Immigration By Jay Weaver Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was known as a formidable debater at Miami Palmetto Senior High School in the 1980s, joined the U.S. Supreme Court as its first Black female justice three ago ago. On Monday, Jackson was the only justice whose name appeared on the Supreme Court’s momentous decision that allows the […]
Haiti By Jacqueline Charles and Sonia Osorio A U.S. Supreme Court order on Monday allowing the Trump administration to terminate immigration protections and work permits for as many as 350,000 Venezuelans has lawyers and advocates worried about the decision’s potential effect for Haitians, Nicaraguans and others in the United States who have Temporary Protected Status. “It is very
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Entertainment By George Varga, The San Diego Union-Tribune The Tribune Content Agency SAN DIEGO – In a career that stretched across seven decades, Grammy Award-winning music legend James Moody performed for two presidents at the White House and twice for the king of Thailand in Bangkok, received a Kennedy Center Living Jazz Legend Award and an NEA
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Business By Tony Owusu TheStreet Thanks to the work of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, and others in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Silicon Valley became the engine of industrial growth for the U.S. Besides all of the useful technology that came out of that era, one of the things some of the companies also mastered
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By Miami Herald Archives The gas yo-yo is back. After plunging by double digits last week, prices in South Florida are up by double digits this week, leading up to Memorial Day weekend. In the Miami area, the average gas price has increase more than 13 cents a gallon from a week ago. South Florida prices
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Haiti By Jacqueline Charles “Do you drink rum? Do you have a moment?” Melky Jean, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and younger sister of multi-talented hip-hop icon Wyclef Jean, steps up to her in-home bar, pulls some of the most popular Caribbean and Latin American rum brands from the shelf, displays them on the counter and begins pouring.
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Business By Tim Balk NYT News Service/Syndicate Stories President Donald Trump scolded Walmart on Saturday after the retail giant warned that his tariffs would force it to raise prices, writing on social media that the discount chain could afford to absorb the costs of the new import taxes without passing them on to customers. “Walmart should STOP
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Education By Garrett Shanley Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees on Friday selected telecom executive Marva Johnson as the school’s next president, backing a candidate with ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis despite weeks of fierce community opposition and deepening fears of political interference at the state’s only public historically Black university. Johnson, a vice president at
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Haiti By Jacqueline Charles and Raisa Habersham Two days before one of Haiti’s biggest national holidays, the streets in the heart of Miami’s Haitian community are unusually quiet. Few cars move up and down Northeast Second Avenue flying giant-size blue and red flags as has been customary and few patronize the sidewalk vendors selling Flag Day T-shirts, caps
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National By Sara Vallone Mod Moms Club Chrissy Teigen is getting honest about her struggle with sobriety. In a May 15 Instagram post, Teigen said she had been “dreading” the release of the latest episode of her podcast “Self-Conscious.” The episode featured author Holly Whitaker, who wrote “Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink
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