NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the highly effective longtime chief of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in New York on a 17-count indictment accusing him of narcotics trafficking and homicide.

Sought by American regulation enforcement for greater than 20 years, Zambada has been in U.S. custody since July 25, when he landed in a non-public aircraft at an airport exterior El Paso within the firm of one other fugitive cartel chief, Joaquín Guzmán López, in keeping with federal authorities.

Zambada later mentioned in a letter that he was forcibly kidnapped in Mexico and dropped at the U.S. by Guzmán López, the son of the imprisoned Sinaloa co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn have requested the decide to detain Zambada completely whereas he awaits trial. If convicted on all fees, Zambada, 76, faces a minimal sentence of life in jail and can be eligible for the loss of life penalty.

In a letter to the decide, prosecutors referred to as Zambada “one of many world’s most infamous and harmful drug traffickers.”

“The defendant maintained an arsenal of military-grade weapons to guard his particular person, his medication, and his empire,” they wrote. “His closely armed personal safety forces had been used as his private bodyguards and as safety for drug shipments all through Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and past. Furthermore, he maintained a secure of ‘sicarios,’ or hitmen, who carried out ugly assassinations and kidnappings aimed toward sustaining self-discipline inside his group, defending towards challenges from rivals, and silencing those that would cooperate with regulation enforcement.”

That included ordering the homicide, simply months in the past, of his personal nephew, the prosecutors mentioned.

Zambada pleaded not responsible to the fees at an earlier court docket look in Texas.

His shock arrest has touched off preventing in Mexico between rival factions within the Sinaloa cartel. Gunfights have killed a number of folks. Faculties in companies in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, have closed amid the preventing. The battles are believed to be between factions loyal to Zambada and people led by different sons of “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was convicted of drug and conspiracy fees and sentenced to life in jail within the U.S. in 2019.

It stays unclear why Guzmán López surrendered to U.S. authorities and introduced Zambada with him. Guzmán López is now awaiting trial on a separate drug trafficking indictment in Chicago, the place he has pleaded not responsible to drug trafficking and different fees in federal court docket.

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — It seems success on the sector can result in profitable enterprise on recreation days.

Final 12 months the Texas State Soccer group went 8-5 and ended the 12 months with a bowl recreation victory over Rice.

The current success meant extra individuals have been going to video games and that pattern has continued into the 2024 season.

“We’re excited concerning the soccer group,” mentioned John Ferrari, a Texas State graduate. “Thursday night time nationally televised recreation so we’re coming again to test it out.”

Ferrari and his mates graduated within the Nineteen Nineties, earlier than the group made the leap to FBS soccer. However now they mentioned recreation days are a lot improved and it’s price making a visit from Houston to see a recreation.

“We’re simply excited to see how they do that 12 months,” Ferrari mentioned.

The group of graduates mentioned they’re hoping to return again to some extra video games via the season.

“Profitable video games undoubtedly brings pleasure and generates site visitors and generates cash for our metropolis,” mentioned Rebecca Ybarra, Director of Vacation spot Companies with the Metropolis of San Marcos.

Cafe on the Sq. has seen extra enterprise on recreation days due to that current success.

“It’s loopy busy,” mentioned Esther Henk, Café on the Sq.’s GM.

Henk mentioned she loves serving the soccer group, nevertheless it’s additionally enjoyable to run into followers coming again into city for the video games.

“They go to all of the locations they used to eat and spend time right here,” Henk mentioned. “So we get to see individuals we haven’t seen in a very long time and it is vitally thrilling.”

Ybarra mentioned with the sport being on ESPN it additionally places a nationwide highlight on Texas State and the town of San Marcos.

“Tonight it’s a nationwide stage,” Ybarra mentioned. “We may have some promotional movies throughout that time-frame and exhibiting off our lovely San Marcos River and our nice downtown.”

Whereas there’s nonetheless an extended season forward, many bobcat followers and the town of San Marcos are enthusiastic about the way forward for the group.

