Three people were found dead and nine others were missing after a panga overturned in the waters off Torrey Pines State Beach in California Monday morning, according to authorities.

The San Diego County Sheriffs Office said several agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, responded to the area just after 6:30 a.m. due to a report of a capsized boat.

WATCH: Scripps News Group team coverage with the initial details on this crash

Panga boat overturns off Torrey Pines State Beach; 3 dead, 9 missing

According to a Coast Guard official, three people were killed in the crash, four people were located and needed medical assistance, and nine others were considered unaccounted for. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office says the people who died were all men.

First responders told Scripps News Group they found 17 lifejackets on the boat; however, that's not an official word for how many people may have been on the panga. A City of Del Mar official told Scripps News Group that the four people that were rescued were taken to Scripps La Jolla Hospital for treatment.

Although the Coast Guard has referred to the missing people as "aliens" in some of its communication with Scripps News Group, this incident has not been confirmed as a human smuggling operation as of 11:30 a.m.

The following agencies responded to search for any survivors:

U.S. Coast Guard San Diego County Sheriff's Office U.S. Border Patrol Del Mar Fire Department Encinitas Fire Department Department of Homeland Security

Border Patrol and DHS agents were seen searching the streets in the area to see if anybody who may have survived ran into the neighborhoods near the crash site.

This story was originally published by

Jermaine Ong

with the Scripps News Group.This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

A civilian worker for the Illinois National Guard has filed a complaint against the Trump administration's rules that bar transgender federal employees from using restrooms that align with their gender.

The complaint, filed Monday by the ACLU to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Office on behalf of LeAnne Withrow, says that the ban violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"In filing this class complaint, Ms. Withrow seeks to serve as the agent of a class of all transgender and/or intersex employees of the federal government, including but not limited to civilian employees of the National Guard Bureau, the U.S. Army, and the Department of Defense," the complaint reads.

The new filing challenges an executive order signed on Jan. 20, which alleges that certain Supreme Court decisions that were previously interpreted to permit "gender identity-based access to single-sex spaces" under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act are "legally untenable."

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The order is part of a broad effort to limit federal support and protection for transgender individuals that began when President Trump took office.

Other executive orders end support from federal insurance programs for gender transitions for those under 19, and prohibit people who were assigned male at birth from participating in womens sports.

In April, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of its ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military.

Packs of fresh tomatoes sold in nearly a dozen states have been recalled over possible salmonella contamination, according to an alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Ray & Mascari Inc of Indianapolis issued the recall for its 4-count packs of Vine Ripe Tomatoes in clamshell containers with UPC# 7 96553 20062 1, and a master case label with Lot# RM250424 15250B or Lot# RM250427 15250B.

The tomatoes were sold by Gordon Food Service Stores in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin, the FDA said.

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Ray & Mascari said it repackaged the tomatoes, but it was notified about the possible contamination from the farm where the tomatoes originated Hanshaw & Capling Farms in Florida.

Consumers who have purchased the tomatoes should discard the product and do not consume it, the recall alert stated.

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So far, no illnesses have been reported.

Salmonella infections usually show symptoms within 12 to 72 hours after consuming an impacted item. Those symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Army is pausing flights near a Washington airport after two commercial planes had to abort landings last week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

The commander of the 12th Aviation Battalion directed the unit to pause flight operations around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following Thursdays close calls, two Army officials confirmed to The Associated Press.

It comes after 67 people died in January when a passenger jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan airport.

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The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not publicly announced. The unit is continuing to fly in the greater Washington, D.C., region.

Thursdays incident involved a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 and a Republic Airways Embraer E170, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

They were instructed around 2:30 p.m. by air traffic control to perform go-arounds because of a priority air transport helicopter, according to an emailed statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.

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The priority air transport helicopters of the 12th battalion provide transport service to top Pentagon officials. It was a Black Hawk priority air transport known as PAT25 that collided with the passenger jet in midair in January.

That crash was the worst U.S. midair disaster in more than two decades. In March, the FAA announced that helicopters would be prohibited from flying in the same airspace as planes near Reagan airport.

President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S.

In a post Sunday night on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to slap a 100% tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.

The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," he wrote, complaining that other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw" filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. "This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!

The White House said Monday that it was figuring out how to comply with the president's wishes.

Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trumps directive to safeguard our countrys national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again, said spokesperson Kush Desai.

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Its common for both large and small films to include production in the U.S. and in other countries. Big-budget movies like the upcoming Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning," for instance, are shot around the world.

Incentive programs for years have influenced where movies are shot, increasingly driving film production out of California and to other states and countries with favorable tax incentives, like Canada and the United Kingdom.

Yet Trump's tariffs are designed to lead consumers toward American products. And in movie theaters, American-produced movies overwhelmingly dominate the domestic marketplace.

China has ramped up its domestic movie production, culminating in the animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 grossing more than $2 billion this year. But even then, its sales came almost entirely from mainland China. In North America, it earned just $20.9 million.

In New Zealand, where successive governments have offered rebates and incentives in recent years to draw Hollywood films to the country, the film industry has generated billions of dollars in tourism revenue driven by the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, which featured the countrys pristine and scenic vistas. More recently, the blockbuster Minecraft movie was filmed entirely in New Zealand, and U.S. productions in 2023 delivered $1.3 billion New Zealand dollars ($777 million) to the country in return for NZ$200 million in subsidies, according to government figures.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he was awaiting more details of Trumps measures before commenting on them but would continue to pitch to filmmakers abroad, including in Indias Bollywood. Weve got an absolutely world class industry, he said. This is the best place to make movies, period, in the world.

The Motion Picture Association, which represents major U.S. film studios and streaming services, didnt immediately respond to messages Sunday evening.

The MPAs data shows how much Hollywood exports have dominated cinemas. According to the MPA, the American movies produced $22.6 billion in exports and $15.3 billion in trade surplus in 2023.

Trump, a Republican, has made good on the tariff man" label he gave himself years ago, slapping new taxes on goods made in countries around the globe. That includes a 145% tariff on Chinese goods and a 10% baseline tariff on goods from other countries, with even higher levies threatened.

By unilaterally imposing tariffs, Trump has exerted extraordinary influence over the flow of commerce, creating political risks and pulling the market in different directions. There are tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum, with more imports, including pharmaceutical drugs, set to be subject to new tariffs in the weeks ahead.

Trump has long voiced concern about movie production moving overseas.

Shortly before he took office, he announced that he had tapped actors Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone to serve as special ambassadors" to Hollywood to bring it "BACK BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!

U.S. film and television production has been hampered in recent years, with setbacks from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hollywood guild strikes of 2023 and the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Overall production in the U.S. was down 26% last year compared with 2021, according to data from ProdPro, which tracks production.

The group's annual survey of executives, which asked about preferred filming locations, found no location in the U.S. made the top five, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Toronto, the U.K., Vancouver, Central Europe and Australia came out on top, with California placing sixth, Georgia seventh, New Jersey eighth and New York ninth.

The problem is especially acute in California. In the greater Los Angeles area, production last year was down 5.6% from 2023 according to FilmLA, second only to 2020, during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Last, October, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, proposed expanding Californias Film & Television Tax Credit program to $750 million annually, up from $330 million.

Other U.S. cities like Atlanta, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have also used aggressive tax incentives to lure film and TV productions. Those programs can take the form of cash grants, as in Texas, or tax credits, which Georgia and New Mexico offer.

Other nations have been stealing the movie-making capabilities from the United States, Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in Florida. If theyre not willing to make a movie inside the United States we should have a tariff on movies that come in."

Pope Francis legacy will soon take on new life in Gaza. One of the popemobiles that once carried him as he greeted the faithful is being converted into a mobile health clinic for children in the war-torn region.

Caritas, a Catholic humanitarian organization, is outfitting the vehicle with diagnostic equipment, vaccines and other life-saving supplies. It will be staffed by doctors and medics.

With the vehicle, we will be able to reach children who today have no access to health care children who are injured and malnourished. This is a concrete, life-saving intervention at a time when the health system in Gaza has almost completely collapsed, said Peter Brune, secretary general of Caritas Sweden.

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Caritas said the project was one of Pope Francis final wishes. In his last months, he asked the organization to transform the popemobile into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza.

This vehicle represents the love, care and closeness shown by His Holiness for the most vulnerable, which he expressed throughout the crisis, said Anton Asfar, secretary general of Caritas Jerusalem.

Gaza is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis as Israel continues to bombard the enclave in response to Hamas Oct. 7 attack.

