NEW YORK (AP) ' A woman on probation for stowing away on an international flight has been arrested again after sneaking onto a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Milan, Italy, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter.

Svetlana Dali, convicted in 2024 for flying to Paris without a passport or ticket, was taken into custody Thursday at Milans Malpensa Airport, said the official, who was not authorized to disclose information publicly about the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

FBI spokesperson Emily Molinari said the agencys Newark office was 'aware of the alleged stowaway,' but didnt immediately disclose additional information. The FBI is working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Newark Liberty International Airport, and the Transportation Security Administration 'on this open investigation,' Molinari said.

United Airlines, which operated the flight, said it is 'investigating this incident and working with the appropriate authorities.'

Michael K. Schneider, Dalis federal defender who was also handling her appeal of the prior charges, declined to comment Thursday. He also declined to comment on whether Dali had a mental health evaluation as the terms of her supervised release required.

'I cant comment on what shes done since her release. My office is handling the appeal, which is still pending,' Schneider said.

Dali had been convicted in May 2025 on a stowaway charge for slipping past security and airline gate agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York sneaking onto a flight from New York to Paris.

Surveillance video showed Dali, a Russian citizen with U.S. residency, slip in with a group of ticketed passengers to walk by Delta Air Lines staff unnoticed. In court, Dali said she walked onto the plane without being asked for a boarding pass. On the plane, prosecutors say she hid in a bathroom for several hours and wasnt discovered until the plane was nearing Paris.

After being flown back to New York, she told an FBI agent she had to the leave the U.S. because she believed people who were poisoning her, according to court documents.

Before this latest incident, Dali was still on one year supervised release after being sentenced to time served last July. Among the standard conditions of probation listed is that she cant knowingly leave the federal judicial district where she was authorized to reside without first getting permission from the court or the probation officer. She was also ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and participate in treatment if deemed necessary.

Prosecutors have said Dali evaded security measures at two other airports before the JFK incident, and they believe she may have stowed away on another flight.

Two days before she sneaked on the Paris flight, she was able to get through TSA checkpoints at Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Connecticut, by hiding among other passengers. Authorities said she unsuccessfully tried to get on a plane and then left the airport.

In February 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered Dali hiding in a bathroom at Miami International Airport, prosecutors said. Dali was escorted out of the airport after the agents couldnt confirm her story that she had just arrived on an Air France flight, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said federal agents did not make any findings that Dali had illegally traveled as a stowaway to Miami, but her statements to law enforcement after her arrest in Paris appeared to indicate that she had flown into Miami illegally.

Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak and Philip Marcelo in New York contributed to this report.

NEW YORK (AP) ' Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.

The statement came after FedEx filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade to request a refund on what it paid for tariffs set by President Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the IEEPA tariffs are illegal.

More than 1,000 companies have filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade in efforts to recoup costs from the illegal tariffs, including large U.S. corporations like Costco and Revlon.

'If refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the shippers and consumers who originally bore those charges,' FedEx said in a statement on Thursday. 'When that will happen and the exact process for requesting and issuing refunds will depend in part on future guidance from the government and the court.'

The Supreme Court ruling did not address implementation of any system by which the companies and individuals who paid those tariffs could be refunded.

Setting up a system for refunds will likely be a lengthy process. On Tuesday, the libertarian-leaning Liberty Justice Center, which represented some of the original plaintiffs that were part of the Supreme Court decision, said it, along with co-counsel Neal Katyal, filed coordinated motions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the U.S. Court of International trade, to help set in motion a process for refunds. A response from the government is due Friday.

'We are committed to transparency and will communicate clearly as additional direction becomes available from the U.S. government and the court,' FedExs statement said.

The social science teacher has classes from sixth through 12th graders at Milken Community School in Los Angeles, including modern world/Jewish history, U.S. history, and art history.

The announcement was made by Milken Educator Awards Founder Lowell Milken during a school assembly at Milken Community School about leadership with Los Angeles Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten. “Dr. Ellen Dooley inspires students to reach high levels of achievement,” Lowell Milken said in a statement. “Ellen understands that education is active, enhanced by rich curriculum, depth of thought and a connection to real-life events and experiences that shape students into compassionate, productive members of society.”

Dooley is one of two California recipients to earn the Milken Educator Award this school year, and among up to 30 recipients nationally.

Beyond Milken Community School, Dooley has mentored students at various schools as a writing coach and supported teenage mothers pursuing high school diplomas. She also served as assistant curator of Latin American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and as a volunteer instructor with the Prison University Project ' now Mount Tamalpais College ' at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Milken Educator Award honorees will attend an all-expenses-paid awards forum June 12-14 in Washington, D.C., where they will network with their new colleagues, as well as veteran Milken educators and other education leaders.

The special meeting, set for 4 to 6 pm, includes a personnel item under California Government Code 54957 '- a provision under the Brown Act that allows public bodies to privately consider matters related to a public employees appointment, evaluation of performance, discipline or dismissal.

The board is required to reconvene in open session and publicly report any decision taken, if applicable. The agenda does not specify whether a decision is expected.

Federal authorities confirmed Wednesday that searches were executed at Carvalhos Los Angeles office and his San Pedro home pursuant to a court-issued warrant. The affidavit supporting the warrants remains under seal, and officials have declined to discuss the nature of the investigation.

LAUSD said it is cooperating with authorities. In a statement issued Wednesday evening, the Board of Education said it 'understands that todays news has raised questions across our school communities,' but emphasized that its priority 'remains ensuring that our students, families, and employees experience a safe and welcoming learning environment.'

Federal agents executed search warrants Wednesday in Los Angeles and Florida. Several media outlets have reported that the investigators may be examining the districts past contract with AllHere, the now-defunct education technology startup behind LAUSDs AI chatbot initiative. Federal authorities have not confirmed the focus of the investigation.

Before arriving in Los Angeles, Carvalho headed the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for 14 years. The FBIs Miami field office confirmed that a home in Southwest Ranches, Florida, was also searched Wednesday. Multiple media outlets reported that property records link the Florida residence to an individual previously associated with AllHere, though authorities have not confirmed that connection.

WASHINGTON (AP) ' A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information 'approximately 42,695 times' to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the IRS had erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security as part of the agencies controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.

Her finding was based off a declaration filed earlier this month by Dottie Romo, IRS chief risk and control officer, which revealed that the IRS had provided DHS with information on 47,000 of the 1.28 million people that ICE requested ' and, in most of those cases, gave ICE additional address information in violation of privacy rules created to protect taxpayer data.

Kollar-Kotelly said in her Thursday decision that the agency violated IRS Code 6103, one of the strictest confidentiality laws in federal statute, 'approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE.' She called the Romo declaration 'a significant development in this case.'

'The IRS not only failed to ensure that ICEs request for confidential taxpayer address information met the statutory requirements, but this failure led the IRS to disclose confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE in situations where ICEs request for that information was patently deficient,' she wrote.

The government is appealing the case, but the Thursday ruling is significant because Romos declaration supports the decision on appeal.

Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the government over the disclosure, says 'this confirms what weve been saying all along: that the IRS has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Codes protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the laws requirements.'

Representatives from the IRS and Treasury Department did not respond to Associated Press requests for comment.

A data-sharing agreement signed last April by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem allows ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records. The deal led the then-acting commissioner of the IRS to resign.

There are several ongoing cases that challenge the IRS-DHS agreement.

Earlier this week, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to issue a preliminary injunction for the immigrants rights group, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, and other nonprofits that are suing the federal government to stop implementation of the agreement.

In declining the preliminary injunction request, Judge Harry T. Edwards wrote that the nonprofit groups 'are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim,' since the information the agencies are sharing isnt covered by the IRS privacy statute.

Still, two separate court orders have blocked the agencies from massive transfers of taxpayer information and blocked ICE from acting upon any IRS data in its possession. Those preliminary injunctions are still in place.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ' Every day, Iranians go to stores and find prices rising. Some post photos on social media of the shrinking contents of their shopping carts as they struggle to buy enough basic staples for their families. The mounting cost of living is an extra weight bearing down as Iranians prepare for a possible war with the U.S. and wrestle with the aftermath of protests that swept the country last month.

