Former “Love Island USA” contestant Cierra Ortega has released a video on TikTok apologizing for previously using a racial slur against Asian people.

“Love Island USA” says contestant Cierra Ortega has left the show “due to a personal situation” during Sunday’s episode, just a week before the finale will air.

Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus.

Before entering the Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Ortega had his eyes set on becoming a Navy SEAL.

Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months.

Amazonas state Gov. Wilson Lima led a ceremony that kicked off the vaccination campaign Monday night in Manaus, an isolated riverside city of 2.2 million people. “I want to thank God and our ancestors,” said Ortega, who is also a volunteer nurse in her Indigenous community. The state had already transferred 112 patients to be treated in the Federal District, Brasilia, and other states, according to the state’s health secretariat. “All this creates a climate that favors premature death.”___Associated Press videojournalist Fernando Crispim in Manaus contributed to this report.