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A man accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a coronavirus cure through his Florida-based church has been returned to the United States after being arrested in Colombia. Records show 64-year-old Mark Grenon made his initial court appearance Thursday in Miami federal court. Grenon and...

Will Smith has again apologized to Chris Rock for slapping him during the Oscar telecast in a new video, saying that his behavior was “unacceptable” and that he had reached out to the comedian to discuss the incident but was told Rock wasn't ready. “There is no part of me that thinks that was...

Vessels off the East Coast must slow down more often to help save a vanishing species of whale from extinction, the federal government said Friday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made the announcement via new proposed rules designed to prevent ships colliding with North...

Wisconsin Treasurer Sarah Godlewski dropped out of the state's Democratic U.S. Senate primary Friday, the third candidate to bow out this week, making Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes the clear frontrunner to face Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. The race in battleground Wisconsin, which Donald Trump...

Pope Francis on Friday assailed the Catholic missionaries who “supported oppressive and unjust policies” against Indigenous peoples and vowed to pursue truth and healing as he wrapped up his pilgrimage to Canada by meeting with Native delegations and visiting Inuit territory in far-north...

The battery trial for a Hollywood police officer began on Friday. Officer Matthew Barbieri was charged with battery after home surveillance video showed him hitting a handcuffed suspect on Aug. 6, 2019. According to his arrest affidavit, the incident occurred when Barbieri and another officer...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to Asia and Africa, the State Department said Friday, as the U.S. and rivals China and Russia intensify their battle for global influence amid deepening divisions over Taiwan and Russia's war in Ukraine. Blinken will begin a five-nation tour of the...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party begins its key policy conference on Friday beset by internal divisions and the country’s economic woes. The policy meeting is seen as a preview of the ANC’s December conference where it will elect its leader. Nearly 30 years after Nelson...

When the tropics are quiet, there’s an easy culprit meteorologists – including yours truly – love to point their fingers to: Saharan dust. It’s an easy story to tell. Big outbreaks of sand from the deserts of the Sahara are lofted to heights of 10,000 or 15,000 feet and travel westward in...

Procter & Gamble's sales rose 3% in the fiscal fourth quarter, but the world's largest consumer products maker gave a lackluster fiscal 2023 sales forecast as it contends with rising commodity and freight costs. Shares of the Cincinnati-based company dropped 5% in morning trading Friday. Like...

Prices for gas, food and rent are soaring. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to the highest level since 2018. The U.S. economy has shrunk for two straight quarters. Economists are divided over whether a recession is looming. What's clear is that economic uncertainty isn't going away...

Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm's way. The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to...

Germany's foreign minister on Friday criticized Turkey for disputing the sovereignty of Greek islands near its coastline and urged Greece to make sure it stamps out any illegal pushbacks of people at the border. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was meeting Friday with officials in Greece and...

A man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a Broward Sheriff’s Office vehicle Friday morning, authorities confirmed. The crash was reported shortly after 5:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of North Ocean Drive. According to BSO spokesman Carey Codd, the deputy...

An inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest increase in four decades, and leaving Americans with no relief from surging costs. Friday's figures from the Commerce Department underscored the persistence of the inflation that...

Former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was acquitted Friday in a corruption trial, the second he has faced since a scandal surrounding him brought down the country's government in 2019. Strache was accused of procuring a post on the supervisory board of Asfinag, a...

The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that the country has not set a date for pulling out of the International Space Station and that the timing would depend on the orbiting outpost's condition. Yuri Borisov, who was appointed this month to lead the Roscosmos state space corporation...

Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 15 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling. “We’ve still...

Attorney General Merrick Garland will headline a White House event Friday that will bring together pro bono lawyers, bar associations and public interest groups to discuss how best to offer legal services and protections for women seeking abortions. The effort is part of an executive order...

After a nearly 70-year absence, a passenger train running from Vermont's revitalized Burlington train station to New York City is scheduled to head south Friday as part of a nationwide renewal of interest in rail travel. Last November, President Joe Biden, who famously rode Amtrak between...