Month: February 2025

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his claim that some who died in the country’s 2019 measles epidemic didn’t have the disease. “We don’t know what was killing them,” Kennedy said during tense U.S. Senate hearings last week on whether he should oversee the U.S. Department of Health and... Read More

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/J.... Read More

A man is in critical condition Monday night after he was shot by deputies in Oakland Park while armed with a knife, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Multiple people called 911 shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday about a man “behaving erratically” who was waving a knife at people driving by and throwing large rocks at cars near the 500 block of East Oakland Park Boulevard, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Jarcara A. Mansfield, 39, of Fort Lauderdale, was armed with a knife when deputies... Read More

A man was hospitalized in critical condition Monday morning after he was shot at a Walgreens in Miramar, police said. The shooting happened shortly after 11 a.m. inside the Walgreens at the intersection of Miramar Boulevard and Palm Avenue. Witnesses told officers when they arrived that two men had been in a “very minor altercation” before one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other, police department spokesperson Janice McIntosh said. The victim was taken to a hospital in... Read More

By SAMYA KULLAB, VASILISA STEPANENKO and EVGENIY MALOLETKA POKROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short. Ukrainian troops are losing ground around the crucial supply hub, which lies at the confluence of multiple highways leading to key cities in... Read More

Christine Dolen, the Miami Herald’s award-winning theater critic for more than 35 years and a longtime voice for the performing arts in South Florida, died Sunday morning at her Broward County home. Dolen was 74 and had been battling idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease, said her husband, former Sun Sentinel arts editor John Dolen. “When I think of her, I think not only of her talent, and her warm companionship, but her kindness,” he said. “As an arts editor... Read More

By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Management Agency help for disasters since 2011. But disaster aid — for decades a mostly bipartisan issue — is suddenly a political hot button after Hurricane Helene last year and this year’s California wildfires. President Donald Trump and a conservative think have floated the possibility of shifting... Read More

Photos from the 21st annual Groundhog Day Swim on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, at Hollywood Beach. The event benefits the Hollywood Lions Club and the Hollywood Fire Rescue Ocean Rescue competitive team. Originally Published: February 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM EST ... Read More

Neighborhoods all over Fort Lauderdale now say they have something new to worry about — high-rise towers built in the name of affordable housing, rising in places they were never meant to rise along commercial corridors all over town. Another worrisome detail: The towers will be approved administratively, with no public input from the city’s elected officials or the residents they serve. The high-rise fears are real, triggered by the state’s Live Local Act, a sweeping initiative... Read More

By JIM MUSTIAN and BRETT MARTEL NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL franchise. What followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. The records, which the Saints and... Read More