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Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a butterfly. My money says the fluttering insect you’re envisioning has black-veined, reddish-orange wings outlined with white specks — the iconic attributes of our beloved, American, monarch butterfly. Unfortunately, the species, which populates many...

A shirtless man in shorts wielded what appeared to be a rifle on Thursday just outside of a one-story home in Hialeah. He grabbed something from a black pickup truck and went back inside. Police officers warned they are dealing with a dangerous armed suspect who was barricaded in the house...

After a months-long bidding war, JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy South Florida-based Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation’s fifth-largest airline if the deal can win approval from antitrust regulators. It comes one day after the airline officially broke off negotiations with...

Two documentaries detailing the punishing effects of Russia's war on Ukraine will air on PBS' “Frontline” investigative series. The specials are part of an extensive collaboration between the series and The Associated Press that includes gathering, verifying and cataloging potential war crimes...

A 27-year-old snorkeler died earlier this week after suffering a head injury that was possibly caused from being struck by a boat, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed on Thursday. According to FWC spokesman Rob Klepper, FWC officers were checking two boats Monday...

A 29-year-old Florida man suspected of inhaling nitrous oxide from a whipped cream dispenser before causing a fatal crash has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. Tucker Hoopengarner on Wednesday also admitted to unlawful distribution of nitrous oxide. Investigators found a commercial-grade...

Since her breakthrough role as Vanessa in the film adaptation of “In The Heights,” Melissa Barrera has been working non-stop on the big and small screen. Only this year, she appeared in “Scream 5” and is filming a sequel, and stars in the upcoming Benjamin Millepied's reimagining of the opera...

A 29-year-old Florida man suspected of inhaling nitrous oxide from a whipped cream dispenser before causing a fatal crash has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. Tucker Hoopengarner on Wednesday also admitted to unlawful distribution of nitrous oxide. Investigators found a commercial-grade...

Southwest Airlines' second-quarter profit doubled to $760 million on record revenue, but it warned that rising costs and lower productivity are likely to continue in the second half of the year. Shares fell 7% Thursday in midday trading. Air travel has bounced back this year from pandemic...

The sex education textbook discussion continues Thursday for the Miami-Dade School Board, a week after it voted to disallow two controversial textbooks in the classroom. Some parents said they were concerned about the books titled, “Comprehensive Health Skills.” The two separate textbooks are...

A man accused of raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion was ordered held without bond Thursday by a judge who cited overwhelming evidence and the fact that he apparently is living in the U.S. illegally. Gerson Fuentes, 27, faces two counts of...

Police officers surrounded a white Mercedes-Benz on Thursday on Le Jeune Road in Miami-Dade County. Two black pickup trucks blocked the Mercedes-Benz on the southbound lanes of Le Jeune Road and drove away to clear the traffic backup shortly before 12 p.m. Officers stood on each side of the...

Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to formally rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” that seemingly legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native...

Italy’s president, marking the 100th anniversary of one of the attacks that helped bring dictator Benito Mussolini to power, on Thursday encouraged Italians to reinvigorate their country’s democracy as a bulwark against fascism. President Sergio Mattarella was commemorating the trashing and...

Health officials have extended a rabies alert issued for portions of Davie after a second feral cat tested positive for the virus. The original 60-day alert has now been extended to 120 days after Wednesday’s positive test, according to the Florida Department of Health in Broward County. The...

For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers' names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday, in a case that is deeply similar to the sales practices scandal uncovered at Wells Fargo last...

Rescue workers plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water Thursday in central Appalachia, where torrential rains unleashed what Kentucky’s governor described as some of the worst flooding in the state’s history. One emergency official in hard-hit eastern Kentucky described the situation...

Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove. It is the third such test of Facebook's ability to detect hateful language — either via artificial...

It has been 26 days since we’ve had a named storm on the Atlantic map. Dry, dusty air blowing off the coast of Africa has been dominating massive areas of the basin. Where there is a bit more moisture to work with, areas of strong wind shear have been keeping any potential areas very...

A woman who left her newborn baby in a trash bin pleaded guilty to attempted murder and child abuse in exchange for a seven-year prison sentence and potential deportation. Rafaelle Sousa’s lawyer says she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went into labor, and thought the newborn was dead...