Miami

Former U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who was key to turning the Cuban embargo into law and represented Florida’s 21st congressional district for 18 years, has died.

A group is pitching the notion that tripping on some magic mushrooms or other hallucinogens might inspire “consciousness shifts” in the populace to do better for the planet.

The national non-profit's mission is to help communities focus on its most pressing challenges, is being launched in Miami with $6.5 million in funding from more than 100 local investors. The goal: close racial and economic disparities.

Miami police have identified the man accused of killing two homeless people and injuring two others in an unprovoked attack.

The names of the suspect — who was apprehended soon after the attack ؅— and the victims were not identified by law enforcement authorities because of the ongoing investigation, said Miami Police Chief Manny Morales during a press conference on Thursday afternoon.

Leaders from the Family Action Network Movement, or FANM, want the outgoing Biden administration to extend "Temporary Protected Status" to more than 200,000 Haitians nationwide.

A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that two luxury real estate brokers and their brother, who on Wednesday were charged in a federal indictment with sex trafficking, alleges that two of the brothers “violently assaulted” her in Miami in 2016, say the woman’s attorneys.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, is urging her colleagues in the House to pass the “Take It Down Act,” a proposed bill she is championing with bipartisan support that would protect victims of real and deepfake “revenge porn.”

An investigator with the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission faces possible contempt charges after bringing allegedly bogus claims against Alex Díaz de la Portilla and William Riley Jr.

The exhibit marks the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, where heavily armed Hamas militants rampaged through the festival, killing at least 364 people and taking more than 40 hostage. Many of them are still held in Gaza.

The veto comes a week after the Miami city commission voted to revive a pension program that had been frozen during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

A Florida jury verdict is paving the way for surviving members of the group, and heirs of the two who have since died, to retake five of their early albums following a yearslong copyright dispute with a record company. The company is in the process of appealing.