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A former top aide to Donald Trump has appeared in federal court in Miami to for testimony to a grand jury investigating potential classified-document mishandling and obstruction at the ex-president's Palm Beach property, a source has told the Associated Press.

The consequential plan needed a supermajority of votes to pass, which it got in a long and contentious meeting Tuesday night.

The call — after a federal jury found him liable for violating the civil rights of business owners who supported his political opponent — came at a rally outside City Hall, with support from across the geography of the city.

Marvin Dunn, an authority on race in America, discusses what it was like to grow up in Florida during segregation. A Florida law bans his books on Black history in classrooms.

A new study from researchers with the University of Miami, Florida International University and others found that many parts of Miami-Dade County could get an average of six degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the official reading.

A Miami-Dade County School Board member says he's quoting from Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" in every graduation speech he gives — after a school restricted access to the poem for elementary students.

Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony F. DeFillipo from office following his arrest for illegally voting in the city.

UPDATE: After a judge said the City of Miami must make a new district map, community groups that sued the city held a forum in Coconut Grove to get input from residents.

A civil rights lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Florida health regulators a decade ago has finally gone to trial. Carol Marbin Miller, the deputy investigations editor at the Miami Herald, spoke to WLRN about the case, and her eye-opening reporting on the living conditions of these children.

Gabe Vincent scored 23 points, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each scored 21 as the Heat dug deep to overcome a monster effort from Nikola Jokic and beat the Denver Nuggets 111-108 on Sunday night.

So far this school year, there have been more book bans in Florida than almost any other state, according to an analysis by the free expression advocacy group PEN America. The former president of the state's library association has acknowledged that advocates for intellectual freedom are "being out-organized."

Now that a federal jury has ordered the Miami commissioner to pay $63.5 million in a civil rights lawsuit, will Miami taxpayers have to pay the damages and what's next for him politically?