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How 1993 Hunger Strikes Prepare Florida For A Possible Haitian Exodus Today

The rise in the number of Haitians being detained at sea, at airports and at border crossings this year has the international community scratching as...
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How The Wynwood Arts Scene Inspired This Miami Fashion Startup
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Has South Florida Displaced Los Angeles In The World Of American Crime Fiction?

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Win Or Lose Game Seven, This Heat Fan Will Enjoy The Ride

I am a Miamian. Miami is and will always be my hometown. I graduated from Miami Central High School, Miami Dade Junior College and Florida Atlantic...

Bird Expert Identifies Victims Of Burmese Pythons In The Everglades

Carla Dove smiles as she tears open a small, flat cardboard box. She is sitting at a lab bench in her office at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural...

Has South Florida Displaced Los Angeles In The World Of American Crime Fiction?

Everyone knows that South Florida has a seedy underbelly. The American fascination with crime-sex-and-violence-laden stories about South Florida...

How The Wynwood Arts Scene Inspired This Miami Fashion Startup

Thanks to YouTube, anyone can be a filmmaker. Thanks to Quirky, anyone can be an inventor. And now thanks to Miami natives Sabrina and Silvia...

How 1993 Hunger Strikes Prepare Florida For A Possible Haitian Exodus Today

The rise in the number of Haitians being detained at sea, at airports and at border crossings this year has the international community scratching...

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Microsoft Responds To Fan Outcry, Changes Xbox One Policies

Fans spoke, and apparently Microsoft listened. In a reversal of the company's previous position, Microsoft announced Wednesday that its forthcoming...
Capitol Hill's Partisan And Racial Divide Cast In Bronze

A 7-foot-tall statue of famed, lion-maned abolitionist Frederick Douglass that was dedicated Wednesday on Capitol Hill is perhaps best understood as...
Federal Agents Accuse Two Of Plotting Deadly X-Ray Weapon

Two men in upstate New York have been arrested for planning to build a "radiation particle weapon" that could be mounted on a vehicle and used to...
A Day After Making List, One Of FBI's Most Wanted Caught

Just a day after being added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, a former University of Southern California professor was arrested in the...
A Hair-Touching Exhibit Touches Off A Range Of Reactions

Antonia Opiah and her sister Abigail wanted to start a conversation about hair, but they ended up inspiring a protest. The controversy began with an...