The suspect armed with a long gun opened fire Monday before officers returned fire, killing him, police said. A civilian also died but it wasn’t immediately clear who fired that shot.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the manifesto links the suspect to the “involuntary celibate” or “incel” ideology, a mostly online group of people, primarily men, who believe society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention.

Police have not publicly identified the suspect.

Police identified the officer killed as Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouan, 34. He had been with the force since 2021.

The manifesto prompted a warning to police forces across Canada about the possibility of copycat attacks against police officers.

A police spokesperson in British Columbia said forces across that province were warned after the shooting.

Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton with the Surrey Police Service said the information was issued Monday afternoon by an intelligence-sharing unit operating out of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police British Columbia headquarters.

Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière said he would refrain from commenting on details about the suspect’s identity and motives since the matter is under investigation by an independent police watchdog, which investigates injuries and deaths involving police.

Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said she couldn’t comment on specifics of the case but said it is important to be vigilant when there is so much hate on social media.

“A lot of people are being recruited, young people. They are not on the street, they are in a difference space, which is much harder to control. That’s something that we’re going to have to be working on with the Montreal police in the future,” she said

A man who used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2018 was found guilty in 2021 a case that drew attention to the online world of sexual loneliness, rage and misogyny. Alek Minassian was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

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Trump will visit a Mack Truck facility in a battleground district in swing state Pennsylvania Tuesday, shifting attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event beyond the capital since he signed an interim agreement to end the Iran war.

National Guard members and U.S. Park Police have been patrolling around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the Trump administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

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Marco Rubio has arrived in Abu Dhabi

The U.S. secretary of state is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran.

In the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain — all nations that Iran hit with missiles and drones in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli airstrikes — Rubio has meetings starting Wednesday with leaders who, in some cases, have taken a harder line on Iran recently than has the Trump administration.

The Emiratis, in particular, have been at the forefront of calls for tough action notably to ensure the reopening of the Straight of Hormuz. There have been conflicting accounts of what the Memorandum of Understanding signed last week will mean for the strait, which the rest of the world wants open free of charge for all shipping.

Judge rules government can’t stop SNAP dollars from buying candy and sugary drinks

The federal judge said Congress imposed no such limits on the nation’s largest food aid program.

The ruling scuttles restrictions on candy, soda and other sugary drinks in the federally funded and state-run Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 23 states. The Trump administration hasn’t announced an appeal.

“The federal defendants and the states may have a genuine desire to improve the health of SNAP households by encouraging healthy choices at the store, and they can take lawful steps to meet those goals,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote. “But what they cannot do is violate the law and their own regulations along the way.”

Seeking to encourage healthier food choices, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign has sought to take soda and candy off the menu because they fuel obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration against green card holders accused of crimes

Tuesday’s 6-3 decision centers around an immigration officer’s 2012 decision to put green-card holder Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip abroad because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.

Lau argued that overstepped the officer’s authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly begin deportation proceedings after he pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting.

The Trump administration argued that suspicion of a crime is enough to put a lawful permanent resident on immigration parole.

The court is separately considering cases over Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, potentially revive a restrictive asylum policy and end temporary legal protections for migrants fleeing war and natural disasters in their homelands.

Justices give US corporations big wins

The Cisco and ExxonMobil rulings, issued the same day, open U.S. courts in one case involving a foreign government while shutting the door in another. But they involved very different statutes.

The Cisco decision was the latest to rule against plaintiffs seeking to use U.S. courts as a venue to seek justice over the acts of foreign governments, especially those that took place abroad. Falun Gong members sought unsuccessfully to overcome that skepticism by arguing that a substantial portion of Cisco’s activities involving China took place in the United States.

The Cuba case hinged on whether the 1996 Helms-Burton law removes the shield from lawsuits in U.S. courts that typically cover foreign countries and state-owned businesses. The justices reversed a lower-court ruling that found that the Cuban state-owned companies are immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts.

Supreme Court OKs ExxonMobil suit over property seized by Castro’s government

The Supreme Court has ruled that ExxonMobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts over property on the island nation that was seized after Fidel Castro took power.

The 6-3 decision was the second in as many months in favor of U.S. owners of Cuban property confiscated by the Communist government more than 65 years ago.

The outcome in the two cases could be an additional lever for the Trump administration to exert pressure on Cuba, which is already being squeezed by a U.S. oil embargo.

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Supreme Court kills suit claiming Cisco’s technology helped China persecute Falun Gong members

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit that claimed the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

The justices ruled that American courts are the wrong forum, rejecting plaintiffs’ attempts to litigate under the 18th-century Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA), first enacted in 1991.

An Associated Press investigation last year showed that American tech companies, to a large degree, designed and built China’s surveillance state, encouraged by both Republican and Democratic administrations, even as activists warned such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious groups and target minorities. Last month, AP won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for its stories.

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Wall Street points to another day of losses, led by an ongoing sell-off in tech

Futures for the S&P 500 fell 1.2% before the opening bell Tuesday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 0.4%. Futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 2.6% following a 1.3% loss Monday. The Nasdaq has suffered heavy selling for days as investors grow anxious over massive spending by artificial intelligence companies and looming interest rate hikes in the U.S., which will make it more expensive for companies to fund growth through borrowing.

