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Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor. Harvard said Friday that Breyer, who retired from the Supreme Court June 30, is re-joining its law school faculty. Breyer is a graduate of the law school and first joined the Harvard faculty in 1967. He continued to teach...

The mayor of Poland's capital, Warsaw, said Friday he has COVID-19. Again. Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said on Twitter the virus seems to be “even more treacherous and contagious” then before and its symptoms are far from banal. Last year he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection. He...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the state space corporation and giving new broad powers to one of his top ministers. Putin removed Dmitry Rogozin as the head of state-controlled Roscosmos space agency that oversees the country's...

The tropical Atlantic this week has been closed for business, thanks to the largest outbreak of Saharan dust since early June and a prominent upper-level low pinwheeling its way from the central Atlantic toward South Florida, keeping hostile upper winds locked in over the Caribbean. Upper low...

A request by the top prosecutor of a South Florida county to seal a deposition his ex-wife gave in another case has set off a public records challenge from two newspapers. Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg has asked a state judge to prevent parts of the deposition from his former...

A seventh grade math teacher from northeast Florida has been chosen as the state’s Teacher of the Year. Melissa Anne Matz, who teaches at Lakeside Junior High School in Clay County, was picked for the award among the state’s almost 185,000 public school teachers. With the honor, she receives a...

Consumers picked up their spending from May to June, underscoring their resilience despite painfully higher prices at the gas pump and in grocery aisles and easing fears that the economy might be on the verge of a recession. U.S. retail sales rose 1% in June, from a revised decline of 0.1 % in...

Democrat Beto O'Rourke on Friday reported raising nearly $32 million during the first half of 2022, keeping his challenge against Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on track to be one of the nation's most expensive races in November's midterm elections. Abbott had already been sitting on $50...

Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state's abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week. The association did not name the hospitals but said it's received complaints that...

With Miami-Dade animal shelters over capacity, the county’s animal services department is waiving adoption fees for pets four months and older over the weekend. In a news release, the county said it’s partnering with PetSmart Charities in support of National Adoption Week and runs through...

San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she was sharing with a roommate and into her own place this month, paying a deeply discounted $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom with expansive views within walking distance to work. It was once an impossible...

Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising interest rates pushed people out of the housing market. The San Francisco bank earned $3.1 billion in the period, or 74 cents per share, coming up short of the 80 cents per share...

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote for Friday on a resolution that calls on all countries to stop the transfer of small arms, light weapons and ammunition to any party supporting gang violence and criminal activity in Haiti. Haiti has seen an upsurge in bloodshed and kidnappings...

A young surfer receives a memorable birthday gift off the coast of Fort Pierce. Evan Blais was surfing off the coast of Fort Pierce inlet on Fourth of July weekend when he was approached by a group of manatees. “I was kind of scared because of how big it was. But when it put its nose up on my...

Former President Donald Trump and two of his children got their questioning postponed Friday in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings, a delay that follows the death of Trump’s ex-wife Ivana. The ex-president, son Don Jr. and daughter Ivanka had been scheduled for...

A man in Georgia is caught on camera grabbing an alligator and dragging it across a park with his bare hands. The seven-foot-long alligator was hiding behind a swing set Bowles Ford Park. Marquell White says he acted quickly because he didn’t want anyone to be blindsided and attacked. “My...

Julianne Moore has been selected to serve as president of the main competition jury for the Venice International Film Festival this year, festival director Alberto Barbera announced Friday. The Oscar-winning actor will preside over a jury that includes French director Audrey Diwan, whose film...

New details have been released about the young boy who died after being left in a hot car in Miami Gardens. Three-year-old Sholom Tauber was found unresponsive in a hot car on Tuesday, at the Lubavitch Educational Center on Northwest Seventh Avenue near the Golden Glades interchange. We are...

A ground breaking clinical trial is underway at Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute. Dr. Guenther Koehne, Deputy Director and Chief of Blood and Marrow Transplant at the institute is looking at a new approach to treating and potentially extending survival rates for acute myeloid leukemia or...

Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools. But the proposal was changed to specifically exclude teachers from those who can be armed in the suburban Atlanta system. The Cobb County school...