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Davie police are investigating a fatal crash involving a bicyclist that occurred Thursday morning. The crash was reported around 5:40 a.m. at the intersection of State Road 84 and Nob Hill Road. Davie police said a vehicle was heading north on Nob Hill Road when it struck the cyclist, who was...

The Spanish government will tighten judicial control over the country’s intelligence agency, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Thursday, weeks after the agency admitted it had spied on several pro-independence supporters in the region of Catalonia with judicial authorization The country’s...

The British government unveiled a multibillion-pound package Thursday to ease a severe cost-of-living squeeze, announcing the plan a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to “move on” from a months-long scandal over parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns. Treasury...

According to the CDC, one out of six deaths from cardiovascular disease is due to stroke, and it’s striking younger patients with no known risk factors. Hamilton Clark, the 45-year-old CEO of Jackson Memorial Hospital, found himself on the receiving end of vital medical care following a stroke...

The FDA has given the green light to a treatment for recurrent yeast infections. In clinical trials, Dr. Trisha Shah with Conceptions Florida said the approved antifungal medication Vivjoa was nearly 90 percent effective in resolving infections for up to 50 weeks compared to 57 percent in the...

Turkey’s central bank kept its main interest rate unchanged for a fifth month running on Thursday despite an annual inflation rate of nearly 70%. The bank said it would keep its policy rate “constant” at 14%, arguing inflation was driven by geopolitical developments and the “temporary effects...

Here are the highest paid male and female CEOs in the S&P; 500 index for 2021, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The AP’s compensation study covered 340 executives at S&P; 500 companies who have served at least two full consecutive fiscal years at their...

Macy's had a strong first quarter even as the department store chain faces higher costs and inflation that is chilling spending for some Americans. The company also on Thursday raised its annual earnings outlook, pushing shares higher in premarket trading. Like other retailers, Macy’s faces...

Within a two-week span, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caused a stir by throwing a wrench in Sweden and Finland’s historic request to join NATO, lashing out at fellow alliance member Greece and announcing plans for a new incursion into Syria. Erdogan appears to be using Turkey’s role as...

A Tokyo court began hearings Thursday in a lawsuit seeking nearly $5 million in damages for six people who were children in Fukushima at the time of its 2011 nuclear power plant disaster and later developed thyroid cancer. The plaintiffs are suing the operator of the nuclear plant, saying...

Even when regular workers win their biggest raises in decades, they look minuscule compared with what CEOs are getting. The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P; 500 companies soared 17.1% last year, to a median $14.5 million, according to data analyzed for The...

CEO pay is a tricky thing to explain. Within the eight- and even nine-figure sums trumpeted for CEOs each year, just a small portion is actual cash. Last year, only a little more than a quarter of compensation for the typical CEO at an S&P; 500 company came from cash salary or bonus. At the...

Pay packages for the women who run S&P; 500 companies jumped in 2021 as the economy recovered and stock prices and profits soared. Median pay for the women occupying the corner office rose to nearly $16 million, according to the annual survey done by Equilar for The Associated Press. Still...

A brush fire erupted Thursday morning in southwest Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews initially responded to the fire in the area of Southwest 127th Avenue and 128th Street, but said Florida Forestry crews have since taken over. Sky 10 was above the fire around 6:30 a.m. It didn’t...

The former president of the Louvre museum has received preliminary charges for alleged antiquities trafficking during his tenure as head of the famous Paris museum. Police in the French capital charged Jean-Luc Martinez on Wednesday with “complicity in organized fraud” and money laundering...

Russia pressed Thursday for the West to lift sanctions imposed because of its war in Ukraine, claiming without proof that the punitive measures are preventing millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products from leaving Ukrainian ports, exacerbating a global food crisis. Ukraine is...

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol responded to Smathers Beach in Key West Wednesday morning after being alerted about a group of migrants who were making landfall, officials said. Officials said 17 Cuban migrants were taken into custody around 9:45 a.m. Video taken by a witness shows the group...

An international rights group said Thursday that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey. Human Rights Watch said that the migrants reported being beaten, robbed and...

The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season. The nation’s first federally backed test-to-treat site is opening Thursday in Rhode...

U.S. officials say the Biden administration is aiming to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a broader coalition to counter what it sees as a more serious, long-term threat to global order from China. The officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken will...