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WASHINGTON (AP) — A'Zariah Miles' dream of attending Howard University was a few weeks from being realized. Then it all came crashing down.
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President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court.
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WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in a deadly shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
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A 72-year-old man told Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies that a suspect he knows as “Big Baby” pulled a gun on, stabbed and robbed him as he walked down the street in the county’s West Perrine area in early July.
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A Homestead man subjected his 4-year-old autistic son to 25 minutes of abuse on Thursday afternoon, leading to his arrest on a felony charge, according to police.
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A 32-year-old felon stands accused of stealing packages valued at nearly $6,850 from an apartment building in Key Biscayne, while he was out on probation for another theft, records show.
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A handyman convicted in the killing of a La Carreta waitress was re-sentenced to death Friday by a Miami-Dade County judge after having his initial sentence overturned.
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A Miami-Dade man known as “Yunglazz Drakula” livestreamed himself rapping about how he scams people through identity theft, according to police. But investigators said they were watching ― and a raid of his home Thursday revealed a gun, drugs and animals used for Santería sacrifices.
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Police officers accused a 39-year-old man of masturbating in front of two children who were walking to school on Thursday in Homestead, records show.
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Sunshine Perez, who pleaded guilty in a wrong-way wreck on Florida’s Turnpike that left a 23-year-old man dead, received a two-decade sentence on Friday.
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Cyclosporiasis cases continue to climb nationwide, including in Florida, where the state Health Department has reported 154 confirmed cases and four more suspected cases.
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What started as a car being stolen in Hallandale Beach ended in a tense, guns-drawn standoff in Fort Lauderdale Thursday after a chase that left two police cruisers wrecked in Hollywood, authorities said.
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North Carolina authorities arrested a couple wanted by Hollywood police for killing their baby through neglect and then claiming the little girl was a “hoax” who never existed, officials announced on Thursday.
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This August, five candidates will be asking Democrats for their vote as they aim to go head-to-head with a Republican challenger in November in one of this election season’s most-watched races: Florida’s newly redrawn Congressional District 20.
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A photo released by federal prosecutors shows a burnt-out letter “P” on the sign of Chans Pharmacy in Pembroke Pines, reading simply “HARMACY.” Perhaps it was a fitting label for a storefront with an owner convicted of illegally distributing hundreds of thousands of Oxycodone pills through it and another Broward location.
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As officials review widely circulated bystander videos of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in Madison, Wisconsin, one key perspective won’t be emerging: footage from the officers’ body-worn cameras.
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Tropical Storm Bertha brought heavy surf and some flooding to southern Louisiana and Texas as it came ashore on the Gulf Coast for a second time Thursday, hours before weakening to a tropical depression.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever.
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A 62-year-old woman faced charges on Thursday after she confessed to fatally burning a woman on Valentine’s Day 2024 at their apartment in Miami-Dade County’s Brownsville area.
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GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Authorities recovered the bodies of the remaining 13 workers trapped inside a collapsed hydropower tunnel in India, taking the death toll to 25 as authorities ended the rescue operations on Thursday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it was conducting a 12th night of strikes against Iran as both sides increasingly targeted civilian infrastructure.
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A 38-year-old widower who was arrested after the crash that killed his 8-year-old daughter and injured his 6-year-old and 12-year-old daughters was out on bond on Tuesday in Palm Beach County.
First responders rushed to the aid of a dog in need of an unusual rescue in Boynton Beach.
Great-grandparents Roberta and Oscar Cash claimed they suffered a foodborne illness through contaminated blueberries purchased in May at a Publix Supermarket in Palm Beach County, records show.
There are only two facilities in the entire world that study leatherback turtle hatchlings, and South Florida is home to one of them.
Palm Beach County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward up to $3,000 for information about a cold case homicide in which the body of a Black male was found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach in 1999.
Most dog owners don’t enjoy cleaning up after their pets. For one South Florida entrepreneur, it’s become a growing business.
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Cyclosporiasis cases continue to climb nationwide, including in Florida, where the state Health Department has reported 154 confirmed cases and four more suspected cases.
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The restaurants below earned a well-deserved Clean Plate award after passing recent routine, unannounced state food safety inspections with zero violations.
A 72-year-old Key Largo property owner was arrested Friday as part of a drug investigation after authorities accused her of knowingly renting rooms to drug dealers and users for about three years.
A Florida Keys man is dead after his body was “severed” in an industrial accident on Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies said.
A couple in the Florida Keys said they found a spent bullet casing lodged in an avocado.
A Florida Keys woman is behind bars after allegedly threatening deputies with a knife, authorities said.
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Some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, according to security camera video released Wednesday.