Arizona State soccer has an amazing recruiting alternative over the subsequent two weeks with Thursday’s highway sport in opposition to Texas State and a Week 4 matchup at Texas Tech, first-year athletic director Graham Rossini advised Arizona Sports activities’ Burns & Gambo.

Rossini stated the Texas State nonconference sport has been on the docket for a couple of decade, and it was meant to provide ASU an opportunity to play within the football-powerhouse state to provide recruits a more in-depth look.

“Right here we’re a decade later, and mockingly, we’re back-to-back with our sport at Lubbock and Texas Tech subsequent week,” Rossini stated Thursday earlier than the Texas State sport.

“So we’re actually making an attempt to maximise the time on the bottom. Quite a few our coaches are going to remain after the sport tonight and get an opportunity to recruit in Houston and Dallas and Austin and a number of the surrounding areas, San Antonio as effectively. … We have to present up tonight. We have to signify however we additionally know there’s great recruiting advantages if we play effectively tonight and once more subsequent weekend.”

The Solar Devils come into Thursday evening’s sport 2-0 after wins over Wyoming and Mississippi State, whereas Texas State can also be 2-0 coming off a blowout win over UTSA. The sport can be showcased on ESPN as the one nationally televised school soccer sport of the day.

ASU is now in a convention with 4 Texas colleges (Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor and Houston) with no California groups. Sustaining a foothold within the Golden State stays crucial, however benefiting from the Huge 12 matchups in new states is a precedence for this system, Rossini stated.

“We’ve bought to keep up Southern California, and we are going to,” Rossini stated. “However clearly, having the Huge 12 reference to the state of Texas … there’s only a great alternative throughout the footprint of the convention to get extra consciousness onto ASU. And you then add Florida, with Central Florida within the convention as effectively.

“There’s an affordable probability we’re going to be on lots of people’s radars as a result of we’re competing in opposition to UCF, we’re competing in opposition to the 4 Texas colleges and sustaining our presence in Southern California. So it’s, in some ways, the perfect of all worlds.”

Arizona State takes on UCF at Mountain America Stadium on Nov. 9.

ASU’s top-ranked 2025 recruit, large receiver Adrian Wilson, is from Texas, whereas this system’s subsequent class of freshmen has 12 gamers throughout California and Texas.

Watch ASU go to Texas State with kickoff at 4:30 p.m. MST. Tune to the Arizona Sports activities app, ESPN 620 AM or 98.7-HD-2 to hear. 

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Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer Jon Bon Jovi and a video manufacturing assistant persuaded a lady standing on the ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville to come back again over the railing to security.

Police say the encounter occurred Tuesday on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, which spans the Cumberland River.

The Tennessean reported that Bon Jovi was filming a music video on the bridge, which remained open to the general public throughout the shoot.

Video that was posted to YouTube however later eliminated confirmed the assistant speaking to the lady. The Grammy-winning entrance man slowly approached, waved to the lady and joined within the dialog.

Ultimately the lady rotated to face the 2, and so they helped her over the railing to security. Bon Jovi talked to the lady and hugged her.

A consultant for the singer stated Bon Jovi wouldn’t be commenting on the incident.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Grey Information) – Legendary rocker Jon Bon Jovi was in the suitable place on the proper time for one girl in Nashville on Tuesday night.

In accordance with WSMV, Bon Jovi was on the Pedestrian Bridge round 6 p.m. for a shoot when he noticed a girl who gave the impression to be on the brink of bounce.

Bon Jovi reportedly talked with the girl and satisfied her to not bounce.

Each the Nashville Fireplace Division and the Metro Nashville Police Division responded to the scene.

No additional particulars had been offered by both company as of Wednesday afternoon.

Bon Jovi is the entrance man for the band, Bon Jovi, which has launched 15 albums since 1984. He has additionally launched two solo albums.

He’s identified for dozens of hit songs over the previous a number of many years, together with “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “Wished Useless or Alive” and “It’s My Life.”

Bon Jovi was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2018.

