TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily denied the Republican Party of Florida’s request to block political advertisements mentioning the leaked Hope Florida grand jury report.

Judge Peter F. Estrada in Highlands County said the Republican Party would have to coordinate with the people and groups it is suing to set up a ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than five years after the fatal shooting of an Illinois National Guardsman home from basic training, the Chicago FBI announced Tuesday a reputed gang leader charged in the “senseless” attack has been added to the agency’s “Ten Most Wanted List” and that a reward for his capture and conviction has been increased to $1 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Nearly 100 students at LaGuardia High School, the Manhattan arts school that inspired the movie “Fame,” walked out of class on Tuesday to demand a freeze on artificial intelligence, driven by concerns that the new technology could threaten their future careers.

The walkout was part of a day of anti-AI high school and college ...Read more

In another new interview as part of his return-to-the-U.K. media blitz, Prince Harry continues to say he wants to reconcile with his family, explaining that is one of the main reasons that he and his wife Meghan Markle decided to move back to his home country after six years in California.

Harry expressed his desire to patch things up with his ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Tuesday to keep an eye on a system off the U.S. East Coast with the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, a storm-force, nontropical area of low pressure, which had formed Sunday night, was located a few hundred miles off the North ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When the Florida Legislature put Amendment 2 on the ballot with the goal of helping cost-burdened farmers, lawmakers did so near-unanimously.

But as Election Day nears, county Democratic Party groups are telling their followers to vote “no” on the proposal.

The state Democratic Party hasn’t weighed in on the ...Read more

Legalizing sports betting is associated with an increase in the number of workers in a state receiving treatment for anxiety or depression, according to a recent Johns Hopkins study.

Johns Hopkins researchers looked at anonymized insurance claims from 30 states that legalized online sports betting between 2016 and 2023. They analyzed the ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought to draw a line under the escalating feud with the U.S. after meeting with Donald Trump’s envoys in Oslo, Norway, while the U.S. president kept up pressure on Kyiv.

At a news conference Tuesday, Zelenskyy struck a more softened tone on relations with the U.S., saying he discussed intelligence sharing and access to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hidden within President Donald Trump’s midterms campaign sales pitch is what amounts to a legislative agenda for his final two years in office, priorities that almost certainly would be met with opposition if Democrats win the majority of one or both chambers of Congress.

Trump spent the months leading up to the election cycle�...Read more

Vice President JD Vance has broken with President Donald Trump over the commander in chief’s unusual endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection.

Vance said he’s staying out of the Oct. 27 elections in Israel because he’s laser-focused stateside on boosting Republicans in the forthcoming congressional elections...Read more

State attorneys are warning Florida television stations that broadcasters could be committing crimes by airing campaign ads about a grand jury’s investigation into Hope Florida.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Suzy Lopez sent letters to several television stations around Tampa Bay on Friday, the same day the Republican Party of ...Read more

UPPER DARBY, Pa. — When Upper Darby Police received notice that a car thief out of Maryland was making his way through the township in June, they responded immediately. A high-speed chase ensued, but the department quickly broke it off, fearful of the risk it presented.

They didn’t want the driver to harm himself or bystanders, Upper Darby ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in Fort Worth on Tuesday to announce a new national kidney care plan at JPS Health Network, Tarrant County’s public hospital system.

Kennedy launched the national plan with a focus on three priorities: preventing kidney failure, improving dialysis care, and reforming kidney...Read more

President Donald Trump was celebrating Venezuela’s recovery at the White House late last month, declaring that money was pouring into the country and its people were becoming wealthy again.

“We’re helping the people become rich again,” Trump told guests attending a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration on Sept. 30. “And the country’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kamlesh Shah, an elderly immigrant from India with a heart condition, moves shakily and uses a cane to get around his shared apartment in a senior living facility in Sacramento’s south Land Park neighborhood in Northern California.

On Monday, Shah felt particularly dizzy and unwell as he came to the realization he was ...Read more

Kyle Kennedy has died. The former New York City educator was 42.

The granddaughter of former senator Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy died peacefully in her Massachusetts home on Sept. 21, according to her obituary. A private funeral was held. No cause of death was announced.

She’s remembered for being athletic and competitive...Read more

Intensifying public pushback against artificial intelligence data centers is spurring a new line of business for a New York-based boutique insurer.

Arbol, which was founded by a former Citadel strategist, on Tuesday launched a new policy that protects data center developers and financiers against government-imposed moratoriums that halt or ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump said on social media last week that the Alaska LNG megaproject is now "a U.S. Federal Government Project."

Exactly what that means — and how it may or may not affect the project — is to be determined.

Capital funding for the project, if it actually materializes, would be part of the U.S. ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped another overloaded migrant boat in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic last week, less than a month after a similar journey in the same area ended in tragedy.

The 30-foot boat was about 70 nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. A Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew...Read more