As the back-to-school season approaches, teachers, parents and students across South Florida are preparing for the year ahead. Several community events are underway to help families get the supplies they need before classes begin.
Month: August 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” while also continuing to defend it, further complicating his administration’s negotiations with two Republican senators who are blocking his attorney general nominee in protest.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying evidence prosecutors had recently received refuted the idea that vandals were to blame.
Hamas said Friday that it reached an agreement to disarm, a significant move that could help end the war in Gaza — but one that will face many hurdles and could take a long time to achieve, if at all. Israel has not commented on the deal, which President Donald Trump announced hours earlier. It comes nine months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to end the fighting between Israel and the group was signed.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is headed to trial over its response to the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pitched President Donald Trump and other American officials on helping Ukraine win permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia.
The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County on Friday notified residents and visitors of a recently confirmed locally acquired case of dengue.
A heat advisory is in effect on Saturday for Miami-Dade and Broward counties as dangerous heat and humidity return to South Florida to start August.
PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in hopes that someone will recognize the writing style. A second note, also released Friday, said Guthrie died shortly after she was kidnapped and “is buried in nature now.”
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate announced Friday that he would give up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump on his congressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries.