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Sri Lanka’s main opposition party on Tuesday issued a no-confidence declaration aiming at ousting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet and blaming them of failing in their constitutional duty to provide a decent living standards amid the island nation's worst economic crisis in...

Pfizer now hopes to tell U.S. regulators how well its COVID-19 vaccine works in the littlest kids by late May or early June. Pfizer is testing three extra-small doses of its vaccine in children under 5 after two shots didn't prove quite strong enough. Initial results had been expected last...

Former President Donald Trump’s businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former president’s family in the process, according to the District of...

A judge on Tuesday let Johnny Depp move forward with his libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rested his case. Heard's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case, arguing that Depp had failed to make his case as a matter of law and that no...

A 32-year-old man from Castle Rock, Colorado, who is wanted in the death of his own mother was captured early Tuesday morning by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies. Adam Linhardt, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said Matthew Harless Buchanan was found at a gas station on Plantation...

A U.S. Capitol Police officer fired a gun inside a break room in a House office building on Tuesday and was promptly suspended — the latest stain for a police department struggling to regain the public's trust following the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection and a recent communications failure that...

A 23-year-old Florida rapper who goes by the name Rod Wave has been arrested on a domestic battery charge. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Offices says Rodarius Green was arrested on an outstanding warrant during a Monday morning traffic stop. He remains in the Pinellas County Jail on a battery...

The nation's capital has a long tradition of stunning leaks, from national security secrets to political scandals, but this week's disclosure of a draft Supreme Court decision is one for the history books. The document obtained by Politico shows a majority of justices could be poised to overturn...

Police in Broward County are investigating a deadly shooting. It happened just before 9:45 a.m. Tuesday near Northwest 27th Avenue in unincorporated Broward County, not far from Fort Lauderdale. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call of a possible gunshot victim...

A deadly drive-by shooting in northeast Miami-Dade left a driver dead and his teenage passenger hospitalized as a trauma alert. The red car they were traveling in was blasted with bullets. It happened just after 3:30 p.m. Monday, near Northeast 183rd Street and I-95. Police say the gunman was...

Members of the Broward County Commission are taking action to protect renters against sudden evictions. On Tuesday the county announced that commissioners approved a law that requires landlords give at least 60 days’ notice before terminating a lease when the rent has increased by more than...

The U.S. Marshals Service recently arrested Raul Albites, 38, on accusations of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor, and if convicted, Albites faces a possible mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of up to life in prison. He was taken into custody April 19...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer angrily denounced as an “abomination” the Supreme Court’s leaked draft decision that would overturn the nation’s landmark Roe v. Wade law and vowed that if it stands the Senate will vote on legislation to uphold women’s access to abortions. Schumer said the...

The World Health Organization says the rates of people who are obese and overweight in Europe have hit “epidemic proportions," with nearly 60% of adults and a third of children in one of those categories. In a report issued Tuesday, the U.N. health agency's European office said the prevalence...

Russia appeared to dodge default on its foreign debt by dipping into its scarce dollar reserves. But Moscow's debt drama is far from over. Russia's finance ministry abandoned its proposal to use rubles instead of dollars to make overdue payments on two government bonds, saying Friday that it...

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections. The Senate Finance subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight offers no description of the hearing beyond the title “Laws...

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court may be be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. He ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach of...

Singer Michael Feinstein, violinists Itzhak Perlman and Midori, and pianist Evgeny Kissin will perform at a Carnegie Hall benefit concert for Ukraine on May 23. Soprano Angel Blue, mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Isabel Leonard, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, singers Jessica Vosk and...

A man who flight attendants duct-taped to a seat onboard a Frontier Airlines flight into Miami from Philadelphia was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail followed by one year of supervised release. Maxwell Berry must surrender by Aug. 1, exactly one year after his arrest. A Miami-Dade police...

Employers posted a record 11.5 million job openings in March, more evidence of a tight labor market that has emboldened millions of American workers to seek better paying jobs and contributed to the biggest surge in inflation in four decades. A record 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in...