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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – We are tracking showers coming out of the Gulf of Mexico this morning. Rain chances increase to 40% in the afternoon as the storms move southeast. Showers will taper off quickly around sunset. Drier air arrives Friday and into the weekend. We only have a 20% chance of a quick afternoon […]

MUNICH (AP) — Security at Oktoberfest has been tightened following last month’s deadly knife attack in Solingen, western Germany. Partygoers should expect longer lines at the entrance as metal detectors are being used for the first time in the Bavarian beer festival’s 189-year history. Authorities say there are no specific threats to the world’s largest

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities have arrested a 32-year-old man in February for the deaths of two police officers when a speedboat suspected of belonging to drug traffickers attacked their patrol vessel, Spain’s Guardia Civil said Thursday. The incident took place on feb 9when the Civil Guard vessel was on patrol to identify speedboats spotted

North Korea has successfully tested a new ballistic missile capable of carrying a “super-large conventional warhead,” Pyongyang’s state media reported on Thursday. The state-run KCNA news agency quoted the country’s Missile Administration as saying the test firing, held on Wednesday, went ahead as planned. It added that ruler Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch. “The

An old photo of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn cooking amid the Covid-19 pandemic has surfaced in social media posts. The photo falsely claimed to show the king preparing food for victims of severe flooding caused by Typhoon Yagi in September 2024. In fact, the photo was released by the royal office in June 2021 and

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Relentless violence has devastated Sudan and the rest of the world. large-scale fighting has escalated in and around the only capital in Sudan’s western Darfur region not held by paramilitary forces, the United Nations a senior humanitarian official said on Wednesday. Acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya told the UN Security Council

CHICAGO — A federal jury has ordered the Chicago Board of Education to pay $750,000 to the family of a child who was abused at a Chicago public school in late 2018. The lawsuit was filed by Asia Gaines, the mother of “JC,” who was a student at George W. Tilton Elementary School in West

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) after blame the rebel group for an attack in which two soldiers were killed and more than twenty wounded. “Today, the dialogue process is suspended,” the government’s peace delegation said in a statement. “Its viability has been seriously damaged

Brazil is on fire. From the Amazon rainforest to the wetlands of the Pantanal, flames have destroyed millions of hectares of forest and farmland in recent weeks. Nearly two-thirds of Latin America’s largest country is under smoke. Although the fires are the result of extreme drought, which the government says is “proof of the seriousness

Extreme drought is affecting large parts of South America and has drastically reduced the water level of the Amazon River, on the border between Colombia, Peru and Brazil, limiting food supplies and endangering the health of the inhabitants. “The Amazon is drying up,” the mayor of the Colombian border town of Leticia, which lies on