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Multiple people wounded in shooting near Florida restaurant

Police say multiple people have been wounded in a shooting between two groups of people outside a restaurant in south Florida

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2023

‘I want to bring him home’: Families of Cuban migrants await them at Border Patrol station

MIAMI — Yarileisy Sierra was waiting for her younger brother to arrive with hundreds of other Cuban migrants Thursday evening at the Border Patrol Station in Dania Beach.

Miami Herald · Jan 6, 2023

Editorial: What’s behind the growing Cuban migrant exodus?

More than 500 Cubans arrived in South Florida during the holiday weekend in makeshift, largely motorless boats. Most drifted up in the Florida Keys and at Dry Tortugas National Park, some 70 miles from Key West.

Miami Herald · Jan 5, 2023

Ex-rebel leader known as ‘the torturer’ is arrested in Haitian president’s assassination, sources say

A former rebel known as “the torturer,” who has a history of armed insurgency against Haitian leaders, has been arrested in the slaying of President Jovenel Moïse, multiple informed sources told the Miami Herald.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 21, 2022

Ex-Congressman David Rivera says charges of being a Venezuelan agent ‘totally false’

MIAMI — David Rivera may no longer be an elected politician, but he sounded like one when he emerged Tuesday from his first federal court appearance in Miami on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent for the Venezuelan government.

Miami Herald · Dec 21, 2022

House of Representatives passes bill to allow Puerto Rico to decide its political future

The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday afternoon that would allow residents of Puerto Rico to choose from three status options in a binding special election and end its 70-year-old current territorial status.

Miami Herald · Dec 15, 2022

US is considering program that would limit entry for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering whether to limit the number of Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who can claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border while opening other avenues for immigration, but have yet to make any final decisions, several sources told McClatchy and the Miami Herald.

Miami Herald · Dec 14, 2022

A python is stalking your South Florida neighborhood? So, what do you do now?

A massive snake — believed to be a Burmese python — was spotted slithering through Doral last week.

Miami Herald · Dec 14, 2022

Fox News regular arrested for kidnapping

Investigators say Cathy Areu stole more than $224,000 from her elderly mother and opened credit cards in her name

Salon · Dec 10, 2022

Michelle Kaufman: Famed coach Nick Bollettieri left lasting imprint on tennis and all youth sports

MIAMI — The headline on a Miami Herald article from Aug. 7, 1983, read: “Courting Fame: Nick Bollettieri Says His Grueling Tennis School Is the Wave of the Future for All Sports. He May be Right. But is it Right for the Kids?”

Miami Herald · Dec 8, 2022