Chip companies were among the biggest losers in overnight trading, with Micron and Intel both down more than 7%. Qualcomm fell 6.3%. Companies that specialize in memory and data storage were also taking a beating. Sandisk fell nearly 9% and Seagate was down 7.2% early.

And Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns xAI, slipped another 1% before the bell after a 16.4% tumble to start the week.

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Iran’s president visits Pakistan for crucial talks on ending war

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also joined the delegation in Masoud Pezeshkian’s first visit to Islamabad since the conflict started with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on Feb. 28.

Iran’s talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war come as discrepancies emerge on what has been agreed to so far, and as more violence broke out in Lebanon.

Technical teams have been working on details of the deal following high-level negotiations in Switzerland Monday led by Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters that no visits were scheduled for the U.N. watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency — to examine Iranian nuclear sites bombed by the United States last year. Vance previously said the negotiations in Switzerland won an agreement for the inspectors to visit the sites.

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Discrepancy on Iran’s use of unfrozen funds

Following the high-level talks in Switzerland, Vice-President JD Vance had said if Iranian financial assets were unfrozen, they “would actually go to buy American soy, American corn and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people.”

However, Iran has no current demand for U.S. crops, and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Tuesday that Tehran’s decisions on what to import would be based on “prices and quality.”

“It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers,” Baghaei said in Tehran.

Iran’s ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, also questioned Vance’s contention that the U.S. and Qatar would have to approve how Iran uses unfrozen funds. “Iran is the only country who decides what to do with those assets,” he told reporters.

Trump says Iran will buy US corn, soy and wheat. It won’t likely happen soon

Trump has heralded the peace talks with Iran as a win for U.S. farmers, saying that the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian money will be tied to that country buying American-grown corn, soybeans and wheat.

“These are things that are desperately needed by Iran,” Trump posted on social media. “This is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it is necessary to help.”

But Iran is unlikely to start buying a vast amount of U.S. farm products.

“I don’t expect that trade would be very large in the short run,” said Joseph Glauber, a research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Glauber noted that Iran was “unlikely” to abandon its other trade partners on food for America. He said Iran’s major suppliers include Brazil, India, Turkey, the European Union, Canada, Australia and Argentina and that Trump’s demand to buy from the U.S. would “create some hard feelings with some of our competitors.”

Authorities arrest 2 more suspects in planned attack on Trump’s UFC show

Two more people in Missouri and Washington state have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a planned attack targeting Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House earlier this month.

Law enforcement officials disrupted the plan a few days before the June 14 White House event, according to court documents.

William Lee Spartacus Falkner of Belfair, Washington, was arrested Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to court documents filed Monday in the Western District of Washington. Jordan W. Rincker, 28, was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the Western District of Missouri. A defense attorney appointed to represent Falkner did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment, and court records do not reveal if Rincker has obtained an attorney. Neither man has had the opportunity to enter a plea.

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Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalize elections can no longer be used.

U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.

She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing Americans’ personal identifying information and that the federal agencies that created the SAVE program “knew that the database violates those statutory protections.”

The decision is a major legal setback for Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on having noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls. The modified SAVE system had been a key pillar of the second election executive order the Republican president signed earlier this year. The ruling leaves its future uncertain.

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Patrols and nanobubbles at the Reflecting Pool as Trump seeks a renovation do-over

National Guard members and U.S. Park Police patrolled the deck around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday as President Donald Trump’s administration faces a self-imposed deadline to fix a botched renovation before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

The patrols came two days after Trump said authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he insisted were responsible for damage to the peeling coating after an algae bloom occurred. The liner was installed as part of his $14 million-plus project.

The president has confirmed the problems most likely require draining the pool again for liner repairs and he promised a quick fix. Without offering substantiation, he also said vandals dumped fertilizer in the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter.

But the timeline was not clear Monday, with the White House saying damaged areas are still being assessed. Contractors and federal workers in recent days have been using chemicals and ozone nanobubbles to combat the algae.

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Trump will visit a Mack Truck facility in swing state Pennsylvania, casting attention on the economy

Trump is going to a Mack Truck facility in a battleground district in swing state Pennsylvania Tuesday, shifting attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event beyond the capital since he signed an interim agreement to end the Iran war.

Trump’s trip to the Allentown-area business comes as he works to try to put the conflict — and the higher gasoline prices it caused — in the rearview mirror as November midterm elections draw closer.

It’s the president’s fifth second-term visit to Pennsylvania, a key state whose support in 2016 and 2024 helped him to the White House. The Macungie, Pennsylvania, facility is in the 7th Congressional District, where incumbent Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie faces Democratic challenger Bob Brooks in November.

The visit comes amid rising prices that could color the verdict voters render on Trump’s stewardship in the fall. About one-third of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s approach to the economy, according to a June Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. That’s in line with last month for Trump on the issue.

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Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war

The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has yet to make a formal request to Congress. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, including Monday evening. A top deputy defense secretary told senators about the Iran funding request last week, according to two people familiar with the situation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the developments.

The push for billions of dollars in Iran war funding comes at a fraught political moment. Lawmakers are skeptical of the deal Trump struck with Iran to bring an end to the war, and wary of next steps. The White House has requested a remarkable $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — a nearly 50% increase over the current fiscal year’s funding levels.

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El festival se realizará el próximo 29 de agosto en Irvine, California, y la preventa de boletos se inicia este miércoles a partir de la 1:00 p.m., hora de Miami, en el sitio web oficial del festival. Rodrigo dijo en X que “el 100 % de las ganancias netas se destinará a organizaciones benéficas dedicadas a promover y defender los derechos de mujeres y niñas”.

Además de Rodrigo, el cartel del festival incluye a Chappell Roan, Doechii, Katseye, Mitski, The Breeders, Die Spitz, Bikini Kill, Eli, Garbage, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri y Not for Radio. Tres leyendas del rock son las invitadas especiales del concierto: Karen O, Stevie Nicks y Sarah McLachlan.

La cantante dijo en X: “Nunca me había sentido tan emocionada de compartir una noticia con todos ustedes. He soñado con hacer este festival durante años y estoy tan eufórica de que por fin se haga realidad. Daisy Chain Fields presenta un cartel compuesto únicamente por mujeres (…). El cartel es realmente increíble y está lleno de mis heroínas y amigas. Creo firmemente que la alegría, la comunidad y la música pueden ser motores de un cambio significativo y tengo la esperanza de que este festival sea precisamente eso”.

El evento de Rodrigo se inspira claramente en el festival itinerante Lilith Fair, cofundado por la músico canadiense Sarah McLachlan en 1997 y el que también solo se presentaban mujeres músicos en el escenario. Lilith Fair, que donaba sus ingresos a distintas organizaciones benéficas, se mantuvo hasta 1999 y fue revivido por una única ocasión en 2010.

Rodrigo fue una de las cantantes entrevistadas en el documental de 2025 “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery”, en el que elogió el Lilith Fair original. Esa admiración dio origen al lanzamiento de un nuevo festival que descase el talento femenino contemporáneo.

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El fallo, redactado por el magistrado Neil Gorsuch en nombre de una mayoría de 6 a 3, marcó un caso poco común en el que la Corte Suprema —de tendencia conservadora— se pronunció en contra de un reclamo religioso y subrayó su reticencia a permitir que los estadounidenses demanden para hacer valer sus derechos sin una autorización explícita del Congreso.

“El Sr. Landor pretendería que dictamináramos, por primera vez, que siempre que un centavo de gasto federal llegue a manos de un individuo —por muy indirectamente que sea—, el Congreso puede regular su conducta directamente basándose en la ficción de que dicha persona ha consentido tal regulación”, escribió Gorsuch. “Nada de eso es coherente con nuestros precedentes”.

El tribunal dictaminó que el hombre protagonista del caso, Damon Landor, no podía demandar a funcionarios estatales por el trato recibido, ya que los funcionarios locales desconocían los detalles de la ley federal que protege la libertad religiosa.

La magistrada Ketanji Brown Jackson, en representación de los tres jueces liberales del tribunal, criticó a la mayoría por lo que consideró una decisión destinada a debilitar la ley federal bajo la cual Landor intentaba presentar su demanda. La medida del tribunal, escribió Jackson, dificultará considerablemente que los reclusos lleven a los funcionarios ante la justicia alegando la vulneración de sus derechos.

“Los reclusos como Landor que sufren violaciones de su libertad religiosa en prisiones estatales —por muy flagrantes que sean— a menudo se quedarán sin recurso alguno”, escribió Jackson. “Y es probable que las vulneraciones de los derechos legales de los reclusos ocurran con bastante frecuencia, ya que los funcionarios penitenciarios estatales tendrán pocos incentivos para acatar la ley federal, incluso si esta se les entrega por escrito”.

Jackson sostuvo que el razonamiento del tribunal reducía efectivamente “algunos de los mayores logros legislativos del Congreso —leyes federales que garantizan los derechos civiles, la estabilidad medioambiental, la atención sanitaria y más— a poco más que los tejemanejes de una entidad privada especialmente adinerada”.

A Landor le quedaban pocas semanas para cumplir su condena por posesión de drogas cuando los guardias de una prisión de Louisiana lo esposaron a una silla y le cortaron las rastas —que le llegaban hasta las rodillas y había dejado crecer durante casi dos décadas—. Minutos antes, Landor había entregado a los guardias un dictamen judicial que demostraba que estaban obligados a permitir el uso de rastas por motivos religiosos.

Los guardias tiraron dicho dictamen a la basura antes de inmovilizar a Landor y cortarle el pelo.

Había estado encarcelado sin incidentes en otros dos centros antes de ser trasladado al Centro Correccional Raymond Laborde. Llegó provisto de una copia de un fallo de un tribunal de apelaciones de 2017 que permitía a los reclusos llevar rastas.

Landor, que comenzó a cumplir una pena de cinco meses de prisión en 2020, había hecho previamente una promesa conocida como el voto nazareo de no cortarse el pelo.

El caso de Landor ante el Tribunal Supremo se basaba en la Ley de Uso de Suelo Religioso y Personas Institucionalizadas (RLUIPA, por sus siglas en inglés). El Congreso aprobó esa ley —y otra que abordaba la adaptación a las prácticas religiosas de manera más amplia— en respuesta a un precedente histórico, aunque controvertido, establecido por el tribunal en 1990.

A finales de 2020, los magistrados dictaminaron que la otra ley, cuyo texto es casi idéntico, permite a las personas cuyos derechos religiosos han sido vulnerados reclamar indemnizaciones a funcionarios gubernamentales que actúan a título personal.

