers.”

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Carr connected on 16 of 20 passes for 253 yards before being replaced by Noah Grubbs in the third quarter.

Notre Dame outgained Rice 478-128 in total yards.

The Owls suffered their worst loss since a 58-0 loss to Texas in 2021.

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman praised Carr's performance.

“His decisions are impeccable,” Freeman said. “Last week (in a 41-13 victory against Wisconsin) he made the right decision 99% of the time. This week it felt like he was making the right decision, and getting us in the right protections, the right checks, all those different things that he does.”

Carr said that he is more comfortable and more confident in his second season as Notre Dame's starting quarterback.

“We’ve worked through some different, you know, kinks in the offense for the last two and a half years here, so I feel really confident my own ability, and then also the ability of the veteran guys like Jordan (Faison) that been here and done it for a really long time,” Carr said. “It’s something we’re striving for every game, and you know you do that through preparation and execution. Thought we did that really well today.”

The Fighting Irish (2-0) only needed 14 seconds to take the lead. Safety Adon Shuler hammered Rice running back Davis Lane, forcing a fumble that Boubacar Traore turned into a 24-yard scoop-and-score for Notre Dame.

“That’s really a game changer because it sets the tone, and it’s really good to see that,” Freeman said.

Notre Dame cashed in on two more Rice fumbles in the first half on the way to a 42-0 halftime lead. The Fighting Irish forced four turnovers that they turned into 21 points. Notre Dame also punished Rice with eight tackles for loss.

Faison caught four passes for 54 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Notre Dame receivers. Twelve different receivers had catches.

Rice (1-1) was led by quarterback Jacurri Brown, who was 8 of 12 for 64 yards.

Rice coach Scott Abell said early turnovers that led to a 21-0 first quarter lead for Notre Dame were a recipe for disaster.

“It was like throwing the chum in the water, and then jumping in and then saying, ‘Hey, let me go in and start swimming with the sharks,’” Abell said. “That starts with me, but at the end of the day, you give this kind of a program momentum to start the game, then you are truly playing at their mercy. We felt like we were trying to climb out of a cavern that we were not capable of climbing out of.

“Do I think they’re 50 points better than us? Absolutely not. Do I think they’re one of the best teams in the country? Yes.”

Brown said the turnovers were critical.

“That’s solely on us,” Brown said. “We can control ball security. Did they make good plays? Yes, but we can be better, and I think we’re going to be better. We’re going to have an emphasis on that, for sure.”

Shuler’s impact

Notre Dame safety Adon Shuler has been at the point of the attack for the defense. He made seven tackles in Notre Dame’s 41-13 victory against Wisconsin. He forced the fumble 14 seconds into the game that led to a scoop-and-score and ignited Notre Dame.

“He’s playing extremely physical, which is a choice,” Freeman said of Shuler. “If you guys watch football and you watch teams across the country, man, not everybody plays the way Adon Shuler plays, and it’s a choice to play with that type of velocity and violence he does. As a head coach, you appreciate that. You appreciate the way he plays and the intensity and the focus he plays with.”

Matching Rockne’s streak

Freeman has matched legendary Fighting Irish coach Knute Rockne for a dominating win streak.

The Fighting Irish have won 12 consecutive games dating to the 2025 season — all by margins of 10 points or more.

It is only the second time in Notre Dame’s history that the Fighting Irish have a streak of 12 consecutive victories all by double-digits.

Rockne’s teams racked up 12 consecutive victories by double-digits over the 1921-1922 seasons.

The Takeaway

Notre Dame’s defense had a championship look to it on Saturday. Rice only lost seven fumbles last season, but the Fighting Irish forced four fumbles on Saturday. Notre Dame handed Rice its first shutout since a 45-0 loss to UTSA in 2021, and the Owls only managed 128 yards of total offense.

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Notre Dame: Hosts Michigan State on Saturday.

Rice: Hosts Western Michigan on Saturday.

