Florida is scheduled on Dec.13, to execute a man who was convicted of beating and stabbing a 63-year-old North Miami woman to death during a burglary more than two decades ago. Jose Jimenez, 55, is set to die by lethal injection at Florida’s execution chamber in Raiford at 6 p.m. EST, the state’s department of […]

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA—CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics, and data-enabled solutions provider, announced updated residential and commercial flood and wind loss estimates for Hurricane Florence. According to this new data analysis, flood loss for residential and commercial properties in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia is estimated to be between $19 billion and $28.5 billion, which […]

RIO DE JANEIRO—Firefighters combing through the charred remains of Brazil’s National Museum have found a skull that may belong to its star exhibit, an 11,500-year-old woman named Luzia, local TV reported on Sept. 4. A fire broke out in the 200-year-old museum on Sept. 2 evening, destroying the vast majority of its massive collection and […]

WASHINGTON— U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Sept. 4, called on Myanmar’s government to reverse a court ruling that imprisoned two Reuters journalists for seven years and to release them immediately. The journalists were found guilty on Sept. 3, on official secrets charges in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy […]