AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A spokesperson for the Travis County sheriff's office in Texas says "several" boats sank Saturday while taking part in a parade in support of President Donald Trump. "We responded to multiple calls of boats in distress, several of them sank," but there are no reports of fatalities or injuries and investigators have not determined how many boats sank on the lake near Austin, according to sheriff's spokesperson Kristen Dark. Dark said the cause was under investigation, but there was no indication of an intentional act. "We have no reason to suspect foul play in any of these," sinkings, Dark said. Dark said weather conditions were generally calm and meteorologist Paul Yura with the National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio said there were were no storms in the area at the time and winds were generally 10 mph (16 kph) or less. "The lake should be fairly navigable, without issue at those wind speeds," according to Yura. Lake Travis is an approximately 19,000-acre (7,689 hectares) impoundment about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Austin.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A spokesperson for the Travis County sheriff's office in Texas says "several" boats sank Saturday while taking part in a parade in support of President Donald Trump. "We responded to multiple calls of boats in distress, several of them sank," but there are no reports of fatalities or injuries and investigators have not determined how many boats sank on the lake near Austin, according to sheriff's spokesperson Kristen Dark. Dark said the cause was under investigation, but there was no indication of an intentional act. "We have no reason to suspect foul play in any of these," sinkings, Dark said. Dark said weather conditions were generally calm and meteorologist Paul Yura with the National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio said there were were no storms in the area at the time and winds were generally 10 mph (16 kph) or less. "The lake should be fairly navigable, without issue at those wind speeds," according to Yura. Lake Travis is an approximately 19,000-acre (7,689 hectares) impoundment about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Austin.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Two people have been arrested in Texas for the June shooting death of a Texas man whose body was found in southern Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Shannon Mayorga, 20, was arrested Friday on a first-degree murder warrant, a day after Randall Rudd, 23, was arrested on the same warrant in the June slaying of Juan Manuel Rosas, 43, of Denton, Texas, the OSBI said Friday. Court and jail records do not list defense attorneys for Rudd or Mayorga, who remain jailed in Texas pending extradition, according to the OSBI. Rosas' body was found June 7 in a field alongside Interstate 35 in Murray County.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Two people have been arrested in Texas for the June shooting death of a Texas man whose body was found in southern Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Shannon Mayorga, 20, was arrested Friday on a first-degree murder warrant, a day after Randall Rudd, 23, was arrested on the same warrant in the June slaying of Juan Manuel Rosas, 43, of Denton, Texas, the OSBI said Friday. Court and jail records do not list defense attorneys for Rudd or Mayorga, who remain jailed in Texas pending extradition, according to the OSBI. Rosas' body was found June 7 in a field alongside Interstate 35 in Murray County.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Suellen de Souza could no longer endure the confinement. After six months of precautions, the Brazilian nursing technician decided that Sunday would be her first day at the beach since the pandemic began. "This week it was very hot ... the truth is I really wanted to come" to the beach, said the 21-year-old at Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach, which is technically still closed to sun-bathers though few respect the prohibition and authorities seldom enforce it. Under a burning midday sun, she had difficulty finding an empty space in the sand as thousands crowded the famed beach, which was dotted with hundreds of umbrellas and families sunning themselves. Beach-goers were packed close together with few wearing face masks. With tentative signs the coronavirus pandemic is easing, Brazilians exhausted with quarantine measures and social distancing are increasingly relaxing precautions and flooding beaches as if the pandemic were over. They are being urged to do so - and violate the recommendations of health experts - by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has resisted many lockdown measures and pressed for a return to normal life from the beginning, famously calling the novel coronavirus a "little flu." "It is like a rain that is going to reach you," Bolsonaro said of the virus on July 7, the day he confirmed his own infection from which he has since recovered. In Rio, recommendations by health experts to remain isolated are being challenged even by people like Souza, a nursing technician who worked in a field hospital for coronavirus patients. "The coronavirus is being controlled a little more, that gave me security to go out," she said. The same scenario is playing out in Sao Paulo, Brazil's worst-hit state with more than 855,000...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Suellen de Souza could no longer endure the confinement. After six months of precautions, the Brazilian nursing technician decided that Sunday would be her first day at the beach since the pandemic began. "This week it was very hot ... the truth is I really wanted to come" to the beach, said the 21-year-old at Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach, which is technically still closed to sun-bathers though few respect the prohibition and authorities seldom enforce it. Under a burning midday sun, she had difficulty finding an empty space in the sand as thousands crowded the famed beach, which was dotted with hundreds of umbrellas and families sunning themselves. Beach-goers were packed close together with few wearing face masks. With tentative signs the coronavirus pandemic is easing, Brazilians exhausted with quarantine measures and social distancing are increasingly relaxing precautions and flooding beaches as if the pandemic were over. They are being urged to do so - and violate the recommendations of health experts - by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has resisted many lockdown measures and pressed for a return to normal life from the beginning, famously calling the novel coronavirus a "little flu." "It is like a rain that is going to reach you," Bolsonaro said of the virus on July 7, the day he confirmed his own infection from which he has since recovered. In Rio, recommendations by health experts to remain isolated are being challenged even by people like Souza, a nursing technician who worked in a field hospital for coronavirus patients. "The coronavirus is being controlled a little more, that gave me security to go out," she said. The same scenario is playing out in Sao Paulo, Brazil's worst-hit state with more than 855,000...

