NEW YORK (AP) — Many crew members on the Mexican navy tall ship that suffered a lethal collision with the Brooklyn Bridge have flown residence from New York, officers stated Monday.

Seven officers and 172 cadets who had been aboard the Cuauhtemoc coaching vessel arrived early Monday on the port of Veracruz, the place Mexico’s naval faculty is, the Mexican navy stated in a submit on X. Two cadets remained in New York getting medical remedy. They had been in steady situation, the navy stated.

Two members of the Cuauhtemoc’s crew suffered deadly accidents Saturday when the ship’s tall masts struck the Brooklyn Bridge’s predominant span after the ship departed a Manhattan dock the place it had been open to guests for a number of days.

Footage of the collision shot by horrified onlookers present the ship shifting swiftly backwards after which grinding beneath the 142-year-old bridge as its topmasts snapped off. A number of cadets within the ship’s crew had been aloft, standing on the ship’s yards when the collision occurred. A number of had been left dangling by security harnesses because the masts partially collapsed.

The U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board was investigating the reason for the crash, which police stated was presumably associated to a mechanical drawback. The ship was shifting shortly beneath motor energy within the reverse of its supposed path when the collision occurred. A tugboat that had helped the ship get out of its berth might be seen on video making an attempt to get forward of the vessel because it headed towards the bridge however couldn’t overtake it in time.

The protection board deliberate to carry its first media briefing later Monday. The investigation is prone to take months. The crippled Cuauhtemoc remained at a dock in Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge escaped main injury however at the very least 19 of the ship’s 277 sailors wanted medical remedy, in line with officers. Amongst these killed was América Yamilet Sánchez, a 20-year-old sailor who had been finding out engineering on the Mexican naval academy. Her household has stated she died after falling from one of many Cuauhtemoc’s masts.

The Cuauhtemoc, a masted Mexican Navy coaching ship, is docked in Manhattan after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Monday, Could 19, 2025. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)

Folks work the Cuauhtemoc, a masted Mexican Navy coaching ship, after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Monday, Could 19, 2025. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)

An individual climbs up the rigging of the Cuauhtemoc, a masted Mexican Navy coaching ship, at Pier 35 after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Monday, Could 19, 2025. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)

A Mexican vessel was broken Saturday when its masts hit the Brooklyn bridge. Two sailors had been killed. (AP Digital Embed)

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The Cuauhtemoc, a masted Mexican Navy coaching ship, is docked in Manhattan after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Monday, Could 19, 2025. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)

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The Cuauhtemoc arrived in New York on Could 13 as a part of a worldwide goodwill tour. The vessel, which sailed for the primary time in 1982, had been docked and welcoming guests in current days on the tourist-heavy South Avenue Seaport. It was subsequent sure for Iceland.

The ship’s predominant mast has a peak of 160 ft (50 meters), far too excessive for the span of the Brooklyn Bridge at any tide.

Related Press reporter Fabiola Sánchez in Mexico Metropolis contributed to this story.

Initially Revealed: Could 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Courtroom on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip authorized protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, probably exposing them to deportation.

The court docket’s order, with just one famous dissent, places on maintain a ruling from a federal decide in San Francisco that stored in place Momentary Protected Standing for the Venezuelans that may have in any other case expired final month.

The standing permits folks already in the USA to dwell and work legally as a result of their native international locations are deemed unsafe for return as a consequence of pure catastrophe or civil strife.

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Initially Printed: Might 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM EDT

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Author

CBS Information CEO Wendy McMahon stated Monday that she is resigning, the most recent fallout on the community as its guardian firm considers settling a lawsuit with President Donald Trump over “60 Minutes.”

McMahon, who leads each the community information division and information for the CBS-owned stations, stated in an electronic mail message to employees that “it’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward. It’s time to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.”

McMahon has made clear she opposes settling with Trump — identical to “60 Minutes” govt producer Invoice Owens, who stop final month.

Trump has sued CBS, alleging it edited an interview with 2024 Democratic opponent Kamala Harris final fall to learn her. CBS Information has denied that. CBS’ guardian firm, Paramount World, is reportedly in settlement talks with Trump. Paramount World is in search of approval of a merger with Skydance Media.

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A smiling former President Joe Biden posted to social media this morning that his most cancers analysis received’t break him.

“Cancer touches us all,” he tweeted. “Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”

He hooked up a photograph of himself along with his spouse and their pet cat — he’s smiling, she isn’t. He posted the replace to X, Instagram and Fb.

The feedback urged Biden to “keep fighting” whereas others celebrated his “grace” within the face of most cancers. Nonetheless, the political digs are peppered within the string.

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” his workplace stated, in response to the Related Press. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”

Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness utilizing what’s generally known as a Gleason rating. The scores vary from 6 to 10, with 8, 9 and 10 prostate cancers behaving extra aggressively. Biden’s workplace stated his rating was 9, suggesting his most cancers is among the many most aggressive, AP added.

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Initially Printed: Might 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM EDT

By JIANG JUNZHE, Related Press

HONG KONG (AP) — International shares fell Monday and U.S. futures and the greenback additionally weakened after Moody’s Rankings downgraded the sovereign credit standing for the USA due to its failure to stem a rising tide of debt.

The long run for the S&P 500 misplaced 1.2% whereas that for the Dow Jones Industrial Common fell 0.8%. The U.S. greenback slipped to 144.92 Japanese yen from 145.65 yen. The euro superior to $1.1254 from $1.1183.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury was at about 4.54%, up from 4.44% late Friday.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX retreated 0.1% to 23,733.96 whereas the CAC 40 in Paris misplaced 0.5% to 7,851.46.

