NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 850,000 of its cars across the U.S. because the low-pressure fuel pump inside the vehicles may fail — and potentially cause an engine stall while driving, increasing crash risks.
The recall covers a wide range of Ford and Lincoln-branded vehicles made in recent model years. That includes certain Ford Broncos, Explorers and F-150s, as well as Lincoln Aviators and Navigators, documents published this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration note.
Ford plans to send out notification letters to affected owners starting this Monday (July 14), to warn of safety risks related to potential fuel pump failure. But a remedy is still “under development,” the NHTSA’s recall report notes.
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It wasn’t immediately clear if there was an estimate for when a fix would become available. But this week’s recall report noted that owners will receive an additional letter with instructions to take their car to an authorized dealer for that service when the time comes — and that there will be no charge.
The Associated Press reached out to Ford for further comments Thursday.
The Michigan-based automaker isn’t aware of any accidents or injuries related to this recall, this week’s report notes. But owners should look out for potential warnings. Prior to fuel pump failure, customers may encounter poor engine performance, for example, a check engine light or a decrease in engine power.
Fuel pump failure is “more likely to occur” during warm weather or if there’s low fuel in the tank, the recall report notes. And loss of fuel pressure and flow can be caused by internal contamination of a car’s jet pump, amid other factors. Ford also identified supplier changes during a review of the manufacturing process, the report adds.
Ford estimates that 10% of the 850,318 vehicles it’s recalling in the U.S. have this fuel pump risk. The recall covers certain Ford Broncos, Explorers and Lincoln Aviators between the 2021 and 2023 model years, in addition to 2021-2023 model year F-250 SD, F-350 SD, F-450 SD and F-550 SD vehicles. Select 2021-2022 Lincoln Navigators, Ford Mustangs and F-150s are also impacted, as well as some 2022 Expeditions.
An argument and fight led to the stabbing death of a 21-year-old man on an Apple Valley sidewalk early Sunday, according to murder charges against the alleged killer, who police say remains on the run.
Aron Isait Medina Rojas, 20, of Minneapolis, was charged Tuesday by a sealed warrant complaint with second-degree intentional murder in connection with the killing of Daniel Isaac Aguilar near the intersection of Pennock Avenue and 138th Street.
Daniel Isaac Aguilar (Courtesy of GoFundMe)
An autopsy by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office showed Aguilar died of multiple stab wounds, including one to the left side of his chest. The coroner’s office listed his residence as Burnsville, while the Dakota County Attorney’s Office said Thursday he lived in Apple Valley.
“As our family begins to process this unimaginable loss and make arrangements, we want to thank everyone who has reached out with love, prayers, and support,” Aguilar’s aunt, Andrea Rodriguez, wrote on a GoFundMe page (gofund.me/547385b0) set up for funeral expenses. “Your kindness means more than words can express.”
On Tuesday, Apple Valley police named Medina Rojas as a suspect in the killing and asked for help in locating him. He drives a 2018 gray Chrysler 300 with the Minnesota license plate number JPU 845 and might be trying to escape authorities by fleeing to Mexico, police said.
According to the Dakota County District Court criminal complaint, which was unsealed Thursday:
About 3:12 p.m., police were called to the residential neighborhood on the report of an unresponsive man lying on the sidewalk. They found Aguilar covered in blood and unresponsive. His body was still warm to the touch. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Surveillance video from the surrounding area showed Aguilar walking on the sidewalk at 2:38 a.m. near where his body was later found. He walked out of camera range.
A minute later, vehicle headlights came into view and then the voices of two males and possibly a female could be heard out of camera range. The voices were “elevated, as if they were arguing,” the complaint states.
Medina Rojas is seen on video walking toward Aguilar, who backed away. He struck Aguilar in his left chest, to which Aguilar said, “I’m (expletive) walking home bro. Let me be,” the complaint states. Medina Rojas then punched Aguilar in the throat and Aguilar collapsed onto the sidewalk. Medina Rojas walked away.
Aron Isait Medina Rojas (Courtesy of the Apple Valley Police Department)
Investigators met with Aguilar’s family and were told that he had been with his girlfriend the night before in Minneapolis.
