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Deputies protecting Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had to pull him aside and surround him Tuesday after a member of a jury pool mouthed possible threats toward him and caused others to become “excited," leading them to fear a potential brawl, officials said. A 70-member pool of potential...

Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world's richest man tweeted a photo of Bill Gates and used a crude sexual term to make fun of his belly. Playful, aggressive and often juvenile, Musk's past tweets show how the world's richest man has used social media to craft his public...

JetBlue Airways said Tuesday that it lost $255 million in the first quarter, and widespread flight cancellations in April plus the need to hire and train more pilots will delay the company's return to profitability. New York-based JetBlue said it would further reduce its schedule this summer to...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation. The bill followed a flap last year over the Oklahoma State Department of Health's agreement in a...

LGBTQ rights advocates called Tuesday for a Kansas state lawmaker to be formally censured after she publicly said she didn't want to share the women's restrooms at the Statehouse with a transgender colleague. The Kansas House's top Republican called GOP state Rep. Cheryl Helmer’s comments...

The state of Florida has rejected at least 50 textbooks in its search for math materials aligning to the new Florida Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards. “It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common...

In two days, Miami commissioners will decide whether David Beckham’s dream to bring soccer to the city will live or die. Further north, around Inter Miami’s current home stadium in Fort Lauderdale, neighbors of the quickly erected venue want to know when the promises made to them will be kept...

A grass fire near mile marker 125 has caused southbound lanes of U.S. 1 to be closed off due to the smoke. Troopers are currently diverting traffic, causing drivers not to be able to go south on U.S. 1, but northbound lanes are open. According to the Florida Forest Service, 55 acres have...

Payment processing giant Visa's profits rose 21% in the first three months of the year fueled by a large jump in spending on the company's namesake credit and debit card network. The San Francisco-based company reported Tuesday that it earned $3.65 billion, or $1.70 a share, in its fiscal...

Efforts to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.C., pushed ahead Monday with House passage of legislation that would create a commission to study the issue. The bill approved unanimously by the House would establish a new commission to consider the feasibility of a...

An investigation into the fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin has taken an unusual turn with the public release of virtually the entire case file, casting aside the veil of secrecy in a six-month investigation with decisions still pending about possible criminal...

Google’s corporate parent on Tuesday posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2020, the latest sign that the huge gains enjoyed by technology companies during the pandemic are fading into the rear-view mirror. For most companies, the numbers announced by Alphabet Inc. would be a cause...

A loaded gun was found in North Carolina U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn's carry-on bag at an airport security checkpoint Tuesday for the second time in two years, officials said. When Cawthorn came through checkpoint D at Charlotte Douglas International Airport with the gun, a 9 mm Staccato C2...

U.S. regulators are calling on Amazon to improve its procedures dealing with severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes that could threaten workers at its warehouses dotted across the country. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday sent a “Hazard Alert Letter” to the...

Officers arrested an armed man on Tuesday accusing him of killing a locksmith in south Miami-Dade County’s West Perrine neighborhood. Edwin Boyce Molina, a locksmith, was responding to a call for help at about 5:35 p.m., on Sunday, at 10642 SW 170 St., just steps away from the House of God...

As the comedy “black-ish” ended its run after eight seasons with a relatively modest live audience of 2.52 million viewers, ABC is already pivoting to what it hopes is its next defining sitcom. The “black-ish” series finale last week featured a storyline where series stars Anthony Anderson and...

Gunfire erupted into the night in North Miami, prompting a quick police response. Officers rushed to the area of Northeast 132nd Street and West Dixie Highway at approximately 9:30 p.m. Monday. Police said one person was shot and rushed to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. A...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in Oklahoma’s ongoing battle with Native American tribes over the state's authority to prosecute people accused of crimes on Native American lands, following a 2020 Supreme Court decision. The court agreed earlier this year to consider...

A brazen bandit in a stolen U-Haul ripped off dozens of residents in a Sunny Isles Beach high rise. Security cameras captured the truck getting stuck as it pulled through the exit of the luxury condo building located at 400 Sunny Isles Beach Blvd back on April 7. “Hopefully viewers will...

Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending their countries' natural gas deliveries starting on Wednesday. The governments of the two European countries said Tuesday that Russian energy giant Gazprom informed them it was halting gas supplies. The suspensions would be the first...