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Sherman Kemp vanished on Friday after a transfer out of the Federal Correctional Institution Miami’s satellite camp at 15801 SW 137 Ave., according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Kemp, who gained notoriety with a “Stop [Expletive] Snitching” video in Baltimore and was convicted in Maryland and Pennsylvania, was supposed to arrive at 9 p.m. on Friday at the FCI Jesup in Georgia, according to the FBOP.

The U.S. Marshals Service asked anyone with information about Kemp’s whereabouts to call 786-988-6594.

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Miami police officers and fire rescue personnel responded at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday to a house along Southwest 18th Street, near 23rd Avenue.

Fire rescue personnel took the man to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, and detectives responded to the crime scene near Shenandoah Park.

At last check, the man was listed in critical condition.

A Local 10 News crew was at the scene later in the day as several people were seen leaving the home, but they declined to speak about what happened.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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The state’s Department of Law announced the decision Friday, after a three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled a week earlier that state law requires proof that defendants who erroneously filled out voter registration forms had a “consciousness of wrongdoing” and intended to break the law.

The panel found flaws with a state trooper’s questioning of Tupe Smith, the woman involved in the case that was thrown out, as well as with the grand jury process that led to her indictment. It overturned a lower court’s decision that had kept the charges against her alive.

Acting Alaska Attorney General Cori Mills said in a statement that after reviewing the decision and applying it to the facts, prosecutors concluded that they could not prove cases against Smith and the others beyond a reasonable doubt. Her husband, Michael Pese, had also been charged.

“We respect the role of the courts in interpreting Alaska law and will faithfully execute our duty to apply the law and carefully evaluate our prosecutorial decisions,” Mills said.

In all, 11 people from the small community of Whittier, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Anchorage, were charged with falsely claiming U.S. citizenship either when registering or trying to vote.

American Samoa is the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship by being born on American soil and instead are considered U.S. nationals. Paths to citizenship exist, such as naturalization, though that process can be expensive and cumbersome.

American Samoans can serve in the military, obtain U.S. passports and vote in elections in American Samoa, but they cannot hold public office in the U.S. or participate in most U.S. elections.

In a statement Saturday, Smith’s lawyer Whitney Brown said the dismissal would allow the community “to put this ordeal behind them and begin moving forward.”

Earlier in the week, she heralded the Court of Appeals decision, saying it “establishes an important safeguard against imposing felony liability for an honest mistake.”

The court “made clear that Alaska law requires more than simply showing that a statement was false — the State must prove a person acted with a consciousness of wrongdoing,” Brown said. “That distinction makes a world of difference to Ms. Smith and helps ensure that Alaska’s voter-misconduct statute is applied as the legislature intended going forward.”

Smith was arrested after winning election to a regional school board in 2023. She has said she relied on erroneous information from election officials in Whittier when she identified herself as a U.S. citizen on voter registration forms.

Smith said she marks herself as a U.S. national on paperwork. But when there was no such option on voter registration forms, she was told by city representatives that it was appropriate to mark herself as a citizen, according to court papers.

Prosecutors contended that Smith falsely and deliberately claimed citizenship, pointing to warnings on voter registration forms she filled out in 2020 and 2022 that noncitizens “are not eligible to vote.”

The Court of Appeals panel said in its ruling that toward the end of a police interview, a state trooper asked Smith “a long compound question that implied that Smith actually knew she was not eligible to vote” but wanted to be involved in the school board.

When Smith, whose native language is not English, did not respond right away, another state trooper clarified, “He’s asking you,” and the first trooper again presented his question, which the panel described as “a lengthy and complex statement containing four individual questions.”

Smith answered “Yes,” the panel said, leading to her arrest and indictment on two counts of felony voter misconduct.

Neil Weare, part of the legal team representing Smith and Pese, said Saturday that the decision to drop charges “raises questions about why this prosecution was even brought to begin with.”

“It’s clear that all along, they really had no evidence of any consciousness of wrongdoing on the part of Michael, Tupe or the other defendants,” said Weare, co-director of the nonprofit Right to Democracy.

And it was right on time.

The Wolverines showed their resilience in a 17-10 victory over No. 11 Oklahoma on Saturday, a week after getting a lucky break in a controversial win against Western Michigan that the NCAA said it couldn't overturn.

