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Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain. Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union election at the store. It was the first of the Mexican food chain's stores to...

There are too many dogs and not enough homes. Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Shelter says they are overpopulated right now, but mostly with larger dogs. “We find ourselves overcapacity with mostly medium to larger size dogs,” said Jenna Jones, BCAC Behavior & Training Manager. Jones...

Sad news for families and restaurant-goers in Miami Lakes after a landmark spot suddenly closed for good. The Beverly Hills Café shut its doors for the last time this month after being in business for 43 years. Diners saw a note on the door when they arrived at the restaurant this week, which...

The National Archives on Tuesday requested that the Secret Service investigate “the potential unauthorized deletion” of agency text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Secret Service has come under heavy scrutiny following the revelation last week...

A Utah man pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting his mother and three siblings when he was a teenager in 2020. Colin “CJ” Haynie, now 19, killed his his mother and one of his sisters as they returned from her school pickup, then waited for two more siblings to arrive home and killed them...

Sesame Place Philadelphia is apologizing after video went viral this week of one of its characters appearing to ignore two Black children at an event. There was quick and fierce reaction, not just from the mother of those children, but from activists and others across the country. Now the...

Mississippi's last abortion clinic on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit that sought to block the state from enforcing a law that bans most abortions. The action came a day after clinic owner Diane Derzis told The Associated Press that she had sold Jackson Women's Health Organization, the facility...

The Academy of Country Music Awards is heading south to Texas next year as they return to exclusively live-streaming on Amazon Prime Video in 2023. The country music awards show will be held on May 11 at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, an indoor football stadium at team headquarters for...

Officials at Britain's Foreign Office warned against the U.K.'s plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, citing the East African country's human rights record, according to documents cited in a lawsuit brought against the British government. In written submissions filed Tuesday, lawyer Raza...

A Georgia woman left her three children alone in her car overnight Monday for hours while she played poker at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, prosecutors alleged as she appeared in Broward County court Tuesday. According to an arrest form, Seminole tribal police officers were...

In their first rollouts of electric vehicles, America's automakers targeted people who value short-range economy cars. Then came EVs for luxury buyers and drivers of pickups and delivery vans. Now, the companies are zeroing in at the heart of the U.S. auto market: The compact SUV. In their...

Crews repatriated 41 people to Cuba Tuesday after a series of interceptions off the Florida Keys, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A Coast Guard news release said from Thursday to Sunday, crews intercepted five rustic vessels at various locations near the Florida Keys. “Family members in the...

The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party has been questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and terrorism financing through an association charity. It’s unclear how long the counterterrorism hearings could last for Rached Ghannouchi, 81, who...

Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, on Tuesday accepted a human rights award on behalf of the people of Ukraine in recognition of their fight against Russia's invasion of their country. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation recognized the Ukrainian people with its Dissident Human...

The capture of fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was hailed by U.S. authorities as an example of cooperation with Mexico in the fight against drugs. But in fact Caro Quintero had been the source of 37 years of tension between the two countries. Caro Quintero was one of the primary...

Expecting that Russian President Vladimir Putin will cut off vast natural gas supplies to the European Union, the bloc's head office is set to propose energy cuts and savings Wednesday that might make for a much colder winter, but one without massive disruptions. Since Russia invaded Ukraine...

Lawyers for longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon unsuccessfully requested a one-month delay on the second day of his criminal trial for contempt of Congress. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols quickly denied that motion, and the trial was to begin in earnest Tuesday afternoon. However Nichols also...

President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the president's plans. Biden has...

British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday. Britain's Health Security Agency said while the epidemic is expanding, the majority of cases...

An epic legal fight between Elon Musk and Twitter began in earnest in a Delaware court Tuesday as lawyers for both sides fought over how soon the trial should begin. Twitter is trying to force the billionaire to make good on his April promise to buy the social media giant for $44 billion — and...