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“Mother Khadijah” worked alongside her provocative and charismatic husband for decades, helping lead their religious and sociopolitical movement, which espouses Black self-reliance. Its home base was Mosque Maryam on the south side of Chicago, where the pair lived.

“The Honorable Minister @LouisFarrakhan with deep sadness yet with profound gratitude to Allah informs you that his beloved wife of 72 years, the first lady of the Nation of Islam, Mother Khadijah has returned to Allah (may Allah be pleased),” a said.

Her death came only seven months after devotees had marked Khadijah’s 90th birthday. The statement said funeral services are to be announced.

Mosque Maryam remembered Farrakhan as “a devoted follower” with “a precious soul, a sweet heart.”

In a post on Facebook, R&B artist ZaRio Son Rise recalled her as “a true queen, a righteous woman, and one of the greatest examples of dignity, faith, loyalty, and grace our generation has ever witnessed.”

Born Betsy Ross, Khadijah Farrakhan married her husband, then named Louis Walcott, in Boston on Sept. 12, 1953. The two had nine children. Their eldest son, Louis Farrakhan Jr., , and son Joshua Farrakhan died in 2023.

Khadijah Farrakhan converted to Islam in 1955, the same year that her husband joined the Chicago-based movement after being heavily influenced by Malcolm X, his friend from Boston. The pair changed their names around that time.

Louis Farrakhan stepped into the organization’s leadership vacuum shortly after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. Among his most significant accomplishments was the Million Man March on Washington in 1995.

Two years later, Khadijah Farrakhan spoke before a gathering of America’s Black women in Philadelphia dubbed the Million Woman March.

“A nation can rise no higher than its women,” she told the crowd. “We focus on women but cannot lose sight that we must rise as a family — men, women and children.”

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Kayla Thornton added 11 points, while Janelle Salaun and Cecilia Zandalasini each scored 10 for Golden State (13-7), whose reserves outscored New York’s 39-11.

Jonquel Jones led New York (12-8) with 21 points and seven rebounds. Breanna Stewart added 15 points and Sabrina Ionescu had nine.

Golden State, which led 41-29 at halftime, stretched its advantage to 64-48 after three quarters before New York held the Valkyries to 12 points in the fourth.

Ionescu was scoreless in the first half — her fourth zero-point half of the season. She finished 3 for 10 from the field and 2 for 6 from 3-point range.

Golden State has won three games in a row at home.

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Taylor, visibly stunned as Jackson received a standing ovation at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, embraced the music legend before thanking one of her biggest inspirations.

“They did not tell me Janet was coming,” Taylor said through tears. “There will be no me without you.”

Presenting the award, Jackson praised Taylor’s relentless work ethic and artistic range, highlighting her Golden Globe win for in “One Battle After Another” and calling her gifts “God-given.”

The Icon of the Year Award recognizes a creative force whose influence is shaping culture. Taylor has evolved from a multiplatinum recording artist into an award-winning actor, director, producer and choreographer.

Accepting the honor, Taylor reflected on her two-decade career.

“I worked my (expletives) off 20 years,” she said. “So I’m not accepting what I’ve earned with arrogance. I’m accepting what I’ve earned with gratitude.”

Druski opens BET Awards with dramatic entrance

made a grand entrance to kick off the on Sunday, descending from the rafters in a harness as a choir filled the theater with a rendition of Kirk Franklin’s “Revolution,” setting the tone for a night celebrating music, comedy and culture.

The comedian and digital creator made history by becoming the youngest host of the ceremony, where and will be honored. The show’s opening performances featured Kehlani, who sang “Folded” with Jamie Foxx and his daughter, Anelise Estelle Foxx, on guitar. Don Toliver also performed his hits “E85” and “Body.”

Accepting the award for best female R&B/pop artist, Kehlani admitted she hadn’t prepared a speech, instead marveling that “Janet Jackson is here,” before telling the icon she was “really honored to be here” among the night’s talent.

Druski, 31, surpassed who previously held the distinction as the BET Award’s youngest host when he emceed in 2011.

Rick Ross and French Montana performed. Doechii and Queen Latifah were among the stars expected to take the stage.

Who is nominated?

led this year’s BET Awards with six nominations, while and Mariah the Scientist earned five nods each. Doechii, Doja Cat, Clipse, Teyana Taylor, Olivia Dean and Latto followed with four nominations apiece.

The album of the year race includes Cardi B’s “Am I the Drama?,” Clipse’s “Let God Sort Em Out,” J. Cole’s “The Fall-Off,” Leon Thomas’ “Mutt Deluxe: Heel,” Mariah the Scientist’s “Hearts Sold Separately,” Tyler, the Creator’s “Don’t Tap the Glass,” Bruno Mars’ “The Romantic,” and Wale’s “everything is a lot.”

Several of the year’s biggest hits were also in contention for song of the year, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Leon Thomas’ “Mutt,” Doechii’s “Denial Is a River,” and Mariah the Scientist’s “Burning Blue.”

Who are the show’s performers?

The first wave of performers included Cardi B, Common, Doechii, Don Toliver, French Montana, Jill Scott, Kehlani, Queen Latifah, Rick Ross, Tems, T.I. and The War And Treaty.

Hip-hop pioneer MC Lyte returned as the show’s announcer.

Druski brings his improvisational style and internet-born comedy to the show

He became one of entertainment’s fastest-rising stars through his viral sketches before expanding into sold-out comedy tours and collaborations with artists including and as well as appearances alongside figures like and

“I grew up watching the BET Awards,” Druski said. “To know the comedic legends that hosted before me set the bar so high, I’m just grateful to be a part of the history. But I’m still bringing my brand of comedy to the stage.”

Who will receive special honors?

Hill will receive the Living Legend Icon Award, which recognizes pioneers whose work has remained culturally essential across generations. She first emerged as a member of the Fugees before releasing her landmark solo debut, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” a genre-defying album that became one of the most influential recordings in hip-hop and R&B history.

BET called Hill “the very definition of a living legend,” crediting her with reshaping music while inspiring generations of artists.

Music executive will receive the Ultimate Icon Award for her groundbreaking leadership and lasting impact on the music industry.

Rhone made history as the first Black woman to lead a major record company owned by a Fortune 500 corporation. During a career spanning decades, she helped develop artists including Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne, Tracy Chapman, Brandy, Erykah Badu, Kid Cudi, Future, Travis Scott and Giveon.

Are there any other standout nominees?

The awards will feature the Pulse Award for creator and content series and the Fashion Vanguard Award for cultural impact in fashion.

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The has two components: a small resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan and a coastal development in the nearby Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve frequented by wetland species including flamingos.

Every evening for weeks, protesters have marched by the thousands in the capital Tirana, holding up cut-outs of flamingos. The result has been a nickname for their fledgling movement: “The Flamingo Revolution.”

Here are some of its members.

The artist who makes flamingos

Fatma Paja, 28, lives in Tirana and runs a creative studio with her two sisters. She’s part of a group of artists who created the cut-out flamingos that have become a fixture at the nightly rallies.

“I have long used art as a means to express the injustices and dissatisfaction associated with everyday civilian life in Albania,” Paja told The Associated Press on Friday while painting a foam flamingo pink for that evening’s protest.

Paja’s group also organizes drawing and coloring activities for children during the protest, so that willing parents are able to join.

At the demonstrations, she leads chants through a loudspeaker. “Albania is not for sale!” she shouts, and “Don’t touch Narta!”

The project has sparked outrage because of the location’s pristine nature and unique habitat that would be irreversibly devastated, according to environmentalists.

Citizens are demanding the project’s halt, citing a lack of transparency and concerns that in many similar projects environmental standards were not met.

“I am against a pro-elitist project that is blocking a fully protected area and destroying it,” Paja said. “It is a project that has no legal basis and has not been supported by any study on the damage it would cause to the environment and nature.”

She said she is optimistic, believing the protest has already produced results.

“This protest has motivated people to speak up and react,” she said, adding that, because it was not affiliated with political parties, it fostered trust and solidarity.

Although unaffiliated with a specific party, protesters are almost universally calling for the resignation of .

From tour guide to protest leader

Arben Kola, one of the first protesters in the “Flamingo Revolution,” has worked as a tour guide for more than a decade. He takes visitors to historic and nature sites around Albania — including the area around the prospective development.

Tourism in Albania has seen a sharp increase in recent years, with people relishing the nation’s undeveloped coastline. Among those who ​have been impressed were Kushner and Trump’s daughter, . She explained on a podcast last month that they discovered the site of the planned development while on a friend’s boat and stopping for a swim.

It was yet another example, for Kola, of the government abusing its power, and he couldn’t stomach it any longer. He joined the nascent protest movement when it was just getting started.

“Albania is facing a high level of corruption, with the privatization and giveaway of land, beaches, valleys and rivers,” the 46-year-old said in an interview while leading a tour group through Tirana.

Albania’s anti-corruption agency has opened an investigation related to the project. The government says the land is privately owned, but rival claims over its privatization have emerged.

In an this month, Rama dismissed environmental objections as the result of misinformation and said the development was turning Albania from a country once ignored by investors into one “where the big capital wants to come and the big investors want to come.”

It is unclear exactly what Kushner’s investment role is in the project’s development, but Rama confirmed his involvement.

The prime minister said a formal environmental impact assessment has not started because the plan for the development has not been finalized. He said international architects and environmental specialists are still shaping the proposal.

Kola says it looks to him like the project is already moving full steam ahead. He is furious that work has already begun to clear land inside a nature reserve with excavators and other heavy machinery.

Today, Kola is one of the people who organizes the crowds by speaking to them on a loudspeaker. He’s still floored by just how much the demonstrations have grown.

“We didn’t believe the protest would reach this size,” Kola said, adding that people repeatedly ask him whether the movement will continue.

“It depends on the people,” he says.

The protest’s matriarch

Unlike most of Albania’s protests in over three decades of democracy, the young people on the streets this time are joined by an increasing number of retirees. Bujare Ishmi, 70, is one of them.

The former engineer attends the protest almost every night, wearing a placard that reads: “You have the power of crime, we have the power of truth.”

“Nona! Nona!” protesters chant when she arrives, welcoming her. The word is an Albanian term of endearment for an elderly female family member, and signals that she is the protest’s matriarch.

Ishmi said she has long dreamed of seeing a protest like this, describing Albania’s political system as a “half-hearted democracy.”

Her husband is a former political prisoner under Enver Hoxha’s four-decade rule, and she says neither of them is opposed to foreign investment. Their main concern is the lack of transparency.

Investment brings progress, “but the location must be known and the proper parameters must be maintained,” she said.

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Rosario grounded a clean single up the middle on Gray’s 97th pitch against his former team. Boston holds a 2-0 lead.

Gray struck out eight and walked one through seven innings as Boston attempted to complete a four-game sweep of its longtime rival.

He got some defensive help in the third when Wilyer Abreu robbed Austin Wells of a hit with a sliding grab in shallow right field after a full sprint to reach the sinking ball in time.

Gray retired his first 14 batters before walking Rosario with two outs in the fifth.

Yankees starter Carlos Rodón had a one-hitter going after holding Boston without a hit through the first three innings. Caleb Durbin broke it up with a two-run single with one out in the fourth.

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were toppled in several countries on the weekend, wildfires were sparked in Germany and Berlin police used water cannons to cool down the crowds.

Meanwhile, the heat wave slowly moved toward eastern parts of the continent.

marked a new record for the third day in a row with 41.7 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) in Neißemünde, near the border with Poland, which baked under its new all-time high of 40.5 C (104.9 F). The Czech Republic also experienced its hottest day ever with 41.9 C (107.4 F), up from the previous record of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 F) on Saturday.

A from the World ӣ����Ƶ Attribution, a Europe-based collaboration of scientists, reported Friday that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this past week would not have been possible .

The rapid study found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

France records surge in deaths during heat wave

France reported a surge in deaths last week, including a sharp increase at private homes, especially in the Paris region, the national public health agency said Sunday.

There were more than 1,200 deaths on Wednesday, when France was sweltering under its hottest temperatures, increasing to more than 1,400 deaths on each of the two following days, Public Health France said. In April and May, before the heat wave, France’s rate of deaths was about 900 to 1,000 per day.

The agency concluded that France experienced a total of at least 1,000 additional deaths during those three days alone, an estimate it cautioned is likely to increase as more data is collected, including for deaths at home.

The increase was sharpest in areas under red warnings of extreme heat, it said. Those warnings blanketed about three-quarters of the country at the peak of the heat wave. The agency said that 85% of the deaths involved people aged 65 and above.

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, WHO warns

“Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday on X. “Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling.”

Driven by climate change and global warming, the “once-in-a-generation” heat wave is now occurring nearly every year, Tedros said, adding that more than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded since June 21 linked to high temperatures in Europe.

“Heat stress is often called the ‘silent killer’ — and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures,” Tedros warned as he called on European countries to implement action plans. He said they should focus on preparedness, prevention and stronger health system responses.

