MIAMI - Saturday brought some further dips in COVID-19 cases across South Florida's four counties - and statewide.

Florida's Department of Health announced 4,311 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 - a drop of 373 compared to Friday's 4,684 - bringing the state's known total to 597,597.

Florida's Department of Health on Friday announced 106...Read more

For most of President Donald Trump's administration, science-driven health agencies have faced less of the criticism and mistrust aimed at the spy agencies, the Justice Department and other parts of the federal government.

But with Trump's political future hinging on his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and his promise to bring forth a vaccine...Read more

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited one of the nation's big state-owned factories in the capital Minsk this week, aiming to show he still had support despite nationwide calls for his resignation. He'd have done well to remember Nicolae Ceausescu.

The decision of the last Communist leader of Romania to counter a budding revolution by ...Read more

The U.S. move to "snap back" UN nuclear sanctions on Iran involves legal arcana unlikely to be resolved quickly. What's clear, however, is that the Trump administration took an approach certain to inflict damage on Iran and relations with America's allies.

For critics and supporters alike, the disputed U.S. effort to force the restoration of ...Read more

WASHINGTON - Four years ago, when Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in a Cleveland basketball arena, he painted a dark portrait of a nation in crisis. "I alone can fix it," he vowed.

In April this year, as a deadly contagion scythed the land and millions lost their jobs, Trump deflected all blame for his ...Read more

CHICAGO - Hours before the University of Notre Dame suspended in-person classes to quell a growing COVID-19 outbreak among students, Clay Goldman walked into a campus testing center that didn't have enough chairs for everyone awaiting results.

Goldman, a first-year law student, went to the center inside Notre Dame's famed football stadium ...Read more

The failure of California's infectious disease monitoring system for a stretch of at least 20 days in July and August triggered potentially deadly fallout that continues to reverberate across the state.

The fallout has been most severe in heavily populated counties, which rely primarily on a statewide electronic information system to guide ...Read more

BEN LOMOND, Calif. - Wildfires ravaged and menaced communities from Napa's wine country to the coast above Santa Cruz on Friday, forcing California officials to make tough choices on which ones to fight as the state braced for a weekend that could include more lightning strikes.

In some places, officials said they were being turned down for ...Read more

VACAVILLE, Calif. - Flames were chewing through a log cabin on Cherry Glen Road when Vallejo firefighter Wally Trujillo arrived. The Engine 27 crew had responded to calls to help beat back a fast-moving blaze sweeping over Mount Vaca from Napa.

It was just before midnight on Wednesday, and the LNU Lightning Complex fires had jumped Pleasants ...Read more

NEW YORK - Lawyers representing porn star Stormy Daniels posted a court ruling online indicating that President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $43,000 in legal fees to their client, who has claimed in great detail that she had an affair with Trump in 2006 after his son Barron was born.

"Yep, another win!" Daniels tweeted in response to ...Read more

MIAMI - Endangered green sea turtles will have some of their nesting beaches in Florida protected by federal agencies under a new legal agreement with conservation groups.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service must designate protected critical habitats for green sea turtles by June 30, 2023, the Center for ...Read more

American Media LLC's David Pecker, the executive who oversaw the National Enquirer tabloid and was an ally to President Donald Trump during the last election, will step down as head of the company as part of a merger deal.

American Media will be combined with Accelerate360 LLC, a logistics company, and be renamed A360 Media, according to a ...Read more

WASHINGTON - The governing board of the U.S. Postal Service, under intense scrutiny over its ability to handle a surge of mail-in voting in the November elections, is creating a panel to oversee the process.

The board acted amid a furor raised by Democrats about impact on voting of cutbacks at the agency and President Donald Trump's repeated ...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio - "So you tested positive for COVID-19?!?! What a hypocrite!!!!"

"Hey heard you are sick. How did that mask work for you?"

"Let it run through the population, develop herd immunity and move on."

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine apparently doesn't shy from sharing his cellphone number with people who might turn out to be coronavirus ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS - State health officials say 15 Minnesotans who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including one state resident hospitalized with COVID-19.

The Minnesota Department of Health received the first case report on Thursday and 14 more case reports on Friday, said Kris ...Read more