His girlfriend told investigators that she and Aguilar got into an argument while at a club in Minneapolis. They left the club and drove to an Apple Valley bus station parking lot and continued arguing.
She said her friend called and said she was going to pick her up.
Video surveillance showed Aguilar walking away right as the friend and her boyfriend, Medina Rojas, pulled into the parking lot.
Aguilar’s girlfriend told investigators she was upset and crying because of the argument. She said her friend and Medina Rojas insisted on driving her to a friend’s house so that she wouldn’t pick up Aguilar.
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She said they saw Aguilar walking and that Medina Rojas asked her if he had a “strap on,” which she understood to be a gun. Her friend and Medina Rojas dropped her off and left.
The friend contacted police later Sunday and gave a statement. She confirmed what Aguilar’s girlfriend told investigators, adding they soon saw Aguilar walking after dropping her off.
She said Medina Rojas stopped the car, and that she got out and confronted Aguilar. She said he became aggressive with her, prompting Medina Rojas to exit the car. A fight between the two men ensued. She claimed she saw Aguilar extend his arm before sitting down on the sidewalk. Medina Rojas returned to the car with blood on his shirt and told her they had to leave.
Apple Valley police urge anyone who sees Medina Rojas to call 911. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call police at 952-322-2323.
City Hall has so far refused to carry out the package of bills passed by the Council in 2023, which would expand CityFHEPS eligibility to any income eligible household at risk of eviction, among other changes.
Housing advocates at a rally outside City Hall in 2023, to call for expanding CityFHEPS. (Gerardo Romo / NYC Council Media Unit)
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration must implement a package of laws passed by the City Council to expand eligibility for the city’s rental subsidy program, an appeals court ruled Thursday—overturning an earlier ruling that sided with City Hall in its refusal to carry out the changes.
A panel of judges in the Supreme Court of the State of New York’s Appellate Division issued the latest ruling, siding with lawmakers and the Legal Aid Society, which had sued the Adams administration on behalf of New Yorkers who it says would be eligible for rental subsidies under the Council’s expansion but have been unable to access the aid due to City Hall’s stonewalling.
“Today’s unanimous appellate decision is a critical moment for thousands of New Yorkers struggling with housing insecurity,” said Robert Desir, staff attorney in the Civil Law Reform Unit at The Legal Aid Society, in a statement Thursday. “At a time when affordability remains one of the most pressing challenges in New York City, this decision marks a significant step toward a housing system that is accessible and fair for all.”
Mayor Adams had initially vetoed the package of bills when the Council first passed them in 2023, saying expanding eligibility for the City Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement program, or CityFHEPS, would be too costly and would increase competition for existing voucher holders trying to find apartments. The Council then overrode his veto.
But City Hall still refused to carry out the laws, one of which would increase the income eligibility threshold for CityFHEPS—from 200 percent of the poverty line to 50 percent of area median income, equal to $81,000 a year for a four-person household. Another piece of the legislation would extend eligibility to any income eligible household “at risk of eviction,” demonstrated with a rent demand letter, even if the tenant does not yet to have an eviction case in court.
A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said that the administration is currently reviewing its legal options.
“The Adams administration has utilized CityFHEPS more than any prior administration—helping an unprecedented number of New Yorkers obtain permanent housing last year,”First Deputy Press Secretary Liz Garcia said in a statement.
“But 13,000 households are still trying to use their CityFHEPS vouchers to find permanent housing, and we must focus on them. Adding more vouchers will only make it harder for people to leave homeless shelters,” Gracia added. “The affordable-housing crisis won’t be solved by making people compete for nonexistent housing; it will be solved by building more housing— which the Adams administration has done at record levels—and actually connecting people who already have vouchers to homes.”
The administration had argued in court that New York State’s Social Services Law precludes city lawmakers from legislating on public assistance reforms. But the appeals court disagreed in its ruling Thursday.
“We conclude that the City Council was not preempted from legislating in the field of rental assistance,” Justice John R. Higgitt wrote. “In fact, the City Council has many times exercised its legislative power in the social services realm.”
