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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A labor union behind a controversial tax on California billionaires significantly scaled back its proposal a day after it qualified for the November ballot, but the offer Thursday wasn’t enough to get the governor on board.
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Juneteenth, which commemorates the day, has been an official federal holiday since 2021, and North Miami has been celebrating it every year with a free festival.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against a broad federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana users, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights.
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A 17-year-old boy was injured in a shooting in Florida City early Friday evening, police said.
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Officials with the Miami Springs Police Department released video on Friday showing what they said was a violent domestic kidnapping within the city the day prior.
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Reactions from Cubans ranged from skepticism to cautious optimism over whether the island nation can actually implement the sweeping economic reforms its National Assembly voted to approve.
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A 19-year-old man is now facing hate crime charges in connection with two battery incidents that occurred last month in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in northeast Miami-Dade, authorities announced Friday.
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Three brush fires in Miami-Dade County continued to send smoke into South Florida skies on Friday.
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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Florida, made a campaign stop in South Miami on Friday as he seeks the governor’s office.
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Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit are seeking the public’s help in locating a 58-year-old woman who they say was reported missing.
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A 4-year-old boy has died after being pulled from a pool Friday morning in North Lauderdale, according to deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
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A crash on Interstate 75 in Davie on Friday led to an unusual rescue involving some four-legged and feathered travelers, authorities confirmed.
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A 9-year-old child was taken to a hospital for evaluation after possible smoke inhalation following a residential fire caused by a pot left on a stove that displaced a mother and two children in Lauderhill, authorities said.
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A 25-year-old Illinois man arrested in early June at Port Everglades after being accused of cruise ship voyeurism is now facing federal charges, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
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A 19-year-old Miramar man was arrested Thursday in connection with a crash in Hollywood that killed a scooter rider and injured two others after investigators said he was driving at speeds of up to 85 mph in a 45 mph zone late last year.
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Major shipowners have begun moving vessels through the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement to end their war, maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence said Thursday.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has reached out to Moscow in a tentative bid to open a line of communication so the continent is not sidelined in any potential talks to end Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine, officials said Thursday.
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LONDON (AP) — The Church of England apologized Thursday for its role in forced adoptions as recent as the mid-1970s, acknowledging the painful experiences of many unmarried women at so-called mother and baby homes in the U.K. that were affiliated with the church.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire at a massive warehouse blackened the skies near downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, prompting shelter-in-place orders in the area due to the risk of hazardous air.
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison. He told them: “I am responsible” for the crimes.
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Investigators combed through wreckage Wednesday for clues to why a business jet crashed on a Texas highway, killing one person on board after its pilots reported mechanical problems while requesting an emergency landing at a nearby airport.
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Fifteen beagles rescued from a Wisconsin research breeding facility are getting a second chance, thanks to a cross-country effort helping them find new homes.
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Hundreds of beagles rescued from a Wisconsin research facility made their way to a South Florida rescue organization.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded to an open-water emergency near the Jupiter inlet on Saturday morning.
A 52-year-old BJ’s Wholesale Club employee is facing charges after allegedly stealing from his workplace.
Authorities have made an arrest in the murder of a South Florida businessman. Arman Motiwalla, 37, of Plantation, was a successful insurance executive and father who was in the midst of a whistleblower lawsuit at the time of his killing.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of a South Florida woman who has made the agency’s Most Wanted Fraudster list.
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Drivers recently reported a 49-year-old shirtless man with his pants down was standing along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys.
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An 18-year-old man who authorities said vanished as he was biking from Jacksonville to the Florida Keys was found safe Thursday morning in Monroe County, authorities confirmed.
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An 18-year-old who was biking from Jacksonville to the Florida Keys has gone missing, authorities said.
A massive display of the red white and blue could be seen in the Florida Keys on Sunday.
A piece of treasure found at sea was brought to shore on Thursday.
Deputies in Monroe County announced they arrested a 25-year-old man on several felony charges.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a criminal charge against the chief engineer of a cargo ship involved in the deadly 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing him of failing to notify the U.S. Coast Guard of hazardous conditions on the ship.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The eight men killed in this week's fiery crash of a B-52 during a test flight at California's Edwards Air Force Base included four active duty airmen, a reservist and three civilians who were on a team devoted to keeping the bomber flying for decades to come, military officials said Wednesday.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, your turn.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C. Council member Robert White Jr. won the Democratic primary for the district’s delegate to Congress on Tuesday, ushering in generational change for a position long held by the same candidate as the nation’s capital faces mounting pressures on its autonomy.
