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A Florida deputy was fired Tuesday after superiors accused him of trying to hide his “incompetence” by creating a fake drug report using information pulled from the license plate of a random vehicle parked at a Walmart store. Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS cites a news release from the Pinellas...

Government advisers debated Tuesday if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall -- and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then. “That’s the problem -- we’re being asked to more or less have a crystal ball today,” said Dr...

Drowned in the Rio Grande. Murdered in Mexico. Perished in the Arizona desert. For migrants traveling to the United States, the journey has always been full of peril. A tragic reminder came this week when 50 people died after being abandoned in the back of a tractor-trailer in sweltering San...

President Joe Biden's top health official said Tuesday that “every option is on the table” when it comes to helping women access abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. But the administration's options are limited despite its strong criticism of the Supreme...

The final phase in the selection of 12 jurors who will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz should receive the death sentence got underway Tuesday, the conclusion of a nearly three-month effort that began with 1,800 candidates. The dozen jurors and eight alternates will be...

Cuban authorities say they have intercepted more than a dozen speedboats arriving from the United States this year — clashing with at least two of them and making some arrests. They say U.S. authorities have handed over a suspect in the shooting of a Cuban coast guard officer. The Interior...

Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday he will lead the legal fight on behalf of Randy Cox, a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van in Connecticut when the driver braked suddenly. Crump also called for a federal civil rights investigation into the...

A missing golden retriever named Lilah, discovered deep inside a culvert pipe in upstate New York, could not be lured out by her owner with peanut butter dog treats or cheese. In the end, State Trooper Jimmy Rasaphone decided to crawl about 15 feet (5 meters) into the pipe under a rural road to...

A Key West man notorious for vandalizing property all over the lower Florida Keys will spend 30 days in a Monroe County jail, according to a news release from the county’s sheriff’s office. Deputies arrested Brandon Joseph Mims, 31, in February 2020 on more than two dozen charges, including two...

Officers accused a 42-year-old man of using a pay phone on Monday at Miami International Airport to call 911 and say, “Declare nuclear threat to Miami International Airport. Thank you.” Robert Santiago made the call shortly before 7:40 p.m. in the area of Terminal J and it prompted a sweep for...

Fort Lauderdale police are investigating two separate robberies that possibly involved the same suspect. The first robbery occurred around 8:45 a.m. May 29 in the 1700 block of Southwest 35th Avenue. According to authorities, a man grabbed a woman’s necklace and “forcefully removed it from...

A Paris court ruled on Tuesday that the French government failed to sufficiently stock up on surgical masks at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and prevent the virus from spreading. The ruling came as the number of registered infections with coronavirus variants rises sharply. It...

Detectives are searching for the shooter who killed a woman on Monday morning in Palm Beach County. The Boynton Beach Police Department identified the victim Tuesday as Iyanni Jackson. Officers don’t believe she was the shooter’s intended target. The shooter targeted a home shortly before 1:10...

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan take part in running the country. Putin's statement Tuesday came in a meeting with President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan during the Russian...

President Joe Biden opened his three-day visit to a NATO summit Tuesday by pledging to beef up the American military presence in Europe as he denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin for trying to “wipe out” Ukrainian culture in the ongoing war in eastern Europe. Biden, in talks with Spanish Prime...

Abortion pills smuggled into the United States from Mexico inside teddy bears. A New York home used as a pill distribution hub. A small apartment just south of the U.S.-Mexico border converted into a safe place for women to end their pregnancies. Networks of Mexican feminist collectives working...

Deputies arrested a 58-year-old man to face charges after a drunk-driving crash that killed a 23-year-old man earlier this year in Fort Lauderdale. David Humphreys, of Wilton Manors, was driving a 2018 McLaren sportscar at 65 mph in a 35 mph zone when he lost control, and struck a barricade...

Woody Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career, saying directing has lost its luster. The two men — each facing significant controversies — steered clear of addressing either the abuse allegations against Allen or the...

Pembroke Pines police are seeking two suspects accused of carjacking two residents at gunpoint at an apartment complex just before midnight Monday night. Police said at around 11:50 p.m., a man and woman exited their vehicle at the Marela Apartments, located at Northwest 129th Avenue and...

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, a $25,000 fine and community service for lying to federal authorities about an illegal campaign contribution, on the same day that voters in his district were deciding on his replacement in...