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New details were released Thursday, a day after a man was fatally struck by a Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway cargo train in Pompano Beach. The incident occurred just before 3 a.m. Wednesday near the 200 block of South Dixie Highway. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the victim...

A Miami teenager faced a judge Thursday morning, charged with multiple felonies in connection to an April burglary and shooting at an Opa-Locka car dealer. Andrew Harris, 16, is one of three people accused of breaking into the CarYou Miami dealership on Northwest 141st Street in the early...

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade, one expected to make it easier to carry guns in public in some of the largest cities. Already in an uncomfortable spotlight over a...

A South Florida mother is facing charges after her 7-month-old drowned in a bathtub. On Friday, May 20 at 2:20 p.m., police arrived to 22-year-old Alyssa Carolyn Jimmie’s Southwest Miami-Dade home to find the baby unconscious. Jimmie told police that she had left the baby in the tub with his...

At a small plaza in Davos, a picturesque Swiss town in the middle of the Alps, about 50 climate activists gathered on Thursday to bring attention to issues they said were largely ignored during this week's World Economic Forum meeting. They said more attention needed to be on human suffering...

Joe Biden, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, surveyed the collection of black, military-style rifles on display in the middle of the room as he denounced the sale of guns whose “only real function is to kill human beings at a ferocious pace.” That was nearly three decades...

A passenger with no flying experience landed a small plane on May 10 in West Palm Beach after the pilot suffered a medical emergency, and now the two are coming together for the first time since that flight. Passenger Darren Harrison and pilot Kenneth Allen reunited on Thursday at the Palm...

Students at Miami Beach Senior High School shared mixed reactions Thursday after police arrested one of the school’s math teachers on child pornography and other charges. Detectives say Paul Urquiza, 32, shared pornography with a 16-year-old girl from the United Kingdom, sent her sexually...

Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate Thursday as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety. Senate Majority...

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home loan remain at decade-high levels. Economic uncertainty and weakened homebuyer demand continue to loom over mortgage rates. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported...

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Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a celebrity lovefest and a forceful assertion of her achievement as a gay woman daring to be herself. DeGeneres and guests Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish and Pink shared memories and affection as “The Ellen...

BTS, the Grammy-nominated South Korean boy band, will join President Joe Biden next week to talk about “Asian inclusion and representation” and to address hate crimes and discrimination against Asians, the White House announced Thursday. The musical group's White House visit next Tuesday...

The Palestinian Authority on Thursday announced the results of its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, saying it had proven she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces as she tried to flee. The findings echoed the results of a preliminary...

An explosion hit a biodiesel production plant in northern Spain on Thursday, killing two people and forcing the evacuation of 250 children who had been on a field trip nearby, police said Thursday. Police video of the explosion showed flames engulfing the plant in the northern region of La...

Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. For Americans of a certain age, it conjures memories of painfully long lines at gas stations, shuttered factories and President Gerald Ford’s much-ridiculed “Whip Inflation Now” buttons. Stagflation is the bitterest of economic pills: High...

Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from multiple death threats, and said she just wants “Johnny to leave me alone.” Heard was expected to be the final witness in the six-week...

Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. A four-judge panel in the appellate division of the state’s trial court upheld Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 17...

A court in Spain on Thursday dismissed Colombian singer Shakira's appeal in a tax fraud case, paving the way for a trial after a judge previously concluded there was enough evidence to suggest the pop star may have avoided her fiscal obligations to the state. The case first made headlines in...

One of the three victims killed in a crash in Miami Wednesday morning has been identified as Ernesto Enrique Carralero, 23, who was a local rapper known as OhTrapstar. Multiple news outlets reported that Carralero was also the cousin of fellow rappers Lil Pump and Lil Ominous, however a friend...