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Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Republicans say it's a “tax and spending spree.” And everyone has a study they say proves it. Recent bipartisan action in Congress on matters ranging from producing computer chips to expanding NATO isn’t extending to the latest economic package...

Victim impact statements in the Parkland school shooter’s penalty phase had many in the Broward County courtroom in tears on Thursday afternoon. The first witness was Anne Ramsay, the mother of Helena Ramsey, one of the 17 victims Nikolas Cruz killed on Feb. 14, 2018, at the Marjory Stoneman...

Police in Pembroke Pines are looking for a teenager they accuse of exposing himself to a mother and child walking down a residential street. According to police, the incident happened at around 5 p.m. on July 28 near the intersection of Southwest 68th Avenue and Southwest Sixth Street. As the...

Keanu Reeves will star in a TV adaptation of “The Devil in the White City,” the bestselling nonfiction thriller about ambition, a killer and the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Reeves will portray Daniel H. Burnham, an architect “trying to make his mark on history” with his designs for the fair...

The Cincinnati zoo is celebrating the birth of a full-term hippopotamus that is a sibling to Fiona, who became a global celebrity when she was born prematurely in 2017. The baby hippo was born Wednesday night. “This new calf weighs at least twice as much as Fiona did and is already walking,”...

President Biden is hosting a roundtable event Thursday with business and labor leaders to discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act lowers costs for families and businesses, lowers the deficit, fights inflation, lowers energy costs, and significantly bolsters domestic manufacturing. Continue...

It’s August and that means summer break is nearly over for South Florida schoolchildren. The annual “Back to School” fair in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood Thursday helped kids and families get ready for the new school year. The event, held at Overtown’s Williams Park, has been going on for 20...

ABC's “The View” has named two Republicans — Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro — as regular panelists on the daytime talk show, and neither are fans of former President Donald Trump. Farah Griffin fills the chair left empty when Meghan McCain quit last summer after four years on the show...

The U.S. will declare a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the outbreak of monkeypox that already has infected more than 6,600 Americans, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The announcement will free up federal funding and resources to fight the virus...

The Town of Surfside held a gathering Thursday for the official unveiling of “98 Points of Light Way” on Collins Avenue, in honor of the 98 victims killed in last year’s Champlain Towers South collapse. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the Florida Legislature designated that portion of Collins...

A former state child welfare worker and a substance abuse consultant have pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme in South Florida. Court records say Alexandra Cadet and Shannel Escoffery pleaded guilty Wednesday to extortion conspiracy in Fort Lauderdale federal court. According...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended the elected state prosecutor of Tampa on Thursday for pledging not to enforce the state's new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender transition treatments for minors. The Republican governor announced the suspension of Hillsborough County State...

Three family members killed during a shooting last month at an eastern Iowa state park were shot, stabbed and/or strangled, according to autopsy results released Thursday. Tyler Schmidt, 42, died from a gunshot wound and “multiple sharp force injuries,” while his wife, 42-year-old Sarah...

This hurricane season may be a tad quieter than forecasters initially thought, but it will still likely be busier than normal, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and others predict. NOAA forecasters Thursday trimmed their hurricane season outlook from a 65% chance for above...

The Humane Society of Broward County will help 40 beagles rescued from a medical research facility in Virginia find new homes in South Florida. 4,000 beagles were rescued from unsafe conditions at a medical facility in Virginia last month. They are coming from the Envigo facility in Cumberland...

Africa’s public health agency says it doesn’t know how many of the continent's reported monkeypox cases this year are in men who have sex with men, and it warned Thursday against “any stigmatization” that might delay case reporting and affect the outbreak response. The monkeypox cases reported...

A Florida woman has sued Equifax claiming she was denied a car loan because of a 130-point mistake in her credit report that she says was part of a larger group of credit score errors the ratings agency made this spring due to a coding problem. The class action lawsuit was filed in federal...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to receive a big welcome in the U.S. on Thursday from conservative admirers barely a week after the backlash at home and in Europe over anti-migrant remarks that one of his closest associates compared to Nazi rhetoric. Orban's headline slot at...

A Miami attorney who specializes in representing victims of sexual assault is now accused of raping a woman. Adam Bair, 39, who describes himself as a “Personal Injury & Sexual Assault Attorney” on his website, faced a Miami-Dade judge Thursday morning on charges of sexual battery and false...

Police have changed their description of the crash that killed Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, saying Thursday that it was the SUV in which she was a passenger that crossed a state highway’s centerline and caused the head-on crash. Walorski and two members of her congressional...