By Andy Rose, CNN

(CNN) — In a city that has been targeted for aggressive immigration enforcement, it was a compelling story.

A US citizen of Pakistani descent, Sundas Naqvi, said she was returning to the US from an overseas work trip when she and five coworkers were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Her story got the attention of a family friend, Cook County commissioner Kevin Morrison.

“It sounds like they are trying to create a cover-up. They are seeking not to have any accountability whatsoever. And I think this is terrifying and concerning to us all,” Morrison said in a news conference on March 8.

Morrison showed what appeared to be screenshots of time-stamped location maps with Naqvi’s phone showing her at Broadview Detention Center in Chicago and later at the Dodge County detention center in Wisconsin, where Naqvi said she was taken before being tossed out on the street without transportation after a 43-hour ordeal.

The story relayed through Naqvi’s friends and family, alleging more than 150 miles of travel in federal custody, effectively incommunicado, was astonishing enough. But there were many more twists to come over the course of a month of new revelations.

The Department of Homeland Security quickly denied Naqvi was taken into custody at the airport. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt went further, saying not only part of Naqvi’s story is false, but all of it.

“Sundas Naqvi was not detained by ICE at any time. She was not transported to Broadview detention facility. She was not transported across state lines to Dodge County by law enforcement… She was not in the custody of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office,” Schmidt said in his own news conference on April 10.

The questions about Naqvi’s story started when her then-boyfriend, suspicious after her claims of ICE detention started going viral, called law enforcement, Schmidt said, resulting in a cascade of private text messages and surveillance videos obtained by his office showing a very different timeline.

Naqvi, who is 28 and also goes by Sunny and Summer, according to public records, is not being charged with any crime, but the sheriff says she defamed him by claiming his office kept her behind bars, and now he’s suing her and the politician who illuminated her story in a million-dollar defamation case.

“This is a serious accusation, and when it is not true, it does real damage,” said Schmidt.

DHS says Naqvi was pulled aside at airport, but briefly

The Department of Homeland Security confirms Naqvi was pulled aside for a secondary screening on March 5 after returning from a trip to Turkey “based on law enforcement checks.” But the story diverges dramatically from Naqvi’s account after that.

“Surveillance footage from O’Hare CLEARLY shows her entering secondary inspection at 10:46 a.m., and leaving secondary to the public area at 11:42 a.m.,” DHS wrote in an X post six days later. “Her claims of spending 43 hours in DHS custody are FALSE.”

Morrison initially accused the DHS of falsifying the post.

“Instead of releasing a clearly doctored photo, I call on DHS to release all of the relevant video at O’Hare Airport at the days and times in question,” Morrison said in a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The commissioner – who was also a candidate for Congress at the time – said he considered the cell phone location maps conclusive.

“I spoke with her around 1:30 on Friday (March 6), and then about

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) - Jameson Barth and Max Cruse pitched Dos Pueblos to a 3-0 win as the Chargers completed a 2-game rivalry sweep over Santa Barbara.

Barth did not allow a hit in his four innings of work and struck out seven. Cruse allowed just one hit and struck out five over the next three innings and earned the win.

Emiliano Ramirez was the hard-luck loser as he was outstanding on the mound. He struck out five and did not allow is first hit until the fourth inning.

(Ramirez did not allow a run until the sixth inning. Entenza Design).

DP finally broke through on the scoreboard with a 3-run sixth inning.

The Chargers scored on a wild pitch by Ramirez and then RBI doubles from Marcus Carbajal and Spencer Holtz.

(Stone Saunders scores on a wild pitch. Entenza Design).

The first baseman Carbajal made the defensive play of the game in the fourth inning. The Dons had runners on second and third with two outs when Griffin Arnold stepped to the plate. He hit a hard grounder that Carbajal made a diving stop in the hole, he got up and dove to bag just before Griffin arrived for the out and end the inning. Carbajal saved two runs on the play and received a big ovation.

The Chargers improve top 7-3 in the Channel League, one game behind first place San Marcos who won at Oxnard 8-5.

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LA JOLLA, Calif. (KEYT) - Dylan Kordic capped off a lopsided 11-3 win for Cal Poly by belting a 3-run eighth inning home run at UC San Diego.

The Mustangs (20-16, 11-5) pull into a tie for first place in the Big West with UCSD and UCSB.

Cal Poly played small ball for most of the game scoring two runs on ground outs, two more on a fielder's choice and error, a wild pitch produced a Mustangs run as did a bases loaded walk.

The three-game series continues on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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Por Adam Cancryn y Sarah Overmohle, CNN

En el transcurso de 12 meses, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. han sido testigos de un tiroteo traumático, cambios abruptos en su liderazgo y un desmantelamiento de su imagen como agencia de salud pública respetada a nivel mundial.

Así pues, cuando la administración Trump comenzó a buscar un nuevo director, había un requisito que encabezaba los criterios de selección.

“Solo necesitamos a alguien que no esté loco”, declaró un funcionario de la Casa Blanca a CNN.

Tras meses de trabajo, los funcionarios de Trump finalmente creen haber encontrado al candidato adecuado.

La elección de Erica Schwartz, exsubdirectora general de sanidad y exoficial retirada de la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos, para dirigir los CDC tiene como objetivo aportar estabilidad a la agencia tras un año de agitación casi constante que ha mermado la moral y ha sacudido profundamente la fe de los estadounidenses en la agenda sanitaria del Gobierno, según han declarado altos funcionarios de salud y otras personas familiarizadas con el asunto.

