ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fernand formed Saturday afternoon in the central Atlantic but was expected to remain over the open ocean. It was the sixth named storm of the season.

According to NHC’s 5 p.m. advisory, Fernand was about 405 miles south-southeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and higher gusts with northward...Read more

The U.S. and India continue to talk despite strained relations after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imports from the South Asian nation and threatened to slap penalties for buying Russian crude, a sign that the two nations are seeking to end a deadlock.

“Negotiations are still going on” and ties are not broken, India’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, according to new records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The documents shed more light on the video that went viral last month ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The first weekend of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Washington, D.C., came with a special curfew for juveniles in one of the city’s most popular areas, drawing parallels to one way Baltimore leaders have tried to keep kids out of trouble.

From 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. last Friday through Monday night, the Metropolitan Police ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Uganda early next week, according to court documents— just days after the Maryland resident was released following five months behind bars, including a mistaken expulsion to a mega-prison in his native El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, 30, was ordered to report to the U.S. Immigration and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It has been a challenging time for the San Diego Zoo, where three beloved animals — a polar bear, giraffe and gorilla — died within days of each other.

The latest death occurred Monday, when Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla, suffered a cardiac event, according to zoo officials.

His sudden death came four days ...Read more

Looking to bolster his legacy as a global peacemaker, Donald Trump has boasted often in recent days that he’s ended at least six wars. Critics of the president’s record say the truth is a lot more complicated.

Trump has made the assertion repeatedly in interviews, in conversations with foreign leaders and during press appearances, though ...Read more

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “all the developments” to set up security guarantees for a post-war Ukraine will be “ready in the coming days.”

“At present, the teams of Ukraine, the United States, and European partners are working on their architecture,” Zelenskiy said in an X post after a phone call with Netherlands Prime ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Uganda early next week, according to court documents — just days after the Maryland resident was released after more than five months in prison and a mistaken expulsion to a mega-prison in his native El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia, 30, was ordered to report Monday to the U.S. Immigration and...Read more

Minutes after a New York court threw out a nearly half-billion dollar penalty against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit, the president declared the ruling a “total victory.” Trump still has plenty of reasons to appeal.

While the intermediate appeals court vacated the $464 million penalty, it still found Trump liable for fraud and left ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of Health confirmed the state’s first human case of West Nile virus this year in an adult living in the central part of the state.

Officials said the patient is recovering. The case was detected in central Maryland, according to a state health department release that did not specify the exact location.

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For nearly 50 years, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski has ministered to immigrants who fear being forced to leave the U.S. But the unease in his community now, as President Donald Trump presses for the biggest deportation effort in U.S. history, is unlike anything he has ever seen before.

Miami, home to large numbers of immigrants from Cuba, ...Read more

Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wouldn’t be a radical choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

“I think he’s going to be much less radical ...Read more

WINNIPEG, Canada — Ken Lachnit had done what he could. All that remained was prayer.

For three days this spring, Lachnit and dozens of other volunteer firefighters had labored to beat back a fast-growing wildfire as it advanced on his hometown of Woodridge, a hamlet 60 miles southeast of Winnipeg.

Some plowed fire breaks with bulldozers. ...Read more

MIAMI — Five of the contractors Florida has employed to build and operate Alligator Alcatraz ⁠— the controversial immigration detention site in the Everglades ⁠— have links to allegations of improper business practices and misuse of public funds, a Miami Herald review of legal records found.

One of the firms allegedly allowed armed ...Read more

ATLANTA — Deaths in Georgia from opioid overdoses fell by nearly a third from 2023 to 2024, a sign showing the state is making headway on the decades-long opioid crisis.

But that progress, reflected in provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comes as federal cuts for drug treatment programs and Medicaid could ...Read more