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TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Search and rescue teams fanned across Florida on Thursday morning plucking residents of flooded homes to safety after Hurricane Milton barreled into central west Florida, striking a densely populated ...Read more

MIAMI — More than 3 million people are without power statewide. Roofs are ripped off from coast to coast, including one over the Tropicana Field baseball stadium in St. Petersburg. Parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers and other...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch said Thursday evening that debris piles from flooded houses becaue of Hurricane Helene two weeks ago “did not significantly add to the problem.”

The problem, he ...Read more

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Carmen Harrell stood next to the space where her 82-year-old father’s manufactured home used to be and wondered if it was worth trying to find his Navy yearbook.

She had picked him up from Spanish ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The rights of several Mount Lebanon School District parents were violated when a first-grade teacher read two books with transgender characters and did not give parents the option to opt out of the lesson, a...Read more

Tiffany Trump is pregnant with her first child, according to her dad, Donald Trump.

The Republican candidate for president broke the news Thursday while speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, where guests included Tiffany...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia leaders are preparing for a tough, lengthy fight over federal relief aid after Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the state last month, exacting a toll so devastating that officials are still tallying the...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs will head to trial in his sweeping sex trafficking case on May 5, a judge ruled at a court hearing Thursday — and the feds said he may face more charges in the meantime.

Combs, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — During his return to Butler County on Saturday, former President Donald Trump delivered his familiar complaints about illegal immigration and again proposed "mass deportation" as the solution, but a survey ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Department of Correction’s compliance head filed a police report against her agency’s top spokeswoman Thursday after they got into a caught-on-camera dust-up at Gracie Mansion that ended with a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of a twin-engine plane was not given clearance at Catalina Airport to take off shortly before the plane crashed about a mile away, killing all five on board, an airport authority said Thursday, ...Read more

You may have read the falsehoods spread on social media suggesting people, not nature, created Hurricane Helene.

Though people do have the means to encourage rainfall on a small scale, no technology exists that would ...Read more

DETROIT — Historically Black sororities and fraternities, who have long played a crucial role in Detroit area elections by helping recruit election workers and hosting candidate forums, are surging with enthusiasm with ...Read more

When Donald Trump hosts a rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, he’s likely to highlight what he calls the state’s unusually high cost of living.

In its announcement of the rally, his campaign cited several ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kimberly Burrell, a lifelong Democrat, has tried calling, emailing, and using social media to reach a political action committee that cut an out-of-context interview clip of her and placed it in an ad for ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday wrote off suggestions that the government could control the weather — and likened it to theories that global warming can increase the intensity of hurricanes.

“This ...Read more

MIAMI — More than 3 million people are without power statewide. Roofs are ripped off from coast to coast, including one over the Tropicana Field baseball stadium in St. Petersburg. Parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers and other...Read more

DENVER — More than 10 people are trapped underground in a Colorado gold mine on Pikes Peak after an equipment malfunction, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office and KMGH-TV.

The sheriff’s office was ...Read more

BEIRUT — As Israel’s invasion of Lebanon intensifies and brings more destruction to the Mediterranean nation, anger among the Lebanese with Israel is, not surprisingly, at an all-time high.

But displeasure with its ...Read more