ORLANDO, Fla. — Tens of thousands of Central Floridians were still waiting to have their power restored Saturday — two days after Hurricane Milton ripped through the region

Local utilities promised most customers would get their lights turned back on this weekend.

PowerOutage.us was reporting at 1:30 p.m. that 77,355 customers of various ...Read more

MIAMI — Holmes Beach, a popular Gulf vacation spot off Bradenton, reopened to residents and business owners Saturday at 8 a.m.

Holmes Beach Police Department said in a post on social media that you must have a reentry tag issued by the city or proof of residency showing you live in Holmes Beach to enter. Police said they are not allowing ...Read more

ATLANTA — Zoo Atlanta bid farewell to its four giant pandas who left on a FedEx plane to China Saturday morning.

The pandas’ departure marks the end of a 25-year deal with the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens and Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where the pandas will begin the next chapter of their lives.

Three Zoo ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A stunningly precise forecast of Hurricane Milton’s track gave Floridians a strong head start to prepare this past week. It marked the latest instance that a major hurricane has been mapped in precise detail — its path was accurately predicted a whole four days before it made landfall.

Milton’s first cone ...Read more

MIAMI — As Hurricane Milton barreled towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, Primitivo Cesario planned to ride it out with his family in their trailer home in Ruskin, on the eastern shore of Tampa Bay. But he heeded dire warnings from public officials and evacuated to a shelter several miles away, along with everyone else at Fairmont Mobile Estates, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A disturbing 2016 video that shows Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulting singer Cassie, his former girlfriend, has emerged as a key battleground in his sex abuse case.

Last week, attorneys for the mogul suggested they could seek to have the tape excluded from his upcoming trial. Legal experts have described the video — taken in the ...Read more

For years Bolivia was considered the Latin American socialist country that achieved an elusive combination of economic growth, low inflation and declining poverty.

The political capital of La Paz is a monument to those go-go days. A 19-mile cable car network — the world’s largest — connects the maze of cliffs and canyons that comprises ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Rex Patchett, an eighth grader, was walking home from a friend’s house in March 2022 when he was hit and killed by an out-of-control driver.

In the wake of his 13-year-old son’s death, Jason Patchett sought a way to deter reckless drivers, successfully advocating for a bill, now known as Rex’s Law, that would ensure tougher ...Read more

DENVER — Aurora Police Department SWAT Officer Michael Dieck will not face criminal charges in the death of 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis, who Dieck fatally shot outside an apartment complex in May while trying to arrest him on suspicion of attempted murder.

Arapahoe County District Attorney John Kellner found Dieck “reasonably believed there was...Read more

The number of migrants coming through the Darien Gap increased by 51% in September as more Venezuelans crossed the treacherous jungle following Nicolas Maduro’s disputed reelection.

Repression in the wake of Venezuela’s July election has led to an increase in out-migration, according to a report by Refugees International published on Friday...Read more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well matched to the virus after discovering recent mutations.

The CDC said Friday it identified genetic changes present in the virus, known commonly as H5N1, after sequencing samples from three people with the infection in ...Read more

A 41-year-old South Carolina man who led rioters in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and shouted “Where you at, Nancy?” has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstructing law enforcement during the riot.

William “Robbie” Norwood III, of Greer, pleaded guilty on Thursday before U.S. Judge Carl Nichols in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C...Read more

AURORA, Colo. — Addressing thousands of supporters in a cavernous Aurora ballroom, former President Donald Trump on Friday described the migrant challenges faced by his host city in near-apocalyptic terms.

His solutions to what he portrayed as lawlessness amid a national crime wave by undocumented immigrants — by exaggerating the “limited...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tens of thousands of Central Floridians were still waiting to have their power restored on Friday, a day after Hurricane Milton ripped through the region, but local utilities promised most customers would get their lights turned back on this weekend.

One of the area’s largest providers, the Orlando Utilities Commission, said...Read more

SARASOTA, Fla. — Less than 48 hours after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, many residents were returning to the barrier islands off Sarasota for the first time since evacuating earlier in the week.

Late Friday morning, cars flowed freely over the John Ringling Causeway leading from Sarasota onto St. Armands Key, a few hours ...Read more

MIAMI — Humans were not the only primates affected by Hurricane Milton. The Center for Great Apes in Wauchula suffered significant damage even though its residents are safe.

The Center for Great Apes is home to Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s former chimpanzee. It also hosts five orangutans who used to live on Jungle Island. In 2021, the Watson ...Read more

CHICAGO — Three more jurors were selected Friday to hear the landmark corruption case against former House Speaker Michael Madigan, but the frustratingly slow pace of jury selection has all but guaranteed that opening statements in the case will not come next week.

Chosen Friday were three women: one who lives in the Mount Greenwood ...Read more