Britain’s FTSE 100 declined 0.5% to eight,643.23.

Chinese language markets fell after the federal government stated retail gross sales rose 5.1% in April from a yr earlier, lower than anticipated. Development in industrial output slowed to six.1% year-on-year from 7.7% in March.

That would imply rising inventories if manufacturing outpaces demand much more than it already does. But it surely additionally might replicate a few of the transport growth earlier than a few of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese language items took impact.

“After an improvement in March, China’s economy looks to have slowed again last month, with firms and households turning more cautious due to the trade war,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics stated in a report.

Hong Kong’s Dangle Seng misplaced 0.1% to 23,332.72 and the Shanghai Composite Index was almost unchanged at 3,367.58.

E-commerce big Alibaba’s shares in Hong Kong skidded 3.4% following a report that U.S. officers are scrutinizing a possible Apple-Alibaba deal to combine AI options into iPhones in China.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gave up 0.7% to 37,498.63 whereas the Kospi in Seoul dropped 0.9% to 2,603.43.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.6% to eight,295.10.

Taiwan’s Taiex was 1.5% decrease.

In oil buying and selling early Monday, U.S. benchmark crude oil misplaced 47 cents to $61.50 per barrel. Brent crude, the worldwide customary, gave up 50 cents to $64.91 per barrel.

Wall Road cruised to a powerful end final week as U.S. shares glided nearer to the all-time excessive they set only a few months earlier, although it might really feel like an financial period in the past.

The S&P 500 rose 0.7%. It has rallied to inside 3% of its document set in February after it briefly dropped roughly 20% beneath it final month.

Good points have been pushed by hopes that Trump will decrease his tariffs in opposition to different international locations after reaching commerce offers with them.

The Dow industrials added 0.8% and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.5%.

Trump’s commerce warfare despatched monetary markets reeling as a result of they might gradual the economic system and drive it right into a recession, whereas additionally pushing inflation larger.

That uncertainty has been hitting U.S. households and companies, elevating worries that they might freeze their spending and long-term plans. The most recent studying in a survey of U.S. shoppers by the College of Michigan confirmed sentiment soured once more in Could, although the tempo of decline wasn’t as dangerous as in prior months.

Constitution Communications rose 1.8% after it stated Friday that it has agreed to merge with Cox Communications in a deal that might mix two of the nation’s largest cable corporations.

Hope stays that this week’s better-than-expected alerts on inflation may give the Federal Reserve extra leeway to chop rates of interest later this yr if excessive tariffs drag down the U.S. economic system.

Initially Revealed: Could 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM EDT

Massachusetts lawmakers with policing backgrounds say the confrontation between activists and ICE brokers in Worcester underscores the necessity for first responders to have the ability to create a buffer zone from unruly bystanders.

State Reps. Richard Wells, a Democrat who served for 32 years with the Milton Police, and Steven Xiarhos, a Republican who spent 40 years with Yarmouth Police, are behind a invoice they are saying would deter individuals from harassing first responders.

Beneath the HALO Act, which has acquired bipartisan assist, first responders can be allowed to warn individuals to remain away if they’re getting in the midst of and disrupting a scene. Bystanders deemed to be interfering with an operation can be ordered to again off a minimum of 25 toes.

Individuals who refuse can be topic to a high-quality of as much as $1,000 for the primary offense, the laws outlines. Repeat offenders would face a high-quality of as much as $5,000 and potential jail time for as much as a yr.

Whereas the laws hasn’t seen a lot motion since being launched earlier this yr, Wells and Xiarhos say the invoice is required greater than ever to stop additional incidents just like the chaotic Worcester ICE showdown.

First Modification advocates counter {that a} buffer zone round first responders would stifle the general public’s proper to know.

The presence of federal brokers in a residential neighborhood sparked anger on the morning of Might 8 in Worcester. Over two dozen neighbors responded to the scene in an try to dam the arrest of an unlawful alien accused of assaulting her pregnant 16-year-old daughter.

Metropolis police responded to calls from federal brokers who wanted help in separating a crowd of roughly 25 activists who surrounded them.

“The more I watch incidents like Worcester, the more I feel something like the HALO Act has to be put into place, just to give (first responders) a little more protection,” Wells informed the Herald. “If you see some of these (activists), they just don’t care, they think it’s a sport, they think it’s like a game.”

Justin Silverman, the chief director of the New England First Modification Coalition, stated he believes the proposal is “unnecessary and dangerous to the public’s right to know,” and that law enforcement officials might simply abuse the regulation.

“It’s already against the law to interfere with police, and we have a strong First Amendment right to record them,” Silverman informed the Herald on Saturday. “This right is especially needed now with federal agents in our communities detaining immigrants with local law enforcement often present.”

“First responders must be protected,” he added, “but not in a way where they can needlessly shield themselves from the eyes of the public.”

The invoice doesn’t include particular language concerning the First Modification proper to document first responders on the scene.

Wells and Xiarhos highlighted how individuals would nonetheless be allowed to conduct so-called First Modification audits by which people document interactions with public officers in public areas to check their proper to free speech.

Xiarhos stated the mission of the invoice is to stop individuals from harassing first responders – police, firefighters and EMTs – and “calling them names, horrible names, right to their face.”

“It’s freedom of speech, but it is disrespectful, and it is not right,” the Cape Cod rep informed the Herald on Saturday. “The HALO Act is the perfect balance between freedom of speech, say what you want, even though it’s nasty or negative, but give us 25 feet so we can do our job.”

