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. 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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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