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Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells AP
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges.
The brothers were taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on a sealed warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told The Associated Press, placing the United States at the center of an international legal saga that has stretched from Romania to Britain.
British prosecutors announced Saturday that they were seeking the brothers’ extradition on charges alleging they raped and trafficked women between 2010 and 2017.
The dual U.S. and British citizens moved to Romania in 2016. They were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations and the Romanian case hasn’t gone forward because of legal and procedural problems.
Last year, they were allowed to leave Romania and flew to Florida on a private jet.
The brothers are expected to appear in Miami’s federal court early next week, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations.
The pending charges in the United Kingdom accused the brothers of abusing women in an area north of London, where they grew up. Their lawyers had said they denied the allegations.
Joseph McBride, an attorney representing the Tate brothers, said in a phone interview Saturday evening that he has not been able to speak with his clients but called the new charges out of the U.K. “filth and slander” intended to derail defamation lawsuits filed by the brothers in the U.S.
“They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure these guys never get their day in court,” McBride said.
“We are confident that once a competent judge sees the facts, and once the Department of Justice confronts this egregious abuse of its own authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate will walk free. America does not do Britain’s political dirty work.”
Andrew Tate, 39, first reached a mainstream audience as a contestant on the U.K. reality television show “Big Brother” in 2016. He was removed from the show when a video surfaced that appeared to show Tate assaulting a woman. He and his brother Tristan Tate, 38, are vocal supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Andrew Tate has amassed over 10 million followers on X but has been banned from platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram for violating hate speech guidelines. His most widely condemned rhetoric includes comments that women who are sexually assaulted should bear some responsibility for their attacks, graphic descriptions of how he might attack women and criticisms of people who seek treatment for mental illness.
The Tate brothers have consistently denied allegations of abuse and human trafficking, claiming that violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes.
In a statement Saturday, the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Services said that in addition to the charges publicly announced against the brothers in 2025, involving alleged crimes against three women, it was bringing a total of 38 new charges related to “four further victims.”
Both brothers are accused of rape and human trafficking. Andrew Tate faces an additional charge of profiting from prostitution, and 19 charges “for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography,” according to U.K. authorities.
“There is no place for male violence against women and girls, and we will continue to work tirelessly to support victims and investigate all reports made to us,” said Karena Thomas, an assistant chief constable of the Bedfordshire Police, which investigated the case.
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AP writer Savannah Peters in Santa Fe, New Mexico contributed.
For months after a devastating fire tore through seven Hong Kong apartment towers last year, the complex was sealed off to residents.
This spring, residents were allowed to return to the ruins of the complex, Wang Fuk Court. Some homes were eerily frozen in time, with bowls still filled with food. In other apartments, residents sifted through the ashes with mesh baskets searching for anything that survived.
The fire killed 168 people, most likely because of unscrupulous contractors who used shoddy materials. Behind that toll are individual losses, told here through what people carried out of the debris.
We asked residents who lost their loved ones to share their stories, in their own words. Their accounts below have been translated from Cantonese and condensed and edited for clarity.
Shirley Ng, 54.
Her daughter and husband died in the fire.
She found the remnants of her daughter’s iPad in the debris.
Whenever I pass by restaurants that we went to together, I stand outside and think to myself: if only she were here with me. I know it’s magical thinking.
She had just graduated from university — the same one her father had attended.
My husband was a good citizen. He liked to sing and dance. He didn’t have a temper. He played the erhu and was part of a Chinese orchestra. We had a piano at home for our daughter. All of it has been burned away.
I used a basket to sift through the debris and found a few things: my husband’s glasses, the remnants of my daughter’s iPad that she used to draw with, some jewelry and a watch that I bought for her when she started secondary school. The watch cost around $240, which was quite a lot of money for me, but I wanted her to have it.
Ms. Ng is mourning her daughter, Piano Chiang, 23, and her husband, Peter Chiang, 62.
Yip Ka Kui, 68.
His wife died in the fire.
He found her watch along with his wedding ring.
The diamonds caught a ray of light and sparkled. I wiped off the soot and ash and saw that it was my wedding ring. Our rings had an identical design: three diamonds inlaid on a diagonal line. We kept them together by our bed. I couldn’t find my wife’s ring.
We met at a factory that produced radios and cassette players. She was a line leader and I was a repairman. We got married in 1981. She was very frugal. It took a lot of convincing to get her to buy something. Or I’d just have to buy it myself.
We had a very ordinary life. We would do everything together. We were always together. At home, I would watch TV while she played video games. Sometimes, we would get into arguments and fight about small things. She would nag me for not putting my shoes away. Now, I have no one to bicker with.