Xiarhos additionally highlighted how communities are struggling to rent first responders. The invoice might assist treatment that, making certain they might really feel revered. That is the primary time such a proposal has been launched in Massachusetts, and a listening to on it has but to be scheduled, he added.

“We are leaders in education, we are leaders in healthcare and all kinds of things,” Xiarhos stated of the Bay State. “Why don’t we lead in this way where you can be proud that in Massachusetts, we respect our first responders? They have a job to do, they are risking their lives.”

The Worcester Police Division has launched the primary batch of physique digicam footage information and audio from emergency communication dispatch calls from the ICE showdown, bringing to life the moments when metropolis officers responded.

Metropolis Councilor Etel Haxhiaj, one of many neighbors on the scene, is seen grabbing at federal brokers and yelling, “Do not take her!” and mouthing, “Don’t touch me!” She’s additionally heard shouting, “You do not show any warrants, get out of our neighborhood.”

“The body-worn camera footage from the first responding officer will show that the target of ICE’s operation was already detained by federal agents prior to WPD’s arrival and that WPD did not assist ICE with the civil arrest,” Metropolis Supervisor Eric D. Batista stated in an announcement after the discharge on Friday. “The footage of a family being torn apart is disturbing to watch, but the municipality cannot interfere in or prevent a federal detainment.”

The HALO Act, pending on the State Home, is modeled after the same regulation in Florida.

Neighbor to Neighbor, an activist group that deployed members to the Worcester scene, known as the Massachusetts proposal “overkill.” It added that it “fully respects the necessity of first responders to be able to carry out their lawful duties without harassment or interference.”

A consultant for the group highlighted how a federal choose in January briefly blocked Louisiana from instituting a police buffer regulation that will have made it a misdemeanor to method regulation enforcement after being informed to face again 25 toes.

“This isn’t Louisiana, Arizona, Indiana, or Florida. This is Massachusetts,” the consultant informed the Herald. “The rights of the people are just as sacrosanct as the duty of law enforcement to protect those rights here.”

Worcester Police has requested the court docket to drop prices it pressed in opposition to a 16-year-old juvenile feminine, recognized because the daughter of the girl detained by ICE, on the scene.

The division additionally arrested College Committee candidate Ashley Spring, 39, on 4 counts of assault and battery on a police officer.

Frank Frederickson, the director of presidency affairs for the Massachusetts Fraternal Order of Police, known as the Worcester incident a “pretty good example of how the public steps in and escalates  situations when official duties are taking place.”

Frederickson, a former Yarmouth police chief, had a 43-year policing profession.

“We have worked a lot in the profession to de-escalate situations through training, constant reminders to officers, constant court cases,” he informed the Herald on Saturday. “We can only do so much. There are times when people who are not involved in an incident, and their emotions get too much of them, and they escalate situations by getting in the way of the official duties of police officers.”

Right now is Monday, Could 19, the 139th day of 2025. There are 226 days left within the yr.

Right now in historical past:

On Could 19, 1920, ten folks have been killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who have been led by a neighborhood police chief, and a bunch of personal safety guards employed to evict them for becoming a member of a union in Matewan, West Virginia.

Additionally on this date:

In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second spouse of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded on the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery.

In 1883, William Cody held the primary of his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” reveals in Omaha, Nebraska.

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, which established nationwide quotas for immigrants.

In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the White Home, the place the 2 leaders agreed on Could 1, 1944, because the date for the D-Day invasion of France (enlargement plans for the invasion triggered the date of the touchdown to be delayed by a month).

In 1962, movie star Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy throughout a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard.

In 2018, Britain’s Prince Harry wed American actor Meghan Markle in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Fortress.

Right now’s Birthdays:

TV character David Hartman is 90.
Musician-composer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 80.
Singer-actor Grace Jones is 77.
Former racing driver Dario Franchitti is 52.
Basketball Corridor of Famer Kevin Garnett is 49.
Nation musician-producer Shooter Jennings is 46.
Comic-actor Michael Che is 42.
Singer Sam Smith is 33.
Media personality-singer JoJo Siwa is 22.

By JOSH BOAK

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Sunday that Walmart, the most important U.S. retailer, could move alongside a few of the prices from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to its buyers by means of larger costs.

Bessent described his name with the corporate’s CEO a day after Trump warned Walmart to keep away from elevating costs from the tariffs in any respect and vowed to maintain a detailed watch on what it does.

As doubts persist about Trump’s financial management, Bessent pushed again towards inflation considerations, praised the uncertainty brought on by Trump as a negotiating tactic for commerce talks and dismissed the downgrade Friday of U.S. authorities debt by Moody’s Rankings.

But Walmart doesn’t seem ready to “eat the tariffs” in full, as Trump has insisted the corporate and China would do.

“Walmart will be absorbing some of the tariffs, some may get passed on to consumers,” Bessent mentioned. “Overall, I would expect inflation to remain in line. But I don’t blame consumers for being skittish after what happened to them for years under Biden,” a reference to inflation hitting a four-decade excessive in June 2022 below then President Joe Biden because the restoration from the pandemic, authorities spending and the Russian invasion of Ukraine pushed up prices.

Walmart didn’t touch upon Bessent’s description of his dialog with McMillon.

In a social media publish on Saturday morning, Trump mentioned Walmart mustn’t cost its clients extra money to offset the brand new tariff prices. “I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!” he posted.

Bessent mentioned Walmart on its earnings name on Thursday had been obligated below federal laws “to give the worst-case scenario so that they’re not sued,” suggesting that the worth will increase wouldn’t be extreme in his view.

However Walmart executives mentioned final week that larger costs began appearing on their cabinets in late April and accelerated this month.

