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It took a day and a half of deliberations for a jury to find both Richard Andres and Jonathan Gordon guilty of first-degree murder and guilty of burglary following the fatal shooting of 51-year-old Ivan Brandt. Closing arguments began earlier this week after 7 years since the defendants were...

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for...

When prosecutors showed the surveillance video of a 2015 murder on Wednesday, the 51-year-old victim’s son and mother quickly walked out of the courtroom in Broward County. Richard Andres and Jonathan Gordon are accused of killing Ivan Brandt in Tamarac. Prosecutors said the two men planned the...

Veteran counterterrorism police officer Mark Rowley will be the new chief of London’s troubled Metropolitan Police force, the British government said Friday. Rowley, who was head of counterterrorism at the force between 2014 and 2018, becomes commissioner of Scotland Yard after a string of...

Brazil's federal police said Friday they arrested a man to investigate his possible links with illegal fishing in the area where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed just over a month ago. This is the fourth arrest since the beginning of the...

Don’t worry Boris, there’s one country where your popularity remains undimmed. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have been shown the door in Britain, but he remains a political juggernaut in Ukraine — widely admired for his uncompromising support for the country’s effort to defeat the...

A 20-year-old man kidnapped a social worker and held her hostage at his Boca Raton home for about 15 hours raping, beating, and threatening to kill the woman, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Court documents released Thursday show a harrowing ordeal and confusion over where...

In 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters were doused with tear gas, making them gasp for breath, their eyes feeling as if they were on fire. Bystanders, including children and pregnant women, were also exposed. As police responded to mass protests across the nation two years ago with tear gas and...

A man and a woman have both been charged with first-degree murder after authorities say they were involved in the fatal shooting of a man in Lauderdale Lakes. The shooting was reported just before 9:30 p.m. May 15 at the Pacific Points apartments in the 3600 block of North Pacific Coast Circle...

Every day billions of people depend on wild flora and fauna to obtain food, medicine and energy. But a new United Nations-backed report says that overexploitation, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction. The Intergovernmental...

The Atlantic hurricane season is already through the “C” storm (Colin, which unraveled nearly as quickly as it formed over the Carolinas late last week), and we’re not even through the first full week of July. If that feels early for three named storms, that’s because it is. Since the...

The wife of Nicaraguan political activist Félix Maradiaga told journalists her husband had lost more than 65 pounds during his year in prison and she feared for his health. A day later, the government of President Daniel Ortega hauled the former potential presidential challenger before cameras...

After polls closed in New Mexico’s primary last month, a worker returning ballots and other election materials to the clerk’s office in Santa Fe was followed by a partisan election observer driving so close that mere inches separated their bumpers. The poll worker was so rattled by the ordeal...

Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit are asking for the public’s help identifying the arsonist who used a lit flare to set a deputy’s patrol car on fire. Authorities said the deputy was inside the vehicle when the incident happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday near the...

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone arrived Friday on Capitol Hill for a private interview with the Jan. 6 committee about his role trying to prevent then-President Donald Trump from challenging the 2020 presidential election and joining the violent mob that laid siege to the Capitol...

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Friday that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person, dealing a critical defeat to Democrats in the battleground state. The court did not address...

Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory. High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet considered issues such as...

Nearly half of the businesses at the Tropicana Flea Market in northwest Miami-Dade were destroyed in Thursday’s fire. “We were able to save the entire south end and east end of the flea market, but approximately 40 percent of the flea market merchants will probably sustain significant loss,”...

Hundred of firefighters backed by water-dropping planes battled a large forest fire Friday in southeastern France that has forced the evacuation of nearby villages. Thirteen firefighters have been injured in Bordezac — the village where the fire started. Overall, 18 firefighters have been...

Three ex-Disney employees are suing the company, claiming they were fired after refusing to wear face masks and get the COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit filed in Florida last month says the trio had sought religious exemptions to Disney’s mandates for the vaccine and facial coverings. They had...