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The North Carolina state employee health plan will resume coverage of gender affirming treatments for transgender employees, the state treasurer said Wednesday, complying with a recent federal court ruling that declared the refusal of coverage unconstitutional. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and...

Twitter is telling its employees that it's not planning any companywide layoffs, but there could be some restructuring and organization changes as it heads into a legal battle over the potential sale to Elon Musk. The San Francisco company included the communication in a filing Wednesday with...

The Senate easily approved Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator in a bipartisan vote Wednesday. Barr, a former top Treasury official under President Barack Obama, is the last of President Joe Biden's three nominees to the Fed's board of governors to win Senate...

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer and a python contractor in Collier County uncovered quite a catch. They found not one, but two mother pythons measuring ten and 17 feet long, and both with large nests full of eggs. Alex McDuffie is the very brave man who captured the...

Nearly a dozen bull sharks were killed last weekend in a contest to see who could catch the biggest. Removing the apex animals can have a huge negative impact on our oceans and critics are speaking out about the shark fishing tournament that was all perfectly legal. A total of 11 mature bull...

In the latest Jan. 6 hearing, already standing out for its notable moments, Rep. Liz Cheney saved the most startling for last. In her closing remarks, the co-chair of the House investigating committee said the panel had learned that former President Donald Trump had recently tried to contact a...

A wealthy dentist killed his wife of 34 years with a shotgun blast at dawn on a remote African safari in 2016, collected nearly $5 million in insurance proceeds and later blurted out to his longtime lover that “I killed my f---g wife for you!,” a U.S. prosecutor told a jury in opening statements...

From commodities at the grocery store to the necessity at the gas pump, consumers across the country are feeling the pinch. A new report that revealed the U.S. economy’s inflation rate is 9.1 percent higher than it was in June of last year. That number surprised experts like Eric Smith, a...

Jonathan Araujo, who works as a bartender at the Palace in South Beach, is among the monkeypox patients who want officials to take more aggressive action against the outbreak. Araujo, 24, said at first he had a fever and chills for two days. Then he started to break out on his face and his...

Researchers at the University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine are leading a major international study investigating the link between ethnicity and Alzheimer’s disease. Studies have already shown that rates of dementia are higher in African American and Hispanic populations and mixed ancestry...

Broward County homicide and crime scene detectives are investigating the death of a woman found unresponsive at a Tamarac home Wednesday, officials said. The incident was reported at around 3 p.m. near the 9300 block of Northwest 57th Street, Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Claudinne Caro...

The Biden administration is warning pharmacies not to discriminate against women who may seek reproductive health prescriptions, including some that might be involved in ending a pregnancy. The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that pharmacies receiving federal money from...

With new omicron variants again driving hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks, states and cities are rethinking their responses and the White House is stepping up efforts to alert the public. Some experts said the warnings are too little, too late. The highly transmissible BA.5...

A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made...

A nursing shortage, both nationwide and here in South Florida, is getting to a critical point and is only supposed to get worse. On Wednesday, a group of South Florida nurses and health systems announced a new advisory council that aims to propose solutions that can help fill the gap. The...

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham wasn’t seeking to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election when he called state officials to ask them to reexamine certain absentee ballots after President Donald Trump's narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden, his lawyers said in a federal court filing. Graham’s lawyers made...

Protesters in Hungary's capital blocked main traffic arteries for the second day in a row Wednesday in opposition to a tax overhaul pushed through this week by the country's right-wing governing party. Several thousand demonstrators, many of them independent entrepreneurs affected by the new...

A Davie woman is hoping to get her family heirlooms back after two men posing as pest control workers stole priceless pieces of jewelry from her house in June. Between June 15 and 20, Linda Sampson said two men claiming to be from her pest control company showed up at her doorstep near...

Sen. Joe Manchin roiled his budget talks with Democratic leaders anew Wednesday, saying the latest inflation surge makes him “more cautious than I've ever been” about agreeing to federal spending increases that could drive consumers' costs even higher. The West Virginia Democrat, who...

Netflix has picked Microsoft help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of its video streaming service expected to launch later this year with a pledge to minimize the intrusions into personal privacy that often accompany digital ads. The alliance announced Wednesday marks a major step...