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Facebook parent Meta's first quarter profit jumped past Wall Street's expectations despite slower revenue growth, sending shares up sharply in after-hours trading. The company earned $7.47 billion, or $2.72 per share, in the January-March period. That's down 21% from $9.5 billion, or $3.30 per...

Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it's unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed on Wednesday will affect the status of the WNBA star. Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February. The deal...

It was a colorful morning at Tropical Elementary School in Plantation where the fifth grade class honored one of history’s darkest times on Wednesday. Each fifth grader painted a butterfly to represent one of the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust. “I picked a medium-sized one...

Trevor Reed's nearly three year imprisonment by Russia ended Wednesday when he walked off a Russian plane and onto an American one. The Marine veteran's release was half of an unexpected U.S.-Russia prisoner swap that came despite high tension between the two countries. It saw the U.S. turn...

Poland’s air navigation agency said Wednesday that it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’ union, preventing the mass cancellation of flights in coming days. Poland’s government announced plans earlier this week to drastically reduce flights at...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday. The GAO identified 374 people who died and were listed on more than one application that received...

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter. But worn down from a lifetime of abuse and the grief of losing her daughter Mariah, her lawyers say, the Texas woman finally acquiesced to investigators. “I guess I did...

A seemingly divided Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over Oklahoma's authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American lands, following a 2020 high court decision. The outcome probably rests with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the only member of the court who didn't take part in the...

A shooting was reported Wednesday afternoon near Miami Edison Senior High School. The school is located at 6161 NW Fifth Court. Miami police spokesman Michael Vega confirmed that authorities were notified about a shooting in the area just before 2:30 p.m. He said the shooting occurred about a...

A 12-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday on accusations that he threated to shoot up his middle school, authorities said. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the boy attends Crystal Lake Middle School in Pompano Beach. “Earlier that morning, a student at the school learned of the threat...

Perhaps no group of people is more alarmed about Elon Musk's plan to make Twitter a free speech free-for-all than those most likely to be targeted for harassment: women, racial minorities and other marginalized groups. They fear that a more hands-off approach to policing the platform will...

Corey Gamble, a key witness for the Kardashians, insisted Wednesday that he saw Blac Chyna punch Rob Kardashian and whip him with a phone-charging cord, as Chyna's lawyer tried to poke holes in his story. “I said that she attacked him,” Gamble, the longtime boyfriend and sometime co-star of...

A former top-ranking State Department official is set to plead guilty for improperly helping a wealthy Gulf country try to influence U.S. policy and not disclosing on a government ethics form gifts he received from a disgraced political fundraiser. Court records filed earlier this month say...

From the Southwestern U.S. to the southern High Plains, forecasters are warning that more strong winds and low humidity will challenge fire crews over the coming days. More strong winds and low humidity levels are on tap for the coming days, prompting firefighters in drought-stricken New Mexico...

Uncertainty over the safety of war-wracked Ukraine’s nuclear power plants has reignited concerns over a Russian-owned nuclear power station now being built in a quake-prone area on Turkey’s southern coast, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot activists said Wednesday. About 200 activists...

New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected the state’s new congressional district maps, which had been widely seen as favoring Democrats. The state’s Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling with a group of Republican voters who sued, saying that the district boundaries had been...

The largest and most well-known beach polo event in the world produced by Lifestyle Polo, returns to Miami Beach on April 29, Friday. The World Polo League Beach Polo World Cup takes place on the sands of South Beach from April 29, Friday, Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1. World Polo...

One of the dozens of police officers injured during the U.S. Capitol riot testified Wednesday that he didn't punch or instigate a fight with a man in the mob, a retired New York City police officer charged with attacking the officer. Thomas Webster, whose trial on an assault charge started this...

Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in a report released Wednesday. Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times...

Nikolas Cruz’s defense attorneys asked Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Wednesday to drop the death penalty case. Continue reading...