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Myers, FL http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1321193.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317147.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317147.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A fake Twitter account aimed at discrediting a prominent critic of state GOP leaders has been linked back to a senior official at the Republican Party of Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317142.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317142.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber, a candidate for Florida attorney general, called on Florida's elected state attorneys Wednesday to help him pass anti-corruption measures in the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314878.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Responding to criticism over inactivity on 4,400 state complaints against debt collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed separate measures Tuesday to reign in abusive tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314881.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's restrictions on where sex offenders can live might be both ineffective and endangering the public, a legislative analyst said Tuesday.<p/> Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee that studies from Florida, Minnesota and Colorado showed almost no link between a sex offender's residency and the crime he committed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1314886.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Casting herself as a ``fresh face'' not connected to what she calls a troubled Republican establishment, state Sen. Paula Dockery of Lakeland jumped into the race for governor Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1311580.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1311580.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is an unlikely contender in northwest Florida, a strip of the Bible Belt closer to Alabama than his hometown of Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1310366.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1310366.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The bottom is falling out from under Florida's once hugely popular governor. <p/> A new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll finds only 42 percent of likely Florida voters think Charlie Crist is doing a good or excellent job as governor, by far the worst approval rating of Crist's 34 months in office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1309207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1309207.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Hoping to close a loophole that has helped make South Florida the hub of black-market prescription painkillers, two Democratic state lawmakers are proposing legislation to ban convicted felons from holding an ownership stake in pain clinics distributing narcotics. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1306722.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1306722.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:06 EDT President Barack Obama says his middle-of-the-night visit to greet the remains of fallen U.S. soldiers is "a sobering reminder" of the sacrifices of war. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1306916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1306916.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:05 EDT Cupboards at a soup kitchen near the White House will be spilling over for several days after a donation of fresh produce harvested Thursday from first lady Michelle Obama's vegetable garden. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1305285.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1305285.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:06 EDT President Barack Obama says only once since Jan. 20 has White House life annoyed him. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1301989.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1301989.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:48 EDT President Barack Obama dashed from a Navy hangar in Jacksonville to a swanky Miami Beach hotel Monday to buff his image in a recession-weary state and bag $1.5 million to defend the Democratic majority in Congress. The ground Obama plans to cover on his two-day stint in Florida reflects the changing landscape since the freshly inaugurated president came to Fort Myers in February to pitch his economic stimulus plan. His poll numbers are down, unemployment is up and health care reform hangs in the balance. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1164553.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1164553.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50 EDT Congressional negotiators are divided over how to raise taxes to pay for overhauling the nation's health care system, as key players disagree over whether to increase income taxes on wealthy people or find alternatives such as taxing insurers that sell high-end policies. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1094378.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1094378.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:02 EDT Congressional negotiators have agreed to drop an amendment to a defense approrpiations bill that would have prevented the Obama administration from releasing any freed Guantánamo detainees into the United States or transferring them to U.S. prisons for trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1088111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1088111.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:54 EDT Lebanon's pro-Western political parties turned their focus Monday toward crafting a stable coalition government hours after voters soundly rebuffed efforts by Iran-backed Hezbollah politicians to secure more political power in Beirut. Analysts said Obama's call last week in Cairo for a "new beginning" for U.S.-Middle East relations helped tilt the balance toward America's allies. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1088112.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1088112.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:52 EDT Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has given the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct another review of the American strategy there, the fifth since President Barack Obama took office less than five months ago. The review comes even as the Pentagon said benchmarks promised on March 27 still are being drafted. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1081476.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/1081476.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:14 EDT One of the Cairo cafe questions debated in the days leading up to the speech was: Would Obama say "salaam" to the Arabic-speaking world? The answer: Yes, sometimes mistakenly. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/999823.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/999823.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:55 EDT President Barack Obama told Americans Tuesday to brace for "more job loss, more foreclosures, and more pain" in 2009, saying the recession isn't over yet despite some early promise from the government's massive spending on bailouts and economic stimulus. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/968522.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/968522.html Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:08 EDT With both of Texas' U.S. Senate seats held by Republicans, the White House on Wednesday said it has asked the 12 Democratic members of the Texas delegation in the House of Representatives to interview potential nominees to Justice Department and judicial branch appointments. http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/956771.html http://www.miamiherald.com/obama/story/956771.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:06 EDT The Senate on Wednesday easily confirmed former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as the U.S. trade representative, making him the ambassador for a new, more limited Obama administration approach to free trade. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322574.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook?<p/> Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when, instead of buying a $1,000 candle, Rothstein bought an entire chocolate cake covered with 52 candles. His donation: $52,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322675.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Florida House committee investigating state Rep. Ray Sansom's conduct voted Thursday to move forward, dismissing requests by Sansom's lawyers for a delay until after his criminal trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Consensus is building in the Florida Legislature to make the Public Service Commission operate more like judges by banning commissioners and their staff from communicating directly with the utilities they regulate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Responding to criticism over inactivity on 4,400 state complaints against debt collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed separate measures Tuesday to reign in abusive tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Bill McCollum filed suit Tuesday against two leading Internet travel firms, accusing Expedia and Orbitz of cheating the state and local governments out of millions of dollars in sales tax revenues from online hotel bookings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1323698.