Schwartz representa un cambio notable con respecto a los candidatos anteriores considerados por la administración, quienes se habían adherido a la línea de “Hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a estar sano”.

La candidata tiene una larga trayectoria dirigiendo programas de vacunación y respuestas a crisis para el Gobierno, un marcado contraste con el primer candidato de Trump para los CDC, cuya nominación fue retirada, en parte, porque quedó claro que su escepticismo hacia las vacunas le impediría obtener el puesto.

Su candidatura ya ha recibido elogios en el Capitolio, lo que genera esperanzas dentro de la administración de que obtendrá una rápida confirmación.

Y a medida que la Casa Blanca intensifica su atención en las elecciones de mitad de mandato, esta medida es la señal más reciente de hasta qué punto los asesores de Trump han intentado controlar el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos, dirigido por Robert F. Kennedy Jr., que en su día gozó de una amplia libertad para llevar a cabo iniciativas controvertidas para reformar las vacunas y otras políticas sanitarias fundamentales.

Pero la medida ya ha inquietado a los fieles de la MAHA, al tiempo que deja a algunos expertos en salud pública convencionales sin convencer.

“Es una candidata competente y cualificada, y lo sería en cualquier administración. Sin embargo, el problema no radica en sus cualificaciones, sino en el entorno en el que se le pide que trabaje”, afirmó el Dr. Amesh Adalja, investigador principal del Centro Johns Hopkins para la Seguridad Sanitaria y portavoz de la Sociedad de Enfermedades Infecciosas de Estados Unidos.

Y agregó: “Si esto pretende ser un cambio de rumbo respecto a lo que ha estado ocurriendo durante el último año, todo será una farsa si RFK Jr. sigue en el cargo”.

Mientras tanto, Toby Rogers, un destacado crítico de las vacunas, declaró en X que el nombramiento de Schwartz sería “una bofetada para la base de la libertad médica que le dio a Trump la presidencia en 2016 y 2024”.

“A estas alturas, la Casa Blanca ni siquiera está intentando ganar las elecciones de mitad de mandato”, añadió.

La Casa Blanca no respondió a la solicitud de comentarios.

La Casa Blanca ha estado ansiosa por alejar al Departamento de Salud de los titulares desfavorables en el período previo a las elecciones de mitad de mandato, que podrían costar a los republicanos el control del Congreso y frenar la agenda del presidente Donald Trump.

Las vacunas habían sido un punto especialmente conflictivo. Trump retiró a su primer candidato, el excongresista Dr. Dave Weldon, cuando quedó claro que sus opiniones sobre las vacunas retrasarían la votación.

La directora de los CDC, la Dra. Susan Monarez, científica y veterana funcionaria d

IRVINE, Calif. (KEYT) - In a reversal of the usual roles, the UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (24-11, 11-5 Big West) rode its offense to success, with six early runs helping smooth over some early bumps in the road for ace starting pitcher Jackson Flora, eventually rolling to a 7-3 series-opening win over UC Irvine (16-20, 7-9 Big West). Eight of the combined 10 runs came in the first three innings, with Flora surrendering a pair in the first. He settled in afterwards, ending the evening with nine strikeouts, including the 200th of his career. Corey Nunez smacked a home run for late insurance, and Chase Hoover handled most of the relief duties on the mound before Raymond Olivas slammed the door.

The Gauchos are in a 3-way tie for first place in the Big West with UC San Diego and Cal Poly.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Gauchos came out swinging. Well, bunting, as Colin Beazizo's walk, Liam Barrett's bunt single and William Vasseur's sacrifice put two runners in scoring position for reigning Big West Player of the Week Nate Vargas, who stayed hot and drove a two-run double into left center. He got to come home too, scoring on Rowan Kelly's infield single that was effectively a swinging bunt.

The Anteaters went walk, double to get one of those runs back in their half of the first, then scored a second on a passed ball as Flora had to work his way through the inning. He was better in the second, working around a pair of walks to keep Santa Barbara's 3-2 lead intact. He also hit a major milestone, racking up the 200th strikeout of his career in the frame. The Irvine traffic stuck around for the third though again, Flora navigated it.

It helped that the righty's cushion was far more comfortable by that third inning. Vargas led off the top of the third with a four-pith walk, then scored on another Kelly RBI single. Santa Barbara punished Anteater mistakes to plate two more, with a dropped fly ball that would have been the third out instead allowing Kelly and Jonathan Mendez to come home safely and extend the Gauchos' advantage to 6-2.

Flora put up another zero in the fourth, then finally worked a perfect frame in the fifth. He wrapped up his night with another perfect frame in the sixth, his swan song for the evening. Nunez drove a home run to left on the very first pitch of the seventh, then Hoover took the mound after the stretch and picked up right where his right-handed counterpart left off, punching out a pair of Anteaters as part of a perfect inning. Hoover allowed two singles in the eighth but got out of the inning unscathed thanks to two more strikeouts and a nice catch from Beazizo in foul ground down the left field line.

Some sloppy play allowed Irvine to score once in the bottom of the ninth, but Olivas entered and got the final two outs of the game.

UP NEXT
The Gauchos will look to secure the series win on Saturday, as they return to Anteater Ballpark at 1 p.m. for game two. Nathan Aceves is set to take the mound for Santa Barbara. Fans can catch all the action live on ESPN+ or by following along with live stats and a free audio-only broadcast at ucsbgauchos.com.

(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)

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