Doral

A month after two devastating earthquakes decimated Northern Venezuela, Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status holders and the National TPS Alliance demanded the reinstatement of Venezuelan TPS by the Trump administration.

Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Izaguirre is part of a massive grassroots effort to help Venezuela after devastating earthquakes. From Doral, she joins thousands at the nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) to send aid to Caracas.

When an expat pilot landed in Venezuela with desperately needed earthquake aid from Doral, he learned he'd lost numerous close family and friends in the disaster — but says it's made him even more determined now to deliver help.

At the Global Empowerment Mission warehouse, hundreds of volunteers hurried past each other to pack emergency supplies for families affected by the powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week. “We need more hands," said one volunteer.

The second lady's summer reading challenge invites kindergarten through 8th grade students to read a dozen books this summer.

Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez was tapped to lead the Miami Police Department once beleaguered Chief Manny Morales retires later this year. It came after a secretive search process that did not involve publicly available interviews or even a confirmation that other candidates were part of the process.

President Donald Trump says JD Vance started out less enthusiastic about striking Iran, but he says they still agree. Trump tells reporters he feels the airstrikes are necessary and says the U.S. has no choice. On Monday, he spoke at his golf club in Doral, Florida. The war has stirred tension among Republicans who back an "America First" approach.

The guest list for President Trump's Shield of the Americas summit at his resort hotel in Doral includes exclusively leaders aligned with his western hemisphere policies, such as declaring drug cartels "narco-terrorists."

Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the nation — said they are ecstatic over Maduro’s ouster from their beloved homeland, and are hopeful of a promising future for their homeland.

The Saturday celebrations in Doral and across Venezuela's vast global diaspora belie the reality that despite dictator Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. forces, his socialist regime appears to remain intact — and could be for a while.

Fernando Dávila, a 72-year-old artist in Doral, paints vibrant works despite being colorblind. As a child in Colombia, he failed a drawing class for painting donkeys red. Now, he embraces color with the help of special glasses developed in the 1980s.

In response to the storm, Jamaican Women of Florida has ramped up support to Melody House, a house for abandoned and abused girls in Montego Bay. The area was one of the worst hit by the hurricane.