In a tragic turn of events, Roger Duarte, celebrated chief executive and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, was among the seven individuals who perished in a helicopter crash during a safari in Kenya on Wednesday.

Renowned for his Midas touch in the seafood industry, 42-year-old Duarte, hailed from Miami, Florida. He resided in a lavish $2.8 million mansion with his wife and their two young sons, embodying the American Dream through hard work and entrepreneurship.

The heartbreaking news was confirmed by his grief-stricken father, Roger Duarte Sr., who spoke with the Daily Mail just hours following the incident.

“I’m very devastated right now,” said the elder Duarte, his voice heavy with emotion at 82. “I don’t have the words to express my feelings.”

He continued by acknowledging the uncertainty surrounding the crash, “We don’t know much about what happened,” he admitted, adding that investigations are underway to uncover the details of this tragic accident.

José Suárez, the president and general manager of several Telemundo-owned stations in Florida, also died in the crash, according to NBC, where he also previously worked.

The 55-year-old executive was remembered by NBC as ‘a visionary leader committed to expanding and growing Telemundo’s markets’ during his 18-year career with the company.  

Suárez and Duarte were among the group of six tourists, including four Americans, who were on the ill-fated safari on Wednesday morning. 

They were flying from the Loisaba Conservancy to the Ewaso Nyiro area in Samburu County when the helicopter plummeted to the ground in the rugged foothills of Mount Ololokwe at 9.13am, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. 

All six of the tourists on board, along with the Kenyan pilot, perished in the crash. The cause of the tragedy is not yet known. 

Duarte left a lucrative career in investment banking at the age of just 24 to start his own business – George Stone Crab, an international delivery service of stone crabs from the Florida Keys. 

The business earned him a place in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2016, and the magazine praised his company for becoming ‘the largest distributor of Florida stone crabs to Latin America.’

He also founded two more Miami-based food businesses, My Ceviche and Zuuk Mediterranean Kitchen, according to his LinkedIn profile.  

The self-made millionaire has been pictured on the red carpet in Miami with his wife, Nicole Valls, 43, who he was married to for almost five years. 

They had built a stunning life in their four-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion in the affluent Coral Gables neighborhood located close to downtown Miami. 

Duarte appeared to have gone on the trip to Kenya with a group of friends, who have been named by local press. The Mail has not yet verified their identities. 

The helicopter crashed in the foothills of Mount Ololokwe, which is home to roaming wild leopards and elephants, making it a popular destination for wildlife tours.

The aircraft, a Eurocopter EC130 B4 owned by local company Lady Lori Helicopters, was carrying guests with travel company &Beyond. 

Lady Lori Helicopters said in a statement that the aircraft was operating a charter flight when it crashed.

Tropic Air Kenya, a local safari operator, said it dispatched two of its helicopters to aid search and rescue operations.

The Kenya Red Cross also said that its emergency response teams were ‘participating in a multiagency response effort as rescue teams work to access the crash site.’

Helicopter crashes are becoming increasingly frequent in Kenya, which has a vibrant tourism industry dependent on domestic carriers to ferry visitors to distant locations.  

In a separate legal saga, Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer found guilty of George Floyd’s death, has made another attempt to have his state murder conviction nullified.

On Tuesday, attorneys representing Chauvin filed a motion to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. They requested a pause on his ongoing appeal as part of this legal maneuver.

Chauvin’s legal team essentially seeks to halt the current appeal process, aiming to redirect his case back to the local trial court. There, they plan to introduce a fresh argument, claiming that the initial charges brought against him were improper.

In April 2021, Chauvin was convicted of the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Records show the former officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd was face down and handcuffed on the ground; Floyd suffered a fatal lack of oxygen to the brain.

Back in June, Chauvin’s team filed an appeal against a judge’s decision denying his petition for post-conviction relief.

The judge denied Chauvin’s entire post-conviction petition on May 1, more than five months after it was initially filed in November 2025. This is Chauvin’s third petition for conviction relief.

“Mr. Chauvin became aware of additional violations of Mr. Chauvin’s due process rights in the unlawful assignment of authority by Governor Tim Walz to Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute State v. Chauvin,” the motion said.

The Tuesday motion asks the court to pause Chauvin’s pending appeal so the trial court can evaluate new procedural claims—including improper prosecutor assignment, failure to convene a grand jury, lack of court jurisdiction, and judicial bias—which his defense argues amount to non-waivable “structural errors.”