'Everybody is under pressure: merchants, civil servants, laborers,' said Ebrahim Momeni, a 52-year-old retired civil servant. 'The weaker class of people is being crushed.'

Irans economy has struggled for years because of international sanctions and mismanagement.

It experienced some relief under a 2015 nuclear deal that lifted many sanctions, until U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018. Since coming back into office more than a year ago, Trump revived a 'maximum pressure' campaign, expanding sanctions that target Irans financial sector and energy exports. On Wednesday, his administration imposed new sanctions on 30 people and companies accused of enabling Irans production of ballistic missiles and drones, and illicit oil sales.

The pressure has accelerated the devaluation of Irans currency, the rial. In 2015, when the nuclear deal was signed, the rial traded at about 32,000 to the dollar. In late December, it was at 1.3 million to the dollar. On Wednesday, it had reached a new low at 1.65 million rials to the dollar ' worsened by fears of a U.S. attack.

Lower classes desperate for relief as prices jump

Inflation has surpassed 46% compared with January of last year. Economists warn that the rials accelerating decline risks feeding a vicious cycle of higher prices and reduced purchasing power. They expect double-digit inflation to plague Irans economy ' which also suffers from high unemployment among younger people ' for years to come.

The plunging value of the rial was one trigger for protests that began in late December in Tehrans main bazaar and then spiraled nationwide.

Prices for everyday items, from groceries to toiletries, are soaring.

Momeni said he makes about 700 million rials (about $540) a month. Just in the past month, a kilo (2.2 pounds) of red meat increased from 13 million rials ($10) to 22 million rials ($17). In the same period, the price of a liter of milk (a quarter of a gallon) doubled from 520,000 rials to 1.1 million rials, and a box of pasta rose from 340,000 rials to 570,000 rials.

'Those with lower incomes and fixed salaries are suffering because of the price hikes,' said Farhad Panahirad, a 44-year-old taxi driver. Together, he and his wife make about 600 million rials (about $460) a month, he said.

Several people in the markets on Wednesday explained how they try to deal with rising financial pressures ' they check social media every day to see news about the latest prices, or go shopping at night, when some produce is marked down to half price to get rid of inventory before it spoils.

Fearing the U.S. could launch strikes at any time, Iranians are also scrambling to purchase emergency supplies. That includes flashlights, small gas ovens, and tape for securing windows against explosions, said the owner of a tool shop in central Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

Some try to purchase bulk amounts of beans, bread, rice and canned food despite the high prices. 'I am not happy to buy this much stuff, but my wife said we had to be prepared for uncertainty in the coming days,' said Saeed Ebrahimi, 43, an electrical technician and father of two.

Even items such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators have doubled in price, according to Iranian media.

War fears hang over the economy

Tehran-based economist Farbod Molavi wrote in the independent Dona-e-Eghtesad newspaper that prices are higher because of uncertainty in the market and the rising costs of raw materials. Iran is suffering from both a recession and high unemployment, he added.

Unemployment was officially around 7.8% in October, up from 7.2% for the same period in 2024, and runs as high as 20% among young people. About 24 million Iranians are between 15 and 34 years old, according to official statistics.

Acknowledging the suffering, the government in January began distributing payments of 10 million rials a month each to some 70 million people, about 75% of the population, to spend on food. It has promised to increase the payments if prices go higher.

But the strain appears likely to continue. Trump has threatened strikes on Iran if it doesnt agree to a new accord curtailing its nuclear program. He has massed the largest buildup of warships and aircraft in the region in decades. The two sides have held two rounds of negotiations in recent weeks and a third in Geneva on Thursday.

Panahirad, the taxi driver, said he is pessimistic the negotiations will bring any relief for those struggling to buy food. '(Trump) is bullying them, to some extent. After all, he is a superpower and says what he wishes must be done,' he said,

'Wherever you go now people are talking about war. If you go to a bakery to buy bread you see people talking about war,' said Momeni. 'This state of limbo is worse than war.'

