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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week to make an urgent, face-to-face plea for peace in Ukraine, the world body said Friday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Guterres is due to meet Tuesday with Russia’s Foreign Minister...

Bella is Zoo Miami’s resident 9-year-old orangutan who since the death of her mother last year has been the only orangutan at the zoo. That changed yesterday with the arrival of “Jiwa,” a young male from the Phoenix Zoo that Zoo Miami hopes will become Bella’s first “boyfriend!” Jiwa (David...

The clock ran down at the end of the homecoming game and spectators stormed the football field, knocking over members of the high school band — all to gather around an assistant coach as he took a knee in prayer, surrounded by uniformed players. Six years later, after losing his coaching job...

Chair Jerome Powell isn't as pleased with the robust U.S. job market as you might think he'd be, and he and the Federal Reserve plan to do something about it: Take it down a notch. On Thursday, Powell described the job market as “extremely, historically” tight and “unsustainably hot.” Available...

One person was taken into custody Friday after Coconut Creek police responded to reports of a gun on a school campus, authorities confirmed. The incident was reported at Coconut Creek High School at 1400 NW 44th Ave. Police could not confirm whether the person in custody is a student at the...

As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions that are increasing flooding, droughts and other costly catastrophes. Pennsylvania on Saturday becomes the first major fossil fuel-producing state in the U.S. to...

Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against prominent opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. for allegedly spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces, his lawyer said Friday. Russian media reported that similar charges were being drawn up against outspoken...

The Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public’s help to locate a 59-year-old man missing from Deerfield Beach. According to detectives, Jean Claude St. Juste was last seen Wednesday in the area of 1071 Southwest 11th Court in Deerfield Beach. St. Juste is about 5...

The Florida Legislature has passed a bill to dissolve a private government controlled by Disney that provides municipal-like services for its 27,000 acres (nearly 11,000 hectares) in the Sunshine State. The proposal, pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, has largely been seen as retribution...

A woman has been arrested months after threatening to blow up her son’s high school unless cafeteria workers started giving him more food, officials said. The threat was left Feb. 3 in a voicemail to Cocoa High School on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, according to police and court records. The...

A leading Spanish museum said Friday it's confident that U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting once taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum, and not to descendants of the family. In a statement Friday, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National...

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is in South Florida Friday, where he will have a listening session with LGBTQ+ youth, meet with healthcare workers at Jackson Memorial Hospital and deliver a commencement address at Miami Dade College. Murthy’s listening session with LGBTQ+ youth follows...

The man who was attacked by boxing legend Mike Tyson before taking off on a Jet Blue flight from San Francisco to Miami refused to cooperate with investigators about the incident, according to the San Francisco Police Department. TMZ is identifying the passenger as 36-year-old Melvin Townsend...

A Thursday afternoon crash sent 6 people to two local hospitals, according to Coconut Creek police. The crash happened around 4 p.m. at Coconut Creek Parkway and NW 45th Avenue. Video shows the powerful moment of impact when a red Camaro was speeding, losing control, and crashing into an...

As federal officials finalize a long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes, dozens of interest groups have met with White House staffers to try to influence the process, which has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives while wiping out billions in tobacco sales. Biden...

Pembroke Pines police responded to a home Friday morning where grenades were found, authorities said. The Broward Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad was also called to the home in the area of Northwest 202nd Avenue and Fifth Street to help safely remove the grenades. Sky 10 was above the scene just...

Broward Sheriff’s Office firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that erupted Friday morning at a recreational vehicle campground in Pembroke Park. According to authorities, two propane tanks caught on fire at the Embassy R.V. Park at 3188 Lake Shore Drive. Video from the scene shows the...

A 33-year-old woman from southwest Miami-Dade was hospitalized under Florida’s Baker Act Thursday night after she grabbed a gun and barricaded herself inside her home with her family, authorities said. The incident unfolded around 6:15 p.m. at a home in the area of Pierce Street and Perry...

New blasts at a Polish coal mine injured 10 rescue workers and forced authorities on Friday to suspend the search for seven coal miners and rescuers still missing after deadly methane explosions earlier this week, officials said. The initial explosion took place shortly after midnight early...

Deputies have released body camera video from a February wedding in Longwood where multiple guests complained of feeling ill, believing they had ingested marijuana-laced food, ultimately resulting in the arrests of the bride and the caterer. The video opens with someone being loaded onto an...