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For the first time, Floridians can purchase essential evacuation supplies for their furry friends tax-free during the state’s 2022 Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday, which kicks off Saturday and runs through June 10. Critical pet supplies now join the list of eligible items available for...

The gunman who killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school was in the building for over an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers, authorities say. It was 11:28 a.m. when Salvador Ramos' Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped...

When Mick North’s 5-year-old daughter was gunned down at her school, he vowed through his grief that it must never happen again. And it hasn’t — in Britain, at least. The 1996 massacre of 16 elementary school students in Dunblane, Scotland led to a ban on owning handguns in the U.K. While...

President Joe Biden is set to address graduates at the United States Naval Academy Friday amid turbulence abroad with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and tragedy at home after two mass shootings in as many weeks. Biden's remarks to the more than 1,000 newly commissioned ensigns and second...

A 25-year-old Missouri woman is accused of leaving four dogs locked in a hot car while she had lunch in a central Florida restaurant. Tesia White, who was visiting from Gainesville, Missouri, was arrested Thursday on animal cruelty charges. New Smyrna Beach police officials say she left a...

An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, just below a four-decade high set in March and the first slowdown since November 2020. Friday's report from the Commerce Department added to other recent signs showing that while high inflation...

The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable” and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and...

On a balmy Sunday night, residents of an upscale Shanghai compound took to the streets to decry lockdown restrictions imposed by their community. By the following morning, they were free to leave. The triumphant story quickly spread on chat groups across the city this week, sparking one...

Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Sweden and Finland must now take “concrete steps” to alleviate his country’s security concerns to overcome Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bid. Delegations from the two Nordic countries have returned home with documents detailing Turkey’s...

When China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April it raised concerns from the U.S. and its allies that Beijing may be seeking a military outpost in the South Pacific, an area of traditional American naval dominance. But China upped the ante further this week, reaching out to...

Miami Beach police are investigating a possible domestic-related incident that resulted in a man being struck in the head with a gun, authorities confirmed. The incident was reported just after 5 p.m. Thursday. Police said they were initially called about a possible shooting along the 1200...

A woman was arrested early Friday morning after she was involved in a hit-and-run crash in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, authorities said. The crash was reported in the area of Northwest Second Avenue and 29th Street. According to Miami police, the driver got out of her car and took off on...

Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500 people have been killed and 60% of residential buildings destroyed since the start of the war. Ukraine’s foreign minister warned...

Global shares gained Friday as investors cheered a strong set of earnings from retailers that has sent U.S. shares higher. European shares rose in early trading, while benchmarks in Asia finished higher, including Japan, China, Australia and South Korea. France's CAC 40 added 0.8% in early...

“ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip. Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA onstage in an innovative digital concert where past and future collide. The show opens to the public in London on Friday, the day after a red-carpet premiere...

MOSCOW -- Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claim to have taken control of Lyman, a town in the Donetsk region. There has been no confirmation yet from Ukrainian officials. The military of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic said on Telegram that rebel forces, supported by the Russian...

A documentary about discrimination within the ranks of Dutch police has sparked a national conversation in the Netherlands about racism, with many officers and others hoping it will finally bring about change. “The Blue Family,” or “De Blauwe Familie” in Dutch, discusses a culture of bullying...

Vladimir Konstantinov has traded hockey sticks for an Uno deck. Many, in fact. The onetime Soviet and Detroit Red Wings star plays so often that he goes through a pack per week, wearing out cards with the hands that once made him one of the world's best defensemen. During a recent visit to the...

With one of Europe's largest gay pride celebrations right around the corner, Spain's LGBTQ community is worried that the outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase in homophobic sentiment based on misunderstandings of the disease. Spanish health authorities said Thursday...

Navy Seaman 2nd Class George David Payne was just 17 years old when a Japanese submarine torpedoed his ship in the last weeks of World War II, sinking the vessel and killing him along with more than 800 other U.S. sailors. For decades, his family thought he was missing in action. But now the...