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The superintendent of the Texas school district where 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot said Thursday that the district will hire more police officers in the fall but released no information about the investigation. During a sometimes contentious news conference, Uvalde school...

While motorcading to his beach house last weekend, President Joe Biden could have looked out the window of his limousine and seen firsthand why he has struggled to contain inflation. Lining Delaware's Coastal Highway as it leads into Rehoboth Beach are miles of strip malls, outlet stores...

A U.S. investigation into Teslas operating on partially automated driving systems that have crashed into parked emergency vehicles has moved a step closer to a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it is upgrading the probe to an engineering analysis...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Thursday that he plans to stand for reelection next year. Erdogan, 68, made the announcement during a speech in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, where he challenged the main opposition party’s leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, to announce the...

Clean out the medicine cabinets. Go through those personal documents that have secure info and needn’t end up in the garbage, but should be shredded. Broward Sheriff’s Office will be taking them on Saturday in Pembroke Pines. BSO is hosting one of its BSO Operation Medicine Cabinet and...

President Joe Biden launched a renewed push Thursday to reduce the costs of shipping goods across oceans, a major challenge for retailers that the White House said has pushed up prices as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. The White House released a video featuring Biden talking...

Germany's transport minister voiced strong opposition Thursday to plans to ban the sale of new cars with combustion engines across the European Union in 2035, arguing this would discriminate against vehicles powered with synthetic fuels. EU lawmakers voted Wednesday to back the measure that...

The California based company that provides sriracha sauce to grocery stores around the country has warned that it may be harder to find their product on shelves because of a chili pepper shortage. Huy Fong Foods sent a letter to consumers this spring, warning that weather conditions have...

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped back up ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting where it's expected to announce another increase to its main borrowing rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate jumped to 5.23% this week from 5.09% last week. A...

Brian Selznick's next book was inspired in part by a famous friend, Steven Spielberg. Billed by publisher Scholastic as a “love letter to the natural world,” Selznick's “Big Tree” tells the story of two sycamore seeds and their quest across time and space to save the world. The 528-page book...

Environmental groups and representatives of Brazil's Indigenous community are protesting Thursday outside the main Paris courthouse, urging a quick trial for a French supermarket chain accused of selling beef linked to deforestation and land grabs in the Amazon rainforest. Several leading...

A former Massachusetts resident has been charged with fraudulently obtaining $2.5 million in federal relief funds intended for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic and using the money to buy vehicles and invest in cryptocurrency. Federal prosecutors in Boston say 34-year-old...

Research is underway into a new option for managing patients with HIV. Rather than taking daily oral antiviral medications, Dr. Nonglin Mel with Broward Health’s Comprehensive Care Center said a study at the National Institutes of Health is investigating an injectable treatment that can be...

The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed. Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove...

The Grammys are adding a special song for social change award and five new categories including songwriter of the year, giving the Recording Academy an avenue to honor music’s best composer. The academy announced Thursday that the new non-classical songwriter category will recognize one...

There’s an old adage in emergency management that our most precious and perishable commodity in any disaster is time. A large part of what makes an emergency an emergency is the limited time available to address the danger at hand. When you’re faced with a medical emergency, it’s both the...

Officials at the Homestead Air Reserve Base are warning nearby residents that explosive training operations will be conducted throughout the morning Thursday. The training operations will occur between the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. “There is no cause for alarm,” 482nd Fighter Wing Public...

Brazilian authorities began using helicopters to search a remote area of the Amazon rainforest for a British journalist and Indigenous official missing more than three days. Civil police in Amazonas state also said Wednesday they had identified a suspect, who was arrested for allegedly carrying...

The average cost of filling up a typical family car has exceeded 100 pounds ($125) for the first time in Britain, as Russia's war in Ukraine drives gasoline prices higher. Figures from data firm Experian Catalist showed that the average price of a liter of gas at U.K. pumps hit a record 182.3...

U.S. Sen. Raphael G. Warnock will have a children's book out this fall, a picture story based on his being one of 12 siblings. Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced Thursday that Warnock's “Put On Your Shoes and Get Ready!” will be published Nov. 15. "Growing up, my...