“What a great bounce back,” Whittingham said.

Bryce Underwood led the way.

He became the team's primary ball carrier — highlighted by a 38-yard touchdown run — and didn't lose a turnover after Whittingham said earlier in the week that the sophomore had to improve to keep his job when asked how firmly he was the team's starting quarterback.

“I don’t agree that I opened that can of worms,” Whittingham said, adding he was simply answering a question. “Bryce is our quarterback.”

Underwood also is being used like a running back.

He carried the ball 18 times — often by design — for 87 yards to approach the total of 22 carries that three running backs had combined against the Sooners.

“I’m willing to do whatever it takes for us to win,” Underwood said.

The Sooners knew what was coming from the 6-foot-4, 230-pound player but still couldn't keep him contained on the ground.

“He’s exactly who we thought he was,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said. “Really talented guy. Big. He’s strong. He’s hard to get down.”

The Wolverines had 152 yards rushing after being held to 106 yards by the Broncos of the Mid-American Conference.

“We should be able to move the ball on Western Michigan and we didn’t,” offensive tackle Blake Frazier said.

Even though Michigan allowed the Broncos to score only one touchdown, its defense couldn't get off the field on a 20-play drive that took nearly a quarter off the clock in the second half last week.

The Wolverines were much better on that side of the ball on Saturday, holding the Sooners scoreless in the first half, allowing just 100 yards rushing and holding them to 3 to 13 on third down.

Just like in the opener, however, penalties were a problem.

The Wolverines were flagged 11 times for 90 yards, including 15 yards when Jyaire Hill was called for unnecessary roughness when Oklahoma was backed up to its 2 in the third quarter.

“I messed up a little bit,” Hill said.

He made up for it in a big way.

The senior cornerback stepped in front of John Mateer’s pass at the Sooners 30 and returned it 24 yards to set up Jordan Marshall’s go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter.

“The whole team has a next-play mentality," Hill said.

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Oklahoma State's quarterback made it off the field safely after leading the Cowboys to a 39-31 win over No. 6 Oregon on Saturday. The west goal post wasn't so fortunate. Fans tore it down, carried it to nearby Theta Pond and threw it in the water.

Mestemaker threw for 317 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 109 yards and a score, and Oklahoma State ended a 21-game skid against FBS opponents by taking down the possibly not-so-mighty Ducks.

“The field storm was insane,” Mestermaker said. “Someone took my helmet. I was getting like carried off the field by some cops to do some interview or something. It was wild, but I’m so glad we got that done and I’m so glad the fans got to experience that, too.”

Coach Eric Morris' first victory with the Cowboys won't be forgotten by any of the fans who waited out a 90-minute rain delay and finished the game by partying on the field, particularly after Oklahoma State went 1-11 last season — costing longtime coach Mike Gundy his job — and lost 24-10 to Tulsa in Morris' debut.

“We challenged (our players) this week in a really tough way and tough manner and we had some meetings that weren't very pleasant in here,” Morris said. “And they had to listen to how bad they were after hearing how good they were for such a long time. To see them practice this last week, the intensity, the focus, the effort they had ... for them to have that moment, for me as a coach, that's what's rewarding for me.”

The Ducks (1-1), the preseason No. 2 who looked vulnerable in a season-opening home win over Boise State, suffered a huge blow to their national title hopes. Oregon had been favored by 23 1/2 points.

“The score was closer than it really was because it wasn't close in a lot of ways,” Oregon coach Dan Lanning said. “We got our (butts) kicked in a lot of areas. Tons of credit to coach Morris and his staff. If it wasn't for the takeaways we had on defense, it doesn't even looked like it looked. That being said, there's a lot of opportunity for improvement.”

Mestemaker, who played for Morris last season at North Texas and is one of 88 new players on the Cowboys' roster, bounced back from a poor performance in the opener.

After the Ducks took a 31-30 lead on Dante Moore’s 38-yard scoring pass to Evan Stewart early in the fourth, Mestemaker drove the Cowboys 75 yards, launching himself over defenders at the goal line on a 10-yard scoring run for a 36-31 advantage.