A Guatemalan woman who entered the U.S. illegally while eight months pregnant is no longer facing expedited removal with her baby, according to her immigration attorney, Luis Campos. She will be allowed to plead a case for asylum from her home country.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the woman, who has since given birth, crossed into the country at the U.S.-Mexico border.

She was taken to Tucson Medical Center in Arizona for evaluation, where her attorney said that a Department of Homeland Security guard had been stationed outside of her hospital room and prevented him from entering.

The woman and her newborn child were discharged from the hospital and transferred into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations custody, where she was formally processed and then allowed to speak with her attorney.

Now, a court date before an immigration judge has been set.

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Both the woman and her baby are healthy and headed to Tennessee, where Campos said she has a friend. The woman will not be in federal custody as her case moves through the courts, but she will be required to check in with ICE.

Under the expedited removal process which Campos said is common at the border or ports of entry non-citizens can be deported without a trial.

The government has the discretion," Campos said. "It could, if it wanted to, place her into standard deportation proceedings, not expedited. She can make her case for an asylum case. If she loses, she loses and goes home, but if she wins, she can stay here."

He said the woman was only in the United States a few days before giving birth. He said he spoke to the woman's mother over the phone, who told "a pretty harrowing story of violence that she faced."

Campos believes it could qualify as persecution, which is a requirement for an asylum hearing in the United States.

However, he says the timeline is relatively unpredictable.

"Depending on the region of the country, that makes a big difference," Campos said. "It depends on where you are in the country and how backlogged their docket is in that part of the country."

He estimated it will take a year or two for the woman to get her first hearing in front of a judge.

As for the baby, who is a United States citizen, Campos said the mother was given the choice to either leave her baby behind or take the baby with her. Campos said that gave her "no decision."

"Shes got no family here, no friends in Tucson, one friend who is in Tennessee," Campos said. "So whats your choice gonna be? To take the child, which becomes a de facto deportation of a U.S. citizen child."

Campos said he was originally contacted about the case by someone familiar with the situation inside the hospital.

Tucson Medical Center has provided no comment on the issue.

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero also released a statement today:

"Here in Tucson, a new mother is being placed in an expedited removal process as a result of Trumps unnecessarily cruel Executive Order that incorrectly declares there is an invasion at our Southern Border.People in the United States, regardless of legal status, have a fundamental right to due process that has been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court as recently as April 7, 2025. Denying this mother access to legal representation is both inhumane and a violation of her basic rights.I am deeply concerned about the consequences of this federal overreach. It is unacceptable to treat a medical facility as an extension of xenophobic policies, especially when a newborns health and safety are at stake.I urge the federal government, and its agencies, to act with compassion and respect for due process."

This story was originally published by Alex Dowd with the Scripps News Group in Tucson.

President Donald Trump has announced that Washington, D.C., will host the 2027 NFL Draft the city's first time holding the event in more than 80 years.

Trump made the announcement at the White House alongside D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

"Not only are these announcements great for the NFL, but they also advance the mission of making Washington, D.C., safe and clean and beautiful," Trump said.

The draft will take place on the iconic National Mall, potentially attracting a million visitors.

The economic impact could be substantial. This years draft in Green Bay generated an estimated $94 million for the state of Wisconsin, according to experts.

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This marks the second major NFL-related announcement for the District in just a week. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Commanders managing partner Josh Harris recently unveiled plans to build a state-of-the-art stadium on the RFK campus, bringing the team back to the city for the first time since 1996.

The enclosed stadium will seat approximately 65,000 fans and is expected to open in 2030.

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump administration's massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. on Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. The attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia signed onto the complaint.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. restructured the agency in March, eliminating more than 10,000 employees and collapsing 28 agencies under the sprawling HHS umbrella into 15, the attorneys general said. An additional 10,000 employees had already been let go by President Donald Trump's administration, according to the lawsuit, and combined the cuts stripped 25% of the HHS workforce.

"In its first three months, Secretary Kennedy and this administration deprived HHS of the resources necessary to do its job," the attorneys general wrote.

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Kennedy has said he is seeking to streamline the nation's public health agencies and reduce redundancies across them with the layoffs. The cuts were made as part of a directive the administration has dubbed, " Make America Healthy Again."

HHS is one of the government's costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mostly spent on health care coverage for millions of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.

