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HOUSTON (AP) — Pavin Smith homered in first three at-bats for his first multi-home run game and drove in a career-high eight runs, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks rout the Houston Astros 12-6 on Sunday night to end a three-game losing streak.

Smith became the second Diamondback with a three-homer game this season, with Eugenio Suárez doing it against Washington on July 30. J.D. Martinez set the Arizona record with four home runs at Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2017.

Smith fell an RBI shy of the Arizona record set by Erubiel Durazo in 2002. Chris Iannetta also had eight RBIs for the Diamondbacks in a 2017 game. Smith’s previous high was six.

Arizona — which scored at least 10 runs for a majors-best 18th time — pulled within a half-game of San Diego for the National League’s first wild card and increased its lead over New York and Atlanta to 1 1/2 games. Houston leads Seattle by 4 1/2 games in the AL West.

Smith’s first home run of the night followed back-to-back singles to start the second inning and struck the foul pole in right. Arizona had increased the lead to 4-0 when Smith came up with the bases loaded in the third and sent a 2-2 fastball from Justin Verlander (3-6) into the Crawford Boxes for the third career grand slam.

Verlander allowed eight runs on eight hits over three innings and failed to record a strikeout for just the third time in 381 career regular-season starts. He has a 9.68 ERA in four starts since returning from the injured list.

With Verlander out of the game, Smith answered Alex Bregman’s fourth-inning, two-run home run by starting the fifth with his seventh homer of the season, a solo shot off Kaleb Ort that left the bat at 112.1 mph. Smith struck out and walked in his final two plate appearances of the night.

Suárez was 4 for 5 with his 26th homer, two RBIs and four runs.

Kevin Ginkel (8-3) got the last out in the fifth for the victory.

Chas McCormick and Yainer Diaz each had three hits for the Astros. McCormick is batting .409 in six games since being recalled from Triple-A.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Astros INF Mauricio Dubón missed his second straight game after jamming his left thumb when he dove into first base Friday. He was able to take swings in the cage before the game.

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Diamondbacks: RHP Zac Gellen (11-6, 3.69 ERA) was scheduled to face Texas RHP Nathan Eovaldi (11-7, 3.55 ERA) at home Tuesday night.

Astros: RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-12, 4.82 ERA) was set to meet Oakland RHP Osvaldo Bido (5-3, 3.52 ERA) at home Tuesday night.

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(CNN) –– El expresidente Donald Trump amenazó el sábado con procesar y condenar a “largas penas de prisión” a funcionarios electorales y operadores políticos que, según sugirió, podrían hacer trampa en las elecciones de 2024 si vuelve a ganar la presidencia en noviembre.

Trump, quien volvió a afirmar falsamente que los demócratas tuvieron un comportamiento fraudulento en 2020, dijo que él, los abogados y los académicos legales están “observando muy de cerca la santidad de las elecciones presidenciales de 2024”.

“CUANDO GANE”, escribió Trump en una publicación en su red social, Truth Social, que luego también compartió en X, “aquellas personas que HICIERON TRAMPA serán procesadas con todo el peso de la ley”.

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Las amenazas de enjuiciamiento de Trump —parte de sus reiterados esfuerzos por poner en duda la integridad de las elecciones de 2024— se producen cuando pronto comenzará la votación anticipada en varios estados. Trump ha sugerido sistemáticamente que utilizará el sistema judicial como arma para perseguir a sus oponentes políticos si los votantes lo devuelven a la Casa Blanca, amenazas que comenzaron después de que fuera acusado por primera vez en su caso de dinero para silenciar a sus oponentes en Manhattan hace más de un año.

Trump, quien regularmente difunde teorías conspirativas sobre las elecciones de 2020 y afirma falsamente que hubo un fraude electoral generalizado, agregó este sábado: “Sé, mejor que la mayoría, las trampas y las traiciones desenfrenadas que han tenido lugar por parte de los demócratas en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020. ¡Fue una desgracia para nuestra nación!”.

A pesar de las reiteradas afirmaciones de Trump, las elecciones de 2020 fueron sumamente seguras y perdió ante Joe Biden por más de 7 millones de votos. No hay evidencia de fraude electoral lo suficientemente generalizado como para haber cambiado el resultado de las elecciones en ningún estado.

Los funcionarios electorales han sido víctimas de amenazas generalizadas a medida que se acercan las elecciones de 2024, informó CNN, y las operaciones electorales reforzaron la seguridad ante el acoso a los trabajadores electorales y la desinformación sobre el proceso de votación.

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Trump dijo este sábado que vigila a todos, desde abogados y donantes hasta votantes. “CUANDO GANE, aquellas personas que HICIERON TRAMPA serán procesadas con todo el peso de la ley, lo que incluirá largas penas de prisión para que esta depravación de la justicia no vuelva a suceder”, escribió. “Tengan en cuenta que esta exposición legal se extiende a abogados, agentes políticos, donantes, votantes ilegales y funcionarios electorales corruptos. Aquellos involucrados en un comportamiento inescrupuloso serán buscados, capturados y procesados ​​a niveles, lamentablemente, nunca antes vistos en nuestro país”, agregó.

Trump aún enfrenta sus propios cargos por interferencia electoral derivados de los intentos de subvertir las elecciones de 2020, incluida una acusación formal de cuatro cargos en su caso federal. Un caso separado de interferencia electoral contra él en el condado de Fulton, Georgia, fue suspendido indefinidamente .

–– Daniel Dale, Kristen Holmes, Ethan Cohen, Dianne Gallagher, Aaron Cooper y Aaron Pellish de CNN contribuyeron a este informe.

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(CNN) — During a routine house call to a private estate in Camden, Maine, auctioneer Kaja Veilleux made an unexpected discovery in the property’s attic: A 17th-century painting of a young woman wearing a cap and ruffled collar.

“On house calls, we often go in blind, not knowing what we’ll find,” said Veilleux, the founder of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, in a press release. “The home was filled with wonderful pieces, but it was in the attic, among stacks of art, that we found this remarkable portrait.”

The artwork appeared to have been painted in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt — and a label on the frame’s reverse claimed it was by him. The paper slip, which appears to have been issued by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also suggested the painting was loaned to the museum in 1970.

Very little is known about the portrait, however, and it is not widely recognized by scholars as part of Rembrandt’s oeuvre. While the auction house told CNN it believes the label to be genuine, the Philadelphia Museum of Art was unable to confirm whether it had ever borrowed the portrait. (A museum spokesperson added, via email, that “generally… a slip or label doesn’t necessarily verify a work of art — certainly more work would be required.”)

Thomaston Place would not disclose whether it consulted a Rembrandt expert about the attribution, but it proceeded to list the painting with an estimate of just $10,000 to $15,000. The portrait was described in sale materials as “After Rembrandt,” terminology denoting that a painting is believed to be a copy of — or was modeled on — a known artist’s style, and is not an autograph work.

But not everyone, it seems, was so sure.

After an opening offer of $32,500, more than double the high estimate, bidding at an auction last Saturday soon skyrocketed into six figures. Almost a dozen potential suitors, some of whom joined via phone from Europe, participated in the sale, according to Thomaston Place. Three telephone bidders remained until $900,000, before the last two pushed the final sale price up to $1.41 million.

The auction house believes this to be the highest sum ever paid for an artwork at a Maine auction. And the figure suggests that several collectors (including the winning bidder, identified only as a “private European collector”) believe there is enough chance that it is a genuine Rembrandt to be worth the gamble.

Lost from the records

Rembrandt scholar Gary Schwartz said a potential buyer had earlier sought his opinion on the Maine portrait. He advised the unidentified collector (who was not the winning bidder) to “go for it,” he said. The art historian told CNN he believes there is an “extremely large” chance the portrait was painted by the Dutch master.

While Schwartz stressed it is impossible to properly judge the work without seeing it in person, he pointed to a strikingly similar Rembrandt portrait, also depicting a young woman in a white cap, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

“The resemblance … is so strong that I am amazed that people accept one and simply dismiss the other,” he said on a video call from his home in the Netherlands, adding that he is “not surprised that somebody paid (over) a million when it came up to auction.”

Schwartz also points out that the Maine artwork featured in a catalog of Rembrandt’s work as recently as 1969. Listed under the title “Portrait of a young girl,” the painting is described as belonging to a private collector in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Although the catalog’s author notes that the attribution to Rembrandt is “doubtful,” Schwartz believes its inclusion is significant — and that the painting was simply never researched, as it was in private hands and inaccessible to scholars.

“When paintings fall out of interest, they just disappear into dark space,” said Schwartz, who published a 2022 book arguing that another downgraded painting, “Rembrandt in a Red Beret,” is in fact a genuine self-portrait.

Art historian Volker Manuth, who authored publisher Taschen’s 2019 monograph “Rembrandt: The Complete Paintings,” told CNN he was also approached by a potential buyer of the Maine portrait. He had only encountered it as a “poor black-and-white reproduction” in the aforementioned 1969 catalog, adding via email that he has “more doubts about the attribution to Rembrandt than not” (though he, too, stressed that attributions “should not be given without a thorough investigation of the original painting”).

“The price paid… might indicate that somebody has hopes that the cleaning of the rather dirty painting might turn it into a portrait with the qualities attributed to Rembrandt,” added Manuth, who is an art history professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands. “This happens more and more often. I would not be surprised to (see) the painting back on the market soon as ‘Rembrandt.’”

A matter of opinion

There is no single authority on questions of attribution, and the influential Rembrandt Research Project ceased operations in 2014 (having not, in Schwartz’s view, ever considered the Maine portrait). Over the past century, the number of paintings broadly accepted by scholars as genuine Rembrandts has fallen dramatically, with hundreds reattributed to followers or otherwise downgraded to “after Rembrandt” status.

But inclusion in a major catalog, or the backing of a big auction house, can increase a painting’s value manyfold. Take “The Adoration of the Kings,” which was valued at just $17,000 by Christie’s in 2021 but sold for almost $13.8 million last year after new research led Sotheby’s to declare it an authentic Rembrandt, not the work of an artist associated with him.

Schwartz suggested that, should the Maine portrait receive similar endorsement, it might be revalued at up to $5 million. Speaking to the New York Times, authentication expert Mark Winter meanwhile estimated a figure “in the area of $15 million.”

In either case, the painting may, one day, be worth significantly more than the amount paid at the Thomaston Place auction. Though this may only transpire if the portrait’s new owner invites scholars to inspect it.

“The great thing, really, would be to go to Vienna with this painting, hold it up there (next to the similar portrait and) have a discussion with a few experts,” Schwartz said, adding. “It (was painted) on panel, so you can date the panel, and very often you find that the wood is from the same slabs that have been used by other paintings form the Rembrandt workshop.”

“Nobody should express a definitive opinion without studying the object,” Schwartz said.

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(CNN Español) –– José Vicente Haro, el abogado del candidato presidencial de la mayoría opositora venezolana en las elecciones del 28 de julio, Edmundo González, desmintió este domingo al fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, quien dijo en entrevista con CNN que el opositor no había asistido a los citatorios del Gobierno venezolano debido a “presiones externas”.

Según Saab, González Urrutia tenía “un impulso real” de cumplir, primero, con un llamado ante la Sala Electoral del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia y también pensaba asistir al Ministerio Público.

“Él iba a ir a la primera citación. A última hora también recibió presiones externas, dicho por el propio José Vicente Haro, ajenas al propio apoderado legal que le sugería que debía ir y también estaba de acuerdo el propio Edmundo González Urrutia”, indicó el fiscal sin entrar en mayores detalles.

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Haro, en una entrevista posterior con CNN, aseguró que lo dicho por el fiscal no es cierto y que, al contrario, él había aconsejado al candidato no asistir en persona.

“Él señaló que ya con respecto a las citaciones para la investigación fiscal, la investigación de carácter penal, supuestamente se le habría recomendado o yo le habría recomendado al señor Edmundo González Urrutia asistir a la primera citación. Y en modo alguno ocurrió eso”, dijo Haro.

“Esto lo digo para que quede claro que, con respecto a las comparecencias del Ministerio Público, nunca hubo un consentimiento de asistir a ese proceso judicial, porque primero, los hechos que se le pretendían atribuir no revisten carácter penal. Segundo, él no ha cometido delito alguno”.

Fiscal dice que salida de González Urrutia es una fractura en la oposición venezolana

Durante la entrevista con CNN de este domingo, el fiscal general de Venezuela evitó mencionar por nombre o referirse directamente a la líder opositora María Corina Machado, pieza clave en la movilización de la oposición alrededor González para las elecciones del 28 de julio, en las cuales el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) adjudicó la victoria al presidente Nicolás Maduro en medio de acusaciones de fraude.

Respecto a ese tema, Tarek William Saab dijo que la salida del candidato crea una fractura en la oposición.

“El candidato de la oposición que finalmente apoyó la plataforma unitaria y la Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, entre otros candidatos que tuvo la oposición, es Edmundo González Urrutia. Y él, como diría la canción de José Luis Perales, se marchó. Es una decisión voluntaria de él y que el Gobierno de Venezuela, a través del Poder Ejecutivo, respetó. Nosotros como Ministerio Público, igualmente”, dijo el fiscal.

Agregó que “hay una fractura absoluta en ese sector extremista de la oposición que se evidenció el día de hoy, cuando el candidato opositor de mayor —vamos a decir—protagonismo en esa plataforma opositora se marchó del país por voluntad propia. Es la verdad. Y se marcha como un ciudadano común que firma una carta como ciudadano común. Es decir, él se asume perdedor”.

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Haro respondió y dijo que González Urrutia “no ha suscrito ningún documento, no ha reconocido los resultados electorales emanados del CNE” que le adjudicaron el triunfo a Nicolás Maduro sin mostrar cifras detalladas como requisito para obtener el salvoconducto que le permitió viajar a España, donde tramita asilo político junto a su esposa.

CNN ha contactado al equipo de prensa de Machado y está a la espera de comentarios.

Más temprano, la opositora se solidarizó con González Urrutia en un mensaje en X, en el que dice que el dirigente salió del país porque “su vida corría peligro, y las crecientes amenazas, citaciones, orden de aprehensión e incluso los intentos de chantaje y de coacción de los que ha sido objeto, demuestran que el régimen no tiene escrúpulos ni límites en su obsesión de silenciarlo e intentar doblegarlo”.

–– Osmary Hernández y Manuel Cobela colaboraron con este reporte

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(CNN Español) –– La Suprema Corte de Justicia de México anunció este domingo la propuesta “Reforma integral al sistema de justicia en México: desafíos y propuestas”, justo el mismo día en que el Senado inició la discusión de la reforma al Poder Judicial propuesta por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

El documento fue anunciado por Norma Lucía Piña, la ministra presidenta del Poder Judicial, quien, sin nombrarla directamente, cuestionó la propuesta que se discute en el Congreso y que ya fue aprobada por la mayoría oficialista en la Cámara de Diputados. Estos cambios, entre otras cosas, establecen que los cargos de jueces y magistrados deberán obtenerse por voto popular.

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“La demolición del Poder Judicial no es la vía como se pretende”, dijo Piña en un video publicado en internet mientras anunciaba la nueva propuesta. “Si tenemos el valor y la voluntad real, hoy mismo podríamos dar pasos firmes para hacer los cambios profundos y necesarios para construir la paz, la justicia y la reparación que México tanto necesita”.

“Nuestra historia no se puede definir a partir de la narrativa fácil de que todos los problemas de seguridad y justicia en el país son culpa de los jueces. Quienes así lo crean no conocen México”, agregó la funcionaria.

Una propuesta de reforma sin cargos por elección popular

El documento que la Suprema Corte de Justicia dio a conocer este domingo contempla 66 propuestas de reforma en varias áreas para mejorar la ética y legitimidad judicial, fortalecer los poderes judiciales locales, la seguridad pública, la investigación criminal y la atención a víctimas de delitos, entre otras áreas.

Sobre la elección de personal del poder judicial, esta propuesta no hace mención del voto popular y apuesta por “estandarizar” las reglas de la carrera judicial en los poderes judiciales de México.

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Al respecto, el documento de la Suprema Corte propone que se emita “una Ley Nacional de Carrera Judicial que unifique las reglas y procedimientos de la carrera judicial en los poderes judiciales del país, para asegurar que el acceso y la promoción en los cargos, incluida la designación de magistrados, se realice a través de procedimientos objetivos que evalúen el perfil, conocimiento y competencias de los candidatos. Este proceso debe ser llevado a cabo por órganos independientes, como los Consejos de la Judicatura Estatales y sus institutos judiciales, en colaboración con expertos de la academia y la sociedad civil, a fin de garantizar la legitimidad y el profesionalismo del sistema judicial”.

La propuesta de la Suprema Corte se da a conocer cuando este domingo las comisiones de Puntos Constitucionales y de Estudios Legislativos, que presiden las senadoras oficialistas Ernestina Godoy y Citlalli Hernández, iniciaron en el Senado de México la discusión del proyecto de Reforma que impulsa López Obrador.

La discusión de esta propuesta se da también luego de semanas de protestas por parte de trabajadores del Poder Judicial y organizaciones de la sociedad civil que temen que el proyecto, entre otras cosas, represente un riesgo para la independencia judicial.

El Gobierno de López Obrador no se había pronunciado públicamente sobre esta nueva propuesta de la Suprema Corte y CNN ha solicitado comentarios a la Presidencia.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Shogun” won 11 Emmys and has chances at many more at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The two-night Creative Arts Emmys held this weekend are a precursor to the main Emmy Awards coming up on Sept. 15 and airing on ABC. “Shogun,” the FX series about feudal Japan that is this year’s top overall nominee with 25, won on Sunday for categories including makeup, hairstyling and stunt work. And Néstor Carbonell won best guest actor in a drama series for his appearance on the show. Both nights of the show will be edited into a single show that will air on FXX on Sept. 14

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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9%, slower than the earlier report for 3.1% growth, in the April-June period, boosted by better wages and spending. That shows clear risks remain, including U.S. economic growth, which greatly affects export-reliant Japan. Political uncertainty in Japan is another risk as the ruling party picks a new leader. The revised data from the Cabinet Office on Monday still showed Japan’s economy rebounded in the fiscal first quarter.

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NEVADA CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California woman was found atop a river canyon this week near the Yuba River in Northern California after she disappeared from a mining camp site 12 days ago. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the 24-year-old Sacramento woman was severely dehydrated and emaciated when found. The woman disappeared in late August from a camp site in Nevada City. Law enforcement and volunteers had to “repel into and out of the canyon” while facing “treacherous” canyon area, the sheriff’s office said. She was airlifted to a hospital for treatment. Officials said the extent of her injuries were unknown.

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(CNN) –– El fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, dijo este domingo que el caso contra el opositor Edmundo González será cerrado, luego de que el excandidato presidencial saliera a España, donde solicitó asilo.

Saab dijo que la salida de González del país trae un “cambio” al proceso judicial en su contra en Venezuela por presuntos delitos asociados al terrorismo. González ha negado las acusaciones.

“Esto trae un cambio en el estatus procesal que está evaluando el fiscal”, dijo Saab en entrevista con Ana María Mejía de CNN.

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“Nosotros, con el apoderado judicial de González Urrutia, José Vicente Haro, en las próximas horas, en los próximos días estableceremos la forma, tiempo, modo y lugar de cómo ese caso va a quedar de alguna forma cerrado judicialmente”, afirmó, y agregó que el resultado será en estricto apego a la ley venezolana.

Saab dijo que González solicitó un salvoconducto directamente al fiscal general en una carta, lo que le permitió viajar a España.

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Cuando se le preguntó sobre la “coerción y amenazas” que González dijo que llevaron a su decisión de solicitar asilo en España, Saab dijo que la presión y las amenazas vinieron de la líder opositora María Corina Machado.

“González fue víctima de presiones de su partido que lo obligaron a tomar decisiones (…) hay una fractura absoluta en esa oposición extremista”.

CNN se comunicó con María Corina Machado para obtener comentarios. En su declaración anterior, González no dio más detalles sobre de quién provenían las amenazas y la coerción, y en qué forma.

