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Noah Centineo revealed a jaw-dropping new look on Instagram, trading in his soft rom-com charm for bulging muscles and a fighters frame. At 29, Centineo has gone blond, gone brawny and gone viral, thanks to a selfie that shows him shirtless, toned and looking every bit the action hero.Say Hello to Ken MastersCentineo isnt just flexing for fun. The actor is preparing to play Ken Masters in the live-action adaptation of Street Fighter, one of the most iconic fighting games of all time. Ken, known for his fiery personality and flashy kicks, has been a fan favorite since the franchises debut in 1987.The film, directed by Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip), is backed by Legendary Entertainment and already has an attention-grabbing cast. Alongside Centineo are Jason Momoa, martial-arts star Andrew Koji, WWE powerhouse Roman Reigns and country crooner Orville Peck, who will make his feature film acting debut.Fans Are ShookSocial media went wild after the To All the Boys Ive Loved Before star dropped his selfie with the caption Road brawler. Actress Rachel Zegler was quick to chime in with a shocked NOW HANG ON-, while Paris Hilton simply added a pink heart emoji. Others compared the ripped actor to his high school jock character Peter Kavinsky, joking that this was definitely not in the books.You should be in a new chapter of XO, Kitty again so we can see your ABS, I mean arms I mean Peter, one comment read. What to Expect From the MovieMuch like the original Capcom game, the movie will follow an underground martial arts tournament that draws in fighters from around the world, each with their own backstory and signature style. At the heart of it all are Ken and his fiery rivalry with Ryu, setting the stage for a high-stakes battle of strength and spirit.And with his pumped-up physique, golden curls and newfound swagger, Noah Centineo looks more than ready to step into the ring. Source

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)2025-08-26T03:23:51Z MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday.The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October last year and on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December last year, Albanese said.Irans government had no immediate reaction.Australian intelligence says Iran was behind arson attacksThere has been a steep rise in antisemitic incidents in Sydney and Melbourne since the Israel-Hamas war began in 2023.Australian authorities have previously said they suspect that foreign actors are paying local criminals-for-hire to carry out attacks in the country.Police have already arrested at least one suspect in the Sydney cafe fire investigation and two suspects directly accused of torching the Melbourne synagogue. ASIO has now gathered enough credible intelligence to reach a deeply disturbing conclusion, Albanese told reporters. The Iranian government directed at least two of these attacks. Iran has sought to disguise its involvement but ASIO assesses it was behind the attacks.These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil, he said. They were attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community. It is totally unacceptable. Australia breaks off diplomatic relations and warns citizens in IranShortly before the announcement, the Australian government told Irans Ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi that he will be expelled. It also withdrew Australian diplomats posted in Iran to a third country, Albanese said.An alert to Australians in Iran noted the embassys closure and urged them to strongly consider leaving as soon as possible, if it is safe to do so.Foreigners in Iran, including Australians and dual Australian-Iranian nationals, are at a high risk of arbitrary detention or arrest, the warning read.Australia updated its warning to travelers to its highest level: Do not travel to Iran. Iran has a long history of detaining Westerners or those with ties abroad to use as bargaining chips in negotiations.Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that Canberra would keep some diplomatic lines open to Tehran to advance Australias interests. She added that it was the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II.Albanese aims to declare Irans Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization Albanese said that Australia will legislate to list Irans Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.Irans paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has been accused of carrying out attacks abroad over the decades of its existence, though it broadly denies any involvement. The Guards Quds, or Jerusalem, Force is its expeditionary arm and is accused by Western nations of using local militants and criminals in the past to target dissidents and Israelis abroad.A spokesperson for the Executive Council of Australian Jewry welcomed the terrorist designation for the Revolutionary Guard, adding in a statement that the group was outraged that a foreign actor was behind the crimes. Foremost, these were attacks that deliberately targeted Jewish Australians, destroyed a sacred house of worship, caused millions of dollars of damage, and terrified our community, the statement said.Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Israel has arrested several people on charges they had been paid or encouraged by Iran to carry out vandalism and monitor potential targets there.The move against Iran came a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded Albanese a weak politician who had betrayed Israel by recognizing a Palestinian state.Netanyahus extraordinary public rebuke on social media came after an Aug. 11 announcement by Albanese that his governments recognition of a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations General Assembly in September. The announcement was followed by tit-for-tat cancellations of visas for Australian and Israeli officials. Australia says Iran helped escalate antisemitic incidentsNeither ASIO director-general Mike Burgess nor Albanese explained what evidence there was of Iranian involvement.Burgess said no Iranian diplomats in Australia were involved. This was directed by the IRGC through a series of overseas cut-out facilitators to coordinators that found their way to tasking Australians, Burgess said.While antisemitic incidents increased in Australian after the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7 2023, Iran was responsible for a transition in October last year when the violence more directly targeted people, businesses and place of worship, Burgess said.Iran started the first of those, Burgess said.___Previous versions of this story incorrectly reported that Albanese accused Iran of directing an attack on a Melbourne mosque rather than a Melbourne synagogue, and incorrectly spelled the name of that synagogue. It was the Adass Israel Synagogue. ___Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Charlotte Graham McLay in Wellington, New Zealand contributed to this report. ROD MCGUIRK McGuirk covers Australian and South Pacific news for The Associated Press. He is based in Melbourne. mailto

