OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) Mail carriers picked up more than letters along the Central Coast over the weekend.

They picked up nonperishable food for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

It is the largest single day food drive in the United States.

The food will go to Ventura County Food Share and Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.

If people forgot to put their bags of food out, mail carriers said they will continue to accept donations for a few more days.

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Por Andy Ortiz y Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

El conteo de votos de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales en Perú, que ha avanzado con lentitud desde las votaciones de abril, alcanzó la noche de este sábado el 99,505 % de las actas computadas y mostró una estrecha diferencia entre el segundo y el tercer lugar: el izquierdista Roberto Sánchez y el ultraderechista Rafael López Aliaga.

Los resultados preliminares de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE) indican que la derechista Keiko Fujimori, del partido Fuerza Popular, encabeza la contienda con el 17,173 % de la votación, que se traduce en 2.864.334 votos.

A Fujimori le sigue Sánchez, candidato de Juntos por el Perú, con el 11,999 % de los sufragios, mientras que López Aliaga, de Renovación Popular, tiene el 11,911 %.

En números absolutos, la diferencia entre Sánchez y López Aliaga es de apenas 14.772 votos: Sánchez tiene 2.001.382 y López Aliaga 1.986.610.

Los dos candidatos se disputan quién de ellos pasará con Fujimori a la segunda vuelta prevista para el 7 de junio. Se prevé que el resultado oficial sobre los contendientes que avanzarán al balotaje se dé a conocer en los próximos días.

El domingo 12 de abril, Perú tuvo comicios generales para elegir presidente, diputados, senadores y representantes del Parlamento Andino.

Sin embargo, se denunciaron diversas irregularidades en el proceso, como retrasos en la entrega de material electoral y en la apertura de centros de votación, lo que derivó en quejas de numerosos ciudadanos y en que el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE), de manera extraordinaria, decidiera extender al lunes 13 de abril la oportunidad de que los electores de algunas zonas pudieran votar.

El conteo de votos también ha avanzado con lentitud desde entonces, teniendo como consecuencia críticas de la ciudadanía y que algunos candidatos descalifiquen el desempeño de las autoridades electorales.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) Riviera Music held a Grand Opening and Gear Swap on May 9.

It is located on the second floor of the Mercado Shopping Center at 4141 State Street near Goleta Valley.

Potential customers had a chance to look at instruments and lesson rooms.

Many people know the owner Emile Millar for his work as an author and filmmaker .

His documentary "More Than Just A Party Band" tells the story of Spencer Barnitz, also known as Spencer the Gardner.

Now Millar is focused on his love of musical instruments.

"We are the new guitar shop and music shop in Santa Barbara, so our whole goal for this event today was just to invite the community, to let them know we are a place where you can get guitars and musician essentials, we are a learning facility, we have a crazy repair shop with an expert Luthier and technician John Mooy, so we are honored and blessed to have him on our team," said Millar.

Mooy, who used to be a firefighter, worked for Jensen Music that shuttered after half a century in business.

Millar's wife Crista Fleming owns the restaurant Scarlet Begonia. 

"I learned a lot from her about sourcing thoughtfully as well as how to offer the community things that we love, you don't have to sell things if you love it, so we just want to share with the community and invite folks to know about us and where to come to get their musical essentials and guitars."

Customers enjoyed listening to live music on the balcony and they also had a chance to win door prizes.

Parents brought their children who check out drums, guitars and keyboards in the various practice rooms.

For more information visit https://rivieramusicsb.com

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By Maria Santana, Fidel Gutierrez, Caroll Alvarado, Marlon Sorto, Zoe Sottile, CNN

(CNN) — The parents of an 18-year-old US citizen who has terminal colon cancer have been reunited with their son a day after they were released from a Department of Homeland Security detention facility in Arizona.

The couple, Isidoro González Avilés and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, reunited with their son Kevin González Saturday evening in Durango, Mexico.

Their son, who was born in the US but raised in Mexico, fell ill while visiting family in Chicago over Christmas, according to CNN affiliate WLS. He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.

“What I want to say to people is thank you for helping my family to be able to have the choice,” the 18-year-old – his face gaunt – told CNN in Durango shortly after reuniting with his parents.

Avilés and Amaya were in tears as they embraced Kevin after taking a bus to Durango, a state in northwest Mexico.

His parents, Mexican nationals, had both previously been deported from the US after entering “illegally,” DHS told CNN Friday.

In a desperate bid to see their son again after his diagnosis, the couple attempted to reenter the US in April, WLS reported. They were both arrested April 14 near Douglas, Arizona, according to DHS. They say they spent weeks in detention before they were deported and able to reunite with their son.

