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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure. State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas...

A legendary leader in the broadcast television and business world, and a big part of our success at WPLG, has died. Tom Murphy died Wednesday at his home in New York at the age of 96. Murphy was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Cities and oversaw the $3.5 billion merger with ABC...

A vessel carrying more than 800 Haitians trying to reach the United States wound up instead on the coast of central Cuba, government news media said Wednesday. It appeared to be the largest group yet in a swelling exodus of people from crisis-stricken Haiti. The U.S. Coast Guard and other...

The Biden administration has sided against the airline industry and urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to uphold a California law that would provide more rest and meal breaks than airline crews are guaranteed under federal rules. The U.S. solicitor general and other administration...

Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement with Twitter...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava praised the Florida legislature on Wednesday for passing a condo safety reform package that lawmakers expect Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign it into law. State legislators met for a special session nearly a year after 98 people died when a section of the...

Could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school? Could it have warned the authorities? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed the online messages sent minutes before the Wednesday...

Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard. It was a quick trip back: The Starliner capsule parachuted into the New Mexico desert just four hours after leaving the orbiting lab, with...

By now it's as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A mass shooting leaves many dead, and wild conspiracy theories and misinformation about the carnage soon follow. It happened after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, after the Orlando nightclub shooting and after the deadly rampage...

Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reflected the deep political divisions over guns. Steve Dettelbach...

A math teacher from Miami Beach Senior High School has been arrested after detectives say he shared pornography with a 16-year-old girl, sent her sexually-explicit messages, and inappropriate images. Paul Urquiza, 32, now faces several charges, including possession of child pornography...

A jury in Portland has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” — of fatally shooting her husband four years ago. The jury of seven women and five men found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday after...

Many in the nation agree and are fed up with inaction on gun reform legislation and it comes in the wake of another mass shooting this time in Texas. President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday night from the White House barely an hour after returning from a five-day trip to Asia that was bracketed by...

Protecting Biscayne Bay isn’t just about what goes into the water. It’s also about monitoring what we do with the land surrounding this fragile eco-system. Keeping a watchful eye over it all for more than three decades is Lee Hefty. After 31 years of service, and 11 as director, Hefty is...

Members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds, the House's top law enforcement official said Wednesday, a view that goes beyond current restrictions and defies Republican orthodoxy on the issue of guns. House...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve accountability in policing —a meaningful but limited action on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death that reflected the challenges in addressing racism, excessive use of force and public safety when Congress is...

In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, a lot of parents are asking themselves whether it’s safe to send their kids to school. Local 10 News brought those concerns to Dr. Daniel Bober, the chief psychiatrist at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. “I have parents telling me they don’t...

After a series of measures that weakened Brazil’s environmental laws, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled an about-face, signing a decree Tuesday that creates stricter rules against crimes relating to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The new legislation increases fines for...

Tanya Carton was among the parents who dropped off their children at school Wednesday with a bit of apprehension. She is from Texas, so she wore a T-shirt to show her solidarity. Carton was at Dr. Toni Bilbao Preparatory Academy in Doral, where the U.S. flag was flown at half-staff in memory of...

The Uvalde, Texas school massacre has forced family members of the victims of the Parkland shooting to relive the horror of what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago. Some Parkland families are speaking out, saying they are outraged at the fact that nothing has...