For the second fundraising period in a row, Republican U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has failed to post the largest fundraising total in the race for Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Luna took in about $169,000 in contributions from individuals across three committees in the first quarter of 2024. That’s shy of the nearly $200,000 total in such…

Bob Graham, the former Florida governor and U.S. senator who ushered in the state’s era of school-competency testing, crafted the foundation for its modern environmental policies and grappled with the mass influx of Cubans fleeing across the straits of Florida in the early 1980s, died Tuesday night, according to his family. He was 87. Graham…

Anti-aircraft rounds, grenade launchers and automatic rifles: these are some of the weapons of war Department of Justice officials say a pair of foreign businessmen conspired to purchase and send to Iraq and Sudan through a Florida-based company, according to a recently unsealed indictment. Mohamad Majd Deiry, a Syrian national, and Samer Rayya, a Lebanese national,…

  While some said jury selection could take weeks, 7 jurors were seated Tuesday, meaning opening arguments in the hush money case could start in days. The first-ever criminal prosecution of an ex-president picked up speed Tuesday, with seven jurors seated in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial. Opening arguments could begin within days. Tuesday’s proceedings saw the…

The NYPD on Tuesday clashed with migrant vendors and confiscated their apparently stolen merchandise on a troubled Jackson Heights block known for its illicit open-air market and hookers on the prowl. Police raided the spot for the second day in a row after many of the illegal vendors fled when designated spotters apparently tipped them off that cops were…

NHLI via Getty Images Gerard Gallant was gone within two seasons of winning the award in Vegas and was then gone again a year after being nominated for the trophy in New York. That, of course, is hardly unique to the coach who guided the Rangers to 110-point and 107-point seasons in a tenure that ended…

The winning numbers for Tuesday’s Mega Millions were posted more than an hour late following a delay caused by “technical difficulties.” Instead of the live drawing, viewers were told the drawing was being delayed and Mega Millions posted the following: “Due to technical difficulties, tonight’s drawing has been temporary halted. Once the malfunction is corrected, the drawing…

Truong My Lan received the death penalty as Vietnam’s Communist Party cracks down on corruption in the fast-growing Southeast Asian economic hub. Truong My Lan during her trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Thursday.Credit…EPA, via Shutterstock Truong My Lan, a Vietnamese real estate tycoon, was sentenced to death on Thursday for her role…

Clerics in Indonesia are issuing fatwas, retrofitting mosques and imploring congregants to help turn the tide against climate change. The faithful gathered in an imposing modernist building, thousands of men in skullcaps and women in veils sitting shoulder to shoulder. Their leader took to his perch and delivered a stark warning. “Our fatal shortcomings as…