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President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.6 trillion spending plan that pushes this year's deficit to levels not seen seen World War II. Longer term, though, the budget seeks to cut the deficit back to size by 2013. The budget can also be seen as a blueprint for the president's ambitious policy goals.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall near Keaton Beach, Fla., on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Georgia and South Carolina could see heavy wind and flooding

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline got an extraordinary boost in the debt ceiling deal. Court challenges have stalled the controversial natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia to North Carolina.

Peru's per capita COVID-19 death rate is higher than any nation's except for tiny San Marino. The government's awareness campaign slogan is "COVID does not kill by itself. Let's not be accomplices."

Florida-based Equal Ground leaders discussed federal funding for HBCU’s, broadband internet access and impact of 'unsafe' state laws on millions of Black residents with senior White House officials.

85% of Americans say it's a "bad time" to buy a house. So who's still buying in the current market? An annual survey from the National Association of Realtors offers some insight.

Reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, who covered Bulger for years for The Boston Globe, have a book out about the career criminal. Bulger was wanted for 19 murders when he was captured by the FBI in 2011. Jury selection for his trial begins June 6.

Ousted RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is becoming a paid NBC contributor and starting to take a stand against former President Donald Trump.

A California judge found that attorney John Eastman committed "exceptionally serious ethical violations" in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and recommended disbarment.

Sheryl Crow announced her final album in 2019. She has since reconsidered her position. Her 2024 album is called Evolution.

Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in the U.S. territory without power as it threatened to become a major storm en route to Bermuda.

Tim Walz is the main event, but former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also speaking in Chicago on Wednesday.

About 30 years have passed since Loran was found guilty of both first-degree murder and sexual battery.

Gov. DeSantis issued a state of emergency for 41 counties, including several in the Tampa Bay area, ahead of what could become a major hurricane.

The former governor of New Jersey — and onetime Trump ally — announced the end of his campaign Wednesday, just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.

It’s hard to overstate the effect Negro League baseball had on South Florida and America. The makers of the new WLRN-TV documentary Never Drop the Ball tell us how the league and its players changed the sport, and the country, forever.

About half those injured in the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting were children. With such incidents continuing to happen, some parents now think twice about bringing kids to big, crowded events.

Hundreds of years after George Washington first began draining the now-112,000-acre Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, biologists are working to restore it to a more natural environment.

A Florida official told WLRN scholarships for the descendants of victims of the racist attacks on Rosewood and Ocoee will continue. That's even as state schools are banned from using public funds on programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

The legendary coach of Alabama's Crimson Tide shocked the sports world when he announced his retirement. Saban won seven national championships — more than any other major college football coach.

Legal teams from South Africa, the plaintiff, and Israel, the defendant, presented their arguments in two days of hearings before the International Court of Justice.

Maurice Sendak's previously unpublished Ten Little Rabbits was released this week. On a visit to the late writer's home, we learned he whistled while he worked. (Story aired on ATC on 2/6/24.)

Israelis go to the polls this Tuesday, April 9. A win by Netanyahu could make him the country's longest-serving prime minister — and take Israel further to the right.

The Boeing Starliner launch was halted with just minutes to spare. The mission to the International Space Station was to carry two NASA astronauts. Starliner has already faced years of delays.