Burger King is testing AI-powered headsets that can recite recipes, alert managers when inventories are low and even track how friendly employees are to customers.

Restaurant Brands International ' the Miami-based company that owns Burger King, Popeyes and other brands ' said Thursday its currently testing the OpenAI-powered headsets in 500 U.S. restaurants.

The system collects data on restaurant operations and shares it via 'Patty,' a voice that talks to employees through their headsets. If the drink machine is low on Diet Coke, Patty will tell the stores manager. If a customer uses a QR code to report a messy bathroom, the manager will be alerted.

Employees can ask Patty how to make various menu items or tell Patty to remove items from digital menus if theyve run out of ingredients.

Burger King said its also exploring using Patty as a way to improve customer service. The system can track when employees say key words like 'welcome,' 'please' and 'thank you' and share that with managers.

When asked about that capability Thursday by The Associated Press, Burger King said the intent is to use Patty as a coaching tool, not a tracker of individual employees.

'Its not about scoring individuals or enforcing scripts. Its about reinforcing great hospitality and giving managers helpful, real-time insights so they can recognize their teams more effectively,' Burger King said in a statement.

Burger King added that the key words are 'one of many signals to help managers understand service patterns.'

'We believe hospitality is fundamentally human. The role of this technology is to support our teams so they can stay present with guests,' Burger King said.

Patty is part of a larger app-based BK Assistant platform that will be available to all U.S. restaurants later this year.

Burger King is one of several fast food chains experimenting with artificial intelligence. Yum Brands said last spring it was partnering with Nvidia to develop AI technologies for its brands, which include KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

McDonalds ended a partnership with IBM in 2024 that was testing automated orders at its drive-thrus. The company is now working with Google on AI systems.

The Frito-Lay manufacturing facility that gave birth to Flamin’ Hot Cheetos nearly 35 years ago plans to close June 6, laying off 248 warehouse and logistics workers, according to a noticed filed earlier this month by the company with the state’s Employment Development Department.

In total, 680 workers have been laid off at the snack-making giant’s Inland Empire facility since last summer ' which is now permanently closed.

The snack industry has taken a hit in recent years as consumer habits shift and federal policies take aim at highly processed food. Over the past year, PepsiCo has been making organizational changes to improve its manufacturing and warehouse and distribution capabilities.

Last June, Frito-Lay Inc. notified 432 employees that the production line at 9535 Archibald Avenue had made its last Cheetos, Tostitos, Doritos and Funyuns. At the time, the snack maker said it would continue to operate the Southern California hub out of the facility, which also included warehouse, distribution and transportation units. Those portions of the campus were untouched by the production line layoffs ' until now.

The Rancho Cucamonga plant, which is one of the tallest buildings in Rancho Cucamonga, opened in 1970. Frito-Lay, which merged with Pepsi-Cola in 1965, introduced its Flamin Hot Cheetos in 1991.

City officials couldn’t be immediately reached to say what their economic development plans are for the empty building.

Samantha French, senior human resources director with Frito-Lay, wrote in a Feb. 10 letter filed with the state that the layoffs are due to the “total and permanent cessation” of the company’s warehouse operations at the Rancho Cucamonga location.

French made the filing as part of the EDDs Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification process. A WARN notice is required when an employer lays off more than 50 employees or a significant percentage of its staff.

In the latest round of layoffs, affected workers included material handlers, maintenance mechanics, warehouse handlers and sanitizers to ensure machinery adhered to food safety protocols.

We will be shifting these operations to a new distribution center in the local community to better serve our customers and consumers. We are committed to treating impacted employees with the utmost care, including providing pay and benefits continuation based on their years of service, along with transition assistance and career support.

A PepsiCo Foods spokesperson declined to say where Frito-Lay is shifting snack production, or where the new logistics operation hub for Southern California is located.

