* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves with elevated
surf expected. Minor coastal flooding possible. An isolated
lightning strike possible today.

* WHERE…Coastal areas and beaches of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa
Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties.

* WHEN…Through Wednesday evening.

* IMPACTS…There is an increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
nearshore. Lightning strikes can harm individuals.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Southerly swell combined with abnormally
high tides of 7.0 to 7.5 feet will bring the potential for minor
coastal flooding in low-lying areas in the evening.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.

Seek shelter inside a fully enclosed building or car with metal
roof if lightning is in the area and wait until the lightning has
left the area.

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By Jack Guy and Pierre Bairin, CNN

(CNN) — French firefighters are battling a huge blaze in a forest just south of Paris as a devastating heatwave extends its deadly sweep across Europe.

More than 3 square miles (800 hectares) of the Fontainebleau forest have been burned, reported CNN affiliate BFMTV on Monday, and fire-fighting aircraft have been scooping up water from the River Seine as part of efforts to get the fire under control.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters police are investigating whether the fire was started deliberately. Wildfires had also broken out in other parts of the country, Nuñez said in a post on X on Sunday.

Wildfires are not unusual in Europe, but the climate crisis is driving hotter, drier weather, which is setting the stage for fiercer fire seasons. They are also happening earlier in the year and are of growing intensity.

In much of France and Spain, an exceptionally wet winter left a lot of vegetation that quickly turned to tinder as three successive heatwaves sent temperatures into the high-30s Celsius.

That has led to a spike in the number of larger fires, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

Extreme heat is also driving excess deaths. In France, more than 2,000 deaths during the last week of June were attributed to the heat. France saw its hottest day ever on June 24.

Deaths rose 29% in the last week of June compared to the week before, according to French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist, who noted a “clear increase” in deaths among those aged over 45.

And this trend is likely to continue in the coming years as Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing more than twice as fast as the global average, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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By Sarah Ferris, Adam Cancryn, CNN

(CNN) — In December 2015, when Donald Trump was still a long-shot candidate in the GOP’s sprawling primary field, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham offered a brazen assessment of the political outsider.

“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell,” Graham, who was also among the dozen Republicans running for the 2016 presidential nomination, declared on CNN. Then, he pilloried Trump’s proposed ban on all Muslims from entering the country: “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”

It was the unlikely beginning of what would become one of Washington’s key political relationships. The Graham-Trump alliance — which at first flummoxed many in both men’s inner circles — steered two terms of presidential foreign policy across multiple continents, and the GOP’s agenda on Capitol Hill.

Graham, the ultimate Washington power player, had spent years dealmaking with Democrats, including President Barack Obama. In his 30-plus years in politics, he refused to ascribe to party-line ideology, which he made clear with his frequent attempts to fix the US immigration system, or his disgust of the tea party movement.

Then came Trump — and his stunning 2016 win. Within months, Graham had transfigured himself from Trump’s most prominent primary foe into one of his most critical partners — his closest ally in Congress, a fierce TV surrogate and frequent golf partner.

Beginning with a March 2017 lunch that brokered peace between the two men, Graham persistently worked his way into Trump’s inner circle through frequent phone calls and golf outings. (Graham joked afterward that the meeting went so well that he gave the president his “new cell phone number,” after Trump gave out the senator’s number at a campaign rally.)

“Lindsey used to be a great enemy of mine, and now he’s a great friend of mine,” Trump marveled during one meeting with Senate Republicans in 2018. “I really like Lindsey. Can you believe that?”

In response to Graham’s unexpected death over the weekend, Trump called him “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known.”

For Trump’s second term, Graham put himself at the center of the president’s biggest ambitions, including the Iran war and a massive modernization of the Pentagon. He would have been a critical voice in multiple looming issues on the Hill — such as a bipartisan push for Russian sanctions, a deal on which Graham had announced just 48 hours before his death, and the confirmation of Trump’s new attorney general pick.

“He was one of those guys, just like Marco [Rubio], just like Jeb Bush, who didn’t understand the Trump phenomenon,” one longtime Trump adviser said of Graham’s initial resistance to Trump’s rise within the GOP. “But eventually Lindsey Graham figured it out. He saw that Donald Trump was where all the energy and the passion was in the Republican Party.”

Graham over the last decade morphed into one of Trump’s most trusted counselors on high-stakes geopolitical matters, the adviser said, earning the president’s confidence even as they often disagreed on key strategic issues, including the extent of US support for Ukraine and the White House’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran war.

“He looked at Lindsey as one of his foreign policy experts,” the adviser said. “He didn’t always agree with him, but I think he respected him.”

Unlike some other MAGA loyalists in Congress, Graham did not abandon his own

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN

(CNN) — Thinking about buying a new laptop or game console anytime soon? Be prepared to pay up.

Point the finger at the AI boom. Data centers have led to a surge in demand for memory, a critical piece of computer hardware that’s needed to quickly process information.

While that’s good news for memory makers like Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, it’s bad news for consumers.

Chipmakers can’t produce enough memory for both data centers and consumer devices, leading to a shortage that’s driven up prices for products from Apple, Microsoft and Nintendo, among others.

And experts say there’s no near-term fix in sight. The shortage is expected to persist until at least 2028 as memory giants work to build new plants. Even then, some analysts don’t expect prices to return to pre-shortage levels.

