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Reeves toughens stance on UK public pay rises to show restraint

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The U.K. will take a tougher approach to future public sector pay awards, part of a renewed effort by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves to reassure financial markets she will carefully manage the nation’s finances.

Above-inflation pay rises will only be offered to public sector workers if they can be funded by improvements to ...Read more

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Moore signs agreement for federal health care model to promote equity and affordable care

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BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore signed an agreement Friday pledging Maryland’s participation in a federal model to promote equitable and affordable health care for all Maryland residents.

With Moore’s signature, the state will participate in the federal States Advancing All-Payer Equity Approaches and Development Model, also known as the AHEAD...Read more

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Nausea, nightmares, insomnia: Election angst hitting hard in South Florida

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nearly five months pregnant, Vanessa is just beginning to show. But a time of excitement and celebration has instead become one of rage, sadness and anxiety for the 39-year-old from Miami, who fears her health care could be affected by the outcome of Florida’s abortion amendment and the presidential election.

“My ...Read more

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Invasive mussel found in North America for first time, poses immediate threat in California's delta

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A particularly-worrisome mussel species has snuck into North America for the first time through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — sparking what many are calling an immediate threat to California's most significant watersheds.

Golden mussels, an invasive freshwater bivalve that has devastated ecosystems and critical water infrastructure...Read more

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NYPD Police Academy vandalized the week of graduation

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NEW YORK — It sounds like the Police Academy might have blown a basic rule of Policing 101 — namely, always make sure you have a backup security camera operating. A recent incident there might have the Blue feeling, well, a bit red-faced.

A state-of-the-art facility that houses the New York City Police Academy was vandalized overnight less ...Read more

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Suspect taken into custody after shootout that left 2 LAPD officers injured

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LOS ANGELES — Two Los Angeles police officers were wounded and a suspect was taken into custody Friday night after a shootout that erupted in South L.A. while officers were investigating a possible robbery, authorities said.

The incident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday when the two officers from LAPD's Southeast Division responded to a report ...Read more

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UCF student among 2 killed in downtown Orlando mass shooting

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The two people killed early Friday in a mass shooting in downtown Orlando have been identified as Timothy Schmidt Jr., 19, and Tyrek Hill, 25, according to the Orlando Police Department.

OPD on Saturday afternoon provided the names and ages of the two men. No additional details were available about Hill.

Schmidt, of Weston, ...Read more

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Sheila Keen Warren, shooter in Florida 'killer clown' case, released from prison

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sheila Keen Warren, the shooter in Palm Beach County’s infamous 1990 “killer clown” case, was released from prison Saturday after spending about 17 months in a facility near Tallahassee.

Keen Warren, 61, pleaded guilty in April 2023 to being the person who dressed up in a head-to-toe clown costume on the morning ...Read more

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Former Louisville officer found guilty of civil rights violation in Breonna Taylor case

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison has been found guilty of using unjustified and unreasonable force against Breonna Taylor in 2020 when he fired into her window, which was covered with blinds and curtains through which he could not see, on the night she died.

Hankison was found not guilty on a...Read more

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Speaker Johnson floats, then walks back, repeal of bipartisan chip law Trump attacked

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WASHINGTON — Republicans seek to “streamline” a law subsidizing American chip manufacturing, House Speaker Mike Johnson said, as he backtracked from saying they “probably will” try to repeal the program that’s generated $400 billion in promised company investments.

Johnson was responding to a question about his stance on the 2022 ...Read more

Trump, Harris on the trail but transition teams are hard at work

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WASHINGTON — Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ teams are quietly preparing their governments-in-waiting, even as the two nominees remain focused on actually winning the presidency in the final days of an incredibly close election on Tuesday.

Not surprisingly, their approaches are as different as their campaigns.

Already Harris’ lean ...Read more

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs loses Key to the City of Miami amid sex trafficking case

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NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is currently sitting in lockup at Brooklyn MDC on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, has been stripped of his Key to the City of Miami — months after losing the same honor in his native New York.

The 54-year-old embattled Harlem-born mogul’s key to Magic City was rescinded this week, ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Patty forms; odds increase for tropical depression to form in Caribbean

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A tropical depression is likely to form in the Caribbean Sea as soon as this weekend, while Subtropical Storm Patty formed in the Atlantic Saturday.

A broad area of low pressure is forming in the southwestern Caribbean Sea is increasingly likely to become a tropical depression this weekend or early next week as it ...Read more

Badenoch beats Jenrick to succeed Sunak at helm of UK Tories

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Kemi Badenoch beat Robert Jenrick in the Conservative Party’s leadership contest to become the first Black leader of a major U.K. political party.

Badenoch, 44, received 53,806 votes to Jenrick’s 41,388 in a ballot of party members, Bob Blackman, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, which runs Tory leadership contests, said on Saturday...Read more

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

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If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists.

Trump has said he would tap the billionare Elon ...Read more

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In Montana, conservative groups see chance to kill Medicaid expansion

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Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion in hopes the state will abandon the program. The rollback would be the first in the decade since the Affordable Care Act began allowing states to cover more people with low incomes.

Montana’s expansion, which insures roughly 78,800 people, is set to expire...Read more

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Procrastinator's guide to California's 2024 election: What you need to know before you vote

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Election Day is next week. Have you voted yet?

If you’re reading this, chances are the answer to that is “no.” No worries, we're here to help you do your civic duty in fashionably late time.

Here’s everything you need to know before you vote:

What am I voting on?

The big race that everyone will be watching, of ...Read more

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Banned rainbows and 'forced outing.' Will elections reshape this relentless school board?

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LOS ANGELES — At Senator Ruben S. Ayala Senior High School in Chino Hills, students this semester complained of broken air conditioners and bathroom sinks, faulty Chromebooks and Wi-Fi and, in one classroom, a ceiling leak that dripped into a bucket by a teacher's desk as rats scurried across the floor.

But recently, school administrators ...Read more

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As marijuana arrests become less common in Miami-Dade, one city's approach stands out

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MIAMI -- Arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana have become less common in Miami-Dade County ever since State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced in August 2019 that her office would no longer prosecute such cases due to the legalization of hemp.

But a Miami Herald analysis of data from the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts ...Read more