The cuts have resulted in laboratories having limited testing for some infectious diseases, the federal government not tracking cancer risks among U.S. firefighters, early childhood learning programs left unsure of future funds and programs aimed at monitoring cancer and maternal health closing, the attorneys general say. Cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also have hampered states' ability to respond to one of the largest measles outbreaks in recent years, the lawsuit says.

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"This chaos and abandonment of the Department's core functions was not an unintended side effect, but rather the intended result," of the "MAHA Directive," they said. They want a judge to vacate the directive because they say the administration can't unilaterally eliminate programs and funding that have been created by Congress.

The restructuring eliminated the entire team of people who maintain the federal poverty guidelines used by states to determine whether residents are eligible for Medicaid, nutrition assistance and other programs. A tobacco prevention agency was gutted. Staff losses also were significant at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The Trump administration is already facing other legal challenges over cuts to public health agencies and research organizations. A coalition of 23 states filed a federal lawsuit in Rhode Island last month over the administration's decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds for COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country.

Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme.

"I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues to be colonized, by which I mean policies and legislation that are nothing short of that," he recently told Vogue.

"It's our turn."

Indeed. And welcome to the first Monday in May.

How to watch the 2025 Met Gala

Vogue will livestream the gala starting at 6 p.m. ET on Vogue.com, its YouTube channel and across its other digital platforms. Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony and Ego Nwodim will host the stream. Emma Chamberlain will also do interviews on the carpet.

The Associated Press will livestream celebrity departures from the Mark Hotel beginning at 5 p.m. Eastern and will stream the gala carpet on delay beginning at 6:30 p.m. The feeds will be available on YouTube and APNews.com.

E! will begin live coverage at 6 p.m. on TV. The livestream will be available on Peacock, E! Online and YouTube, along with the network's other social media feeds.

Who's hosting the 2025 Met Gala?

This year, the fundraising gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosted by a group of Black male celebrities, including Williams, the musical artist and Louis Vuitton menswear director, and Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, and A$AP Rocky, with NBA superstar LeBron James as honorary chair. They're joined by Vogue's Anna Wintour, the mastermind behind the gala, considered the year's biggest and starriest party.

Also guaranteed to show up is a second tier of hosts from a variety of worlds: athletes Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens; Angel Reese and Sha'Carri Richardson; filmmakers Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Regina King; actors Ayo Edebiri, Audra McDonald and Jeremy Pope; musicians Doechii, Usher, Tyla, Janelle Mone and Andr 3000; author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; artists Jordan Casteel, Rashid Johnson and Kara Walker; playwrights Jeremy O. Harris and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; and fashion figures Grace Wales Bonner, Edward Enninful, Dapper Dan and Olivier Rousteing.

The gala raises the bulk of the curation budget for the museum's Costume Institute.

This year's Met Gala dress code is...

It's more like a firm suggestion. From Wintour. This year, it's about tailoring and suiting as interpreted through the history and meaning of Black dandyism across the Atlantic diaspora. The theme is inspired by the annual spring exhibition, which this year is based in large part on "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity," a book written by Monica L. Miller. She is the guest curator of the exhibit.

"Historical manifestations of dandyism range from absolute precision in dress and tailoring to flamboyance and fabulousness in dress and style," Miller writes in the exhibit catalog. "Whether a dandy is subtle or spectacular, we recognize and respect the deliberateness of the dress, the self-conscious display, the reach for tailored perfection, and the sometimes subversive self-expression."

How the dress code goes, in terms of taste and style, is anyone's guess. Wintour has a hand in virtually all things gala, so the presumption is things can't go too far off the rails. She recently knocked down the rumor that she approves all looks, telling "Good Morning America" she'll weigh in if asked.

The exhibit, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," draws on other sources beyond Miller's book. It's organized into 12 sections. Each symbolizes a characteristic of dandy style as defined by Zora Neale Hurston in her 1934 essay, "Characteristics of Negro Expression."

Among them: ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, respectability and heritage. Presumably, for gala guests who do deep-dive research (or have stylists to do it), some of these factors will play out on the museum steps that serve as the event's red carpet.

Who else is going to show up?

The guest list amounts to about 450 high-profile people from tech, sports, art, entertainment and more. The mix, Williams said, is a must.

"It's so important to me to have successful Black and brown people of every stripe in the room: not just athletes and actors and actresses, entertainers, but also authors, architects, folks from the fintech world," he told Vogue. "We've got to invest in each other. We've got to connect with each other, because it's going to take everybody to coalesce the force of Black and brown genius into one strong, reliable force."

