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Roads lined with looted and charred buildings, gun smoke hanging in the air and the presence of heavily armed men and boys are stark reminders of the relentless violence consuming Haiti’s volatile capital.

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Rainfall across much of California and the West has become more clustered in heavier storms, with longer dry spells in between.

The net effect is a drying out, researchers found in a new study. It isn’t just the western...Read more

DENVER — The end of the Colorado legislative session often is raucous and tense. But on Wednesday, the 2026 session’s conclusion was more muted — with no major last-minute deals and no major standoffs on pivotal ...Read more

MIAMI — Marly Metayer, the mother of slain Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, has filed to run for her daughter’s city commission seat, records show.

Her campaign manager David Metellus said she filed to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD crushed 200 dirt bikes, mopeds and scooters beneath the treads of two bulldozers outside a Sanitation Department garage on Staten Island Wednesday.

The demolished motorbikes were among more than 5,...Read more

TORONTO — The western Canadian province of Alberta will appeal a court ruling that blocks a potential vote on separation from the country, after a judge found the government failed to meet its obligation to consult with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after she killed two boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk with her SUV, Rebecca Grossman never admitted culpability in the crash to her lover Scott Erickson, despite testimony from another ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court sent shock waves across the Palmetto State and beyond Wednesday when it announced it was overturning Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in the 2021 deaths of his ...Read more

Poor weather conditions Wednesday forced another scrub of a launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International Space Station, which will have to wait until at least Friday for a backup attempt ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year, having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of its successor ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday morning the federal government will withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California.

The announcement came at a news conference about the government’s ongoing efforts...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors will move “aggressively” to retry Alex Murdaugh on murder charges by the end of the year, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told a news conference Wednesday.

Wilson and ...Read more

Days after the state of Florida and federal government engaged in talks to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, officials told vendors the Everglades detention center is closing and detainees are expected to be moved out by early...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida commencement speaker’s speech praising artificial intelligence was meet with thunderous boos from graduates during a ceremony last week, a sign of how some young people ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — About 30 Minneapolis Fire Department employees, or roughly 7% of the 435-member force, are out on leave due to post-traumatic stress disorder, pushing up overtime costs and stretching resources.

PTSD has ...Read more

The U.S. State Department reiterated Wednesday that it remains willing to provide $100 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, after senior officials in Havana denied that the island’s government had previously received ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans using platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket won’t be able to cast bets on who will win the governor’s race or how many posts Elon Musk will make on X in a given week for much longer.

A ...Read more

The latest reports from “Little St. Jeff’s,” the notorious Caribbean hideaway of Jeffrey Epstein, are startling.

One recent visitor was allegedly hog-tied naked. Would-be interlopers on jet skis have been chased ...Read more