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In this photo released by Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, rescue workers evacuate villagers from a low-lying area due to rising water level in the Sutlej River following neighbouring India released water from overflowing dams, in Bahawalnagar a district in Pakistan's Punjab province bordering India, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority via AP)2025-08-26T07:26:48Z LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan has evacuated tens of thousands of people to safer areas after neighboring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions, officials said Tuesday.The move came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, marking the first public diplomatic contact between the two nuclear-armed rivals in months. Pakistans National Disaster Management Authority said it had issued an advance alert to its Punjabi counterparts about a surge in the Sutlej River and the risk of flooding, and that evacuations from various districts in the eastern Punjab province were underway. In a statement, it said rescuers evacuated more than 14,000 people from Kasur, a district in Punjab province, while over 89,000 were moved to safer ground from the city of Bahawalnagar, near the Indian border. The NDMA said authorities have urged residents to stay away from rivers, streams and low-lying areas, avoid unnecessary travel, and follow alerts issued through the media, mobile phones and the NDMAs disaster alert app.The latest flood alert and evacuation drive by Pakistan comes as heavy monsoon rains continue to batter both South Asian countries. In Pakistans northwest, many residents complained this month that they had received no warning before flash floods struck Buner district, killing more than 300 people. Officials have said the devastation was caused by a sudden cloudburst, which could not have been predicted, and that many of the victims were living along natural water pathways. Stay up to date with similar stories by signing up to our WhatsApp channel. Nationwide, floods triggered by seasonal rains have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since June 26. In Kashmir, which is split between the two sides and claimed by both in its entirety, at least 65 have also died and hundreds have been displaced in the Indian-administered Jammu area. Many of the regions rivers and tributaries eventually flow into Pakistan and the part of Kashmir it controls. On Tuesday, Indian officials said most rivers and streams were overflowing, with muddy waters inundating homes in several places and damaging roads and bridges. Water levels in multiple rivers continued to rise in the region.According to the Indian Meteorological Department, rains should persist until late Tuesday. In 2014, Kashmir saw its worst monsoon flooding in a century, leaving 500 people dead across the region.This weeks flood alert was conveyed to Pakistan through diplomatic channels rather than the Indus Waters Commission, the permanent mechanism created under the 1960 World Bank-brokered Indus Waters Treaty, which was suspended by New Delhi after the April killing of 26 tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan says India cannot scrap the treaty unilaterally. The treaty had earlier survived two wars between the countries, in 1965 and 1971, and a major border skirmish in 1999. The suspension of treaty and scaling down of diplomatic ties by India over the killing of tourists eventually set off tit-for-tat missile strikes by the both sides in May. The exchange ended only after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had brokered a ceasefire. Since then, the two sides have not taken steps to normalize ties.Pakistan in recent months has witnessed multiple cloudburst floods and more than normal rainfall. Pakistans annual monsoon season runs from July through September. Scientists and weather forecasters have blamed climate change for heavier rains in recent years in the region. This years heavy rains have raised fears of a repeat of the 2022 downpour, also blamed on climate change, that inundated a third of the country and killed 1,739 people.___Associated Press writer Aijaz Hussain contributed to this story from Srinagar, India.

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2025-08-26T09:35:02Z KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) Opposition figures and others in Uganda on Tuesday criticized an agreement with the United States to receive deported migrants, questioning the lack of parliamentary approval and charging that the deal eases political pressure on the countrys authoritarian president.After facing U.S. sanctions that have targeted many government officials, including the parliamentary speaker, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will be happy to transact with Washington, said Ibrahim Ssemujju, a lawmaker who is a prominent opposition figure. He will be asking, When are you bringing them?Ugandan officials have released few details about the agreement, although said they preferred to receive deportees of African origin and didnt want individuals with criminal records. However, the country is being put forward as a possible location for high-profile detainee Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador native who has been charged with human smuggling. Abrego Garcia, the subject of a protracted immigration saga, was detained on Monday by immigration officials in Baltimore, and the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Abrego Garcia is being processed for removal to Uganda. Without parliamentary oversight, the whole scheme stinks, said Mathias Mpuuga, until recently the leader of the opposition in Ugandas national assembly. He said the agreement with the U.S. left him a little perplexed because Uganda is struggling to look after refugees fleeing violence in neighboring countries. He suggested the agreement makes sense only as a matter of economic expediency for the Ugandan government. It remains unclear precisely what Ugandan authorities are getting in return for accepting deportees.Ugandas attorney-general, as well as the government ministers in charge of refugees and internal affairs, were not immediately available for comment. Okello Oryem, the deputy minister in charge of international relations, told the AP that such a deal was complete rubbish the day before his permanent secretary confirmed an agreement was in place to accept individuals who are reluctant to or may have concerns about returning to their countries of origin. Negotiators for the Ugandan side are believed to have been reporting directly to Museveni, an authoritarian leader who has been in power in the east African country since 1986.For much of his time in power, Museveni was widely seen as a strong U.S. ally, especially for his support of counter-terrorism operations in Somalia when he deployed troops there to fight the al-Qaida-linked rebels of al-Shabab.But his cachet in Washington declined in recent years. The Biden administration piled pressure over corruption, LGBTQ rights concerns and other rights abuses, with a growing list of Ugandan officials facing sanctions. In addition to Speaker Anita Among, a key ally of Musevenis, Ugandan officials sanctioned by the U.S. include the current prisons chief, a former police chief, a former deputy army commander, and some former government ministers. In 2023, reacting to U.S. sanctions against Ugandan officials that followed the enactment of a law against homosexuality, Museveni told a gathering of government officials that he had no wish to visit the U.S.For Museveni, the deal with the U.S. to accept deportees is desirable for political and perhaps economic reasons, said Marlon Agaba, the head of a leading anti-corruption group in Uganda.The deal eases pressure on Museveni and may come with trade opportunities, said Agaba, executive director of Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda. The Trump administration is about deals, about deal-making, and any strongman would welcome that, he said.Ssemujju, the opposition lawmaker, said he believed the matter should be handled by Parliament and that the agreement is flawed without parliamentary authorization.In July, the U.S. deported five men with criminal backgrounds to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini and sent eight more to South Sudan. Rwanda has also said it will receive up to 250 migrants deported from the U.S.

