If Florida’s Senate race were only about money, Democratic Rep. Val Demings would be way ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio.The 65-year-old former Orlando police chief, a rising star who President Joe Biden considered for his running mate, has raised significantly more money in the race — $48 million to Rubio’s $36 million. Demings has also gained momentum by

Apple’s next product launch event will take place on September 7th, the company announced in an invitation sent out today. At the show, Apple is expected to share details on upcoming iPhones and Apple Watches. The invite, which has the tagline “Far out,” is for an in-person event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Cupertino campus, which would be

Jennifer Flavin has filed for divorce from Sylvester Stallone after 25 years of marriage. Just last week DailyMail.com revealed Stallone had a giant tattoo of Jennifer on his right bicep covered up with a picture of Butkus, Rocky’s bull mastiff from the hit movies. Flavin, who is 22 years younger than her 76-year-old husband, also hinted that it might all be

Len Dawson, who led the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as both a player and broadcaster, has died at the age of 87, according to his family.” With wife Linda at his side, it is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing of our beloved Len Dawson,” the family said in a statement to

Kevin Durant will remain a Brooklyn Net and will no longer be available for trade, according to the team’s general manager, Sean Marks.“[Head coach] Steve Nash and I, together with Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday,” Marks said in a statement released Tuesday. “We have agreed to move forward

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for borrowers who earn $125,000 a year or less and up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. Couples who earn $250,000 a year or less and file taxes jointly will also qualify for cancellation of up to $10,000 for each partner.

Forecasters and the public alike had no time to waste 30 years ago this month as they confronted one of the fiercest U.S. hurricane landfalls on record.Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Miami-Dade County around 5 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, Aug. 24, 1992. Intensifying and accelerating en route, Andrew made landfall less than 36 hours after

jaimie branch, a trumpeter who combined punk ferocity with advanced technique in her version of improvised music, earning acclaim within and well outside of jazz circles, died on Monday night at her home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Her death was announced by International Anthem, the Chicago-based label that released her music.

The United States carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria Tuesday, targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a U.S. military spokesman said. The strikes in oil-rich Deir Ezzor province, which were ordered by President Biden, “targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” U.S. Central

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the long-serving congressman from Manhattan’s Upper West Side, defeated fellow veteran Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary Tuesday after redistricting in New York state forced them to compete for a single House seat. Mr. Nadler drew national attention when he helped lead the first impeachment

Charlie Crist will challenge Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, in November after trouncing Nikki Fried, the state agriculture commissioner, in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Crist, a former Republican governor of Florida who switched parties and became a Democratic congressman, fought a campaign touting his experience in office

Nick Saban is once again the highest-paid football coach at a public university. Alabama’s board of trustees approved a one-year extension and a raise for Saban during a meeting on Tuesday. The amended deal runs through February 2030 and will pay him an average of $11.7 million per year. The raise edges Saban’s annual compensation over

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in 2020, a case that raised alarms about the possibility of politically motivated violence amid the coronavirus pandemic and ahead of a bitterly contested presidential race. Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband pleaded guilty to a DUI charge in Northern California on Tuesday and was sentenced to five days in jail, authorities said.Paul Pelosi, 82, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol, causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. He was sentenced to five days in jail and

Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of some of their large SUVs to park them outdoors and away from buildings after a series of fires involving trailer hitch wiring. The Korean automakers recall more than 281,000 vehicles in the U.S. because of the problem, but they haven’t figured out how to fix it yet. The automakers reported

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis features himself getting in political dog fights with reporters in a new campaign ad that casts the Florida governor as ‘Maverick.’Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, a former TV journalist, tweeted out the new online ad Tuesday on a day when DeSantis is on the ballot without facing a primary opponent. Some top Republican Party

Walmart has been ordered to pay $4.4million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Oregon, area store in 2020. Dovey Mangum was awarded $400,000 in non-economic damages and $4 million in punitive damages by a Multnomah County jury. The victim’s lawyers said it was

Ohio’s largest public school district is scheduled to start classes online on Wednesday after teachers decided to strike over class sizes and other working conditions. Teachers in Columbus are pushing primarily for smaller classes, and functional heating and air-conditioning for their classrooms, said the Columbus Education Association union,

