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Wednesday was day two in South Florida for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Secretary Marcia Fudge was given an inside look at the housing crisis happening in the region. “We clearly know that housing is a crisis in this country,” she said, while recognizing that Miami is the...

A journalist was shot to death Wednesday in northeastern Mexico as he was leaving his house with his 23-year-old daughter, who was seriously injured, according to state prosecutors and the newspaper that employed him. Antonio de la Cruz, 47, was a reporter for the local newspaper Expreso for...

The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a right of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state. It would not be the first trip to...

Nearly three months after she won confirmation to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially becoming a justice. Jackson, 51, will be sworn as the court's 116th justice Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. The judicial pas de deux is set to...

A witness whose dashcam captured Monday night’s deadly hit-and-run crash in North Bay Village recounted the moments before and immediately after the fiery wreck in an interview with Local 10 News. A woman and her two daughters were killed in the crash on the John F. Kennedy Causeway near Harbor...

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has set off a frenzy of activity in courthouses around the country, with judges asked to decide when or if state-imposed bans or other far-reaching restrictions on abortion can go into effect. Some of the disputes involve bans that have been on the...

New York will ban people from carrying firearms into many places of business unless the owners put up a sign saying guns are welcome, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, describing a deal with state legislative leaders that is being finalized. Hochul said lawmakers have agreed on the broad...

A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly...

Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the nation's first Native American U.S. treasurer, comes from a line of chiefs who instilled in her the need to keep her tribe healthy and to survive. “It's our job to leave footprints on the path for those who come behind us — so they may find their way...

A man who was spotted sacrificing animals on the beach in Virginia Key this week received a hefty fine from the Miami-Dade Police Department. The Virginia Key Outdoor Center posted photos on Instagram, along with a video, of chickens in boxes on the sand, some which were dead. According to the...

A judge sentenced the owner of the Deerfield Beach-based Turning Point Sober Home to 30 months in prison on Wednesday in federal court. Marthe Hippolyte, who operated several drug-and-alcohol-free residences, had pleaded guilty on Jan. 25, to one count of conspiracy to violate the Travel Act...

NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan and other neighbors, and increasingly close ties to Russia. While Russia’s war against Ukraine has dominated...

Indiana conservation officers say lifeguards have recovered the body of a Florida man after he tried to save the life of a teenager. They say 38-year-old Thomas Kenning of St. Petersburg, Florida, was at Porter Beach on Monday when he saw a female in distress in Lake Michigan. Officers say...

In a memo sent to commissioners Tuesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava outlined new safety measures coming to the Rickenbacker Causeway spurred by the deaths of two cyclists struck and killed by a vehicle on the causeway in May. The causeway, which connects Miami with Virginia...

A Florida woman is $1 million richer after winning a scratch-off game. The Florida Lottery announced Wednesday that LeeAnn Rivera, 39, of Port Saint Lucie, purchased her winning 500X The Cash scratch-off ticket from a 7-Eleven store in Satellite Beach. She chose to receive her winnings as a...

A jury for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial was finally sworn in Wednesday, completing a nearly three-month selection process that ended with two last-minute changes to the panel made by his attorneys. The defense wound up using all 10 of its peremptory challenges...

The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and gas drilling lease auctions since President Joe Biden took office after a federal court blocked the administration’s attempt to suspend such sales because of climate change worries. The online auctions start Wednesday and...

Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, firefighters blew up watermelons in Davie Wednesday morning to demonstrate the dangers of fireworks, showing what can happen to parts of one’s body if they’re not handled properly. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane says the holiday is...

An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats, according to a new poll that finds deep pessimism about the economy plaguing President Joe Biden. Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say the country is on the...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will not run in upcoming elections, his office said Wednesday, after he led a broad but fragile coalition government that came unraveled barely a year after taking office. The government announced last week that it would dissolve the Knesset ahead of...