By Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers in the U.S. each year.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted approval of the drug, Zurzuvae, for adults experiencing severe depression related to childbirth or pregnancy. The pill is taken once a day for 14 days.

“Having access to an oral medication will be a beneficial option for many of these women coping with extreme, and sometimes life-threatening, feelings,” said Dr. Tiffany Farchione, FDA’s director of psychiatric drugs, in a statement.

Postpartum depression affects an estimated 400,000 people a year, and while it often ends on its own within a couple weeks, it can continue for months or even years. Standard treatment includes counseling or antidepressants, which can take weeks to work and don’t help everyone.

The new pill is from Sage Therapeutics, which has a similar infused drug that’s given intravenously over three days in a medical facility. The FDA approved that drug in 2019, though it isn’t widely used because of its $34,000 price tag and the logistics of administering it.

The FDA’s pill approval is based on two company studies that showed women who took Zurzuvae had fewer signs of depression over a four- to six-week period when compared with those who received a dummy pill. The benefits, measured using a psychiatric test, appeared within three days for many patients.

Sahar McMahon, 39, had never experienced depression until after the birth of her second daughter in late 2021. She agreed to enroll in a study of the drug, known chemically as zuranolone, after realizing she no longer wanted to spend time with her children.

“I planned my pregnancies, I knew I wanted those kids but I didn’t want to interact with them,” said McMahon, who lives in New York City. She says her mood and outlook started improving within days of taking the first pills.

“It was a quick transition for me just waking up and starting to feel like myself again,” she said.

Dr. Kimberly Yonkers of Yale University said the Zurzuvae effect is “strong” and the drug likely will be prescribed for women who haven’t responded to antidepressants. She wasn’t involved in testing the drug.

Still, she said, the FDA should have required Sage to submit more follow-up data on how women fared after additional months.

“The problem is we don’t know what happens after 45 days,” said Yonkers, a psychiatrist who specializes in postpartum depression. “It could be that people are well or it could be that they relapse.”

Sage did not immediately announce how it would price the pill, and Yonkers said that’ll be a key factor in how widely its prescribed.

Side effects with the new drug are milder than the IV version, and include drowsiness and dizziness. The drug was co-developed with fellow Massachusetts pharmaceutical company Biogen.

Both the pill and IV forms mimic a derivative of progesterone, the naturally occurring female hormone needed to maintain a pregnancy. Levels of the hormone can plunge after childbirth.

Sage’s drugs are part of an emerging class of medications dubbed neurosteroids. These stimulate a different brain pathway than older antidepressants that target serotonin, the chemical linked to mood and emotions.

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ROME (AP) — A U.S. publishing executive died in a boating accident off Italy’s Amalfi Coast, her company said Friday.

Adrienne Vaughan, 45, was president of Bloomsbury Publishing’s U.S. branch, which counts writers ranging from bestselling novelists Sarah J. Maas and Susanna Clarke to historian Mark Kurlansky among its roster of authors.

A Bloomsbury book, “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” by the late Winfred Rembert (as told to Erin I. Kelly), won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2022.

Vaughan, who had a master’s degree in business from New York University, had worked at the Disney Book Group and Oxford University Press among other companies before joining Bloomsbury in 2020 as executive editor and COO. She was promoted to president a year later and also served on the board of the industry trade group the Association of American Publishers.

“Adrienne Vaughan was a leader of dazzling talent and infectious passion and had a deep commitment to authors and readers,” said the association’s board chair, Julia Reidhead, and its president and CEO, Maria A. Pallante, in a joint statement. “Most of all she was an extraordinary human being, and those of us who had the opportunity to work with her will be forever fortunate.”

The motorboat Vaughan and her family were on was rented through a skipper and had been headed to Positano when it crashed into a sailboat Thursday, Italian media said. The sailboat was carrying more than 80 U.S. and German tourists, including some celebrating a wedding.

Vaughan was pulled from the water and brought to a dock but died by the time a helicopter ambulance arrived, state TV said.

The Italian coast guard office in Amalfi was investigating the crash. The office did not respond to a call or an emailed request for more information.

Vaughan’s husband, Mike White, was hospitalized with a shoulder injury while the couple’s two young children were uninjured, according to the reports.

No one aboard the sailboat was injured.

A blood test for the skipper of the motorboat tested positive for substance use, according to Italian news agency ANSA, which didn’t indicate whether the result indicated alcohol or drug consumption. The skipper, an Italian about 30 years old, suffered a broken pelvis and ribs, ANSA said.

