Photos of Mexico's bird vendors making their annual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe

During the Catholic holiday of Palm Sunday, birds vendors, known as pajareros, from across Mexicoflock to the capital and decorate 10-foot-tall stacks of cages, adorning them with flowers, tinsel and images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. They walk miles through the streets of Mexico City with their birds and their families to the city's iconic basilica.

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Double danger? Climate change, El Niño push Earth 'beyond its limits'

Afreakish March heat wavehas already pushed temperatures to summertime levels throughout much of the western and central United States, but a new report comes with a dire warning: This is just the beginning.

TheWorld Meteorological Organization(WMO) announced on March 23 that the planet's climate is now "more out of balance than at any time in observed history."

That long-term warming trend is set to meet a short-term global heat-up, which could bring unprecedented heat into 2027.

The short-term force concerning meteorologists involves a potentiallystrong El Niño, forecast to begin this fall, which could lead to additional global heat records.

El Niño, a natural warming of Pacific Ocean water that affects weather around the world, often leads to some of the hottest years on record, such as the record-breaking worldwide average temperature in 2024.

If El Niño develops as expected, it would likely boost the planet to its warmest year on record, climate scientistZeke Hausfathersaid on X earlier in March.

The news comes as the WMOreports dire climate changedata: "The state of the global climate is in a state of emergency," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in a statement. "Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key climate indicator is flashing red."

US heat wave among the most extreme ever

A recent analysis byWorld Weather Attributionsaid a March heat wave in the United States would have been "virtually impossible without human‑caused climate change," with fossil‑fuel warming adding several degrees to observed temperatures, according to the Associated Press.

The heat raises concerns about the drought and lack of snowpack across the West, along with the increased chances for wildfires this spring, summer and fall across much of the country due in part to the heat.

In Flagstaff, Arizona, for example, "this event was the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year," saidDaniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

In terms of the overall heat, he said: "This probably was one of the most singularly extreme heat events (in an anomalous sense) that we've observed in North America in modern history."

"This does not mean that it was hotter this month than it would be during a heat wave in July," Swain said. "But what it means is the departure from what temperatures would usually be like at this time of year was greater during this event than at any previously observed event by a pretty wide margin," he added.

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Overall, at least 14 states may have set a new record for all-time high March temperature.

Climate change worries grow: 'Energy is accumulating'

The WMO, which is the United Nations' weather agency, said that greenhouse gas concentrations from the burning of fossil fuels continue to drive warming of the atmosphere and oceans and the melting of ice.

These "rapid and large-scale changes have occurred within a few decades but will have harmful repercussions for hundreds — and potentially thousands — of years," the weather agency said.

According to the WMO, the Earth is gaining significantly more heat energy than it releases, driven by emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

This record "energy imbalance" heated the ocean to new heights last year and continued to melt our planet's ice caps, theBBCsaid.

The WMO's scientific officer John Kennedy explained that under a balanced system, incoming energy from the sun is about the same as the amount of outgoing energy, but this is not the case at the present time.

"There's less outgoing energy due to the increased concentrations of greenhouse gases," he said in astatement."More energy coming in than going out means that energy is accumulating in the Earth's system."

Data show that levels of three main greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — continued to increase in 2025.

In 2024 — the last year for which we have consolidated global observations — the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide reached its highest level in the last 2 million years, and methane and nitrous oxide in at least last 800,000 years.

Contributing: Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY

Doyle Rice is a national correspondent for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:UN issues dire climate change report as El Niño danger grows

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Central Haitian town descends into fire and bloodshed from gang warfare

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Violence erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l'Artibonite early Sunday morning as a powerful gang warred with a vigilante group, regional officials confirmed to The Associated Press.

The rampage from the gang Gran Grif left bloodied bodies scattered across the streets of the neighborhood of Jean-Denis, videos show. Gangs set fire to houses and left civilians reeling.

It wasn't immediately clear how many people were slain by the gang. The massacre is just the latest bloodshed in a nation that has been left reeling by spiraling gang warfare for five years following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

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Around 2023,vigilante groups began to emergein the Caribbean nation to strike back against gangs sucking the life from Haiti. The wave of brutal vigilante justice has made the conflict in Haiti even more complicated at the same time as international forces have sought to pacify the country.

Vigilante groups often close off neighborhoods, stone and chop off the limbs of suspected gangster, behead them and set them afire, sometimes while they are still alive.

Meanwhile, the Gran Grif gang has continues tosow terror in the Artiboniteregion of Haiti, where Petite-Rivière de l'Artibonite is located. The Gran Grif gang was among a number of Haitian gangs to be designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration last year.

According to the U.N., it's the largest gang in the region, responsible for 80% of civilian deaths there. It has massacred and raped civilians, including a minor, forced thousands of people to flee their homes and dismembered people, the organization said.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Violence erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l'Artibonite early Sun...

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Best 2026 NFL Draft landing spots for Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love

A year ago, the 2025 NFL Draft had a loaded running back group topped by one of the best prospects in the class with Boise State'sAshton Jeanty.

It's looking like a repeat in 2026 - at least at the top.

Notre Dame star Jeremiyah Love is one of the best running back prospects in recent memory. His talents are in the same class as the likes of Jeanty,Bijan RobinsonandJahmyr Gibbs. Like Robinson in 2023, Love is the top non-quarterback prospect in the class on offense. He provided what the modern NFL wants out of running backs: breakaway speed, receiving abilities and a track record of generating yards after contact.