Twitter executives deceived federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its defenses against hackers, as well as its meager efforts to fight spam, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint from its former security chief. The complaint from the former head of security Peiter Zatko, a widely

Russia is “stepping up efforts” to strike civilian infrastructure “in the coming days,” the State Department said in an alert late Monday, marking the first time the U.S. has specifically warned that civilian and government buildings could be targeted. The U.S. Embassy advised U.S. citizens to leave Ukraine on ground transportation now “if it is safe to do

Prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally.“We are faced with the biggest corruption maneuver that this country has ever known,”

Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.A Georgia computer forensics firm hired by the attorneys placed the files on a server,

Two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, about 20.9 million women have lost access to nearly all elective abortions in their home states, and a slate of strict new trigger laws expected to take effect in the coming days will shut out even more.Texas, Tennessee, and Idaho all have existing restrictions on abortion, but the laws slated to

Florida voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to determine which candidates will have the chance to face off in this November’s general election. Voters will cast ballots in races for the governorship and Congress, all the way down to circuit courts and local school boards.Democrats are competing to run against the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis,

Donald Trump took 300 classified documents with him when he left the White House, reports say.The scale of the former president’s cache of files is what pushed the Justice Department to launch its unprecedented raid on August 8, according to The New York Times.The paper reported the first tranche of 150 classified documents were returned

Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit over the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate two weeks ago. The motion filed Monday asks a judge to appoint a special master to review the materials seized by the government and argues they were taken under an “overbroad warrant.”The lawsuit also includes a message that Trump had his lawyer relay to

As Twitter and Elon Musk prepares for their October 17th trial date in the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue over his attempt to break their $44 billion acquisition agreement, Musk’s legal team submitted a subpoena for evidence from a familiar face: former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO for the second time last

Five friends killed in a horror car crash in Florida this weekend when a man who had his license revoked almost a decade ago smashed into them while driving the wrong way down the freeway. Four women and one man lost their lives when 30-year-old Maiky Simeon, traveling east in the westbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway close to Miami,

Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades.At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing operation near the state’s capital, announced by Intel earlier

According to the annual list published by Forbes on Monday, the Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable NFL team for the 16th consecutive year. Forbes said that the Cowboys, who have only made the playoffs four times in the last 12 seasons, are worth $8bn, up 23% from last year. The New England Patriots ($6.4bn), Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams

Dr. Anthony Fauci will step down from his roles of director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden this December, he announced on Monday.”While moving on from my current positions, I am not retiring,” Fauci said. “After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the

Fox Corp CEO and Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch — already busy fighting two multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuits aimed at Fox News here in the U.S. — has threatened a news organization in his family’s home country of Australia with legal action. The threat stems from commentaries accusing him of being responsible for rhetoric on

Flash floods struck the Dallas area overnight into Monday, sparking rescue efforts as roads flooded and abandoned cars floated away in striking footage shared on social media. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth extended its warning in and around Dallas County until 8 a.m. Central time about potentially “life-threatening flash flooding.” It said up to

The abrupt closure of a popular Trader Joe’s wine store in New York City came just days before its 30 employees were planning to call a union election. Workers had been organizing for months and were ready to go public with the campaign; they told CBS MoneyWatch.But on August 11, a few days before the planned announcement, the grocery chain

Indiana’s Republican governor met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen Monday morning, following two recent high-profile visits by U.S. politicians that drew China’s ire and Chinese military drills that included firing missiles over the island.Gov. According to a statement from his office, Eric Holcomb arrived Sunday evening in Taiwan for a four-day visit

Rep. Liz Cheney said on Sunday that her political focus after leaving Congress would go beyond challenging former President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party to include opposing candidates who promote Mr. Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.“I’m going to be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything we can

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been charged under the country’s anti-terrorism act in the latest chapter of the tense struggle for power with Pakistan’s current government since his ouster. Sunday’s move came a day after Khan addressed a rally and criticized top police officials and a judge for the arrest of his chief of staff. Police said

Three Arkansas cops were suspended after a video of them emerged brutally beating an arrested suspect at a gas station – sparking angry reactions across the country as the footage circulated online. Cops said Randall Worcester, 27, was making threats to a convenience store worker in Mulberry, near Little Rock, on Sunday morning. When several

