The Associated Press
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Millions of jobs that new immigrants have been filling in the United States appear to solve a riddle that has confounded economists for at least a year: How has the U.S. economy managed to prosper when the Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates?
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A federal judge has ruled that lawyers representing migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard nearly two years ago can sue the charter flight company.
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The settlement agreement stems from a state court fight over how Walt Disney World can be developed. It follows Governor Ron DeSantis’ takeover of the resort’s government.
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Florida drivers may soon be able to cruise down Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway while sporting a Margaritaville license plate. The legendary singer-songwriter died last year.
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Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition.
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Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. And now President Nicolás Maduro is appealing to Venezuelans' patriotism in summoning voters supposedly to decide the territory’s future in a Dec. 3 referendum.
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A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum.
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Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.
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Dozens of tiny grocery stores have sprung up around Cuba in recent months. The locals call them “mipymes.” Their customers are Cuban families who receive remittances from abroad, tourism workers, diplomats, employees of other small and medium-sized businesses, artists or high-performance athletes.
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Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits.
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Donald Trump's next campaign rally in a South Florida suburb is aimed at trying to upstage his Republican presidential rivals while they debate in nearby Miami.
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric has formally received the draft of a new constitution and is calling for a national referendum next month so citizens can decide whether the new charter will replace the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.