Love enters the2026 NFL Draftas the runaway top prospect at the position in a tier of his own. Running backs have traditionally been devalued recently; no running backs were selected in the first round in 2024 or 2022. That won't be the case this April.

Love is a lock for the first round, so the only debate is where he'll end up in the first 32 picks. Every team should be clamoring for his services, considering the playmaking he can add to an offense as a rookie but some teams are better fits than others.

Here are four fits for the Notre Dame star:

3. Arizona Cardinals – David Bailey, OLB/DE, Texas Tech

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 4. Tennessee Titans – Sonny Styles, LB, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 5. New York Giants – Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 6. Cleveland Browns – Monroe Freeling, OT, Georgia

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 7. Washington Commanders – Caleb Downs, S, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 8. New Orleans Saints – Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 9. Kansas City Chiefs – Rueben Bain Jr., DE, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 10. Cincinnati Bengals – Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 11. Miami Dolphins – Francis Mauigoa, OT/G, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 12. Dallas Cowboys – Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 13. Los Angeles Rams (from Atlanta Falcons) – Makai Lemon, WR, USC

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Akheem Mesidor, DE, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 16. Jets (from Indianapolis Colts) – Jordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 17. Detroit Lions – Spencer Fano, OT/G, Utah

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 18. Minnesota Vikings – Jermod McCoy, CB, Tennessee

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 19. Carolina Panthers - Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 21. Pittsburgh Steelers – Kadyn Proctor, OT/G, Alabama

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 22. Los Angeles Chargers – T.J. Parker, DE/OLB, Clemson

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 23. Philadelphia Eagles – Keldric Faulk, DE, Auburn

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 24. Cleveland Browns – Omar Cooper Jr., WR, Indiana

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 25. Chicago Bears – Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, S, Toledo

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 26. Buffalo Bills – Cashius Howell, OLB, Texas A&M

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 29. Kansas City Chiefs (from Los Angeles Rams) – Colton Hood, CB, Tennessee

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 30. Miami Dolphins (from Denver Broncos) – Denzel Boston, WR, Washington

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 32. Seattle Seahawks – Avieon Terrell, CB, Clemson

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Jeremiyah Love's best NFL fits

Tennessee Titans

To be clear, we are limiting this list to teams who have a realistic shot at drafting Love as the order currently stands. He'd be a fit for nearly the entire league on talent alone but some teams stand out with opportunity or environment. The Titans are the former.

Tennessee spent much of its expansive cap spacethis offseason on adding reliable veteran defensive talent for new head coach Robert Saleh via signings and trades. That should raise the floor of that unit as a whole and leave upgrades for the offense to the NFL draft.

At No. 4 overall, Tennessee looks poised to go offense with its first selection. Love would be the best use of those resources. He'd fill an immediate need at the position and be the top playmaker for second-year quarterbackCam Wardin his first year under offensive coordinator Brian Daboll. The Titans' offensive line is a bit of a question mark with new starters and a new position coach in Carmen Bricillo who followed Daboll from the New York Giants. That leaves some concern but his yards after contact per carry (4.35 for his career) show he can make it work without ideal talent around him.

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Washington Commanders

Washington needs more playmakers on offense forJayden Danielsunder new coordinator David Blough. The Commanders at No. 7 seem like the floor for Love's draft stock as things stand.

The team added some free agents on offense, but none of them compares to Love's game-changing abilities. Washington's offensive line was arguably the strongest part of the unit as a whole in 2025 and should be able to create enough room for the Notre Dame star.

He'd immediately make the quarterback run game more effective with Daniels and add abundant value as a receiver. They may not need him to use those skills quite as much withRachaad Whiteon the roster via free agency but that could see two-back sets with two receiving threats with Daniels.

New York Giants

John Harbaugh just oversaw his best offense in Baltimore, thanks to a top-tier running back inDerrick Henry. Joe Schoen is likely sick of seeing and reading about lettingSaquon Barkleygo before the 2024 NFL season, when Barkley went on to power a dominant Eagles Super Bowl run.

After free agency, running back isn't a glaring need for the Giants on offense but the need for more playmakers certainly is. Love's lone concern out of college is that he split carries for much of his career. Pairing him withCam Skattebocertainly eases those concerns and provides a dynamic playmaker alongsideMalik NabersforJaxson Dartin year two.

There are concerns about the offensive line heading into the draft, but the rest of the Giants' draft capital can address that as well as receiver, though theDarnell MooneyandCalvin Austinsignings make that a bit less pressing.

Los Angeles Rams

Okay, we had to put in one team that would be Love's floor if he drops for some shocking reason. This fit may be the most exciting of all.

Los Angeles is all-in to compete for a Super Bowl in 2026 after trading for cornerbackTrent McDuffieand signing his former Chiefs teammateJaylen Watsonto a big-money contract as well. The young defense will get expensive sooner than later, and the offense has to keep pace with last season, even after right tackleRob Havenstein retired.

All respect to fellow Notre Dame running backKyren Williamsbut Love would be a game-changing threat behind the Rams' stout offensive line. Los Angeles could easily be the most explosive offense in the league with this move. Purely for the excitement of watching football, this fit would be incredible.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Jeremiyah Love's best fits: Titans, Giants lead NFL draft landing spots

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