Jury selection began Monday in the high-profile federal sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Combs, who appeared with gray hair because he is not allowed dye while being held in jail, at one point told the judge he was "a little nervous" as he requested a bathroom break.

As of Monday evening, half of the potential juror pool had been excused, some because they would not be able to serve for the duration of a potentially long trial, and some due to past experiences that would make objectivity difficult.

More jurors are expected to be vetted on Tuesday.

Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, faces multiple federal charges, including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

The five-count indictment overlaps with several of the dozens of accusations and lawsuits alleging that Combs raped, abused, drugged and violently assaulted both men and women including children as young as 10 over the course of decades.

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The original 14-page indictment paints a dramatic picture of Combs striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at and kicking women. Prosecutors allege he also drugged women, kept explicit videos of them and threatened them.

The government claims Combs monitored victims medical records and controlled what they wore and where they lived. Prosecutors allege his abuse was at times verbal, emotional, physical and sexual including manipulating women into participating in highly orchestrated sex acts with male sex workers.

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Judge Arun Subramanian said last week that attorneys would conduct some portions of jury questioning privately due to the highly personal nature of the case. Potential jurors will be asked privately whether they have a specific connection to sexual abuse, in addition to the standard public questioning.

At an April pretrial hearing, Combs lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, suggested he may argue that Combs was engaged in swinger relationships with the women. Agnifilo described the behavior as common and said it was consensual.

If convicted, the music mogul faces up to life in prison.

The trial will not be broadcast due to federal rules that bar cameras and other electronics in courtrooms.

Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey is entering another day of major flight delays due to an ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers.

The 14th busiest airport in the U.S., a number based on the latest Department of Transportation data, said a Federal Aviation Administration equipment outage and construction have also contributed to the significant delays that began last week.

Its a major hub for United Airlines, which said it was forced to cut 10% of its scheduled flights from the airport over the weekend due to the delays.

According to FlightAware data, the total number of arrivals and departures has dipped below 900 for the first time in recent years.

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United CEO Scott Kirby claimed more than 20% of Newark's traffic controllers "walked off the job," further crippling an already "chronically understaffed" facility.

"Its now clear and the FAA tells us that Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead," Kirby said in a letter to customers.

United flies to 76 U.S. cities and 81 international destinations out of Newark.

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The shortage of air traffic controllers is something the Trump administration has vowed to address.

Last week, the FAA announced plans to supercharge its hiring of the best and brightest candidates to fill at least 2,000 air traffic controller positions this year.

One way the FAA said it will expedite the hiring process is by shaving an 8-step hiring process down to five steps for the positions.

As for the ongoing issues at Newark, the FAA is investigating.

A federal judge ruled Friday that former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries is not competent to stand trial on sex trafficking charges.

Jeffries, who is 80 years old, has been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and requires around-the-clock care, according to his attorneys. As part of the ruling, the judge ordered Jeffries to be hospitalized for evaluation to determine if his mental condition may improve.

Jeffries has been free on bond since pleading not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in October that accuse him of sexually exploiting men at lavish parties around the world, many of whom were recruited under the impression they would gain a modeling career with the brand.

Alongside Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third co-defendant are also accused of luring men to drug-fueled sex parties in exchange for modeling jobs.

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The charges stem from years of sexual misconduct allegations, including a two-year investigation by the BBC, which spoke to 12 men who had attended or organized these events for the former retailer head, Mike Jeffries, and his partner, Matthew Smith, between 2009 and 2015.

Eight of the young men who attended these events say a highly organized network recruited them using a middleman, who they described as having a missing nose covered by a snakeskin patch.

Identified by the BBC as James Jacobson, this middleman lured some participants with the prospect of becoming an A&F model, while others said they were recruited knowing sex would be involved, just not exactly in the way it really was.

Most of the men say Jacobson sexually "auditioned" them before introducing them to Jeffries and Smith, with one hopeful model claiming Jacobson, "made it clear to me that unless I let him perform oral sex on me, that I would not be meeting with Abercrombie & Fitch or Mike Jeffries." He was paid $500 for the act.

This model, David Bradberry, later accepted an invitation to an event at Jeffries' former Hamptons home, but after speaking of his career aspirations, Jeffries allegedly held poppers under Bradberry's nose a drug that can give an instant high with disorientation and had sex with him.

