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The death of a Haitian immigrant college student who stepped into traffic in late August after losing protection from deportation was ruled a suicide, the coroner’s office in Clark County, Ohio, said Wednesday.
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, was distraught over being outfitted with an ankle monitor after the Trump administration ended temporary protected status that allowed him to live and work legally in the United States, his family said.
He parked alongside a highway in Springfield on the morning of Aug. 31, got out of his vehicle and walked into traffic, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said at the time. He was hit by a tractor-trailer and declared dead at the scene.
The death certificate, signed by acting Clark County Coroner Aamir Khan, was finalized in mid-October, according to the coroner’s office.
President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated temporary protected status for the majority previously covered by it, including an estimated 350,000 Haitians.
Springfield — where Trump falsely accused Haitians of eating pets in 2024 — has struggled with job losses as Haitians have left or hunkered down.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The streak of record ocean temperatures in the key region where El Niño is measured has now reached 150 days.
The average water temperature in that remote stretch has climbed to 86.4 degrees Fahrenheit — and as high as 88.8 degrees in some spots. Before this year, the record highest reading was 85.7 degrees, set in 2015.
But El Niño is about more than just these numbers, and this remarkable ocean heat is causing chaotic weather across western South America.
“Peru and Ecuador are bracing for the mother of all modern [El Niño] events,” said Abraham Levy, director of a meteorological consulting firm in Peru.
Recent severe weather in Guayaquil, Ecuador, prompted the U.S. Embassy there to issue an alert message to American citizens in the region.
Data shared by Levy showed that nearly 20 inches of rain have fallen in Guayaquil during October — compared to an average of 0.2 inches. That’s about 100 times the normal monthly amount and about 43 percent of the annual average.
Late last week, storms caused severe flooding in Ecuador’s Quito, and torrential rainfall has recently caused destructive mudslides in Chile’s capital city of Santiago.
In Peru, Levy said El Niño is making headlines every day. Ocean temperatures just offshore there are as much as 9.4 degrees Celsius (16.9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average.
“Now that the rainy season is about to begin, we may see the real deal,” Levy said, referring to conditions that Peru’s neighbors Ecuador and Chile are already experiencing.
Across the United States, this winter could be a doozy because of El Niño. Some of the most notable potential impacts include:
- Active storm tracks along the West and East coasts
- Significant coastal and freshwater flood threats across California
- Greatly elevated chances for unusual rainfall and severe weather across Florida
CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Wednesday filed an amended complaint in federal district court, alleging that the White House blocking them from the Oval Office and Air Force One violates their First Amendment rights to press freedom.
The outlets won a preliminary injunction securing their access to the White House grounds, but have been excluded from these presidential spaces. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a partner at Gibson Dunn representing the news organizations, said the outlets’ journalists have been kept away from “the very locations that the President most frequently engages with the press.”
Boutrous said the exclusions “make it harder for the press to cover some of the most important events in the world for the benefit of the American people.”
A spokesperson for the White House pushed back in a statement.
“No person and no journalist has a constitutional right to access to the President’s Oval Office, Air Force One, or other sensitive and private facilities,” the spokesperson said. “When publications lie, fabricate, and ignore the truth, proximity matters less and they can write their fiction from outside of these secure facilities.”
The amended lawsuit comes one week after Boutrous threatened additional legal action if CNN, in particular, was not allowed back on Air Force One.
A D.C. lawmaker wants to boost the next mayor’s salary to $290,000, which would make the city’s top leader among the highest-paid in the country.
The proposal from council member Anita Bonds (D-At Large) to raise the pay by $40,000 would benefit Janeese Lewis George, the Democratic mayoral nominee, who is expected to easily win Tuesday’s general election and succeed outgoing Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D).
The proposed new salary is higher than the $258,750 that Zohran Mamdani earns as New York’s mayor. New York has a population of more than 8.5 million, while D.C.’s is about 700,000.
The country’s top mayoral salary is the reported $383,760 in San Francisco, though Mayor Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, is doing the job for $1 a year. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass earns about $318,000.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist whose perks include living rent-free in Gracie Mansion, turned down a raise to $305,800 passed by the New York City Council in July.