Lightning strikes Swedish theme park

In Sweden, several people were injured when they were hit by lightning at an amusement park, the country’s TT news agency reported.

Three adults were taken to the hospital, among them a woman with serious injuries, after the lightning struck the Tosselilla Sommarland park in Tomelilla in the south of the country.

Across Europe, the extreme heat has been followed by severe thunderstorms.

Denmark, which marked new temperature records on Saturday, recorded 1,156 lighting strikes by Sunday morning, according to public broadcaster DR.

Heat sparks wildfires in forests contaminated with WWII ammunition

In in a large forest that’s still contaminated with ammunition from , complicating efforts by firefighters.

Similarly, a major firefighting operation was underway in southwest Germany near the village of Traisen, where the heat sparked a forest fire in an area that also contained unexploded ordnance. Firefighters had to stop work temporarily after explosions took place and an ordnance disposal unit was brought in to continuously assess the situation, German news agency dpa reported. Some 650 people in Traisen had to leave their homes Sunday afternoon because the fire continued to spread.

Fire departments in the big cities were busy sending out ambulances to people suffering from heat-related illnesses. In Berlin, an additional 500 ambulance dispatches were reported on Saturday, most of them heat-related.

Berlin police use water cannons to cool down locals and tourists

The German capital’s police found a way to help suffering Berliners and tourists alike. They put up two huge water cannons — usually used to disperse unruly protesters — in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate and sprayed the cool water across the cheering crowd.

The heat also worsened damage to infrastructure, with the concrete surface on countless highways breaking up, and a weekend warning by national rail operator Deutsche Bahn to avoid all unnecessary train travel.

More than 600 passengers had to be evacuated from an overheated train in Brandenburg after a tree fell onto an overhead power line during a storm on Saturday evening. The train, which was on its way from Hamburg to Prague, lost power. The air conditioners stopped working and the doors were locked until emergency responders forced them open. Two people were hospitalized with heat-related problems, dpa reported.

In the eastern city of Leipzig, no trams will be running until early Monday morning due to heat damage to tracks and switches. The Leipzig Public Transportation Authority said that the high temperatures had caused the joint sealant for asphalt and concrete in switches and tracks to run and clump together in many places throughout the city’s network.

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Ukraine has on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for its invasion — now in its fifth year — and make Russians feel the consequences.

“Our ‘long-range sanctions’ reached two oil refineries in Russia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday. “Each (strike) means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace.”

The campaign has , causing widespread shortages and long lines at gas stations across the country and prompting authorities in many regions to introduce fuel rationing. According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow’s efforts on the battlefield, heaping pressure on the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table.

Putin says Ukrainian attacks aim to split Russian society

Speaking to a Russian state TV reporter, Putin described the Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries as an attempt to “cause a split in Russian society and force Russia to halt, even if only briefly, the advance of our troops along the line of contact, and create conditions for launching a negotiation process on terms advantageous to our adversary.”

“We will not give them that chance,” Putin said, adding that “strikes on our infrastructure, wherever they are directed, have absolutely no effect on the situation at the front, on the line of contact.”

He said for the first time that Ukraine has proposed a halt on deep strikes, arguing that Kyiv made the offer because Russian strikes deep into Ukrainian territory are more powerful and devastating.

The Russian leader added that Kyiv also offered to limit the fighting to the four regions that Russia annexed but never fully captured — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. He rejected the proposal, arguing it would allow Ukraine to relocate its forces that are fighting Russian troops in other areas to let them focus on fending off the Russian attacks in the four southeastern regions.

Ukrainian drones set major Russian refinery on fire

Meanwhile, debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia’s Krasnodar region, east of occupied Crimea, according to regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. The falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk and wounded another in a nearby village, local authorities said.

The facility is one of southern Russia’s major refineries, processing close to 4 million tons of crude per year, according to its operator’s website. It is also a key source of petroleum products intended for export through Russia’s Black Sea ports, including fuel oil, naphtha and marine fuel.

Zelenskyy also claimed that another Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the nighttime strikes.

There were no immediate reports from Russian authorities about the strike on the Yaroslavl refinery. Local Gov. Mikhail Evraev reported on Sunday morning that some roads between Moscow and the region’s capital, Yaroslavl, were temporarily closed due to “an enemy attack by Ukrainian drones.”

Fuel shortages in Russia as Putin says plans will be ‘adjusted’

For months, Ukraine has been . Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world’s top exporters of oil and natural gas.

