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Authorities in Miami-Dade County are investigating a fatal shooting. It happened Tuesday evening in the area of Southwest 140th Street and 142nd Avenue, a commercial warehouse district. According to police, a 911 call came in at approximately 7:30 p.m. reporting gunfire in the area. Upon...

Maxine Bernard stood by her fiancé's grave. She said she was at peace, and she believes he is finally at peace as well. “This is a graveyard,” Bernard said. “They talk to you as if it’s parks and recreation.” We met Bernard last summer. Her fiancé, DeLary Dennis Sr., died from COVID-19 in...

Bart Barber is a staunch Southern Baptist conservative who would welcome bans on abortion, opposes critical race theory and believes only men should serve as pastors. Yet Barber, elected Tuesday as the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says he has a track record of dialogue with...

Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture. As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in...

Brazil's federal police said Tuesday they arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance of an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote area of the Amazon. The suspect, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, 41, is a fisherman and a brother of the man so far considered by...

Votes in a New Mexico community are at risk of not counting after a Republican-led commission refused to approve primary election results over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines. Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to order the...

Attorneys who worked to secure settlements topping $1 billion in the collapse of a beachfront Florida condominium building in which 98 people died are requesting about $100 million in fees and costs, according to a new court filing. The total represents a discount of as much as $200 million...

Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster won his party’s nomination for a second full term Tuesday, while five Democratic gubernatorial candidates were vying for their party’s nomination. If McMaster wins the general election in November and completes the term, he will become the...

Fearing the U.S. Supreme Court will soon overturn Roe v. Wade, California Democrats on Tuesday moved quickly to ensure the state's progressive voters have a chance this fall to make abortion a constitutional right in the nation's most populous state. A proposed amendment to the California...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The vote came three weeks after the...

A brave duo intervened to rescue a woman struggling with a man who was armed with a knife on Saturday night in South Beach. Sharoline Ramos said she was with her friend Mercedes Costagliola in a car when they saw a man attacking a woman along 16th Street. “She was screaming, sweating, her skin...

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that state courts can keep juror identifies secret, rejecting a challenge from a southern Arizona journalist who argued that the right to observe trials included access to the names of jurors who decide the fate of people charged with crimes. The...

Railroad contract talks remain deadlocked after more than two years of negotiations, so President Joe Biden will likely soon have to appoint a board to help settle the dispute. The National Mediation Board determined Tuesday that mediation isn't working in the joint talks that cover roughly...

A private company that uses satellites to spot sources of methane emissions around the globe said Wednesday that it detected one of the largest artificial releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen, coming from a coal mine in Russia earlier this year. Montreal-based GHGSat said one of its...

A man carrying a Confederate battle flag stormed the U.S. Capitol with his son because they intended to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, prosecutors argued Tuesday at the close of the men's trial. A federal judge, not a jury, will decide if Delaware...

After three weeks in the hospital, a 34-year-old mother with cancer returned to a burglarized home on Monday in southeast Miami-Dade County. Her medications, clothes, shoes, jewelry — it was all gone. Kerria Dixon was first diagnosed in 2017. Her daughter, Da’Kerria Richardson, and mother...

As the saying goes, everything old is new again. That seems to be the case in Hollywood as it relates to movie remakes. The latest update is the classic Father of the Bride, but this time it comes with Cuban twist. Tuesday night in Little Havana, the stars of the new film, including Andy...

House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to his supporters' insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The House panel investigating the attack has held the first two in a series of hearings providing...

ABC was the top-rated television network last week largely behind the NBA Finals, and its news division won bragging rights for the first prime-time hearing of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The 5.2 million people who watched the hearing on...

It’s estimated 5,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, averaging about 15 cases per day. While there currently is no cure for this progressively fatal disease, there is hope through several research efforts underway across the country and here...