Lewis George, who also describes herself as a democratic socialist, said in a statement Wednesday that she did not request the proposed pay raise and that she would vote against the legislation.
“Families in this city are stretched on childcare, housing and their utility bills, and I am not going to ask them to pay more for the job of the mayor,” she said.
The midterm elections are six days away, and already more than 39 million Americans had cast early ballots as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab tracker and the Associated Press’s early vote data.
Some states’ early voter numbers are outpacing those from the last midterm elections in 2022. In Texas, for example, 5.6 million voters had cast a ballot as of Wednesday morning — numbers comparable to a presidential election year, not a midterm cycle. At this point in 2022, about 4.2 million voters in Texas had cast an early ballot, according to Office of the Secretary of State records.
Early voter data is also showing that Hispanic voters are outpacing their participation at this point in the 2022 midterm elections, according to data collected by TargetSmart, a Democratic data firm. As of Tuesday, 3.8 million Hispanic and Latino voters nationwide had cast a ballot — an increase from the 2.35 million Hispanic voters who had cast a ballot by this point in 2022.
Tom Bonier, a Democratic political strategist and TargetSmart’s CEO, said that 94 percent of counties in the country are seeing Latino and Hispanic voters account for a larger share of the electorate than they did four years ago.
Per TargetSmart data, compared with 2022, Texas has seen a 37 percent increase in the share of early Hispanic votes cast, while California has seen a 44 percent increase, New York a 71 percent increase, Virginia an 86 percent increase and Maryland an 184 percent increase. In Minnesota — where two U.S. citizens died while protesting immigration enforcement actions — there has been a 213 percent increase in early votes cast among Hispanic voters.
Bonier cautioned that this early voter data only shows who is voting, not how they’re voting — meaning it doesn’t reveal which candidate or party voters chose.
Fewer than half of voters think their member of Congress deserves another term, according to a poll by Gallup published Wednesday.
Only 43 percent of voters said their member should be reelected, and only 15 percent felt most members of Congress should be able to keep their seats. The support is a record low since Gallup started polling voters on their members ahead of the midterms in 1994.
Voters’ approval for their own member of Congress generally exceeds approval for Congress as a whole. Historically, 50 to 69 percent of voters wanted their member reelected, according to Gallup, with spikes in support ahead of the 1998 midterm elections.
Support has a slight partisan divide, with 51 percent of Republican voters supporting their current member as opposed to 45 percent of Democrats. Meanwhile, only 36 percent of independents support reelecting their representative.
The Gallup poll was conducted from Oct. 1 to 19.
Republicans are bracing for a difficult year in the House, where public polling has shown a Democratic advantage due to low approval for President Donald Trump, Republican apathy and concerns over high prices. The party in control of the White House has historically been at a disadvantage when it comes to maintaining control of the House in the midterms.
A new study has found that adults who stayed in school an extra year as teenagers had a lower risk of dementia later in life than those who left school sooner.
Previous research has demonstrated that more education is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia, but it’s been hard to parse why. Is it formal schooling itself? Or more to do with socioeconomic status, which also affects dementia risk?
In the study, researchers attempted to answer the question by using health records from the U.K. Biobank and a situation created decades ago by an education law.
In 1972, a law went into effect requiring British teenagers born on or after Sept. 1, 1957 to stay in school until they were at least 16. Previously, students could leave school at 15.
This created a natural experiment, allowing researchers to compare people with similar backgrounds and experiences who were subject to different schooling requirements simply because of their birthdays.
Staying in school an additional year was linked to a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias compared with the group born before the cutoff — even for people with a higher genetic predisposition.
“People tend to think about genetic risk as something predetermined. … Our evidence shows, that’s not the case,” said Leandro Carvalho, an associate research professor of economics at the University of Southern California and one of the study’s co-authors.
The overall incidence of dementia was still low because the cohort was relatively young, so the researchers hope to continue to follow this group.
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