Sin embargo, Louisiana argumentó que la RLUIPA es, en la práctica, un contrato de financiación entre los funcionarios estatales y el Gobierno federal, el cual aporta fondos para las prisiones del estado. Los funcionarios concretos que participaron en el corte de pelo forzoso de Landor no eran parte de dicho contrato, sostuvo Louisiana, por lo que no se les puede exigir responsabilidad personal.

Un panel del Tribunal de Apelaciones del Quinto Circuito de EE.UU., de tendencia conservadora, dictaminó que Landor no tenía derecho a demandar.

El Quinto Circuito declaró que condenaba “enfáticamente” el trato que sufrió Landor, pero que un precedente anterior de un tribunal de apelaciones determinaba el fallo en su contra. Finalmente, el tribunal de apelaciones en pleno decidió no volver a examinar el caso, y Landor apeló ante la Corte Suprema en 2024.

Por un lado, el caso parecía diseñado para una Corte Suprema que, en los últimos años, se ha alineado sistemáticamente con los intereses religiosos. El año pasado, el tribunal falló a favor de un grupo de padres religiosos que querían eximir a sus hijos de leer libros con temáticas LGBTQ en la escuela primaria.

En 2022, respaldó a un entrenador de fútbol americano de secundaria que había sido destituido de su cargo por orar en el campo de juego antes de los partidos.

Un año antes, permitió que una agencia católica de acogida familiar siguiera trabajando para la ciudad de Filadelfia, a pesar de que esta se negaba a evaluar a parejas del mismo sexo como posibles padres de acogida.

Rachel Laser, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Estadounidenses Unidos por la Separación de Iglesia y Estado), calificó la decisión de hipócrita.

“Una vez más, vemos un tribunal que hace todo lo posible por defender la libertad religiosa de los cristianos, pero permite que el Gobierno pisotee la libertad religiosa de los no cristianos”, afirmó Laser, cuya organización se opone frecuentemente a las decisiones de la Corte Suprema que respaldan intereses religiosos.

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Eastbourne, Great Britain

Purse: €773,465

Surface: Grass

EASTBOURNE, GREAT BRITAIN (AP) _ Results Tuesday from Rothesay International at Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club (seedings in parentheses):

Men’s Singles

Round of 32

Thiago Agustin Tirante, Argentina, def. Hamish Stewart, Britain, 7-5, 6-2.

Jenson Brooksby, United States, def. Aleksandar Vukic, Australia, 7-5, 6-1.

Giles Hussey, Britain, def. Matteo Arnaldi, Italy, 6-4, 6-2.

Arthur Fery, Britain, def. Roman Andres Burruchaga, Argentina, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.

Women’s Singles

Round of 32

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, def. Alicia Dudeney, Britain, 6-0, 6-3.

Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Jasmine Paolini (1), Italy, 6-4, 6-3.

Anastasia Zakharova, Russia, def. Yuliia Starodubtseva, Ukraine, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Caty McNally, United States, def. Janice Tjen (6), Indonesia, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3.

Madison Keys (2), United States, def. Talia Gibson, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.

Panna Udvardy, Hungary, def. Anna Bondar, Hungary, 7-6 (4), 3-2, ret.

Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Laura Siegemund (5), Germany, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3).

Men’s Doubles

Round of 16

Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Salisbury, Britain, def. Terence Atmane and Luca Sanchez, France, 6-1, 6-3.

Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Yuki Bhambri, India, def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Thiago Agustin Tirante, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4.

Women’s Doubles

Round of 16

Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, and Sofia Kenin (3), United States, def. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Makoto Ninomiya, Japan, 6-4, 6-3.

Asia Muhammad, United States, and Fanny Stollar (4), Hungary, def. Eden Silva and Freya Christie, Britain, 3-6, 6-3, 10-5.

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Kyron Horman, de siete años, posaba orgulloso junto a su presentación sobre las ranas arbóreas de ojos rojos. Su cartelera casera de tres paneles rebosaba tonos verdes y mostraba diagramas pegados del ciclo vital del anfibio.

Kyron dedicó una amplia sonrisa a la cámara que capturaba el momento, una imagen que poco después aparecería en carteles de búsqueda de niños desaparecidos y en los noticieros nocturnos de todo el país.

La ya tristemente célebre fotografía de Kyron y sus ranas fue tomada en junio de 2010. Desde entonces, no se ha vuelto a ver a este niño de gafas ni se ha sabido nada de él.

Tras aquel radiante día de junio, siguieron meses sombríos marcados por la investigación criminal más extensa en la historia del estado (que no arrojó resultados concretos), interrogatorios policiales a alumnos de segundo grado en busca de nuevas pistas y crecientes disputas legales en el seno de la familia Horman, que lidiaba con una devastación absoluta.

Ahora, más de 16 años después de que la desaparición de Kyron desencadenara una búsqueda masiva y marcara a toda una generación de escolares en Oregon, los investigadores afirman que están recurriendo a nuevas tecnologías y que no han abandonado la búsqueda del menor.

“Estamos trabajando en esto entre bastidores, siguiendo cada pista posible. Nuestra determinación hoy es tan firme como lo fue en los días posteriores a la desaparición de Kyron, y mi oficina no descansará hasta haber resuelto la incógnita de qué le sucedió a Kyron Horman”, declaró Nathan Vasquez, fiscal del distrito del condado de Multnomah, en un comunicado con motivo del aniversario de la desaparición del niño.

