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A recent study may explain why Alzheimer’s disease is more prevalent in women than men. Researchers in Chicago and Boston have discovered a novel gene called MGMT that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s in women. A study author said the findings are particularly robust because the gene was...

Detectives arrested three suspects after a shooting injured two people and damaged two cars on Monday in Golden Glades. The suspects — Keon Jean, Steve Joseph, and Joselin Dervilus —appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Tuesday. According to the arrest report, Dervilus’s sister was involved...

Officials marked the completion of a new transit hub in downtown Fort Lauderdale Wednesday that is designed to connect various modes of transportation in one place. The Downtown Fort Lauderdale Mobility Hub spans several blocks near Andrews Avenue and Northwest Second Street. Officials said the...

A wildfire that threatened a grove of California's giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest on Wednesday. The Washburn Fire is one of dozens of blazes chewing through drought-parched terrain in the Western U.S. It has increased in size to...

An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano’s crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the association of Vesuvius park guides said. The tourist and family members were cited by Carabinieri...

Broward County deputies are looking for those responsible for the shooting death of a man in a Deerfield Beach parking lot over the weekend. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office news release, Billy Alceus, 26, of Margate, was shot multiple times in the 500 block of Northwest 42nd Court...

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol's Statuary Hall Florida commissioned the project after a grassroots campaign succeeded last year in removing a statue of Edmund Kirby...

Backed into a corner by the West, Iran is ramping up uranium enrichment, clamping down on dissent and deepening ties with Russia in a challenge to the U.S. and Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Tehran next week to meet with Iran's leader — his second trip abroad since sending...

The former elections manager for a Colorado clerk indicted on charges of tampering with voting equipment has been arrested on allegations that she was part of the scheme, an official said Wednesday. Sandra Brown, who worked for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, turned herself in Monday in response...

Hundreds of people filled a theater and passersby honked their horns in sympathy as family and friends shared their memories of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in Akron, at his funeral Wednesday. Mourners passed his open casket during the viewing at...

Sentencing for a former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a probe of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been set for December. After several postponements, former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg will be sentenced on Dec. 1 in federal court in Orlando for six federal crimes, including...

Morocco’s state-affiliated human rights council released a report Wednesday depicting last month’s attempt by hundreds of migrants to storm the border between the North African kingdom and the Spanish enclave of Melilla as “unprecedented in nature, tactics used and scope.” At least 23 people...

The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for customers' buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into orbit. Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as...

A court in Russia ruled Wednesday to remand a prominent opposition politician in custody pending an investigation and trial over his public criticism of Russia's military actions in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin is one of the few opposition figures that haven't left Russia despite the unprecedented...

Inflation's relentless surge didn't merely persist in June. It accelerated. For the 12 months ending in June, the government's consumer price index rocketed 9.1%, the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981. And that was nothing next to what energy prices did: Fueled by heavy demand and by...

R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B; star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. The 55-year-old Kelly...

The euro is hovering close to parity with the dollar, falling to its lowest level in 20 years and even briefly touching a one-to-one exchange rate with the U.S. currency this week. It's a psychological barrier in the markets. But psychology is important, and what the euro's slide underlines is...

A python contractor and a Florida wildlife officer hit the motherlode in Big Cypress National Preserve Monday night, finding two female Burmese pythons, nearly 20 hatchlings and nearly 100 hatched and unhatched eggs amid efforts to rid Florida of the invasive species. According to a news...

South African police are patrolling the streets of Johannesburg's Soweto township, following a spate of bar shootings that have rocked the nation. The country's abundance of guns held illegally is partially to blame for the shootings in which 22 people were killed at three different taverns...

Hungary’s government has declared an “energy emergency” in response to supply disruptions and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe, an official said Wednesday. There is “unlikely to be enough gas in Europe for the autumn and winter heating season,” said Gergely Gulyás, Prime Minister Viktor...