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A health official says 4 million more people in Shanghai have been allowed to leave their homes as anti-coronavirus quarantine rules ease. The official, Wang Ganyu, said Wednesday a total of almost 12 million people are allowed to leave their homes as China’s most populous city tries to contain...

Yemen’s internationally recognized presidential council was sworn in Tuesday in the southern port city of Aden, state-run media reported. The swearing-in took place before the parliament in a ceremony attended by foreign ambassadors and the U.S. and U.N. envoys to Yemen, SABA news agency said...

Images of a Hawaiian monk seal being born on an Oahu beach have been captured on camera. An employee of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources shot video and photos of the pup emerging from the mother onto white sands last week. “As soon as its (amniotic) sac burst, the little one...

Dede Robertson, the wife of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Tuesday at her home in Virginia Beach, the network said in a statement. Robertson was 94. The statement did not provide her cause of death. Robertson became a...

A man who admitted supplying the dealer who sold Mac Miller the drugs that killed the rapper has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Ryan Michael Reavis, 39, pleaded guilty last year to a single count of distribution of fentanyl. Reavis knowingly supplied counterfeit oxycodone...

James Garcia said he was walking his dog on Sunday morning in Fort Lauderdale when a man he had never seen before approached him and asked him if he was gay. Garcia said that after responding in the affirmative the man savagely beat him. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrested Maurice...

Two men accused of impersonating federal agents and offering gifts and free apartments to Secret Service officers have been indicted by a federal grand jury, prosecutors said Tuesday. Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali were indicted in Washington on charges of false impersonation of a federal...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Tuesday for a halt in fighting in Ukraine during Orthodox Christians' Holy Week, invoking Easter to plead for a four-day “pause” to allow humanitarian aid and evacuations. Noting that the Easter season is coming amid an intensifying Russian...

During his testimony in Broward County court on Tuesday, Gerard Baldie said he had smoked marijuana about 200 times before the crash that killed a couple in love. Baldie said the marijuana he smoked before the April 29, 2016 crash that killed Steven Olivert and Danielle Baldwin was different...

An emergency rescue was caught on camera after a doctor who was driving home from dinner spotted a man in the road in need of help. It’s an incredible example of someone being in the right place at the right time. An accident on I-95 left a man bleeding on the side of the highway, and the...

Ezra Miller was arrested on suspicion of assault Tuesday, the second time the actor known for playing the Flash in “Justice League” films has been arrested in Hawaii in recent weeks. Miller became irate after being asked to leave a get together a Big Island home and threw a chair, hitting a...

President Joe Biden’s administration has been working for months to prepare people to rethink their personal risk calculations as the nation gets used to the idea of living with an endemic COVID-19. But that measured approach disappeared abruptly when a federal judge on Monday threw out the...

Visit Lauderdale has rolled out a brand new ad campaign, showing groups of friends, lots of diversity and same sex couples. The message is that all are welcome in Broward County. Stacy Ritter of Visit Lauderdale, which promotes Broward County to the world, says the move was just necessary in...

The Broward County public school district is concerned it could lose millions of dollars that goes toward securing schools and giving teachers bonuses, so members are urging voters to approve a new referendum. That’s because millions of dollars’ worth of funding from a 2018 referendum are about...

Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly eight years in an execution in which a condemned prisoner is being given the option of being put to death by the gas chamber — a method that hasn't been used in the U.S. in decades. Clarence...

President Biden touched down in New Hampshire Tuesday to deliver remarks on infrastructure, but faced questions on the tarmac about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. His remarks come after a video call with world leaders where they talked about “severe economic costs” to hold Russia...

Netflix’s video streaming service suffered the first loss in worldwide subscribers in its history, leading to a massive sell-off of its shares. The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, according to a quarterly report released Tuesday; its stock...

A parolee who murdered 81-year-old philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of a legendary music executive, was sentenced Tuesday to 190 years in a California prison. Aariel Maynor, 30, pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in Los Angeles Superior Court last month and admitted he used an...

When Christo Grozev, executive director of the investigative collective Bellingcat, recently re-watched the new documentary “Navalny,” about the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, he was struck by how much the film affected him differently since Vladimir Putin launched Russia's...

The NBA playoffs have begun with no clear championship favorite, and that appears to be good news for ABC and ESPN. The opening-round schedule of five games last weekend on the networks had more viewers than any playoff start since 2011, and its average of 4.17 million was up 32% over last...