* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves with elevated
surf expected. Minor coastal flooding possible.

* WHERE…San Luis Obispo County Beaches, Santa Barbara County
Central Coast Beaches, Santa Barbara County Southwestern
Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast, Ventura County
Beaches, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.

* 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.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Southerly swell combined with abnormally
high tides of 7.0 to 7.6 feet will bring the potential for minor
coastal flooding in low-lying areas each 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.

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By Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — For the third time in a little over a decade, British lawmakers stood up one-by-one in Parliament on Monday, paid tribute to a slain politician, and echoed each other’s fears about the rising tide of violence in politics.

“Politics is a calling for those of us here, but it should not be a dangerous one,” the country’s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as she sought to reassure Members of Parliament (MPs) of their security. “We must always be vigilant and respond to changing threats.”

The killing of former MP Ann Widdecombe last week, coming after the murders of sitting MPs Jo Cox and David Amess in 2016 and 2021, respectively, has reinforced that the last decade has been one of the most dangerous periods for UK politicians in the country’s history.

Not since “The Troubles,” the name used to describe the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, have so many politicians been killed in a short period of time. During that time, four MPs were killed by Irish republican militants between 1979 and 1990.

Unlike then, however, there has been no active conflict within the country’s borders during this spate of violence. Police launched an investigation after Widdecombe, a former Conservative MP who then served as the immigration spokesperson for the right-wing populist Reform UK party, was found dead at her home last week having sustained “serious injuries.”

Police initially said there was no information to suggest her killing was politically motivated, before later announcing that counter-terrorism police were leading the investigation. A 28-year-old White, British man who has not been named was arrested, first on suspicion of murder, then on suspicion of “commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.”

On Tuesday, the force said Widdecombe had been killed in a “targeted attack.” They have not given any indication of the motive, but said one “line of enquiry” was whether the suspect was targeting Reform UK figures.

The murders of Cox and Amess were propelled by very different motives from each other. Cox, a member of the center-left Labour Party, was killed by a man who had extreme right-wing views and an extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia. Meanwhile, a “fanatical Islamist” inspired by Islamic State was found guilty of murdering Amess, who represented the center-right Conservatives. So instead of a unifying ideology driving this uptick in violence, as during the 1980s, these instances seem more disparate.

Alan Renwick, a politics professor at University College London and director of the college’s Constitution Unit, cautions against “making links between the very extreme actions of a small number of individuals and wider trends in society.”

Yet he acknowledges that the threat level faced by politicians has risen in recent years, raising alarm bells about the impact on British democracy

“At the same time, it is clear that MPs and others in public life are now facing numerous threats almost routinely,” he told CNN. “This is a change from the past, and it seriously impairs democracy.”

The annual number of crimes against MPs reported to the police hit almost 1,000 in 2025, almost doubling since 2022, the Times revealed in March. And that number marks a ten-fold increase from the 151 crimes reported by MPs in 2017,

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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

(CNN) — The Trump administration says its trade fraud crackdown has already topped $1 billion in recoveries and alleged losses, less than a year after the launch of a task force dedicated to this initiative.

The figure includes money recovered through criminal and civil cases, including penalties, settlements, restitution, asset forfeitures and losses alleged in pending cases, according to the task force. Only $150 million of that total is tied to pending cases. The news was shared exclusively with CNN.

The Trump administration has made trade enforcement a central part of its broader effort to increase tariff collections and crack down on companies accused of circumventing US trade rules.

The task force, led by the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security, was established just as President Donald Trump’s delayed “Liberation Day” tariffs took effect, with rates as high as 50% on goods from certain countries. The Supreme Court later ruled the president lacked sufficient authority to impose the tariffs.

The steep tariff rates gave importers a greater financial incentive to reduce their duty bills — sometimes through legal strategies, such as adjusting products to qualify for different tariff classifications or using customs-regulated warehouses that allow companies to delay payments.

But it may have also pushed more importers to turn to illegal schemes, too.

A Goldman Sachs analysis last year estimated tariff evasion could eventually affect more than $200 billion in US imports and reduce tariff revenue by roughly $40 billion over the long term. The economists identified misreporting the value of goods, falsifying countries of origin and routing shipments through third countries with lower tariffs as among the most likely methods of evasion.

There are hints of possible tariff evasion in discrepancies between the value of imports the United States has reported for countries and the value that other countries reported they exported to the US during a given time, the economists said.

The analysis also noted that the impact could be smaller if the administration’s efforts to curb evasion proved effective.

The case that pushed the task force over the $1 billion threshold was an American jewelry importer charged with falsely declaring the country of origin and rerouting imported gold pieces through a country with a lower tariff rate.

The charges filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois allege the jewelry, which had an estimated total value of more than approximately $240 million, was associated with $13.6 million in missing tariff revenue.

“The Department’s focus remains constant: if you misclassify goods or falsify origins to evade any lawful duty, regardless of when those duties were enacted or evolve over time, we will investigate and prosecute you,” Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, who heads the task force, said in a statement to CNN.

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Un esqueleto de Tyrannosaurus rex procedente de Dakota del Sur se ha convertido en el fósil más caro jamás vendido en una subasta, tras alcanzar este martes la cifra récord de US$ 50.130.000 en Sotheby’s, Nueva York.

El esqueleto, con una antigüedad aproximada de 67 millones de años, ha sido apodado “Gus” en honor al difunto Gary “Gus” Licking, un ganadero del condado de Harding, Dakota del Sur, propietario del terreno donde se encontró el espécimen. Licking falleció en 2022, un año después de iniciarse la excavación del fósil.

El T. rex Gus mide 11,6 metros de largo y 3,8 metros de alto, con un cráneo de 137 centímetros, lo que lo convierte en uno de los T. rex más grandes jamás encontrados, según Sotheby’s. Incluye 183 elementos óseos fósiles, lo que supone un 61 % de su integridad ósea, o entre un 75 % y un 80 % de su integridad en masa.

Al igual que muchos otros esqueletos de T. rex, Gus proviene de la Formación Hell Creek, un legendario yacimiento geológico que se extiende por Montana, Wyoming y las Dakotas. Uno de los primeros esqueletos de T. rex se encontró allí en 1902, y el nombre T. rex se le dio a la especie basándose en los fósiles desenterrados en esta zona.

El récord anterior de subasta de fósiles pertenecía a Apex, el estegosaurio, adquirido en 2024 por el multimillonario Ken Griffin por 44,6 millones de dólares. Actualmente se encuentra a la mitad de un préstamo de cuatro años en el Museo de Historia Natural de Nueva York.

La estimación previa a la venta de Gus era de entre 20 y 30 millones de dólares. La oferta ganadora se realizó por teléfono.

Los paleontólogos generalmente creen que una vez que un fósil termina en manos privadas, es una pérdida para la ciencia. Las revistas científicas solo publican investigaciones realizadas con especímenes que se encuentran en colecciones de acceso público; si un fósil es de propiedad privada, los estudios no pueden reproducirse de manera confiable, un estándar importante para verificar los hallazgos científicos.

Gus posee muchas características que lo hicieron interesante tanto para científicos como para posibles compradores. El cráneo conserva aproximadamente el 82 % de los huesos originales, y el esqueleto incluye componentes poco comunes como la fúrcula, una pelvis completa y ambos pies. Sotheby’s afirma que solo se conoce otro espécimen con ambos pies bien conservados. Según los informes, Gus también muestra marcas de mordeduras y evidencia de fracturas que el dinosaurio sobrevivió.

La casa de subastas afirmó que Gus es uno de los fósiles de T. rex más completos jamás encontrados, pero su estado es menos completo que el de Stan —un T. rex vendido en subasta en 2020 por 31,8 millones de dólares, con un 70 % de su estructura ósea completa— y que el de Sue, el primer fósil de dinosaurio vendido en subasta en 1997. Este último esqueleto estableció el estándar con su impresionante 90 % de integridad.

Sin embargo, Gus se vende con “derechos completos”, lo que significa que no contiene fragmentos de otros dinosaurios protegidos por derechos de autor. Normalmente, cuando falta un hueso en un esqueleto, se compra un molde de otro esqueleto existente para completar el hueco.

El estándar de facto para este proceso es Stan, que proviene del mismo condado de Dakota del Sur que Gus. El comprador de Gus podría convertirse en un competidor de Stan y licenciar o producir moldes para museos o coleccionistas privados.

Todas las miradas están puestas ahora en el comprador, cuya identidad aún se desconoce, y en qué decidirá hacer con el fósil.

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