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Two of four women who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial that she had a role in their sexual abuse at the hands of financier Jeffrey Epstein may be speaking at her sentencing or have their statements read aloud, court filings Friday show. Prosecutors told a federal judge in a letter that...

Frontier Airlines on Friday added more cash and a larger breakup fee to its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, and the Spirit board repeated its preference for Frontier over a rival bid by JetBlue Airways. Frontier added $2 in cash to its previous offer of $2.13 in cash and 1.9126 shares of Frontier...

Even before the Supreme Court decided to end 50 years of federal abortion rights, Florida was one of the states that had already started rolling out restrictions on abortion access before Friday’s ruling happened. Now reproductive rights advocates are concerned that this will encourage state...

Right before the deadline, former Rep. David Rivera filed to run in the open Florida House of Representatives District 119 race. The Miami Herald reported he diverted $13 million to a convicted drug trafficker and that he was fined $456,000 for propping up a ringer candidate. Rivera disputed...

The fate of hard-nosed technology executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani is now in the hands of a jury that will weigh criminal charges alleging he joined disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, his former partner, in an elaborate fraud that jarred Silicon Valley. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila...

Concerns about the safety of e-cigarettes are being raised again in the wake of a ruling by the Food and Drug Administration to pull JUUL brand products off the market. Dr. Mark Dylewski, Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Baptist Health South Florida’s Miami Cancer Institute said that while...

The passage of a bipartisan gun violence bill revealed a contrast between incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and his likely Democratic challenger, Rep. Val Demings. The $13 billion bill would incrementally toughen background check requirements for young people to buy guns, deny more domestic...

Hundreds of marchers took to the streets of Wynwood, mostly pro-choice advocates, on Friday. It began around 5 p.m. and more and more people joined along. They were vocal in their opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established...

The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a half-century. The decision by the court’s conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the...

The FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman Emilia Bourmas-Fry said in a statement that they were complying with a warrant from...

Police arrested a Homestead man on multiple felony charges after he targeted high-end GPS units in a string of boat burglaries in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Carlos Leodanys Lopez, 25, now faces charges of grand theft and burglary...

For those who lost loved ones in the Champlain Towers South collapse one year ago, the reality is still sinking in. “For many of them, it’s difficult. They are dreading this day because they have to relive it,” said Rabbi Yosef Harlig. Sharona Abadi’s friend, Estelle Hedaya, was killed in the...

Loved ones gathered for a touching tribute overnight returning to the site of the Surfside condo collapse at the exact hour their lives were forever changed. They streamed in quietly, emotionally, and lovingly. They clutched flowers and photos. They gathered at the site where the lives of...

Sen. Susan Collins was blasted Friday for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as opponents targeted her votes to confirm two justices to the Supreme Court who were in the majority opinion allowing states to ban abortion. Critics of the Maine senator haven’t forgotten the key role she played in...

The judge in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial made a jury's award official Friday with a written order for Heard to pay Depp $10.35 millio n for damaging his reputation by describing herself as a domestic abuse victim in an op-ed piece she wrote. Judge Penney Azcarate entered a...

NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its...

The Walt Disney Company sent an internal message to employees on Friday, assuring them family planning and reproductive care would be covered, even if it involves travel, according to The Washington Post. The message went on to mention the travel benefit covers several medical situations...

The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home is scheduled to be released from prison next week, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge...

A longtime South Florida nonprofit is asking for help as it runs out of time to find a new home. The Make A Wish Veterans organization, which they say serves 100 to 150 veterans a week, has less than a week before they have to close up shop, its director said. The building they operate out of...

Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba, the country's prosecutor's office said Friday. Maikel Castillo was sentenced to nine years for attacks and defamation against the country's institutions and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, 34, to five...