“I saw him going low right when I jumped and I was like, ‘Oh, this is perfect,’ and I felt like I was in the air for a year and then I hit the ground so hard, but it's all good because I was in the end zone,” Mestemaker said. “I got the wind knocked out of me so bad, I got up and wanted to celebrate and then couldn't breathe. I didn't want the guys to come jump on me so I said, ‘Just give me a second.’”

A 2-point try failed, but Sam Keltner kicked his fourth field goal of the day after Oklahoma State’s defense forced a turnover on downs, sending the Cowboys (1-1) to their 31st straight win in home openers.

Moore overcame a slow start by throwing two second-half touchdown passes. But the senior QB, who opted to stay at Oregon instead of entering the NFL draft, finished a pedestrian 14 of 21 for 191 yards as Oklahoma State outgained the Ducks 554 yards to 281.

Oklahoma State led 24-17 at halftime behind 179 yards passing and two touchdowns from Mestemaker, who also ran for 75 yards on the Cowboys’ first play.

Oregon was outgained 353-101 before the break, but the Ducks' defense kept them in the game by intercepting a pair of tipped passes, including one that linebacker Devon Jackson returned 96 yards for a touchdown to make it 7-3.

Matayo Uliagalelei intercepted Mestemaker at the Oklahoma State 11 in the second quarter and returned the ball to the 1. Jordan Davison scored on the next play to cut the deficit to 17-14.

Moore, who started 1 of 7, drove the Ducks 75 yards on their first series of the third quarter and connected with Dakorian Moore for a 36-yard touchdown to pull within 27-24.

The takeaway

Oregon: The Ducks struggled to get going for the second straight week against a big underdog, and even if they turn their season around, these first two games could haunt them when College Football Playoff selections are made.

Oklahoma State: The Cowboys put last week’s embarrassing loss behind them with an inspired performance against an opponent that beat them 69-3 last season. Oklahoma's last win over an FBS foe was on Sept. 14, 2024, against Tulsa.

North Texas alums lead a balanced attack

A couple of Mestemaker's former North Texas teammates also showed up for the Cowboys. Caleb Hawkins rushed 23 times for 110 yards and a touchdown, converting several short-yardage situations with powerful runs. And Wyatt Young, Mestermaker's favorite target with the Mean Green, caught five passes for 121 yards and a score. His 52-yard catch-and-run for a touchdown gave Oklahoma State a 24-14 lead in the second quarter.

OSU has a history of beating highly ranked foes at home

Oklahoma State's win was its first over an opponent ranked in the top six of the AP poll since defeating No. 5 Notre Dame on Jan. 1, 2022, and it was the Cowboys' fifth win in their last six matchups with top-10 opponents in Boone Pickens Stadium. They also snapped Oregon's 12-game road win streak.

Up next

Oregon: Hosts Portland State on Friday.

Oklahoma State: Hosts Murray State next Saturday.

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Getting to a fifth consecutive title game was a little harder than the previous few, as they beat Spain 76-66 on Saturday in the semifinals. The Americans had averaged winning the previous four semifinals by 26 points, including a 40-point rout of Canada in 2022.

The Americans will face France in a rematch of the 2024 Paris Olympic gold-medal game that the U.S. won by a point.

“I think it’s two great teams going to go head-to-head,” said Kahleah Copper, who had 13 points in the win against Spain. “You know I’m excited for the matchup. I’m excited for us to be able to compete.”

The U.S. has won 35 straight games in the World Cup going back to a loss to Russia in the semifinals in 2006. Now the Americans are one win away from a fifth consecutive tournament title. That would match the former Soviet Union for the most consecutive championships.

After cruising through their past two games, the U.S. struggled against Spain as the Americans couldn’t get any flow on offense for much of the contest.

The game was tied at 58 to start the fourth quarter before the Americans scored 12 of the first 14 points to take a 70-60 lead — their biggest of the game with 5:20 left. Spain could only get within eight the rest of the way.

“That was important,” Copper said about the start of the fourth quarter. “I think we wanted to make plays down the stretch. We needed to get stops. We were scoring, but we weren’t getting the stops. So, I think in that moment, we were getting the stops and we were also scoring, which gave us the separation.”