Other men say they would arrive at these events to find multiple other male recruits, all coerced into sexually engaging with Jeffries and Smith. The pair would have sex with about four men or "direct" the recruits to have sex with each other, the BBC reports. Afterward, staff at the events would hand them envelopes filled with thousands of dollars.

One struggling model says Jeffries was the "kingpin" of the "well-oiled machine," saying the former CEO "took advantage of people in a very vulnerable point in their life."

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These testimonies from the male subjects were extensively fact-checked, the BBC says, including verifying documents like emails and travel itineraries and interviewing other sources, including household staff.

Jacobson denied any allegations of "coercive, deceptive or forceful behavior," saying these men went into the sex events "with their eyes wide open" in a statement through his lawyer. The alleged middleman also says he doesn't recall making any promises of modeling opportunities.

In a statement at the time, A&F said it was "appalled and disgusted" by the alleged behavior of their former leader and that it has launched an independent investigation into issues raised by the BBC's investigation. It said the company's current leadership team wasn't aware of the allegations against Jeffries.

Jeffries headed the A&F empire during its heyday in the 1990s and early 2000s, transforming it from failing outfitter to multibillion-dollar teen retailer using provocative advertising to ramp up sales, including semi-nude models in posters and in person outside of the stores.

Throughout his time there, he became one of the country's highest-paid CEOs, but his attitude and approach to the business also got him and the company in deep water.

In 2003, employees sued for discrimination, saying they were kept out of front-facing positions and or were discouraged to even apply. The company denied any wrongdoing and settled for $40 million.

Concern also surrounded Jeffries' overspending and his elevation of Smith's role in the business.

In 2014, Jeffries left the declining company with a $25 million retirement package, of which he is still receiving annual payments, according to the BBC.

This case continues to develop and raises significant questions about accountability and the impact of mental health on legal proceedings.

The Trump administration is offering financial incentives to encourage individuals in the U.S. illegally to voluntarily leave the country.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that individuals who use the CBP Home app to self-deport can receive a $1,000 stipend. The agency said the money will be paid after the person returns to their home country and is confirmed through the app.

"Even with the cost of the stipend, it is projected that the use of CBP Home will decrease the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent," the Department of Homeland Security said in a press release Monday. "Currently the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121."

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The move is the latest part of President Donald Trumps effort to crack down on illegal immigration. President Joe Biden launched the CBP One app in 2023 to help migrants schedule appointments and apply for work authorization in the U.S. The Trump administration has since repurposed the system, urging those individuals to leave the country and accusing the Biden administration of abusing the process.

This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers. Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport, said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

According to the government, individuals who show intent to voluntarily self-deport will be "deprioritized for detention and removal." Officials also say self-deportation may preserve the possibility of returning to the U.S. legally in the future.

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President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.

In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. Thats the way its supposed to be.

That is why, today," he said, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house Americas most ruthless and violent Offenders.

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Trumps directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where federal prisoners and immigration detainees are locked up. But such a move would likely be an expensive and challenging proposition. The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat.

Bringing the facility up to modern-day standards would require massive investments at a time when the Bureau of Prisons has been shuttering prisons for similar infrastructure issues.

The prison infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it was known as the The Rock" and housed some of the nation's most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and George Machine Gun Kelly.

It has long been part of the cultural imagination and has been the subject of numerous movies, including The Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.

Still in the 29 years it was open, 36 men attempted 14 separate escapes, according to the FBI. Nearly all were caught or didnt survive the attempt.

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The fate of three particular inmates John Anglin, his brother Clarence and Frank Morris is of some debate and was dramatized in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood.

Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operate by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark.

Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night after a weekend in Florida, said hed come up with the idea because of frustrations with radicalized judges who have insisted those being deported receive due process. Alcatraz, he said, has long been a symbol of law and order. You know, its got quite a history.

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that the agency will comply with all Presidential Orders. The spokesperson did not immediately answer questions from The Associated Press regarding the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz or the agencys role in the future of the former prison given the National Park Services control of the island.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose district includes the island, questioned the feasibility of reopening the prison after so many years. It is now a very popular national park and major tourist attraction. The Presidents proposal is not a serious one, she wrote on X.