Sin dar más detalles ni proporcionar pruebas, el fiscal general también dijo que González fue presionado por su equipo para que no se presentara a su citación relacionada con la investigación de los presuntos delitos asociados con las disputadas elecciones presidenciales de julio. Las autoridades venezolanas emitieron una orden de arresto contra González después de que no respondiera a tres citaciones relacionadas con la investigación.

Minutos después, el abogado de González dijo que esto no era cierto. “De ninguna manera eso sucedió”, dijo José Vicente Haro a CNN.

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“Nuestra decisión había sido no comparecer ni a la citación número uno, ni a la citación número dos, ni a la citación número tres (…) nunca hubo consentimiento para acudir a ese proceso judicial porque, primero, los hechos que se le pretendían atribuir no eran de naturaleza penal. Segundo, él no ha cometido ningún delito”, dijo el abogado.

Haro reiteró que González estaba lidiando con “persecución constante y amenazas” a su vida antes de decidir pedir asilo en España y dijo que la salida de su cliente no significa que reconozca los resultados publicados por el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) de ese país, que declaró a Nicolás Maduro ganador de las elecciones presidenciales.

El abogado dijo que el proceso de asilo de González en España es muy meticuloso administrativamente y que podría tardar hasta una semana en completarse.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating effects on the Defense Department, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in a letter to key members of Congress on Sunday.

Austin said that passing a continuing resolution that caps spending at 2024 levels, rather than taking action on the proposed 2025 budget will hurt thousands of defense programs, and damage military recruiting just as it is beginning to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Asking the department to compete with (China), let alone manage conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, while under a lengthy CR, ties our hands behind our back while expecting us to be agile and to accelerate progress,” said Austin in the letter to leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has teed up a vote this week on a bill that would keep the federal government funded for six more months. The measure aims to garner support from his more conservative GOP members by also requiring states to obtain proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when registering a person to vote.

Congress needs to approve a stop-gap spending bill before the end of the budget year on Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown just a few weeks before voters go to the polls and elect the next president.

Austin said the stop-gap measure would cut defense spending by more than $6 billion compared to the 2025 spending proposal. And it would take money from key new priorities while overfunding programs that no longer need it.

Under a continuing resolution, new projects or programs can’t be started. Austin said that passing the temporary bill would stall more than $4.3 billion in research and development projects and delay 135 new military housing and construction projects totaling nearly $10 billion.

It also would slow progress on a number of key nuclear, ship-building, high-tech drone and other weapons programs. Many of those projects are in an array of congressional districts, and could also have an impact on local residents and jobs.

Since the bill would not fund legally required pay raises for troops and civilians, the department would have to find other cuts to offset them. Those cuts could halt enlistment bonuses, delay training for National Guard and Reserve forces, limit flying hours and other training for active-duty troops and impede the replacement of weapons and other equipment that has been pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine.

Going forward with the continuing resolution, said Austin, will “subject service members and their families to unnecessary stress, empower our adversaries, misalign billions of dollars, damage our readiness, and impede our ability to react to emergent events.”

Noting that there have been 48 continuing resolutions during 14 of the last 15 fiscal years — for a total of nearly 1,800 days — Austin said Congress must break the pattern of inaction because the U.S. military can’t compete with China “with our hands tied behind our back every fiscal year.”

Johnson’s bill is not expected to get support in the Democratic-controlled Senate, if it even makes it that far. But Congress will have to pass some type of temporary measure by Sept. 30 in order to avoid a shutdown.

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By Jill Martin and Andy Scholes, CNN

New York (CNN) — World No. 1 Jannik Sinner has won his second grand slam singles title, beating American Taylor Fritz to win the US Open 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday.

Fritz, the world No. 12, was bidding to be the first American man to win a grand slam singles title in 21 years. Andy Roddick, who was in attendance Sunday, is the last American man to do it when he won the 2003 US Open.

The 23-year-old Sinner, on an 11-match win streak, won the Australian Open in January. He joins Flavia Pennetta, who won the women’s singles championship in 2015, as the only Italian singles champions in US Open tournament history.

“This title for me means so much because the last period of my career was really not easy,” Sinner said. “There is my team who supports me every day, the people who are close to me. I love tennis. I practice a lot for this kind of stages, but I also realize that off the court there is a life.

“I would like to dedicate this title to my aunt, because she is really not feeling well, health-wise. I don’t know how much I still have her in my life. It’s so nice that I can share a positive moment still with her. … If there would be the biggest wish, I would wish the best health to everyone, but unfortunately, it’s not possible.”

Sinner spoke more about his aunt during his post-match press conference.

“My aunt, she’s a very important person, because when my parents, they were working every day and all day, so sometimes when I had to go to ski races, I went with her,” Sinner said. “She always helped me in summertime when my parents were working and I had some days off or free days.

“You know, when you are young, you don’t go to practice every day. So I hang around a lot with her, and she’s a very important person in my life.

“This also, especially when I had this difficult time, I tried to see it in a different way, you know, sport, things can happen unfortunately, but, you know, the real life is something different.

“You know, we travel a lot, so it’s difficult to spend time with the people who you really love, but if I would have more time, for sure I would spend more time with the people I really care (about).

“Yeah, it was and is a really difficult moment also now, but, you know, just also have to accept that, yeah, not everything is perfect.”

Fritz: ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t get it done’

Fritz is the first American man to reach a grand slam singles final since Roddick was runner-up to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009. Roddick had been the last American man to reach the US Open singles final, losing to Federer in 2006.

An American man was guaranteed to reach the final when Fritz and No. 20 Frances Tiafoe played each other in the semifinals, with Fritz coming back in that match from a two-sets-to-one deficit.

Previously, Fritz’s best result at a major was reaching the quarterfinals, where the 26-year-old had been 0-4 at that stage.

“Being an American, at the US Open, it’s just incredible feeling the love all week,” Fritz said to the crowd. “Thank you so much. I know we’ve been waiting for a champion for a long time, so I’m sorry I couldn’t get it done this time. But I’m going to keep working, and hopefully I’ll get it the next time.”

Sinner looked unflappable while winning the first two sets. But that changed in the third. The Italian’s level dipped, allowing Fritz – and the New York crowd – back into the match and giving the American a 5-3 lead.

The momentum shift, however, did not last. Fritz was unable to serve out the set, and Sinner went on to win the next four games for the title.

Sinner: ‘I knew that I haven’t done anything wrong’

Sinner’s triumph comes against the backdrop of his recent doping case that became public knowledge on August 20 – news that shocked the tennis world.

Sinner, who avoided suspension after twice testing positive for trace amounts of the banned substance Clostebol, repeatedly has said he hasn’t done anything wrong. It was ruled Sinner bore “no fault or negligence,” with Sinner saying the positive tests stemmed from “inadvertent contamination” through treatment from his then-physiotherapist.

Sinner told CNN how he was able to play well despite that hanging over him.

“First of all, in my mind, I knew that I haven’t done anything wrong, so that’s already the biggest part for me mentally that I am OK,” Sinner said.

“In another way, it’s me and my team, we know what we went through for months. We know what we were feeling like in the last months. This means even more of a positive sign for me and my team because we put a lot of extra work in trying to be as ready as possible mentally.”

This is the first year since 2002 that none of the members of men’s tennis “Big Three” – Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and the now-retired Federer – won a grand slam. Instead, the majors were split by Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, with the Spaniard winning the French Open and Wimbledon.

At this year’s US Open, Djokovic was upset in the third round by Alexei Popyrin, while Nadal did not play.

“It’s tough to predict the future,” Sinner said to CNN on whether it’s the changing of the guard in men’s tennis.

“I think it’s nice for tennis to see some new champions, some new favorites of tournaments. I’m happy to be part of this, at least this year.

“Let’s see what’s coming next year. Obviously they’re all big, big challenges coming up. But I’m just looking forward to improve as a player and then we’ll see what I can do.”

The rich and famous routinely turn out for the US Open, and Sunday was no exception. In attendance were Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce – who were sitting with Patrick and Brittany Mahomes. Others on hand included Matthew McConaughey, Martha Stewart, Noah Lyles and Elon Musk.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Chennedy Carter scored seven of her 28 points in the first couple minutes Sunday and the Chicago Sky never trailed in their 92-77 win over the Dallas Wings.

Chicago (13-22) has a one-game lead game lead over the Atlanta Dream for the eighth and final playoff spot with five games remaining in the Sky’s regular season.

Carter, the No. 4 pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, made 10-of-17 from the field, hit her only 3-point attempt, went 7 of 9 from the free-throw line and finished with six assists. The 5-foot-9 guard returned Friday from a four-game absence due to illness and helped the Sky beat the Los Angeles Sparks 92-78 to snap their seven-game losing streak.

Dallas (9-26) has lost four games in a row following a three-game winning streak.

Isabelle Harrison made her first start of the season and finished with a season-high 21 points and nine rebounds for the Sky and Kamilla Cardoso added 11 rebounds to go with 10 points. Dana Evans scored 11, including three 3-pointers, and Michaela Onyenwere added 10 points for the Sky.

Carter scored 11 points in the first quarter, and Chicago used a 13-1 run midway through the period to blow the game open. Carter’s free throw just before the buzzer gave the Sky a 33-19 lead going into the second period.

Arike Ogunbowale led the Wings with 23 points and Natasha Howard scored 17. Satou Sabally finished with 12 points, seven assists and six rebounds.

Ogunbowale scored 16 points and combined with Satou Sabally for 28 of Dallas’ 35 first-half points.

Record-setting rookie Angel Reese did not play for Chicago after suffering a season-ending wrist injury in the Sky’s win over Los Angeles last time out. The 6-foot-3 forward set WNBA single-season records for total rebounds (446) and offensive rebounds (172) and her 26 doubles-doubles this season — including a league-record 15 in a row — are the second most in WNBA history.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Dak Prescott barely had time to celebrate getting the biggest contract in NFL history before learning it came with a price.

His Cowboys teammates all want something.

“They’re expecting Rolexes,” Prescott joked. “Everybody’s giving me their wrist size.”

Prescott threw a touchdown pass hours after agreeing to a four-year, $240 million contract with Dallas and the Cowboys’ defense roughed up Deshaun Watson in his return, throttling the Cleveland Browns 33-17 in their opener Sunday.

Prescott’s deal makes him the first player to average $60 million per season and ends months of speculation about his future with the Cowboys, who have won 12 games in each of the past three years with him.

Earlier this week, Prescott, who was coming off his best season and entering his final year under contract, said he wants to be the quarterback to finally end the team’s Super Bowl drought. He’ll have time to try.

“It’s about holding up my end of the deal,” said Prescott, who completed 19 of 32 passes for 179 yards and spent much of the second half relaxing on the sideline.

Prescott was getting ready in his hotel room to leave for the stadium when he got a suprising call from his agent, telling him about the contract. His next move was to hug teammate Ezekiel Elliott, whom he credited with helping him as a young player.

“I am just super excited for him,” said Elliott, who had a 3-yard TD run in his first game back with the Cowboys. “I see the work he puts in day in and day out, so I could not think of a more deserving person to get that contract.”

Prescott threw a 21-yard scoring pass to Brandin Cooks in the first quarter and the Cowboys opened a 27-3 lead early in the third on KaVontae Turpin’s 60-yard punt return TD.

Brandon Aubrey kicked field goals of 57, 50, 46 and 40 yards for Dallas.

Prescott’s deal came just two weeks after the Cowboys gave wide receiver CeeDee Lamb a four-year, $136 million contract. Lamb sat out all of training camp before the sides reached an agreement.

“We have a little bit of experience with distractions, so we dealt with it,” coach Mike McCarthy said with a laugh. “The timing was different, but he handled it well. We made sure to congratulate him on the development because this is something you have to celebrate. But as soon as we got done, he was locked in.”

Watson played for the first time since breaking a bone in his right shoulder in November. Cleveland’s QB didn’t play during the preseason and the Browns’ new-look offense didn’t look very good with him running it.

Watson was sacked six times, intercepted twice and the 28-year-old wasn’t sharp. He had several overthrows, held the ball too long on some plays and rarely looked comfortable as the Cowboys blanketed his receivers.

He finished 24 of 45 for 169 yards in just his 13th game for Cleveland since signing a $230 million fully guaranteed deal in 2022.

At halftime, the Browns trailed by 17, had just one first down and were being outgained 216-54.

“They came out and hit us in the face on both sides,” said Browns Pro Bowl guard Joel Bitonio. “It was disappointing.”

On Dallas’ first scoring drive, Prescott showed beautiful touch while connecting with Lamb on a 34-yard completion down the right sideline.

Prescott was nearly intercepted on the next play, but then lofted his first TD pass of the season to Cooks, who ran past flat-footed safety Juan Thornhill before making an uncontested grab in the end zone.

Elliott spent last season doing little with New England before the Cowboys re-signed the two-time rushing champion in April after releasing him in a cost-cutting move. The 28-year-old barreled in to give the Cowboys a 14-3 lead in the second quarter.

The Browns took a 3-0 lead on a 51-yard field goal by Dustin Hopkins, who has made all nine kicks beyond 50 since Cleveland acquired him in a trade before last season.

Just for kicks

Aubrey appeared to tie Justin Tucker’s NFL record with a 66-yard field goal in the final seconds of the first half. However, the boot was wiped out as the Cowboys were called for delay of game despite coach Mike McCarthy’s vehement protests.

In his second season from Notre Dame, Aubrey made a 66-yarder during the preseason against Las Vegas.

Man of the people

Browns star end Myles Garrett surprised fans by showing up at a pregame tailgate in the Muni Lot, the team’s notoriously rowdy parking and partying area just east of the stadium.

The reigning AP Defensive Player of the Year led a group of fans in a “Here we go Brownies” chant. Garrett was joined by Cavaliers All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell.

Injuries

Cowboys: TE Jake Ferguson limped off in the third with a left knee injury after being tackled on a short completion. McCarthy said Ferguson will have imaging tests Monday. … LB Eric Kendricks went out briefly to get fluids, but finished with two sacks and an interception.

Browns: TE David Njoku left in the third quarter with an ankle injury. Njoku, who led Cleveland in receptions and TDs last season, got hurt while making a 29-yard catch. … LBs Tony Fields II (ankle) and Mohamoud Diabate (hip) were both hurt.

Up next

Cowboys: Host New Orleans next Sunday.

Browns: At Jacksonville next Sunday.

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) - The El Paso based custom catering company opened its doors to local foodies looking for some great grab-and-go breakfast and lunch options.

The Culinary Studio and Venue is owned by Jordan and Tara Freedman.

Tara Freedman has been interested and dedicated to the food industry since she was just 13. In 2017 she founded NOSH at Montecillo, quickly becoming a favorite eatery for many El Pasoans.

Jordan Freedman ran a successful food truck for many years.

They worked together for five years primarily as a catering company, but decided to expand.

"Our objective here is to create community and be able to see our clients on a more frequent basis rather than waiting until they have an event to see us," said Tara Freedman. "We hope that we get to see them very often."

The Freedman's say it's a Jewish deli inspired menu providing meal prep, creative coffee drinks, and a range of other food options.

Their new event space, "The Venue," is available to rent for gatherings, celebrations, and special events.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner climbed into the stands after winning the U.S. Open title to hug the people rooting hardest for him in a crowd that was largely behind his American opponent. Seal was happy to be among them. The singer and No. 1-ranked men’s tennis player from Italy became friends at the U.S. Open two years ago and Seal was back to watch Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday to win the tournament for the first time. Seal watched the match from two rows behind Sinner’s coaches and was among the friends and family waiting nearly two hours after the match ended for him to collect his trophy.

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(CNN) — La madre del adolescente sospechoso de matar a cuatro personas durante el tiroteo en la escuela secundaria Apalachee, en Winder, Georgia, llamó para advertir a un consejero escolar antes del ataque, según la tía y el abuelo del sospechoso.

Colt Gray, de 14 años, se disculpó con su madre Marcee Gray la mañana del tiroteo masivo en la secundaria Apalachee, enviando un mensaje de texto alarmante y oscuro el miércoles que llevó a la madre a advertir a la escuela que algo podría estar mal, dijo su abuelo a CNN, lo que confirmó la información que primero proporcionó al New York Post.

“Lo siento, mamá”, decía el mensaje de texto, según el padre de Marcee Gray, Charles Polhamus, quien dijo que estaba cerca de su hija en su casa en Fitzgerald, Georgia, cuando recibió el mensaje.

La madre llamó a la escuela sobre una “emergencia extrema” no especificada que involucraba a Colt en algún momento antes de que comenzara el tiroteo, dijo la hermana de Marcee Gray, Annie Brown, al Washington Post y luego confirmó a CNN.

¿Quiénes son las 4 víctimas que murieron tras el tiroteo en una escuela de Georgia?

Se realizó una llamada de 10 minutos desde el teléfono de Marcee Gray a la escuela a las 9:50 a.m., informó el Washington Post, aproximadamente 30 minutos antes de que la policía fuera notificada del tiroteo.

Según el Post, Brown tiene un plan telefónico compartido con la familia, lo que le permitió ver un registro de las llamadas realizadas por su hermana.

Después de una conversación telefónica de 10 minutos, dijo Polhamus, su hija y su madre comenzaron el viaje de 320 kilómetros desde Fitzgerald a Winder.

Marcee Gray luego confirmó la llamada al Washington Post, que informó que “se negó a dar detalles sobre lo que la llevó a llamar para advertir a la escuela, pero dijo que había compartido esa información con las autoridades”.

“Lo siento mucho y no puedo imaginar el dolor y el sufrimiento que están pasando en este momento”, dijo al Washington Post en un mensaje de texto.

Colt Gray fue acusado de cuatro cargos de homicidio agravado después de cometer el tiroteo masivo, dijeron los fiscales. Será juzgado como adulto y se espera que enfrente cargos adicionales en relación con las víctimas heridas.

Marcee Gray habló por primera vez el sábado, disculpándose con los afectados por el “absolutamente horrible” tiroteo.

El Distrito Escolar del Condado de Barrow no respondió a la solicitud de comentarios de CNN. La Oficina de Investigación de Georgia remitió la solicitud de comentarios de CNN a la Oficina del Fiscal del Circuito Judicial de Piedmont.

CNN se comunicó con la Oficina del Fiscal del Circuito Judicial de Piedmont el sábado por la noche. CNN también se comunicó con el sheriff del condado de Barrow, Jud Smith, quien anteriormente dijo que no tenía conocimiento de ninguna llamada telefónica a la escuela antes del tiroteo.