More recently, Ukraine has attempted to , the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in early 2014. Last weekend, Kremlin-installed officials in Crimea , after Kyiv’s targeting of supply routes triggered the worst energy crisis there since the annexation.

Speaking at a meeting with officials that focused on the fuel situation, Putin admitted that the country was “going through a difficult period,” but insisted that Moscow would “honor all its social obligations.”

Shortly after, he told state TV that the country’s arms industries will quickly ramp up production of air defense systems to fend off Ukrainian attacks.

Putin also said that Russia will import more fuel and speed up repair works at oil facilities to end the “temporary deficit.”

“All damaged facilities are being restored quite quickly, and the issues that arise are not critical,” he said.

Putin specifically pledged to quickly deal with fuel shortages in Crimea, saying that fuel deliveries to the Black Sea peninsula by land and sea will rise and voicing confidence that “this task will be accomplished.”

As fuel shortages spread across Russia, the governor of the Irkutsk region in Siberia, thousands of kilometers (miles) from the Ukrainian border, Igor Kobzev announced that drivers will only be allowed to buy no more than 50 liters (13 gallons) of fuel per vehicle per day at state-run Rosneft gas stations in the province. Other gas stations may set lower limits.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow was actively reviewing fuel export agreements to avoid compromising domestic needs.

Drones, bombs and missiles target more regions

Also on Sunday, a Russian aerial bomb killed two people in Zaporizhzhia — a city in southern Ukraine — and injured 16 others, including two children, said regional administration head Ivan Fedorov.

In Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drone strikes killed one person and injured another earlier on Sunday, according to acting local Gov. Alexander Shuvayev.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 213 Ukrainian drones during the night, including over Russia, occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas.

Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 long-range strike drones and eight missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. Of those, 125 drones and seven missiles were struck down, the air force said.

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En universidades y escuelas secundarias de todo el mundo, los docentes de estudios clásicos se han preparado para lo que esperan que sea un auge del interés estudiantil en su campo. Mientras tanto, los museos han organziado eventos temáticos de “La Odisea”, mientras que los clubes de lectura dirigidos por académicos y enfocados en el clásico relato griego han alcanzado su capacidad máxima.

Es más o menos como un Barbenheimer para el Departamento de Estudios Clásicos.

“Sabía que iba a ser grande si Christopher Nolan la dirigía, y cada vez que podemos lograr que la gente hable de las cosas que estamos estudiando en clase, para mí como educadora es emocionante”, comentó Jennie Luongo, profesora de latín en la St. Andrew’s Episcopal School en Austin, Texas, quien también se desempeña como presidenta de la American Classical League.

Con base en el antiguo poema épico de Homero, la película tiene como protagonista a Matt Damon en el papel de Odiseo, el rey de Ítaca cuyo viaje de 10 años de regreso a casa tras luchar en la Guerra de Troya está marcado por numerosos encuentros con seres míticos.

Dado el historial de Nolan de crear películas taquilleras que dominan la cultura, entre ellas “Oppenheimer” (2023), “Inception” (2010) y su trilogía de “Batman”, han enormes ingresos de taquilla para “La Odisea”, y algunos que probablemente supere los US$ 1.000 millones en ventas a nivel mundial.

Los docentes de estudios clásicos, cuyo trabajo suele centrarse en la historia y la cultura de la cuenca del Mediterráneo antiguo, esperan que muchos espectadores que vean la película se sientan luego inspirados a tomar un ejemplar del poema original o quizá incluso a inscribirse en un curso. “Claramente, tendrá un impacto enorme y una audiencia enorme”, dijo Nina Papathanasopoulou, profesora de estudios clásicos en College Year en Atenas y coordinadora de participación pública de la Society for Classical Studies. “Parece que podría ser una muy buena manera de reavivar el interés por el mundo antiguo”.

¿Otra señal de que la película ya genera un enorme revuelo, al menos en los medios? Además de los debates en línea sobre el , el y los que se dejan entrever en los tráiler de la película, Emily Wilson, la clasicista cuya traducción de 2017 de La Odisea Nolan ha dicho , experimenta un aumento de atención. “Con el estreno de la película, estoy inundada de consultas de periodistas”, dijo Wilson a CNN.

