FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Four Delray Beach Fire Rescue employees, including top brass, have been placed on administrative leave with pay after a Brightline train smashed into a fire truck last Saturday.

Assistant Chief Kevin Green, Division Chief Todd Lynch, Captain Brian Fiorey, and Driver Engineer David Wyatt are all on leave “pending the ...Read more

The first fighting contingents of soldiers and military policemen from Latin America arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday to join the armed international security mission in the country’s fight against terrorizing gangs.

The 83 security personnel arrived included an advance team of eight soldiers from El Salvador and the first 75 of 150 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to order a ban on new offshore oil and gas development across some 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, ruling out the sale of drilling rights in Atlantic and Pacific waters as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

The move is a sweeping effort to permanently protect coastal waters — and ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Santa Cruz’s beloved wharf reopened to the public Saturday, after about 150 feet of the pier’s end fell into the ocean last month and prompted the city to temporarily close the popular tourist destination.

The wharf was deemed safe to reopen based on a recently completed sonar and engineering assessment conducted by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a group of entertainers, former government officials, athletes and philanthropists for their contributions to public service.

Nineteen people will be honored at a White House ceremony on Saturday, the latest in a series of events Biden has held in the final weeks...Read more

Russia’s defense ministry vowed unspecified “retaliatory measures” after Ukraine launched U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles at the border region of Belgorod on Friday.

The ministry said earlier on Saturday that it had successfully downed eight of the tactical missiles as well as dozens of Ukrainian drones over the past day.

Ukraine’s ...Read more

Starting this week, farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley are banned from burning agricultural waste in the field, a legislative mandate aimed at improving air quality that has been decades in the making.

The near-complete prohibition on mass burns of agricultural prunings and field crops, as well as orchards and vineyards removed from ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Days before she’s slated to return as the region’s top prosecutor, Orange-Osceola State Attorney-elect Monique Worrell quietly appeared with lawyers at the Polk County Courthouse on Friday, amid rumors of a grand jury investigation and speculation about what some believe is a last-ditch attempt to block her from taking ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is set to become the first felon to serve as U.S. president after a New York judge on Friday denied his request to throw out the guilty verdicts in his hush money case and, in a stunning development, ordered him to appear for sentencing next week.

In an 18-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ...Read more

Police in Rhode Island removed four bodies from a West Greenwich home where there’d been a heavy law enforcement presence throughout the day on Friday.

Police arrived at the home on Cheyenne Trail around 10:30 a.m. after one of the resident’s co-workers called for a welfare check, reporting their colleague had missed two days of work.

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LAS VEGAS — The man behind the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had other “personal grievances,” but held no animosity toward President-elect Donald Trump, authorities said Friday.

Officials said they did not know why 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger chose Trump International ...Read more

After a record year of launches, SpaceX kicked things off again with the first mission of 2025 on Friday night.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:27 p.m. on the Space42 Thuraya 4 mission carrying a communications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit for a commercial company ...Read more

Alcoholic drinks are a leading cause of cancer and should carry a warning about that risk on their label, the U.S. surgeon general said Friday.

Alcohol is a factor in nearly 100,000 newly diagnosed cancers each year and roughly 20,000 deaths from the disease, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in an advisory intended to focus the public’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration suggested that the Supreme Court should reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law that would ban TikTok in the United States if it isn’t sold by its Chinese parent company.

A week ahead of a Jan. 10 courtroom showdown, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department urged justices to uphold the law ...Read more

BOSTON — A state senator is demanding that the court records be made public in the case of an illegal immigrant evicted from a Revere shelter program following his arrest on charges including possession of an AR-15 rifle and roughly $1 million in fentanyl.

“If there’s anything I can do to effectuate change it’s demanding that the ...Read more

Neither Prince William nor King Charles plan to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral next week, following the former president’s death on Sunday at age 100.

As of Friday, the British royal family’s Royal Diary only lists the monarch’s younger brother, Prince Edward, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, as being an attendant of the State ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The man behind an explosion in a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had other “personal grievances,” but held “no animosity” toward President-elect Donald Trump, authorities said Friday.

Officials said they had no evidence indicating why Matthew Livelsberger chose Trump ...Read more

Bill Cosby, the disgraced comedian who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, now has two Manhattan townhouses facing foreclosure.

Cosby, 87, allegedly defaulted on a mortgage for his 12,000-square-foot Upper East Side house after not making payments since June, according to court records. The complaint, filed in New York County...Read more

ATLANTA — A series of Cobb County, Georgia, police reports over a span of eight months between 2015 and 2016 show instances of alleged domestic violence between the New Orleans terror attack suspect and his wife at the time.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, lived in the Atlanta area during his second marriage, earning a ...Read more