“We will be shifting these operations to a new distribution center in the local community to better serve our customers and consumers,” according to a PepsiCo statement. “We are committed to treating impacted employees with the utmost care, including providing pay and benefits continuation based on their years of service, along with transition assistance and career support.”

Frito-Lay also has a production plant at 6230 Descanso Ave. in Buena Park and a distribution center at 1500 Francisco St., in Torrance.

NEW YORK (AP) ' Ann Godoff, a leading book publisher for more than 30 years with an eye for timely and timeless works from 'Alexander Hamilton' and 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' to current bestsellers by Gisèle Pelicot and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, has died. She was 76.

Godoff died of cancer Tuesday in Albany, New York, according to a statement from Penguin Press, which she had founded in 2003.

'Anns impact on American book culture over the past four decades is incalculable,' Penguin Press publisher Scott Moyers said in a statement. 'An editor of immense range in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Ann shepherded into print innumerable New York Times bestsellers, multiple winners of every major award, and works that have appeared on all manner of best books lists ' of the year, the decade, and the century.'

A onetime NYU film student who studied under then-faculty member Martin Scorsese, sold cars and assisted on Dr. Joyce Brothers television show, Godoff was a late bloomer who didnt begin her publishing career until her early 30s and soon revealed uncommon gifts for spotting and cultivating talent. As a rising editor at Random House in the 1990s, she published such debut phenomena as John Berendts 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' and Caleb Carrs 'The Alienist.'

She also worked with Salman Rushdie, E.L. Doctorow and Arundhati Roy and had lasting relationships with Michael Pollan and Ron Chernow, whose books with Godoff have included a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George Washington and the Hamilton biography that was the basis for the prize-winning stage musical.

'Ann supervised me with a rather light touch and never got lost in the details,' Chernow wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

'She was no less gifted in fashioning a design for the book ' everything from the cover art to the paper stock ' with a look fully consistent with my portrait of the character,' he added. 'Everything was of a piece and that was carried straight through to the marketing and publicity. I always felt myself in the most capable hands.'

Godoff was eventually promoted to president and editor in chief of Random House, and her stature was so high that when she was forced out in 2003 amid corporate restructuring, her departure set off debates ' evergreen in the industry ' over the feared decline of literary publishing.

But Penguin soon signed her up to lead the new Penguin Press imprint. Chernow, Pollan and other authors moved there with her, and she continued to publish bestsellers and critical favorites, including such Pulitzer Prize winners as Steve Colls 'Ghost Wars' and John Lewis Gaddis 'George F. Kennan.'

When Random House and Penguin merged into Penguin Random House in 2013, Godoff was under the same roof as her old company. Right up to the time of her death, she was shaping the public conversation. Pelicots 'A Hymn to Life' recounts her horrifying marriage and how she came to be a leading voice against sexual violence, while Newsoms 'Young Man in a Hurry' is widely seen as a building block for a 2028 presidential run.

Godoff was born in 1949 in New York City, grew up in New York and California, and graduated from Bennington College. She started out at Simon & Schuster in the early 1980s as an assistant to Alice Mayhew, the renowned editor of Bob Woodward and Doris Kearns Goodwin among others. After serving as editor in chief at Atlantic Monthly Press, Godoff joined Random House in 1991.

Her marriage to Malcolm Drummond ended in divorce in 2012. Her survivors include her partner, the writer-photographer Annik LaFarge, and brother Peter Godoff.

Godoff was never the outsized personality of such Random House predecessors as Bennett Cerf and Harold Evans. She was regarded by many as serious, hard-working and committed, known for saying 'The book will abide.' But she was competitive, and she didnt mind making news. She paid a reported $8 million for 'Cold Mountain' author Charles Fraziers next novel, a sum many found excessive at the time, and a comparable amount for a memoir by former Federal Reverse Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Bestselling author Roger Lowenstein, whose seven books have all been published by Godoff, wrote in an email to the AP that she was an exacting but precise editor. He remembered a 'blistering memo' from her while shaping the manuscript for 'Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War,' a prize-winning history published in 2022. His final draft was 90 pages shorter and he couldnt think of a 'single word' that he regretted being cut.

