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Five other people died after the cargo plane overran MIA’s runway 30 shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday and “came to rest at a field adjacent to the airport,” near warehouses, according to Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz.

Miami-Dade Fire Chief Raied “Ray” Jadallah said firefighters rushed to free the cargo plane’s pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped in the cockpit. Rohan Ellis, a witness, shared a video showing them getting out through a window.

“The airplane did strike a couple of vehicles,” Jadallah said, adding that firefighters also had to free the injured who were “trapped in the vehicles.”

Fire rescue personnel took the injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and the Jackson South Medical Center. MDFR deployed more than 60 units.

Dark smoke billowed from the crash site. There was a fuel leak. Firefighters reported using foam to help extinguish the flames in the engine compartment.

“We had a very complex fire,” Jadallah said.

Miami-Dade deputies asked the public to avoid the area near Northwest 67th Avenue, between 25th and 36th streets on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.

A witness’s video showed storm clouds were partially covering the sky when the cargo plane landed at MIA after arriving from the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary ground stop order for about three hours on Sunday afternoon.

The National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy was set to release information about the crash on Monday.

Cordero-Stutz asked relatives in need of information about the victims of the plane crash to call 305-471-2400.

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#MDFR INCIDENT UPDATE #1: SEPT. 6 - 3:25 P.M.

Over 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units are on scene of an incident involving a plane that overran a runway and struck multiple vehicles near Miami International Airport. Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a… pic.twitter.com/T0JTFZTb3F

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

ACTUALIZACIÓN N.º 2 DEL INCIDENTE DE #MDFR: 6 DE SEPT. - 6:25 P.M.

El domingo 6 de septiembre, a la 1:55 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recibió reportes de un avión de carga que había chocado contra varios vehículos cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Más de 60 unidades… pic.twitter.com/wa4iIWs6x8

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

🚨 TRAFFIC ALERT 🚨

Due to a major first responder presence, NW 67th Avenue between NW 25th Street - NW 36th Street is currently closed. Expect delays and seek alternate routes.

Flights at Miami International Airport are also currently grounded. Travelers should expect delays. pic.twitter.com/y4vYZq4Vpx

— Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (@MiamiDade_SO) September 6, 2026

21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate. Contact the…

— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) September 6, 2026

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According to Flight Aware, 129 domestic flights arriving or departing from MIA were delayed and 65 were canceled.

Airport officials confirmed that two of the airport’s four runways are currently open.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m. Sunday and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

“So what we see in the video is what we call an unstable approach,” airline Captain Francisco Diaz, who has flown similar planes, said. “The airplane was approaching the runway in a state that was outside of the standard. You can see that it’s pitching down a little bit and then when it reaches the landing zone of the runway it floats forever, right? And it actually makes two little bounces in the air before it touches down on the main gear. From the training perspective, you’re supposed to go around – go back in the air when something like that happens, specifically to avoid this from happening.”

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews launched a search-and-rescue operation for the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped on the aircraft, as well as victims trapped inside vehicles that were struck by the cargo plane.

“The airplane did strike a couple of vehicles that required a couple of victims that were actually trapped in the vehicles,” MDFR Chief Ray Jadallah said.

Officials said over 60 MDFR units consisting of about 200 workers responded to the scene as thick, heavy plumes of smoke billowed from the plane into the air.

“As you’re well aware, these incidents require seconds, not necessarily minutes, in regards to a response,” Jadallah said.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said during a press conference that five people were killed and five others were hospitalized.

Three of the injured people were listed in critical condition, authorities said.

According to officials, Prime Air Flight 7598 originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Airport officials said the plane was disabled after going off the northwest end of the airport’s diagonal runway.

A ground stop was issued after the crash and all runways were closed for hours, officials confirmed.

An airport official said one of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash and officials with the NTSB are expected to release more details at a press conference Monday.

Video of Sunday’s landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. Aviation experts said investigators will seek to determine exactly where the plane landed and, if it was beyond the normal touchdown zone, why the pilots did not abandon the landing and circle back for another attempt.

Investigators will also examine the plane’s speed and braking, weather and wind conditions, the aircraft’s mechanical condition and other factors that could have contributed to the deadly overrun.

MIA not equipped with arresting systems used to stop planes that go past end of a runway

MIA is not equipped with arresting systems that the FAA says have been installed at more than 120 airports nationwide to safely stop planes that do go past the end of a runway.

“It prevents the airplane from leaving the airport premises,” Diaz said. “It’s a soft concrete that is after the runway and if the airplane gets into that area, it becomes like mud and stops the airplane from continuing moving forward.”

Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

MIA does not have EMAS, or the Engineered Materials Arresting System, because the FAA requires airports that don’t instead have a 1,000-foot runway safety area at the end of the tarmac, which the airport has. However, Diaz said he believes EMAS could have prevented the Amazon cargo plane from going into the parking lot Sunday.

Diaz is the current captain of a Boeing 747, but flew the same plane involved in Sunday’s crash a decade ago.

“This airplane registration is registration N1997A. It was the first Amazon Prime airplane about 10 years ago, and the company I used to work for, we were the ones that started this contract with Amazon and I flew this specific tail number 10 years ago,” he said.

Those flying into or out of MIA Monday are urged to check with their airline for their flight status before arriving at the airport.

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It coincided with the busy Labor Day travel weekend.

One woman said, “I started out in Buffalo, New York, and then I went to Raleigh and then from Raleigh, we had a seven-hour layover, maybe nine hours and then ended up in Denver and had another hour layover and then ended up here.”

Another woman said her flight was rescheduled three times.

The deadly crash brought the entire airport to a ground stop Sunday while first responders rushed to the scene. Inbound flights were seeing the most issues.

Some flights were out-and-out cancelled.

One flyer said she was at MIA for 10 hours.

“They said wait ‘til 5 o’clock to see if we reopen and then they canceled the flight,” she said.

Nearly 150 delays and 60 cancellations were reported as of around 10:30 Monday morning.

Those delays also affected flight crews getting to MIA to staff flights.

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The shooting happened just after 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Hyde Beach House at 4010 S. Ocean Drive.

According to the Hollywood Police Department, medics took the victim, who was found in the hotel’s lobby, to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. Police did not release information about his or her age or gender.

Police said detectives “are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident” and authorities have not announced any arrests.

They asked anyone with information to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Todo coincidió con el ajetreado fin de semana del Día del Trabajo.

Una mujer contó: “Salí de Buffalo, Nueva York, y de ahí fui a Raleigh, y en Raleigh tuvimos una escala de siete horas, quizás nueve, y terminamos en Denver, donde hubo otra escala de una hora, y de ahí llegamos acá”.

Otra mujer dijo que su vuelo fue reprogramado tres veces.

El accidente mortal obligó a detener toda la operación en tierra del aeropuerto el domingo, mientras los socorristas acudían al lugar. Los vuelos de llegada fueron los más afectados.

Algunos vuelos simplemente se cancelaron.

Una pasajera dijo que pasó diez horas en MIA.

“Nos dijeron que esperáramos hasta las 5 en punto para ver si reabrían, y después cancelaron el vuelo”, contó.

Hasta cerca de las 10:30 de la mañana del lunes se reportaban casi 150 retrasos y 60 cancelaciones.

Esos retrasos también afectaron la llegada a MIA de las tripulaciones que debían cubrir los vuelos.

El tiroteo ocurrió poco después de la 1 p.m. del domingo en el Hyde Beach House, en el 4010 de South Ocean Drive.

De acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, los paramédicos trasladaron a la víctima, que fue encontrada en el vestíbulo del hotel, al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. La policía no divulgó información sobre su edad ni su sexo.

La policía indicó que los detectives “investigan activamente las circunstancias que rodean este incidente” y las autoridades no han anunciado ningún arresto.

Se pide a cualquier persona con información que llame a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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And after Sunday’s fatal plane crash at MIA involving an Amazon cargo plane, many are wondering whether those systems could have saved lives.

“It prevents the airplane from leaving the airport premises,” airline Captain Francisco Diaz, who has flown the same plane, said. “It’s a soft concrete that is after the runway and if the airplane gets into that area, it becomes like mud and stops the airplane from continuing moving forward.”

Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

MIA does not have EMAS, or the Engineered Materials Arresting System, because the FAA requires airports that don’t instead have a 1,000-foot runway safety area at the end of the tarmac, which the airport has. However, Diaz said he believes EMAS could have prevented the Amazon cargo plane from going into the parking lot Sunday.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m. Sunday and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

“So what we see in the video is what we call an unstable approach,” Diaz said. “The airplane was approaching the runway in a state that was outside of the standard. You can see that it’s pitching down a little bit and then when it reaches the landing zone of the runway it floats forever, right? And it actually makes two little bounces in the air before it touches down on the main gear. From the training perspective, you’re supposed to go around – go back in the air when something like that happens, specifically to avoid this from happening.”

Diaz is the current captain of a Boeing 747, but flew the same plane involved in Sunday’s crash a decade ago.

“This airplane registration is registration N1997A. It was the first Amazon Prime airplane about 10 years ago, and the company I used to work for, we were the ones that started this contract with Amazon and I flew this specific tail number 10 years ago,” he said.

Diaz urged the public to wait for the investigation’s findings before deciding who or what was at fault for Sunday’s crash, and urged Miami-Dade officials to invest in EMAS for MIA’s runways.

“We don’t know if the airplane had any malfunction. We don’t know if the systems had any issues, like hydraulics or brakes or anything like that,” he said. “For the pilots out there, every time you are unstable in an approach, go around. Try a second time. Go back in the air and come back and try. For the authorities, Miami airport is doing a $9 billion investment in infrastructure. Please include something like EMAS for all the runways.”

Those flying into or out of MIA Monday are urged to check with their airline for their flight status before arriving at the airport.

Otras cinco personas murieron luego de que el avión de carga rebasara la pista 30 de MIA, poco antes de las 2 p.m. del domingo, y “quedara detenido en un terreno contiguo al aeropuerto”, cerca de unas bodegas, según la alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz.

El jefe de Bomberos de Miami-Dade, Raied “Ray” Jadallah, dijo que los bomberos se apresuraron a liberar al piloto y al copiloto del avión de carga, que quedaron atrapados en la cabina.

“El avión sí golpeó un par de vehículos”, dijo Jadallah, y agregó que los bomberos tuvieron que sacar a los heridos que estaban “atrapados dentro de los autos”.

El personal de rescate trasladó a los heridos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South Medical Center. MDFR desplegó más de 60 unidades.

Una densa humareda negra salía del lugar del accidente. Hubo una fuga de combustible. Los bomberos reportaron el uso de espuma para ayudar a extinguir las llamas en el compartimiento del motor.

“Tuvimos un incendio muy complejo”, dijo Jadallah.

Los agentes de Miami-Dade pidieron al público evitar la zona cercana a Northwest 67th Avenue, entre las calles 25 y 36, durante la tarde del domingo y la mañana del lunes.

El video de un testigo mostró que nubes de tormenta cubrían parcialmente el cielo cuando el avión de carga aterrizó en MIA, tras llegar desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

La Administración Federal de Aviación emitió una orden temporal de detención de operaciones en tierra durante unas tres horas la tarde del domingo.

Se esperaba que la presidenta de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte, Jennifer Homendy, divulgara información sobre el accidente el lunes.

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• Continúan retrasos y cancelaciones en MIA tras accidente de avión de carga de Amazon que dejó cinco personas muertas
• Tres personas en condición crítica tras mortal accidente aéreo en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami
• Avión de carga se estrella tras salirse de la pista en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami
• Pasajeros en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami enfrentan retrasos tras accidente aéreo mortal

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#MDFR INCIDENT UPDATE #1: SEPT. 6 - 3:25 P.M.

Over 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units are on scene of an incident involving a plane that overran a runway and struck multiple vehicles near Miami International Airport. Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a… pic.twitter.com/T0JTFZTb3F

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

ACTUALIZACIÓN N.º 2 DEL INCIDENTE DE #MDFR: 6 DE SEPT. - 6:25 P.M.

El domingo 6 de septiembre, a la 1:55 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recibió reportes de un avión de carga que había chocado contra varios vehículos cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Más de 60 unidades… pic.twitter.com/wa4iIWs6x8

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) September 6, 2026

🚨 TRAFFIC ALERT 🚨

Due to a major first responder presence, NW 67th Avenue between NW 25th Street - NW 36th Street is currently closed. Expect delays and seek alternate routes.

Flights at Miami International Airport are also currently grounded. Travelers should expect delays. pic.twitter.com/y4vYZq4Vpx

— Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (@MiamiDade_SO) September 6, 2026

21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate. Contact the…

— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) September 6, 2026

Y tras el accidente aéreo mortal del domingo en MIA, en el que se vio involucrado un avión de carga de Amazon, muchos se preguntan si esos sistemas habrían podido salvar vidas.

“Impide que el avión salga de las instalaciones del aeropuerto”, dijo el capitán de aerolínea Francisco Diaz, quien ha volado ese mismo avión. “Es un concreto blando que va después de la pista, y si el avión entra en esa zona, se vuelve como lodo y lo detiene para que no siga avanzando”.

La FAA atribuye a esos lechos de material liviano y quebradizo instalados al final de las pistas haber ayudado a salvar al menos 497 vidas de personas a bordo de aviones que se pasaron de la pista.

MIA no tiene EMAS, el Sistema de Frenado con Materiales de Ingeniería, porque la FAA lo exige solo a los aeropuertos que no cuentan con un área de seguridad de 1,000 pies al final de la pista, y el aeropuerto sí la tiene. Aun así, Diaz considera que el EMAS pudo haber evitado que el avión de carga de Amazon terminara en el estacionamiento el domingo.

De acuerdo con la Administración Federal de Aviación, el avión de carga Boeing 767 rebasó una pista de MIA alrededor de las 2 p.m. del domingo y arrasó una vía que utilizan trabajadores de almacenes y otros negocios de los alrededores del aeropuerto.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue señalaron que el avión golpeó varios vehículos en un estacionamiento sobre Northwest 67th Avenue, entre Northwest 25th Street y 36th Street.

“Lo que vemos en el video es lo que llamamos una aproximación inestable”, dijo Diaz. “El avión se acercaba a la pista en una condición fuera de lo normal. Se ve que baja un poco la nariz y luego, al llegar a la zona de aterrizaje, flota una eternidad. De hecho, da dos pequeños rebotes en el aire antes de tocar con el tren principal. Desde el punto de vista del entrenamiento, uno debe hacer un motor y al aire, volver a subir cuando pasa algo así, justamente para evitar que esto ocurra”.

Diaz es actualmente capitán de un Boeing 747, pero hace una década voló el mismo avión que se accidentó el domingo.

“La matrícula de este avión es N1997A. Fue el primer avión de Amazon Prime hace unos 10 años, y la empresa para la que yo trabajaba fue la que inició ese contrato con Amazon. Yo volé esa misma matrícula hace 10 años”, contó.

Diaz pidió al público esperar los resultados de la investigación antes de decidir quién o qué tuvo la culpa del accidente del domingo, e instó a las autoridades de Miami-Dade a invertir en el EMAS para las pistas de MIA.

“No sabemos si el avión tuvo alguna falla. No sabemos si los sistemas tuvieron algún problema, como los hidráulicos o los frenos o algo así”, dijo. “A los pilotos les digo: cada vez que vayan inestables en una aproximación, hagan motor y al aire. Inténtenlo una segunda vez. Vuelvan a subir, regresen e inténtenlo. Y a las autoridades: el aeropuerto de Miami está haciendo una inversión de 9,000 millones de dólares en infraestructura. Por favor, incluyan algo como el EMAS para todas las pistas”.

A quienes tengan vuelos desde o hacia MIA este lunes se les recomienda consultar el estado de su vuelo con la aerolínea antes de ir al aeropuerto.

Según Flight Aware, 129 vuelos nacionales que llegaban o salían de MIA se retrasaron y 65 fueron cancelados.

Funcionarios del aeropuerto confirmaron que dos de las cuatro pistas están abiertas en este momento.

De acuerdo con la Administración Federal de Aviación, un avión de carga Boeing 767 rebasó una pista de MIA alrededor de las 2 p.m. del domingo y arrasó una vía que utilizan trabajadores de almacenes y otros negocios de los alrededores del aeropuerto.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue señalaron que el avión golpeó varios vehículos en un estacionamiento sobre Northwest 67th Avenue, entre Northwest 25th Street y 36th Street.

“Lo que vemos en el video es lo que llamamos una aproximación inestable”, dijo el capitán Francisco Diaz, quien ha volado aviones similares. “El avión se acercaba a la pista en una condición fuera de lo normal. Se ve que baja un poco la nariz y luego, al llegar a la zona de aterrizaje, flota una eternidad. De hecho, da dos pequeños rebotes en el aire antes de tocar con el tren principal. Desde el punto de vista del entrenamiento, uno debe hacer un motor y al aire, volver a subir cuando pasa algo así, justamente para evitar que esto ocurra”.

La alguacil de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, informó en una conferencia de prensa que cinco personas murieron y otras cinco fueron hospitalizadas.

Tres de los heridos estaban en estado crítico, indicaron las autoridades.

Según las autoridades, el vuelo 7598 de Prime Air había salido del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Funcionarios del aeropuerto dijeron que el avión quedó inutilizado tras salirse por el extremo noroeste de la pista diagonal del aeropuerto.

Tras el accidente se ordenó una detención de operaciones en tierra y todas las pistas permanecieron cerradas durante horas, confirmaron las autoridades.

Un funcionario del aeropuerto dijo que una de las cuatro pistas de MIA reabrió alrededor de las 4:15 p.m., y una segunda unos 30 minutos después.

La Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte investiga la causa del accidente y se esperaba que sus funcionarios dieran más detalles en una conferencia de prensa el lunes.

El video del aterrizaje del domingo parece mostrar que el Boeing 767 siguió en el aire buena parte de la pista antes de tocar tierra. Expertos en aviación señalaron que los investigadores buscarán determinar en qué punto exacto aterrizó el avión y, si fue más allá de la zona normal de contacto, por qué los pilotos no abortaron el aterrizaje para intentarlo de nuevo.

Los investigadores también examinarán la velocidad y el frenado del avión, las condiciones del clima y del viento, el estado mecánico de la aeronave y otros factores que pudieron contribuir al accidente.

MIA no cuenta con los sistemas de frenado que detienen aviones que rebasan la pista

MIA no está equipado con los sistemas de frenado que, según la FAA, se han instalado en más de 120 aeropuertos del país para detener de forma segura a los aviones que se pasan del final de la pista.

“Impide que el avión salga de las instalaciones del aeropuerto”, explicó Diaz. “Es un concreto blando que va después de la pista, y si el avión entra en esa zona, se vuelve como lodo y lo detiene para que no siga avanzando”.

La FAA atribuye a esos lechos de material liviano y quebradizo instalados al final de las pistas haber ayudado a salvar al menos 497 vidas de personas a bordo de aviones que se pasaron de la pista.

MIA no tiene EMAS, el Sistema de Frenado con Materiales de Ingeniería, porque la FAA lo exige solo a los aeropuertos que no cuentan con un área de seguridad de 1,000 pies al final de la pista, y el aeropuerto sí la tiene. Aun así, Diaz considera que el EMAS pudo haber evitado que el avión de carga de Amazon terminara en el estacionamiento el domingo.

Diaz es actualmente capitán de un Boeing 747, pero hace una década voló el mismo avión que se accidentó el domingo.

“La matrícula de este avión es N19977A. Fue el primer avión de Amazon Prime hace unos 10 años, y la empresa para la que yo trabajaba fue la que inició ese contrato con Amazon. Yo volé esa misma matrícula hace 10 años”, contó.

A quienes tengan vuelos desde o hacia MIA este lunes se les recomienda consultar el estado de su vuelo con la aerolínea antes de ir al aeropuerto.

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A letter sent on behalf of the king to senior government officials said the couple will continue to refrain from using their royal titles as they have done since stepping back from official royal duties in 2020. Any charity work the couple undertakes will be carried out in a private capacity, and operational security decisions are matters for the relevant police agencies, the letter adds.

The letter was sent by the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior official in the royal household, to senior officials in the government and military, as well as lord lieutenants, the king’s personal representatives around the country.

“To help avoid doubt or confusion, The King has directed that (this) information be shared,” the letter says.

While the communication simply confirms that Harry and Meghan’s status remains unchanged, the decision to send the letter and release it publicly demonstrates the concern among some palace observers that the couple’s status could allow them to become a sort of parallel royal court, competing with working members of the royal family.

The security question is particularly sensitive because Harry has fought a long-running battle with the government for the restoration of publicly funded police protection, which was canceled when the couple gave up their royal roles.

The decision about whether to restore the couple’s round-the-clock police protection is a matter for a government panel known as RAVEC, or the Royal and VIP Executive Committee.

“Any specific questions from official and State organizations about the courtesies which should be extended to the Duke and Duchess, and particularly where recourse to public funds may be required, should be directed to Buckingham Palace,” the Lord Chamberlain said in his letter.

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According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said during a press conference that five people were killed and five others were hospitalized with unknown injuries.

Three of the injured people were listed in critical condition, authorities said.

The flight originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, officials said.

According to information from MIA, Prime Air Flight 7598 was disabled after going off the northwest end of the airport’s diagonal runway.

A ground stop was issued, and all runways were closed following the crash, officials said.

We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway.

If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations.

The @FAANews will send inspectors… https://t.co/k6xrXvoLzJ

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 6, 2026

An airport official said that one of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later.

According to the FAA’s real-time airport status information for MIA, no planes would be allowed to depart until at least 5:30 p.m.

Plumes of black smoke could be seen coming from the plane as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said several vehicles were struck by the plane in a parking lot along Northwest 67th Avenue, between Northwest 25th Street and 36th Street.

MDFR officials said there were multiple people who were injured but did not elaborate on the extent of those injuries.

Crews launched a search-and-rescue operation for the pilot and co-pilot, who were trapped on the aircraft, as well as victims trapped inside vehicles that were struck by the cargo plane.

Officials also said that over 60 MDFR units responded to the scene.

Officials with MIA said passengers with flights scheduled on Sunday should check with their airlines for their flight status before heading to the airport.

Additionally, MIA officials said travelers using the Metrorail will need to transfer at the Earlington Heights station for the Orange Line to get to the airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation into the crash.

The FAA also said it will be investigating the circumstances that led to the plane going off the runway.

A spokesperson from Amazon released the following statement Sunday afternoon:

“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today. This is a fast-moving situation and we’re still gathering details. We’re working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened. Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected.”

Kelly Nantel, Amazon spokesperson

The NTSB said their investigation will begin on Monday.

NTSB has launched a go team to investigate Sunday's runway excursion accident involving a B-767-300 cargo airplane at Miami International Airport. The airplane was operated as 21 Air Flight 7598 from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy will…

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MDSO made a dedicated family information line. If you believe your loved one may have been involved in this incident, please call (305) 471-2400.

The “configuration” and the “technical features” of the nuclear reactor under construction in Syria during the leadership of ousted former President Bashar Assad were “very efficient in the production of fissile material that could be directly used for the fabrication of nuclear weapons,” IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said.

“Of course, that was never declared, that was always denied, so, and again, intentions cannot be judged, but that was a very serious proliferation concern that we had, and this has been difficult work,” he told reporters on the first day of a regular meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, in Vienna.

Syria was believed to have operated an extensive undeclared nuclear program under Assad that included a nuclear reactor built by North Korea in eastern Deir el-Zour province.

Following Assad’s ouster, the new government agreed to give IAEA inspectors access to suspected former nuclear sites.

During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor.” Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country.

Inspectors had to ‘tear down walls’ to find hidden material

Syria notified the agency of the site’s existence in a July 17 letter and invited the IAEA “to cooperate with the Syrian authorities in the inspection and verification of the site and of any nuclear material to be potentially found.”

The IAEA said in its confidential report circulated to member states last Tuesday and seen by The Associated Press that this new site contained “natural uranium metal in the form of fuel rods with cladding.” The agency verified the material and confirmed “the presence of around 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal.”

Grossi said when the inspectors visited the site in August they had to “tear down walls” and go through “very difficult and narrow passages” to reach the nuclear material that had been hidden. The site had “boxes scattered all over the place,” he said.

Grossi said that “the important thing is that this material now is under safeguards” of the IAEA, adding that agency inspectors had managed to install cameras at the location.

Syria to decide what happens next

Asked if the nuclear material will remain in Syria or be removed, Grossi said that this is “a matter that the Syrian government will have to decide.” He added: “We are not requesting them to do this or to do that. For us what’s important is that we know all the time where this (material) is until the last gram.”

Logan Mintz, a director for nuclear materials security at the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, said that natural uranium metal is not directly usable for a nuclear weapon but it could be “diverted to a covert weapons program that further processes it into plutonium for a nuclear weapon.”

She said that once deemed safe to move, the material could be “transported in certified containers” to a third country that can “safely and securely disposition it into a more chemically stable and more widely used form” for possible use in nuclear power plants.

“As with any transport of nuclear material, this movement would require robust security from theft or sabotage,” she said.

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The ministry said the German consulate must stop operations and its workers must leave Russia by Sept. 18. It reaffirmed the previously announced decision to shut German Goethe-Institut cultural centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg and said their employees must leave no later than Sunday.

The ministry's statement cast the moves as retaliation for Germany’s “unfriendly” decision Wednesday to close both the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital, Berlin.

Germany said Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4, when an explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane.

The airport is a major international freight hub used for providing support to Ukraine. The drone was later defused.

Moscow has denied involvement in the drone attack and cast it as a provocation.

“It was the German authorities who once again provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “All responsibility for the consequences lies entirely with the German government.”

Western officials have repeatedly accused Moscow of conducting a campaign of sabotage and disruption in their countries with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations, accusations Russia has rejected.

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The five injured, including the pilots, were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and Jackson South. Three of the patients are in critical condition.

The Boeing 767 Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway and crashed into parked cars in a nearby lot.

Photos from the lot show mangled cars, some upside down, with debris scattered throughout. One photo shows a large white van crushed behind the plane.

Several victims were trapped in their cars, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

The details of the victims’ injuries were not immediately known, other than that they were in critical condition.

There was also a search and rescue operation for the two pilots who were trapped inside the plane, according to officials.

The crash remains under investigation. Officials have been asked for an update on the victims’ conditions.

For the latest information on the crash, click here.

Las cinco personas heridas, incluidos los pilotos, fueron trasladadas al Jackson Memorial Hospital y al Jackson South. Tres de los pacientes se encuentran en condición crítica.

El avión de carga Boeing 767 de Amazon sobrepasó la pista y se estrelló contra vehículos estacionados en un lote cercano.

Fotos del estacionamiento muestran vehículos destrozados, algunos volcados, con escombros esparcidos por toda el área. Una foto muestra una gran camioneta blanca aplastada detrás del avión.

Varias víctimas quedaron atrapadas en sus vehículos, según Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Los detalles de las lesiones de las víctimas no se conocieron de inmediato, aparte de que se encontraban en condición crítica.

También se llevó a cabo una operación de búsqueda y rescate de los dos pilotos que quedaron atrapados dentro del avión, según funcionarios.

El accidente continúa bajo investigación. Se ha solicitado a los funcionarios una actualización sobre el estado de las víctimas.

Para obtener la información más reciente sobre el accidente, haga clic aquí.

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Known as “The Natural,” Triana has been training in combat sports for nearly his entire life.

“It’s like I also got super strength. I’m really strong. I punch like an adult,” Triana said. “I never go down without a fight. I never quit.”

That confidence is backed by a growing list of accomplishments.

Triana said he became a world grappling champion in Munich, Germany, in 2023 and this year became the first six-time national youth MMA champion. He also has a 7-4 kickboxing record with three knockouts.

“I’m top of the world right now for my age,” he said.

A passion that started at age 2

Triana’s journey into the sport began before he was old enough to remember much else.

“Well, I first started when I was 2 years old. I was still sucking on a binky. I still had my blanket,” he said. “We got into the gym. I faced a kid who was 6 years old.”

By the time he was about 5, Triana said he knew fighting would be a major part of his life.

“Kids would cry when they went to the gym. I would cry when I had to leave the gym,” he said. “That’s how much I loved it.”

That childhood passion has since turned into an intense training schedule.

Triana trains six days a week, often two or three times a day and sometimes for six or seven hours.

He credits his father, Eduardo Triana, with helping him develop the discipline needed to compete at such a high level.

“I always see him as motivation,” Isaiah said. “He pushes me to my limits.”

Eduardo, who is also a fighter and coach, said watching his son take their sport around the world has been an unforgettable experience.

“It’s never a dull moment and I can’t stop pinching myself,” he said. “You never get used to it.”

His journey heads to the big screen

Now, Isaiah’s story is reaching an audience beyond the MMA world.

He is the focus of a new short film called “Fight Kid,” which follows his journey and one of his title fights.

The film is scheduled to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12. His family also plans to host a red-carpet event in South Florida.

Even with a film being made about his accomplishments at just 15, Isaiah is already focused on what comes next.

“What I see in the future is for me to be UFC world champion. And I feel like I’m gonna do that,” he said. “Also, a dream of mine is to be UFC BJJ champion.”

Before pursuing those professional ambitions, Isaiah said he wants to wrestle in college. He’s also interested in a career in sports medicine or physical therapy.

For a teenager who has been competing almost as long as he has been walking, the titles and film premiere are milestones — but Isaiah believes his biggest accomplishments are still ahead.

Conocido como “The Natural”, Triana ha estado entrenando en deportes de combate durante casi toda su vida.

“Es como si también tuviera superfuerza. Soy realmente fuerte. Golpeo como un adulto”, dijo Triana. “Nunca caigo sin dar pelea. Nunca me rindo”.

Esa confianza está respaldada por una creciente lista de logros.

Triana dijo que se convirtió en campeón mundial de grappling en Múnich, Alemania, en 2023 y que este año se convirtió en el primer campeón nacional juvenil de MMA en seis ocasiones. También tiene un récord de 7-4 en kickboxing con tres nocauts.

“Estoy en la cima del mundo ahora mismo para mi edad”, dijo.

Una pasión que comenzó a los 2 años

El camino de Triana en este deporte comenzó antes de que tuviera edad suficiente para recordar muchas otras cosas.

“Bueno, comencé cuando tenía 2 años. Todavía usaba chupete. Todavía tenía mi manta”, dijo. “Entramos al gimnasio. Me enfrenté a un niño que tenía 6 años”.

Cuando tenía alrededor de 5 años, Triana dijo que sabía que pelear sería una parte importante de su vida.

“Los niños lloraban cuando iban al gimnasio. Yo lloraba cuando tenía que irme del gimnasio”, dijo. “Así de mucho me encantaba”.

Esa pasión de la infancia se ha convertido desde entonces en un intenso programa de entrenamiento.

Triana entrena seis días a la semana, a menudo dos o tres veces al día y, en ocasiones, durante seis o siete horas.

Él atribuye a su padre, Eduardo Triana, el haberlo ayudado a desarrollar la disciplina necesaria para competir a un nivel tan alto.

“Siempre lo veo como una motivación”, dijo Isaiah. “Me lleva hasta mis límites”.

Eduardo, quien también es peleador y entrenador, dijo que ver a su hijo llevar su deporte alrededor del mundo ha sido una experiencia inolvidable.

“Nunca hay un momento aburrido y no puedo dejar de pellizcarme”, dijo. “Nunca te acostumbras”.

Su camino llega a la pantalla grande

Ahora, la historia de Isaiah está llegando a una audiencia más allá del mundo de las MMA.

Él es el protagonista de un nuevo cortometraje llamado “Fight Kid”, que sigue su trayectoria y una de sus peleas por el título.

Está previsto que la película se estrene en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto el 12 de septiembre. Su familia también planea organizar un evento de alfombra roja en el sur de Florida.

Incluso con una película realizada sobre sus logros con apenas 15 años, Isaiah ya está concentrado en lo que viene después.

“Lo que veo en el futuro es que voy a ser campeón mundial de UFC. Y siento que lo voy a lograr”, dijo. “Además, uno de mis sueños es ser campeón de UFC BJJ”.

Antes de perseguir esas ambiciones profesionales, Isaiah dijo que quiere practicar lucha libre en la universidad. También está interesado en una carrera en medicina deportiva o fisioterapia.

Para un adolescente que ha estado compitiendo casi desde que comenzó a caminar, los títulos y el estreno de la película son hitos, pero Isaiah cree que sus mayores logros aún están por llegar.

6 large shrimp or prawns, head-on, if available (we used U5 Prawns for our recipe)

For the cure:

3 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons soy sauce

¼ teaspoon red crushed chilies

Combine ingredients together and rub the prawns with the cure.

For cooking and serving:

high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray, for grilling

limes, for serving

Butterfly and prepare the prawns:

Use a scissor to cut down the convex side of the prawn (with the tail and head facing away from you). Leaving the tail intact, cut about ¾ of the way through the body and head. Gently open the prawn to butterfly it but leave the two sides connected. Discard the vein and rinse the prawns. Pat dry.

Grill the prawns:

Whisk together the ingredients for the cure and brush over the meat of the prawns.

Heat the grill to medium-high heat, about 350˚F - 400˚F. Lightly grease the grates with high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray.

Grill for 2-3 minutes per side until cooked through. While the prawns cook, cut a couple of limes in half and grill the cut side until lightly charred. Serve the prawns warm with the cut limes.

4-6 cups vanilla pudding (recipe below or use your favorite!)

your favorite pound cake cut into 2 inch X 2 inch slices

4½ cups mixed berries, we used strawberries cut in quarters or 1/6ths, blueberries and raspberries

3 tablespoons granulated sugar, depending on your taste

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, depending on your taste

2 cups whipped cream, for topping

Toss the berries with as much granulated sugar and lemon juice as desired, depending on how sweet your berries are. Allow to macerate for 30-45 minutes.

Begin by placing a layer of slices of cake down in your trifle dish. Top with vanilla pudding. Top with enough macerated berries to completely cover the cake layers. Repeat the layers until you reach the top of your dish, ending with a layer of macerated berries. Refrigerator until ready to serve. Top with whipped cream before serving.

Vanilla Pudding:

Make about 4 cups

⅓ cup plus 1/4 cup granulated white sugar

¼ cup cornstarch

⅛ teaspoon salt

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 large egg yolk, at room temperature

3½ cups whole milk, divided

2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or pure vanilla extract

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

In a large heatproof bowl, whisk ⅓ cup of the granulated white sugar with the cornstarch, salt, eggs, and egg yolk. Whisk in ½ cup of the milk. Set aside while you heat the rest of the milk and sugar.

Have ready a fine medium-sized strainer and heat-proof bowl ready to strain the pudding after it is cooked.

Pour the remaining 3 cups of milk, along with the remaining ¼ cup of sugar, into a medium heavy bottomed saucepan and bring just to a boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and gradually pour the hot milk into the egg mixture, whisking constantly, until the mixture is smooth. Transfer the pudding mixture to a heavy bottomed saucepan and place over medium heat and bring just to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens to the consistency of mayonnaise (about 3-5 minutes). Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla extract and butter.

Pour through the strainer to remove any lumps that may have formed during cooking. Cover with plastic wrap touching the top of the pudding to prevent a skin from forming and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 4-6 hours.

3 pounds chicken wings, separated into drumettes and flats (or wingette)

For the Italian dressing marinade:

¼ cup olive oil

3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed

2 teaspoons dried oregano

2 teaspoons garlic powder

2 teaspoons onion powder

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For cooking and serving:

high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray, for grilling

Gardinera, for serving

Prepare the Chicken Wings:

Whisk together all ingredients for the marinade. Pat the wings dry if needed, then toss in the marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight or at least 4 hours. Remove the chicken wings from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before grilling.

To grill:

Heat the grill to medium-high heat, about 350˚F - 400˚F. Lightly grease the grates with high-temperature cooking oil or nonstick spray. Season the wings with salt and pepper and place the wings in a grilling basket or over indirect heat and cook for 15-20 minutes, turning every 5-10 minutes.

Remove from the grill basket and place over direct heat, continue grilling for another 5-7 minutes to get color on the wings. Cook to an internal temperature of 175˚F for the best bite. Serve with Gardinera on the side.

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Inspectors found rodent problems at Subway in Davie, Olivo Mediterranean Cuisine in Plantation and Nick’s Pizza in Deerfield Beach, along with roach problems at La Rivera, Q’Onda Taqueria and Asados El Paisa Broward.

Records show flies were spotted landing on food at Q’Onda Taqueria, Thyme Machine and Bagel Express.

Inspectors found everything from large amounts of rodent droppings and roaches inside refrigerators to flies landing on food and mold-like buildup inside an ice machine.

They also found food being held at unsafe temperatures and employees failing to properly wash their hands.

At Bagel Express, inspectors had to return three times before they were allowed to re-open.

Below is a list of the places inspected and some of the violations inspectors found.

All of the establishments mentioned have been allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and re-inspection.

No restaurant kitchens in the Florida Keys were ordered shut.

**SUBWAY

4002 SW 64TH AVE.

DAVIE

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

3 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1) 2 rodent droppings under filing cabinet in preparation area. 2) 6 rodent droppings under dry storage rack in preparation area. 3) 1 rodent dropping under triple sink.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lowboy Reach in Cooler under oven- ; Premade Pizza (49F - Cold Holding). Per Manager food item in unit overnight. Item not prepared or portioned today. See stop sale.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lowboy Reach in Cooler under oven- ; Premade Pizza (49F - Cold Holding). Per Manager food item in unit overnight. Item not prepared or portioned today. See stop sale.”

**LA RIVERA

123 NE 20TH AVE.

DEERFIELD BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1. Observed 1 live roach under triple sink in kitchen. 2. Observed 4 live roaches under hand sink at front counter kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. 1. Observed bucket of clear liquid with dead roach floating in it under prep table in kitchen.”

“Live, small flying insects found. 1. Observed 2 live, small, flying insects resting on cocoa and cold brew bags in kitchen. 2. Observed 2 live, small, flying insects resting on glove box and food service paper box in kitchen. 3. Observed approximately 7 live, small, flying insects flying at front counter and in dining area. 4. Observed approximately 26 live, small, flying insects resting on wall and shelving above triple sink in kitchen. 5. Observed 3 live, small, flying insects resting on food prep table legs in kitchen. 6. Observed 8 live, small, flying insects resting on wall next to dish machine in kitchen.”

“Interior of toaster oven has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris in kitchen.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. 1. Observed buildup of old food debris under two door reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed knives and forks stored not inverted or protected at food prep table in kitchen.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed two employees preparing food and handling food utensils without wearing hair restraints.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**OLIVO MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE

7815 WEST SUNRISE BLVD.

PLANTATION

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

13 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1) 3 rodent droppings on prep table next to Hobart Microwave in kitchen. 2) 3 rodent droppings in clean tray on lower shelf of preparation table in kitchen. 3) 4 rodent droppings across from single door freezer in kitchen.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Flip Top- ; Hummus (50F- Cold Holding) Cream Cheese (48F - Cold Holding). Double Doors Glass- ; Sour Cream (60F - Cold Holding); Yogurt (56F - Cold Holding) Per Chef food items in unit less than 4 hours. Items not prepared or portioned today.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Tray of raw beef stored above container of sour cream in True double doors reach in cooler. Employee moved to a different reach in cooler and stored correctly.”

“Hot water takes too long to reach handwash sink resulting in employees using only cold water to wash their hands. Hot water turned off in kitchen resulting in employees using only cold water to wash hands. Water temperature 78F. Repeat Violation.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink in kitchen.”

**NICK’S PIZZA

137 NE 2ND AVE.

DEERFIELD BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1. Observed approximately 200 rodent droppings on floor under food and food utensils storage shelving next to soda coolers. 2. Observed approximately 100 rodents droppings on all shelves of speed rack, on boxes, metal pans, and table linens.”

“Accumulation of black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine.”

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

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. No time mark observed on cheese pizza held using time as a public health control.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. 1. Hood filters at cookline in kitchen. 2. Door gaskets at two door reach in cooler opposite cookline in kitchen. 3. Observed stand mixer covered with heavy old food residue . Repeat Violation.”

**Q’ONDA TAQUERIA

10575 SW 109TH CT

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 9/3

39 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 30 live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler where raw meats are stored and inside reach in cooler gaskets next to dish area. Observed 23 live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler drawers under flat top grill on cook line. Observed 15+ live roaches crawling inside of reach in cooler across cook line where various sauces and shredded cheese is stored and inside reach in cooler gaskets. Observed one live roach inside of oven on cook line. Observed one live roach crawling on wall behind grill. Observed two live roaches crawling on floor underneath grill on cook line.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on table where grill is stored on cook line. Observed 2 dead roaches behind white chest freezer on cook line. Observed 3 dead roaches inside reach in cooler drawers under flat top grill on cook line. Observed 3 dead roaches behind standing reach in coolers in prep area. Observed 1 dead roach behind table where onions are stored near back door. Observed 4 dead roaches inside of reach in cooler across cook line.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flies flying and landing inside container of tomatillo salsa on table near kitchen entrance. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of yellow onions near back door. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of red onions near back door.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flies flying and landing inside container of tomatillo salsa on table near kitchen entrance. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of yellow onions near back door. Observed 20+ live flies landing inside crate and on top of red onions near back door. Observed 2 live flies flying and landing on clean knives on top of prep table near dish area.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed can of household raid at bar area.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. At bar. Repeat Violation.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. At reach in coolers throughout kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling tiles dusty throughout kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor heavily soiled with grease buildup under cooking equipment at cook line.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed reach in cooler grill drawers in disrepair. Repeat Violation.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed reach in cooler gaskets soiled throughout kitchen.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed corn (58F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across cook line.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee scoop ice and make drink for customer without first washing hands.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employee put on pair of gloves then continue to prep customer order without first washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee grab spice bottle off of floor and continue to prepare customer order without changing gloves and washing hands.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**THYME MACHINE

(MOBILE)

13920 SW 139TH CT

MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 9/1

27 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed one fly landing inside a bin with cooked chicken next to grill. Also observed one fly flying and landing on top of griddle station.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed household ants and flying insect killer spray stored on the floor next to bucket of mayonnaise that is also stored on the floor.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed an accumulation of grease on top and under the griddle.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed raw chicken (76F - Cold Holding); ground beef (63F - Cold Holding); turkey sliced (67F - Cold Holding); hummus (72F - Cold Holding) as per person in charge since yesterday on that unit.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed raw chicken (76F - Cold Holding); ground beef (63F - Cold Holding); turkey sliced (67F - Cold Holding); hummus (72F - Cold Holding) as per person in charge since yesterday on that unit.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed a bucket of tahini stored on floor. Observed packages of bottled water stored outside the food truck on the floor.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed accumulation of grease and debris under griddle and under saj( like a griddle). Also observed accumulation of debris and grease overall seasoning containers located on top of three compartment sink.”

“Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. Observed employee drink on top of prep table.”

“Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Observed handwashing sink blocked with cutting board and flour tortilla on top of hand washing sink.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used as a prep table with a cutting board on top.”

“Inadequate number/capacity of cold holding units to maintain time/temperature control for safety food at proper temperatures. Observed all units with inside ambient temperature above 67F. Repeat Violation.”

“No sanitizer of any kind available for ware washing. Only use single-service items to serve food to customers until sanitizer is available for ware washing. Observed no sanitizer of any kind.”

**ASADOS EL PAISA BROWARD

4828 N. UNIVERSITY DR.

LAUDERHILL

ORDERED SHUT 8/31

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. -Observed 4 live roaches inside paper towel dispenser at cook line . -Observed 2 live roaches crawling on clean plates stored inside 3 compartment sink.”

“Raw animal food stored over or with unwashed produce. -Observed raw pork stored over ripe plantains in walk in cooler.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. -Observed raw shell eggs stored over cheese in walk in cooler. -Observed raw pork stored over open container with salsa in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation.”

“Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Observed employee touch raw pork and then handle clean plates without changing gloves and wash hands. After brief education, employee then changed gloves and wash hands.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for any employees.”

**BAGEL EXPRESS

CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER

11616 KENDALL DRIVE

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 8/31

38 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed 30+ live flies flying and landing inside and on top of bucket of molasses and on top of crate where bucket is stored.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 30+ live flies flying and landing inside and on top of bucket of molasses and on top of crate where bucket is stored. Observed 10 live flies flying and landing on top of oven in back kitchen area. Observed 40+ live flies flying and landing on shelf with clean bowls and containers in dish area above oven and triple sink. Observed 3 live flies flying near walk in cooler door, landing on prep table near soiled deli slicer. Observed 5 live flies flying and landing on to go paper bags in dry storage room near mop sink. Observed 2 live flies flying next to flat top grill and landing on shelf with clean containers at front counter. Observed 1 live fly flying and landing on counter in front of orange juice machine at front counter.”

“Presence of insects, rodents, or other pests. Observed one insect on top of box of strawberry jam in dry storage room.”

“Dead roaches/flies on premises. Observed one dead fly on top of oven in kitchen area. Observed one dead fly inside container of wax paper in dry storage.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor near oven soiled with molasses. Observed floor heavily soiled by bagel boiler with old food debris. Repeat Violation.”

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

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed walk in cooler fan cover soiled. Observed reach in cooler gaskets soiled at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee enter kitchen and begin handling food without first washing hands.”

“Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands. Observed employee crack raw shell eggs, rinse hands without soap, then continue to prepare customer order without properly washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employee put on pair of gloves and grab bagel to prepare customer order without first washing hands. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee kill fly with hand and continued to prepare customer order without changing gloves and washing hands.”

“Employee washed hands with no soap. Observed employee take off gloves and wash hands with no soap.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles in kitchen area severely damaged. Repeat Violation.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 9/1

“Observed 1 live fly flying inside of bagel display case landing on bagels.”

“Observed 1 live fly flying inside of bagel display case landing on bagels. Observed 50+ live flies flying and landing on shelf and clean equipment in dish area. Observed 1 live fly landing on orange juice machine at front counter. Observed 15+ live flies landing on to go bags inside dry storage room. Observed 2 live flies on wall near flat top grill at front counter. Observed 3 live flies on wall near dough mixer in back area.”

“Observed one insect on top of box of strawberry jam in dry storage room.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 9/3

“Observed 10 live flies flying and landing on top of dough mixer, single service rack inside dry storage room, and inside bathroom.”

“Observed 3 dead flies inside orange juice machine at front counter.”

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the apartment fire near Northwest 14th Avenue and Northwest 103rd Street at approximately 6:30 a.m.

According to MDSO, deputies arrived to find the third-floor apartment fully engulfed in flames.

Deputies immediately began evacuating residents from both the east and west sides of the building.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews also responded and extinguished the fire.

Authorities said firefighters later found a person dead inside the apartment. The victim’s identity has not yet been released.

The cause of the fire remains unknown.

Detectives with the MDSO Homicide Bureau responded to the scene and took over the investigation.

No additional information was immediately released.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade respondieron al incendio en el apartamento cerca de Northwest 14th Avenue y Northwest 103rd Street aproximadamente a las 6:30 a.m.

Según la MDSO, los agentes llegaron y encontraron el apartamento del tercer piso completamente envuelto en llamas.

Los agentes comenzaron inmediatamente a evacuar a los residentes de los lados este y oeste del edificio.

Equipos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue también respondieron y extinguieron el incendio.

Las autoridades dijeron que los bomberos posteriormente encontraron a una persona muerta dentro del apartamento. La identidad de la víctima aún no ha sido divulgada.

La causa del incendio sigue siendo desconocida.

Detectives de la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO respondieron a la escena y asumieron la investigación.

No se divulgó información adicional de inmediato.

La sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, dijo que cinco personas murieron y otras cinco resultaron heridas y fueron hospitalizadas. Tres de los heridos se encuentran en estado crítico, informó durante una conferencia de prensa.

Las autoridades dijeron que el vuelo había partido del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

De acuerdo con información de MIA, el vuelo 7598 de Prime Air quedó inmovilizado después de salirse por el extremo noroeste de la pista diagonal del aeropuerto.

Un portavoz de Amazon emitió el siguiente comunicado el domingo por la tarde:

"We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today. This is a fast-moving situation and we're still gathering details. We're working closely with local authorities and officials to…

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) September 6, 2026

Tras el accidente se emitió una orden para detener las operaciones en tierra y todas las pistas fueron cerradas, dijeron las autoridades.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue informaron que más de 60 unidades respondieron a la emergencia.

Las autoridades de MIA recomendaron a los pasajeros con vuelos programados para el domingo verificar el estado de sus vuelos con sus aerolíneas antes de dirigirse al aeropuerto.

Para obtener la información más reciente sobre el accidente, haga clic aquí.

Cinco personas murieron en el accidente y otras cinco resultaron heridas, tres de ellas en estado crítico, informaron las autoridades.

Como consecuencia del caos en el exterior, los viajeros dentro del aeropuerto tuvieron que enfrentar largas demoras y grandes aglomeraciones.

Una de las cuatro pistas de MIA reabrió alrededor de las 4:15 p.m. y una segunda fue reabierta aproximadamente 30 minutos después, según las autoridades.

La información en tiempo real de la FAA sobre el estado del aeropuerto indicaba que no se permitirían despegues hasta al menos las 5:30 p.m.

Jason Carter, de Local 10, habló con varias personas dentro de MIA, y su reporte completo puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

The decision comes after Tagovailoa’s monthslong competition with Michael Penix Jr., who started nine games for the Falcons in 2025 before suffering a season-ending torn ACL in November.

Coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday that Cooper Rush will back up Tagovailoa and Penix will be inactive. He declined to speculate on who the team might start at signal-caller beyond Week 1.

Tagovailoa outnumbered Penix in valuable reps throughout training camp. Penix was cleared for 11-on-11 drills on Aug. 22 but did not appear in any preseason games for the Falcons.

“Of course, Mike just getting back to 11-on-11, wanted to make sure we gave him an opportunity in these practices, and we did," Stefanski said Monday. "But feel strongly about our decision with everything, all the information available to us.”

Tagovailoa started the Falcons’ first and final preseason games. He was 7 of 8 for 95 yards in three drives against his former team, the Miami Dolphins, in Atlanta’s third exhibition. He led an 8-play, 60-yard touchdown drive in Atlanta’s opening drive and lost a fumble in his second. The Falcons beat the Dolphins 17-12.

Stefanski first addressed the quarterback unit as a whole, which consists of Tagovailoa, Penix, Rush and undrafted rookie Jack Strand.

“Really, really proud of those guys,” he said. “Those guys have worked like crazy all offseason, and they've pushed each other, supported each other, and that's what we'll do for Tua. We'll continue to support him and understand that this is a collective group that is constantly looking to help each other.”

Tagovailoa signed a one-year deal with the Falcons in March following a six-year stint with the Dolphins. Miami is on the hook for $99.2 million over the next two seasons after awarding Tagovailoa a four-year, $212.5 million contract extension in 2024.

“I've gotten to see Tua work from the spring until now,” Stefanski said. “New system for all these guys, and like I told them, there's a lot of newness with our players, coaches and, you know, everybody getting up to speed, and he's done a really nice job of working at it. ... I think he's really put himself in position to go be the best version of himself.”

Tagovailoa's first start for Atlanta will be at the site of his last with Miami. The quarterback was benched for rookie Quinn Ewers following the Dolphins' 28-15 loss in Pittsburgh on Dec. 15.

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Buoyed by her leadership of the multi-billion-dollar expansion project last decade, Espino moves up from deputy administrator to take full command of the canal. Only three other Panamanians have held the position since the United States handed over the interoceanic waterway in late 1999.

Her appointment to the canal’s top post is already seen as a symbol of women's capability for executive leadership roles in the industry. The canal serves as the engine of the Panamanian economy and handles nearly 3% of global maritime trade.

Shortly before taking office, Espino told The Associated Press that her priority would be advancing the project to build a reservoir on the Indio River within the canal’s watershed. The $1.5 billion project aims to secure drinking water for 50% of the Central American nation’s 4 million people and to support the future operation of the canal, opened by the U.S. in 1914.

The canal’s Board of Directors had previously appointed her to lead this $1.5 billion plan, which encompasses community resettlement and environmental considerations. It is the largest project since the waterway’s expansion, which opened in June 2016 at a cost exceeding $5.25 billion. Officials expect the reservoir to be completed by late 2031 or 2032.

For Espino, the goal is to guarantee future water supplies without compromising reliability in the eyes of the shipping industry. If customers perceive that the canal is not seeking a long-term water solution, they could shift their cargo to other routes.

That project, which has sparked protests from certain communities, is taking on greater significance as the canal faces another period of low rainfall caused by the El Niño phenomenon, which recently led waterway authorities to restrict the number of ships making the daily crossing between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Geopolitical tensions for the canal with the US under Trump

As the second-highest-ranking official at the canal serving under outgoing administrator Ricaurte Vásquez, she experienced the tension caused by complaints and warnings regarding the waterway voiced by U.S. President Donald Trump both before and after he assumed office.

Trump threatened to retake control of the canal, citing Chinese influence over the waterway and claiming that U.S. shipping companies were being treated unfairly.

The country’s judiciary ruled unconstitutional the port concessions at both entrances held by a Hong Kong consortium. That ruling followed the announcement of a planned acquisition of those and other ports by a U.S. investment fund, a deal that has since stalled.

Espino told the AP that her responsibility over the next seven years at the helm of the canal will be to maintain operations that are “efficient, neutral, and transparent.” She said that diplomatic matters are the responsibility of the Panamanian state.

Britain's biggest automaker said the job cuts will take place over the next two years as it targets 1.7 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) in savings to make it more competitive as the industry transitions to electrification.

“The automotive industry faces significant challenges, with technological change amidst intense competition and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty,” chief executive PB Balaji said in a statement.

The job cuts and savings will help the company invest 15 to 18 billion pounds ($20-24 billion) over the next five years in electrification, digital technologies and other areas, he added.

Jaguar Land Rover, which makes the Range Rover, Discovery and other luxury SUVs, has reported slumping profits and sales in the face of intense competition from cheaper Chinese EVs, soaring costs and the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

The tariff policy introduced a 10% import tax for British-made cars, with the tax rising to 27.5% after the first 100,000 vehicles produced in a year.

The company's sales were also hit last year when a cyberattack forced it to halt production for a month.

The company, owned by India's Tata Motors, makes most of its cars in factories across the U.K. It employs around 34,000 people in the country and the majority of the job cuts are expected to affect its U.K. operations.

Monday's news came as Treasury chief John Healey pledged to grow Britain's sluggish economy and help businesses navigate rising costs.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham's office said Monday that while market conditions are challenging for the automotive sector globally, Britain's government will not consider a bailout for Jaguar Land Rover.

Last week, Volkswagen announced a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end auto production at four German plants to counter competition in China and the effects of U.S. tariffs.

Impulsada por su liderazgo al frente del multimillonario proyecto de ampliación la década pasada, Espino deja la subadministración para tomar el mando pleno del canal, un rol que sólo ocuparon tres panameños desde el traspaso de la ruta interoceánica por parte de Estados Unidos a fines de 1999.

Para esta ingeniera de 64 años, casada y con tres hijos, su llegada al máximo cargo del canal —motor de la economía panameña y que mueve casi el 3% del comercio marítimo mundial— es una muestra de la capacidad de las mujeres para puestos de dirección en la industria.

A lo largo de más de 40 años ella llegó a ocupar posiciones de creciente responsabilidad en áreas técnicas, operativas y de liderazgo.

Principales desafíos

Poco antes de asumir, Espino dijo en una entrevista con The Associated Press que su “prioridad” será seguir avanzando en el proyecto para construir un embalse en río Indio en la cuenca hidrográfica del canal, que costará 1.500 millones de dólares y que busca asegurar agua para el consumo del 50% de la población del país centroamericano de más de cuatro millones de personas y ayudar en la futura operación de la ruta, abierta por Estados Unidos en 1914.

La Junta Directiva del canal la había asignado justo a ella para liderar ese plan por un costo de 1.500 millones de dólares, que entre otras cosas incluye el reasentamiento de comunidades y temas ambientales. Es el proyecto más grande desde la expansión de la vía, que abrió operaciones en junio de 2016 y superó los 5.250 millones de dólares. Las autoridades esperan tenerlo listo el embalse a fines de 2031 o 2032.

Para Espino, el objetivo es garantizar el consumo de agua futuro sin perder confiabilidad ante la industria naviera. Si los clientes perciben que el canal no está buscando una solución hídrica de largo plazo, advirtió, podrían trasladar sus cargas hacia otras rutas.

Ese proyecto, que ha generado protestas de ciertas comunidades, toma mayor relevancia en momentos en que el canal enfrenta otro episodio de escasas lluvias producto del fenómeno de El Niño, que llevó recientemente a las autoridades de la vía a restringir el número de barcos que cruzan diariamente por la ruta entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico y viceversa.

Tensiones geopolíticas

Como segunda en el escalafón del canal detrás del saliente administrador Ricaurte Vásquez, ella vivió la tensión generada por los reclamos y advertencias respecto al canal vertidas por el presidente Donald Trump antes y después de asumir su segunda mandato.

Trump llegó a amenazar con la posibilidad de retomar el control del canal argumentando la influencia china en la vía y el trato injusto que según él recibían las navieras de su país. La vía no ha escapado de las tensiones comerciales de Estados Unidos y China. La justicia del país declaró inconstitucional la concesión de los puertos en ambas entradas que tenía un consorcio de Hong Kong, posterior al anuncio de la adquisición de esos y otros puertos por parte de un fondo de inversión estadounidense que está estancada.

Espino dijo a la AP que su responsabilidad en los próximos siete años al frente del canal será mantener la operación “eficiente, neutral y transparente”. Aclaró que de las cuestiones diplomáticas se encarga el Estado panameño.

“Después que uno pasó un programa de ampliación, todo es posible"

Liderar la ampliación de un tercer juego de esclusas para buques más grandes, marcó su carrera a futuro. En ese proyecto estuvo vinculada a áreas como seguridad, ambiente, documentación histórica y controles de proyectos, además enfrentó contratos complejos, arbitrajes, paralizaciones de obras y negociaciones con contratistas internacionales.

“Después que uno pasó un programa de ampliación, todo es posible”, rememoró en la entrevista. “El hecho de haber liderado la ampliación me abrió puertas a nivel internacional”, acotó. Refirió que fue invitada por la Real Academia de Ingeniería de Londres, participó en un panel junto al diseñador del Burj Khalifa y forma parte del jurado del Premio Reina Isabel de Ingeniería.

Ella recuerda que decidió utilizar un casco rosado durante los trabajos como un mensaje interno y en respuesta a quienes dudaban de su capacidad en el proyecto, lo que terminó convirtiéndose en un símbolo internacional de liderazgo femenino. “Eso mandó un mensaje al mundo”, destacó.

That firewall faces its biggest test after AfD won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Germany's mainstream parties have long said they would not work with Alternative for Germany, which is classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist group in some regions of the country — including the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Any dealing by mainstream parties with AfD is particularly sensitive in view of Germany’s Nazi past.

Many Germans had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to outlaw persecution.

But as it turns out, that conviction was mistaken, and similar to voters across Europe and elsewhere, voters in Germany are increasingly empowering the extreme far-right party.

AfD has rejected any accusations of being undemocratic or even anti-constitutional and has repeatedly pushed back against the firewall.

The firewall taboo has sometimes forced other parties into unusual alliances to keep AfD out of power — for instance, a three-party coalition straddling ideological divisions that governs the eastern state of Thuringia since AfD emerged as the strongest party for the first time in a regional election there two years ago.

In Germany’s national election last year, AfD achieved the best showing by a far-right party since World War II and became the strongest political force in parts of the country. AfD became the biggest opposition party in parliament after Chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats upheld the firewall and formed an unpopular coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.

The firewall could crack after AfD's latest victory

AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Sunday's election, more than double its showing five years ago in the state, while Merz's party lost about half its support.

Merz has strictly rejected any kind of cooperation with AfD in the past and top officials reiterated that stance on Sunday. But other parties in the newly elected state parliament may be less likely to keep up the firewall.

The AfD candidate for governor, Ulrich Siegmund, aims to become the first far-right head of a state government and has already said he will reach out to all other parties and individual lawmakers to assemble a governing majority.

While Siegmund has rejected an AfD minority government, his party could possibly govern with the hard-left BSW party, which received 5.3% of the vote. The two parties share a Russia-friendly course and oppose immigration but do not agree on some other subjects.

BSW could help AfD run Germany's first far-right state government since World War II

On Monday, BSW’s lead candidate in the election, Thomas Schulze, expressed his party’s willingness to help an AfD governor take office in the state parliament.

Forming a government that excludes the AfD would only be possible if all the other parties that were elected worked together — CDU, Social Democrats, the Greens, the Left Party, and the BSW. However, a coalition involving five partners would be extremely unusual, very complicated and prone to instability.

It’s also possible that newly elected lawmakers from other parties could defect to AfD — it would only need three people to get a majority to govern.

Political analyst Volker Resing said AfD may be able to overcome the firewall after its strong showing in Saxony-Anhalt, with BSW potentially serving as the kingmaker.

“This tiny party could now play a decisive role in determining the future of Saxony-Anhalt," he told The Associated Press.

Resing said “it is still unclear” whether the parties will join forces based on their common view toward Russia to overcome the firewall and succeed in forming Germany’s first far-right state government since the end of the Nazi era.

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Five people were killed in the crash and five others were injured -- three in critical condition, officials said.

Travelers inside the airport were left dealing with extended delays and large crowds as a result of the chaos outside.

One of MIA’s four runways reopened around 4:15 p.m., and a second was opened around 30 minutes later, according to officials.

The FAA’s real-time airport status information for MIA stated that no planes would be allowed to depart until at least 5:30 p.m.

Local 10’s Jason Carter spoke to several people inside MIA whose flights were affected, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

“We could actually see the flames from the crash from our airplane,” one passenger said.

“I already have been in this airport for 10 hours,” another traveler told Local 10 News. “They said wait until 5 o’clock to see if we reopen, and then they canceled the flight.”

Travelers are urged to check their flight status with their airlines before arriving at the airport.

Voters will also select nominees for U.S. House, governor and other state offices.

The race to replace retiring two-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is one of a handful across the country that could determine control of the U.S. Senate for the second half of President Donald Trump’s final term. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to retake the chamber, and keeping New Hampshire in their column is a key part of that effort.

In the Republican primary, former U.S. Sens. John Sununu and Scott Brown are among eight candidates seeking the nomination. Sununu won the seat when it was last open in 2002, defeating then-Gov. Shaheen, but she ousted him in 2008 after one term. Brown was elected in Massachusetts in 2010 to serve out the remaining three years of the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s final term. After his defeat for a full term in 2012, Brown moved to New Hampshire and challenged Shaheen in 2014, losing narrowly.

Brown endorsed Trump just ahead of his 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary victory. Trump later appointed Brown to serve as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa in his first term. Trump is now backing Sununu over Brown in the primary, despite an ongoing war of words he’s had with the Sununu family over the years.

Sununu endorsed Trump’s rival Nikki Haley for president in 2024 and penned an op-ed that year under the headline “Trump is a loser.” That echoed a critique Sununu’s father, former White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, made of Trump during the 2016 presidential primaries, when he told ABC News that Trump had been “a loser all his life.” Trump called the elder Sununu “ a main loser.”

The former senator’s brother, former Gov. Chris Sununu, also endorsed Haley in 2024 and once called Trump “ (expletive) crazy.” Chris Sununu was one of the president’s top Republican critics and was a frequent target of Trump’s ire on social media.

Sununu has outraised Brown for the campaign overall, $4.1 million to about $2.2 million, although Brown has spent more of his haul than Sununu. Sununu had about $3 million remaining in his campaign account as of Aug. 19, compared to about $417,000 for Brown.

Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC tied to the conservative Koch political network, has spent at least $3.3 million on the race since June 30 in support of Sununu and against U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic front-runner.

Pappas has served in the U.S. House since 2019 and has held elected office almost continuously since graduating from college in 2002. He defeated Karoline Leavitt in his 2022 reelection bid before her stint as Trump’s White House press secretary.

He has the backing of much of the state’s Democratic political establishment, including Shaheen, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and former Gov. John Lynch. Former Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed him on Aug. 31.

Pappas faces four other candidates for the Democratic nomination, including Karishma Manzur, a progressive activist and scientist with a doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Independent polling from the University of New Hampshire shows that while Pappas continues to lead the primary field, Manzur has gained ground over the summer. A win by Manzur would be the latest high-profile victory this summer for progressive candidates over more moderate candidates backed by the Democratic establishment.

Pappas still has a commanding fundraising lead, with more than $15 million raised and about $4.3 million in the bank as of Aug. 19, compared to $415,000 raised and $104,000 in the bank for Manzur.

Crowded primaries are also underway in the 1st Congressional District to replace Pappas. Among the eight active candidates in the Democratic primary are former Portsmouth City Council member Stefany Shaheen, who is Jeanne Shaheen's daughter, and Maura Sullivan, who served as a Defense and Veterans Affairs official in former President Barack Obama's administration. The Republican field includes state Rep. Brian Cole, auto dealership owner Anthony DiLorenzo and iron works CEO Hollie Noveletsky.

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte faces minimal opposition in her bid for renomination to a second term. She will face Democrat Cinde Warmington in November.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Poll closing times vary across the state. Most polls close at 7 p.m. ET, but some close at 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, executive council, state Senate and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Registered party members may vote only in their own party’s primary. In other words, Democrats can’t vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or undeclared voters with no party affiliation may participate in either primary, but voting in a primary will affiliate them with that party. New voters may register on primary day at a polling site, but the deadline to change party affiliation for voters who are already registered was in June.

How many voters are there?

As of Aug. 3, there were about 899,000 registered voters in New Hampshire, including about 300,000 Republicans, 247,000 Democrats and about 352,000 undeclared voters.

How many people actually vote?

About 148,000 Republican primary ballots and about 96,000 Democratic primary ballots were cast in the 2022 state primaries.

About 135,000 Republican primary ballots and about 118,000 Democratic primary ballots were cast in the 2024 state primaries.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 8% of Democratic primary ballots in both the 2022 and 2024 state primaries were absentee ballots cast by mail or in person. In recent Republican state primaries, absentee votes made up 4% of the total vote in 2022 and about 5% in 2024.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State has not disclosed the number of absentee ballots cast ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

When are early and absentee votes released?

New Hampshire runs elections at the town and city level. There are 238 separate jurisdictions administering local elections, and they vary in terms of how and when they release results. Most of the larger jurisdictions in the state release all or nearly all their results from both absentee and in-person Election Day voting in their first vote updates of the night. Other large jurisdictions release a mix of results throughout the night.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8:03 p.m. ET, or three minutes after the last polls closed. The vote count passed the halfway mark at 9:37 p.m. ET. The last vote update of the night was at 2:04 a.m. ET with about 92% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There are no automatic recounts in New Hampshire, but in state primaries, a losing candidate may request and pay for a recount if the margin is 10 votes or less than 1.5% of the total vote. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 56 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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McKee was elected governor by a wide margin in 2022 after first assuming the role in March 2021 when then-Gov. Gina Raimondo stepped down to become U.S. commerce secretary. He now is at risk of becoming the nation’s first elected governor since 2014 to lose renomination and the first in Rhode Island since 1994.

His challenger is Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a former longtime executive with Rhode Island-based CVS. She placed a close second behind McKee in the five-way 2022 Democratic primary. She is the niece of former Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut.

A top issue in the campaign has been McKee’s handling and oversight of the reconstruction of the Washington Bridge, which connects Providence and East Providence and carries 100,000 vehicles per day. McKee closed the westbound bridge in December 2023 after authorities discovered critical structural flaws. Authorities then determined in March 2024 that the bridge would need to be demolished and replaced. State officials initially estimated the bridge would be reopened to traffic this year, but that has since been pushed back to Nov. 2028.

Campaign ads have also referenced a 2024 joint investigation of McKee by the state Attorney General Peter Neronha and the state police that found that the governor “personally and directly intervened” in the awarding of a multimillion-dollar state contract, but that he did not violate the state’s bribery or campaign finance laws. Neronha endorsed Foulkes in March.

McKee meanwhile has focused on Foulkes’ work at CVS and the company’s alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis.

Foulkes’ campaign fundraising and spending has almost doubled that of McKee’s, according to state campaign finance records. Independent polling from the University of New Hampshire shows that Foulkes has maintained a lead over McKee throughout the year, although in the latest poll many voters remained undecided.

McKee won the 2022 primary with 32.8% of the vote, just ahead of Foulkes with 29.9% and then-Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea with 26.2%. McKee narrowly carried most of the state’s most populous cities, including Warwick, Cranston, East Providence and Pawtucket. The state’s largest prize, Providence, went for Gorbea, with McKee placing second. Foulkes did best in most of the towns and cities around Narragansett Bay.

In the Republican primary, Aaron Guckian and Elaine Pelino are vying for the nomination. Guckian is a state trade association executive and was the nominee for lieutenant governor in 2022. He won the two-way primary that year with about 68% of the vote. Pelino is a former actress and first-time candidate. The state party has endorsed Guckian.

McKee won the 2022 general election with about 58% of the vote. It’s been 20 years since Rhode Island elected a Republican governor. Since then, no Republican gubernatorial nominee has won more than 39% of the vote in the general election.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state Senate, state House and Providence mayor.

Who gets to vote?

Registered party members may vote only in their own party’s primary. In other words, Democrats can’t vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may participate in either primary.

How many voters are there?

As of Sept. 1, there were about 793,000 registered voters in Rhode Island. Among the 695,000 active registered voters, about 235,000 were Democrats, about 100,000 were Republicans and about 359,000 were unaffiliated.

How many people actually vote?

About 59,000 Democratic primary votes and about 19,000 Republican primary votes were cast in the 2024 U.S. Senate primaries.

About 114,000 Democratic primary votes and about 21,000 Republican primary votes were cast in the 2022 primaries for governor.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 32% of the 2024 Democratic U.S. Senate primary vote was cast early in-person or by mail, compared to about 22% in the Republican primary. Early and mail votes made up a smaller share in the 2022 gubernatorial primaries: 27% in the Democratic primary and 14% in the Republican primary.

As of Thursday, about 30,000 Democratic primary ballots and about 3,500 Republican primary ballots had already been cast in Wednesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Rhode Island runs elections at the town and city level. All 39 jurisdictions are expected to release a mix of vote results from all vote types over the course of the night. The release of early in-person and mail voting is not frontloaded to the start of the night.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8:05 p.m. ET, or five minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 10:20 p.m. ET with about 98% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There are no automatic recounts in Rhode Island, but recounts may be requested depending on the vote margin. For contests with more than 100,000 votes cast, a recount may be requested if the vote margin is less than 0.5 percentage points or fewer than 1,500 votes, whichever is less. For races in which between 20,000 and 100,000 votes are cast, the vote margin must be less than 1 percentage point or fewer than 500 votes. If the total number of votes cast is less than 20,000, the margin to request a recount is 2 percentage points or fewer than 200 votes. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Wednesday, there will be 55 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The Culture and Tourism Bureau in Wuhan city said Monday they found the comedian Guo Degang “distorted” a patriotic song. It fined the company hosting Guo and the theater for violating rules on commercial performances. It also said it will “deal seriously” with relevant personnel, without specifying what those punishments will entail.

Guo is considered the country’s most prominent performer of traditional xiangsheng, a form of Chinese comedic dialogue using word play and rhymes. He was placed under investigation by the Wuhan authorities in August, local media reported.

“Revolutionary songs carry the memory of the Chinese nation’s War of Resistance and the feelings of the people. No organization or person can be allowed to distort or misrepresent them,” authorities said in the statement announcing the fine, referring to the Chinese resistance against Japan starting in 1937.

Guo’s performance had been approved in advance by the Wuhan authorities, but the lyric change was not, which may have violated regulations governing commercial performances, Chinese state media previously reported.

State media also said that Guo used “mocking words” at the end of the song.

The lyrics are from “Playing My Beloved Pipa,” a song from “Railway Guerrilla,” a well-known 1950s film about Communist-led guerrillas fighting Japanese forces during World War II. Pipa is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, similar to a lute.

Guo had been on tour and multiple shows were canceled after the incident. He has not performed in public since and his troupe's social media page has stopped updating.

Guo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“It sounded like a good idea to me,” Burstyn told The Associated Press.

Their 17-minute short film, “Flesh Impact,” is having its world premiere Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where Burstyn, 93, is receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Ellen Burstyn's Marilyn Monroe moment

Though Burstyn never met Monroe, there was overlap. They shared a massage therapist, who would tell stories about his late friend. He even told Burstyn that she was actually quite like Monroe, and lent her one of Monroe's old books called “The Thinking Body,” which had some treasures like old receipts, inside.

“I knew that she was not what she presented as her persona and that actually that’s a persona that she created,” Burstyn said. “She created the whole concept of Marilyn Monroe and played it.”

Once, she saw her in a nightclub and Monroe nodded at her.

“She was so startlingly beautiful and she caught my eye and … I felt that she recognized me,” Burstyn said. “I was very early in my career. And the fact that she recognized me, I just felt so honored and pleased.”

The Monroe short came about in somewhat unconventional fashion, through the luxury car company Genesis, whose chief marketing officer Amy Marentic approached Gyllenhaal about doing something around what would have been Monroe’s 100th birthday in June.

Gyllenhaal asked for a weekend to think about it, and landed on Marilyn, at 100, “doing basically the most vulnerable, one of the most vulnerable things I think an actor can do, which is audition, alone on a stage.”

Burstyn was the first actor she thought of.

“I just had this feeling maybe this is an opportunity for her to think about things in a new way,” Gyllenhaal said.

The two found that they shared a similar language and approach to the work.

“We are interested in the depth of what’s being revealed. And we both want to go there,” Burstyn said. “If we’re going to be doing anything, we’re gonna be doing it from there.”

The Gloria Steinem effect

Though nothing has really changed very much in how Burstyn chooses roles over the years — she just wants to be moved or challenged — having a set populated largely by women was a far cry from how things were when she was starting out.

“When I first started working, which was 150 years ago, there were no women on the set. There were no women crew. There was no woman behind the camera. ... If a woman was on set, that meant that she was an actress,” Burstyn said in a news conference Monday. “Then, slowly, thanks to blessed Gloria Steinem who just died, the consciousness started to change.”

Burstyn is also in a feature film, Kornél Mundruczó’s, “Place to Be” alongside Taika Waititi that’s playing at the festival. And, she said, she’s feeling “slightly overwhelmed” by the whole thing.

“I have been asking myself, why do I deserve this? What have I done? It’s a long career,” she said. “And I finally came to it today that I wouldn’t have had this career without my training.”

Celebrating a long career

Perhaps that is a bit modest for someone who has won an Oscar, for “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” a Tony and two Emmys for her acting. In her over 50 years in the business, she’s appeared in around 150 films, and is currently serving as a co-president of The Actors Studio. Burstyn even teaches acting classes occasionally, continuing the legacy of her mentor and acting coach Lee Strasberg.

“Her artistry, which could illuminate pain and everyday resilience with dignity, irony and courage, remains an absolute model of authenticity in performance and civic engagement within the craft of acting,” festival director Alberto Barbera said in a statement.

Sitting alongside Gyllenhaal the day before the big award, she described her outfit, a gown, and wondered if it was too much. Her director assured her it wasn’t: This was her day.

“I’m just really very happy to be here and very grateful to receive this award and grateful to this lady who put me in this interesting and deep and funny and wonderful movie,” Burstyn said.

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And then the party started.

The scammers — a network of young men in their late teens or early 20s — celebrated the August 2024 heist by embarking on a wild spending spree. They purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons. An alleged ringleader, 22-year-old Malone Lam, spent over $569,000 in one evening at a Los Angeles night club.

Their bender lasted a month before FBI agents arrested Lam on charges that he organized a "social engineering" attack on the Washington, D.C., resident. Lam, an eighth-grade dropout from Singapore, has a plea agreement hearing set for Tuesday. His conviction would be a capstone for the government's investigation.

The charges against Lam and 17 others are an extreme example of an increasingly common form of cybercrime. Complaints of cryptocurrency investment fraud to the FBI rose by nearly 50% in 2025, while Republican President Donald Trump's administration largely abandoned a regulatory crackdown on the volatile industry.

Last year, the Justice Department disbanded a unit dedicated to prosecuting crypto-related crimes. Meanwhile, crypto companies that complained of unfair treatment during Democratic President Joe Biden's presidency are enjoying the government's hands-off approach under Trump, who took in roughly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses in 2025.

Cybersecurity researcher Allison Nixon, who has spent years tracking The Com, an underground subculture of young hackers united by the “insane amount of money” that crypto fraud can generate, advocates for more law enforcement resources to go after them.

“If we don’t seriously ramp up the resources to take these people down and do it faster, then it’s going to spread more and more,” she said.

Scammers nabbed millions though ‘social engineering’ heist

A man identified as “Victim 7” in court filings was at home in Washington on Aug. 18, 2024, when his phone rang. The first caller identified himself as a Google representative inquiring about attempts to breach his account. A second, claiming to be from the Gemini crypto exchange, warned the man of a malware attack affecting his crypto wallet.

The callers manipulated the man into giving them access to his Google Drive and revealing security codes that allowed Lam to siphon off over 4,100 bitcoin, according to prosecutors. They said Lam and his friends on the calls — Veer Chetal and Jeandiel Serrano — targeted the man because he was a wealthy, longtime crypto investor.

A private recording captured the moment when the friends realized how much money they just stole, according to a video posted by a well-known private investigator of cryptocurrency crimes who goes by ZachXBT.

“Oh, my God! Bro, bro, I'm going to spaz out!” a voice on the video said.

Once they swiped the man's savings, they used money laundering specialists to wash it through multiple exchange platforms and convert virtual currency into government-issued cash.

It wasn't the first social engineering scam for the friends, who met in online gaming forums. They had teamed up on other multimillion-dollar thefts since late 2023 using a similar playbook, according to prosecutors.

This time, however, one of them made a costly mistake: Serrano failed to conceal his IP address when he created an account on a cryptocurrency exchange to hold nearly $30 million in stolen crypto, according to prosecutors. Investigators linked the IP address to a home in Encino, California, that Serrano was renting for $47,500 a month.

Lavish spending quickly drew attention

Serrano was vacationing in the Maldives when investigators identified him as a suspect. Lam was in Los Angeles, where he and friends spent $4 million at nightclubs in one month, authorities say. Chetal gifted a Lamborghini to his parents and hid a duffel bag filled with $500,000 in cash in their laundry machine.

Word of their windfall quickly spread in crypto scammers' circles. A week after the big score, Chetal's parents were driving in Danbury, Connecticut, when several masked men cut them off, forced them out of their new car, beat Chetal's father with a baseball bat, shoved the couple into a van and bound their hands.

The captors, from Miami, had intended to use Chetal's parents as leverage for extorting him into giving up his share of the stolen crypto. But the ransom plot fell apart when witnesses notified police, who apprehended the carjackers.

The FBI showed up to search Chetal's apartment in Brunswick, New Jersey, on Sept. 9, 2024, and found $37 million in stolen crypto in his possession. He agreed to cooperate with their investigation.

Lam was attracting attention, too, for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at clubs and tossing handbags worth tens of thousands of dollars to women in the crowds. He also used stolen cryptocurrency to buy a $2 million watch and over 30 cars, including custom Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris, according to the FBI.

“This luxury lifestyle, of which so many young men and women could only dream, was just built on a foundation of fraud,” a prosecutor, William Hart, said during a recent sentencing hearing for a money laundering co-defendant.

‘Ferris Bueller gone bad’

Serrano was wearing a $500,000 watch when FBI agents arrested him at Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 18, 2024. He initially professed his innocence but soon admitted to having roughly $20 million of the D.C. man's stolen crypto, prosecutors said.

Lam was arrested at one of his Miami mansions on the same day as Serrano. An off-duty law enforcement officer had tipped off Lam that authorities were on their way to arrest him, the indictment says.

“We always talked about what it would be like if I were to go down, but never thought it would be this crazy,” Lam told associates from jail on a recorded call, according to his indictment.

The judge for Lam's initial court appearance in Miami sounded astonished by a prosecutor's summary of his lavish spending.

"I could only think of Ferris Bueller gone bad," U.S. Magistrate Alicia Valle said, referring to the school-skipping protagonist of the 1986 movie “Ferris Bueller's Day Off.”

Lam's capture didn't stop the splurging. Ferro, who pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge last year, used stolen funds to cover Lam’s legal expenses.

Judgment Days

Eighteen defendants have been charged. Lam would be the 11th to plead guilty. At Lam's first court appearance, a prosecutor estimated that his sentencing guidelines would recommend a prison term of at least 14 years upon conviction.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who presides over Lam's case, already has sentenced three of his co-conspirators. She sentenced two money launderers to prison terms of approximately six years.

Chetal pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in November 2024 and awaits sentencing. Serrano's charges remain pending.

Tucker Desmond, who pleaded guilty to destroying evidence of other plotters' crimes, was sentenced to probation. Desmond apologized at his sentencing hearing in March, saying he “got obsessed with the image of success rather than actually becoming a hard-working individual myself.”

Ferro declined to address the court during his sentencing hearing in May. His attorney, Kevin Wilson, described the co-defendants as mischievous “young kids," but the judge didn't accept that as an excuse.

“Being young only goes so far,” Kollar-Kotelly said.

Migna Toure’s 3-point shot with 5:45 left was her team’s 21st, breaking the three-day-old record of 20 set by Japan on Friday for 3-pointers in a single contest in World Cup history.

Dominique Malonga notched the 22nd.

Gabby Williams led France with 25 points and 6 rebounds. The Olympic finalists were already assured of their place in the quarterfinals.

Also in Group B, Hungary defeated South Korea 82-73 to finish second in the group. Both teams await upcoming games in Group A to learn their next opponents in playoffs for the quarterfinals.

Meesseman stars again

Emma Meesseman led Belgium to the quarterfinals with 22 points and 10 rebounds as it topped Australia 80-68 for first place in Group C.

The European champion was now off until Thursday.

Australia faces a qualifying playoff on Wednesday against the loser of the Italy-China matchup later Monday.

Belgium had a five-point lead heading into the fourth quarter and bolted in an 11-2 run. The Opals couldn’t couldn't recover. Belgium’s Julie Allemand finished with seven assists to give her an all-time record 111 in World Cup play.

Puerto Rico celebrates

Puerto Rico finished strong to eliminate Turkey 75-71 in their final group game earlier.

Arella Guirantes led Puerto Rico with 21 points.

Puerto Rico was trailing by seven points going into the final quarter but Imani McGee-Stafford scored and Pamela Rosado followed with two 3-pointers to take a 59-58 lead.

Turkey power forward Elif Bayram went off early in the final quarter with an apparent left leg injury.

Turkey fans outnumbered their counterparts at Berlin’s Max-Schmeling-Halle and they tried to put off Guirantes but couldn’t stop her from securing the win with two free throws.

Puerto Rico next plays the winner of Italy-China on Wednesday.

Decisive day

The four group winners progress directly to Thursday’s quarterfinals, while the teams that finish second and third face playoffs Tuesday or Wednesday to determine which advances also. The bottom teams are eliminated.

Host Germany (1-1) faces Mali (1-1), and Spain (1-1) plays Japan (1-1) later with all scenarios open in Group A..

Italy (1-1), after coming close to upsetting the United States on Sunday night, faces China (1-1) to decide second place in Group D. The U.S. (2-0) has already advanced to the quarterfinals before its final group game against the Czech Republic, which was eliminated after two losses.

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Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable — nearly 16% — sit empty.

“I don’t make enough money really to afford anything,” Davis, 49, said of the few hundred dollars he earns a month. “I just keep trying to swim uphill.”

The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortages of affordable homes. But the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years is for those earning 50% of an area’s median income or above, according to a survey of state housing agencies.

Some cities are now seeing an uptick in vacancies as rents for these units approach market rates. The result: Apartments designated as affordable sit empty because the poorest of the poor cannot afford them.

Meanwhile, some people are forced into homelessness and others into desperate circumstances to pay for housing they can’t afford.

The poorest have few housing options

There are only about 4 million affordable rental units available for the country’s 11 million extremely low-income renter households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent annual report.

These are people with annual incomes either below the federal poverty guidelines — just under $16,000 for a single-person household — or 30% of the median income in their area, whichever is higher. They comprise about a quarter of U.S. renter households, and include many people working low-wage jobs, seniors and those with disabilities living on fixed incomes.

