ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to increase the odds a system that formed in the Gulf could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 a.m. tropical outlook, the surface trough of low pressure, now dubbed Invest 92L and producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms,...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A state-focused crackdown on Medicaid fraud has uncovered “bad actors” and saved Florida as much as $230 million, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.

DeSantis said his administration has attacked Medicaid fraud by expanding the state’s use of data analytics, claims monitoring, background screening, site visits, and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is actively pursuing her own criminal investigation of the Hope Florida scandal, after a Tallahassee-area grand jury found that $10 million of Medicaid settlement funds were improperly diverted for political purposes but stopped short of seeking charges.

Worrell said she decided to...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A system that has formed in the Gulf could become the season’s first Atlantic hurricane, some forecasters predict, potentially ending the longest stretch without any named storms since satellite tracking began 60 years ago.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said there was a 100% chance the system will develop into the...Read more

On Sept. 30, I was one of the seven media witnesses who observed Tennessee fail to execute convicted murderer Christa Pike, the first woman to face the death penalty in the state in almost 200 years.

From our previous reporting, each of us had an inkling that the lethal injection process might not go according to plan. Pike’s attorneys had ...Read more

President Donald Trump said fresh threats of terror attacks prompted the U.S. to move its B-1 bombers from their base in the UK, contradicting his top diplomat who had earlier described the move as part of a regular rotation.

“They didn’t fly out by accident,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “There were some threats, and rather than ...Read more

Hundreds of French high schools were shut on Tuesday as teacher unions joined a student-led movement demanding more money for education that has spread across the country and sometimes turned violent.

Around 256,000 people were taking part in demonstrations, including 56,000 in Paris, according to the Interior Ministry, with police using tear ...Read more

Hayden Panettiere’s ex Wladimir Klitschko is calling for an investigation into the disappearance of some of her jewelry following her sudden death, including the engagement ring he gave her, which has an estimated value of $500,000.

Klitschko believes “a non-family member previously connected to Hayden” recently took and sold off some of ...Read more

MIAMI — The final two defendants accused of participating in South Florida developer Sergio Pino’s plot to kill his estranged wife have pleaded guilty in Miami federal court, bringing the number of men who have admitted guilt in the case to nine.

Clementa Johnson, of Tallahassee, pleaded guilty Monday to murder-for-hire conspiracy, murder ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Monday night that taxpayers will no longer pick up the tab for political TV advertisements promoting himself and administration policies.

Facing a public backlash from lawmakers of both parties, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social site that he would in part use money raised by a super PAC, MAGA Inc., to ...Read more

President Donald Trump, speaking at a campaign rally Monday, suggested Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego — a comment that was possibly in jest but brought a quick reaction from leaders in California.

Trump said he wanted to “see a tremendous victory” in the November election, “’cause it verifies all the things we did...Read more

Attacks on commercial vessels off the Black Sea’s western coast are on the rise, threatening already-choked trade flows in the region while testing NATO’s readiness to react.

Two general cargo ships were hit by air and naval drones overnight in the exclusive economic zone of Bulgaria, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ...Read more

A week after 10 people disappeared from a capsized migrant boat between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, the U.S. Coast Guard and Dominican Republic Navy rescued 61 people from a similarly overloaded vessel in roughly the same area, officials say.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesler spotted the 30-foot blue vessel shortly before 6 a....Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia city agencies have launched a multipronged planning and outreach effort to ensure tens of thousands of city residents don’t lose healthcare access as changes to Medicaid take effect now and in the coming months, according to top officials in Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration.

First Deputy Managing ...Read more

Yemen’s internationally-recognized government, backed by Saudi Arabia, claimed to have regained territory from the Houthis, as fighting in the region near the Bab el-Mandeb strait intensifies.

The Yemeni armed forces said they took control of the Red Sea city of Mokha on Monday after battles with the Iran-backed Houthis, according to Saba, a ...Read more

Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the country’s first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa.

The Kenyan citizen fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda, Health Secretary Aden Duale told reporters in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an "enforcement action" against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing it of hiding sensitive student information from parents in relation to a student's gender identity. The administration also is investigating alleged violations of parents' right to safeguard their children from ...Read more