MIAMI — The last time Felipe Henao spoke with his sister over the phone was late January, days before she disappeared in Spain.

“She was looking forward to the future,” Henao said at a Fort Lauderdale press conference Wednesday about the Jan. 24 call. “She was telling me about concerts she wanted to go.”

Ana María Knezevich Henao, ...Read more

A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years.

A popular radio host of a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democratic lawmakers on a secretive legislative committee are questioning why they are being blocked on trying to investigate crisis pregnancy centers and private schools receiving money from the tuition voucher program.

Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue, who serves on the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative ...Read more

ATLANTA — Another of the men involved in the restraint chair case that landed former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill in a federal prison has filed a civil lawsuit against the ex-lawman.

Raheem Peterkin is seeking a jury trail and punitive damages for injuries he allegedly sustained in 2019, after Hill illegally ordered him to be placed in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police arrested a 14-year-old girl in the early morning killing of a woman who was shot on a street corner in South L.A.

The teenager is accused of shooting Kendra McIntyre, 20, just before 4:30 a.m. on March 21 while she was standing at the intersection of 70th and Figueroa streets, the Los Angeles Police ...Read more

SpaceX keeps lining them up and knocking them out with an afternoon launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 23 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off at 2:42 p.m. Eastern time from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A.

It’s the second launch this week after a Starlink launch midday Monday from...Read more

Live Nation has reached settlements in nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits related to the fatal crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld music festival in Houston.

One of the suits, filed by the family a 23-year-old woman killed during the Travis Scott concert, was scheduled to go to trial next week.

During a hearing on Wednesday, an attorney ...Read more

It's been several years since kids returned to their classrooms and workers went back to their offices. We dine indoors at restaurants and don't hesitate to board a plane for a family trip.

COVID-19 isn't disrupting our lives like it did in the days of lockdowns, social distancing and mandatory masking. So why are so many parents still ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Johns Hopkins University student activists leading a campus encampment negotiated with university administrators for six hours Tuesday without reaching a resolution, the Hopkins Justice Collective said Wednesday.

The group of students, alumni and community members said President Ron Daniels presented a “weak” offer to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Protesters chanted “Free Palestine” and other slogans nonstop at the University of Florida on Wednesday as Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the efforts by Florida universities to prevent the “nonsense” happening on other campuses across the country.

Standing on the Plaza of the Americas in front of the school’s main library ...Read more

MIAMI — The last time Felipe Henao spoke with his sister over the phone was late January, days before she disappeared in Spain.

“She was looking forward to the future,” Henao said at a Fort Lauderdale press conference Wednesday about the Jan. 24 call. “She was telling me about concerts she wanted to go.”

Ana María Knezevich Henao, ...Read more

DENVER — The bird flu has arrived in Colorado, and while it doesn’t represent anywhere near the threat that COVID-19 did at the beginning of the pandemic, people should take some precautions with animals that could carry it, experts say.

The Denver Post compiled the latest information on H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, the bird flu ...Read more

The odds against Donald Trump facing trial before the presidential election on charges of withholding classified documents from the government at his Palm Beach estate rose dramatically Tuesday when a federal judge indefinitely postponed the former president’s originally scheduled May 20 trial.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is ...Read more

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the U.S. has paused a shipment of “high-payload” munitions to Israel for review over concerns about a potential military offensive on the Gazan city of Rafah.

The paused delivery was supposed to contain 3,500 bombs, split roughly evenly between 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) and 500-pound ...Read more

NEW YORK — Police cleared the last remaining pro-Palestinian encampment in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea overnight into Wednesday.

About 50 protesters were taken into custody as cops broke up the demonstration outside the art and design school, part of the State University of New York system. Some of the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's administration dismantled a homeless encampment in Kensington early Wednesday morning and moved people living on the street out of the area.

The activity was expected to begin at about 8 a.m. Wednesday, but shortly after 7, no one appeared to be living on the street in the targeted area. It was ...Read more

SpaceX keeps lining them up and knocking them out as it targets an early afternoon launch from Kennedy Space Center today.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 23 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites is aiming for 2:10 p.m. liftoff, having passed over initial opportunities, from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A with backup options until the end...Read more

Haiti’s new transitional presidential council, already mired in controversy over the way it has made key decisions, is once more doing an about-face. This time it’s over how many votes will be needed to make important decisions such as selecting the country’s next prime minister, and who among them should be in charge of coordinating ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a massive and raucous street rally Tuesday during the Los Angeles Board of Education meeting, school union leaders spoke out against expected budget cuts that are already affecting decisions at individual schools, where administrators are making plans that will likely cut employee hours or student programs.

As crowds cheered...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says he will sign into law legislation blocking Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, a longtime priority for Republicans even as abortion remains banned in the state.

The legislation bans any public funds, including Medicaid reimbursements, from going to the organization, abortion ...Read more