About three-quarters of extremely low-income renter households pay over half their income on rent and utilities, the report said, leaving little leftover for other necessities.

Yet homes set aside for these renters were only about 12% of the affordable housing units financed in 2024 by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit — a federal program providing tax credits to developers in exchange for keeping rents low for at least 30 years, according to figures from the National Council of State Housing Agencies.

The majority are for those earning at least 50% of an area’s median income, or AMI. In Austin, that’s a single person earning roughly $47,000 a year, as compared with an extremely low-income person earning under $28,000.

The program has financed nearly 4 million affordable units nationwide since its creation 40 years ago. But some experts say it’s inefficient — and more costly than housing vouchers.

“It’s enormously complex and bureaucratic, and it raises the cost of construction enormously because the rules are so complicated,” said Chris Edwards, an economist at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, who told Congress the program’s complexity “spawned” an industry of law and accounting firms just to administer it.

“If you’re going to subsidize affordable housing, you should give the money directly to tenants,” he said, referring to housing vouchers.

Other experts say the two programs work together well because properties built with the tax credit are required to accept vouchers — while landlords of market-rate apartments in many states are not.

Still, there’s a major federal funding shortfall: Experts estimate only one-in-four eligible families ever receive vouchers. Vouchers can help the poorest pay for housing that’s targeted to higher income groups, but the waitlist can be yearslong.

Some affordable housing developers say that without vouchers, it’s not economically feasible to provide units for extremely low-income people.

True Ground Housing Partners, an affordable housing developer in the Washington, D.C., area, gives an example: A unit for those earning 60% of the area’s median income — nearly $70,000 a year — brings in $1,715 per month in rent. But after $1,575 in mortgage and operating expenses, only $140 is left.

“The math does not lie,” said president and CEO Carmen Romero, noting that an extremely low-income person would pay only half that rent.

“Our expenses don’t make it really possible to create a 30% AMI unit, unless there was this extraordinary amount of subsidy that just doesn’t exist.”

Affordable housing competes with market-rate rents

Meanwhile, affordable housing rents for 60% AMI units are approaching those of market-rate apartments in U.S. cities like Austin, Denver and Portland, Oregon.

As a result, some people are opting to pay a bit more for market-rate apartments with less income-verification and faster approval — leaving growing numbers of affordable units vacant.

In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with over 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar. A healthy vacancy rate is around 5%.

LDG Development, an affordable housing developer, cited a 12% vacancy rate for its 60% AMI units in Austin. Chief portfolio officer Rebekah Fischer said LDG is “in direct competition” with the thousands of new market-rate apartments recently built in Austin.

“I have to have every bank statement, every pay check, every bill, every Venmo transaction that you had with your friends,” Fischer said of affordable housing applicants.

“When we’re almost going after the same renter, you can be approved within two minutes at a market-rate deal, where unfortunately in affordable housing … it takes time.”

In Denver, there’s a 13% vacancy rate among 60% AMI units financed by the federal tax credit program — and a 21% vacancy rate for 80% AMI units, according to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Meanwhile, there is far too little housing for the city's poorest.

In Portland, where there is also a housing shortage for the lowest income groups, there are over 1,700 vacant affordable units for an overall vacancy rate of 7.5%, according to the Portland Housing Bureau. Most are for those earning 60% AMI, or about $54,000 for a single-person household, with rent capped at $1,444 per month.

That’s close to the average rent of $1,581 for a one-bedroom market-rate apartment, according to CoStar figures shared by the bureau.

Portland resident Jaiden Barbee earns around 55% of the area median income and is on waitlists for affordable housing. But, he says, he’d pay more for a market-rate apartment to avoid the lengthy application process.

“I’d rather spend the $200 extra just to get into a place easier that’s wherever I want” and doesn’t have “all these hoops,” he said.

‘I want to shut the door at night and sleep’

Austin officials set a goal of building 20,000 units between 2018 and 2027 for extremely low-income people — 17% of the city’s households.

Just 543 were built as of 2024, city documents show.

Meanwhile, all 15,000 units planned for those earning between 60% and 80% of area median income were built.

In response to questions from The Associated Press, the Austin housing department said it recognized the need to do more to produce housing for the poorest people and was taking steps to do that, including giving preference to funding proposals that include 30% AMI units.

For Davis, who lived in his car for a year before getting a bed in the Austin shelter, the housing shortage for people like him is frustrating.

“I want to shut the door at night and be able to sleep,” he said. “I really just want to find the right place.”

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After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

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Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

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Meanwhile, Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim to have shot down a Saudi reconnaissance plane. And seven crew members of a Saudi-owned tanker struck last week on the strait appear to remain unaccounted for.

Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill at least 12

Israel carried out airstrikes early Monday on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman, killing at least 12 people, including a paramedic, four women and two children, the Health Ministry said.

The strikes came during a new round of escalation between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Israel's military said it struck several Hezbollah militants it accused of transferring weapons to Kfar Rumman.

The military also said it was reviewing the claim that “several uninvolved civilians were harmed” in overnight strikes across southern Lebanon, which it said were in response to Hezbollah militants launching explosive drones against soldiers in the area of the Ali Taher ridge.

Houthis claim downing Saudi reconnaissance plane

Iran-backed Houthi rebels downed a Saudi armed reconnaissance aircraft on Monday in the northern part of Yemen, Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement.

The aircraft was detected in Jawf province’s airspace, according to Saree, who said the aircraft belonged to neighboring Saudi Arabia and was seeking to carry out “hostile actions.”

The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify that claim. There was no immediate Saudi comment.

Saree added that over the past 24 hours, a total of three reconnaissance drones belonging to Saudi Arabia were downed, including one that was spotted Monday morning in Bayda province.

The Yemeni government armed forces said in a post on X that they targeted Houthi gatherings in Dahle province and launched 13 airstrikes targeting Houthi positions and a missile launch base in Bayda province. Other airstrikes targeted Houthi fronts in Marib province. The Houthi military didn’t address those claims.

UAE says ‘no single state’ should control Hormuz

A senior official with the United Arab Emirates says “no single state” should control the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran said it plans to announce a new “exclusion zone” near the waterway aimed at vessels intending to transit.

“Our energy exports will not be held hostage, nor will our trade and economic activity,” Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said at a forum of world leaders in Abu Dhabi.

Gargash said Iran should face consequences for threatening oil tankers and commercial vessels in the strait with mines, drones or missiles. “Using an international waterway as an instrument of coercion is unacceptable,” he added.

The UAE, a close U.S. ally, has repeatedly come under Iranian missile and drone fire throughout the war. Rebuilding trust between Iran and the Gulf countries could take decades, Gargash warned, because by targeting its neighbors, Tehran has “demolished” any presumption of good faith.

Oman says some crew members recovered after Saudi ship hit

Oman said it had evacuated 16 crew members from a Saudi-owned tanker attacked last week in the Strait of Hormuz. The Sidr tanker was attacked by Iran off Oman, and Saudi Arabia earlier said two Filipino seafarers were killed.

Oman’s Maritime Security ​Center said on X that 16 of the 25 crew members were rescued. It didn’t give details on the remaining seven.

If the seven are confirmed dead, that would make the attack the deadliest on a commercial vessel since the war began on Feb. 28.

Palestinian man killed in the occupied West Bank

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Hajja mourned the death of Omar al-Toubasi, who was killed in a confrontation with Israeli settlers.

Israel’s military said in a statement that soldiers were sent to Hajja on Sunday to disperse a confrontation and fired toward Palestinians allegedly throwing stones at soldiers after warning shots. “Hits were identified,” the military said.

“The army came and made matters worse,” witness Mohammed al-Batta said, adding that settlers had started the confrontation by beating a local man. He said soldiers “started using tear gas and sound bombs at the residents. Gunfire broke out from the two sides.” He said several others were injured.

Attacks on settlers in the West Bank have surged since the war in Gaza began with the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the United Nations humanitarian office.

Two-state solution ‘practically impossible’ if Gaza plan fails, diplomat says

The top diplomat overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, called for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war there, including the withdrawal of Israel’s military and the disarming of Hamas.

He also warned that rising violence in the occupied West Bank could obstruct a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

“Because with everything that is happening in the West Bank — and with more than 50% of Gaza now under the control of the Israeli army and less than 50% under the control of Hamas — there is no credible pathway forward to a political resolution of the conflict,” Mladenov said at the Hili Forum, a gathering of world leaders in the United Arab Emirates.

Kosovo commits to stabilization force for Gaza

Kosovo has formalized its commitment to the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, the U.S.-created Board of Peace overseeing the fragile ceasefire said.

The statement did not say how many personnel Kosovo might contribute to the force that would deploy to areas of the Palestinian territory administered by an incoming technocratic committee.

The statement says Kosovo security personnel have deployed at ISF headquarters for months, working on logistics, operations to clear unexploded weapons and civil affairs.

Overall committed troops to the force remain far short of the expected 20,000. Uganda, Morocco, Kazakhstan and Albania also have made commitments.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

Using legal traditions that stretch back to the early days of the British Empire, Jamaica petitioned the king on Monday to refer a series of questions about slavery, and the U.K.’s responsibility to pay damages, to a committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system.

While the petition is formally addressed to the king, Charles has no personal say on whether it will be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and he will act on the advice of the government.

The filing was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the day in 1781 when the Liverpool-registered ship Zong set sail from West Africa with 442 enslaved Africans on board. When water supplies ran low on the way to Jamaica, the crew decided to throw 132 men, women and children overboard, calculating that it would be more profitable to file an insurance claim for the lost “property” than to sell their weakened and dehydrated captives for a reduced price.

The massacre helped speed the abolition of slavery but it wasn't quick

Publicity about the Zong massacre helped fuel the campaign to end slavery in the British Empire. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, but it wasn’t until Aug. 1, 1834, that the enslavement of human beings was outlawed.

“In relation to the wrongs that were done, we want answers,” Jamaican Culture Minister Olivia Grange told The Associated Press on Sunday before a church service in south London, the first in a series of events scheduled around the filing.

“Once we get those answers, then our attorneys, our lawyers, will determine what the next move is,” she added.

Jamaica is a leader of the effort to get Britain and other European nations to apologize for their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pay reparations, both for the enslavement of individuals and for the continuing impact on their descendants around the world. Jamaica said the Caribbean Community, which includes 23 states from the Bahamas to Guyana, endorsed the petition.

The king has spoken out on the wrongs of slavery

Although he has stopped short of endorsing reparations, the king has repeatedly expressed his personal commitment to addressing the historic wrongs of slavery. In a 2024 speech to leaders of the Commonwealth, the voluntary association of countries that succeeded the British Empire, Charles said that the “most painful aspects of our past continue to resonate."

“None of us can change the past,” he added. “But we can commit, with all our hearts, to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right inequalities that endure.”

Buckingham Palace said Monday that it has been working closely with the governor-general of Jamaica, the king's representative on the island who is appointed on the advice of the Jamaican government, to ensure the petition is "properly lodged.''

While acknowledging that slavery was “abhorrent,” the British government has so far rejected demands for either an apology or reparations.

When the United Nations General Assembly in March passed a resolution endorsing reparations as a “concrete step” toward addressing the wrongs of slavery, the U.K. abstained. That was partly because the U.K. believes in the internationally recognized legal concept that the law governing any event is the law of the relevant time, British representative James Kariuki told the U.N.

“There is equally no duty to provide reparation for historical acts that were not, at the time those acts were committed, violations of international law,” he said.

Jamaica is taking a political campaign to the courts

Jamaica’s petition is an effort to expand the political campaign for reparations into the legal realm, Grange said.

The petition asks the Judicial Committee to rule on three questions:

— Was the forced transport of African people to Jamaica and their subsequent enslavement illegal because it was contrary to English common law?

— Were the forced transport and enslavement of African people crimes against humanity for which the U.K. bears responsibility?

— Does the U.K. have an obligation to “provide a remedy” to the people of Jamaica for the forced transport and enslavement of their ancestors?

The procedure could boost support for a Jamaican republic even if rejected

Craig Prescott, an expert on constitutional law and the monarchy at Royal Holloway, University of London, said the move was “quite clever” because it seeks to use an obscure constitutional procedure to address one of the biggest issues in Jamaican society.

The right of British people to petition the crown with grievances about the administration of justice stretches back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, when the king was considered the “fountain of justice throughout his Dominions,” the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council says on its website.

Jamaica’s petition is based on an 1833 law that made the committee the highest court for civil and criminal appeals in the British Empire. When the Empire became the Commonwealth of independent nations after World War II, the committee retained that role for the countries that maintain their legal ties to the U.K.

Prescott expects the petition to be referred to the Judicial Committee, where a panel of U.K. Supreme Court justices will review it and make a ruling.

But, he said, the justices are usually very cautious about granting such petitions because they sidestep standard legal procedures.

“I think, at the very least, the board will look at this with a skeptical eye, not because of questions of whether slavery is wrong or right or otherwise, but just this is a very peculiar legal procedure that is sort of just one on the statute books that rears its head from time to time.”

But rejection of the petition could still be a win for Jamaica.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced plans to sever ties with the British crown and transform his country into a republic.

“It does raise the question of why have a head of state who really does not share the positions that are widely held in Jamaica,” Prescott said. “If those residual links (to Britain) don’t deliver an answer that is what they’re looking for in Jamaica, then you might be looking at severing those links.”

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Associated Press journalist Kwiyeon Ha contributed to this report.

Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite a truce reached more than two months ago. The strikes also came days after Israel’s military said it is in “operational control” of the strategic Ali Taher hill that overlooks several villages as well as main roads leading to the city of Nabatiyeh.

The Health Ministry said one of the strikes hit a building, killing 11 people, including two children and four women. Eight were also wounded, including three children and a paramedic.

The ministry said that another strike on a car in the village killed a paramedic with the Lebanese Islamic Risala Scout Association and wounded two others.

The Israeli military said the strikes come in retaliation for two Hezbollah drone attacks that exploded while targeting Israeli troops in Lebanon from the area on Monday. It said the strikes targeted a Hezbollah militant trying to transport weapons to Kfar Rumman.

Hezbollah did not claim the attacks nor immediately issue a statement on the intensifying strikes around Nabatiyeh province.

“We have been living in constant anxiety amid shelling on the outskirts,” said Kfar Rumman resident Fouad Chakaron as he stood in front of the destroyed building. “Now they struck the heart of the town.”

Another resident, Saleh Medlej, pointed to the destroyed building and said this was home to families with children. “Are there missiles here?” he asked in reference to the building where the families lived.

“I will not leave this place,” Medlej said, vowing to stay in his hometown despite the airstrikes and shelling.

Earlier Monday, Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for a home in the village of Deir al-Zahrani and shortly afterward a building was struck. The military said the strike was in retaliation for a drone attack by Hezbollah militants. There was no word on casualties.

In a separate statement also on Monday, the Israeli military said Israeli troops operating near the Crusader-built Beaufort castle came under fire by a Hezbollah member who was inside a house, lightly wounding two of them. The troops later killed the militant.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least seven people in southern Lebanon and leveled an empty hospital.

The strikes came days after Israel released five Lebanese prisoners as part of a deal between the two countries. In return, Lebanon agreed to search for the bodies of Jewish Lebanese citizens who went missing during the country’s civil war decades ago.

A U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated, with Israel carrying out airstrikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah firing drones at Israeli troops.

Lebanon and Israel in June signed a U.S.-mediated framework deal under which Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of Hezbollah, but little progress has been made in its implementation.

Hezbollah is not a party to the Lebanon-Israel talks and has said it will not give up its weapons in any area north of southern Lebanon’s Litani River. Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said they will not withdraw unless Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country.

Kfar Rumman's mayor, Abdullah Farhat, described what happened in the village as “a massacre in every sense of the word.” He blasted the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, saying that Lebanese leaders “signed deals and we are paying the price here.”

“There is an enemy that is not concerned about anything,” Farhat said, referring to strikes that have been ongoing since the deal was signed.

___ Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.

Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was “deeply shocked” by what he called “the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades.” But he indicated that he's determined to stay at the helm and said that “giving up is not an option for me.”

The anti-migration and Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany, or AfD, fell just short of a majority in Sunday’s vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a small eastern state that gained outsized prominence as AfD eyed power there. Its regional branch is one of several considered a proven right-wing extremist group by Germany's domestic intelligence agency.

Merz says Germany will stick to its values and Russia stance

AfD's victory is a major distraction for Germany and Merz at a time when Europe faces several challenges, including Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine, a suspected sabotage campaign targeting NATO countries, and difficult dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Merz said he wanted to assure Germany’s allies that “our institutions are resilient and stable” and the country will stick to its values and constitution after the AfD win. “We know that Germany carries special responsibility because of its history,” he said.

He vowed that he won't “budge one millimeter from my fundamental conviction that we must defend our freedom against Russia now.” Germany is one of Ukraine's biggest supporters in its war against Russia.

Because of Germany’s Nazi past, far-right movements have always come under strong scrutiny. Other major parties have refused to cooperate with AfD in a so-called “firewall.” Unlike many countries in Europe, modern Germany hasn’t yet had a far-right or right-wing populist party leading a national, state or major-city government.

Determination to continue reforms ‘unbroken’

Merz vowed to weaken AfD before he came to power last year, but instead has seen the party's support increase.

The governing coalition of his Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats has developed a reputation for squabbling and become deeply unpopular, as has Merz himself. The government has struggled to persuade voters that it can get the country’s chronically sluggish economy moving, through potentially painful reforms, including to the pension system.

But Merz insisted Monday that “we need fundamental reforms in Germany.” He said it's a question of “nothing less than the future of our country and the opportunities of our children and grandchildren, and we must not squander those. That is why my determination to continue the reform course is unbroken.”

He acknowledged a need to “justify them, not just rationally but also emotionally."

Germany faces another two regional elections on Sept. 20 — in Berlin and in another eastern state, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where AfD is also strong.

AfD looks for a path to power in Saxony-Anhalt

While Merz continues to push back against resistance to reforms, AfD — whose victory was cheered by far-right parties across Europe — faces potentially tricky maneuvering to put its candidate for governor in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, in power.

Siegmund had pushed for an absolute majority in the state legislature that would allow AfD to sidestep mainstream parties' shunning of it. After the vote, he signaled that AfD still isn't willing to make compromises, insisting that “we don’t want to become like the parties that were punished” by breaking pre-election promises. He also rejected the idea of a minority government.

But he said that it has "a very clear mandate to form the government,” and that his party would reach out to other groups in the legislature and even to individual lawmakers. “Our goal now is to build precisely this stable majority in the coming days and weeks,” he said.

AfD is three seats short of a majority. It could reach out to the hard-left BSW party, which won five seats. The two parties share a Russia-friendly course and oppose immigration but disagree on some other issues.

BSW has criticized the “firewall” against AfD and signaled again Monday that it could allow Siegmund to become governor by abstaining in a potential third round of voting for a new governor in the state legislature, in which a simple majority would suffice.

It’s also possible that newly elected lawmakers from other parties could defect to AfD, which would only need three to break ranks.

Forming a government excluding AfD would only be possible if all the other parties in the legislature worked together. However, an alliance of any kind between those parties is improbable and would be prone to instability.

Jubilation from Musk and right-wing populists

Billionaire Elon Musk congratulated the party on its election victory with a “Well done!” on his online platform X. Siegmund immediately thanked him for his support.

Trump posted a screenshot of the election projection on his Truth Social platform without any comment.

Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev on X described the outcome of the election as a “historic win for the pragmatic AfD that will put migration under control.” Dmitriev also said that “AfD will restore Germany and Europe by leading the common-sense approach that migrant-friendly, warmongering Biden-think EU politicians tried to eradicate.”

The leaders of right-wing populist parties in Spain and Portugal also congratulated AfD.

The Polish prime minister was critical. “In Poland, only idiots or traitors could rejoice the AfD triumph in Germany,” Donald Tusk wrote on X.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, whose country faces a presidential election next year in which the far right is a leading contender, said that “AfD’s platform is a betrayal of the European spirit” and that “our first responsibility is to resist the normalization of far-right ideas.”

Among voters who didn't back AfD, the reaction was one of deep dismay. Horst Walter Boerner, an 86-year-old from Magdeburg born during World War II, expressed shock.

“It’s terrible for us,” he said, saying the election was “fear-driven.” He said AfD's victory was foreseeable because of the crowds it drew during the campaign, but he said “this should have never happened.”

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Associated Press journalists Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland, and Kerstin Sopke in Magdeburg, Germany, contributed to this report.

Thousands of mourners started arriving early at the small Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Luke in Belgrade to honor Mladic as his body lay in state. Mladic is still viewed as a hero by many Serbs. His military officer's cap and saber rested on the coffin, which was flanked by men in fatigues.

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, led the funeral service while Serbian army soldiers carried Mladic's flag-draped coffin at the cemetery as mourners clapped and a military orchestra played. Pro-government media broadcast the ceremony live.

Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik and the Russian ambassador in Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, were among those present at the funeral.

Mladic died at 84 on Aug. 27 in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was serving a life sentence. He was sentenced in 2017 for orchestrating the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995; the yearslong siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo; and other war crimes, including setting up concentration camps for detained non-Serb civilians and enemy soldiers.

Since Mladic died, his nationalist admirers have held vigils, painted a series of murals in Belgrade with his image and lit flares in his honor. On Sunday evening, soccer fans displayed a huge image of Mladic and chanted his name at a match in Belgrade.

Mothers of Srebrenica: It's a shame!

In Bosnia, the Mothers of Srebrenica group that gathers relatives of the victims urged the EU to react, saying that Mladic's funeral “threatens to become the biggest fascist gathering in Europe in the last 70 years.”

“The glorification of genocide is not honor, it's a shame,” they said on X.

A U.N. “safe haven” for Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Srebrenica ended up being overrun by Serbs who forced men and boys to strip, killed them and bulldozed their bodies into mass graves.

The EU's foreign service said in a statement that “any glorification of war criminals, genocide denial and revisionism contradict the most fundamental European values and have no place in the EU or in EU candidate countries.”

“We are standing in solidarity with all victims, survivors and their families who suffered from war crimes in countries of former Yugoslavia,” the statement said.

For Milan Dobric, a mourner who traveled from Kosovo for the funeral, Mladic “was a man who gave everything in his life for the Serbian people.” Dobric is “glad that this morning people are coming to pay special respect.”

Serbian president says gathering is reaction to Western pressure

While the funeral arrangements were formally made by Mladic's family, the Serbian government also sent a plane last week to bring his remains to Belgrade, and soldiers carried his coffin wrapped in the national flag. A military commemoration was held Saturday at an official Serbian army venue.

Populist President Aleksandar Vucic, a former extreme nationalist who supported Serbia’s expansionist policies during the war, described the funeral as an “emotional outpouring” that “has nothing to do” with whether the Serbian government approved it or not.

Serbia is a candidate nation for European Union membership and has faced strong criticism for honoring Mladic after his death.

Marta Kos, the enlargement commissioner for the bloc, canceled an upcoming visit to Serbia in protest, arguing that “the glorification surrounding his death is incompatible with the values on which the EU path is built.”

Serbia, which backed Bosnian Serb forces during the war, remains defiant over its wartime role and accuses the West of anti-Serb bias.

Vucic said that “we (Serbs) have been persecuted and harassed for 30, 40 years ... always guilty whatever happens,” He added that “people just won’t take it anymore.”

Vucic, who is not attending the funeral, previously has accused Kos of lying. The Serbian president has stepped up his anti-Western rhetoric ahead of an early parliamentary election expected next month.

A number of other European officials joined the criticism of Serbia, along with regional leaders and relatives of Mladic's victims from the war in Bosnia. The conflict left more than 100,000 people dead and over 1 million homeless before it ended in 1995 in a U.S.-brokered peace agreement.

En Nepal, de mayoría hindú, los periodos de duelo duran 13 días, durante los cuales los familiares cercanos permanecen en casa y los parientes los visitan para presentar sus respetos. En el último día se realizan rituales para rezar por las almas de los fallecidos. El lunes se cumplieron 13 días de la tragedia.

Varias personas cuyos familiares siguen desaparecidos realizaron funerales simbólicos. La cremación es un rito final importante en la tradición hindú y, para algunas familias, llevar a cabo la ceremonia incluso sin los cuerpos de sus seres queridos les brinda una sensación de liberación espiritual.

El gobierno designó el lunes como día oficial de luto, y ordenó que todas las oficinas bajaran sus banderas a media asta.

Mientras tanto, siguen los esfuerzos de búsqueda, aunque algunos protestaron que no se estaba haciendo lo suficiente.

En Katmandú, familiares se reunieron cerca de las oficinas del primer ministro y de ministerios clave para exigir que el gobierno acelere las tareas de búsqueda y rescate de los cientos de personas que trabajaban en plantas hidroeléctricas y que fueron arrastradas por la crecida del río Bhotekhoshi o quedaron sepultadas por los escombros.

Sumana Shrestha estaba con sus familiares mientras sostenía un cartel con la foto de su esposo de 55 años, de quien no se ha sabido nada desde el día de la inundación.

Su esposo, un geólogo consultor, había prometido regresar a casa después de su turno en la oficina del proyecto de la planta hidroeléctrica Trishuli el día de la inundación. La oficina de dos pisos y medio quedó completamente sepultada por los escombros.

“Estamos aquí porque no hemos sabido de ningún intento de rescate en este proyecto, pero ya han pasado 13 días”, dijo. “Lo único que hemos podido hacer es rezar a Dios y esperar un milagro”.

Otro manifestante, Mahesh Prasad Shrestha, sostenía una fotografía de su hermano Niraj Shrestha, un ingeniero de 52 años que trabajaba en el mismo sitio. Dijo que las autoridades sólo enviaron una pequeña excavadora en helicóptero al sexto o séptimo día después del desastre, y añadió: “Deberían haber pedido helicópteros grandes de lugares como China o India para traer equipo”.

Se realizaron vigilias a la luz de las velas en varios lugares de Katmandú en memoria de las víctimas.

Las labores de rescate se han concentrado cada vez más en 12 proyectos hidroeléctricos, donde unos 900 trabajadores están desaparecidos y se cree que aproximadamente 500 están atrapados en distintos túneles, indicaron las autoridades. Equipos de rescate especializados de India, China, Corea del Sur y Estados Unidos han estado buscando entre escombros, estructuras dañadas y túneles en los proyectos.

Dos trabajadores nepalíes fueron rescatados de la planta el viernes, y los rescatistas sacaron el sábado a un hombre chino de la instalación.

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

The first media interview with Atefeh Ramezanisadeh, 34, and Fatemeh Pasandideh, 22, since they abandoned their team to become refugees was broadcast Sunday on Australia’s “60 Minutes” current affairs program.

"We just wanted to stand with our people. I was scared at times, but I just tried to do what was right and say that no one should be killed just for protesting,” Ramezanisadeh told Nine Network through an interpreter.

The team was criticized in Iran and branded as traitors in the media there for remaining silent when the Iranian national anthem was played ahead of their opening loss against South Korea on March 2.

Some saw it as an act of resistance, while others interpreted it as a show of mourning following the U.S. and Israeli attacks on their homeland which began on Feb. 28. The team offered no public explanation.

The gesture led to demonstrators demanding the team be offered asylum in Australia before leaving Sydney on March 10.

Ramezanisadeh and Pasandideh said they were protesting Tehran’s brutal crackdown on nationwide demonstrations against Iran’s theocratic rule.

Ramezanisadeh said her silence “could have meant any form of torture” for her.

“But at that moment, the only thing that gave me peace and a clear conscience was not singing it. I wanted to sing the anthem with pride and from my heart. But because of the situation in Iran, I really couldn’t do it,” she said.

Pasandideh said through an interpreter of her own silence: “My people put their lives on the line and they were killed. Doing that was the absolute least we could do for them.”

Australian Immigration Minister Tony Burke said none of the team had been offered asylum at that time.

“At that point, they had absolutely no information from us about the possibility of being able to stay,” Burke said.

“The silence of itself was deeply significant,” he said. “The reaction was the volcanic moment.”

The stakes were raised when U.S. President Donald Trump used social media to call for the team to be granted asylum and telephoned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the issue.

Albanese told Trump that four players and a team manager had at that stage accepted offers of humanitarian visas.

Seven members of the team eventually accepted Australia’s offer of asylum, but all soon changed their minds except for Ramezanisadeh and Pasandideh. They both now play for the Wynnum Wolves semi-professional soccer team in the city of Brisbane and were made Australian citizens in August.