The island serves as a veritable time machine to a bygone era of corrections. The Bureau of Prisons currently has 16 penitentiaries performing the same high-security functions as Alcatraz, including its maximum security facility in Florence, Colorado, and the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, which is home to the federal death chamber.

The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, without due process. Trump has also floated the legally dubious idea of sending some federal U.S. prisoners to the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.

Trump has also directed the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labeled the worst criminal aliens."

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The Bureau of Prisons has faced myriad crises in recent years and has been subjected to increased scrutiny after Jeffrey Epsteins suicide at a federal jail in New York City in 2019. An AP investigation uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons. AP reporting has disclosed widespread criminal activity by employees, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including assaults and suicides.

The APs investigation also exposed rampant sexual abuse at a federal womens prison in Dublin, California. Last year, President Joe Biden signed a law strengthening oversight of the agency after AP reporting spotlighted its many flaws.

At the same time, the Bureau of Prisons is operating in a state of flux with a recently installed new director and a redefined mission that includes taking in thousands of immigration detainees at some of its prisons and jails under an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security. The agency last year closed several facilities, in part to cut costs, but is also in the process of building a new prison in Kentucky.

Student loan debt is of the top three debts that people in the United States carry, according to LendingTree.

Sarah Smith understands that reality.

"I worked two jobs and school, full time, kids full time. Their dad was deployed last year, so I had zero help last year. Yeah, it was really, it was really tough, but when you're determined, you push through," Smith said.

She went back to school to become a counselor and make more money. As she waits to receive her masters degree and graduate in July, she is anticipating her student loans.

"When you hear 100K, like, that's a big swallow, that's a lot of money," she said.

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Smith joins millions of others in similar situations, each facing unique challenges.

"Theres a misconception that borrowers don't want to pay, and they do, but they need those payments to be affordable," said Scott Kemp, a student loan advocate for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).

Kemp works with many borrowers, including those who have applied for repayment programs but are stuck in processing, those who were in default before the pandemic, and those newly in default.

According to the Education Department, more than five million borrowers are currently delinquent, with an additional four million potentially facing the same fate in the coming months.

"It probably won't hit home until they get the letters [from the Department of Education]," Kemp said.

The forced collections on federal student loans in default resume Monday after a five-year reprieve during the pandemic.

"Unless [borrowers] do something, they're going to go back into collections and they're going to go back to Treasury Offset Program, which can include taking tax refunds, garnishing their wages, garnishing Social Security," Kemp warned.

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What options do you have?

The Department of Education outlines three options: repayment, rehabilitation, or consolidation.

Repayment is an option if you want to get out of debt entirely. You can pick from repayment plans that base your monthly payment on your income or that give you a fixed monthly payment over a set repayment period Rehabilitation can help your credit. You can get out of default by making a certain number of consecutive, on-time payments to your loan holder under a rehabilitation agreement Consolidation is an option that helps you get out of debt more quickly. A Direct Consolidation Loan allows you to combine one or more federal education loans into a new Direct Consolidation

But first, ensure your loan servicer has your current information.

"I don't think any single borrower has the same loan servicer they had prior to the pandemic," Kemp noted.

You can find information about your loan servicers at studentaid.gov, which also offers a loan simulator tool. The interactive tool allows you to see all the different loan repayment plans available and how that would affect monthly payment, interest, and repayment length.

As you navigate this process, Kemp advises to document everything.

Document everything that they do, including if they submit something, take a screenshot of it, because if there are issues down the line, makes it a lot easier for us to work through issues, he said.

While Smith's situation is unique, and shes not in default, she finds that the national discussion about debt is informing her options and helping guide her decisions.

"If you just think about it as paying it off quicker and so then you have less interest rate. That's probably the best thing I would do," Smith said.

Smith said she is familiar with setting up a payment plan that aligns with her lifestyle after having worked with Money Management International in the past. MMI, a nonprofit credit counseling agency, helped her pay down more than $22,000 in credit card debt. MMI also offers debt management plans and repayment options for student loans.

Whats the difference between default and forbearance?

With forbearance, you wont have to make a payment, or you can temporarily make a smaller payment. However, you probably wont be making any progress toward forgiveness or paying back your loan. As an alternative, consider income-driven repayment. If you are delinquent on your student loan payment for 90 days or more, your loan servicer will report the delinquency to the national credit bureaus, which can negatively impact your credit rating. If you continue to be delinquent, you risk your loan going into default. You will be in default if you do not pay for 270 days or more.

