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Fort Lauderdale police are investigating after someone found a woman’s body in a park in the city’s Sailboat Bend neighborhood Thursday morning, officials said. Police spokesperson Casey Liening said officers were called to the 220 block of Southwest 14th Avenue just before 8:15 a.m. for...

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation's efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said...

A South Florida teenager was arrested on drug charges after police say they found cocaine in her wallet, purse and bra. A tipster called Coral Springs police last week to say there was a suspicious car in the parking lot at the Fairway View apartment complex near University Drive and Sample...

The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in...

Ukrainian therapist Svitlana Kutsenko thought she was making progress with her patients — army veterans recovering from mental trauma suffered during fighting with Russia in 2014. Then, war erupted again. Now, five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Kutsenko says the situation looks bleaker...

Ernest Rospierski’s tone in court during his testimony in court overshadowed his heroism on Feb. 14, 2018, while on the 1200 building’s third floor of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Rospierski, who braved the gunfire to usher students to safety, yawned when he walked in front...

More witnesses will testify Thursday during Day 4 of the sentencing trial for the Parkland school shooter. On Wednesday, eyewitnesses to the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland gave heart-wrenching testimony at Nikolas Cruz’s penalty trial. A teacher on...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in more than eight months in what may be a sign that the labor market is weakening. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 16 rose by 7,000 to 251,000, up from the previous week’s...

Steve Bannon's lawyers are expected Thursday to begin their defense of the former adviser to then-President Donald Trump as Bannon's contempt of Congress trial enters a new phase. Bannon was in an unofficial capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 and is charged with...

Floridians have begun receiving $450 checks in the mail from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but a lot of people are wondering if it’s a scam. Nope. It’s real, WPLG partner WJXT in Jacksonville reported. The one-time payment is part of an initiative called “Hope Florida -- A Pathway to Prosperity.”...

On a few occasions, Sitaniel Wimbley’s mother grew manic in her front yard. When neighbors were met with screaming and cursing on their street in Natchez, Mississippi, they would dial 911. An officer would arrive to collect Wimbley’s mother, who battled chronic bipolar schizophrenia. Her first...

It’s the summer that cooled off the housing market. Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers. Mortgage applications have declined sharply. Sales of previously occupied homes have fallen for five straight months, during what is generally the...

The spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry lashed out Thursday at the United States characterizing basketball star Brittney Griner's jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention,” saying it shows disrespect for Russian law. Griner has been jailed since she was arrested in mid-February at...

It's going to be a “Beautiful Day” for the band U2 and four other artists when they receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors in December. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday that the Irish rock band along with actor George Clooney, singers Gladys Knight and...

The BBC on Thursday apologized to the former nanny of Princes William and Harry over “false and malicious” claims made against her as part of a journalist's attempt to obtain an exclusive television interview with Princess Diana. Alexandra Pettifer, formerly known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke...

Ford says it has contracts to deliver enough batteries to produce electric vehicles at a rate of 600,000 globally per year by late in 2023. The company says Thursday that Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. of China will supply new lithium-iron phosphate batteries starting next year. The deal...

The death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods jumped to at least 282 in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country. The deluge has swollen rivers, damaged highways, bridges and about 5,600 houses since June 14, the...

The brother of the Parkland school shooter and his roommate have filed a motion, requesting that the court does not force them to answer certain questions asked from them by the state. Zachary Cruz and Richard Moore, who are both defense witnesses, filed the motion this week. Moore showed up...

American Airlines earned $476 million in the second quarter on record revenue from summer travelers and said it expects to remain profitable in the third quarter. It was American's first quarterly profit without government pandemic aid in the COVID-19 era. CEO Robert Isom said Thursday that...

Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine's second-largest city Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 21 with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses at the scene. Police in the...