In a crisis-wracked nation where hospitals were hurting even before U.S. aid freezes earlier this year and gangs torched or gutted many medical facilities, the University Hospital of Mirebalais was among the last still standing.

With solar-power, 300-plus beds and a network of U.S. doctors and experts in global health, the 205,000-square foot ...Read more

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Robert Crimo III will spend the rest of his life in prison for opening fire on spectators at the 2022 Highland Park Independence Day Parade.

Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti imposed the expected sentence Thursday after listening to statements from 19 survivors and loved ones of people killed in the mass shooting. He was ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A significant source of tax revenue for Orlando’s tourism industry is in flux as the Florida House eyes using money collected from visitors to give homeowners a property tax break.

The House’s tax package would transform the tourist development tax, defund the marketing agency Visit Orlando and upend a major means of ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his rejection of concessions to Russia as the war-battered nation was hit by the biggest air strike this year and U.S. President Donald Trump piled pressure on Kyiv to accept a peace deal.

During a visit to South Africa that he cut short after the overnight missile and drone attack, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out the passing storm.

They are not openly fighting President Donald Trump's program cuts. Some have scrubbed their ...Read more

DENVER — A new Colorado law will require health-related research facilities that use dogs and cats as test subjects to try adopting out the animals before euthanizing them.

Health-Related Research Test Subjects, or Senate Bill 85, was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday.

“From now on, dogs and cats that are subjects to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A cybersecurity attack against Baltimore City Public Schools impacted over 31,000 Maryland residents, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General confirmed Thursday.

On Feb. 13, the school system experienced a cybersecurity incident affecting certain informational technology systems within its network, City Schools announced ...Read more

MIAMI – House lawmakers are ending their probe into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Hope Florida Foundation without hearing testimony from the organization’s lawyer or leaders of two groups that got $5 million grants from the charity.

Rep. Alex Andrade, the Pensacola Republican who has been spearheading the investigation, said Thursday that he ...Read more

China demanded that the U.S. revoke all unilateral tariffs and denied there were talks on reaching a trade deal, maintaining a defiant stance despite President Donald Trump’s recent easing of criticism of the country.

“The U.S. should respond to rational voices in the international community and within its own borders and thoroughly remove ...Read more

Roads are starting to reopen as New Jersey firefighters begin their third day of containing a 13,250-acre wildfire just miles from the Jersey Shore, according to a post the state’s forest fire service posted to X Thursday morning.

Wells Mill Road in Watertown, Ocean County, had reopened just before 5 a.m. as the fire remains only 50% ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Jill Carter, a Baltimore Democrat who served in both the state Senate and House of Delegates, sponsored police reform bills throughout her 20-year political career, including a bill that failed mere weeks before Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, died of injuries he sustained while in police custody.

In Carter’s opinion, had...Read more

For the first half of his career in law enforcement, working as a police officer in South Florida, Chase Fopiano did not think cyberattacks on police agencies were a serious threat.

Many of his law enforcement colleagues were under the same impression — that since they were the most likely to investigate the attacks, there was no way ...Read more

They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like a newborn incorrectly left off a policy or discovering that a rogue broker had signed them up or switched their plan without consent.

Specially trained caseworkers help resolve such issues, which might otherwise cause consumers...Read more