The Latest Breaking News from Florida

CHICAGO — Chicago is the deadliest city in the U.S. for birds journeying each spring and autumn between northern locales and Florida, Mexico and Central America.

A federal judge ordered four Florida-based cruise lines that sailed to Cuba to pay more than $400 million in damages to the American company that had the concession to some of the port piers in Havana that had been unlawfully expropriated by Fidel Castro in 1960, the first of its…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An upheaval affecting the intersecting worlds of Florida government, politics and lobbying is forcing officials to choose: They could hold onto their positions in elected or appointed offices. Or they can keep their careers, or future career plans — as paid lobbyists.

Federal prosecutors in Miami, Florida have secured an indictment against six people, including two Bay Area residents, on charges of kidnapping two children and two adults and attempting to collect $100,000 ransom for them, court records show.

LGBTQ groups say transgender people face growing threats of violence and discrimination in the US.

A legal challenge could complicate the future of Florida’s voter-approved, six-year lobbying ban, a long planned change that has likely been responsible for an exodus of high-profile public officials ahead of its taking effect on New Year’s Eve.

The office of Brazil’s vice president says he’s become acting president, an indication that President Jair Bolsonaro has left the country

Blaine Gabbert was out on water when helicopter went down in Tampa’s Hillsborough Bay

Linda Fruits, 33, from Sunrise, Florida, US, was scrolling TikTok when she realised she was attracted to a woman and had a “sexual awakening”, realising she was a lesbian