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Service or Support Animals? Training is Key for Helping Disabled Floridians

Pet owners are increasingly signing up to have their animals certified as “comfort” "therapy" or "emotional support" animals. The certification can be…

Norm Ciha says he lost his bedding, clothes and the medicine he'd been prescribed to treat hepatitis C during a sweep of his camp outside an Ikea in Emeryville, Calif., in November 2018.

Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

Cities have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling homeless camps that they say pose a risk to health and safety. But that's meant some displaced people are losing needed medications.

EPA Approves Genetically Modified Mosquito Trial For Florida Keys

A plan to test genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys has received approval from the federal government.

Debby Zutant tends bar at Coconut's on Big Pine Key on weekends.

Florida Keys Cope With Suicide Spike After Hurricane Irma

Monroe County already had one of the highest suicide rates in the state of Florida. Then came Hurricane Irma. And although most of the debris has been...

A number of key leadership roles remain unfilled at the Justice Department, which could undermine the Trump administration's national security and "law and order" priorities.

Key Vacancies At Justice Department 'Not A Recipe For Good Government'

President Trump's Justice Department is operating with key vacancies in some of its most important divisions — from national security to civil rights.

Republicans are trying to lose by less in key blue areas in Wisconsin

A state won by razor thin margins in the last two elections, Republicans are hoping they can "lose by less" in key areas that will help them flip the state back to red.

Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars?

President Trump recently embraced kei cars, tiny vehicles that are popular in Asia but hard to get in the U.S. Kei car enthusiasts are delighted — but doubt whether much will change.

Dr. Kurt Graham, left, director of Independence, Missouri’s, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, leads, left to right, Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of 33rd U.S. President Harry S. Truman; James Earl Carter IV, grandson of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Patricia Taft, great-granddaughter of 27TH U.S. President William H. Taft; Mary Jean Eisenhower, granddaughter of 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower; and Massee McKinley, great-great grandson of 22nd and 24th U.S. President Grover Cleveland, in a Presidents’ Day Weekend forum discussion on the grounds of the Harry S. Truman Little White House in Key West, Fla.

Presidential relatives gather in Key West for Presidents’ Day weekend

A forum featuring descendants of five former United States presidents, including grandsons of Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman, highlighted Presidents Day weekend at the Harry S. Truman Little White House in Key West.James Earl Carter IV, Clifton Truman Daniel and other descendants discussed the influence of the presidency during the forum at the Little White House, now Florida’s only presidential museum. The sprawling residence was Truman’s refuge for 11 working vacations during his 1945-53 administration — and later welcomed Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their family.

This 2011 photo shows the heavy water nuclear facility near Arak. International sanctions relief will be triggered when Iran follows through on commitments to reduce its nuclear program.

Iran Tells Kerry It Is Dismantling, Destroying A Key Nuclear Component

It would be a big step toward reducing Iran's nuclear program and triggering sanctions relief. Relations forged in nuclear talks may have helped get U.S. sailors released after Iran detained them.

Staghorn coral like this will be grown in offshore nurseries then transplanted along the reef tract if Monroe County funds a proposed project with money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Oil Spill Money May Help Grow Corals In The Keys

Almost five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some of the fines collected will go to help the environment in the...

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