MIAMI Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate over who’s the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusations over guest worker programs “akin to slavery” and the embracing of “vigilantes” against immigrants. They had even worse things to say about Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Facing off Wednesday […]

PALATKA, FLA. Sheriff ’s investigators in north Florida were trying to determine how a 4-year-old boy got his hands on the gun he used to shoot his mother as she drove a pickup truck. Putnam County Sheriff ’s Office spokesman Joseph Wells says 31-year-old Jamie Gilt of Jacksonville owns the .45-caliber gun the boy fired […]

WILKINSBURG, PA. Five people have been killed in an ambush style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said. Four women and a man were killed late Wednesday during the party in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. Allegheny County police said people scrambled toward the house […]

MIAMI In his own unorthodox way, Donald Trump is unmistakably evolving into a general election candidate. The over-the-top billionaire is talking about flexibility in his hardline immigration policies. He’s pledging to moderate his bullying tone, acknowledging that women in particular may be turned off by his brash brand of politics. And he’s working to assume […]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. From quiet, tearful individuals to multi-generational families, more than 3,000 people passed by the casket of Nancy Reagan to pay their respects in the first day of a public viewing. Roy Dillard, who at 80 was typical of the age of most of the visitors, also brought two of his daughters and […]

LOS ANGELES The knife reportedly found at O.J. Simpson’s former estate likely isn’t connected to the killings of his ex-wife and her friend, a law enforcement official said. But it will take at least three weeks to know for sure. Investigators are examining the knife for DNA or other material that could possibly link the […]

SEOUL, South Korea North Korea threatens nuclear annihilation, fires ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance, tests a nuclear bomb and launches a long-range rocket into space as South Korea and the United States stage huge military drills. A full-blown crisis, right? Maybe not. Or, at least, not yet. Things change very […]

JERUSALEM Israel said today it is looking into the shooting death of a Palestinian attacker who killed an American student in a stabbing spree earlier this week. In Tuesday’s attack, the Palestinian assailant ran through the ancient port city of Jaffa with a knife, stabbing several people along his way, until he was shot by […]

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar The party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi officially confirmed today that she will not become Myanmar’s next president. Unofficially, she has vowed to be the de-facto leader by calling the shots from behind the scenes, and party members said today that’s how things will work in Myanmar’s first democratically elected government […]

SAO PAULO State prosecutors have filed charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a money laundering investigation, putting further scrutiny on one of Brazil’s towering political figures who is being hounded by corruption allegations. The charges brought by prosecutors in Sao Paulo state arise from allegations that he hid his ownership of […]