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An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia's war in Ukraine. Gigantic landfills in India's capital New...

The head of the United Nations said Ukraine has become “an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain" — a description underscored a short time later by the first Russian strike on the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago. Russia pounded targets all over Ukraine on Thursday...

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — who was convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and later pardoned — seeking to recover nearly $3 million from undeclared foreign bank accounts. The...

Authorities in Broward County are investigating a shooting. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue, two shooting victims were rushed to the hospital. Local 10 News cameras spotted multiple scenes with police activity. There were investigators at Pembroke Road and 24th Avenue, and a...

Fresh off his release from prison, Thomas Raynard James is happy to be a free man. “I woke up to my mother’s voice, and she was actually talking to me, she wasn’t telling me get up or get out or nothing like that,” James said. From his mother’s house, Local 10 News asked him what his first 24...

The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports were arrested Thursday on drug smuggling charges in South Florida, federal authorities said. Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by U.S. Drug...

Two weeks after a man was accused of terrorizing the New York City subway system, prosecutors and his defense attorneys are sparring over an FBI jailhouse visit to the suspect. Defense attorneys claimed in a court filing Thursday that agents unexpectedly and improperly took DNA samples from...

Among the scathing findings of an investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd is that Minneapolis police used covert or bogus social media accounts to monitor Black individuals and groups despite having no clear public safety rationale for doing so. The report released...

A new state-of-the-art cancer center is coming to Miami Beach thanks in large part to the generosity of a family that’s long been focused on philanthropy. Irma and Norman Braman have shared a lifetime of success in South Florida and shared their wealth through a multitude of charitable efforts...

The federal government has finished another environmental review of a proposed transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West and similar reviews are planned for two more projects that would span parts of Utah and Nevada, the U.S...

As Forrest Gump in the Oscar-winning 1994 film of the same name, lead actor Tom Hanks abruptly trots to a halt after more than three years of nonstop running and tells his followers: “I’m pretty tired — I think I’ll go home now.” Jacky Hunt-Broersma can relate. On Thursday, the amputee athlete...

A new government watchdog report finds that while most Americans are eligible to file their taxes for free, only a fraction use the services provided through the government. Instead, many taxpayers utilized other methods, “which they may have paid to use,” according to a new U.S. Government...

The Food and Drug Administration is considering a new approach to improve the safe disposal of prescription opioids in the U.S. Memorial Healthcare toxicologist Dr. Alberto Augsten said the intent is to limit unnecessary exposure to the unused medication. He said there are concerns that...

Formula 1 has been given the green light to speed through Miami Gardens in just over a week, but residents against the race are not ready to give up their efforts. Residents are fighting to the bitter end to try to stop this formula one race from happening in Miami Gardens and all of that was...

The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a documentary set for release Friday. But lawyers for Live Nation, which is being sued for its role as...

A warehouse along the Savannah River is holding historical treasures that evidence suggests remained lost for more than 240 years — a cache of 19 cannons that researchers suspect came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom during the American Revolution. The mud- and rust-encrusted...

Holocaust survivors shared their stories with high school students on Thursday for Holocaust Remembrance Day. They were invited to the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. Local 10 News Michael Putney was also on hand as a guest speaker, and he interviewed the director of a...

Amazon reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 on Thursday, its money-making juggernaut stalled by a slowdown in pandemic-induced online shopping and a huge write-down of its investment in an electric-vehicle startup. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant's stock almost 10% in after-hours...

Steven Aubrey was accused of setting a 68-year-old attorney on fire. Attorney Ira Tobolowsky was killed on May 13, 2016, at his home in Dallas, Texas. After the murder, Aubrey told the Dallas Morning News that he was in a bitter legal fight with Tobolowsky, who was representing Aubrey’s mother...

A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span was convicted Thursday in one of the cases against him after an earlier mistrial. Billy Chemirmir, 49, was found guilty of capital murder in the March 2018 smothering of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. Prosecutors...