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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Delta Airlines employee was killed last week after a vehicle crash at Orlando International Airport, and officials identified the victim on Monday as a 49-year-old man.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s local elections chiefs should hold onto their old congressional district maps, a state official said, even as they begin the time-consuming task of adopting new districts created by Gov. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire broke out on an inactive oil platform along Southern California’s coast early Monday, briefly endangering more than two dozen workers aboard the offshore rig.

Emergency crews were able to safely ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democrats dropped a gerrymandering lawsuit challenging the state’s Republican-drawn state Senate map following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament approved a special military tribunal for hundreds of Palestinians accused of taking part in the attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, some of whom could face execution.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Legislation meant to help address the type of fraud at the heart of a sprawling crisis in Minnesota is headed to Gov. Tim Walz’s desk after sailing through a final legislative vote Monday.

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LOS ANGELES — Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Council member Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.

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After two years of trying to be heard, transgender New Jerseyans and parents of transgender youth finally got a chance to testify at the state Capitol on a bill that would protect gender-affirming care.

L.B., a South ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Maya Hawke sits at a picnic table in Griffith Park with an iced tea and a small notebook and happily reports that she still likes her new record.

“Every other album cycle I’ve done, by the time I got ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Arcadia, facing charges of acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, has reached an agreement to resolve the case, according to a federal plea agreement unsealed Monday.

Eileen Wang, who ...Read more

Walt Disney Co. has picked up a vocal ally in its fight against the Federal Communications Commission: one of the panel’s three commissioners.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez — the panel’s lone Democrat — took a rare ...Read more

NEW YORK — “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will not air a live show opposite Stephen Colbert’s May 21 finale.

It’s no coincidence that a rerun of a previous Kimmel program will play on that Thursday night, despite live ...Read more

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Monday guaranteed Democrats would take the House of Representatives in the midterms despite recent court setbacks on redistricting.

Seeking to calm Democratic jitters, the House minority leader ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, on Monday defended herself against criticism from labor allies and members of her own party over her intent to opt into the GOP’s federal tax-credit scholarship program, which ...Read more

Florence Pugh is to star in and produce The Midnight Library.

The 30-year-old actress has been cast in the fantasy drama based on Matt Haig's novel that is being helmed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis.

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Felicity Jones will portray Agatha Christie in Eleven Missing Days.

The 42-year-old star has been cast as the legendary author in the mystery-thriller that is based on the true story of the Murder on the Orient Express ...Read more

Economist Milton Friedman is often credited with noting, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

State governments haven’t done much better ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia federal appeals court appeared divided Monday about whether a controversial policy mandating detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants is legal.

During oral arguments before a three-...Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Big Sur coastline is ever-changing.

Waves strike the base of the cliffs, taking sediment with them. Meanwhile, rain also loosens sediment across the rocky coastline, making it more ...Read more

DETROIT — A fugitive wanted in the 1993 murder of a Detroit man was caught in Panama and returned to the United States, officials said.

Richard Werstine will be turned over to authorities in Wayne County, the U.S. ...Read more