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This image shows part of a "Seeking Information" notice released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding pipe bombs planted outside offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021, on the eve of the attack on the Capitol. (FBI via AP, File)2025-12-04T13:28:14Z WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege.The official who described the arrest was not authorized to publicly discuss a case that has not yet been made public and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The arrest took place Thursday morning, and the suspect is a man, the official said. No other details were immediately available, including the charges the man might face. The pipe bombs were placed on the evening of Jan. 5, 2021, near the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in the District of Columbia. Nobody was hurt before the bombs were rendered safe, but the FBI has said both devices could have been lethal. In the years since, investigators have sought the publics help in identifying a shadowy subject seen on surveillance camera even as they struggled to determine answers to basic questions, including the persons gender and motive and whether the act had a clear connection to the riot at the Capitol a day later when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building in a bid to halt the certification of the Republicans 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Seeking a breakthrough, the FBI last January publicized additional information about the investigation, including an estimate that the suspect was about 5-foot-7, as well as previously unreleased video of the suspect placing one of the bombs.The bureau had for years struggled to pinpoint a suspect despite hundreds of tips, a review of tens of thousands of video files and a significant number of interviews. In the absence of harder evidence, Republican lawmakers and right-wing media outlets promoted conspiracy theories about the pipe bombs. House Republicans also criticized security lapses, questioning how law enforcement failed to detect the bombs for 17 hours. Dan Bongino, the current FBI deputy director, floated the possibility last year before being tapped for his job that the act was an inside job and involved a massive cover-up.But since arriving at the FBI in March, he has sought to deliver action to a restive base on the far right by promising that the pipe bombs investigation would be a top priority and defending the bureaus work.We brought in new personnel to take a look at the case, we flew in police officers and detectives working as TFOs (task force officers) to review FBI work, we conducted multiple internal reviews, held countless in person and SVTC meetings with investigative team members, we dramatically increased investigative resources, and we increased the public award for information in the case to utilize crowd-sourcing leads, he wrote in a long post on X last month. ERIC TUCKER Tucker covers national security in Washington for The Associated Press, with a focus on the FBI and Justice Department. twitter mailto ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Richer covers the Justice Department and federal courts. She joined The AP in 2013 and is based in Washington. twitter RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

As Congress faces a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act subsidies, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meet with reporters about health care affordability, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)2025-12-04T10:01:20Z WASHINGTON (AP) Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month.Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 a significant enough increase that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, has resigned himself to finding cheaper coverage.I wont be able to pay it, because I really drained out any savings that I have right now, he said. Emergency fund is still draining out thats the scary part.Bigny is among the many Americans dependent on Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance plans who are already struggling with the high cost of health care, according to a new survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF.Most of the more than 1,300 enrollees surveyed in early November say they anticipate that their health costs will be impacted next year if Congress doesnt extend expiring COVID-era tax credits that help more than 90% of enrollees pay for health insurance premiums, per KFF. The possibility of an extension looks increasingly unlikely. The enhanced premium tax credits set to expire at the end of this year have been at the center of recent tensions in Congress, with Democrats calling for a straight extension and several Republican lawmakers vehemently opposed to the idea. Their inability to agree on a path forward fueled a record 43-day government shutdown earlier this fall. President Donald Trump and some Republicans in Congress have circulated proposals in recent weeks to offer a short-term extension or reform the Affordable Care Act, but no plan has emerged as a clear winner. Meanwhile, the window for Americans to shop for next years plans is well underway with less than a month to go until the subsidies expire. KFFs poll reveals that marketplace enrollees most of whom say they would be directly impacted by the subsidies expiring overwhelmingly support an extension. The survey found this group is more likely to blame Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats if the tax credits are left to expire. Enrollees already find it challenging to afford health expensesThe expiration of the tax credits which a separate KFF analysis found will more than double monthly payments for the average subsidized enrollee comes as Americans are already overwhelmed by high health expenses, the poll shows.About 6 in 10 Affordable Care Act enrollees find it somewhat or very difficult to afford out-of-pocket costs for medical care, such as deductibles and copays. That exceeds the roughly half of enrollees who find it challenging to afford health insurance premiums. Most also say they could not afford a $300 per year increase in their health insurance costs without significantly disrupting their household finances.Cynthia Cox, a vice president of KFF who leads the organizations ACA research, said the population of Americans on Affordable Care Act health insurance includes some high-earning entrepreneurs and small business owners, but the bulk of enrollees are lower-income and therefore vulnerable to even small increases in health costs.These are often going to be people who are living paycheck to paycheck, who have volatile or unpredictable incomes as well, she said. Increases that many of them are facing are going to be some sort of financial hardship for them. Most enrollees see cost increases on the horizonSlightly more than half of Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees believe their health insurance costs will increase a lot more than usual next year, according to the poll. About another 4 in 10 anticipate increases that will be a little more than usual or about the same as usual.Larry Griffin, a 56-year-old investment banker and financial adviser in Paso Robles, California, already pays $920 a month for his gold-level health plan through the states insurance marketplace. He says that price will go up to about $1,400 a month next year alongside jumps in copays and his annual out-of-pocket maximum.Hes concerned the increases will affect his ability to save money for his upcoming retirement, but with the recent amputation of his left leg below the knee, as well as other health issues, he said he cant risk going off health insurance or downgrading his plan. Griffin is among the roughly three-quarters of marketplace enrollees who say health insurance is very important for their ability to access the health care they need.Im not going to say that I cant manage it, I can, but its just another one of those things, he said. Heres, you know, knock number 5,000 against me after all of the other things Ive had to deal with.Patricia Roberts, 52, a full-time caregiver for her daughter in Auburn, Alabama, expects her monthly health insurance premiums to rise from around $800 a month to $1,100 a month next year costs she can manage. But her friends across the border in Georgia are staring down doubling monthly fees next year. I dont know how people are going to live, with it already being a struggle just to pay for food and all the other things, Roberts said. Support for an extension stretches across political partiesThe poll shows allowing the enhanced tax credits to expire would be overwhelmingly unpopular with current marketplace enrollees.Support for continuing the tax credits extends across party lines. Nearly all Democrats and about 8 in 10 independents who are enrolled in marketplace plans say the credits should be extended, as do about 7 in 10 Republicans. Support is similarly high among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who support the MAGA movement, and those who dont.Yvette Laugier, 56, a Republican in Chicago, said while her income is too high to qualify her for the enhanced premium tax credits, she supports extending them temporarily with additional fraud protections to give lower-income enrollees more time to consider their options.Among those who think Congress should extend the credits, about 4 in 10 say Trump would deserve most of the blame if they were allowed to expire and roughly one-third say that about Republicans in Congress. Democrats in Congress are much less likely to receive blame: only 23% of enrollees say they would deserve the bulk of responsibility.Bigny, in Virginia, said the blame should be split between both Democrats and Republicans. But he has hope they can come to a compromise and potentially a temporary extension in the coming weeks.They should just sit and really look for whats best for American people overall, he said.___Swenson reported from New York. ALI SWENSON Swenson covers politics and the information landscape for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter LINLEY SANDERS Sanders is a polls and surveys reporter for The Associated Press. She develops and writes about polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and works on AP VoteCast. twitter AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Thomson-DeVeaux is the APs editor for polling and surveys.