DHS told CNN the couple had applied for B1/B2 visas – temporary nonimmigrant visas – “which were denied due to their previous unlawful presence and entries into the United States.”

The couple were deported to Mexico Friday, DHS said. A US district judge in Tucson, Arizona, ordered the release of González’s parents on Thursday morning, according to WLS.

Their son flew to Mexico around a week ago, according to WLS, hoping to be reunited with his parents before he dies.

“We managed to make my son’s dream come true: to be with him again, to love him, to give him the love we could not give him during these months when he was not with us,” said Avilés after reuniting with his son.

“We sought every option. They denied us visas. They detained us at the border,” he said.

He showed his tattoos of his son’s name as well as Saint Jude – the patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations.

Kevin, his father said, is “very strong.”

“I have a lot of faith in him, and I know he is going to heal from this and from many more things,” he added.

Amaya cried as she held her son.

“These tears are from emotion, from seeing him again, from touching him again, from telling him how much I love him,” she said.

DHS said Avilés had been arrested and charged multiple times for different crimes, which ranged from minor to serious, and was deported in 2011. DHS did not respond to questions about where or when the alleged charges took place, and the outcomes of those cases are unclear.

Interviewed before reuniting with his son, Avilés said Friday he was “a humble worker” who worked as a taxi driver and truck driver in Durango.

In detention, he said, they were treated “like criminals” and were chained at the hands and feet for their court appearances.

He also said he and his wife had been denied humanitarian visas to see their son. “We went through a lot, and in the end, all I want is to be with him,” he said.

DHS said, “Anabel illegally entered the United States for the first time in 2005 and was later removed back to Mexico in 2011.”

Rep. Delia Ramirez, who represents the district where González is receiving treatment in Chicago, expressed her support for the family in a statement Thursday.

“Rejecting visas to Kevin’s family did not pro

By Brad Lendon, Sylvie Zhuang, Wayne Chang, CNN

(CNN) — As the war in Iran enters its third month, it’s providing a window for China into how US military capabilities work under fire, and a useful reminder that, on any battlefield, the adversary always has a big say in the outcome.

CNN spoke with a range of experts in China, Taiwan and elsewhere about how the last two months of fighting in and around the Persian Gulf can inform what might happen in any possible conflict that would pit Beijing against Washington.

They warned of China misreading its own strengths, lack of experience and holding on to a too-narrow view of the conflict and its consequences.

Fu Qianshao, a former colonel in China’s air force, said his major takeaway from the fighting so far is that the People’s Liberation Army can’t forget about its defenses, noting how Iran has found ways around US anti-missile systems like the Patriot or Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).

“We need to devote significant efforts to identify weakness in our defensive side to ensure we remain invincible in future wars,” Fu told CNN.

The PLA has rapidly expanded offensive firepower capacity in recent years, adding missiles with hypersonic glide vehicles that can evade interceptors and the platforms that can launch them.

The PLA Air Force is adding fifth-generation stealth fighters at a rapid rate and will field around 1,000 J-20 jets – the rough equivalent of US F-35s – when performing in a long-range precision strike mode, according to the British think tank RUSI.

China has a long-range stealth bomber, similar to the US’ B-2 or the B-21, in the works.

But its defenses are another matter.

Analysts note Iran was able to penetrate US air defenses in the Persian Gulf with relatively primitive technology, including low-cost Shahed drones and lower-cost ballistic missiles.

Meanwhile, the US unleashed an air campaign on Iran with much more sophisticated weaponry, like F-35s and B-2s, and mixed it with cheaper, less high-tech guided munitions dropped from B-1s, B-52s and F-15s. They’ve knocked out everything from missile launchers to naval vessels to bridges.

It’s a mix that Beijing must plan for, Fu said.

“We have to delve deeper to effectively guard our key sites, airfields and ports against attacks and raids,” he said.

Across the Taiwan Strait

When it comes to a possible US-China conflict, Taiwan is often viewed as a potential flashpoint.

China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to “reunify” with the self-governing democracy, despite having never controlled Taiwan. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has not ruled out using military force to do so.

In Taiwan, analysts recognize that China has assembled a military that can match both the US in high-tech precision weaponry and Iran in low-cost, high-volume drone warfare.

“Long-range rockets and drone swarms will definitely play a key role in China’s joint military operations against Taiwan,” Chieh Chung, an associate research fellow at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, told CNN.

But would that key role be enough to win a war across the Taiwan Strait?

China is the world’s leading drone manufacturer, and the numbers of unmanned weapons systems its manufacturers can produce is staggering, according to analysts.

“Chinese civilian manufacturers have the capacity to retool in under a year to turn out one billion weaponized drones annually,” a 2025 report on China’s drone program in the a