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Federal prosecutors charged two financial asset managers Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in a $1.2 billion international scheme to launder funds corruptly obtained from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company over a span of more than three years. One of the suspects remains on the run from...

Three people were charged Tuesday in an alleged conspiracy involving the handwritten lyrics to the classic rock juggernaut “Hotel California.” The defendants, despite knowing the material was stolen, lied to auction houses and buyers about the manuscripts’ origins, prosecutors said. An...

Catherine Moghari is among the Miami residents who recently reported coyote sightings near Coconut Grove. She said it was at about 5 a.m. Moghari said she decided to follow the canine and took a picture. “I saw what I thought was maybe a shepherd mix running up the street, so I whistled to it...

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Steve Dettelbach, a former federal prosecutor, to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making him the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015. Dettelbach takes the reins of the agency as the Biden administration and the...

A teacher from South Florida is $15,000 richer as she waits to learn if she will be named Florida’s teacher of the year. Gov. Ron DeSantis handed Seema Naik a big check during a Teacher of the Year conference in Orlando on Tuesday. Naik is a fourth-grade teacher at Eagle Ridge Elementary...

Didn't make it to Stonehenge for the solstice? There might still be time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow. This year's last peak Manhattanhenge sunset was Monday, but a partial view may be visible...

Several law enforcement agencies are searching for a murder suspect on Tuesday afternoon in Broward County. Detective Peter Patton, a spokesman for the Davie Police Department, was asking the public to avoid the area of State Road 7, south of Interstate 595. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies...

House investigators are laying out the origins of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, using video testimony and live witnesses to describe former President Donald Trump’s “call to action” in a December tweet and how White House advisers urged the president to drop his false claims...

Nicholas Braun of “Succession” was pacing on the street around Soho in Manhattan, unable to stop moving and feeling “a little manic.” "Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk was hunkering down at an island retreat to write season 2, but took a break for a bottle of Champagne. They and many others...

Russian prosecutors on Tuesday brought criminal charges against another opposition figure who has criticized Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, his lawyer said. Ilya Yashin was due to be released after spending 15 days in jail on charges of failing to obey police. Instead, Yashin was...

If you don’t have summer travel plans, you could still visit one of TIME magazine’s World’s Greatest Places of 2022. The City of Miami has made what TIME calls 50 extraordinary destinations to explore. TIME writes, in part, “Miami is emerging as the U.S.’s capital of cool. The inaugural Miami...

Spain's second heat wave in less than a month and the year's first for neighboring Portugal is expected to last at least until the weekend, weather forecasters said Tuesday. With temperatures in both countries already elevated, the outlook magnified wildfire worries. Portugal could get the...

Police say a murder-suicide in Boca Raton that left two people dead and one person wounded stemmed from a family fight over the home of a woman who moved into an assisted living facility. Boca Raton police say it happened when family members arrived for a vacation and found a male relative in...

A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Apple 2 million rubles (about $34,000) for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users on servers in Russia, part of government efforts to control online activity. Zoom Video Communications and Ookla, which runs the internet tool Speedtest, were both...

Three Americans were quietly jailed in Venezuela earlier this year for allegedly trying to enter the country illegally and now face long prison sentences in the politically turbulent nation, The Associated Press has learned. None of the arrests have previously been reported. Two of the men — a...

The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises. “This Is Us” walked away forever without a top nomination and Nathan Lane made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history. Here's our rundown. NOT JUST A GAME “Squid Game,” the brutal...

As California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to Washington this week, speculation about his national political ambitions won't be far behind. The three-day swing, anchored to an award Newsom will receive on behalf of his home state Wednesday from an education group, will provide the...

One child going to bed hungry is too many. Unfortunately, millions of children suffer from food insecurity in the United States. This means they do not have reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. In South Florida alone, nearly 25% of school age children don’t...

Health officials are tracking a fast-spreading COVID-19 Omicron subvariant believed to be the most transmissible yet. The White House COVID Response Team addressed the wave of new infections during a briefing Tuesday. Officials said the new BA.5 subvariant is spreading fast and causes more...

Broward firefighters worked to put out a house fire in Dania Beach early Tuesday afternoon. The fire broke out just before 1 pm. at 409 NW Third Place, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke billowing from the front of the building. Officials said...