Several press conferences were held on Thursday across South Florida centering on the current situation in Venezuela following the country's presidential election.

Calls are intensifying in Washington D.C. for an assessment of damage to national security in the wake of the redacted search warrant affidavit of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a half-century. The decision by the court’s conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

Hours before Joe Biden was set to travel to Pittsburgh to tout his bipartisan infrastructure law that will fund the improvement of bridges and roadways across the country, a bridge collapsed.

From left, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, Burn, registered nurse Elizabeth Galloway, and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci. On Thursday, Biden marked the administration of the 50 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine since his swearing-in. “We’re halfway there: 50 million shots in 37 days," Biden said. “We’ll have the vaccine waiting,” Biden said, predicting that point could come within 60 to 90 days. Ad“We have a plan to roll it out as quickly as Johnson & Johnson can make it," Biden said.

Two Florida GOP senators voted to acquit Donald Trump and gave their reasons why. PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Florida’s two senators voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on Saturday. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) stood alongside 41 of their Senate GOP colleagues, voting along party lines. pic.twitter.com/z5y6dkjml5 — Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) February 13, 2021The Associated Press reported that the outcome of Saturday’s vote and how GOP senators voted proves that the Republican party still belongs to Donald Trump. AdGallup reported last month that Trump’s approval among self-described Republicans stood at 82%.

Just days before the inauguration and more than a week after the chaos at the U.S. Capitol — all is quiet as President Donald Trump and the White House staff prepare to leave, but just outside the gate it is complete chaos. Preparations are being readied for battle with more razor wire, more fences, more barricades and more troops as the nation’s capital gets ready for any contingency. Matt Miller is the special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office for the Secret Service. The president’s final departure from the White House will be on the morning of Jan. 20. He is expected to leave at 8 a.m. Also, Trump will break another presidential tradition – he will not be greeting Joe Biden as the new president, leaving even before Biden’s inauguration.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A campaign video for former Vice President Joe Biden has gone viral that features the son of one of the victims of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. I’ll never forget the comfort that @JoeBiden brought Corey after he lost his dad in the Parkland shooting. pic.twitter.com/40Uy6mXyDd — Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) September 16, 2020The video, which features Biden comforting Corey Hixon, is now part of a campaign ad. After the Parkland tragedy, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump also comforted families. They visited surviving Parkland victims, who were in the hospital a few days after the massacre.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Safe Cities Index (SCI) has ranked 60 destinations across the world in terms of their digital security, health security, infrastructure and personal safety. No big shocks there, these cities also made up the top three in the two previous SCI rankings, conducted in 2015 and 2017. While analyzing a city's resilience, the Safe Cities Index looked at the emergency services available in the city, transport facilities, catastrophe insurance, disaster-risk development and cyber-security preparedness. Cities don't have to be rich to be safe, the report says, although it acknowledges that cities in developing countries tend to appear lower down the list. The world's safest cities for 2019, according to SCI:1.

Aguilar, a certified financial planner, says having another child -- as they hope to -- will push their child care costs beyond their monthly house payments. "You add up the costs ... and pretty soon you're paying more toward child care than a mortgage, and that's less than ideal," says Aguilar. The toll of child care costsFor the past year Mariana Gomez paid nearly $5,000 a month in child care expenses for her 4-year-old daughter, Julianna, and her 2-year-old son, Ben, in Washington DC -- way more than her mortgage. Child care is a major budget item, says Ryan Frailich, a certified financial planner in New Orleans and parent of 2-year-old Elijah, whose day care costs $700 a month. More than half of moms scaled back their hours to save on child care costs and a quarter left the workplace completely.