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SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Carney's mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant.

That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends purchased from Home Depot on a shoestring budget in 1995, painted "Mardi Gras...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Another potentially dangerous hurricane season officially begins Sunday and with forecasters calling for an “above-average” number of storms, Floridians should have their initial preparations ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed into law new regulations for the herbal remedy kratom on Thursday, giving resolution to a public lobbying campaign that included the family of someone who died from kratom-related ...Read more

Hamas said it submitted a response to the U.S. proposal for a truce in Gaza, but Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff quickly dismissed it as “totally unacceptable.”

“Hamas should accept the framework proposal ...Read more

A legal argument that the U.S. Supreme Court used to foil Joe Biden on climate change and student debt now looms as a threat to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

During Biden’s presidency, the court’s ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge has granted protection from deportation and work permits to as many as 5,000 Venezuelans who have Temporary Protected Status.

U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen in San Francisco on Friday granted...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Norfolk-based USS Gravely last week seized more than 850 pounds of narcotics while in the Caribbean Sea.

The ship’s search and seizure team had boarded a “vessel of interest” on May 25 and found...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial wrapped its third week on Friday, following a failed mistrial bid and additional testimony detailing the rapper’s alleged abuse, including that of a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center.

The names for the 2025 ...Read more

MIAMI — On the eve of hurricane season, Florida’s top disaster official promised Floridians that they will see no changes to the state’s hurricane response despite the turmoil at Federal Emergency Management Agency ...Read more

Iran manufactured a record volume of uranium enriched just below the levels needed for nuclear weapons, complicating efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution to international concerns over the Islamic Republic’s atomic...Read more

For the first time in history, voters in Mexico will cast their ballots for justices, judges and magistrates in an election set to overhaul the nation’s judiciary.

Sunday’s election will decide 881 federal judicial ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January.

He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Staycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her.

Dains asked the employee to clean a kennel. Instead, the employee picked up ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Man's best friend appears to have a bone to pick with U.S. Postal Service workers in Los Angeles, which just ranked No. 1 in the nation when it comes to canine attacks on mail carriers.

Seventy-seven ...Read more