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The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans it disperses to needy countries like war-torn Ukraine — which is one of the fund’s biggest borrowers. The move comes as more countries will need to turn to the IMF, as food prices and inflation...

The former Miami firefighter who was terminated over a rant that offended the local law enforcement community at a time of grief released a public apology on Friday evening saying he wished he could take his words back. Kevin Newcomb, then a Miami firefighter, used a WhatsApp group chat, to...

Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties. With Democrats facing headwinds this year, Republicans had hoped that strategy could pay off yet again. But Republican...

Yvonne McCalla was a mother and loving sister. Her sister Olive Smith remembers her fondly. “She was fun loving, crazy sometimes. She had a laugh that everybody could recognize,” Smith said. McCalla was a regular at church. The 37-year-old lived a quiet life. On June 14, 2004, she was...

Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray. A leader in one of the Indigenous communities by the river’s shores in the Chilean Andes, Curin took it as a sign that the waterfall’s...

Seven students’ stories are going from the classroom to the “Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation” — a book that is distributed worldwide. Precious Symonette, who has a doctorate from St. Thomas University, is the Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ creative...

Witnesses recorded videos of a 1956 Cessna 182 flying near cars before crashing into a fence on Friday afternoon in Orange County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the plane crashed into a fence blocking the driveway of a home near the intersection of University Boulevard and Hall Road...

Death Valley National Park's most popular sites will reopen to the public on Saturday, two weeks after massive flash-flooding, but the National Park Service cautioned visitors to expect delays and continuing road closures. Locations that will reopen include the Furnace Creek Visitor Center...

A Broward Health doctor in Coral Springs pronounced a three-year-old boy dead on Friday night after a Coconut Creek resident pulled him out of a lake, police said. Scott Leamon, a spokesman for the Coconut Creek Police Department, said the resident saved the boy’s life at first, but later...

The Education Department has canceled its recognition of an accrediting agency that oversees mostly for-profit colleges, placing in jeopardy the survival of schools that serve about 5,000 students. The decision bars colleges certified by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office. Pence made the comment during an interview with The Associated Press in Iowa a week and a half after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at...

The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died in 2017, according to a court filing Friday. The suit, filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center more than...

Federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested the attorney general in Mexico's previous administration, apparently on charges he mishandled investigations into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college. Jesús Murillo Karam served as attorney general from 2012 to...

Police officers arrested a man on Thursday who is accused of shooting a 25-year-old aspiring architect from Argentina during an armed robbery in Miami Beach. Officer Ernesto Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department, identified the man arrested in Miami Springs as Ranier...

Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon chose former state Rep. Shane Hernandez of Port Huron as her running mate Friday in her bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hernandez served two terms in the Michigan House ending in 2020, when he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S...

A small plane crashed into the water on the Gulf side of Marathon Friday afternoon, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The crash happened at around 4:51 p.m., agency spokesperson Adam Linhardt said. A photo released by the agency shows the plane upside down in the water. Linhardt...

The United States leads the world in monkeypox cases at more than 13,000, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So, as the nation faces an uptick in monkeypox cases, the Biden administration is ramping up vaccines to combat the current outbreak. On...

Reaction coming in 24 hours after Thursday’s arrests of 20 Floridians, all ex-felons for voting illegally in the 2020 election. Gov. Ron DeSantis claims election officials across Florida have been ignoring voter fraud for years, but no longer. He vowed that this week’s arrests are only the...

A New York state trooper should have been disciplined for getting romantically involved with one of Andrew Cuomo’s adult daughters while serving on the Democrat's security detail when he was governor, the state inspector general said in a report. The watchdog report released Friday comes two...

Sen. Joe Manchin said he pays no attention to criticism or campaign donations when making decisions about what's best for West Virginia. Sounding somewhat exasperated when asked whether the dramatic bump in campaign contributions he's received from oil and gas interests in recent months...