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A suspect has been detained after someone notified police about an armed person on the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College, authorities confirmed Wednesday morning. According to Miami-Dade police, the caller reported that the suspect was riding a bicycle on the campus at 11011 SW 104th St...

Matthew Desmond's first book since his Pulitzer Prize winning “Evicted” is not just a study of who is poor in the world's richest country. It also asks why. Crown will publish “Poverty, by America” on March 21, 2023. According to Crown, Desmond will document how the wealthy harm the poor...

An elected Florida prosecutor who was removed from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis because of his positions on abortion and transgender rights filed suit Wednesday to get his job back, saying the Republican leader violated his First Amendment rights. DeSantis said he suspended Hillsborough County...

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a hit-and-run crash that left a child dead and two others seriously injured. The crash was reported just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the northbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike, about 350 feet north of Griffin Road. According to authorities, a...

Over the past 30 years on August 17th, we’ve seen a tropical cyclone (tropical depression, tropical storm, or hurricane) somewhere in the Atlantic for half of those years. In the other half, we saw what we’re seeing today – a map empty of any active tropical cyclones. That could change in the...

The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged last month as persistently high inflation and rising interest rates forced many households to spend more cautiously. Retail purchases were flat in July after having risen 0.8% in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. America's...

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Wall Street pointed toward declines before the market opened Wednesday after Target reported a huge decline in profits on the same day that the U.S. posts retail sales data for July. Futures for the S&P; 500 slipped 0.8% and futures for the Dow fell 0.6%. Target slid almost 2% after reporting...

In the Brazilian Amazon these days, it's nearly impossible to run for office talking up the environment. More common is a scene like this: A candidate for Congress parades a helicopter — the symbol of illegal gold mining — painted with the Brazilian flag, through the streets of the Amazon city...

NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers. It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the...

A large waterspout was spotted off the coast of Destin, stunning early morning beachgoers on Tuesday. The huge funnel cloud formed in the Gulf of Mexico during severe thunderstorms. Waterspouts are common, but the size of the one seen on Tuesday was frightening for many. Several people posted...

Elon Musk caused a stir by tweeting that he was buying the English soccer team Manchester United — whose current owners are opposed by many fans — then saying several hours later that it was a joke. It comes as the billionaire Tesla CEO faces a legal battle in the U.S. after backing out of a...

Social media companies are offering few specifics as they share their plans for safeguarding the U.S. midterm elections. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter are generally staying the course from the 2020 voting season, which was marred by conspiracies and culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection...

A man who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors said during a court hearing Wednesday. Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, is charged under the Treason Act with intending to “injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II...

Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo are holding high-level crisis talks on Thursday which the European Union mediators hope will de-escalate growing tensions in the Balkans where Russia has been trying to further increase its influence amid the war in Ukraine. Hopes that the rare face-to-face...

Egypt’s central bank governor resigned Wednesday as the country struggles to address its economic woes. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi accepted the resignation of Tarek Amer and named him a presidential adviser, the Egyptian leader’ office said in a statement. The brief statement offered no...

Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing’s political control over the self-governing island, following new rounds of threatening drills from China. The exercises Wednesday off the southeastern county of Hualien follow days of Chinese...

Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as East Africa's most stable democracy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga. Ruto spoke to journalists on Wednesday after meeting with members of...

An appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that a parentless 16-year-old girl in the Florida Panhandle was not “sufficiently mature” to end her pregnancy while seeking a waiver from a state law that requires minors to get parental consent for an abortion. The teen, known as Jane Doe...

Target reported solid sales for the fiscal second quarter but its profits plunged nearly 90% because it slashed prices to clear inventories of clothing, home goods and other discretionary items. The worse-than-expected profit results came two months after Target warned that it was canceling...