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A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock. The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts shoreline Thursday, more than 400 years after its namesake's historic journey from England. It...

For the last week, detectives have been asking the public for help with solving four incidents of illegal dumping in Miami’s Little Haiti and Little Havana neighborhoods. Surveillance video shows men in pickup trucks getting rid of used mattresses and other garbage, according to the Miami...

Migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where 53 people were found dead in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States, a U.S. official said Thursday. The truck went through the checkpoint on...

New York lawmakers plan to vote Thursday on legislation seeking to limit the proliferation of firearms in public after the Supreme Court gutted the state’s century-old handgun licensing law. The state is overhauling its rules for carrying guns after the court decided that ordinary citizens had...

Miami-Dade police are searching for a man who snatched another man’s chain from his neck while they were riding a Miami-Dade Transit bus earlier this month. The strong-arm robbery occurred around 9:35 a.m. June 13 in the area of Northwest 103rd Street and 27th Avenue. According to authorities...

A Florida pastor is facing charges for allegedly masturbating in the patio area of an Osceola County Starbucks. According to an arrest report by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, Enginio Dali Muniz-Colon, 39, was arrested after deputies received a report about a man exposing his sexual...

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the New York Police Department’s treatment of sex crime victims after concluding there is “significant justification” to do so and after receiving reports of deficiencies for more than a decade, prosecutors said Thursday. Kristen Clarke, assistant...

Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last six months. The S&P; 500, Wall Street’s broad benchmark for many stock funds, was on pace Thursday afternoon for a 20% loss through the end of June after starting the year at an all-time high...

Help is coming for many people with medical debt on their credit reports. Starting Friday, the three major U.S. credit reporting companies will stop counting paid medical debt on the reports that banks, potential landlords and others use to judge creditworthiness. The companies also will start...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged other world leaders Thursday to better protect the planet's oceans by adopting an international agreement modeled on the legally binding Paris climate accords. Macron traveled to Portugal after attending a NATO summit in neighboring Spain to make a speech...

The Treasury Department said Thursday it has blocked a $1 billion Delaware-based trust connected to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov. The move comes after the U.S. seized a $325 million superyacht — the 348-foot-long Amadea — tied to Kerimov earlier this month. The...

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority. That's not a coincidence. Nor is it the whole story. The justices who voted to overturn Roe have been shaped by a church whose catechism affirms “the moral evil of every procured abortion”...

Airlines that have stumbled badly over the last two holidays face their biggest test yet of whether they can handle big crowds when July Fourth travelers mob the nation's airports this weekend. Problems were popping up well before the weekend, with some disruptions caused by thunderstorms that...

A judge in Leon County ruled that Florida’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy violates the state’s constitution. He issued an injunction on Thursday preventing the ban from going into effect Friday. Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper listened to attorneys’ closing statements on...

Two police motorcycle officers suffered injuries from a crash in Miami Thursday. According to Miami Fire Rescue, the crash happened at around noon near the intersection of Southwest 12th Street and Southwest 17th Avenue. One officer was from the Miami Police Department, the other was from the...

At least one person was hospitalized Thursday following a police-involved shooting in Hialeah, authorities confirmed. The shooting occurred in the area of Northwest 15th Avenue and 127th Street. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed that one person was airlifted to Jackson Memorial...

A cyberattack on a software company has disrupted unemployment benefits and job seeking assistance for thousands of people in several states. In Tennessee, the website for unemployment benefits remained down Thursday morning after the vendor, Geographic Solutions Inc., told the state Sunday...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up and witness Coney Island’s Luna Park like you’ve never seen it before. The beachfront tourist destination will soon be introducing three new attractions and pedestrian plazas on several acres along the iconic Coney Island, New York, boardwalk...

Just two days after agreeing to lift deal-breaking objections to Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession, Turkey’s leader threatened Thursday that Ankara could still block the process if the two countries fail to fully meet his expectations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the close of the...

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s...