There was no answer at the courthouse in the southern of port city of Salerno, where prosecutors were overseeing the investigation into the accident.

By ALI ZERDIN (Associated Press)

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Torrential rains and heavy floods ravaged Slovenia on Friday, killing at least three people, cutting off roads and bridges and surging into buildings. Slovenia’s prime minister described the devastation as “catastrophic.”

The Slovenian environmental agency raised the weather alert to the highest level after a month’s amount of rain fell within 24 hours in the northern, northwestern and central parts of the small European country.

As rain continued to fall Friday, authorities warned of more floods in other areas because of swiftly swelling rivers.

“We can already say that this a record flood,” Prime Minister Robert Golob said at a news conference after cutting short his vacation because of the floods. Golob said the floods could be the biggest since Slovenia became independent in 1991.

“The scale is catastrophic. We are asking for all the help we can get,” he said. “I am calling on everyone to stay at home unless it’s absolutely necessary to go out.”

Authorities in Celje ordered evacuations of around 4,000 people, roughly one tenth of the town’s population as the surging Savinja River overflowed its banks. Upstream in the town of Ljubno, the same river swept away houses and caused landslides.

Northern Slovenia’s Koroska region, bordering Austria, was hit the hardest, with bridges and roads destroyed and the water supply cut off in some areas.

Local authorities asked the Austrian government to stand ready to provide hospital care for Slovenians, if needed. The main hospital in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, said it was operating on alert mode and told people only to come in for urgent reasons.

Slovenian police told the official STA news agency that three people have died since the extreme weather started on Thursday evening. A Slovenian woman died in the central town of Kamnik, where overnight flooding blocked roads and authorities closed kindergartens for the day. Two Dutch nationals died in a mountainous area near the city of Kranj.

“The death in Kamnik could have been caused by flooding, while the deaths in the mountains could have been caused by a lightning strike,” police official Maja Adlešič Ciperle said. “The circumstances of the deaths are still being established.”

Photos in local media showed submerged cars, cracked roads and entire villages flooded. Rescuers could be seen carrying out children from a blocked kindergarten while helicopters lifted people who climbed onto the roofs of their flooded homes.

Army soldiers helped emergency personnel in the recovery effort.

“I urge all those who don’t have an urgent errand to run to stay at home and not to drive anywhere,” Defense Minister Marjan Sarec said.

President Natasa Pirc Musar expressed condolences to the families of the people who died. She advised citizens to “stay connected and support and help each other in these challenging times, and take care of older people and other vulnerable individuals who need our help and support.”

Several severe storms in the Alpine nation earlier in the summer blew off roofs, downed thousands of trees and killed one person in Slovenia and four others elsewhere in the region.

Experts say extreme weather conditions are partly fueled by climate change. Parts of Europe saw record heat and battled wildfires during the summer.

Authorities closed a section of a main freeway to traffic and sought to direct vehicles passing through Slovenia to neighboring Italy or Austria. The state highway agency DARS said “all trapped drivers and their passengers should wait for the emergency teams and follow their instructions.”

About 16,000 households were left without electricity, STA said. Bad weather also disrupted rail services, and the country’s main, NLB bank, said its offices in flood-hit areas would remain closed.

Landslides were reported in the northwestern Slovenia’s Gorenjska region. Regional civil protection commander Klemen Smid said the “entire Gorenjska is under water.”

More than 100 buildings, including a sports hall, were flooded in the central area around the town of Skofja Loka where roads were blocked and landslides threatened to cause further damage, STA said.

The Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief recorded more than 1,000 weather-related incidents within 12 hours across the country, STA said.

Firefighters pumped water from flooded buildings throughout the night, rescued flooded vehicles, removed debris from under bridges and secured landslide areas, the administration said.

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO (Associated Press)

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Gunfire erupted again at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday as part of a reenactment by ballistics experts of the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead.

Two shots were heard by reporters sitting about 200 yards (180 meters) from the building about noon and then two more about an hour later. A few hours later, the fire alarm went off, just like it did during the Valentine’s Day 2018 attack, but no shots were heard underneath it. During the massacre, 139 shots were fired.

The reenactment is part of a lawsuit by the victims’ families and the wounded that accuses the Broward County deputy assigned to the school, Scot Peterson, of failing in his duty to protect them and their loved ones. Peterson, who was acquitted at a criminal trial in June, has said that because of echoes he could not pinpoint the shooter’s location.

David Brill, the attorney overseeing the reenactment on behalf of the families, did not return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday. He told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that 49 rounds were fired Friday and that the test showed Peterson would have heard the shots and known their location.