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If there’s anybody who is aware of a couple of showstopping kiss on the MTV VMAs stage, it’s Britney Spears — and she or he had some ideas on Sabrina Carpenter‘s personal viral VMA lip-lock with an alien at Wednesday evening’s present.

Spears posted a selfie video to her Instagram account, the place she introduced up a couple of Carpenter moments from the awards present.

“Did you guys watch the VMAs?” she requested her 42 million followers. “I didn’t watch the VMAs, however I did see stuff on my telephone from YouTube of Sabrina Carpenter. Why is she kissing an alien onstage? I am keen on her. I really like her to loss of life. I didn’t perceive that half. Why didn’t she kiss a woman? Like, that was bizarre. However I additionally thought that, like, the entire thing was sort of, like, bizarre.”

The pop star then went on a tangent about taking a “actually lengthy tub” on VMA evening and performing some coloring — “I’m into coloring proper now. I like to paint and I wish to hint.” — earlier than circling again to Carpenter.

“This Sabrina lady, she stated my identify on the pink carpet and I assumed that was sort of cool,” Spears stated. “As a result of I overlook I’m well-known generally. As a result of I’m a mother, I’m sort of previous, blah-blah-blah, however that was sort of cool. … She made me cool. OK, perhaps not,” she laughed.

Spears has had loads of memorable moments on the VMA stage through the years, together with her infamous kiss with Madonna on the 2003 present, when Brit and someday rival Christina Aguilera joined the Queen of Pop onstage to carry out “Like a Virgin” and share a three-way kiss.

Britney’s presence was felt all through Wednesday’s present, like when host Megan Thee Stallion wore a re-creation of Spears’ 2001 “I’m a Slave 4 U” efficiency costume — full with a yellow snake wrapped round her arms — or when Tate McRae paid tribute to the sheer, lacy Dolce & Gabbana minidress Spears wore on the pink carpet that very same yr.

Carpenter herself even had an onstage reference to Spears, when she performed an audio snippet from Britney’s “Oops!…I Did It Once more” music video throughout the transition between “Please Please Please” and new single “Style” for her debut VMA efficiency.

Watch Spears’ response to the 2024 VMAs beneath:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As wildfires raging within the mountains solid an orange glow behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline, Southern California residents have been jolted awake Thursday by one other reminder of Mom Nature’s may.

It was an all-too-familiar feeling for locals when a 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles space, unleashing boulders onto a Malibu highway, shaking Santa Monica’s 1909 wood pier and waking some folks from mattress. No accidents or damages have been instantly reported.

The quake occurred because the area has been coping with three main wildfires burning east of Los Angeles that torched dozens of properties and compelled hundreds to evacuate. The blazes erupted throughout a blistering warmth wave that has simply subsided.

“It’s a garden-variety Southern California earthquake,” California Institute of Expertise seismologist Lucy Jones stated.

The U.S. Geological Survey stated it was centered 4 miles (7 kilometers) north of Malibu and was about 7 miles (11 kilometers) under the floor. The jolt was felt so far as 45 miles (72 kilometers) away in Orange County, the place folks reported objects shifting of their properties. It was adopted by a number of smaller aftershocks.

Officers across the area stated authorities have been surveying for harm, however had not discovered something main.

Malibu Councilmember Bruce Silverstein stated he has lived in the neighborhood for 13 years and this was the toughest quake but, however nothing broke.

“Our home shook for about two or three seconds. I used to be involved the home windows have been going to pop,” Silverstein stated.

A digicam on the 115-year-old Santa Monica Pier, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Malibu, confirmed a number of seconds of intense shaking in the course of the quake. A number of morning newscasts additionally captured the earthquake dwell as cameras shook in tv studios.

A crew was engaged on clearing massive boulders that rolled onto Malibu Canyon Street, close to the epicenter, KTLA-TV reported

The earthquake occurred closest to the Malibu fault, however was additionally close to the Anacapa fault, Jones stated. Earthquakes under magnitude 5.0 are too small to be definitively related to massive faults which can be mapped on the earth’s floor.

