Deputies reported finding a convict who was supposed to be on house arrest walking naked in a gated community and there was violence when they arrested him in Miami-Dade County, records show.

New research suggests ancestors of the “hobbits” were even smaller.

A prominent aid group along the U.S.-Mexico border is asking a Texas judge to push back on a widening Republican-led investigation into nonprofits that help migrants.

A federal judge has approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant children in its custody.

The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment.

Detectives arrested a 21-year-old student, who aspires to be an emergency medical technician, at the American Medical Academy School of Nursing on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County, according to police.

California officials say an inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his own serial killer cellmate two years ago.

Investigators are working to identify human remains found close to where a Palm Beach Gardens man went missing last week.

A California judge has ordered the last person seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from a college campus 25 years ago on the Central Coast to stand trial for murder.

did not seek confirmation or clarification—when the DEA informants dropped their various oblique hints,” according to the petition, which was prepared by New York-based attorneys with the firm Sidley. Campo and Flores were arrested in Haiti in a DEA sting in 2015 and immediately removed to New York to face trial. Lawyers for Campo and Flores argued at their two-week trial that no drugs traded hands and the men never intended to deliver any. But in the lower court trial, his legal bill was flipped by Wilmer Ruperti, a Venezuelan shipping magnate close to Maduro's government. The two have made almost no mention of their loved ones' conviction in the U.S.—Follow Goodman on Twitter: @APJoshGoodman

Hurricane Lorenzo will pass near the Azores as a Category 2 storm and continue moving northeast. PONTA DELGADA, Azores - Multiple islands in the Atlantic were under a hurricane or tropical storm watch Monday morning as Hurricane Lorenzo inched closer. Early Monday, it was about 1,160 miles from the islands and packing 110 mph winds, the National Hurricane Center said. The hurricane center called the storm "large and powerful" and warned its wind fields would continue to expand in the next few days. The storm's winds may have weakened, the hurricane center said but emphasized the "area of the hurricane-force winds has more than doubled" since Saturday.

Under what is known as the Flores settlement agreement, the government is required to release a minor from a non-licensed facility as expeditiously as possible, which has been set at 20 days. It's the latest effort by the administration to revamp immigration laws as the number of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border has increased. Cuccinelli on Thursday touted President Donald Trump's "aggressive" tactics on immigration. Cuccinelli told CNN on Friday that targeting the Flores agreement, which he called "one of the main motivators for the crisis at the southern border," is a "critical part of the solution." The rule must also be examined by the federal judge who oversees the Flores settlement.