The court ordered Adams administration to present the package of expansion laws to the State’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) for approval, what the Legal Aid Society called “the first step in making the expanded subsidies a reality for vulnerable New Yorkers.”
This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.
NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York.
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“I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. “This is something I will never forgive.”
Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.
The filing — a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act — names the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department.
It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system.
The goal, Khalil said, is to send a message that he won’t be intimidated into silence.
“They are abusing their power because they think they are untouchable,” Khalil said. “Unless they feel there is some sort of accountability, it will continue to go unchecked.”
Khalil plans to share any settlement money with others targeted in Trump’s “failed” effort to suppress pro-Palestinian speech. In lieu of a settlement, he said he would also accept an official apology and changes to the administration’s deportation policies.
In an emailed statement, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, called Khalil’s claim “absurd,” accusing him of “hateful behavior and rhetoric” that threatened Jewish students.
A State Department spokesperson said its actions toward Khalil were fully supported by the law. Inquiries to the White House and ICE were not immediately returned.
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, hold their baby Deen during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil carries a Palestinian flag during a rally celebrating his return from immigration detention, Sunday, June 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
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Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil poses for a portrait during an interview, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
The filing accuses President Donald Trump and other officials of mounting a haphazard and illegal campaign to “terrorize him and his family,” beginning with Khalil’s March 8 arrest.
On that night, he said he was returning home from dinner with his wife, Noor Abdalla, when he was “effectively kidnapped” by plainclothes federal agents, who refused to provide a warrant and appeared surprised to learn he was a legal U.S. permanent resident.
He was then whisked overnight to an immigration jail in Jena, Louisiana, a remote location that was “deliberately concealed” from his family and attorneys, according to the filing.
Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”
Khalil, who has condemned antisemitism before and since his arrest, was not accused of a crime and has not been linked to Hamas or any other terror group. “At some point, it becomes like reality TV,” Khalil said of the allegations. “It’s very absurd.”
Deported for beliefs
A few weeks into his incarceration, Khalil was awoken by a fellow detainee, who pointed excitedly to his face on a jailhouse TV screen. A new memo signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged Khalil hadn’t broken the law, but argued he should be deported for beliefs that could undermine U.S. foreign policy interests.
“My beliefs are not wanting my tax money or tuition going toward investments in weapons manufacturers for a genocide,” Khalil said. “It’s as simple as that.”
By then, Khalil had become something of a celebrity in the 1,200-person lock-up. When not dealing with his own case, he hosted “office hours” for fellow immigrant detainees, leaning on his past experience working at a British embassy in Beirut to help others organize paperwork and find translators for their cases.
“I’m pretty good at bureaucracy,” Khalil said.
At night, they played Russian and Mexican card games, as Khalil listened to “one story after another from people who didn’t understand what’s happening to them.”
“This was one of the most heartbreaking moments,” he said. “People on the inside don’t know if they have any rights.”
Lost time
On June 20, after 104 days in custody, Khalil was ordered released by a federal judge, who found the government’s efforts to remove him on foreign policy grounds were likely unconstitutional.
He now faces new allegations of misrepresenting personal details on his green card application. In a motion filed late Wednesday, attorneys for Khalil described those charges as baseless and retaliatory, urging a judge to dismiss them.
The weeks since his release, Khalil said, have brought moments of bliss and intense personal anguish.
Fearing harassment or possible arrest, he leaves the house less frequently, avoiding large crowds or late-night walks. But he lit up as he remembered watching Deen taking his first swim earlier in the week. “It was not very pleasant for him,” Khalil said, smiling.
“I’m trying as much as possible to make up for the time with my son and my wife,” he added. “As well thinking about my future and trying to comprehend this new reality.”
Part of that reality, he said, will be continuing his efforts to advocate against Israel’s war in Gaza, which has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. On the day after his arrest, he led a march through Manhattan, draped in a Palestinian flag — and flanked by security.
As he poured Deen’s milk into a bottle, Khalil considered whether he might’ve done anything differently had he known the personal cost of his activism.
“We could’ve communicated better. We could’ve built more bridges with more people,” he said. “But the core thing of opposing a genocide, I don’t think you can do that any differently. This is your moral imperative when you’re watching your people be slaughtered by the minute.”