“We’re wired to keep prices low, but there’s a limit to what we can bear, or any retailer for that matter,” Chief Monetary Officer John David Rainey informed The Related Press on Thursday.

Bessent maintained that the rankings downgrade was a “lagging indicator” because the monetary markets had already priced within the prices of a complete federal debt of roughly $36 trillion. Nonetheless, the tax plan being pushed by Trump would add extra roughly $3.3 trillion to deficits over the subsequent decade, together with a $600 billion improve in 2027 alone, in accordance with the Committee for a Accountable Federal Price range.

The treasury secretary maintained that deficits wouldn’t be an issue as a result of the economic system would develop sooner than the debt accumulation, lowering its improve as a dimension of the general economic system.

Most impartial analyses are skeptical of the administration’s claims that it could possibly obtain 3% common progress as Trump’s 2018 tax cuts failed to take action. These tax cuts from Trump’s first time period did enhance financial progress earlier than the pandemic, however in addition they raised the finances deficit relative to earlier estimates by the Congressional Price range Workplace.

On tariffs, the Trump administration remains to be making an attempt to find out charges with roughly 40 main buying and selling companions earlier than a July deadline. It’s additionally within the early phases of a 90-day negotiation with China, after agreed per week in the past to reset tariffs on that nation from 145% to 30% in order that talks can proceed.

Bessent mentioned any worries about tariffs by small enterprise homeowners probably mirrored the upper price beforehand being charged on China. Nonetheless, the uncertainty has been a serious drag for customers and companies making an attempt to make spending plans within the weeks, months and years forward.

“Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic,” Bessent mentioned. “So if we were to give too much certainty to the other countries, then they would play us in the negotiations.”

Bessent appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Initially Printed: Might 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM EDT

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SUSAN HAIGH

When a Mexican navy tall ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, it was maneuvering in turbulent waters. The tide had simply turned, and a quick present was heading up the East River as a ten mph wind set in.

Whereas such hazards are simply dealt with by an skilled captain, errors might be expensive within the closely transited New York harbor, the place slender, curvy channels, winds howling off the jagged Manhattan skyline and whirlpool-like eddies can mix to make for troublesome passage.

Within the case of the 300-foot (90-meter) Cuauhtemoc, two sailors had been killed and 19 had been injured Saturday when the ship struck the enduring bridge, toppling the vessel’s three masts like dominoes because it drifted towards a crowded pier. It’s unknown what triggered the collision, and an investigation by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board is more likely to take months.

However footage of the collision shot by horrified onlookers present the ship hurtling into the bridge in reverse at full velocity, suggesting the captain misplaced management of the engine. There are additionally questions on whether or not a tugboat escort peeled away too quickly and will have been rigged to the ship or stayed with it till it headed out to sea. Comparable tugboat issues emerged when a big cargo vessel crashed right into a bridge in Baltimore final yr.

Sal Mercogliano, a former service provider mariner who has powered a number of ships by way of the New York harbor, stated all these “worst-case scenarios” — the ship’s top, a powerful present, heavy wind and the absence of a extra managed tugboat escort — all contributed to the tragedy.

“The prudent thing would’ve been to leave two hours earlier, when the tide was going out. That would’ve been the ideal time,” stated Mercogliano, who writes a broadly adopted transport weblog. “But I don’t think they ever envisioned that their engine would’ve propelled them into the bridge.”

Nonetheless, he stated an excellent deadlier disaster was prevented by the ship’s metal rigging, which prevented the masts from falling into the water, in addition to the truth that the crew stayed harnessed in place slightly than taking the chance that some members may tumble from a 12-story top as they scrambled down the rat strains.

“You could have had guys strapped in drowning in the river,” he stated. “This could have been a lot worse.”

Ship was on a goodwill tour

The Cuauhtemoc visited New York as a part of a 15-nation world goodwill tour and was departing for Iceland when it struck the bridge at round 8:20 p.m., briefly halting site visitors atop the span.

Mayor Eric Adams stated the 142-year-old bridge escaped main injury, however at the least 19 of the 277 sailors aboard the ship wanted medical therapy. Two of the 4 individuals who suffered severe accidents later died.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum lamented the loss. “Our solidarity and support go out to their families,” Sheinbaum stated on X.

The Cuauhtemoc sailed for the primary time in 1982. It’s nearly 300 ft lengthy and its predominant mast has a top of 160 ft (50 meters), about 30 ft (9 meters) increased than the span of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The vessel, which arrived in New York on Might 13, backed out from the tourist-heavy South Avenue Seaport, the place it had been docked for a number of days welcoming guests. It’s unknown if the Mexican captain requested a dock pilot to help with the unmooring, however a harbor pilot was on board to sail it by way of the harbor, as required.

Monitoring information from Marine Visitors and eyewitness movies present that an 1,800-horsepower tugboat, the Charles D. McAllister, gently nudged the vessel because it backed astern into the channel however dropped off earlier than the vessel turned. Seconds later, because the ship continued drifting within the flawed course, the tugboat tried to overhaul the vessel however arrived too late to wedge itself between the fast-moving ship and the Brooklyn riverbank.

McAllister Towing, the corporate that may have operated the tug and been answerable for any docking pilot aboard, declined to remark.

Some vessels keep away from harbor due to low bridges

Incidents in New York harbor are uncommon as a result of massive cargo ships and trendy warships usually keep away from the realm as a result of low top of the bridges. However in July 2026, the harbor is anticipated to play host to the largest-ever flotilla of tall ships from world wide to have fun the 250th anniversary of the founding of america.

Mercogliano stated investigators will consider whether or not the Mexican crew carried out the beneficial security checks previous to their departure. Sometimes that entails testing the engine’s propellers, rudder and propulsion six to 12 hours prematurely to verify every part is working correctly and nothing is left to probability.

“It’s not like your car where you’re just throwing your shifter,” he stated.

On Sunday, the broken ship was moored at Pier 35 in decrease Manhattan. A stream of individuals, together with those that gave the impression to be investigators and crew, could possibly be seeing getting on and off the vessel.

The Coast Guard stated injury to the Cuauhtémoc was being assessed. The Coast Guard established a 50-yard (46-meter) security zone across the ship because the investigation by each the U.S. and Mexican governments obtained underway.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the Senate minority chief, stated any investigation ought to look into whether or not the Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze affected the U.S. Coast Guard’s staffing ranges, security procedures and accident-response readiness.

“After being fully briefed on last night’s Brooklyn Bridge accident, one thing is predominantly clear: There are more questions than answers as it relates to exactly how this accident occurred,” Schumer stated.

The governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz confirmed Sunday on X that one of many two individuals who was killed was from her state, cadet América Yamilet Sánchez.

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Related Press writers Ruth Brown, Kyle Marian Viterbo, Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz in New York, Sejal Govindarao in Phoenix, Arizona, and Gene Johnson in Seattle, Washington, contributed to this report.

Initially Revealed: Might 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON — Republicans trying to get their huge tax minimize and border safety bundle again on observe held a uncommon Sunday night time committee assembly after that very same panel voted in opposition to advancing the measure two days earlier.

Deficit hawks joined with Democratic lawmakers on the Home Funds Committee in voting in opposition to reporting the measure to the complete Home. 5 Republicans voted no, one on procedural grounds, the opposite 4 voicing considerations in regards to the invoice’s impression on federal finances deficits.

Johnson expressed confidence the invoice will advance out of the committee and be on the Home flooring by the top of the week.

The Republicans who criticized the measure famous that the invoice’s new spending and the tax cuts are front-loaded within the invoice, whereas the measures to offset the associated fee are back-loaded. For instance, they need to pace up the brand new work necessities that Republicans wish to enact for able-bodied members in Medicaid. These necessities wouldn’t kick in till 2029 below the present invoice.

“We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our children are going to pay the price,” stated Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the committee. “Something needs to change, or you’re not going to get my support.”

Johnson stated the beginning date for the work necessities was designed to provide states time to “retool their systems” and to “make sure that all the new laws and all the new safeguards that we’re placing can actually be enforced.”

Roy was joined in voting no by Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma and Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania switched his vote to no in a procedural step so it might be reconsidered later, saying after the listening to he was assured Republicans would “get this done.” Johnson stated talks to cope with their considerations had been persevering with Sunday.

By SARAH RAZA and ERIC TUCKER

A 25-year-old man the FBI believes was answerable for an explosion that ripped by a Southern California fertility clinic left behind “anti-pro-life” writings earlier than finishing up an assault investigators are calling an act of terrorism, authorities stated Sunday.

Man Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, was recognized by the FBI because the suspect within the obvious automotive bomb detonation Saturday that broken the clinic within the upscale metropolis of Palm Springs within the desert east of Los Angeles.

Investigators consider Barktus died within the blast, which a senior FBI official known as presumably the “largest bombing scene that we’ve had in Southern California.” A physique was discovered close to a charred automobile outdoors the clinic.

Bartkus tried to livestream the explosion and left behind writings that communicated “nihilistic ideations” that have been nonetheless being examined to find out his frame of mind, stated Akil Davis, the assistant director in control of the FBI’s Los Angeles discipline workplace. U.S. Legal professional Bilal “Bill” Essayli, the highest federal prosecutor within the space, known as the writings “anti-pro-life.”

The Related Press reported Saturday night time that these writings professed a sentiment that the world shouldn’t be populated.

“This was a targeted attack against the IVF facility,” Davis stated Sunday. “Make no mistake: we are treating this, as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism.”

The bombing injured 4 different individuals, although Davis stated all embryos on the facility have been saved.

“Good guys one, bad guys zero,” he stated.

Authorities have been executing a search warrant in Twentynine Palms, a metropolis of 28,000 residents about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Palm Springs, as a part of the investigation.

The suspect posted writings on-line and tried to file the explosion, although authorities stated the video did not add. An official who was not licensed to debate particulars of the assault spoke on situation of anonymity to the AP.

The blast gutted the single-story American Reproductive Facilities clinic, although a physician stated its workers members have been secure.

“Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients,” Dr. Maher Abdallah, who leads the clinic, informed the AP in a cellphone interview Saturday. —- Related Press author Christopher Weber contributed from Los Angeles.

Initially Revealed: Could 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has been identified with prostate most cancers, his workplace stated Sunday.

Biden was seen final week by docs after urinary signs and a prostate nodule was discovered. He was identified with prostate most cancers on Friday, with the most cancers cells having unfold to the bone.

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” his workplace stated. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”

Prostate cancers are given a rating referred to as a Gleason rating that measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, how the cancerous cells look in contrast with regular cells. Biden’s workplace stated his rating was 9, suggesting his most cancers is among the many most aggressive.

When prostate most cancers spreads to different elements of the physique, it usually spreads to the bones. Metastasized most cancers is far tougher to deal with than localized most cancers as a result of it may be onerous for medication to achieve all of the tumors and utterly root out the illness.

Nonetheless, when prostate cancers want hormones to develop, as in Biden’s case, they are often vulnerable to therapy that deprives the tumors of hormones.

The well being of Biden, 82, was a dominant concern amongst voters throughout his time as president. After a calamitous debate efficiency in June whereas looking for reelection, Biden deserted his bid for a second time period. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris grew to become the nominee and misplaced to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White Home after a four-year hiatus.

However in latest days, Biden rejected issues about his age regardless of reporting within the new ebook “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson that aides had shielded the general public from the extent of his decline whereas serving as president.

In February 2023, Biden had a pores and skin lesion faraway from his chest that was a basal cell carcinoma, a standard type of pores and skin most cancers. And in November 2021, he had a polyp faraway from his colon that was a benign, however probably pre-cancerous lesion.

In 2022, Biden made a “cancer moonshot” one among his administration’s priorities with the aim of halving the most cancers demise price over the subsequent 25 years. The initiative was a continuation of his work as vice chairman to handle a illness that had killed his older son, Beau.

Initially Revealed: Might 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM EDT

The U.S. Justice Division advised a federal decide in Texas it hasn’t determined whether or not to enter into an settlement with Boeing Co. that may drop a felony cost associated to 2 deadly 737 Max crashes, and that federal prosecutors are giving the households of victims one other probability to weigh in.

Authorities legal professionals briefed the households for 2 hours on Friday on a “possible framework” for a non-prosecution settlement with Boeing, however stated no draft settlement has been exchanged between the corporate and prosecutors, in accordance with a court docket submitting Saturday to U.S. District Decide Reed O’Connor, who has been overseeing the long-running felony proceedings tied to the crashes in 2018 and 2019.

The case is being intently watched as a bellwether for the way the Justice Division underneath President Donald Trump handles high-profile company prosecutions. Final yr, underneath the Biden administration, Boeing agreed to plead responsible to felony conspiracy and pay a fantastic, however that deal was scrapped by O’Connor, who objected to elements of the settlement. Boeing and the Justice Division have been in talks on a revised settlement.

Buffett can be again, however no questions

Billionaire Warren Buffett plans to attend, however not take questions, at subsequent yr’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder assembly — an enormous change following his latest shock retirement announcement.

Buffett’s handpicked successor, Greg Abel, advised the Omaha World-Herald that Berkshire plans a shareholder assembly for the primary weekend of Might that may have a question-and-answer session.

However Buffett, who plans to stay as Berkshire’s chairman, plans to sit down with the conglomerate’s board of administrators and never be on stage taking questions.

The annual shareholder assembly attracts some 40,000 folks to Omaha in what’s been dubbed “Woodstock for Capitalists.”

By SARAH RAZA

The FBI has recognized a 25-year-old California man because the individual answerable for the explosion of a Palm Springs fertility clinic.

Authorities say the suspect, Man Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, was making an attempt to livestream the bombing assault and had expressed “nihilistic ideations.”

The bombing injured 4 different folks along with killing Bartkus. Davis mentioned all embryos on the facility had been saved.

“Good guys one, bad guys zero,” he mentioned.

Investigators referred to as the explosion on Saturday an “intentional act of terrorism.” The suspect posted writings on-line and tried to file the explosion, although authorities mentioned the video didn’t add on-line. An official who was not approved to debate particulars of the assault spoke on situation of anonymity to The Related Press.

The blast gutted the single-story American Reproductive Facilities clinic in upscale Palm Springs, although a health care provider instructed the Related Press its employees had been secure.

“Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients,” Dr. Maher Abdallah, who leads the clinic, instructed the AP in a telephone interview.

The individual believed answerable for an assault posted rambling on-line writings earlier than the explosion, in response to a legislation enforcement official.

Initially Printed: Could 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT

By RUTH BROWN and KYLE MARIAN VITERBO

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal transportation officers have launched an investigation into why a Mexican navy tall ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in a collision that snapped the vessel’s three masts, killed two crew members and left some sailors dangling from harnesses excessive within the air.

The ship often called the Cuauhtemoc was visiting New York on a worldwide goodwill tour when the accident occurred Saturday night. The vessel might be seen in a number of eyewitness movies touring swiftly in reverse towards the bridge close to the Brooklyn aspect of the East River. Then its three masts struck the bridge and snapped, one after the other, because the ship saved shifting.

It was unclear what induced the ship to veer astray. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board introduced that it was sending a crew to analyze. Investigators have been anticipated to reach Sunday afternoon.

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams stated the 142-year-old bridge escaped main harm, however a minimum of 19 folks aboard the ship wanted medical remedy.

Two of the 4 individuals who suffered severe accidents later died, Adams introduced on social media.

Movies confirmed heavy site visitors on the span on the time of the 8:20 p.m. collision. Nobody on the bridge was damage.

The vessel, which was flying a large Mexican flag and had 277 folks aboard, then drifted right into a pier on the riverbank as onlookers scrambled away.

Sailors might be seen aloft within the rigging on the broken masts however, remarkably, nobody fell into the water, officers stated.

Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz informed The Related Press they have been sitting outdoors to observe the sundown once they noticed the vessel strike the bridge.

“We saw someone dangling, and I couldn’t tell if it was just blurry or my eyes. And we were able to zoom in on our phone, and there was someone dangling from the harness from the top for like at least like 15 minutes before they were able to rescue them,” Katz stated.

Simply earlier than the collision, Nick Corso took his cellphone out to seize the backdrop of the ship and the bridge in opposition to a sundown, As a substitute, he heard what sounded just like the loud snapping of a “big twig.” A number of extra snaps adopted.

Individuals in his neighborhood started working and “pandemonium” erupted aboard the ship, he stated. He later noticed a handful of individuals dangling from a mast.

“I didn’t know what to think, I was like, is this a movie?” he stated.

