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Linda Bemis was using Facebook when she thought she had connected with a handsome military serviceman known as Mr. Bravo. Detectives said it was a scammer who would later manipulate her into handing over $60,000. Bemis fell in love, so when Mr. Bravo was stuck in Afghanistan and he needed...

A Georgia man who killed an 8-year-old girl and raped her 10-year-old friend 46 years ago will not be executed as scheduled Tuesday night, state officials said as a temporary stay put in place by a judge remained in effect. A judge on Monday issued the order pausing the state's plans to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday’s primaries. In Pennsylvania, where GOP primaries for governor and...

A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and...

A brazen cigarette thief that had been making death threats was finally arrested on Monday. He stole regularly in Miami and he always went straight for that nicotine. Officers considered him to be armed and dangerous. Police arrested 31-year-old Angel Llanes after a Crime Stoppers tip led...

A judge on Tuesday suspended Michigan's dormant, decades-old ban on abortion, which means the procedure would not be illegal in the state even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its historic Roe v. Wade decision. The Michigan law, which makes it a crime to assist in an abortion, has been on...

On Monday, the Biden administration announced a series of measures they believe will “increase support for the Cuban people and safeguard our national security interests.” On the ground in Cuba, people like Abdel Legra, an activist who is critical of the government say some of the policies are...

The Justice Department sued longtime Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn on Tuesday to compel him to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work it says he performed at the behest of the Chinese government during the Trump administration. The department said it had advised Wynn...

A U.S. military investigation found that American troops did not violate the law of war or deliberately cause civilian casualties in a 2019 airstrike in Syria that killed dozens of people, including women and children. It did find that the military committed procedural mistakes in the aftermath...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that authorities were prepared for an anticipated increase in migrants crossing the border from Mexico, days before a public health order is set to end after being used to turn people away nearly 2 million times without a chance to seek...

Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years as Americans returned to the roads after the coronavirus pandemic forced many to stay at home. The 10.5% jump over 2020 numbers was the largest percentage increase since the National Highway Traffic Safety...

Members of the Californian rock band Eagles of Death Metal provided emotional testimony Tuesday about the night Islamic State group extremists stormed their Bataclan theater concert, killing scores of people in France’s worst attack in generations. Singer Jesse Hughes and guitarist Eden Galindo...

Attorneys continued working on seating a jury to decide if the convicted Parkland school shooter will be executed for the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas or spend the rest of his life in prison. On Tuesday, the judge set a date of Monday, June 27 for testimony to begin in the penalty phase...

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers...

Gus Machado, a Cuban American entrepreneur, has passed away at 87. Machado was well known for selling automobiles in South Florida at his dealership, Gus Machado Ford, on West 49th Street in Hialeah. According to his dealership website, Gus Machado came to the United States from his native...

A driver ran into a fence and ended up underwater off Interstate 75 on Tuesday in Broward County. The driver was traveling northbound on I-75 near Griffin Road in Davie, near Southwest Ranches. Broward Sheriff’s Office divers and Fire Rescue personnel responded. This is a developing story...

An attempt by one of Libya’s rival prime ministers to seat his government in the capital of Tripoli triggered clashes Tuesday between competing militias, forcing the newly appointed premier to leave the city. The development underscored the fragility of the situation in the war-wracked country...

A judge has vacated the murder conviction of a 78-year-old Las Vegas woman who spent 20 years in prison for the 1994 killing of her millionaire husband until she was paroled in 2020. Margaret Rudin. a socialite antique shop owner, was found guilty in 2001 of murder in the death of real estate...

House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, relying instead on interviews with aides, family and others who were close to him at the time. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the...

An estimated one and a half million Americans have rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition that affects the joints, but can also impact the eyes. “Since it’s affecting inflammatory all over the body it can really attack the eyes, and so there’s dry eyes which is number one, there’s...