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President Donald Trump 's preferred candidates were having mixed results in Tuesday's primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma, though not for Georgia governor.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The B-52 that crashed during a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California was in the air a very short time before slamming into the ground about halfway down the runway.
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A person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known Chicago park, police said Tuesday.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions over the past seven years, said Tuesday that Ohio should abolish the death penalty, confirming his change of heart on the policy he helped write as a state legislator 45 years ago.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday used his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in Ohio.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices sank again Tuesday and dropped below $80 per barrel for the first time since early March, while U.S. stocks drifted near their all-time highs in mixed trading.
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SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk's space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI after its Wall Street debut last week.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at a U.S. Air Force base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert and burst into flames Monday, killing all eight people aboard, military officials said.
A weekend BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump in late January to lead the Federal Reserve, a question has lingered: Will he seek to raise interest rates to tame inflation or cut them as Trump has long demanded?
Several of the skydivers killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers, including a leader at one of the sport's biggest organizations.
World leaders are gathering in a French spa town Monday for a summit of the Group of Seven club of powerful democracies with a new impetus following President Donald Trump 's announcement of an agreement that he says will bring an end to the U.S. war against Iran.
A 34-year-old man stands accused on Monday of setting up a fire during a fight with his boyfriend in Miami-Dade County’s Naranja area, records show.
LONDON (AP) — Two men were convicted Monday of a plot orchestrated by a mysterious Russian-speaking figure to set fire to property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
President Donald Trump has confirmed a deal to end the war with Iran and allow oil traffic to begin again through the Strait of Hormuz.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Daichi Kamada and his Japanese teammates were minutes away from a World Cup -opening loss that wouldn't have been unexpected considering the opponent.
ATLANTA (AP) — When Georgia lawmakers return to the Capitol this week for a special session, they are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making.
BUTLER, Mo. (AP) — A plane carrying a pilot and 11 passengers on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed in a field and was engulfed in flames Sunday, killing all aboard, authorities said.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army on Saturday withdrew its troops from a base in a southern Lebanese village after Israeli troops advanced in an area nearby, a military official said.
A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death.
BEIJING (AP) — China said Saturday it firmly opposed the U.S. adding several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of military companies, and that the move ignored the consensus reached during U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last month.
EDITOR’S NOTE: When U.S. President Gerald Ford and leaders of five other leading democracies gathered for talks at a castle outside Paris on Nov. 15, 1975, they planted the seed for what subsequently became the Group of Seven nations.
A man who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland in an attack Friday morning that left one person dead and 10 injured had shot at a police officer just days earlier during a chase, authorities said.
Residents in tornado-ravaged areas in Illinois and Indiana were grappling with the damage to their homes and neighborhoods on Friday, after the strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago and left trails of destruction. Cleanup efforts were underway, and utility companies said power restoration efforts could extend into next week.
Ron Magill was quick to defend a man he felt was being treated unfairly after he went out of his way to capture and surrender a python, an invasive species.
An 11-year-old girl lived a horrific nightmare for months in 2024 while living in a house near Redondo Elementary School in Homestead, records show.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In “Disclosure Day,” out Friday, Steven Spielberg is once again inviting audiences to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life — and the implications it would have for religion on Earth.
FBI agents have searched the office of an Ohio group that supports voter registration efforts, seizing documents and computer files, a board member of the organization said Friday.
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man facing the death penalty by nitrogen gas was spared Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to set aside a lower-court ruling that found the method is unconstitutionally cruel, issuing a brief order that came well after the hour originally planned to initiate Jeffery Lee’s execution.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Thousands of Puerto Ricans are struggling with water shortages so severe that the governor of the U.S. territory has activated the National Guard and emergency responders are fielding calls every day.
GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Republican political candidates routinely highlight their devotion to President Donald Trump. But in upstate New York, Anthony Constantino is taking it to another level.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband admitted he spent months identifying elected officials to target and stalked them before driving to their homes in the middle of the night, dressed as a police officer, with the intention of killing them.
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company's tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion last month, forcing the evacuation of about 50,000 residents in California's Orange County.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in two months, and oil prices fell Thursday after President Donald Trump called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening. That raised hopes for a potential deal that could get the global flow of oil going again.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war.
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit on Thursday, saying the government is unwilling to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.” The resignation dealt another blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is already facing demands from Labour colleagues to step down.
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Thursday convicted and sentenced to death two members of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority over a 2015 bombing at a Bangkok landmark that killed 20 people and injured more than 120.