News Media has reached out to the Minnesota Attorney General for comment.

Once the shining centerpiece of San Diego, Balboa Park is currently in need of some serious upkeep, with an estimated restoration bill soaring to a hefty $1 billion.

This beloved cultural and historical hub, known for its enchanting museums, lush gardens, and exquisite Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, is grappling with the consequences of years of neglected maintenance. Now, city officials are facing the daunting task of funding extensive repairs.

Spanning over 1,200 acres, the park’s aging structures and supporting infrastructure are riddled with issues. The wear and tear include everything from deteriorating roofs and obsolete electrical networks to broken plumbing, cracked pathways, and restrooms in dire need of modernization, according to a recent revealing investigation by inewsource.

And the projected expenses just keep on climbing.

In 2016, a study commissioned by the city anticipated that repairs and enhancements needed by 2036 would cost around $444 million. Fast forward ten years, and the estimated figure has ballooned, with experts now suggesting it may reach nearly $1 billion.

“We’re putting money into the park,” said Jon Richards, the city’s deputy director for the park, told the outlet. “Are we putting $1 billion, or $800 million? No.”

The city of San Diego already forks over between $25 million and $30 million a year from its general fund to operate Balboa Park, plus another roughly $4 million for water used by the park and the establishments there.

Since Balboa Park doesn’t have its own sources of income to bankroll its upkeep or even a designated stream of money, the city is essentially stuck playing a pricey game of Whac-A-Mole as problems pop up.

Under lease agreements dating back to 1980, the park’s museums pay nothing in rent to the city. While tenants are on the hook for routine upkeep, the city remains responsible for electrical, plumbing, and structural overhauls.

The city is already operating with a strained municipal budget, and simply cannot afford to cover all of these additional costs.

Some of those problems are impossible to ignore. In September 2024, an electrical short involving an old HVAC unit at the Museum of Us sent smoke billowing through the place, triggering a $500,000 insurance claim and leaving staff to scrub soot off historic artifacts.

Micah Parzen, the museum’s former executive director, described the city’s approach to maintaining the park as “death-by-piecemeal.”

Until a long-term action plan is devised by city leaders, the beloved urban park remains slowly crumbling in limbo.

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The final actions of Lindsay Clancy, before the tragic deaths of her three children, were seemingly documented by devices within her home.

This Massachusetts mother stands accused of strangling her children—Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan—in the basement of their Duxbury residence in January 2023.

While Clancy does not contest the fact that she killed her children, she has entered a plea of not guilty. She argues she was not in control of her actions due to postpartum psychosis, exacerbated by a potent mix of prescribed medications.

During the 14th day of her trial on Monday, prosecutors unveiled data from Clancy’s Apple Watch and iPhone. These devices tracked her heart rate, phone usage, and movements around the house, which abruptly stopped recording at 5:38 PM.

This crucial evidence was brought forth by Ian Whiffin, a digital forensics expert from Cellebrite, who conducted a comprehensive data analysis from Clancy’s iPhone 13 for the prosecution’s case.

Her watch logged a final heart-rate measurement of 57 beats per minute at precisely 5.23.52pm.  Whiffin did not provide a medical explanation for the reading or determine why the device stopped collecting data.

Ten minutes later, her iPhone detected movement up one flight of stairs, followed by a second flight approximately five minutes afterward.

During that window, Patrick Clancy called his wife’s phone before a 14-second return call was placed from the locked iPhone.

‘After 5.38, it’s pretty much blackout,’ defense attorney Kevin Reddington said as he challenged how much the digital evidence could establish. Whiffin agreed that the health data could not show what Clancy, or anyone carrying the devices, was doing after that point.

An exact minute-by-minute time for the strangulation of the children has not been definitely established by a single timestamp. 

However, trial evidence and phone records show the killings occurred in a narrow window roughly between 5.34pm and 6.09pm while her husband was out of the house. 

Whiffin, who works for digital intelligence company Cellebrite, told the court that he had extracted and analyzed more than 1,000 phones since 2013 and had testified approximately 28 times in courts around the world.

Apple Health combines information recorded by an iPhone with data collected by connected devices, including an Apple Watch.

The application can store heart rate, steps, distance traveled and flights climbed, creating a detailed record of a user’s physical activity.

Whiffin said the heart-rate data came directly from a device paired with Clancy’s phone and named ‘Lindsay’s Apple Watch.’

Sensors on the back of the watch periodically measured her pulse and transferred the readings to her iPhone through Bluetooth.