Colt Gray el 6 de septiembre se sienta en el tribunal del condado de Barrow durante su primera comparecencia por el tiroteo masivo en la escuela secundaria Apalachee, en Winder, Georgia. (Foto: Brynn Anderson/Reuters)

Esto es lo que sabemos sobre el tiroteo, el 45º tiroteo escolar de 2024 y el tiroteo escolar más mortífero en EE.UU. desde la masacre de marzo de 2023 en The Covenant School en Nashville:

Las cuatro personas asesinadas: el tiroteo en la escuela secundaria Apalachee cobró la vida de dos estudiantes de 14 años, Christian Angulo y Mason Schermerhorn, así como de dos maestros, la profesora de matemáticas de 53 años Cristina Irimie y el entrenador asistente de fútbol de 39 años Richard Aspinwall, quien también enseñaba matemáticas. Las autoridades dicen que Irimie celebraba su cumpleaños con sus estudiantes el día que fue asesinada, según un amigo de la familia. Nueve heridos se espera que se recuperen completamente: de las nueve personas heridas, siete de ellas, seis estudiantes y un maestro, fueron baleadas, dijo la Oficina de Investigación de Georgia (GBI, por sus siglas en inglés) el jueves. Los otros dos, ambos estudiantes, sufrieron otras lesiones, dijo el GBI. El sospechoso había sido interrogado sobre amenazas en línea: en mayo de 2023, las autoridades interrogaron a Colt Gray y a su padre sobre “amenazas en línea de cometer un tiroteo escolar” que incluían fotos de armas, según una declaración conjunta del FBI Atlanta y la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Jackson. Colt Gray, que tenía 13 años en ese momento, dijo a los investigadores durante esa entrevista que “alguien lo está acusando de amenazar con disparar en una escuela, afirmando que nunca diría tal cosa, ni siquiera en broma”, dijeron las autoridades. Las autoridades no pudieron corroborar las amenazas y la investigación se cerró, según la oficina del sheriff. Acusan al padre del sospechoso: dos fuentes policiales con conocimiento directo de la investigación dijeron que Colin Gray, de 54 años, dijo a las autoridades que compró el rifle estilo AR utilizado en el tiroteo escolar como un regalo de Navidad para su hijo en diciembre de 2023, solo meses después de que las autoridades contactaran inicialmente al padre sobre las amenazas en línea. Colin Gray enfrenta cuatro cargos de homicidio involuntario, dos cargos de homicidio intencional sin premeditación y ocho cargos de crueldad hacia los niños. El sospechoso tenía escritos sobre tiroteos escolares pasados: durante el interrogatorio, Colt Gray dijo a los investigadores: “Yo lo hice”. Mientras las autoridades registraban su casa, encontraron documentos que creen que escribió haciendo referencia a tiroteos escolares pasados, incluidas referencias a la masacre de 2018 en la escuela secundaria Marjory Stoneman Douglas en Florida, dijo una fuente policial a CNN. Muestras de apoyo: antes del inicio del partido de los Georgia Bulldogs contra los Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles el sábado, se observó un momento de silencio para honrar a los afectados por el tiroteo. También el sábado, frente a la escuela secundaria, más de 100 motociclistas de diferentes clubes organizaron un evento para mostrar su apoyo. Estudiantes relatan el aterrador tiroteo: en un aula, una niña de 14 años dijo que impidió que el sospechoso entrara por la puerta cuando lo vio sacar un arma. Y después de que un maestro en otra aula fuera baleado, los estudiantes dicen que lo arrastraron de vuelta al interior y usaron las camisetas de sus espaldas para tratar de detener su sangrado mientras bloqueaban la puerta con escritorios y sillas. Un adolescente dijo que corrió a cerrar la puerta de su aula para evitar que el atacante entrara, solo para darse cuenta de que había sido baleado.

El sospechoso de tiroteo escolar en Georgia será juzgado como adulto 2:20

Una comunidad de luto

Las familias de las víctimas se limpiaron las lágrimas o abrazaron animales de peluche mientras se sentaban en la sala del tribunal del condado de Barrow el viernes durante la lectura de cargos de Colt Gray, donde se negó a presentar una declaración de culpabilidad a los cargos en su contra. Los fiscales alegan que Colt Gray disparó un rifle estilo AR en el campus el miércoles por la mañana, matando a cuatro personas.

Debido a su corta edad, la pena máxima que Gray podría enfrentar es cadena perpetua con o sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, dijo el juez Currie Mingledorff al adolescente en el tribunal. En 2005, la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. dictaminó que nadie puede ser condenado a muerte por crímenes cometidos antes de los 18 años.

El siguiente paso en el caso contra Colt Gray será una reunión del jurado investigador el 17 de octubre. Esto será seguido por una lectura de cargos programada antes de que comience el proceso de juicio, dijo el fiscal del condado de Barrow, Brad Smith. Su audiencia preliminar está programada para el 4 de diciembre, dijo Mingledorff.

Por separado, el padre de Colt Gray, Colin Gray, enfrenta una sentencia máxima de 180 años de prisión por los cargos presentados en su contra. Una orden de arresto para Colin Gray alega que le dio a su hijo un arma de fuego “con conocimiento de que era una amenaza para sí mismo y para los demás”.

“Solo trato de usar las herramientas en mi arsenal para procesar a las personas por los crímenes que cometen”, dijo el fiscal del distrito Smith.

Colin Gray también se negó a presentar una declaración de culpabilidad en su primera comparecencia ante el tribunal el viernes, y ni él ni su hijo solicitaron que se fijara una fianza en sus audiencias.

CNN buscó comentarios de los defensores públicos que representan a Colt Gray y a su padre.

Para los sobrevivientes y otros, un centro de recuperación comunitaria abrirá en el condado de Barrow el lunes para ofrecer asistencia financiera, servicios legales y atención espiritual y de salud mental, anunció el viernes la Agencia de Manejo de Emergencias y Seguridad Nacional de Georgia.

Mientras tanto, se desconoce cuándo se reanudarán las clases en la escuela secundaria Apalachee. Las autoridades aún determinan los próximos pasos, aunque se están finalizando los planes para que las personas recojan sus pertenencias de la escuela el lunes, dijo la directora Jessica Rehberg en una carta a los padres de los estudiantes, una copia de la cual fue obtenida por CNN.

“Determinamos la manera correcta de avanzar y planificamos compasivamente los detalles de nuestro futuro”, escribió Rehberg en la carta este domingo.

Se espera que el resto del sistema escolar del condado de Barrow regrese a clases el martes.

Miembros de la comunidad, estudiantes y personal de la escuela secundaria Apalachee se reúnen para una vigilia el 6 de septiembre de 2024 en Monroe, Georgia. (Foto: Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Una estudiante dice que no abrió la puerta después de ver un arma

Bri Jones, de 14 años, estaba en la segunda hora el miércoles cuando Colt Gray salió del aula, dijo Jones. “No nos dimos cuenta de que se fue”, dijo, agregando que él “siempre estaba callado”.

Pero Colt Gray regresó y llamó a la puerta, dijo Jones.

Bri dijo que miró por la puerta antes de abrirla porque eso es lo que su madre le enseñó a hacer.

“Mientras miraba la puerta, él estaba sacando su arma, y luego me paralicé, como que me paralicé y me dije ‘no’ a mí misma”, dijo.

La maestra pidió que se abriera la puerta, dijo Bri, “porque no sabía que él tenía un arma porque estaba en su escritorio”. Cuando fue a abrir la puerta, “dije, ‘No, él tiene un arma’”, dijo Jones.

Luego, el atacante los miró antes de darse la vuelta y disparar, dijo Jones.

“Nos estaba mirando a mí, a mi maestra, y luego a alguien que estaba en el pasillo”, dijo. “Giró la cabeza y simplemente comenzó a disparar”.

Estudiante se encontró cara a cara con el tirador de Georgia 2:51

Los estudiantes luego corrieron al fondo del aula y la maestra apagó las luces, dijo Bri.

“Una vez que comenzó a disparar es como si siguiera, eran tantos disparos tras disparos”, comentó. “Parecía que estaba disparando para siempre”.

Si hubiera abierto la puerta del salón, Bri dijo que cree que el sospechoso “nos habría atrapado a todos en esa clase”.

Otro estudiante, Ronaldo Vega, de 14 años, se cubrió inmediatamente debajo de su escritorio cuando comenzó el tiroteo en su clase de matemáticas de segunda hora, dijo, creyendo haber escuchado de cuatro a seis disparos. Después, se levantó y rápidamente cerró la puerta del aula para que el atacante “no pudiera regresar”, dijo.

Solo después de ver una de las balas detrás del escritorio del maestro se dio cuenta de que había sido baleado y estaba sangrando, dijo Ronaldo.

El senador Raphael Warnock habla con miembros de la comunidad, estudiantes y personal de la escuela secundaria Apalachee que se reunieron para una vigilia el 6 de septiembre en Monroe, Georgia. (Foto: Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Los estudiantes se quitaron las camisetas para tratar de salvar a su maestro de matemáticas

Richard Aspinwall, un maestro de matemáticas, escuchó conmoción fuera de su aula y salió al pasillo para ver qué estaba pasando. Cuando lo hizo, fue baleado en el pecho por el sospechoso de 14 años, según la amiga de la familia Julie Woodson, quien citó relatos de los estudiantes de Aspinwall.

“Tuvimos que ver a nuestro maestro regresar al aula sosteniéndose como si hubiera sido baleado, y cayó al suelo”, dijo Malasia Mitchell, de 17 años. “Y mientras seguía, mi maestro fue baleado de nuevo”.

Los estudiantes en la clase dicen que arrastraron a Aspinwall de vuelta al aula y usaron las camisetas de sus espaldas para tratar de detener el sangrado de su maestro, según Woodson.

Mientras tanto, los estudiantes cerraron la puerta y se protegieron con escritorios y sillas, dijo Mitchell.

Woodson dijo que Aspinwall “murió como un héroe tratando de salvar la vida de sus estudiantes”.

“Si no hubiera salido y recibido la bala… quién sabe qué habría pasado”, dijo Woodson.

Malasia recordó a su maestro como un “gran tipo” con “un espíritu tan feliz”, alguien que no querría que ella se rindiera nunca.

“No quería que dejara de venir a la escuela”, dijo. “Quería que siguiera adelante”.

Scott Glover, Keith Allen, Ashley R. Williams, Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan, Mark Morales, Ryan Young, Isabel Rosales, Chelsea Bailey, Sara Smart, Jaide Timm-García, Raja Razek, Jade Gordon y Steve Sorg de CNN contribuyeron a este artículo.

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(CNN) — Israeli airstrikes in central Syria have killed five people and injured at least 19 others, state-run Syrian news agency SANA reported Sunday.

SANA said there had been several explosions and “air defense engagements” in the central region of Syria, including in the Tartous and Hama governorates, that resulted in multiple civilian casualties.

Asked about the report by CNN, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it did not comment “on reports in the foreign media.”

The Syrian news agency cited a military source as saying “the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northwest Lebanon, targeting a number of military sites in the central region” shortly before 8.30 p.m. local time on Sunday.

The source said Syrian air defenses had intercepted and shot down some of the missiles.

SANA quoted the director of the National Hospital in Masyaf, Dr. Faisal Haidar, as saying some of the injured were in “critical condition.”

It said the strikes had damaged the Wadi al-Uyun highway in Masyaf and caused a blaze that firefighters were working to control.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) - The El Paso Fire Department received a call about people needing assistance at the Rio Grande Levee near Boone St.

It happened Sunday about 11:40 a.m.

A spokesman for El Paso Fire says no special rescue teams were deployed.

The four people were rescued safely and did not sustain any injuries.

The scene and individuals were turned over to law enforcement for further processing.

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(CNN) — Republicans and Democrats will release dueling documents on the deadly August 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, as former President Donald Trump’s campaign seeks to make the decisions surrounding the exit a key issue in the final weeks before the presidential election.

The release — after years of investigation by the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee — of the report by Republican Chairman Rep Michael McCaul and a minority memorandum by Democratic Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks underscore how partisan the debate over the frenzied US exit from Afghanistan has become. The reports also thrust the evacuation back into the spotlight during the lead-up to the election as the GOP has used the evacuation to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

The documents are the latest in a series of examinations of the withdrawal, which saw the deaths of 13 US service members and left behind thousands of Afghans who had worked with the United States.

Accusations of culpability have fallen largely along party lines, with Republicans pointing fingers at the Biden administration for hastily pulling the US out of the country and Democrats, including the White House, casting blame on the Trump administration for striking a deal with the Taliban that set the US withdrawal into motion.

The conclusions of both documents, obtained by CNN ahead of their release Monday, continue that pattern. Although there were some new details revealed, the overarching findings largely align with what was already known.

The Republican report is highly critical of the Biden administration and pins the blame for the chaotic exit exclusively on its decisions. It also aims to implicate Harris, now the Democratic nominee for president, in its accusations by referring to the current government as “the Biden-Harris administration.”

“The Biden-Harris administration misled and, in some instances, directly lied to the American people at every stage of the withdrawal, from before the go-to-zero order until today,” the more than 350-page long Republican report alleges.

It lays out 23 recommendations, including the passage of resolutions condemning President Joe Biden, Harris, and other key members of the national security team.

The recommendations also focus on making future non-combatant evacuation operations (NEO) successful, calling for Congress to put into place standard operating procedures for such a drawdown and requirements for the State Department and DOD to brief congress on NEO plans when an embassy has been designated as a high threat post.

The long list also calls for the declassification of information related to the deadly Abbey Gate terrorist attack that killed 13 service members and dozens of Afghans and the establishment of eyewitness portals for after-action reviews.

“Anyone who reads this report will be able to see that we conducted this investigation with integrity, not drawing conclusion ahead of time but rather looking at the facts and evidence we collected. The report is simply a recitation of those facts and evidence,” McCaul said in response to accusations from his Democratic colleagues and the administration that the report was politicized.

“This is not about politics to me — it never has been. It’s about getting to the bottom of what happened so we can make sure it never happens again,” he said in a statement. “And it’s about finding who was responsible for this catastrophe so they can finally, after three long years, be held accountable.”

Meeks, the Democratic ranking member on the committee, accused McCaul of pursuing a “predetermined, partisan narrative about the Afghanistan withdrawal” and asserted that “Republicans’ partisan attempts to garner headlines rather than acknowledge the full facts and substance of their investigation have only increased with the heat of an election season.”

The White House also denounced McCaul’s report.

“Everything we have seen and heard of Chairman McCaul’s latest partisan report shows that it is based on cherry-picked facts, inaccurate characterizations, and pre-existing biases that have plagued this investigation from the start,” said Sharon Yang, a White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations.

Republicans accuse Biden admin of pursuing withdrawal ‘no matter the cost’

McCaul formally launched his investigation after assuming the chairmanship of the committee in January 2023, vowing to scrutinize the State Department’s planning, decision-making, and execution of the withdrawal.

The Republican probe included multiple hearings, transcribed interviews with 18 former and current officials, and the review of thousands of pages of documents from the US government.

The resulting report comes away with five conclusions.

It claims the Biden administration was “determined to withdraw from Afghanistan, with or without the Doha Agreement” – an agreement brokered under the Trump administration for a phased but eventual full withdrawal from Afghanistan – “and no matter the cost.” It accuses the administration of ignoring “the conditions in the Doha Agreement, pleas of the Afghan government, and the objections by our NATO allies, deciding to unilaterally withdraw from the country.”

It also accuses the administration of prioritizing “the optics of the withdrawal over the security of U.S. personnel on the ground.” It takes aim at the administration’s delay in ordering a NEO – a fact that has been well-scrutinized and documented. The report said that “Afghanistan once again became a haven for terrorists, including al Qaeda and ISIS-K” following the US withdrawal.

Among the other findings of the report, it said that Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad – who was appointed under the Trump administration – was negotiating a succession plan for the Afghan government that included the Taliban, and the committee claims he was “wedded to the idea.”

While the negotiations led by Khalilzad had been widely covered in news reports – and never resulted in an agreement due to the Taliban moving to military take Kabul – the details of what was being pursued remained unclear at times.

Khalilzad, who participated in a transcribed interview with the committee, said that “the power-sharing demand increased from 50-50, to 60-40 in favor of the Taliban, to 70-30 in favor of the Taliban,” the report writes. Khalilzad noted in his interview: “As the balance shifted on the ground … the negotiations on the government continued, but the dollar demand with it increased.”

The report also cites comments that Biden administration officials made to the public around the time of the withdrawal which contradicted the information that the US government had about the situation on the ground.

For example, in October 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed it would have taken 5,000 troops to protect the Bagram Air Force Base, which the US handed over to the Afghans in July of 2021. Yet General McKenzie testified to the committee that “at 2,500 U.S. forces, if you also assume that will allow the Afghans to stay in the fight, you can maintain a viable base at Bagram.” He added that he had believed maintaining Bagram was critical to stability in the country. Psaki also made public comments stating that no one could have assessed that the Afghan military would fall as quickly as it did, despite existing US government assessments at the time predicting that a fall could happen swiftly.

The Democratic memorandum outlines its separate takeaways from the hearings, documents, and transcribed interviews. It argues that the Trump administration set the withdrawal in motion and “failed to plan for executing it.” It also claims that the Biden administration initiated a “robust” process to review the evacuation. The memorandum argues that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban “precipitously changed the situation in Kabul and prompted a dynamic and unprecedented U.S. government response that protected Americans, our allies, and our interests.”

Moreover, Meeks’ memorandum argues that the findings are not new —”it comports with what Administration officials, the State Department’s own After-Action Review on Afghanistan (AAR), and extensive press reporting have already said repeatedly over years about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

“This narrative is also not without points of debate – such as over whether to retain a small force in Afghanistan, whether U.S. analysts should have better anticipated the fall of the Afghan government and rapid speed of the Taliban’s takeover, or the precise timing of shifting from civilian-led evacuation flights to a NEO – but no thorough policy process would be, nor do any Commander-in-Chief’s decisions satisfy everyone,” it says.

Democrats’ memorandum on the report

Meeks said he released his own memorandum because “American taxpayers have funded this Committee’s oversight, and the American people deserve the truth.”

The New York Democrat also accused his Republican colleagues of further politicizing the matter ahead of the election.

“With the ascendance of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, the GOP performance has reached a crescendo — Republicans now claim she was the architect of the U.S. withdrawal though she is referenced only three times in 3,288 pages of the Committee’s interview transcripts,” Meeks charged.

Even with the release of the report, McCaul has made clear that he continues to pursue his probe as Election Day nears and even after.

“We have a lot of unanswered questions regarding the” Department of Defense, McCaul told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, ahead of the report’s publication. He said “didn’t reach any conclusions” regarding the Abbey Gate attack at the Kabul airport. That deadly attack, which was claimed by ISIS-K has been the subject of multiple investigations.

The Republican Chairman has subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to testify on the report. Some of the recommendations of the report call for the testimony of officials like national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

“Congress has a responsibility to ensure those at fault during the Afghanistan withdraw are finally held accountable,” the report says.

On the eve of the report’s release McCaul said that the conduct of the withdrawal amounted to “moral negligence of the administration.”

“This was one of the deadliest days in Afghanistan. It could have been prevented if the State Department did its job by law and executed the plan of evacuation. They did not do that until, until the day that the Taliban invaded and overran Kabul. By that time, it was too late,” McCaul said on CBS.

McCaul also claimed that the release of the report at this time was not an effort to play politics, pointing to the many roadblocks that the committee faced as they tried to gather information and conduct interviews.

But State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement to CNN that “it remains deeply disappointing that House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans used this process to politicize Afghanistan policy instead of working on legislative solutions to strengthen our country.”

“They have done a disservice by relying on false information and presenting inaccurate narratives meant only to harm the Administration, instead of seeking to actually inform Americans on how our longest war came to an end,” Miller said. “The State Department remains immensely proud of its workforce who put themselves forward in the waning days of our presence in Afghanistan to evacuate both Americans and the brave Afghans who stood by over sides for more than two decades.”

Yang, the White House spokesperson, also defended the administration’s decisions and cast blame on Trump and the Doha agreement brokered under his presidency, saying Biden “inherited an untenable position.”

“As we have said many times, ending our longest war was the right thing to do and our nation is stronger today as a result,” Yang said in a statement to CNN. “Bringing our troops home after 20 years put us in a stronger position by allowing us to redirect our resources to confront threats to international peace and stability, such as Russia’s war in Ukraine, an ongoing crisis in the Middle East, China’s increasingly aggressive actions, and terror threats that exist around the world.”

In June 2023, the State Department released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which found that both the Trump and Biden administrations’ decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental consequences, and detailed damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the deadly and chaotic US withdrawal from that country after nearly two decades on the ground.

The report made recommendations for the future, mostly related to the Department’s crisis response and preparedness. Both the State Department report and the Republicans’ report recommended putting a single point person in charge at the department when there is a complex crisis unfolding.

This story has been updated with additional reporting.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Quarterback Anthony Richardson showed everyone Sunday what the Indianapolis Colts learned while drafting him — he possesses one of the NFL’s strongest arms.

The former Florida star also found out how much he needs to improve.

While Richardson threw two touchdown passes of more than 50 yards and powered through Houston’s defense on a late 3-yard TD run in the opening game of his second pro season, it wasn’t enough to stop the Colts’ Week 1 winless streak.

“I want to be better as a player, so I’m always criticizing myself,” Richardson said following the 29-27 loss. “We were highly confident we could come in here and win, especially at home. We’ve got more games ahead of us and we’ve got more chances to come out with a victory.”