The Mexican navy stated in a publish on the social platform X that the Cuauhtemoc was a coaching vessel. It stated a complete of twenty-two folks have been injured.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum lamented the lack of the 2 crew members.

“Our solidarity and support go out to their families,” Sheinbaum stated on X.

Mexico’s naval secretary, Adm. Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, stated in a press release Sunday that the navy was involved with the households of victims and vowed to conduct a clear investigation. He thanked the primary responders in New York.

The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883, has a virtually 1,600-foot (490-meter) principal span supported by two masonry towers. Greater than 100,000 automobiles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians cross day-after-day, in line with the town’s transportation division. Its walkway is a serious vacationer attraction.

Visitors was halted after the collision however was allowed to renew after an inspection, metropolis officers stated.

New York Police Division Particular Operations Chief Wilson Aramboles stated the ship had simply left a Manhattan pier and was supposed to move out to sea, not towards the bridge.

He stated an preliminary report was that the ship misplaced energy as a result of a mechanical downside, although officers cautioned that the data was preliminary. Movies present a tugboat was near the Cuauhtemoc on the time of the crash.

As midnight approached, the damaged boat was moved slowly up the East River, going beneath and previous the Manhattan Bridge, aided by a collection of tugboats, earlier than docking at a pier. Onlookers continued to assemble on the waterfront to observe the spectacle.

Every year the Cuauhtemoc units out on the finish of courses on the naval army college to complete cadets’ coaching. This yr it left the Mexican port of Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, on April 6, the navy stated.

It arrived Might 13 in New York Metropolis, the place guests have been welcome for a number of days, the Mexican consulate stated. The ship was scheduled to go to 22 ports in 15 nations over 254 days, 170 of them at sea.

The Cuauhtemoc sailed for the primary time in 1982. It’s nearly 300 ft lengthy and 40 ft broad (90.5 meters lengthy and 12 meters broad). The vessel’s principal mast has a peak of 160 ft (48.9 meters), in line with Mexican navy and authorities officers.

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Related Press writers Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz in New York, Sejal Govindarao in Phoenix, Arizona, and Gene Johnson in Seattle, Washington, contributed to this report.

Initially Revealed: Might 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM EDT

By Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald

MIAMI — Lucy Lowell, who survived the deadliest Nazi focus camp to construct a full life in New York Metropolis and finally settle in Miami Seaside, is among the many final of an essential and more and more uncommon group of individuals.

At 103, she’s among the many oldest residing Holocaust survivors on this planet.

It’s a inhabitants that’s disappearing with every passing yr. Simply 1,400 survivors are estimated to be alive at present over the age of 100, based on a brand new report. It implies that the chance to listen to firsthand tales of endurance within the face of monstrous evil is rapidly passing by.

Throughout the subsequent six years, half of all Holocaust survivors will go away. And 70 % will go away with in 10 years, based on a inhabitants projection report from the Convention on Jewish Materials Claims Towards Germany, additionally known as the Claims Convention.

The findings are “a stark reminder that our time is almost up,” stated Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Convention. “Our survivors are leaving us and this is the moment to hear their voices,” he stated.

Lucy Lowell, 103, a Holocaust survivor, holds a photograph of her and her late husband on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Seaside, Florida. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)

And Lowell isn’t even the oldest in Florida. One other Florida survivor, Lithuanian-born Malka Schmulovitz, was lately honored by town of Miami Seaside on her 109th birthday. Schmulovitz was not out there for an interview however informed the Claims Convention that their experiences mustn’t ever be forgotten.

“To be one of the oldest survivors alive right now at my age tells me we are running our of time,” Schmulovitz informed the Claims Convention. “We all have a testimony that needs to be shared.”

Lowell, for her half, admits attempting to place the previous behind her as she constructed a brand new life in the USA. After a long time of staying silent about her expertise escaping Auschwitz and surviving the Holocaust — she as soon as turned down interviews with Steven Spielberg’s staff for his Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List” — she has lately determined to share her story.

“At the time, with my husband, we did not talk about it. We wanted a new life, to enjoy each other and [not to] dwell on it,” she stated.

That change of coronary heart is due, partially, to a current reward from researchers: long-lost books from Lowell’s childhood, together with a ebook of biblical photos she acquired as an award for good habits at her non secular faculty in 1930, when she was simply eight-years-old.

“I was shocked,” Lowell stated, pausing to replicate. “I was shocked.”

Lucy Lowell’s books, taken from her household, at the moment are in her possession. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)

A small and trendy lady with a heat smile, Lowell lately sat in her Miami Seaside residence on Collins Avenue to replicate on these relics, which sparked a flood of painful reminiscences.

She thumbed via a ebook of Jewish philosophy that was given to her older brother Gerhard on the day of his bar mitzvah. Gerhard was later killed in Auschwitz.

“I remember very well — the beautiful party, family… friends. I even remember the dress I wore,” she stated, including that she was simply 10 years previous on the time.

Now, over 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Lowell appears again on a life that was cut up into two components — the earlier than and after. She recalled, in an interview with the Miami Herald, the occasions that modified the course of her life.

“I’ve always had a good memory. What can I say? I am blessed that I don’t have Alzheimer’s or any of those illnesses,” she stated. “It’s still there.”

Lucy Lowell, 103, sits in her Miami Seaside apartment as she displays on her time in Auschwitz, on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Seaside, Florida. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)
Remembering the ‘before’

Earlier than the Holocaust, Lowell lived a cheerful life together with her mother and father and older brother in Berlin. She recollects “wonderful” childhood reminiscences — vacationing within the summers together with her household and attending the now-famous Olympic Video games of 1936, the place Jesse Owens made historical past.

