Americans who hold the musket-rights granting Second Amendment near and dear to their hearts — and love high-velocity rifles more than our children — should be watching the Parkland shooter’s sentencing trial. You, too, Marco Rubio. After all, of Flori…
Surfside land sale now official. What’s next for the oceanfront property where 98 died?
MIAMI — When a 12-story Surfside condominium tower tumbled down last year — killing 98 people in a calamity that made headlines worldwide — South Florida developers kept their distance, choosing not to make an offer for the tragically stained oceanfron…
Rubio urges FBI to investigate Cuba’s ties to US-based anti-embargo group Bridges of Love
MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the FBI to open an “immediate” investigation into a U.S. anti-embargo group whose members recently met Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, claiming that they are acting as unregistered foreign agents of the Cuban gov…
Greg Cote: 11 NBA championships are not where Bill Russell’s legacy starts. A tribute to an epic life.
William Felton Russell made his living in a profession that judges success by an unequivocal bottom line: Winning. How much of that did you do? Bill Russell by that measure was simply the greatest, most accomplished professional athlete in the history …
Records tied to $600,000 money transfer subpoenaed in Miami ‘ghost’ candidate case
MIAMI — Prosecutors have subpoenaed records related to a $600,000 money transfer between dark money organizations tied to an ongoing Miami-Dade criminal case surrounding “ghost candidates” in the 2020 election, according to court records unveiled Frida…
As Bahamas charges 4 men in Haitian migrant boat tragedy, family of 1-year-old mourns
The first time her phone rang, Lenise Georges didn’t believe the news. Her sister and 1-year-old niece were dead, the caller, another niece, said, explaining that their boat had capsized off the coast of Nassau, Bahamas, and that everyone onboard had d…
The Week Ahead: Listening for what people, not companies, say about jobs
Would you believe the U.S. economy lost 315,000 jobs in June? And that it gained 372,000 jobs the same month? It did. So how is that possible? It’s possible because of how the Department of Labor collects data that informs its monthly employment situat…
‘Painful’ division of $1 billion Surfside settlement starts; some to get more than others
MIAMI — With the milestone of a $1 billion settlement behind them, relatives of the 98 people who died in the Surfside condominium building collapse have begun private hearings this week with a Miami-Dade judge who will calculate each victim’s monetary…
5 people are dead in another migrant boat incident, this one near Puerto Rico
MIAMI — An incident involving a suspected migrant smuggling vessel left at least five people dead near an uninhabited island in Puerto Rico on Thursday, according to U.S. authorities. “Our priority is to look for and rescue any possible survivor,” said…
Another change that must happen with UM football. And why it’s likely with Cristobal.
So much has changed with this UM football program – the quality of the coaching staff, the degree of discipline, the way tackling is taught, the pain-staking attention paid to correcting every single mistake on the practice field. Recruiting, in recent…