The Richardson roller coaster provided plenty of fodder for fans and critics alike.

He looked spectacular on his third throw of the game, a 60-yard laser to Alec Pierce in stride despite slipping on Lucas Oil Stadium’s turf as he wound up. He looked equally impressive on a 54-yard dart to Ashton Dulin in the second half and the 57-yarder to Pierce, which set up his first scoring run of the season and got the Colts within two with 2:14 remaining.

Aside from those three throws, though, he went 6 of 16 with 41 yards and one costly red zone interception. He also missed two additional potential scoring throws to wide-open receivers.

While he ran six times for 56 yards including that determined fourth down scoring run and occasionally slid, he also was sacked twice, sometimes missed his receivers badly and hit his head hard on the turf in the first quarter when Mario Edwards Jr. slammed him to the ground in the first quarter, knocking Richardson’s helmet off.

It’s a play that may rekindle the debate over Richardson doing a better job of protecting himself after missing 13 games and finishing only one of four starts because of various injuries.

Richardson started — and finished this one to match last season’s total — and he wasn’t complaining about the hit.

“I love physical football,” he said. “’That’s part of playing physical. Some people are saying it should be a flag. I don’t know.”

What he does know is that Sunday’s performance wasn’t good enough.

Yes, Richardson, finally, ended Indy’s streak of seven consecutive seasons with a different opening day starter at quarterback, he failed to snap the league’s longest active Week 1 winless drought. It’s now 11 straight going back to 2013.

And if the Colts hope to end a three-year playoff drought, Richrdson needs to be on the field for more than 43 plays and 20 total minutes and 2021 league rushing champion Jonathan Taylor needs to be more involved.

All of it would help the defense stay fresh, something that didn’t happen Sunday, and it’s not just on Richardson to get the job done.

“You can put that on me,” coach Shane Steichen said when asked about Taylor’s workload. “Like I could have called more runs. I think we had 19 passes, I don’t remember how many carries we had, but we’ll look at those things and get that thing cleaned up, learning from tough, close games like this.”

If the Colts do get it fixed, and Richardson steadies his performance, the Texans know how much more difficult their path to defending the AFC South title could be.

“We made plays when we had to, but not good enough, right?” coach DeMeco Ryans said. “Got to eliminate the big plays. That’s when you give up big points, that equals points.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The more than 18-month investigation by Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee lays the blame for the chaotic end of America’s longest war at the feet of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. It zeroes in on the months leading up to the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021 and claims the Biden administration undermined high-ranking officials and ignored warnings of the Taliban’s growing strength. Earlier probes have concluded former President Donald Trump — who made the deal with the Taliban agreeing to withdraw U.S. forces — shares blame.

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JUAREZ, Chih. (KVIA) - The Chihuahua State Attorney General's office identified the victims of an armed attack at a quinceañera party late Saturday.

Juarez police received a call of shots fired just before midnight at a house on Marcelo Caraveo Street in the Francisco I. Madero neighborhood.

Officer arrived to the scene to find three minors dead.

The first victim is identified as being between 15 and 20 years of age, a 16-year-old boy with the initials of K.H.R., and another male minor who has not been identified yet.

Two other victims were taken to an area hospital but died from their injuries a short time later according to the District Attorney's office.

One of those victims, a 17-year-old identified with the initials of I.M.O and the other a 19-year-old man identified as Daniel T. H.

Four other people suffered gunshot wounds, two of those minors and remain hospitalized.

The investigation continues and authorities have not revealed a motion in the attack.

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By Paradise Afshar and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN

(CNN) — Raging wildfires in California and Nevada have led to mandatory evacuations of thousands of homes, as forecasters warn of record heat in the West for the next few days. There are 14 active wildfires currently burning across California – with one so intense, it’s created its own weather pattern. Here’s the latest:

• California’s Line Fire explodes in size: The wildfire has consumed 17,459 acres as of Sunday after igniting at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains on Thursday. The blaze has more than quadrupled in size since Saturday morning. Authorities urged residents in several areas to flee as the massive blaze shot bright red flames and thick, billowing plumes of smoke into the sky. More than 600 fire personnel are battling the wildfire, which was 0% contained as of Sunday morning, according to Cal Fire. The blaze has injured three people, though authorities have not released any details about the extent of injuries.

Thunderstorm winds are causing “very erratic behavior” on the blaze and vegetation is “critically dry,” the agency said Sunday. Smoke continues to be an issue for firefighters and residents, and afternoon thunderstorms have the potential to cause new ignitions.

“Hot and dry conditions mixed with thunderstorms are expected to challenge firefighters for the next few days,” Cal Fire said.

The fire prompted a smoke advisory to be issued by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. As a result, the Rancho Cucamonga Fire District recommended residents stay indoors if possible, keep windows and doors closed and reduce outdoor activities.

A flash flood warning went into effect in Riverside and San Bernardino counties until Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service office in San Diego.

The storms producing localized, heavy rainfall are occurring near the Line Fire. The warning means flash flooding is ongoing or expected and could cause considerable damage. Landslides are possible, especially in recently burn-scarred areas.

Doppler radar-indicated thunderstorms are producing heavy rain across the warned area at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour.

• Line Fire creates its own weather: As it burns through acres of land, it’s creating its own weather in the form of pyrocumulus clouds. The clouds can create erratic winds that push the fire outward, spreading it farther and challenging firefighters. If it’s hot enough, the clouds can produce lightning and rain, called pyrocumulonimbus. They can reach heights of 50,000 feet and generate their own systems of thunderstorms.

• Thousands evacuated in California mountain communities: As the flames move dangerously close, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced mandatory evacuation orders for about 4,800 homes in the Running Springs and Arrowbear Lake areas. Hundreds more have been evacuated in the cities of Highland, Forest Falls, Mountain Home Village and Angelus Oaks. “The Line Fire is very active and spreading in receptive fuels,” Cal Fire said. “There are currently 35,405 structures threatened, including single and multifamily homes, commercial buildings, and other minor structures.”

Firefighters have been successful in protecting homes from flames, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Brent Pascua told CNN on Sunday.

“Firefighters have been successful so far, even with the unpredictability of this fire, and we tend to keep it that way, we’re ready to stand and fight,” Pascua told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield.

He added because of the unpredictability of the fire, all areas of the blaze are of concern for firefighters. “We have to make sure we have crews on all sides of the fire ready to stand their ground,” Pascua said.

• Bridge Fire in Angeles National Forest: A fire has rapidly grown to 200 acres inside the Angeles National Forest, just north of the Los Angeles metro area. Several roads in the park have been closed, forest officials said in a Facebook post.

• Boyles Fire near Clearlake, California: Multiple structures are burning near Clearlake, California, about 100 miles west of Sacramento. At least 30 structures are involved and about 4,000 residents have been displaced by the growing 76-acre fire, which Cal Fire said is 10% contained.

• Emergency declared in California: Gov. Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a state of emergency in San Bernardino County due to the Line Fire. He has obtained a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ensure the availability of vital fire resources, he said in a statement.

• Nevada wildfire destroys structures: The Davis Fire, a dangerous, wind-driven blaze south of Reno, has burned about 3,300 acres, destroyed at least six structures and remains 0% contained as of Sunday morning, Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue said on X. “Heavy aerial resources and multiple agencies working to stop this wind-driven wildfire,” it said.

On Sunday, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency due to the blaze, he announced on X.

The fire has caused the evacuation of about 20,000 people in affected areas of Washoe County, and more than 6,000 residents are without power, the emergency declaration detailed.

NV Energy said it cut power “to prevent further ignitions and protect first responders.” It asked those who still have power, and are near the fire to prepare for potential outages.

• Sweltering heat will add to the region’s misery: Excessive heat warnings and advisories are in effect for southern California, the Desert Southwest and the northern Great Basin. Temperatures in Southern California range from 95 to 105 degrees – about 10 to 20 degrees above average for the region. An air quality alert has also been issued “due to heat wave and elevated fine particle pollution levels due to wildfire smoke,” according to the National Weather Service.

Residents on edge as massive flames approach

The Line Fire has grown more than 14 times in size in just over 30 hours, from about 1,180 acres at 5 p.m. PT Friday to over 17,200 acres Saturday night.

As the wildfire tears through the San Bernardino County mountains, some residents have tried to stop the blaze from reaching their homes.

Highland resident Brian Gano told CNN affiliate KCAL News he was trying to hose down the flames with his wife and son.

“The flames were right up on us because the wind shifted,” said Gano. “I got a high-pressure line in my backyard.”

Another resident, Diya Hirpara, said she’s been stocking up on groceries in case she needs to evacuate.

“It was pretty scary,” Hirpara said. “We’re just kind of on the edge, just waiting.”

Larissa Gonzalez said she was standing on Highway 18 in Lake Arrowhead on Saturday when she captured a storm rolling through the Line Fire. “There was a lot of thunder and lightning coming out of that flare-up; the wind was picking up and driving the fire over that ridge,” Gonzalez told CNN. She watched the storm for about an hour while parked in front of the Rim of the World High School to see what direction it was heading and to determine if she needed to start getting ready to evacuate.

Visitors to the area were also affected by the smoke and flames.

Mark Weidhase told CNN on Sunday he and his girlfriend decided to head to the mountains to escape the heat while visiting from Canada. As they were leaving Big Bear and heading through Running Springs on Saturday, they found themselves near the Line Fire. Weidhase said they pulled off Highway 330 to get a good look at the massive wildfire after noticing it was closed and receiving notice of an evacuation order. “I love the mountains, but not when they’re on fire,” he said.

Multiple agencies, including Cal Fire, San Bernardino County Fire and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, are working together to manage the fire. The American Red Cross has set up an evacuation shelter at a local church for residents seeking refuge from the fire.

California is seeing an active fire season. Wildfires have scorched over 838,000 acres throughout the state so far this year, compared to 255,144 acres by this time last year, according to Cal Fire.

Adding to the chaos, a pair of earthquakes struck Saturday near Ontario, California, within a half-hour of each other, jolting the already rattled region.

The first earthquake was recorded at 3.5 magnitude at 10 a.m. local time, and the next was recorded at 3.9 magnitude, according to data from US Geological Survey. It was felt by residents living as far away as Los Angeles.

CNN’s Faith Karimi, Ashley R. Williams, Artemis Moshtaghian, Sarah Dewberry and Eric Zerkel contributed to this report.

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DAMASCUS (AP) — Syrian state media is reporting a series of Israeli strikes have hit multiple areas in central Syria, killing at least four people, wounding 13 and sparking fires. Syria state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses “confronted an aggression that targeted several points in the central region,” damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires that firefighting teams were battling to control early Monday. At least four dead and 13 wounded civilians arrived at the Masyaf National Hospital in western Hamas province, SANA said, citing hospital head Faysal Haydar.

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(CNN) –– El posible ciclón tropical seis se formó sobre las cálidas aguas del sur del Golfo de México cuando faltan más de dos meses para que finalice la temporada de huracanes del Atlántico de 2024, dijo este domingo el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de EE.UU. (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés).

La tormenta que se formó en la Bahía de Campeche, en el Golfo, estaba ubicada a unas 925 kilómetros al sur de Port Arthur, Texas, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 80 km/h, según la actualización de las 5 p.m. ET del NHC.

“El sistema se está moviendo hacia el noroeste a cerca de 8 km/h y se espera un movimiento lento hacia el noroeste seguido de un giro más hacia el norte durante el próximo día o dos”, dijo el NHC.

Esta temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico está confundiendo a los expertos y desafiando las previsiones. ¿Qué está pasando?

“Según la trayectoria pronosticada, se espera que la perturbación se mueva cerca de la costa norte del Golfo de México el martes y se acerque a la costa superior de Texas y Louisiana el miércoles”, agregaron los meteorólogos.

El Gobierno de México emitió un aviso de tormenta tropical desde Barra del Tordo hacia el norte hasta la desembocadura del Río Grande ante posibles impactos.

Vista satelital del golfo de México en la tarde del domingo 8 de septiembre. Crédito: NOAA.

El Centro de Huracanes dijo que también podrían emitirse alertas para el sur de Texas más tarde este domingo y que es probable que se emitan alertas adicionales a lo largo de la costa de Texas y Louisiana más tarde el domingo o el lunes.

Se espera que el sistema se convierta en tormenta tropical este lunes y se intensifique de manera significativa este martes. Se prevé que se fortalecerá hasta alcanzar la categoría de huracán antes de llegar a la costa noroeste del Golfo de Estados Unidos, según el NHC.

La próxima tormenta con nombre se llamará Francine.

Un área extensa de baja presión sobre el suroeste del Golfo de México continuó produciendo lluvias y tormentas eléctricas este domingo, dijo el NHC.

A las 2 p.m. ET, el sistema aún no desarrollado ya producía vientos de 64 a 72 km/h en su ala occidental.

La tormenta se produce durante una temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico inusualmente activa, que hasta mediados de agosto produjo cinco tormentas con nombre, tres de las cuales se convirtieron en huracanes. También se produce días antes del pico estadístico de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico el 10 de septiembre.

Los datos de los investigadores de la Universidad Estatal de Colorado muestran que aproximadamente el 68% de toda la actividad tropical del Atlántico ocurre típicamente después del 1 de septiembre. La reciente actividad en el Golfo sigue a un raro período de calma en el Atlántico, sin la formación de tormentas con nombre desde Ernesto a mediados de agosto.

Las cálidas aguas del sur del Golfo, donde las temperaturas rondan los 32 ºC y alrededor de 3 grados por encima del promedio, contribuyeron al fortalecimiento temprano de la tormenta durante el fin de semana.

Un avión cazahuracanes de la Reserva de la Fuerza Aérea estaba en camino para investigar el sistema este domingo por la tarde antes de que se convirtiera en tormenta tropical, dijo el NHC.

Las débiles condiciones de dirección en la atmósfera superior podrían causar movimientos erráticos y es demasiado pronto para determinar la fuerza potencial del sistema o dónde podría tocar tierra.

Sin embargo, “los intereses a lo largo de la costa del Golfo de México, la parte superior de Texas y las costas de Louisiana deben vigilar de cerca el progreso de este sistema”, dijo el Centro de Huracanes.

Mira estas impactantes imágenes de una casa arrasada por las corrientes generadas por el huracán Ernesto

Algunas partes de la costa noroeste del Golfo podrían experimentar fuertes vientos, peligrosas marejadas ciclónicas e inundaciones debido a las fuertes lluvias que comenzarán este martes.

La tormenta podría afectar muchas de las áreas de Texas que ya fueron duramente afectadas en julio por el huracán Beryl, que tocó tierra al suroeste de Houston como categoría 1 y causó grandes inundaciones y daños por el viento, y generó importantes pérdidas de energía en Houston y sus alrededores.

Como referencia, la última temporada en la que dos tormentas con nombre tocaron tierra en Texas fue en 2020, cuando el huracán Hanna de categoría 1 azotó cerca de Brownsville y la tormenta tropical Beta azotó Port Lavaca.

La última tormenta con nombre que azotó directamente Louisiana fue el huracán Ida, de categoría 4, en 2021.

Crédito: NOAA.

Los meteorólogos vigilan otros dos sistemas en el Atlántico

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes también monitorea otros dos sistemas en el Atlántico oriental.

Las lluvias y tormentas eléctricas asociadas con un área alargada de baja presión sobre el Atlántico tropical central continúan mostrando algunos signos de organización.

Sequías, tormentas e inundaciones aumentan la migración climática en América Latina

Las condiciones ambientales parecen favorables para que este sistema se desarrolle más. “Podría formarse una depresión tropical mientras el sistema serpentea sobre el Atlántico tropical central hasta el lunes y luego comienza a moverse en general hacia el oeste durante el resto de la semana”, dijo el NHC, que estima que las probabilidades de formación durante los próximos siete días son del 60%.

Más al este, una baja presión a varios cientos de kilómetros al suroeste de las islas de Cabo Verde está produciendo una amplia zona de lluvias y tormentas eléctricas desorganizadas.

Se espera que este sistema se mueva muy poco durante los próximos días hasta que potencialmente interactúe con una onda tropical que se pronostica que se moverá hacia la costa oeste de África este lunes.

Se podría formar una depresión tropical a mediados o finales de la semana, mientras el sistema comienza a moverse lentamente hacia el noroeste. El Centro de Huracanes dijo que este sistema tiene un 50% de posibilidades de formarse.

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(CNN) –– Las ambiciones de Ties van der Hoeven son, cuanto menos, grandes. El ingeniero neerlandés quiere transformar una enorme extensión de desierto inhóspito en una tierra verde y fértil llena de vida salvaje.

Su mirada está puesta en la península del Sinaí, en Egipto, una extensión árida y triangular que conecta África con Asia. Hace miles de años estaba llena de vida, dijo, pero años de agricultura y otras actividades humanas contribuyeron a convertirla en un desierto.

Van der Hoeven está convencido de que puede devolverle la vida.

Pasó años perfeccionando una iniciativa destinada a restaurar la vida vegetal y animal en aproximadamente 35.000 kilómetros cuadrados de la península del Sinaí, un área apenas más grande que el estado de Maryland en Estados Unidos. El objetivo: absorber el dióxido de carbono que calienta el planeta, aumentar las precipitaciones y llevar alimentos y empleos a la población local.

¿Puede el ser humano cultivar nuevas islas en el país más bajo del mundo?

Van der Hoeven cree que es la respuesta a una serie de enormes problemas globales. “Estamos destruyendo nuestro planeta de una manera que da miedo”, le dijo a CNN. “La única salida holística de esta situación es con una regeneración ecológica a gran escala”.

Los llamados proyectos de reforestación de los desiertos no son nuevos, y este es uno de los muchos que se están llevando a cabo en todo el mundo para transformar los paisajes áridos. Muchos de ellos tienen como objetivo detener la desertificación (la degradación progresiva de las tierras secas), un fenómeno que las Naciones Unidas denominan “una crisis silenciosa e invisible que está desestabilizando a las comunidades a escala mundial”.

Pero el concepto también es controversial: los críticos dicen que la transformación de los desiertos no está probada, es enormemente compleja y podría afectar negativamente al agua y al clima en formas que no podemos predecir.

El surgimiento del plan

El pasado de Van der Hoeven puede parecer raro para alguien que tiene la intención de salvar el mundo. Mientras ejercía como ingeniero hidráulico en la empresa belga de dragado DEME, trabajó en proyectos como la construcción de islas artificiales en Dubai.

Pero en 2016, el rumbo de su carrera cambió cuando se involucró en una empresa para ayudar al gobierno egipcio a recuperar las menguantes poblaciones de peces en el lago Bardawil, una laguna de agua salada en el norte del Sinaí, separada del Mediterráneo por un estrecho banco de arena. Solía ​​tener más de 30 metros de profundidad, pero ahora tiene menos de 3 metros en algunas partes, además de ser caliente y salada.

En pocas semanas, van der Hoeven ideó un plan para abrir la laguna mediante la creación de entradas de marea y limpieza de “barrancos de marea” para permitir que fluyera más agua de mar, de forma que sea más profunda, más fría, menos salada y más llena de vida marina.

Pescadores en el lago Bardawil en el norte del Sinaí, Egipto, el 27 de abril de 2024. Crédito: Ali Moustafa/Getty Images.

Pero cuanto más investigaba, más lejos quería llegar.

Al examinar el terreno con Google Earth, vio el contorno de una red de ríos ahora secos que cruzaban el Sinaí como vasos sanguíneos, lo que sugería que esta tierra alguna vez fue verde. Estudió modelos meteorológicos e investigaciones ecológicas y comenzó a ver conexiones.

Podría utilizar los sedimentos extraídos del lago Bardawil para ayudar a reverdecer la zona circundante. “Son salados, pero contienen muchos nutrientes y minerales, que son necesarios para comenzar a restaurar la tierra”, dijo.

El proceso comenzaría con la ampliación de los humedales alrededor del lago para atraer a las aves y los peces.