Rene Vasquez, supervisor at The Nation Kitchen breakfast place in Malibu, stated the shaking lasted a couple of seconds and kitchen workers ducked exterior as a precaution.

“It wasn’t that dangerous,” Vasquez stated. “Thank God nothing fell.”

At a Starbucks on the Malibu coast, surfer Albert Daniel was ingesting espresso and puzzled if the glass ceiling may come crashing onto him. Afterward, he hoped for some huge waves.

“It’s really fairly calm,” Daniel stated. “We did get a bunch of units coming in however they have been very small.”

Trudy Novicki, who was visiting from San Clemente, was about to meditate on the balcony of her lodge room when she felt the shake.

“I assumed a truck had run into the constructing,” she stated. Her daughter, who was visiting from Florida, stated it was her first earthquake and thought it was a prepare.

Folks, together with a number of celebrities, took to social media to put up they have been woke up by a jolt.

Resort heiress and media character Paris Hilton wrote on X, “That #Earthquake was scary.” Actuality TV star Khloe Kardashian posted: “Rattling that was a giant one.”

Some residents stated they have been alerted by the state’s earthquake early warning system.

Quite a lot of quakes have been felt within the space in latest months, together with a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in August that rattled nerves from the Los Angeles space to San Diego, swaying buildings, knocking objects off cabinets and setting off automotive alarms. The temblor prompted a pipe to burst on the ornate 1927 Pasadena Metropolis Corridor constructing.

In February, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was felt in Malibu that occurred south of Thursday’s earthquake.

Thursday’s occasion was the 14th earthquake sequence of magnitude 4.0 in Southern California this 12 months. Whereas that is above the common of eight to 10 per 12 months up to now few a long time, it’s too quickly to inform whether or not the elevated exercise is statistically vital, stated Jones, the Caltech seismologist. The earlier highest quantity was 13 earthquakes of this measurement in 1988.

The latest bout of quakes doesn’t point out whether or not a bigger, extra damaging earthquake is arriving quickly, however residents needs to be ready for extra aftershocks. There’s a 1 in 20 probability that one other earthquake of 4.7 magnitude or increased will happen, U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Morgan Web page informed the Los Angeles Occasions.

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Taxin reported from Orange County. Related Press author Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco additionally contributed.

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Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was dominated out of Thursday evening’s sport with the Buffalo Payments due to a concussion after colliding with defensive again Damar Hamlin and hitting the again of his head in opposition to the turf.

Tagovailoa, who has a historical past of coping with head accidents, remained down for about two minutes earlier than attending to his ft and strolling to the sideline after the play within the third quarter. He made his technique to the tunnel not lengthy afterward, wanting into the stands, appeared to smile and departed for the locker room.

The Dolphins wanted nearly no time earlier than saying it was a concussion. The crew mentioned he had two throughout the 2022 season, and Tagovailoa was recognized with one other concussion when he was a school participant at Alabama.

“I’ve quite a lot of love for Tua, constructed a fantastic relationship with him,” mentioned quarterback Skylar Thompson, who changed Tagovailoa after the harm. “You care in regards to the particular person greater than the participant and everyone within the group would say the identical factor. Simply actually praying for Tua and hopefully every part will come out all proper.”  

Tagovailoa positioned himself for an enormous pay bump with an injury-free and productive 2023. He threw for 29 touchdowns and a league-best 4,624 yards.

He signed a four-year, $212 million extension earlier than this season and was the NFL’s main passer in Week 1 this season. Tagovailoa left the sport with the Dolphins trailing 31-10, which held as the ultimate rating. 

“If you understand Tua exterior of soccer, you may’t assist however really feel for him,” Payments quarterback Josh Allen mentioned on Amazon following the sport. “He is a fantastic soccer participant however he is an excellent larger human being. He is top-of-the-line people on the planet. I’ve bought quite a lot of love for him and I am simply praying for him and his household, hoping every part’s OK. But it surely’s powerful, man. This sport of soccer that we play, it is bought its highs and it is bought its lows — and this is likely one of the lows.”  

Tagovailoa was harm on a fourth-down keeper with about 4:30 left within the third. He went straight forward into Hamlin and didn’t slide, main along with his proper shoulder as an alternative.

He wound up on his again, each his fingers within the air and Payments gamers instantly pointed at Tagovailoa as if to recommend there was an harm. Dolphins middle Aaron Brewer rapidly did the identical, waving to the sideline.

Tagovailoa gave the impression to be making a fist along with his proper hand as he lay on the bottom. It was motion in step with one thing that’s known as the “fencing response,” which will be widespread after a traumatic mind harm.  

Tagovailoa finally bought to his ft. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel grabbed the aspect of his quarterback’s head and gave him a kiss on the cheek as Tagovailoa departed. 

Hamlin was the participant who suffered a cardiac arrest after making a sort out throughout a Monday evening sport in January 2023 at Cincinnati, inflicting the NFL to droop a pivotal sport that rapidly misplaced significance within the aftermath of a scary scene that unfolded in entrance of a nationwide tv viewers.

“I really like Tua on and off the soccer discipline,” Payments edge Von Miller mentioned. “I am an enormous fan of him. I can empathize and sympathize with him as a result of I have been there. I want him the perfect.”  

Tagovailoa’s historical past with concussions — and the way he has since labored to keep away from them — is a large a part of the story of his profession, and now involves the forefront as soon as once more.

He had a minimum of two concussions throughout the 2022 season. He was harm in a Week 3 sport in opposition to Buffalo and cleared concussion protocol, although he appeared disoriented on that play however returned to the sport.

The NFL later modified its concussion protocol to mandate that if a participant exhibits doable concussion signs — together with an absence of steadiness or stability — he should sit out the remainder of the sport.

Lower than per week later, in a Thursday evening sport at Cincinnati, Tagovailoa was concussed on a scary hit that briefly knocked him unconscious and led to him being taken off the sphere on a stretcher.

His second identified concussion of that season got here in a December sport in opposition to Inexperienced Bay, and he did not play for the remainder of the 2022 season.

Going into final season, Tagovailoa added muscle and frolicked finding out jiu-jitsu in an effort to discover ways to fall extra safely and attempt to defend himself in opposition to additional harm.

LONDON (AP) — Two males have been charged with housebreaking over the theft of an art work by road artist Banksy from a London gallery, police mentioned Friday.

The Metropolitan Police pressure mentioned Larry Fraser, 47, and James Love, 53, are alleged to have taken “Woman with Balloon” from the Grove Gallery on Sunday evening.

The suspects appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court docket on Thursday and had been ordered detained till their subsequent listening to on Oct. 9.

Police say they’ve recovered the work, which is valued in court docket paperwork at 270,000 kilos ($355,000).

The stolen work is considered one of a number of variations of “Woman with Balloon,” a stenciled picture of a kid reaching for a heart-shaped pink balloon. Initially stenciled on a wall in east London, the image has been endlessly reproduced, turning into considered one of Banksy’s best-known pictures.

One other model partially self-destructed throughout a 2018 public sale, passing by means of a shredder hidden in its body simply after it was bought for 1.1 million kilos ($1.4 million) at Sotheby’s.

The self-shredded work, retitled “Love is within the Bin,” bought for 18.6 million kilos ($25.4 million on the time) in 2021.

Bansky, who has by no means confirmed his full identification, started his profession spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has turn into one of many world’s best-known artists. His mischievous and sometimes satirical pictures embody two policemen kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces and a chimpanzee with an indication bearing the phrases, “Snigger now, however sooner or later I’ll be in cost.”

His work and installations promote for thousands and thousands of {dollars} at public sale and have drawn thieves and vandals.

This summer time a sequence of animal-themed stencils confirmed up round London. One in all them, a howling wolf on a satellite tv for pc dish, was eliminated by a masked man lower than an hour after it was confirmed as genuine. A picture of a gorilla at London Zoo and piranhas in a police sentry field in London’s monetary district had been each eliminated by the authorities for safekeeping.