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Cuba and the United States took a tentative step toward unthawing relations and resuming joint efforts to address irregular migration, a senior Cuban official said Friday following the highest-level talks between the two countries in four years. There were no major breakthroughs, but the mere...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Friday into law that stripped Walt Disney World of its special district designation, a private government that the resort controls on its property in the state. His fight with the entertainment giant comes from its opposition to Florida’s new law that...

Construction has begun on what is billed as the world's largest wildlife crossing for mountain lions and other animals caught in Southern California's urban sprawl. Officials held a ceremony Friday to mark the start of construction of a $90 million bridge over a freeway and feeder road that is...

U.S. officials have repatriated 16 cultural items to the Peruvian government, including paintings, historical documents and stone axes. The FBI returned the items to representatives of Peru at a ceremony Friday in Los Angeles. “These objects and the heritage they carry with them took an opaque...

South Carolina's highest court, two days after pausing plans for a rare firing squad execution, announced Friday that it was putting another execution on hold as inmates challenge the constitutionality of the state's capital punishment methods. The temporary stay issued by the state Supreme...

The Biden administration said Friday it has begun phasing out use of a pandemic-related rule that allows migrants to be expelled without an opportunity to seek asylum as 22 states fight in court to preserve the policy. U.S. authorities have processed more single adults from Guatemala, Honduras...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to audio posted by The New York Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show. “I asked him personally today, does...

Police say at least three people were injured in a shooting Friday in northwest Washington, D.C., and city officials are warning people in the area to stay inside because of an “active threat." Dozens of law enforcement officers responded to the scene near Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness St. in...

A 35-year-old woman working as a security guard was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Friday afternoon, according to Miami police. Officers responded just after 4 p.m. to 250 NE 72 St. in reference to a shotspotter alert. Miami Fire Rescue confirmed that they transported the woman to...

A child was injured when a driver crashed through a white fence and into a home on Friday in south Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the one-story home at 11545 SW 168th Terr., in the West Perrine neighborhood. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responds to a home...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined to provide any new information Friday explaining his decision to call off the state's first scheduled execution since the start of the pandemic, but said more details will likely be provided next week. The night before, the Republican governor had issued a...

A Miami woman who purchased a scratch-off ticket at a Miami Beach convenience store is now $820,000 richer. Pauline Salmon, 30, claimed the $1 million top prize from the 50X THE CASH Scratch-Off game at the Lottery’s Miami District Office, the Florida Lottery office in Tallahassee reported on...

Dozens of volunteers picked up 525 pounds of trash on Friday off Biscayne Bay shore. It was their way of celebrating Earth Day, a worldwide annual event that has been promoting environmental protection since 1970. The team, including Miami-Dade police officers, worked for about an hour on the...

Voting rights groups sued Florida on Friday over a congressional map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature, saying it will diminish the state's Black representation and benefit Republicans. Florida lawmakers approved the map Thursday as part of a contentious...

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández made a virtual appearance Friday in federal court in New York to face drug trafficking and weapons charges after he was arrested in Honduras and extradited overnight to the United States. Hernández, who has denied any wrongdoing, was not...

The Edsel. Quibi. New Coke. The Segway. DeLorean sports cars. The pantheon of colossal business failures has a new member in the CNN+ streaming service. The news network's subscription offering hadn't even been operating for a month before Warner Bros. Discovery announced this week that it...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a bill to dissolve Walt Disney World’s private government, after the entertainment giant criticized a measure that critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. The law would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the 55-year-old Disney...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump and appeared to be suffering little political blowback Friday from the release of audio in which he suggested the president should resign shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. McCarthy worked swiftly to...

The United States unleashed some of its toughest actions against Russian President Vladimir Putin right after he rolled his troops into Ukraine. Polls in the U.S. find that people want Washington to do more. So what’s left, financially, diplomatically and militarily, to step up the pressure...

French prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn, who fled Japan in 2019 for Lebanon in a gripping escape. The prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Friday that it issued the warrant for the former head of Nissan and...