Luego, se adentraría más en las montañas de la región para bombear los sedimentos del lago y colocarlos en capas para crear suelos donde pudieran crecer diferentes variedades de plantas tolerantes a la sal. Esto ayudaría a revitalizar los suelos, dijo van der Hoeven, reduciría los niveles de sal y haría que la tierra sea capaz de soportar una mayor variedad de plantas.

La idea central de Van der Hoeven es que al añadir vegetación al paisaje, habrá más evaporación, más formación de nubes y más lluvia. Incluso podría cambiar los vientos, ya que reverdecer la región puede traer de vuelta corrientes de aire cargadas de humedad, dijo.

“Esto podría cambiar completamente los patrones climáticos”.

Una imagen satelital de la península del Sinaí en 2020 frente a una maqueta de cómo podría verse después de la reforestación en 2050. Crédito: The Weather Makers.

Nada de esto será rápido.

Van der Hoeven estima que se necesitarán entre cinco y siete años para revitalizar completamente el lago, y entre 20 y 40 para una reforestación más amplia.

“Es realmente la naturaleza la que nos dice la velocidad”, afirmó.

Restauración “a escala planetaria”

La idea de Van der Hoeven puede parecer muy ambiciosa, pero ya se ha ejecutado antes.

Mientras planificaba febrilmente el proyecto del Sinaí, se encontró con la película “Green Godl”, realizada por el camarógrafo convertido en ecologista John Liu, que documenta un enorme proyecto de reforestación del desierto en la meseta de Loess, en el norte de China.

La región, casi del tamaño de California, había sido gravemente degradada por años de uso y pastoreo excesivo. Con una vegetación escasa y cubierta de un suelo fino de color amarillo ocre, era muy propensa a la erosión.

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En un intento por transformar la tierra, el gobierno de China y el Banco Mundial lanzaron en la década de 1990 un programa de reforestación a gran escala, en la que plantaron árboles y arbustos e implementaron restricciones al pastoreo.

En las décadas transcurridas desde entonces, la meseta de Loess floreció. Algunas partes de la tierra están ahora cubiertas de verde, la erosión del suelo se redujo y fluyen menos sedimentos hacia el río Amarillo de la región, lo que disminuye los riesgos de inundaciones.

La meseta de Loess en la provincia de Gansu, China, en 1993. Crédito: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images.

Montañas verdes y aguas azul verdosas del río Amarillo en la meseta de Loess en Yongjing, provincia de Gansu, China, 24 de julio de 2023. Crédito: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images.

Para van der Hoeven, fue una prueba más de que su plan podía funcionar.

Buscó a Liu, quien se sumó de inmediato. La idea de reverdecer lo que una vez fue una “tierra de leche y miel” era “muy emocionante”, le dijo Liu a CNN. “La escala alcanza un nivel que ayuda a demostrar que la restauración se puede hacer a escala planetaria”.

Este se sumaría a otros grandes proyectos de reforestación del desierto que también están en marcha.

La Gran Muralla Verde en África, por ejemplo, se puso en marcha en 2007 para ayudar a combatir la desertificación.

La iniciativa, que originalmente iba a ser un cinturón de árboles plantados a lo largo de miles de kilómetros en la región del Sahel del continente, se transformó en un “mosaico de paisajes verdes y productivos” en 11 países, dijo Susan Gardner, directora de la división de ecosistemas del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente en Nairobi.

Los esfuerzos de restauración son esenciales para enfrentar la crisis climática, la pérdida de la naturaleza y la contaminación, le dijo Gardner a CNN. “No tenemos otra opción. Tenemos que hacerlo; tenemos que escuchar a la ciencia y actuar ahora”.

¿Una “distracción llamativa”?

Pero los ecosistemas son increíblemente complejos y cuando se trata de proyectos enormes y transformadores como reverdecer un desierto, algunos expertos están preocupados por las consecuencias no deseadas.

En la búsqueda de un proyecto que llegue a buen puerto, existe el riesgo de que se opte por especies no autóctonas de rápido crecimiento que no sobrevivan o se vuelvan invasivas, superen a las plantas autóctonas circundantes y dañen la vida silvestre, dijo Alice Hughes, profesora adjunta de la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad de Hong Kong. Otras requieren de mucha agua, lo que puede causar conflictos con las necesidades de las personas.

Durante las primeras etapas del proyecto de la Gran Muralla Verde de África, muchos de los árboles murieron por falta de agua, por negligencia o porque no eran aptos para esa tierra.

Incluso en la meseta de Loess, ampliamente considerada como un éxito asombroso, hay evidencia de que la vegetación puede estar acercándose, o incluso superando, lo que el suministro de agua local puede soportar.

Un estudio de la región realizado en 2020 concluyó que los niveles más altos de evaporación de árboles y plantas tenían poco impacto en términos de aumento de las precipitaciones e incluso condujeron a una “menor disponibilidad de agua para la agricultura u otras demandas humanas”.

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Modificar el ecosistema también podría significar “cambiar potencialmente los patrones climáticos, lo que podría reducir la humedad y provocar sequías en otras partes”, dijo Hughes. La evaporación puede enfriar un lugar pero simplemente depositar ese calor en otros lugares.

La plantación de vegetación podría incluso acabar teniendo un efecto de calentamiento. Los desiertos de colores claros pueden reflejar más energía solar hacia el espacio que la vegetación más oscura. “Los desiertos en realidad enfrían el planeta”, dijo Raymond Pierrehumbert, profesor de física de la Universidad de Oxford.

Pierrehumbert le dijo a CNN que si bien reverdecer las zonas áridas podría tener efectos de enfriamiento local, podrían terminar “dejando al resto del planeta en una situación peor”.

“También tenemos que preguntarnos por qué lo hacemos”, afirmó Hughes. Estos proyectos pueden actuar como “distracciones llamativas”, agregó. “Suenan mucho más emocionantes que el trabajo básico de proteger los sistemas intactos existentes, que siguen desapareciendo a un ritmo asombroso”.

Sin embargo, para Liu existe una gran diferencia entre los desiertos naturales y aquellos que los seres humanos ayudaron a crear. El argumento de que no se deben tocar los desiertos generados por los seres humanos, incluso los que existen desde hace miles de años, no le parece “lógico”, afirmó.

Van der Heoven admitió que el proyecto es complejo, pero cree que es vital intentarlo. “Debemos proteger la naturaleza con todo lo que tenemos, pero también debemos restaurarla con todo lo que tenemos”, comentó.

Está estudiando exactamente qué plantas podrán atraer la vida silvestre y sobrevivir a los impactos futuros del cambio climático. También cree que el cambio del clima en la península del Sinaí tendrá un efecto dominó positivo para la región.

Quizás uno de los mayores obstáculos actuales es la inestabilidad regional mientras continúa la guerra en Gaza.

A finales de 2022, el gobierno egipcio firmó un acuerdo para iniciar la investigación y la planificación de la restauración del lago Bardawil. El proyecto debía comenzar en diciembre, pero el conflicto lo retrasó, afirmó van der Hoeven.

Todavía confía en que esto sucederá y piensa que la situación actual “crea un argumento aún más sólido” a favor de la reforestación como una forma de ayudar a generar más oportunidades y prosperidad.

Lo que está claro es que el cambio climático y la pérdida de biodiversidad, dos crisis globales interrelacionadas, están empeorando, y en la lucha por resolverlas, la idea de reverdecer las tierras áridas gana terreno.

Como ocurre con muchas ideas convincentes y descabelladas para abordar problemas enormes y complejos, hay quienes llaman a la cautela y advierten de las peligrosas consecuencias de apresurarse, y hay quienes sostienen que la situación es ahora tan urgente que no hay otra opción que intentarlas.

Van der Hoeven está firmemente en este último campo.

La regeneración del mundo natural “es la única salida al caos en el que nos encontramos”, afirmó. “Ya no hay tiempo para no actuar. Debemos actuar y aceptar que no lo sabemos todo”.

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The impasse between DirecTV and Disney over a new carriage agreement has become more heated as it entered its second week.

DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith.

Disney channels, including ESPN and ABC-owned stations in nine markets, have been off DirecTV since the evening of Sept. 1. That meant DirecTV customers were blacked out from viewing most college football games and the final week of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, including the women’s and men’s finals.

DirecTV has 11.3 million subscribers, according to Leichtman Research Group, making it the nation’s third-largest pay TV provider.

ABC and ESPN will have the “Monday Night Football” opener between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers. ABC will also produce and carry a presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina, are off DirecTV.

Besides all ESPN network channels and ABC-owned stations, Disney-branded channels Freeform, FX and National Geographic channel are dark.

DirecTV says in its 10-page complaint that Disney is violating the FCC’s good faith mandates by asking it to waive any legal claims on any anticompetitive actions, including its ongoing packaging and minimum penetration demands.

DirecTV has asked Disney for the option to provide consumers with cheaper and skinnier bundles of programming, instead of bigger bundles that carry programming some viewers might not be interested in watching.

The complaint states: “Along with these anticompetitive demands, Disney has also insisted that DirecTV agree to a ‘clean slate’ provision and a covenant not to sue, both of which are intended to prevent DirecTV from taking legal action regarding Disney’s anticompetitive demands, which would include filing good faith complaints at the Commission. Not three months ago, however, the Media Bureau made clear that such a demand itself constitutes bad faith.”

DirecTV CEO Ray Carpenter said during a conference call with business and media analysts on Tuesday that they would not agree to a new carriage deal with Disney without bundling changes.

“We’re not playing a short-term game,” Carpenter said. “We need something that is going to work for the long-term sustainability of our video customers. The resolve is there.”

Disney has claimed since the blackout began that mutual release of claims is standard practice after licensing agreements are negotiated and agreed upon by the parties. It has also had one with DirecTV under its past renewals.

A Disney spokesperson said: “We continue to negotiate with DirecTV to restore access to our content as quickly as possible. We urge DirecTV to stop creating diversions and instead prioritize their customers by finalizing a deal that would allow their subscribers to watch our strong upcoming lineup of sports, news and entertainment programming, starting with the return of Monday Night Football.”

Last year, Disney and Charter Spectrum — the nation’s second-largest cable TV provider — were involved in a nearly 12-day impasse until coming to an agreement hours before the first Monday night NFL game of the season.

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The impasse between DirecTV and Disney over a new carriage agreement has become more heated as it entered its second week.

DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith.

Disney channels, including ESPN and ABC-owned stations in nine markets, have been off DirecTV since the evening of Sept. 1. That meant DirecTV customers were blacked out from viewing most college football games and the final week of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, including the women’s and men’s finals.

DirecTV has 11.3 million subscribers, according to Leichtman Research Group, making it the nation’s third-largest pay TV provider.

ABC and ESPN will have the “Monday Night Football” opener between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers. ABC will also produce and carry a presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina, are off DirecTV.

Besides all ESPN network channels and ABC-owned stations, Disney-branded channels Freeform, FX and National Geographic channel are dark.

DirecTV says in its 10-page complaint that Disney is violating the FCC’s good faith mandates by asking it to waive any legal claims on any anticompetitive actions, including its ongoing packaging and minimum penetration demands.

DirecTV has asked Disney for the option to provide consumers with cheaper and skinnier bundles of programming, instead of bigger bundles that carry programming some viewers might not be interested in watching.

The complaint states: “Along with these anticompetitive demands, Disney has also insisted that DirecTV agree to a ‘clean slate’ provision and a covenant not to sue, both of which are intended to prevent DirecTV from taking legal action regarding Disney’s anticompetitive demands, which would include filing good faith complaints at the Commission. Not three months ago, however, the Media Bureau made clear that such a demand itself constitutes bad faith.”

DirecTV CEO Ray Carpenter said during a conference call with business and media analysts on Tuesday that they would not agree to a new carriage deal with Disney without bundling changes.

“We’re not playing a short-term game,” Carpenter said. “We need something that is going to work for the long-term sustainability of our video customers. The resolve is there.”

Disney has claimed since the blackout began that mutual release of claims is standard practice after licensing agreements are negotiated and agreed upon by the parties. It has also had one with DirecTV under its past renewals.

A Disney spokesperson said: “We continue to negotiate with DirecTV to restore access to our content as quickly as possible. We urge DirecTV to stop creating diversions and instead prioritize their customers by finalizing a deal that would allow their subscribers to watch our strong upcoming lineup of sports, news and entertainment programming, starting with the return of Monday Night Football.”

Last year, Disney and Charter Spectrum — the nation’s second-largest cable TV provider — were involved in a nearly 12-day impasse until coming to an agreement hours before the first Monday night NFL game of the season.

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(CNN) — The Miami-Dade Police Department placed an officer on administrative leave Sunday after Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was detained prior to the start of the season-opening game.

On Sunday morning, just hours before kickoff, Hill was detained for a short time by police after a traffic incident, the team said on social media. Miami-Dade Police Department Director Stephanie V. Daniels said Sunday an investigation has begun into the incident and one of the officers involved is being placed on administrative duties. A second Dolphins player said he was also handcuffed when trying to discuss the situation with officers at the scene.

“Following the incident involving Tyreek Hill, I have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation to ensure a thorough review of the matter. One of the officers involved in the incident has been placed on administrative duties while the investigation is conducted,” Daniels said in a statement. “I’m committed to transparency and accountability to the community with any situation involving my officers.”

Hill won’t soon forget the start of the 2024-25 season. After being detained, his day ended with a comeback win against the Jacksonville Jaguars that featured a “handcuffs” celebration after scoring a key touchdown.

The “Cheetah” said after the game he was still confused by his pregame encounter with police.

“I wasn’t disrespectful because my mom didn’t raise me that way, didn’t cuss, didn’t do none of that. Like I said, I’m still trying to figure it out,” Hill said at his postgame press conference.

Hill, 30, is one of the best wide receivers in the NFL, leading the league in receiving yards last season with 1,799 yards, while also adding 13 touchdowns. The Dolphins played the Jacksonville Jaguars in their Week 1 game at Hard Rock Stadium.

Showcasing his trademark speed, Hill found the end zone in the third quarter against the Jaguars, connecting with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa for an 80-yard score. After scoring, Hill celebrated by putting his arms behind his back with his wrists together – perhaps an allusion to being in handcuffs earlier in the day.

In the end, the Dolphins overcame a 14-0 deficit to win the game 20-17 on a 52-yard field goal from Jason Sanders as time expired. Hill finished the game with seven catches for 130 yards and a touchdown.

It’s still unclear exactly what led to Hill being detained by police. The team said on social media before the game he was pulled over by police for a traffic incident.

“This morning, WR Tyreek Hill was pulled over for a traffic incident about one block from the stadium and briefly detained by police,” the Dolphins X account said.

“He has since been released. Several teammates saw the incident and stopped to offer support. Tyreek and all other players involved have safely arrived to the stadium and will be available for today’s game.”

Reported video of the incident appeared to show a handcuffed Hill being picked up off the road by police.

Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told CNN in a statement Sunday night his legal team will “pursue this matter” and “consider legal action.”

“What happened today to Tyreek at the stadium is completely unacceptable,” Rosenhaus said. “Tyreek did not deserve to be treated that way by the police involved.”

CNN has reached out to Rosenhaus for more information.

After the game, Dolphins defensive tackle Calais Campbell said he was also put in handcuffs by police when he attempted to intercede and “deescalate” the situation.

“They put handcuffs on me too, and I was like ‘What’s going on?’ I didn’t understand what the issue was,” Campbell told NFL Network. “For him to put handcuffs on me, I felt some type of way.

“But that just goes to show how our resilience though. We didn’t let that stop us. We just got back in line, got focused again, and went out there and played a good football game. But that definitely was an interesting way to start a ballgame.”

Hill said he was moved by the show of support from his teammates.

“That should tell you everything you need to know,” Hill said after the game. “I’m just glad that my teammates were there to support me in that situation because I felt alone. And when they showed up, it made me realized that we got a f–king good team this year. For them to put their life on the line.”

Earlier Sunday, Rosenhaustold ESPN the incident began as a traffic stop when Hill was driving to the stadium.

“Apparently, he got a ticket for a moving violation entering the stadium,” Rosenhaus told ESPN. “How things escalated into the situation that they were in, in handcuffs and being held on the ground with police is mind-boggling to me.”

“We are aware of the recent detainment of Miami Dolphins player Tyreek Hill by Miami-Dade Police Department officers,” Daniels said in an earlier statement. “I have requested an immediate review of all details surrounding the incident, and we are also reviewing available body camera footage. We will provide updates as further information becomes available.”

CNN has reached out to the police for more information.

Rosenhaus confirmed to ESPN he has spoken with Hill and shared his client’s account of the incident.

“He was given a moving violation ticket, and he’s going to focus on the game and then we’ll address this afterwards,” Rosenhaus told ESPN.

Rosenhaus said the altercation left Hill rattled.

“The most important thing is that Tyreek is okay physically. Mentally, he was very distraught about what happened,” Rosenhaus told ESPN. “Tyreek has told me over and over he’s a big supporter of police. He was telling the police there, ‘I want to be a police officer in the future.’ But this is crazy, I’ve never seen anything like this.”

In a separate interview with CBS Sports, Rosenhaus said his client was left feeling “stunned” and “very emotional” after the incident. “He had no idea why it escalated to that extent. He felt it was very inappropriate, but we’ll be dealing with that after the game.”

Hill was a “consummate professional,” Rosenhaus said.

“He’s a very strong man, and I’m confident he’ll pull it together and be at his best today,” he said

This story has been updated with additional developments.

CNN’s Homero De La Fuente contributed to this report.

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(CNN) — Potential Tropical Cyclone Six has formed over the warm waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico with over two months left of 2024’s Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.

The storm that formed in the Gulf’s Bay of Campeche was located about 555 miles south of Port Arthur, Texas, on Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, according to the hurricane center’s 8 p.m.ET update.

“The system is moving toward the northwest near 5 mph and a slow northwestward motion followed by a turn more northward is expected over the next day or two,” the hurricane center said.

“On the forecast track, the disturbance is expected to move just offshore ofthe northern Gulf Coast of Mexico throughTuesday, and approach the Upper Texas and Louisiana coastline on Wednesday,” forecasters added.

Mexico’s government issued a tropical storm watch from Barra del Tordo northward to the mouth of the Rio Grande ahead of potential impacts.

The hurricane center said watches could also be issued for southern Texas later Sunday with additional watches possible along the coast of Texas and Louisiana later Sunday or Monday.

The system is expected to become a tropical storm on Monday with more significant intensification expected on Tuesday as a result of very warm Gulf waters. It is forecast to strengthen to hurricane status before it reaches the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, according to the hurricane center.

The next named storm will be called Francine.

An elongated area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico continued producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms on Sunday, the hurricane center said.

The storm’s title, Potential Tropical Cyclone Six, is a designation used by the hurricane center to denote a storm that has not yet formed but is expected to soon and will bring impacts within the 48-hour window requiring alerts to be issued.

The storm comes during an already unusually active Atlantic hurricane season which has so far produced five named storms by mid-August – three of which became hurricanes. It also comes days before the statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season on September 10.

Data from Colorado State University researchers show about 68% of all Atlantic tropical activity typically occurs after September 1. The latest activity in the Gulf follows a rare quiet period in the Atlantic, with no named storms forming since Ernesto in mid-August.

The warm waters of the southern Gulf, where temperatures are in the low 90s Fahrenheit and around 5 degrees above average, contributed to the storm’s early strengthening over the weekend.

An Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter plane investigated the system Sunday afternoon, still unorganized and not yet reaping the benefits of those warm water fuels.

Weak steering conditions in the upper atmosphere could cause erratic movements and it’s too early to determine the system’s potential strength or where it may make landfall.

However, “interests along the Gulf coast of Mexico, upper Texas, and Louisiana coasts should closely monitor the progress of this system,” the hurricane center said.

Portions of the northwestern Gulf Coast could potentially see strong winds, dangerous storm surge and flooding from heavy rainfall starting as early as Tuesday.

Tropical downpours are expected to bring 4 to 8 inches of rain, with up to 12 inches possible from the coast of far northeast Mexico northward along portions of the Texas coast and into Louisiana through Thursday. This rainfall would lead to the risk of flash and urban flooding.