It’s tough. I miss her constantly.
This watch was from Seiko, a Japanese brand. It wasn’t too expensive and, most importantly, she liked the style. She didn’t want anything too flashy.
Mr. Yip is mourning his wife, Pak Shui Lin, 66.
Polly Luk, 40s.
Her mother died in the fire.
She is holding a ceramic pomelo that her mother bought on a trip they took together.
I was born with a congenital heart disease, and I have a lot of chronic health issues. My mom took great care of me. She was a great chef and would make steamed chicken, my favorite lamb chops, choy sum, stir-fried egg and tomato.
She worked as a home health aide for the elderly. She would bring them to their doctor’s appointments and go to their homes to cook and clean. She had to travel quite far for work and she didn’t earn very much.
During a trip to Foshan, China, we visited a street where they sold handmade ceramics. My mom picked out a ceramic pomelo. She chose one that was especially round and fat with a vibrant color to bring our family peace and good luck. We kept it in our living room.
Her body was found in the hallway. If she had stayed in our home, we might not have found her remains. Our apartment was completely destroyed.
Ms. Luk is mourning her mother, Tsang Lai Wah, 71.
Lee Chun Ho, 40, his father, Simon Lee, 70, and his sister-in-law, Esther Chan, 38.
Lee Chun Ho lost his mother, brother, niece and the domestic worker who cared for their family. He saved one of the figurines his brother built.
Esther Chan lost her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. She held on to her daughter’s shoes.
Lee Chun Ho: My mother was very smart. She could intuit things — she knew what people were going to say before they even said them. She was very influential in the community and a sharp thinker.
My brother liked to build figurines. My parents told me that when we were kids, I would destroy them. But my brother never scolded me. He was a good brother and a good dad. He was at home that day because he had worked the overnight shift at the hospital, and he was resting. He had one more overnight shift before a planned vacation. The six of us were going to go to Taiwan together.
Esther Chan: Back at the apartment, I found bowls on the table still filled with food they were eating that night. Yan Yan still had half a bottle of milk there — that was tough to see. I started to imagine what their last moments might have been like.
After gathering their belongings, I got home and lay in bed, surrounded by all the things we found. It made me feel a bit better.
Chun Man was crazy about our daughter. She was the center of his life. When she went outside, she would always pick out her own shoes and clothes. We bought her so many pairs of shoes.
The Lee family is mourning Yip Pik Yi, 65; Lee Chun Man, 44; Yan Yan, 15 months; and Erawati, 34, a domestic worker from Indonesia. Read more about the Lee family.
Lee Kwok Hung, 70.
His mother died in the fire along with two domestic workers.
He found an old photograph of him and his mother.
My mom cared for my grandfather after he had a stroke. That was very tough. Then, my dad had a stroke and she looked after him, too. She never complained. About a decade ago, she had a stroke. She couldn’t look after herself anymore so we hired domestic workers.
Dina was good to my mom. She made mashed pumpkin for her and steamed a whole fish and took out the bones. She worried about my mother at night and started sleeping on the floor next to her. Darwati had been there for about six months.
I attended their funeral at a mosque in Hong Kong, and their bodies were sent back to their families in Indonesia the next day.
I found an old photograph of me and my mother on a vacation in the Philippines. That was our first trip abroad together. We went sightseeing around Manila and went white-water rafting in a wooden boat. She was very happy on that trip.
Mr. Lee is mourning his mother, Tam Wei Ping, 91. She died with her caregivers, Dina-Martiana, 38, and Darwati, 48, both of whom were migrant workers from Indonesia.
Phyllis Lo, 49.
Her mother died in the fire.
She holds a denim vest her mother sewed.
We moved to Wang Fuk Court when I was in first grade. My dad was rarely around. He gambled and debt collectors would come to the house. My parents divorced when I was in secondary school.
My mother was very hard working and accomplished a lot on her own. She was a single mom. She earned money to support us and paid for our tuition and piano lessons all by herself. She even took on a second job as a cashier at the Jockey Club’s racecourse on race nights. Later on, she worked as a nanny. She also worked as an office clerk and janitor.
After she retired, she found a few pairs of jeans that no longer fit. She was the kind of person who didn’t want to waste anything. She taught herself how to sew and turned the jeans into denim vests. She did everything by hand. When I saw them, I said, “That is so cute and unique!” She made one for me with my name embroidered on the back.
Ms. Lo is mourning her mother, Ying Lo, 74.
Holly Cheung, 38.
Her two toy poodles died in the fire.
She found a Snoopy toy that belonged to them.
