IN THE CAMPS

Judge: Searching Guantánamo detainees’ genitals impedes attorney meetings

A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantá...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 2 detainees quit hunger strike; calm in communal prison

HUNGER STRIKE

Feinstein, Durbin ask Obama to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings

Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop rou...

Israel | RON DERMER

Former Miami Beach resident Ron Dermer to be Israel’s ambassador to U.S.

Former Miami Beach resident Ron Dermer will become Israel’s top diplomat in the United States.

Investigators look into pairing of Asiana pilots

As Flight 214 descended over San Francisco Bay, both Asiana Airlines pilots were in new roles.

HUNGER STRIKE

Rapper’s graphic video puts spotlight on Guantánamo forced-feeding at Ramadan

A London legal groups’s advocacy efforts expands with a video starring rapper Mos Def playing the role...

Experts: Obama’s plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work

In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama h...

Women in Ohio kidnap case thank public for support

Stylish and smiling, three women allegedly held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade offered thanks on ...

Israel | RON DERMER

Former Miami Beach resident Ron Dermer to be Israel’s ambassador to U.S.

Former Miami Beach resident Ron Dermer will become Israel’s top diplomat in the United States.

EGYPT

Mass shootings of Islamist protesters deepen Egypt crisis

Grim ritual of death unfolds in Cairo morgue filled to capacity

The grim accounting of death took on a ceremony of its own at the Cairo morgue where the victims of Monday...

New Egypt appointments so far going to advocates of military rule

Transitional Egyptian President Adly Mansour, named by the Egyptian military to lead the country after it ...

EGYPT

A misguided ouster in Egypt

Ultimately, the ultimate losers in last week's coup in Egypt will be those who cheered it on.

Text message renews hopes for Florida Keys family aboard a missing schooner

Israel

Israel Foreign Ministry strike leaves some South Floridians stranded

A strike by Israel’s foreign ministry employees has left Delray Beach’s Shimon Cohen and othe...

Egyptian military overthrows Morsi, targets Muslim Brotherhood

In a somber announcement on national television, the country’s defense minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-...

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

Miami Children’s Hospital to get funding from 28-hour Univision telethon

South Florida children with cancer will benefit from money raised by a 28-hour Univision program aired last...

IN THE CAMPS

Judge: Searching Guantánamo detainees’ genitals impedes attorney meetings

A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantá...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 2 detainees quit hunger strike; calm in communal prison

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

HUNGER STRIKE

Feinstein, Durbin ask Obama to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings

Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop rou...

Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

CUBA

Ladies in White resign over alleged State Security infiltrator

Several members have quit the group over its refusal to expell an alleged infiltrator from State Security

Castro speech scolds islanders for bad behavior

Raul Castro spent the lion's share of a prominent speech Sunday scolding his countrymen for all kinds of ba...

CUBA

Cuban dissident picks up human rights prize in Europe — three years late

Guillermo Fariñas dedicates the Sakharov Prize to his mother, who saw him through his many hunger str...

In my opinion

Daniel Shoer Roth: U.S. gift to Cuban exiles abused

A walk on the beach to count my blessings led me to understand with greater clarity the polarized debate on...

CUBA

Report says Cuban economic growth hasn’t quickened despite reforms

The Council of Ministers got a report that Cuba’s economy will miss the goal of a 3.6 percent growt...

Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Aristide university in Haiti to create law school

The university founded by former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is opening a law school program i...

HISPANIOLA

Haiti, Dominican Republic chicken war highlights trade inequities

A brewing ‘chicken war’ between the two nations of Hispaniola after a false bird-flu scare ha...

Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism

The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, di...

Haiti Earthquake

Haiti sees big drop in quake homeless

The number of people still homeless in Haiti from the country’s massive Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake con...

Haiti

Fish cages bring economic hope to Haitians

Haiti’s overfished lakes and oceans haven’t produced any bounty for the country’s fish...

Caricom

Caribbean Community leaders return to Trinidad to mark 40 years

Caribbean Community leaders on Wednesday begin four-day summit in Trinidad and Tobago Wednesday paying trib...

Haiti

New Marriott under construction in Haiti getting financial boost

A new Marriott hotel in Haiti is getting nearly a $30 million financial boost from a member of the World Ba...

REDISTRICTING

Fla. Supreme Court won't stop redistricting challenge

The Florida Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke to the Republican-controlled Legislature, refused to throw out...

POLITICS

Charlie Crist's political memoir to explain why he left GOP

The former Republican governor turned independent U.S. Senate candidate turned potential Democratic guberna...

Elections

Miami-Dade should take steps to thwart absentee-ballot fraudsters, advisory group says

Following alarming fraud attempts in last year’s elections, the group wants Miami-Dade County to fig...

Miami

Records: Red-light camera foe, Miami politician Francis Suarez received two tickets

Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez said the two tickets highlight the shortcomings of the city’s red-...