Ramezanisadeh said her parents had asked her to return under the instructions of Iranian authorities.

“They tried to reassure me, saying: ‘Nothing will happen to you. This is your home. You must return home.’ But I told them my mind was made up and I was not coming back,” Ramezanisadeh said.

“Thinking that I might never be able to see my family again was heartbreaking, but I couldn’t allow myself to be indifferent while so many young people were being killed by this regime. I couldn’t stay silent, even though I miss my family so much,” she added.

Both women said they had not been in contact with their families in recent months, but understood relatives had not been punished.

Pasandideh said she had never asked her teammates whether they had wanted to return to Iran or had been forced to.

“We decided not to talk because I don’t want to put their lives in danger,” Pasandideh said.

“One of my biggest dreams is to be able to go back to Iran, but in different circumstances when the situation in Iran has changed and the people of Iran are happy and thriving. Then I will go back and see my family,” she added.

The continuous, 25-hour eruption of Anak Krakatau that produced a fountain of lava and a boom heard 700 kilometers (435 miles) away ended Sunday, the country's Geological Agency said. But it remained active Monday with moderate, intermittent eruptions, dark ash emissions and small, localized earthquakes.

Transportation Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said Monday that authorities decided to extend the temporary closure of seven airports until midnight from an earlier deadline of 6 p.m., despite improving conditions at some facilities. Previously, Atung Bungsu Airport in Pagar Alam, a city in South Sumatra province, resumed normal operations Monday morning.

"We are taking a conservative approach because wind direction is highly dynamic,” Purwagandhi said in a statement. “We want to ensure that volcanic ash has moved away from airports around Anak Krakatau.”

Although tests at several airports showed no traces of volcanic ash, operations will not resume until further assessments are completed, Purwagandhi said.

He said the extended closure would also allow airport operators and airlines to inspect and clean runways, taxiways, aprons and aircraft that may have been exposed to volcanic ash.

The government also authorized schools in areas affected by volcanic ash to shift temporarily to online learning to reduce students’ exposure to ash.

Anak Krakatau is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Indonesia's main islands of Java and Sumatra. Its name means “child of Krakatau,” and the volcano is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau, whose monumental 1883 eruption triggered a period of global cooling.

An eruption of Anak Krakatau in 2018 caused a tsunami that killed at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java.

Indonesia has more than 120 active volcanoes and frequently experiences eruptions due to its location along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the ring of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most global seismic activity occurs.

Monday was the 13th day since the flooding which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left some 5,000 missing, including foreigners, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency.

In predominantly Hindu Nepal, mourning periods last 13 days, during which close family members stay home and relatives visit to pay their respects. Rituals are held on the final day to pray for the souls of the departed.

Several people whose relatives remain missing performed symbolic funerals. Cremation is an important final rite in Hindu tradition, and performing the ceremony even without the bodies of their loved ones provided some families a sense of spiritual release.

The government had declared Monday an official day of mourning and ordered flags at government offices lowered to half-staff.

Meanwhile, search efforts continued for the missing, but some protested that not enough was being done.

In Kathmandu, relatives gathered near the offices of the prime minister and key ministries to demand the government speed up search and rescue efforts for hundreds of people who had been working at hydropower plants and were either swept away by the rushing Bhotekhoshi River or buried under debris.

Sumana Shrestha stood with family members holding a poster with the photo of her 55-year-old husband, who has not been heard from since the day of the flood.

Her husband, a consulting geologist, had promised to return home after his shift at the project office for the Trishuli hydropower plant on the day of the flood. The 2 1/2-story office was completely buried by debris.

“We are here because we have not heard of any rescue attempt on this project, but it has been 13 days already,” she said. "The only thing we have been able to do is pray to God and hope for a miracle."

Another protester, Mahesh Prasad Shrestha, held a photograph of his brother Niraj Shrestha, a 52-year-old engineer who worked at the same site. He said authorities only sent a small excavator by helicopter on the sixth or seventh day after the disaster, adding: “They should have ordered big helicopters from places like China or India to fly in equipment.”

Rescue efforts have focused on 12 hydropower projects, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said. Specialized rescue teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States have been searching through debris, damaged structures and tunnels at the projects.

Two Nepalese workers were rescued from the plant Friday, and rescuers pulled out a Chinese man from the facility on Saturday.

The five-story building, which housed a boys’ hostel, collapsed on Sunday in Satya Niketan, a densely populated neighborhood known for its private student accommodations near a Delhi University campus.

Police, firefighters and crews from India’s disaster response agency continued their search for a second day as earthmovers cleared debris and sniffer dogs worked the site to help rescuers reach those still trapped inside.

Rescue crews pulled at least 12 people from under the rubble, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta told reporters at the site on Monday. About 80% of the debris had been cleared and only rubble from the basement remained, she said, adding that six people died and six others were injured in the incident.

Later Monday, rescuers recovered a body, raising the death toll to seven, officials said.

According to residents, the building was at least 55 years old and had been under renovation for months before reopening to tenants, mostly students, in August despite work remaining unfinished.

Prakash Chand, a resident, said laborers were in the basement carrying out digging work when the building collapsed.

Preliminary findings suggest water accumulation in the basement and ongoing repair work on the aging building may have caused the collapse, Gupta said.

She said the government will draft a policy requiring periodic structural audits and safety certificates for buildings used by the public, including student accommodations, nursing homes and schools. “No public activity will be permitted” in buildings that fail to comply, Gupta said.

After Gupta’s visit, police arrested the building owner and filed a case against him. Authorities also suspended at least five municipal employees responsible for building safety oversight in the area, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Building collapses are a recurring hazard in parts of India during the June-to-September monsoon season, when heavy or prolonged rain can weaken older structures.

Flanigan’s father and grandfather, both named Jim Flanigan, each played for the Green Bay Packers. After scoring on a 3-yard touchdown catch in the first quarter of No. 4 Notre Dame’s 41-13 victory over Wisconsin on Sunday night at Lambeau Field, Flanigan pumped his fist in the air just as his dad used to do during his own playing days.

“I saw some clip of my dad, there’s like this highlight reel out there I’ve watched before,” Flanigan said. “I used to make fun of him for doing it, but now it’s kind of become my thing, I guess. It’s just super fun.”

Flanigan’s father also played at Notre Dame before launching a 10-year NFL career as a defensive tackle with the Chicago Bears (1994-2000), Packers (2001), San Francisco 49ers (2002) and Philadelphia Eagles (2003). He won the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award in 2000.

Flanigan’s grandfather, who died last year at the age of 80, played linebacker for the Packers from 1967-70 and New Orleans Saints in 1971. His 1967 Packers team won Super Bowl II.

That made it particularly special for the sophomore tight end to return to his hometown and play Notre Dame's season opener at a place where his family had so much history.

He worked hard to keep his emotions in check.

“My plan for it worked,” Flanigan said. “It was in pregame warmups, go out on the field and soak it all in. If I see family, say ‘Hi,’ and wave. And then, once we run out of the tunnel after warmups, it’s all business from there.”

Flanigan played four games for Notre Dame last year and didn’t have any catches, but he figures to have a bigger role this year. He scored the Irish’s first touchdown of the season by catching a CJ Carr pass around the line of scrimmage and getting into the left corner of the end zone.

Then he paid tribute to his dad.

“The boys were pumped about that,” Carr said. “Really cool to see him come home and end up having a touchdown.”

He became just the latest Flanigan to make a name for himself at one of football’s grandest cathedrals.

“There’s three generations of Flanigans who have been on that field and made some plays,” Flanigan said. “That’s really special.”

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The Central American country accuses Berlin of violating the Genocide Convention and international humanitarian law by “facilitating” acts of genocide in Gaza by providing arms and other military support to Israel.

While the case centers on Germany, it indirectly takes aim at Israel’s campaign in Gaza in response to the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas. Israel, which isn’t a party in the proceedings, strongly denies that its actions amount to acts of genocide.

“Nicaragua’s conduct indicates that it was not interested in hearing Germany’s view on its allegations, but simply in bringing Germany before this court,” Julia Monar, Germany's top lawyer, told the judges.

According to Monar, Nicaragua failed to properly notify the German government and gave her country less than a month to reply before launching proceedings. Countries are typically expected to attempt to resolve disputes before bringing them to the court.

Another lawyer for Germany, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, said that Nicaragua's formal notification about the case came from a Yahoo email address sent to an general inbox, rather than through the appropriate diplomatic channels.

Germany is Israel’s second-largest arms supplier

Germany has been a staunch supporter of Israel for decades and is the second-largest supplier of arms to Israel after the United States.

Monar stressed that her country carefully reviews all exports of military equipment in accordance with international law. “Germany has not, since 2024, authorized an export of weapons of war, with final destination in Israel that can be used in the Gaza conflict,” she said.

In 2024, the court rejected an emergency request from Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel in Gaza, but the 16-judge panel declined to throw out the case altogether.

Proceedings at the ICJ can take a long time to conclude

The proceedings are the latest legal attempt to rein in Israel’s military campaign by a country with historic ties to the Palestinian people, after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the same court in 2023.

In January 2024, judges at the ICJ ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza. Two months later, the court told Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies.

South Africa says that Israel largely ignored those orders.

Both South Africa’s case against Israel and Nicaragua’s case against Germany allege violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The convention was drawn up in the wake of the Holocaust to codify a new crime: genocide.

A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council and the largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide have both concluded that Israel is violating the treaty but only an international court can make a legal determination.

Proceedings at the ICJ can drag on for years. In 2007, the court ruled that Serbia “violated the obligation to prevent genocide” in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serb forces rounded up and murdered some 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys in eastern Bosnia.

In May, the court set a November 2027 deadline for South Africa to file its written pleadings and gave Israel until May 2029 to reply. Hearings on the core question of the case — whether Israel committed genocide in Gaza — likely won’t be heard until late 2029 at the earliest.

An investigation at the International Criminal Court is also ongoing

In separate proceedings at the International Criminal Court, also in The Hague, which tries cases against individuals rather than between nations, judges have issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in connection with the conflict.

The pair are charged with crimes against humanity, not genocide. The court said it found that there was reason to believe they used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeted civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny.

In response, the United States has issued sanctions against many senior court staff, including nine of the ICC’s 18 judges.

The conflict in Gaza has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and devastated the enclave. Despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States last year, violence has continued. Since the ceasefire was announced, Israeli fire has killed more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Five Israeli soldiers have also been killed.

If the playoffs began now, these would be the seeds in the American League:

1. Tampa Bay (85-58)

2. Chicago White Sox (75-68)

3. Houston (73-71)

4. New York Yankees (81-62)

5. Boston (79-65)

6. Cleveland (73-71)

That means the teams with the two worst records — Houston and Cleveland, would face each other in the opening round, with the winner taking on the White Sox in the Division Series. Meanwhile, the teams with the three best records would all be on the other side of the bracket, fighting for one spot in the AL Championship Series.

The reason the matchups are on track to work out this way is because the White Sox and Houston would be seeded above the Yankees and Red Sox by virtue of being division champions. After all, if division titles don't mean anything, what's the point in having them?

But the question that is likely to come up is this: Why not re-seed the field after the Wild Card round, with the top seed facing the No. 6 seed if it advances? Or the seeds could be reassigned completely for the Division Series based on regular-season record, meaning if Houston wins in the first round, the Astros would be the team with the worst remaining record and would face the Rays.

Instead, the way the system is currently set up, top-seeded Tampa Bay would face either the team with the second-best record in the league or the team with the third-best mark. Not exactly a big reward.

Performance of the week

Alex Bregman hit three home runs Monday night to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 17-3 win over Milwaukee. The Cubs hit nine homers in the game, one shy of the major league record, and they finished the month of August with 62. Chicago now leads the majors with 201 home runs.

Trivia time

The Cubs haven't led the majors in home runs since 1958. In a 154-game season before the designated hitter rule, 182 homers was enough to finish first. How many players on that team reached 30 home runs?

Comeback of the week

The Colorado Rockies were down to their final out in both the ninth and 11th innings against Baltimore on Wednesday. With nobody on in the ninth and the Orioles up 3-2, Cole Carrigg and Zac Veen hit consecutive doubles to tie it.

Then in the 11th, after Baltimore took a 5-3 lead, TJ Rumfield hit an RBI single. Two outs later, Adael Amador hit a ground-rule double to put men on second and third, and Brett Sullivan followed with a two-run single to win it.

Baltimore's win probability in the ninth was 95.3% according to Baseball Savant. That defeat was part of a skid for the Orioles that has reached six games, knocking them four games off the pace in the race for the AL's last postseason spot.

Team of the week

In a week when everyone lost at last twice, the Boston Red Sox come out on top with a 5-2 mark. If the Red Sox and Yankees end up meeting in a Wild Card Series, there's now a chance it could end up happening at Fenway Park instead of Yankee Stadium. However, New York still has a 2 1/2-game lead on Boston, plus the head-to-head tiebreaker.

The Red Sox took four in a row in Baltimore, holding the Orioles to one run over the final three games.

Trivia answer

Just one player on the 1958 Cubs hit 30 homers — Ernie Banks had 47. Chicago did have four other players with at least 20 — Walt Moryn, Lee Walls, Bobby Thomson and Dale Long.

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With a nearly four-hour runtime, “Musk” is having its world premiere this week at the Venice Film Festival. It's one of the most hotly anticipated of the festival and the year — Bleecker Street is releasing it in theaters in October.

Gibney spoke to The Associated Press about upending the Musk myth, his revelations about his power and his support of President Donald Trump.

Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: Let’s start with the obvious, simple question: Why Elon Musk?

GIBNEY: A number of people came to me a few years ago, actually early 2023, and said, would you like to make a film about him? And I initially wasn’t sure, but a really good friend of mine convinced me that it was a good idea because it would be a portrait of kind of 21st century power. And so with that, I dug in.

AP: The nature and scope of his power is something that remains a little mysterious. Can you go into a little bit about what you found and how your film addresses that?

GIBNEY: In some ways it’s a simple story (with) a lot of complicated details. I think the source of his power comes from, how should I put this, (expletive)? That is to say, his ability to speak with confidence about the future in ways that convince people to invest in his companies. It’s really a future that rarely is in sync with facts or evidence or any remote possibility. So that is really what I discovered. That and the fact I think his genius, if there is a genius, is that he is not an inventor, he’s an investor. His genius is stock pumping.

The other thing I discovered was that the reasons for turning toward Trump were both a break with the past, I mean, people look to the way that he was idolized by many people on the, you could call it the left, or people who regarded him as a kind of climate savior for what he was doing with Tesla. Many people wondered about that transition. I discovered two things. One is, in a way, it was a predictable transition because he goes where the federal government money is.

But the other reason is his companies were facing an enormous number of federal investigations. And indeed, Tesla was under criminal investigation. But out of that case, there was a good chance that under a (Kamala) Harris administration, he might go to prison. He joked about that on the Tucker Carlson show. I think those were two key motivators that I had initially underestimated. A lot of people clocked it to the woke mind virus. After doing some research, I didn’t see it that way.

AP: You’ve covered powerful people and companies before in your films. Does anything compare to this?

GIBNEY: Nothing compares to this in terms of the scope of his power. What’s interesting about Musk is it’s not so much something that’s new as an old wine in a new bottle. And Musk, I think like some of the characters that I’ve followed in the past, is afflicted with what some people call noble cause corruption. That is to say, you begin to believe in a cause. And in Musk’s case, it was making us multiplanetary and also leading us into a more sustainable environmental world. And because you’re in line with those important, valuable, good causes, anything you do in the service of those causes is OK. And ultimately that leads you to corruption.

In a way, Musk is not dissimilar from the guys at Enron. He’s not dissimilar from Elizabeth Holmes in the way that he bent the truth to serve his impulses.

The one big difference with Musk is that he has companies (SpaceX and Tesla) which contain a great number of very qualified engineers and executive leaders.

AP: There was the famous social media exchange where Musk called the film a hit piece and you responded, “How would you know?” Do you go into your films willing to have your assumptions challenged? Was bias involved?

GIBNEY: What is it that physicist Richard Feynman used to say? It’s good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. There is always bias, but I’m always willing to have my assumptions challenged. I started off as a kind of an admirer and was honest in my desire to want to talk to him, but ultimately he didn’t want to talk to me. Then you start digging into the facts and you follow them where they lead. And where they led for me was to a place that upended the myth, I would say, of Elon Musk as a kind of modern Leonardo da Vinci.

AP: Did he try to interfere?

GIBNEY: He didn’t really except in so far as the fact that people were terribly afraid to speak to me on the record, or at least on camera. They were just terrified of Elon. And these were people in his companies. These were people who knew him well. These were supporters and critics.

A lot of people close to him who were his admirers would say, “I can’t talk to you unless I get Elon’s permission.” I thought, wow, for such a big and powerful person, that seems awfully weak.

AP: When I told people that there was going to be a nearly four-hour Elon Musk documentary, the first question was “did he make it about himself?”

GIBNEY: This probably doesn’t share that much with the Melania documentary.

One of the things I would say about the film is it’s a dark and dangerous topic, but the film itself is a fun ride.

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Video of Sunday’s landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. Aviation experts said investigators will seek to determine exactly where the plane landed and, if it was beyond the normal touchdown zone, why the pilots did not abandon the landing and circle back for another attempt.

Investigators will also examine the plane’s speed and braking, weather and wind conditions, the aircraft’s mechanical condition and other factors that could have contributed to the deadly overrun. The National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team led by Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy to Miami, where she is expected to give the agency’s first briefing on the investigation Monday.

The aircraft overran the runway around 2 p.m. Sunday after arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport. Five people died, three were critically injured and two others were hospitalized with less severe injuries, officials said.

The crash, which sent thick black smoke billowing into the sky, trapped the pilot and copilot in the cockpit and some occupants in cars, said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Ray Jadallah. The agency said crews also had to extricate a person who was trapped under a vehicle. It wasn’t immediately clear if the pilots were among those killed.

The typical landing zone for a plane is within the first 3,000 feet (914 meters) of a runway, experts said. If the cargo jet was beyond that area, it should have aborted the landing and gone around for another try, aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo said.

Mary Schiavo, who is a pilot and former Inspector General of the Transportation Department, said video posted online shows the Amazon plane floating above the runway for an extended period without flaring the nose upward to force the main landing gear onto the ground.

It wasn’t raining at the time, but dark storm clouds loomed and strong winds were reported. Schiavo said that if the plane had a tail wind, that could have contributed to it floating further down the runway.

“A tail wind would certainly add to your troubles if you’ve already given up a good chunk of the runway by not touching down and landing right away,” Schiavo said.

The Miami airport is not equipped with arresting systems that the FAA says have been installed at more than 120 airports nationwide to safely stop planes that do go past the end of a runway. Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

Miami’s airport appears to be in compliance and wasn’t required to have an arresting system because it has a 1,000-foot safety buffer at the end of its runways, said Mike O’Donnell, the FAA’s former director of airport safety and accident investigations.

The requirement was prompted by American Airlines Flight 1420 overrunning a runway at Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas in 1999, killing nine.

The Prime Air plane came to rest beside a roadway near two semitrucks, images showed. The aircraft appeared to be resting on its belly and was largely intact despite the fire.

The flight had been operated by 21 Air, a cargo carrier based in North Carolina. The 32-year-old Boeing 767 was originally built to carry passengers and flew for several airlines for more than two decades before being converted to a cargo plane in 2015, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

Schiavo said the NTSB will also closely examine the maintenance history of this plane — particularly since it has a history of foreign ownership, including by a Russian company.

The crash halted flights at the busy travel hub for much of the afternoon.

More than 160 flights were canceled and nearly 325 delayed by late Sunday, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. Officials from Orlando International Airport, more than 200 miles (320 km) north of Miami, said some flights were diverted there.

Amazon said in a statement that it would cooperate with any investigation.

“We’re heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport," the company said. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss.”

Last year, a UPS plane crashed after losing its engine while accelerating down the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport. The crash killed all three pilots and 12 people on the ground. Twenty-three more were injured.

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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina. Associated Press writer Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed.

This year, Haitians are marching under more solemn circumstances than in prior years. Federal immigration enforcement has intensified against Caribbean and other Black immigrant communities over the past year, and Haitians have lost a key protection — temporary protected status. Known as TPS, it let hundreds of thousands remain in the U.S. legally.

Organizers say the parade has become both a defiant assertion of pride and a rare bright spot in a traumatic year.

“There’s a somber cloud over it with everything that has happened from last year to this year with TPS ... what’s happening in detention centers, and those who are being sent back with no valid way of living or supporting themselves,” said Natalie Lafontant, a Brooklyn native who organizes Lespri Ayiti, or “Spirit of Haiti,” the largest Haitian “mas” — short for masquerade — or marching community in Monday’s parade.

Still, she said, the response to hardship is not surrender.

“But if you know anything about the Caribbean, especially about Haiti, we use music, dance, art, to continue to strive and push through,” Lafontant said while taking stock of parade costumes at a community center.

Keeping parade plans alive amid anti-immigrant policies

In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that federal courts cannot review the Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, clearing the way for roughly 350,000 Haitians to lose the protection. A federal judge finalized the order in early August, and work permits tied to Haitian TPS expired July 27.

Lafontant’s group, comprising about 180 artists, designers, musicians and residents, is marching in the parade for the second year. The group struggled to find float sponsors this year.

“All the insurances that we’ve got to cover, the people who walk, you’ve got to take care of them, the costumes, the designers. You add that all up, it’s a very hefty bill. But we continue to do it because we love our country,” said Lafontant.

Haitians' history with New York goes back decades

Lafontant is part of a Haitian community that numbers roughly 163,000 in the New York metropolitan area, according to the Migration Policy Institute — the second-largest Haitian population in the U.S. after the Miami metropolitan area.

Most Haitian migrants settled in Brooklyn neighborhoods including Flatbush, East Flatbush and Crown Heights.

Haitians arrived in New York in waves beginning under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, whose regime’s repression and economic collapse drove many to leave the island in the 1970s and 1980s. The migration continued after his 1986 ouster.

Haiti’s history of resistance runs deeper still, back to the Haitian Revolution, when enslaved and free Black people overthrew French colonial rule in what is widely regarded as the only successful slave revolt in modern history, culminating in the 1803 Battle of Vertières. The victory paved the way for Haiti’s independence the following year.

That history of resistance remains a source of pride for Haitians far beyond the country’s shores, even among generations who have built new lives abroad.

Edwina Paul, founder of SPM, or “Fanm Se Poto Mitan” — “Women Are the Pillar of Society” — left Haiti in 1993 to start a new life with her husband in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie. Paul, whose coalition of Haitian women leaders and organizers is marching Monday, said conditions in Haiti are what pushed people to leave.

“It’s not safe there. Coming here is like an umbrella for us to be safe from that,” she said of those fleeing the country’s gang violence and instability. “We don’t come here to sin, we don’t come here to kill. We come here to work, to have a better education.”

Anticipation for electrifying lineup of Haitian pop, fashion

SPM's resilience is stitched into its costumes this year. Clara Poteau, a fashion designer and an alumna of the Fashion Institute of Technology, designed royal blue emperor robes in the image of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a lieutenant and leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first leader of an independent Haiti.

A total of six designers and one painter spent a month hand-painting costumes that commemorate Haitian achievements, working through the weekend before the parade: dresses covered in miniature Haitian flags, skirts bearing the faces of Duckens Nazon and Emmanuel Sanon, the national football players who hold Haiti’s international scoring records, at 44 and 47 goals, respectively.

One orange T-shirt, dubbed the “Freedom” tee, carries the flags of nations Haitian revolutionary leaders helped liberate with shelter, money, weapons, and troops, including Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Mexico and Greece.

The sound of the mas, the first taste of Haitian energy parade attendees will experience before seeing the group, is carried forward by Jesus Luc, a Harlem native and Lespri Ayiti’s band manager. Luc coordinated a lineup built around “Raboday,” a popular genre of contemporary Haitian and Caribbean sounds, and Kompa, Haiti’s signature native dance music.

Headlining is DJ Comix of the band Team Madada, dubbed by Luc as “probably the most popular group in Haiti,” part of a new generation of sound defining the country’s youth.

“It’s electrifying. It’s music that will touch your soul. Between the music and the costumes... it’s the heart of the people that’s going to be there.”

The goaltender's $400 helmet in 2022 now runs $1,000. The chest protector they got last year for $465 now goes for $900.

For a sport that is increasingly expensive for everything from gear and ice time to travel and coaching, the latest round of 50% tariffs levied by President Donald Trump's administration against Canada was most unwelcome news as they threaten to ramp up prices even more.

“If a kid on the ice breaks a stick, every other parent is looking at that mom or dad going, ‘Ahhh oh, no!’” Rand said. “You feel for them. How many $400 sticks can you afford in one season?”

Hockey sticks and skates are among the more than 550 goods named in the tariffs by the White House. Custom equipment is also manufactured by True Hockey in Canada and imported into the U.S., according to B&R Sports Director of E-commerce John Merola, who said skates and goalie gear fit into that category.

An average stick is now $200, Merola said, with high-end versions ranging up to $400. He noted that Bauer, CCM and True still make many custom items in Canada.

“This not a minor blip by by any means,” Sports & Fitness Industry Association CEO Todd Smith said. “Even if manufacturers have moved over the last several years from Canada to other countries, there’s still healthy amount being manufactured in Canada and, yeah, this 50% tariff is a big deal.”

Rising prices and popularity amid production shifts

When Rand’s family bought custom goalie gear a couple of years ago, the entire setup cost $3,300. Skate pairs that in 2016 went for between $80 and $900 are now $200 to $1,230, according to HockeySkates DB, a database that charts the prices from various companies.

Inflation, as well as tariffs on other countries, are behind the price jumps in recent years. The Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s manufacturers sales report said the amount spent on hockey equipment increased 45.4% from 2020-25, up to $332.9 million from $228.9 million, dovetailing with increasing participation in the sport.

According to U.S. International Trade Commission data, which does not separate ice and field hockey equipment, gear from Canada made up roughly 8.5% of imports last year, fourth behind 52.7% from China, 13.2% from Vietnam and 9.5% from Thailand. Of the 2.1 million hockey sticks imported last year, trade data shows more than 1.5 million (74.1%) came from China and 268,000 (12.8%) from Mexico, compared to 18,909 (0.9%) from Canada.

Chris Douglas, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan-Flint, called it unlikely that stick prices will go up 50% across the board, noting Canada's modest market share, but wonders what will happen if demand increases.

“Maybe that causes the price of hockey sticks to rise somewhat — maybe by $50 or something like that,” Douglas said. "Hockey is expensive with the equipment, ice time and so forth, so maybe there’s a family right on the margin where $50 or $100 in additional cost causes them not to enroll their kids at hockey any longer.”

The question is how long the tariffs will last

When Trump imposed tariffs on China, Merola said that had a bigger impact on business but not right away.

“Bauer, CCM — the big, heavy hitters in the market — came in and said: ‘We’ll absorb these costs. Don’t worry about it,’” Merola said. “And then as nothing happened, they kind of came back and said, ‘We can’t cover this, so we’re gonna have to increase pricing.’”

That wait-and-see approach could happen again this time, delaying how long manufacturers and retailers pass on the increase to consumers. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saidtrade talks could resume if Washington became serious about negotiations.

Douglas said it all comes down to expectations for how long the tariffs will be in place.

“It’s hard to form expectations of the current tariff regime where tariffs are changing basically every day, it seems like,” Douglas said. “But if there’s an expectation that tariffs are going to be permanent or at least in place for the long term, then I think prices rise pretty instantaneously because the cost of production has risen and that gets passed on to consumers via a higher price.”

Merola thinks long-term tariffs will lead companies to move more production to the U.S., Asia or elsewhere. Roustan Hockey, the last major hockey stick factory in Canada, last week reaffirmed it will keep making them there, despite the challenges.

“We remain committed to our employees, our customers and our manufacturing operations here in Canada,” founder W. Graeme Roustan said in a statement after hosting federal minister Evan Solomon for a tour of the facility in Brantford, Ontario.

The Sports & Fitness Industry Association is advocating for the tariffs to go away, especially given what Smith said was a 7% increase in hockey participation in the U.S. over the past three years, a boom attributed to the 4 Nations Face-Off, Winter Olympics and more.

While pointing out the National Hockey League, USA Hockey and teams have contributed significant efforts with learn to play programs that include free equipment and ice time, Smith is concerned about the long-term impact of tariffs.

