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By Chris Boyette, Pau Mosquera

Barcelona, Spain (CNN) — A body has been found but has not been identified yet, a spokesperson from Barcelona law enforcement told CNN when asked about the search for James “Jimmy” Gracey.

The spokesperson said the body was found this afternoon on Somorrostro beach, a stretch of beach in front of the Shoko club, where police had been searching for the 20-year-old. The area is currently cordoned off with multiple law enforcement vehicles on the scene.

Authorities have been searching for Gracey, a junior at the University of Alabama, since earlier this week after he went to a nightclub in Barcelona and failed to return to his short-term rental.

He had just arrived to the city Monday to visit friends for spring break when he went missing, relatives said. He was last seen by a friend around 3 a.m. local time Tuesday outside Barcelona’s Shoko club near Port Olímpic, relatives said in a statement.

Gracey had been out with friends that evening, but had become separated from the group and “that was the last time we’ve heard from him,” his fraternity brother, Cavin McLay, told CNN affiliate WBMA.

He was reported missing after he failed to return that morning to his short-term rental, his mother, Therese Gracey, said in a post on Facebook. He was last seen wearing a white shirt, dark pants and a chain with a gold rhinestone cross, his family said, adding he is about 6-foot-1 and 175 pounds.

Police have James Gracey’s phone, according to his mother, who said it was recovered after being stolen. The Catalan police force, Mossos d’Esquadra, is investigating, it said.

Officers from the force’s aquatic and underwater units have been conducting searches in the waters near the area where he was last seen, according to a police spokesperson. They have had “negative results,” a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

In addition, some Mossos d’Esquadra officers are patrolling the city’s seaside neighborhood of Barceloneta on motorcycles, looking for Gracey.

Police are also reviewing security camera footage and trying to retrace his movements in those early hours, WBMA reported.

“Jimmy is a kind, responsible, and devoted son and brother. It is completely out of character for him not to check in with family and friends,” a statement from the family said. “We ask that you keep Jimmy in your thoughts as we continue to do everything we can to bring him home safely.”

The US State Department declined to provide details, citing “privacy concerns and other considerations.”

Employees at Shoko nightclub declined to comment about Gracey’s disappearance, but confirmed they have turned over CCTV footage to police. It’s unclear whether the security footage shows Gracey.

The employees also said friends of Gracey have come to the nightclub in the last few days, trying to get more information.

Gracey, of Chicago suburb Elmhurst, Illinois, was visiting friends who are studying abroad, and only a

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By Tal Shalev, CNN

(CNN) — Moments after reports emerged that Israeli jets had struck Iran’s largest gas production plant on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump posted a combative message on Truth Social.

“We are putting them out of business,” he said, following the attack on Iran’s part of the world’s biggest natural gas reserves. Israeli officials were simultaneously briefing reporters that the attack had been conducted with US coordination and consent.

But hours later, after Iran retaliated with strikes on Qatar, Trump changed his tune. This time he stated unequivocally that the United States “knew nothing about this particular attack,” declaring that “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL” on the South Pars gas field, unless Iran attacked Qatar. Same president, same day, same strike — two contradictory postures.

It was the second time since the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran began that Washington publicly distanced itself from Israeli strikes. Last week, after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Tehran’s fuel depots, Axios reported the first significant disagreement between the two allies, with a Trump adviser quoted as saying, “The president doesn’t like the attack.”

The fuel depot attack, like all military operations in this campaign, was coordinated with the US in advance, two Israeli officials told CNN. One acknowledged, however, that the White House “might have been surprised” by the scale of the impact on fuel prices and the extent of the environmental damage. The other said Washington privately conveyed a message to Israel urging more restraint.

When Israeli jets began striking the gas production facilities on Wednesday, a separate Israeli source stressed that the operation was limited to natural gas and electricity infrastructure — not oil refineries — indicating that Trump’s concerns about fuel prices were factored into the target selection. But after Iran retaliated with strikes on Qatar, which sent oil and gas prices soaring once again, Trump rebuked Israel regardless.