She beloved sports activities, dancing, and admiring the gorgeous issues in life — her mom’s trendy wardrobe, for instance, which sparked an lifelong curiosity in trend design.

Then on Nov. 9, 1938, with one violent night time, the life Lowell knew and beloved started to crumble.

Nazis set hearth to synagogues — together with the one attended by Lowell and her household — and vandalized 1000’s of Jewish properties and companies, igniting a wave of violence that killed practically 100 Jews and led to the arrests and deportations of 1000’s extra. The night time later grew to become often called Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” signaling a turning level in Nazi Germany’s persecution in opposition to Jewish individuals, shifting from social discrimination and propaganda to violence and terror.

The subsequent a number of years would mark one of many darkest occasions in human historical past, each for Lowell and thousands and thousands of different Jewish individuals all over the world. All in all, six million European Jews and folks from different minorities have been killed by the Nazis through the Holocaust.

As situations worsened for Jews — Lowell’s mother and father made preparations to stay with relations in New York. However, as a consequence of journey restrictions, her household by no means made it to America.

“The consulates had closed, and we did not make it,” she stated. “The whole living room was packed with boxes and crates and suitcases to ship to America. And we got stuck.”

Quickly after, Lowell’s household acquired a go to one night time from Nazi officers, who deported the Emmerich’s to the Lodz ghetto in Poland.

“We had just finished supper,” she stated. She heard “a knock on the door, and two Gestapo officers came. They said, ‘We have to evict you, to deport you to Poland. So pack what you can carry, because there are no bell boys.”

In Lodz, Lowell’s household lived in “primitive” situations amongst dozens of different households in the identical cramped, chilly barrack. Situations have been so unsanitary, that Lowell’s mother and father each died from sickness, probably typhus, a number one epidemic on the time that killed 1000’s of Jews residing in ghettos.

Lowell recollects laying within the hospital mattress for weeks with excessive fevers, her head shaved bald from a lice an infection.

“My parents, at least they passed away in a bed and not in Auschwitz,” she stated.

After she reunited together with her brother within the ghetto, the 2 siblings moved out of the barracks and right into a small emptiness. Lowell was in a position to work numerous jobs whereas residing within the ghetto. She remembers working in a wheat subject, planting and stitching, abilities that felt overseas to her as somebody who grew up in an enormous metropolis, and one other job working in a Nazi-run manufacturing facility, making family footwear for troopers.

“When doing the work, I would pick wheat and eat it, and put some in my pocket to bring back for my brother,” she stated.

Lucy Lowell, 103, displays on her time in Auschwitz, sharing her journey of discovering hope after escaping the focus camp and residing a life marked by grace and kindness, on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Seaside, Florida. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)
Surviving Auschwitz

Then, in 1944, after the ghetto was liquidated, Lowell, her brother and two German-speaking coworkers have been pressured into crowded cattle automobiles, bringing with them no matter they might carry with them for the lengthy journey. She didn’t comprehend it on the time, however Lowell was being transported to Auschwitz.

Once they arrived on the camp, troopers separated the women and men, lined them up and ordered them to march in an extended line. Lowell grew to become separated from her brother throughout this time.

“There was a famous doctor … His name was Joseph Mengele, and he would direct people, ‘you go right, you go left.’ There were high fences. They were electric, And we saw one figure there stuck on it, because if you wanted to try to escape … this was Auschwitz.”

Joseph Mengele was probably the most notorious figures of the Holocaust, a ghoul who together with different German researchers, performed horrible medical experiments on prisoners, and chosen victims to be murdered within the gasoline chambers.

The final time Lowell would see her brother, whom she adored, was within the focus camp.

“We were stunned,” Lowell stated, including that she didn’t know what was occurring to her on the time. She remembers being ordered round by Nazis and residing in a barrack with 800 different girls in bleak situations. She slept, with different prisoners, on the concrete flooring and was given rags to put on as clothes.

Lowell was chosen with simply 20 different girls to go and work in a manufacturing facility, the place the director of the corporate was sort sufficient to present her knitting needles to make garments.

“He gave us burlap yarn and I knitted myself a beautiful dress,” she stated. “I had a dress of my mother’s in mind, which was so beautiful on her so I tried to knit something just like her dress.”

She doesn’t know why or how she was chosen (her fluent German could have helped), however the project could have helped save her life.

Then, the Auschwitz focus camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. Lowell was simply 23 years previous, with no rapid household or residence left to return to.

Within the aftermath of her time within the camp, Lowell relied on the kindness of strangers to get by and slowly, however certainly, she constructed a brand new life for herself.

Lucy Lowell, 103, displays on her time in Auschwitz, sharing her journey of discovering hope after escaping the focus camp and residing a life marked by grace and kindness, on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Seaside, Florida. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)

Lowell ended up shifting to Flushing, Queens to stay together with her prolonged household. She labored a job in trend design at an workplace close to Instances Sq. and shortly met her late husband, Frederick Lowell, a businessman in New York Metropolis who had additionally survived a focus camp. She was married on the age of 26 and went on to stay an attractive life in Manhattan, the place she helped her husband construct a enterprise. Her days have been crammed with day journeys to the Metropolitan Opera, worldwide journey and enjoyable — she was as soon as a champion water skier.

After spending nearly all of her life avoiding the subject of her survival, Lowell desires individuals to listen to her easy but essential message:

“You should not hate people. You should not discriminate … Yes, you see what happens,” she stated.

This story was produced with monetary help from Trish and Dan Bell and from donors comprising the South Florida Jewish and Muslim Communities, together with Khalid and Diana Mirza, in partnership with Journalism Funding Companions. The Miami Herald maintains full editorial management of this work.

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