Storm surge and rough surf could cause minor coastal flooding along the Mexican coastline. Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area along the northern coast of Mexico beginning Tuesday.

The storm could affect many of the same areas of Texas hit hard in July by Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall southwest of Houston as a Category 1 and brought extensive flooding and wind damage, causing significant power losses in and around Houston.

For reference, the last season to have two named storms make landfall in Texas was 2020, when Category 1 Hurricane Hanna struck near Brownsville and Tropical Storm Beta struck Port Lavaca.

If the storm hits the Texas coastline as a hurricane, it would be the first double punch in 16 years. The last time two hurricanes struck Texas in the same year was 2008 with Dolly in Corpus Christi and Ike in Galveston and Houston.

The last named storm to directly hit Louisiana was Category 4 Hurricane Ida in 2021.

Forecasters monitor 2 other systems in Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center is also monitoring two other systems in the eastern Atlantic.

Showers and thunderstorms associated with an elongated area of low pressure over the central tropical Atlantic continue to show some signs of organization.

Environmental conditions appear favorable for this system to develop further. “A tropical depression could form while the system meanders over the central tropical Atlantic through Monday and then begins to move generally westward through the rest of the week,” the hurricane center said, putting chances of formation over the next seven days at 70%.

Further east, low pressure several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

This system is expected to move very little during the next couple of days until it potentially interacts with a tropical wave forecast to move off the west coast of Africa on Monday.

A tropical depression could form by the middle or latter part of the week while the system begins moving slowly northwestward. The hurricane center said this system has a 50% chance of forming.

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CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — College football players aspire to play in bowl games. Professional players dream of playing in the Super Bowl. On Sunday, a bunch of amateurs in New Hampshire just wanted to get muddy. The three-day mudfest wrapped up with the culmination of the Mud Bowl, which celebrated its 50th year of mud-caked football in North Conway, New Hampshire. The event features athletes trudging through knee-deep muck to score. Ryan Martin said he’s been playing mud ball for almost 20 years and said it’s a good excuse to meet up with old friends he’s grown up with.

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(CNN) — The most important moment in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump comes this week, as the vice president prepares for what could be her only opportunity to directly confront a former president whose political dominance she is pledging to end.

Their Tuesday night debate is particularly important for Harris, who is battling to define herself in voters’ eyes and keep up the positive momentum she’s enjoyed since becoming the Democratic Party’s new nominee this summer.

The debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia will be the first face-to-face encounter between Harris and Trump, who are locked in a tight race.

For Harris, it’s a marquee moment to show Americans that she is ready to assume the presidency, a question very much on the minds of voters as the fall campaign intensifies.

“Look, it’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness,” she said during a weekend stop in Pittsburgh, taking a break from her debate preparations. “It’s time to bring our country together, chart a new way forward.”

Trump, meanwhile, is eager to negatively shape voters’ perceptions of his Democratic rival and halt the gains she has made since ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket in July. Harris has eliminated what for much of the year had been Trump’s lead over Biden in presidential polling.

Both Harris and Trump are offering themselves as change agents of sorts. Harris has pitched herself as a clean break from a bitterly divisive era of politics dominated by Trump. The former president, though, points to Harris’ time in the Biden administration and says she bears the blame for inflation, higher mortgage rates and more.

Trump’s campaign and his allies have accused Harris of avoiding policy particulars. But Trump’s incoherent answer last week to a question about how he would make child care more affordable was a vivid reminder that the former president has long brushed aside policy details and questions about the practicality of his proposals.

Trump has also lobbed racist and lewd attacks against Harris, including falsely claiming in July that she “happened to turn Black” a few years ago (she’s the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants) and sharing on social media references to her former relationship with onetime San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

Whether Trump makes similar comments — and how Harris responds — could shape voters’ perceptions of their clash Tuesday.

The debate, moderated by ABC anchors Linsey Davis and David Muir, is scheduled to last 90 minutes. Like the CNN debate between Trump and Biden in June, candidates’ microphones will be turned on when it’s their turn to speak and muted otherwise.

Those rules — agreed to by the Biden and Trump campaigns — have frustrated Harris, who hoped to tap into her skills as a former prosecutor during any onstage engagements with Trump.

“Vice President Harris, a former prosecutor, will be fundamentally disadvantaged by this format, which will serve to shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges with the Vice President. We suspect this is the primary reason for his campaign’s insistence on muted microphones,” the Harris campaign said Wednesday in a letter to ABC News agreeing to the debate.

Tight race in key swing states

The debate comes just before early voting begins in several key states. Polls have shown a tight race nationally and in key battlegrounds — including the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as the Sun Belt states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

Both campaigns have paid particular attention to Pennsylvania and Georgia, where recent CNN polling found no clear leader between the candidates. Should Trump hold North Carolina, a state he’s won twice, victories in Pennsylvania and Georgia could push him past the 270 electoral vote threshold even if he does not win any of the other battleground states.

Harris got a jolt of good news late last week, when her campaign announced it had pulled in almost triple her Republican rival’s fundraising haul in August — $361 million to Trump’s $130 million — entering September with $404 million in cash reserves for the final two-month sprint to November. That sum far surpasses the $295 million Trump’s political operation says it has in the bank.

A Sunday New York Times/Siena College poll, however, underscored the importance of the fight over defining Harris. The survey, which showed the two candidates about evenly matched nationally, suggested that a sizable share of voters still need more information about the vice president: 28% of likely voters said they feel like they need to learn more about Harris, while just 9% said the same about Trump.

The poll also offered some potential warnings for Harris. While 61% of likely voters said they thought the next president should represent a “major change” from Biden, just 25% said they thought Harris represented such a change, while 53% said Trump did.

The same poll found that 47% of likely voters found Harris too liberal, despite her attempts to moderate in recent weeks, compared with 32% who said Trump is too conservative.

Pittsburgh debate camp

The two candidates have taken drastically different approaches to preparing for their Tuesday showdown.

No presidential nominee in the modern age has done more televised general election debates than Trump. Harris and her team have been carefully studying all six of them — three with Hillary Clinton in 2016, two with Biden in 2020, and another with Biden in June — as she prepares for her turn onstage.

Harris has spent the days leading up to the debate hunkered down with aides at a hotel in Pittsburgh, making only occasional, brief public appearances. But aides said she has been thinking about a debate with Trump since the moment Biden ended his bid for reelection in late July.

“I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage,” Harris told reporters last month. “I’m ready. Let’s go.”

She’s been reading briefing papers about Trump’s comments, positions and even the insults he’s directed at her, aides said, as well as familiarizing herself with how Trump comported himself with his two previous Democratic opponents, particularly Clinton.

Harris has spoken extensively to both Clinton and Biden about debating Trump, hoping to benefit from their experiences.

And she began telegraphing her approach to Trump even before her nomination became official, telling a crowd in Atlanta in late July: “If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.”

A strategy for Harris, aides said, is not only to stand up to the former president, but to make the case that it’s time for the country to move beyond the Trump era. Any of his taunts on race are expected to be diminished and dismissed as the “same old, tired playbook,” as Harris said during her sit-down interview with CNN last month.

While many candidates have outwardly bristled at debate preparations, aides said Harris is digging into the practice sessions with mock debates against a Trump stand-in, longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines, and preparing like she did during her years as a prosecutor.

Karen Dunn, a Washington lawyer who has helped Democratic candidates prepare for debates for more than a decade, is running the practice sessions for Harris. Dunn, who worked with Clinton ahead of her encounters with Trump in 2016, got to know Harris when she prepared her to face Vice President Mike Pence in 2020.

“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking. I’m speaking,” Harris said at one point during that debate, delivering a line that could be reprised on Tuesday if she is faced with any interruptions. “If you don’t mind letting me finish, we can have a conversation. OK? OK.”

Trump’s informal approach

In recent days Trump has ribbed Harris over her preparations and claimed that his debate performance won’t get a fair review.

“If I destroy her in the debate, they’ll say, ‘Trump suffered a humiliating defeat tonight,’” the former president said at a Saturday campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.

Trump, who argued he doesn’t need formal preparation such as mock debates, has been meeting with senior advisers, policy experts and outside allies to ready himself for Tuesday.

The “policy discussions” — the Trump campaign’s version of debate prep — largely mirror those the former president held in the weeks leading up to his June 27 debate with Biden, sources familiar with the meetings told CNN.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has been handling the meetings, which have included sessions with former Trump administration official Stephen Miller, Trump campaign policy adviser Vincent Haley, and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, among others.

The sessions have largely focused on helping Trump sharpen his messaging on a range of issues, from the economy to immigration and American democracy at large.

The Trump campaign also deliberately scheduled a slate of events in the days leading up to the debate, such last week’s policy speech to the Economic Club of New York and his town hall with Fox News, in an effort to have him hone his messaging in public, his advisers said.

People close to Trump argue one of the most crucial aspects of his Tuesday matchup with Harris is ensuring the former president does not appear overly aggressive toward her and strikes the right tone. As with his June 27 debate with Biden, Trump’s advisers and allies have been encouraging him to appear more restrained while onstage.

However, many privately acknowledge that will be even more important this time. Not only is Harris a more popular candidate than Biden was then, but she is also a woman, and the optics of particular attacks will resonate differently, they say.

Gabbard, who recently endorsed Trump, has been a key player in that effort. The Hawaii Independent was among the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who challenged Harris on the debate stage. She has been working with Trump to help him better understand Harris’ debate style.

Trump’s advisers believe Gabbard’s attacks on the then-California senator — particularly the scrutiny of her record as a prosecutor — helped undermine Harris’ candidacy in 2019.

The former president’s team has told him to specifically needle Harris on the issues where she has changed her position.

“We want to keep him steered toward hitting her record. On fracking, on her flip flops, and show that she is just as responsible for the Biden administration’s failed policies as Biden is,” one adviser said.

Those helping Trump prepare have also directed him to focus his answers on the core policy issues where he polls higher than Harris, such as the economy, immigration and crime, sources familiar with the meetings said.

“The most important part is finding pivots, finding ways to be critical of her, deflecting attacks from her,” a senior Trump adviser told CNN. “It’s not about her interrupting him or how she’ll act. It’s about him being on target on his responses on policy. That’s been the main focus.”

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(CNN) — The most important moment in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump comes this week, as the vice president prepares for what could be her only opportunity to directly confront a former president whose political dominance she is pledging to end.

Their Tuesday night debate is particularly important for Harris, who is battling to define herself in voters’ eyes and keep up the positive momentum she’s enjoyed since becoming the Democratic Party’s new nominee this summer.

The debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia will be the first face-to-face encounter between Harris and Trump, who are locked in a tight race.

For Harris, it’s a marquee moment to show Americans that she is ready to assume the presidency, a question very much on the minds of voters as the fall campaign intensifies.

“Look, it’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness,” she said during a weekend stop in Pittsburgh, taking a break from her debate preparations. “It’s time to bring our country together, chart a new way forward.”

Trump, meanwhile, is eager to negatively shape voters’ perceptions of his Democratic rival and halt the gains she has made since ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket in July. Harris has eliminated what for much of the year had been Trump’s lead over Biden in presidential polling.

Both Harris and Trump are offering themselves as change agents of sorts. Harris has pitched herself as a clean break from a bitterly divisive era of politics dominated by Trump. The former president, though, points to Harris’ time in the Biden administration and says she bears the blame for inflation, higher mortgage rates and more.

Trump’s campaign and his allies have accused Harris of avoiding policy particulars. But Trump’s incoherent answer last week to a question about how he would make child care more affordable was a vivid reminder that the former president has long brushed aside policy details and questions about the practicality of his proposals.

Trump has also lobbed racist and lewd attacks against Harris, including falsely claiming in July that she “happened to turn Black” a few years ago (she’s the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants) and sharing on social media references to her former relationship with onetime San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

Whether Trump makes similar comments — and how Harris responds — could shape voters’ perceptions of their clash Tuesday.

The debate, moderated by ABC anchors Linsey Davis and David Muir, is scheduled to last 90 minutes. Like the CNN debate between Trump and Biden in June, candidates’ microphones will be turned on when it’s their turn to speak and muted otherwise.

Those rules — agreed to by the Biden and Trump campaigns — have frustrated Harris, who hoped to tap into her skills as a former prosecutor during any onstage engagements with Trump.

“Vice President Harris, a former prosecutor, will be fundamentally disadvantaged by this format, which will serve to shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges with the Vice President. We suspect this is the primary reason for his campaign’s insistence on muted microphones,” the Harris campaign said Wednesday in a letter to ABC News agreeing to the debate.

Tight race in key swing states

The debate comes just before early voting begins in several key states. Polls have shown a tight race nationally and in key battlegrounds — including the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as the Sun Belt states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

Both campaigns have paid particular attention to Pennsylvania and Georgia, where recent CNN polling found no clear leader between the candidates. Should Trump hold North Carolina, a state he’s won twice, victories in Pennsylvania and Georgia could push him past the 270 electoral vote threshold even if he does not win any of the other battleground states.

Harris got a jolt of good news late last week, when her campaign announced it had pulled in almost triple her Republican rival’s fundraising haul in August — $361 million to Trump’s $130 million — entering September with $404 million in cash reserves for the final two-month sprint to November. That sum far surpasses the $295 million Trump’s political operation says it has in the bank.

A Sunday New York Times/Siena College poll, however, underscored the importance of the fight over defining Harris. The survey, which showed the two candidates about evenly matched nationally, suggested that a sizable share of voters still need more information about the vice president: 28% of likely voters said they feel like they need to learn more about Harris, while just 9% said the same about Trump.

The poll also offered some potential warnings for Harris. While 61% of likely voters said they thought the next president should represent a “major change” from Biden, just 25% said they thought Harris represented such a change, while 53% said Trump did.

The same poll found that 47% of likely voters found Harris too liberal, despite her attempts to moderate in recent weeks, compared with 32% who said Trump is too conservative.

Pittsburgh debate camp

The two candidates have taken drastically different approaches to preparing for their Tuesday showdown.

No presidential nominee in the modern age has done more televised general election debates than Trump. Harris and her team have been carefully studying all six of them — three with Hillary Clinton in 2016, two with Biden in 2020, and another with Biden in June — as she prepares for her turn onstage.

Harris has spent the days leading up to the debate hunkered down with aides at a hotel in Pittsburgh, making only occasional, brief public appearances. But aides said she has been thinking about a debate with Trump since the moment Biden ended his bid for reelection in late July.

“I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage,” Harris told reporters last month. “I’m ready. Let’s go.”

She’s been reading briefing papers about Trump’s comments, positions and even the insults he’s directed at her, aides said, as well as familiarizing herself with how Trump comported himself with his two previous Democratic opponents, particularly Clinton.

Harris has spoken extensively to both Clinton and Biden about debating Trump, hoping to benefit from their experiences.

And she began telegraphing her approach to Trump even before her nomination became official, telling a crowd in Atlanta in late July: “If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.”

A strategy for Harris, aides said, is not only to stand up to the former president, but to make the case that it’s time for the country to move beyond the Trump era. Any of his taunts on race are expected to be diminished and dismissed as the “same old, tired playbook,” as Harris said during her sit-down interview with CNN last month.

While many candidates have outwardly bristled at debate preparations, aides said Harris is digging into the practice sessions with mock debates against a Trump stand-in, longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines, and preparing like she did during her years as a prosecutor.

Karen Dunn, a Washington lawyer who has helped Democratic candidates prepare for debates for more than a decade, is running the practice sessions for Harris. Dunn, who worked with Clinton ahead of her encounters with Trump in 2016, got to know Harris when she prepared her to face Vice President Mike Pence in 2020.

“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking. I’m speaking,” Harris said at one point during that debate, delivering a line that could be reprised on Tuesday if she is faced with any interruptions. “If you don’t mind letting me finish, we can have a conversation. OK? OK.”

Trump’s informal approach

In recent days Trump has ribbed Harris over her preparations and claimed that his debate performance won’t get a fair review.

“If I destroy her in the debate, they’ll say, ‘Trump suffered a humiliating defeat tonight,’” the former president said at a Saturday campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.

Trump, who argued he doesn’t need formal preparation such as mock debates, has been meeting with senior advisers, policy experts and outside allies to ready himself for Tuesday.

The “policy discussions” — the Trump campaign’s version of debate prep — largely mirror those the former president held in the weeks leading up to his June 27 debate with Biden, sources familiar with the meetings told CNN.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has been handling the meetings, which have included sessions with former Trump administration official Stephen Miller, Trump campaign policy adviser Vincent Haley, and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, among others.

The sessions have largely focused on helping Trump sharpen his messaging on a range of issues, from the economy to immigration and American democracy at large.

The Trump campaign also deliberately scheduled a slate of events in the days leading up to the debate, such last week’s policy speech to the Economic Club of New York and his town hall with Fox News, in an effort to have him hone his messaging in public, his advisers said.

People close to Trump argue one of the most crucial aspects of his Tuesday matchup with Harris is ensuring the former president does not appear overly aggressive toward her and strikes the right tone. As with his June 27 debate with Biden, Trump’s advisers and allies have been encouraging him to appear more restrained while onstage.

However, many privately acknowledge that will be even more important this time. Not only is Harris a more popular candidate than Biden was then, but she is also a woman, and the optics of particular attacks will resonate differently, they say.

Gabbard, who recently endorsed Trump, has been a key player in that effort. The Hawaii Independent was among the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who challenged Harris on the debate stage. She has been working with Trump to help him better understand Harris’ debate style.

Trump’s advisers believe Gabbard’s attacks on the then-California senator — particularly the scrutiny of her record as a prosecutor — helped undermine Harris’ candidacy in 2019.

The former president’s team has told him to specifically needle Harris on the issues where she has changed her position.

“We want to keep him steered toward hitting her record. On fracking, on her flip flops, and show that she is just as responsible for the Biden administration’s failed policies as Biden is,” one adviser said.

Those helping Trump prepare have also directed him to focus his answers on the core policy issues where he polls higher than Harris, such as the economy, immigration and crime, sources familiar with the meetings said.

“The most important part is finding pivots, finding ways to be critical of her, deflecting attacks from her,” a senior Trump adviser told CNN. “It’s not about her interrupting him or how she’ll act. It’s about him being on target on his responses on policy. That’s been the main focus.”

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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Matías Delacroix has been taking photos for The Associated Press since 2019. The award-winning Chilean photojournalist, currently based in Panama City, has covered some of the biggest events in Latin America for the AP including the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, soccer great Pelé’s funeral, Javiér Milei’s election in Argentina, Nicolas Maduro’s election in Venezuela, and the 2023 Pan American Games among other moments. This is what he had to say about this extraordinary photo.

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Fox Sports is spending $375 million to put Tom Brady in the broadcast booth, and the network wants to make sure everyone knows he’s there.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion made his debut as an NFL analyst during the Fox broadcast of the regular-season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. But first came a Brady hype video leading into the pregame show, where the studio team admitted they couldn’t help but “fanboy” over their new co-worker.

“You’re a broadcaster, how about that!” play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt said when the camera cut to the booth in Cleveland, where Brady, in a coat and tie, made his first live appearance on screen. The former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback was identified when they cut to the booth as a “7-time Super Bowl champion.”

And that, as the kids say, is a nice flex.

Sideline reporter Erin Andrews made sure to let Dallas coach Mike McCarthy know that Brady had been complimentary of his play calling. Charissa Thompson gave him a couple of shout-outs when she broke in with score updates on the game between Tampa Bay, one of his former teams, and the Washington Commanders.

Burkhardt joked during during another on-screen appearance that he paid extra attention to his hair because he knew there would be more shots of the broadcast booth.

“I do what they tell me. I understand that,” Brady said with a chuckle. “I’m still a rookie in here.”

To the viewers, that was obvious.

Brady’s commentary was knowledgeable, as expected, but also lacking in personality — no Tony Romo anticipating the next play, no John Madden with his “Boom!” and turducken, not even the quarter-zip sweaters that make Peyton Manning stand out from the dozens or hundreds of other ex-jocks who joined the media when their playing careers were over.

There were awkward laughs, a cringey fist-bump with rules analyst Mike Pereira, and a lot of calling players by their first names (along with an unnecessarily deferential reference to “Coach McCarthy”). Brady declined to call out Cleveland receiver Amari Cooper when a pass went through his hands in the fourth quarter and made excuses for the Browns while trying to find positives in a dreadful performance.

As one X user tweeted, “Tom Brady is to broadcasting as Michael Jordan is to baseball.”

(Of course Brady, a sixth-round draft pick who spent his first NFL season as the Patriots fourth-string quarterback, managed to grow into the quarterbacking thing just fine.)

It didn’t help that the game, which Dallas led 27-3 early in the second half, was headed toward a blowout that would challenge even a veteran broadcaster to hold the audience’s interest. But that’s where Brady was able to deploy his experience as an asset.

“There’s plenty of time left in this game,” said the quarterback who famously led the Patriots back from a 28-3 deficit in Super Bowl 51 against Atlanta. “Just the margin of error’s slim.”

On one play, Brady called for Deshaun Watson to throw it to an open tight end; the Browns quarterback didn’t see it.

Brady played 23 years in the NFL before retiring after the 2022 season as the most decorated player in league history. He signed a 10-year deal with Fox Sports — replacing the well-regarded Greg Olsen as the network’s lead analyst. Brady took last year off, a gap that only added to the anticipation over whether he could transfer some of his on-field knowledge and skills to the booth.

A commercial a few minutes before the kickoff featured Brady in his various football uniforms talking to his current self, questioning why he didn’t just take the estimated $450 million he earned in his playing career and “lay on a beach getting fat on pina coladas.”

“What they’re really asking is why don’t you quit football?’ They don’t understand that you live and breathe for football. Because you’re Tom Freaking Brady,” a succession of helmeted Bradys say. “And our football journey isn’t even close to done.”

“Back to work,” the current Brady says.

With five Super Bowl MVP awards in his seven victories in the NFL title game — six for New England and one for Tampa Bay — Brady established himself as the greatest player in league history. He retired with the career records for wins and playoff wins, passing touchdowns and playoff passing touchdowns, and passing yards and playoff passing yards, among other bests.

And while he couldn’t completely avoid controversy in his career — most notably during the two-year Deflategate odyssey that led to a four-game suspension for cheating — Brady rarely made news with anything he said.

Brady’s new career has already seen a setback because his concurrent attempt to purchase a minority share in the Las Vegas Raiders means he won’t have the access to team facilities, players and coaches that other broadcasters receive. He also must abide by the league constitution and bylaws that prohibit public criticism of officials and other clubs; he is allowed to broadcast Raiders games.

The much-anticipated debut stole some of the attention from the game between the defending NFC East champion Cowboys, who signed quarterback Dak Prescott to a record-setting four-year, $240 million contract earlier Sunday, and a Browns team that isn’t expected to make the playoffs.

As the final 30 seconds ticked off on the Cowboys’ 33-17 victory, Brady and Burkhardt discussed their new partnership as much as the game itself. Back in the studio, Michael Strahan picked Brady — not any of the players — as the day’s biggest winner, and Brady shared some wisdom he got from his fellow athlete-turned-TV personality: “You’re going to wake up tomorrow, on Monday morning, you ain’t going to be sore.”

“That,” Brady said, “I’m very happy about.”

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Fox Sports is spending $375 million to put Tom Brady in the broadcast booth, and the network wants to make sure everyone knows he’s there.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion made his debut as an NFL analyst during the Fox broadcast of the regular-season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. But first came a Brady hype video leading into the pregame show, where the studio team admitted they couldn’t help but “fanboy” over their new co-worker.

“You’re a broadcaster, how about that!” play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt said when the camera cut to the booth in Cleveland, where Brady, in a coat and tie, made his first live appearance on screen. The former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback was identified when they cut to the booth as a “7-time Super Bowl champion.”

And that, as the kids say, is a nice flex.

Sideline reporter Erin Andrews made sure to let Dallas coach Mike McCarthy know that Brady had been complimentary of his play calling. Charissa Thompson gave him a couple of shout-outs when she broke in with score updates on the game between Tampa Bay, one of his former teams, and the Washington Commanders.

Burkhardt joked during during another on-screen appearance that he paid extra attention to his hair because he knew there would be more shots of the broadcast booth.

“I do what they tell me. I understand that,” Brady said with a chuckle. “I’m still a rookie in here.”

To the viewers, that was obvious.

Brady’s commentary was knowledgeable, as expected, but also lacking in personality — no Tony Romo anticipating the next play, no John Madden with his “Boom!” and turducken, not even the quarter-zip sweaters that make Peyton Manning stand out from the dozens or hundreds of other ex-jocks who joined the media when their playing careers were over.

There were awkward laughs, a cringey fist-bump with rules analyst Mike Pereira, and a lot of calling players by their first names (along with an unnecessarily deferential reference to “Coach McCarthy”). Brady declined to call out Cleveland receiver Amari Cooper when a pass went through his hands in the fourth quarter and made excuses for the Browns while trying to find positives in a dreadful performance.

As one X user tweeted, “Tom Brady is to broadcasting as Michael Jordan is to baseball.”

(Of course Brady, a sixth-round draft pick who spent his first NFL season as the Patriots fourth-string quarterback, managed to grow into the quarterbacking thing just fine.)

It didn’t help that the game, which Dallas led 27-3 early in the second half, was headed toward a blowout that would challenge even a veteran broadcaster to hold the audience’s interest. But that’s where Brady was able to deploy his experience as an asset.

“There’s plenty of time left in this game,” said the quarterback who famously led the Patriots back from a 28-3 deficit in Super Bowl 51 against Atlanta. “Just the margin of error’s slim.”

On one play, Brady called for Deshaun Watson to throw it to an open tight end; the Browns quarterback didn’t see it.

Brady played 23 years in the NFL before retiring after the 2022 season as the most decorated player in league history. He signed a 10-year deal with Fox Sports — replacing the well-regarded Greg Olsen as the network’s lead analyst. Brady took last year off, a gap that only added to the anticipation over whether he could transfer some of his on-field knowledge and skills to the booth.

A commercial a few minutes before the kickoff featured Brady in his various football uniforms talking to his current self, questioning why he didn’t just take the estimated $450 million he earned in his playing career and “lay on a beach getting fat on pina coladas.”

“What they’re really asking is why don’t you quit football?’ They don’t understand that you live and breathe for football. Because you’re Tom Freaking Brady,” a succession of helmeted Bradys say. “And our football journey isn’t even close to done.”

“Back to work,” the current Brady says.

With five Super Bowl MVP awards in his seven victories in the NFL title game — six for New England and one for Tampa Bay — Brady established himself as the greatest player in league history. He retired with the career records for wins and playoff wins, passing touchdowns and playoff passing touchdowns, and passing yards and playoff passing yards, among other bests.

And while he couldn’t completely avoid controversy in his career — most notably during the two-year Deflategate odyssey that led to a four-game suspension for cheating — Brady rarely made news with anything he said.

Brady’s new career has already seen a setback because his concurrent attempt to purchase a minority share in the Las Vegas Raiders means he won’t have the access to team facilities, players and coaches that other broadcasters receive. He also must abide by the league constitution and bylaws that prohibit public criticism of officials and other clubs; he is allowed to broadcast Raiders games.

The much-anticipated debut stole some of the attention from the game between the defending NFC East champion Cowboys, who signed quarterback Dak Prescott to a record-setting four-year, $240 million contract earlier Sunday, and a Browns team that isn’t expected to make the playoffs.

As the final 30 seconds ticked off on the Cowboys’ 33-17 victory, Brady and Burkhardt discussed their new partnership as much as the game itself. Back in the studio, Michael Strahan picked Brady — not any of the players — as the day’s biggest winner, and Brady shared some wisdom he got from his fellow athlete-turned-TV personality: “You’re going to wake up tomorrow, on Monday morning, you ain’t going to be sore.”

“That,” Brady said, “I’m very happy about.”

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Andrew Heaney snapped an eight-start winless streak as the Texas Rangers took an early five-run lead and beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-4 on Sunday.

Heaney (5-13), one short of the major league lead in losses, allowed four runs, three earned, on three hits in six-plus innings to win for the first time since July 21. He was backed by home runs from Marcus Semien, Nathaniel Lowe and Ezequiel Duran.

It was rare run support for Heaney. The 33-year-old left-hander received two runs or fewer of support in his previous seven starts and 18 of his 27 this season before Sunday. His 3.55 average run support as a starter was fourth lowest in the American League.

“Very happy about that. Happy for those guys,” Heaney said. “I know it’s not intentional. I know those guys aren’t having a meeting about, ‘Hey, don’t forget. Heaney’s on the mound. Let’s not support him.’ I know it’s been trying for them.”

Kirby Yates earned his 29th save in 30 chances after David Robertson left runners on the corners in the eighth with a one-run lead.

The Rangers won three of four games against the Angels to match a season-best four consecutive series won, the other time happening April 26-May 8. The defending World Series champions (70-74) have climbed within four games of .500 for the first time since July 30.

Texas chased 20-year-old right-hander Caden Dana (1-1) 11 batters into his second major league start. Dana, who was brought up from Double-A Rocket City on Aug. 30, gave up five runs on seven hits, including three home runs, and left with the bases loaded with none out in the second inning.

Ryan Zeferjahn followed Dana and shut down Texas by striking out Wyatt Langford and getting Adolis García to ground into a double play.

Semien hit Dana’s first pitch for his sixth leadoff homer this season and 30th of his career.

“Marcus led off a home run, and then it was pow, pow, pow after that,” Angels manager Ron Washington said of Dana, one of seven Angels rookies to play on Sunday. “Just wasn’t his day.”

Duran’s homer was his third of the season, the first since June 11.

“Threw stuff over the middle. Happened too many times,” said Dana, an 11th-round draftee in 2022.

Heaney retired Los Angeles’ first nine batters before Taylor Ward led off the fourth with a walk, Zach Neto doubled down the left-field line and Charles Leblanc, recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake on Sept. 1 for the second time this season, pulled a 3-2 slider down the left-field line for his first Angels homer.

The Angels (59-84) pulled within 5-4 in the seventh on Michael Stefanic’s sacrifice fly off José Leclerc to score Matt Thaiss. Thaiss reached on a high fly ball down the left-field line off Heaney that was dropped by Langford into foul territory and ruled foul. Los Angeles successfully challenged that Langford stood in fair territory when he dropped it, and Thaiss was awarded second base.

Texas scored two unearned runs in the eighth on Travis Jankowski’s two-out single to right field that was overrun by Jordyn Adams.

UP NEXT

Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (3-6, 5.87 ERA) will open a three-game series at Minnesota on Monday against Twins RHP David Festa (2-5, 4.75).

Rangers: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (11-7. 3.55) will face Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (11-6, 3.69) on Tuesday in a rematch of Texas’ most recent appearance at Arizona, the clinching game of last year’s World Series.

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ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a student in class with the boy accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting says information that school officials were warned that the boy was having a crisis shows the shooting could have been prevented.

“The school failed them, that they could have prevented these deaths and they didn’t,” Rabecca Sayarath said Sunday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I truly, truly feel that way.”

Sayarath’s daughter, Lyela, told reporters on Wednesday, the day of the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that administrators appeared to be looking for Colt Gray, the 14-year-old who has been charged with four counts of murder, before the gunfire began.

Others, though, are declining to blame school or law enforcement officials.

“I’m not going to referee or second-guess what happened with the authorities the other night,” U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “I applaud our first responders. When others are running away from danger, they run toward the danger in order to do the best they can.”

Officials say Gray shot and killed students Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, both 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53. Eight other students and a teacher were injured — seven of them shot — and are expected to recover.

Annie Brown told The Washington Post that her sister, Colt Gray’s mother, texted her saying she spoke with a school counselor and warned staff of an “extreme emergency” before the killings. Brown said Marcee Gray urged them to “immediately” find her son to check on him.

Brown provided screen shots of the text exchange to the newspaper, which also reported that a call log from the family’s shared phone plan showed a call was made to the school at 9:50 a.m. Warrants for Gray’s arrest say the shooting started at 10:20 a.m.

Brown confirmed the reporting to The Associated Press on Saturday in text messages but declined to provide further comment.

Marcee Gray expressed remorse for the shootings Saturday to The Washington Post and The New York Post.

“I am so, so sorry and can not fathom the pain and suffering they are going through right now,” Gray told The Washington Post in a text.

“It’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible,” Gray told The New York Post outside her father’s home in Fitzgerald, Georgia, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Atlanta.

Charles Polhamus, the boy’s grandfather, has told multiple news outlets that Marcee Gray got a text from her son on Wednesday saying he was sorry. Polhamus told CNN that Marcee Gray drove to Winder, more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from Fitzgerald, immediately after the shooting.

The Washington Post also reported that texts show relatives contacted the school about the boy’s mental health a week before the shooting, and that Brown told a relative he having “homicidal and suicidal thoughts.” The newspaper reported that the teen’s grandmother, Deborah Polhamus, met with a school counselor to request help.

The boy “starts with the therapist tomorrow,” Polhamus wrote in a text to Brown after that meeting.

Investigators haven’t said what they believe might have motivated Gray or whether they believe he targeted particular victims.

Authorities have said Gray’s father, Colin Gray, gave him access to the semiautomatic AR-15 style rifle used in the shooting. It’s not clear how Gray brought the gun to campus or what he did with it in the two hours between school starting at 8:15 a.m. and when shots first rang out.

Colin Gray became the first parent of a school shooting suspect to be charged in Georgia, District Attorney Brad Smith said Friday. He’s accused of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children for providing his son with the rifle.

Colin Gray is jailed in Barrow County after declining to seek bail in a brief court hearing Friday in Winder. Colt Gray is being held in a juvenile detention center after declining to seek bail. Neither has been indicted or entered a plea.

Lyela Sayarath said Wednesday that Colt Gray had left her algebra classroom and that she believed he was skipping class.

In the minutes before the shooting, a female administrator came to her class looking for a student with the same last name and almost identical first name as Gray, she said. That other student was in the bathroom, but the administrator demanded to see his bag. That student returned with his bag moments later, Sayarath said, and told her that administrators had concluded he wasn’t the student they were looking for.

Someone also called the teacher on the intercom, apparently asking about Gray, Sayarath said. She said as the intercom buzzed a second time, the teacher responded, “Oh he’s here,” seeing Gray outside the classroom door.

When students went to open the door, which automatically locks from the inside when closed, Sayarath said they backed away. She said she saw Colt Gray turn away through the window of the door and then she said she heard gunshots — “10 or 15 of them at once, back-to-back.”

Rabecca Sayarath, Lyela’s mother, has said she believed the school erred by sending an unarmed administrator to look for Colt Gray instead of one of Apalachee High’s armed school resource officers.

When she questioned Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith about her daughter’s account at a Wednesday night news conference, Smith cautioned, “With all due respect, ma’am, I think your information is incorrect.”

It’s unclear if Barrow County school authorities knew before the shooting that Colt and Colin Gray previously had been interviewed by a sheriff’s deputy in neighboring Jackson County in May 2023 after a report of an online threat to shoot up a middle school that Colt Gray, then 13, attended.

Colt Gray told the deputy that “he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner,” according to a report filed by investigators. No action was taken because of inconsistent information about the social media account used to make the threats.

Colin Gray told the investigator back then that Colt had access to unloaded guns in the house but knew “how to use them and not use them.” He also said his son had struggled since he and his wife separated and that Colt was picked on in school.

Nicole Valles, a spokesperson for the Barrow County school district, declined to comment Sunday in response to emailed questions seeking more details about what may have happened before the shooting.

“Because this is an active investigation and now court proceedings have begun, we are not commenting on specific details,” Valles wrote, referring questions to the district attorney.

Smith didn’t immediately respond to emails Sunday with similar questions, while the Georgia Bureau of Investigation referred requests for comment to the district attorney.

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Happy Sunday to the Borderland! We saw a cool start to our Sunday in the Borderland, we rose to 88 in El Paso. Las Cruces rose to 86. Tonight, we will drop into the 60s.

For your work week, conditions will remain the same for the next few days with temperatures slightly rising above normal (low to mid-90s).

We are also watching Invest AL 91 (Potential Tropical Cyclone Six) in the Gulf of Mexico, which could bring a slight chance of rain to the Borderland. Most models are banking on this system taking a northeastern route towards the Louisiana Coast. If this disturbance tracks more northwest, we could see a chance for rain.

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HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — In the land of the salsa, more and more youngsters are turning to K-pop. Popular all over the world, South Korean bands have gained dedicated fan clubs even on the socialist island, thanks to greater access to the internet. K-pop fans who follow the bands, adopt the fashion, and learn the steps gather on weekends at different public spaces in Havana to perform, exchange gossip about their favorite artists and sell K-pop memorabilia. South Korean pop artists have become popular in Cuba even before the two countries restored diplomatic relations earlier this year, which had been severed in 1959 after the Cuban revolution.

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis has been ousted by his party’s central committee via a motion of no confidence, just a year after his election to the post by party cadres who accused him of being an authoritarian and not fully ideologically aligned with the party. Kasselakis, who was elected leader in September 2023, reacted by saying that he felt “liberated” and strongly attacked his opponents.  He did not say whether he will join a new leadership contest. An extraordinary congress must take place within three months, followed by a leadership election by party members and “friends” where practically anyone who shows up can vote.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins and head coach Raheen Morris wore Apalachee High School T-shirts during warmups before the NFL team’s season opener, honoring the victims of a fatal shooting. Four people were killed and nine injured last week at the school in Winder, a city in Atlanta’s sprawling suburbs. A 14-year-old student has been charged with the shooting, which took the lives of two students and two teachers. Apalachee High is about 20 miles from the Falcons’ practice facility in Flowery Branch. A moment of silence was observed before the game, which was won by the Pittsburgh Steelers 18-10.

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(CNN) — Jannik Sinner, el tenista número uno del mundo, ganó su segundo título de Grand Slam en individuales tras vencer al estadounidense Taylor Fritz por 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 en el Arthur Ashe Stadium el domingo.

Fritz, el número 12 del mundo, aspiraba a ser el primer estadounidense en ganar un título de Grand Slam en individuales en 21 años. Andy Roddick, que estuvo presente el domingo, es el último estadounidense en hacerlo cuando triunfó en el US Open de 2003.

Sinner, de 23 años, con una racha de 11 victorias consecutivas, ganó el Abierto de Australia en enero. Se une a Flavia Pennetta, que ganó el campeonato de individuales femenino en 2015, como los únicos campeones individuales italianos en la historia del torneo US Open.

Taylor Fritz fue el primer estadounidense desde 2009 que compitió en una final de individuales de Grand Slam. Crédito: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

El triunfo de Sinner se produce en el contexto de su reciente caso de dopaje que se hizo público el 20 de agosto, una noticia que conmocionó al mundo del tenis.

Sinner, que evitó la suspensión después de dar positivo dos veces en los controles por cantidades mínimas de la sustancia prohibida Clostebol, afirmó que no hizo nada malo. Se dictaminó que Sinner no tuvo “ninguna culpa o negligencia”, y Sinner dijo que los resultados positivos se debieron a una “contaminación involuntaria” a través del tratamiento de su entonces fisioterapeuta.

Este es el primer año desde 2002 que ninguno de los miembros de los “Tres Grandes” del tenis masculino –Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal y el ahora retirado Federer– ganó un Grand Slam. En cambio, los grandes se dividieron entre Sinner y Carlos Alcaraz, y el español ganó el Abierto de Francia y Wimbledon.

En el Abierto de Estados Unidos de este año, Djokovic fue derrotado en la tercera ronda por Alexei Popyrin, mientras que Nadal no jugó.

Los ricos y famosos suelen acudir al Abierto de Estados Unidos, y el domingo no fue la excepción. Entre los asistentes estaban Taylor Swift y Travis Kelce, que estaban sentados con Patrick y Brittany Mahomes. Otros presentes fueron Matthew McConaughey, Martha Stewart, Noah Lyles y Elon Musk.

