NEW YORK — A new Justice Department Inspector General report details the failures that occurred beginning one month before Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while in custody of the Bureau of Prisons. The report also makes clear…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said that U.S. Virgin Islands will receive $27,103,240.86 to deploy affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service. Right now, 577 homes and small businesses in…
MIAMI (AP) — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found that…
MIAMI — Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centers for…
Car accidents and crashes are not always fatal, but that doesn’t mean that those involved get to immediately walk away. Getting injured in an accident can lead to weeks, months, or even years of pain.…
FREDERIKSTED — A man wanted on cyber-stalking charges in St. Croix voluntarily surrendered himself to police without incident on Sunday night, authorities said. Raheem Wyre, 30, was arrested at 9:29 p.m. and charged with with harassment by telephone, telegraph…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ condemnation…
JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) — The executive directors of two U.N. agencies warned Tuesday that Haiti’s humanitarian crisis has reached unprecedented levels amid reports of widespread hunger and gang violence. Per capita, the number of Haitians…
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said it is reaffirming its alliance with Russia through a series of agreements considered key for the island nation, including on the supply of oil, the sale of wheat and the…
ST. JOHN’S — Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently became one…