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CHICAGO (AP) — An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old’s cause and manner of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marcus L. Martin felt instant trepidation Sunday when he saw five adults wading thigh- and waist-deep in the Scioto River. A frequent boater on the Ohio waterway, the Baptist pastor knew the area where they were standing to be treacherous. He believes the people he captured in a photo to be the ill-fated group that drowned that day.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a defense policy bill that incorporates President Donald Trump's request for a historic $1.15 trillion in spending for national security and that would designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The European Union approved Paramount's $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery this week, effectively clearing another regulatory hurdle for a mega merger that could vastly reshape the entertainment and media landscape worldwide.
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A federal judge has barred the deportation of a witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder by federal immigration officers during a traffic stop in Houston.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said it completed the 11th night of strikes on Iran early Wednesday as attacks across the Middle East overshadowed diplomatic efforts in Pakistan to salvage an interim ceasefire deal that has collapsed.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. military has confirmed that a third service member is believed to be dead in Friday’s attack on a base in Jordan and identified them as Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of New York.
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POWELL, Ohio (AP) — The skies were mostly clear and weeks of sweltering heat had finally broken as 33-year-old Jose Mario Pineda Dias and his 28-year-old wife, Marina Suyapa Regalado, set out with their two children for some leisurely fishing in an Ohio river. A second Honduran couple and an adult friend joined them.
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NEW YORK (AP) — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies?
MIAMI (AP) — Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, their lawyer said Monday, suggesting their arrest in Miami was politically motivated without explaining why.
POWELL, Ohio (AP) — Five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to help another person who was struggling to swim, authorities said Monday.
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used to grow the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug trafficking organization.
Spain substitute Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute to give his team a 1-0 win over defending champion Argentina in the World Cup final.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump presented the World Cup trophy to Spain, the winner of Sunday’s final against Argentina. But to him, the real victor of soccer’s premier tournament just might be the United States.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people, injuring more than 30 and displacing 300, authorities said Sunday.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Expect some goals in the World Cup final. At least, that’s what history says.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said the team needs to work to restore George Russell's confidence after the British driver blamed a lack of speed for the collision that ended his Belgian Grand Prix and damaged his Formula 1 title chances.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires that engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday thanks to thunderstorms passing through, meteorologists said.
CHONGQING, China (AP) — Rescue crews used excavators on Sunday to comb through the rubble in search of survivors from a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left another 34 missing.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Saturday killed at least nine Palestinians, including three children, hospital officials said.
CARACAS (AP) — The death toll from the two powerful earthquakes that shook Venezuela last month rose to 5,069 late on Friday, local authorities said.
LITOCHORO, Greece (AP) — Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Rising to 2,918 meters (9,573 feet) from a base practically at sea level, the ancient Greeks believed the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, stood on the highest of its craggy, often mist-shrouded peaks.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — First responders in storm-battered Texas again rushed to save people trapped in high waters Friday, as more heavy rain widened the danger from floods that have killed at least two people and left hundreds more in need of rescue.
TAPACHULA, México (AP) — A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday, right on the border with Guatemala, and was felt from Mexico City to El Salvador. Authorities did not report any severe damage or casualties in any country. Two people were reported injured in southern Mexico.
During his senior year of high school on the Puyallup Reservation, Gerald Dillon traded much of his academic coursework for career training. When he walked into the second grade classroom where he worked as a teaching assistant, students would rush from their seats for a fist bump or a hug.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to elevate his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of U.S. elections and dispute his 2020 loss in an appeal for more restrictive voting laws ahead of the midterms.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussed election security at the White House complex. The Friday briefing follows President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday night, where he revived falsehoods about voter fraud ahead of the November midterms.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Catastrophic flash floods in Texas have killed two people and forced hundreds of rescues in areas still reeling from devastating floods a year ago, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.
Miami residents who identify as Haitian Americans are among those affected by the end of the Temporary Protected Status that kept them safe in South Florida.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House Budget Committee advanced a $95 billion package Thursday for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump's push for strict new voter ID requirements, moving forward on a party-line vote despite trouble in the full House — and the Senate.
Scarlett Willard stands accused on Thursday of stabbing two different lovers in the abdomen within two months in South Florida, records show.
When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.
When major disasters strike, Americans are routinely waiting weeks — or even months — to receive presidential approval for aid. And if they live in a state that didn't support President Donald Trump, chances are greater that aid will be denied.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard crews suspended their search late Wednesday for three people missing a day after a boat capsized in the cold, choppy waters of San Francisco Bay while carrying 20 family members and friends who went out to scatter the ashes of a loved one.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday filed a motion to quash subpoenas that the Justice Department served on journalists who reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, teeing up a significant court fight pitting press freedom against the the government’s ability to force reporters to identify sources.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday replaced an exhibit on slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia with a version that historians say whitewashes the nation’s history.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Widening evacuation warnings and high-water rescues in Texas mounted Wednesday under relentlessly heavy storms that turned roads into rivers, washed away vehicles and spun up a tornado across a busy interstate in San Antonio.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their "absolute best.”
