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Polling stations opened across eastern Australia on Saturday for voters to decide whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government will defy odds and rule for a fourth three-year term. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s center-left Labor Party is a favorite to win its first...

The $40 billion U.S. package of assistance for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia's aggression is hitching a ride on a commercial flight to South Korea so it can be signed by President Joe Biden. The Senate voted Thursday to finalize the new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine...

The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in he sent Pelosi a letter April 7 expressing his concerns after...

President Joe Biden’s administration is lifting other former President Donald Trump-era restrictions with the hope of curbing migration at sea and at the U.S.-Mexico border. On Cuba’s Independence Day from Spain, local activists and politicians came together to discuss the U.S. policy in Latin...

Every year, Local 10′s Tribute to Teachers campaign recognizes the best educators in South Florida, with only five honorees selected from hundreds of nominations. Sheketha Ellison has been teaching special education at Coral Glades Middle School in Miramar for 18 years. “These are my babies as...

A tornado tore through a small northern Michigan community on Friday, inflicting injuries, flipping vehicles, tearing the roofs off buildings and causing other damage. Ambulances were taking injured people to hospitals, though no deaths were confirmed, the State Police said. The tornado struck...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a woman who allegedly threw a tantrum at a Lakeland McDonald’s because her order took too long. Tianis Jones, 22, is facing charges for burglary with assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. According to investigators, Jones got violent...

WPLG President and CEO Bert Medina has been recognized by the Suncoast Emmy Chapter with the Silver Circle Award, which represents excellence in the television industry for 25 years or more. Like many South Floridians, Medina’s story started 90 miles off the coast of South Florida. “I grew up...

A domestic battery charge against a 23-year-old Florida rapper who goes by the name Rod Wave has has been dropped, according to court documents. Prosecutors filed a notice Thursday in Osceola County court that the case against Rodarius Green was not suitable for prosecution. Green, whose song...

A South Carolina judge granted bond on Friday to the former “American Idol” contestant accused of barreling into a man with his pickup truck and killing him. Caleb Kennedy, 17, received a $50,000 bond and was ordered to receive mental health treatment while in home detention, news outlets...

Roger Angell, a famed baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101. The New Yorker announced his death on Friday. Other details were not...

President Joe Biden traveled to the Indo-Pacific on Friday, his first trip to Asia as commander-in-chief. He met with his counterpart from South Korea and toured a Samsung electronics facility amid a supply chain crisis and shortage of computer chips. “These little chips, only a few...

The pandemic has put a spotlight on the mental health crisis in the United States. Escalating rates of suicide in 2020 made it the second leading cause of death for teens and young adults. Susan Racher is president of the Miami-Dade chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health or NAMI...

Dayonte Resiles, convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 59-year-old woman in 2014, was officially sentenced to life in prison on Friday. Resiles, now 27, was charged with killing Jill Halliburton Su nearly eight years ago. Prosecutors said Resiles broke into Su’s home, but ended up...

The staff at a Cape Coral elementary school made a reading bet with their students, they were happy to lose. On Friday, the principal and vice principal of Hector Cafferata Jr. Elementary school woke up on the roof of their school. The administrators made a deal with their students to read...

Federal officials are warning that expanding drought conditions coupled with hot and dry weather, extreme wind and unstable atmospheric conditions have led to explosive fire behavior in the southwestern U.S., where large fires continued their march across New Mexico on Friday. Crews also...

A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk's supporters and Tesla. In an order filed Thursday, Judge James Donato threw out the lawsuit by the investor, Aaron Greenspan, who runs a legal...

A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday’s primary by weeks in the state’s third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance. The call from Rep. Janelle Bynum, who...

Authorities responded to a child injured, a crash, and a shooting on Friday in Broward County. The cases were all related. According to Veda Coleman Wright, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office, said a child suffered a head injury at 4113 NW 88 Ave., in Coral Springs. The shooting...

A 40-year-old man was at the Broward County main jail on Friday facing a domestic violence charge, records show. According to Detective Ali Adamson, an officer stopped a driver shortly before midnight on Thursday, at 1545 NE 4th Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. The officer arrested Franz Cherefant...