Todo este alboroto no carece de precedentes. Después de que “Gladiator” de Ridley Scott se estrenara en 2000, The New York Times un aumento de libros publicados sobre el mundo antiguo, un fenómeno al que llamó “el ‘efecto Gladiator’”. El éxito monumental de esa película, que y ganó cinco premios Oscar, incluido el de Mejor Película, también impulsó una ola de filmes similares como “Alexander” (2004), “Troy” (2004) y “300” (2006), así como series de televisión como “Rome” de HBO (2005-2007). Los académicos también que el fenómeno incrementó la matrícula estudiantil en los estudios clásicos.

Ahora, se trabaja en todo el mundo para garantizar que la película más reciente de Nolan tenga el mismo impacto. En Los Ángeles, por ejemplo, el personal del Museo Getty planificó un a finales de mayo inspirado en la película e incluyó conferencias, debates y una selección de presentaciones de una adaptación en ópera folclórica de la Odisea.

En Australia, un destacado minorista de libros ha organizado un mes de conferencias presenciales y en línea con temática en torno al texto, que está previsto que culmine con una proyección de la película de Nolan en un cine de Melbourne. Y en el Reino Unido, las filiales regionales de la Classical Association se han enfocado en Homero en sus clubes de lectura, y también se consideran planes para una proyección de la película para los miembros. “La película ya ha atraído a nuevas audiencias a nuestro trabajo benéfico y a nuestros eventos, y estamos entusiasmados por una mayor participación”, dijo Katrina Kelly, directora de participación de la asociación. “¡Tenemos muchas ganas de ver pronto la versión de Nolan!”

Entre enero y mayo, el personal de Artes y Humanidades de la Universidad de California en Berkeley también utilizó el próximo estreno de la película de Nolan para promocionar un “club de lectura épico para el relato más épico del mundo” que contó con siete reuniones en línea. Los organizadores esperaban algo pequeño y acogedor, pero se asombraron cuando más de 1.300 personas de todo el mundo se inscribieron para participar.

En febrero, la Universidad de California en Berkeley recurrió a Kim Shelton, una de sus profesoras de estudios griegos y romanos antiguos, para que aportara nueve minutos de comentarios sobre el vestuario y los escenarios de la película cuando se lanzó el tráiler de la película de Nolan. Y en abril, más de 55 estudiantes y miembros del personal realizaron un “Homeratón” en el campus para leer la totalidad de la Odisea durante un periodo de 12 horas. “Espero que haya un aumento del interés”, aseguró Shelton.
“Imparto mi clase sobre la guerra de Troya este otoño por esa misma razón”.

Más al norte, los amantes de la literatura antigua también se preparan para que el interés aumente. Robert Weir, presidente de la Classical Association of Canada, recordó que después del estreno de “Gladiator” el número de estudiantes que tomaban cursos introductorios de civilización griega y romana en la Universidad de Windsor, donde es profesor asociado, aproximadamente se duplicó hasta 250-300, frente a apenas unos años antes. Con la nueva película de Nolan a punto de estrenarse, “bien podría haber un incremento”, dijo Weir.

Pero no todo el mundo está tan convencido. Max Nelson, colega de Weir en el programa de Estudios Griegos y Romanos de la universidad, dijo que, si bien no había “ninguna duda” de que “Gladiator” había renovado el interés por los clásicos entre los estudiantes, la secuela de 2024 de Scott no generó ningún resurgimiento de interés que él pudiera percibir. Aun así, ����ñ����ó que la “Odisea” ya había sido objeto de mucho debate en línea, lo que indica una fuerte pasión entre los devotos de la cultura antigua. “Mi predicción es que la película no traerá un gran número de nuevos estudiantes a nuestros cursos, pero planteará muchas preguntas entre los curiosos”, dijo Nelson. Planea incluir la película de Nolan en próximas ediciones de su curso, El mundo antiguo en la pantalla. “Será un punto de referencia útil para las discusiones en clase sobre diversos temas relacionados con la interpretación y la recepción de la poesía épica antigua”, afirmó Nelson.

Papathanasopoulou, de la Society for Classical Studies, dijo que su organización planea invitar al público a una mesa redonda de expertos para debatir la película cuando se reúnan para su próxima conferencia anual en Boston en enero.

Papathanasopoulou dijo que muchos de sus antiguos estudiantes han atribuido a obras populares inspiradas en los clásicos —los libros y las películas de Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief, así como la franquicia de videojuegos Hades, por ejemplo— el haberles abierto la mente a un campo que al principio puede parecer elitista.

