MIAMI — In the days after a group of South Florida friends, including a seafood entrepreneur and a Telemundo executive, were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, burglars ransacked the Coral Gables home of two of the victims, stealing more than $500,000 worth of items, including the couple’s cars, police say.

The crash happened Aug. 19, ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iran even as the unpopular and costly war drags on with no end in sight and no sign that the United States is close to achieving any of the lofty goals he set for the conflict.

Trump posted an image of himself along with Iran’s slain former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...Read more

A violent flash flood at the Nepal-China border tore through a checkpoint, leaving at least 100 people dead and hundreds missing, including 291 foreigners who were identified by local authorities.

The mudslide struck at around 8:30 a.m. local time Wednesday, according to preliminary data released by the Nepal Tourism Board, with a total 384 ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Three recent graduates of Annunciation Catholic School skipped alongside Minnehaha Creek on a recent August afternoon. A light rain fell, but nothing could keep these teenage girls from one more Starbucks hang before beginning high school.

Evelyn Gruenzner, a red-headed 15-year-old who says exactly what’s on her mind, piped up....Read more

NEW YORK — A reckless gunman who shot and wounded a Brooklyn woman’s pet labradoodle rushed to scene of the shooting, gun in his waistband, because someone was harassing his girlfriend, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Adrian Benitez went right for his gun after his girlfriend, Roxanne, called and summoned him to 31st Street near Fifth Avenue in...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested more than 900 immigrants across Minnesota since March, according to a Star Tribune analysis of federal records released by the Deportation Data Project spanning March through early August.

While the numbers are a fraction of those detained during the height of last winter’s...Read more

BALTIMORE — An Anne Arundel County judge ruled Wednesday that Maryland’s proposed congressional redistricting amendment should be kept off the November ballot, handing Republican challengers a victory after finding that lawmakers failed to follow state election law when they rushed the measure through a special session earlier this month.

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A coalition of Democratic-led states sued again Wednesday to block the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new nationwide rules for mail ballots, arguing they usurp state authority over elections at President Donald Trump’s behest, expose voter information unnecessarily and threaten chaos in the rapidly approaching November election.

The ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentuckians convicted of felonies could have their gun rights restored —if they meet a strict set of criteria — after the federal government revived a program defunded by Congress in 1992.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will consider firearm rights restoration for convicted felons, who are...Read more

A violent flash flood at the border between Nepal and China tore through a checkpoint and left hundreds missing, including 291 foreigners who were identified by local authorities.

The mudslide struck at around 8:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday, according to preliminary data released by the Nepal Tourism Board, with a total of 384 travelers ...Read more

Iran’s military said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway.

“Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Democrats are demanding the state’s emergency managers explain how they’ve spent nearly a billion dollars in disaster money and why they’re 41 days late on a new report detailing those tabs.

“This is not a complicated request,” Orlando Rep. Anna Eskamani said in a Tuesday news release. “We are in the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday was back to tracking just one Atlantic system, but also dropped its chances that it could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave, dubbed Invest 96L, was located ...Read more

Iran said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway.

“Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...Read more

Russia is expanding its campaign of hybrid attacks against countries that supply weapons and money to Kyiv and has caught Europe without a plan to respond.

From cyber attacks to armed drones and mysterious cases of arson, tensions are rising across the continent as the war in Ukraine is set to enter its fifth winter. Just this month, Poland ...Read more

A former Compton gang homicide detective testified Tuesday in the trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis that he had "no doubt" that the gang Davis led was behind the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur because of the bloody gang war that followed.

Shakur was riding with Death Row Records mogul Marion "Suge" Knight on Sept. 7, 1996, just off the Vegas Strip. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX drove the Space Coast’s record 109 launches last year with a frenetic pace of missions dedicated to its Starlink internet constellation.

That spigot has been turned off, the company’s vice president of launch said after a Starlink mission that launched early Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

“This ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear.

Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to ...Read more

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs.

If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, ...Read more