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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed a call to China to comply with a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated Beijing’s vast claims in the South China Sea and warned that Washington is obligated to defend treaty ally Philippines if its forces, vessels or aircraft come under attack in...

Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates have agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over cash bail practices, which activists say routinely and unconstitutionally jail poor and working class defendants despite evidence of their inability to pay. Both sides say the...

A year ago, thousands of people filled Cuba's streets and public squares in the country's largest outpouring of protest in decades. On Monday's anniversary, its main cities looked relatively normal — students sat in schools and people went to work, and as usual there were long lines of people...

Two people were killed and three wounded in robberies before dawn Monday at six 7-Eleven stores in Southern California and authorities said they were seeking the same lone gunman in at least three of the crimes. The string of violence occurred occurred within a timespan of about five hours on...

“Succession” and “Ted Lasso” are in the hunt for Emmy nominations that could add to their previous trophy hauls, but they're up against hungry newcomers. When the bids are announced Tuesday, the social satire “Succession,” a 2020 top-drama winner, may face a showdown with “Squid Game.” The...

Detectives are investigating a shooting on Monday night in Miami-Dade County’s Golden Glades area. Officers responded to the intersection of Northeast 159 Street and Seventh Avenue, in the area of Oak Grove Park. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded after a report that someone was...

“Yellowstone" actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in disability benefits while working on the TV show, authorities announced Monday. Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood, is charged with two felony counts of workers' compensation insurance fraud...

A driver struck a pedestrian who was carrying a baby on Monday night in North Miami Beach. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the intersection of Northeast 183 Street and 22 Avenue, near Greynolds Park. A police officer performed chest compressions before Fire Rescue took a victim...

The United Nations said Monday it expects the world’s population to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15th this year and it projects that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year. The report, released on World Population Day, said global population growth fell below 1% in...

An attack on democracy and freedom of speech. A throwback to the political murders of prewar Japan. Terrorism. Public outrage, handwringing and vows of defiance by politicians and on social media are widespread following the daylight assassination by homemade gun of former Prime Minister Shinzo...

The U.S. government on Monday agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for North Pacific right whales, one of the rarest whale species in the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries estimates...

It has been one year since the July 11 historic protests in Cuba, and the worsening humanitarian and economic crisis is prompting people to leave the island in droves. While federal agents are stopping most of them at the U.S.-Mexico border, the number of Cuban migrants apprehended at sea has...

A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said put providers at risk of prosecution for a variety of crimes. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes said in his written ruling that the...

A fact-finding commission of the Episcopal Church will research the history of the denomination’s role in operating boarding schools for Native American children -- part of a system the church now acknowledges was rooted in white supremacy and caused generations of trauma. The denomination's...

People have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work, a Western U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that concurs with decisions made by six of the nation’s other 12 appeals court. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruling came in the case of a...

While the growing expansion of casinos and state-sanctioned sports betting steal the spotlight, state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, driving a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer from low-income U.S. communities to powerful multinational companies. A nationwide...

A few dozens met to mark the first anniversary of the historic July 11 protests in Cuba on Monday afternoon outside of the Versailles Restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana. A man walked along Eighth Street as he dragged the thick silver chains that were wrapped around him. He was representing a...

A man convicted of driving while impaired, causing a deadly crash in Broward county was sentenced in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom on Monday. Gerard Baldie was sentenced to nine years in prison plus six years of probation. In April, a jury found him guilty of charges including DUI manslaughter...

Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict on multiple grounds, including an apparent case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors. In court...

Two people were killed and three wounded in shootings before dawn Monday at four 7-Eleven stores in Southern California and authorities said they were seeking a lone gunman in at least three of the shootings. The shootings appear to have occurred after robberies or attempted robberies at the...