About a month before the fire, I ran into my neighbors in the elevator: a mother and her young daughter. They told me that every night, the little girl would hear my dogs barking and walk over to my door. She would say, “Hi, doggies!” I thought this family was so sweet. I promised to bring my dogs to their apartment one day so the child could play with them. Then, the fire happened.
My mom got sick and died when I was very young. This home meant a lot to me. It was my connection to my mother. We were together for such a short time and that was at Wang Fuk Court.
After the fire, I got a replacement copy of my birth certificate from the government. They printed it out and I was surprised to see the address was Wang Fuk Court, Wang Cheong House. All this time, while I was living there, I didn’t think too much about it. It wasn’t anything special. But for as long as I live, this address will remain on my birth certificate.
Ms. Cheung’s dogs were Bom Bom, 8, and Ungi, 6.
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ISIS poised to exploit historic US Iraq exit, terror group ‘actively waiting in the gaps,’ expert warns
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The Islamic State is quietly rebuilding as the United States prepares to complete its withdrawal from Iraq, raising fears the terror group could exploit a security vacuum, a regional security expert warned Sunday.
With U.S. forces leaving by Sept. 30 and as Baghdad tries to rein in Iran-backed militias, Iraq could also be entering its most dangerous period since ISIS seized Mosul in 2014, according to counterterrorism expert Dr. Omar Mohammed.
“ISIS is waiting actively in the gaps, as it historically always has,” Mohammed, author and researcher with the George Washington University Program on Extremism, told Fox News Digital.
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The Islamic State is quietly rebuilding as the United States prepares to complete its withdrawal from Iraq, regional analysts say. (History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
“The question is not whether American forces leave Iraq in September; that timetable is set. The question is what leaves with them.”
“The militias claim the ISIS threat in order to keep their weapons, while ISIS recruits from the grievances that the militias create,” Mohammed explained.
“That is exactly the dynamic that hollowed out Mosul before 2014, when the city was caught between a sectarian security apparatus and the insurgency it fed.”
After preparing for years, ISIS captured Mosul, about 250 miles north of Baghdad, over a decade ago. Iraqi security forces collapsed and fled the city.
The group built underground networks through assassinations, extortion, intimidation and infiltration before launching its offensive. ISIS seized U.S.-made weapons and hundreds of millions of dollars before leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate.
At the time, Mohammed launched “Mosul Eye,” a blog that secretly documented life under ISIS rule, exposing its operations and offering intelligence to U.S. forces.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has said it will continue working to dismantle ISIS networks and prevent the terror group’s resurgence. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
Mohammed’s story is chronicled in Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS, out July 21 from Skyhorse Publishing, with a foreword by Pope Francis and an introduction by retired Gen. David Petraeus.
Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, went on to recapture Mosul in July 2017. When the U.S. combat mission ended in 2021, ISIS continued operating in parts of Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has said it will continue working to dismantle ISIS networks and prevent the terror group’s resurgence.
But, citing Iraqi intelligence estimates, Mohammed said the number of ISIS fighters in neighboring Syria has increased from around 2,000 to as many as 10,000 since the collapse of Bashar Assad’s government in 2024.
Mohammed also said the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, an umbrella organization integrated into Iraq’s security forces, was never disbanded after ISIS’s territorial defeat.
He estimated the force has about 238,000 members, receives billions of dollars in government funding and includes factions with close ties to Iran that operate outside the Iraqi government’s direct control.
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With U.S. forces leaving by Sept. 30 and as Baghdad tries to rein in Iran-backed militias, Iraq could also be entering its most dangerous period since ISIS seized Mosul in 2014. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen)
Now Baghdad is trying to bring armed factions, including Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq, under full state control.
“Sept. 30 is not one deadline; it is two,” Mohammed said, referring to the simultaneous U.S. withdrawal and the domestic disarmament push.
“The militias and ISIS are not separate stories; they are deeply interdependent. Each actively justifies the other. Both forces thrive in the unstable spaces the central state cannot hold.”
The U.S. withdrawal also follows a 2024 U.S.-Iraq agreement that envisioned ending the mission in Iraq by 2025 while continuing support for anti-ISIS operations in Syria through September 2026. Mohammed warned against repeating past complacency.
“Mosul did not fall in 2014 because ISIS was strong. It fell because everything that would have detected its strength—presence, attention, honest reporting from the ground—had been withdrawn in the years before, while the world’s eyes were elsewhere.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures toward Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi as they participate in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 14, 2026. (Evan Vucci/Reuters)
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s White House meeting July 14, where it was announced remaining U.S. troops would leave Iraq, drew condemnation from Tehran.
According to Iran International, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei , called al-Zaidi’s trip “regrettable” and claimed it damaged Iraq’s dignity.