Clancy’s heart rate ranged from approximately 50 to 122 beats per minute throughout January 24, averaging in the high 80s or low 90s.

The final measurement was recorded at 5.23.52pm, when her pulse was 57 beats per minute.

There were no further heart-rate readings after that point. Whiffin said the watch could have stopped recording because it had been removed, turned off or run out of battery.

The stair activity was recorded by Clancy’s iPhone rather than her Apple Watch.

Both devices contained sensors capable of detecting steps and changes in elevation, Whiffin explained.

A flight of stairs is logged when a device detects movement alongside an increase in elevation of approximately 10 feet.

Clancy’s phone recorded one flight completed at approximately 5.33pm and another at around 5.38pm.

The data grouped those movements into a single five-minute event, but Whiffin said that did not mean the user had spent five continuous minutes climbing stairs.

Instead, the phone detected one completed flight and then registered another approximately five minutes later.

At 5.33pm, Patrick placed a call to Clancy’s phone.

The call log listed the conversation as lasting zero seconds, but Whiffin testified that the record indicated it was answered.

Approximately one minute later, Clancy’s phone placed an outgoing call to Patrick that lasted 14 seconds. 

Her iPhone had last been unlocked at 5.13pm and was locked again approximately two minutes later.

Whiffin explained that an iPhone user can return a missed call through a lock-screen notification without entering a passcode or unlocking the device.

By 5.33.34pm, the phone had already recognized that it was approximately 10 feet higher than during its previous measurement, meaning the first flight of stairs had been completed. The second flight was detected at approximately 5.38pm.

Patrick called again at 6.09pm, but that call went unanswered.

Prosecutors used the combined Apple Health, phone and device-usage records to reconstruct Clancy’s apparent movements and activity that evening.

However, defense attorney Reddington challenged how much the digital evidence could establish, emphasizing that it tracked the devices, not necessarily the person carrying them.

He asked whether the phone and watch could have been put down or stopped recording while someone continued moving around the house.

Whiffin agreed. ‘You just don’t know, right?’ Reddington asked. ‘Yes,’ Whiffin replied.

The defense also questioned the accuracy and reliability of Apple Health data, noting that Whiffin had conducted tests in which some measurements were ‘off a little bit.’

Whiffin explained that both an iPhone and Apple Watch can record the same movement, sometimes creating duplicate entries with slightly different timestamps.

He said he removed overlapping records from his analysis so that a single climb detected by both devices would not be counted twice.

Whiffin acknowledged that a phone could mistakenly record a flight of stairs if someone was traveling in a vehicle up a hill while the device simultaneously detected movement resembling steps. He described those errors as rare. 

The phone data also recorded Clancy’s activity shortly before the final heart-rate measurement.

At 4.13pm, Apple Maps was used to plot a route from the family home to a restaurant called 3V.

One hour later, Clancy’s phone was unlocked, and Safari was used to search for Pedia-Lax liquid stool softener.

The messaging application was then opened, and a text was sent to Patrick reading: ‘PDLX liquid stool softener.’

The phone was locked at approximately 5.15pm and was not unlocked again, although the later call to Patrick was placed through the lock screen.

Whiffin also recovered internet searches made in the weeks before the children’s deaths, including ‘how quickly does Wellbutrin work,’ ‘ketamine for suicidal ideation,’ ‘symptoms of postpartum psychosis’ and ‘psychosis symptoms.’

The digital evidence provides a detailed but incomplete record of Clancy’s activity that evening.

Her watch captured one final heart-rate reading before falling silent, while her phone continued documenting movement for another 15 minutes.

After 5.38pm, the devices left investigators with a blank space and no record of what happened next.

WASHINGTON — In the wake of a turbulent primary election, President Trump has stepped back from Rep. Cory Mills following Mills’ defeat to former journalist Ryan Elijah.

Despite previously endorsing Mills, a Republican from Florida, in February, Trump maintained his support even as various allegations surfaced against Mills, including domestic violence, claims of stolen valor, and financial impropriety. However, in a recent post on Truth Social, Trump remarked, “I advised Congressman Cory Mills of Florida, a personal friend, to withdraw from the race. He believed he could secure a victory despite it all, and who could blame him for trying?”

Trump went on to express enthusiasm for the new candidate, stating, “We now have a fantastic contender in Ryan Elijah, an individual who embodies everything MAGA represents and is universally respected. He has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”

There was no immediate response from Mills, as his spokesperson did not address requests for comment.