John Sarcone, acting U.S. attorney for northern New York, speaks at a news conference after an immigration raid in Albany, NY, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)2025-12-04T05:02:15Z ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) President Donald Trumps effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully.Now, another federal judge is poised to consider an argument by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the administration also twisted the law in order to make John Sarcone the acting U.S. attorney for northern New York.A court hearing is scheduled to be held Thursday as James challenges Sarcones authority to oversee a Justice Department investigation into regulatory lawsuits she filed against Trump and the National Rifle Association.James, a Democrat is disputing the legitimacy of subpoenas issued as part of Sarcones probe, which her lawyers say is part of a campaign of baseless investigations and prosecutions of Trumps perceived enemies. They argued in court papers that since Sarcone has no legitimate authority to act as U.S. attorney, any legal steps taken by him in that capacity are unlawful. The subpoenas must be quashed, and Sarcone must be disqualified from this investigation, they wrote. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Justice Department lawyers say Sarcone was appointed properly and the motion to block the subpoenas should be denied.The fight in New York, and in the other states, is largely over the legality of unorthodox strategies the Trump administration has adopted to appoint prosecutors seen as unlikely to get confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The New York hearing before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield comes a week after a federal judge in Virginia dismissed indictments brought there against James and former FBI Director James Comey. That judge concluded that the interim U.S. attorney who brought the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. The Justice Department is expected to appeal. On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that Alina Habba, Trumps former personal lawyer, is disqualified from serving as New Jerseys top federal prosecutor.Under federal law, the presidents nominees for U.S. attorney need to be confirmed by the Senate. If a position is vacant, the U.S. attorney general can appoint someone to serve temporarily, but that appointment then expires after 120 days. If that time period elapses, judges in the district can either keep the interim U.S. attorney in the post or appoint someone of their own choosing. Sarcones appointment didnt follow that path. Trump hasnt nominated anyone to serve as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Sarcone to serve as the interim U.S. attorney in March. When his 120-day term elapsed, judges in the district declined to keep him in the post.Bondi then took the unusual step of appointing Sarcone as a special attorney, then designated him first assistant U.S. attorney for the district, a maneuver federal officials say allows him to serve as an acting U.S. attorney. James lawyers have called the move an end-run around the federal law for filling vacant executive branch positions.The New York subpoenas seek records related to a civil case James filed against Trump over alleged fraud in his personal business dealings. and records from a lawsuit involving the National Rifle Association and two senior executives.Justice Department lawyers argued in court papers that the U.S. attorney general has unquestioned authority to appoint attorneys within her department and to delegate her functions to those attorneys. And they argue that even if Sarcone is not properly holding the office of acting U.S. attorney, he can still conduct grand jury investigations as a special attorney.Sarcone was part of Trumps legal team during the 2016 presidential campaign and worked for the U.S. General Services Administration as the regional administrator for the Northeast and Caribbean during Trumps first term.Habba had also served as an interim U.S. attorney. When her appointment expired, New Jersey judges replaced her with a career prosecutor who had served as her second-in-command. Bondi then fired the prosecutor installed by the judges and renamed Habba as acting U.S. attorney. A similar dynamic is playing out in Nevada, where a federal judge disqualified the Trump administrations pick to be U.S. attorney there. And a federal judge in Los Angeles disqualified the acting U.S. attorney in Southern California from several cases after concluding he had stayed in the temporary job longer than allowed by law.

Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)2025-12-04T05:03:34Z NEW YORK (AP) A high-stakes hearing in the New York murder case against Luigi Mangione continues Thursday, a year to the day after prosecutors say he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges. Before any trials get scheduled, his lawyers are trying to preclude the eventual jurors from hearing about his alleged statements to law enforcement officers and items including a gun and a notebook allegedly seized from his backpack.The evidence is key to prosecutors case. They have said that the 9 mm handgun matches the firearm used in the killing, that writings in the notebook laid out Mangiones disdain for health insurers and ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference, and that he gave Pennsylvania police the same fake name that the alleged gunman used at a New York hostel days before the shooting. Thompson, 50, was shot from behind as he walked to an investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. He became UnitedHealthcares CEO in 2021 and had worked within parent UnitedHealth Group Inc. for 20 years.The hearing, which started Monday and could extend to next week, applies only to the state case. But it is giving the public an extensive preview of some testimony, video, 911 audio and other records relevant to both cases. Its not immediately clear what witnesses or evidence are expected Thursday. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Tuesdays court session displayed police body-camera video of officers confronting Mangione at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and concluding to their amazement that he was the much-publicized suspect in Thompsons killing five days earlier. They interacted with Mangione for roughly 20 minutes before telling him he had the right to remain silent. The officers asked his name, whether hed been in New York recently and other questions, including: Why are you nervous? Officers tried to play it cool and buy time by intimating that they were simply responding to a loitering complaint and chatting about his steak sandwich. Still, they patted Mangione down and pushed his backpack away from him. About 15 minutes in, they warned him that he was being investigated and would be arrested if he repeated what theyd determined was a fake name.After he gave his real one, he was read his rights, handcuffed, frisked again and ultimately arrested on a forgery charge related to his fake ID.The video also provided glimpses of officers searching his backpack, a matter that will likely be explored further as the hearing goes on.Mangiones lawyers argue that his statements shouldnt be allowed as trial evidence because officers started questioning him before reading his rights. The defense contends the backpack items should be excluded because police didnt get a warrant before searching his bag.Manhattan prosecutors havent yet detailed their arguments for allowing the disputed evidence. Federal prosecutors have maintained that police were justified in searching the backpack to ensure there was nothing dangerous inside and that Mangiones statements to officers were voluntary and made before he was under arrest.Many criminal cases see disputes over evidence and the complicated legal standards governing police searches and interactions with potential suspects.

A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)2025-12-04T04:39:35Z Wall Street was holding steady early Thursday ahead of the governments latest data release on the labor market, a day after a private survey showed that the U.S. economy lost jobs last month. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each ticked up 0.1% before the opening bell. Nasdaq futures were unchanged.On Wednesday, markets rose to near record levels after the private payroll data firm ADP estimated U.S. job losses of 32,000 in November. The surprisingly weak report from ADP may be discouraging for people looking for jobs, but it bolstered expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut its main interest rate next week. If the Fed does, it would be the third cut of the year in hopes of supporting a slowing job market.While the governments weekly jobless claims report due later Thursday doesnt generally move markets, it may carry more heft this week. Thats because the more comprehensive November jobs report wont come out until after the Federal Reserve decides on interest rates next week. That report was delayed due to the government shutdown. Investors love lower interest rates because they boost prices for investments and can boost the economy. The downside is that they can fuel inflation, which remains above the Feds 2% target. On Friday, the government will release the Feds favored inflation measure, which central bank officials will also consider when making their decision on interest rates. In equities trading, Dollar General rose 6% after it hit Wall Streets third-quarter sales projections and profits came in ahead of expectations. Dollar Generals top line was lifted by solid sales at new stores as well as growth in same-store sales.Five Below jumped 4.5% after the discount gift store chain trounced analysts third-quarter profit expectations and raised its full-year guidance.Elsewhere, at midday in Europe, Germanys DAX rose 0.8%, Britains FTSE 100 inched up 0.1% and Frances CAC-40 added 0.3%. Japans Nikkei 225 index climbed 2.3% to 51,028.42, nearing its all-time high, on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut its main interest rate next week, even while traders speculate over whether the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates this month.Technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp.'s shares jumped 9.2% after the companys founder reaffirmed the companys strategic shift to focus on OpenAI and other investments in artificial intelligence. SoftBanks shares are still down nearly 28% from a month ago, when it announced it had sold its stake in chip maker Nvidia for $5.8 billion to be able to invest more in AI. The Japanese governments 10-year bond yield rose above 1.9%, its highest since 2007.Hong Kongs Hang Seng index reversed early trading losses, adding 0.7% to 25,935.90, led by gains for tech and consumer stocks. The Shanghai Composite index shed 0.1% to 3,875.79. South Koreas Kospi fell 0.2% to 4,028.51, with weakness in tech and automotive stocks weighing on the benchmark.Australias S&P/ASX 200 index recovered from a slump earlier in the day, adding 0.3% to 8,618.40.Taiwans Taiex index and Indias BSE Sensex were nearly unchanged. In energy markets early Thursday, U.S. benchmark crude oil picked up 31 cents to $59.26 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, gained 26 cents to $62.93 per barrel. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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SALT LAKE CITYWith top lawmakers championing the measure as a restoration of Christian values currently under attack in mainstream America, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill Monday that bans all eye contact during sex.Looking directly into another persons eyes while being physically intimate is a sick and unholy act, said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who criticized the perversion of locking eyes during sex and argued that it had led directly to rising rates of crime and drug abuse. This is a Christian state, and emotionless sex is a part of our heritage worth preserving. The only eyes you should be staring into during sex are Christs. Maintaining a deep, mutual gaze with a lover is an immoral and repulsive practice that corrupts our traditional method of procreation. They may accept this kind of degeneracy in California, but in Utah, we close our eyes and get it over with as the Lord intended. If your spouse tries to run their hands through your hair and look you in the eye while having sex, we recommend averting your gaze, saying a silent prayer, and contacting the authorities immediately. Addressing the concerns of Utah residents worried they might, in a moment of weakness, succumb to the temptation of intimate eye contact, Gov. Cox recommended hitting it from the back.The post Utah Bans Eye Contact During Sex appeared first on The Onion.

COLUMBIA, MOIn a display of enthusiasm that revealed a deep familiarity with the subject, local man Luke Price was said to be totally nerding out Thursday about the idea of white supremacy.According to sources, the 26-year-old sales associate and self-described bermensch rattled off a dozen esoteric theories of racial hierarchy and eagerly asserted the biological superiority of white people, admitting he was a bit of a geek when it came to the topic of purging Caucasian blood of its impurities. In an exchange that began as a casual conversation about dogs, Price reportedly went on a tangent about falling white birth rates for 15 minutes straight.Its amazing to see how passionate Luke becomes when the topic of white power comes uphe gets completely absorbed, said girlfriend Sarah Hovey, 20, who explained that while she considered herself more of a casual racist, she didnt mind Prices frequent monologues about IQ scores and genetics, or his lengthy quotations from Arthur de Gobineaus mid-19th-century Essay On The Inequality Of The Human Races. If someone mentions immigration, for instance, his whole face lights up as he starts in about shifting demographics, great replacement theory, and how this country rightfully belongs to whites.Hovey told reporters there was something kind of adorable about how excited her boyfriend becomes when he recaps the latest white supremacist diatribe from a Stew Peters podcast or Nick Fuentes live stream. She acknowledged her mind often wanders when Price goes into nerdy detail about scientific racismrambling on about brow ridges and skull measurements, or the difference between Australoids and Mongoloidsbut said shes just glad he has something that makes him happy.Everyone has their thing, Hovey said. Luke has white supremacy. I like to watch Friends.Price spoke at length about how, as a teenager, the internet allowed him to connect with a community of people who shared his intense conviction that inferior people were diluting the blood of the country. Though his parents anticipated he would grow out of his youthful obsession, he said his love of all things Aryan has only deepened with age. He chuckled when confessing he sometimes goes on eBay and spends way too much on pricey collectibles like authentic Nazi paraphernalia or a rare first edition of The Turner Diaries.In high school, I was really into the Proud Boys, Bronze Age Pervert, and that whole alt-right scene that was coming out back then, said Price, describing himself as the kid who wore a Pepe the Frog T-shirt to class and scribbled the 14 words on the front of all his notebooks. But pretty soon I got into edgier stuff, like Mike Enochs blog, and older stuff, tooinfluential guys like Madison Grant, who was writing a century ago about racial hygiene and the superior Nordic stock of Americas founders.Yep, Im a big ol dork when it comes to the idea of establishing a white ethnostate, he continued, throwing up his hands in a gesture of mock helplessness. What can I say?While he reportedly has very few friends in the town where he lives, Price said his Discord server is home to dozens of likeminded individuals of pure European heritage whom he chats with basically 24/7. In typical nerd fashion, he added, they sometimes attend in-person meet-ups where they dress up in vintage David Dukeera Ku Klux Klan robes. Price showed off a photo from a white nationalist con he attended, Fuentes America First Political Action Conference, where he got his photo taken with real-life superhero Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.Price confirmed his passion for preserving the white race has alienated him from people with more mainstream hobbies, remarking that no matter how popular white supremacy becomes, there will always be those who look down on him just because hes part of the fandom.Some people think its lame, he said. Theyd probably call me a weirdo or a loser for devoting so much of my time to this. I dont let it get me down, though. Its 2025, for Gods sake! Were cool now! There are even people like me in the White House.The haters out there are probably just insecure, he added. Or secret Jews.The post Man Totally Nerding Out About Superiority Of White Race appeared first on The Onion.

INDIANAPOLISSuggesting there were some deals even cancer researchers couldnt say no to, a new study published Thursday by the American Society of Preventative Oncology found that processed meats were carcinogenic but were also on sale. Our evidence indicates that while common deli items like salami, bacon, and corned beef have strong links to cancer, they were simply being offered at prices too good to pass up, said study co-author Dr. James Underwood, who added that avoiding products that contain nitrites and other chemical preservatives decreased the risk of developing gastrointestinal cancer, but with bargains like this, youd be an idiot not to stock up on them. Over the course of our analysis, we found that eating just one hot dog a day markedly increased rates of stomach, esophageal, and colorectal cancer, but an eight-pack of all-beef franks for $3.99? Come on. At that price, theyre basically giving them away. And after all, meat is meat. The new study follows research published last month that showed a significant link between buying organic produce, overall gut health, and going fucking broke.The post Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale appeared first on The Onion.

