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Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has accepted an undisclosed financial settlement to end his federal defamation lawsuit against a well-known attorney who represented a dancer who she said accused Wynn of sexual harassment and retaliation. Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom retracted and...

Three weeks after Oregon’s third-largest county learned that a majority of their ballots had blurry barcodes and were unreadable by vote-counting machines, state officials have yet to receive a written plan detailing how the county will complete the tally by June 13, the deadline to certify...

President Joe Biden prepared to address the nation Tuesday night shortly after returning to the White House from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by “horrific” mass tragedy. Biden was on Air Force One Tuesday afternoon when officials said a gunman acting alone killed at least 14...

Massachusetts’ highest court on Tuesday rejected a bid by ExxonMobil to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state that accuses the oil giant of misleading the public about the role its fossil fuels play in causing climate change. The lawsuit filed in 2019 by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...

A Maryland man is accused of throwing a flagpole and a smoke grenade at police and assaulting an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents released Tuesday. Rodney Milstreed allegedly threw the flagpole bearing a navy flag...

Connecticut U.S. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to finally pass legislation that addresses the nation’s continuing gun violence problem as the country’s latest school shooting unfolded Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. A gutted Murphy took to the floor...

A North Miami Beach woman received a frightening wakeup call after finding a man inside her home. She said when she opened her eyes, there was a strange man sitting right next to her. “I jumped and I started screaming to my mom,” said 24-year-old Diana Pierre. “He was trying to cuddle with me...

The search for the 12 jurors who will decide the fate of Nikolas Cruz continued Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale. Dozens of Broward County residents responded to jury duty for the second time. They had cleared the first phase since they did not have financial hardships or other obstacles preventing...

The family of a mentally ill inmate who died after an altercation with Broward County detention officers in 2021 gathered in front of Broward County commissioners Tuesday, asking them to push BSO and the courts to release video of the incident to the public. “We’re asking the commission to take...

President Joe Biden boarded Air Force One on Tuesday marking the end of his trip to Asia. While in Asia, he met with the group known as the Quad, which is made up of America, Australia, India, and Japan. Their meeting was overshadowed by Biden’s remarks on Monday when he said the United States...

When 75-year-old Gordon Scherer became anemic late in 2021, he went to several doctors near his home in the Cayman Islands, looking for a cause. It was ultimately a trip to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale that led to an answer. “On March 8th they did two biopsies and they came back and...

Following in Dave Chappelle's footsteps, Ricky Gervais ridicules transgender women in his new Netflix comedy special. As with Chappelle, the British stand-up quickly drew backlash for what a LGBTQ advocacy group called “anti-trans rants.” In “SuperNature,” released Tuesday on the streaming...

Accusations have flown for months over who's to blame for Ohio's protracted redistricting predicament — a mess of a political mapmaking fight that's left the state without settled political maps and voters without a day for electing party nominees to Statehouse seats. Voting rights groups blame...

Broward County Commissioners received an update on the 911 emergency that is plaguing the Broward Sheriff’s Office and led up to a shouting match between Sheriff Gregory Tony and a county commissioner the last time the issue was brought up. Commissioners are taking action, saying they needed a...

Organizers with a South Florida LGBTQ group say they have no plans to cancel an upcoming Pride festival amid suspected links between the current monkeypox outbreak and gay events and saunas, but they are paying close attention to a rise in cases. A leading adviser to the World Health...

A report released on Tuesday shows the United States birth rate increased slightly in 2021 but remains well below pre-pandemic levels. The report showed 86,000 fewer births in 2021 than in 2019. The slight one-percent increase last year from 2020 was likely the result of pregnancies put off...

A Central Florida grandmother said she looked into the eyes of a stranger who walked into her home, then was forced to grabbed her gun to protect herself. Virginia Morrison, 69, said she hit the man in the face with a broom, while her roommate Charlie, and 80-year-old man, grabbed his gun and...

Organizers of a camp for Ukrainian refugees who had traveled to Mexico said Tuesday they will soon close it and discouraged Ukrainians still in Europe from traveling to Mexico as they try to enter the United States. Some 1,000 Ukrainians passed through the camp during the month that it was open...

The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a UCLA gynecologist, bringing a record amount in total payouts by a public university in a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by campus doctors. The...

A United Airlines wheel chair attendant at Newark Airport lost his job, after he was caught on camera involved in a violent brawl with former NFL player Brendan Langley. Sources told ABC News it started when the employee asked for a wheelchair that Langley was using to carry his luggage last...