POLITICS

Joe Garcia draws challenger Carlos Curbelo on day he posts big cash-haul

Embattled U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia boasted about a large fundraising haul on the same day that Miami-Dade Scho...

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott learns special taxing districts have clout

Gov. Rick Scott’s is reviewing the state’s 1,700 special taxing districts, but he won’...

PolitiFact

Myths abound in immigration reform debate

PolitiFact scrutinized plenty of myths about the Senate immigration bill. Here are a few of them.

PolitiFact Florida

Group claims Florida ‘rubber-stamped phony horse racing’

In ad, horse breeders, owners call out Florida regulators for alleged “phony horse racing.” P...

Environment

South Florida water district names new director

The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday hired a new executive direct...

Living Smart: Home generators

When extreme weather hits, often one of the first luxuries lost is electrical power. Being without power fo...

Diggin' In: No room for a tradition garden? No problem

When you don't have or want a traditional garden, you can still enjoy homegrown vegetables and herbs, thank...

Plan to save the pallid sturgeon spawns controversy

It's been a half-dozen years of push and pull over how, and whether, to save an endangered fish in the Miss...

Report: Use of coal to generate power rises

Power plants in the United States are burning coal more often to generate electricity, reversing the growin...

Obama must walk a climate tightrope

President Obama had barely announced his new climate strategy late last month when the criticism began. The...

Making war on wolves

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, July 8:

Key Republican drops opposition to EPA nominee

A key Republican senator has dropped his objection to Gina McCarthy's confirmation to lead the Environmenta...

Miami-Dade Schools

Miami-Dade schools probes cheating allegations at district-run charter

The principal of Florida’s first-ever district-managed charter school in Miami Springs said “...

Miami-Dade Schools

Miami-Dade schools sell first $200M in capital bonds

Miami-Dade’s first $200 million in taxpayer-backed capital bonds sold Wednesday. The money becomes a...

BROWARD SCHOOLS

Broward school district not budging on high school schedules

The district changed its high school schedules last year, over the objections of many teachers.

EDUCATION

No promises from education commissioner on school grades

Education Commissioner Tony Bennett made clear his discomfort with one of the superintendents’ key r...

BROWARD SCHOOLS

Broward Schools’ Robert Runcie’s 7-period high school schedule ruled violation

Superintendent Robert Runcie’s move to reduce class sizes by switching to seven periods ‘comp...

BROWARD SCHOOLS

Funding cuts hit special-needs staff at Broward schools

With Broward eliminating some special-needs staff positions because of federal funding cuts, parents who di...

EDUCATION

Technology broadens horizons for Miami-Dade students with disabilities

From iPads to power tools, advances in technology are creating breakthroughs in the classroom for students ...

HIGHER EDUCATION

FIU students among most impacted by student loan rate hike

In the latest blow to student financial aid, student loan interest rates are set to double on July 1. Three...

FATHER’S DAY

Slowly slipping away, but still my dad

IRS may have targeted conservatives more broadly

While the developing scandal over the IRS’s targeting of conservatives has largely focused on its scru...

PART TWO: VIETNAM

Lack of answers tests faith and mettle of families and searchers alike

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Two of a three-part series on the search for Spooky 21, an AC-47 gunship...

REMEMBERING VIETNAM

To absent comrades: Memorial Day memories

A missing gunner plane and an enduring mystery

A six-hour Vietnam combat mission in 1965 tested the limits of forensic science, and the faith and patience...

PART THREE: VIETNAM

After decades of searching, could a handful of debris provide the answer?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part Three of a three-part series on the search for Spooky 21, an AC-47 gunsh...

First person

Bus rides and toboggan slides with mom

How did my mother raise eight of us on $105 a week? Liver sausage sandwiches and unselfish love.

Politifact Florida

An attack on Gov. Scott that doesn’t add up

Florida’s Democratic chairman attacked Gov. Scott over his teacher pay promise. Unfortunately, her m...

Wildlife officials remove arrow from Canada goose

Wildlife officials in Michigan have removed an arrow from a Canada goose more than two months after the inj...

Stop frying eggs, Death Valley officials say

It gets so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg with sun power.

90 cats rescued from smuggling near Thai border

Thai police say they have rescued about 90 famished cats that they believed had been headed to Vietnam. The...

Unusual Minnesota rabbit video attracts attention

A southern Minnesota college student's spoof video of an apparently tumorous rabbit that he dubbed "Franken...

Minnesota town has 4-year-old boy as mayor

19-foot python breaks into Australian charity

Australian police were mystified by a chaotic crime scene including a hole in the ceiling and a smelly pool...

Vehicle with mounted 'gun' panics Detroit suburb

A man driving an armor-plated military-type vehicle and firing what appeared to be a machine gun mounted on...

Michigan kids get down and dirty at annual Mud Day

Here's mud in your eye. And your hair, back and legs.