“A cualquiera que tenga la respuesta le digo: no nos iremos a ninguna parte”, afirmó Vasquez. “Seguiremos buscando justicia durante el tiempo que sea necesario”.

Kaine Horman recuerda la carrera apresurada a la tienda para comprar los materiales necesarios y hacer realidad la idea de su hijo para la feria de ciencias. Rememora cómo acompañó a Kyron mientras el niño, entonces alumno de segundo grado, trazaba con esmero el diseño de su cartel.

La última conversación que mantuvo con su hijo, la mañana de su desaparición, se repite constantemente en los sueños del padre.

“Me acompañó hasta el coche y hablábamos de su proyecto para la feria de ciencias que se celebraba ese día en la escuela”, contó Kaine Horman a CNN. “Había sol, y estábamos en el jardín delantero charlando un rato antes de que cada uno siguiera su camino”.

“Vuelven a mi mente fragmentos de aquella conversación y lo veo justo ahí, frente a mí; es entonces cuando suelo despertarme”, relató.

Hoy en día, Kaine Horman ve ranas de ojos rojos por todas partes: aparecen en su sudadera, en su gorra, en una pegatina adherida al lateral de su Harley y en las ventanillas traseras de los coches de sus vecinos. Creó la Fundación Kyron Horman —y su llamativo logotipo de una rana arbórea verde lima— para concienciar sobre la desaparición de su hijo y defender a otras familias de niños desaparecidos.

Esa labor, sumada a su constante colaboración con los investigadores del caso de Kyron, mantiene viva su esperanza de volver a ver a su hijo.

“Estamos sumamente agradecidos por lo activos que se han mantenido [los investigadores] a lo largo de estos 16 años”, afirmó. “Seguimos hablando y recibiendo actualizaciones, y mantenemos la comunicación con la oficina del fiscal de distrito. A veces hay más actividad y otras veces menos, pero nunca han dejado de trabajar en el caso”.

En los 12 meses posteriores a la desaparición de Kyron, los investigadores siguieron más de 4.500 pistas y realizaron más de 3.500 entrevistas, según informó anteriormente CNN. Durante ese mismo periodo, los coordinadores de búsqueda y rescate del condado y los voluntarios dedicaron un total combinado de 24.640 horas a buscar al niño.

Por aquel entonces, todo se documentaba en papel. Tan solo en el primer año, las fuerzas del orden recopilaron una cantidad de material sobre el caso de Kyron tan extensa que, si se apilaran las docenas de carpetas que contienen los documentos, alcanzarían una altura equivalente a dos pisos.

Durante el último año, la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Multnomah trabajó en la digitalización de miles de fotografías e informes, lo que permite ahora a los detectives aprovechar “nuevas herramientas tecnológicas para avanzar en la investigación”, indicó la oficina en un comunicado de prensa emitido en junio.

Aunque las autoridades no quisieron revelar exactamente cómo utilizarán la nueva tecnología, la digitalización de todo el expediente del caso permitirá a los detectives analizar con rapidez la gran cantidad de documentos escritos.

“Han hablado de mucha información adicional y útil que ha surgido del reciente trabajo de digitalización que han estado realizando y que continúan haciendo, así que tenemos la esperanza de que esto nos encamine en la dirección correcta”, comentó Kaine Horman.

La oficina del sheriff informó que también ha reforzado el equipo asignado al caso mediante la colaboración con cuerpos policiales locales y el FBI. Asimismo, señaló que sigue recibiendo cientos de pistas anuales sobre el caso y continúa realizando búsquedas para localizar a Kyron.

“Han pasado 16 años desde la desaparición de Kyron Horman. Su familia ha vivido cumpleaños, festividades y momentos que marcan el paso del tiempo”, declaró la sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell en el comunicado de prensa. “Nuestro compromiso con el caso de Kyron sigue siendo tan firme hoy como lo fue cuando se denunció su desaparición. Seguiremos haciendo todo lo posible para brindar a la familia de Kyron la resolución que merece”.

Las repercusiones de la desaparición de Kyron trascienden la labor diaria de los investigadores decididos y se infiltran en la nueva normalidad de muchos escolares en todo Oregon.

La escuela primaria Skyline ha seguido funcionando a pleno rendimiento y atendiendo a cientos de alumnos desde 2010, aunque no sin quedar marcada por la desaparición de un niño de 7 años. El centro educativo, situado entre colinas extensas y densos senderos forestales, se convirtió en el epicentro de una vasta escena del crimen tras denunciarse la desaparición de Kyron.

Los investigadores se sentaron frente a casi todos los niños pequeños de Skyline —muchos de los cuales, sentados en sus sillas, aún no lograban que sus piernas colgantes tocaran el suelo— para interrogarlos sobre su compañero desaparecido. Nuevas cámaras de vigilancia escudriñaban cualquier movimiento en el exterior del edificio y en el pasillo principal. Aviones policiales de ala fija sobrevolaban regularmente el recinto; el zumbido de sus hélices recordaba constantemente a los alumnos de Skyline, que jugaban abajo, que aún no se sabía nada de su pequeño amigo.

