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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Investigators are working to determine what caused a fire that officials say destroyed one house and damaged nearby homes early Wednesday morning, Oct. 28.
According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, firefighters responded around 5:20 a.m. to a house fully engulfed in flames on Badley Road near Heath Street.
Baton Rouge firefighters respond to a house fire on Badley Road early Wednesday morning, Oct. 28.(Baton Rouge Fire Department)
No one was inside, officials confirmed.
Firefighters said they contained the blaze to the house where the fire started, but two neighboring homes sustained heat damage.
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A YouGov poll reveals 52 percent of Americans expect Donald Trump to reject potential Republican defeats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Most Americans believe Donald Trump will reject a Republican defeat in the upcoming midterms, according to a new YouGov poll.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Bond has been set at $150,000 for the man accused of raping a woman Friday inside a study room at Spruce Hall on LSU’s campus, jail records show.
LSU Police arrested Ronald White, 21, on charges of first-degree rape, resisting an officer, and carrying a firearm on school property.
Ronald White(East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office)
According to an arrest warrant, LSU police officers received “a report of a sexual assault involving a victim who was allegedly forced to perform oral sex under threat of a firearm.”
Officers said as they arrived at Spruce Hall, White took off running westbound through the courtyard toward West Chimes Street but was found hiding under a vehicle near Iowa and West Chimes streets. Police said a firearm was never recovered.
The following day, LSU Police recovered a pistol.
“It was in his running path,“ Sgt. Marlon Hawkins with LSU Police said. ”The path that we chased him down, it was in the path that he ran, and we were able to locate it the next morning.”
The female told investigators she was visiting a friend at Spruce Hall when her friend invited a male acquaintance to the room. That individual arrived with another man, later identified as White, the report states.
White asked the female to go to a study room to give the other two some space, she told police. Inside the study room, White removed a black pistol from his waistband and placed it on a chair, the warrant states. White then allegedly forced the female to perform oral sex on him, the warrant states.
The female said after the alleged assault, she went to the first floor where she asked for LSU police to be contacted, investigators said.
During his interview, police said White admitted he and the female entered the study room but claimed the sex was consensual. White denied having a gun.
LSU students who live in Spruce Hall said they were not notified about the alleged rape.
“If there’s, like, anything, any crimes or anything I get a notification when that happens, but I didn’t get one for this,” Clay Gabriel, a resident of Spruce Hall said.
“It’s shocking... hearing that and now knowing,” Sienna McCracken another Spruce Hall resident said.
We took their concerns to LSU Police. Hawkins said because White was caught within ten minutes of him running off, no campus notification went out.
“There was no threat to campus safety at that time,” Hawkins said. “So that’s why an alert didn’t go out.”
Police said White is also a suspect in an Oct. 12, 2024, incident where he allegedly threatened to kill a Wendy’s employee with a firearm on the LSU campus. That investigation was suspended due to the alleged victim’s lack of cooperation, the warrant states.
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MIAMI (AP) — Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday after he refused to concede the election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and fled the country.
In a circuitous journey, Bolsonaro left for Argentina on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, then traveled to Ecuador, according to Argentina officials and flight data. The 45-year-old senator, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited the White House in May, and the Trump administration approved U.S. visas for him and his family this week.
Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later.
Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil’s Supreme Court, accused of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. The court had ordered him to hand over his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday. It remained unclear whether he had complied, but allies said late Tuesday he also has an Italian passport.
Flávio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla.(Marta Lavandier | AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Bolsonaro lands in Miami
Dressed casually in a dark polo shirt and flanked by his wife and two daughters, Bolsonaro stepped out of the plane shortly after it landed in Miami about 9:30 a.m. EDT. Florida is home to the largest population of Brazilians in the U.S.
The family fled Brazil late Tuesday, entered Argentina via a border checkpoint and quickly boarded a private charter plane, Argentinian immigration officials said.
Flightradar24 showed the plane believed to be carrying Bolsonaro landed in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about 4 a.m. local time, then took off minutes later for Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport.
Before the family landed in Florida, Lula, who turned 81 on Tuesday, spoke to dozens of supporters outside the presidential residence in Brasilia.
“I regret that he left Brazil, because he could have stayed here and proven that the accusations are not true,” Lula said. “This act of leaving Brazil is shameful.”
Bolsonaro’s route through Argentina could deepen diplomatic tensions between Lula’s government and Argentine President Javier Milei, another Trump ally who traveled to Brazil to assist in Bolsonaro’s campaign.
Representatives of Brazil’s government didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Trump has said Bolsonaro is welcome in the U.S., calling him and his family “fine people.”
“The election was really strange, and I thought it was terrible,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Tuesday. Earlier, Trump also said, without evidence, that the election was “rigged.”
Leaders around the world and the Organization of American States have endorsed the result and congratulated Lula, who was reelected by a margin of about 4.4 million votes in the second and final round.
The U.S. has imposed double-digit sanctions on Brazil, which boasts Latin America’s largest economy. Lula has championed Brazil’s long tradition of nonalignment, cultivating ties with competing powers. His government has deepened trade ties with China and sought greater global influence through BRICS, a group of emerging economies.
Bolsonaro visited his father, who is under house arrest, before leaving Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the defeated candidate to surrender his Brazilian passports Monday. In a video, he said he received the order outside the home where his father is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for his attempted coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula.
A Brazilian diplomat who was not authorized to speak about the matter publicly told The Associated Press that Bolsonaro used an Italian passport to enter Argentina and that Brazilians leaving the country via a land border are not scrutinized by Brazilian authorities.
The diplomat said Brazil’s federal police were not monitoring Bolsonaro when he left his home in Brasilia because the Supreme Court had not issued a warrant for his arrest.
Flávio Bolsonaro said in a video Monday that he was attempting to organize opposition to the election results among his congressional colleagues. His eight-year term as a senator expires Jan. 31, 2027.
Brazil’s Supreme Court is investigating Bolsonaro for allegedly using a sports betting company to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions paid to senior citizens. In a separate case, he is accused of accepting millions of dollars from a disgraced banker. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing.
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Mauricio Savarese reported from Sao Paulo.
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A Russian Su-57 pilot allegedly executed a high-velocity strike on a fortified target, bypassing advanced defenses and alarming defense analysts.
The attack was reportedly executed with such extreme velocity that sophisticated defensive systems were unable to intercept the threat, resulting in what many fear are catastrophic losses. This breach of a high-value fortified target has prompted immediate and intense scrutiny from defense analysts, who are now forced to reconcile the failure of modern technology against emerging offensive capabilities.
Geopolitical Implications and Military Strategy Shift In light of these developments, geopolitical experts are stressing the importance of verifying facts to prevent the spread of misinformation, which could lead to unintended diplomatic or military consequences.
Should these reports be verified, the incident would mark a pivotal shift in the landscape of modern warfare. It highlights a disturbing reality: even the most secure military assets possess vulnerabilities that can be exploited by rapid-response strikes.
