MIAMI — A massive federal drug-trafficking sweep targeting more than two dozen suspects resulted in multiple arrests in South Florida this week.

FBI agents conducted raids on Thursday in connection with a widespread cocaine-distribution network involving at least 27 suspects over a four-year period, according to federal court records.

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Colt Gray, the 14-year-old gunman accused of killing four people at his Georgia high school, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face murder charges, less than 24 hours after the arrest of his father, who faces up to 180 years in prison for his alleged role in the massacre.

Gray, sporting a prison uniform with his dyed-blonde hair...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency regulations aimed at reining in the manufacture and sale of illegal hemp products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids such as THC.

The new rules would close loopholes that manufacturers in the "intoxicating hemp" industry have exploited to skirt restrictions on hemp products, allowing ...Read more

MIAMI — Extra transit dollars helped Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s 2025 budget win preliminary approval Thursday night, with commissioners securing an extra $16 million for transportation reserves in a year when the newly reelected mayor says finances are the tightest since she took office.

“It won’t be easy,” Levine Cava ...Read more

MIAMI — More than two years after a 10-month-old baby girl died from ingesting fentanyl at her parents’ home in Boynton Beach, the South Florida dealers that sold the drug to the couple pleaded guilty to distributing the synthetic opioid that killed her.

Samantha Yi, 32, pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his plea for allies to accelerate weapons deliveries to help halt Russian advances as he met with defense ministers in Germany.

“We need to force Russia to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said in his first in-person appearance at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in southwest ...Read more

About three months ago, U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel and Hamas faced a “decisive moment” when he proposed a cease-fire deal to pause their devastating war in Gaza.

His administration, despite repeated setbacks, is still pushing for an agreement and trying to end a deadlock as the war nears the one-year mark.

The U.S. will present ...Read more

The 2024 outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis – known as triple E or EEE – has caused six reported and confirmed human disease cases in five states, including one death, as of Sept. 4, 2024.

EEE surfaces nearly every year in the U.S., but with another outbreak of West Nile virus also spreading across the country, health ...Read more

Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church leaders took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times titled “Black Power.” Their densely worded statement called on national leaders, “white churchmen,” Black citizens and the mass media to correct the country’s racial power imbalance. In essence, they ...Read more

Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Nonetheless, the number of abortions ...Read more

The public furor continues over Donald Trump’s behavior during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024.

Since that visit to the U.S. military burial ground outside Washington, D.C., news reports and campaign photos have emerged showing the former president grinning widely and giving a “thumbs-up” gesture while ...Read more

When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather on his white mother’s side, the village commemorated the victory – and a later visit from the 44th president – with pints of Guinness and a kitschy trade in “O'Bama” memorabilia.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In response to growing worries about crime in California, the Democratic-controlled Legislature has passed a set of stringent crime bills, marking a significant change in its approach to criminal justice reform compared with previous years.

Democrats who have recently made a consistent push to reduce prison populations by...Read more

WASHINGTON — State and federal health agencies are gearing up to respond to a new strain of mpox — the virus formerly known as monkeypox — if the new strain spreads to the United States.

But this time, they are doing so with fewer resources.

Both an mpox public health emergency declaration and federal pandemic preparedness law were still...Read more