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NEW YORK — With the Miami Marlins reaching the midway point of their 2022 season Thursday, there was one overarching theme manager Don Mattingly knew his team would need to remedy if they wanted to stay in the thick of the playoff race.

TABARRE, Haiti — When a bloody gang war erupted in a busy business district east of Haiti’s capital not far from the U.S. Embassy, Haitian police officers were forced to mount a military-style assault just to reclaim one intersection.

Ned Murray is concerned about Miami’s housing affordability crisis, what he called “an extremely dire situation.” As one of the leading South Florida experts on the topic, Murray has been warning about this monumental threat for years. City and county elected leaders know well his economic development and housing market…

(Warning: The author of this column is 57 years old and truly believes just about everything was better in “the old days,” including sports. For those young whippersnappers who disagree, beware of your eyes rolling too far back in your heads while reading this column, as they could get stuck…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Five days after returning to Haiti from South Florida, where he had delivered a letter signed by a Haiti Supreme Court justice seeking help to overthrow Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, James Solages was at the airport in Port-au-Prince headed back to the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Retired Sgt. Edwin Blanquicet Rodríguez had spent 20 years in the Colombian military when he received an offer: Travel to Haiti as part of a security team to protect a politician and guard electrical infrastructure projects.

MIAMI — The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing abortion rights is likely to energize efforts to curtail or ban the procedures throughout Latin America, where countries have been slowly moving toward allowing women greater reproductive rights, experts say.

In an uncomfortably combustible combination, it is the team and it is the timing driving this latest controversy in sports.

MIAMI — Roaring down South Beach in a souped-up sports car or blaring music? That’s what Commissioner Steven Meiner hopes to stop with a proposal to install noise-detecting cameras to crack down on loud cars in the city.

The recent killing of a Black teenager by the police in Cuba, and the disturbing details caught on video, have drawn rare attention to police brutality and racial discrimination on the island.

A Republican running for reelection to Congress in Colorado recently told a Christian congregation: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.”