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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened Thursday to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States if Democrats revive their stalled climate and social policy package. The rejuvenation of the Democratic reconciliation package, central to President...

Three men raised tens of millions of dollars by convincing investors that they had technology capable of generating guaranteed returns while running a Ponzi-style scheme out of Florida, according to a federal grand jury indictment. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the trio of...

Celebrating our country’s independence on the Fourth of July will bring an added bonus for shoppers this year. It comes in the form of a break from paying taxes on a multitude of fun things. Outdoor enthusiasts this upcoming week is for you. Freedom week, beginning July 1, will be seven days...

Shares of Spirit Airlines rose Thursday after it postponed a vote for the second time on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines, allowing for a bidding war over the budget airline between Frontier and JetBlue Airways to play out. The delay, announced hours before the scheduled vote, indicated...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up a case involving a state law that gives California-based flight crews more generous meal and rest breaks than required by federal rules. Several Virgin America flight attendants sued to be included under the law, and an appeals court in San...

On Friday, Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law will go into effect. School districts across the state are scrambling to establish guidelines for their teachers and staff. One example of the gray areas in the law played out at a South Florida school. What has been dubbed as Empowerment Day...

California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year. It's part of a $307.9 billion operating budget...

Federal agents are looking for a trio of robbers who targeted a Hialeah bank Thursday, according to an FBI news release. The three robbers entered the Wells Fargo branch at 1137 W. 68th St. just before 9:40 a.m., displayed weapons, and demanded money from a bank employee, agents said. The bank...

Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle club, has died. He was 83. Barger's death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. “If you are reading this message, you’ll know that I’m gone. I’ve asked that this...

On the day of her swearing-in to the U.S. Supreme Court, friends of newly-minted Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted how her passion for justice and the law began right here in South Florida. Fort Lauderdale attorney Yolanda Cash Jackson is a family friend of the 51-year-old...

A South Florida school that parents say has been plagued by bullies, with two recent arrests on the record, is getting some new leadership. Back in April a flight was caught on camera in which a 13-year-old was knocked unconscious at Gulfstream Academy. Two teens were arrested that month over...

Nipsey Hussle was a hip-hop star who sought to raise up his neighborhood with him until a friend from the same streets gunned him down, a prosecutor said in his closing argument Thursday. “This man was different,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told jurors, seeking to humanize Hussle...

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle allegations that it falsified information about deliveries of international mail that it was contracted to carry, including mail sent to U.S. soldiers deployed overseas. The Justice Department said Thursday that Delta was hired by the...

Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are looking into a new listeria outbreak that has a link to Florida, according to a news release from the public health agency Thursday. According to the CDC, 23 people infected with the outbreak strain have been reported from 10...

Greece has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy a squadron of F-35 fighter jets, the country’s prime minister said Thursday, part of efforts to bolster its defense capabilities amid continuing tensions with neighboring Turkey. Speaking to reporters in Madrid during a NATO...

The Supreme Court's climate change ruling on Thursday is likely to hinder the Biden administration’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and to make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035. In its major decision, the court limited the reach of the nation’s main...

The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could have far-reaching consequences for the energy sector — and make it harder for the Biden administration to meet its goal of having the U.S. power grid run...

The inaugural class of the Detroit Apple Developer Academy, a free program that teaches students the fundamentals of coding, design, marketing and project management, celebrated its unique accomplishment during a ceremony Thursday. The academy in Detroit for people interested in a career in the...

Un pastor de Florida enfrenta cargos por presuntamente masturbarse en el área del patio de un Starbucks del condado de Osceola. Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Osceola, Enginio Dali Muniz-Colon, de 39 años, fue arrestado después de que los agentes recibieron...

Ecuador’s government and the country’s main Indigenous group reached an agreement Thursday to end 18 days of often-violent strikes that had virtually paralyzed the country. The deal, which includes a decrease in the price of fuel and other concessions, was signed by Government Minister...