Asha Sharma, CEO of Microsoft’s Xbox division, recently called the memory shortage “the most severe hardware crisis in history” in an email to employees announcing layoffs and structural changes.

What’s getting more expensive?

The price hikes appear to be hitting game consoles, tablets and laptops the hardest. The PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Valve Steam Deck and a slew of Apple products — including iPad and MacBook models — have all gotten more expensive over the last few months. Microsoft said it plans to raise Xbox prices in August.

And that’s going to weigh heavily on smartphone and laptop sales, analysts say. Global PC shipments are expected to fall 11.3% in 2026, while the smartphone industry is projected to record its steepest annual decline, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

But not every tech product is expected to be impacted; devices like smartwatches and wireless earbuds don’t require as much memory.

For other bigger-ticket items, there’s a mixed outlook: Prices will continue to rise, but the biggest price hikes may soon be behind us.

“That largest bump has happened now,” said Jitesh Ubrani, director of consumer devices research at the IDC. “They’ll continue to rise at a slower pace going forward, but they’re still rising.”

What should you do?

Some analysts suggest buying now before prices increase further. Even if memory component prices come down, it’ll probably take at least a year for those changes to trickle down to consumers, according to Mike Howard, vice president of memory coverage at research firm TechInsights.

But it also depends on the product since many tech companies tend to release new gadgets in the fall ahead of the holiday rush. For example, you wouldn’t want to pay more for an iPad if Apple is about to release a new one.

Tech companies tend to launch new devices around the same time every year.

• Apple products: iPhones in September, iPads and Macs in March or October
• Samsung Galaxy phones: First quarter of the year
• Google Pixel phones: August
• Laptops from various companies: January or June

Apple has not raised iPhone prices, but

Análisis por Josh Campbell, CNN

Se ha convertido en un patrón demasiado familiar:

Un agente de inmigración involucrado en la ofensiva nacional de cumplimiento de la ley del presidente Donald Trump abre fuego y hiere o mata a alguien. Apenas unas horas después del tiroteo y antes de que se conozcan los resultados de una investigación concluyente, funcionarios de la administración afirman públicamente que el agente fue atacado y disparó en defensa propia.

Pero si bien ha habido muchos casos en los que agentes de inmigración han sido agredidos o amenazados mientras desempeñaban sus a menudo peligrosas funciones, ciertas narrativas promovidas por altos líderes inmediatamente después de incidentes de alto perfil se han desmoronado ante las pruebas que han surgido con el tiempo.

Por eso el reciente incidente que involucró a Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, un hombre de 52 años que fue muerto por un agente de inmigración en Houston el martes, ha generado un escrutinio extremo y escepticismo sobre la aparente prisa del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas por defender a los involucrados.

Y con poca evidencia aparente más allá de los relatos contradictorios de quienes estuvieron en la escena, el incidente se ha convertido en la última prueba de Rorschach sobre cómo el público general interpreta las afirmaciones oficiales hechas por una agencia inmediatamente después de su uso de la fuerza.

Videos del incidente obtenidos por CNN muestran camionetas sin distintivos siguiendo la furgoneta de Salgado Araujo antes del tiroteo fatal. Los agentes de inmigración involucrados en la redada nacional de Trump suelen utilizar flotas móviles de vehículos sin identificar, incluidos autos de alquiler.

No está claro en los videos si los vehículos de ICE tenían luces de emergencia intermitentes; sin audio, es imposible determinar si los agentes activaron las sirenas de sus vehículos mientras intentaban detenerlo.

La furgoneta parecía detenerse, retroceder y avanzar lentamente por una acera mientras los agentes, que llevaban insignias policiales en sus chalecos, lo perseguían a pie.

Hasta la fecha, no ha surgido ningún video que muestre el momento del tiroteo. Pero sabemos por el DHS que un agente abrió fuego, y no hay informes de que alguien más lo haya hecho. Sabemos por el médico forense que Salgado Araujo murió de una herida de bala en el torso.

Horas después del incidente, ICE emitió un comunicado público diciendo que sus agentes “intentaron realizar una parada vehicular como parte de una operación de cumplimiento dirigida para arrestar a un extranjero ilegal” y que Salgado Araujo intentó evadirlos.

ICE afirmó que él “embistió un vehículo policial de ICE, se negó a obedecer múltiples órdenes verbales y utilizó su vehículo como arma en un intento de atropellar a un agente policial de ICE”, agregando posteriormente que un agente, al intentar protegerse a sí mismo, a sus colegas y a cualquier transeúnte, “disparó su arma en defensa propia”.

Cabe destacar que, aunque ICE afirmó en general que sus agentes estaban llevando a cabo una “operación de cumplimiento dirigida”, Salgado Araujo no era el objetivo, según dijo posteriormente a CNN una fuente familiarizada con el incidente.

Un abogado de dos de los pasajeros que se encontraban en la furgoneta en el momento del tiroteo negó que Salgado Araujo intentara embestir a los agentes y cuestionó que los agentes estuvieran en peligro, aunque hasta ahora no hay más pruebas que corroboren estas afirmaciones.

Aun así, la reciente y rápida defensa de un agente por parte de la agencia, mientras alega actividad criminal por parte de la persona sometida a fuerza letal, sigue el mismo patrón observ