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CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela (AP) — Rescuers pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement early Thursday, ending a grueling dayslong operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days earlier.

NEW YORK (AP) — For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn’t sign the Declaration of Independence — the lawyer and statesman John Dickinson.

Thousands of fans packed Bayfront Park on Wednesday night, turning downtown Miami into a sea of red, white and blue as the U.S. men’s national team defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to the World Cup round of 16.

Social media fitness influencer Wes Watson pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated battery in connection with a violent confrontation at a Miami-Dade County gym last December.

Miami-Dade Animal Services is featuring Tina, a young mixed-breed dog, as she waits for adoption while also reminding pet owners to take precautions ahead of the July 4 holiday and fireworks.

ROME (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X had formally broken with the Catholic Church. It also excommunicated its bishops and priests, and warned its faithful that they too face the harshest sanctions in the church.

A Cutler Bay man and woman were arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting outside of an IHOP that deputies say left two men wounded more than two months ago.

The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as nothing more than extortion attempts, but the agency said Wednesday it’s still evaluating others that might be legitimate.