The latest breaking news, stories and features from Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Doral, Kendall, Hialeah, Aventura, Homestead, Key Biscayne and the rest of Miami-Dade County from the award-winning team at South Florida's NPR member station.
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Mario Cristobal, head coach at the University of Miami, has brought the Hurricanes back to the national spotlight. His approach mirrors the values instilled by his Cuban-American parents: hard work, toughness, and dedication. On Monday, his Hurricanes face undefeated Indiana in the College Football Playoff championship.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — One of three court challenges to an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades has ended. According to his attorneys, the detainee agreed to be removed from the U.S. and will soon leave the country for Chile.
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People close to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's political team say the Nobel Peace Prize winner is considering a visit to the diaspora in Miami after she meets Thursday with President Trump — who this month disparaged her prospects of governing Venezuela.
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Zoetic Stage is premiering “The Inheritance, Part 1” as part of the company’s Theater Up Close series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, opening in previews Thursday, Jan. 8, then running from Friday, Jan. 9 through Sunday, Jan. 25.
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Democrats say Venezuelans with TPS face deportation to ‘unstable’ homeland — despite Maduro’s ousterDozens of Democratic House members, including all eight Florida Democrats, are asking the Trump administration to restore Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the wake of last Saturday’s U.S. military strikes on the country.
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The lone South Florida Republican to join Democrats was U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, of Miami, whose congressional district has one of the highest ACA enrollment rates in the country.
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The 10th-ranked Hurricanes didn't play in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game but proved they belong in the CFP. They will face either top-ranked Indiana or Oregon for the national title.
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Miami has appointed James Reyes to be its next city manager at the first meeting under new Mayor Eileen Higgins, where a number of high profile initiatives were voted on including the Watson Island sale and a Black history museum at Virginia Key Beach Park.
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The Miami Dolphins have fired coach Mike McDaniel following a 7-10 season in which Miami missed the playoffs for the second straight year. The decision Thursday ends McDaniel’s four-year tenure in Miami, a period defined by soaring expectations that ultimately went unfulfilled.
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A new documentary to premiere this month at the Miami Jewish Film Festival is shining a light on a forgotten legal battle that forced one of the world’s most powerful men to answer for his prejudice.
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The first Miami City Commission meeting of 2026 has a stacked agenda, with Watson Island, the Tower Theater and the fate of city elections in the balance.
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The South Beach Jazz Festival has evolved over its ten years in Miami Beach as a cultural event that hasn’t just survived the city’s constant reinvention—it has grown along with it, inviting audiences to encounter jazz not as a venue-specific experience, but woven into the everyday rhythm of Miami Beach.