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How much are you paying for gas in South Florida? Check prices in your area

By Miami Herald Staff Report Gas prices eased a bit over the weekend across South Florida, but are still higher on Monday, May 11, than one week ago. “The fuel market remains headline-driven and extremely volatile, making it difficult to predict what drivers will pay at the pump this summer,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA […]

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The end of Alligator Alcatraz? DeSantis says it ‘would be great’ to shut it down

By Claire Heddles and Churchill Ndonwie Gov. Ron DeSantis is now backing plans to shutter Florida’s state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades, 10 months after the state opened it and after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its construction and operation. He told reporters in Lakeland Thursday that “it would be great for us to break

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Man pleads guilty to assaulting US lawmaker Ilhan Omar in January town hall

By Kanishka Singh Reuters WASHINGTON – A man pleaded guilty on Thursday to assaulting U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar during a January town hall in which the Democratic lawmaker condemned Republican President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the U.S. Justice Department said. “Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, pleaded guilty today to one count of Assaulting a United States Officer in

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Haitian prime minister visits Miami on way to Vatican to meet the pope

By Jacqueline Charles Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé is headed to Vatican City for an audience with the pope. The head of Haiti’s transitional government is scheduled to meet the pontiff on Saturday. He plans to thank him for his support of the country and appeal for an international peace conference on Haiti, Fils-Aimé told

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Rubio arrives to meet Pope Leo as Trump keeps up attacks on pontiff

By Joshua McElwee Reuters VATICAN CITY – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio came to the Vatican on Thursday for a potentially fraught encounter with Pope Leo as President Donald Trump has continued a series of disparaging attacks on the Catholic leader over the Iran war. Rubio’s convoy drove through the central Roman boulevard leading to the

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Your entire house can be stolen and sold. What to know about deed theft

By Lew Sichelman Andrews McMeel Syndication Deed theft has become a big business for crooks: They slap their names on unsuspecting homeowners’ titles, then proceed to milk the properties dry. Sometimes they sell the property outright to another unwary party. Other times, they take out a mortgage and sneak away with the proceeds of that loan. From

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Families ripped apart. Children traumatized. Under Trump, we chose this | Opinion

By Leonard Pitts Jr. Special to the Miami Herald This is what we wanted. This is what we chose. It’s the bitter truth that haunts your heart as you watch ICE Cold, a short film by four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Carol Guzy. In six minutes of still images and somber music, you bear witness as migrants

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