“I told him (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) don’t do that, so he said we won’t do that,” Trump told White house reporters Thursday when asked about oil and gas facilities. “We get along great; everything is coordinated, but on occasion he will do something and if I don’t like it, so we’re not doing that.”

Israeli officials told CNN the Wednesday attack was conducted in coordination with Washington. A third Israeli official said after the strike, “Israel would not do such a move without the US knowing about it.” A US official also told CNN that the US was “aware” of the strike.

While US Central Command has denied US involvement in the strike, former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro wrote on X that there was “zero, I mean zero, chance the IDF would conduct a strike in that location without giving CENTCOM full visibility,”

The White House directed CNN to Trump’s comments on Thursday when asked about the strikes.

Two well-placed Israeli sources believe Qatar was the main driver of Trump’s rebuke, noting it was not the first time that pressure from Doha has prompted Trump to distance himself from Israeli actions.

In September 2025, after Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas political leadership in an airstrike in Doha, Trump issued a rare rebuke to Netanyahu on Truth Social, writing that the decision “was not made by me” and “does not advance Israel or America’s goals.” He later told reporters he was “very unhappy about the way that it went down.”

“I’m not thrilled about the whole situation,” he said.

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By Ella Nilsen, CNN

(CNN) — A coalition of 40 Democratic states, cities and counties sued the Trump administration on Thursday, challenging the recent termination of a longstanding policy allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate climate pollution.

The lawsuit, and others like it, will kick off a years-long court saga that could wind up at the Supreme Court and determine the fate of Trump’s plan to undo decades of climate policy.

First issued in 2009 during the Obama administration, the endangerment finding is considered the federal government’s most powerful tool to tackle climate pollution. The finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act. It has underpinned EPA’s authority to cut planet-warming pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources.

The Trump administration terminated the endangerment finding in February, with President Donald Trump calling it a “scam” that “has nothing to do with public health.”

Thursday’s lawsuit comes after several environmental groups also sued the administration. The state coalition, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, filed a petition for review in the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the court to vacate the Trump administration’s move and reinstate the finding.

“The American people need their leaders to be honest and pragmatic about the threat of the climate crisis,” James said in a statement. “We will not let the federal government abandon its responsibility to the people.”

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the endangerment finding the “backbone” of federal climate policy. Newsom stressed the urgency of addressing climate change, pointing to the current record-breaking heatwave hitting his state in March.

“Here in California, in the middle of winter, in this unprecedented heat wave, go up to Lake Tahoe and see for yourself, is this normal?” Newsom said. “Is there anything about this that’s normal?”

Asked to comment on the lawsuit, an EPA spokesperson said, “It is revealing that the plaintiff-states ran to the press before even filing their complaint. It illustrates that for them this is not about the law or the merits of any argument; rather they are clearly motivated by politics.”

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals is the main legal battleground for the initial court fight between the Trump administration, environmental groups and blue states. If the latter groups prevail and Trump appeals, the case would likely wind up in front of the Supreme Court.

Ironically, that is exactly where the endangerment finding began. In 2007, a major Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, found that greenhouse gases met the definition of an “air pollutant” under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA had the authority to regulate them. That ruling gave birth to the endangerment finding two years later.

But the makeup of the bench is much more conservative than it was back then. The five justices that ruled in the majority for Mass v. EPA in 2007 are no longer on the bench; the three who dissented — Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts — are still there and have since been joined by three more conservatives.

Jody Freeman, director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program and a former climate official in the Obama White House, said in a recent interview that the White House may be betting on the case going all the way to the

Por Chris Boyette y Pau Mosquera, CNN

Se ha encontrado un cuerpo en el área de búsqueda del estudiante estadounidense desaparecido en Barcelona, España, James “Jimmy” Gracey, dice la policía.

El cuerpo aún no ha sido identificado, dijo a CNN un portavoz de las fuerzas del orden de Barcelona cuando se le preguntó sobre la búsqueda de Gracey.

El portavoz dijo que el cuerpo fue encontrado esta tarde en la playa de Somorrostro, un tramo de playa frente al club Shoko, donde la policía había estado buscando al joven de 20 años.

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