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1323698.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Death is different.<p/> With those words, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 declared that the execution of adolescents was cruel and unusual punishment, and, hence, a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling halted capital punishment for juveniles in 25 states. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1323766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1323766.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, who returned from a trip to Morocco last week to face a federal fraud investigation, said he was in good spirits Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1322675.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1322574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1322574.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook?<p/> Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when, instead of buying a $1,000 candle, Rothstein bought an entire chocolate cake covered with 52 candles. His donation: $52,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321201.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1321193.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1319274.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1319274.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein's office was a secured inner sanctum, complete with video cameras, second entrance and hidden private elevator. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317147.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317147.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A fake Twitter account aimed at discrediting a prominent critic of state GOP leaders has been linked back to a senior official at the Republican Party of Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1317135.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323956.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:32 EST President Barack Obama plans to make the federal government the model employer of America's veterans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323936.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323936.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:02 EST The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323885.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:37 EST Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323631.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323631.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:47 EST Don't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323369.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:55 EST The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama would be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister's trip to Washington to address Jewish groups, ending days of uncertainty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323289.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50 EST Any momentum from Saturday's historic House approval of a sweeping health care overhaul is likely to be short-lived as the focus moves to the Senate, where progress has been stalled for weeks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323251.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323251.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:30 EST Democratic leaders were all smiles as they celebrated the passage of a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system Saturday. But any momentum from Saturday's historic vote is likely to be short-lived as the focus moves to the Senate, where progress has been stalled for weeks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323177.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323177.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:35 EST President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliament's passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323066.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:50 EST Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323018.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:25 EST The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323008.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1323008.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00 EST The Army's chief of staff says he believes more troops are needed in Afghanistan. But Gen. George Casey isn't saying exactly how many more should be sent into the war. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1322989.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1322989.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:40 EST The Army's chief of staff says the Army is taking a hard look at itself to make certain that something like the Fort Hood rampage doesn't happen again. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301827.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301827.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20 EDT A nation built atop a sea of energy is struggling to keep the lights on. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1302793.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1302793.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20 EDT President Hugo Chavez's popularity has slipped and a majority of Venezuelans view the situation in their country negatively, according to a poll published Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301613.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301613.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:24 EDT With Haiti poised to enjoy the economic benefits of long-elusive stability, foreign diplomats are scrambling behind the scenes to keep it all from unraveling as several lawmakers demand the ouster of the country's prime minister. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301423.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:33 EDT Chile's president has sent to Congress a bill that would strip military courts of their ability to try civilians. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301401.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1301401.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:03 EDT Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis is expected to face questions in the Senate this week over the handling of government finances. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1300573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1300573.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:30 EDT A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday, and his conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov. 29 runoff. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1281788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1281788.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:26 EDT Cuba's workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn't get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are rumblings that one of the stalwart vestiges of the revolution -- the ration booklet -- has outlived its usefulness. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1279547.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1279547.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25 EDT A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1279295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1279295.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25 EDT A powerful campaign to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba is rumbling through Congress, with both backers and opponents predicting eventual victory and a Cuban-American Senator holding a key vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1275157.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1275157.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24 EDT A controversial media reform bill, set to be debated in the Argentine Senate on Friday, pits two powerful forces against each other -- President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the country's largest media conglomerate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1273683.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1273683.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:23 EDT Diplomats pushed the two sides of the Honduran political conflict into direct talks for the first time in nearly three months, but left the country Thursday with no commitment from the coup-installed government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1270203.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/latin-america-and-caribbean-politics/story/1270203.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:22 EDT A trio of South Florida Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that the remedy to the post-coup woes in Honduras lies in U.S. support of next month's scheduled elections.