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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday she's engaged to her longtime partner Riley Roberts, a marketing professional she met over a decade ago while they were undergraduates at Boston University. The pair got engaged last month in her family's hometown in Puerto Rico, the Democratic...

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding star power to the President Joe Biden's National Security Council. Kirby, who also served as the top spokesman at the Pentagon and the State Department during the Obama...

More than 5,000 firefighters battled multiple wildland blazes in dry, windy weather across the Southwest on Thursday, including a fire that has destroyed dozens of structures in west Texas and another that's picking up steam again in New Mexico. Evacuation orders remained in place for residents...

A Fort Lauderdale family living in the Poinsettia Heights neighborhood watched in fear as a man tried to break into their home while they were inside. On the family’s home security camera, the stranger can be seen walking up to the house. “This is my house,” he says. “You have five minutes...

Patricia Wolf never imagined she would be homeless at 82 years old. A clever fraudster was aware that she was closing on a new property in April in Sunrise. The scammer imitated her attorney’s e-mail and sent her wiring instructions. “The wire transfer instructions had his name on top,” Wolf...

The mining company that wants to extract a rare heat-resistant element from the ground under southeast Nebraska says a new report shows the deposit it plans to mine holds a significant amount of other rare elements. NioCorp Developments said Thursday that the latest analysis shows the amount of...

The defense is working to convince a judge to grant bond to Jasmine Martinez. Martinez allegedly used the federal Paycheck Protection Program to pay a gunman who fatally shot Le’Shonte Jones, a TSA worker, and wounded her 3-year-old daughter in a broad-daylight attack outside her Miami...

Boeing’s crew capsule rocketed toward orbit Thursday on a repeat test flight without astronauts, after years of being grounded by flaws that could have doomed the spacecraft. Only a test dummy was aboard. If the capsule reaches the International Space Station on Friday and everything else goes...

An attorney for an Arizona real estate developer who was referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation along with a former Trump administration Cabinet member by Democrats on a congressional committee demanded Thursday that he be allowed to publicly rebut the allegations...

The Senate approved a bill Thursday aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in a government assistance program that accounts for about half of all formula purchased in the United States. The House passed the bill the day before, so it now goes to President Joe Biden...

Commissioners postponed a controversial vote on Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary, a limit on construction projects near nature reserves. Aligned Real Estate Holdings asked commissioners to expand the boundary. The Brickell-based company wants to use about 800 acres of agricultural...

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. Steve Szoke is Dillard High School’s lauded robotics instructor and inspires his students to get creative with coding. Szoke has...

Two well-known women are running for the right to represent western Broward County in the Florida state senate. The race pits two savvy Democrats running against each other for their party’s nomination, former Broward Commissioner Barbara Sharief against state Senate Minority Leader Lauren...

The federal government is investing in machines that suck giant amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air in the hopes of reducing damage from climate change. The Department of Energy said Thursday it will release $3.5 billion to groups developing direct air capture and other technologies that...

Thousands of ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by vote-counting machines will delay results by weeks in a key U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary election, a shocking development that is giving a black eye to a vote-by-mail pioneer state with a national reputation as a leader on...

Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jorge Sobrino took the stand on Thursday during his trial for battery in Fort Lauderdale. Prosecutors said his victim was handcuffed to a hospital bed. Video shows Sobrino, 24, punched David O’Connell on Jan. 2, 2019, while at Broward Health North, according to...

President Joe Biden took off for Asia on Thursday amid a baby formula shortage in the states, but before he left, he took new executive action to help. “I’ve directed my team to do everything possible to make sure there is enough safe baby formula and that it’s quickly reaching families that...

Two men convicted of buying their kids’ way into top universities will stay out of prison while they appeal their cases in the college admissions bribery scheme, a Boston judge ordered Thursday. Also Thursday, another judge ruled that a woman who worked for the mastermind of the scheme and took...

Cubans continue to cross the southern border in record numbers. Amid a crisis on the island and the ability to get to Mexico through Nicaragua, the rise in migration is unlike any other since the 1980s. In seven months, from October to April, close to 115,000 Cubans have been processed at the...

An incredible moment took place at FLA Live Arena prior to Tuesday’s second round playoff game between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning. The singing of the National Anthem is quickly becoming a viral sensation thanks to an amazing and talented young girl. She is 7-year-old Pranysqa...