HAVANA -- Opposition candidate Luis Abinader is set for a clear victory in presidential elections in the Dominican Republic after his two main challengers conceded defeat and most of the votes were counted.

The candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party, or PRM, took over 52% of the vote in Sunday's poll with results in from more than 80% of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A company tied to the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed up among hundreds of thousands of recipients of loans from the $669 billion Paycheck Protection Program.

Nancy Pelosi's spokesman described Paul Pelosi as an investor in the firm, which turned up in loan-level disclosures for the program that were released Monday ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The chief executive officers of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. will testify on July 27 before a congressional panel investigating competition in the technology industry, according to an announcement from the House Judiciary Committee.

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook are likely ...Read more

MIAMI -- During a racist tirade caught on video, Joseph Fucheck waved a pistol around while yelling at a Black homeowner in North Miami-Dade. "Damn right, I carry a gun because I'm a 35-year former Navy SEAL!" he yelled. "Go look at my Purple Heart!"

Detectives found that supposed Purple Heart when they raided Fucheck's Miami apartment, along ...Read more

Two loud explosions Monday shook the surroundings of La Pua, a small town in Holguin in eastern Cuba. The explosions seemed to have gone off at a military base in the area, several local sources told el Nuevo Herald.

The cause of the explosions is unknown, and the government has not commented on the events. According to residents of Velasco, a ...Read more

MIAMI -- Three people, including a teenage girl, died Monday following a two-hour standoff at a home in Port St. Lucie, according to multiple reports.

Port St. Lucie police said the gunman was a neighbor who had an ongoing dispute with the victims over his dog.

City officers and St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies responded to the home early ...Read more

Stone appeals denial of prison delay over coronavirus fears

Republican operative Roger Stone asked a federal appeals court to delay the start of his prison term until Sept. 3 from July 14 because of the coronavirus pandemic, after the trial judge denied his earlier request.

Stone, sentenced to 40 months behind bars for lying to Congress during...Read more

ATLANTA -- Gov. Brian Kemp will deploy as many as 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops to protect state buildings in Atlanta on Monday following a burst of violence across the city that left four dead, including an 8-year-old girl, and saw the ransacking of the headquarters of the Georgia State Patrol.

Kemp, a Republican, issued the emergency ...Read more

Hong Kong asserted sweeping new police powers -- from warrantless searches to demands to take down internet posts -- as the territory revealed more about how it would implement a national security law handed down last week by Chinese lawmakers.

The rules were intended to help "prevent, suppress and impose punishment for offenses endangering ...Read more

Republican operative Roger Stone asked a federal appeals court to delay the start of his prison term until Sept. 3 from July 14 because of the coronavirus pandemic, after the trial judge denied his earlier request.

Stone, sentenced to 40 months behind bars for lying to Congress during the Russia investigation, filed an emergency request with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- As COVID-19 infections rapidly spread through California's prisons, authorities on Monday announced the replacement of the state correction system's top medical officer. The move came as Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized a previous decision to transfer hundreds of inmates from a Chino facility that had been battling an outbreak.

The ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing criticism he opened up the state economy too soon, said Monday that California will expand monitoring of counties hard-hit by the virus after cracking down on restaurants and bars ignoring restrictions over the Fourth of July weekend.

As coronavirus hospitalizations continue to rise, Newsom said ...Read more

ATLANTA -- The Atlanta City Council approved several police reform measures Monday, including a ban on chokeholds and expansion of the citizen review board's powers.

These changes and recommendations come after weeks of criticism and protests over race-based police brutality nationwide and here in Atlanta. Fired Atlanta police officer Garrett ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- As the number of coronavirus cases in Florida continued to explode, Gov. Ron DeSantis went to the heart of the state's largest retirement community Monday and emphasized that while Florida is showing exponential growth in the number of COVID-19 infections, particularly among people in their 20s and 30s, he considers this ...Read more