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When San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy receives his prestigious red hat at the Vatican on Saturday, he will bring to the College of Cardinals a fervent loyalty to Pope Francis that has often put him at odds with the conservative majority in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. McElroy, 68, is...

The most significant race in Florida’s primary election Tuesday is between the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates seeking to go against Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s unopposed in the Republican primary. GOVERNOR The Democratic primary pits U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a former governor as a...

Below is a list of places that were ordered shut last week by inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Papa John’s in Perrine was allowed to re-open after being ordered shut on Aug. 9, but an inspector was back and the roach problem still existed...

Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Monday to authorize its combination COVID-19 vaccine that adds protection against the newest omicron relatives — a key step toward opening a fall booster campaign. The Food and Drug Administration ordered vaccine makers to tweak their shots to target BA.4 and BA.5...

British health authorities will begin offering eligible people just a fraction of the normal monkeypox vaccine dose to stretch supplies by about five times, in line with similar decisions to extend available doses in Europe and the U.S. In a statement Monday, Britain’s Health Security Agency...

Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help. One controversial stretch cuts a more than...

Prince William and his wife, Kate, will relocate their family from central London to more rural dwellings in Windsor, and all three of their children will attend the same private school near their new home, palace officials said Monday. William and Kate will move from Kensington Palace in west...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — As an action star, Sylvester Stallone's most iconic characters — Rocky Balboa, Rambo — have always relied on plain old brawn for...

With 83 days down and 100 to go, it’s been a weird first half of the Atlantic hurricane season. Storms have been reluctant to form and the ones that have come have gone seemingly as quickly. As we’ve discussed in previous newsletters, overall tropical activity as measured by the seasonal...

Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted will step down next year, the sports apparel maker said Monday, and the company has started looking for a successor. Rorsted, who has been CEO since 2016, and its supervisory board “mutually agreed” that he will hand over during the course of 2023, the Herzogenaurach...

Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended and a state police investigation launched after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground and beaten by police. Arkansas State Police said Sunday night that it would investigate the use of force by...

The U.S. Border Patrol detained 41 Cuban migrants who arrived in the Florida Keys on Sunday, Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar confirmed on Monday. According to Slosar, who heads the Border Patrol’s Miami sector, 31 of the migrants made landfall in the Marquesas Keys and the other 10 came...

In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, buzzing chainsaws interrupt the serenity. Crews are hustling to remove charred trees and other debris that have been washing down the mountainsides in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico's recorded history, choking rivers and streams. Heavy...

Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades. At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing...

Russia’s top counterintelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy agencies have organized the killing of the daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologue. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main KGB successor agency, said that the killing of Darya Dugina has been “prepared and...

Cineworld Group PLC, one of the world's largest movie theater chains, said Monday that it is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and similar actions elsewhere. The British company, which owns Regal Cinemas in the United States and operates in 10 countries, said...

Florida gas prices fell 11 cents last week, which is the 10th consecutive week prices at the pump have lowered, AAA reported Monday. Gas prices have now dropped a total of $1.36 per gallon since mid-June. According to AAA, Sunday’s state gas price average was $3.54 per gallon -- the lowest...

New information has been released about the five people who were killed early Saturday morning in a wrong-way crash on the Palmetto Expressway. Troopers now say there were four women and one man inside the car -- all between the ages of 18 and 25. Family members identified one of the victims...

Opening statements begin Monday for the defense in the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial. Last week, Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled that two high profile defense witnesses must answer prosecutors’ questions. Nikolas Cruz’s brother, Zachary Cruz, and Zachary Cruz’s...

Only hours after the latest international pleas to spare the area around Ukraine's main nuclear plant from attacks, there were new claims of Russian shelling close to the Zaporizhzhya facilities early Monday. Nikopol, on the the opposite bank of the Dnieper River and about 10 kilometers (6...