Mohammed said Iran’s influence inside Iraq is important to Tehran after U.S. strikes degraded parts of its proxy network.
“Iran’s strategic calculation matters more now than at any point in a decade because Iraq is essentially what Iran has left,” Mohammed said. “So the regime’s real fear is not resurgence. It is irrelevance.”
Tehran fears an Iraq where the government successfully disarms the militias, U.S. forces leave on Baghdad’s terms rather than Iran’s, and no active security crisis remains to justify armed groups operating outside full state control, he said.
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“That said, what happens across the wider region after September will not be decided by anyone’s stated intentions or diplomatic promises,” Mohammed added.
“I have seen what a city pays when that judgment is wrong. Whether ISIS grows large enough to frighten Iran, or stays just large enough to serve it, will be one of the defining questions of the year after the withdrawal,” he warned.
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Andy Burnham, nicknamed the “King of the North”, will become the UK’s next prime minister on Monday after winning the Labour leadership following Keir Starmer’s resignation.
Burnham left Westminster nearly a decade ago to become mayor of Greater Manchester and he returned to Parliament only weeks ago before securing the Labour leadership. He will become the 59th prime minister and the seventh to occupy Number 10 in the past decade.
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Who is Andy Burnham?
Burnham, 56, previously served in several Labour governments before leaving Westminster in 2017 to become the mayor of Greater Manchester.
There, he emerged as one of Britain’s best-known regional politicians earning the nickname “King of the North” for his outspoken defence of northern England during the COVID-19 pandemic and his campaigns for greater regional investment.
Known for his approachable style, Burnham has often contrasted himself with traditional Westminster politicians. “When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it,” he said during his leadership campaign.
Supporters say that style has helped make him one of Labour’s most popular figures. But he now inherits the same challenges that confronted Keir Starmer, including a sluggish economy and high living costs.
When does Burnham become prime minister?
Burnham is expected to become prime minister on Monday, after formally accepting an invitation from King Charles III to form a government.
He will take office after Starmer tenders his resignation to the King at Buckingham Palace. Burnham will then travel to 10 Downing Street to deliver his first speech as PM and begin appointing his Cabinet.
The King invites Burnham to form a government
After accepting Starmer’s resignation, King Charles will invite Burnham to Buckingham Palace and ask him to form a government. Burnham becomes prime minister the moment he accepts the King’s invitation.
The ceremony is traditionally known as “kissing hands”, although modern prime ministers simply greet the monarch during the private audience.
The new PM arrives at Downing Street
He then travels to his official home at 10 Downing Street, where he is expected to make his first statement in office. The whole sequence is typically broadcast live on television and will be over within hours.
Unlike the US, where presidential transitions last for months, a British prime minister typically has only a few hours on transition day to complete the move out of Downing Street, with much of the packing done in advance.
The logistical handover does not involve physical keys. The famous black door has no external keyhole and can only be opened from the inside by a 24-hour security detail.
He appoints his government
Once appointed, he will immediately begin naming his Cabinet, including senior ministers such as the chancellor, foreign secretary and home secretary. His government assumes office immediately, with no inauguration or parliamentary confirmation vote required.
Attention is expected to turn quickly to Burnham’s domestic agenda.
According to many media reports, one of his first major decisions could be to place Thames Water into a Special Administration Regime, bringing the much criticised company under temporary public control while it is restructured.
In his first speech as Labour leader, Burnham promised to chart “a new path” for Britain, saying his government would focus on making life more affordable and reducing regional inequalities.
“This change today is the most significant moment in our politics for 40 years. It will take us to a country where life is more affordable and all people and places are lifted from where they are now.”
He also pledged to govern for every part of the United Kingdom.
“I will be a leader for the North, the South, the East and the West, for Scotland, Wales and for Northern Ireland.”
Why isn’t there a general election?
The British parliamentary system allows the governing party to change its leader without holding a general election. Because Labour has a majority in the House of Commons, its new leader automatically becomes prime minister. The next general election does not have to be held until 2029, five years after Labour won the 2024 election.
Keir Starmer announced on June 22 that he would step down as Labour leader after less than two years in office. His premiership has been under increasing pressure following a series of political controversies, including his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the United States – despite his close ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
The pressure intensified after Labour suffered heavy losses in local elections in May. When Burnham returned to Parliament after winning a by-election, many Labour MPs rallied behind him as Starmer’s successor.
Starmer’s resignation triggered a Labour leadership contest. Under party rules, candidates must secure the backing of at least one-fifth of Labour MPs to enter the race. Burnham easily met that threshold and, with no other candidates standing, was elected unopposed.
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