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A 24-year-old Hondurian national was struck and killed by a vehicle while fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Virginia last week. Josué Castro Rivera was on his way to his gardening job Thursday when ICE officers pulled over his vehicle and tried to detain him and three other passengers, according to his brother, Henry Castro. Castro Rivera bolted on foot from the scene and attempted to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk — where a 2002 Ford pickup fatally struck him, according to state and federal authorities. Josué Castro Rivera holding a cell phone in Virginia Beach, Va., in April 2021.…

Early results in Argentina’s legislative elections on Sunday showed a landslide victory for President Javier Milei as voters overwhelmingly backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a strong boost for the libertarian leader to continue his economic overhaul. The president’s party, La Libertad Avanza, scored 41.5% of the vote in Buenos Aires province compared with 40.8% for the Peronist coalition, according to official results. The province has long been a political stronghold for the Peronists, marking a dramatic political shift. Argentina’s President Javier Milei celebrates after winning in legislative midterm elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 26,…

Carol Davis, co-owner of the Raiders and Aces, died on Friday at the age of 93, the team announced on Sunday.  A statement from the team said that her son, Mark Davis, had lit the Al Davis Memorial Torch at the Raiders home, Allegiant Stadium, in her honor on Sunday.  A private service will be held in Oakland, California, for Davis, the team said.  “Her strength and resilience, although not seen by the masses, were always on display to those who were fortunate to be in her presence. She was a strong woman who exuded a compassionate and loving side,”…

A manager at the Laugh Factory in Chicago was arrested for allegedly obstructing a federal immigration operation — but his mother claimed agents “kidnapped” him before her eyes. The Chicago Police Department said they responded to a call of a battery in progress outside the club at around 9:20 a.m. Friday, when they found federal agents involved in a physical altercation with two individuals, NBC Chicago reported. A viral video of the encounter shows federal agents taking night manager Nathan Griffin to the ground and placing him under arrest as onlookers scream at the agents to stop during the chaotic…

If anything, the season’s first two games had gone too well. Too easy. Too breezy. The Knicks took care of the Cavaliers and the Celtics, their two chief tormentors a year ago, and they won going away. The Cavs were missing guys. The Celtics were missing guys. The Knicks were missing guys. Nobody was looking to take anything remotely definitive away from those games, but the Knicks did answer the bell in both of them, they did win both games easily at the end in front of 100 percent capacity. They weren’t going to go 82-0. They didn’t even make…

Top Chinese and US economic officials on Sunday hashed out the framework of a trade deal for US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to decide on later this week that would pause steeper American tariffs and Chinese rare earths export controls, US officials said. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur had eliminated the threat of Trump’s 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1. Bessent also said he expects China to delay implementation of its rare earth minerals and magnets licensing regime by a year while the policy is reconsidered.…

PHILADELPHIA — The referees called it “forward progress,” but the Giants called it something more profane. “That’s some bulls–t, man,” Kayvon Thibodeaux said. With the score of Sunday’s game against the Eagles tied early in the second quarter, Jalen Hurts tried a Tush Push on fourth-and-inches. He crossed the first-down marker, but Thibodeaux ripped the ball out of Hurts’ hands. “The refs kind of have a hard job because they don’t know when to stop it,” Thibodeaux said. “It’s tough on defense because you stop the first surge, the ref doesn’t blow the whistle. You get the ball out and…

The world of Anne Rice continues to grow. At this year’s New York Comic Con, The Vampire Lestat — the third season of AMC’s critically acclaimed Interview with the Vampire — wasn’t the only story enthralling the crowd. Talamasca: The Secret Order, the newest chapter in the expanding Immortal Universe, took the convention by storm with executive producer Mark Johnson, showrunner and executive producer John Lee Hancock, and stars Nicholas Denton (Guy Anatole) and William Fichtner (Jasper). They were joined on the Main Stage by Interview with the Vampire star Eric Bogosian (Daniel Molloy), showing us part of the crossover…

LOS ANGELES — Max Scherzer has pitched for five teams since 2019, three of which reached the World Series. The former Mets co-ace has already earned rings with the Nationals and Rangers over that stretch. If Scherzer is going to add a piece of Blue Jays hardware to his collection, it would behoove him to contribute Monday night, when he is scheduled to face the Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series. Nobody appreciates the moment more than the 41-year-old Scherzer, even after all his October battles. Scherzer will be starting a World Series game for a fourth franchise…

Two US Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz — a Sea Hawk helicopter and an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet — crashed during separate “routine operations” over the South China Sea on Sunday, with all five crew members rescued and in stable condition as the Navy investigates both incidents. The US Pacific Fleet — the Navy’s largest operational command — said in a post on X that around 2:54 p.m. local time, an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the “Battle Cats” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 crashed in the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier…