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A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing to divide the tiny island between them. Under the agreement, to be signed later Tuesday, a border...

Pro wrestler Jeff Hardy is facing driving under the influence and other charges after being arrested in Florida. Authorities say Hardy was pulled over by a state trooper Monday after the Florida Highway Patrol received calls about an impaired driver on Interstate 95 in Volusia County. Besides...

A government advisory panel met Tuesday to decide whether to recommend a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens. The Food and Drug Administration's outside experts will vote on whether Moderna's vaccine is safe and effective enough to give kids ages 6 to 17. If the...

The northern Arizona city of Flagstaff is synonymous with mountains — lush with ponderosa pines, meadows and hiking trails that are a respite from the desert heat. Now, parts of them are burning yet again, fueled by winds that grounded air resources Monday. Fire crews were anticipating more...

A program offering $20,000 in cash and incentives for remote workers to move to West Virginia as part of a population push has chosen 33 people for its second class of newcomers and is now taking applications for a third host region, officials announced Tuesday. Tourism officials said the...

Fort Lauderdale police are seeking to identify a suspect accused of stealing a man’s credit cards while he was on a business call and then making a very expensive purchase at an Apple store. According to a police news release, the suspect walked into an office at 515 E. Las Olas Blvd. on the...

The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor a large, disorganized area of storminess across the southwestern Caribbean near the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The broad region of low pressure is positioned in an area of natural background spin that extends from the eastern...

New York's top court on Tuesday rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo, ruling that she does not meet the definition of “person” who is being illegally confined. The 5-2 decision by the state Court of Appeals affirms an earlier court decision and means Happy will not...

The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials. The hearing had been set for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been postponed. It did not give a reason or a...

Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America, according to flight tracking information and independent verification by The Associated Press in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley. The AP and Berkeley partnered to look at the...

Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny sounded the alarm on Tuesday, saying the Kremlin critic is missing from the prison where he was serving his time. Most likely he is being transferred to another prison, his close associates say, but in Russia prison transfers take days...

The names of the 72 people who lost their lives in a London high-rise tower blaze were read out at a memorial service Tuesday to mark five years since the tragedy. Former Prime Minister Theresa May and London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined survivors and the bereaved at the Westminster Abbey service to...

Coinbase Global says it plans to cut about 1,100 jobs, or approximately 18% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring in order to help manage its operating expenses in response to current market conditions. The cryptocurrency trading platform said in a regulatory filing that it...

Pope Francis has complained that traditionalist Catholics, particularly in the United States, are “gagging” the church’s modernizing reforms and insisted that there was no turning back. Francis told a gathering of Jesuit editors in comments published Tuesday that he was convinced that some...

An autopsy says a Missouri teenager died of blunt force trauma after falling from a 430-foot Central Florida drop-tower amusement park ride. The report Monday by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office also ruled that 14-year-old Tyre Sampson’s death in March was an accident. Sampson...

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, pop star Ricky Martin and award-winning actress/singer Michaela Jae Rodriguez will join the Hispanic Federation on Tuesday to launch an advocacy initiative to serve Latinx LGBTQ+ communities. The Advance Change Together initiative will provide 20 Latinx...

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking to fill several 911 operator positions. Across the country, emergency 911 communications centers are facing a critical shortage of these critical workers. A job fair will be held at the Public Safety Building at 2601 West Broward Boulevard in Fort...

U.S. producer prices surged 10.8% in May from a year earlier, underscoring the ongoing threat to the economy from inflation that shows no sign of slowing. Thursday's report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers —...

A 14-year-old boy was arrested late Monday night in connection with a sexual battery that occurred last week in Hollywood, authorities confirmed Tuesday morning. According to Hollywood police, detectives and SWAT team members served an arrest warrant in the 700 block of South Park Road just...

Amber Heard says she stands by the testimony she gave during a contentious six-week libel trial against former husband Johnny Depp, saying she has "always told the truth.” “That's all I spoke. And I spoke it to power. And I paid the price,” Heard said in her first post-verdict interview, two...