MIAMI — Drive through Fort Lauderdale, and you are almost certainly swept into South Florida’s hidden multimillion-dollar surveillance network — your movements tracked, your privacy at risk — joining a national database of millions.

Driving through any major city in Miami-Dade or Broward raises your likelihood of having your personal ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A blistering grand jury report describing how top DeSantis administration officials diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into Republican political activities is also notable for something that got just a brief mention — Florida was shortchanged by almost $1 million.

State officials signed a deal with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man in his mid-50s died at Burning Man this week after suffering a medical emergency, according to festival organizers.

The attendee, who has not been identified, was taken to the festival's on-site emergency care center where he was pronounced dead, the Burning Man Project said in a Thursday statement.

The Burning Man ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The mass shooting that killed two and injured several others this week at Shoreline Plaza in downtown Minneapolis has been a tragic step backward for a neighborhood trying to improve safety. It also thwarts efforts by a building owner who was proactively trying to remove tenants engaged in unruly conduct and criminal activity.

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The U.S. military said it launched strikes against three Iranian crude oil tankers in retaliation for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting two U.S. Navy warships with ballistic missiles.

Two Iranian tankers were disabled near Kharg Island, while another was destroyed in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Central Command said Saturday in a post ...Read more

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand the potential link between global warming and El Niño — and whether human activity is making the already powerful climate phenomenon even more extreme and disruptive.

Evidence of a connection has remained elusive however, as El Niño is notoriously variable, making it difficult to ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the days and weeks after 9/11, as those working the pile began coughing, New York City Hall denied knowing anything about the hazardous toxins that wafted above ground zero.

Then, as people began dying, City Hall still denied having any information.

And even as the number of dead from 9/11 illness climbed to 6,000 — double ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A contagious airborne disease spreads. The tally of cases climbs higher as a vaccine debate rages among the public and their elected officials. Politicians point fingers at each other, arguing over the release of information and the steps that some consider “draconian.”

The measles outbreak this year represents a far ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has blocked the Postal Service from enforcing new limits on mail-in voting through the Nov. 3 midterm elections, extending a short-term pause as North Carolina began sending ballots on Friday and the U.S. Justice Department was urging the Supreme Court to intervene.

The decision on Friday from U.S. District Judge ...Read more

MIAMI — Despite being from a famous political family, Kai Trump is a lot like other kids who have mixed feelings going off to college.

The University of Miami freshman documented her bumpy start to school last week, and having to leave home for the first time.

In her YouTube confessional, posted Sunday, the D1 golfer broke down in tears in ...Read more

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled.

The decision affirms the dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged lead-contaminated drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s civil attorneys vow to stand by the Duxbury mother and prove the medical system “failed” her.

“We plan on holding each and every doctor and ... hospital responsible for how they failed Lindsay time and time and time again,” attorney Rosemary Scapicchio said outside Plymouth Superior Court on Friday...Read more

Venezuelan asylum-seekers in the U.S. who faced persecution under the Nicolás Maduro regime will also have to prove potential harm under the current government in Caracas to win their cases, an immigration appeals board ruled Friday.

In a ruling released Friday afternoon, the Board of Immigration Appeals reversed the asylum protections for a ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder case declared a mistrial after a last-minute appeal to the highest court in Massachusetts failed.

Judge William Sullivan had been ready to say the jury of nine women and three men were deadlocked Friday morning after a note from the jurors that read:

“It is with a heavy heart ...Read more

BALTIMORE — American Airlines diverted a flight to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday to remove a passenger.

“The safety and security of our customers and team members is our top priority, and we do not tolerate violence. We thank our team members for their professionalism and our customers for their ...Read more