MIAMI — The Florida Keys has its first confirmed case of monkeypox, state Health Department officials said Wednesday. Alison Kerr, spokeswoman with the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, said “transmission is primarily” happening with “men …
Editorial: Parkland father rudely interrupts President Biden. Was he wrong?
Four years after his son Joaquin was shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Manuel Oliver’s pain is still raw. Right or wrong, he took his personal fight to the White House lawn on Monday. On national television, Oli…
25 migrants from Cuba come ashore on Key Biscayne, US Border Patrol says
MIAMI — Twenty-five migrants from Cuba came ashore on Key Biscayne early Tuesday, U.S. Border Patrol said. TV news showed a group of people sitting on the ground near the Crandon Park Marina. Miami-Dade police, Key Biscayne police and U.S. Border Patro…
Florida second-deadliest state for pedestrians, study finds. Rising toll ‘an epidemic’
MIAMI — If you need or want to go somewhere on foot in South Florida, watch your step. Walking could be hazardous to your health. Miami-Dade and Broward counties are amongthe most dangerous places to be a pedestrian in the United States, and Florida is…
‘Luck and God’: How Haitians survive gang violence, kidnappings in their nation’s capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — This teeming Caribbean capital, with its hair-raising traffic, army of sidewalk vendors and once vibrant nightlife, is now a metropolis that lives only by daylight. People leave home only after sunrise and hurry back before sund…
Monkeypox is on the rise. Here’s what to know about its symptoms, signs and testing
In the past two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded two individual cases of monkeypox and one outbreak among dozens of people across six states who became ill after having contact with pet prairie dogs. The two individu…
4 border agents face discipline over ‘dangerous’ horseback behavior in Del Rio, Texas
Investigators found “no evidence” that Border Patrol agents on horseback used their reins to strike or whip Haitian migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas last September, according to an internal review at U.S. Customs and Border Protection …
The Week Ahead: Trying to see through the fog
Visibility is one of those jargony words reserved for pilots, meteorologists, and business leaders. And there has been very little visibility for business. High gas prices, a tight job market, Russia’s war in Ukraine, rising interest rates, an upcoming…
4 border agents face discipline over ‘dangerous’ horseback behavior in Del Rio, Texas
Border patrol agents on horseback who corralled Haitian migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, in September, “acted inappropriately during the incident” and endangered migrants with unsafe maneuvers, according to an internal review…
They lack guns, bullets and body armor. How are Haiti’s cops confronting gangs?
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. Armed with rifles…