U.S. coach Kara Lawson was happy with the defense in the fourth quarter when the team held Spain to only eight points.

“I thought defensively, it was the best we had played, from guarding the ball to guarding the ball screen to boxing out and limiting to one shot,” Lawson said. “Every phase of defense, we were precise and we were locked in, so when we get all that going together, we feel like we can create some separation.”

The first half was a struggle offensively as Spain was constantly fouling, which didn't let the Americans get into any sort of rhythm. The U.S. took 27 free throws in the opening half and ended up 27 of 35 for the game from the foul line.

To Aliyah Boston, who was playing in the World Cup for the first time, the game had an NCAA Final Four feel to it.

“When you’re in a tournament like this, it doesn’t always have to be pretty. You just have to come out with the win,” she said. “For us, it’s about not hanging our heads. I think we did a great job with our rotations. Everyone came in, gave energy, gave great minutes, scored the ball. It’s about making sure that when your name is called, you’re ready to go.”

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A federal judge on Friday extended a deadline to formally indict defendant David J. Rush until Oct. 8, giving time for federal prosecutors and his attorney to finalize the plea deal and avoid a public trial that the parties said could involve significant litigation over classified material.

A joint court filing Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Virginia and Rush's lawyer did not outline the details of the tentative plea deal. The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment Saturday, and Rush's attorney did not not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rush was charged with theft of public money in May. He was accused of fraudulently claiming 744 hours of military leave on his timecards after he was honorably discharged from the Navy in 2015 and of inflating his salary by falsely claiming degrees from Clemson University in South Carolina and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, according to an FBI agent's affidavit filed in court.

That same document also revealed that investigators searched Rush's home and seized about 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million, plus about $2 million in U.S. currency and about 35 luxury watches.

The FBI affidavit said Rush had obtained the gold bars from the U.S. government for “work-related expenses.” Rush's attorney has said the charge against him isn't related to the gold bars, which she described as "a sensational tidbit.”

A Justice Department attorney said during a June court proceeding that Rush wasn’t supposed to have the gold bars at his home.

Wearing all-white uniforms for the first time in team history, Georgia (2-0) led 49-0 in the first half — matching the most productive half in school history — as it prepared for next week's SEC opener at Arkansas.

Stockton completed 13 of 16 passes for 234 yards while throwing touchdown passes to five different targets. Stockton has eight touchdown passes and no interceptions in two games. He left each game in the second quarter.

Tyriq Green had a 91-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and recovered a fumble in the end zone for another score for the Bulldogs.

Stockton utilized one of Georgia's deepest positions — tight end — by throwing a 7-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Barbour about 1 minute into the game. Stockton also threw scoring passes to running back Chauncey Bowens and receivers London Humphreys, Sacovie White-Helton and Talyn Taylor. Nate Frazier ran for 55 yards and a touchdown.

Stockton's five TD passes matched the school record shared by several players, most recently Carson Beck against Tennessee Tech and Georgia Tech in 2024.

Landon Roldan's 9-yard scoring run gave Georgia a 49-0 lead in the second quarter, tying the school record for most points in a half.

Backup quarterback Brock Glenn had scoring runs of 15 and 10 yards for the Hilltoppers (0-2). Glenn threw a 7-yard scoring pass to Coleson Arends with 1:17 remaining following a fumbled punt return by Roldan.

Georgia debuted its all-white alternate uniform featuring white helmets, jerseys and pants.

One week after the temperature was 101 degrees for the start of the Bulldogs' 63-3 win over Tennessee State, weather again was a factor. There was light rain early in the game which became a downpour in the third quarter.

The Takeaway

Western Kentucky: After a 49-14 opening loss at Nevada last week, the Hilltoppers again suffered a lopsided defeat. Quarterback Rodney Tisdale Jr. threw an interception in the second quarter and then lost a fumble on the following possession. Glenn had 13 carries for 70 yards and the two touchdowns but also threw an interception after replacing Tisdale. Ajay Allen, who ran for 102 yards and two touchdowns against Nevada, was held to 19 yards on 11 carries.

Georgia: The Bulldogs showed impressive depth. Twelve players had receptions and 12 had carries. Each of Stockton's five scoring passes were to different targets. Four quarterbacks played for the second straight week. A lost fumble by backup quarterback Ryan Puglisi set up a Hilltoppers' touchdown. Puglisi bounced back with a 70-yard scoring run early in the second half.

Up Next

Western Kentucky visits No. 5 Indiana on Saturday.

Georgia opens its SEC schedule at Arkansas on Saturday.

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The Wolverines (2-0) were the butt of jokes all week after a lucky break put a second on the clock and gave Underwood another chance to complete a game-winning Hail Mary against Western Michigan last weekend.

They responded with a signature win under first-year coach Kyle Whittingham, who said Underwood had to show signs of improvement to keep his job.

He did.

Underwood ran for 87 yards, including his touchdown run late in the first quarter, and threw for 111 yards without a turnover.

The Sooners (1-1) were favored to win by nearly a touchdown and never led. They were scoreless until John Mateer threw a 22-yard touchdown to Mackenzie Alleyne midway through the third quarter.

They had the ball at the 50 with 3:05 left to play and turned the ball over on downs after gaining just 3 yards. They had another opportunity at their 15 with 1:06 to go and ran out of time after gaining just 10 yards.

Jyaire Hill, who was called for unnecessary roughness when Oklahoma had the ball at its 2 in the third, stepped in front of Mateer's pass at the Sooners 30 and returned it 24 yards to set up Marshall's go-ahead touchdown.

The takeaway

Oklahoma: Standout linebacker Kip Lewis injured his right knee in the first half and didn't return, taking away one of the top players on one of the nation's best defenses.

Michigan: After an awful performance in the opener in every phase that dropped the Wolverines out of the AP Top 25, they likely will be ranked again.

Up next

Oklahoma: Hosts New Mexico on Saturday.

Michigan: Hosts UTEP on Saturday.

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Lowry lost his three-shot advantage at the start when Jacob Skov Olesen of Denmark finished the front nine eagle-birdie to go out in 31 and share the lead. And then the Irishman couldn't miss.

It started with a 5-foot birdie on the 10th and a 10-foot par save on the 11th. Lowry made every putt on the back — three for birdies, six for pars — finishing with a superb pitch from left the of the 18th green to 4 feet for one last par.

“I’m normally the one watching other people do it, so why not me sometimes?” Lowry said. “I’m seeing my lines well and starting the ball where I want and they’re going in. And hopefully that stays that way for another 24 hours.”

Lowry was at 16-under 194 at Trump International Ireland, the Doonbeg course Trump bought in 2014. Trump stopped by after meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin.

Trump is the first U.S. president to attend a European tour event. He now has been to golf events on three circuits this year, having already gone to tournaments on his courses at the PGA Tour (Doral in Florida) and LIV Golf (Bedminster in New Jersey).

Skov Olesen didn't make another birdie after the ninth hole, closed with a bogey on the 18th had to settle for 66 that left him four shots behind.

“I feel like I put up some good chances and took advantage of a lot of them,” Skov Olesen said of his front-nine 31. “And the back nine was just the complete opposite, I couldn’t take advantage of anything. And nothing really worked.”

Joaquin Niemann shot 66 and was seven shots behind.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy never had much of a chance to make up ground. He was aggressive at the start and it cost him, twice hitting tee shots out of play and making double bogey before he reached the seventh tee. He shot 74 and was 18 shots behind.

“No momentum early,” McIlroy said. “And then it was a tough enough day. Obviously, the wind was up and stuff. Yeah, just couldn’t quite get it back after that.”

Another cool, windy day along the Atlantic coast did little to dampen the cheering, particularly with Lowry in the lead. Each putt he made, whether for par or birdie, added to the cheers and carried him along to prime position for another title at his national open.

Lowry was an amateur when he won the Irish Open in 2009.

“I had so much fun out there on the back nine,” Lowry said. “The crowds were incredible. They cheered me on the whole way home and hopefully will do the same tomorrow.”

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