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by Audrey Dutton ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Since last year, ProPublica has been reporting on the troubled system for death investigations in Idaho, where a persons cause of death is determined by elected coroners with no oversight or state support and, often, little training or education.The failures documented by ProPublica left parents without answers in their babys sudden death and let clues vanish in the death of a woman whose family suspected foul play by her husband, a man later charged with killing his next wife.The Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations in January sent the states coroners a formal survey about their work, drawing responses from just over half. The office told coroners that it wouldnt attach names to their responses when it made the survey results public, and some gave unvarnished critiques.The coroner system in Idaho is broken and a joke, one wrote.They also took the opportunity to plead for help, for changes they believe could transform Idaho into a place where death investigations consistently meet national standards.Idaho coroners are elected to an office under county government control and funded by county budgets. Idaho politics have traditionally held the independence of local government as sacrosanct. This years state survey and subsequent interviews by ProPublica revealed a twist: Many coroners believe the states hands-off approach is outdated and harmful, making the quality of a persons death investigation vary based on the county.These local officials want the state to get involved, and they want it badly.Jimmy Roberts of Bingham County, an agricultural area in eastern Idaho, is one such coroner. He worked with two interns in his office to draft a 118-page white paper that highlighted failure points in Idahos coroner system and described how states like Indiana and Arkansas addressed the same problems. In Indiana, as in Idaho, the county coroner is a constitutional elected office. But coroners in Indiana are subject to a suite of state laws that spell out what they must do.The policies that Roberts highlighted from those states include creating a state training council for coroners, defining in law which cases must be autopsied, raising money for coroners through fees on death certificates or paying for toxicology costs through alcohol taxes, and giving coroners first responder status so they can access mental health care for themselves and get a supply of naloxone for reviving people who overdose.Still, its unclear whether ideas like these will gain traction in Idaho after nearly 70 years of warnings and inaction on coroners.Gov. Brad Littles criminal justice commission has begun to take a look at the coroner system, via a subcommittee it created this year that includes coroners, the state police forensics lab director, a state legislator and others but no county commissioners have joined yet, leaving the group without input from the people who control coroner budgets. The subcommittee so far has drawn up a list of problems and brainstormed solutions none of which it has endorsed such as a state fund to help pay for autopsies, a forensic center in eastern Idaho to ramp up autopsy capacity or mandating autopsies in some child deaths. Coroners are not united in how to make the system better and what it will take to get there. Roberts, the Bingham County coroner, sent his 118-page report to fellow coroners and state legislators by email in October. But Roberts told ProPublica his offer to help the leaders of the Idaho State Association of County Coroners work on reform was met with silence. Jimmy Roberts, Bingham Countys coroner, in his office. He drafted a 118-page white paper that highlighted failure points in Idahos coroner system. (Natalie Behring for ProPublica) Torey Danner, the associations president and a member of the governors subcommittee studying the issue, told ProPublica that his focus this year is on low-hanging fruit rather than major systemic changes. Asked about approaches that have gotten results in other states, he said he wants to review the root causes of Idahos problems before committing to any specific reform ideas, so that Idaho doesnt unintentionally implement Band-Aid solutions in haste.Danner said he didnt see Roberts 118-page report come through his email inbox in October but plans to read it after being contacted by ProPublica. He has not deeply studied the reforms in other states. I havent taken the time because I havent had the time, said Danner, one of the few coroners in Idaho to hold the job full time. I mean, Im still trying to do this and run my office, too.Here are five concrete steps other Idaho coroners have suggested. 1. More autopsies Idaho has among the lowest autopsy rates in the U.S., with even worse rankings for autopsies in homicides and unexplained child deaths and money is a factor. About 1 in 4 coroners offices answering this years survey said their budgets affect their ability to do autopsies.Madison County Coroner Sam Butikofer told ProPublica that when he took office in 2019, the countys budget for grooming snowmobile trails was larger than the coroners. (County budget records confirm that.)Under Idahos current setup, each county sets an annual budget for its coroners office that estimates how many autopsies the coroner will have to order in the coming year. An autopsy in most parts of Idaho costs at least $2,300. Small counties in Idaho budget for less than a dozen a year, and a backcountry plane crash, a few unwitnessed deaths on the river, a spate of sudden infant deaths or the rare multiple homicide can quickly eat up the money that was set aside.Lacking the kind of funding other states use to help cover the cost of autopsies, Idaho coroners must decide between forgoing autopsies or blowing the budget and having to justify it to a board of county commissioners made up of elected laypeople.We need to be doing more autopsies, thus we need more money to do so, one coroner told the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations in its survey.