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Lottery officials on Thursday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at what would be the nation's ninth largest jackpot. The jackpot for Friday night's drawing has grown so large because there hasn't been a winner in three months. Those 27 consecutive...

Georgia's abortion law changed so abruptly Wednesday afternoon that some patients who were in an office waiting for abortions were told that what had been legal that morning was no longer legal in the state and sent home. Melissa Grant, chief chief operating officer of Carafem, a Washington...

Painters — mostly male — have long been the subject of stage shows, like ones about Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud and even a group of miners who painted in Newcastle, England. Next up is Frida Kahlo. The icon, whose art is as immediate and...

Some Florida families are getting checks in the mail from Gov. Ron DeSantis. On July 15, First Lady Casey DeSantis announced that nearly 59,000 Florida families will receive a one-time payment of $450 per child. This one-time payment assists families who are being affected by rising inflation...

Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored Thursday as the latest American musician to appear on a U.S. postage stamp. The forever stamp, which features a color-tinted, black-and-white photograph taken in the early...

An Italian astronaut joined a Russian cosmonaut in a rare spacewalking show of unity Thursday, as tensions over Ukraine continued to ricochet back home. Italy’s Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up with Russia’s Oleg Artemyev to work on the International Space Station’s newest robot arm. The...

The FBI is searching for three robbers who they said got away with a “considerable sum of money” earlier this year at a bank in Broward County. On Thursday, the FBI announced that it is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to their capture. The armed robbery was...

A Marathon man made good on his threat to remove a “no parking” sign if city officials placed it in his neighborhood, uprooting the freshly-placed sign and dumping it in a canal behind his house, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. David Andrew Herberholz, 65, faces petit theft...

Abortion clinics in Louisiana can continue operating while a lawsuit challenging the state’s near total ban on abortions is resolved, a state judge ruled Thursday. The preliminary injunction issued by state district judge Donald Johnson in Baton Rouge is the latest development amid a flurry of...

Republicans have spent more than three decades making it as hard as possible to get an abortion in Kansas, and now that their chance to ban the procedure is in sight, they’re reluctant to tell voters whether that's their goal. In the first statewide abortion referendum since the U.S. Supreme...

Britain's response to growing numbers of migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats is poor and officials are clearly overwhelmed on some days, an independent inspection found in a report published Thursday. The review by David Neal, the chief inspector of borders and immigration, was...

Amazon announced Thursday it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion, marking another expansion for the retailer into health care services. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in a statement it will acquire One Medical for $18 per...

Patty Murray was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Washington state in 1992 during the “Year of the Woman,” motivated to run for higher office in part by the contentious Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings. At that time, Murray was the self-professed “Mom in Tennis Shoes,”...

A Puerto Rico court "archived" a restraining order issued against superstar Ricky Martin, meaning the case was closed, a judicial spokesperson said Thursday. “The petitioner ceased his claims voluntarily; therefore the case was archived and no further procedures are required,” the spokesperson...

A month after some members of Congress urged Google to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy clinics in certain abortion-related search results, 17 Republican attorneys general are warning the company that doing so could invite investigations and possible legal action. “Suppressing...

The European Union’s plan to reduce the bloc’s gas use by 15% to prepare for a potential cutoff by Russia this winter has been met with sharp skepticism by Spain and Portugal, two governments that are usually big supporters of the bloc. Madrid and Lisbon on Thursday said they would not support...

A woman who hails from a minority ethnic community was chosen Thursday as India’s new president, a largely ceremonial position. Droupadi Murmu, a leader from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected by the Indian Parliament and state legislatures in voting held Monday, making her the...

The only tropical game in town, Estelle in the eastern Pacific, is quickly shedding its remaining thunderstorms this morning and is expected to lose its tropical identity later today. With Estelle exiting stage left, the tropics – both in the Atlantic and Pacific – should go largely dormant at...

Demolition crews are slowly chipping away at the four high-rise buildings that formed the skyline at the University of Miami and served as home for thousands of students for more than 50 years. Crews are bringing down the Hecht Residential College to make way for the new Centennial Village on...

U.S. Coast Guard and Miami-Dade police boats were on scene as officials intercepted a sailboat containing more than 100 migrants near Boca Chita Key Thursday morning. At around 10:45 a.m., Sky 10 flew over the boat, which was filled to the brim with people. Boca Chita Key is south of Key...