Politics

By Gray Rohrer News Service of Florida Rep. Angie Nixon was reprimanded by the House Rules and Ethics Committee on Thursday for her loud protest on the House floor last month that disrupted a vote on new congressional district maps. Nixon, a Jacksonville Democrat, was not given an opportunity to speak before the panel before it approved […]

By Abigail Hasebroock | ahasebroock@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Marly Metayer, the mother of the late Coral Springs vice mayor, is seeking to fill her daughter’s seat on the City Commission, records show. There was an outpouring of community support for Marly Metayer and her family after the death of her daughter, Nancy, who was first elected as a commissioner

Greg Rosalsky Shortly after Inauguration Day in 2025, Planet Money visited Little Village, a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago. It felt oddly quiet for what was usually a bustling part of the city, almost like a ghost town. The Trump administration had signaled it was about to do big ICE raids there (and eventually did). Many in the community

WLRN Public Media | By Samantha Putterman | PolitiFact   The 1965 Voting Rights Act has long been considered a landmark Civil Rights era achievement that aimed to end discriminatory practices against Black Americans who tried to vote. But a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling largely gutted the law, and many Republicans — including U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the GOP frontrunner

By Raisa Habersham For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote. Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to register Black voters, while Miami activists such as Charles Hadley led door-to-door campaigns that transformed political participation in South

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

By Susannah Bryan | sbryan@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel City managers come and go, but those who keep their bosses happy stay awhile. And Tuesday night, it was clear that Rickelle Williams has not done that in her first year as the top boss at Fort Lauderdale City Hall. Williams, 40, started off by proudly touting her accomplishments