Ella ve la película de la “Odisea” como una oportunidad similar. “Creo que muchos de nosotros nos hemos dado cuenta de que, si queremos mantener vivo nuestro campo, tenemos que involucrarnos de verdad con las voces contemporáneas, involucrarnos de verdad con los artistas”, afirmó Papathanasopoulou.

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The final round was stopped for 90 minutes as storms moved over the TPC River Highlands, and officials deemed there was not enough daylight for them to start the playoff.

The playoff was to start at 9 a.m. Monday, the first time a PGA Tour went an extra day since The Players Championship last year.

“It’s more fun when you’re making the ones to win,” Scheffler said. “But to keep yourself in it is also nice. Like I said, I live another day until tomorrow, and will be coming out in the morning and see what I can do.”

Scheffler and Hovland each had birdie chances at the end. Scheffler rammed his 30-foot putt 8 feet by the hole. Hovland’s 25-foot attempt missed by inches and he tapped in for a 69. Scheffler made his third big par putt for a 68 to match Hovland at 21-under 259.

That was one shot ahead of Collin Morikawa, who closed with a 61 and was briefly tied for the lead, though it never looked as though it would be enough.

Hovland, who went into the final round with a one-shot lead over Scheffler, found himself two back when play was halted by a pounding rain and lightning in the area, both of them in the fairway on the 14th hole.

Hovland poured in a 15-foot birdie putt from just off the green, to get within one shot and Scheffler had to make a 6-foot par putt to stay in the lead.

On the reachable par-4 15th, Scheffler’s pitch from the collar of rough — wet grass might have saved his tee shot from going in the water — raced toward the pin on the top shelf and kept right on going, over the back and down a slope. He chipped that just onto the green and made another big par putt with Hovland in tight for a third straight birdie.

That left them tied. Scheffler missed a big opportunity on a 10-foot birdie chance on the 17th that spun off of the left edge of the cup, and the world’s No. 1 player did well to hammer a shot from the wet rough right of the 18th fairway to just inside 30 feet.

PGA Tour official decided before they finished the 18th there would not be enough light to play even one extra hole.

They arrived at the playoff in different manners — Scheffler with three birdies against one bogey, Hovland going through a 10-hole stretch in the middle of his round with just two pars.

Hovland fell behind by two early, only for a two-shot swing on No. 7. There was a two-shot swing in Scheffler’s favorite to start the back nine, and then Hovland made up ground with three straight birdies, the final two after rain changed the condition of the course.

The break was good for Hovland just to settle him down.

“I hit some good shots and then some bad shots and I just couldn’t quite get a flow in,” Hovland said. “So it was nice to just get completely off the golf course and reset and I felt a lot better coming back. So sometimes that’s all you need.”

Morikawa finished in style, a shot out of the wet sand in the bunker on the 18th to just inside 10 feet for ninth birdie of the round to post at 20-under 260. Morikawa, who started the day nine shots out of the lead, had to wait some three hours — including the delay — before leaving.

“The thought of actually having a chance, waiting it out, didn’t really cross my mind,” Morikawa said. “But I told my wife earlier this morning, ‘Let’s shoot 61 and end the three-week stretch on a good note.’ And sometimes the way you manifest things works out.”

Matt Fitzpatrick shot 64 to finish alone in fourth followed by U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, who played remarkably well after such a draining week at Shinnecock Hills. He was in it until a shot into the water for bogey on the 17th. Clark had a 65 and was three shots back.

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The 88 Project, which focuses on rights issues in Vietnam, documented 56 such arrests in 2025, the third consecutive year of increases and double the number in 2022. The report includes only arrests where the defendant could be identified by name and the case tracked, and the actual numbers are believed to be much higher, said Ben Swanton, co-director of the group.

The report says the country under leader To Lam “routinely weaponizes criminal law” to quash dissent. To Lam, the country’s former top security official who has served as general secretary of the Communist Party since 2024, was also earlier this year.

The arrests are largely driven by fears of an uprising against the leadership in a so-called “color revolution,” like the 2004 , or the , according to the report.

It is a fear shared by the Communist Party in neighboring China, which has been accused of . Though competing maritime claims have led to confrontations between the two countries and a tense diplomatic relationship at times, China and Vietnam were able to agree earlier this year to together “prioritize political security and enhance efforts to prevent and resist color revolutions,” the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

“With the ascendancy of To Lam, the country has become a literal police state that tolerates no dissent,” Swanton said.

