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Former President Donald Trump’s 18-year-old son, Barron, has declined an offer from the Florida Republican Party to serve as a delegate to his father’s nominating convention in July. “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” a spokesperson for former First Lady Melania Trump’s office said in a statement on Friday, according to CBS News. Barron Trump was one of four of Trump’s children named as a Florida delegate this week, along with Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump.

By MOLLY QUELL (Associated Press) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court Friday to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.” The request marks the fourth for additional measures by South Africa, which filed a genocide case against Israel late last year at the International Court of Justice.

By JIM VERTUNO (Associated Press) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday that U. S. history shows court decisions unpopular in their time later can become part of the “fabric of American constitutional law.” Kavanaugh spoke Friday at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 5th U.

The estranged husband of a Fort Lauderdale woman who disappeared in Spain must remain jailed without bond because he is a flight risk, a Miami judge ruled following a lengthy hearing Friday. David Knezevich, 36, appeared before Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres Friday afternoon, six days after he was arrested at Miami International Airport on kidnapping charges, and months after his wife, Ana Knezevich, disappeared in Madrid in early February.

The Margate man accused of accidentally shooting his mother to death during a physical fight with his father in late 2019 told a Broward judge Friday that he was afraid if he did not pull a gun, his father would. Alexander DelToro Jr., 32, testified during a “stand your ground” self-defense hearing to tell Broward Circuit Judge Edward Merrigan that he feared for his life as he struggled with his dad after a birthday celebration on Dec.

The Miami Dolphins have a youth movement coming in at edge defender behind the duo of Jaelan Phillips and Bradley Chubb. And a bond between draft picks Chop Robinson and Mohamed Kamara goes back before Robinson, out of Penn State, went to the Dolphins in the first round and Kamara, from Colorado State, in the fifth two weeks back. The two trained together in the pre-draft process, working out in Phoenix before ending up on the same professional team, sessions that often saw smack talk flying back and forth. They reunited Friday at Dolphins headquarters for the start of a two-day rookie minicamp that involved 46 players, including tryout prospects with the team’s seven draft picks and 12 undrafted rookies. With Robinson and Kamara already comfortable enough with each other to throw playful jabs, the young duo can push one another competitively as they eventually get into organized team activities, mandatory minicamp and eventually training camp in late July. “He always talks trash,” Robinson said of Kamara.