The reenactment began shortly after nine members of Congress toured the blood-stained and bullet-pocked halls of the three-story classroom building where Nikolas Cruz carried out his six-minute attack. The building has been kept standing behind a locked chain-link fence to serve as evidence during Cruz’s trial last year.

The shooting sparked a nationwide movement for gun control and traumatized the South Florida community. Cruz, a 24-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student, pleaded guilty in 2021 and was sentenced to life in prison.

The experts were firing with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle identical to the one Cruz used, and the bullets were to be caught by a safety device.

Peterson got within feet of the building’s door and drew his gun, but backed away and stood next to an adjoining building for 40 minutes, making radio calls. He has said he would have charged into the building if he had known the shooter’s location.

Families of the victims who filed the lawsuit contend Peterson knew Cruz’s location, but retreated out of cowardice.

Peterson, 60, was the first U.S. law enforcement officer ever tried criminally for conduct during an on-campus shooting.

The burden of proof is lower in the civil lawsuit, however. Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips allowed the reenactment, but made clear she was not ruling on whether the recording will be played at trial. That will have to be argued later, she said. It is likely Peterson’s attorneys will oppose the attempt.

No trial date has been set. The families and wounded are seeking unspecified damages.

Earlier in the day, six Democrats and three Republicans from the House School Safety and Security Caucus toured the building for almost two hours — an experience few have had since the shooting. They called it a “time-capsule” of the attack’s devastation.

Broken glass still litters the floor, along with wilted roses, deflated balloons and discarded gifts. Opened textbooks and laptop computers remain on students’ desks — at least those that weren’t toppled during the chaos.

In one classroom, there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing, the pieces unmoved. Reporters were barred from Friday’s tour, but The Associated Press was one of five media outlets allowed inside after Cruz’s jury went through last year.

“We just had a shared experience that will transform our lives for the rest of our lives. To see the blood of children on the floor in a school together, is going to change the way we interact and collaborate,” New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman said.

After the tour, the members traveled to a nearby hotel to discuss school safety issues with parents and wives who lost loved ones in the attack. The roundtable meeting was being held in the same ballroom where the families learned of their loved ones’ deaths.

The members said that while there is wide disagreement on issues such as gun control, there should be bipartisan support for providing federal funds for installing bullet-proof glass and panic buttons in classrooms, mental health assistance for students and better training for on-campus police officers.

Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Stoneman Douglas graduate whose district includes Parkland, said Congress owes it to the families who have lost children, parents and spouses in school shootings to pass such measures and make campuses safer. He said seeing the scene allowed the members to fully grasp what happened.

“You can read about it all day long, and debate it all day long, but it is not the same as walking through the school,” said Moskowitz, who organized the tour with Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami. Moskowitz pointed out that Parkland, an upscale suburb of Fort Lauderdale, is considered Florida’s safest city.

“It is now the home of the largest (high) school shooting in our history,” he said.

Diaz-Balart said that while touring the building, he was struck by how fast the lives were lost — all the fatalities happened within the attack’s first four minutes.

“The key is not just to come and see, the key is that we can put aside our differences, put aside the perfect and try to get some good things done. I am optimistic,” Diaz-Balart said.

The building is scheduled to be demolished soon, but the House members and families are hoping it can be kept up a bit longer so more state and federal legislators and White House advisors can also tour it.

Parent Max Schachter, whose 14-year-old son Alex died in the shooting, suggested the tour and school safety roundtable to Moskowitz.

“We can come together and enact common-sense school safety solutions so this will never happen again,” said Schachter, a former insurance broker who is now a full-time campus safety advocate. “Safety has to come before education — you cannot teach dead kids.”

The school is closed for the summer and no students or teachers were on campus Friday.

NFL

Players with Virginia connections who are in NFL camps, according to NFL.com (with jersey number, position and connections),

NFC

Arizona Cardinals:

83 WR Greg Dortch (Highland Springs High, Wake Forest)

— WR Zach Pascal (Old Dominion)

26 DB Bobby Price (Catholic High, Norfolk State)

54 G Lecitus Smith (Va. Tech)

Atlanta Falcons:

4 QB Taylor Heinicke (Old Dominion)

Carolina Panthers:

90 DE Amare Barno (Va. Tech)

3 RB Raheem Blackshear (Va. Tech)

97 DE Yetur Gross-Matos (Chancellor High, Penn State)

Chicago Bears:

94 DT Andrew Brown (Oscar Smith High, UVA)

49 MLB Tremaine Edmunds (Dan River High, Va. Tech)

6 WR Isaiah Ford (Va. Tech)

24 RB Khalil Herbert (Va. Tech)

90 DT Jalyn Holmes (Lake Taylor High, Ohio State)

80 WR Joe Reed (Randolph-Henry High, UVA)

27 CB Greg Stroman (Unity Reed High-once called Stonewall Jackson, Va. Tech)

Dallas Cowboys:

75 OT Josh Ball (Stafford High, Marshall)

67 C Brock Hoffman (Coastal Carolina, Va. Tech)

51 DE Durrell Johnson (Liberty)

Detroit Lions:

12 QB Hendon Hooker (Va. Tech, Tennessee)

82 TE James Mitchell (Union High, Va. Tech)

24 K John Parker Romo (Va. Tech)

75 G Colby Sorsdal (William & Mary)

Green Bay Packers:

6 WR Jadakis Bonds (Hampton U.)

43 LS Broughton Hatcher (Old Dominion)

73 OT Yosuah Nijman (Va. Tech)

78 OT Luke Tenuta (Western Albemarle High, Va. Tech)

13 WR Dontayvion Wicks (UVA)

Minnesota Vikings:

71 OT Christian Darrisaw (Va. Tech)

91 OLB Patrick Jones II (Grassfield High, Pittsburgh)

New Orleans Saints:

36 CB Anthony Johnson (UVA)

New York Giants:

37 CB Tre Hawkins III (Old Dominion)

81 WR Kalil Pimpleton (Va. Tech, Central Michigan)

2 QB Tyrod Taylor (Hampton High, Va. Tech)

53 OLB Oshane Ximines (Old Dominion)

Philadelphia Eagles:

26 S Terrell Edmunds (Dan River High, Va. Tech)

45 LS Rick Lovato (Old Dominion)

94 DE Josh Sweat (Oscar Smith High, Florida State)

42 S K’Von Wallace (Highland Springs High, Clemson)

13 WR Olamide Zaccheaus (UVA)

San Francisco 49ers:

94 DE Clelin Ferrell (Benedictine Prep, Clemson)

36 RB Khalan Laborn (Ocean Lakes, Catholic High, Florida State, Marshall)

84 WR Dazz Newsome (Hampton High, North Carolina)

Seattle Seahawks:

35 S Joey Blount (UVA)

51 C Olu Oluwatimi (UVA, Michigan)

— RB Wayne Taulapapa (UVA, Washington)

52 OLB Darrell Taylor (Hopewell High, Tennessee)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers:

61 OT Silas Dzansi (Va. Tech)

91 DT Mike Greene (Highland Springs High, James Madison)

48 LB Charles Snowden (UVA)

64 G Aaron Stinnie (St. Anne’s-Belfield, James Madison)

Washington Commanders:

93 DT Jonathan Allen (Stone Bridge High, Alabama)

29 CB Kendall Fuller (Va. Tech)

6 K Joey Slye (North Stafford High, Va. Tech)

82 TE Logan Thomas (Brookville High, Va. Tech)

AFC

Baltimore Ravens:

78 OT Morgan Moses (Meadowbrook High, Fork Union Military Academy, UVA)

11 P/K Jordan Stout (Honaker High, Penn State)

33 DB Jordan Swann (James Madison)

97 DE Brent Urban (UVA)

Buffalo Bills:

55 DE Boogie Basham (Northside High, Wake Forest)

31 S Dean Marlowe (James Madison)

99 DT Tim Settle (Unity Reed High, once called Stonewall Jackson, Va. Tech)

Cincinnati Bengals:

52 DE Tarell Basham (Franklin County High, Hargrave Military Academy, Tennessee)

Cleveland Browns:

86 WR Ra’Shaun Henry (UVA)

26 S Rodney McLeod (UVA)

6 OLB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah (Bethel High, Notre Dame)

77 G Wyatt Teller (Va. Tech)

1 S Juan Thornhill (Altavista High, UVA)

Denver Broncos:

6 QB Ben DiNuccci (James Madison)

52 LB Marcus Haynes (Old Dominion)

3 QB Russell Wilson (Collegiate School in Richmond, N.C. State, Wisconsin)

Indianapolis Colts:

81 TE Mo Alie-Cox (Middleburg Academy, VCU)

46 LS Luke Rhodes (William & Mary)

80 TE Jelani Woods (UVA)

Jacksonville Jaguars:

47 OLB De’Shaan Dixon (Western Branch High, Norfolk State)

77 OT Josh Wells (Hanover High, James Madison)

Kansas City Chiefs:

48 LB Cole Christiansen (Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, Army)

27 DB Chamarrri Conner (Va. Tech)

91 DT Derrick Nnadi (Ocean Lakes High, Florida State)

Las Vegas Raiders:

5 OLB Divine Deablo (Va. Tech)

31 DB Brandon Facyson (Va. Tech)

Los Angeles Chargers:

48 TE Stone Smartt (Old Dominion)

62 OT Andrew Trainer (William & Mary)

60 C Isaac Weaver (Old Dominion)

New England Patriots:

60 WR Demario Douglas (Liberty)

62 G Bill Murray (William & Mary)

91 DE Deatrich Wise (Hampton Roads native, Arkansas)

New York Jets:

77 OT Mekhi Becton (Highland Springs High, Louisville)

76 OT Duane Brown (Hermitage High, Va. Tech)

23 SS Chuck Clark (King’s Fork High, Va. Tech): On injured reserve.

64 G Chris Glaser (UVA)

37 CB Bryce Hall (UVA)

81 TE Zack Kuntz (Old Dominion)

33 CB Jimmy Moreland (James Madison)

Pittsburgh Steelers:

25 RB Darius Hagans (Grassfield High, Virginia State)

Tennessee Titans:

3 CB Caleb Farley (Va. Tech)

7 QB Malik Willis (Liberty)

GOLF

HOLE-IN-ONE

Nathan Hubba of Virginia Beach aced the 179- yard fifth hole at Heron Ridge Golf Course in Virginia Beach. He used a 5-iron.

By The Associated Press

Another Mega Millions drawing, another night without a jackpot winner.

The numbers drawn Friday night were: 11, 30, 45, 52, 56 and the gold ball 20.

Because no one matched all six numbers and won the estimated $1.35 billion jackpot, the top prize increased to $1.55 billion for the next drawing Tuesday night.

There now have been 31 straight drawings without a jackpot winner. The last time someone won the Mega Millions jackpot was April 18.

The $1.55 billion prize would be for a sole winner who chooses the annuity option with payment stretched over 30 years. Most winners opt for a lump-sum payment, which would be an estimated $757.2 million on Tuesday.

A big slice of those winnings would go toward federal taxes, while many states also tax lottery payouts.

The jackpot is so hard to win because of the 1 in 302.6 million odds of matching the numbers on five white balls and a separate mega ball. The odds are better to win smaller prizes, which start at $2.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

By The Associated Press

The numbers were drawn Friday night for an estimated $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot and the wait is on to see if someone has finally won the prize.

The numbers drawn were: 11, 30, 45, 52, 56 and the gold ball 20.

It usually takes a couple hours before lottery officials can determine if there is a jackpot winner.

Before Friday night’s drawing, there had been 30 straight drawings since the last time someone won the game’s jackpot on April 18. That has enabled the prize to steadily grow until it is now tied for the fourth-largest ever in the U.S.

The jackpot is so hard to win because of the 1 in 302.6 million odds of matching the numbers on five white balls and a separate mega ball. The odds are better to win smaller prizes, which start at $2.

The $1.35 billion prize is for a sole winner who is paid over 30 years through an annuity. Those who opt for a lump sum payout would get an estimated $659.5 million.

A big slice of those winnings would go toward federal taxes, while many states also tax lottery payouts.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

By COLLEEN LONG (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a routine part of a federal court hearing: The defendant was told not to discuss the case with any witnesses without lawyers present.

But there’s nothing routine about this case. The defendant is Donald Trump, accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The potential witness pool is vast and includes members of the former president’s inner circle deeply involved in his reelection campaign, including some currently on his payroll. His lies about the election — which form the basis of the charges — are repeated in nearly every speech he gives.

“The standard language may not work here, when you have thousands of Americans who could be witnesses and he continues to have daily contact with people who may be involved,” said Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. “Everything is more complicated in this case because of who the defendant is, what he has done and that he wants to be president again.”

The issue raised its head quickly. On Friday, just a day after his latest arraignment, Trump made this proclamation, in all capital letters, on his Truth Social site: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.”

Federal prosecutors alerted the judge overseeing the case to Trump’s post. In a court filing, they sought a protective order limiting what sensitive information Trump and his legal team could share publicly about the case.

Speaking Friday at the Alabama Republican Party’s annual Summer Dinner, Trump portrayed himself as the victim of political persecution, telling the crowd, “They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom.”

