MIAMI — Hurricane Milton remained an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane Wednesday morning with less than a day left before it slams into Florida’s Gulf Coast with roof-ripping winds and potentially lethal walls of water as high as 15 feet.

The storm, with sustained winds still clocking in at 145 mph, finally made the fateful turn to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A series of tornadoes have spun up across the state ahead of Hurricane Milton’s forecast landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast after midnight as a major hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“Damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge, and heavy rainfall will extend well outside the forecast cone,” ...Read more

DETROIT – Northville Township police are joining the effort to help those affected by Hurricane Helene and need a hand from Metro Detroiters, officials said.

They said the township's police department is collecting donations of items needed cleanup in the hurricane's aftermath, such as trash bags, heavy-duty work gloves, new socks, sanitizing...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis is giving an update Wednesday morning as Hurricane Milton approaches the state as a Category 4 storm targeting Florida’s Gulf Coast.

“We are bracing and are prepared to receive a major hit. Facing this with the seriousness it deserves, but also with the determination that we will get through this,” he ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for parts of Florida as Hurricane Milton approaches the state.

The watch issued before 8:30 a.m. runs until 9 p.m. and for now includes all of the southern portion of the Florida peninsula up into Central Florida’s Polk and Osceola counties.

Images captured by Florida ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a man found asleep with a gun in his waistband was initially cleared of wrongdoing by oversight officials — but now could face punishment after the department's chief found the killing was not justified.

Rejecting a recommendation from earlier this year by a panel that reviews ...Read more

DETROIT — Two Sterling Heights police officers were charged on Tuesday for alleged misconduct and assaulting a person with a K9 unit.

James Sribniak, 31, and Jack Currie, 29, were charged through 39th District Court with one count of misconduct in office and felonious assault, the Michigan Attorney General's Office announced in a press ...Read more

BOSTON — There’s even more trouble brewing at the Massachusetts prison where an attack last month left five officers injured: a class-action lawsuit for what inmates say was a brutally violent retaliatory campaign by guards.

A “Retaliatory Force Campaign” in January and February of 2020 at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, plaintiff...Read more

LOS ANGELES — People hospitalized for COVID-19 early in the pandemic suffered an increased risk of serious "cardiac events" such as heart attacks and strokes that was akin to people with a history of heart disease, a newly released study has found.

Researchers from USC, UCLA and the Cleveland Clinic analyzed more than 10,000 COVID cases ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden are set to speak later Wednesday amid frantic efforts by Washington to temper Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack last week.

The two leaders are expected to discuss Israel’s planned response to the assault, which the U.S., European and Arab states fear may ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden for the first time in more than a month as Washington looks to temper Israel’s retaliation for last week’s missile attack from Iran.

The two sides were expected to provide readouts of what the leaders discussed later Wednesday.

The conversation...Read more

MIAMI — Living in Florida would mean being by the water – and closer to the grandkids, Nasrin Larjani and her husband thought. Once they’d done their due diligence, moving from California to St. Petersburg’s affluent Ponderosa Shores was an easy choice.

Though situated amid canals that connect to Tampa Bay, it had never flooded, ...Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to speak on Wednesday amid frantic efforts by Washington to temper Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack last week.

The call is scheduled after a visit to the U.S. by Israel’s defense chief, Yoav Gallant — seen as a chance to coordinate the response to ...Read more

Russian forces closed in on the center of an industrial city in eastern Ukraine as they pressed ahead with an offensive aimed at cementing control over the Donetsk region.

Fierce fighting continued Wednesday in the center of Toretsk, a coal mining city some 680 kilometers (420 miles) east of Kyiv, a military spokeswoman said. Russian troops ...Read more

MIAMI — A major South Florida airport announced it’s shutting down because of Hurricane Milton, with plans to “reopen when it’s safe to do so.”

Palm Beach International Airport will suspend flight operations at 9 p.m. Wednesday. Airport leaders say PBIA is not a shelter for people or cars.

The region’s other two major airports, ...Read more

MIAMI — Hurricane Milton remained an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane Wednesday morning with less than a day left before it slams into Florida’s Gulf Coast with roof-ripping winds and potentially lethal walls of water as high as 15 feet.

The storm, with sustained winds still clocking in at 155 mph, finally made the fateful turn to ...Read more

Mozambicans voted Wednesday for a new leader who will need to quell an insurgency that’s stalled massive liquefied natural gas projects with the potential to transform one of the world’s least-developed nations.

There’s little question over the frontrunner: Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the Liberation Front of Mozambique, which has ...Read more