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A man was thrown off an Interstate 95 overpass in northwest Miami-Dade Saturday afternoon following a crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers say he was either riding a motorcycle or ATV on the shoulder when a driver struck him. The force of the crash caused the man to fly off...

United States Coast Guard crews repatriated nearly 200 migrants to their home countries Saturday, after intercepting multiple vessels at sea over the past week, the agency said. 83 Cubans repatriated Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless’ crew returned 83 migrants back to Cuba Saturday, the agency...

A prominent Guatemalan newspaper editor who has overseen investigations into corruption has been arrested, prompting denunciations Saturday by politicians, anticorruption activists and civic groups. Prosecution agents arrested José Ruben Zamora Marroquín at his home on Friday night, searching...

After exiting isolation following a negative test Wednesday, President Joe Biden once again tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday. In a memorandum to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, said the president had a positive antigen test Saturday...

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor said in a...

The concept of “personhood” has come up in debates since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion. Some states have passed laws or constitutional amendments to introduce the standard, and anti-abortion advocates have pushed for similar changes elsewhere. But the...

Miami Beach police announced Saturday that officers are looking for a missing 16-year-old girl last seen Friday afternoon. According to police, Alysun Fraser was last seen around 2 p.m. at 1205 17th St. after telling her guardian she would be applying for jobs in the Lincoln Road area. Police...

Crews rescued 15 Cuban migrants stranded on an uninhabited island in the Florida Keys Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the Border Patrol’s Miami sector, tweeted that the migrants made landfall in a “rustic vessel” on an island...

Spain's prime minister on Saturday expressed support for Bosnia to become a candidate for European Union membership amid fears that uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine could fuel instability in the ethnically torn Balkan nation that went through a devastating conflict in the 1990s'. Prime...

Passengers on a cruise ship headed back to Miami witnessed the rescue of 12 men, believed to be Cuban migrants, stranded on a small boat in the Straits of Florida Friday evening. A crew from the Carnival Sunrise helped the stranded men on board as their boat drifted south of Key West, both the...

Now that Roe v. Wade has been toppled, abortion opponents are taking a multifaceted approach in their quest to end abortions nationwide, targeting their strategies to the dynamics of each state as they attempt to create new laws and defend bans in courts. One anti-abortion group has proposed...

Spain reported Saturday a second death in as many days from monkeypox. These are believed to be the first confirmed fatalities from the disease in Europe since its recent spread beyond Africa. The ministry based in Madrid said both fatalities were young men. It reported its first death on...

After a night of drinking and smoking marijuana, a man found himself the victim of an unwanted sexual advance at the hands of a Florida Keys man, who cut the victim “several times” as he tried to fight him off Friday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Adam Linhardt, a...

Ride-sharing apps like Uber, DiDi and Lyft may have driven across much of the globe, but they haven’t yet rolled into Venezuela. U.S. sanctions and years of hyperinflation and other woes made it difficult to operate there. So a handful of local entrepreneurs have started their own ride-sharing...

Dozens of aspiring Missouri Republican candidates are jumping at the chance to run in November for two rarely open U.S. congressional seats. U.S. Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long are running for the Senate in Tuesday's GOP primary, leaving Hartzler's central 4th Congressional District and...

Kentucky’s governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 25 people when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia. Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that the numbers of victims would likely rise significantly as a result of record flash...

Fischer Hricko, 13, of Oviedo, and his family went on vacation Wednesday to the Florida Keys — where he suffered an unexpected shark bite while lobstering. Bringing their boat down during lobster season is a family tradition, but this year, the family had an unexpected experience. While in the...

Sri Lanka’s president said Saturday that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis has been pushed back to September because of unrest over the past weeks. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his first speech since he was...

It’s been more than a year in the making and has seen plenty of ups and downs. Now, a Democratic economic package focused on climate and health care faces hurdles but seems headed toward party-line passage by Congress next month. Approval would let President Joe Biden and his party claim a...

Located along a remote stretch of Highway 395, the Fort Independence Travel Plaza touts a dozen gas pumps, clean restrooms and made-to-order meals for travelers visiting California's Eastern Sierra. The facility, which provides revenue for a Paiute Indian tribe, is about to quadruple in size...