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"Help Wanted" sign is displayed at a dry cleaner in Rolling Meadows, Ill., Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)2025-12-04T13:43:08Z WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years last week, potentially complicating the Federal Reserves upcoming decision on interest rates.The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the week ending Nov. 29 fell to 191,000 from the previous weeks 218,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Thats the lowest level since September 24, 2022, when claims came in at 189,000. Analysts surveyed by the data provider FactSet had forecast initial claims of 221,000.Applications for unemployment aid are viewed as a proxy for layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market. The job cuts announced recently by large companies such as UPS, General Motors, Amazon and Verizon typically take weeks or months to fully implement and may not be reflected in Thursdays data. For now, the U.S. job market appears stuck in a low-hire, low-fire state that has kept the unemployment rate historically low, but has left those out of work struggling to find a new job. On Wednesday, private payroll data firm ADP estimated U.S. job losses of 32,000 in November. The surprisingly weak report may be discouraging for people looking for jobs, but it bolstered expectations that the Fed will cut its main interest rate next week. Its not clear how much weight this weeks layoff figures will carry with the Fed as the numbers can be volatile and prone to revisions. Complicating the Feds upcoming decision is inflation, which remains above the central banks 2% target. The Feds preferred measure of inflation will be released in a government report on Friday and will also be factored into its rate call.Two weeks ago, the government said that hiring picked up a bit in September, when employers added 119,000 new jobs. That mixed report, which also showed employers had shed jobs in August, was delayed due to the government shutdown. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, its highest level in four years, as more Americans returned to the labor market in search of work though they did not all immediately find jobs. Novembers comprehensive jobs data has been delayed for release until later this month, after the Feds meeting, also due to the government shutdown.The government also recently reported that retail sales slowed in September after three months of healthy increases. Consumer confidence has plunged to its second-lowest level in five years, while wholesale inflation eased a bit. The data suggests that both the economy and inflation are slowing, which has boosted financial markets expectations that the Federal Reserve will reduce its key interest rate at its meeting next week. If the Fed does reduce its benchmark rate next week, it would be the third cut of the year as it attempts to support a job market that has been slowing for months.Thursdays report from Labor also showed that the four-week average of claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week volatility, fell by 9,500 to 214,750.The total number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the previous week ending Nov. 22 dipped by 4,000 to 1.94 million, the government said.

The Talipot palm trees, native to India and Sri Lanka, is in bloom for the first and only time in its life, in Aterro do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys)2025-12-03T22:28:13Z RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.Towards the end of its life which can span between 40 and 80 years the palm tree sends up a central plume crowded with millions of small, creamy-white blossoms that rise high above its fan-shaped leaves.The rare phenomenon that ties past to present has sparked the curiosity of passersby in Flamengo Park who stop, crane their necks to admire them and take photos.Vinicius Vanni, a 42-year-old civil engineer, was even hoping to collect seedlings and plant them.I probably wont see them flower, but theyll be there for future generations, he said from Flamengo Park, which hugs a nearby beach and offers a spectacular view of Sugarloaf Mountain. Originating from southern India and Sri Lanka, the talipot palm can reach up to 30 meters (98 feet) in height and produce around 25 million flowers when it blossoms, using energy accumulated over decades.If the flowers are pollinated, they produce fruits that can become seedlings. In addition to Flamengo Park, the talipot palms can be found in Rios Botanical Garden, where they are also flowering.Thats because they were brought across from southern Asia together, have the same metabolism and have been exposed to the same Brazilian rhythm of daylight, according to Aline Saavedra, a biologist at Rio de Janeiro State University. Saavedra said that environmental laws strictly regulate transporting species native from another continent, although talipot palms are not invasive due to their slow development.The interest the phenomenon has generated is positive and could encourage a sense of belonging for human beings to preserve rather than destroy the environment, according to Saavedra.This palm species gives us a reflection on temporality, because it has roughly the same lifespan as a human being, said Saavedra. Marx also wanted to convey a poetic perspective.___Follow APs coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

During a presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agencys (IAEA) International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence on December 3, a US Department of Energy scientist laid out a grand vision of the future where nuclear energy powers artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence shapes nuclear energy in a virtuous cycle of peaceful nuclear deployment.The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade, Rian Bahran, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactors, said.His presentation and others during the symposium, held in Vienna, Austria, described a world where nuclear powered AI designs, builds, and even runs the nuclear power plants theyll need to sustain them. But experts find these claims, made by one of the top nuclear scientists working for the Trump administration, to be concerning and potentially dangerous.Tech companies are using artificial intelligence to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States. But few know the lengths to which the Trump administration is paving the way and the part it's playing in deregulating a highly regulated industry to ensure that AI data centers have the energy they need to shape the future of America and the world.At the IAEA, scientists, nuclear energy experts, and lobbyists discussed what that future might look like. To say the nuclear people are bullish on AI is an understatement. I call this not just a partnership but a structural alliance. Atoms for algorithms. Artificial intelligence is not just powered by nuclear energy. Its also improving it because this is a two way street, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in his opening remarks.In his talk, Bahran explained that the DOE has partnered with private industry to invest $1 trillion to build what will be an integrated platform that connects the worlds best supercomputers, AI systems, quantum systems, advanced scientific instruments, the singular scientific data sets at the National Laboratoriesincluding the expertise of 40,000 scientists and engineersin one platform.Image via the IAEA.Big tech has had an unprecedented run of cultural, economic, and technological dominance, expanding into a bubble that seems to be close to bursting. For more than 20 years new billion dollar companies appeared seemingly overnight and offered people new and exciting ways of communicating. Now Google search is broken, AI is melting human knowledge, and people have stopped buying a new smart phone every year. To keep the number going up and ensure its cultural dominance, tech (and the US government) are betting big on AI.The problem is that AI requires massive datacenters to run and those datacenters need an incredible amount of energy. To solve the problem, the US is rushing to build out new nuclear reactors. Building a new power plant safely is a mutli-year long process that requires an incredible level of human oversight. Its also expensive. Not every new nuclear reactor project gets finished and they often run over budget and drag on for years.But AI needs power now, not tomorrow and certainly not a decade from now.According to Bahran, the problem of AI advancement outpacing the availability of datacenters is an opportunity to deploy new and exciting tech. We see a future of and near future, by the way, an AI driven laboratory pipeline for materials modeling, discovery, characterization, evaluation, qualification and rapid iteration, he said in his talk, explaining how AI would help design new nuclear reactors. These efforts will substantially reduce the time and cost required to qualify advanced materials for next generation reactor systems. This is an autonomous research paradigm that integrates five decades of global irradiation data with generative AI robotics and high throughput experimentation methodologies.For design, were developing advanced software systems capable of accelerating nuclear reactor deployments by enabling AI to explore the comprehensive design spaces, generate 3D models, [and] conduct rigorous failure mode analyzes with minimal human intervention, he added. But of course, with humans in the loop. These AI powered design tools are projected to reduce design timelines by multiple factors, and the goal is to connect AI agents to tools to expedite autonomous design.Bahran also said that AI would speed up the nuclear licensing process, a complex regulatory process that helps build nuclear power plants