He is set to deliver the keynote speech at the South Carolina GOP’s 56th Annual Silver Elephant Gala on Saturday.

As his campaign unfolds, the potential witness pool in his latest case is very broad. The congressional hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could offer some insight — those interviews spanned more than 1,000 people, and included some of Trump’s closest advisers and family members, including his daughter Ivanka and his son Donald Trump Jr.

So it’s possible he may already be talking about the case in front of witnesses.

Even as he traveled to Washington Thursday for his arraignment, Trump was accompanied by top aides including Jason Miller, a communications staffer who had been featured heavily in the Jan. 6 congressional hearings, and Boris Epshteyn, a longtime adviser who was part of the efforts to overturn the election results by organizing fake electors. The complications reflect the reality that Trump’s campaign and his legal issues are now intertwined.

“The legal messaging is the political messaging and the political messaging is the legal messaging,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said before the latest indictment. “It’s part of what we’re running on. Trump has made the legal issues a big focus of his campaign and from our standpoint, it’s messaging that works.”

Trump makes reference to the 2020 election in almost every speech he gives, telling his supporters that he ran twice and won twice as he vows to do it again. Trump’s speeches also often include extensive discussion of the cases he faces as he tries to cast the investigations as part of a politicized effort to damage his candidacy.

And many close advisers are potential witnesses. His 2024 campaign includes some, like Miller, who worked for his 2020 effort, as well as some new leaders who were not involved in his efforts to overturn the election.

The issue has come up before, after Trump was charged by federal prosecutors with illegally hoarding classified records at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate and rejecting government demands to give them back.

In that case, there was a back-and-forth between the judge and Trump lawyers over whether he could speak to his co-defendant, valet Walt Nauta. Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche noted that Nauta and potential witnesses are people with whom Trump interacts daily, whether at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida or his other clubs.

The judge said he could speak with Nauta, just not about the case. Nauta was with Trump again in Washington on Thursday, holding an umbrella as the former president spoke to reporters before he boarded a plane back to Bedminster, New Jersey.

The former president and current Republican front-runner said on the tarmac that the latest case was “persecution” of a political opponent by President Joe Biden.

During his arraignment in Washington, where he pleaded not guilty to four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, he agreed not to talk about the case with any witnesses without lawyers present, and not to attempt to influence any potential jurors or tamper with witnesses.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya told him that if he failed to comply with any conditions of his release, a warrant might be issued for his arrest. A formal witness list is usually presented closer to trial, though prosecutors often signal candidates earlier in the process.

The former president is not known to hold back or refrain from talking about off-limits subjects. He’s also been accused of defying court orders before, and he’s already been reprimanded by one judge overseeing a hush-money prosecution to refrain from comments that were “likely to incite violence or civil unrest.”

Georgia prosecutors have also been probing Trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn his election loss in that state.

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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report from New York.

Lab Material Specialist Liang Zhao Jefferson, center left, talks to Intern from the University of New Hampshire Joseph Jayne, center, as Science Education Administrator Rhonda Bell, right, speaks to attendees at an event displaying the Jefferson Lab interns’ final projects at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia on Friday, August 4, 2023. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)

It has been just over a month since the shooting of Ali Muhammad, and police have charged a suspect in connection with his death.

Detectives have arrested and charged 28-year-old Jalen Garces with second-degree murder and use of a firearm, police said in a news release. On June 29, officers were dispatched to the 9600 block of 1st Bay Street for reports of shots fired. Police say they found Ali K. Muhammad, 33, dead with gunshot wounds. Muhammad is the son of Bilal Muhammad, a community activist and a leader of the Stop the Violence Team.

Stop the Violence Team advocates for violence prevention and gun violence awareness in Hampton Roads. The group organizes seminars, rallies and workshops to help community members and local leaders prevent violence in their neighborhoods.

On June 30, Bilal Muhammad told The Pilot that he had been on the phone with his son when he had been shot. He said Ali was leaving for work when someone blocked his car in his driveway. After Ali asked the driver to move, Bilal said he heard someone shoot his son.

“He had goals he was trying to reach, to take care of his family,” Bilal said. “He wasn’t a troublemaker. He works. He wasn’t into crime, drugs, nothing like that.”

Eliza Noe, [email protected]

#NPDNews. Suspect arrested in connection with homicide on 1st Bay Street. For more information, please visit: https://t.co/e5qxJEPV3G pic.twitter.com/zvBu0l39n2

— Norfolk Police Dept (@NorfolkPD) August 4, 2023