“This has, obviously, the potential to really stunt that growth," he said. "It couldn’t be a worse time for tariffs to hit in terms of really having the having the possibility to increase costs.”

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The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallon heading into the holiday, nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012, according to AAA motor club.

Nicole Collins planned to head from Philadelphia to South Carolina to visit friends, but she said her family has spent most of the summer close to home and not taking their typical weekend trips because driving has gotten so expensive.

“Gas is pretty high right now. It doesn’t help that we also have a baby, so we also have to pay for that,” Collins said outside a gas station in Claymont, Delaware, where regular gas was $4.199 a gallon.

Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February and have not settled down since. Crude oil traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz has plunged, and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway.

“Everything points to the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered few specifics on when the nation’s drivers might see relief at the gas pump, acknowledging that prices are higher now than Labor Day 2025.

“Yes, they’re higher today, but we’re doing everything we can to push them down," Wright said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

The national average for regular gas prices is still well below the record of $5.02 a gallon set in June 2022.

But diesel is a different story: It hit a national average of $5.85 a gallon Friday, a record.

Trucks and other freight delivery systems use a lot of diesel, and that increased transportation cost is being passed on to consumers, whether at the grocery store or through package delivery services.

“It doesn’t really seem like there’s an end to it,” Collins said.

Gas prices typically drop as the summer driving season ends and refineries turn to making a cheaper winter blend.

But Seng said there are other factors this year even beyond the volatile situation in the Middle East that make future prices unpredictable. U.S. refineries are working at 98% capacity, many in the unusually harsh Texas heat. If there are problems there or a hurricane knocks some systems offline, prices will struggle to drop.

And it's not just a Middle East problem. Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries are squeezing diesel supplies. Chinese refiners are seeing declining outputs as well, said Matthew Metzgar, a clinical professor of economics at UNC Charlotte.

“There’s just less gasoline coming out of those refineries,” Metzgar said.

Wright, the energy secretary, said the Trump administration was taking steps to increase production and that the markets forecast lower prices in the coming months.

“If you look at the futures prices, if you wanted to buy today in bulk gasoline for two months out in November, it’s about $0.35 cheaper than it is today. So the marketplace thinks gasoline prices are going to move meaningfully lower," he said.

Geopolitically, though, there is little a driver can do to knock down gas prices.

But using price apps can help save a little money, especially on long trips where gas by the interstate could be 10 to 15 cents per gallon more expensive than at stations a short drive down the road, Metzgar said.

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Associated Press videojournalist Mingson Lau and reporter Gary Fields contributed.

France's CAC 40 was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% in early trading to 8,282.06. The German DAX shed 0.2% to 25,993.23. Britain's FTSE 100 declined 0.2% to 10,814.01.

U.S. shares were set to drift lower with Dow futures down 0.3% to 53,273.00. S&P 500 futures were little changed at 7,721.75.

In Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 2.1% to finish at 66,399.84, while South Korea’s Kospi jumped 4.6% to 6,995.39.

Shares in Samsung Electronics soared 5.7% and memory chipmaker SK Hynix surged 8.1%. Renesas Electronics Corp. added 3.1%, Rohm Co. rose 7.8% and Tokyo Electron edged up 4.7%.

“The AI complex continues to provide the local equity markets with its most dependable growth pulse,” said Stephen Innes, a former trader, about the Asian markets.

“The AI complex is firmly in the leadership seat and reminding investors that, for all the hand-wringing around valuation, the hardware trade is still refusing to roll over.”

Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.9% to 25,413.12, while the Shanghai Composite gained less than 0.1% to 3,932.70.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose less than 0.1% to 9,010.90.

In energy markets, Brent crude, the international standard, added 4 cents to $96.32 a barrel following further escalation of the six-month -long U.S. war with Iran.

The U.S. military denied that Iran struck an uncrewed American military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, which remains effectively closed, calling the claim a “total lie.”

A senior Iranian official said Tehran plans to announce an “exclusion zone” outside the strait, targeting vessels it believes are attempting to transit the waterway. That followed U.S. strikes on three Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran launching ballistic missiles at U.S. warships.

Benchmark U.S. crude fell 29 cents to $91.19 a barrel.

U.S. markets will be closed Monday for the Labor Day holiday.

Market players expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before the year ends to help cool inflation, which remains well above 3%. The Fed's next policymaking committee meeting ends Sept. 16.

The Fed has a stated goal of cooling inflation to a target of 2%. August inflation figures are expected on Sept. 11.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar slipped to 155.95 yen from 156.22 Japanese yen. The euro cost $1.1634, up from $1.1621.

The weakening yen has been a major area of concern for Japanese leaders. Its value has rebounded after the dollar surged to the 160 yen level last week. Market watchers are focused on what the Bank of Japan might do on interest rates at its next policy board meeting later this month.

“The stronger-than-expected U.S. employment report generated only a limited recovery in the dollar, suggesting that the market is currently responding more strongly to the changing BOJ policy outlook,” said Linh Tran, a market analyst at XS.com.

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The week's only game between ranked teams started sloppy, only to turn into a second-half thriller that Ole Miss coach Pete Golding called a heavyweight fight.

“Wow, what an unbelievable atmosphere,” Golding said. "I think that’s really good for college football.”

Louisville coach Jeff Brohm agreed.

“We go home 0-1 but a lot to learn," Brohm said. "I think anybody who likes football likes to watch these games, so we played it. We had our chances, and we move forward.”

Lincoln Kienholz, in his first career start after three seasons on Ohio State’s bench, tied it for Louisville at 38 with 1:28 left. The quarterback found Lawayne McCoy on the sideline for a 54-yard catch-and-run TD with 4:42 to go before his 7-yard TD run with 1:28 left.

Trinidad Chambliss set up the winning field goal with an 18-yard pass on third-and-6. Chambliss finished with 351 yards passing with three touchdowns, and he ran for a fourth score, all after halftime.

“I don’t know how many times he’s got to do it,” Golding said. “I mean that’s just who he is.”

The Ole Miss quarterback would like to avoid some of his heroics.

“I honestly hate these games," Chambliss said. “I don’t know why we do this every time. We like close, one-score games, but yeah, we got the win. That’s all that matters.”

Kewan Lacy ran for 61 yards on 17 carries with a 1-yard TD before being sidelined by a thigh injury. Golding said he didn't think it was serious, though Lacy will be checked out by the team’s medical staff.

Maybe it was a bit of opening night nerves or starting with a ranked, Power Four opponent. Both Ole Miss, which ended last season losing to Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals, and Louisville had issues in the first half.

A shotgun snap went over Chambliss’ head on the opening series, and Louisville's long snapper sent the ball flying over punter Niall Hayes’ head to set up the 1-yard TD run by Lacy.

Chambliss looked nothing like the Heisman Trophy candidate Ole Miss has been promoting at Times Square in New York City and the Sphere in Las Vegas early. He fumbled after picking up a first down on a fourth-down run. Stanquan Clark also picked off a Chambliss pass to Deuce Alexander in the second.

The quarterback playing thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court ruling put on a show in the second half.

Chambliss found Alexander for not one, but a pair of 62-yard TD passes in the third quarter. He connected with Caleb Odom on a 35-yard TD early in the fourth, then Chambliss gave Ole Miss its biggest lead with a 5-yard TD run with 6:43 to go.

The takeaway

Louisville: Brohm didn't get a chance to ease his new starting quarterback in with an easy opponent. Kienholz threw for 307 yards with two TD passes. He also led the Cardinals rushing for 69 yards.

Ole Miss: The Rebels held Louisville running back Isaac Brown to 36 yards on 16 carries. Brown led the nation last season averaging 8.8 yards per carry.

Remembering Dolly Parton

A tribute to the late singer and songwriter took place before the fourth quarter playing snippets of her hits from “Jolene” to “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You." Nissan Stadium's lights dimmed, with fans standing and many holding up their cellphone flashlights.

Sweet 16 for the SEC

With Ole Miss' victory, the Southeastern Conference finished the opening week with each of its teams finishing in the win column. This was the SEC's third season since the league expanded to 16 teams.

Up next

Louisville hosts Villanova on Saturday.

Ole Miss hosts Charlotte on Saturday.

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Freeman's team eventually responded.

CJ Carr threw two touchdown passes, Aneyas Williams ran for 90 yards and two more scores and No. 4 Notre Dame pulled away in the second half to beat Wisconsin 41-13 on Sunday night at Lambeau Field. Notre Dame led just 13-10 at halftime before dominating the final two periods.

“Human nature is maybe you look at somebody else’s record last year — and everybody has expectations on what you should be this year — to think this is how this game should go,” said Freeman, who played for Fickell at Ohio State and coached alongside him at Cincinnati. “I don't know how they thought it would go, but I wanted to make sure at halftime they knew it was going to be a babble and going to be a struggle. I told them that all week. Sometimes you don't believe it until you're in it.”

This was the first college football game at the home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers since 2016, when Wisconsin upset a fifth-ranked LSU team 16-14. Wisconsin also hung around for a while in this one as a three-touchdown underdog as it attempts to bounce back from two straight losing seasons.

Notre Dame's first touchdown came on a 3-yard reception by Green Bay resident James Flanigan, whose father and grandfather (each named Jim Flanigan) both played for the Packers.

“There's three generations of Flanigans who have been on that field and made some plays,” Flanigan said. “That's really special.”

Carr went 19 of 29 for 239 yards. His other touchdown completion was a 28-yarder to Nolan James Jr. with 1:51 left.

The Irish entered this season pledging to leave no doubt about their College Football Playoff worthiness after getting left out of the field last year despite winning their last 10 regular-season games by double-digit margins.

But the Irish’s performance early on created plenty of doubt about how effectively they can run the ball without Heisman Trophy finalist Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price, the only two running backs selected in the first round of this year’s NFL draft. Notre Dame rushed for 111 yards on 32 carries — including just 29 yards on 16 attempts in the first half.

Notre Dame's offense eventually got in gear. The Irish scored touchdowns on each of their three second-half possessions.

“I don’t have a great explanation for the second half,” Fickell said. “I give them a lot of credit. We kind of held the energy and created a lot of momentum in the first half. In the second half, we could do none.”

Williams’ 3-yard touchdown run capped a 70-yard drive to open the second half. Colorado transfer DJ McKinney then intercepted Colton Joseph’s pass and ran untouched for a 55-yard touchdown to make it 27-10.

Gavin Lahm’s second field goal of the night cut Notre Dame’s lead to 27-13 near the end of the third, but Williams capped the Irish’s next drive with a 5-yard touchdown run and James completed the scoring in the closing minutes.

“We prepared for a battle,” Carr said. “We got a battle in the first half. We were really excited, I think, coming out of the second half because Free talks about there’s nothing great that comes from something that’s easy. We knew it was going to be a struggle. It's what we wanted, and (we) ended up finishing really strong."

The takeaway

Wisconsin: After adding 34 transfers, Wisconsin certainly looks better than it has the last couple of years. But the Badgers needed to play mistake-free football to have a shot at pulling the upset, and they instead had two turnovers that led to Notre Dame touchdowns.

Notre Dame: The Irish's defense could face some early adversity. The Irish lost preseason Associated Press All-America second-team safety Brauntae Johnson and defensive lineman Jason Onye to injuries during the game. Freeman had no update on either player after the game. Preseason AP All-America second-team linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa didn't play as he continues to recover from a knee injury that ended his 2025 season early.

One positive development for Notre Dame came from Purdue transfer Spencer Porath, who made field goals of 52 and 26 yards in his Irish debut. Last season, Notre Dame didn’t make a field goal after Oct. 11.

Up next

Wisconsin: Hosts Western Illinois on Saturday.

Notre Dame: Hosts Rice on Saturday.

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The Niners left California last Wednesday, arrived in Australia on Friday and were set for their first practice of game week on Monday at AAMI Park in Melbourne feeling mostly refreshed after players got a day to explore the city. The Rams are still back home and won't arrive until Thursday.

“It took a couple days to adjust but feeling real good today,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. “Most of the city I’ve seen out of my window, I’ve gotten to go on one walk. It’s a little different for coaches. We’re in the season so we’re not out much. But players had yesterday off so I know they got out a little bit and they’ve spoken very highly of everything.”

Some players went to an Australian Football League game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground where the 49ers will face the Rams in the first NFL regular season game ever played in the country.

Star running back Christian McCaffrey didn't make it to the game but heard positive reports from his teammates. He has enjoyed his time here so far and is glad the team got to make this long trip. He said the instructions from the team's training staff made sure that the jet lag wasn't a big factor with the main issue just being cooped up on a plane for so long.

But now he's refreshed and ready to play.

“We’re fired up, man,” he said. “This has been such a cool experience. Obviously, there’s a lot of question marks when you hear you’re playing in Australia, but since we’ve been here, man, it’s been so cool. The people are unbelievable. The food’s incredible. The coffee’s great. The atmosphere, you can already feel it. It’s just been a lot fun, so we’re super fired up we’re here.”

Shanahan wasn't so excited when it was first announced that San Francisco was opening the season here instead of playing the Rams in a much shorter trip to Los Angeles in front of what is usually a partisan 49ers crowd.

But his view has changed a bit after making the trip and hearing how many 49ers supporters are expected at the game.

“That was nothing against Australia or anything, that’s just about competition and how important our 17 games are,” he said. “It’s cool for us just we always have an advantage of having one, I see it as one home game a year in L.A., just the way our fans are and take over that stadium. So it was disappointing to let them off the hook and get them out of that. Knowing how our fans roll, I have a feeling they won’t be much different here. I expect to have a good showing. ... After being here for a couple days like this is the right time to be here it’s the right place to be and it’s right team to go against.”

No injury updates for the 49ers

San Francisco held its first full practice of the week Monday in Australia, which was still Sunday night back in California.

Shanahan typically gives an injury update on the first practice day of a game week but opted against it because the Rams don't have to do it until they practice on Monday in California, which will be Tuesday in Australia.

So any updates on the status of players like tight end George Kittle and defensive end Nick Bosa will have to wait.

“Because we’re technically in the future, from where we’re from, and the Rams are in the present, I don’t have to talk about injuries until tomorrow.,” Shanahan said. “So I’m not talking about them.”

The one notable injury update Shanahan did give was that defensive end Sam Okuayinonu broke his foot at the team's last practice before leaving on Wednesday. He was placed on injured reserve and will miss most of the season.

The 49ers keep the same captains

The Niners kept the same eight captains for the season that they had last year. Quarterback Brock Purdy will be joined by McCaffrey, Kittle, Bosa, Kyle Juszczyk, Trent Williams, Fred Warner and Deommodore Lenoir.

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Bell's crazy, frustrating season of seven second-place finishes without a victory at last came to an end with a win at the Southern 500 on Sunday night.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver passed defending NASCAR champion Kyle Larson with 18 laps left at Darlington Raceway and held on to win the Chase-opening race and break a winless stretch of 33 races dating to Bristol last September.

“Darlington is the epitome of NASCAR,” Bell said. “This is better than a dream come true."

It was his first win in 15 career Cup races at Darlington and pushed him into second in the Chase standings behind teammate Denny Hamlin.

“No off weeks. right back to work next week at Gateway,” he said. “I still feel I'm going to have win more races if I want to” win the championship.

Gibbs finished second and Tyler Reddick, a five-time winner this season, was third. Chase drivers accounted for nine of the top 10. Ryan Blaney was fourth, followed by Larson, Chase Briscoe, Josh Berry, Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano and Ryan Preece.

Berry was the only non-Chase driver in that group.

Crew chief Adam Stevens tried to keep Bell focused as the runner-up finishes — along with the driver's frustration — grew. It was important for him to understand that him finishing second wasn't because his team wasn't doing everything it could to succeed. “You have to really come into each weekend with a clean slate, and he’s done a fantastic job with that,” Stevens said.

Larson gambled during the sixth and final caution, staying on the track while other competitors including Bell went into the pits for fresh tires.

And for a bit, Larson's bet look like it might pay off as he opened a sizeable lead on the restart and forced Bell and the others to come get him. Bell eventually did, moving low on the track to put Larson in his rearview mirror.

Larson thought more racers would've stayed out of the pits on the final caution to give him some cover and distance before the fresh-tire drivers got going. “But Bell got to second so fast, I was straight into defense,” Larson said. “Not able to run the lines I ultimately wanted to to take care of my tires.”

Three-peat thwarted

Briscoe was looking to make a bit of history with his third straight Southern 500 — only Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon had ever won more with four in a row from 1995-98 — and he fought off a pit-road penalty for running out of fuel at the end of stage two that took from the lead to 20th.

But he could not keep pace with Bell at the end.

Hamlin's troubles

Hamlin, the top seed in NASCAR's Chase, had started the final stage in the top five when he got hit from behind on lap 237 by Michael McDowell and his car struck the wall in turn four.

Hamlin immediately told his crew, “The toe links are gone.” But the incident did not draw a caution and Hamlin had to keep racing, falling to 20th as he and his pit e was still in front by 12 points over teammate Bell.crew waited for the chance to fix the damaged Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

While the toe links were not damaged, there were extensive repairs and Hamlin was a lap down. Hamlin finished 18th.

“It was certainly not the finish we were hoping for,” Hamlin said. “We certainly made gains on it all day.”

Hamlin came into the race with a 25-point lead over second-seeded Ryan Blaney. The rules of NASCAR's postseason changed this year, with all 16 drivers competing in all 10 playoff races without eliminations.

He's still leading, 12 points in front of teammate Bell.

Other Chaser issues

Hamlin wasn't the only one of the 16 Chase competitors to have problems. Hendrick Motorsports William Byron was in position for a top 10 finish when he spun out with what he believed was a flat tire. After a trip to the pits, smoke billowed out of Byron's Chevrolet and he went back to the garage to end his day.

Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing had high hopes with two of its three drivers, Chris Buescher and Ryan Preece in the Chase. But Buescher could not gain any momentum at Darlington and rode in the back of the pack for most of way.

Preece, who won his way into the postseason with a victory at Daytona last week, pledged to continue to be aggressive because as the 16th seed, his team had nothing to lose. That strategy worked well as he rode in the top 10 for most of the first half of the race. He couldn't sustain it, though, and ended 10th.

And while 23XI co-owner Michael Jordan watched from the pits, his two Chase drivers in Reddick and Wallace went from running 1-2 at the end of the first stage to falling out of the mix down the stretch.

Up next

The Chase continues with its second race at World Wide Technology Raceway outside of St. Louis in Madison, Illinois. Denny Hamlin won the playoff race there a year ago.

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Ohtani appeared overmatched when he struck out four times against the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday. He has not played since, with his current respite due to ongoing left knee and right biceps soreness that has bothered him since before the All-Star break.

Progress has been somewhat methodical, with Ohtani getting two days completely void of activity before hitting in the indoor batting cage Saturday.

“(Saturday) was a good day. Came out of it feeling well,” manager Dave Roberts said. “So if nothing else changes, or continues to trend, I see him in there tomorrow. Today he’s going to go through his work and should be good to go tomorrow.”

Ohtani was 7 for 51 (.137) with one home run over his last 13 games before getting his longest break since missing the last month of the 2022 season as a member of the Los Angeles Angels with an elbow injury. His is batting .279 with 30 home runs and 80 RBIs in 129 games. It is his sixth consecutive season with at least 30 homers.

Roberts said Ohtani has reported that both his knee and biceps have improved with the extended rest.

“Obviously, we were talking about potentially giving him as much time to get right,” Roberts said. “So just pleasantly pleased (with the progress). But again, until he’s written in the lineup, we don’t know 100%, but I’m hopeful.”

Knee soreness in particular has prevented Ohtani from pitching since July 3. The right-hander is 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA in 14 starts covering 85 2/3 innings.

The odds of Ohtani starting on the mound again this season are slim.

“Obviously, if you’re looking at the calendar, how much he’s thrown in the last week, I think we can all do the math,” Roberts said.

In other news, the Dodgers placed Dalton Rushing on the injured list with right elbow discomfort, retroactive to Saturday, and recalled fellow catcher Eliezer Alfonzo from the minors.

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Alcaraz was surprised to learn during an interview on ESPN after his victory Sunday that his quarterfinal match would be against either Ben Shelton or Stefanos Tsitsipas in a match that Shelton later won.

The defending champion visited the set after beating Tommy Paul in his fourth-round match. Andy Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion, asked Alcaraz about the challenges either player would present.

A confused Alcaraz asked him to repeat the question.

“You're either going to play Shelton or Tsitsipas," Roddick said. "Maybe just a word on both of them and the challenges ...”

He didn't get to finish the sentence because Alcaraz leaned over to look at the paper in front of Roddick.

“Really? Oh my God, I thought I was playing Medvedev-Tiafoe,” Alcaraz said, before both men started laughing.

Frances Tiafoe beat Daniil Medvedev in their match that was going on during the interview, but now plays Alex Michelsen.

Many tennis players say they don't like to look ahead at their draw, though it might be rare for one to not know his next match so deep in a tournament.

Shelton, the No. 8 seed, beat Tsitsipas in straight sets.

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In a statement Sunday, the Red Sox announced that Morgan died Saturday night. The club was informed by his daughter, Catherine, team spokesperson Abby Murphy said. No further information was provided.

“Joe Morgan holds a special place in Red Sox history,” Principal Owner John Henry said in the statement. “When he took over in 1988, he changed the course of a season and created one of the most memorable chapters in the history of this club. The two division titles that followed only strengthened a bond with Red Sox fans that endured for the rest of his life. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and all who loved him.”

Morgan played 88 major league games as an infielder with five teams from 1959-64 and then spent 18 years in the Red Sox organization as a manager, coach and scout from 1974-91.

Along the way, he managed Boston stars such as Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens and Rich Gedman in both the minors and majors. Morgan was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame in 2006.

“He was a big part of my life and will be missed," said Boggs, a Hall of Fame third baseman. "I don’t think he got enough credit for how baseball-smart he was. He played baseball hunches instead of statistics. He will always be one of my favorites.”

Morgan, who was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College, became the first base coach for the Red Sox in 1985 and took over as manager on July 14, 1988.

The team won its next 12 games and 19 of 20 on the way to a division title before getting swept in four games by the Oakland Athletics in the American League Championship Series.

“‘Morgan Magic’ is forever part of Red Sox lore,” team chairman Tom Werner said. “Joe took over in 1988 and gave New England a summer it would never forget."

Morgan managed the Red Sox to another AL East crown in 1990 before they were again swept by Oakland in the ALCS. His tenure ended after the 1991 season with a 301-262 record.

“Joe was a fun manager to play for — always extremely positive. When you didn’t perform well, he’d say, ‘Don’t worry about it. You’ll be great next time — I guarantee it!’" said Clemens, who won the first three of his seven Cy Young Awards with Boston.

"And yes, when he got the job to manage, he brought the magic! ... Thanks for everything, Joe!”

Before his promotion to Boston's big league staff in 1983 as a scout, Morgan managed the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox from 1974-82, becoming the longest-tenured skipper in club history.

During his playing days, Morgan was signed by the Boston Braves in June 1952. He batted .193 in the majors with two home runs and 10 RBIs for the Milwaukee Braves (1959), Kansas City Athletics (1959), Philadelphia Phillies (1960), Cleveland Indians (1960-61) and St. Louis Cardinals (1964).

He began managing in the minors in 1966.

“Joe Morgan managed the Red Sox during some of my most formative years as a fan,” said Red Sox President & CEO Sam Kennedy. “Joe made us believe, and when you experience that as a kid, it stays with you. I was fortunate enough to get to know him later in life and found an even better person than the baseball man I had admired. I will miss him deeply.”

In addition to daughter Catherine, Morgan is survived by his children Joseph Jr., William and Barbara, six grandchildren and five great grandchildren, the Red Sox said.

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The ship's commissioning comes as North Korea is dialing up pressure on the U.S. after rebuffing President Donald Trump's decision to scale back a major military drill with South Korea in a conciliatory step toward Kim. Observers say North Korea wants to wrest bigger U.S. concessions.

The destroyer Kang Kon was commissioned into North Korea's navy in the eastern port city of Wonsan Sunday at a ceremony attended by Kim and his teenage daughter, whom South Korea’s spy service calls his likely heir. North Korean state media photos showed the girl in a white dress and blazer walking alongside her father on a red carpet, touring the warship and posing with sailors.

North Korean destroyers regarded as its most advanced warships

The ship and the Choe Hyon, which was put into service in June, are both 5,000-ton destroyers that state media said can carry various conventional and nuclear weapons. Considered North Korea’s biggest and most advanced warships, the two destroyers were likely built with Russian assistance, experts say. In July, North Korea said it test-fired nuclear-capable cruise missiles from the Kang Kon.

In a speech at the ceremony, Kim said the back-to-back warship additions instilled fear in the enemies as the nuclear armament of North Korea's navy made it possible to exercise its nuclear deterrent in a more diversified, practical manner.

“The enemies’ concerns will surely be deepened,” Kim said. "We must establish more clearly a powerful and reliable nuclear war deterrent, to put into practice the diverse and effective operation of our nuclear combat systems and further strengthen our military activities for maritime defense and war deterrence.”

After years of prioritizing ballistic missile development, Kim has increasingly turned his focus to modernize the navy, which he admitted in Sunday’s speech lacked warships befitting its mission until a few years ago. Outside experts said the North Korean destroyers’ weapons and radar systems would enhance its offensive and defensive capabilities.

Kim said North Korea is pursuing another “significant" naval advancement whose results would be unveiled in eight months. Many observers say the project could be related to Kim's stated goal of acquiring a nuclear-powered submarine.

South Korea, US and Japan open trilateral drill

The U.S., South Korea and Japan kicked off on Monday their five-day Freedom Edge exercise near the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea's military said the exercise is defensive in nature and meant to enhance a joint response capability against North Korean nuclear threats and that it involves key maritime and aerial military assets from the three countries.

At the exercise’s opening ceremony at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, Lt. Gen. Stephen Jost, commander of the U.S. forces in Japan, said that Washington, Tokyo and Seoul “stand together on common interests, ready to preserve the peace and security we have built and defended for more than eight decades,” according to the U.S. Pacific Command.

The U.S. command said the exercise will be held in international waters and airspace off South Korea’s southern coast, as well as military installations and command posts in Japan and South Korea. Japan’s Joint Staff said about 560 Japanese troops will participate in the exercise.

Later on Monday, North Korean Defense Minister Kim Song Gi issued a statement criticizing the drills, accusing the U.S. and its Asian allies of attempting to provoke the North and warning that his country was capable of taking “strong and reflective countermeasures from the standpoint of power.”

North Korea's Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. last week of more clearly expressing its confrontational posture against the North. It cited the Freedom Edge exercise and reported comments by American officials that the U.S. remains committed to North Korea’s complete denuclearization.

On Aug. 21, the U.S. and South Korean militaries ended their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise six days earlier than originally planned, after Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the drill. Trump cited what he described as a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, who views the drill as an invasion rehearsal.

But Kim's sister and senior official, Kim Yo Jong, shrugged off Trump's outreach, saying just shortening the drill won’t change its “provocative, aggressive nature.” North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, apparently delivering on its previous threat to respond to the U.S.-South Korean drill.

The North Korean leader has previously said he could return to talks if the U.S. drops its “hostile policy” against his country and respects what he calls the North's status as a nuclear state.

Kim and Trump's earlier diplomacy collapsed in 2019 due to disputes over how much economic benefits North Korea should get in return for a limited denuclearization step. Now, with his advancing nuclear program and deepened ties with Russia and China, experts say Kim has greater leverage than before.

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Rose Schoenfeld, del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, indicó el domingo que Marie generaba condiciones “potencialmente letales” a medida que avanza a cientos de kilómetros de la costa de California. Algunas playas orientadas hacia el sur han registrado olas de hasta 3 metros (10 pies) de altura, precisó.

“Estamos recibiendo reportes de los salvavidas de que las condiciones del oleaje son muy peligrosas, específicamente las corrientes de resaca”, manifestó Schoenfeld.

El huracán Marie no tocará tierra y se tiene previsto que se debilite a tormenta tropical hacia última hora del domingo, aunque de todas maneras llevará lluvia a partes del condado de Los Ángeles antes de disiparse.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional recomendó a la población que se limite a nadar cerca de estaciones de salvavidas y mantenerse lejos de las rocas.

