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From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more resembled the dog days of August. In the United States a heat dome of triple digit temperatures in many...

A proposal aimed at removing the last remnant of slavery from California law failed to pass the state Senate on Thursday after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration warned it could cost taxpayers billions of dollars by forcing the state to pay prisoners a $15-per-hour minimum wage. The U.S...

Michael Noriega said he is still grappling with grief. Hilda Noriega, who left Cuba in 1960, had two children, and he is one of her three grand children. The 92-year-old matriarch had lived at Champlain Towers South in Surfside for two decades. He remembers drinking Cuban coffee with her on the...

“I would be lying to the court and I would be lying to myself.” In the afternoon panel, two potential jurors said they now believe they could not be fair and impartial. One said hard to set aside the severity of case and the number of lives altered. Another potential juror said, after giving it...

Another day of jury selection continued Thursday in a Broward County courtroom in the trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. The state asked straightforward questions about background. The answers and bio data points provide a pathway for the defense to dig into details to unpack a...

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday. Here are some questions and answers about what the decision does and does not do: WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON GUNS? The Supreme Court said that Americans have a right to carry firearms in...

Florida deputies responded to calls of a driver seen driving on a Sarasota County sidewalk to avoid rush hour traffic. Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies were alerted when a concerned citizen provided dash camera video of the driver on the sidewalk during the Tuesday morning rush hour...

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. On Dec. 8, 2020, a retired shop clerk in England received the first shot in...

Miami-Dade Judge Michael Hanzman gave final approval in the $1 billion settlement Thursday morning coming almost one year to the day when the Champlain Tower South collapsed leaving families and loved ones heartbroken. Attorneys spoke with Local 10 News just minutes after the judge’s approval...

Officer Matt Larsh, a motorcycle police officer with the Miami-Dade Police department, says it’s a “miracle from God” that he’s alive. On April 21, Larsh was involved in a head-on collision with an SUV in northwest Miami-Dade. “The gentleman driving the SUV pulled out in front of me and I hit...

Every year an estimated 1,700 Americans in need of a liver transplant die waiting for a donor organ, but there’s an approach to transplants that can help two people at the same time. Maria Contreras and Monica Davis had nothing in common until fate forced them together. Both women were...

The nation’s 33 biggest banks have enough capital to withstand a severe economic contraction, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. In its latest annual “stress tests” of the U.S. financial system, the Fed built a scenario under which the nation’s unemployment rate would more than double to 10%...

The House Jan. 6 committee is using Thursday's hearing to show the pressure that Donald Trump put on the Justice Department to install a loyalist at the helm who would pursue the then-president's false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden...

Israel on Thursday dispatched two water-dropping aircraft to help battle a large wildfire that has scorched at least 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of forest in the foothills of the Pentadaktylos mountain range in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus. The two Israeli aircraft joined...

An expert panel backed a second COVID-19 vaccine option for kids ages 6 to 17 Thursday. Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously to recommend Moderna shots as an option for school-age kids and adolescents. This group has been able to get shots shots made...

President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority coalition in Congress. Petro, a former Bogotá mayor and a member of the M-19 rebel group that demobilized...

The State Department is preparing to compensate victims of mysterious brain injuries colloquially known as “Havana Syndrome” with six-figure payments, according to officials and a congressional aide. Current and former State Department staff and their families who suffered from “qualifying...

The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges, according to a proposed settlement in a Trump-era lawsuit. The agreement filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court would automatically...

On Jan. 6, 2017, Esteban Santiago flew from Anchorage, Alaska, where he was living, to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He had a handgun checked in his luggage and followed the TSA’s protocols for checking the gun. He then retrieved his bag, took out the gun, loaded it in a...

A lack of clear, concise and consistent messaging about the seriousness of the novel coronavirus in the earliest months of its spread created a false sense of security among Americans that the pandemic would not be serious and resulted in inaction early on across the federal government. That...