A Miami police officer has been arrested for DUI and possession of cocaine, according to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department. On Sunday, August 21, investigators with the Miami Police Department Anti-Corruption Unit conducted surveillance in the case of 32-year-old Jeffrey Jose Marcano. During the surveillance, Marcano is driving his assigned

Tom Weiskopf’s golf skill went far beyond his 16 victories on the PGA Tour and his lone major at Royal Troon in the British Open. He was always candid, often outspoken, and unfailingly accurate in the television booth. He found even greater success designing golf courses.Weiskopf died Saturday at his home in Big Sky, Montana, at the age of 79, his wife

Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem is coming back for his 20th NBA season. The 42-year-old made the announcement Sunday at his basketball camp in Miami.”I have decided to follow through with what my father and I had talked about, and I will finish what I started, and I will play 20 years,” Haslem said, seated at midcourt at Miami High,

Tesla’s increasing the price of its Full-Self Driving (FSD) software to $15,000. In a post on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the new price will go into effect in North America starting September 5th, representing a $3,000 jump. Drivers who order a vehicle before September 5th won’t have to pay the newly-increased price, Musk says.

Somali security forces ended a 30-hour siege of a popular hotel by Islamist militants in which 21 civilians were killed by gunfire and explosives, police said, the deadliest attack in the East African nation’s capital in months. At least 117 people were injured after gunmen detonated explosives and stormed the Hayat Hotel, located just over a mile from Mogadishu’s

A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, on Sunday from testifying in the investigation into efforts by President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. The appeals court instructed a lower court to determine whether Mr. Graham should

First lady Jill Biden will end her isolation after two negative tests for Covid, her office announced Sunday. After isolating herself for five days, the first lady, 71, will leave South Carolina, where she had been vacationing on Kiawah Island with President Joe Biden before testing positive for Covid, to join the president in Delaware on Sunday, her communications

A clear majority of American voters believe that the various investigations into alleged wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump should continue, according to a national NBC News poll conducted after the FBI searched Trump’s Florida home and recovered “Top Secret” documents earlier this month. The poll also shows a dissatisfied public,

A woman who accused Cristiano Ronaldo of rape has appealed against a US judge’s decision to dismiss the civil case. Kathryn Mayorga’s lawyers will go to court in San Francisco this week in a bid to keep her £54million claim alive. The case was thrown out in June by US Judge Jennifer Dorsey, who said that Mayorga’s lawyer had shown ‘bad faith’ and relied on

Pope Francis on Sunday called for an “open and sincere” dialogue to resolve a stand-off between the Church and government in Nicaragua, following the arrest of a bishop who is a leading critic of President Daniel Ortega. Speaking to pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly blessing, Francis made his first comments on the crisis in the Central

Jacqueline Rosario, a school board member in Indian River County in Florida, was recently chatting with a cashier at an ice cream shop when she mentioned she was running for reelection.A staunch supporter of school choice and parental rights, Rosario earned the backing of Gov. Ron DeSantis for her upcoming race in part because she voted

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) slapped the Sam Bankman-Fried-owned cryptocurrency exchange FTX with a cease-and-desist order over “false and misleading statements” that suggest its assets are FDIC-insured. The FDIC doesn’t cover stocks or crypto and only safeguards funds in insured bank accounts. In a letter to the

The web browser used within the TikTok app can track every keystroke made by its users, according to new research that is surfacing as the Chinese-owned video app grapples with U.S. lawmakers’ concerns over its data practices. The research from Felix Krause, a privacy researcher, and former Google engineer, did not show how TikTok used the capability,

Ford Motor Co.is facing a potential $1.7 billion in punitive damages after a Georgia jury reached a verdict Friday in a case involving a 2014 rollover of a Ford F-250 pickup truck that left two people dead. The Gwinnett County jury determined that damages should be imposed on Ford for selling 5.2 million Super Duty trucks with what plaintiffs’ attorneys said

The daughter of Vladimir Putin’s so-called ‘Rasputin’ – one of the architects of the Russian tyrant’s war in Ukraine – has reportedly been ‘blown to pieces in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, in an alleged assassination plot meant for her father.Darya Dugin, a sanctioned Russian nationalist whose father Alexander Dugin, 60, is a notorious fascist

Last weekend, Gary Busey was charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention.On Friday, Busey, 78, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact, and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday. The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster