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How much would you like to “krush” poverty and homelessness in South Florida? The Salvation Army of Broward County is giving you an opportunity to do just that. On July 23, you can join hundreds of motivated walkers, runners and rollers for the 5th anniversary of the Kettle Krush 5K. The...

A woman, who was taken to a Miami hospital after being bitten in the leg by a shark in the Florida Keys, has been identified. According to a report by Florida Fish and Wildlife officials, Lindsay Bruns, 30, from the Dallas, Texas area, was bitten by the shark in the waters east of Sawyer Key...

The U.S. dollar has been surging so much that it's nearly equal in value to the euro for the first time in 20 years. That trend, though, threatens to hurt American companies because their goods become more expensive for foreign buyers. If U.S. exports were to weaken as a result, so, too, would...

The European Union's decision to include natural gas in a list of activities considered sustainable could derail its progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a time when climate scientists are calling for dramatic reductions to planet-warming releases. The decision, reached Wednesday...

A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global environmental guidelines for banks, according to a new nonprofit report Tuesday. The 897-mile (1443-kilometer) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), planned by French oil...

Fendi’s ultra-white, sanitized runway for once put the couture, not the decor, in the spotlight to cap Paris fashion week on Thursday. That allowed guests, including Bond star Lashana Lynch and Korean actress Song Hye-kyo, to take in every bead, paillette and spliced paneling that went behind...

A Florida woman is accused by a North Carolina sheriff’s office of stabbing the man she provides care for with a felt-tipped marker and pushing him out of a moving car. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says Arlene Mary Bonitz of Palm Harbor, Florida, was driving south on Sunday on...

A South Florida woman is proving you are never too old to achieve great things as she graduated from college at the age of 96. Violet Edwards first attended the College of New Rochelle in New York state in the early 1980s. She was forced to leave school early, because she had to work to help...

A group of Cuban exiles met on Thursday at the Bay of Pigs Museum near Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, a coalition of non-governmental organizations that oppose the communist regime in Cuba, announced they are planning to commemorate the anniversary of...

A federal judge sentenced a former Trump supporter to three years of probation and a $7,000 fine for sending an email threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and three other congresswomen. David George Hannon, 67, also must undergo mental and substance abuse treatment and have no...

A 20-year-old man with autism who was reported missing in Miami-Dade County has been found out of state, Miami-Dade police confirmed Thursday. According to police, Alejandro Suarez was “in good physical and mental health” when he was found. They did not confirm which state he was located in or...

Portugal is bracing for a heat wave, with temperatures in some areas forecast to climb as high as 43 C (109 F) this weekend just as a severe drought grips the country. The Civil Protection Agency, a Portuguese government body that coordinates official responses to emergencies, said Thursday it...

Attorneys were concerned about potential timing conflicts during the trials of the Parkland school shooter and the former Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who was accused of inaction during the massacre. Attorney Marc Eiglarsh, who is representing Scot Peterson, was in Broward County court on...

Spanish prosecutors said Thursday they have decided to look into allegations by a daughter of a former president of Angola that a conspiracy has caused José Eduardo dos Santos to be in a coma in a Barcelona clinic. Catalan police have also confirmed they are examining the accusations by the...

Ethiopian police and soldiers are dying on a “daily” basis as the country grapples with insurgencies in Oromia and elsewhere, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday. Abiy in a parliamentary address repeated a vow to destroy the Oromo Liberation Army, a rebel group his government blames for two...

Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are seeking information leading to the arrest of a suspect in the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian Sunday in Pompano Beach, the agency said Thursday. A driver struck and killed the woman, whose name is being withheld under Marsy’s Law, shortly after 2 a.m...

Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party's election-year attempt to craft a scaled-back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides told The Associated Press...

A new procedure to treat carpal tunnel syndrome is now available in South Florida. In a news release, Broward Health says the procedure “may immediately relieve pain and often allows patients to return to work in 48 hours.” Carpal tunnel syndrome is a disorder causing numbness, pain and...

A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his private home. Not only have authorities failed to identify all those who masterminded and financed the killing, but Haiti has gone into a freefall as violence soars and the economy tumbles. Many have fled Haiti in the past...

The European Union's parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly condemned the end of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States and called for such safeguards to be enshrined in the EU's fundamental rights charter. In a 324-155 vote with 38 abstentions, European Parliament...