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Traffic on Florida’s Turnpike stopped moooooving for several hours Monday after a cattle hauler caught fire, and dozens of cows blocked the roadway, authorities said. The hauler’s semi-cab began to catch fire shortly before noon near St. Cloud, south of Orlando, according to a Florida Highway...

A Lebanese investigative judge with security personnel raided the Central Bank on Tuesday in a divisive investigation against the country’s embattled governor. Judge Ghada Aoun had been investigating Governor Riad Salameh, and in March charged him with illicit enrichment and money laundering...

The Orlando amusement park where a teenager fell from a ride and died earlier this year has paused a new sniper-like laser shooting game amid criticism following a recent spate of mass shootings. The Bullseye Blast game let riders of the 400-foot (122-meter) Wheel at ICON Park pay an extra...

A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city's Black and Latino neighborhoods, according to a study. A report released Tuesday by the Cook County...

Johnson & Johnson rode growing sales of the cancer treatment Darzalex and other key drugs to a better-than-expected second quarter, but foreign exchange rates again cut into the health care giant’s 2022 forecast. After trimming its forecast in April citing exchange rates, the company did so...

A teen in Florida is facing a manslaughter charge after police say she killed her 3-year-old sister by putting a pillow over her head after their mother told the girl to quiet the toddler. The 16-year-old girl was arrested Friday in an Orlando suburb. A police report says the 3-year-old girl...

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalization rates have also doubled, although intensive care admissions have remained low. In a statement on Tuesday...

China will take “resolute and strong measures” should the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi proceed with reported plans to visit Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is due to visit the self-governing island...

French investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in the country's southwest have detained a man for questioning, as firefighters and water-bombing planes continued fighting Tuesday against the ferocious flames. Two huge fires feeding on...

The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister narrowed on Tuesday, with four candidates battling for two spots in a run-off vote by members of the governing Conservative Party. After three rounds of voting by party lawmakers, former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak leads the...

The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County has issued a mosquito-borne illness advisory after the first local case of dengue infection this year has been confirmed. According to the health department, dengue “is a virus spread through mosquito bites by Aedes mosquitoes which also...

Russian cruise missiles struck villages around southern Ukraine’s port city of Odesa early Tuesday, hitting houses, a school and a community center as Russian President Vladimir Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Iran to discuss a U.N.-backed proposal to unblock exports of Ukrainian grain...

A dog died Tuesday morning in a townhouse fire in Plantation, fire rescue officials confirmed to Local 10 News. The fire was reported in the 9800 block of Northwest Sixth Court. “At 3:19 this morning, we received a 911 call from a neighbor at 9893 NW Sixth Court, stating that there was smoke...

One person was injured early Tuesday morning in a shooting in the City of Miami, authorities confirmed. According to Miami police spokeswoman Kiara Delva, officers responded to the 6200 block of Northwest 17th Avenue around 2 a.m. after receiving a ShotSpotter alert. She said officers found...

Global shares were mostly lower on Tuesday, as investors weighed oil prices, inflation worries and corporate earnings. France's CAC 40 fell 0.7% in early trading to 6,050.25, while Germany's DAX shed 0.2% to 12,933.45. Britain's FTSE 100 slipped 0.3% to 7,205.07. The future for the Dow...

Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent's first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the preservation of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region. Just 14% of...

Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country's leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced. The order came as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure. Masoud Setayeshi...

Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace, who was...

Italy has seen dozens of governments since the end of World War II, so it's very accustomed to political crises. But the tumult now roiling its political parties is playing out differently as Premier Mario Draghi's future as the nation's leader hangs in the balance. Draghi's offered to resign...

Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years — and that has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. The industry has embraced a goal of...