(Idaho counties and the state coroners association two decades ago opposed a mandate for coroners to do autopsies in sudden infant deaths, citing cost. County commissioners havent weighed in this year because there are no specific reforms to respond to yet, according to the Idaho Association of Counties.)As noted in a previous report by the state office and in ProPublicas reporting, other states including Idahos neighbors Washington and Wyoming help their local coroners pay for autopsies or the travel required to get them done.Without a state medical examiners office, Idaho has no centralized setup for forensic pathologists to do autopsies. So most county coroners have contracts with the states largest county, Ada, where Boise is located. For the counties in Idahos eastern and northern reaches, the coroner has to plan for an all-day or overnight trip to the Boise area and the gas and hotel to go with it. Autopsy tools in the Ada County coroners office, first image, and the morgue. The office performs most autopsies for counties in south and central Idaho. (First image: Katherine Jones/Idaho Statesman. Second image: Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman.) Ada County is fully booked with its current workload of autopsies for dozens of Idaho counties. It has just a few forensic pathologists on staff. Its national accreditations limit how many autopsies each of those pathologists can do a rule thats designed to help keep the doctors from being overworked and error-prone but causes backlogs when theres too much demand.Coroners undertook a campaign last year to open a forensic center in eastern Idaho, as a kind of co-op with several remote, rural counties. The plan fell apart when local commissioners got spooked by the cost. Forensic pathologists, the only people who can perform the autopsies, are in high demand; it takes a salary of about $350,000 to lure one to Idaho.The state of Idaho needs to build an eastern Idaho forensic center and stop wasting time and money by attempting to have a county build this required facility, one person wrote in response to the states coroner survey. 2. Higher pay At least seven coroners in Idahos 44 counties have an annual salary below $10,000, according to an annual survey by the Idaho Association of Counties and ProPublicas review of county budgets. Another 12 coroners salaries are between $10,000 and $20,000 a year.Thats not enough to live on, so nearly all Idaho coroners either are retired from a previous career or have another job. Their ranks include medics, nurses and nurse practitioners, a physician, a library director, an attorney, 11 funeral home owners or employees, and at least three with more than two jobs.Idaho County Coroner Cody Funke told ProPublica in July that offices like his need full-time staff. Right now, he has to respond to deaths while hes in the middle of a workday at his main job, which is with the state prison system.The county associations annual survey shows that at least eight county coroners have no deputy on staff to take over when the elected coroner cant answer a call or go to a death scene.Any help would be greatly appreciated but my greatest problem is low wages making it impossible to recruit deputies and any replacement for the elected officials, one coroner told the states survey takers.Another coroner who did have a deputy wrote, My Deputy Coroner works one (1) day a month! I cannot take time off with only one day a month coverage. 3. Office space Cody Funke, the part-time coroner for Idaho County, uses a pickup truck to do his coroner work because the county doesnt provide a dedicated office. (Liesbeth Powers for ProPublica) Half of the coroners who responded to this years survey said they didnt do their coroner work in a county-owned office. Some did it in funeral homes or mortuaries. Some did it in other types of full-time private workplaces. Six coroners, though, said they did most of their work in their own homes. Although the survey didnt break down types of venues coroners used for paperwork versus examining bodies, the lack of dedicated and secure workspace poses a problem for both tasks.Few Idaho counties have a county morgue with coolers and storage for bodies awaiting autopsy, testing or further examination. Coroners in rural areas often turn to a local funeral home or the regional hospital.This practice can imperil a criminal prosecution, coroners told ProPublica, because the body a crucial piece of evidence isnt secured through all stages of an investigation.Without a dedicated exam room or storage for bodies, we are not able to maintain chain of custody and funeral home staff are witness to exam details of cases that must have a high level of confidentiality, wrote Roberts, the Bingham County coroner, in his response to the state coroner survey.In the survey, 59% of respondents said they store dead bodies in a place thats open to people outside the coroners office. Three coroners had postmortem samples, such as blood or fluids waiting for a toxicology lab test, stored in a private residence, and one coroner was storing unidentified or unclaimed human remains there.Butikofer, the coroner in Madison County, had no office when he started the job. Hes asked his county commissioners for at least the past five years to give him a workspace with refrigerated and secured storage and a place to meet with families, according to public meeting minutes. The countys master plan would fulfill that request with construction being complete six to 10 years from now. Meanwhile, Butikofer has worked out of a truck, a card table in his family home, the local hospitals morgue and a temporary space in the county courthouse. I hear rumors that the state has money, Butikofer said in reference to Idahos long-running string of budget surpluses and cash reserves. Im just one little minnow in the pond going, Hey, how bout some of that, you