“This represents a serious regression from the period of relative openness in the 2010s when some dissent was tolerated and civil society groups were able to engage in policy activism.”

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment on the findings of the report.

The report found that authorities are relying increasingly on Article 331 of Vietnam’s penal code, which makes it a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison to “abuse democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state.”

Previously little used, “authorities have enlarged the scope and application of Article 331 so that it reaches further into society, beyond human rights and democracy dissidents … to all those who voice any grievance with state or local Communist Party and government officials,” New York-based Human Rights Watch wrote in a report last year.

“The Vietnamese authorities’ increased use of Article 331 is a little known facet of the government’s expanding crackdown on ordinary people who are seeking to use social media and other peaceful means to publicly raise important social issues, including religious freedom, land rights, rights of Indigenous people, and government and Communist Party corruption,” Human Rights Watch wrote.

Among those arrested under Article 331 last year were three men behind the YouTube channel “Nguoi Da Tin’ — The Messenger — on allegations that videos they uploaded were ”distorted content” that violated the statute, The 88 Project reported.

The report provides details of every arrest identified as politically related in 2025.

Those also included an who was arrested in Thailand and extradited to Vietnam, a dissident writer accused of spreading “propaganda against the state,” and a man who helped residents of Ha Tinh province file complaints demanding fair compensation for land expropriated for a new highway.

“The Vietnamese government has dealt alarmingly severe punishments to longstanding targets like journalists and human rights activists, while displaying an increasing willingness to attack groups previously thought safe, such as political exiles and legal petitioners,” the report said.

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En los días transcurridos desde los terremotos de 7.2 y 7.5 del miércoles, los equipos de búsqueda y los habitantes locales habían creído que no había señales de vida bajo la masa de concreto en el estado La Guaira, una de las zonas más golpeadas.

Entonces, el domingo se produjo un estallido de movimiento., Francia y Venezuela sacaron de un agujero un par de piernas cubiertas de polvo.

Los equipos trasladaron con cuidado al hombre desde la estructura donde había quedado atrapado durante cuatro días —con el cuerpo flácido, pero aún aferrado a su teléfono— hasta una lona negra y le administraron suero por vía intravenosa.

Luego apareció su hijo pequeño, sacado sin camiseta y casi sin respuesta por encima de un grupo de rescatistas con cascos, con las palabras “Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue” estampadas en la espalda.

Los equipos de rescate coreaban: “Lento, lento, suave, suave”, en una mezcla de español e inglés, cuando pasaban al padre y al hijo entre una multitud de curiosos hasta una ambulancia cercana.

Los equipos estallaron en aplausos varios días después de iniciadas las labores de búsqueda y rescate, en un momento en que la esperanza de encontrar sobrevivientes se estaba desvaneciendo.

Los periodistas de The Associated Press Juan Pablo Arraez y Matías Delacroix estuvieron entre la multitud de personas que presenció el rescate.

Arraez contó el domingo que estaban recorriendo la región de La Guaira “esperando ver algún milagro” cuando encontraron a los equipos de rescate de Estados Unidos y a civiles locales trabajando con calma para sacar al padre y al hijo del edificio.

“En esta etapa muchos empiezan a perder la esperanza. Se ve en sus rostros”, declaró Arraez, al momento en que helicópteros volaban por encima. “Cuando alguien sale con vida, como este padre y este hijo, es más que un vistazo, es una esperanza real para la gente”.

El doble golpe de los terremotos ha sido el mayor desastre natural que la nación sudamericana ha enfrentado en décadas.

Las autoridades informaron el domingo que, con miles más heridas y muchas más desaparecidas.

Las primeras 48 a 72 horas después de un desastre natural son cruciales para las labores de rescate, aunque la supervivencia puede prolongarse si las personas tienen acceso a comida y agua.

Pero pequeños momentos de optimismo, solidaridad y humanidad como este han atravesado un duelo casi abrumador.

Bomberos venezolanos vertieron agua en la boca de un perro cubierto de polvo que asomaba la cabeza a través de grietas en el concreto.

Después de quedar atrapada durante 70 horas, una mujer se incorporó en una camilla, sonriendo y saludando a multitudes que vitoreaban cuando la subían en una camilla con ruedas a una ambulancia.

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El fotoperiodista de The Associated Press Matías Delacroix contribuyó a este despacho.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa. Un editor de Telemundo Digital revisó la traducción.