'She generally reserved her praise, at least in my case, until the end of the process, often in letters that arrived unexpected in the mail,' he wrote. 'Nothing was ever sweeter, because one worked so hard to get there, and because you knew that she meant it.'

WASHINGTON (AP) ' The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now theyre increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost transplants but also raises public confusion, researchers reported Thursday.

Whats called donation after circulatory death, or DCD, jumped dramatically in a short period: It accounted for 49% of all deceased donors in the U.S. last year, up from 2% in 2000.

Technology has helped overcome barriers to using those organs ' ways to keep them from deteriorating as the heartbeat winds down ' spurring this type of donation at the same time the nation is hunting ways to overcome a dire shortage. More than 100,000 people are on the transplant waiting list and thousands die waiting. Just over 49,000 transplants were performed last year.

But specialists from NYU Langone Health found donation after circulatory death is far more common in some parts of the country than others. That suggests better educating the public and local hospitals about the option could further increase access to lifesaving transplants.

The findings, published in the medical journal JAMA, come as some rare but scary reports of potential donors who showed signs of life have shaken trust in the transplant system.

Additional safeguards are being developed by both federal officials and the nonprofit organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, that the government certifies to coordinate donation. The new findings may aid that policymaking.

Donation after circulatory death is complex and 'we need to make sure we are doing it well,' said Dr. Babak Orandi, an NYU transplant surgeon and study co-author. 'If we stop doing it or severely restrict it, there would be pretty significant repercussions for patients.'

Different types of organ donation

While living donors can provide certain organs, most transplants are thanks to donations from the deceased. Brain death is declared when testing shows someone has no remaining brain function. If theyre a possible organ donor, the body is kept on a ventilator to support the organs until theyre retrieved.

Donation after circulatory death can be an option if someone has a nonsurvivable injury but all brain function hasnt ceased, and the family chooses to end life support. Death occurs after the heart gradually stops beating. Once that happens theres a mandatory wait ' five minutes, according to guidelines from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons ' to be sure it wont restart. Then the persons doctor declares death.

By law, donation and transplant groups cant participate in the decision to end life support, and theyre not in the room when its withdrawn. Organ retrieval cannot begin until death is declared. If death doesnt occur quickly enough, within about two hours, the organs arent usable and retrieval isnt attempted.

Variation in who donates

To track the donor evolution, the NYU team analyzed data from the nations Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and from 55 OPOs that recover organs in assigned regions around the country.

Last year, circulatory death accounted for more than half the donors at 24 organ donation agencies. But it varied widely, with some accounting for as little as 11% of donors.

Hospital resources play a role, according to the Association for Organ Procurement Organizations. Decisions to withdraw life support are common, but small or rural hospitals may not be as familiar with the extra steps involved with donation.

Another factor is whether hospitals have adopted that new technology. The quality of organs can suffer as the heart stops, briefly depriving them of oxygen. After death is declared, a tool called normothermic regional perfusion allows surgeons to temporarily restore that blood flow to organs in the chest or abdomen ' avoiding the brain ' while they do the delicate work of removing them.

It has helped enable use of organs from older, sicker donors after their hearts stop. But even temporarily restoring blood flow after death has raised ethical questions.

New policies for donation after circulatory death

The Health Resources and Services Administration is preparing new national policies to improve safeguards for this type of donation. One proposal would allow anyone involved with a potential donor who questions if their condition is right for life-support withdrawal to call for a pause in those preparations.

Other proposals would require OPOs to document that the hospitals caring for the potential donor are performing appropriate neurological exams, and to educate families of potential DCD donors about the steps required.

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations has some similar guidelines and some OPOs already have created checklists to help hospitals.

The group also urges withdrawing life support in the critical care unit, not in an operating room, to help avoid public confusion about when death occurs and when organ groups step in, said association president Jeff Trageser.

Donation after circulatory death 'requires a lot of buy-in from the community, including the local hospitals, to make this happen,' said NYUs Orandi. 'A couple of cases out of many, many cases has led to a loss of trust.'

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