know, for the coroner system?The governor early this year said he supported more resources to help coroners do their jobs. But in mid-August, with major tax cuts hitting and state revenues dropping, the governor responded by ordering spending cuts and other austerity measures a sign that Idaho will be even tighter with money than usual in the coming year. Roberts, the Bingham County coroner, at a budget meeting in Blackfoot, Idaho, last July. County commissioners were reluctant to increase the coroners budget but ultimately did so. (Natalie Behring for ProPublica) 4. Consistency statewide One of the state survey respondents pitched an idea for holding all Idaho coroners to one standard.There needs to be a state run and state funded coroner system with a head coroner elected by the citizens. The top coroner would create a standardized investigation system with protocols for coroners to follow, the anonymous respondent wrote.Coroners interviewed by ProPublica have pointed to the system used by neighboring Montana: a hybrid coroner-and-medical examiner setup, coordinated through a coroner liaison. Montana and its counties didnt have to bootstrap that position financially; it got funding through a federal grant from the National Institute of Justice.Idahos disjointed system leaves it up to each coroner to decide how they do their job. The Legislature this year clarified which kinds of deaths coroners must investigate, but it didnt clarify what investigate means. Can coroners examine the room where the person died? Get medical records to find a diagnosis that might explain the death? Order a blood test to look for fentanyl? Order an autopsy? Other states make it clearer. Arkansas state code expressly gives coroners subpoena power and guaranteed access to a death scene. Laws in states including Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania direct coroners to order an autopsy in certain kinds of deaths. Wyomings coroner standards board spells out what a death investigation should include: photographs, a scene investigation, an exam of the outside of the persons body, blood or tissue samples to test for toxic substances, an inventory of any evidence or property or medications the coroner found, and, finally, a DNA sample. 5. More training After living in an Idaho county for a year, any U.S. citizen 21 or older can become the county coroner. Theres no license or certification needed.When coroners take office, they have one year to attend coroners school, followed by 24 hours of coroner education every two years. But theres no enforcement mechanism for that law. At least three other Mountain West states that have coroners Colorado, Montana and Wyoming have penalties for not getting trained: suspended pay, forfeiture of the office or a misdemeanor charge.ProPublica found last year that 1 in 4 Idaho coroners repeatedly fell short of training requirements. Funke, the Idaho County coroner, exceeded the requirements and sought training on his own before taking office, but he told ProPublica he still felt underprepared. Funke, in his second year on the job, signed off on cremation of a woman based on her husbands word she died of Parkinsons, only to learn five years later the man was indicted in the murder of his next wife in Texas. With a decade more experience, Funke said he would do things differently now. National experts told ProPublica that Funke should have gone to the death scene and confirmed a Parkinsons diagnosis before he ruled the Idaho County death natural. Funke said more should be done to prepare coroners for the job.Idaho law doesnt define what a coroner must prove they know before taking charge of death investigations in their county. At least two other states have a higher bar when it comes to deputy coroners, who often do the main work. Indiana requires deputy coroners to pass a written test and complete an externship. Arkansas requires deputy coroners to complete a training curriculum and turn in a certificate that proves they did it. Arkansas law also established a separate salary tier for coroners who complete the training.When Idaho lawmakers made minor revisions to the states coroner law this year, they required training to be approved by a nationally recognized certifying body. But lawmakers did nothing to address the lack of consequences for coroners who skip those classes.The Idaho performance evaluation office said two coroners it surveyed this year urged the Idaho Legislature to step in with stronger leadership, enforceable training standards, and a sustainable funding model to ensure coroners across the state can effectively perform their duties.

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This satellite image proved by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Tropical Storm Juliette in the Pacific Ocean, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (NOAA via AP)2025-08-26T09:08:37Z MIAMI (AP) Tropical Storms Juliette and Fernand are churning over open waters, one in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said.No coastal watches or warnings were in effect for either stormJuliette posed no immediate threat to land, forecasters said. The storm was about 520 miles (840 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. It had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) after strengthen during the day.It was moving west-northwest at 13 mph (20 kph). Forecasters said Juliette could strengthen further in the coming hours before weakening again on Wednesday. In the Atlantic basin, Tropical Storm Fernand also was far from land and forecast to remain over open ocean waters. On Tuesday morning, it was about 635 miles (1,020 kilometers) east-northeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and heading northeast at 14 mph (22 kph).The storm was expected to turn more to the northeast as it moves away from Bermuda. Forecasters said it would begin weakening and could become a post-tropical cyclone later Tuesday or on Wednesday before dissipating.

