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SpaceX cleared a key hurdle Monday for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration concluded an environmental review of Elon Musk’s Starship base. The agency saw no significant environmental concerns, but is requiring more than...

Family members of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are reacting to U.S. lawmakers’ proposed gun safety bill. They have been pushing for stronger gun laws for four years, since the horrible massacre on Valentine’s Day in 2018. They’re all saying this is a step...

President Joe Biden signed a bill Monday that will create a commission to study establishing a national museum on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. “I’m honored to sign into law something that’s long overdue,” he said at a White House ceremony. The...

The housing and rental market has been hit extremely hard as inflation concerns rise across the nation. Real estate economist Ken H. Johnson says South Florida homes are overvalued. “We are definitely and probably the worst housing affordability prices that we’ve seen in Miami in the last 40...

South Korea’s top diplomat said Monday that North Korea has completed preparations for a new nuclear test and that only a political decision by the country’s top leadership can prevent it from going forward. After talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington, South Korean Foreign...

Richard Jobson, the executive director of the Miramar United Elite Soccer Club, couldn’t believe what he heard when he picked up the phone over the weekend. He learned that one of his players, 15-year-old Achilles Lopez, was killed in what police are calling an accidental shooting. “I had the...

A witness is describing the moments after a crash that claimed the lives of the driver of a stalled Jeep and an 11-year-old boy. Hallandale Beach police said the crash happened Saturday night on the 800 block of Hallandale Beach Boulevard. Police said when a good Samaritan Uber driver and his...

A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government. Around the same...

A mother of three children frustrated with living conditions in Cuba goes viral. Amelia Calzadilla urges other Cuban mothers to speak up in her post on Facebook. In the video she talks about her high electricity bill and her long list of grievances against the Communist government of the...

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating another case of a cat being found torn in half in Weston, making it the third documented case in the past two weeks. Local 10 News first broke the story of the string of concerning cases last Monday. The next day, more residents came forward...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — The streamers have an embarrassment of riches to offer film fans this week, starting with a few charming highlights from this...

The Western U.S. on Monday marked another day of hot, dry and windy weather as crews from California to New Mexico battled wildfires that had forced hundreds of people to leave their homes. Several hundred homes on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona, were evacuated and the Arizona Snowbowl ski...

President Joe Biden’s top health official has again tested positive for COVID-19, less than a month after he came down with virus symptoms while on a trip to Germany. U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra woke up with symptoms again Monday morning and tested positive afterward, spokeswoman Sarah...

The Metropolitan Opera sold 61% of available tickets this season after returning from a 1½ year absence, managing 196 staged performances without a cancellation. Sales were down from 75% in last pre-pandemic season of 2018-19, but it is considered a success. “We consider it to be a triumph in...

An Iraqi man who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 15 years pleaded guilty Monday to war crimes charges for his role in al-Qaida attacks against U.S. and allied forces along with civilians in Afghanistan. The pleas by the prisoner known as Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi...

Georgia's 2021 voting law made changes that drew a firestorm of criticism — bans on giving water to people waiting to vote, a shorter period to request an absentee ballot and strict limits on ballot drop boxes. But with early in-person voting opening Monday in most Georgia counties ahead of the...

A glossy book is arriving at the homes and offices of America’s wealthiest individuals. Inside is a charity pitch that aims to raise as much as $6 billion for nonprofits fighting global poverty. The proposition? Donate and get results — or your money back. The advocacy group Global Citizen and...

The New York Philharmonic is restoring salaries of musicians to pre-pandemic levels as it prepares to return to Lincoln Center's Geffen Hall for the 2022-23 season. A four-year contract agreed to in December 2020 during a season canceled due to the coronavirus had called for players to earn 75%...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined to comment Monday on reports that he is planning to visit Ukraine together with his counterparts from France and Italy soon. Weekly Bild am Sonntag had reported that Scholz would travel to Kyiv with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Premier...

Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law Monday by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed, and up to eight hours of annual training. The training programs must be...