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Biogen will replace its CEO and largely abandon marketing of its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm less than a year after the medication's launch triggered a backlash from experts, doctors and insurers. CEO Michel Vounatsos will continue to lead the Biogen until a successor is found, the...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says the “basic fairness and the stability of our law demand” that the U.S. Supreme Court not overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. In a statement Tuesday, Biden said he would work to codify the right to abortion into...

If the U.S. Supreme Court follows through on overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, it would immediately split the country into states with abortion access and those that outlaw it. Some states had already been preparing for the potential that the...

Spain’s government said Tuesday it had nothing to hide amid mounting unease over national security controversies involving Pegasus spyware, including the hacking of the prime minister's cellphone and spying on Catalan separatists by unknown agents. Cabinet spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez promised...

A Connecticut state trooper who fatally shot a man following a high-speed chase in 2020 is expected to be arraigned Tuesday on a manslaughter charge. Mubarak Soulemane, a Black 19-year-old, had a knife but was boxed in by police and unable to drive away. Trooper Brian North, who is white, was...

Police in Miami-Dade County arrested a man they said tried to steal a car during a test drive. According to Coral Gables police, 65-year-old Pablo Rodriguez contacted the victim on Facebook Marketplace regarding a 2009 Mercedes-Benz C300 that was listed for sale. Rodriguez and the victim met...

When President Joe Biden on Tuesday visits a Lockheed Martin plant that manufactures an antitank weapons system, he’s certain to herald the U.S.-made arms as a gamechanger for Ukraine’s stiff resistance to Russia's invasion. But Biden’s planned visit to the Alabama factory line is also drawing...

The Biden administration has determined that WNBA star Brittney Griner is being wrongfully detained in Russia, meaning the United States will more aggressively work to secure her release even as the legal case against her plays out, two U.S. officials said Tuesday. Griner was detained at an...

A draft opinion that suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision reverberated in political battleground Michigan, where a near-total abortion ban may take effect again after nearly 40 years and is unlikely to be changed by the Republican-led...

Daniel P. Foganholi will be sworn in Tuesday morning as the Broward County School Board member representing District 5. Foganholi was appointed to the position by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat vacated by Rosalind Osgood, who is now a Florida state senator. If Foganholi wishes to keep his...

Slovakia and Hungary said Tuesday that they will not support sanctions against Russian energy that the European Union is preparing over the war in Ukraine, saying they are too reliant on those supplies and there are not immediate alternatives. EU commissioners are debating new proposals for...

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a neighborhood in Weston Tuesday morning in reference to a man who had violated a restraining order, city officials confirmed on social media. Sky 10 was above the Savanna community on Winterberry Lane at 8:45 a.m. as deputies were searching for...

Broward sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of shots fired at a vehicle Monday night, possibly on Interstate 95. According to BSO spokesman Carey Codd, the shooting was reported at 9:49 p.m., but authorities are still trying to determine exactly where the shooting occurred. Deputies...

BP posted its highest quarterly profit in more than a decade thanks to surging oil and gas prices, renewing calls for a U.K. government tax on energy companies' windfall earnings to help households struggling with rising energy bills. The British energy giant said Tuesday that underlying...

Germany's conservative opposition leader traveled to Kyiv on Tuesday for meetings with Ukrainian officials, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz made clear that he wouldn't be visiting Ukraine any time soon. Scholz has traded barbs with Ukrainian officials in recent weeks because of Kyiv's refusal to...

The premier of the British Virgin Islands is demanding his immediate release from U.S. custody, arguing he is immune from prosecution on cocaine-smuggling charges because he is the elected, constitutional head of government of the British overseas territory. Andrew Fahie was arrested last week...

Pope Francis has told an Italian newspaper that he has offered to travel to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin to try to end Russia's war in Ukraine, but that he hasn't yet heard back. Francis said he made the offer about three weeks into Russia's invasion, via the Vatican secretary...

Sales of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and treatment pushed the drugmaker well past expectations in the first quarter, as profit grew 61%. The coronavirus vaccine Comirnaty brought in more than $13 billion in sales, and the treatment Paxlovid added another $1.5 billion as company revenue swelled...

Meda Mladkova, a Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslovakia while she was in exile behind the Iron Curtain, has died. She was 102. The Kampa Museum, a modern arts gallery that Mladkova created...

A man whose death sentence for killing a Missouri couple while robbing their home was overturned three times was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Carman Deck, 56, would be just the fifth U.S. inmate to be executed this year if his lethal injection goes ahead. His hopes for a reprieve were...