Design by Sam Donndelinger.Subscribe nowEditors note: This interview was originally conducted on August 7, 2024.James Cantor is a Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has been hired by Alliance Defending Freedoma Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate groupand by Republican states to serve as an expert witness in defense of laws that ban or restrict gender-affirming health care.Last year, Uncloseted Media interviewed Cantor for a larger investigation into expert medical witnesses paid to defend restrictions on trans kids' access to health care.Since then, attacks on gender-affirming care have escalated121 anti-trans bills have been passed in state legislatures this year and a recent Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of bans on gender-affirming health care for minors nationwide. Cantor, who has never treated a trans kid and whose primary research centers around pedophilia, kink and BDSM, has had his expertise called into question by some judges.Despite this, hes remained active since we published our article, testifying in support of gender-affirming care bans in South Carolina and North Dakota. And while Cantor didnt speak at the Supreme Court, his expert testimonies were cited by the defendants.Since Cantor continues to influence trans health care policy in the U.S., we decided to share a longer cut of our interview to provide more context on one of the most prolific faces in the fight over trans health care.Watch the full interview above or read the transcript here:Spencer Macnaughton: Tell me how you came to know Alliance Defending Freedom. How did they get to you? Or did you get to them?James Cantor: No, they came to me. I never, in any of these controversies that I've been [in]this is, I guess, the biggest one now. But I'm a sex researcher, I've been through several controversies.SM: Sure.JC: They came to me. In 2018, I guess it was, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a policy, essentially saying, Do whatever the kid wants. And I'm just reading and reading. As I went, I [knew] these papers he's citing. This isn't what they say. So all I did is take the policy and go through the reference list, every single one, and say, This is what you said they said, and then I quoted them directly. Here they are saying the opposite. Just, again, because somebody who obviously doesn't know this field was grossly misrepresenting the science of it.SM: So then how did they find you? Because you're in Canada.JC: So I published that paper as a peer-reviewed study. So when the Alliance Defending Freedom had its first couple of lawsuits on the topic, they, of course, in any issue like this, need experts to testify to what the content of the science was. They were already working with Stephen Levine, very, very well-established and well known in my field. And so he suggested to ADF, There's this guy who always follows the science no matter what and isn't afraid of the politics. So then they came to me. We did our first case together. Josephson, freedom of speech case, essentially was a professor who said what a bunch of activists didn't want to hear. He got disciplined for it. He didn't let them get away with it. He started his lawsuit challenging his treatment. That was the first one. Then when they say, Oh, this guy knows how to talk. So it was networking since then.SM: And do you actually go? Do you zoom in or do you go? How many cases have you worked with them on?JC: For them, just that one. All the others, I've been hired by the state directly. As I say, it's really just kind of networking amongst those, and there are not many people willing to do it at all.SM: Did they like you because of the expert testimony you gave for Alliance Defending Freedom and then they would find you? Cause it's random to me that you're from Canada being thrown into the mix in all these states. Is it not or no?JC: Oh, no, not really. It's just there are very, very few people able to talk about this and have a mastery of the science at all. But yes, so the Canadian thing really just doesn't matter. [Im] just a person who is well spoken, can get an idea across under pressure on the stand, [I have] experience at it. And the state AG offices are networked together in a bunch of different ways and they often have similar kinds of cases. This person knows that person who knows the other person. They're always looking for experts for whatever their cases are. So when they start looking for someone, I was one of the first people with a peer reviewed paper on the topic. So that very quickly put me on their radar screen. And then it's just case after case. The ADFagain, although they only hired me for that one casethey also hold events and conferences and so on. And this is one of the topics where they asked me to speak. And so many people from many offices in conservative states are also attending. So when they get a case [they think,] Oh, I saw this guy whoSM: Okay, so the AG offices could go to a conference that the ADF puts on, Dr. Cantor speaks, the AG office says, I like that, they reach out and then could have you testify in their state. But it's the AG officers, with that exception of the one, that would be the ones reaching out to you.JC: Yes, exactly. So the ADF are assisting with networking like any group. They're politically conservative. But like any other group, including the ACLU on the other side, sponsor conferences and people network. And so when they need somebody on whatever topical issue like this one, they assist the networking. But they don't have any direct financial or other connection.SM: How much do you get paid? How much do they pay you for that?JC: Same as experts on the other side, 400 an hour U.S.SM: And they pay for all flights and everything, obviously that would be paid for?JC: Yeah, the state, yes. That's part of their usual expert budget.SM: And how many hours would you spend on a case typically?JC: Uh, generally anywhere between 15 and 80.SM: Can you make a salary off it?JC: It's ended up pretty much that way for me, which was an unexpected surprise.SM: Like over 150?JC: It varies year by year, but somewhere around there per year. But I wouldn't call it Again, it's just dumb luck on my part. I'm towards the end of my career. I'm within five, six years of retiring. So I don't have a lot to lose. As I say, this was not a plan. It just kinda happened.SM: What's your experience treating trans kids? Like how many have [you treated?] I'm assuming, [because] you've taught like you've treated dozens.JC: No, I don't treat kids at all. I'm a sex therapist. If you wanna know if whatever procedure works, you can't ask the people who use the procedure. Easiest to understand by analogy: You will never find out if astrology works if you only ask the astrologers. If you want to know if Childhood Transition works, you can't ask the people whose careers and practices depend on the answer being yes. Youre just going to get yes!SM: Do you talk to kids? I'm assuming you at least talk to trans kids to learn their perspective a little bit given your expert testimony on all these cases. Like do you sit down with them? Do you try and learnJC: No.SM: From them to learn about theirno?JC: Nope.SM: Why not?JC: Because that is exactly the source of bias.SM: To learn from the people who I would disagree with that. Don't you want to learn from the people you're speaking on?JC: I learn from the research about the people. An 8-year-old telling me that they were born in the wrong body? They didn't come up with that themselves. They were told that narrative as a way to help understand themselves. What I am hearing is the accumulation of what the 8-year-old has been told.SM: So your strategy is literally actually the opposite. Don't talk. It's important not to talk to trans kids about it?JC: Along those lines. Again, it's because the exception is really easy to exaggerate on the other side. Either side can, at least in theory, be correct. But people are taking, as the definition of expert, the one who has spoken to the most 8-year-olds, but da-da-da. They can color the picture, they can be compelling narratives, they can provide ideas for things to do research on. But the answer is going to come from the neutral, can go either way, does not have an emotional investment in what's going on. It's, What would Mr. Spock say?SM: There's a whole narrative from one subset of the media, mainly the right media, they'll say, Transgenderism, it doesn't exist, that kind of thing. So do you believe that transgender people exist?JC: Again, it's a bit of a loaded question. In the way that they're saying it as a phenomenon doesn't exist, that's a bit of an overstatement. But the very concrete way the opposite extreme is discussing it isn't exactly true either. You can't prove things don't exist. You can only fail to find evidence that it does exist.SM: Do you believe that it should exist? Would our world be better off if we just didn't have trans people?JC: I don't know if there is a way to answer that question.SM: Alliance Defending Freedom's background is alarming, not just for trans stuff but for gay issues, right? The guy who founded it coined a book called The Homosexual Agenda. They passed laws against gay marriage, against gays in the military. They've gone to Africa, to Eastern Europe, to promote laws against the entire umbrella of the LGBTQ community. Why affiliate yourself with a group like that, especially as an openly gay man?JC: That's an excellent question. First, the way they came to me was exactly the right way. Hand extended, Dr. Cantor, we disagree probably on every single other issue but this one, but we can work together on this one. That's what a liberal is supposed to say. If they're willing to overlook and work with the gay Jew, who's the bad guy if I'm saying, No, I'm sorry, your religious views, I won't tolerate. The shoe was on the other foot. I am willing to work with people I disagree with on the other issues. We will be on the opposite side on that issue. We will be on the same side on this issue. So if anybody ever, for any issue asks, Why is Cantor on whatever side, there's gonna be a stack of science behind it.SM: You mentioned earlier that we shouldn't be listening to people who are getting paid to have their livelihood like pediatricians make these decisions, right?JC: That's standard medical ethics, it's in every conflict of interest policy, including the associations who have disregarded their own conflict of interest.SM: Right. But you're getting paid almost $150,000 to argue against it. So isn't that the same thing?JC: No, as I said, that's what I was saying, has been the same for 20 years. Now it's associated with money for me to saySM: Right, but your argument is that we shouldn't be listening to those people, but you're still getting paid to make the argument.JC: I've been expressing these issues for no money in my original paper before any of these laws, never mind lawsuits, existed. It was just the money and the cases came because of the opinion I had already expressed rather than the other way around. And then, I developed an opinion that was convenient because it was marketable. I gave it away for free. Really at this point, my plan for the money was that there would be a couple of cases for a little while so I could take a couple months off afterwards to do the writing that I don't get to do as much as I used to. That was the plan. Then when there was this flood of cases, I don't have time to do that and that's when I mostly shut down my private practice.SM: Marketable is an interesting word. What do you think makes your opinion so marketable?JC: A combination of things. One is just my knowledge of science. Their Jedi mind tricks don't work on me. A lot of lawyers' questions are loaded questions or come down to people's fundamental understanding or misunderstanding of science. And because I have a mastery of it, their subtle illogic that other people would not notice or let slide dont affect me. I'm able to correct it. And part of it, I'm just a natural communicator. I'm good with audiences. I don't mind being on stage. My adrenaline, let's say, is under control.SM: I bet you could bring it in a courtroom.JC: I look like an expert.SM: Right, what do you mean you look like an expert?JC: They tell me that. I just have the right amount of age, gray hair, bit of an accent. I look like an expert. Ohio, oh, they just announced we won the Ohio case. There was a television camera for the news back here and then the courtrooms up here. The next day on social media, all I kept hearing was what a good hair day I was having.SM: Do you like the feeling of, it feels like a star a little bit, maybe?JC: I was president of the RPI Players when I was an undergrad. I've always enjoyed theater. If I could sing, I'd be on Broadway. So no, I do enjoy a stage. I do enjoy the media. If I could wave a wand, my real career goal was to be the Carl Sagan of sex.Subscribe for LGBTQ-focused, accountability journalism.SM: Oh, wow. Okay. And when you go to the courtroom, do you crank it up a little bit? Like, what do you do to kind of bring it in the courtroom?JC: It's a subtle part to be cast in, in that overdoing it, the overacting doesn't help. I have be in character as Dr. Cantor.SM: Hmm, okay.JC: So clear, succinct, direct, confident, but not overdoing it either. Not effusive. The hardest part for me is suppressing jokes. I become the Lord of the pith.SM: Ooh, what does that mean?JC: Oh, pithy, short, succinct, and I am indeed much more oriented towards being pithy. To get the idea across in a concrete way that gives people the aha! Even if they don't agree with me, they understand what I am thinking and saying. For example, one of the ones that came together in my head relatively recently when you were asking before about what boils down to conflict of interest. I started out by explaining the relevant policies, what's in it, what's not in it, why they are the way they are, all of which was absolutely true. And after reading a couple of pages, people went, Oh, okay. But when it hit me to say, You can't find out if astrology is real by just asking astrologers, that's when people went, Oh, duh! Of course!SM: There was obviously a theater kid in you when you were younger. Is this kind of, it feels camp a little bit, going into American courtrooms and kind of like testifying. Is there a part of that that it's a bit of fulfilling a dream in that respect?JC: In an unexpected way. It wasn't a dream in a way that I ever went, I wish I could. If anything, it was the opposite. I don't know about fun, but I enjoyed the challenge and it was a very, very different kind of a thing to do. But being the, loud mouthed New Yorker theater queen that I am, oh, that's another one of the jokes