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A third candidate for public office has come to forward to say a sheriff on Florida’s Space Coast offered help in getting a job in exchange for leaving a race and backing his favored candidate. Kimberly Musselman, an assistant state attorney in Brevard County, told Florida Today she was asked...

Donald Trump reasserted his grip on Republicans in Wisconsin's primary, but both Democrats and Republicans said Wednesday that the former president's involvement in key races for governor and U.S. Senate could come back to hurt them in the swing state. Trump's pick for governor, construction...

A Nebraska woman has been charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators obtained Facebook messages in which the two discussed using medication to induce an abortion and plans to burn the fetus afterward. The prosecutor handling the case said...

News that FBI agents descended on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and searched it has spawned accusations of a politicized law enforcement organization doing the bidding of the Biden administration in targeting political enemies. The reality is that the process of obtaining a...

A deadly fire that has consumed at least half of a large oil facility in western Cuba and threatened to worsen the island’s energy crisis has been largely controlled after nearly five days, authorities said Wednesday. Flames that recently consumed the fourth tank in the eight-tank facility in...

Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. References to pedophiles and “ grooming...

Detectives arrested a man on Tuesday over child porn in Miami-Dade County, about eight months after The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cyber tip from Facebook/Meta Platforms, Inc. Detectives said Andre Jean-Pierre used his “Andre.JeanPierre.39″ Facebook account to...

The nearly $50 million defamation verdict against Alex Jones for his years of lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is far from a final reckoning. Jones' attorneys plan to appeal and try to lower the price tag a Texas jury put on his false claim that the nation’s deadliest school...

Water levels on the Rhine River could reach a critically low point in the coming days, German officials said Wednesday, making it increasingly difficult to transport goods — including coal and gasoline — as drought and an energy crisis grip Europe. Weeks of dry weather have turned several of...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is holding a news conference on monkeypox vaccination efforts at a vaccination site in Miami Beach Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, Levine Cava announced that the county would be taking action. According to a release from the mayor’s office...

Deputies arrested a man accused of committing a fatal stabbing in Tamarac Tuesday afternoon. Keenan Whyte, 27, now faces a charge of premeditated murder. Deputies have not publicly released a suspected motive. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, crews were dispatched to the 6300 block...

A painter in orange overalls touches up the image of a hand holding a rifle while an artist perched on scaffolding painstakingly places bits of colorful ceramic in a mosaic of a guerrilla fighter. The artists aren't just decorating a wall: Together, they are helping to revive muralism, a...

Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of the city but found no cases of the paralytic disease in people. Britain's Health Security Agency...

As concerns about social media's harmful effects on teens continue to rise, platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are bolting on new features they say will make their services safer and more age appropriate. But the changes rarely address the elephant in the the room — the algorithms...

The number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9% in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable, according to the latest weekly pandemic report released by the World Health Organization Wednesday. The U.N. health agency said there were more than 14,000 COVID-19 deaths in the last week...

An Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former Trump administration national security John Bolton, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Shahram Poursafi, identified by U.S. officials as a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is currently wanted by the FBI on...

A Broward Sheriff’s Office detention deputy will not serve jail time or probation despite being found guilty of repeatedly striking an inmate’s hands and fingers with a flashlight, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Broward County Judge John D. Fry also withheld adjudication, meaning Officer Delray...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a person was found dead in a Hollywood home overnight Wednesday. Details were limited, but Hollywood police said they responded to a home in the 2400 block of Cleveland Street just before 2:15 a.m. for a welfare check and found the person dead inside...

Deputies arrested the operator of a recycling yard on Tuesday in the Florida Keys for failing to keep a proper record of his scrap metal purchases, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The requirement is designed to prevent the illegal sale and purchase of stolen metals. Ihosvany...

Pembroke Pines police arrested a Boca Raton man accused of exposing himself and groping a 10-year-old girl in a mall food court Tuesday afternoon. According to an arrest report, police responded to the Pembroke Lakes Mall at around 2:30 p.m. after receiving a report that a man had exposed his...