Terri Horman, quien entonces era la madrastra de Kyron, dijo a la policía que había dejado al niño en la escuela para la feria de ciencias aquella mañana de principios de junio. Según la policía, la última vez que se le vio fue de pie junto a la puerta de su aula, alrededor de las 8:45 a.m., tras haber hecho una presentación sobre ranas de ojos rojos saltones.

Sin embargo, Kyron nunca llegó a clase y nadie se percató de su ausencia. Fue horas más tarde, luego de que no bajara del autobús escolar, cuando se notó que faltaba. La primera llamada al 911 para reportar su desaparición no se realizó hasta las 3:56 p.m.

Debido a ese largo retraso, al año siguiente los legisladores de Oregon impulsaron el Proyecto de Ley 3197, que obliga a los distritos escolares públicos a notificar a los padres cuando un estudiante falta inesperadamente, a más tardar al finalizar la jornada escolar en la que estuvo ausente. Ahora, 15 años después, la ley sigue orientando los reglamentos de los distritos en todo Oregon.

También surgieron grupos de investigadores aficionados que, ante la tragedia, se dedicaron a analizar el caso y a examinar los rumores que circulaban en foros de internet sobre la familia Horman, reproduciendo un patrón de comportamiento habitual en la red frente a casos criminales sin resolver durante largo tiempo.

En el centro de este intenso escrutinio se encontraba Terri Horman, la exesposa de Kaine Horman (de quien estaba separada): tanto críticos en línea como miembros de la familia sostienen que ella no fue franca sobre lo que le sucedió a Kyron. La policía afirma que ella fue la última persona que lo vio antes de que desapareciera.

En documentos de divorcio de hace una década, el padre del niño había declarado que creía que Terri Horman tuvo algo que ver con la desaparición de su hijo.

Aunque los investigadores se mantienen firmes en sus pesquisas, no se han presentado cargos contra Terri ni contra ninguna otra persona en relación con el caso, ni nadie ha sido señalado oficialmente como sospechoso de la desaparición de Kyron.

“Sigo opinando que ella está involucrada”, dijo Kaine Horman. “Lo digo basándome en lo que pienso. Por lo demás, no sé dónde está, no sé qué hace y no me importa”. Kyron, que cumpliría 24 años en septiembre, permanece por ahora congelado en el tiempo como un entrañable niño de primaria de la década de 2010, amante de su consola Wii, de las carreras de Hot Wheels y de la película de “Buscando a Nemo”.

Kaine Horman afirma que la trama de la película de Disney —sobre un padre entregado que busca incansablemente a su querido hijo perdido en el mar— refleja su propia búsqueda incesante. Por eso sigue hablando de Kyron, ya ​​que, mientras se siga contando su historia, la búsqueda no habrá terminado.

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A federal jury found them guilty in March of providing material support to terrorists and other charges following a nearly three-week trial. Most face a federal prison sentence from ten to 60 years.

Benjamin Song, the demonstrator who prosecutors say opened fire and wounded a local police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado was convicted of attempted murder and faces a minimum penalty of 20 years and up to life in prison.

Another defendant, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, who was convicted of corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents, could get up to 40 years.

Others who pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists rather than take their case to trial face up to 15 years in federal prison when they are sentenced Tuesday in Fort Worth.

Prosecutors say the eight are members of antifa, a decentralized anti-fascist organization that has become a target of the Trump administration. They have denied any affiliation and maintain they attended the demonstration to show support for immigrants inside the detention center.

FBI Director Kash Patel has said the case against the Prairieland demonstrators is the first accusing people the Trump administration believes are antifa of terror-related charges.

President Donald Trump last fall signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no domestic equivalent to the State Department’s list of foreign terror organizations.

Critics warn the case could have wide-reaching impact on protests given that organizations operating within the U.S. are supposed to be protected by First Amendment free-speech rights.

Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.

Last week, federal prosecutors charged 15 people with impeding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. They claimed the demonstrators were members of antifa who conspired against the federal government to block arrests and deportations by setting up blockades around government buildings and throwing chunks of ice at federal vehicles, among other actions.

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Marcelo reported from New York.

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La copresentadora de TODAY habló breventente el martes en el programa, luego de la presentación de un reportaje de la corresponsal de NBC News, Liz Kreutz, sobre la segunda nota enviada, la cual no pedía ninguna solicitud de pago por la entrega del cuerpo de la adulta mayor, informaron a NBC News tres personas familiarizadas con el asunto.

“No tengo ningún comentario sobre esta historia, y no estoy involucrada en nuestra cobertura, pero no puedo fingir que no estoy aquí. Así que, ya que estoy, quiero aprovechar la oportunidad para pedirle a la gente, realmente rogarle a la gente que se presente”, dijo Guthrie.

Una primera nota enviada a los medios de comunicación decía que Nancy Guthrie estaba segura y pedía $6 millones en bitcoins para su liberación.

Caso Nancy Guthrie: una segunda nota enviada a medios decía que había fallecido

Savannah Guthrie declaró en marzo en una entrevista a la periodista de NBC News Hoda Kotb que creía que ambas notas recibidas eran reales, aunque la familia mantiene la esperanza de volver a ver a su madre.

“Alguien sabe algo, y esta es una historia nueva que hoy está en su radar, pero esta es la vida que vive mi hermana, que vivo yo, que vive mi hermano, que viven nuestras familias extendidas, que viven nuestros hijos, todos los días. Y estamos sufriendo una agonía terrible. No podemos tener paz”, expresó la copresentadora en el programa del martes.

El FBI ha descrito al sospechoso que aparece en las imágenes de vigilancia como un hombre de complexión mediana y una estatura de entre 1.75 y 1.78 metros (5 pies y 9 pulgadas a 5 pies y 10 pulgadas), que llevaba una mochila negra Ozark Trail Hiker Pack de 25 litros.

Además de los operativos de búsqueda que llevan a cabo el alguacil de Pima, el FBI y otras agencias del orden, en las últimas semanas el colectivo Buscando Corazones ha organizado búsquedas en México se ha movilizado para tratar de encontrar los restos de Nancy Guthrie.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información que se comunique con el 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). La familia Guthrie también ofrece una recompensa de un millón de dólares por el regreso de su madre.

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Here’s what to know.

What is a heat dome?

Heat domes are essentially high pressure systems that remain stationary for a few days, trapping dangerous heat and humidity, said Mireia Ginesta, a research associate at the Climate Litigation Lab at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Heat domes result from a northward bulge in the jet stream — a river of fast-moving wind at high elevations — that create the weather we experience.

“High pressure system means that the air is sinking, and as the air goes down to lower altitudes, it becomes compressed,” Ginesta said. “So the pressure increases and the temperature also increases.”

How does a heat dome play a role in heat waves?

Those “bulges” are what set up the conditions that lead to a heat wave, said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center.

“The heat dome is really what the jet stream is doing,” Francis said. “The heat wave is what we feel at the surface.”

What is happening in Europe this week?

Millions of people across the continent have been experiencing exceptionally high temperatures as an early summer heat wave sears France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

“In Europe, they’re just not used to this,” Francis said. “It’s really just in the last decade or two where these sorts of really brutal heat waves have been happening and killing a lot of people because they don’t have the means to stay cool.”

France, which has been the most affected so far, doesn’t have widespread air conditioning, and about half the country has been placed under a red heat wave alert by the national weather service. The nation has also reported around 40 fatalities because of drowning, as people sought cooling relief.

Those conditions are expected to last for several days, with temperatures as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).

“We are going to see the June temperature records not just broken, but completely annihilated,” said Liz Bentley, chief executive at the Royal Meteorological Society and a professor of meteorology at the University of Reading.

How is climate change influencing these phenomena?

Climate change is making the conditions for heat domes happen more often, experts say. And more and more nations around the globe are being impacted.

“We’re warming the globe and that means we’re shifting the range of temperatures that any given place experiences,” Francis said. “And as you shift that range of temperature, you’re making the extreme temperatures much more likely.”

Effectively, the world has turned up the thermostat temperature, Bentley said.

“Climate change is definitely having an impact on the fact that they’re more frequent, they’re more intense, and they’re more persistent as well,” Bentley said of heat waves. “They hang around a lot longer than they used to do.”

How can people stay safe?

It is important that people experiencing these extreme temperatures hydrate, avoid exercise in the heat of the day, find shade and safely cool off in nearby streams, lakes or even the ocean if they have access.

In France, for instance, trains, concerts and sporting events have been canceled, and authorities are restricting public alcohol drinking.

Also, “One of the biggest problems is the nighttime heat,” Francis said. “If you don’t give your body a chance to cool off at night, it just starts to accumulate in your body and that can really start to affect your health. And so figuring out a way to stay cooler at night is very, very important.”

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Havovi Todd contributed to this report from London.

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Alexa St. John is an Associated Press climate reporter. Follow her on X: @alexa_stjohn. Reach her at ast.john@ap.org.

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The high court ruled against a sweeping argument from a Michigan family whose house was sold for less than half its open-market value to cover an unpaid tax bill of just over $2,000. They argued the foreclosure violated their rights because the house would have fetched a higher price of nearly $200,000 if sold through typical real-estate channels.

The Supreme Court unanimously found that people aren’t entitled to recoup a “hypothetical fair market value” of homes sold at auction to cover unpaid taxes. Auctions are designed to be a relatively quick way to collect unpaid taxes, and requiring local governments to get the higher fair-market value might be so complicated they have to stop using them, Justice Samuel Alito wrote.

“The traditional rule, under which the taxpayer receives only the difference between the auction sale price and unpaid taxes, is ‘just,’” he wrote.

The sale, though, must be conducted fairly, he wrote. The justices sent the Pung family’s case back to lower courts to reassess the process used by Isabella County.

“The case isn’t over,” said Larry Salzman, vice president for litigation at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family. “The Pungs won the right to continue their fight in the lower courts.”

The county maintained that auction sale prices are always lower than open real estate transactions, in part because they typically require full cash payment rather than a mortgage.

Requiring foreclosure sales to match open-market prices would essentially end them, making it harder to collect unpaid taxes, Isabella County argued.

The case comes about three years after another major foreclosure case where the justices ruled against local governments. The court found counties can’t keep tax sale proceeds beyond what the owner owes in unpaid taxes.

That case centered on a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose county government kept about $40,000 in proceeds from the sale of her condominium after she failed to pay about $2,300 in taxes.

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The differing accounts came as Iran’s president met with Pakistani officials mediating negotiations and while technical teams were working on details following talks in Switzerland between the U.S. and Iran.

As those talks continued, a break in the shipping bottleneck through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be in the works.

The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, announced Tuesday that a plan is underway to evacuate 11,000 stranded seafarers through the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded before the war.

Earlier in the day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran that U.N. inspectors were not scheduled to examine the nuclear sites bombed by the U.S. last year, refuting comments made a day before by U.S. Vice President JD Vance. In response, President Donald Trump posted on social media that Iran had agreed to nuclear inspections long into the future, saying that without this concession “there would be no further negotiations!”

The International Atomic Energy Agency has not responded to requests for comment over its possible role. It has been in and out of Iran since Israel’s 12-day war in 2025, but has not been granted access to bombed enrichment sites targeted by the U.S.

Plan to evacuate stranded seafarers through Strait of Hormuz

The plan to evacuate thousands of seafarers is being done in cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal states in the region, the United States and the maritime industry, according to the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization, Arsenio Dominguez.

“We have secured the necessary safety guarantees and have thoroughly verified the conditions for safe navigation to support these operations,” he said in a statement.

But the uneasy ceasefire already has been tested by Iran saying it closed the strait again over fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The U.S. has said that negotiators have discussed “mechanisms” to ensure that the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil transit that Iran effectively blocked during the war, remains open. Ship traffic is increasing but questions remain about who controls the strait.

Data and analytics company Kpler confirmed 39 ships crossed through the strait Monday, after about 92 crossings between Friday and Sunday. Prior to the war, roughly 100 ships a day made the journey.

Iran’s president makes his first visit to Islamabad since the war started

Pezeshkian and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday discussed a range of issues, including regional peace and economic cooperation, according to a statement from the presidency in Islamabad.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also joined the delegation that arrived in Islamabad amid tight security.

It was the Iranian president’s first visit since the U.S. and Israel launched war on Iran on Feb. 28. Pezeshkian and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif were to hold a joint news conference after the discussions.

In the initial talks, marking the start of a 60-day window to reach a permanent deal to end the war, Iran and the U.S. agreed to create a “de-confliction cell” to address the fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.

Ahead of his meetings in Pakistan, Pezeshkian cautioned that “the effectiveness of the talks depends on full commitment to the agreed obligations and their precise implementation.”

Iran says negotiations focused on sanctions relief, nuclear issues and more

Iran suggested that the talks in Switzerland led to the creation of specific negotiation groups, including those focused on sanctions relief, nuclear issues, reconstruction, and monitoring, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

The report quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, a deputy foreign minister leading the technical talks, saying the countries also formed a contact mechanism over ships moving through Hormuz and the fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.

Violence flared again in southern Lebanon Tuesday as Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing two people and coming after two days of calm following a ceasefire brokered on Saturday. Any renewal of heavy fighting could threaten the broader diplomatic talks, since Iran has demanded that a full truce in Lebanon be part of any comprehensive deal.

Israel occupies part of Lebanon and insists it must be able to attack militants launching attacks into northern Israel.

The Israeli military said troops fired at four Hezbollah members who were riding a bulldozer and a motorcycle and had entered a security zone and failed to stop despite warning shots. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the two men were killed next to a bulldozer clearing a road.

No Israeli airstrikes or shelling have been reported since Sunday, a day after a ceasefire was reached, and Hezbollah also has not claimed any attacks in what has been the longest halt in the fighting since the latest Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on March 2.

Discrepancy on Iran’s use of unfrozen funds

Following the talks in Switzerland, Vance, who helped lead the negotiations, said if Iranian financial assets were unfrozen, they would be used to buy American-grown corn, wheat and soy.

Vance also said the U.S. and Qatar would have approval over the process. However, Iran has no current demand for U.S. crops and its foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that Tehran’s decisions on what to import would be based on “prices and quality.”

“It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers,” Baghaei said.

Iran’s ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, questioned Vance’s contention that the U.S. and Qatar would approve how Iran uses unfrozen funds.

“Iran is the only country who decides what to do with those assets,” he told reporters.

Meanwhile, two U.S. aircraft carriers were continuing to operate in the Middle East, the U.S. military’s Central Command said.

Netanyahu raises new questions over fragile Lebanon ceasefire

Mediators Pakistan and Qatar said the “de-confliction cell” would include the Lebanese government and “ensure the adherence of the termination of military operations in Lebanon.” But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin said Monday that his military still has “full freedom of action” to thwart any threats.

Neither Israel nor Hezbollah is a signatory to the U.S.-Iran deal. Netanyahu has vowed to keep his forces in southern Lebanon until all threats to Israel are eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing.

When asked about Netanyahu’s comments, Trump said “we’re going to take a look at it,” adding that the situation would “get solved.”

The main highway leading south from Beirut was jammed Tuesday with people displaced from southern Lebanon returning to their homes. Among them was Hawraa Nour El-Din, from the village of Khirbet Selm.

“We don’t want the negotiations done by the government,” she said. “We want Iran to negotiate on our behalf, and we are returning victorious, whether everyone likes it or not.”

In Washington, the State Department said a new round of Israel-Lebanon talks began on Tuesday with both political and security issues on the agenda.

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Rising reported from Bangkok and Gambrell from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut, Jamey Keaten in Geneva, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, Josh Boak and Matthew Lee in Washington and Mae Anderson in New York contributed to this report.

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