MIAMI — Are you feeling sick? You’re not alone.

Could it be COVID? It’s increasingly possible as a summer wave of the virus variant has hit Florida. The good news is it’s a modest wave compared to past trends.

Florida is one of 39 states that is seeing an increase or likely seeing an increase in COVID infections, according to the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a spate of new laws that are scheduled to take effect on Monday.

There is a measure that creates littering fines for kids and adults who release balloons into the sky, and another that prohibits local governments from setting rules meant to protect outside workers from the risks of extreme heat. A new bill...Read more

Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel’s medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, the bills keep coming.

There’s one for $1,040 for the ambulance ride to the hospital that February afternoon. Another for $2,841.17 from an...Read more

The dollar inched higher in Asian trading as markets assessed former President Donald Trump was ahead in the first U.S. presidential debate.

A gauge of the dollar strength climbed as much as 0.2% on Friday before the move pared, with the U.S. currency on track for a sixth straight weekly gain. President Joe Biden stumbled through early ...Read more

ATLANTA — To the excitement of hundreds who watched the debate at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta during a Biden-Harris watch party, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden made an appearance to thank their supporters.

In a brief address, Biden assured the crowd of his success.

”Over the next couple days, they’re going to be ...Read more

Bolivia’s president denied that he staged a dramatic coup against his own administration in an attempt to improve his popularity, rebutting a detained general who said he led the uprising on executive orders.

“I say categorically that I could never, nor have I, nor would I give an instruction of that sort,” President Luis Arce told ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump attempted to pivot away from answering questions about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, but the debate moderators insisted he address voters who are wary of his potential return to the White House because they hold him responsible for what happened that day.

Trump responded by saying he was not ...Read more

European Union leaders said that Georgia’s refusal to reverse its crackdown on civil society has prompted a “de facto” halt to its efforts to join the bloc.

The move follows an adoption of a bill widely known as the “foreign agent” law that sparked massive anti-government protests. The U.S. and the EU said the law is similar to one ...Read more

The first presidential debate of 2024 featured former President Donald Trump's usual assertions on immigrants, calling them criminals and saying mental asylums were being emptied in foreign countries for people to come here.

President Joe Biden pushed back, calling Trump's statements lies and "malarkey." Immigrants are less likely to commit ...Read more

CHICAGO — The federal judge in the racketeering case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan hinted Thursday that prosecutors may have to significantly alter their game plan if they want to proceed, given this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that walks back a key bribery statute contained in Madigan’s indictment.

The ...Read more

A 61-year-old North Carolina man will spend nearly five years in prison for throwing a flagpole-type object as if a javelin or spear at U.S. Capitol Police on Jan. 6 and committing other felonies, U.S. prosecutors said Thursday.

Rutherford County resident Anthony Mastanduno joined other rioters in breaching the Capitol and disrupting a joint ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, California — The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Senate Bill 1327 would tax Amazon, Meta and Google for the data they collect from users and pump the money from this “data extraction mitigation fee...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia was invoked within the first 15 minutes of the presidential debate, with President Joe Biden highlighting the state’s abortion law, which bans most abortions once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, typically about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many know they are pregnant.

”We’re in a state where if you...Read more

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The law requires emergency rooms to provide stabilizing care for patients experiencing medical emergencies regardless of their ...Read more

ATLANTA — Red Roof Inn has settled a landmark sex trafficking case mid-trial, resolving allegations by 11 women that they were exploited for years at hotels in Smyrna and Buckhead.

The national hotel chain isn’t disclosing the settlement terms and continues to deny claims that it participated in and benefited from pervasive sex trafficking ...Read more

Northwestern University has “robust” policies and training against hazing and bullying in place but a lack of clear guidance on how to respond to concerns from student-athletes could lead to inconsistent responses and the perception that complaints are not being properly addressed, a team led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The debate over parental notification policies in California schools reached a boiling point Thursday morning as two lawmakers nearly had a physical confrontation on the Assembly floor.

Two Riverside-area assemblymen, Republican Bill Essayli and Democrat Corey Jackson, exchanged angry words as the Assembly was preparing ...Read more

California students will have to complete a course in pocketbook economics — balancing a checkbook, managing credit cards, avoiding scams — to graduate from high school under a bill that will become law, state lawmakers announced Thursday.

"We need to help Californians prepare for their financial futures as early as possible," Gov. Gavin ...Read more

Hours before the CNN showdown Thursday, a national veterans organization spoke out against voter laws passed in Georgia since 2020.

Republican state lawmakers passed a series of voting laws following Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in 2020 that they said were aimed at preventing voting fraud. However, allegations of widespread ...Read more