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked tough on Sunday ahead of a crucial round of post-Brexit trade talks with the European Union, saying Britain could walk away from the talks within weeks and insisting that a no-deal exit would be a "good outcome for the U.K." With talks deadlocked, Johnson said an agreement would only be possible if EU negotiators are prepared to "rethink their current positions." The EU, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on Jan. 31, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership. That political departure will be followed by an economic break when an 11-month transition period ends on Dec. 31 and the U.K. leaves the EU's single market and customs union. Without a deal, the New Year will bring tariffs and other economic barriers between the U.K. and the bloc, its biggest trading partner. Johnson said the country would "prosper mightily" even if Britain had "a trading arrangement with the EU like Australia's" - the U.K. government's preferred description of a no-deal Brexit. British chief negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier are due to meet in London starting Tuesday for their eighth round of negotiations. Barnier said last week he was "worried and disappointed" by the lack of progress and said the U.K. had not "engaged constructively." The key sticking points are European boats' access to U.K. fishing waters and state aid to industries. The EU is determined to ensure a "level playing field" for competition so British firms can't undercut the bloc's environmental or workplace standards or pump public money into U.K. industries. Britain accuses the bloc...

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked tough on Sunday ahead of a crucial round of post-Brexit trade talks with the European Union, saying Britain could walk away from the talks within weeks and insisting that a no-deal exit would be a "good outcome for the U.K." With talks deadlocked, Johnson said an agreement would only be possible if EU negotiators are prepared to "rethink their current positions." The EU, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on Jan. 31, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership. That political departure will be followed by an economic break when an 11-month transition period ends on Dec. 31 and the U.K. leaves the EU's single market and customs union. Without a deal, the New Year will bring tariffs and other economic barriers between the U.K. and the bloc, its biggest trading partner. Johnson said the country would "prosper mightily" even if Britain had "a trading arrangement with the EU like Australia's" - the U.K. government's preferred description of a no-deal Brexit. British chief negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier are due to meet in London starting Tuesday for their eighth round of negotiations. Barnier said last week he was "worried and disappointed" by the lack of progress and said the U.K. had not "engaged constructively." The key sticking points are European boats' access to U.K. fishing waters and state aid to industries. The EU is determined to ensure a "level playing field" for competition so British firms can't undercut the bloc's environmental or workplace standards or pump public money into U.K. industries. Britain accuses the bloc...

VENICE (AP) - There's been a lot of talk about gender parity, feminism and equality at the Venice Film Festival this year, with nearly half the in-competition films directed by women. One of them, "Miss Marx," certainly backs that trend. The historical drama profiles Karl Marx's youngest daughter, Eleanor, an innovative British-born social activist and women's rights campaigner who wrote the first English translation of Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." But Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli also sought to highlight the less-than-empowered side of Miss Marx, who for years tolerated her louse of a partner as he cheated on her, squandered her money and otherwise humiliated her. "The focus was on the dichotomy between the public activism and her public beliefs and the inconsistency with her private relationship," said Romola Garai, who plays Eleanor in the film. "We are left to wonder why and how human beings can be so eloquent on the one hand, and that can so not enter your psyche on the other hand." Nicchiarelli said she was drawn to this internal conflict, which she said was both touching and deeply human. "That says so much about the way we are," she said. To hammer home the current-day relevance of that dichotomy, the film's score includes punk rock music and Nicchiarelli spliced in archival footage of 20th-century labor protests to "whip the audience into this insistence" that the issues Marx fought for still haven't been resolved, Garai said. "The wheel of history has turned through the 20th century, but the same conversation about the dynamic around capitalism and who benefits from it is the same," said Garai, who said she first learned about Eleanor Marx's contribution to labor and feminist causes working on the 2015...

VENICE (AP) - There's been a lot of talk about gender parity, feminism and equality at the Venice Film Festival this year, with nearly half the in-competition films directed by women. One of them, "Miss Marx," certainly backs that trend. The historical drama profiles Karl Marx's youngest daughter, Eleanor, an innovative British-born social activist and women's rights campaigner who wrote the first English translation of Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." But Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli also sought to highlight the less-than-empowered side of Miss Marx, who for years tolerated her louse of a partner as he cheated on her, squandered her money and otherwise humiliated her. "The focus was on the dichotomy between the public activism and her public beliefs and the inconsistency with her private relationship," said Romola Garai, who plays Eleanor in the film. "We are left to wonder why and how human beings can be so eloquent on the one hand, and that can so not enter your psyche on the other hand." Nicchiarelli said she was drawn to this internal conflict, which she said was both touching and deeply human. "That says so much about the way we are," she said. To hammer home the current-day relevance of that dichotomy, the film's score includes punk rock music and Nicchiarelli spliced in archival footage of 20th-century labor protests to "whip the audience into this insistence" that the issues Marx fought for still haven't been resolved, Garai said. "The wheel of history has turned through the 20th century, but the same conversation about the dynamic around capitalism and who benefits from it is the same," said Garai, who said she first learned about Eleanor Marx's contribution to labor and feminist causes working on the 2015...