safely. Ultimately, the objective is, how do we accelerate that licensing pathway? he said. Think of a future where there is a gold standard, AI trained capacity building safety agent.He even said that he thinks AI would help run these new nuclear plants. We're developing software systems employing AI driven digital twins to interpret complex operational data in real time, detect subtle operational deviations at early stages and recommend preemptive actions to enhance safety margins, he said.One of the slides Bahran showed during the presentation attempted to quantify the amount of human involvement these new AI-controlled power plants would have. He estimated less than five percent human intervention during normal operations.Image via IAEA.The claims being made on these slides are quite concerning, and demonstrate an even more ambitious (and dangerous) use of AI than previously advertised, including the elimination of human intervention. It also cements that it is the DOE's strategy to use generative AI for nuclear purposes and licensing, rather than isolated incidents by private entities, Heidy Klaaf, head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, told 404 Media.The implications of AI-generated safety analysis and licensing in combination with aspirations of <5% of human intervention during normal operations, demonstrates a concerted effort to move away from humans in the loop, she said. This is unheard of when considering frameworks and implementation of AI within other safety-critical systems, that typically emphasize meaningful human control.Do you know anything else about this story? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at +1 347 762-9212 or send me an email at matthew@404media.co.Sofia Guerra, a career nuclear safety expert who has worked with the IAEA and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, attended the presentation live in Vienna. Im worried about potential serious accidents, which could be caused by small mistakes made by AI systems that cascade, she said. Or humans losing the know-how and safety culture to act as required.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)2025-12-04T14:50:14Z A federal vaccine advisory committee convened Thursday in Atlanta to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day theyre born.For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses.But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s committee is considering whether to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive, which would mark a return to a public health strategy that was abandoned more than three decades ago. For other babies, it will be up to the parents and their doctors to decide if a birth dose is appropriate.Committee member Vicky Pebsworth said a work group was tasked in September with evaluating whether a birth dose is necessary when mothers tested negative for hepatitis B. We need to address stakeholder and parent dissatisfaction with the current recommendation, she said.The committee makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how already approved vaccines should be used. CDC directors almost always adopted the committees recommendations, which were widely heeded by doctors and guide vaccination programs. But the agency currently has no director, leaving acting director Jim ONeill to decide. Kennedy, a leading anti-vaccine activist before he became the nations top health official, fired the entire 17-member panel earlier this year and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices. The panel has made several decisions that angered major medical groups.At a June meeting, it recommended that a preservative called thimerosal be removed from doses of flu vaccine even though some members acknowledged there was no proof it was causing harm. In September, it recommended new restrictions on a combination shot that protects against chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella. The panel also took the unprecedented step of not recommending COVID-19 vaccinations, even for high-risk populations such as seniors, and instead making it a matter of personal choice.Several doctors groups said the changes were not based on good evidence, and advised doctors and patients to follow guidance that was previously in place.Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection that, for most people, lasts less than six months. But for some, especially infants and children, it can become a long-lasting problem that can lead to liver failure, liver cancer and scarring called cirrhosis.In adults, the virus is spread through sex or through sharing needles during injection drug use.But it can also be passed from an infected mother to a baby. As many as 90% of infants who contract hepatitis B go on to have chronic infections, meaning their immune systems dont completely clear the virus.In 1991, the committee recommended an initial dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Over about 30 years, cases among children fell from about 18,000 per year to about 2,200. But members of Kennedys committee have voiced discomfort with vaccinating all newborns.Cynthia Nevison, an autism and environmental researcher, presented at the meeting. Nevison has written opinion pieces published by Childrens Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy organization Kennedy previously led. She also co-authored a 2021 article in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders that the publication retracted after concerns were raised about the papers methodology and about nondisclosed ties between the authors and anti-vaccine groups.Another presenter was Mark Blaxill, a co-author of the retracted paper, who spoke about vaccine safety.In the past, committee meetings have relied on presentations by the CDC scientists involved in tracking vaccine-preventable diseases and assessing vaccine safety. The agenda for this meeting listed no CDC scientists, but rather featured a prolonged public airing of anti-vaccine theories that most scientists have deemed as discredited. Kennedy is a lawyer by training. Aaron Siri, a lawyer who worked with Kennedy to sue vaccine makers, is listed as a presenter on Friday on the topic of the immunization schedule for U.S. children.The current guidance advises a dose within 24 hours of birth for all medically stable infants who weigh at least 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms), plus follow-up shots to be given at about 1 month and 6 months. The committee is expected to vote on language that says when a family decides not to get a birth dose, then the vaccination series should begin when the child is 2 months old.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. MIKE STOBBE Stobbe mainly covers public health for The Associated Press. twitter mailto

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Ernesto, an immigrant from Venezuela, poses for a photograph in his home, Nov. 18, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)2025-12-04T14:39:19Z ROGERS, Ark. (AP) She was already separated from her husband, the family breadwinner and father of her two youngest children, and had lost the home they shared in Arkansas. Then Cristina Osornio was ensnared by the nations rapidly expanding immigration enforcement crackdown just months after her husband was deported to Mexico. Following a traffic stop in Benton County, in the states northwest corner, she was jailed for several days on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold, records show, even though she is a legal permanent U.S. resident and the mother of six children. Cristina Osornio and her 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, decorate a Christmas tree in their apartment, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Cristina Osornio and her 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, decorate a Christmas tree in their apartment, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Best known as home to Walmart headquarters, the county and the wider region have emerged as a little-known hot spot in the Trump administrations crackdown, according to an Associated Press review of ICE arrest data, jail records, police reports and interviews with residents, immigration lawyers and watchdogs.The county offers a window into what the future may hold in places where local and state law enforcement authorities cooperate broadly with ICE, as the Department of Homeland Security offers financial incentives in exchange for help making arrests. The partnership in Arkansas has led to the detention and deportation of some violent criminals but also repeatedly turned misdemeanor arrests into the first steps toward deportations, records show. The arrests have split apart families, sparked protests and spread fear through the immigrant community, including people born in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Marshall Islands. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Nobody is safe at this point because they are targeting you because of your skin color, said Osornio, 35, who was born in Mexico but has lived in the U.S. since she was 3 months old. Her odyssey began in September, when an officer in the city of Rogers cited her for driving without insurance and with a suspended license, body cam video shows. She was arrested on a warrant for missing a court appearance in a misdemeanor case and taken to the Benton County Jail, where an ICE hold was placed on her. After four days behind bars, she said she was released without explanation. She called it a very scary experience that exacerbated her health conditions. A Springdale, Ark., police vehicle, center, pulls over a convertible vehicle, right, Nov. 18, 2025, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A Springdale, Ark., police vehicle, center, pulls over a convertible vehicle, right, Nov. 18, 2025, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Benton County offers the kind of help ICE wants nationwideMore than 450 people were arrested by ICE at the Benton County Jail from Jan. 1 through Oct. 15, according to ICE arrest data from the University of California Berkeley Deportation Data Project analyzed by AP. Thats more than 1.5 arrests per day in the county of roughly 300,000 people.Most of the arrests were made through the countys so-called 287(g) agreement, named for a section of immigration law, that allows deputies to question people who are booked into the jail about their immigration status. In fact, the countys program accounted for more than 4% of roughly 7,000 arrests nationwide that were attributed to similar programs during the first 9 1/2 months of this year, according to the data.Under the program, deputies alert ICE to inmates suspected of being in the country illegally, who are usually held without bond and eventually transferred into ICE custody. After a couple of days, they are often moved to the neighboring Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, which has long held detainees for ICE, before they are taken to detention centers in Louisiana and potentially deported.ICE now has more than 1,180 cooperation agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, up from 135 at the start of the new administration, and it has offered federal payments to cover the costs of training, equipment and salaries in some circumstances. Arrests under the programs have surged in recent months as more agencies get started, ICE data shows.The growth has been particularly pronounced in Republican-led states such as Florida, where new laws encourage or require such cooperation. Earlier this year, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law requiring all county sheriffs to cooperate with ICE through either a 287(g) program at the jail or a program in which they serve ICE warrants to expedite detentions and removals. ICE arrests have surged in Benton County this yearBenton Countys partnership with ICE has been controversial off and on since its inception nearly 20 years ago.ICE data shows arrests have shot up this year in the county, a Trump stronghold in a heavily Republican state that has a large foreign-born population compared with other parts of Arkansas.About half of those arrested by ICE through the program have been convicted of crimes, while the other half have charges pending, according to the data. But the severity of the charges ranges widely.Jail records show those on recent ICE holds include people charged with forgery, sexual assault, drug trafficking, theft and public intoxication. Offenses related to domestic violence and unsafe driving are among the most common.Local observers say they have tracked an uptick in people facing ICE detention after traffic stops involving violations such as driving without a license. It just feels more aggressive. Were seeing people detained more frequently on extremely minor charges, said Nathan Bogart, an immigration attorney. Theyve kind of just been let off the leash now.County officials were unwilling to talk about their partnership with ICE. County Judge Barry Moehring, the countys chief executive who oversees public safety, referred questions to the sheriffs office.Sheriff Shawn Holloway, who has championed the program since his election in 2015, did not respond to several interview requests. The sheriffs office spokesperson referred questions to ICE. Cristina Osornio shows a photo, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark., from a recent trip to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where she took her two daughter to see her husband, Edwin Sanchez-Mendoza, who signed deportation papers after being held in an immigration detention center for several months. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Cristina Osornio shows a photo, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark., from a recent trip to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where she took her two daughter to see her husband, Edwin Sanchez-Mendoza, who signed deportation papers after being held in an immigration detention center for several months. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A routine traffic stop turns into an ICE holdBody cam video shows that police officer Myles Tucker pulled Osornio over on Sept. 15 in a quiet neighborhood of Rogers as she drove to a bank to get change for her job at the retail chain Five Below.Tucker said he stopped Osornio because a check of her license plate number indicated that her auto insurance was unconfirmed, and he thought she made a suspicious turn after seeing police.In addition to issuing tickets for lacking insurance and driving with a suspended license, the officer learned she had a warrant for failing to appear for a misdemeanor domestic violence case. That case stemmed from a 2023 incident in which she argued and fought with her husband.Osornio disputed that she missed a court hearing. She told the officer that her husband had been deported and that she needed to arrange child care for her children.During the drive to the jail, Tucker played upbeat Christian-themed music in his patrol vehicle.He turned down the music to ask Osornio where she was born, saying the information would be required at the jail. I ask the question because I have to put it on the form, not because Im trying to get you in trouble, he said.Osornio said she was baffled about why she was placed on an ICE hold. She offered to show her residency and Social Security cards, but jail staff told her she would have to meet with an immigration agent in a few days. She said that never happened and instead she was told the hold was lifted.Neither a jail spokesperson nor ICE responded to questions about the matter.Cpl. Don Lisi, spokesperson for the Rogers Police Department, said his agency has nothing to do with the countys ICE partnership.But jail records show dozens of the departments recent arrests have turned into ICE detentions once suspects are booked. Advocates for immigrants allege the department and others nearby engage in racial profiling in traffic stops. Ernesto, an immigrant from Venezuela, poses for a photograph in his home, Nov. 18, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Ernesto, an immigrant from Venezuela, poses for a photograph in his home, Nov. 18, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Afraid of racial profiling, local residents take precautionsIn interviews, nonwhite residents said they were afraid to drive in northwest Arkansas regardless of whether they had legal status. Some said they leave home only to go to work, have groceries and food delivered rather than eating out, and avoid other activities.This is a kind of jail, one would say, said Ernesto, 73, a school custodian born in Venezuela, from his apartment filled with Christmas decorations. He spoke on the condition that only his first name be used to avoid retaliation.One of Ernestos adult daughters was recently stripped of her asylum status, and his temporary legal status also recently expired. He recently witnessed authorities taking away people from a traffic stop.Dont just pull over people because theyre Latino or a foreigner, he said. I hope that all this is over soon, that the state of Arkansas sees who are the immigrants that are doing good here.Rogers-based attorney Lilia Pacheco said she started practicing law in the area during the first Trump administration, and its day and night between the first administration as far as enforcement. She said Benton County authorities have taken their cooperation with ICE to new heights, stepping up traffic stops, assisting with arrests and welcoming undercover agents. Immigration attorney Lilia Pacheco poses for a photo in her vehicle, which has a surveillance camera she installed on the windshield in order to record interactions with police should she be pulled over, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Immigration attorney Lilia Pacheco poses for a photo in her vehicle, which has a surveillance camera she installed on the windshield in order to record interactions with police should she be pulled over, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Were seeing that shift here, and I think thats given a rise to the arrests and operations in the area, she said. It looks like their relationship is a lot closer than what we anticipated that it would be.Pacheco said her husband was recently pulled over in Rogers while taking their daughter to school when he was driving the speed limit and could not understand why. The officer asked for his drivers license, and he was let go without a ticket, she said.The family has since installed a dashboard camera in their car so that they can record any future interactions with police after the Supreme Court decision that allowed ICE to racially profile, she said.Pacheco said many who live in the area are from the state of Guanajuato in Mexico, and fear deportation because of a rise in violence linked to drug cartels. Those from El Salvador fear prolonged detention in their country, which has swept up innocent people in its crackdown on gangs, she said.After husbands deportation, family has struggledOsornio said she has been with her husband, Edwin Sanchez-Mendoza, for eight years. They got together a couple of years after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico when he was in his late teens.They have two children together, a 5-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl. She said her husband worked in construction, and his salary paid the rent and bills in the home they shared in Bentonville.Court records show Sanchez-Mendoza was arrested on misdemeanor charges in September 2024 after he was accused of striking one of his teenage stepsons.Sanchez-Mendoza told police he was restraining the stepson in self-defense and believed the teen called police to scare him since he was not in the country legally. A Bentonville officer wrote in a report that the sheriffs office should check the legality of Edwins nationality status.Sanchez-Mendoza was placed on a hold for ICE at the Benton County Jail. The charges were dropped after ICE transferred him elsewhere in January 2025.Ultimately, Osornio said her husband ended up at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, where he found the conditions unbearable. He agreed to be deported and was flown last spring to Mexico, where he has since moved back to his rural hometown and helps on the family farm.His absence has been devastating financially and emotionally, Osornio said. When they drive past construction sites, their young daughter says, Look, Mom, Daddys working there, she said. Cristina Osornio shows a photo, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark., from a recent trip to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where she took her two daughter to see her husband, Edwin Sanchez-Mendoza, who signed deportation papers after being held in an immigration detention center for several months. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Cristina Osornio shows a photo, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark., from a recent trip to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where she took her two daughter to see her husband, Edwin Sanchez-Mendoza, who signed deportation papers after being held in an immigration detention center for several months. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The family could no longer afford their house. Osornio got the retail job but has struggled to pay for the apartment where they moved and their bills. Shes getting help from a local advocacy organization and asking for help on GoFundMe.She suffers from high blood pressure and said she suffered a stroke days after her release from jail.Osornio said Sanchez-Mendoza wants her to move to Mexico, and she and the kids visited him in May. But shes agonizing over the decision, saying she fears it would put her children in danger of cartel violence and that she knows the U.S. as home.Shes anxiously waiting for her new permanent residency card to arrive after receiving a temporary extension earlier this year.Obviously over there its the cartels. But here now the scare is with immigration. Now we dont know even if we are safe here anymore, she said. Ever since that happened to me, I dont go anywhere. I dont go out of my house.___Foley reported from Iowa City, Iowa. Associated Press data journalist Aaron Kessler in Washington and AP reporter Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas, contributed to this report. RYAN J. FOLEY Foley covers national news for The Associated Press and is based in Iowa City, Iowa. A 21-year AP veteran, he was part of the AP team honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for the 2024 series, Lethal Restraint. twitter mailto JULIO CORTEZ Cortez is a Chief Photographer in the Texas Region (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana). He is a 2021 Pulitzer Prize recipient for anchoring a Breaking News Photography coverage package of the response to the murder of George Floyd. Cortez started with The AP in 2010. instagram mailto

A memorial stands in honor of slain Mayor Carlos Manzo in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)2025-12-04T05:10:18Z APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) On a steamy night, a farmer from a village of modest tin-roofed homes surrounded by rolling lime orchards in western Mexicos coastal mountains approached Rev. Gilberto Vergara for help.The drug cartels were extorting him and other growers so heavily that the math no longer worked to harvest all his limes, the burly farmer told him tearfully after Mass. Authorities did nothing, he lamented. Residents were afraid speaking up was a death sentence but staying silent meant starving.Two recent killings one of an outspoken representative of the lime growers, the other a popular mayor standing up to the cartels have made a long-known truth impossible to ignore: Organized crime controls much of Michoacan and its economy.Now as U.S. President Donald Trump has launched military attacks against alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific and has offered to send the U.S. military to Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum faces increased pressure to solve a puzzle no other leader has been able to. But years of failed tactics have left residents skeptical that the government will offer a solution. The priest did not expect much from authorities, but told the farmer he would try to speak to them. Later, Vergara still in his white cassock, drove home into the darkness of Tierra Caliente along cartel-controlled roads with the risk of land mines planted in the hills or drone attacks.The cartels have the state in their hands, the priest said. He was fighting for us A memorial stands in honor of slain Mayor Carlos Manzo in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) A memorial stands in honor of slain Mayor Carlos Manzo in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Carlos Manzo, the 40-year-old mayor of Uruapan in western Michoacan, was in his towns central square amid hundreds gathered for Day of the Dead festivities when a teenage gunman shot him seven times despite his 22-person security detail, including National Guardsmen.The criminals message was clear: We can get anyone.Weeks later, the crime scene remained blocked off. Candles and wilted marigolds sat inside. Hundreds of handwritten messages demanding justice hung outside. Manzo, a former congressman for Sheinbaums Morena party turned critic, was seen throughout Michoacan as the only politician trying to eradicate the drug cartels. He had run corrupt cops off the local police force, touted arrests of narcos on social platforms and earned a reputation for going into the most dangerous corners to talk to anyone. In October, he appealed to the federal government for help.It felt like he was fighting for us, said Imelda Pea, a 42-year-old teacher, who criticized Sheinbaum for her perceived weakness on organized crime, although the president strengthened the federal security strategy when she came to power. I hope this is a tipping point.A message that resonated A National Guards stands guard next to a portrait of slain Mayor Carlos Manzo Rodriguez in Uruapan, Mexico, as Michoacan state prosecutors detain suspects in the investigation into his killing, on Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) A National Guards stands guard next to a portrait of slain Mayor Carlos Manzo Rodriguez in Uruapan, Mexico, as Michoacan state prosecutors detain suspects in the investigation into his killing, on Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Uruapan residents called Manzo the Mexican Bukele after El Salvadors millennial president with a no-holds-barred approach to his countrys street gangs. Some saw Manzo as a potential gubernatorial candidate who could pry Michoacan back from Morena with his own political movement, but his message confronting the cartels resonated nationwide.Investigators have linked his killing to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but who ordered it and why remains unclear. The gunman was shot when he was already on the ground. Seven of the nine charged so far in case were Manzos bodyguards. The office of Manzos widow Grecia Quiroz, who became mayor after his death, did not respond to numerous requests for comment. Guadalupe Mora walks with protection from police and the National Guard in La Ruana, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Guadalupe Mora walks with protection from police and the National Guard in La Ruana, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More An hours drive west of Apatzingan in La Ruana, Guadalupe Mora, another outspoken critic of the governments security policies, stood among his own 20-person security detail, requested after Manzos killing. His brother Hiplito Mora, founder of farmer self-defense groups more than a decade earlier, was killed two years ago.It seems like we made the government and organized crime uncomfortable, thats why theyre killing us, Guadalupe Mora said.Where plans fail Community police patrol the autonomous Indigenous community of Sevina, Mexico, on Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Community police patrol the autonomous Indigenous community of Sevina, Mexico, on Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Michoacan has stymied presidents before and has become one of Sheinbaums biggest challenges. All strategies to pacify the state over the last 20 years have failed while criminal groups have multiplied and renewed their tactics. At least three of the six drug cartels that the Trump administration designated as terrorist organizations Jalisco New Generation, United Cartels and The New Michoacan Family operate here, in addition to a slew of homegrown armed splinter groups, some supported by the Sinaloa Cartel.They drop bombs from drones, use 3D-printed grenade launchers, hide improvised explosive devices and erect surveillance cameras, according to state officials. They suffocate all economic sectors with extortion, a business as lucrative as drugs.Manzos killing set off protests across Michoacan and in Mexico City. In Uruapan, graffiti accused authorities of involvement. The presidents popularity threatened to plummet for the first time in just over a year in office. So she announced an additional 2,000 troops on top of the 4,300 permanent ones and 4,000 in neighboring states and government spending that sounded reminiscent of failed plans past. The difference, the government says, is coordination and intelligence. Cutting the political links of the cartels is the final missing piece.The U.S. government is watching because Michoacan is a key importer of chemical precursors for synthetic drugs. In the last two months, 17 drug laboratories were dismantled by Mexican authorities. Michoacan also supplies the avocados for Americans insatiable guacamole habit, made more expensive by extortion.Immediately after the killing, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote on social platform X: May his memory inspire prompt and effective action. Many here say that if it takes pressure from Washington to make Mexican authorities act, then so be it.Security analyst David Saucedo expects a targeted campaign against small but very violent cartels in the state but that could mean strengthening the most powerful Jalisco cartel. Rev. Gilberto Vergara walk toward a house to blesses a person in Apatzingan in the Michoacan state of Mexico, on Nov. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Rev. Gilberto Vergara walk toward a house to blesses a person in Apatzingan in the Michoacan state of Mexico, on Nov. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Vergara, the priest, blamed past and current administrations for failing to follow their security policies through.Michoacan is the sum of past mistakes, Vergara said. Theyre not committed enough to implement (their plans) no matter the cost.Endless warIn the orchard blanketed hills, the front lines are constantly shifting as one group arrives, seizes a house for its command post and starts fighting, leaving residents to believe peace will come when one group dominates. Among the crowded field of criminal groups, civilians often have no idea who is who, and confusion multiplies fear. A woman who requested anonymity for her safety said that various groups fight for control of the area where she lives and until one has it, its constant fighting.She fled her home in March with her family and all their neighbors. They were not safe in their tin-roofed homes, even under their beds, she said. They could hear mines explode when animals walked over them, making people afraid to go into the fields.The womans family returned when the army arrived, except for her 19-year-old son who she sent to the United States because she feared a cartel would snatch him.She knows the soldiers will eventually leave and it makes her furious to hear the government say that things are improving. The morning she spoke with the AP an elderly man was wounded when he rode over a mine on a motorcycle.Loss of leadersWithout these slain leaders standing up to the cartels, residents wonder who will take up this fight. In some Indigenous communities in the north of the state, such as Sevina, organized crime has arrived in trucks, stormed guard posts and intimidated authorities. Villagers have mounted their own defense and organized forest patrols, after losing faith in federal forces. Success is not guaranteed, even though some neighboring towns achieved it.Meanwhile, cartels continue stifling the local economy controlling the price of limes in the South despite the recent deployment of 800 soldiers to protect the producers. Community police during a night patrol in the autonomous Indigenous community of Sevina, Mexico, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Video/Fernanda Pesce) The grower who came to see Vergara said he is paid half the amount he needs to produce each kilo of limes, so he and others are taking orchards out of production.Bernardo Bravo, their representative killed two weeks before Manzo, called it permanent commercial kidnapping and organized protests denouncing it. Now the growers have nobody to speak up for them.We dont see a resolution, the farmer said. The criminals are squeezing us tight. MARA VERZA Verza has focused on immigration, violence and human rights stories in Mexico and Central America for more than a decade twitter instagram mailto FERNANDA PESCE Pesce covers Mexico and Central America for The Associated Press. twitter instagram mailto

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A photo of slain hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains are being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is displayed during a rally calling for the return of the deceased hostages held in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)2025-12-04T16:51:54Z JERUSALEM (AP) There were hundreds, then dozens, and then just a few. Now theres one Israeli hostage left in Gaza: Ran Gvili.Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer known affectionately as Rani, was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war. After a series of ceasefire-mandated exchanges of hostages for Palestinians held by Israel, Gvilis body still has not been recovered.His remains lie somewhere in Gaza. On Thursday, as Israel woke to the news that remains returned the previous day belonged to another hostage, the country mourned him as a hero who died fighting to save a kibbutz that was not his own.The first to go, the last to leave, his mother, Talik Gvili, wrote on Facebook Thursday. We wont stop until you come back. The Shield of AlumimAt the entrance to Kibbutz Alumim, one of the many border villages militants attacked on Oct. 7, there is a sign emblazoned with a photo of Gvili smiling in his uniform, his name beneath it. He fought a heroic battle, saving the lives of the kibbutz members, the sign says. Since then he has been known as Rani, the Shield of Alumim.Unlike those from other Israeli kibbutzim targeted that day, the residents of Alumim survived. Residents credit that to men like Gvili, who joined a group of emergency response team members, soldiers and police officers who fended off waves of intruding militants.Migrant workers on the kibbutz, however, met a different fate. Left exposed in agricultural areas outside the kibbutzs defensive perimeter, 22 foreign nationals were killed, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Gvili died fighting in battleOn the morning of Oct. 7, Gvili was at home, his younger sister, Shira Gvili, said in an interview with the AP. He had been on medical leave from his elite police unit for a broken shoulder.Still, when he heard that gunmen were descending on panicked partygoers at the site of the Nova Music Festival, he headed straight for the venue grounds, along with other men from the unit.Nova later became the site of the largest civilian massacre in Israeli history, when the militants killed at least 364 people and took more than 40 hostage. Gvili and the other officers never made it there, his sister said. Instead, they encountered the militants earlier, nearby Kibbutz Alumim. Sgt. Richard Schechtman, a fellow police officer who also fought in the battle, said that Gvili appeared to immediately know what to do. Rani was at the head of the team because thats who he was, Schechtman was quoted as telling the Israeli news site Ynet. Rani and I were standing on the road. I saw the terrorists, but I hesitated because it was the first time in my life Id ever seen a terrorist face-to-face, and I had a moment of, Wait, what am I seeing? Then Rani pulled the pin and opened fire and the whole team followed him.At one point in battle, Gvili ran to the western flank of the kibbutz to fight militants arriving in trucks, said his mother, who has spoken with others who fought with him that day. Thats where he was injured in the leg. He radioed his team to warn that more vehicles carrying terrorists were approaching, his mother said in an interview with Ynet. He opened fire, and they came at him. He fought them alone, injured in both his leg and arm, and he took down those monsters.Israels military says Gvilis body was abducted to Gaza by the militants soon after. The military confirmed his death, based on an intelligence assessment, four months later. Last step in first phase of ceasefireThe return of Gvilis remains would mark the completion of the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trumps 20-point ceasefire plan. The first phase also calls for the release of thousands of Palestinians from Israel, both alive and dead, and an increase of aid shipments into war-ravaged Gaza.The next phases of the ceasefire agreement will be much more complicated to fulfill. Key elements include deploying an international force to secure Gaza, disarming Hamas, and forming a temporary Palestinian government to run day to day affairs under the supervision of an international board led by Trump. Family worries Gvilis remains will not come back Gvilis family who includes his brother, Omri is holding out hope theyll receive the remains soon.We see all the other families whose sons came back and we see in their eyes that they have relief, his sister said. This is why its so important. Because we want to move on with our with our life and just remember Rani.Ran was a hero, but he was more than that, she recalled: He was protective and goofy; he occasionally told bad jokes that everyone laughed at; he loved playing guitar and singing The House of the Rising Sun'; and he had a tattoo on his leg of his dog, Luna, who the family now cares for.Both his mother, Talik, and father, Itzik Gvili, say they fear a worst-case scenario of the type experienced by families of Israeli soldiers Hadar Goldin or Ron Arad. Goldin was killed in Gaza in 2014. His body was only returned to Israel about a month ago as part of the ceasefire. Arad was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 after ejecting from his aircraft. Hes never been found.We pray, of course, that he will not be another Ron Arad or (Hadar) Goldin, Itzik Gvili told Kan News. That we dont drag it out for many more years.As far as I am concerned, until Ran comes back, he is alive, the father said. I have nothing else to hope for. JULIA FRANKEL Frankel, based in Jerusalem, has reported from across Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Her reporting focuses on war, human rights, displacement and criminal justice. twitter mailto

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