How does being in default impact your credit?

The Department of Education says, if you have a poor credit rating, it can be difficult for you to get credit cards, home or car loans, or other forms of consumer credit. You may also be charged a higher interest rate than someone with a good credit rating.

You also may have trouble signing up for utilities, getting homeowner's insurance, getting a cell phone plan, or getting approval to rent an apartment.

This story was originally published by Erin Miller with the

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President Donald Trump announced late on Thursday he would rename Veterans Day to Victory Day for World War I, to commemorate the Nov. 11 date that officially ended the conflict in 1918.

May 8, he said, would also be recognized in the U.S. as Victory Day for World War II. The date is already frequently observed in European countries as Victory in Europe Day, marking the official end of World War II against Nazi Germany, but it is not a U.S. federal holiday.

In a late-night social media post, President Trump suggested the dates were not sufficiently recognized in the U.S.

"I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I. We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything Thats because we dont have leaders anymore, that know how to do so!" the president wrote.

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Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day when it was established in 1919. The U.S. changed the holiday's local name to All Veterans Day in 1954 and later shortened it to Veterans Day. In 1968 it was recognized as a federal holiday honoring all American veterans.

Maritsa Georgiou, who hosts the podcast "Grounded" with former Sen. Jon Tester, beaks down the week's top political headlines with Scripps News.

This week, President Donald Trump announced that Mike Waltz will leave his job as national security adviser and be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Only months into the job, Waltz sparked controversy by creating a Signal group chat to discuss sensitive plans for strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and mistakenly adding The Atlantics editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the conversation.

Georgiou says the controversy has brought new scrutiny on Walz from those within Trump's circle.

"I really think the question around this won't really be about Mike Waltz or Pete Hegseth," Georgiou said. "I think the name that we should be talking about is Laura Loomer, because she called for this last week in a conversation with Tara Palmeri on her podcast and Substack. And she basically was asked directly, 'Who would you fire or advise the president fire next?' She was a little bit coy at first and then said, 'Well, I think that [Waltz] is not loyal to President Trump.' And she brought up a video that he recorded in 2016. Mike Waltz going after President Trump, then candidate Trump, over his comments about John McCain and other veterans. So I think this goes deeper than just Signal-gate."

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The White House announced late Thursday that it is instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, claiming the CPB subsidizes "biased media."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order preventing CPB from funding NPR and PBS, as well as organizations that utilize NPR and PBS programming.

"I think in short we're going to see this end up in court," Georgiou said. "The PBS president has already called this blatantly unlawful. NPR said that they vowed to fight this. You're really seeing a lot of PBS and NPR stations saying, 'well, what does this mean for us, exactly?' I have a lot of friends who work in public broadcasting and they're very concerned specifically about the smaller more rural stations across the country where they might not have any other source for news. And let's not forget emergency information like storm warnings, tornado warnings, that kind of thing. NPR and PBS hit, they estimate, about 99% of the country. So I think that we are not going to see the end of this fight just yet."

Watch the full interview with Georgiou in the video above.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The emergency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the teams access under federal privacy laws.

Social Security holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country, including school records, bank details, salary information and medical and mental health records for disability recipients, according to court documents.

The government says the DOGE team needs access to target waste in the federal government, and asked the justices to put the lower court order on hold as the lawsuit over the issue plays out.

Solicitor General John Sauer argued that the judges restrictions disrupt DOGEs urgent work and inappropriately interfere with executive-branch functions. Left undisturbed, this preliminary injunction will only invite further judicial incursions into internal agency decision-making, he wrote.

Musk has been focused on Social Security as an alleged hotbed of fraud, describing it as a Ponzi scheme and insisting that reducing waste in the program is an important way to cut government spending.

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An appeals court refused to immediately to lift the block on DOGE access, though it split along ideological lines. Conservative judges in the minority said theres no evidence that the team has done any targeted snooping or exposed personal information.

The lawsuit was originally filed by a group of labor unions and retirees represented by the group Democracy Forward.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland that blocked DOGE from Social Security systems did allow staffers to access data that has been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable.

The appeal is the latest in a string of emergency applications to the nation's highest court as the Trump administration faces about 200 lawsuits challenging various aspects of President Donald Trump's sweeping conservative agenda.