La autoridad de salud de la ciudad de Long Beach emitió el domingo un aviso en el que advirtió a la población que no nade en ninguna de las playas o bahías de la ciudad durante los próximos tres días. Señaló que se esperan lluvias significativas a partir del sábado, las cuales podrían producir escorrentía de desagües pluviales y ríos, y generar condiciones insalubres para los bañistas.

Seal Beach, una ciudad costera del condado de Orange, anunció el domingo el cierre de dos estacionamientos frente a la playa hasta la mañana del miércoles “para proteger la vida y la propiedad durante las condiciones previstas de oleaje elevado e inundaciones costeras”. El muelle municipal de Seal Beach permaneció abierto.

Adam Yacenda, jefe del batallón de salvavidas del departamento de bomberos en Newport Beach, a unos 64 kilómetros (40 millas) al sur del centro de Los Ángeles, informó que los salvavidas de la playa realizaron 177 rescates el sábado.

Aunque la playa ha registrado olas mucho más altas este verano que en años anteriores, la cifra de rescates diarios sigue siendo significativa, comentó.

“Cada vez que te acercas a más de 100, es un día ajetreado”, afirmó.

Yacenda sostuvo que sólo los expertos deben aventurarse en las olas de la zona. Fuertes corrientes se desplazan a lo largo de la línea de costa y mar adentro, con “corrientes de resaca muy fuertes”, explicó.

“Tenemos bandera roja de un extremo al otro de nuestra playa”, puntualizó.

La tormenta trajo la posibilidad de inundaciones a lo largo de playas, ciclovías, caminos y algunos vecindarios de baja altitud.

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes advirtió el domingo que se tiene previsto que las condiciones peligrosas en las playas duren un par de días más.

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A Boeing 767 cargo plane overran a runway at MIA around 2 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said five people were killed and five others were injured and hospitalized. Three of the injured are in critical condition, she said during a press conference.

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Officials said the flight originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, officials said.

According to information from MIA, Prime Air flight 7598 was disabled after going off the northwest end of the airport’s diagonal runway.

A spokesperson from Amazon released the following statement Sunday afternoon:

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A ground stop was issued, and all runways were closed following the crash, officials said.

We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway.

If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations.

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Officials with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said that over 60 units were responding to the scene.

Administrators with MIA said passengers with flights scheduled on Sunday should check with their airlines for flight status before heading to the airport.

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El NHC, con sede en Miami, emitió alertas para Kauai y Niihau, después de que los pronósticos indicaron que Lowell pasará al oeste del lugar la noche del lunes a medida que se desplaza hacia el norte. Los meteorólogos advirtieron la posibilidad de entre 15 y 25 centímetros (6 y 10 pulgadas) de lluvia acumulada, con máximos de hasta 36 centímetros (14 pulgadas).

Se anticipa que la Isla Grande de Hawái reciba de 10 a 20 centímetros (4 a 8 pulgadas) de lluvia, con algunas zonas de hasta 30 centímetros (12 pulgadas).

Lowell avanzaba con vientos máximos sostenidos de 195 km/h (120 mph) y se ubicaba a unos 860 kilómetros (535 millas) al sur-suroeste de Lihue, o a unos 895 kilómetros (555 millas) al suroeste de Honolulu. Se desplaza hacia el norte a 9 km/h (6 mph), informó el NHC.

Los vientos con fuerza de huracán se extendían hasta 85 kilómetros (50 millas) desde el vórtice del sistema, y los vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical se extendían hasta 280 kilómetros (175 millas), indicó el centro.

Las lluvias podrían provocar inundaciones significativas y deslaves, indicó el centro. Una combinación de marejada ciclónica y mareas probablemente hará que zonas normalmente secas cerca de la costa queden inundadas por el aumento de hasta un metro (3 pies) en los niveles del agua en Kauai.

La Agencia de Manejo de Emergencias de Kauai hizo un llamado a los residentes a llenar los tanques de gasolina de sus vehículos, mantener sus dispositivos cargados, resurtir recetas médicas y contar con suficiente agua y alimentos antes de la llegada de la tormenta. También indicó que los residentes deben estar preparados para permanecer en casa por varios días.

En Lihue, una localidad de 8.000 habitantes donde se ubica el principal aeropuerto de Kauai, los residentes se abastecían de comida y agua mientras vaciaban los estantes de los supermercados.

La agente inmobiliaria Lori Benkert compró un recipiente adicional de propano de 4,5 kilogramos (10 libras) para poder cocinar en la parrilla si se queda sin luz. Benkert administra decenas de propiedades en Kauai y ha tapiado dos casas en el lado occidental de la isla. “Perderemos algo de energía; probablemente se caigan algunos árboles, un montón de ramas”, dijo Benkert. “Lo más probable es que todos simplemente se resguarden”.

Mientras tanto, el huracán Marie generó condiciones de oleaje peligroso a lo largo de la costa de Baja California, México, y del sur de California. La tormenta de categoría 1 se ubicaba a unos 1.120 kilómetros (695 millas) al sur-suroeste de San Diego, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 120 km/h (75 mph ). El meteoro se desplaza en dirección noroeste a 11 km/h (7 mph).

Aunque no había avisos ni alertas costeras en vigor, el NHC indicó que el oleaje generado por Marie seguirá afectando partes del suroeste de México, la península de Baja California y el sur de California durante los próximos días. Es probable que este oleaje provoque corrientes de resaca potencialmente letales.

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After a round of storms this afternoon, drier weather will move in overnight, with lows in the upper 70s.

Morning showers along the coast will give way to afternoon showers inland. Temperatures will warm into the lower 90s. Deep tropical moisture will remain in place this week, so showers and storms each day could produce heavy downpours and lead to localized flooding. Keep the rain gear handy.

Williams also scored on a 5-yard keeper in the 118th meeting of the two teams, who were once both part of the Pac-12. Washington won last year's meeting 59-24 in Pullman.

Transfer Caden Pinnick made his debut as quarterback for the Cougars, throwing for 142 yards and scoring on an 11-yard keeper in the fourth quarter.

“(I) thought Washington State had a really good plan, played really hard, did a nice job,” Washington third-year coach Jedd Fisch said. “Very challenging Week 1 to really make sure that we kind of knew what we wanted to get done. We felt like we didn’t play the at the level we would like to play at, but we also are very happy with the victory.”

Washington State was one of the remaining members of the Pac-12 left after realignment broke apart the conference ahead of the 2024 season. The Cougars and Oregon State helped re-build the conference, which now includes Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State and Utah State, along with non-football member Gonzaga.

The Huskies, meanwhile, bolted the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. Washington went 9-4 last season with a 38-10 win over Boise State in the LA Bowl.

Washington State was embarking on it's first season under coach Kirby Moore after going 7-6 last season. He brought in Pinnick, who played at UC Davis last season and threw for 3,206 yards and 32 touchdowns as a freshman.

Washington State's defense was largely effective in thwarting the Huskies throughout the game, but the Cougars missed a pair of field goals that could have narrowed the gap and were 0-11 in converting on third down.

“I've got to get better with the preparation and getting the guys ready for third downs. You're not going to win a lot of games going 0-11, and ultimately taking care of the ball, that falls on me,” Pinnick said.

Tyler Robles’ 48-yard field goal gave the Huskies the early lead. In the second quarter, Jeron Jones intercepted Pinnick and ran it back 8 yards to the Washington State 21. After breaking free on a 16-yard run to keep the drive alive, Williams scored on a 5-yard keeper to make it 10-0

The Cougars stopped the Huskies on fourth-and-1 at the goal line to end the half.

The Cougars had a chance to get on the board midway through the third quarter but Jack Stevens' 32-yard field goal attempt went wide right. Stevens also missed a 52-yard attempt on Washington State's first series of the game.

After the Cougars stopped another Washington attempt to convert on fourth down at the end of the third quarter, Washington State drove down the field and scored on Pinnick's 11-yard run to narrow the gap to 10-7.

Washington answered with Rashid Williams' 1-yard touchdown reception.

The Huskies' Rylon Dillard-Allen was ejected for targeting on Pinnick midway through the fourth quarter before Stevens' 42-yard field goal made it 17-10.

Jayden Limar capped scoring for the Huskies with an 11-yard touchdown run with 2:18 left.

“It felt really good, definitely, especially you know the way we won. Very gritty, you know, being able to hold the lead right there at the end when they were battling back and showing signs of life,” Demond Williams said.

The Cougars were hurt in the first half when receiver Tony Freeman was injured and did not return.

Where's the band?

Traditionally in the days of the old Pac-12, the Apple Cup was played over Thanksgiving weekend as the final game of the season for both teams. This year’s rivalry was unusual as the season opener.

Another break with tradition? No Washington State band.

When Washington moved to the Big Ten for the 2024 season, it moved visiting bands from the lower bowl to the seats in an upper corner of the stadium. Washington State decided it was a hardship for the band to navigate getting down to the field and back for performances.

Up next

Washington State visits Kansas State, while Washington hosts Utah State on Sept. 12.

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Según la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA), un avión de carga Boeing 767 sobrepasó una pista en MIA alrededor de las 2 p.m.

La sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, informó durante una conferencia de prensa que cinco personas murieron y otras cinco fueron hospitalizadas con lesiones cuya gravedad inicialmente se desconocía.

Tres de las personas heridas se encontraban en estado crítico, dijeron las autoridades.

El vuelo había partido del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, informaron las autoridades.

De acuerdo con información de MIA, el vuelo 7598 de Prime Air quedó inmovilizado después de salirse por el extremo noroeste de la pista diagonal del aeropuerto.

Tras el accidente se emitió una orden para detener las operaciones en tierra y todas las pistas fueron cerradas, dijeron las autoridades.

We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway.

If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations.

The @FAANews will send inspectors… https://t.co/k6xrXvoLzJ

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 6, 2026

Un funcionario del aeropuerto informó que una de las cuatro pistas de MIA reabrió alrededor de las 4:15 p.m. y una segunda fue reabierta aproximadamente 30 minutos después.

Según la información en tiempo real de la FAA sobre el estado de las operaciones en MIA, no se permitiría el despegue de aviones hasta al menos las 5:30 p.m.

Se podían observar columnas de humo negro saliendo del avión mientras los bomberos trabajaban para extinguir el incendio.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue informó que el avión impactó varios vehículos cerca de la cuadra 2100 de Northwest 42nd Avenue.

MDFR dijo que varias personas resultaron heridas, pero no proporcionó detalles sobre la gravedad de esas lesiones.

Las autoridades también informaron que más de 60 unidades de MDFR respondieron a la emergencia.

Funcionarios de MIA recomendaron a los pasajeros con vuelos programados para el domingo verificar el estado de sus vuelos con sus aerolíneas antes de dirigirse al aeropuerto.

Además, MIA informó que los viajeros que utilicen el Metrorail deberán hacer una conexión en la estación Earlington Heights para tomar la Línea Naranja hacia el aeropuerto.

La Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB) encabezará la investigación sobre el accidente.

La FAA también informó que investigará las circunstancias que provocaron que el avión se saliera de la pista.

Un portavoz de Amazon emitió el siguiente comunicado el domingo por la tarde:

“Podemos confirmar que un avión de Amazon Air operado por 21 Air sufrió un incidente mientras intentaba aterrizar hoy en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami. Esta es una situación que evoluciona rápidamente y todavía estamos recopilando información. Estamos trabajando estrechamente con las autoridades locales y los funcionarios para entender exactamente qué ocurrió. En este momento, nuestra prioridad absoluta es la seguridad, el bienestar y la atención de todas las personas involucradas. Estamos haciendo todo lo posible para apoyar a los afectados”.

Kelly Nantel, Vocera de Amazon

The American men are making a real run at ending their lengthy Grand Slam drought.

The U.S. hasn’t had a men’s major champion since Andy Roddick won in Flushing Meadows in 2003, and there haven’t even been many great opportunities in the more than two decades since.

But backed by the home crowd and in good form, the Americans had five players in the final 16 of a major for the first time since 1995 and will be a real threat in the second week of the final Grand Slam tournament of the season.

“We play so much outside of the States obviously, a lot of time in Europe,” Tiafoe said Sunday. “This sport’s so international, so to be able to play in front of friends, family, loved ones, is amazing. They don’t get to see you much, so you want to put on a show.”

The No. 11 seed beat 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (6) to move within a victory of his third appearance in the U.S. Open semifinals. To get there he'll have to beat Michelsen, who has been the dominant player in this year's tournament.

The 22-year-old from California beat No. 27 Tomas Etcheverry 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4 and is the only man who has yet to drop a set in the tournament.

“We've been working really hard to get to this point and I’m really happy but not super surprised because of all the work I put in my whole life,” Michelsen said after reaching his first Grand Slam quarterfinal.

The winner of his match against Tiafoe will face No. 2-seeded Alcaraz or No. 8 Shelton, who beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday in his best performance of the tournament. Shelton predicted “fireworks” in the matchup with the two-time champion.

“I think it will be a great match. I’m excited for the battle,” Shelton said. “Never played him here in New York, and obviously in the position that I want to be in.”

All four men's matches Sunday had a U.S. player in it, and the Americans grabbed three of them. Only Alcaraz was able to turn back a player from the host country, beating No. 20 seed Tommy Paul in the afternoon.

The Americans still had a chance to get one more quarterfinalist Monday when No. 14 seed Learner Tien faces Karen Khachanov.

The closest the Americans came to ending the drought was two years ago at the U.S. Open, when Taylor Fritz beat Tiafoe in the first all-American Grand Slam semifinal since 2005 to become the first American man in a major final since Roddick in 2009. Jannik Sinner beat Fritz in straight sets for the title.

The Americans had eight players in the round of 16 in the 1995 U.S. Open, advancing three to the semifinals. Pete Sampras beat Jim Courier in the semis and then No. 1 Andre Agassi in the final.

The U.S. expected to have multiple men's title contenders in that era, but some of the men have grown tired now of the annual discussion of the drought. Meanwhile, Coco Gauff has collected two trophies in recent years and Jessica Pegula has reached No. 3 in the world.

“There have been a really consistent chunk of players, Jess, Coco, you know, have been at the top and inside the top five for the last I don’t know how many years,” Taylor Townsend said after losing to women's No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka on Sunday. “Ben, Frances, Tommy, Taylor, it’s just such a great group of men as well.”

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Jackie Young scored 10 points to lead the struggling offense in the 55-52 win on Sunday. It was the fewest points the Americans had scored in a World Cup win since they beat Australia 42-38 in 1967.

“You have to be able to win different ways in this tournament because every team stylistically plays a little bit different,” U.S. coach Kara Lawson said. “You do have to be able to win when you don’t have your fastball. We didn’t have a fastball tonight, but we figured it out late and we’ll grow from it.”

The U.S. (2-0) has won 32 straight World Cup games dating to a loss to Russia in the 2006 semifinals. Only one team had come within single digits of the Americans during this run before Sunday, when Australia lost by eight points in 2010.

“Obviously, Italy really kind of mucked up the game for us a little bit,” Breanna Stewart said. “It made it difficult for us to score. They are a tough team. Tons of respect to what they’ve done. And, just proud of the resiliency of this group.”

The world has been closing the gap on the U.S. The Americans pulled off their eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in 2024, edging France by one point in the title game.

“We’ve seen that through the tournament that every game feels like a dogfight,” Lawson said. “It’s really hard. On any given night, if you’re not prepared to play, you’ll lose. That’s awesome for our sport.”

The U.S. trailed 50-48 with 4:29 left before going on a 7-0 run. Stewart, who missed her first eight shots, scored her first basket of the game to put the Americans up 51-50. Young then hit a layup after Gray drew that offensive foul with 3:03 left.

“I thought that late charge Chelsea took was a big momentum changing play,” Lawson said. “It was an incredible winning play by Gray there.”

Gray's jumper with 1:07 left made it a five-point game. Matilde Villa scored to get Italy back within three with less than a minute to go. The U.S. had a couple of chances to make it a two-possession lead but couldn’t convert.

Italy (1-1) had one last chance to tie it, but Cecilia Zandalasini’s 3-pointer was off at the buzzer.

Italy’s 2-3 zone defense caused the U.S. fits. The Americans couldn’t get into any rhythm and shot 29% from the field, including 1 for 12 from 3-point range. They missed a ton of layups too.

“I think we missed some shots. We missed some layups, some shots that we have made in the past,” Gray said.

The Americans were up early, leading 23-8 in what looked to be another blowout victory. Italy then switched to a zone defense and went on a 16-7 spurt to close the half down 30-24.

The Italians kept it going in the third quarter with an 11-2 run to go up 35-32. The Americans led 42-39 heading into the fourth.

Italy, which lost to the Americans by 34 in a tournament qualifier in March, wouldn’t go away and was up 50-48 in the fourth quarter before the Americans’ final push.

Zandalasini scored 14 points to lead Italy, which is making its first World Cup appearance since 1994. She apologized after the game for emotion she showed at the buzzer toward an official at the lack of a foul call.

“I would like to apologize for how I reacted in the end,” Zandalasini said. “It was a lot of emotions today, but I should have kept them inside of me a little better.”

In other games on Sunday, China edged the Czech Republic in overtime, Australia topped Turkey and Belgium beat Puerto Rico.

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The Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a statement that a man it identified as Patrick Havas, 38, forced his way through a crowd, knocking over multiple members of the audience as he moved toward Acton, the state's former public health director. He had a taser and two pistols, the statement said.

The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office said two handguns and a set of brass knuckles were recovered after his arrest, and “no weapons were ever brandished or even removed from their holsters.”

Havas was taken to the county jail and booked on charges of disorderly conduct and two counts of assault, the highway patrol statement said, adding that no other details were available pending an investigation. Online court records didn’t yet list the case, and it wasn’t clear as of Sunday night whether Havas has an attorney.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement.that the man “tried to forcefully push himself” toward Acton as she was speaking at the fair in Canfield, in northeastern Ohio. “Violence or the threat of violence at political or public events is always unacceptable," he added.

The attempted attack is the latest political violence to roil the United States. And the Ohio gubernatorial race is one of the most high-profile races this year as the campaigns enter the final six weeks of campaigning before the election in November.

Acton is facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with President Donald Trump into a record fundraising haul that he is tapping for advertising spots aimed at the November election. He is using campaign rallies and advertising to criticize Acton.

Ramaswamy's campaign called the incident Sunday unacceptable.

“Candidates should be able to meet with voters without having to worry about threats or violence. What happened today is completely unacceptable and has no place in politics, and we hope hope that no one was hurt,” Ramaswamy’s communications director, Connie Luck, said in a statement.

Addie Bullock, communications director for Acton's campaign, said in a statement that the suspect “lunged” at Acton. She said the Democratic candidate “will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another.”

The incident brought condemnation from Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted, who said on X that he and his wife were “disturbed by the attempted attack on Amy Acton today at the Canfield Fair. We are grateful for law enforcement’s quick response. There is no place for this kind of behavior, and it must never be tolerated.”

The country has seen a rise in political violence over the past decade. That includes the 2017 shooting at a Republican congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria, Virginia; the 2022 hammer assault on the husband of Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California; the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally during his presidential campaign as well as another on the president at this year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April; and the assassinations last year of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Utah.

Federal political committees spent more than $40 million on expenses labeled as security during the 2023-24 campaign cycle, the most recent one for which data is publicly available, according a report released in April from the Public Service Alliance, a nonpartisan group that focuses on security for public officials.

Before running for governor, Acton was recruited by DeWine in 2019 to lead the Ohio Department of Health while serving as an associate professor of public health at Ohio State University. As the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in early 2020, she was thrown into the state and national spotlight — becoming a source of comfort to many viewers of the governor’s daily news conferences.

For her service as health director, Acton earned the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s Profile in COVID Courage Award, the Columbus Foundation’s Spirit of Columbus Award and Ohio State’s highest alumni honor, the Alumni Medalist Award.

Her position as the face of the DeWine administration’s aggressive stance against the virus also earned Acton many enemies, among them Statehouse Republicans and average Ohioans who opposed pandemic restrictions.

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Associated Press writer Ryan J. Foley in Iowa City, Iowa, contributed to this report.

The U.S. has won 32 straight World Cup games dating back to a loss to Russia in the 2006 semifinals. Only one team had come within single digits of the Americans during this run, when Australia lost by eight points in 2010.

The Americans (2-0) had to work hard for the victory, putting up the lowest point total in a preliminary-round game since 1971, when they had 51 against France.

The U.S. trailed 50-48 with 4:29 left before going on a 7-0 run. Breanna Stewart, who missed her first eight shots, scored her first basket of the game to put the Americans up 51-50. Young then hit a layup after the U.S. got an offensive foul against Italy on its next possession.

The Americans got another defensive stop and Chelsea Gray hit a jumper to make it a five-point game.

Matilde Villa scored to get Italy back within three with less than a minute to go.

The U.S. had a couple of chances to make it a two-possession lead but couldn't convert.

Italy (1-1) had one last chance to tie it, but Cecilia Zandalasini's 3-pointer was off at the buzzer.

Italy’s 2-3 zone defense cause the U.S. fits on offense. The Americans couldn’t get into any rhythm and shot 29% from the field, including going 1 for 12 from 3-point range.

The Americans, who led 30-24 at halftime, saw Italy go on a 11-2 run to start the third quarter and trailed 35-32 before finishing the period up 42-39.

Italy, which lost to the Americans by 34 in a tournament qualifier in March, wouldn’t go away and was up 50-48 in the fourth quarter before the Americans' final push.

Zandalasini scored 14 points to lead Italy, which is making its first World Cup appearance since 1994.

The Italians won their first game, beating the Czech Republic, and had a loud crowd cheering for them against the U.S. Still, there were fans wearing Caitlin Clark Iowa and Fever jerseys, as well as one in Bueckers’ high school jersey.

In other games on Sunday, China edged the Czech Republic in overtime, Australia topped Turkey and Belgium beat Puerto Rico.

Up next

Italy faces China to close out pool play Monday.

The U.S, plays the Czech Republic on Monday hoping to keep its winning streak going.

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Rose Schoenfeld, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said Sunday that Marie stirred up “life-threatening” conditions as it churned in the ocean hundreds of miles off California's Pacific coast. Some south-facing beaches have seen surf up to 10 feet (3 meters) high, she said.

“We’re getting reports from lifeguards that the surf conditions are very dangerous, specifically the rip currents,” Schoenfeld said.

Hurricane Marie won’t make landfall and is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by late Sunday, but will still but will still bring rain to parts of Los Angeles County before it dissipates. Some parts of the area have already seen as much as a quarter inch of rain Sunday, Schoenfeld said.

The National Weather Service advised people to swim only near lifeguards and to stay off rock jetties.

Long Beach’s city health officer on Sunday issued an advisory warning people not to swim at any of the city's beaches or bays for at least three days. The advisory warned that significant rainfall since Saturday was expected to produce runoff from storm drains and rivers and create unhealthy conditions for swimmers.

Seal Beach, a coastal city in Orange County, announced Sunday that it would close two beachfront parking lots until Wednesday morning “to protect life and property during the anticipated elevated surf and coastal flooding conditions.” The Seal Beach Municipal Pier remained open.

Adam Yacenda, lifeguard battalion chief for the fire department in Newport Beach, a coastal city around 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of downtown Los Angeles, said the beach’s lifeguards carried out 177 rescues Saturday.

Although the beach has seen far higher waves this summer than in past years, that number of daily rescues is still significant, he said.

“Any time you’re approaching over 100, that’s a busy day,” he said.

Yacenda said only experts should venture into waves in the area. Strong currents are moving along the shoreline and out to sea, with “very strong rip currents,” he said.

“We are red-flag conditions from one end of our beach to the other,” he said.

The storm brought the potential for coastal flooding along beaches, bike paths, roads and some low-lying neighborhoods.

The National Hurricane Center warned Sunday that the dangerous beach conditions were expected to last for another couple of days.

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Mayes-Osterman reported from Chicago, and Associated Press reporter Ryan J. Foley contributed. Mayes-Osterman is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

The Miami-based center issued the warning and a hurricane watch for Kauai and Niihau as Lowell was forecast to pass the islands to the west late Monday while traveling north. Forecasters said rainfall totals of 6-10 inches (15-25 centimeters), with maximum totals of 14 inches (36 centimeters), were possible.

Hawaii's Big Island is expected to see 4-8 inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain, with some areas getting as much as 12 inches (30 centimeters).

Lowell had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 kph) and was located about 535 miles (860 kilometers) south-southwest of Lihue, or about 555 miles (895 kilometers) southwest of Honolulu. It was moving north at 6 mph (9 kph), the hurricane center said.

Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 50 miles (85 kilometers) from the center, and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 175 miles (280 kilometers), the center said.

The rainfall could produce significant flash flooding and mudslides, the center said. A combination of storm surge and tides will likely cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by waters of up to 3 feet (1 meter) on Kauai.

The Kauai Emergency Management Agency urged residents to fill gas tanks, charge devices, refill prescriptions and have enough water and food ahead of the storm. It also said residents should be prepared to stay home for several days.

In Lihue, a town of 8,000 with Kauai’s primary airport, residents were stocking up on food and water as supermarket shelves emptied.

Real estate agent Lori Benkert bought an extra 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) container of propane so that she can cook on the barbecue if power shuts off. Benkert manages dozens of properties on Kauai and has boarded up two houses on the western side of the island.

“We’ll lose some power, probably have some trees, a bunch of tree limbs coming down,” Benkert said. “Everybody is probably going just to hunker down.”

Meanwhile, Hurricane Marie created dangerous surf conditions along the coast of Mexico's Baja California and Southern California. The Category 1 storm was located about 695 miles (1,120 kilometers) south-southwest of San Diego with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). Forecasters said Marie was moving northwest at 7 mph (11 kph).

Although no coastal watches or warnings were in effect, swells generated by Marie will continue to affect portions of southwest Mexico, the Baja California peninsula and Southern California for the next few days, the hurricane center said. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

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Arsenal rallied to beat Chelsea 2-1 in the Premier League, while Manchester United was stunned in added time to draw 2-2 at Everton.

Federico Gatti scored two minutes into stoppage time as Juventus drew 1-1 with AC Milan in Serie A. Augsburg moved to the top of the Bundesliga by winning 4-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt, and American midfielder Giovanni Reyna scored in Strasbourg's 6-2 rout of Troyes in France.

Barcelona keeps winning in Spain

Barcelona won its fourth game in a row at the start of the Spanish league and is the only team with a perfect record after four rounds.

Yamal scored a goal in each half following his first two goals of the season in the win against Rayo Vallecano in the previous round.

“I think we played a fantastic game,” Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said. "We controlled the game, we were dominant. This is what I want to see from the team."

Fermín López, Raphinha and Pedri also found the net for Barcelona, which has outscored opponents 17-2 in four games. López was man of the match after also helping to set up two of the goals.

Midfielder Rodri made his first start since joining Barcelona from Manchester City, and newly signed forward Gabriel Jesus came off the bench in the second half for his Barcelona debut.

Defender Eric García had to be replaced in the first half after being struck in the face in a collision with Rodri.

Valencia lost its third in a row. It has scored only once in four matches. The home rout sparked protests against the team owner and players by Valencia fans, who gathered in large numbers outside the Mestalla Stadium after the match.

Lucas Boyé had a hat trick and Mariano Díaz scored his third goal of the season as Alaves defeated Osasuna 5-2 at home for its third win and second place in the standings.

Sevilla, with 10 men from the 56th, took the lead at Espanyol in the 85th but conceded deep into stoppage time for a 1-1 draw.

Arsenal also perfect in Premier League

Arsenal joined Man City at the top of the standings in England by coming from behind to defeat Chelsea in its biggest test so far in its title defense.

Martin Odegaard scored a 50th-minute winner after Morgan Rogers had given Chelsea an early lead and Kai Havertz equalized for Chelsea in the first half.

Arsenal has won its first three Premier league matches. It was Chelsea's first loss after two opening wins.

Man United, which has only one victory in three league games, conceded a stoppage-time goal to draw with Everton after twice holding the lead.

Deadline-day signing Ainsley Maitland-Niles came off the bench to make his debut and score a long-range shot into the top corner to salvage a point for his new club.

Late Juventus-Milan drama in Serie A

Gatti found the net with a header to even the match after Alphadjo Cisse had put the visitors ahead in the 68th.

The game was a matchup of two traditional Italian heavyweights that failed to qualify for the Champions League. Both teams had won their opening two matches in the league this season.