I used. Whenever they set up a deposition for me, I always kind of have to say, I'm the most deposed queen in the world. The first time I was going in court, we were just laughing. Oh, I've forgotten her name. My Cousin Vinny. Right, when she comes in, big New York accent.SM: Yes.JC: So we replayed that in my head a lot. And the more recent one, do you watch Schmigadoon?SM: No.JC: She was in Ally McBeal. She played the lawyer and she comes down in a trapeze and she's now doing the bells and whistles is the performance she's giving in the courtroom.SM: And you felt like her a little bit, like Ally?JC: Felt like her. It was just teasing about a performer on stage, enjoying an audience. And here I'm doing it in a courtroom. So I'm not afraid of it. I'm not intimidated by it. Where most scientists are not like that.SM: How many trans-related cases in the U.S. have you testified for as expert witness? There was the one with ADF and then how many from their respective states?JC: I could send you the whole list, its about 30-ish.SM: When you speak for ADF, how much do they pay you? If I can ask.JC: Oh, it's not paid to me. It's like a conference presentation to bring together lawyers, you know, on similar sides.SM: What's the biggest one you've ever spoken at? Like, how many people go to these things?JC: The largest ADF one was their Summit, they call it. I guess that was 500-ish?SM: They're obviously a legal behemoth, right? So they know what's up when it comes to the law. What kind of legal tips and tricks do they give you before you go in and Ally McBeal testify?JC: The particular person that they had me working with is the Yoda to my Ben Kenobi. He has been absolutely wonderful to work with. His training, his knowledge of the strategizing and of the performance aspects in court have beenhis advice has been dead on from the beginning.SM: What are the best points of advice?JC: It's really more about his description of the points of view of the several different audiences. The judge, the jury, the other officers, the experts on the other side, and the mindset I need to be in in testimony, in the different kinds of testimony at the different phases of the case. For example, before anything goes to trial, each expert gets deposed. The point is, and it's a full day, eight hour day, where the lawyers for the other side get to ask you whatever they want for eight hours. And the way that my trainer was explaining that to me was to help me appreciate that I'm not going to counter-argue. There's no point to it. There's nobody to convince. There's no audience here. The judge isn't going to see or read every word of it. The judge is only going to the parts the other side wants them to see. So a deposition is the portion at which I can lose ground, but not gain any. So once I was aware that, oh, okay, so this is deflecting. This is not counter-attacking. This isn't making my argument. This is my defending my argument or, what it largely came out to be, untwisting their trick questions. So even if they weren't testing me, they come out of it with, Nothing's gonna work on this guy. And then the other one for a lot of the cases, the mindset he described to me was the judge is never going to be an expert on this. It's not the judge's job to be an expert on this, and usually it just boils down to experts on the one side, experts on the other side, and everybody else knows they don't know. So really the job is [to] tie myself up with dynamite and throw myself on the other expert and neutralize us both.SM: What does that mean?JC: It's really probably not going to happen, that the judge listens to me and decides, Oh, that's the scientifically superior argument. That's not what happens. In a lot of ways, my favorite part of it is rebutting the arguments of the other side. Here's what they said, here's what the citation they're referring to actually says, oh gosh, it's the opposite. From the judge's point of view, it's just expert versus expert. It's a mutually assured destruction. They destroy each other. And then from the judges point of view, let's just get back to the legal issue.SM: Right, because the judge isn't necessarily going to be able to infer what's methodologically sound evidence-based research versus what's not.JC: Typically not on their own.SM: What would you say to the many many trans kids and their families across the United States who say, You're hurting us, you are hurting us, this is essential care, we need this.JC: No 8-year-old ever said that. Eight-year-olds repeat what they're told, and what they are getting told are from activists. It's not credible to say that all of this existed, this was so extreme and obvious, and nobody ever noticed it, including the experts doing the research on it who could have gone either way. But everybody all of a sudden noticed it at exactly the same time when smartphones got invented and hit 15 percent. That's just a coincidence that the demographic who is doing this the most are exactly the same demographic most given to other social contagion issues. Usually young adolescent females, the same group most likely to report suicidality. Not actual suicide, but suicidality. Most likely to report eating disorders. Most likely to dislike their bodies. All sheer coincidence!SM: But what about so there's 8-year-olds can't say that? Sure, I understand that argument. But there's 14-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 25-year-olds, 40-year-olds. There are people of every single age.JC: Find me one who didn't get it from the website.SM: Who didn't get being transgender from a website?JC: Ah ah ah. The my rights, you're hurting us, the suicide. Verbatim they are all saying the same thing. None of these are their words. These are words that they're repeating because of everybody else in their social group.SM: I want to be clear, because I want to make sure we characterize everything accurately. Do you believe that all transgender people are trans due to social contagion?JC: No.SM:. So you believe a lot of people are born trans and feel that way from birth?JC: No. See? It's not either one. The tiny fraction of repris- One in tens of thousands who, at this point, kind of essentially born gay, but so gay, they really are happier living as the other sex. Won't know it until later in life, but they exist.SM: But you said one in 10,000JC: We also have a cluster who, until they're in their 40s or 50s, are just turned on by the idea of being female. They're attracted to women. They're not gay. They're always men. So we have one in tens of thousands and one in tens of thousands. And then we have this 5% of the entire population which came out of nowhere when smartphones were invented. They are dominating the conversation. They, except for one in ten thousand, they are not trans. They just hate their own bodies and here's a narrative that's close enough that says, It's not me, it's everybody else on the planet and somebody else, no effort to me, I just have to lie there, the doctor will come and fix me. It's not that I have issues to work on because I hate my body. Taking the easy way out.Subscribe nowIf objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, LGBTQ-focused journalism is important to you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, Resource Impact, by clicking this button:Donate to Uncloseted Media

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