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Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported. Rescue teams were deployed near the epicenter, Sayeh Khosh village, which is home to around 300 people in Hormozgan province, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)...

Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court's conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government's regulatory...

Tropical Storm Bonnie swept into Nicaragua bringing the threat of flooding from heavy rain, while heading for a predicted fast crossing on the way to the Pacific and a possible strengthening into a hurricane. Bonnie came ashore late Friday on Nicaragua's Carribean coast about 75 miles (120...

The Florida lawmakers passed nearly 280 bills during the 2022 legislative session and Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed 149 of them into law — including one that critics refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the controversial 15-week abortion ban, and the strawberry shortcake designation that upset...

New York lawmakers approved a sweeping overhaul Friday of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection. The measure, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul after...

Derrick Moore said he is devastated and he will never be the same. He said he and his beloved 50-year-old twin brother, Dion Moore, worked in the hospitality industry for years. He never imagined he would be shot and killed while working at a hotel. Dion Moore was working early Friday morning...

Lauren Wright continues to be leery of the water coming out of the taps in her family's U.S. Navy home in Hawaii, saying she doesn't trust that it's safe. Wright, her sailor husband and their three children ages 8 to 17 were among the thousands of people who were sickened late last year after...

Donald Trump's social media company and some of its employees received subpoenas from both a federal grand jury and securities regulators, according to a public disclosure Friday, possibly delaying or even killing a deal promising a cash infusion needed to take on Twitter. Trump Media &...

President Joe Biden met virtually with Democratic governors on Friday in an effort to bolster abortion rights. “There is a lot at stake here. In the meantime, I want to hear what the governors are doing,” he said. The talks come exactly one week after the Supreme Court overturned the...

Prosecutors signaled Friday that they would pursue the same charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others in the Flint water crisis, just a few days after the state Supreme Court said indictments must be dismissed. The attorney general's office responded by asking two...

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, mental health experts are reporting an uptick in patient anxiety. ”I have quite a few young adult women who are my clients and they came in extremely distraught, disillusioned about what this means for their future. If something...

Miriam Torres said she loves to teach and she couldn’t imagine herself doing anything else. The Marcus A. Milam K-8 Center teacher said her classroom is like her second home, so she has a golden frame with her favorite photograph. It was shot on her wedding day. She and her bride wore white...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-in-25 Americans lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD or major depression. An accredited recovery-through-work program is helping improve the lives of adults with severe mental illness...

A young Miami girl had her world seriously shaken when she was diagnosed with pancreatitis. She spent the beginning of her journey at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Now she’s turned her very intense experience into something positive. Isabella Pedraja started having severe stomach pains. “I...

President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years — going against the Democrat's climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling...

Rafael Medina is thankful to be alive, but he is still traumatized by what happened on June 21. Medina said that the just over two-hour flight from Santo Domingo to Miami was uneventful. That is until the plane landed abruptly on its belly, skidding off the runway. All 130 passengers on board...

Amazon is barring off-duty warehouse workers from the company’s facilities, a move organizers say can hamper union drives. Under the policy shared with workers on Amazon’s internal app, employees are barred from accessing buildings or other working areas on their scheduled days off, and before...

Officers arrested a 55-year-old fugitive after he allegedly hit a woman on Friday in Fort Lauderdale. Officers responded to help the woman at about 11:30 a.m, near the intersection of Castillo Street and North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, according to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department...

In the first week after the Supreme Court stripped away a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion, Democrats and aligned groups raised more than $80 million, a tangible early sign that the ruling may energize voters. But party officials say donors are giving much of that money to...

Officers in squad cars may not be the only thing showing up at police incidents in Coral Gables anymore. Instead, a drone could arrive first. The department is using the city’s Fourth of July celebration at the Biltmore Hotel as a test run for its new drone program. Organizers expected the...