By DANICA KIRKA, KWIYEON HA and JILL LAWLESS

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — One of the two Jewish men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the English city of Manchester appears to have been accidentally shot by a police officer as worshippers tried to stop the attacker entering the building, law enforcement authorities said Friday.

Police said local residents Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died in Thursday’s attack on the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Three other people are hospitalized in serious condition.

Police shot and killed a suspect seven minutes after he rammed a car into pedestrians outside the synagogue and then attacked them with a knife in what the police force called an act of terrorism. He wore what appeared to be an explosives belt, which was found to be fake.

Greater Manchester Police chief Stephen Watson said a pathologist has provisionally determined that one of those killed had a gunshot wound. Since the attacker did not have a gun, he said the injury may have been “a tragic and unforeseen consequence” of police actions.

He said one of the hospitalized victims also appears to have been shot.

“It is believed that both victims were close together behind the synagogue door, as worshippers acted bravely to prevent the attacker from gaining entry,” Watson said.

Police have called the attack an act of terrorism but say they are still working to identify a motive. It came amid high tensions over Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.

Dozens of people gathered in pouring rain near the synagogue Friday for a vigil, where Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was heckled by members of the crowd who accused the government of allowing antisemitism to spread.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the head of Orthodox Judaism in Britain, said the attack was the result of “an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred” on the streets and online.

“This is the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come,” he wrote on social media.

Attacker was not known to police

Police identified the attacker as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006. Al-Shamie translates into English as “the Syrian,” and authorities are unsure whether that is his birth name.

Police said the crime is being investigated as a terrorist attack. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the attacker was not previously known to police or to Prevent, a counterterror program that tries to identify people at risk of radicalization.

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Mahmood said “it’s too early to say” whether the attacker acted alone or was part of a cell. Officers arrested two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s on suspicion of the preparation or commission of acts of terrorism in connection with the attack.

Neighbors of the attacker in the Manchester suburb of Prestwich, a couple of miles (about 3 kilometers) from the synagogue, said Al-Shamie’s family had lived in the house for years. Several described seeing Al-Shamie lifting weights and working out in the backyard.

Geoff Halliwell, who lives nearby, said he appeared to be “a straightforward, ordinary lad.”

A statement on Facebook from the attacker’s family condemned the “heinous act, which targeted peaceful, innocent civilians.

“Our hearts and thoughts are with the victims and their families, and we pray for their strength and comfort,” the statement said.

Religious leaders condemn the attack

Religious and political leaders condemned the attack and pledged to reassure Britain’s Jewish community, which numbers about 300,000.

Police said extra officers would be on the streets of Manchester on Friday and through the weekend.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who visited the scene of the attack on Friday morning with his wife Victoria, said “this was a dreadful attack, a terrorist attack to inflict fear. Attacking Jews because they are Jews.

“It’s really important today that the whole country comes together, people of all faiths and no faith, stand in support and solidarity with our Jewish community,” he said.

Anglican bishop Sarah Mullally, who was named Friday as the next leader of the Church of England, said that “hatred and racism of any kind cannot be allowed to tear us apart.”

Recorded antisemitic incidents in the U.K. have risen sharply since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war against Hamas according to Community Security Trust, a charity that provides advice and protection for British Jews. More than 1,500 incidents were reported in the first half of the year, the second-highest six-month total reported since the record set over the same period a year earlier.

Calls for pro-Palestinian protests to be canceled

Some politicians and religious leaders claimed pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have been held regularly since the war in Gaza began, had played a role in spreading hatred of Jews. Some say chants such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” incite violence. Others, including Jews who support the protests, say they want a ceasefire, an end to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

Mirvis, the chief rabbi, urged authorities to “get a grip on these demonstrations. They are dangerous.”

Some British Jews also say the U.K.’s recognition of a Palestinian state this month has emboldened antisemitism — a claim the government rejects. Lammy was interrupted by boos and shouts of “Shame on you” as he addressed the vigil in Manchester.

Lammy told the crowd that “we stand with you against terrorism,” and urged organizers of planned pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the weekend “to stop and to stand back.”

Police in London urged organizers to call off a protest planned for Saturday to oppose the banning of the group Palestine Action, which has been labeled a terrorist organization by the government.

Organizers said they would not cancel the demonstration, where hundreds of people are expected to hold signs supporting the banned group.

“Canceling peaceful protests lets terror win,” the group said in a statement.

Lawless reported from London. Brian Melley and Pan Pylas contributed to this story.

By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to be temporary immigration judges after firing dozens of existing judges, the latest step in a broader plan that experts warn could harm immigration courts and the military justice system.

Training for the first group of Army lawyers begins Monday and training for the second group is expected to start in the spring, several former and current military reserve lawyers said they were told. Roughly 100 Army Reserve lawyers are expected to participate, with 50 beginning a nearly six-month assignment immediately after their training, according to a Sept. 3 email sent to an Army Reserve attorney and reviewed by The Associated Press.

The administration wants to bring in as many as 600 military-trained attorneys to help make decisions about which immigrants can stay in the country. Advocates are alarmed by the move to use military lawyers to bolster staffing in the backlogged immigration courts as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration arrests.

Those courts have yearslong waits for hearings, and the number of pending cases has more than doubled in the past four years to 3.4 million.

Both the Army and National Guard said they hope to fill the assignments with volunteers.

“This assignment provides the opportunity to gain judicial experience in a high tempo, nationally significant setting,” an email sent to members of the Army’s Reserve Legal Command stated, adding that locations and other details will be released later.

A notification seeking volunteers sent Sept. 6 to active-duty and reserve National Guard members said “ideal candidates will possess experience in administrative law, immigration law, service as a military judge” or a related field. Applicants should have sound judgment, impartiality and a “suitable temperament for the role,” it said.

The Trump administration increasingly has turned to the military to support its crackdown on illegal immigration. That has included troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border, National Guard members being sent into U.S. cities to support immigration enforcement efforts, housing people awaiting deportation on military bases, and using military aircraft to carry out deportations.

Concerns over lack of training

Immigration judges each manage hundreds or thousands of cases, deciding who gets asylum and green cards to stay in the U.S. Their rulings shape both the lives of immigrant families and the success of Trump’s crackdown.

Some immigration and military law experts are concerned the reservists will be put in the job without enough training or experience after more than 100 immigration judges were fired or left.

With only about 600 immigration judges remaining, the Pentagon move would double their ranks. Trump’s sweeping new tax and spending law provided $170 billion for immigration enforcement, including the hiring of 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, but it caps the number of permanent immigration judges at 800.

“They’re letting a lot of experienced judges go, terminating them with no notice, and yet they claim that there’s a shortage so they need to have these military JAG officers step in and take over,” said Margaret Stock, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and immigration lawyer.

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Of particular concern, the administration is not requiring experience as an administrative law judge or in immigration law as in the past, she said. Stock has taught seminars on immigration law at West Point but said military lawyers learn only a minimal amount to be able to help fellow service members with things like visas for spouses or children.

“Immigration law is super technical and complicated,” she said. “It’s worse than tax law, and it’s constantly changing. And it has its own terminology, its own rules that don’t make any sense.”

Immigration judges come from a range of legal backgrounds, including the military, the Justice Department, immigration enforcement agencies, and private practice. The government previously required applicants to have seven years’ experience before undergoing a lengthy hiring process, then six weeks of training followed by a two-year probation period.

Until now, temporary judges needed 10 years of legal experience in immigration, and were often retired immigration judges, according to the government’s rule laying out the new plan.

The Defense Department did not return an email seeking comment. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs the immigration courts, declined to comment. In the rule, the agency wrote that many successful immigration judges had little experience in immigration law before taking the job.

“Immigration law experience is not always a strong predictor of success,” the rule said.

In the military, an attorney is known as a judge advocate general, or JAG. They study at accredited law schools and pass the bar exam before going into a military law program for just over two months. They sometimes work as special assistants to U.S. attorneys and gather evidence to prosecute criminal cases, much like civilian prosecutors do, said Mark Nevitt, a former Navy JAG and associate professor at Emory University School of Law.

“They are some of the greatest lawyers you’ll meet in the national security world,” but this will require they “get up to speed pretty quickly on a complex body of law and then adjudicate matters and claims as a judge,” Nevitt said.

Matt Biggs, president of a federal employee union that represents immigration judges, said tapping lawyers with little or no immigration experience to hear these complex, high-stakes cases will likely do more harm than good.

“It will lead to more appeals of decisions. It will further increase the backlog. It’s going to be an inefficient and costly endeavor,” Biggs said. “It sets a dangerous precedent in this country when it comes to due process protections.”

Gregory Chen of the American Immigration Lawyers Association said the Justice Department is “watering down the qualifications of those it will empower to make life-or-death decisions.”

He also worries the administration will hold too much sway over the temporary hires. The permanent judges are government employees with civil service protections.

Democrats have questioned the plan’s legality

Some Democratic senators have warned the Pentagon plan may violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans service members from carrying out law enforcement duties, and fear taking away the JAGs could harm the military justice system. They sent a letter to the offices of the top military lawyers for the four services, asking where the roughly 600 lawyers will be coming from and what legal analysis the military has conducted.

A Pentagon memo describing the plan said the appointments should be for no longer than six months. The memo also said the Justice Department would be responsible for ensuring the military lawyers don’t violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

If the military lawyers serve entirely under civilian personnel then it could be legal, Nevitt said, but it’s unclear.

Some immigrant advocates believe the administration is presuming military lawyers are more likely to deny cases to meet Trump’s deportation goals.

But Greg Rinckey, a former Army lawyer who is now in private practice, said that assumption is wrong.

“They will not rubber stamp because most of us have served as defense counsel,” he said. “We’re not all government hacks.”

A number of his friends who are Army Reserve JAGs have signed up because they are interested in immigration law and want to serve a national need, he said.

“And also it’s a way to put something else on your resume — that you served as a judge.”

Taxin reported from Santa Ana, California. Konstantin Toropin in Washington also contributed.

By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House next week, it was announced on Friday.

The meeting comes ahead of a review of a free trade agreement and as Trump is engaging in 51st state talk again as Canada asks to be included in Trump’s future Golden Dome missile defense program.

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In a statement, Carney’s office said the prime minister will travel to Washington on Monday before meeting Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

Carney won Canada’s election earlier this year fueled by Trump’s annexation threats and trade war, but he has tried to improve relations ahead of a review of the free trade deal next year.

More than 75% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S. and Canada recently dropped many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, or USMCA.

“Canada and the U.S. each launched consultations last month that will inform preparations for the first joint review” of the trade pact, the statement said. “The Prime Minister’s working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.”

Canada popped back into Trump’s head earlier this week when he brought up the Golden Dome missile defense program he wants to build to protect the United States. Trump said Canada called him recently asking to be covered by the proposed missile shield.

“They want to be a part of it,” he said. “I said, ’Why don’t you just join our country, become the 51st state and you get it for free.’”

Earlier this year, Trump has been pressuring Canada to join the United States as he threatened it with steep tariffs. Canada said it will never join the U.S.

“Trump is back on the 51st state theme. And he is somebody whose modus operandi is extortion,” said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto

Carney said that he privately asked Trump to stop calling Canada the 51st state during their last meeting in the White House last May.

“A key political risk is that President Trump raises the 51st state issue again and seeks to publicly embarrass Prime Minister Carney during his visit,” said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal.

“Another risk is that no apparent progress on trade is made, which would be bad news for the prime minister domestically, as the Conservatives accuse them of failing to successfully address the ongoing trade war with the United States,” he added.

Carney has said the USMCA, which is up for review in 2026, a unique advantage for Canada at a time when it is clear that the U.S. is charging for access to its market. Carney has said the commitment of the U.S. to the core of USMCA means that over 85% of Canada-U.S. trade continues to be free of tariffs. He said the U.S. average tariff rate on Canadian goods is 5.6% and remains the lowest among all its trading partners.

But Trump has some sector specific tariffs on Canada, known as 232 tariffs, that are having an impact. There are steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports for example.

Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports are from Canada.

Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.

Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, has expressed frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in Canada. Travel by Canadians to the U.S. has plunged.

The Twins answered their first big question of the offseason on Monday — would they retain their manager? — when they made the decision to fire Rocco Baldelli.

The search for Baldelli’s replacement will dominate much of the early offseason for the Twins’ front office. But after a second straight disappointing season, one in which the Twins shipped away a large portion of the roster at the trade deadline, many more questions remain beyond who will be coaching the team.

Perhaps most pressing among them: What direction will the Twins take now?

The answer is tied to what their payroll — slashed again at the trade deadline — will amount to. And, at this point, it seems like not even Derek Falvey, who heads the Twins’ baseball and business operations, is fully sure what that will be.

“As I sit here today, I’ll shoot you super straight: I don’t have that direction yet,” Falvey said Tuesday. “I think that’s a conversation that we’ll continue to have, certainly with the (team-owning) Pohlads and whatever conversation they’d like me to have with the limited partners.”

Nearly a year ago, the Pohlad family announced it was exploring a sale of the team. That ended in August, when the family agreed to add two limited partnership groups, neither of whom have been identified publicly, while maintaining the controlling stake in the team.

Asked in August if the limited partners would allow the family to invest more money in the team, executive chair Joe Pohlad responded by saying it would allow the Twins to pay down their debt and “reset our financial picture in order to move forward.”

As the offseason begins, there’s little clarity on what effect the limited partner groups will have once fully in place and if the payroll will go up, go down or stay the same. The Twins shed a significant amount from their payroll at the deadline, sending their highest-paid player, Carlos Correa, to Houston, along with money to cover a portion of his salary over the next few seasons. They also shipped off nearly every impending free agent on the roster, as well as some players who were due raises via the arbitration process this offseason.

But it remains to be seen whether that money will be reinvested in other players or if the Twins will continue to cut their payroll, as has been the case past couple of years. The payroll was cut significantly from a team-record high after the 2023 season, following a season in which the Twins exhibited their first taste of postseason success in nearly two decades.

Starting pitcher Pablo López is due a team-high salary of north of $21 million next season, which could lead to the Twins shopping him if payroll is to decrease or if they decide to reallocate those resources.

Byron Buxton will earn $15 million, but he has a no-trade clause and has stated his intention to remain a Twin.

Joe Ryan, who earned $3 million last year, is arbitration-eligible and is due a healthy raise. The Twins received calls on Ryan at the deadline, but opted not to move him. Asked if he expected López and Ryan to be on the team next season, Falvey said that was his current “expectation.”

“It still requires some ongoing conversations with ownership and what that looks like,” Falvey said. “Ultimately, my hope is that we could build around that group. … That would be my hope.”

The Twins opened this past season with a payroll in the bottom half of the league. With few financial commitments beyond López, Buxton and the money owed to Houston for Correa’s salary, it’s very possible that they dip even further.

What that looks like will be played out over the course of this offseason.

“There continue to be ongoing conversations with ownership … in terms of exactly  what we’ll do going through the course of the offseason,” Falvey said. “It’s a very unique offseason for us.”

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