Bologna scored in stoppage time to draw 2-2 with visiting Sassuolo, while Frosinone struck in stoppage time to beat Venezia 3-2. Parma and Monza drew 1-1.

Reyna scores first goal with Strasbourg in France

Reyna got his first goal with Strasbourg in his new club's trouncing of promoted Troyes.

The 23-year-old U.S. international joined Strasbourg from Borussia Monchengladbach.

Sam Amo-Ameyaw added a pair of late goals for the visitors, which have won two in a row after a 4-0 opening loss at Marseille. Troyes had taken the lead with Antoine Mille in the ninth minute and stayed ahead until Jacobo Ortega’s 40th-minute equalizer.

Paris FC beat Marseille 3-2 with Lassine Sinayoko's hat trick including a penalty in the 86th. Rennes won 2-1 at Angers for its second victory in three rounds.

Augsburg top in Germany

Augsburg conceded six minutes into the match but scored four unanswered goals in the second half to defeat Eintracht Frankfurt.

Augsburg's second straight win saw the club go top of the standings on goal difference. Three other teams have also won two matches to start the season — Freiburg, Borussia Dortmund and Elversberg.

Also Sunday, Mainz routed Hamburger 5-0 on the road.

Goalkeeper Koeman Jr. scores twice

Telstar goalkeeper Ronald Koeman Jr., son of former Dutch star Ronald Koeman, scored twice from the penalty spot to help his team salvage a 2-2 home draw against Cambuur in the Dutch league.

The 31-year-old Koeman Jr. had already attracted attention last season after converting a late penalty that helped the club avoid a relegation playoff.

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Manager Torey Lovullo said after the game that Perdomo was under observation but was not in the concussion protocol and that he expects him to return to the lineup Monday.

Perdomo singled to start the third before Marte’s 93 mph single hit him on the side of the helmet as he ran to second. He immediately fell to the ground and writhed in pain as players from both teams ran to check on him.

He remained on his back for a couple of minutes as trainers tended to him before he sat up. Perdomo talked to trainers for a bit before being helped to his feet and walking off the field on his own power.

Lovullo said he'd “never seen anything like” what happened to Perdomo and was very concerned when he was hit.

“The ball had a little topspin on it and he thought he could get under it and keep moving, but it just kept track of him and hit him,” he said. “And when you go out there and you see him laying on the ground, there’s a lot of uncertainty for everybody, and then there’s some fear, like is he going to be OK?”

Lovullo felt much better once the trainer told him that Perdomo didn't lose consciousness.

“And then he started to respond and talked about some of the pressure that he was feeling in his head, and he was responding and he was spot-on with all of his answers,” Lovullo said. “So at that point we all breathed a collective sigh of relief.”

Lovullo said Perdomo was a little bit dizzy right after he was struck but that all the tests were negative and he was feeling OK after the game.

The manager added that Marte was really upset after hitting him but that he felt better once he saw his teammate postgame.

“Ketel and I both came up here and saw him at the same time, and it was nice to see those two embrace and hug for a second,” Lovullo said.

Ildemaro Vargas moved from first base to shortstop in the bottom of the inning to replace Perdomo and Tim Tawa entered the game to play first base.

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El cuerpo de un soldado fue extraído de entre bloques de cemento. Las tareas de identificación están en marcha, informó a la prensa René Tambo, jefe de homicidios de la policía boliviana. El sábado fue hallado otro soldado, y otros 12 siguen desaparecidos.

Las tareas de búsqueda en la localidad de Viacha —una población en los suburbios de la vecina ciudad de El Alto— se realizan con extremo cuidado debido a que el lugar del estallido es considerado de “alto riesgo”, ya que hay material explosivo entre los escombros y en instalaciones contiguas que han quedado dañadas, informó la víspera el ministro de Defensa, Ernesto Justiniano.

El funcionario indicó que en el depósito afectado se almacenaban hace “mucho tiempo pólvora negra” y pirotecnia, lo que pudo provocar las explosiones. La segunda fue tan potente que afectó fachadas, techos y casas en dos cuadras a la redonda. Una decena de familias tuvieron que ser evacuadas.

La mayoría de los heridos, entre ellos más de una decena de civiles que circulaban por la calle en el momento de las explosiones, ya fueron dados de alta. Dos militares se encuentran graves, según el informe de la ministra de Salud, Marcela Flores.

La Fiscalía inicio investigaciones por presunto “homicidio culposo”, dijo el fiscal Carlos Torres. Legisladores y políticos han pedido una investigación exhaustiva, y el presidente Rodrigo Paz declaró en la red social X que ordenó una "investigación minuciosa, técnica y transparente". Las causas aún se desconocen.

“No vamos a especular sobre las causas hasta que concluyan las pericias y la investigación”, sostuvo Justiniano.

El caso ha puesto a debate “la seguridad de los cuarteles que almacenan explosivos”, por lo que “urge una exhaustiva investigación”, señaló en X el expresidente Carlos Mesa.

Frente al Cuartel Bolívar de Viacha, las consternadas familias de los conscriptos desaparecidos aguardan cualquier noticia por parte de los rescatistas.

De los 12 que todavía “no han sido localizados”, 11 son soldados que hacían su servicio militar y uno es sargento, según el teniente coronel Antonio Amaru, comandante del cuartel Bolívar. Todos estaban asignados en el centro de mantenimiento donde ocurrieron las explosiones.

The aircraft overran the runway around 2 p.m. after arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses that surround the airport. Five people were killed, three critically injured and two others hospitalized with less severe injuries, Miami-Dade County officials told a news conference.

It wasn't immediately clear if the pilots survived or those killed were all in vehicles when the plane struck.

The crash, which sent thick black smoke billowing into the sky, trapped the pilot and copilot in the cockpit and some occupants in cars, said Miami-Dade Rescue Fire Chief Ray Jadallah. The agency said crews also had to extricate a person who was trapped under a vehicle.

The crash halted flights at the busy travel hub for much of the afternoon. Some 200 emergency personnel responded, finding the plane with heavy flames and smoke from a complex engine compartment fire, the department said. Firefighters used foam from specialized airport firefighting units to extinguish the fire, and crews were still dealing with a fuel leak on the plane hours later.

The Prime Air plane came to rest beside a roadway near two semitrucks, images showed. The aircraft appeared to be resting on its belly and was largely intact despite the fire.

The cause had yet to be determined, and it was not clear if weather had played a role. Thunderstorms and wind gusts up to 30 mph (48 kph) were recorded in the area at the time, according to the National Weather Service.

The flight had been operated by 21 Air, a cargo carrier based in North Carolina. The 32-year-old Boeing 767 was originally built to carry passengers and flew for several airlines for more than two decades before being converted to a cargo plane in 2015, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

More than 160 flights were canceled and nearly 325 delayed by late Sunday, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. Officials from Orlando International Airport, more than 200 miles (320 km) north of Miami, said some flights were diverted there.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to Miami led by Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy to investigate.

Amazon said in a statement that it would cooperate with any investigation.

“We’re heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport," the company said. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss.”

Last year, a UPS plane crashed after losing its engine while accelerating down the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport. The crash killed all three pilots and 12 people on the ground. Twenty-three more were injured.

Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo said that a 767 cargo aircraft would typically be staffed only by a pilot and copilot on domestic flights. A third pilot would be added for an international flight, and a long-haul international flight would require a fourth pilot.

Arroyo, a retired longtime United Airlines pilot, said he wants to know whether the Amazon plane landed in the touchdown zone of the runway, and if it was beyond that area why it didn’t simply abort that landing and go around to line up for another attempt. Typically, the landing zone is within the first 3,000 feet (914 meters) of a runway.

“Did the aircraft land within the required touchdown zone?" he asked. “If it did, what happened?”

Mary Schiavo, who is a pilot and former inspector general of the Transportation Department, said that video posted online of the landing shows the Amazon plane floating above the runway for an extended period without flaring the nose upward to force the main landing gear onto the ground.

“It didn’t touch down right away, and so it lost a lot of critical real estate by just continuing to float over the runway. It was literally still flying,” Schiavo said.

She noted the Miami airport is not equipped with arresting systems that the FAA says have been installed at more than 120 airports nationwide to safely stop planes that do go past the end of a runway. Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways.

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Funk reported from Omaha, Nebraska. Associated Press writers Tim Reynolds in Miami, Rio Yamat in Las Vegas and Wufei Yu in Phoenix contributed.

With empty seats everywhere after he finished his U.S. Open first-round match in the early morning hours, he took two questions from reporters on the court and quickly wrapped it up.

“I think everybody’s tired," he said. “Everybody wants to go to sleep.”

The city that never sleeps is going a little overboard this year.

Players have long loved the electricity of night matches at the U.S. Open, where tennis under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium is a hallmark of the American Grand Slam tournament, with fans staying late and bringing plenty of energy. But with the tournament this year already setting a record with three post-2 a.m. finishes over the first six days, plus two more going past 1 a.m., concerns are bubbling up about how much after midnight is too much on such a big stage.

“I know they’re dealing with a lot of different aspects as far as broadcast and TV and making sure certain matches get done and are starting at a certain time for those reasons,” third-ranked women's player Jessica Pegula said. ”But you have to wonder if it’s really the right thing for players to be finishing at 2 a.m., especially when it’s not — like, I’m not watching on TV. I’m sleeping. Some people stay, but there is a lot of people that need to go home.”

Wimbledon instituted an 11 p.m. curfew. The French Open schedules just one match a night. The U.S. Open is famous for going late, though this time maybe to an extreme.

On opening night, Venus Williams was subjected to the latest start in U.S. Open history at 12:13 a.m., after it took 4 hours, 36 minutes for Novak Djokovic to get knocked out in the first round.

Much of the crowd stuck around to see what could wind up being the 46-year-old's final Grand Slam singles match, a loss to Sofia Kenin, but the timing itself was a challenge.

“It’s not ideal,” Williams said. “I would have preferred something else, definitely. It wasn’t great for either of us, so I think we both tried our best. I just don’t know any other sport where you have to start that late. I definitely think there’s room for improvement there."

Zverev's first two matches ended at 1:55 and 2:15 a.m., making him the first top-seeded man to play back-to-back five-set matches to start a major in the Open era, which dates to 1968. Ben Shelton's second-rounder that started Friday night went until 2:07 a.m. Saturday thanks to the Williams sisters' doubles match lasting more than three hours.

Four of the latest 17 finishes in tournament history have occurred this year. The record is still 2:50 a.m. from when Carlos Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals in 2022 on the way to his first U.S. Open title.

"Not easy," Shelton said after defeating Denis Shapovalov in 3 hours, 22 minutes. “My first time experiencing playing this late.”

Shelton figured the earliest he'd get to sleep was 5 a.m.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, who two years ago played what is now the fourth-latest women's match, is not a fan of playing after midnight and the potentially lingering effects.

“When you finish late, the next day shifts a lot,” Sabalenka said. “Like, you still need to get your hours of sleep, so you start later. You just can really mess up your schedule.”

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The NFL's Compensation Committee notified the full ownership of the agreement on Sunday.

In a memo sent to owners that was obtained by The Associated Press, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said: “We believe we are very fortunate to have Roger at the helm for the next four years.”

Kraft is the chairman of the league's compensation committee.

“Throughout the negotiation process, the Committee worked closely with an independent third-party compensation consultant and outside counsel to structure a deal that aligns Roger’s compensation with the League’s long-term interests and success,” Kraft said. “To that end, the agreement is heavily performance based, with more than 95% of the total compensation tied to Roger’s and the NFL’s performance measured against various metrics and at the discretion of the Compensation Committee.”

Financial terms of Goodell’s new contract weren’t immediately known. He reportedly earned $63.9 million for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons. The NFL hasn't been required to disclose Goodell’s compensation on an annual basis because the league office is no longer structured as a tax-exempt trade association.

This is the fifth contract extension for the 67-year-old Goodell, who has served as commissioner since succeeding Paul Tagliabue in 2006. He began his NFL career as an administrative intern in 1982 under then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Under Goodell’s leadership, the NFL’s popularity and revenue have skyrocketed. The Washington Commanders were sold for $6.05 billion in 2023 and the Seattle Seahawks were sold for $9.612 billion this offseason, setting a new record.

The league has continued expanding its global reach, and is playing a record nine international games this season.

The expiration of Goodell's contract coincides with the end of the current collective bargaining agreement, which also expires in March 2031.

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Since the end of July, the Sony superhero movie has ruled over cinemas with rare dominance. The last release to enjoy such a long stretch leading the box office was 2022's “Avatar: The Way of Water.” “Brand New Day,” the fourth standalone Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland, collected $18 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Sony is forecasting $23.3 million for the four-day holiday weekend.

“Brand New Day” has grossed $2.4 billion worldwide.

Universal Pictures' “The Odyssey,” as it has for much of the “Spider-Man” run, remained in second place. Christopher Nolan's epic added $13 million domestically over the weekend, bringing its global haul to $1.63 billion. More than $1 billion of that has come from overseas sales, making “The Odyssey” the first to achieve that international milestone since 2009's “Avatar.”

Both blockbusters — “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” — helped lead Hollywood to its best summer since before the pandemic. Through Aug. 31, the domestic box office totaled $4.6 billion for the season, according to Rentrak, an increase of 26.1% from 2025 and just shy of 2013's record summer.

On Sunday, Rentrak forecast that, including the Labor Day weekend, the summer will end up with $4.759 billion, a whisker above the $4.758 billion of summer 2013. That time frame, though, spans 130 days this year, compared with 123 days in 2013.

Accounting for inflation and higher ticket prices, Hollywood's summer wasn't quite so historically sensational. Admissions are still well below pre-pandemic marks. But it's nevertheless a remarkable rebound for a film industry that has struggled to string together such a hit-filled summer through the pandemic, labor strife and the expansion of streaming.

Labor Day weekend is typically a sleepy time in theaters. And neither new release — Paramount's “By Any Means” and A24's “Onslaught” — made much of a mark. One of the weekend's best performers was “Coyote vs. Acme,” the hybrid live-action-animated Looney Tunes movie. It dipped a modest 29% to gross $11.3 million in its second weekend.

“Coyote vs. Acme” is turning out to be a good investment for Ketchup Entertainment. The indie distributor acquired the film for approximately $50 million after Warner Bros., which produced the $70 million film, opted to can it. In two weeks, “Coyote vs. Acme” has ridden strong reviews and good word-of-mouth to $33.8 million domestically.

“By Any Means,” a 1960s-set civil rights action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, opened with $7.4 million. Paramount is projecting $9.2 million for the four-day holiday weekend. Audiences gave it a “B+” CinemaScore.

“Onslaught,” however, flopped with $1.9 million on 1,918 screens for the three-day weekend and a projection of $2.3 million for the four-day weekend. The A24 release, directed by Adam Wingard, stars Adria Arjona as a former Army sniper who defends her trailer park home from three escaped, experimental super soldiers. “Onslaught” cost a modest $15 million to make. But reviews (57% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and audience scores (a “C” CinemaScore) weren't good.

Meanwhile, “Buddy,” a low-budget dark comedy, has turned into a surprise success. Made for just $3 million, the film, directed by Casper Kelly and from the producers of “Weapons,” is about a group of children trapped inside a surreal 1990s children’s television series. After overperforming in its opening weekend, “Buddy” actually increased its ticket sales over its second weekend. The film grossed $5.7 million, up 5%, to bring its two-week total to $14.3 million.

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. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” $18 million.

2. “The Odyssey,” $13 million.

3. “Coyote vs. Acme,” $11.3 million.

4. “By Any Means,” $7.4 million.

5. “Insidious: Out of the Further,” $6.5 million.

6. “Cars” (20th anniversary): $6.1 million.

7. “Buddy,” $5.7 million.

8. “PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie,” $3.3 million.

9. “The End of Oak Street,” $2.9 million.

10. “The Dog Stars,” $2.7 million.

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Bustos, who is a cancer patient preparing to undergo chemotherapy, said it has been seven months since they last saw their poodle named “Lucy.”

Bustos said she hired a temporary dog sitter, who has a dog breeding company and came highly recommended as a boarder, but she has refused to return her to them.

“She was not willing to remove ‘Lucy’ from her pack ... I felt like instant betrayal because I know that my son trusted me to trust her, and I made a judgment call that was not helpful for my family, and I could only think about him,” Bustos said through tears. “That’s the truth: How was I going to tell my son?”

The poodle was initially a gift for her 14-year-old son, who said on Saturday through tears that “Lucy” was his “best friend.”

Bustos explained the situation to the dog sitter and the pain her children are feeling.

“I am not giving her up,” the dog sitter said, according to Bustos.

Busto said that even after she told her about her cancer diagnosis and how much her children need support, the dog sitter declined to return the dog.

“I am very sorry you are going through this, but this doesn’t change my decision,” the dog sitter said, according to Bustos.

Feeling powerless, Busto and her husband, Roger Busto, have filed two reports with the Miami Police Department, hired an attorney for help in civil court, and started a campaign to “Bring Lucy” home.

“My son asking, ‘Oh, when is Lucy coming?’ And then the twins, they start screaming her name,” Roger Busto said about his kids’ pain.

The dog sitter refused to answer requests for comment on Saturday night at her home in southwestern Miami-Dade County. There were dogs inside barking.

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Licona is the founder and president of Seeing the Unseen Outreach, a nonprofit organization that is fundraising to contribute to the effort.

“Jamaica is the best place on Earth, the greatest place on Earth, but we’re hurting. Western Jamaica is hurting,” Licona said.

Many families have been forced to live in shambles. Licona said Seeing the Unseen Outreach volunteers visited needy areas for two weeks in August to help as much as they could.

“So what we do is we create care packages, food staples, rice, flour, sugar, corn meal. We provided canned food,” Licona said.

The volunteers helped deliver thousands of care packages and hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies.

“They’re still parents that were in tears because I ran out of bags. I ran, I ran out of the school supplies. They still need water, they still need clothing,” Licona said.

Jonathan Licona, a board member of the nonprofit, said they distributed 24,000 packages. He is eager to help a homeless family of nine in the Saint Elizabeth Parish to get a roof over their heads by Christmas.

“They’re still living under a tarp,” Licona said.

Dadiere Licona said she was impressed by Jamaicans’ resilience.

“Despite of what they’re going through, they still have smiles on their faces. They’re still cracking jokes. They’re, ‘Oh God bless you. Thank you for coming back,’” Dadiere Licona said.

The nonprofit organization is hosting a flower for a cause fundraiser on Saturdays at the Legion Farmers Market in Miami and on Sundays at the Vizcaya Village Farmers Market in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood.

For more information about how to help, visit the nonprofit organizations page.

Licona es fundadora y presidenta de Seeing the Unseen Outreach, una organización sin fines de lucro que recauda fondos para contribuir a esos esfuerzos.

“Jamaica es el mejor lugar de la Tierra, el lugar más maravilloso de la Tierra, pero estamos sufriendo. El oeste de Jamaica está sufriendo”, dijo Licona.

Muchas familias se han visto obligadas a vivir entre los escombros. Licona dijo que voluntarios de Seeing the Unseen Outreach visitaron durante dos semanas en agosto las zonas más necesitadas para ayudar en todo lo posible.

“Lo que hacemos es preparar paquetes de ayuda con alimentos básicos: arroz, harina, azúcar y harina de maíz. También proporcionamos alimentos enlatados”, dijo Licona.

Los voluntarios ayudaron a distribuir miles de paquetes de ayuda y cientos de mochilas llenas de útiles escolares.

“Todavía había padres llorando porque se me acabaron las bolsas. Se me acabaron, se me acabaron los útiles escolares. Todavía necesitan agua, todavía necesitan ropa”, dijo Licona.

Jonathan Licona, miembro de la junta directiva de la organización, dijo que distribuyeron 24,000 paquetes. Ahora espera ayudar a una familia de nueve integrantes que no tiene hogar en la parroquia de Saint Elizabeth para que pueda tener un techo antes de Navidad.

“Todavía están viviendo bajo una lona”, dijo Licona.

Dadiere Licona afirmó que quedó impresionada por la resiliencia de los jamaiquinos.

“A pesar de todo lo que están viviendo, todavía tienen una sonrisa en el rostro. Siguen haciendo bromas. Dicen: ‘Dios los bendiga. Gracias por regresar’”, señaló Dadiere Licona.

La organización sin fines de lucro realiza una recaudación de fondos llamada “Flowers for a Cause” los sábados en el Legion Farmers Market, en Miami, y los domingos en el Vizcaya Village Farmers Market, en el vecindario Coconut Grove de Miami.

Para obtener más información sobre cómo ayudar, visite la página de la organización sin fines de lucro.

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Firefighters responded shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday to the 2500 block of State Road 84, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.

Crews worked their way down into the yacht’s engine room, and a firefighter suffered minor injuries, according to FLFR.

Firefighters extinguished the fire and took one of their own to a nearby hospital. The cause of the fire remained under investigation on Saturday night.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Sofia Mendez contributed to this report.

Los bomberos acudieron poco después de las 5:30 p.m. del sábado a la cuadra 2500 de State Road 84, según Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.

Los equipos descendieron hasta la sala de máquinas del yate, donde uno de los bomberos sufrió heridas leves, de acuerdo con FLFR.

Los bomberos lograron extinguir el incendio y trasladaron a uno de sus compañeros a un hospital cercano.

La causa del incendio seguía bajo investigación la noche del sábado.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News Sofia Mendez contribuyó a este reporte.

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Christopher Urbina dijo que la cámara de vigilancia de la puerta principal de su casa grabó al ladrón, quien llevaba una mascarilla.

“Convertirse en ciudadano es algo muy importante y es un proceso”, dijo Urbina, quien nació en Honduras.

El video mostró el robo de correspondencia poco después de las 2:10 p.m. del 28 de agosto. Urbina dijo que la experiencia afectó su sensación de seguridad en el vecindario, por lo que está considerando mudarse.

“Me acabo de mudar aquí hace como un mes,  Si alguien se siente tan cómodo robando mi correspondencia, ¿qué otras cosas pueden pasar aquí? No lo sé”, dijo Urbina.

También en el condado Broward, un video de vigilancia de Ring mostró a una mujer robando de buzones alrededor de las 6:05 a.m. del 27 de abril en Deerfield Beach.

En el condado Miami-Dade, un video de vigilancia mostró a un hombre que iba en bicicleta robando de varios buzones a las 2:30 a.m. del 31 de julio en Parkview Condominiums.

Urbina dijo que reportó el caso al Servicio de Inspección Postal de Estados Unidos. La agencia recibe información al 1-877-876-2455.

Los detectives piden a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre este u otros casos y quiera permanecer en el anonimato que llame a Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477 en Broward o al 305-471-8477 en Miami-Dade.

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Bustos, quien es paciente de cáncer y se prepara para someterse a quimioterapia, dijo que han pasado siete meses desde la última vez que vieron a su poodle, llamado “Lucy”.

Bustos dijo que contrató a una cuidadora temporal de perros, quien tiene una empresa de crianza canina y le había sido muy recomendada como encargada de hospedaje, pero que se ha negado a devolverles a Lucy.

“Ella no estaba dispuesta a separar a ‘Lucy’ de su manada... Sentí una traición inmediata porque sé que mi hijo confió en mí para que yo confiara en ella, y tomé una decisión que no ayudó a mi familia, y solo podía pensar en él”, dijo Bustos entre lágrimas. “Esa es la verdad: ¿cómo iba a decírselo a mi hijo?”

El poodle fue originalmente un regalo para su hijo de 14 años, quien dijo el sábado entre lágrimas que “Lucy” era su “mejor amiga”.

Bustos explicó la situación a la cuidadora y el dolor que están sintiendo sus hijos.

“No voy a renunciar a ella”, dijo la cuidadora, según Bustos.

Bustos dijo que, incluso después de contarle sobre su diagnóstico de cáncer y cuánto necesitan apoyo sus hijos, la cuidadora se negó a devolver al perro.

“Lamento mucho que estés pasando por esto, pero eso no cambia mi decisión”, dijo la cuidadora, según Bustos.

Al sentirse impotentes, Bustos y su esposo, Roger Busto, presentaron dos denuncias ante el Departamento de Policía de Miami, contrataron a un abogado para que los ayude en un proceso civil y comenzaron una campaña para “Traer a Lucy” de regreso a casa.

“Mi hijo pregunta: ‘Oh, ¿cuándo viene Lucy?’. Y luego los gemelos empiezan a gritar su nombre”, dijo Roger Busto al describir el dolor de sus hijos.

La cuidadora se negó a responder a las solicitudes de comentarios el sábado por la noche en su casa, en el suroeste del condado Miami-Dade. En el interior se escuchaban perros ladrando.

The top-ranked Sabalenka solved some early struggles holding serve and overpowered Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday. Alcaraz also advanced in straight sets, beating Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in the second match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

“I'm happy with that performance,” Alcaraz said. “I played my game. I tried to play my style. Tommy’s such a talented player. His shots are pretty dangerous and it's sometimes pretty difficult to control the ball when it comes to you, so I just tried to be ready.”

Townsend broke Sabalenka three times in her first four service games as she looked to spring the upset. Sabalenka found a groove, regained her confidence and did not lose another point after falling behind 3-1 in the second set.

“I love matches like that because it was really challenging," Sabalenka said. “Going through tough challenges and overcoming those challenges, it definitely gives you strength and really strong belief that you can do it.”

This was the first meeting between Sabalenka and Townsend, who gave her opponent fits in the first set but struggled to find her own rhythm.

“This was the most comfortable and confident I’ve ever been playing against a No. 1 player in the world,” Townsend said. “From the beginning, I felt like I belonged. From the beginning, I felt like I was right where I needed to be. I still feel that way.”

Next up for Sabalenka is Wimbledon winner Linda Noskova, who needed six match points to get past Marta Kostyuk 7-5, 5-7, 6-4.

"I played a couple of matches against her in the past, which also wasn’t the easiest matches," Sabalenka said of Noskova. “Really aggressive style of the game. Serving really well, playing super fast. You’ve got to stay really low to be able to handle that power and energy.”

Alcaraz cruises into the quarterfinals

Playing his first tournament following a four-month absence because of a right wrist injury, Alcaraz said last week he would not be coming back if he could not play like his usual self. The 23-year-old Spaniard has made good on that so far, dropping just one set through four rounds.

Alcaraz dictated play on the way to extending his Grand Slam winning streak to 18. When Paul was making things interesting in the third set, Alcaraz set up match point by hitting a shot so perfectly in bounds that it left actor Matthew McConaughey in disbelief, along with many others in the crowd.

Asked if he thinks he is back to form, Alcaraz responded, “I think so.” The U.S. Open is bringing that out in him.

“I’m just trying to enjoy my time on the court,” Alcaraz said. “It doesn't matter that I was out four months and a half. Every time that I come here, I play my best.”

Alcaraz will play Tuesday against American Ben Shelton, the No. 8 seed who swept Stefanos Tsitsipas on Sunday night in his strongest performance of the tournament.

“We're happy to have him back on tour. He lights up the stadium every time he plays," Shelton said of Alcaraz. "I think it's going to be fireworks on Tuesday night.”

Americans are making runs at the US Open

Townsend and Paul were among the 10 Americans to reach the men’s and women’s round of 16. That is the most in the fourth round at any Grand Slam in nearly a quarter-century, going back to the 2002 U.S. Open, when there were 11.

The five U.S. men — Paul, Shelton, Learner Tien, Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen — are the most at a major since eight in 1995 at Flushing Meadows.

“American tennis has been on the up and up for many years now,” Townsend said. “There have been a really consistent chunk of players — Jess, Coco — (who) have been at the top and inside the top five for the last, I don’t know how many years. Ben, Frances, Tommy, Taylor: It’s just such a great group of men, as well.”

At 20, Tien is the youngest American man in the U.S. Open fourth round since Andy Roddick in 2002.

Tiafoe knocked off seventh-seeded Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (6) to improve to 10-0 in his career at Louis Armstrong Stadium, which he called “the people's court." Michelsen beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4.

Michelsen and Tiafoe will meet in the quarterfinals Tuesday, guaranteeing an American man in the semifinals. No U.S. men's player has won a Grand Slam since Roddick in New York in '03.

There will also be an all-American matchup in the women's quarterfinals. No. 3 Jessica Pegula got there by beating No. 16 Sorana Cirstea and will face 26th-seeded Emma Navarro, who ousted No. 21 Anna Kalinskaya in straight sets.

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