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More than 50 million people across the East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be under full-blown famine conditions. The assessment by Intergovernmental...

A Kentucky judge granted an injunction on Friday that prevents the state's near-total ban on abortions from taking effect, meaning the state's two clinics can continue providing abortions, for now. Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry's ruling says there is “a substantial likelihood” that...

The Russian central bank diverged from its Western counterparts by slashing its key interest rate Friday just a month after dropping it to where it was before the country sent troops into Ukraine. The bank lowered its key rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 8%, saying consumer prices are still...

Israeli police said Friday they placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after being sucked into a sinkhole that formed at the bottom of their swimming pool. The man and woman, both in their sixties, are suspected of causing death by...

Parenting — that long chain of decisions that hopefully leads to a well-rounded adult — was always a little less stressful for Laura Guerra because her husband, Rigo, was “100% in it” for their daughter, Emilia. But Rigo died from COVID-19 on Christmas Eve in 2020, alone in a hospital room...

In some corners of the personal finance advice world, getting into debt is just about the worst thing you can do. And yes, some forms of debt — particularly those that charge high interest rates — can keep you locked in a cycle of owing money for years. Still, there are times where taking on...

A police pursuit ended in a crash Friday morning in Miami Beach. The chase reportedly started in Surfside and the crash occurred in the area of 85th Street and Byron Avenue in Miami Beach. A silver Dodge Charger was reportedly driving erratically before it crashed. The driver was taken into...

Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month ending the...

Clogged oil ports, electrical shorts and leaks of brake fluid are only some of the safety problems that have caused multiple fires and forced Hyundai and Kia to recall millions of vehicles in the past seven years. Now, Hyundai, the larger of the two affiliated Korean automakers, has promoted...

When he gave himself up to Russian forces in May at the pulverized Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, the wounded Ukrainian soldier could not say a proper goodbye to his slain friend, whose body had to be left behind with hundreds of other dead. The former prisoner of war, who goes by the name of...

Police from multiple agencies swarmed Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood Friday morning, searching for up to two suspects involved in a homicide in nearby Coral Gables. According to Miami-Dade police, which is now leading the homicide investigation, Coral Gables police responded to 10 Aragon...

Among the many insults he received on Jan. 6, 2021, as he defended the Capitol in Washington, Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell remembers hearing cries that he was not an American, that he was an immigrant, that he was a traitor. A year and a half after the assault by thousands of...

Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city. Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles away in...

The family of a French backpacker who went missing in Egypt nearly a year ago used the Egyptian president's visit to Paris on Friday to press for an investigation into the 27-year-old traveler's disappearance. Family members and friends raised placards asking, “Where is Yann Bourdon, President...

(Warning: Video contains disturbing images) The surveillance video captures every detail of an early-morning argument that resulted in a shooting in a convenience store parking lot in Oakland Park. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives, the incident happened on Monday, June 6 at 1:49...

Day 5 begins Friday in the penalty phase trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. On Thursday, prosecutors showed surveillance videos that Cruz’s defense team didn’t want jurors to see. The videos showed the gunman leisurely drinking a cherry and blue raspberry ICEE after shooting 34...

Former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence, will hold rival campaign events in Arizona on Friday, turning the governor's race into a broader referendum on the Republican Party's future. In the Aug. 2 primary, Trump is backing Kari Lake, a former television anchor...

Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, according to a statement. All are local riverine dwellers, and their motive was that Pereira...

Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He had so much left to say. “There's always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in...

Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of Dover on Friday, with authorities blaming French officials for the chaos. Dover authorities said a lack of French border officials was leading to waits of up to six hours for border checks at the...