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(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened prosecution and “long term prison sentences” for election officials and political operatives, who he suggested could cheat in the 2024 election, if he again wins the presidency in November.

Trump, again falsely claiming Democrats engaged in fraudulent behavior in 2020, said that he, attorneys and legal scholars are “watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely.”

“WHEN I WIN,” Trump wrote in a post on his social network, Truth Social, that he later also shared on X, “those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law.”

Trump’s threats of prosecution — part of his repeated efforts to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election — come as early voting will soon be underway in a number of states. Trump has routinely suggested he would weaponize the justice system to go after his political opponents if voters return him to the White House — threats that began after he was first indicted in his Manhattan hush money case more than a year ago.

Trump, who regularly spreads conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and falsely claims there was widespread voter fraud, added on Saturday, “I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation!”

Despite Trump’s repeated claims, the 2020 election was highly secure, and he lost to Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes. There is no evidence of voter fraud even close to widespread enough to have changed the outcome of the election in any state.

In a post on Sunday, Trump also called on the FBI to investigate mail-in ballots in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania — which are set to go out to voters soon — and cited an interview with an “election expert” conducted by former Fox News host and far-right commentator Tucker Carlson that claimed a fifth of the state’s mail-in ballots were fraudulent.

The former president has for years falsely claimed that mail-in voting leads to fraud and pointed to supposed examples in swing states, including Pennsylvania, in 2020. Despite these claims, Trump’s campaign over the summer launched a new program aimed at promoting absentee, mail-in and early in-person voting ahead of the November election.

Election officials have been the victims of pervasive threats as the 2024 election draws closer, CNN has reported, and elections operations have beefed up security in the face of harassment of elections workers and disinformation about the voting process.

Trump said Saturday he was eyeing everyone from lawyers and donors to voters. “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he wrote. “Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country,” he added.

Trump still faces his own charges over election interference stemming from efforts to subvert the 2020 election, including  a four-count indictment in his federal case. A separate election interference case against him in Fulton County, Georgia has been indefinitely paused.

This story has been updated with new reporting.

CNN’s Daniel Dale, Kristen Holmes, Ethan Cohen, Dianne Gallagher, Aaron Cooper and Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) --SoldierCon, an event established in 2015 to support military families facing financial challenges, has grown significantly over the years.

Originally held at military installations, it now moves to larger public venues, with this year's event taking place at the Starlight Convention Center in El Paso, Texas.

The convention, back after the COVID-19 pandemic, featured three days of engaging activities including car shows, cosplay contests, and stunt exhibitions.

Highlights included a thrilling costume contest with characters like Chewbacca and Darth Vader, and appearances by notable voice actors Scott Dreier and Vic Mignogna.

The event not only drew local attendees but also welcomed visitors from across the country and beyond, reflecting the positive impact of SoldierCon on the community.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Houston Texans invested heavily in the offseason in giving C.J. Stroud some additional scoring options.

It’s already paying big dividends.

Stefon Diggs caught two touchdown passes and Joe Mixon ran for 159 yards and another score in their Houston debuts to help the Texans close out a 29-27 victory against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.

“It’s everything for us,” Texans coach DeMeco Ryans said of his new tag-team tandem. “Those guys go out and make plays no matter what the situation is, like when you can count on those guys to make plays it’s huge for our team, not just our offense but what they did for an entire team, providing the energy they did for our team, it’s outstanding.”

In some ways, it was more of the same for Houston (1-0).

C.J. Stroud was 24 of 32 with 234 yards and no turnovers as the defending AFC South champs won their ninth consecutive road game in division play — inside the same venue they clinched a playoff spot in Week 18 last season.

Still, Mixon, who was acquired in a trade from Cincinnati, and Diggs, who was acquired in a trade with Buffalo, gave Houston a more potent look.

Diggs caught six passes for 33 yards with two touchdowns — a 9-yard score to give Houston a 12-7 lead it never surrendered and a 2-yard TD reception on fourth-and-goal to essentially seal the victory with 4:42 to play.

Mixon carried a career-high 30 times, finished with his highest single-game rushing total since gaining a career-best 165 yards against Pittsburgh in November 2021 and scored on a 3-yard run early in the fourth quarter on the first play after a holding penalty erased a Colts interception.

“I’m just finally getting tapped into the player I know I am,” Mixon said. “The guys are encouraging me to make sure this thing is still up and going. I’m just glad I’m one of the forefront persons to really set the tone and let people know what it is like playing us.”

For the Colts (0-1), it was an all-too-familiar script.

They extended the NFL’s longest active opening day winless drought, three of the past four coming against division teams including a 20-20 tie at Houston in 2022.

And even though Anthony Richardson gave them a chance with two TD passes of more than 50 yards and a powerful 3-yard TD run with 2:14 to play, Indy’s weary defense couldn’t get the ball back to Richardson.

Houston’s offense had the ball for 40 minutes.

“It’s going to be like this a lot, you know, there’s going to be a lot of one-score games,” Colts coach Shane Steichen said. “We’ve got to find ways at the end, offensively and defensively, to make the plays in critical situations.”

But Mixon, Diggs, Stroud and Nico Collins simply wouldn’t allow it.

Collins had his third consecutive big game against the Colts, catching six passes for 117 yards including a 55-yarder that set up Diggs’ first score and Ka’imi Fairbairn made three field goals from 50 or more yards.

It was simply too much for the Colts, who took a 7-3 lead when Richardson and Alec Pierce hooked up on a 60-yard TD pass in the first quarter.

Diggs’ first score made it 12-7 and when Fairbairn started the second half with another field goal, the Texans’ lead expanded to 15-7.

The Colts capitalized on a blocked punt with Jonathan Taylor’s 5-yard TD run, but a failed 2-point conversion left Indy in a 15-13 deficit.

Mixon responded with his TD run and after Richardson found Ashton Dulin on a 54-yard score, Diggs extended the lead to 29-20 with less than five minutes to play.

Richardson was 9 of 19 with 212 yards and one interception and ran six times for 56 yards. Taylor rushed 16 times for 48 yards and Pierce finished with three catches for 125 yards as the Colts came up short again.

Strange ending

Houston won despite an unusual finish to the first half, which may have cost it at least three points with officials stopping the clock to review Dalton Schultz’s 7-yard reception after a spike.

When referee John Hussey announced it was a catch and the clock would be reset to 15 seconds, Steichen called a timeout. Before play resumed, Hussey “apologized for the confusion,” rescinded the timeout and enforced a 10-second runoff for the review to reset the clock at 5 seconds while starting it on his signal. But with the offense still on the field, Houston didn’t get the ball snapped before time expired.

“It’s on us on the sideline,” coach DeMeco Ryans said. “We’ve got to be better.”

Turf trouble

Indianapolis installed new turf during the offseason and both teams struggled to stay upright. Stroud slipped on two consecutive plays on the Texans first series and when Colts rookie Adonai Mitchell slipped on a screen pass in the first half, it messed up the timing. And Kylen Granson’s bad footing led to Calen Bullock’s interception at the Texans 8-yard line late in the first half.

Up next

Texans: Host Chicago next Sunday night.

Colts: Visit Green Bay next Sunday.

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(CNN) — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are in their tennis era.

Swift and Kelce were among the famous faces shown on broadcast of the US Open men’s singles final on Sunday. Italy’s Jannik Sinner beat out American tennis star Taylor Fritz in the match, which aired on ESPN.

The couple walked into Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York holding hands and were dressed for the occasion, with Swift donning a red gingham sundress and Kelce sporting a white Gucci bucket hat.

Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs quarterback, and his wife Brittany Mahomes later showed up and joined Kelce and Swift at their seats. Mahomes and Kelce kicked off the 2024-2025 NFL season on Thursday, winning their season opener against the Baltimore Ravens.

The superstar power couple weren’t the only celebrities in attendance.

Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves were also seen in the stands. Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi, Eddie Redmayne, Rachel Lindsay, Martha Stewart and Rebel Wilson were also present at Sunday’s match.

Fritz is the first American man to advance to the US Open final since Andy Roddick in 2006.

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Washington (CNN) — When the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing on Friday to highlight the impact border security issues have on local communities, the latest installment of an ongoing series, Vice President Kamala Harris was underlying their line of attack for the first time.

Four months ago, when the panel held a similar field hearing in North Dakota, the vice president was not mentioned by name once.

The shift, both in branding and messaging from the “Biden Border Crisis” to the “Biden-Harris Border Crisis” underscores how House Republicans are pivoting to specifically target Harris after the summer of Democratic reckoning over President Joe Biden resulted in Harris becoming the Democrats’ presidential nominee with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.

As Congress embarks on a three-week sprint before its next recess, both parties return to Washington, DC, for a final messaging push dictated by the dynamics of the presidential race in an entirely new political landscape, while trying to balance the critical September 30 government funding deadline.

Republicans have turned their operation – initially designed to target Biden – on its head to now go after Harris, and Democrats are positioning themselves to frame the GOP attacks as a last-ditch effort while planning some offensive moves of their own.

Members of the Trump campaign advised the House GOP conference during a private call on Friday about what her biggest perceived weaknesses are and to keep their attack of Harris on the border and the state of the economy, a source on the call told CNN. Calls between Republican lawmakers and Trump campaign officials are expected to be a regular occurrence in the coming weeks, sources told CNN, as backchannel coordination ahead of the November election intensifies.

The guidance from the Trump campaign largely mirrors the playbook Republicans had used against Biden, and given Harris is part of Biden’s administration and has been the tie-breaking vote in the Senate in her role as vice president, Republicans plan to keep those issues in the spotlight.

With these sustained attacks on the border and immigration, Democrats will continue to point to border crossings being at a four-year low because of new Biden administration policies and emphasize that Republicans tanked a bipartisan border deal for political reasons.

But while there is evidence that Republicans are trying to develop a more targeted approach to the Harris-Walz ticket – as old tropes such as “Biden crime family” fall by the wayside – some GOP messaging ploys on Harris have come off disjointed. Republicans have been trying to find their footing when it comes to attacking Harris over the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, to further divide Democrats over the issue. While Harris has stood behind Biden in his handling of the war, and largely shares the same positions as the president, Republicans can’t seem to decide in their messaging if Harris is too close to or too much of an opponent of Israel.

A Republican-linked group in Michigan for example purchased digital ads last week touting Harris’ close relationship with Israel, while Trump said this week at an event that if Harris were elected Israel will “no longer exist.”

On top of that, some Republicans have deviated from the script and gone after Harris for being a “DEI hire,” unleashing swift blowback that those attacks were racially charged.

GOP committees lead the new Harris-focused effort

The Republican-led congressional committees have been spearheading the shift in focus from Biden to Harris.

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, for example, will release a report and hold a news conference Monday on the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling it an “unprecedented oversight of the Biden-Harris administration,” in an apparent messaging shift after previously labeling it the responsibility of the Biden administration.

The House Education and Workforce Committee issued a subpoena to Walz on Wednesday for documents related to a $250 million fraud scheme where individuals affiliated with a Minnesota-based nonprofit were charged with stealing from a federal program designed to provide meals for needy children during the pandemic.

The House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Walz last month alleging the Minnesota governor has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and a committee source told CNN the panel plans to hold hearings targeting the Biden-Harris administration when lawmakers return to session.

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last month to turn over any documents that use the terms “czar,” “border,” “migration,” or “immigration” in relation to Harris, as Republicans continue to try and frame Harris as the “border czar,” while the White House rejects the label, arguing her focus was on long-term fixes. And GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin raising questions about Walz’s representation of his military record.

“We don’t have a lot of time,” GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina told CNN on Thursday about how Republicans are pivoting to focus on Harris in September.

“I certainly believe that (Harris’) role should be under the microscope,” Mace added.

The GOP turn in focus to Harris however leaves a huge GOP investigative target in an awkward position.

The trio of committees leading the impeachment inquiry into Biden, once a top priority for the GOP investigative agenda, released their report on Biden in the thick of August recess without a clear path forward. Instead of pushing for the House to vote on impeachment, the report leaves it up to lawmakers to decide how to move forward.

Summarizing the GOP approach to Biden now that the president is not running for reelection, Mike Davis, a former top aide to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and founder of the Article III Project, told CNN, “Joe Biden who? No one cares about him anymore.”

And with only a matter of weeks before Election Day, even Republicans have acknowledged they have more pressing political fish to fry.

“I think just looking at the calendar, I think that it’s unlikely that there will be action on impeachment with Joe Biden,” GOP Rep. Bob Good of Virginia told CNN. “However, I have said for the better part of four years now that Joe Biden should be impeached.”

Democrats see through GOP efforts

But Democrats see the new push to target Harris and Walz as empty threats, and they point to GOP attacks on Harris’ race as disqualifying.

“Republicans can’t win on policy, and that’s why they’re attacking Kamala Harris’ identity and lying about Tim Walz’s military record,” Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs of California told CNN. “We have plenty to attack them on.”

On top of pushing back on the GOP claims, Democrats are using their spots on committees, even though they are in the minority, to go on offense, and are plotting messaging strategies of their own.

Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, who serves on the Oversight Committee, criticized Republicans for their snap investigations into Harris and Walz.

“All of a sudden, the only three weeks we are going to be there, we are opening up all these new things?” Moskowitz said.

Framing the Democratic strategy on these committees, Moskowitz added: “We pivot, we go on the offense, we don’t play defense.”

Earlier this month, House Oversight Committee Democrats launched an investigation into whether Trump received $10 million from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as part of his 2016 presidential campaign, the latest example of Democrats investigating the potential foreign influence over Trump.

The Democratic working group that has spearheaded messaging against Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in Trump’s race for the White House, also has a slew of messaging events planned over the next month, multiple sources told CNN.

While Trump continues to deny any involvement with Project 2025, Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee are preparing to continue to highlight examples where they see evidence of the right wing blueprint in Republican funding proposals in Congress.

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(CNN Español) — Apple llevará a cabo su próximo gran evento, en el que se espera el lanzamiento del iPhone 16 y otra novedades, el 9 de septiembre. El lema en esta ocasión será “It’s Glowtime”.

Aunque es una tradición que Apple realice una conferencia para presentar nuevas tecnologías e innovaciones en sus productos, uno de los anuncios más esperados es el último iPhone, que se espera traiga incorporada la inteligencia artificial (IA).

Apple tiene que volver a poner de moda el iPhone; esta es su oportunidad

En junio, al empresa tecnológica anunció una serie de funciones de IA generativa para el iPhone en su Conferencia Mundial de Desarrolladores anual, presentó el primer lote de herramientas impulsadas por “Apple Intelligence”, desde Genmoji personalizado (el emoji generado por IA de Apple) hasta una Siri significativamente más inteligente, que puede responder preguntas sobre su agenda, qué hay en su correo electrónico y a qué hora aterriza el vuelo de su ser querido.

La IA generativa permite que las herramientas creen trabajos escritos, imágenes e incluso audio en respuesta a las indicaciones de los usuarios.

También se prevé que Apple anuncie la asociación con el creador de ChatGPT, OpenAI, que enfrenta su propio escrutinio y desafíos.

La combinación de Siri con el último modelo ChatGPT-4o de OpenAI podría permitir al asistente recordar una foto tomada hace años, proporcionar información más específica e incluso posiblemente aprender las preferencias y la personalidad del usuario con el tiempo.

Aunque los usuarios del iPhone 15 Pro Max probablemente podrán acceder al menos a algunas de las funciones de IA, se espera que el próximo iPhone 16 sea el primer dispositivo diseñado completamente con la IA en mente.

Otras novedades que se epsran son referentes a dispositivos como Apple Watch, Airpods, Apple TV 4K, Vision Pro y nuevos procesadores, botones y funciones.

Cómo ver el evento y a qué hora

El evento se llevará a cabo en el Steve Jobs Theater en su sede de Apple Park, en Cupertino, California, y se transmitirá en línea en su cuenta oficial de Youtube.

A continuación los horarios por país:

Miami, EE.UU: 1 p.m. ET Cupertino, EE.UU: a partir de las 10 a.m Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y México: a partir de las 11 a.m. Colombia, Ecuador y Perú: a partir de las 12 p.m. Puerto Rico y Santo Domingo: a partir de la 1 p.m. Argentina, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay: a partir de las 2 p.m.

Ramishah Maruf contribuyó a este informe.

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(CNN Español) –– La decisión del candidato presidencial opositor Edmundo González Urrutia de salir de Venezuela y buscar asilo político en España obedeció a “decisiones de urgencia” que tomó en cuestión de horas para preservar su vida, su libertad, y para garantizar el bienestar de su familia, dijo a CNN este domingo su abogado, José Vicente Haro.

“Su vida corría peligro, su integridad física, su libertad y lo que es, en general, sus seguridades personales corrían peligro”, indicó Haro en entrevista.

Ante la sorpresiva salida de González Urrutia este sábado, en especial porque esta semana Haro había dicho que el candidato no se había planteado solicitar asilo en otros países, el abogado indicó que “fue una decisión que se tuvo que tomar y tuvo que tomar don Edmundo González Urrutia por razones humanas, que tal vez muchos no comprendan, pero hay que estar en la piel, hay que estar en la mente, hay que estar en la situación que él estuvo con un riesgo que se cernía sobre su familia, sobre su vida, con una persecución judicial injusta, con una investigación penal, con una orden de aprehensión”.

“Y llega un momento en que el instinto mínimo de conservación de su vida, de su integridad física, de su libertad, priva sobre muchas cosas”, agregó Haro.

El abogado también compartió que la decisión se tomó en las últimas horas de la medianoche del viernes, luego de que opositores denunciaran que las fuerzas de seguridad de Venezuela habían rodeado la embajada de Argentina en Venezuela, lo que fue calificado como “asedio” del Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro. La situación se extendió a lo largo de la noche hasta la mañana de este sábado.

Venezuela revoca a Brasil la representación de los intereses de Argentina mientras fuerzas de seguridad rodean la embajada

Seis opositores venezolanos permanecen en la sede diplomática luego de asilarse este año y para quienes el Gobierno de Argentina ya solicitó salvoconductos para que se les permita salir de Venezuela. Hasta ahora, las solicitudes no han sido concedidas por parte de las autoridades venezolanas.

El Gobierno de Venezuela anunció este sábado que revocaba la autorización a Brasil para representar los intereses de Argentina en el país, en medio de denuncias de un asedio a la sede diplomática argentina en Caracas.

Según Haro, la decisión de González se dio en este contexto, ya que el opositor pensaba que las autoridades venezolanas podrían acechar cualquier embajada si él intentaba resguardarse en ellas.

“Había dos opciones y se lo tengo que decir abiertamente: o ir a prisión injustamente, estar detenido, estar preso injustamente por delitos que no ha cometido, por hechos que no revisten carácter penal, por hechos que se presumen como delitos, según el Ministerio Público, que él en modo alguno ha cometido y entonces tendríamos a un Edmundo González Urrutia en las cárceles venezolanas. No se sabe en qué circunstancias y qué situaciones. O se preservará la vida de él a través de una decisión sobrevenida en la que incluso a la medianoche del día viernes él todavía no estaba seguro de adoptarla”, indicó Haro.

Edmundo González dejó Venezuela por hostigamiento, dice Antonio Ledezma

Este sábado, en una conferencia de prensa, el fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, se refirió a la salida de González Urrutia hacia España y dijo que el Gobierno venezolano había otorgado el salvoconducto que permitió la salida del opositor a Europa.

Saab no dijo qué pasaría con el proceso judicial que se sigue contra González Urrutia, quien fue acusado de varios delitos que supuestamente se desprenden de la publicación de actas en internet que, según la oposición, muestran su victoria en las urnas el pasado 28 de julio frente a Nicolás Maduro, quien fue declarado vencedor por el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) en medio de acusaciones de fraude. El candidato ha dicho que la Fiscalía no le daba garantías para presentarse a citatorios y que era víctima de una persecución judicial injusta.

La salida de González de Venezuela ocurre cinco días después de que un tribunal ordenara su arresto por cargos relacionados con la publicación de resultados electorales en un sitio web. González reiteradamente rechazó los cargos que se le imputan.

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