By Jacqueline Charles U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met on Tuesday with Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who is on a weeklong visit to the United States seeking to shore up support for the volatile country. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Rubio reaffirmed U.S. support for Haiti’s stability and security and welcomed “progress […]
By Claire Heddles South Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a scheduled Ethics Committee hearing and vote on what sanctions she should face for the more than two dozen counts of misconduct her colleagues charged her with last month. In a public statement, Cherfilus-McCormick called the committee’s two-year long investigation into her a
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By Catherine Odom Homes sales were up across the market in Miami-Dade County, and inventory dropped last month compared to the previous March. Total home sales were up 6.6% year-over-year, according to data from the Miami Association of Realtors. Single-family home sales increased 10.6%, and condo sales 2.9%. This was the seventh consecutive month the association
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By Madeleine Marr Megan Thee Stallion’s 2025 ended on a high note. The rapper born Megan Pete won her defamation trial in a downtown Miami courtroom against blogger Milagro Cooper in November. Recap: Pete had sued the influencer, aka @milagrogramz, the previous year, claiming the Atlanta woman had been harassing her since her ex (incarcerated singer
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Trump’s executive order that would limit eligibility to five years, allow one transfer without penalty for undergraduates, stop pay-for-play schemes and build in protections for women’s and Olympic sports. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes
WLRN Public Media | By Tom Hudson Amazon is closing its Homestead warehouse in July, costing more than 600 jobs. The company filed a notice with the state, noting 616 positions will be affected when the facility closes July 2. An Amazon spokesperson told the South Florida Business Journal more than 300 Homestead workers have accepted transfers to
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WLRN Public Media | By Carlton Gillespie Tuesday’s resignation of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick leaves hundreds of thousands of South Floridians in parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties without a representative in Congress. And the 20th congressional district seat may remain empty for some time — or at least until next year when a new lawmaker
By Natalie La Roche Pietri WLRN Public Media A sea of district employees flooded a Broward County School Board workshop to plead to board members to reconsider 800 job cuts on the line. The board met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the drastic reduction in staff, first proposed last week, as it seeks to deal
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By Chris Perkins | chperkins@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Here’s what Miami Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and coach Jeff Hafley need to acquire in the NFL draft — players with the right attitude, guys who have a winning mindset. Yes, they desperately need talent. But they also need the right type of player. Sullivan and Hafley should be
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WUSF | By Douglas Soule Florida lawmakers are headed back for a special session next week. On the agenda: redistricting, AI regulations and vaccine exemptions. Missing: property tax cuts — something Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers have talked endlessly about. Gov. Ron DeSantis has called a special session for next week, wanting lawmakers to consider redistricting, artificial
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