Elijah, in speaking to The Post, reflected on his victory by emphasizing the vocal support he received. “For us, it felt like a people’s victory, thanks to every supporter backing us. It was immensely gratifying,” he shared, adding that Trump had personally sent him a congratulatory text message.

“I talked to a lot of voters who just felt that they were not being represented,” added the former Fox Orlando host. “They wanted another choice given the run of ethics violations we’ve seen on both sides in Congress.

“And I think the message that was sent last night is that the American people are tired of it.”

Mills was one of three Trump-endorsed candidates to lose their primaries Tuesday, along with Catalina Lauf in Florida’s 19th Congressional District and Wyoming gubernatorial candidate Megan Degenfelder.

Despite those setbacks, the president still boasts a 96% success rate, with 313 of his 330 picks winning their primary elections so far this year, according to Ballotpedia.

Elijah was backed by Mills’ House GOP colleagues Anna Paulina Luna and Mike Haridopolos, while popular outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis made clear last week that “I have not endorsed Cory Mills and I do not support Cory Mills.”

“It was imperative for us to keep the majority, as we have to win every seat possible, and it was very clear to me earlier this year that Cory Mills would not win a general election given his challenges,” said Haridopolos, who personally recruit Elijah to run after Mills refused to resign.

“I think the best way to reform Congress is by selecting better members,” he added. “Our job in Congress is to represent our community, and if you get sidetracked with personal issues, it’s hard to do the job.”

Mills, an Army veteran, has denied any wrongdoing.

In February 2025, the DC Metropolitan Police Department investigated accusations that he had assaulted a female Republican activist at his penthouse. Mills stressed that she later retracted aspects of her complaint.

Mills was not charged in that incident, but the ethics committee noted in May that “a decision not to bring charges is not a finding of innocence or ‘no wrongdoing.’”

The woman, Sarah Raviani, allowed cops to listen to a recorded phone call in which Mills “instruct[ed] her to lie about the origin of her bruises,” according to a copy of the police report reviewed by NBC News, and the congressman “admitted [to officers] that the situation escalated from verbal to physical.”

The ethics committee is also investigating a court injunction issued in October 2025 restricting Mills’ social media usage and contact pertaining to a woman — likely his ex-girlfriend, Lindsey Langston.

Langston, who was crowned Miss United States in 2024, has claimed Mills tried to blackmail her with revenge porn.

The beauty queen, who was in a relationship with Mills until February 2025, accused him of harassment via text, including one May 15, 2025, message in which he told her, “Strap up cowboy” — which she interpreted as a warning that he would release videos of the two “engaging in sexual acts,” according to a report to the Columbia (Fla.) County Sheriff’s Office on July 14, 2025.

Amidst growing concerns over AI data centers in Ohio, the Democratic strategy is clear and targeted: hold Republicans accountable.

Axios was the first to report on a National Republican Senatorial Committee memo, which raises alarms that increasing public dissatisfaction with large data centers could jeopardize Senator Jon Husted’s chances for reelection.

The stakes could not be higher. The Ohio Senate face-off between incumbent Husted and former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown stands as one of the nation’s most pivotal battles, potentially influencing the Senate’s balance of power.

A recent Fox poll underscores the race’s dynamics, with Brown holding steady at an eight-point advantage over Husted at 53% to 45%, a gap untouched since June.

With Republicans clinging to a slim Senate majority, contests like this one in Ohio are critical in the broader fight for Senate control.

The memo describes data centers as a growing political liability and warns that a Husted defeat could send a message to politicians and the technology industry nationwide.

‘If he loses and data centers get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice — and they will not go near the next one,’ the memo says. ‘This has become a sleeper issue for the entire election cycle.’

Husted’s Democratic challenger, former Senator Sherrod Brown, has made the issue a centerpiece of his campaign, allegedly spending millions of dollars on advertising portraying Husted as ‘the face of data centers in Ohio.’

There’s a reason Brown has been able to attach Husted so closely to the industry.

 As Ohio’s lieutenant governor, Husted was a prominent public champion of the state’s effort to attract technology companies.  Ohio has more than 200 data centers, making it the fifth-highest state in the country for the number of data centers.

In 2019, he appeared at the groundbreaking of Google’s $600 million data center in New Albany and touted the project as evidence that Columbus could become the ‘tech hub of the Midwest.’

The Google project received a 15-year state sales-tax exemption estimated at $43.5 million, plus a local property-tax abatement. 

Husted defended the incentives, arguing the economic benefits outweighed the tax breaks and that additional taxes could have driven Google elsewhere.

That history has given Brown an opening.

Brown now argues Ohio’s political establishment handed large technology companies generous incentives while ordinary Ohioans are asked to foot the bill for the industry’s enormous electricity demand. In one recent campaign video, he said major corporations are ‘gobbling up energy to feed their data centers’ while Ohio families face higher electricity costs. 

He has also attacked the state’s data-center tax breaks as too generous for too few jobs — and made Husted the central character in that argument.

 But Brown himself once celebrated data-center development.

In 2015, while serving in the Senate, Brown praised construction of a third data center in central Ohio, calling the Amazon project ‘great news for New Albany and central Ohio’ and saying the expansion showed the region was a place where businesses wanted to invest and families wanted to live.

Nearly a decade later, he is campaigning against the uncontrolled expansion of the same industry. The Daily Mail reached out to Brown’s campaign regarding his 2015 comments.

Husted is no longer defending data-center expansion either. He has increasingly focused on making the companies building the facilities, rather than ordinary ratepayers, bear the cost of the electricity and infrastructure they require. 

In July, he introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act, designed to ensure large electricity users pay for the additional generation, transmission and grid infrastructure needed to serve them.

‘Data centers are, and should remain, a local decision,’ Husted’s campaign says, adding that communities should decide whether projects suit their residents. The campaign points to tax revenue, property-tax relief and construction and skilled-trades jobs.

Husted spokesperson Amy Natoce accused Brown of suddenly embracing the issue in an election year after three decades in Congress to address it.

The fight comes as Ohio has become one of the country’s major data-center hubs. Google says it has invested more than $20 billion in the state since breaking ground in New Albany in 2019. Meta, Vantage and QTS have followed, while Nvidia and OpenAI have announced major projects.

But the scale of that growth is now creating a political problem. Ohio’s data-center tax exemption became a major controversy after the state reported its cost reached nearly $1.6 billion in 2025 — far above earlier projections — fueling questions about whether the benefits justify the incentives.

The issue is spreading rapidly across the country, and Ohio’s neighbor could lead by example. 

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order imposing new guardrails on data-center development. 

It requires developers seeking certain state permitting advantages to meet standards on energy costs, environmental impacts, water use and transparency, and to win local approval before receiving state approval. 

Data centers were also removed from Pennsylvania’s fast-track permitting program.

The order stops short of an outright ban, but the local-approval requirement could effectively prevent some projects from moving forward.

For years, states competed to attract the enormous investments tied to AI and cloud computing. Now they are competing over something else: how much of the industry’s cost their residents should bear.

CHICAGO (WLS) — The Illinois Tollway board convened on Wednesday morning and gave unanimous approval to a significant toll increase plan.

The directors endorsed a comprehensive 15-year initiative, valued at $26 billion, aimed at overhauling and enhancing the tollway infrastructure.

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For drivers, this could mean higher expenses. The proposal would increase car tolls by 45 cents starting in 2027, while commercial tolls are projected to rise by 30 percent.

This initiative represents the largest toll increase ever for the state.

In the lead-up to the decision, tollway officials organized a series of public meetings, which have elicited various responses from stakeholders.

People who support the proposal said the investment could improve safety, create jobs, and help upgrade roads across the state.

The tollway’s “Driving Connections” plan, calls for $26.5 billion in investment over 15 years.

Tolls will increase starting January 1, with additional increases built in every two years.

Under the proposal, the average passenger toll will go up from an average of 7 cents per-mile, to 11 cents per-mile.

The Illinois Tollway points out the rate is less than the national average of 16 cents per-mile.

While it will be more expensive for daily commuters and travelers, the impact to the trucking industry is significantly more costly

Several people have spoken in support of the toll hike Wednesday morning, saying they regularly rely on the tollway system and improved road conditions will be impactful.

“As our communities continue to grow, families like mine can reach home safely and efficiently. Without investment, roads will age,” Emily Crain, who lives in Berwyn, said.

“When that system works well, it expands people’s choices. They can choose where they want to live, where they want to work and where they want to do business that gives people the options without transportation limiting factor,” Laura Newman, a representative of the Batavia mayor’s office, said.

The last time the agency approved raising tolls was back in 2011, a controversial action then that nearly doubled costs for drivers.